"I am very pleased with the attitude of our comrade defense minister!" Nor did Khrushchev once depreciate the army to a single point, everything was done in an orderly and gradual manner. The sausage-cutting tactics applied to these marshals as well, and Khrushchev believed that as long as he kept his policy, he would eventually achieve his goals.

Marshal Malinovsky secretly breathed a sigh of relief, most of the generals in the Ministry of Defense today are the ones promoted by Khrushchev when he came to power, but this does not mean that these people will stand on Khrushchev's side without principle, in essence, they are all soldiers, and they are inherently rejected by Khrushchev's idea that he always wants to reduce military spending, and since Khrushchev proposed it, as long as the reduction is not too large, Marshal Malinovsky will agree to it first.

Serov doesn't know if this is the first time that Khrushchev and the Ministry of Defense have proposed to reduce expenses, but from the current point of view, Khrushchev has achieved his goal this time, and the generals of the Ministry of Defense headed by Marshal Malinovsky still maintain the most basic respect for Khrushchev's proposal as the general secretary, but it is not for Serov to guess how much it has to do with the elimination of Bonapartist elements during this period.

Thinking of this, Serov vaguely peeked at Khrushchev and the veterans of the Ministry of Defense, and suddenly found a question, "Why do I feel that I have been robbed again?" Did you bring me to the Ministry of Defense to demonstrate to these generals? ”

If it weren't for Marshal Baglamilyan in the middle, the other generals of the Ministry of Defense would have given him a face, and it is estimated that it would have been light for the two sides to meet without saying a word, but he was obviously carrying out the orders of the Central Committee.

Khrushchev's proposal was approved by the Minister of Defense, who seemed to be in a rather good mood, and asked about the current level of salaries of officers in the Red Army, and the scene was very harmonious, similar to the situation of ordinary leaders who sympathize with their subordinates. Serov followed Khrushchev step by step, faithfully fulfilling the important duty of the head of the bodyguard.

Hearing Khrushchev ask about the level of wages in the Red Army, Serov, who was following behind, almost tripped over himself. To say that all those present, apart from Khrushchev himself, Serov was the one who knew the mind of the Soviet ruler best. Khrushchev himself was extremely interested in the aviation and nuclear industries, believing that missiles could solve the problems faced by traditional armies. During the Khrushchev period. In fact, the salaries of the Soviet Red Army have been cut, and this time it is definitely not a whim to ask about the level of wages in the Red Army.

Now Khrushchev already had the idea of cutting the cost of the Red Army, but it is not known exactly when it will begin. In Serov's memory, Khrushchev turned to the time when he began to re-support the Red Army and improve the treatment of the Red Army. It should have happened after the Cuban Missile Crisis was taught to be a man by the US imperialists, but at that time Khrushchev had already left a bad impression in the hearts of the Red Army officers, and he did not let the Red Army stand with him again until he stepped down.

"Comrade Malinovsky! The organic combination of the nuclear industry and the aerospace industry is believed to have a major impact on future wars! Khrushchev said as he walked, "If missiles can become a decisive force, maybe they will become an independent branch of the military, of course, missile technology is still somewhat immature, and it is still too far to say this......

"I'm going, Strategic Rocket Force?" Serov's trip today is really worthwhile. I actually saw Khrushchev's far-sighted side, and after the appearance of the Strategic Rocket Force, its status surpassed that of the army in one fell swoop, ranking first among the five major branches of the Soviet Union. This is not the same thing as the self-congratulatory stuff of North Korea's strategic rocket force in later generations. In this respect, Khrushchev did have a far-sighted side in this matter, and although he could not be compared with Comrade Steel, he was much stronger than the later professional bureaucrats.

At noon, Khrushchev lined up in the canteen of the Ministry of Defense to eat, and of course, if the leader of a country like the Soviet Union did this, it would definitely be a show! If only the president of the United States had done so. That is to mingle with the common people! As for why Serov thinks so, it is because it is said so on Weibo in later generations, and there is no reason!

Putting aside the in his heart, Serov must also admit it. In view of the dissatisfaction of the Ministry of Defense with Serov, Serov automatically went to another table during the meal, leaving space for the general secretary to contact the Ministry of Defense.

To be honest, Serov is not worried at all about his image in the eyes of the Ministry of Defense, as long as Khrushchev always does things according to his own purposes. Sooner or later, the generals of the Ministry of Defense will find out that Serov is just an executor, and dissatisfaction will be transferred from Serov to the General Secretary.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Serov left the Ministry of Defense with Khrushchev, and for the first time had the privilege of sitting in a car with the general secretary of the Soviet Union.

"Yuri, the work of security construction in the Red Army cannot be relaxed, and it is the most important thing to keep the Red Army and the Central Committee in line! Listen to Alexander, you have been a little overwhelmed lately? That's not a good thing! On the way back to the Kremlin, Khrushchev said in an educational tone, "Do you understand that the work of the General Directorate of Military Administration should continue to be deepened?" ”

Serov replied with a teachable look, "Please rest assured that Chairman Sherepin has already educated me......"

"Hmmm! That's it! Khrushchev just asked casually, reflecting his concern for his subordinates.

Khrushchev returned to the Kremlin, and Serov's mission for today was over, and he had to return to the Third Directorate, which was in its nascent stage and nominally had the right to supervise any armed forces in the Soviet Union. But in reality this was not the case, the supervision was not meticulous enough, and did not form a network that tightly wrapped the Red Army system.

"The liquidation of the Bonapartist elements is the first tough battle of our General Military Administration since its establishment! Through this incident, the authority of our General Directorate of Military Administration was established! Serov summed up the work of the past few months, "However, the network of our General Military Administration in the Red Army is still relatively rough, nominally we have offices in 16 military districts, but in fact, in a specific point, that is, in the organizational structure of the combat units, not all of our agents are there, this is not possible, I hope you will pay more attention to it!" ”

After a pause, Serov said, "There is also the security agencies of the four major clusters of the Red Army in Eastern Europe, Chairman Shelepin has already communicated with me, and those institutions that were originally in charge of the First General Directorate will be spun off and handed over to our Third General Directorate, which is mainly the organs of the four major clusters!" ”

"Director, are we going to establish branches in all the group armies?" Colonel Pavlov asked, holding a pen.

"To be exact, this should be done in all division-level units, including the Army, Navy and Air Force and the Territorial Defense Force! Arms like the Railway Corps and the Ministry of Communications can relax their restrictions! Serov took a sip of water and replied lightly.

The fact that the General Directorates would hand over institutions related to the Red Army to the Third Main Directorate was also a concentrated manifestation of Sherepin's support for the work of the Third Main Directorate, and that Khrushchev would still have more control over the Red Army in the coming years, and that monitoring the movements of the Red Army through the KGB Main Directorate of Military Administration would undoubtedly be the easiest way.

"Director, there's one more thing!" Colonel Pavlov took out a document and said, "We found out in the discussion of some officers that some low-level officers recently read a magazine called Military Documentary, and after our investigation, they concluded that it was a magazine of the Federal Republic of Germany, but they did not know how to get into our Soviet Union!" ”

"Oh?" Serov thought for a moment with his chin in his hand, and muttered, "Let me follow the communication channel to check, at the beginning, don't be too blind, just give a warning to the officers who have read this magazine, mainly to block the transmission channel for me, which is more useful than arresting a hundred people!" What I'm curious to know now is, where are the channels of communication? ”

With the current situation and hostility of the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, Serov is not at all surprised by this treatment, in fact, his handling has already been somewhat raised high and gently put down, and it is not too much to arrest all the officers involved if another person encounters this matter, and it is necessary to add the issuance of military and party and party registrations! Because this can be regarded as a propaganda offensive by the enemy against Taiwan, the United States and the Soviet Union in this era regard this kind of propaganda that disrupts the army as a flood of beasts.

"Understood, Director! But what shocked us the most was that a manuscript of this magazine appeared in the army! Colonel Pavlov reported, "Or did we search the homes of the officers involved?" ”

"Be sure to find the source of the codex!" As soon as he heard about the spread of manuscripts, Serov had to get serious, which showed that someone in the Red Army deliberately spread this kind of thing, "and after finding it, he directly stuffed me into a psychiatric hospital for treatment!" Go to Chief Alexei of the General Directorate of the Secret Police and ask the 10th Division to help us investigate this matter together! ”

The 10th Department of the Main Directorate of the Secret Police, which was the original 10th Division of the 2nd Main Directorate, was at the beginning of Sherepin's leadership of the KGB, and the 2nd Main Directorate handed over some of its subordinate organs into the hands of the General Directorate of the Secret Police. This kind of professional division of labor also makes the cooperation between the various general directorates of the KGB very close, and there will be no situation in which the two agencies at the same level have internal friction with each other, and the Soviet Union has only one KGB, and all other intelligence agencies work under the guidance of the KGB, which means that the KGB has command over the GRU and the Red Army Intelligence Bureau, and there will be no such thing as the CIA and the FBI stumbling each other at all. (To be continued.) )