Chapter 701: Improving Efficiency

Across China, after boarding and landing at Moscow Airport in Irkutsk, he didn't have time to thank Soviet Airlines for not killing, and the anxious Serov rushed directly to Lubyanka, even if he was anxious, he had to make a calm appearance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Truly returning to his place, Serov was not in a hurry. He is such a person, he always can't settle down in the process, repeats the planning and deduction over and over again, and is willing to resign himself to fate when it comes to the end.

"Why don't you go on a hunger strike, okay. I'm not going to stop it, I promise no one will know about those bastards, try it if you don't believe me. As soon as Serov sat down, he shouted, "What are so many stinky problems, since they are not afraid of death, then what am I afraid of?" ā€

All the senior security cadres present sat upright and obeyed the dispatch with expressionless faces. From the first sign of the show, they concluded that their boss would definitely come back as soon as possible.

"Things haven't started yet, Chair." First Deputy Chairman Bobkov coughed softly and said, "There is a group of academics who are resisting the reform of the Ministry of Education, threatening to go on a hunger strike if the Ministry of Education does not change its plans." But it hasn't started yet. ā€

"Just those group of wine bags and rice bags, they still want to go on a hunger strike. Do you want me to give them a venue? Prepare a thousand pairs of handcuffs, and bring all the scholars who have joined the protest to Moscow, and I will watch them go on a hunger strike. They either starve themselves to death or go to a rehabilitation center for treatment, which I prefer them to do. Serov turned his head to Servanov and ordered, "Go to the Ministry of Education and bring the documents on Russian language education in the schools of the three Baltic countries, and immediately copy and distribute them to the Ministries of Internal Affairs of the three countries." ā€

"Chairman, what are we going to do if those people are really going on a hunger strike?" Zinev was hesitant, he was afraid to take responsibility.

"Then I'll really watch them starve to death. One who did not stay starved to death. There were seven or eight hundred scholars on the signatory, and some of them dared to starve themselves to death. Everyone is equal in the face of hunger, because there are more tragedies of hunger, and I think it is more likely that people will eat people. ā€

Half an hour later, the document was delivered to the Rubyanka, and Serov signed it and immediately issued it, and the whole process was clean. First of all, he handed over the work he had set down from Vietnam, and finally took the conditions of the inspection from Vietnam to Kosygin, the chairman of the Council of Ministers, mainly the estimated data of Vietnam's arable land and grain production.

In the past two years, there has been a food crisis in the world, and the Soviet Union has also been affected by climate problems. In order to avoid the coercion of the United States, an opponent of the Cold War, the Soviet Union skillfully and secretly purchased nearly 30 percent of the wheat harvest in the United States, which led to a sharp rise in grain prices worldwide, and the price of wheat futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange hit a new high of 125 years.

So Serov didn't go to Vietnam to be a pick-up man completely, he really had important things. Arable land in Southeast Asian countries was urgently needed by the Soviet Union, after all, it was no longer the hundreds of thousands of people and 100 million gray cattle of the Imperial Russian period. The Soviet Union had to bear the burden of feeding hundreds of millions of people, and at the same time it had to keep the price of food on the market down, and at the same time there should be no queues.

"Vietnam has agreed to export rice to us to alleviate our food shortage, which tastes like our people generally do not eat rice and the demand is very small. But it can be used to feed livestock. But even so, there is still a food shortage, and the year before last our grain plummeted by 40 million tons, and Sudan could not make up for this shortcoming, making decisive progress in the areas where it was not producing, and if the previous year's big harvest was repeated, the supply sector would be under great pressure. In front of Kosygin, Serov knew everything, and apart from him, the chairman of the Council of Ministers, the Soviet Union's agricultural problems were best known to Serov, the head of the secret service.

Since Brezhnev took over, the Soviet Union's investment in agriculture has increased every year, and now it has accumulated 60 or 70 billion rubles, according to this ratio, every three or four years, the investment in agriculture is enough for a year's military expenditure. This money is wasted, and at the current price level in the Soviet Union, for every pound of meat eaten by everyone in the country, the state has to bear the cost of feed grain, transit time, and distribution. Forever losing money, not making a profit at all.

"Good work, Yura, the climate is our worst enemy, and thanks to the efforts of the supply department, if it were a normal country, there would have been a big problem." Kosygin also saw the arable land in Southeast Asia and began to support Brezhnev's offensive strategy.

Forty percent of the arable land in the arid regions of the Soviet Union was cultivated, and rainfall was low in several major agricultural regions. As a result, drought has always been the main enemy of Soviet agriculture, but the Soviet authorities could not do anything about it. At present, the irrigated area of the Soviet Union accounts for only 8 percent of the cultivated area, and it basically depends on the weather for food. With the good or bad weather, grain production fluctuates greatly, and there are few good years and many bad years. Once we catch up with the abnormal weather year, the output will be reduced by tens of millions of tons at every turn.

"There's no way around it, who told us to live in this latitude." Giving Kosygin the report of the investigation from Vietnam, he hurriedly dealt with the next matter, and after all these trivial matters were dealt with, he could easily get down to business.

That is the people who applied to immigrate to the Soviet Union, and from the bottom of his heart, Serov certainly did not want foreigners to appear too much in the Soviet Union, but he also knew that many state-owned enterprises in the Soviet Union were not as strong as private enterprises in terms of operational efficiency, and the secretaries of major state-owned enterprises in the Soviet Union could not point to the noses of workers and say that you always grind foreign workers and give me a roll, and private enterprises can fire these people.

There are not many Europeans and Americans who apply to immigrate to the Soviet Union, on the one hand, the two sides are now hostile, many people do not believe in the current development of the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, the KGB is also very resistant to the large-scale introduction of immigrants, which will increase the difficulty of their monitoring of society. From the beginning of the economic crisis, there are now only more than 7,000 people in total. These people usually have good diplomas and excellent management and work experience, but their companies and factories closed down in the financial crisis and they came to try their luck in the Soviet Union.

From the point of view of the anti-rebels, these immigrants are not credible. Serov and others have a unique understanding of people who belong to the group of anti-anti-terrorist workers, and their life experience is a part of the KGB that they attach great importance to, and there are historical reasons for this. It dates back to when the Soviet Union was just formed.

At the beginning, the Cheka went on a killing spree to clean up the White Russians also had theoretical support, such as a relatively worry-free shoemaker, who was originally a shoemaker, but later lost everything because of the war and theoretically became a proletariat. The proletariat was theoretically supposed to be the object of Cheka protection, but in practice this was not the case, because he was originally a part of the bourgeoisie, and although he was a proletarian, he was still a petty-bourgeois ideologically, and such a person was willing to return to his former life if he had the opportunity.

This shoemaker was Stalin's father, and Stalin said, "It can be seen that although the position of this shoemaker is already that of the proletariat, his consciousness is not yet the consciousness of the proletariat, but the consciousness of the petty bourgeoisie through and through." In other words, the petty-bourgeois status of this shoemaker has disappeared and no longer exists, yet his petty-bourgeois consciousness has not disappeared, and his consciousness lags behind his actual position...... He plans to save up some money and open his own shoe shop. ā€

Stalin considered his father ashamed all his life, which was the main reason why the Ministry of Internal Affairs followed Stalin's wishes to kill the Ukrainian kulaks. As the successor of the Cheka, the KGB was extremely distrustful of such people who themselves lived in a capitalist society, and Serov understandably knew this kind of thinking, having worked in this department for almost two decades.

But the Soviet Union did need these people, and on the first day back in Moscow, he would have identified these people, and it took him a morning to solve the problems of the Ministry of Education and the food problem, not in the Lubyanka, where he met with these private managers who had been in Europe and the United States in the KGB club. There are five or six hundred of these managers, and they have succeeded, but now they are all failures.

"My name is Serov, the head of the secret police in your country, and I must refute that it is only one of our duties, and it is far from important." This is the opening remarks of Serov's first game who came here, "There is no need to introduce yourself, I can't be sure how long you will stay in the Soviet Union, once the European and American economies improve, you people may go back, like those of you who have succeeded, you are born to think that you are superior." You came to the Soviet Union as just one of the people, and you may not be able to accept it in your heart, but there is no way, the current economic crisis in Europe and the United States does not have such an opportunity for you to play, so you come to the Soviet Union for the time being to try your luck. ā€

Serov took a deep breath and nodded, "Actually, this is very good, I am ready to get together and disperse." To be sure, I'm not at ease with you, but I know it's good for the country, so I'll give you a few years to regain confidence in the Soviet Union, and when you want to leave, I'm not going to stop you. If you choose to settle in the Soviet Union, then I will not give you this money, because it will cause a wealthy class to appear in the Soviet Union, if you choose to leave at that time, I will not withhold this money, and I will give you the funds to return to China to work hard, I don't know if you are willing to do so. ā€

Serov was answered by a round of applause, and these people did not expect that a secret police chief would be more humane.

"The situation in the Soviet Union is different from that of Europe and the United States. As long as you don't challenge the bottom line of the KGB in your life in the Soviet Union, maybe after living carefully, you will find that you will enjoy greater freedom in some aspects, which you need to understand for yourselves, remember, do not attack our system, and there will be nothing left. Then he had a private conversation with some managers, and a number of factories that were not very important, but related to the standard of living, would hire them as managers, and Serov had already greeted the second secretaries of the factories. (To be continued.) )