Emperor Song arrived at the Moscow railway station on the afternoon of August 20, 1933, and was greeted by the chairman of the Soviet Military Commission, Kliment. General Voroshilov, who would not only be the first of the five marshals of the Soviet Union, but also the only two to survive the purge, was ruthlessly beaten as an anti-party element during the Khrushchev era.

In fact, how good it is for the two parties to compete with each other, because there is only one party, and the enemy does not know who it is, so it can only fight among themselves.

Song Biao took Empress Shu out of the carriage and shook hands with General Voroshilov, who had come forward to greet him.

The USSR refused.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked Song Biao that Gu Weijun's suggestion, as foreign minister, might as well ignore the Soviet Union's refusal, which has no practical significance, and there is nothing more important than maintaining peace between China and the Soviet Union, which is much better than an alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany.

Song Biao obviously didn't care about these small problems.

As soon as he got out of the carriage, he shook hands with General Voroshilov directly, and there was nothing uncomfortable with him.

Apparently, Kliment. General Voroshilov, like all Soviet politicians and soldiers, was surprised that the Chinese Emperor would actually visit the Soviet Union, and General Voroshilov was still very surprised and very excited.

After shaking hands with General Voroshilov, Song Biao sighed in Russian, which he was still proficient in: "I can't imagine that the Moscow railway station is already in such a situation." ”

General Vorosilov could not help but exclaim: "Under the leadership of the great Comrade Stalin, we are carrying out the greatest construction campaign in the world, and if you come to Moscow in a few years, you will see an even more brilliant capital of the Soviet Union." ”

"Maybe!"

Song Biao was noncommittal.

He felt that when he returned to Moscow, it would probably be in ruins.

Song Biao came to the Soviet Union this time to have a very important itinerary is to pay homage to General Brusilov's cemetery, but after the end of the Sino-Soviet War, General Brusilov was attacked by Soviet Russia as a traitor and a spy, and was executed.

Song Biao attached great importance to this matter, so he asked General Voroshilov directly: "Regarding General Brusilov's grave, I think there should be no doubts, right?" ”

General Voroshilov immediately replied: "Obviously, there is no problem, we still give special attention to this former military commander of Tsarist Russia, who once made a certain contribution to the Soviet Red Army." ”

Song Biao sighed heavily and said, "In the words of us Chinese, you people are not benevolent, benevolence is the most important part of Chinese culture, you can simply understand that you attach importance to feelings. ”

General Voroshilov replied indifferently: "Feelings are not important, Your Majesty, what matters is the cause of human liberation, what matters is the rise of the proletariat." ”

When he said this, he seemed particularly determined, and he had that kind of momentum without hesitation.

Song Biao couldn't help but teased: "Your Excellency General, if you don't even pay attention to your feelings, maybe one day, you will anger your national leader, because feelings are not important, no matter how much you have contributed, you will be easily convicted of treason and treason, right?" ”

After thinking about it, he remedied: "I'm just telling a joke and an analogy, you don't have to pay too much attention to what I say." ”

Voroshilov was noncommittal and did not dare to answer.

Song Biao thought to himself, poor and shameless human beings.

He and the 1935 Marshal of the Soviet Union had nothing in particular to say, and they were not familiar with each other, and if the Frunze general he had defeated was here, he would have wanted to say a few words, but unfortunately the fate of the Frunze general was not much better.

It's a terrible country.

Song Biao raised his hand lightly, signaled to leave the railway station, got into a bulletproof car that the empire had transported to Moscow in advance, and went to the Kremlin with General Voroshilov, where he would meet with Comrade Stalin, the most amazing person in history, and hold new talks on the Sino-Soviet issue.

At this time, the Soviet Union was a very interesting country, both General Voroshilov and his subordinates were mostly imported from China, but the trademark was changed to their Red Star logo according to the requirements of the Soviet Union, and they claimed to be Soviet car products.

Of course, the Soviet Union had its own automobile industry, some in cooperation with Germany, and some production lines and imitations imported from the Reich, but there were still obvious differences between China and the Soviet Union in terms of the comfort of cars, and the Soviet bureaucracy was obviously more focused on comfort and luxury.

History is lucky.

If it weren't for the large-scale development of the oil resources in the Volga basin in 1923, Song Biao would not be able to resemble the economic situation of the Soviet Union now, after Hitler came to power, the relationship between the Soviet Union and Germany was also deteriorating rapidly, which made the Soviet Union more focused on seeking friendship with China, of course, in private, there was still a lot of secret cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany.

This is a strange point, but just as China used the Soviet threat to Europe to ease the pressure of its own rise, Nazi Germany was only exploiting the European world's fear of the Soviet Union.

After arriving at the Kremlin, Song Biao finally met Stalin himself, which made Song Biao regret that Comrade Stalin was not as majestic and tall as he imagined, but was actually quite short.

Stalin was about six years older than Song Biao, but in terms of identity and qualifications, Song Biao became emperor much earlier than him, and in Lenin's era, Song Biao and Lenin were on an equal footing.

This may also be regarded as a psychological advantage, and Song Biao can look at Stalin with the eyes of those who have come before.

In the Georggiev Hall, Comrade Song Biao and Comrade Stalin formally met and met, and after shaking hands, they sat down separately and talked in the company of diplomats.

After sitting down, Stalin said to Song Biao in the style of a great monarch: "Welcome to your visit, Your Excellency, Moscow should also be a relatively familiar city to you, China and Russia have long-term exchanges, and the people of the two countries are also pursuing a future of friendship and peace, especially after the end of the Sino-Soviet war, the leaders and peoples of our two countries are more aware of the importance of peace and friendship between China and the Soviet Union." ”

Song Biao didn't like this kind of opening statement very much, and he didn't feel very respectful of him, but he didn't care too much about Stalin's words, just a passing scene for him to see what kind of person Stalin was.

He pondered for a moment before replying, "Indeed." ”

Stalin, apparently accustomed to the power and position of the sole leader of the entire Soviet state, continued to say in his own way: "The people are the most important foundation of every country, and it is the peace and happiness of the people that we want to pursue." We are very pleased to see that in the past 20 years, under the leadership of the Chinese political axe and Your Excellency the Chinese Emperor, the people of Chinese have gradually become the richer people in the world, enjoy more social power, form trade unions, and reasonably safeguard their own rights and interests, and we are also very happy to see that China, as one of the most powerful countries in the world, is changing the situation in which Asia is occupied and enslaved by European and American imperialism. ”

His remarks are very interesting, because it is clear that the Soviet intelligence agencies have noticed various new developments in China's foreign affairs work in the near future, and his statement also means that the Soviet Union supports the establishment of the Asian League.

Song Biao agreed: "Asia needs a more readable and equal international environment, and more Asian countries need to stand up and be liberated before Asia can rise." ”

Stalin replied simply: "Yes! ”

At this time, Song Biao was already a little speechless, he still didn't like this kind of false and rigid diplomatic occasions, and Stalin's seemingly equal, but lack of respect and respect for him also made him not very happy.

Song Biao was silent and did not speak, and chose to listen to Stalin's exposition on Sino-Soviet friendly exchanges, nodding slightly from time to time to deal with it, he really did not expect that even Comrade Stalin would look like a robot and a tape recorder on such an occasion, and would only say some empty words without any nutrition and meaning.

Stalin took the trouble to brief Song Biao on the development of industrial, agricultural, scientific, technological, and cultural work in the Soviet Union in recent years, as if to prove his great leadership ability and the view that the Soviet Union today is a hundred times more powerful than it was during the Sino-Soviet War.

Song Biao just listened with interest, and didn't say much for a long time.

After talking for a while, Comrade Stalin talked about the economic and trade issues between the two countries, and after making a summary of Sino-Soviet trade, he could not wait to propose to Song Biao: "The world economy is still in the great decay of capitalism, and this trend is difficult to stop, and this is also the inevitable trend of history. If the two sides want to develop further, they must expand trade and exchange what they have, which is also in line with the long-term friendly situation and expectations of our two countries, and is of great value for stabilizing Sino-Soviet trade relations. ”

Song Biao nodded silently, of course he knew what the Soviet Union wanted to buy from China, there are two things in China today that the Soviet Union urgently needs, the first is a heavy machine tool, and the second is a large aircraft.

The definition of large aircraft is different in each era, and now large aircraft are basically large bombers, transport planes, and passenger planes with a load of more than 10 tons, and at present, only three companies in China and the United States can manufacture this kind of aircraft, namely Northeast Heavy Industry, Jiangnan Fudao and Boeing Company of the United States, and the controlling party of Boeing Company has always been the American consortium, which determines that it is very difficult for the Soviet Union to buy large aircraft from China and the United States.

From the perspective of aircraft control, considering that the Soviet Union had purchased a large number of Chinese aircraft after the Sino-Soviet War, the Soviet Union also hoped to directly introduce some large aircraft from China to make up for its own shortcomings.

Large aircraft are not a very nervous thing for the Soviet Union, even if they can't buy large aircraft, the SE35 series of passenger planes and transport planes purchased by the Soviet Union from Northeast Heavy Industry can basically meet its requirements, and the equipment that the Soviet Union really wants to buy from China is heavy machine tools.

The development of the machine tool industry is by no means an overnight rise, China from the beginning of industrial development attaches great importance to the machine tool and metallurgical industry, from the basic production, design to the cultivation of talents, theoretical research, technology pre-research reserves, after 30 years of development before and after gradually becoming the world's emerging machine tool industry power, during how much hardship, how much pay, how much effort only China itself knows.

Nowadays, there are four largest machine tool countries in the world, namely China, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, the machine tools in China and the United States are long in innovation and industrial application, in the field of special machine tools and new machine tools The breakthrough range is the deepest and largest, Germany and Britain are long in the industrial base and processing accuracy, but in general, the level of the four major machine tool countries is basically the same, only China appears more comprehensive, in the field of special machine tools, new machine tools, gantry machine tools, heavy machine tools, synchronous motor machine tools, frequency modulation machine tools have a first-class level.

The Soviet Union has been the largest exporter of Chinese machine tools in the past decade, which can be said to be a witness to the gradual improvement of China's machine tool industry to the world's leading level, in the past five years, even France and France have begun to import more machine tools from China, which itself also proves the development of China's machine tool industry.

Although the total imports of machine tools in the two countries are showing a downward trend, there are two obvious differences in essence, the Soviet Union is a rapid breakthrough in its own machine tool industry, a decrease in demand for imports, and the foreign trade is shrinking leading to weak exports.

It is precisely for this reason that the empire has always taken a more vigilant attitude towards the export of machine tools from the Soviet Union, on the one hand, to encourage the export of low-end and special-purpose machine tools, and on the other hand, to restrict the export of high-precision and heavy-duty machine tools.

For these two problems, Song Biao has no idea of solving them, and it is necessary to maintain technical limitations for the time being.

Song Biao felt that there was no point in talking with Stalin like this, and the reason why he wanted to put the first stop in the Soviet Union on this trip was to see the true intentions of the Soviet Union directly from Stalin, and to know whether the Soviet Union wanted to recover the territory lost in the Sino-Soviet war at all costs, or whether it had accepted the status quo.

As a result, Song Biao was very disappointed, Stalin was the kind of leader who had no emotion and surname, like a machine statue, saying emotionless words, and it was difficult to guess Stalin's true thoughts and intentions.

After thinking for a while, Song Biao directly emphasized to Stalin: "Your Excellency, I am a very simple and direct military emperor, and I dare not be interested in this kind of diplomatic ambiguous dialogue. The reason why I have made the Soviet Union the first stop of my global visit is precisely because I have very high expectations and sincerity, and I hope to maintain peace and friendship with the Soviet Union for a long time. ”

After a pause, he continued: "After the end of the Sino-Soviet war, we noticed that there were many people in Soviet Russia who criticized Mr. Lenin for making too many concessions to China and losing the patriotic spirit of Soviet Russia. At the end of the Sino-Soviet War, Mr. Lenin and I had many discussions, as I have always emphasized, the history of mankind is long, it is not as long as a few decades, but hundreds of years and thousands of years long, between a powerful China and Soviet Russia, if Soviet Russia must spread its territory to the entire north of China and the Far East like Tsarist Russia, and must become a world giant dominating the north of the Eurasian continent, the end can only be to die out in the joint extermination of China and European countries. In particular, China could not accept this situation, even if the Sino-Soviet war could not solve the problem, there would be a second, third, or even tenth, until the Slavs in the north disappeared, this is a very cruel fact and the simplest truth, it is impossible for forest bears and land tigers to coexist in a territory, especially in the current situation of long and close borders, war will threaten the survival of the two peoples at any time. For this reason, Mr. Lenin and I have made a common choice for the sake of lasting peace between the two peoples, and that is the Sino-Soviet Armistice Treaty as we know it today. ”

"Mr. Lenin is a great man, and I deeply admire that, in our consultations, we conceived the idea of reverting to the brutal and unreasonable times of Tsarist Russia and reverting to a pure European state, while China acquiesced in the neutrality of Russia's territorial claims in Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe in northern Central Asia. In addition, through the adjustment of the territory of the autonomous region of the Kazakh region, a huge buffer zone between Soviet Russia and our country will be preserved, so that in addition to this buffer zone, the other border lines between the two countries are militarily difficult to move an inch in the tundra and the extremely cold areas in the north, since then, China is a pure Asian power, and Soviet Russia is a pure European hegemon, we are the tiger of Asia, Soviet Russia is the bear of Europe, and the two huge world powers can also live in friendship and peace. And to maintain this situation for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, without war. ”

After Song Biao finished talking about this, he finally made a conclusion: "Therefore, Mr. Lenin is a great man worthy of our admiration, and the concession he made really moved me, but the fact is that we have also made a huge concession to Soviet Russia, and we have not insisted on letting Kazakhstan and the Caucasus read and support Soviet Russia to restore the management of Eastern Europe, which is a common concession and a common progress of both sides." ”

Stalin was obviously very dissatisfied with this assessment, and he had always held extremely strong opposition to the "Sino-Soviet Armistice Treaty" of that year, and he also knew that the Song Emperor was accusing him of disagreeing with it and trying to adjust the situation in recent years.

Stalin was also well aware that China was so strong today that it was absolutely impossible to retake the Far East, but he hoped to recover the South Siberian Plain by various means, which was close to 1.5 million square kilometers of land and was rich in resources.

Over the past 12 years, China has immigrated 23 million people here, opened up the Tampsk (Tomsk) and Novosibirsk oil fields, and established the largest coal and metallurgical base in the northwest at Kunisk (known to the Soviet Union as Novokuznesk), quickly becoming the richest region in China.

Stalin, of course, wanted to retake it.

After Song Biao exalted and praised Lenin, the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Joseph Brown. Stalin's face was gloomy, except for Sergei, who was in the limelight. Outside of Kirov, Stalin felt the provocation of dignity for the first time, and under his cold and ruthless appearance was a heart full of revenge.

He seemed to be lifting his weight lightly, indifferently put these words aside, and said: "Peace is always the most important thing, especially between China and the Soviet Union, war will destroy everything, we should maintain the status quo for a long time." At present, the exchanges between China and the Soviet Union in science and technology are very prosperous, and this also proves the long-term friendship between the two peoples, science and technology have no borders, and only the continuous development of science and technology can benefit the human world, and we hope to deepen this exchange. ”

Of course, Song Biao's trip was not just to meet Joseph. Stalin, he wanted to confirm whether Stalin would continue to maintain Lenin's opinion, and if Stalin had a resolute intention to regain the lost territory, then he must immediately adjust his policy towards the Soviet Union and thoroughly prepare for war.

If Stalin's attitude is more hesitant, and the current policy toward the Soviet Union should still be based on co-optation, and try to avoid excessive friendship and mutual dependence between the Soviet Union and Germany, for example, if China is worried about the increasing industrial strength of the Soviet Union and refuses to sell machine tools, forcing the Soviet Union to buy from Germany, and deepening Soviet-German cooperation, it will definitely be an out-and-out bad news.

Song Biao did not want to talk about scientific and technological exchanges and the sale of heavy and special machine tools for the time being, and said: "The exchange of technology should be further expanded and deepened, which is beneficial to both sides. The Soviet Union has been continuously reducing its agricultural imports to China in the past three years, and last year it completely stopped importing agricultural and animal husbandry products from China because of a bumper agricultural harvest, which is very bad news for our agricultural economy and farmers, but according to some media reports, as well as some special sources prove that there is still a large famine in the Ukrainian region, if necessary, I think the two countries should resume trade in grain and other agricultural and sideline products. ”

Stalin said very blandly: "This is false news, and it is also a rumor made by enemies and reactionaries within the Soviet Union, and all countries should not take it seriously, and the progress of grain work and agricultural science and technology in our country is a fact recognized by the world and cannot be questioned." I heard that China also adopted a policy similar to that of the Soviet Union, where the state purchased grain to maintain the food supply? ”

Song Biao said: "It's not the same policy, China has two central reserve management institutions, one is the Central Monetary Reserve Bureau under the central bank, and the other is under the Central Strategic Reserve Bureau of the Central Political Axe, the Central Strategic Reserve Bureau has two responsibilities, one is to reserve national strategic materials, including oil, minerals, coal and other commodities to prevent accidents, and the other is to maintain the stability of the national basic price, the most important work is to maintain the stability of grain and salt prices, and the market food supply exceeds, If grain prices rise sharply because of war or famine, the Central Reserve Bureau will sell off the grain in stock, curb the growth of grain prices, and stabilize the normal living standards of the people. Therefore, although China's central political axe will buy and sell grain in the name of political axe, its principle and working method are completely different from the Soviet model. ”

Stalin sighed, a little disappointed, he had thought that China was becoming more left-leaning, and even economic policy was beginning to learn from the Soviet Union.

He thought about it for a moment and said, "I think this is a more valuable political axe management mechanism. ”

Song Biao said: "Generally speaking, the political axe can not only maintain the stability of food prices in this kind of grain price control, but also have certain economic benefits, which is not the innovative management of these imperial cabinet political axe officials, in the Han Dynasty during the Han Dynasty Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the famous prime minister Gongsun Hong founded this policy. ”

Stalin said: "China has a lot of admirable long history, and no one can deny this. ”

Song Biao said: "China's total grain output has been growing rapidly, as of last year, per capita grain has reached the level of the United States in 1900, about 1,175 kilograms, therefore, the national grain price has been gradually declining, the central political axe through the political axe reserve can only stabilize the downward trend, even in the rapid development of the grain processing industry, the degree of grain surplus is still more, so mainly exported to West Asia and Southeast Asia, and is currently exported to Africa. Last year, there was about 40 million tons of grain surplus, and in addition to increasing the hoarding of grain depots and increasing the supply of animal husbandry, a part of it will also be donated to poor countries and regions. Judging from the current situation, starting from last year, this situation will gradually become customized, and a part of the grain will be donated or sold at a low price every year in order to reduce the pressure on China's treasury. Of course, since last year, China has also been actively readjusting its domestic grain industry, reducing grain production and increasing the planting of cash crops, including reducing the area of cultivated land and increasing domestic land reserves by returning farmland to forests and pastures and by rotating cultivation and maintenance. ”

Listening to these words, Stalin could not feel that the other side was provoking, and not presenting experience and results.

This year is indeed the most serious year in the Ukrainian region, and as far as Stalin knows, the number of Ukrainians starving to death has exceeded 2 million, and this number is further expanding.

Even Stalin himself had a hunch that the problem was a little serious.

In fact, 2 million is nothing, in the vast sea of the pan-Soviet world, this is really not the most powerful.

The ideal of the abolition of exploitation is beautiful and great, but whether it can be done or not is in itself a very complex conundrum, and as Trotsky put it, a new imperial bureaucracy.

Song Biao could not comment on this, because he did not know how to evaluate it, he was not showing off the beauty and happiness of capitalist China to Stalin, but reminding Stalin that there were some things that really should not be done that way, and that it would be better to do it in a different way, and that it was not a shame to continue to buy grain from China, and that it was cruel to refuse to buy cheap grain even if millions of people starved to death in order to prove their superiority.

Song Biao couldn't do such a thing.

If it was the German nation that starved, he probably wouldn't have been able to even Hitler.

(To be continued)