The Russian warship was towed back to Austro-Hungarian Trieste, and in the hold of the "Red Volga", a total of about 680 tons of gold coins were found, as well as foreign currency notes with a total value of about $230 million, with a total value of about $800 million.

With such a large sum of money, Helton naturally would not return it to the Spaniards, although now his eldest son has become the king of Spain. With a stroke of his pen, Lee Hayton awarded half of it to the navy for special construction funds.

The naval expansion plan announced by Austria-Hungary itself for the construction of six battleships was a hoax, and in fact only two "Franz. Emperor Joseph" class battleships, and the rest of the funds were used to start construction of six super aircraft carriers with a displacement of 42,000 tons. "Franz. The cost of the "Emperor Joseph" class battleship reached almost 200 million kroner, while the cost of one "Bosnian" class aircraft carrier was only 160 million kroner, four battleships were enough to build five super aircraft carriers, and the Austro-Hungarian navy was not willing to build more battleships in terms of cost performance.

Most of the aircraft carriers in Europe are built with British-style fully enclosed bows and double-deck enclosed hangars, which improve the seaworthiness and seakeeping performance of aircraft carriers. Comparatively speaking, although the protection has been enhanced, the number of carrier-based aircraft is much smaller than that of aircraft carriers of the same tonnage in the United States and Japan.

From the results obtained so far, the larger the displacement and flight deck of the aircraft carrier, the better, for example, the two "St. Carriers" with a displacement of only 23,000 tons. The combat capabilities of the "Stephen" are inferior to a modified "Grand Duke of Istria" with a displacement of 41,600 tons. In order to increase the area of the flight deck, the newly built "Bosnia" class aircraft carriers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy adopted a significantly camber freeboard, and the structure of the flight deck and hangar was integrated into the overall structure of the warship, so that the length and width of the flight deck were slightly larger than the length and width of the hull, and some characteristics of modern aircraft carriers were already preliminary.

After receiving funding of approximately 800 million crowns. In 1937, the Imperial Navy began a new round of additional naval shipbuilding programs, and four additional aircraft carriers were added. Due to the fact that for the first time the construction of aircraft carriers of the same type was carried out in batches, the Admiralty decided to adopt the standardized and modular construction mode adopted in the construction of destroyers, which was the first time in the construction of large warships that the standardized construction mode was adopted, which greatly accelerated the construction speed and effectively reduced the construction cost.

The "incident in the Bay of Biscay" is tantamount to a direct slap in the face of Moscow, and Litvinov issued a statement. It expresses the determination of the Red Empire to fight Austria-Hungary imperialism and hegemonism to the end. But there was no follow-up, and Djuashvili still did not have the courage to declare war on Austria-Hungary, and he was even more afraid of involving the Germans as well.

The Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Austro-Hungarian fleet was forced to defend itself, and provided film materials to prove that it was the Soviet Russian warships that fired first.

Djuashvili had made a big mistake in Spain, and in order to assert his absolute authority, he needed to find a place elsewhere. So he turned his attention to the Far Eastern Republic of China in the East.

In May 1937, Litvinov summoned the Chinese ambassador to Russia, declared that the Far Eastern Republic was the former territory of Soviet Russia, and demanded that China withdraw its troops from the Far Eastern Republic.

The Far Eastern Republic was established in 1919 and was initially recognized by the Umilyanov government, but in 1923, after the Red Army conquered Omsk, the capital of the Siberian government, it declared that it would not recognize the independent status of the Far Eastern Republic. Kolchak, the supreme provisional ruler of the Siberian government, was killed during the retreat. Lieutenant General Khovalt, the former commander of the garrison of the Eastern Railway in China, became the supreme commander of the White Army, and Khovalt was announced as Prime Minister of the Far Eastern Republic. And moved the capital from Verkhniy Udinsk to Irkutsk. Since the Chinese Workers' Corps, having retreated to the line of the Bolshaya Yenisei River, began to defend on the spot and, together with the White Army, crushed the Red Army's offensive. At that time, the Red Army and Soviet power were at their weakest, and fearing that China and Japan would find an excuse to advance westward, Moscow ordered the Red Army to stop the offensive, and the two sides drew a ceasefire line along the Macroyenisei River.

The Red Army turned to Central Asia and the southern Urals. After more than two years of hard fighting, the Dutov group was finally eliminated and finally advanced to the line of the Volga.

Subsequently, a series of border clashes broke out between the Soviet regime and the Republic of Ukraine and the Donets-Don Cossack Republic, recovering Voronezh, Saratov, Bryansk and Belgorod. In the end, under the intervention of Deau. The three parties reached a ceasefire agreement in 1925, and the Donets-Don Cossack Republic and Soviet Russia basically formed a border along the 52nd parallel, and bordered Ukraine on the middle line between Kharkov and Belgorod, and Kharkiv was assigned to the Republic of Ukraine.

The seven-year Russian Civil War has finally come to an end. As a result of the years-long civil strife, the territory of Soviet Russia was basically in ruins, production was greatly damaged, factories were suspended, food and living necessities were extremely scarce, and it was almost on the verge of collapse. Unable to continue the war, Moscow reluctantly opted for an armistice, bordering the Yenisei River in the Far East, acquiescing in the existence of the Far Eastern Republic.

As a result of the Russian Civil War, about millions of old aristocrats, landlords, kulaks, Jews, and whites fled to the Far East, but even so, the Far Eastern Republic felt that its human resources were far from sufficient. Therefore, during the period of Khovalt's administration, the Far East government formulated a series of preferential policies to attract immigrants from China to the Far East to open up wasteland for farming, mining, and logging, and the rich natural resources of the Far East also attracted a large number of Chinese poor people to immigrate to the Far East, and in the past 20 years, about 6 million Chinese immigrants have settled in the Far East, where the Chinese population is almost the same as that of Russia, and Chinese has become a common language used alongside Russian.

Moscow, July 1937.

In the office of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on the east side of the second floor of the Kremlin Building No. 1, Zhuashvili stood in front of the map and looked carefully at the part of the Far Eastern Republic marked in white, and there was also a large area of Japanese occupation that was also white. Looking at a large white "homeland" on the map, the face of the Supreme Leader became rather ugly.

"I would like to ask, why did even the Austrians dare to bully us with impunity? It's because of these traitors! "The Don region, the Caucasus and Ukraine, ruled by the White Bandits, became lackeys of the Germans and Austrians, betraying the great Motherland." And here......" he pointed to the Far East, "the White Bandits and Chinese are colluding, and the land is about to be dyed yellow!" ”

In the office, the expressions of Defense Minister Voroshilov, Chief of the General Staff Vasilevsky, Internal Affairs Minister Tolya and the new Foreign Minister Molotov became extremely unnatural, and after a three-year "great purge", all party and other people and even ordinary citizens who had the slightest opinion about Zhuashvili have been "purged". Now, with just one word, even the Supreme People's Commissar would immediately become a prisoner and then be secretly executed without trial for "treason".

Now, he is a supreme "tyrant" who can decide the fate of anyone, including all of you, with a single word.

Fortunately, all of you here are the closest "comrades" of the Supreme Leader.

No one will go against his will.

"It is precisely because of these traitors that they have hindered the development of our great motherland and hindered our great cause. We can only resolutely and ruthlessly exterminate them completely! Comrade Voroshilov, how is the battle plan for the Far East being prepared? (To be continued......)