These words may be a little unpleasant to say, but even if De Gaulle was personally present, it cannot be said that Serov's words are wrong, and if France has the ability to extinguish the guerrilla war, not only will it not lose Algeria, but even Vietnam will not be able to become a United States to take over.

Algeria is already the last bottom line for the French, if it can't keep it, it will enter the same track of rapid decline as Britain, no country can maintain the status of France's old power, and neither can the French themselves! Algeria is within France proper, and France can proudly claim to be a great power. If it is the other way around, France may become the only one who believes that it is a great power, and it is good to say that it is good to entertain itself.

Territorial heavy or? Of course it's important! In the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, why did Britain get smaller and smaller the more it fought on its territory? Isn't it just that France has a lot of adults and can withstand consumption? It is completely possible to keep losing, and lose until Britain can't support it. After the Hundred Years' War, Britain began to try to play the continental balance of power policy. Just throw off your arms and go it alone.

So when François said that France did not have to suppress Algeria, it could also conditionally allow its independence. Serov said without saying a word, "This is a good thing for both France and Algeria, I will immediately tell the news to the country, and I am ready to congratulate Algeria on its independence!" The Soviet Union has always been willing to establish friendship with the newly independent countries, and our anti-imperialist and anti-feudal position has always been clear! ”

Almost no more than the brain, he changed his tone and said it as if it was really the case. Serov's degree of transformation is natural and unpretentious! In fact, this attitude is more in line with the impression that the Soviet Union has always given people. But François knew that if it were that simple, Serov would not have come into contact with France. The reason why these words were uttered was only to show that Serov had already settled on the attitude of the French. It's a pity that Serov really settled on France.

"When did the KGB take over the duties of the USSR Foreign Ministry!" François's eyes wandered, and he lightly reminded Serov to pay attention to politeness, and it was not appropriate to use the methods of agents at the negotiating table.

"This is the duty of the KGB, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no right to intervene in this matter!" Serov lit a cigarette unmoved. Serov wanted to bring some cigars back from the United States, but he didn't happen to give the women**, perfumes and cosmetics, and spent all the money carelessly, otherwise Serov could have put on such a cigar in front of François with a cigar in his mouth......

All right! After a long period of staring at each other, François realized that it was impossible to get Serov, the head of the secret police, to take a step back.

"Monsieur François, things are not complicated, now France is begging the USSR! You have wasted so much time and are unwilling to get involved in real problems, are you waiting for us, the Soviet Union, to take the initiative to pull you along? Serov extinguished the cigarette butt and said, "Are you clinging to the ethereal pride of France?" If Algeria does break away from France, will French pride still exist? ”

"I'm going to communicate with the country! I believe that there are no problems with the means and control of the Soviet Union. The question is why the USSR should help us! Before ending the meeting, François asked the question directly to Serov.

"Because France is an independent country with its own great power ambitions! Not a member of NATO or the Warsaw Pact, I don't know that Mr. François, and Mr. de Gaulle, who is behind him, is not satisfied with my answer! Serov bowed slightly to François's back and slowly gave his answer.

François's figure paused slightly, and he understood what Serov meant, unlike the Federal Republic of Germany and other NATO members who were stationed by the United States. De Gaulle was very dissatisfied with the fact that the leadership of NATO could only be shared by the United States and Britain, and had already begun to brew a cut with NATO. Some details have apparently already been discovered by the Soviets.

Once again, Serov's omniscient display was attributed to his status as the head of the KGB, François left the place where the two were negotiating, ready to communicate with the country, and the two sides could already talk about specific issues.

François came back again, obviously discussing the problem with a cooperative attitude, and really understood that France had a request from the Soviet Union. And not the other way around!

"There is no idiot's lunch in this world, and the USSR certainly not helped us out of some internationalist spirit! Chief Serov, let's get straight to the point! What are your conditions? François asked directly, bringing the negotiations to a substantive stage, rather than pushing each other down.

Get everyone out. Leaving only Stasiana as an interpreter, Serov said, "An Algeria can't be too cheap, it's more than two million square kilometers of land!" So the French government must come up with four billion dollars! ”

Four billion dollars? What age is this? This was the era when the dollar and gold were tied, the Breston Woods system was still very solid, and the Soviet Union represented by Serov was completely open to the lion, and François calmly protested, "General Serov, don't you think this question is very unrealistic?" Four billion dollars, you might as well grab ......"

"Monsieur François, you don't really think that the dollar can really be compared to gold, do you? Yes, thirty-five dollars an ounce of gold, but the dollars circulating in the market are far from being able to cope with the US gold reserves, and this time I did not bring an expert in the study of economics here, which does not mean that I can't even see such a small problem! "Your French dollar reserves are enough for 40 billion, and if you all exchange them at the current price of gold and dollars, you can empty the United States!" So while I don't understand how your Breston Woods system works, you don't want to equate the dollar with gold in a real way......"

Gold has been used as a means of payment for a long time, and it is precisely because of the small production of gold that it cannot be replicated, so it is more reassuring to use it as a means of payment, and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system has nothing to do with gold, gold is not directly linked to the currencies of various countries, and the problem should lie in the currency that can be used to exchange for gold, that is, the excess issuance of the US dollar, which cannot support the dollar-gold swap, which has led to the chaos and collapse of the system.

"General Serov, even a tenth of our French foreign exchange is a huge amount of money! No, we can settle in francs! François held out his finger and made the suggestion.

But this kind of suggestion to fall into the pit, Serov will definitely not jump off by himself, and directly and categorically refused, "The face value of the franc is not as good as the ruble, and now that inflation in France is serious, the franc is about to become waste paper!" I heard that the government of Charles de Gaulle is preparing to reform the currency, and I hope that you France can succeed! ”

Serov directly pierced François's preparations to lead him into the pit, but did not continue the pursuit. François was thinking about a countermeasure, while Serov was thinking about another issue, that is, the Soviet ruble was also preparing for a currency reform next year, and the specific news was already in the pipeline. The fact that the USSR and France carried out currency reforms in the same year speaks to the fact that the world seems to be changing. Serov was really going to find an expert to teach him, and it was obvious that something terrible was brewing in front of him.

"Still thinking about it? Mr. François? Serov was also very helpless about this stalemate, and the two of them had been delayed in this hut for nearly ten days without an assistant and only a translator with each of them. François is always ready to keep the country informed of the current progress.

It sounds like Serov is very unfair to Serov in the face of the entire French think tank, but he actually didn't care about this kind of detail, and for the Soviet Union, it would not have much impact if this thing was not done. Who would be in a hurry to get angry about whether to eat steamed buns or drink porridge this morning? Someone may do, but Serov will not......

"Four billion dollars, plus Soviet military aid to the Algerian National Liberation Front, these military supplies also need to be paid for by the French government!" Serov, no matter when François returned, repeated the phrase like a repeater.

"We still have to pay for the weapons that killed our soldiers in the USSR? General Serov, don't you go too far? François fought back his anger and said, "The French are a proud people, and we can solve the problems of Algeria ourselves!" ”

"If you want to solve it, you will solve it a long time ago! Or come to the GDR and talk to me? Serov scratched his head and said indifferently, "We send military supplies, military advisers, and go thousands of miles to fight with you in the desert of North Africa, or is it a battle that must be lost, how can the casualties be counted?" How to calculate the consumption of military materials......"

"Impossible, we France will definitely not pay for military supplies! Four billion dollars must include everything that the USSR did, and military supplies cannot continue to be counted as expenses! François said categorically.

"The credibility of the USSR in the Third World is very valuable!" Serov picked at his ears and squinted at François.

"Our French reputation is also very valuable!" François insisted with an unmoved glare.

"Well, I'll show you something to show me my sincerity! You can ask a translator who knows Russian to come in and read it for you, but you can't take a single piece of paper with you! Serov commanded, and after a while, Isenmotny brought over some records of the intelligence meeting of the Nine Nations, and Serov made a look of not bothering and said, "Monsieur François, if you think that the entire socialist camp is not worth even four billion dollars, then I have nothing to say!" ”

For the whole day, François and the interpreter who knew Russian looked at the documents provided by Serov, and because Serov refused to take even a piece of paper away, François had to crouch in the room and rummage through it. The next day, François did not show up, but was in contact with the country, giving some feedback to the country about the information provided by Serov.

Serov could not imagine what was being argued in France, but he could see that when he saw François again, Serov could clearly feel a familiar and comfortable temperament in the other party, which was called imperialist cooperation. I have to say that François suddenly became a lot more pleasing to his eyes, and it really depends on temperament. (To be continued.) )