In front of the apartment where the Moscow delegation was located, several imported black cars were parked, which had been bought at the expense of the precious foreign exchange of the Soviet state, and only the senior leaders of the state and high-ranking foreign guests were eligible to use them, and the chairman of the Chinese and G. Mao Zd clearly belonged to the latter.

There is a construction site near this apartment building, and today it is a Saturday, and the construction site is full of Russian GCD cadres who are participating in voluntary labor - a special measure proposed by Lenin to inspect party members and cadres. The Great Mentor probably thought that those who infiltrated the party in order to get promoted and make a fortune would not be willing to sacrifice their rest time to do voluntary labor, right? When Mao Zd, Zhong Zhijie, and Tang Jiu, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Chita Region of the Far Eastern Republic, who accompanied them to Moscow, walked out of the apartment building, they saw a scene of sweaty labor. Dozens of white, chubby men and women were moving bricks from the roadside dump to the half-built building, no one supervising their work, but none of them were lazy.

"These are the cadres of the Moscow State Party Committee and the City Party Committee, and they come every Saturday to participate in voluntary work."

The speaker was Snefrit, secretary of the GC International Committee on Ethnic Colonization, who had come to greet Mao Zd to meet with Dimivyev at the Liuks Hotel. A Dutch GCD, pen name Marin, and founder of the Indonesian Social Democratic Union, he lived for several years in the Dutch East Indies, where he learned Cantonese Chinese. But Mao ZD can barely understand.

"Do you come every Saturday?" Mao ZD thought, if he asked the party members and cadres of the Central G to also participate in such voluntary labor, what kind of effect would it have?

"Coming every Saturday." "What they are building is a club of the Moscow trade unions, a place for the working class in Moscow to rest and play," Snevlitt said. ”

"What a good cadre!" Mao Zd showed a yearning expression on his face. And Zhong Zhijie, who was following him, snorted coldly in his heart, this building no longer knows how many foreign guests have come to visit! It's just that its height has not increased much, and at this rate, even in ten years' time, the working class in Moscow will not want to own this club!

Mao ZD had already sat in the back seat of a Ford car with Marin, and Marin began to introduce him again: "These cars were produced on the land of Soviet Russia. Ford leased a plant in Petrograd. The Ford Model T was produced there. ”

"American capitalists open factories on Russian soil?" Mao ZD knew that the NEP allowed foreign capital to lease Russian factories, but he still did not know much about some specific policies. "So how is the Russian government going to renovate these factories in the future? Is it confiscation? ”

At present, there are many foreign-invested factories and foreign firms on Chinese soil, and it is estimated that the socialist transformation in the future will be a difficult problem -- if Chang Ruiqing will really support the country to embark on the socialist road after the success of socialism in Xinjiang!

"Of course there is no need for confiscation." Marin said: "You can use the method of redemption, after all, they are responding to the call of the GCD to invest in Soviet Russia, if it is confiscated, it will be GCD's words are not credible." ”

"Redemption is a solution." Mao Zd nodded. "How are these foreign-invested factories doing? Are they all profitable? ”

"It's all profitable. In fact, most of the factories are very profitable. It is more profitable than the same factories in the United States and the United Kingdom. ”

"No, it won't! How is this possible? Mao Zd shook his head in confusion: "Can capitalists make more money in socialist countries than in capitalist countries?" How is this done? ”

"What's so strange about that? Soviet Russia has abundant resources and labor, and the price of labor is cheaper than that of Britain and the United States. ”

"Wait...... Are you saying that the capitalists can extract more surplus value from the workers of the socialist countries? Mao ZD frowned and asked, "What are the trade unions in Soviet Russia doing?" Why don't they organize strikes to force the Anglo-American capitalists to pay more wages? At least as much as they pay their own workers at home! ”

"Strike...... It was not allowed in Soviet Russia! Marin said: "Soviet Russia is a workers' country, how can the working class strike against their own country?" ”

"How can a strike be said to be against the state?" Mao Zd's eyes widened. An incredulous expression was revealed. "Strikes are a means for workers to get more money for their work! And aren't these workers hired by foreign capitalists? How did the workers' struggle against the foreign capitalists become an opposition to the Soviet state through a strike? ”

Marin's head was already dripping with sweat, and from time to time he looked at the driver who was driving - they were all Cheka warriors! They can't help this Chinese GCD chairman who is talking nonsense, and the unlucky one will definitely be himself, the Dutch GCD!

"The investments of these foreign capitalists in Russia are approved by the government of the working class, so the strike is against the workers' state." Marin also knew that this was not convincing. But that's all he can say.

"Foreign capitalists' investments in our country are also approved, so is it against the state that the working class in our country is going on strike for more wages?"

"It's different, China is not a working-class country at the moment, so the working class can strike. When the Chinese working class becomes the masters of the country, they will no longer need to strike, because they are the masters of the country. ”

"And what if a worker goes on strike?"

"Then arrest! The full name of the Cheka is the All-Russian Committee for the Elimination of Counter-Revolution and Sabotage! A strike is a counter-revolutionary crime that is even more severe than sabotage! ”

"I see, by the way, are the comrades of the Cheka a cadre establishment?"

"yes. They are all cadres and are also members of the GCD party. ”

"Are cadres public servants?"

"yes......" Marin said through gritted teeth. He had almost already thought of what Mao Zd's next sentence would be.

"The workers are the masters of the state, the Cheka is the servant of the state, and the masters strike for the servants to arrest...... Such a thing is unimaginable in our place! ”

Mao ZD didn't notice when he said this, a pair of cold and vigilant eyes were staring at him through the reflector on the car...... He still said to himself.

“…… The policy of Soviet Russia was good for everything. There's something wrong with this one. It is of course wrong for the workers to strike and sabotage in the factories owned by the state, that is an act of counter-revolution! But in the factories of foreign capitalists, strikes are of a completely different nature! Foreign capitalists also paid taxes on their investments in Russian land. But they are still capitalists at heart and enemies of the working class...... It is a natural right of the workers to strike and demand higher wages from their enemies...... How can it be attributed to the contradiction between friend and foe. And to be treated with arrest? Are the masters of the state workers or foreign capitalists? ”

This time. The car had stopped in front of the Lukes Hotel, the international residence of GC.

Marin breathed a sigh of relief and said to Mao ZD: "Chairman Mao ZD, we have arrived, Comrade Dimiveyev, Chairman of GC International, and Comrade Chicherin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of Soviet Russia, will receive you at one o'clock in the afternoon. ”

I didn't go to the gate to greet me in person, and I didn't meet right away! A trace of unhappiness slipped through Mao Zd's heart. Soviet Russia was very indifferent to his visit. No big names were sent to receive him. In the past two days, he has been accompanied by the secretary of the GC International Committee on Ethnic Colonization, Snefrit (Marin), who is almost treated as the chairman of the GCD of a colonial country!

Mao ZD got out of the car with Marin with an unhappy face, walked up the steps, and strode towards the entrance of the hotel without saying a word. Walk through a revolving door. Mao Zd and the others walked into a rectangular hall with a high roof, with a vermilion carpet on the floor, white marble on the walls, and ornate glass chandeliers hanging under the vaulted roof, which looked like a luxury hotel in China. The temperature inside the hotel is a bit high. This is very rare in Moscow, and although it is a cold winter, the supply of wood for heating is insufficient, and even the residence of the Chinese and G delegations in Moscow has not been able to get enough wood.

Now it's probably time for dinner, and the restaurants connected to the hall are crowded with people, presumably GC International staff or foreign GCD representatives.

"I think we can eat first," Mr. Zhong said to Mr. Mao, pulling out a stack of what appeared to be meal tickets from his pocket. "Chairman, the food in the nutrition canteen of the Liuks Hotel is still very good. The price is also very cheap. ”

Hearing the nutrition canteen, Mao ZD wrinkled his nose. This cafeteria seems to be everywhere! Of course, this situation is also understandable, now the income of the Russian GCD cadres is too low, it is simply not enough to feed their families, and without these nutritious canteen cadres would have to starve...... Just some of them (every single one Mao ZD has seen) stuff in the cafeteria. It's too good to be true.

Although supplies are still very scarce in Soviet Russia, you can buy all kinds of good things at very low prices in these canteens, and not only food! But this nutritious canteen is not open to the real masters of this workers' state, the ordinary workers! Only the servants of the state were allowed to shop or eat in it, and the treatment that everyone could enjoy was entirely tied to the political status they had!

Zhong Zhijie enjoyed the treatment of the general representative of the foreign GCD in Soviet Russia. Almost the same as the deputy minister in the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia. Moreover, the status of China and G is still very special, and the political movement in Soviet Russia will definitely not affect the international delegation of China and G to GC! So the life of this deputy Zhong Da in Moscow was very leisurely. Mao ZD vaguely heard that this master also kept two very beautiful Russian women! One of them was the original countess of Tsarist Russia, who was supposed to be sent to Siberia for labor reform, but because of this special foreign GCD chief representative, he didn't even dare to take the Cheka.

Although he is very reluctant to enjoy the privileges, Mao ZD can only follow the local customs now, and walked into a "canteen" with the fewest diners with Zhong Zhijie. This "canteen" is magnificently furnished, and only the general representative of the foreign GCD in Moscow, a member of the GC International Executive Committee, can bring guests to dine here, and of course they must also spend with tickets - Zhong Zhijie is obviously a regular customer here, and after chatting with a beautiful hostess, he took Mao ZD and the others to a window table to sit down, and then ordered a table of dishes, including fish, soup, game, chicken, barbecue, etc., and then paid a large stack of "meal tickets" and a few rubles, I also gave the hostess a "meal ticket" as a tip!

"Comrade Zhijie, do you often come here to eat?" Mao ZD looked at the Russian hostess who left happily and said, "I can't afford this kind of hotel in China." ”

"This." Zhong Zhijie glanced at Chairman Mao, "I don't come often, but I have come more frequently in recent months, and in fact, before the start of the New Economic Policy, the supply of Liukes Hotel was not too abundant." ”

The first soup was quickly served. There was also a bottle of vodka and a couple of chopsticks (for a few Chinese such as Mao Zd and Zhong Zhijie). The hostess was very attentive to filling the glasses in front of everyone before smiling and leaving.

"Do you know her well?" Mao ZD scooped up the soup with a spoon and took a sip, and it tasted good. It's just that there is more cream.

"All I know is that her name is Katyusha, but most of the time it's a pseudonym...... Most of the waitresses in the hotel are Cheka swallows, and their real names are known only to the Cheka's higher-ups. Zhong Zhijie's answer surprised Mao ZD. I've slept with each of them! He looked at Chairman G. The main members of the Russian-Chinese gang also have a Cheka swallow as a wife, and my wife is the same! ”

"How so?" Mao ZD muttered in a low voice, and he looked around. Those hostesses are all like flowers, they are all swallows?

"What's so strange?" Zhong Zhijie took a sip of vodka, and then said: "The rules of Soviet Russia are like this, you can only see what they want you to see, listen to what they want you to hear, say what they want you to say, enjoy what they want you to enjoy, and do what they want you to do." Of course...... We, the Chinese GCD delegation, have a little privilege, as long as we don't do too much. They won't do anything to us. Chairman, what you just said to Marin in the car, if it is replaced by the chairman of the GCD of another country, I am afraid that this chairman will also be the end! ”

"What do you mean......"

"Comrade Marin is now making a small report to Zinoviev, and the driver will likewise report every word he hears to the relevant departments of the Cheka." As he spoke, he leaned forward slightly. Approaching Mao Zd, he said in a low voice: "Chairman, you'd better be careful, although they can't deal with you openly." But assassination or something, it's hard to say! And Zhang Guotao, the leader of the China Gang, seems to have a grudge against you. He was a close confidant of Lenin. ”

"Assassination! It's a Soviet state......"

……

"Is that really what Comrade Mao ZD said?"

At this time, in a certain office of the Liuks Hotel, Comrade Marin had just finished reporting on Mao Zd's words and deeds, and the objects of his report were none other than Dimiveyev, chairman of the GC International Executive Committee, and Chicherin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of Soviet Russia.

"Yes, Comrade Zinoviev, I don't think Mao ZD is no longer fit to be the chairman of the Chinese GCD." Marin replied with an angry face, as if he couldn't wait to arrest **.

Dimiev nodded, of course he knew that what Marin said would not be able to be done...... China G is not a branch of GC International, but only an observer. Moreover, China G is still one of the ruling parties of revisionist China that Soviet Russia cannot afford to provoke at all, so why should GC International remove the chairman of others? Marin said that it was actually a matter of attitude.

"Okay, I know your attitude, Comrade Marin." Zinoviev smiled and waved his hand, and Marin left the office with a sigh of relief. "Georgi. Comrade Vasilyevich, what do you think? Is he a revisionist? ”

Chicherin frowned and said: "According to the report of Comrade Borodin (the Russian ambassador to Nanjing), Mao ZD seems to be a democrat...... Together with Jiang J-shi, he led the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy. ”

"Is it a Menshevik?" Zinoviev shook his head. "The composition of the Chinese G is really a headache, either revisionists or democrats, there are too few real Bolsheviks."

"Gregory. Comrade Yevseyevich," Checherin touched his mustache. "I don't think we should treat any Chinese GCD people as our own...... None of them were really Bolsheviks in nature. But we still need their help, at the meeting in Shanghai. ”

After learning that the United States was going to send a representative to the Shanghai meeting, the Soviet Russian GCD Political Bureau made the decision to send Chicherin to lead the delegation to Shanghai. Although the Soviet Union and Russia showed a tough attitude in words, in reality they still very much wanted to ease tensions with the Western countries.

And they also figured out the guò Shanghai conference and got some economic benefits. Lenin and Trotsky wanted to link naval arms control with the problem of Russia's legacy. At present, Soviet Russia does not want to repay the huge Russian debt of more than 18 billion gold rubles, and at the same time wants to develop normal economic and trade exchanges with Western countries, attract Western investment, and import Western technology.

Moreover, Soviet Russia wanted to pull China down on this issue - and this was not entirely unreasonable, because a considerable part of the tsar's gold fell into Chinese hands! Some of it may have fallen into the hands of France and England, and now these countries are unwilling to return the tsar's gold to Soviet Russia, and it is really unreasonable for Soviet Russia to bear the debts left by the tsar. Therefore, Soviet Russia wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of participating in the Shanghai Conference to write off the huge debts of Tsarist Russia, and at the same time establish diplomatic relations with countries that have not established diplomatic relations.