Section 345 Famine in Russia

"We are going to wage a merciless war against the peasants. The www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion shall declare all those who have surplus grain and do not transport it to the state grain collection station as enemies of the people, confiscate their property, and expel them from the village community forever. ”

Vladimir waved his arms at the Soviet Congress in Moscow and made a sonorous speech, his will was so firm and unshakable, his eyes seemed to radiate brilliance, and he seemed to be so great and noble.

"In the absence of a class-free brick regime, terror is a legitimate form of government action. Summarised sentences, hostage-taking, summary executions, and imprisonment of those classified as class enemies can be immediate. Therefore, not only should the methods of terror not be abolished, but their use should be as widespread as possible, breaking through all psychological barriers and creating conditions for their actual widespread use. ”

Comrade Vladimir continued his speech, and in response to him was prolonged applause.

Under his great guiding ideology, the generals under his command, Stalin, Tuoniu, and Tukhachevsky, led their armies to the countryside one by one.

"Farmers are the most stubborn peasant assets, and we support the use of no chan against ordinary farmers!"

Comrade Vladimir has lost confidence in the Russian peasantry.

So he formed a huge army of workers to go into the countryside to seize food by terrible means, and he could not let the great red capital perish with hunger.

And Comrade Vladimir's subordinates carried out their tasks without compromise.

"If you don't slaughter thousands of peasants, you are slaughtering thousands of workers!"

They comprehended the spirit of Comrade Vladimir.

Tuo Niu and Stalin each called a special train, Tuo Niu went to the eastern region, and Stalin went south, with Tsaritsyn as the center, and made extensive rounds in the Caucasus to collect grain, and he promised to get 10 million poods of grain for Comrade Vladimir.

"Seize grain from the kulaks by force and carry out a crusade against the rural bourgeoisie!"

Tuo Niu screamed and mobilized.

Staling told the soldiers: "Where there are guns, there is food. ”

Under their repressive policies, a large number of peasants fled, but did not know where to flee, so they burrowed into the nearby mountains and forests.

The famous Soviet general Tukhachevsky surrounded the forest with tens of thousands of people and took out poison gas bombs: "I order you to clear these forests with poison gas, and when you use poison gas, you must make sure that it spreads and kills everyone who hides there!" ”

The Russian people could not eat, they could not run, they could not fight, they felt that they were too miserable, they were too innocent, but they did not know that it all began at the moment when they disregarded their conscience and disregarded justice and went to rob the landlords and kulaks, because at that moment they destroyed all order, the traditional order and the legal order, and they cut the chains of order and unleashed a terrible demon.

The suffering that they suffered, and their descendants continue to suffer, comes from their disregard for justice, which they think they have taken advantage of, and they rob the property of the smaller at the instigation of a small number of people, which they think is reasonable and just, so that when the more 'reasonable and just' than them come and rob them, there is no justice left to protect them, and in this respect they are not wronged, because it is their own hands that have caused all this.

The peasants did not see this, and when the oppression was beyond the limits of what they could bear, they began to revolt.

"The Kulak insurrection must be suppressed with the utmost firmness, swiftness and ruthlessness,...... confiscate all property and food of those who participated in the riots".

"Draw up a draft decree -- 25~30 rich people should be held hostage in each grain-producing township, and they must use their lives to ensure that all surplus grain is collected."

"The interests of the revolution as a whole demand this, and a model should be made...... Find some tougher people, hang them, be sure to hang no less than 100 notorious rich people, rich peasants, vampires, so that people can see them. Publish their names and confiscate all their food. Let all the people within a radius of several hundred versts see it, and they all tremble, and they all know it, and they all shout: 'They have hanged all the kulak vampires,' and they will all be hanged."

"Choose the most reliable people from among your 800 soldiers, take ruthless action against a commune, and if necessary, we will send troops to inform you in more detail and accuracy, how many troops you occupy, what resources you need, and where to support."

"It is necessary to strike while the iron is hot, to take advantage of the opportunity of the suppression of the kulaks, to ruthlessly suppress the grain speculators, and to confiscate the grain of the rich men."

The great Comrade Vladimir constantly instructed the work of suppression and grain collection, and their orders were quickly conveyed:

"Such an order was sent to all the requisitioning teams".

The Soviets set up 40,000 grain convoys, and they demanded that they collect all the surplus grain from village to township.

But is there really so much surplus grain, and many places actually collect the peasants' rations and seeds at all.

The kulaks, as a class, were in fact exterminated long before they came to power, by a group of poor peasants themselves, and they themselves now became kulaks in the eyes of a group of poorer workers, just as the widow Leselena had taken possession of the land of the kulak Fedorovsky, and he himself had been beaten as a kulak by the workers from the city.

There is always some people who are hurting other people, and the hurt and hatred snowball, and it can't be stopped.

But the organizers succeeded, and they got enough food, like Germany paid a billion gold marks in grain as reparations.

"It's over, the Russians are going to be completely finished. How's our food problem going? ”

Russian peasants continued to flee to Siberia to join the Tsar, and Yang Chao learned the details of the situation through these people, and he immediately judged that there was going to be a famine in Russia.

Even if the peasants had seeds, they did not dare to respond to the call to expand the planting area, because they were afraid that they would lose their lives as 'rich peasants', and a country that relied on terror was destined to encounter all kinds of problems, and the more forceful means were used to achieve the goal, the more it often backfired.

Yang Chao knew that the sown area of grain in Russia would decrease year by year, and a large amount of farmland would be abandoned and no one would dare to cultivate it, and the sown area would be reduced by half compared with before the world war.

Thinking that because of the food problem, the Soviet government would cancel the meat market in the city, it was not that meat could not be found, but that it was worried about the spread of human flesh.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao shuddered. Hurriedly investigate China's food problem.

"There are 30 million tons of strategic grain stocks, which is enough for 100 million people to sustain life under the rationing system."

Zhang Nian reported that the 300 million mu of farmland on the Great Plain of Northeast China, plus the nearly 100 million mu of fertile land reclaimed by the Japanese in the outer Northeast, on the black soil on the Heilongjiang side, and in the Baikal Lake after defeating the Japanese, have also been turned into large farms.

"Brazilians are still in the Northeast, right?"

Yang Chao asked again.

The Brazilian delegation has already hit the Northeast, in addition to the coffee group that received a series of preferential treatment from Yang Chao last time, there are also grain groups and sugar groups, these three forces basically determine the Brazilian government, and now Brazil is still completely an agricultural country.

"Then invite them to come to Beijing, and I'll talk to them personally."

Yang Chao told him that he was extremely polite to these Brazilians, even though they themselves considered themselves to be turtles.

These Brazilians have been in China for three months, and Yang Chao did not negotiate with them first, but sent people to show them around, not to show them off, but to show them the new type of agriculture, some of them have seen the big farms in the United States, but some have not seen them.

Farmer Leonardo is one of them.

His family was a well-known farming family in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and his family had a large farm of more than 10,000 acres.

But now his heart ached that a large number of fertile fields were barren, because the hundreds of blacks who worked under the whip in his childhood memory had long since been emancipated.

With the expulsion of the emperor, a republic was established in Brazil, and slavery was abolished.

The turmoil combined with various problems caused the Leonardo family to begin to disperse, and most of the family went to the city to start a business, as a large family rooted in Brazil for hundreds of years, they had connections, and they could not starve to death.

But Leonardo chose to stay, he worked hard to support the farm, but it was getting harder and harder, he also knew that mechanized mass production, and had tried to introduce tractors, but the high price discouraged him.

He had barely recovered from employing dozens of Italians on his farm, intending to hire more poor Italian immigrants, but war broke out, and the impact of the war was not only the problem of cutting off the source of labor, but also the problem of grain exports, and the price of food plummeted, so that his farm was almost on the verge of bankruptcy.

But his family was famous, and he was also quite prestigious in the agricultural area, and he was elected to the São Paulo State Council.

When he learned that the coffee cartel had received a favorable offer from China, he began to encourage the government to try his luck in China, and he himself contacted a dozen large grain merchants to form a delegation to visit China with government officials.

As a result, the Chinese took them to the northeast and let them see the Chinese's own big farms, Leonardo, of course, was stunned, he really did not expect that China still had such agriculture, which made him a little depressed, and after he saw the endless farms on the black soil, he had no confidence in exporting grain to China.

"Maybe you should try your luck in Japan!"

In the past few years, a large number of Japanese immigrants have immigrated to Brazil, and Leonardo has been deeply impressed by the hardships and hard work of those Japanese, but unfortunately those Japanese are all monopolized by the coffee group, and he cannot compete with them, so he can only continue to hire Italians with higher wages and lazier.

"Congressman Leonardo, our president asks you to go to Beijing to talk about cooperation."

When Leonardo decided to go to Japan, Zhang Jian, China's Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, told him the news. (To be continued.) )