"What a bummer!"

Russian People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Litvinov shouted angrily that he was in the Soviet Russian embassy, and the Soviet Russian ambassador to China looked flattering and quite trembling. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Recently, Moscow has been arresting spies every day, and one by one the old Bushviks have been brought down, accused of subverting the Soviet Russian regime, being a state spy, and being a traitor, and their diplomatic department is one of the hardest hit areas, because Tuo Niu used to work in the diplomatic department, and there are many of his old subordinates in the diplomatic department.

Therefore, the Russian ambassador Bogomolov was extremely uneasy, because he had also had a relationship with Toniu. So Bogomolov had to work actively during this time, but also to avoid angering Moscow leaders like Litvinov, but fortunately his work was very effective, and he had succeeded in convincing some parliamentarians to speak for Soviet Russia.

However, some diehards in the Chinese parliament resolutely opposed the severance of trade with the tsarist regime, brazenly claiming that China has been a country that has adhered to free trade since ancient times, and that free trade is the foundation of China's statehood.

Isn't that?

Thirty years ago, they were still a country composed of mud legs, and at that time, the Tsar beat the goods every minute, because they were unwilling to trade freely with Europe, and the countries that were abused into dogs twice by the British and French forces even claimed to be defenders of free trade!

"Shameless!"

Litvinov scolded again.

But it does not help to solve the problem, China's influence on the Russian attack on the tsarist regime is too great, almost a matter of success or failure, once China decides to intervene, then Soviet Russia is bound to withdraw from the war, this is the consensus of Stalin and him, because none of them can afford the risk of interruption of the industrial plan, once the Soviet Russia is pushed into a confrontation with a superpower again, the five-year industrial plan of the huge investment project must be stopped, because no country can insist on a large-scale war at the same time, but also carry out that scale of construction.

The current political situation in China is extremely delicate, the political forces represented by the president are silent, but there is reason to believe that they are trying to get China to intervene in the war at the right time, and the attitude of the Congress, which represents the local forces, is very different, the southern provinces generally do not care about the war in the north, they see no need to waste their national strength in a cold and desperate land, especially in Guangdong and other places, and they are even more opposed to China's intervention in the Siberian war.

One of them, Litvinov, can see at a glance that the British have huge interests in Guangdong, and they have a great influence on the local authorities in Guangdong, once China loses control of Siberia, then Britain is equivalent to controlling China's oil supply, and in this era of economic crisis, oil revenues are already a vital pillar for the British government.

The Guangdong government can naturally become the first base for oil imports from the Middle East, and when the time comes, the oil produced from the British-controlled oil fields in the Middle East will be transported through the British fleet to the ports managed by the British in Guangdong, where it will be stored in the oil reserves designed by the British, and finally refined into various fuel oils, from which it will be distributed throughout the country. Guangdong will use this as a basis to break the monopoly of Dongying's Chinese oil refining industry, and Guangdong will replace it as China's new oil refining base.

Yunnan, which is already connected to Myanmar by rail, is also very eager for a piece of the pie, and is more supportive of giving up the barren land of Siberia. Although Yunnan does not think that it can compete with Guangdong for the status of China's petroleum smelting base, they believe that it is not a problem for Middle East oil to be distributed to the three southwestern provinces after being landed through the Indian Ocean port in Myanmar and transported to Yunnan for processing by rail.

Unlike the Lingnan provinces, the attitude of the northern provinces is very contradictory, some parliamentarians tend not to intervene, some parliamentarians tend to intervene as soon as possible, and even the parliamentarians of the same province cannot reach an agreement, because they represent different interest groups, such as Shandong parliamentarians, some stand behind the equipment manufacturers who are providing a large number of machinery and equipment to Soviet Russia, and some represent military enterprises that share the profits of military production, for example, in Mongolia and Northeast China, which are close to Siberia, some parliamentarians are resolutely opposed to intervening in the war, Because they are more willing to see Siberia occupied by Soviet Russia, so that wool and other products from Siberia will not affect similar products on the Mongolian plateau, but the same Mongolian parliamentarians, on behalf of those who operate cross-border trade, are very opposed to allowing Soviet Russia to annex Siberia, so that they will not be able to do business with this region in the future, in addition, there are more radical ones, some are more moderate, some are sympathetic to the tsar, and some are recognized by Soviet Russia, which is extremely complicated, so the Congress discusses it almost every day, But no one came up with a result.

Such a complicated situation made Litvinov feel very fortunate that it meant that if the Chinese government wanted to intervene in the war, it would not have succeeded without a long period of fighting.

The Chinese government must convince the interest groups that profit from trade with Soviet Russia, the nationalist groups that have a bad feeling against Tsarist Russia's exclusion of China, and the southern interest groups that want to replace Siberian oil supplies, which cannot be done in a day or two.

But it was in this delicate situation that Soviet Russia had to be careful, so they did not dare to risk cutting the railway line and giving the Chinese an excuse to intervene in the war.

Litvinov did not intend to cut off this line, and even if the Soviet Union occupied it, it could use this line to transport machinery and equipment, and at the same time export oil and minerals to China, the most important reason for their attack on Siberia was not the wealth here, if it were not for the rich natural resources here, they would not be eager to jump into this pit if the industrial plan was not completed.

However, Litvinov believed that Soviet Russia's refusal to cut off the railway line from Siberia to China was a kind of goodwill, and China had reason to respond to this goodwill, and he sent a note demanding that China stop continuing to supply arms to the tsarist regime, but a large number of congressmen in the parliament opposed it, and also put forward the argument of free trade, and Soviet Russia persuaded some workers-minded parliamentarians to speak for them, saying that the arms embargo was the responsibility of neutral countries in public international law, and China should abide by it.

But those parliamentarians who represent the interests of the capitalists arrogantly say that they do not know what public law is not just, they only know that once production stops, tens of millions of workers will lose their livelihoods, their old people will have no one to support them, their children will have no one to take care of, and they will fall into hunger and cold. They also shamelessly stated that in order to show fairness, they decided to provide the same weapons and equipment to Soviet Russia, and as long as Soviet Russia can afford to pay, they will absolutely not ban exports.

The quality of China's munitions is good, the source of their technology is Germany, and now it is better than Germany, in many technical products, they have unique technology, such as some high-strength metal technical reserves, they are almost the first in the world (Yang Chao provides dozens of formulas), based on this kind of metal materials that require high investment and long-term development, China's munitions are of excellent quality, especially those mortars with light weight and large caliber, which made the Soviet army suffer a lot during this time.

If there is money, of course, Soviet Russia does not refuse to strengthen armaments, but he is more inclined to produce it himself, and is inclined to build an arsenal with direct procurement of machinery and equipment, and directly purchase expensive munitions.

Therefore, although the equipment of the Soviet and Russian troops is poor, it is just a few more deaths, in the eyes of the high-level, human life is just a number, Stalin said that the death of ten people is a serious accident, and the death of a thousand people is just a statistic.

Therefore, spending money on arms is not in their consideration, so the so-called fairness proposed by the Chinese is simply bandit logic.

"Do you want to threaten them with trade? In this kind of capitalist country, they still attach great importance to trade. ”

The ambassador asked Litvinov very humbly.

Litvinov glared at his subordinates: "How long is your brain, remember that our core belief is to prevent China from intervening, and everything else can be ignored." Why do you think they haven't intervened so far, it's not because we have handed over more than two-thirds of our machinery and equipment orders to them. They wouldn't dare to risk us withdrawing orders, and then they would have to bankrupt hundreds of factories. But once they threaten them, the Chinese still don't understand, and the nation that wants to save face to death will definitely fight with you for face. ”

"Then let them be like this, making more money from us, and selling weapons to the tsarist puppet regime to use to kill our great warriors?"

The ambassador felt that it was too humiliating, even in the Tsarist period, but the workers-run Soviet Russia had already faced it more than once, the first time in the Brest Treaty with Germany, which ceded a large part of the country, and the second time now.

Litvinov stroked his forehead and said bitterly: "What other way, not to do business with them, they will definitely intervene in the war, forbid them to export to the tsarist puppet regime, they can also find a reason to intervene in the war." We can only watch them do this now, because they have guns in their hands. ”

Yes, you have a gun in your hand to do your current business.

Only then can a large number of factories in China, while manufacturing machinery and equipment for Soviet Russia, they still dare not refuse, and they have to do everything possible to hand over more orders to China, and on the other hand, they also provide weapons to the enemies of Soviet Russia, and Soviet Russia does not dare to interfere, just as some small countries in later generations only buy expensive arms from US imperialism, but do not dare to buy cheaper weapons of the same level from China, because US imperialism provides not only arms and weapons, but also an implicit political guarantee.

It took Yang Chao 30 years to finally make China qualified to do business with guns like the US imperialists. (To be continued.) )