Chapter 445: Side Effects of Reclamation
"That's great news!" Tikunov made a rare whistle to express his excitement. Seeing the other party's high-spirited appearance, Serov's eyebrows moved, if he hadn't squeezed the other party out of the security system, Tikunov's final result would have been to be an ambassador in a small country, and finally his body collapsed, and he died young at the age when he should have been the most high-spirited, so it's quite interesting to say that fate is a thing, and you can't tell whether the current choice is good or bad.
"The profits this brings to our country are simply terrible, and there are still many valuable places in the third world! Yuri, you want me to contact some department to support the coup you are planning at that time, right? You also know that our first secretary is more disgusted by this kind of action! Tikunov narrowed the distance between the two sides and whispered.
Khrushchev's merit was his belief that communism could be realized, and he had been practicing these theories. But the shortcomings are clear to everyone, and the idea of the first secretary can be realized under the conditions of a relaxed environment, but there is no such environment now. If the Cold War did not take the initiative in the confrontation with the Soviet Union, the United States would take the initiative. Therefore, most of the cadres in China are opposed to Khrushchev's idea of dΓ©tente, just as the results of the Cuban Missile Crisis in this time and space have been good enough, but there are still many people who are not satisfied, and people always think that they can actually get more.
But Serov is not in a hurry, but the message is in the 21st century, where there is everything that the Soviet Union needs, it is clear, and the KGB will go to occupy the place before it is discovered, and when the technology is reached, other countries will find out that the place is already a pro-Soviet country, so the idea that the general Soviet cadres want to kill the United States in one day does not exist here, and it is completely possible to achieve victory through decades of layout.
Take the gold-dollar and petrodollar as examples, no matter from which point of view, the monetary hegemony of the United States is very solid, but only Serov himself knows in this world that at the beginning of the transition from the gold-dollar to the petrodollar, there was a period of time when the dollar was very fragile, and if it could be done at that time, even if it could not interrupt the process of the petrodollar, it would make the petrodollar foundation unstable after the successful conversion. If you nibble a piece of land from the Middle East before that, you can also increase the value of the ruble.
At the time of the collapse of the Breston Woods system, the European market was in a state of weakness for the dollar, and France also refused to accept the dollar, which disappeared only after the United States pegged the dollar to oil. Serov doesn't say this, who knows?
"Profit can only be said to be okay! As for the rest, it hasn't worked out yet, and we'll talk about it later! Serov replied to Tikunov in such a tone that he did not take a sultan into account. Of course, this is just talk, and there will be no less work to prepare.
"Who doesn't know that your KGB has sufficient funds, and it is estimated that you are tossing abroad!" After saying this, Tikunov got up and patted his thigh and said, "Okay, I'll talk to the ministers of other departments, I wish you success in your plan, and next year we will have one more alliance, goodbye ......"
Seeing Tikunov leave the Lubyanka, Serov looked blankly at the ceiling and pulled out a wry smile, now he was not happy at all, and whispered, "How can the funds of the KGB be in your mouth like my property?" β
In the blink of an eye, he remembered what Elizabeth Taylor had said, as if in terms of personal property, the woman was right, three million dollars, Serov would not have earned a lifetime on his salary alone, this is really a sad story, but very true. Every year, Serov will leave a development fund for the KGB, and then begin to find ways to expand the channels of funds, in addition to supplementing the funds required by the KGB in a few years, in this way, if he scrapes the ground inside the KGB, he can actually scavenge out tens of billions of dollars in cash, which is cash not fixed assets, these are two different concepts, there are tens of billions of dollars worth and tens of billions of dollars in cash are not the same concept, the latter is much higher than the level of the former.
Therefore, the KGB members are highly paid, and with the treatment of the state and overseas channels, it is possible to quickly restore the development of strength today. Serov was able to get the funds to get the support of the security cadres.
"No money, no money, what's this? I just give that woman a channel, it's worth more than 200 million dollars! There are channels that money simply can't buy! Serov summoned Servanov in and asked him to send someone to contact the Sudanese students to find agents with development potential, "This matter is done beautifully, the country will look at us differently, go!" β
Over the years, there were so many plans in the KGB archives that they could be pulled by trucks, and not all of them would eventually be implemented, but this time, even if Kennedy himself came, he could not stop the KGB from acting.
At the station of the Dzerzhinsky division, Serov appeared on the exercise ground with the head of the Main Directorate of Border Guards, the commander of the border guards, Zeyanov, and a company of T62 tanks in front of them was conducting tactical exercises. The 115-mm smoothbore gun emitted a deafening roar, and compared with Admiral Zeyanov's comments with relish, Serov's eyes were black, except for feeling unclear, he didn't even have the slightest professional comments, and it was really a shame that he was the commander of the Internal Guard, the titular commander of the Dzerzhinsky Division.
"The group of old men of the Ministry of Defense only gave me this kind of tank in the end, and the new tank did not let go at all!" Serov, who put down his binoculars, looked at the commander of the border guards beside him and said, "The new tank has been finalized, and the transitional product T62 has been sent to our domestic troops, how much is the gap in the border guards?" β
"If you want to equip all the troops into second-level preparations, you need about 3,000 vehicles for the time being!" Admiral Zeyanov retracted his gaze and thought for a moment and said, "After all, Central Asia and the Far East are our secondary directions, and the combat readiness of the border guards cannot be compared with the four major clusters in Europe, three thousand plus the original T54 tanks are barely enough." β
"With the addition of T54 tanks, the entire border guard system has about four thousand tanks. Of these, there are three thousand tanks in Central Asia and the Far East, and with the equipment of the domestic military districts, there are less than seven thousand tanks. Serov quickly said a set of numbers, turned around and shook his head, "That group of old men from the Ministry of Defense is obviously fooling us with T62 tanks, what is the difference between this thing and T54?" If it's really a good thing, why don't the four major clusters and the European military districts have to be equipped with them, so they have to give it to us? β
"There's no way around it, who makes the four major clusters the main attack clusters? We're just guarding the border and dealing with the guys who cross the border, at best there are some armed bandits! Admiral Zeyanov smiled, he also knew that this kind of tank was not highly evaluated by the Ministry of Defense, otherwise the Western cluster would be equipped first, and it would not be their turn to be border guards.
"Well, four thousand tanks against armed bandits, a lot of ideas! It doesn't matter if China has 4,000 tanks or not, and the number of your border guards is less than 300,000! Serov sighed, and after communicating with the Ministry of Defense, he still agreed to receive T62 tanks equipped with the armed forces of the KGB, this time it was also called Admiral Zeyanov, all the tanks within the quota were handed over to the border military district, and the Internal Guard also used T54 tanks as standard equipment.
In fact, the T-62 tank is not as bad as Serov said, the T-62 tank adopts a traditional layout, the engine transmission room is in the tail section, the command room is in the front, and the fighting compartment is in the middle, and the crew consists of 4 people: the driver, the commander, the loader, and the gun commander. The T-62 uses double bulletproof armor with rolled steel and homogeneous armor plates, and its main armament is a 115 mm smoothbore gun, 7.62 and 12.7 mm machine guns. With a maximum speed of 50 km/h, a road trip of about 500 km, and a cross-country range of 400 km, the off-road performance has reached the highest standards of the development period, and it is capable of crossing trenches 2.85 meters wide and 0.8 meters deep, as well as shallows with a water depth of 1.4 meters.
Judging from the data, this thing will not lag behind in ten years, but it can't be compared like this, the Ministry of Defense is ready to receive the T64, and then let the KGB receive the improved tank equivalent to the T54, this action always makes Serov have a feeling of picking up rags.
"Concentrate tanks in the Central Asian and Siberian Military District, and use T54 tanks in the direction of Primorsky Krai, don't scare our neighbors, those uncles are now confronting Vietnam and the United States, and we can't afford to provoke them. Besides, the land reclamation is still going on over there, so it's not good to come up with something to delay the land reclamation. By the way, is there any movement on the other side of the border? The two of them walked and chatted and had already walked to the place where the tank formation was formed, and Serov, who was touching the tracks, remembered this problem, the T-62 tank seemed to have been captured in a border conflict with China, and it was better to avoid this situation.
If the T-62 tank is given to China as technical assistance, Serov has no problem, even the worst possibility China must appreciate it, but if it is captured in the border conflict, it will be different, this is equivalent to not catching a fox and causing a commotion, and paying more for the transaction.
"There's not much movement, haven't the negotiations been going on all along? Although it didn't work out, there was nothing wrong with our side, and I participated in it twice. "Admiral Zeyanov said a few simple words, he has no opinion on not placing the T62 in the Far East, at least from his observations, the situation is also very stable. Although the border trade port is not as busy as it was in the fifties, it has been going on, and when he thought of this, Admiral Zeyanov thought of a question and said, "But there is a problem that is more difficult to deal with now, there is a lot of timber for reclamation and harvesting, and we need to think of a way!" β
"Oh? How many? Serov's eyelids drooped, he had forgotten about the question, and it was a shame that he had grown up in a forestry area.
"Eight million cubic meters, reclamation is not over yet, if it continues, the number will increase several times!" Admiral Zeyanov smiled bitterly, "Primorsky Krai is not Central Asia, there are steppes, and Primorsky Krai is forests. What happens to the timber harvested after reclamation? β
"Can't you export it to China? It's okay to change a batch of light industrial products! Serov thought for a moment and said this proposal, but when he saw General Zeyanov, he knew that this proposal would not work, in the fifties and sixties there was no shortage of forest resources in China, and Primorsky Krai was close to the northeast, and so many forestry bureaus in the northeast had a year of logging several times higher than this figure. (To be continued.) )