After the car to the Kremlin, Serov immediately knew that his expectations were still slightly optimistic, and the first secretary was a little more temperamental than he expected. At this time, it was clearly not suitable to enter into dispersed fire, and it was not good to go back, and Serov was in a dilemma.

In all fairness, Khrushchev just had a big temper, at least it didn't make people feel that his life was in danger, Serov decided to wait outside Khrushchev's office in the Great Kremlin, and from time to time he heard Khrushchev's sharp criticism coming from inside the office, and Khrushchev's voice was nothing, and it seemed that in the face of Khrushchev's criticism, everyone did not dare to refute. Are the members of the Presidium and the Central Committee of the Great Soviet so cowardly?

Standing up and walking outside the building, Serov waved his hand and beckoned a guard to come over and asked, "Who in the Kremlin received a summons from the first secretary today?" "The Kremlin's garrison was trained by Serov after the defeat of the Malenkov group, and the guards of that year were obviously not firm in their position when Malenkov was attacked, and did not give the first secretary a sense of security, so they were re-evaluated by the KGB Police General Headquarters, that is, the Ninth General Directorate, and the security forces here are not a secret to Serov at all, and no one knows how many KGB agents there are.

This garrison came from the KGB, which is why Semychasny could easily cut off Khrushchev's call for help. If Brezhnev wants to win, it is impossible not to get the KGB out, and Khrushchev is not without a chance to resist in history, if Serov remembers correctly, the support of the Central Committee should be four or six, and it is not that there is no one who supports Khrushchev. Of course, this opportunity for resistance was snuffed out by Semychasny.

"Vice-chairman, Brezhnev, Marshal Nederin and Ustinov are inside. It's been over an hour! "For his boss, the garrison has its own headquarters, but the deputy chairman of the KGB is still a commander to him, because that command does not ask for the influence of the KGB.

More than an hour? Serov was very surprised by Khrushchev's energy and asked the guards to return to their posts. Serov still returned to wait outside Khrushchev's office, and he did not forget to smoke a cigarette before returning. Otherwise, it's not very comfortable inside.

"Yuri, come in!" Accompanied by Khrushchev's voice, Serov was faced with Brezhnev's indifferent face after entering, obviously Khrushchev's accusations and humiliation are not something ordinary people can survive.

"Comrade First Secretary, Serov, First Deputy Chairman of the National Security Council, Commander of the Internal Guard, reports to you." Serov made an opening sentence very formally, and at the same time saluted Khrushchev, "As a junior, and a cadre who is not even a member of the Central Committee, I have a sentence I want to remind the first secretary......

"Say ......" It is clear from Khrushchev's tone that the residual anger has not subsided. The sound has a hard feeling.

"Don't criticize other members of the Presidium of the Central Committee in front of us young cadres, because it will damage the prestige of other cadres!" Serov's words made Brezhnev and them change color instantly, they never dared to refute Khrushchev's words, they didn't expect Serov to dare, sure enough, Khrushchev said what should be criticized for a long time, and at the same time pointed out that he was for the good of these cadres.

What to be afraid of, Serov does not understand what to be afraid of, why Brezhnev they were so afraid of Khrushchev. Were you scared by the purge? It's a pity that Serov didn't experience that kind of fear, but some of the ignorant were fearless. It is mainly the credit of the history books, Khrushchev would not have taken such extreme measures against opponents, and Khrushchev was the most human-like among the leaders of the Soviet Union, and he would not dare if he met Stalin.

"Okay, let's talk about work, Yuri, why don't you stop Marshal Nederin's violations? Well? "Khrushchev really did not continue to accuse Brezhnev of them. It's just that it was transferred to Serov.

Isn't this unlucky, Serov gave full play to his usual merits and directly admitted, "As the first deputy chairman of the KGB present, I must admit that I am not making excuses for my dereliction of duty." Comrade Nederin is a marshal, I am a lieutenant general, and I should have obeyed the marshal's orders when my opinion was to the left, and the relationship between the General Directorate of Military Administration and the Red Army was already very bad, and I did not want to clash with a marshal, but after this bombing, I swore that there would never be a similar situation in the future, and that no matter who the other party was, I would adhere to the relevant regulations......"

When the time comes, I can't tell Khrushchev what I want to say, but Serov's clean admission of mistakes made Khrushchev stop blaming him, blaming a young cadre who is more than 30 years younger than himself, and Khrushchev does not have much sense of accomplishment.

"This is the national agricultural report, the results of the investigation and verification of the 2nd and 5th General Departments, this is the development plan of the Ryazan region for this year, and my own solution to the supply of meat." Serov took out the various documents from his briefcase, which temporarily solved the embarrassment of Brezhnev and several of them, so that Khrushchev did not have time to deal with them for the time being.

The food problem in the Soviet Union has always been a shortcoming, and Khrushchev himself understood this better than anyone else, otherwise he would not have taken the lead in tackling the agricultural problem and made a joke about the corn movement. At least people understand the problem and dare to solve it, unlike Brezhnev who knew how to exchange oil for food, thinking of this, Serov secretly glanced at Brezhnev. Khrushchev did not let them leave, and several people waited here for orders.

"These bastards!" Khrushchev slammed the documents handed in by Serov on the table, Serov himself went only to Ryazan and Kazakh, yes, but the KGB was not the only one who worked. The 2nd and 5th Directorates, at the same time, carried out a nationwide inventory of agricultural issues, and by now how could Khrushchev not know that the corn campaign in the USSR had failed. The purpose of reclaiming wasteland is to solve the grain problem, and the expansion of corn planting is mainly to solve the problem of animal husbandry. However, the fact that the lack of a more comprehensive and universal investigation resulted in the easy decisions that resulted in the Soviet people's rations being threatened, is a vivid illustration of the failure of the government and the complexity of decision-making.

However, as far as Serov is concerned, in addition to the above point, there is another point that angers Khrushchev, that is, as the first secretary, he does not understand the progress of the whole matter below, and many secretaries of the state party committee only care about pandering to themselves, but do not report the real situation to themselves, and in the end it is the first deputy chairman of the KGB who personally goes down to find out the problem.

Serov must say that when he arrived in Ryazan he was only a low-ranking deputy chairman. Khrushchev cursed indignantly for a long time, and words such as dismissal and trial kept coming out of his mouth. Only Serov stood aside quite unconsciously, and he didn't hear it, and he didn't scold himself anyway.

"What about the consciousness of the secretaries of the state party committees? They lied to me, these bastards. I'm going to send them all to prison, and they're all going to be shot in Stalin's time!" Khrushchev's heaving chest showed how fierce his mood was, the supreme leader of a superpower, who was deceived by the cadres below. This was already beyond the capacity of Khrushchev himself, "Yuri, why do you think such a thing happened?" ”

"Deceive the central government?" Serov, who has always appeared as a police chief and intelligence chief, said directly without thinking about it, "The power of the judicial system at the level of the member states and the state is obviously somewhat inconsistent, and the power of the local government in the judicial system is too large, so that the central government cannot know the specific movements of local cadres, and the solution is not impossible, there should be a central supervisory force in the institutions of state farms and factories throughout the country, and when I was in Azerbaijan, my immediate supervisor was the second secretary in charge of security, Semychasny, The establishment of a second secretary in enterprises at the level of the district committee is directly responsible to the central authorities, who can report to the KGB what is happening in the localities anytime and anywhere, so as to ensure that we monitor enterprises throughout the country and put an end to the possibility of local governments blinding the central authorities. ”

"Okay, that's it! The establishment of a second secretary responsible for the KGB in factories and farms at the level of district committees across the country ensures that the Central Committee is aware of local movements at all times! Khrushchev agreed without thinking about it.

This made Brezhnev and Ustinov's faces change greatly, which is equivalent to the whole country's enterprises are within the scope of KGB monitoring, but in the face of the angry Khrushchev, neither of them said anything to stop them. Serov saw the performance of the two and was a little strange, isn't this something that the USSR itself has? How is it like seeing a flood beast?

Serov forgot one thing, that is, it was 1960, the era when all Soviet enterprises had security cadres responsible for the KGB, and it was after Andropov became the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, and after coming to power, Andropov expanded the KGB's surveillance of local enterprises in order to strengthen his control over the localities, even the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the Beria period did not have such monitoring of state-owned enterprises throughout the country. Serov had the illusion that the decision to let the KGB spy on enterprises was taken during the Khrushchev era because of the corn campaign, but this was not the case.

Brezhnev and Ustinov glanced at each other, and felt that it was better to wait for Khrushchev to calm down and find an opportunity to persuade Khrushchev to take back this order that had a huge impact.

"After I go back, I will immediately reorganize the KGB to ensure that there will be no more local cadres who deceive the central government in the future." Serov, who was rather ignorant, agreed to meet for reorganization as soon as he returned. (To be continued.) )