Hirohito and the Japanese military began to prepare for war, and it is estimated that Stalin will not be much better if he is bloody, and Yang Qiu naturally has to prepare appropriately. Early in the morning, there was a commotion in the small conference room of the Ministry of National Defense in Beijing, and dozens of high-ranking generals of the navy, army, and air force were arguing like aunts buying groceries. Today is the day to divide the cake, and the 9 billion yuan equipment procurement cost has finally been approved by the Congress, so the heads of the heads of the three armed services and the technical equipment departments are all red-eyed. In peacetime, the Defence Force uses a market-based procurement method, that is, the Ministry of Defence itself negotiates prices with arms suppliers, and then makes a list and submits them to Congress for approval and appropriation.

This has the advantage of ensuring that arms manufacturers are profitable enough to have sufficient funds to develop more advanced weapons, but the disadvantage is that they are slightly more expensive. Of course, if the president declares a state of emergency and fights a big war that is at stake in the country's fortunes, he will not use this method again. But this is actually a trick, because the Ministry of Defense will negotiate with the arms manufacturers again to ask for discounts after getting the money. Of course, the extra money is not for you to embezzle, but to increase personnel salaries or other military expenditures. (Baidu Xinhai Hero Bar debut)

Although this additional five-year equipment procurement cost of 9 billion yuan has long been proportionally apportioned to 5 billion for the army, 3 billion for the navy, and 1 billion for the air force. But this time it was a little different, Yang Qiu demanded that all the equipment used for procurement should not be misappropriated, so Song Ziqing specially called the generals of the three armies to discuss what to buy with the extra money.

After being poor for more than ten years, the generals don't want to add a few more decent pieces of equipment, but they can't bear the price of weapons rising sharply! In particular, after the depreciation of the currency and the rise in raw materials, the ex-factory price of weapons also skyrocketed. It's only been a few years, huh? Why has the price gone up? For example, the latest 85mm army cannon, light weight and power can reach the world's advanced level, using ordinary high-carbon steel armor-piercing shells can penetrate the armor of all known tanks, but the price of a single gun needs more than 10,000, more than twice as expensive as the old 75 gun.

And that's not counting the shells!

1 round of ordinary high-explosive shells costs 80 yuan, and 120 yuan of high-carbon steel armor-piercing bullets is not outrageous. But the tungsten carbide armor-piercing bullet that is being developed and is said to be able to penetrate hundreds of millimeters of steel plates is actually priced at 450 yuan a piece! Even a slightly inferior sub-caliber armor-piercing bullet costs 180 yuan! That's right? This is a money grab! And this 85-mm anti-aircraft gun jokes! It is actually three times the cannon of the same caliber of the army! It's still hand-filled, and the ship's Bingwen let me see your navy's. What the! Did your navy make false accounts? How is it that this double-barreled 85-mm anti-aircraft gun is ten times more expensive than our army? you, your army is making fake accounts! See? Fully automatic, with gyroscopic fire control sight, the fastest rate of fire of the twin tubes is 85 rounds per minute! You think it's your iron lump.

"It's a product of that factory. Zhengzhou? Brother Zheng, what kind of reputation is your technical equipment department doing, how can you let the factory arbitrarily open prices? Robbery isn't like that, right? ”

"The 305-mm T5 railway gun, the 210-mm T7 howitzer and the 155 self-propelled projectile are all made in Chongqing, why don't you go to the president to discuss and let him intercede and reduce the price?"

"Come on, the motorcycle is still owned by Su Xiaohu's factory, and the price has not doubled."

"It's not okay to find the president, he doesn't care about that, it's better for the deputy general staff to go to the third lady and try."

Qin Zhangshu and several army generals were the loudest, because this time they got the most money and the largest number of reoutfits, and in the face of a bunch of world-class advanced weapons, they couldn't wait to purchase tens of thousands of everything. However, 5 billion yuan in five years is still insufficient, although this money is extra, it will not affect the normal annual military expenditure, but after subtracting the increase of hundreds of thousands of mouths, and then subtracting the increased ammunition reserves, there is not much left, so the spearhead is immediately aimed at Xu Shuzheng, director of the Department of Technology and Equipment.

To say that Xu Shuzheng's career is really not smooth, he has been stumbling after the end of the European War, first serving as a staff officer in the Northwest Theater, and then going to the Northeast and Central China for a few years, until Yang Qiu came to power and appointed Chen Yan as the chief of police, he vacated his position and transferred back to the General Staff. He is also a person with great ambitions, but it is a pity that Zhang Xiaozhun, Li Liejun and others did not leave, and Qin Zhangshu, Qiu Wenbin, and Chen Meng, who fought out of the Mesozoic Era, have already controlled the military power. Later, Liu Mingzhao, Bai Chongxi, Zhu Peide, Li Zongren, Long Yun and others quickly caught up, and recently there were rising stars such as Ye Xun, He Yingqin, Dongfang Chen, Xue Yue, Sun Liren, Su Duozhen, etc., plus they were not young and the neighbors did not fight, so they simply gave up their minds and developed in the General Staff with peace of mind. In the end, when the 3010 plan was launched, after Qiu Heng was transferred, he became the general manager of equipment for the whole army. (Baidu Xinhai Hero Bar debut)

Xu Shuzheng is also embarrassed, he also wants to buy more equipment, but firstly, the depreciation of the currency has caused the rise in raw materials, and secondly, the more advanced the weapon, the more expensive the price, so you can't use guns to force people to reduce prices, right?

The generals fought for it. Song Ziqing happily held the teacup with both hands, and smiled secretly in his heart. What the president said is indeed right, these veteran ruffians are fighting with what barrage Xu Jin, fire suppression, big detours, big intersperses, and stumbling to make the black hands more powerful than the other, and use the money not for money, now you know the pain of managing the country. Not to mention anything else, if you purchase 100,000 tungsten carbide armor-piercing shells according to Qin Zhangshu's idea, you can build three large thermal power plants at the price! In peacetime, the efficiency of three thermal power plants is a hundred times higher than 100,000 artillery shells.

You know why the president is holding you down, right? It's a lot of money, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the list of new equipment in hand. If it weren't for the growing threat from Japan and the Soviet Union, it is estimated that the president would rather make the border tense and suffer than strengthen the armament.

"Well, I don't know if there's any definite news from Moscow." Compared with equipment procurement, Song Ziqing was more concerned about how Stalin would choose. It stands to reason that he should know the pain of the encirclement by now, whether to attack himself directly, or to expand into Eastern Europe? Will the president's envisioned path from Central Asia to India and the Persian Gulf take it?

When everyone racked their brains to think about how to use the money they saved, the door of the conference room was suddenly slammed open, and Bai Chongxi, who was on duty, shouted without waiting for everyone to react: "It's moving!" It's moving! ”

"What's moving? Brother Jiansheng, what kind of hysteria do you have early in the morning? ”

"You're just hysterical." Bai Chongxi glared at the smiling Zhu Peide angrily, and put the telegram in front of Song Ziqing: "Report to the minister, Moscow urgently telegraphed!" ”

Since Stalin's purges, in order to protect the dragon's teeth lurking in the Soviet Union, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff have deliberately stopped all intelligence messages and will only use new contact methods unless it is a major message. So as soon as they heard the news that it was Moscow, everyone hula and all gathered around. Song Ziqing hurriedly grabbed the telegram and read it carefully, and after reading it, he handed the telegram to Zhang Xiaozhun next to him and said: "This Stalin, what a big hand!" ”

Zhang Xiaozhun also gasped after seeing the content clearly, he didn't expect Stalin to increase 30 infantry divisions in one go regardless of economic development, and also form 5 tank divisions! Everyone was still saying that weapons and equipment are getting more and more expensive, but there is one person who is even more crazy than them, and he directly beats the soldiers more than twice!

"Forward it to the president immediately, and I'll go to the prime minister." Song Ziqing dropped a sentence, grabbed his hat and prepared to inform Wang Zhengting of the news as soon as possible

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A mineral ore train from Karaganda slowly drove into the raw material station of Xinjiang Iron and Steel Company, and 20 cars totaling 900 tons of refined iron ore sand were unloaded with the help of belt conveyors. Since 1923, when China and the Soviet Union negotiated an investment in the Karaganda iron ore mine, ten such ore transfer trains came every day to deliver a steady stream of metro ore to the iron and steel plant.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the stable source of ore from the Karaganda iron ore mine that the Northwest Industry has developed rapidly, and now it has two large steel plants with an annual output of 2 million tons in Urumqi and Almaty, as well as four small steel plants including Andijan. The steel output of the six provinces in the northwest frontier has reached 6 million tons, accounting for more than a quarter of the national total. With iron and steel, it is natural to better build the great northwest, including automobiles, petroleum smelting, tractors and other manufacturing industries can be found in the northwest. The development of the northwest has also led to the export of a large number of zinc, copper, nickel, manganese and barite from Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan account for most of the important and scarce resources transported back to the customs from the northwest every year, and most of these are exchanged for liquor, tung oil, raw silk and rubber and other civilian goods.

However, with the deterioration of China and the Soviet Union, Karaganda is likely to be closed in the near future, so Yang Qiu immediately rushed here to supervise and arrange alternative sources of ore on the spot. In addition to Yang Qiu, there was also an important guest on the trip, namely Trotsky, who had secretly arrived in Beijing a few days earlier.

Yang Qiu still attached great importance to Trotsky's visit, so he specially took him to visit the northwest. If the picture I saw in Shanghai and Beijing before was not too surprising, then the construction of such a magnificent steel base in the former desert Gobi-like northwest also made Trotsky secretly admire Yang Qiu's ability: "Mr. President, this really surprises me, what is the secret of you using 23 years to completely change a backward and poor country?" ”

Yang Qiu smiled freely, he didn't expect Trotsky, who was known for his toughness, to praise people, and said with a smile: "Bow your head, put aside disputes, solve problems in a down-to-earth manner, and then focus on the present, this is the secret." But unfortunately, the country and the nation have not yet undergone a fundamental transformation, and there is still a lot to learn and do compared to Europe and the United States, so I don't want to have any disputes, I just want to strive for more peace. ”

"You are doing everything for the country and the people, why do you want to restrict the right of our Soviet people to development?" The recent uproar over the Soviet embargo has led to a blunt tally and a hint of dissatisfaction in his words. Yang Qiu smiled, as if he was not aware of his dissatisfaction, and said: "Mr. Trotsky, I really admire your integrity in serving the country wholeheartedly. But you have forgotten that I am the president of the Republic of China, and everything I do must be in the interests of my country. Should I just wait for Mr. Stalin to come to our door when he openly targeted us at the Politburo meeting last year and tried to re-occupy the north-western part of our country? ”

Yang Qiu pointed his finger horizontally and pointed to the west: "In which direction, there are at least 200,000 soldiers eyeing him, and there are 300,000 second-line reserve divisions in the Chelyabinsk and Ural regions behind, do you think I shouldn't give him some trouble?" ”

Trotsky really did not expect Yang Qiu to express his dissatisfaction and concern with Stalin so frankly and unabashedly, and continued: "You are only dissatisfied with the Stalin clique, but the embargo will hurt all the Soviet people. In my opinion, China and the USSR should not go to confrontation, because both countries are new countries that are just starting out, why can't they come together? Frankly speaking, GCISM is not like the demons of Europe and the United States, the worldwide ** is accompanied by the national autonomy and independence movements are flourishing, and the disintegration of the imperialist colonies is only a matter of time, and no force can stop it. A wise man like you must know better than I do. So don't you think that cooperation is more peaceful than confrontation? ”

"Mr. Trotsky, I am not a very strong ideological person, and it seems to me that there is a necessary reason for the existence of any political system. As for the cooperation you mentioned, I am not absent, and the Karaganda project is the best example of this. But what about the end? It is about to be closed down, hundreds of thousands of miners and their families will lose their jobs, and I think more of the blame for this lies with Mr. Stalin, who was first hostile to our country and coveted our land! We will not give up an inch of land when it comes to land issues! ”

Yang Qiu looked at him with a smile and continued: "Of course, just like what I asked Bingwen to bring you, if you can return to Moscow, then maybe we can sit down and have a good talk. ”

Trotsky, of course, knew that he wanted to incite himself to return to the Soviet Union, and to put it in his heart he also wanted to go back, to get Stalin out and ask him why he wanted to purge, why he wanted to persecute the innocent. But even though it was only a thousand kilometers from the border and could be reached by plane in a few hours, he could not go back.

His silence was seen through by Yang Qiu, and he continued: "Mr. Trotsky. If you want to go back, I think I can provide some appropriate help. ”

Trotsky wanted to go back, but he knew better that if he took this step, it would inevitably be a situation of civil war, and in the end he would only be able to cheapen China for nothing. But he couldn't say it to death, after all, returning to Moscow made his final wish, so he thought about it and said, "I can't go back now." ”

Yang Qiu quickly caught the word "now", knowing that Trotsky was not ready, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. In fact, since his expulsion, Trotsky has no ability to compete with Stalin, and even if he is invited this time, it is actually only to make Stalin more angry and make the purge even more serious, and it is no longer realistic to start a civil war in the Soviet Union with his hand.

Thinking of this, Yang Qiu deliberately made a disappointed appearance and said, "That's a pity. You know, I actually thought about working with GC Internationally, after all, we share the same views and values in some ways. ”

"Then why did you give up again?" Trotsky asked.

"Because I'm afraid!"

"Scared?"

"Yes!" Yang Qiu nodded heavily: "We in China have been stretching for thousands of years, we have our own culture and history, our own heritage and values, and anything forcibly grafted from the outside will only cause more chaos." And I personally am also afraid of taking the road that has not been taken, for fear that it will make the country lose its traditions and lose its way. What's more! I can guarantee that my heart will remain unchanged, but I cannot guarantee that after my death others will be able to suppress the bureaucracy without restraint, without supervision, without opponents! ”

These words made Trotsky shake suddenly, staring at Yang Qiu's eyes, those clear eyes made him palpitate a little for some reason, and he looked at the confident and determined face in front of him in silence for a while, with an indescribable solemnity. It wasn't until the footsteps came from far and near that he gently avoided it: "Mr. President, I want to visit by myself, is it okay?" ”

Yang Qiu smiled slightly, turned his head to see that Yue Peng and Fang Rui had already walked towards him...... Wonderful Novel [Net] Remember our website: