Sverdlovsk, which is close to the Asia-Europe dividing line, was named Yekaterinburg after Tsarina Catherine until 1924, and was an important industrial, transport, trade, scientific, cultural and administrative center of the Ural region of the Soviet Union. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 On July 16-17, 1918, during the Civil War, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed at the Ibatyev Palace here.

And Gu Lin Jun knows that during the Great Patriotic War, Sverdlovsk will become a large center of the military-industrial complex. More than 50 large factories, manufacturing plants, scientific and academic institutions throughout the Soviet Union were evacuated to Sverdlovsk. Cities also made a great contribution to the preservation of the cultural heritage of the Soviet Union. The rich collections of the Lavra Museum (Leningrad), the Central Opera House of the Soviet Army, the Opera House of the Moscow Academy of Arts were transferred to Sverdlovsk, and even the headquarters of the USSR State Academy of Sciences were relocated here. It can be said that Sverdlovsk was very important in the Soviet Union, as it was the center of the Ural region, and in 1937 the population had reached 400,000.

A city of 400,000 people may not mean anything special in the rest of the world, but it was very prominent in the Urals, which at that time was already the most populous city.

One of the most important purposes of Lin Jun's visit to Sverdlovsk was to "inspect" the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant here, and the heavy machinery produced by the factory had a considerable proportion in the Soviet Union, and it can be said that its products were the "father" of Soviet military equipment. It is not enough for a country to have a military factory for the production of weapons, you must have a manufacturer of equipment for the production of weapons, and the Ural Heavy Machine Plant is such a factory. Of course, it also produces other heavy equipment, such as electric motors for large cranes and even engines for small and medium-sized ships.

Early in the morning of February 17, the train arrived at the platform of the Sverdlovsk freight station, and there was already a group of people waiting for Lin Jun's arrival.

Lin Jun stayed in Sverdlovsk for four days, visited and inspected a number of factories, and held several discussions with comrades of the local city party committee, including in-depth discussions on work and political struggles. As before, Lin Jun used his own way to alleviate the impact of the "rebellion", but in a "moderate" way, the leaders are all old qualifications, and it is not Lin Jun's turn to point fingers, of course, his opinions in some places represent the meaning of Comrade Stalin, and they still need to be taken seriously.

On his third day in Sverdelovsk, Lin Jun visited the Ibat Yev Palace, the place where seven members of the Tsar's family were shot.

"By smashing the shackles of the old world, we can better build the new world!" During the whole visit, Lin Jun only said this.

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At noon on February 22, Lin Jun was already on his way to Nizhny Tagil.

Today he got up early in the morning and got into the special car specially sent for him by the Sverdlovsk side, because they thought it was safer to take the car. This is not to say that they are unwilling to send planes, but they think that it is not as safe to walk from the sky as from the ground, and if the comrade "inspector" has some accident in Sverdlovsk, it will be troublesome.

Just now, Lin Jun and the driver were eating Chinese food in the small city of Uralsk, accompanied by a comrade named Yankrov, who was the head of the car squad of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee, had been a soldier, and was very familiar with this area.

Yancrov was very talkative, which made Lin Jun's eight or nine hour trip not very boring, and he also learned a lot of interesting things about the Ural Mountains.

The road from Sverdlovsk to Uralsk is flat, but the road conditions outside the town start to get complicated, and you need to go through hundreds of kilometers of mountain roads. Fortunately, the mountain roads here are not as steep as Lin Jun imagined, but there are primeval coniferous forests on both sides.

"Comrade Andrey, there are not many cars on this highway, because the products produced on both sides are transported to various places by rail, and often you don't see any other cars after driving for half a day." Yancrov briefed Lin Jun about the situation here.

"Fortunately, if you are in Chukotsi, it would be nice to see someone for half a day." Lin Jun has also seen the "market", there are all kinds of strange things in Siberia in the Soviet Union, and now there are only about 10 million people living in the Soviet Union to the east of the Ural Mountains, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and anything can happen.

"Hehe, forget that Comrade Andrei lived in the Far North. By the way, where is Comrade Andrei's hometown? ”

"Home? Where is my hometown? No one has asked themselves this question yet, but how do you answer it? Because Lin Jun himself doesn't know where his hometown is? In his previous resume, he only wrote "Cherny" in general terms in the "place of origin" column, but did not write where Cherny was. Lin Jun's concept of "hometown" is only a vague concept of "Naberezhny, Yecherny, a city in the northeast of the Tatar Autonomous Republic". He even told the question of how Andrei came to work in Chukotsi, as if Uncle Ivan had told him, as if his "parents" had taken him to Yakutsk, at the time of the establishment of the Yakutia Autonomous Republic in 1922. And "myself" did not return to his "hometown" after the sacrifice of his "parents", and later volunteered to work in Chukotsi.

Yankrov's question really stumped him.

"I think it was in Naberezhny, because I left my hometown with my parents when I was 5 years old, so I didn't have any images. Both my parents were Red Army officers. Later, in 22 I went to Yakutia, where my parents died, and I grew up in a boarding school in Yakutsk. So it can be said that Yakutsk is also my hometown. Lin Jun was there "making up".

But the reason is still very touching, and it is also written in the information held by the army and the "Cheka".

"All three of my brothers died in the battle between Kuibyshev and Kolchak in 19, when I was 17 years old, had just joined the army, and I did not catch up with the battle of Kuibyshev."

"Is there anyone else in the house?"

"There is only my wife and three children, and the rest of my relatives are gone."

"War is like this, and I have no other relatives except my wife and a son."

The mountain road is bent, and Lin Jun is "dizzy", but fortunately, the driver Pilega who drives the car has good skills, and the "Guise" four-wheel drive off-road vehicle is quite stable. And on this way, except for the Taoist classes every 20 kilometers, there are no people at all. The trail is a gentle slope with a mountain stream less than ten meters below.

"Stop!" Lin Jun, who was sitting on the right side of the back seat, roared, causing Pilega, who was driving, to brake suddenly.

Before the car could stop, he jumped out of the car, took out the pistol in the holster on his waist, quickly loaded it, and fired several shots in the direction of the creek until he ran out of bullets.

Lin Jun's actions startled the other two, "Comrade Andre, hide quickly!" ”

Hearing the shouts from behind, Lin Jun turned his head to see that Yancrov and Pilega had also taken out their pistols and were hiding behind the stones on the side of the road.

"Haha, there are no enemies, I'm fighting wild boars." It turned out that Lin Jun saw a group of wild boars by the small river below who were about to cross the river on the ice, and it was really a coincidence: I had heard of driving a night car to kill wild boars before, but I didn't expect to let myself hit it this time. At that time, Lin Jun shouted to stop without thinking about it, which startled the other two comrades, and they thought there was an "enemy".

"Comrade Andrey, you have taken us by surprise." Yancrov said to Lin Jun after collecting the gun.

"Hehe, I'm sorry, I suddenly saw it, and I shouted without thinking about it, I'm sorry comrades." Lin Jun was also a little embarrassed.

"Did you hit, Comrade Andrei?" The younger Pilega asked, he had just come from the other side of the road.

"Aren't you lying down there?"

The three of them went downhill, and a wild boar of about 100 pounds was lying in the frozen stream.

"There are many wild beasts here, and you can often see them on this road, but I have never heard of a man like Comrade Andrei who can kill a wild boar with a pistol." Yancrov said, pointing to the wild boar with its head blooming.

"Don't boast, hehe. There were more than a dozen of them just now, and I fired 8 shots, you see, if it weren't for the luck and the ice was slippery enough, this bullet just knocked this guy's head again, and I wouldn't even be able to shoot pig hair. ”

Hunting with a pistol is purely a matter of luck and has nothing to do with technology. The bullets of this Tokarev pistol can run away if they don't hit it in the vital point, even if it hits a few shots.

"Comrades, the time has come to contribute."

It took a lot of effort for the three of them to drag this guy onto the road. Pilega put the trunk in the trunk into the passenger seat, and the three of them worked together to shove it in.

"I didn't expect it to look big but so heavy, at least more than 100 pounds." Pilega said.

"This wild boar is like this, it is very tight, and it looks like it doesn't have a lot of meat. When you return to Sverdlovsk, half of you will be alone, and your family will not have to buy meat for a month, hehe. ”

"Comrade Andrei, this is your prey." It was Pilega who spoke.

"Shall I take him back to Moscow? Haha"

All three laughed, Lin Jun was right, he couldn't bring this guy back to Moscow, he could only "cheap" Yancrov and Pilega.

Lin Jun asked Yancrov and Pilega where the guns were distributed.

"I and Pilega have all of them in the city, but we usually have them in the gun magazine in the office, and we only bring them when we have important tasks. This time, the state leaders asked us to take it. ”

"Hehe, it seems that I'm more important." Lin Jun made a joke.

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Continue on the road, but this Ural Mountain must want to stay with Lin Jun for a while: the road ahead is blocked by a fallen tree.

"It seems that the passing year is unfavorable!" Lin Jun could only think like this.

They could only go back to open the knowledge class, and only they had the means to deal with this big tree with a diameter of almost one meter thick, but fortunately, the nearest Daoban just now was only two or three kilometers away from here.