The great rivers of the Soviet Union were all such as the Arctic Ocean, and the most abundant water resources were in Siberia, which was almost entirely uninhabitable except for a few cities near the border. It can be said that the Soviet Union's project of the century is more urgent than China's south www.biquge.info-to-north water diversion a few decades later, and it will not affect the population of other regions, because there are few people in Siberia at all.

As soon as the first step is completed, water diversion can be used for irrigation, which will increase the irrigated area of the Black Sea and Azov basins by 4 million hectares, thereby increasing the value of agricultural production by 5 billion rubles and the annual net income by 3 billion rubles; increase the rate of guaranteed water supply in the industrial zones of Moscow, Tula-Novomoskovsk, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod and other industrial regions; Improving the supply of electricity to the single grid in part of Europe. improving the water quality of the Volga River, opening up new deep-water waterways, and maintaining the navigable water depth of the lower Volga so that shipping is not affected; Slowing down the decline in the Caspian Sea level and the rise in salinity in the Sea of Azov will increase fish catches in these two waters.

"Invite a few comrades from the Central Academy of Sciences to come over. Let's talk about this project. Holding the phone, Serov sat in his office and waited for a reply.

The chairman of the KGB did not have to wait too long, and an hour later Serov received several hydraulic experts from the USSR Central Academy of Sciences in Lubyanka.

"If the annual water diversion from the Ob River reaches 60 billion cubic meters, it will not have an important impact on the hydrology, hydrochemical conditions, ice conditions, and biological environment at the mouth of the Ob River, and there will be no large-scale climate variability in the water diversion area and the water crossing area." Academician of the Central Academy of Sciences Vorobayev gave a detailed account of this issue.

Serov nodded clearly, and although he didn't understand what Vorobayev meant by a few hundredths of a hundredth, he still made an expression that I understood very well. He still has a certain understanding of the climate of this country where he has lived for more than ten years, and he can understand it after watching it for so many years. To put it simply, there was a general shortage of water in the grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, and the place where there was no shortage of water was Siberia, which was inaccessible. If he doesn't understand that, he's a pig.

In fact, a perfect country in Serov's mind should be China plus Siberia, or the United States and Canada merged. In this way, all the basic conditions are in place. For a country of latitude like the Soviet Union, if it wants to develop, it will really face all kinds of difficulties. First of all, the climate is really a big problem, and from the standpoint of the Soviet Union, it is not difficult to understand why it is always looking for opportunities to attack south.

The Soviet Union's neighbors ranged from Turkey and Iran to Afghanistan and China. It can be said that there are no routes that can go south that the Russians have not tried, but so far none of them have been successful. There was British imperialism in the past, and there was American imperialism in the back, which had been preventing the Soviet Union from extending its power into southern Asia. This strategy is long-term, no matter which path the USSR chooses, the Americans will stop it, it's not how righteous the Americans are. Rather, the Americans knew that once the Soviet Union had an outlet to the sea in the temperate zone, or cut off the Eurasian continent, it would be invincible.

The climate problem has reached the point where it cannot be overcome, and the Russians, who know that they are trapped in the cold zone, continue to march towards the Dardanelles again and again, not hesitating to fight Turkey more than a dozen times, lasting for hundreds of years. This large-scale plan to divert water from the north to the south can be understood as an attempt by Soviet scientists to renovate the interior. But at the same time, as long as there is an opportunity, Serov still has to find an opportunity to go south, and gain Southeast Asia to make the Soviet bloc stronger, and after the end of the Vietnam War, the strength of the Soviet Union and the United States should be further closer than in history.

But Serov would never do nothing during the Vietnam War, and the Americans would make mistakes, but that doesn't mean they would make mistakes one after another. As far as this project is concerned, it is still very necessary, and it is always right to prepare both hands.

"What are the difficulties in the envisaged results? Tell us about this and see if I can help? "You don't have to think about the difficulty of this kind of project. Because in later generations, China also had a project in a different direction: the south-to-north water diversion. By the end of his memory, it wasn't finished.

"The whole project could take 30 to 40 years, and I don't know how much money was invested. In our Academy of Sciences, there are also quite a few comrades who have opposing opinions, and the specific opinions are as follows. A large-scale north-to-south diversion of water will reduce forest areas and disrupt the ecological balance. Damage to fishery resources, inundation of agricultural land in the north, destruction of Murmansk, the largest seaport city in the Arctic Circle. Some meteorologists have also highlighted that the more serious problem is that when dozens of huge reservoirs freeze over, the climate will be even colder, the winter will be longer, and the spring will be late, so that the already short spring in the northern region will be shortened by about two weeks! Vorobayev also had a headache when he talked about this issue. He is an expert who does not think it will affect the climate.

"What are the side effects, the project is not completed, all you imagine is hypothetical, even if all the side effects you say appear, compared with the benefits, it can still be overcome." Serov frowned and thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, the conditions you need, such as funds and manpower, I will rob the whole world, and I will supplement it for you." This is my commitment to the Academy of Sciences, and it is valid forever......"

Now Serov actually regrets one thing, if he had known about this incident, he might not have killed so many people in Indonesia, Academician Vorobayev said many conditions Serov believed, but this thirty or forty years of the project date, he did not believe it at all. This schedule must be based on normal working hours, so what does an abnormal working date look like? In the thirties and forties, Beria used the prisoners held in the Gulag to rush some huge projects that had been delayed, and all of them were completed ahead of schedule.

So Serov needs a group of people, a group of people who are not worried about wear and tear when they are used. That's why he began to regret killing people in Indonesia, and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners in Cuba who served Cuba couldn't do that. Because no matter what, those people are also Soviets, and Serov can use those prisoners to disturb the law and order in the United States, but he can't drive them to death.

"Why didn't the USSR go to war with any country? It's good to catch a few prisoners of war. After Vorobayev left, Serov thought for a long time where he could get manpower, and finally found out that prisoners of war still had this role.

I wonder where there will be war? Serov, who opened the world map, scanned the hot spots and circled two countries, one is Pakistan and the other is Turkey, the former can let India do it, the latter needs to do it himself, the captured prisoners of war can be used as manpower for this project, of course, these prisoners of war should never expect them to go back, as a counter-rebel worker, Serov will plan to wear them down to the end of the project.

Because the Indonesian events took up a lot of his working time last year, he didn't pay much attention to the second Indo-Pakistani war. Lost a chance to meddle in vain, but it's not a pity, there is a second time and a third time, and you will always wait for the opportunity to come.

"Convene the heads of the major general directorates, and we will discuss the next stage of work, as well as the direction of the strategic offensive. In other words, where to go to make a-stirring stick. Serov said, looking back from the world map.

Present at the meeting were the new first deputy chairman of the KGB, Colonel-General Bobkov, who had attended the meeting for the first time, and had previously attended meetings of a different nature, as he was the head of the Personnel Bureau, and he would not be invited to special units at the same level as the General Directorate on general external work issues.

Serov, who has the rank of general, does not have the momentum of not being angry and arrogant, and he also has no aura. Only the same grim expression as always, and the way of speaking in direct discussion.

It is this way of speaking that commands and operates a comprehensive intelligence department that is unprecedented in the world. And pointed fingers at various departments of the USSR, but never interfered in specific work. "It's the New Year soon, and this is the last meeting of the year. Let's talk about a couple of directions, I will start with a few places, the first is the Middle East-Israeli direction, and the second, Czechoslovakia. The third, France. The old god Serov first spoke his thoughts, and then asked if there were any problems.

Answering no, Serov turned to Admiral Sakhatowsky and asked, "From now on, the Czechoslovak economy and prices will be fully monitored, and the other two places must also pay more attention." From now on, we're going to have to use our brains. ”

In his opinion, of course, it was Czechoslovakia that had the most serious problems, because this was an internal matter of the Soviet camp. He wanted to resolve the problems of Czechoslovakia, not to think that if he had done one murder in Poland and Hungary, he would do it again in Czechoslovakia. Back then, the Soviet Union had China to help stabilize the morale of the military, but now? Who wants to kill when given a choice? Serov is also not idle.

If the problem in Czechoslovakia is serious, it is time to start trying to resolve it. If it can't be resolved internally, then it will be resolved from the outside, and if the Soviet Union can't solve it, let China solve it, and if it doesn't work, let Indonesia solve it. If it doesn't work, Serov will be a salesman again and go to a few more friendly countries to help Czechoslovakia.

If the three markets of China, Indonesia, and India cannot solve the problem of Czechoslovakia, Serov will have no choice, but I believe that this situation will not occur, and what cannot be solved in a small country with a population of several million? (To be continued.) )