Chapter 144 The Signing of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty
The old rule is ridiculous to sing begging songs for everyone first
A bell in a bell, a bell in a bell...... The storytelling gong struck, and the rice bowl was turned around the audience.
Xiaolou listened to the rooster crowing all night, and in the blink of an eye, he was busy with work.
Listen to me a song, and the red ticket rewards the spirit of the long.
[144] The signing of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship
This Spring Festival Gala shocked the United States, the Soviet Union, and Europe.
The Americans analyzed: The Chinese have built a powerful long-wave radio station for communist propaganda at any cost, and we must be vigilant. We have to build our own radio channels and propaganda channels for the East. ”
At the same time, they are already looking for ways to silence these voices.
The cultural department of the Soviet Union reported to the Central Committee of the CPSU: "The power of the Chinese radio station is very strong, and the signal is very clear. There is no doubt that the Chinese have invested a lot of money in radio equipment. ”
The Central Committee of the CPSU felt that this was nothing, after all, the literacy rate in the country was only 5%. The majority of their population is in ignorance, and it is also necessary to use radio to popularize knowledge, ideological propaganda, and literary and artistic propaganda.
Overseas Chinese are one of the groups that have benefited the most from this Spring Festival Gala. As soon as the party ended, those Chinese who had a good memory and a vocal background had already written a simple score with their memory. Accompanied by the lyrics recited on the radio before each song, they earnestly learned to sing these voices from their homeland. These songs thrill them every time they are sung, and for many of them, they are their daily spiritual food, humming almost every day.
Overseas travelers, international students, scientists. After hearing the familiar local accent this time, the centripetal force for the motherland is getting stronger and stronger. Their hearts are crying out in the same voice, I want to go home.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1950, it was February 17th, and this day was the Lantern Festival in 2011, and Xiaoqiang remembered his parents in his hometown. In the years since he graduated from university and came to work in Beidu, he can't spend the Lantern Festival with his parents, which is already the norm.
But this will not hinder Xiaoqiang's homesickness in the slightest. Homesick Xiaoqiang spent the morning together at the beginning of the new year, smoking and pacing in the yard. He deliberately imitates the chairman's movements, although it is a little clumsy and ridiculous, but human beings always learn to surpass through imitation. As a young man in the 21st century, he knows that he will never be able to transcend the realm of the chairman, but this does not prevent him from learning from his idols and even imitating their every move. This is not ridiculous, in psychology, human learning begins with the imitation of idols, first parents, then teachers, and then all kinds of people around them who have outstanding performance or extraordinary charisma. This behavior starts out as external reinforcement, then becomes vicarious reinforcement, and eventually becomes self-reinforcing. This is the reason why human beings have been able to make continuous progress and the evolution of civilization has been accelerating and never stagnating.
Xiaoqiang had just thrown down his cigarette butt when he heard someone knocking on the door. Dongzi, who was helping the chef Lao He steam steamed steamed buns in the kitchen, ran fast and immediately opened the door.
It turned out that the chairman sent someone to pick up Xiaoqiang. Xiaoqiang didn't dare to delay, so he didn't have time to drink porridge and eat steamed buns and went out.
When I came to Juxiang Bookstore, I learned from the chairman that the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance had been signed!
Xiaoqiang received a telegram translated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the chairman's hand, which roughly read: The two sides have reached a consensus on the content of the treaty, and just this morning, Comrade Shaoqi will attend the signing ceremony between China and Russia in Moscow.
Xiaoqiang looked at the content of the treaty carefully, and felt like drinking a glass of honey water, which was very comfortable.
In addition to the holes dug before, the Soviet Union no longer monopolized the right to export all Chinese goods, and China's exports to the Soviet Union were no longer priced by the Soviet Union as in history. If that's the case, the export price is only half of the Shijie average.
As for the pit, Xiaoqiang thinks that it is better not to jump if the Soviet Union can not jump, it is all a red people's power, why should it be coaxed in the nest early and make the US imperialists see jokes? However, if the Soviet Union really went down the wrong path as it did in history and finally jumped down, Xiaoqiang felt that we should still add soil to Big Brother. After all, the size of the woolly bear is too big, and if he finds his own death, no one will be able to pull him up. Instead of being dragged down for burial, it is better to be an adult, and make the grave bag a little rounder, thicker and more beautiful, so that the spirit of Big Brother can rest in peace.
Comrade Shaoqi's diplomatic talent was undoubtedly demonstrated in the treaty, and the Zhongchang Railway and the Second Port of Luda, which were supposed to be returned by the end of 52, insisted on being returned to the Chinese side within six months from the date of the signing of the treaty because we no longer had any need to import the Soviet Union's 156 project. Xiaoqiang calculated, and the deadline should be August 17. In this way, our army can completely complete control of the Northeast before the Korean War.
In the treaty, the original loan of 300 million US dollars was given to China in five years, and Comrade Stalin insisted that either he would not take out a loan, or if he wanted to borrow, he could no longer borrow at the original low interest rate of 1 percent. Comrade Shaoqi was also a bachelor, and simply reduced the loan to $100 million, and the Soviet Union paid it off as soon as possible, and China repaid it in five years, with an interest rate of 3 percent per annum. The purpose of the loan was to purchase aviation kerosene, gasoline and diesel from the Soviet Union. And a one-time purchase of 600 second-hand Li-2 transport planes from the Soviet Union, priced at 50,000 US dollars each, with a total price of 30 million US dollars, the Soviet Union delivered to China the production line of the Li-2, which they had ceased production as early as 1945, and was responsible for sending engineers to China to help the production line be put into production and set up the Xifei Company.
The Livinov-2 transport aircraft, referred to as the Li-2 transport aircraft, is an imitation of the DC-3 transport aircraft purchased by the Soviet Union from the McDonnell Douglas Company of the United States during World War II. And frantically produced 4,863 aircraft, until the end of World War II in 1945, the production line was stopped. By this time, the Soviet Union had already developed the Il-12 and put it into production as the successor to the Li-2.
In fact, the Li-2 is not outdated, from the perspective of the whole Shijie, the prototype of the Li-2 McDonnell Douglas DC-3, more than 13,000 aircraft have been produced, plus the introduction of production licenses from various countries to imitate the model, a total of more than 20,000 aircraft have been produced worldwide. Until 2011, more than five hundred DC-3 and its imitation aircraft continued to fly in the blue sky as cargo planes in Shijie countries after being modified with advanced avionics equipment.
The DC-3 is a true legend, with a simple design, simple maintenance, reliable and stable performance, and a range of up to 2,650 kilometers. It can carry 30 people and 3 tons of luggage when used as a passenger aircraft, and up to 12 tons if used as a cargo plane. Historically, after China experienced the tragic experience of supply difficulties for the troops stationed in Tibet, it was only by introducing 40 Il-12s that the logistical transportation problem of the troops stationed in Tibet was solved.
The introduction was insisted on by Xiaoqiang, and the chairman fully agreed with Xiaoqiang's reasons after listening to them, and said: "Since this aircraft can be used for 60 years and is still flying, it shows that it can stand the test of time, so it is simply moved over with the production line." ”
The Soviet Union's selling price is obviously not preferential, the cost of the Li-2 produced in the Soviet Union during World War II was only 50,000 US dollars at most, and now the used mobile phone that has been used for ten years can be sold to us for an upper limit of 50,000 US dollars. But even so, Xiaoqiang thinks it's a good deal. Historically, the Soviet Union once wanted to give us the production line of the Li-2, and the socialist family did not pay lip service, the drawings and the production line were given away in vain! But my country thinks that anyway, the transportation cost of the production line is still paid by Lao Tzu in the end, and in the end I can't look down on the Il-2 and want to introduce the Il-12 production line that flies faster and farther, and the Soviet Union thinks that the Il-12 I haven't finished dressing up yet, you are too disgusting! So it dragged and dragged and did not introduce. Later, China and the Soviet Union became enemies, and there was no chance. As a result, China has been using transport aircraft such as An-2, that is, Y-5, which can only carry 1.5 tons and fly 800 kilometers. This also laid the groundwork for China's subsequent unsmooth development of large aircraft.
Li-2 also has a benefit, endurance! Extremely durable! Hit the mountain, hit the plane! Broken wings! Overload three times! But Ya survived again and again, and every time she turned the danger into a disaster, took off safely, flew safely, and landed safely. The Li-2 is a rear three-point landing gear, which is designed for the battlefield as standard, and can safely take off and land at a light load of 300 meters, even on grass and dirt roads. This is very intimate for China's extremely underdeveloped infrastructure in the 1950s. In the future war, it is completely possible to immediately adapt to the hastily renovated front-line airfields and carry out airdrops and supplies to the front.
In the history of our country, we did not seize the time window to introduce the Li-2, which led to the shortcomings of the domestic transport aircraft in medium and long-distance transportation, either with a 1.5-ton Y-5 to fly 800 kilometers, or with an eight-ton Y-7 to fly 1200 kilometers, or with a 20-ton Y-8 to fly more than 5,000 kilometers, and there was no domestic model with a load of 10 tons to fly more than 2,000 kilometers. Until recently, this gap was filled with the MA60, the transport model of the MA60.
Xiaoqiang didn't want to purchase transport planes from 2011, but when asked, the Yunba production line is currently running at full speed, and at present, the domestic army supply alone cannot be supplied, and the export is even more slow to squeeze toothpaste, and finally squeeze out more than 20 planes to sell to friendly countries. The problem with the MA60 is that it is too expensive to fit in the 1950s, and the 2011 side will never sell a production line of an aircraft that has just been developed.
Besides, without a foundation, the introduction of Yunba will also face indigestion and maintenance. Let's honestly lay a solid foundation from inside-2.
If the Soviet Union had not produced 4,863 Li-2s, there would never have been various transport aircraft that followed. The same is true of New China, which needs this necessary accumulation.
After reading the document, Xiaoqiang waited for the chairman's instructions.
The chairman smiled slightly, took a sip of tea, and said: "From today onwards, we will stand in line, who is the enemy and who is the friend, this is already a sure thing, the United States has lost all kinds of huge privileges and interests of the Sino-US trade treaty, and will definitely not let us go." From now on, we will sleep with one eye open. ”
Xiao Qiang said with a smile: "As soon as this treaty is announced, it will definitely shake Shijie, the alliance formed by 70,000 people between China and the Soviet Union, even if the Americans want to move, they must first weigh and try." ”
"So the North Korean issue is unavoidable, and we need to be well prepared, think through the work, and do it meticulously," the chairman said. At the same time, we must not relax our domestic construction, and we must fight the battle from an agricultural country to an industrial country, which is more crucial than anything else. ”
Xiaoqiang said: "We must do a more solid propaganda work, use rich cultural life to help the people raise their consciousness, and thoroughly sweep away the remnants of feudal thinking." This is of great significance in our transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial country, and if we do it well, we can speed it up, and if we don't do it well, we will lag behind. ”
"In addition, cultural export is of great significance to improving our international image, so that countries that do not know us know that socialist countries are not the beasts of imperial propaganda, but good countries that love and protect peace. Cultural export is of great importance to enhance our international standing. ”
The chairman nodded and said, "In my opinion, the most practical meaning of cultural promotion is to help those overseas Chinese and improve their situation. Just last month, Minister Li reported to me bitterly on the situation of the Chinese in Thailand, where thousands of Chinese were arrested by the Thai military and police for supporting the new China and calling for Thailand to recognize the new China, and a large number of overseas Chinese were abused and killed. At this, the chairman suddenly fell silent.
After a moment of silence, the chairman continued: "We have lodged a protest and made solemn representations, and we reserve every right to make demands for the barbaric acts of the Thai government. It's a helpless response. ”
"Qin Shi Huang is much greater than Confucius, Confucius spoke empty words, and the Chinese supply party did not speak empty words. Xiaoqiang, China wants to become stronger, hope in you young people. ”
Xiao Qiang felt the hot blood on his body roll excitedly, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and his heart was a little depressed, but more of a desire to fight.
Xiaoqiang said: "The purpose of cultural export is to obtain the right to speak, and the right to speak is limited by the strength of the state, but the culture itself transcends the boundaries of national strength in a broad sense. These three are interconnected, influencing and restricting each other. In the future, we will strive for the right to speak as much as possible, so in addition to continuously improving the strength of the country, we must continue to export advanced culture, tell Shijie our views, and influence and even change Shijie's views. ”
"Culture is a wonderful thing, it is a kind of soft power, through a kind of artistic appeal, silently and imperceptibly changing people's perceptions and attitudes. The north wind can't blow away the tightly wrapped coat on the person's body, so let the warm sun come out of the horse, so that the person himself unbuttons and take off his coat. ”
The chairman stared at Xiaoqiang's eyes and listened quietly, he was obviously very satisfied with Xiaoqiang's knowledge and understanding in this regard, and said: "What you said is very good, I understand, I agree with your point of view, I think, you have said a little less, in addition to cultural output to compete for the right to speak, we also need a cultural banner, a representative figure." ”
After speaking, the chairman looked at Xiao Qiang with a smile, and Xiao Qiang faintly felt that something delicate was about to befall him.
"I listened to this Spring Festival Gala, it was very well organized, and it will continue to be held in the future. The Central Propaganda Department has sorted out and printed the lyrics and music scores you brought, so you can take a look. As he spoke, the chairman handed Xiaoqiang a mimeographed booklet bound haode.
Xiaoqiang took it and said in surprise: "Why am I writing the lyrics and composing the music?" ”
The chairman laughed: "This is what Minister Lu Ding meant, from the perspective of confidentiality and understanding, you are a very good candidate." Minister Li also believes that this layer of identity can bring you more protection. ”
Xiaoqiang's mind is a mess, his literary level is basically limited to online novels on the horizontal, and his music level is only able to play a few out-of-tune blues with a ten-tone harmonica, it's too difficult to go out and fool people, right?
The chairman said half seriously and half jokingly: "Xiaoqiang, this is a task and must be completed." After all, on your resume, you've still been an underground party, haha, it's not very difficult to disguise. ”
Xiaoqiang said with a bitter face: "Yes, I accept the test of the organization. ”
Next, Xiaoqiang and the chairman went to the conference room to watch the sample sent by the Ministry of Culture, which was a documentary about the first Spring Festival Gala of New China. The Ministry of Culture filmed the whole process with a film projector. Although Xiaoqiang and the chairman are both listening to the show for the second time, what they see from the movie is still very different from what they hear on the radio or watch live. He didn't know what role he would play or what future generations would say about him, but he knew one thing he was content with.