Chapter 496: The Root of the Crisis
Stalin overcame the dissenting voices in the party, prepared a huge army, and even made a detailed battle plan against China, but everything ended in a dramatic way, Trotsky was captured, and it could also be handed over to Russia, the Far Eastern Republic did not take the initiative to go to war with the Soviet Union, and the army had already retreated from the front in great strides.
Faced with this situation, Stalin could of course continue to choose to crusade against the Far Eastern Republics, but this would turn into an outright war of aggression, which would have a great impact on the image of the Soviet Union, and even worse, give China a legitimate excuse to intervene in the war.
In many cases, international morality is just a fig leaf, and it is always an international practice to bully the small with the big and bully the weak, but no one can easily deny the importance of international morality, especially when two evenly matched countries are facing each other-for-tat, whoever can occupy the commanding heights of morality will be more upright and stronger, and will be more able to win the support of public opinion at home and abroad, and the waist pole will be harder.
Just like this dispute, if Trotsky and Russia go to war, to some extent it will be a Russian civil war, Stalin can fight whatever he wants, if China forcibly intervenes, maybe it will attract the opposition of the people of the Far Eastern Republics, but after the banner of Trotsky falls, if Russia wants to fight again, it will be aggression, China and Russia have a treaty, to maintain the independence of the Far Eastern Republic, Russia dares to take the initiative to sabotage, China can participate in it with confidence.
Of course, Stalin was not a person who took these things very seriously, but he was very concerned about how China rescued Krasnoshchekov from layers of care, and this was the key to his fear, China was able to save a person from hundreds of miles away, which proved that it could kill a person from hundreds of miles away!
If it is not clarified, China may send troops into Russia's territory at any time, and it will be an absolutely unbearable nightmare for Russia to kill whoever it wants.
"Comrade Stalin, after investigation we found out that it was the Chinese Airborne Forces who carried out this rescue mission, who used transport planes to set off from Mongolia. Sneak into the territory of the Far East. Rescued Krasnoshchekov, and then Krasnoshchekov quickly summoned the old troops and captured Trotsky, who did not have time to react! ”
"Do you have any proof?"
"We found out through our intelligence agents in China that they were sending a large amount of aviation fuel to the Mongolian border, and there were herders in the Far Eastern Republic who said they had seen huge fleets of aircraft, and we also knew that China had a secret army for training, and based on all kinds of intelligence, we thought that China was fighting by parachute. to achieve the goal. ”
Stalin is no stranger to parachuting, in fact, Russia is also engaged in research in this area, and has achieved considerable results, and it is not far from officially becoming an army, but Russian military aircraft obviously do not have such good performance as China, no matter from the flight distance. There is still some difference in the number of carries.
After learning about these circumstances, Stalin kept calculating in his heart that a branch of the armed forces would not attract too much attention from Stalin, and he cared more about the information revealed in it, that China does have unique features in the development of military technology, and it is definitely not an opponent that can be underestimated.
In particular, although Russia can be said to have a large population compared with any European country, it cannot be compared with China. Once caught in a long-term battle. Russia is bound to fall behind, and Stalin should not look superficial and rude. But to be able to achieve this position, in fact, he was an extremely intelligent figure, and the pros and cons were clearly calculated in Stalin's mind.
"Comrade Beria, to be able to get the truth of the matter so quickly shows that you are working very seriously, and I hope you can make a greater contribution to the Soviets!"
Beria, the most famous demon king in Russia, was finally appreciated by Stalin and embarked on the fast track to promotion, and his first task was to go to the Far Eastern Republic to take over Trotsky, Stalin gave up his intention to start a war in the Far East, but Stalin would not give up Trotsky.
After several trade-offs, it was better to eliminate the opponent who was the most troublesome to him as soon as possible, as long as Trotsky lived for a day, Stalin would not be able to sleep.
At this time, Trotsky was still in China's hands, and China would never let go of such a good card, and China, Russia, and the Far East held a meeting in Chita for nearly half a month, mainly to discuss the question of Trotsky's ownership and how to guarantee peace in the Far East.
In the end, the three parties reached an agreement, and Trotsky handed it over to Russia; All government officials of the Far Eastern Republic broke away from the Russian majority and became a fully independent democratic republic with equal rights to trade with China and Russia; Military movements of more than 3,000 troops between China and Russia in the Far East must be notified in advance.
The agreement is obviously beneficial to China, the Far Eastern Republic has changed from a satellite state of Russia to an independent country, especially Krasnoshchekov and Moscow are becoming more and more separated from Germany, and the balance has begun to tilt in favor of China, which is of great significance to China's northern security.
However, at present, the energy of the Chinese government is more involved in the US economy, although there is still more than a year before the famous Great Depression, but sensitive people have been able to discover the problems of the US economy, the price of timber in the United States has begun to drop sharply, the Chinese government that has been paying attention to the US economy immediately noticed that there is a problem, and Wei Ruolan, the governor of the central bank, also took advantage of the trend to take out the study of the US economy for many years.
All the members of the Central Executive Committee of the United Democratic Party of China, plus the main officials of the government, all gathered in the large conference room of the presidential palace, as soon as Qiao Yu came to power, in order to provide the quality of officials, he set the requirements for regular study, and almost every month there will be experts and scholars in various industries to give lectures to these high-level Chinese figures, China is changing rapidly, the world is changing faster, and it is easy to make mistakes without enough new minds.
At first, these top-level officials were asked to listen to other people's lectures like elementary school students, and everyone was a little reluctant, but after a few times, everyone found that this was indeed a huge help for looking at the problem, so they naturally accepted it.
However, this time the meeting was obviously different, the keynote speaker was not those scholars and experts, but the governor of the central bank, Wei Ruolan, President Qiao Yu took the initiative to serve as the host of this time, and before the meeting, everyone made confidentiality requirements. In other words, not a single word of the content of this study meeting can be divulged.
It is also clear to everyone that the so-called study meeting is just a trick. I'm afraid that the president is going to make some important decisions again!
"Ladies and gentlemen, not long ago, the price of lumber in the United States began to fall sharply, the most direct factor was the Soviet Union's supply of cheap timber to the world, but we believe that this was the beginning of problems in the American economy, and a cycle of countless economic crises in history, and this time the crisis was far more serious than in history. The destructive type is almost beyond imagination! ”
Wei Ruolan did not express too much concern about the price reduction of timber from the beginning, in fact, the Soviet Union has imported a lot of machines in the international market over the years, of course, these are not in vain, they have to rely on agricultural and mineral products to repay, the Soviets have almost everything for industrialization, and their food is not enough. But the Russians also exported large quantities of grain in exchange for machinery, causing a severe famine.
In the original history, the most serious famine in Russia was the years of the Great Depression, and at the same time, these years were also the time when Russia introduced a large number of machines, mechanics, and the development of Russian industry, and these machines were snatched from the mouths of ordinary people. It's more normal to sell some wood cheaply.
But an economic expert named Zhu Changping, who is part of Ms. Wei's team, has a different view. This Zhu Changping also studied in the United States in his early years and later returned to China. He has published many extremely valuable articles on the U.S. economy, which was valued by Wei Ruolan and recruited into the government.
According to the ideas provided by Zhu Changping, coupled with the information on Wei Ruolan's hand, all combined together, Qiao Yu also participated, and many of his advanced views provided good inspiration to Wei Ruolan and others, and gradually these Chinese experts saw the things behind the economic crisis more and more clearly, and also realized that a huge crisis was about to come inevitably.
"Since the beginning of the industrial revolution in Britain, all countries in the world have gradually been involved in this new mode of production, human wealth continues to increase, but accompanied by economic crises are also continuous, about ten years or so appeared once, never disappeared, only to see through the law behind the economic crisis, to be able to stand at a higher starting point to look at the economic problems in front of us."
Wei Ruolan continued: "After research, we believe that the cause of the economic crisis is caused by the lack of effective demand, that is, the production of things exceeds the capacity of social consumption, under the current capitalist production model in Europe and the United States, the total value of the goods produced is equal to the sum of cost and profit, and the cost paid is the inevitable thing for production, and the root of the crisis appears in this profit!" ”
"President Wei, the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit! If there is no profit, who will invest in production! Commerce Minister Qian Moyin asked.
"Minister Qian, this is exactly the question I want to talk about next, and it is also the reason why the economic crisis is inevitable, that is, the unfair distribution of profits, the profits are generated, if they can be completely divided equally among all the workers, these workers will consume all the profits produced by the society, and there will be no shortage of effective demand; But in fact, a large amount of profits are put into the pockets of capitalists, who hold a lot of wealth in their hands, and we all know that an ordinary wage earner may spend all his income, and even borrow money to spend, but no matter how much he squandered it, the billionaire will not necessarily spend the profits, so there is a fatal problem, that is, the consumption of capitalists and the consumption of workers together will always be less than the value of the total product produced by society, that is to say, as long as it continues to operate according to this model, the effective demand will always be insufficient, the accumulation to a certain extent will break out of the crisis! ”
Everyone is not stupid, after hearing Wei Ruolan's explanation, they instantly figured out the key, it seems that as long as profits exist, the economic crisis is indeed an unsolvable thing! (To be continued.) )