Comrade Berkov had already met with Zhang Yu and was very clear about the position of the People's Party. The Bolsheviks also knew that there was such a political organization as the People's Party in China, which was said to be guided by Marxism. However, there was no chance of liaison between the two sides, and the Second International in Europe was almost completely divided in the world war, let alone the opportunity to know more about the BJP.

In recent years, Marxism and socialism were by no means an insignificant school of thought in Europe, and basically all European countries had socialist and Marxist parties, so the Bolsheviks of the United Communist Party were very interested in what kind of policy the People's Party held. As far as Berkov knows, he thinks that the People's Party is more akin to the Social Democrats of Europe than a Marxist party. Lenin told Berkov that if the People's Party was a social democratic party, it was necessary to pay the utmost attention to the nationalist tendencies of the People's Party.

Sure enough, as Lenin predicted, Chen Ke categorically rejected Lenin's suggestion on the matter of withdrawing from the world war. "We have always been against imperialist wars, so we will not send any troops to fight in Europe. However, we will not withdraw from the Entente either. No matter what differences and conflicts Russia has with Europe, Europe still regards Russia as a part of Europe. And we in China need to join the world. As Marx described in the Communist Manifesto, globalization is the inevitable direction of the future of the world. ”

The word "globalization" did not appear at all during the First World War, so Berkov was interested in this unfamiliar term, which never appeared in the Communist Manifesto. However, based on the understanding of the two sides that are 100 years apart, Berkov can only understand what Chen Ke refers to by discussing the specific content of the "Communist Manifesto" with Chen Ke.

…… The need to constantly expand the market for its products drove the bourgeoisie to run around the world. It has to settle everywhere, develop everywhere, and make connections everywhere.

The bourgeoisie, by opening up the world market, has made the production and consumption of all countries cosmopolitan. To the great regret of the reactionaries, the bourgeoisie dug up the national base at the foot of industry. The old national industry was wiped out and is still being wiped out every day. They have been crowded out by new industries, and the establishment of new industries has become a matter of vital importance to all civilized peoples; These industries are no longer processing raw materials that are local, but raw materials from extremely distant regions; Their products are consumed not only at home but also around the world. The old needs, which were met by domestic products, were replaced by new needs that were met by products from extremely distant countries and regions. The local and national self-sufficiency and self-sufficiency of the past have been replaced by the intercourse and interdependence of all ethnic groups. This is true of the production of matter, and so is the production of spirit. The spiritual products of all nations have become the property of the public. The one-sidedness and limitations of the nation became increasingly impossible, and a kind of world literature was formed from many kinds of national and local literatures.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all the means of production, and by the extreme convenience of transportation, has swept all nations, even the most barbarous, into civilization. The low price of its commodities is the heavy artillery it uses to destroy all the Great Wall and conquer the most tenacious xenophobia of the barbarians. It compels all nations - if they do not want to perish - to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; It forces them to promote so-called civilization in themselves, that is, to become bourgeoisie. In a word, it creates a world for itself in its own image. ……

This is Marx's prophecy about globalization in the Communist Manifesto, which was officially published in February 1848, and Chen Ke really saw how this prophecy was accurately realized.

Even if Berkov had not seen the 21st century, he did feel Marx's profound insight in 1918, 70 years after the publication of the Communist Manifesto. In the same way, after changing his initial impression of the People's Party, Berkov had to admit that the leader of the People's Party in front of him was by no means a simple leader of the Social Democratic Party, and judging from what Chen Ke said, Chen Ke was indeed a figure who had really studied Marxism and was influenced by Marxism to a considerable extent.

The People's Party believes that scientific communism can definitely be realized, but it is impossible for China with backward productive forces to realize "public ownership of the means of production" for the time being, so the People's Party can only temporarily manage the means of production in the form of the socialist system, and allow a variety of forms of ownership of the means of production to exist for a long time. This is the view of historical materialism.

Berkov was not in charge of ideology among the Bolsheviks of the Communist Party, and if he were a comrade in charge of ideology, he would not have been sent all the way to China. It's a waste of months on the road. As for Chen Ke's firm explanation, Berkov did not have much to fully discuss. Moreover, Chen Ke had already categorically rejected the request of the Bolsheviks of the United Communist Party to jointly withdraw from the world war, and then he proposed the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Russia, after which Russia was willing to cancel all privileges in China and cancel all "secret treaties" signed by Russia and China that were harmful to China.

Chen Ke did not want to say anything unpleasant, and Comrade Berkov's attitude of loyalty to the Bolsheviks of the Communist Party was very commendable. If he didn't have such loyalty, Chen Ke would be disappointed. However, Comrade Lenin, the old fox, played such a trick, and Chen Ke also regretted it. There is a historical version that Comrade Lenin proposed the abolition of all "secret treaties" signed between Tsarist Russia and China. Chen Ke had no interest in this so-called "secret treaty" in the slightest.

Regarding Comrade Berkov's proposal to establish diplomatic relations between China and Russia, Chen Ke rejected it on the grounds of discussion in the Politburo. At the end of the meeting, Chen Ke entrusted Comrade Berkov to bring his congratulations to Comrade Lenin and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Chen Ke expressed his belief that the Communist Party of China would be able to liberate the whole of Russia in the shortest possible time.

At the end of the meeting, Chen Ke immediately convened a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee, and he said straight to the point: "Personally, I think that the Russian Communist Party is already thinking about the territorial issues bordering China. ”

Of course, the comrades of the People's Party knew that Chen Ke wanted to recover those territories, but they did not expect Chen Ke to put forward this idea so simply and clearly.

"Do you want to fight?" You Yu immediately became nervous.

Chen Ke said with a smile: "Our civil war has not ended, and neither has the Russian civil war. Even if it is a war, it will not be the turn to fight the Russians first, now it is just necessary to start preparations. The Northeast Military District waited until the beginning of spring and immediately marched to the north. The Hebei Military Region began to march into Inner and Outer Mongolia. ”

"Where do you end your march to the north?" You Yu is very concerned about this.

Chen Ke replied very simply, "It is enough to restore the Treaty of Nebuchu." I am not interested in the land of the Russians. ”

Chen Tianhua has read some information about the Russian Communist Party, although the information is very limited, Chen Tianhua is still quite interested, "Then it depends on what kind of war the Russian Communist Party will fight with us?" The Northeast has been cold like that, what will it be like further north? If the Far East is lost, it will be difficult for Russia to maintain a large-scale presence in the East. From the point of view of social operating costs, if Russia wants to maintain a balance of power with us, the cost is too high. ”

Chen Ke nodded, "As long as the Nebuchu Treaty can be restored, I don't want any war with the Russian Communist Party." It would be a war that would not be worth the loss, and you have already read our reports in Laos and North Vietnam, right? Why don't we go south, but in the north and consume precious national power in a senseless way? ”

The Politburo, of course, had read the report in northern Vietnam, and after the People's Party captured Quang Ninh Hung Kyi, the local coal mines had made the People's Party mining experts almost crazy. This is an unprecedented high-quality anthracite, which can be transported to Qiongzhou Island by expanding the local port at will, and can be directly used to make iron and steel, and the steel and iron that have just been built directly solve a large part of the demand of Qiongzhou Island. In addition, there are iron ore and limestone mines in the north of Vietnam, and with the abundance of water, it is fully equipped with the important conditions for the industrial base of the coal-iron complex.

Not to mention the abundant resources of places like Southeast Asia are now completely open to the BJP. What started as an inexplicable coconut trade has now become the source of an influential industrial chain in China. Coconut sugar, coconut oil, coconut meat, coconut shells, coconut palm, this industrial chain provides nearly one million jobs, most of which are jobs that women are qualified for. The price of buttons in the People's Party base areas is so low that in less than a decade, buttons made of traditional fabrics have been eliminated to a great extent. As for the development of Malay palm oil that has already begun, Chen Ke expects to supply more than 5 million tonnes of oil to China every year. That's a huge gain.

The reality has made the Politburo Standing Committee realize how rich the benefits of trade can be. Southeast Asia was an important market for BJP industrial goods, and it was because of the money that local merchants and colonizers in Southeast Asia made a lot of money that they paid more attention to trade. It is no exaggeration to say that trade with Southeast Asia changed the economic landscape of the BJP liberated areas in a very short period of time. In such a situation, it would be foolish to engage in a senseless war with the Russian neighbor to the north.

"If Russia does not give up an inch of land, Russia may not be willing to suffer this loss." Chen Tianhua was not fooled, thinking that the Russians were soft persimmons that could be kneaded casually.

"So we have a lot of preparation to do." Chen Ke replied.

"Speaking of preparations, the UK and France have asked us for more anti-gas medicines." You Yu said. There is an instinctive aversion to doping from top to bottom, and even to people of insight in China. Even though the drug was almost more expensive than gold, You Yu didn't like the trade at all.

"How much more do they want?" Chen Ke asked.

"Ten tons?" Chen Ke was also a little stunned at this time. The BJP has also experimented inhumanely with its own comrades and prisoners, and 0.2 grams at a time is enough to stimulate the nerves. One million grams per ton, even if the British and French armies used one ton at a time, and the British and French Caucasians were more tolerant to stimulants, one person needed 0.5 grams, which was enough for 2 million troops to carry out a big attack. They want to buy ten tons in one go, what kind of unprecedented scale is this a battle to fight?

You Wei sneered: "Chairman Chen, do you think that those people in Britain and France are like us, even if they are exhausted, they don't want to touch that thing. I also learned that they are almost hanging their lives on this now. I also sent someone to investigate, and the British and French troops on the front line of the war now rely on this to maintain their morale. Take regular meals every month to boost your spirits. They had to eat it before the battle, and after the battle they smoked opium, took morphine, and even injected demerol and heroin. Without that, they wouldn't even be able to sustain an army on the battlefield. I think they want this number just to maintain their daily consumption. ”

In mid-1917, the French relied on the "Shengong Body Protection Pill" purchased from China on a large scale, and launched several large-scale battles one after another. After a bloody battle, the French could no longer fight. The current French top brass is no longer too worried about the lack of will to fight in the French army, and the reason why they can't fight is that they really shed blood. There are no young people to be seen on the streets of France, and young adults have gone to the front.

France was almost drained of blood, and the main body of the offensive in the second half of 1917 became the British army. After a series of battles, with the help of the "Divine Skill Body Protection Pill", the British army exerted an unprecedented will to fight, and the British army and cannon fodder troops recruited from various colonies suffered nearly 2 million casualties. Especially the colonial servant army, the British must have given them a large dose of "Shengong Body Protection Pill" before the war, and the casualties of these cannon fodder troops were particularly heavy.

"Britain and France are very scientific, and they have done quantitative experiments. Caucasians are between 0.5 and 0.7 grams at a time, and the servant armies in North and South Asia are about the same, possibly slightly less. Blacks need about one gram at a time. ”

Chen Ke rarely showed a stunned expression, the drug thing was really beyond Chen Ke's imagination. His moral outlook really can't make him rationally construct a reasonable line of thought.

"In addition, the Americans also know about this drug. They asked us to buy a ton. But hopefully we can be cheaper, Wang Bin has already rejected this unreasonable request. You Yu threw out another piece of news.

Before Chen Ke could understand, You Wei continued to throw an even bigger flashbang, "The Germans have also sent people to contact us, as long as we can ship these medicines to Germany, they are willing to pay ten times the price and trade them completely in gold." If we are willing to give them the recipe, they promise to give us anything we want. Whatever we want, they give. ”

As a guy who is interested in military affairs, an admirer of the people's army, and a descendant of the Eighth Route Army, Chen Ke still has a little sacred sense of war. Since its founding, the great People's Liberation Army has never fought a single war for aggression. As a citizen of the People's Republic of China, this is also part of Chen Ke's pride.

Chen Ke knows that he sometimes has a martyr's mentality, that revolution requires sacrifice, and that the altar of history has always longed for sacrifices. Even though he knew that this thought was just a testament to the weakness and incompetence of his human nature, Chen Ke still needed this mindset to balance his emotions. His international scheming and attempts to make the most of the situation to gain the greatest benefits for China cannot shake Chen Ke's personal moral confidence.

So You Wei's report paints a picture of the warring parties in the imperialist wars trying to rely entirely on drugs to anesthetize their armies in order to sustain a brutal and bloody war. This couldn't help but make Chen Kesheng feel like vomiting.

Finally suppressed this emotion, Chen Ke said: "Didn't we develop several stimulants? Find the one with the weakest effect for Germany. What do you think? ”

With Chen Ke as the backing, You Wei didn't have any conscience problems at all, she sneered, "It's okay to sell to the Germans, according to the practice of the belligerents, we have confiscated all German assets in China." The problem is that the Germans are already doomed to defeat, and once defeated, they are doomed to be stripped of everything by the Entente, and what can he give back to us at that time? ”