readx;???“ Mr. Xiang Zuo, I have just taken some time to read the request you sent a few days ago for the lease of part of the land in the Far East of our country. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info No, I specially invited a few important ministers of the country to discuss the specific rental conditions.

In principle, we agreed to lease all the land north of Manchuria to the west of Vladivostok to Mr. Xiang Zuo, but we will discuss the terms of this lease.

In addition, if the conditions are right, we would like to lease you some more land, not only west of Vladivostok, but also north of Vladivostok all the way to the Arctic Circle, and east to the Bering Strait, including all the adjacent seas to the north and south of the Bering Strait. Stalin was so speechless that he shook the left at the first sentence.

Seeing that Xiang Zuo seemed to be a little confused, Stalin smiled slightly, and he asked Zhukov to bring the latest map of Russia.

Then in front of Xiang Zuo's wife, he showed Xiang Zuo a map of Russia with Chinese and Russian annotations written in front of Xiang Zuo, and Xiang Zuo glanced first at the location of Manchuria, and then at Vladivostok and the larger line of the Bering Strait, and his head buzzed.

"Was Stalin crazy? That's at least a few million square kilometers of land, and it's just leased to me casually? He's not afraid that I won't pay it back? Xiang Zuo speculated badly in his heart.

To tell the truth, the places Stalin talked about were all the land that Li Tie and Xiang Zuo had negotiated and would have to rent sooner or later, but these lands were several million square kilometers, equivalent to half of China.

So in their original plan, they would fight for these lands for another year or even two years until the situation of Russia was even worse, and now they did not expect that Stalin would be so generous and give away so much more land as soon as he made a move.

Although Russia's land area is huge, it can't withstand Stalin's generosity and profligacy, and it is difficult for the Russians to be in such a bad situation?

Xiang Zuo and Sister Teng glanced at each other, and both of them saw surprise and confusion in each other's eyes, what should I do?

Before coming, the two had conceived of many possibilities, including Comrade Stalin's head clamping the door, and he agreed to Xiang Zuo's original request.

However, the two of them did not come to the conclusion that Comrade Stalin not only agreed to Xiang Zuo's proposal to lease land north of Manchuria to the west of Vladivostok, but also leased several million square kilometers of land from Vladivostok to the Bering Strait.

As a result, one-fifth of Russia's land area, including Russia's easternmost coastal defense, was handed over to the left. Xiang Zuo really didn't understand what Stalin liked about them, so refreshing.

"Oh, there are such good things, but we have a small population, and even if we rent so much land, we can't grow it.

Moreover, the Far East is notoriously barren. So much wasteland is cultivated by millions of people, and it can't be reclaimed in ten or eight years.

If these wastelands are not developed quickly, then it is useless for us to keep them, which will greatly increase our operating costs.

Besides, we don't have that much money, so let's not rent so much land at once, okay? Xiang Zuo decided that it was better to retreat, so he was not stunned by the pie that suddenly fell from the sky. Rather, I will first shirk it a little, so as to probe the real tone of Stalin.

And Stalin was also surprised when he heard that Xiang Zuo had rejected his generosity, but he still smiled and persuaded: "Oh, Mr. Xiang Zuo, we haven't known each other for a day or two, and your bandits have been renting our land on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River all these years.

Every year your vast reclamation of wasteland brings us a lot of tax revenues in Russia. It can be said that we have formed a mutually beneficial partnership.

And our great Slavic people will not treat our partners badly, and in return, isn't it normal for us to give you some more land? ”

"Of course it's not normal, who doesn't know that your Slavic nation is the most insatiable nation, and if you don't take advantage of it, you can even be considered a nation that has suffered a big loss.

Now that he has nothing to do, of course, he is either a traitor or a thief, have you been a fool in my society for so many years? Xiang Zuo pondered viciously in his heart, and on the surface he did look deserved.

"Haha, as the so-called merit is not rewarded, I don't know on what terms your country intends to lease so much land to me." To the left, I went straight to the point. Li Tie is still right, there is no need to beat around the bush to negotiate with these Russians, and it is best to talk about what is the best.

The straightforwardness to the left was also recognized by Stalin, who was pressed for time, and Stalin actually didn't have much time to waste grinding with the left, so after seeing that the left went straight to the point, Stalin also directly stated his bottom limit:

"Quite simply, I've heard that your bandit army has nearly half a million armed immigrants, and you have nearly 100,000 regular troops. It's not worth wasting so many troops on the fight against hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops.

You know, we are now in a desperate war with the Germans, and we need reinforcements, a lot of reinforcements, whether it's a regular army or just a farmer who has just laid down his hoe for a few days.

As long as it's a strong man, a man who can pull the trigger, we all need it. And you have a large number of young men in Manchuria, so it is better to lend us hundreds of thousands of strong men to use them first.

And these strong men are even the cost of renting most of our Far East. Stalin finally told his true purpose, and it turned out that he had a crush on the hundreds of thousands of armed immigrants and millions of peasants in Manchuria to the left. I want to send these people to the left to Moscow as cannon fodder.

"Hey, the Russians are so bad, their hearts are really poisonous, this is clearly wanting my bandit army to be cannon fodder for them. However, they Russians have really experienced harm, and I have tried to keep the matter of cultivating a large number of armed immigrants in the northeast as secretive as possible, and these Russians have still figured out the details of our bandit army.

Sure enough, as Li Tie said, it is unrealistic to want to hide the eyes of the Russians in the Far East, but it is better to develop it in a generous way, that is, to guard against the Japanese, as long as the fact that they have sufficient weapons is not exposed, there will be no major problems.

Because in the eyes of the Russians, not to mention 500,000 armed immigrants, that is, 5 million people, as long as there are no planes, artillery and other heavy weapons, people will not put it in their eyes, this is the essence of a great power. At this time, it is not an exaggeration to describe the heart of Xiang Zuo as turning over the river and the sea.

Although Li Tie and Xiang Zuo's ultimate goal was also to send troops to Moscow in order to seek more immediate interests, and they were worried about how and how to avoid arousing the vigilance of the Russians, now Stalin himself proposed it first, and this could not be better.

In any case, Stalin would not have suspected that their bandit army had actually wanted to send troops to Moscow a long time ago, let alone guessed the real purpose of the bandit army.

So he deliberately showed embarrassment to the left: "Dear Mr. Stalin, our bandit army does have hundreds of thousands of men, but these people are just peasants, and they usually shoot guns and throw grenades.

In fact, they all lack real military training, these armed immigrants are already very difficult to use to deal with the puppet army of puppet Manchukuo, and it is even more difficult to deal with the Japanese. I can't bear to sacrifice my hundreds of thousands of young men in vain.

Besides, my bandit army actually only has 100,000 people, and the weapons and equipment are not complete, and the hundreds of thousands of armed immigrants don't even have decent spears, so my original plan was to use our numerical advantage to help you strangle the Japanese in the northeast.

If you take them all away, my 100,000 regular army alone is not enough for the Japanese to stuff their teeth? So your terms are tempting, but I really can't promise you.

Because of this, it is very likely that the Japanese will not stop it, and if I lose the old nest in Manchuria that I have worked so hard to manage, it will be more than worth the loss. ”

Stalin immediately understood when he saw Xiang Zuo's expression of being tempted and not daring to eat: "Mr. Xiang Zuo, you are too worried, it is enough for you to have 100,000 regular troops in Manchuria."

I can send you some heavy weapons, including tanks and artillery, and I will send you as much as you want. There is only one purpose, to increase your strength, to help me take a good look at the Japanese in the Far East, and not to let them advance westward to disturb my war with the Germans.

In addition, you don't have to worry about all the equipment and materials of these hundreds of thousands of armed immigrants, I am fully responsible for arming them, just wait for the end of the war, all their equipment can be taken away, and in the future, whether it is to help you deal with the Japanese, or to deal with your Chinese enemies, I believe that the powerful weapons and equipment of our Russians will definitely make you like a tiger.

Moreover, I heard that Ma Zhanshan of Heihe also has a good relationship with you, you can give him some weapons and ask him to help send troops from Heihe to Harbin, so as to contain the Japanese army in the northeast so that the Japanese army in the northeast and the Manchukuo army will not dare to act rashly. With these powerful equipment, maybe you will be the second king of the Northeast in the future. "Stalin's mouth was full of demagoguery.

Xiang Zuo seemed to have really been moved by Stalin's words, and immediately agreed to Stalin's request, but there was still further discussion on how to support Russia and how to arm these hundreds of thousands of people.

However, these things do not need to be discussed in this big Kremlin, and then Zhukov and Xiang Zuo will discuss them in detail. So Xiang Left soon reached a preliminary agreement with Stalin on cooperation between the two sides.

An hour later, when Xiang Zuo and his wife were ceremoniously sent out of the Kremlin again, Zhukov and other marshals gathered around Stalin.

Everyone had objections to Comrade Stalin's practice of suffering such losses, but they were afraid that no one dared to take the initiative to question Stalin's usual iron fist.

Stalin also seemed to know the thoughts of the marshals, and in order to dispel everyone's doubts, he even took the initiative to explain: "What if the agreement is signed? As long as we defeat Germany, we can reclaim the leased land at any time.

In their Chinese words, I am the landlord, that is, the landlord, the lease period is up, I will not rent the land, I want to take back the house, and what can I do to the left? ”

"High, really high!" The marshals shouted praise.