The first order for reorganization, or rather structural optimization, is to test how much energy the General Administration of Espionage Prevention is really there. Serov ordered the Second General Directorate to keep up with the corn movement in the country, and after a short period of consideration, Serov decided that he would take the initiative to wade into the corn movement.

The order was issued, and the huge organizational organs of the Second General Directorate began to act, and at the same time, the Fifth General Directorate of Alexei and the Ninth General Directorate of Kibanov came in at the same time, and Serov's order was not difficult to understand, and it was just a normal move to verify the materials reported by the local governments of the Soviet Union in agriculture and animal husbandry this year, which was just a normal move, and it did not seem to be murderous. It was the KGB's job to let the first secretary know the real situation in the country.

In fact, Serov clearly knew what the consequences of this order would be, no one could play mathematical games in the KGB's detailed investigation, and the KGB did not lack special agents, and there was a huge amount of manpower to go to the local grain depots and farms to check to see how much grain and meat reserves were inside.

"Old secretary, chairman's order." Serov, who was sitting in Serepin's office, crossed his legs and asked for the KGB chairman's order from Sherepin on the other side, which was a document signed by the KGB chairman, and it was not a strange thing. The presidential decree issued by Sherepin in a year is not a hundred, but eighty.

"Do you want a presidential order again?" Having said that, Xie Lepin still took out the paper from the drawer and signed his name, but did not immediately give his ace to the director, and asked, "What are you going to do this time?" You have to be careful, you just took over the Second General Bureau and you can't wait to do something. ”

"You'll be amazed if my results come out." Serov unceremoniously took the chairman's order, put it in his pocket, and after confirming that Sherepin could not take it back, he sneered, "I want to check the grain depots across the country." Let's see if the grain reserves and meat reserves are up to the mark! ”

To say that the corn movement began, Khrushchev was, of course, the source of the mistake in the first place, but a huge mistake certainly could not be made by one person, and none of the bureaucrats who put satellites in front of Khrushchev could escape the involvement. One thing must be done well in this operation, that is, the impact must not be too large. Because it was easy to find Khrushchev in the picture. The first document on combating pompous trends is being drafted by the secretariat headed by Isemotni, and will be distributed to local agencies as soon as it is completed.

"Something's wrong!" It was only when Serov left the KGB headquarters in his car that Sherepin, who was facing the statue of Dzerzhinsky from the window, that he withdrew his gaze, and if Serov had said at the beginning that he would have made up his mind to issue a presidential order, it was obvious that his ace chief was ready to go to the mines.

As the chairman of the KGB, if he did not know the slightest rumor, it would show that something was really wrong in the Soviet Union, but how serious the agricultural problem was. Actually, Sherepin didn't know. With so many general bureaus of the KGB, in theory Sherepin can know everything, but in practice everything has priorities, and many local cadres are hiding the fact that their harvest is not good, and Sherepin cannot know everything.

Returning to the 2nd Main Directorate, Serov, who received the order of the chairman of the KGB of Sherepin, summoned the two chiefs of the Main Directorate of the Secret Police and the Main Directorate of the Police, Lieutenant General Alexai and Lieutenant General Kibanov, in the name of the deputy chairman of the KGB. The two directorates, which are the most powerful departments of the KGB apart from the border guards and the internal guards, need to cooperate with them this time.

"I won't say much about it. It's not complicated, the difficulty lies in how much courage we have to do it, as long as we have the courage to take the first step, the follow-up is very simple for the KGB! Serov peeled off a crab in front of him, the king crab in the cold zone was probably the most common crab seen by the Soviet people, thanks to the Soviet fishing fleet in the Baltic Sea. However, it can't be said that it is fresh when he arrives in Moscow, but there is nothing to pick about for him who loves seafood.

Serov, who was the first to eat crabs, showed with his own hands, his eyes fell on the faces of the two directors in front of him, and he didn't know when he had a cigarette in his mouth and said with smoke. "Our work, national security. As far as the people are concerned, the food problem is the number one problem, and no one knows how big this hole is, do you dare to do it? ”

"Almost all the local cadres are on guard against us, and if we make a big fuss, will the KGB arouse the hostility of the local cadres?" Kibanov also learned from Serov to eat and chat, and now it seems that the effect is not bad.

"Yes, it's not that you don't know, those cadres are naturally guarding against us!" Alexai also sang and harmonized.

"Only people who have ghosts in their hearts are afraid of our KGB inventory, if there is no problem with food, what are they afraid of?" Pressing the few remaining cigarette butts into the crab shell, Serov said coldly, "There is no problem with the grain stockpile, then this is a routine routine inspection, if there is a problem, those people are still worried about their heads, which murderer accuses the police of arresting people is wrong?" Let them continue to deceive their superiors and subordinates, and they will not guard against us? It's funny who would be afraid of a bunch of prisoners......"

...... snapping, Alexei applauded at the right time, glanced at Kibanov next to him and said in a long voice, "Well, I just said that Yuri has the demeanor of us old Cheka warriors......"

"If you don't eat it, it'll be cold, my friend." Although it is quick-frozen, not everyone can eat the king crab in front of them, and the food of the Soviet people is about to become a problem, and the two directors are embarrassed to waste food here?

On 15 September, Serov issued a presidential decree that had already been signed by Shelepin, including all the local KGB agencies of the Soviet Union's union republics, autonomous oblasts, ordinary republics, and subordinate districts, as well as the General Directorate of Internal Affairs, the chairmen of the KGB, and the directors of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs, all of whom began to check the grain depots under their jurisdiction and check the grain production and meat reserves reported by farms in various places.

"The General Directorate of Internal Espionage, the General Directorate of the Secret Police, the subordinate agencies of the General Police Bureau, the local General Directorate of Internal Affairs, and the KGB agencies have all joined the process of inventory!" At the meeting of the KGB Presidium, Serov said in a resolute tone, "It has always been rumored that there is a clear discrepancy between the grain harvest in various places and the reported data, so now let's see what happened?" ”

Sherepin took a deep breath, looked at the other members of the KGB presidium and said, "Do you have any opinions?" ”

Just kidding, who dares to have any opinion, isn't Serov your most trusted director, and who knows if it's the two of you acting in front of us? Everyone shook their heads and said that they had no opinion and that the food problem must be dealt with strictly.

"Agreed, all members of the Presidium of the KGB expressed their support for Comrade Serov's proposal." As soon as Sherepin turned around, he pulled the entire presidium of the KGB into the water, and at this time he absolutely had to express his democratic style.

Serov nodded and thanked all the members of the KGB Presidium, and then proposed concrete steps. With the consent of Sherepin and the other members, he left 11 Lubyanka Square.

"First of all, pull me out the list of political stars who have been in the beginning of the corn movement, and first of all, investigate the states of these comrades to see if there is any moisture in them!" Serov returned to the headquarters of the Second Main Directorate, called Alexei directly, and asked the General Directorate of the Secret Police to start an investigation of the various party secretaries who had launched satellites to see who was the real and who was the deceitful.

As early as the plenary session of the Central Committee of the CPSU held at the end of the previous year, Khrushchev said: "Vigorously increasing meat production is an extremely important and urgent task at present...... The increase in meat production is of paramount importance, and the results of the states, districts, collective farms and state farms should be measured first and foremost by the level of production of this most important product of animal husbandry. That is to say, the evaluation and promotion of cadres in various localities should first be based on how many tons of meat they can provide to the state.

The first secretary said so, and the local governor, in order to become a political star, naturally made every effort to reach the standard of the first secretary, and soon Alexei handed over the list of these cadres to Serov.

The secretary of the Ryazan regional party committee, Larionov, is one of them. At the 21st Congress of the CPSU held in early January last year, this man vowed to increase the meat production of Ryazan Oblast by 2.8 times and to sell more than twice as much meat to the state within the last year.

"Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ryazan Region, Larionov?" Serov, holding the resume of the most outstanding political star of the year, asked, "I seem to remember that the main pillar of the Ryazan region is the machinery industry, as if the coal industry is also strong, and agriculture does not seem to be strong." ”

"Yes, Director, it seems that there are some problems in the Ryazan region!" Isenmutny replied as she looked at the information.

"Less than 200 kilometers, let's go see for ourselves!" Serov directly put away the information and said. This time, he wanted to go over secretly, neither asking for the cooperation of the local General Directorate of Internal Affairs, nor informing the local KGB agencies, but to see for a moment to see what was going on with the Ryazan spirit that Khrushchev talked about every day.

He didn't have much time, and the trip of the Third Directorate included a visit to the Baikonur Space Center, but before that he had to prepare to deal with the issue of agriculture, which involved the ownership of hundreds of tons of gold in the Soviet Union.

The evening in Moscow in September was already a little cool, and Serov boarded the train to Ryazan Oblast in a gray military overcoat, with less than twenty soldiers of the Internal Guard, in addition to two secretaries who were always at his side.

Ryazan is not far from Moscow, and Serov has already appeared on the land of Ryazan Oblast in the middle of the night, but he did not directly take a train into the city, but changed to a car to see it for a while. (To be continued.) )