22. Battle of the Great Yenisei (2)
Djuashvili paced back and forth in the room with a pipe in hand, a pair of Cherkesian leather boots on the precious Persian carpet with a suffocating, dull sound. As an extreme Great Russian nationalist, he had in his bones an urge to dominate the whole world. With the completion of the Second Five-Year Plan, heavy industrial production in Soviet Russia developed by leaps and bounds, and now this ambition has become irrepressible.
The development of Soviet Russia benefited from the great economic crisis in the United States, a large amount of American investment began to pour into the Soviet Union after the economic crisis, and with the support of a group of American "red capitalists" headed by Hammer, the equipment of dozens of large machine-building, automobile and tractor-making plants in the United States was resold to the Soviet Union, and during this period, Soviet Russia imported more than 170,000 machine tools of various types from abroad. With the help of foreign capital, between 1930 and 1935, Soviet Russia built three large iron and steel complexes, seven large mechanical processing plants, two large tractor factories and two automobile factories, and by 1937, the steel output of the Red Empire had reached 8.9 million tons, capable of producing 150,000 cars and more than 40,000 tractors per year, which had surpassed France and became the fifth largest industrial country in the world.
Its heavy industry, especially its military industry, has developed rapidly, and the number of Soviet Russia's army has maintained a huge establishment of more than 2.3 million people, and the number of its army soldiers is the largest in the world.
With the rapid increase in military strength, which one is stronger to read novels on mobile phones? The head of the mobile phone reading network, Zhuashvili's ambitions also swelled. In Spain, however, the Austrians poured cold water on the Red Empire's desire to expand. The "Bay of Biscay incident" showed that Austria-Hungary did not take them seriously at all.
"We must build a powerful red fleet that will shock the world!" Zhuashvili was roaring, but building a powerful navy was not something that could be done with a few shouts, and it was not easy for the Red Empire, which had never built cruisers of more than 10,000 tons, to become a naval power. Anyway, with the help of the French. The construction of the first three battleships of the "Soviet" class of the Red Empire was finally started.
Now the "Supreme Leader" is eager to show the world his strength in order to save the face lost in the "Bay of Biscay."
"Since 1933, we have been aiding and training Chinese independents, and the Kyrgyz have revolted in Hami, Hotan and Ingisha to establish republican regimes, but soon these uprisings have failed. The Chinese have four divisions stationed in Xinjiang. This is something that the Kyrgyz cannot resist. Despite our assistance, their soldiers lacked training. Beria stood up and respectfully reported that the plans to instigate ethnic unrest in Xinjiang and send guerrillas to the Far East had been carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Bureau, but so far several of their attempts had failed.
Zhuashvili stopped and frowned, and Beria's heart immediately accelerated.
"The forces of counter-revolution are still strong, but we must see the weak side of the enemy. The entire capitalist world is plunged into an unprecedented economic crisis, with no signs of recovery, which has led to increasingly acute internal contradictions between them. The imperialist countries maintained antagonism in the Far East in order to compete for the market. The Chinese defected to Germany and Austria, but the Americans stood behind the Japanese, and we wanted to take advantage of the contradictions between China and Japan, and if necessary, to form an alliance with the Japanese. He glanced at Molotov.
"At the moment negotiations with Japan are underway, Comrade Zhuashvili." Molotov sat up straight and said. "But the Japanese demanded Upper Udinsk and half of Mongolia, which is very difficult for us to accept."
"You can promise them first. After cleaning up the Chinese, let's deal with them. Zhuashvili walked up to the map and tapped his pipe on the map in the Japanese-occupied Far East, "Sooner or later we will have to regain these territories." ”
"The problem is the attitude of the Germans and Austrians, who are clearly on the side of the Chinese, which threatens to provoke a full-scale war." Vasilevsky said. "On the front lines of Belarus and Latvia, our security situation is not optimistic."
"We need to sign a non-aggression pact with the Germans to secure the western borders, Comrade Molotov." Zhuashvili said.
"We're almost done with the negotiations, and we've made some concessions." Molotov said. "No permanent fortifications shall be built within 100 kilometers of the border."
"This is a big concession, but for the sake of the Far East, we can only temporarily abandon our claims to Belarus and Ukraine. And the traitors of the Don and the Caucasus. "Before military operations, it is necessary to strengthen the activities of guerrillas and underground organizations in China." ”
"I understand." Beria quickly replied.
"Very well, to the comrades of China, the Soviets and the Third International will do their best to meet their demands, money, weapons, personnel, etc., as long as they do their best!" Zhuashvili turned around, and a puff of green smoke filled the Far East, as if he saw the day when the Red Army would once again hit the Pacific Ocean, and even return to Port Arthur.
Yang Feixia, the commander of Yili Town, quickly smelled a hint of an unusual smell, and in the past ten days, five or six riots have occurred in various parts of Xinjiang one after another. In the past, there were sometimes rebellions in Xinjiang, such as the rebellion of Ganiyaz in Hami in 31, and the establishment of the so-called "republic" by Grand Mullah Shabiti in Yingjisha at the end of the same year, all of which were suppressed by Yang Zengxin, the experienced governor of Xinjiang and the governor of border defense. But this time is really extraordinary, for several days, Hotan, Yingisha, and Kashgar were occupied by the rebels one after another, and Aksu, Shache, Yecheng and other places were also in a hurry, and there must be a conspiracy of the Russians. On the one hand, he reported the situation to Dihua and Beijing by telegram, and on the other hand, he personally led troops from Yining to southern Xinjiang to quell the rebellion.
In Beijing, Army Chief Xu Shuzheng hurried to the presidential palace, it was almost noon, Duan Qirui had just gotten up, and it seemed that he might have played chess or played mahjong for most of the night last night. Xu Shuzheng sat in the living room with a blank face, frightened Duan Qirui's adjutant Duan Junliang hurriedly smiled and personally served him tea, "Uncle Xu, you sit down for a while, the president will be here soon." ”
"Hmph, when is this, he still has the heart to play mahjong, why don't you persuade him?" Xu Shuzheng reprimanded Duan Junliang.
Duan Junliang made a bitter face, "How do you know that I didn't persuade him, but it doesn't work, that is, you dare to say him to your face." "The people in Duan Mansion are more afraid of Xiao Xu, as long as there is someone who is not used to it, he will be trained when he opens his mouth, even if it is President Duan, it is correct, but Duan Qirui still eats this set, and he obeys his words, and all the state affairs are handed over to him to take care of.
"Again, what happened to you, and you ran over in person in the morning?" At this time, Qirui's figure appeared at the door.
"It's still early, it's time for lunch in a while!" Xu Shuzheng said dissatisfiedly that Lao Duan, in essence, was influenced by studying in the West in his early years, and paid attention to the so-called "people's * master" in government affairs, but he was not at all nonsense in grasping military power. But he was negligent in government affairs, which is indeed too far behind the deceased old Yuan. "On the Xinjiang side, there have been successive rebellions, combined with the note sent to us by the Soviet Russian ambassador a few days ago, I feel that the Russians are behind it, and they may want to take action against the Far East!"
"Is this true?"
"It should be right, I think there may be a war, we didn't let the Russians control Siberia anymore!" Xu Shuzheng said, "We still have four divisions there, as long as they do it, we can only send troops!" (To be continued......) R1292