A cold snort was enough to make the two chiefs in charge of intelligence and the police understand what kind of situation they were facing. With the current situation of Ryazan Oblast, if by the end of the year, it will not be able to hand over the same meat to the state as last year. One can imagine what will happen to the so-called labor heroes of all sizes in the entire state.

"You two remind me that as a national security cadre, you can't have any fear!" Serov shouted with a cold face to let the two police chiefs know their current situation; "What are you afraid of? The Ryazan affair broke out, and I will carry all the things, so you just have to check it out for me. National security cadres, you should not be afraid of problems, because we will solve them, and all cadres should listen to our opinions, from the central minister down to the secretaries of the local state party committees. What we are talking about is the will of the country, our law enforcement strength represents the strength of national policy, who is a model worker and who is a criminal, we say it, a state party secretary, I don't believe he dares? Do you understand? ”

"Understood, Vice President!" Serov's shouting was like a morning bell, which made the two police chiefs who did not dare to shoot the secretary of the state party committee excited, and hurriedly assured.

Watching the two police chiefs go back to do errands, Serov looked at the backs of the two people and had to say, "Waste ......"

I didn't expect that the local KGB agency and the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs would be afraid of a state party secretary, how could this happen in the Beria era? Not to mention a state party secretary, there are not a thousand state party secretaries who died at the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there are not a hundred?

The next guest was the agents of the Alexai Fifth Directorate in Ryazan, and like the State Security Council in Moscow, the local KGB was a group of agents from various directorates, and a local KGB agency was a gathering of agents from different directorates, working together while still being accountable to their own directorates, which helped to keep a distance from each other. To prevent the phenomenon of separatism and deceive superiors, this design is perfect, right? Serov pioneered.

The greatest advantage of delegating agents subordinate to various general directorates to local KGB agencies and handling local affairs at the same time is to prevent the KGB from being reached into by other departments, forming a strong top-down vertical leadership system. This is Serov's most proud move after Sherepin came to the KGB as chairman, mainly to prevent in the future if Sherepin is really not Brezhnev's opponent. The KGB could protect itself. This is the most important thing, in addition to striving for fiscal autonomy.

As a result, the KGB can maintain a strong detection capability in all regions, because except for the chairman of the KGB and the head of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs on the surface, no one knows whether their partners are people sent by other general directorates to monitor them, so that the KGB is a top-down highway, and it is extremely smooth at all times.

The agents of the Fifth Main Directorate and Serov explained the affairs of Ryazan Oblast from top to bottom, so that Serov knew how serious the situation in Ryazan was, first. Knives are cut off on the heads of cattle on collective farms and state farms, whether they are meat animals, milk animals, animal power animals, and breeding animals, and they are all slaughtered. Second, pigs and cows raised by farmers are collected and slaughtered. Third, send special personnel and special vehicles to neighboring states to buy livestock at high prices. Fourthly, all taxes must be paid in meat, and at the same time the scope of taxation should be expanded to include state farms, collective farms, and factories. Offices, schools, and police stations also have to pay taxes.

I didn't expect Ryazan to play so big, this kind of thing simply surprised Serov. If such a thing had happened during the Stalin period, the entire state government would have estimated that there would not be a single person left for a counter-revolutionary crime, and the KGB institutions and the General Directorate of Internal Affairs would have been purged along with the dereliction of duty. Licking his somewhat dry lips, it seemed that Khrushchev was really much more merciful than Stalin, and this mistake was enough for Stalin to kill a hundred times.

"Go back and look at the two pieces of waste that had just left, and once there was a situation with Lariov to ventilate the message. Take control now! Secretly mobilize the internal affairs police to seize all grain depots and frozen warehouses under the state government! Serov tilted his head and gave the order, "Keep an eye on Larionov, he can't run away, and he can't commit suicide......"

"Got it. Comrade Vice President! I will do everything I need to do, please rest assured! The unsmiling agent assured, Serov nodded and saw the agent leave, and at the same time sent a telegram to Moscow, asking the Second General Directorate to transfer a group of accountants, not too many, fifty people are enough, "The person I want must get on the train now, yes, immediately, according to my will!" ”

After dictating the contents of the telegram, Serov pulled an ugly smile at the corner of his mouth in the mirror, Moscow is actually not far from Ryazan, one day is enough time for them to get here, Serov needs a day to lay out. And tomorrow morning he will go to the Ryazan Oblast Government to meet with Larionov, and then he will have to pretend that he has just arrived in Ryazan Oblast.

This time Serov had to prove that in front of the KGB, it would only take a day to kick a state government.

At the same time, Ryazan's situation was also reported to KGB Chairman Shelepin, and Sherepin, who was sitting at No. 11 Lubyanka Square, also gasped when he learned of the specific situation under Serov's control, and drove directly to the Kremlin to meet Khrushchev.

"How can Larionov do that? How dare he do that? "Khrushchev took Serov's telegram, on the one hand, because he was blinded and could not believe it, and on the other hand, because in the past year he had praised Larionov on various occasions, and now Larionov has made Ryazan like this, no doubt to make him, the first secretary, unable to step down.

There was a moment when Khrushchev wanted to mobilize supplies from other places to fill the hole, but then it occurred to him that if Lariov took a trick to deceive his superiors and subordinates, would other places do the same? If Ryazan is not the only place to do this, how big is the hole in the entire Soviet Union now?

"Tell Yuri, arrest Larionov, in the name of the Central Committee, in my name." Khrushchev in a fit of rage spat at Shelepin, at this time Khrushchev was absolutely in line with the evaluation given to him by other country leaders, absolute temperament, personal thinking affected Khrushchev, but as a communist Khrushchev did not choose to cover the entire hole, but bravely broke through it.

In the evening, Serov received a telegram from Khrushchev and Sherepin, which was harshly worded, through which Serov could experience what Khrushchev's mood was like in the Kremlin, two hundred kilometers away.

Early the next morning, Serov, who pretended to have just arrived in Ryazan, led more than a dozen people to appear in the Ryazan Oblast Government, and the secretary of the Ryazan Oblast Party Committee, Lariov, welcomed the Ryazan Oblast Government, and the two of them clasped hands tightly together: "Deputy Chairman Serov suddenly came to Ryazan, and I welcome it on behalf of the Ryazan Oblast Party Committee and the Ryazan Prefecture Government." ”

"The main thing is to come to inspect the work of the Ryazan KGB and the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs, but I didn't expect Secretary Larionov to come to greet me, I'm really embarrassed." Serov smiled modestly and set his eyes on a group of state party leaders behind Larionov, these people want to investigate one by one, he naturally will not cause unjust cases, but if there is a relationship, he will still be punished, things are as simple as that, and you have to pay the price for doing something wrong.

Not long after entering the state government, Isemotny came in and whispered to Serov, saying that the situation in Ryazan was decided, Serov squinted his eyes and listened to all this, and continued to visit the state government as planned, and at the same time as entering the conference room of the state government to listen to Ryazan's work report, the entire conference room had been blocked by the soldiers of the Internal Guard.

A few minutes later, the chairman of the Ryazan KGB and the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs came in, and Serov also knew that it was time for the play to come to an end, and in the consternation of everyone, he took out the pistol on his waist, untied the handcuffs around the waist of the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs, walked up to Lariov and said, "Lariov, take it yourself!" You know what you do best, and yesterday I arrived in Ryazan, which is enough time for a KGB deputy chairman to find out a state clearly. ”

"Deputy Chairman Serov, you have no right to do this to a secretary of the state party committee, I am a hero of socialist labor!" Lariov, who was pressed to the table by a soldier, struggled.

"Of course I have the right, the KGB has the right to interrogate in all areas related to national security, you people are very strange, we generally don't show up, can you forget the existence of the KGB?" Seeing that Larionov did not cooperate, Serov could only do it himself, put handcuffs on Larionov with his own hands, twisted his head fiercely and let the handcuffs go into Larionov's wrists, gritted his teeth and said, "Socialist labor heroes will only increase your sentence, maybe your death sentence will have this credit!" Serov's words were full of death, so that the hero of socialist labor could not even feel the sharp pain in his hands, and spread there like a puppet, and from Serov's mouth he knew that the affairs in Ryazan Oblast had broken out.

"By order of Comrade Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and Comrade Sherepin, Chairman of the State Security Committee, the Secretary of the State Party Committee Larionov and the Chairman of the State Executive Committee Bobkov were arrested!" Serov's announcement of the order relieved the others, as if they had nothing to do with themselves, but immediately their hearts rose again, "The Main Directorate of Internal Affairs will interrogate all the cadres present in the waiting bureau, and the KGB will immediately send someone to open all the Ryazan grain warehouses and cold storage of meat products and start checking ......"

In the afternoon, the news that the entire Ryazan regional party committee had been arrested by Serov had reached Moscow, and there was no doubt about the earthquake. (To be continued.) )