Chapter 166: Operation Hamster 2

What Zhao Yun wants from Turkey is not to plunder capital, but to seek the special geography of Turkey, or the geographical advantage.

The Eurasian Black Sea is an inland sea in Eurasia, and Turkey is on the southern shore of the Black Sea. The Black Sea covers an area of about 424,000 square kilometers and is connected to the Mediterranean Sea through the Turkish Strait. Important rivers that flow into the Black Sea, the Danube and the Dnieper. The coastal states are Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia. Important coastal cities include Istanbul, Burgas, Varna, Constanta, Turkia, Odessa, Sevastopol, Batumi, etc.

Therefore, it is too close to Soviet Russia from Turkey, and it is very close to Ukraine, the grain-producing area of Soviet Russia, and the Don Plain, and the transportation is convenient, which is an ideal choice for the implementation of "Operation Hamster".

Of course, there is one more obstacle to be solved between the traffic on the roads of Turkey and Soviet Russia, and that is Georgia!

Georgia is an ancient country with a special culture, located in the Caucasus mountain region at the junction of Europe and Asia, on the Black Sea coast, ancient Greece called the land of the two kingdoms of Gojes and Iberia, is the place where the Greek mythological hero Iason found the Golden Fleece, and this place was rich in gold in ancient times. When the Roman Empire extended into Asia Minor, it was united into a single country and fought against Persia in alliance with Rome, which was deeply influenced by Western culture. In 330 AD, Christianity was accepted as the state religion, and the name of the country was Georgia (Georgia). Long alliance with Byzantium to resist the military expansion of Islamic forces.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol-Tatar and Timur (the prototype of that hero) invaded. From the 15th to the beginning of the 17th century, many independent principalities and kingdoms emerged in Georgia. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Georgia was the object of contention between Iran and Turkey. In the 18th century, with the help of the emerging power of Russia, the principalities of Georgia were successively incorporated into the Russian Empire from 1801 to 1864, and were renamed Tiflis and Kutaisi provinces. In 1917, the Russian Revolution declared Georgia its independence. German, Turkish, and British troops invaded Georgia in 1918. The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was established on February 25, 1921, and in December of the same year, the Abkhaz Soviet Socialist Republic joined Georgia.

However, Georgia was planning to join the Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic in March 1922 and was preparing to join Soviet Russia as a member of the Federation.

In fact, the position of this country is too sensitive, and in later generations this country was also the forefront of the struggle, in 1989 the people's demonstration for independence was suppressed by the Russian Defense Minister Marshal Yazov personally led troops. Finally, in 1991, the Soviet Union and Russia disintegrated, and Georgia became truly independent, but it did not stop at home.

The United States and Europe promoted the "Rose Revolution", supported mass demonstrations in Georgia, overthrew the previous government, and established a pro-Western government. Then deploy to join NATO, constituting a semi-encirclement of Russia. Russia was so unhappy with this that it supported the secession of ethnic minorities in Georgia, such as South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia, with the support of the United States, is also an enemy of Russia at every turn.

In 2008, South Ossetia voted for independence, and the conflict resumed, and finally on the opening day of the Olympic Games, Georgia sent troops to suppress it, which greatly violated the global tacit agreement of the world armistice during the Olympic Games. When Russian Prime Minister Putin attended the Olympic Games, he sat with President George W. Bush and still talked and laughed. However, Bush was still ignorant that when the war broke out, Bush was forced to make a statement at the Olympics to support Georgia's resistance to Russia. However, Russia has taken the lead and bullied the weak, Georgia is powerless to resist, and the United States will not really contribute except export condemnation, because Georgia has not yet formally joined NATO, and the United States still has to use Russia to deal with Iran. It seems that Georgia was still fooled by Lao Mei, made drastic actions, and provoked the polar bear, but he was still not really protected by the Western powers.

At the end of 1921, Georgia was still in disarray, and the people of Farel Tak got through the border with Turkey and it, and they got into it and took some positions. In addition to its geographical advantages, many party and government leaders in the Russian-Soviet period were born in Georgia, including Prince Bagration, the fierce general of the Great Patriotic War in 1812, Stalin, the leader of Soviet Russia, Marshal Beria, and a large number of others.

There are also fellow villagers in the high-level of Soviet Russia, which does not have the good card of Georgia, Zhao Yun's intelligence system finally broke into Moscow, although I don't know how much can be left after the purge, but it is better than nothing.

In January, when hoplites wielded their two-handed swords in the steppes to reap the lives of Russian soldiers, in the Ukrainian region, the trigger of Moscow's Mosin-Nagant rifle was also pulled, more than 10,000 military and political cadres were replaced, and nearly 1,000 were executed. And the troops that the Ukrainian regions were preparing to send to the Far East were also urgently recalled, and this qiē all heralded another serious incident in the Ukrainian region.

Hamsters in action!

"Our factory got 7,240 tons of grain storage wheat 70 days ago, and it was originally more than a month to complete all the shipments, but now the wheat has been shipped out of the warehouse only less than 90 tons." The staff of the Poltava State Flour Mill complained to the director of the mill who was about to go berserk.

A month ago there was news that a consignment of wheat was going to be delivered to the Far East, well! This kind of transfer is normal, the warehouse counts the batch and is ready to be shipped, and the wheat from the local state-run flour mills has been delayed. But then the situation was not right, when the warehouse was asked to count the grain and grass that could feed 50,000 troops for half a year, the warehouse was busy, leaving the requirements of the state-run flour mill behind.

In order to curb the rapid rise in wheat prices, the relevant departments of the Soviet and Russian countries had to carry out state regulation and control, and in the past half a month, they have intensified the regulation and control of the wheat market, and continuously put into the national reserve wheat supply market. But what I didn't expect was that the state's regulation and control measures to stabilize grain prices were met with "resistance" from grain reserves in various places. And it's not the usual yang and yin, but to face it head-on.

The main income of the grain depot is the local purchase of grain, which is used for safekeeping, and for each day of storage, the state subsidizes one day.

Many people thought that the grain depot keepers were greedy for those small sums of money, but as the heads of the grain depots continued to run away, Moscow finally heard a different voice from below before Christmas on December 24. "Empty? All empty? "Hundreds of millions of catties of grain in the granary have evaporated.

"Thoroughly!" As soon as the order was issued, the state organ of Soviet Russia began to operate in response to the above-mentioned problems, and immediately set up a leading group to deal with the "difficulty in leaving the warehouse" incident announced to the outside world.

On the one hand, the state ordered the sale of state reserves in order to stabilize the market grain prices, and on the other hand, the "hungry" flour mills were unable to get their share of wheat.

"We're almost at the end of the road." Speaking of the wheat that has not been available for a long time, the staff of the Poltava flour mill looked helpless.

Faced with the citizens who came to line up to receive flour every day, the staff of the Poltava flour mill were almost under pressure.

However, when the staff of the flour mill took the delivery notice issued by the state to the grain depot to ask for inspection and wheat extraction, they encountered a series of problems.

Either the door was closed or the person in charge could not be found, so the flour mill used the relationship of old comrades-in-arms to find the superior of the grain depot, and only with the intervention of the superior did it complete the first step, inspection.

Looking at the piles of wheat in the display warehouse, but no matter what, the grain depot just doesn't leave the warehouse

Finally, after many reports to the relevant departments, the grain depot did not issue a batch of 50 tons of wheat out of the warehouse until December 29, and after overnight processing, it alleviated the public sentiment in the market.

On 30 December, when the Poltava Flour Mill again sent a truck to the grain depot to pick up the goods, the depot refused to leave the depot on the grounds of a large amount of wheat and a small number of stevedores. On December 31, under the on-site "coordination" of the superior leaders of the grain depot, the grain depot agreed to load the truck out of the warehouse, but when the relevant leaders left, they postponed the delivery again.

It was not until 5 January that the Poltava flour mill's wheat-transporting vehicles waited outside the depot for five days and nights before re-entering the depot to transport 50 tonnes of wheat. On 6 January, the flour mill was again refused to send a truck to pick up the goods.

After waiting for 3 days, Poltava flour was loaded again after paying a wad of ruble tickets, and finally 50 tons of wheat were shipped out of the warehouse, and after that, the grain depot did not let the Poltava flour mill pull away a grain of wheat.

In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and the surrounding areas in January, whether it was day or night, it was extremely cold weather, not to mention the heavy snowfall, and the poor flour mills in urgent need of wheat sent people to wait outside the grain depot day and night, just waiting for the next morning to be able to get the wheat in time, and the result was that every person and horse spent a lot of money every day, but could not pull a grain of wheat.

From December 29 to January 9, for more than 10 days, after many "tosses", the flour mill only took 150 tons of wheat, while the usual 50 tons should be per day. Due to untimely shipments, the price of flour in the market rose again, and even Moscow began to be affected by prices.

But the Poltava flour mill was not alone in its own problems, and by the end of January, even the army had begun to have the same problems.

Faced with the shortage of grain in the market, Soviet Russia introduced the excuse of "difficulty in leaving the warehouse", and at the same time, personnel from various ministries of internal affairs also conducted strict investigations into each grain depot. It was found that grain "evaporated" in large areas of grain depots in Ukraine, accounting for about half of Soviet Russia's grain production this year and a quarter of the country's storage. Although there is some problem of reselling and stealing grain, it is only a drop in the ocean compared with this quarter of grain reserves, and it is more of an invisible "evaporation". Some of the grain depots were located next to the army, but even the army outside the grain depot did not find anyone smuggling.