March 25, 1942. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Yichun.

Konstanza, a military observer from the Soviet Far East, has been in Yichun for three days.

Last year, although winter came early, Yichun had a bumper grain harvest, and it is said that there was an explosive increase in grain production. Konstanza visited several places, where many North Koreans not only paid off their government arrears ahead of schedule because of the bumper grain harvest, but also built new houses, and some Japanese families began to have savings.

The largest number were Han Chinese families, who lived well-off, well-groomed and well-dressed houses, and Yichun was almost like many large cities in the Soviet Union. It is even better than the big cities of the Soviet Union, and the most outstanding thing is that there is an abundance of all kinds of necessities.

Constanta and his attachés each bought a lot. Of course, there are also places that are inferior to the Soviet Union, and the air raids are one of the shortcomings.

The government here is promoting a new life, emphasizing personal hygiene, family hygiene, health care, culture and education. Korean and Japanese families are often praised as models of hygiene and cleanliness. Local officials are said to have put a lot of effort into making Han Chinese rural women untidy and unhygienic.

In many places, there are gravel-paved roads with wide roads, on which cars can go very fast. It is said that most of the stones were dug out of caves, and those who dug the mountains were captives. Constanta was somewhat unconvinced, and if this rumor was true, how many underground caves would have to be dug?

Here, almost all the people, children and even adults are learning about the culture. Whether it is Koreans, Japanese, or even Soviets, they are all learning culture, Chinese culture, Chinese characters, Bopo touching Buddha, Tenerat, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Throughout the winter, everyone was not in production, either studying, or conducting military training.

It's good that Constanta knows about this, he doesn't have much interest, he comes for food.

The Soviet Far East has recently experienced great difficulties.

The Soviet Far East had a limited population and limited food production, but the number of troops was large, in the millions. Grain supplies were transported mainly by the Trans-Siberian Railway.

In recent years, a large number of military camps, a large number of fortresses, and a large number of railways have been built, all of which rely on this railway to transport a large number of materials from the West.

The Trans-Siberian Railway, from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east, has important stations via Ryazan, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Khabarovsk (Boly), etc. With a total length of 9,332 kilometers, it is currently the longest railway in the world.

The construction of the railway took many years and spent a lot of money. west of Chelyabinsk, built in the middle of the XIX century; It was 7,416 kilometers long to the east, and was built in 1891 and opened to traffic in 1916, which became a heavy financial burden for Tsarist Russia at that time.

This railway was originally a single line, and the train needed to wait at the station for the train coming from the opposite side to enter the station before continuing to move forward, which was not very efficient. By the 1930s, the construction of the double line of the large railway was completed.

The transportation efficiency is higher.

In addition, during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia sent people to Shandong, Henan, and Northeast China many times to recruit workers, amounting to hundreds of thousands of workers. Except for some of these Chinese workers, who built the Dongqing Railway (a branch line of the Trans-Siberian Railway in China), most of the rest came to work on railway construction sites in Siberia.

Most of the bridge and tunnel work on the eastern section of the Trans-Siberian Railway was carried out by Chinese workers.

After the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, it brought huge economic benefits to Russia. Amid the roar of trains, Siberia, which had been deserted, quickly prospered. After the opening of traffic, the population grew rapidly. In 1863, the population of Siberia was only 2.86 million, and by 1914 it had reached 9.62 million.

The arrival of a large number of immigrants has effectively alleviated the shortage of labor in Siberia. With the rapid growth of the population, numerous cities have sprung up on both sides of the Great Railroad line, which can rival the speed of the United States.

By the time of the October Revolution, Siberia's grain production had accounted for 17 percent of the country's total, and Siberia's coal mining, timber processing, and metallurgical industries had all developed, and even stimulated the entire Russian economy.

Since the beginning of winter, especially since February, there have been many accidents on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and in March alone, there were more than 100 accidents in which trains derailed.

Train derailments occurred from near Moscow all the way to Vladivostok, and accidents occurred everywhere.

At first, everyone thought it was an ordinary accident, because this winter is so cold. Because of the severe cold, many railway facilities have problems.

However, later on, an incident attracted the attention of the security services, and the Tokyo spy team sent back a piece of information in early March, saying that the Japanese army had sent a large number of spies to the Soviet Union in order to sabotage the Trans-Siberian Railway, cut off supplies to the Soviet Far East, and prepare for a Japanese attack on the Soviet Far East.

Two days later, information came from Tokyo again. This time, the content of the intelligence was changed, saying that Germany sent some spies into the hinterland of the Soviet Union to sabotage in preparation for Germany's attack on the Soviet Union.

The security services immediately launched an investigation, and so far, nothing has been achieved, but the problem in the Far East has already emerged: a serious shortage of food supplies. Large quantities of grain transported from Siberia stopped at railway stations along the way and could not be transported to the Far East.

Although the fortress of Vladivostok had a large amount of food reserves, the barracks on the ground and the supply of the inhabitants were insufficient. At the same time, the black market is rampant, and many speculative businessmen have smuggled across the border to smuggle grain boxes and light industrial products and other scarce materials, reselling them for high profits.

The Far East thought of Yichun and sent Constanta to Yichun to discuss the food problem with Yichun.

Constanta is now much more mature, and when he came to Yichun, he did not directly talk about the problem of food, but after visiting everywhere for two days, he thought that the Yichun authorities had raised the problem, and besides, the mouth was very open, and he asked for the first batch of 500 tons of grain, which could be exchanged for weapons and ammunition.

In fact, this is not a high requirement, according to the amount of one and a half pounds a day, 10,000 people a day is 6 and a half tons, and a million people a day is 650 tons. These 500 tons are not enough for a million troops to eat for a day.

Yichun's grain reserves are also very large, not to mention the large and small granaries, the newly reclaimed land in the territory controlled by Yichun is millions of hectares, and if you buy a ton of land, that is, millions of tons. At the beginning, the Yichun government recruited displaced people and resettled them, and lent a large amount of money in the past, but now they use grain to borrow money, and a large amount of loans have been recovered.

Constanta studied Yichun's approach and sighed, Yichun relied on the government's credit, although he didn't have much money, but he used wasteland and manpower to generate a lot of money, and in exchange for a large amount of materials, it was not simple.

Today, Mayor Feng Zhongyun of Constanta held a meeting with only one content, that is, food.

Hearing that Constanta said that he wanted 500 tons of grain, Mayor Feng Zhongyun muttered: "How can we transport so much grain?" How to calculate the price of food and weapons? ”

Konstanza said: "Our headquarters has discussed, we have always been close brothers, and the price is good. Our concession is that we can give up 10 percent of the price of food and the price of weapons.

Feng Zhongyun said: "If we transport such a huge amount of grain, the price of grain in the market will inevitably rise. Can you accept it? ”

Constanta said, "I need to ask for advice on this. ”

Feng Zhongyun said: "As brothers of friendship and cooperation, we will help you unconditionally. Regarding prices, we will act according to the laws of the market. This is different from your planned economy. In order not to cause misunderstanding, it is recommended that you send food price observers during the transportation of grain. In addition, you will have to pay for the transportation costs. You are also responsible for the air defense of the convoy. ”

Konstanza said, "Okay. I would also like to ask for this point. Dear Feng, why are you all the same as Lu, and you are concerned about the price? ”

Feng Zhongyun said: "Constanta, if you create a base behind enemy lines, you will understand. If the people don't trust us, we won't survive a day. Respecting the laws of the market is the first magic weapon to win the trust of the people. ”

"You are not socialism. You are communists, you should implement the socialist system of the Soviet Union, and you should organize production according to the plan. The system you were in was capitalism, or at least state capitalism. "Constanta knew that Yichun's government had important industrial and agricultural fields in its hands and had a lot of property.

Feng Zhongyun said: "We lack cadres, and the people need education. Well, we don't discuss theoretical and practical issues. You should ask your supervisor for the floating price. ”

Constanta said: "You Yichun, everyone is very cunning, and you talk sweetly to the people who come to negotiate, but when it comes to the price, you will not give in." You should implement a public ownership system. ”

Feng Zhongyun once discussed with Xiaolu. Nowadays, the Soviet Union is in a big war, one will fight Japan, one will fight Poland, one will fight Finland, a large number of people will go to war, food production will drop significantly, they need food, we should make some gestures, and then get some benefits. If there is a condition, just mention it, they are in urgent need of food, and they will agree.

Yichun has been closely following the economic situation in the Soviet Union, and the prices of daily industrial goods are reported back every six months. This is the only basis for Yichun's decision-making.

A lot of calculations were only carried out in Xiaolu's heart, because he knew that the German army would attack the Soviet Union in the near future. At the beginning of the war, the economic situation of the Soviet Union will certainly be bad, military supplies will occupy the vast majority of natural resources, and civilian industry will have to be greatly reduced. The total amount of food on the market will drop to half of what it was before the war, and the total amount of civilian industrial products will fall to 10 to 15 percent of the pre-war level. The western part of the Soviet Union was a two-city production area, the first step of the German army

The occupation of these areas will lead to serious consequences.

At the same time, the amount of money in circulation in the USSR would triple up, the currency would depreciate, and the prices of the black market would rise: the price of military supplies would fall, and the price of civilian goods would rise.

Therefore, the price of grain and light industrial products in Yichun is high, and it is very cost-effective to exchange heavy industrial products.

In order to deal with the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, Xiaolu sent Wang Li to lead a few people from Vladivostok to Moscow and bring back all the people from Moscow.

This is a big plan, and Yan'an agrees to this plan.

Wang Li's team has been on the road for more than ten days, and it is said that the road is very slow, and the train stops and goes. Accidents on the railroad kept happening.