"The night sky tonight is beautiful, with New Year's firecrackers and fireworks outside the window. At this moment, I think I've found what I'm guarding. I wanted to keep it going, but my body couldn't hold it anymore, my heart was wandering in Moscow and Beijing, and I couldn't even write neat Chinese characters anymore. Twenty-three years of loneliness came to an end, and at the last moments, I didn't want to continue living in lies. I witnessed the growth of the Soviet Union and met countless peers who had died for their ideals, and they made my heart palpitate and almost lose my way. So I can't judge whether what I'm doing is right or wrong, I just know that it's a country that needs to be extra careful.

My life belongs to my homeland, I accepted the mission and it has been completed, and the rest of the time I am going to find my utopia. Please don't cry for me, because I've returned, and I'm happy for my luck compared to my comrades who were buried in the dry grass and sludge and didn't even have their names left. ”

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar of 1934, Qin Jian pushed open the window with his withered yellow hand, and the cold wind blew the thick memoir manuscript paper on the table all over the floor, but he did not pick it up, and stood quietly after lighting a cigarette. Outside the window, thousands of lights are lit up, fireworks are gorgeous, and countless children can be seen clapping and chasing around the fireworks from a distance, which is the first peaceful New Year he really lived.

A month later, loud slogans rang out from inside the Beijing Martyrs' Cemetery.

"Stand upright!"

"For immortality!"

"Salute!"

In the continuous winter rain, soldiers in black military uniforms carried coffins covered with national flags and slowly walked towards the tomb. Accompanied by a low whimpering military horn. Eighteen salute soldiers raised their rifles diagonally, and every shot pierced people's hearts. As the bullet casings popped out of the chamber one by one, another hero left silently! Qin Jian finally failed to get over the knot, and after tossing and turning on the sickbed for several months, he finally couldn't bear the psychological trauma, leaving a memoir with hundreds of pages thick, and after feeling the long-lost Spring Festival, he secretly died of illness in Beijing Military Medical College.

His death is a serious national loss! But no one can stop it. In addition to loneliness and scars, 23 years of incubation have left behind serious psychological illnesses. In the later stages of his lurking, he actually lives in his own fictional world, as can be seen from his refusal to help him at home and no longer trusts anyone. Loyalty, the country, and his wife and daughter are the only beliefs that sustain him through the last part of the road, and when all this is over, he is actually dead from mental to physical, and he may only want to feel the long-lost Chinese New Year until now.

In the solemn background of rain, coffins, soldiers and flags, there are 27,137 agents of the Soviet Political Security Bureau and intelligence services who have been trained for many years, spies, agents, clerks and swallows are shot in the chest, and more than 10,000 secret police and internal guard soldiers are killed without even looking at the pictures! There are also the destroyed Soviet intelligence systems, as well as the bloody footprints of hundreds of thousands of Tatar, Kazakh, Turkmen, Estonian and other Soviet minorities who were arrested and sent to the Ural concentration camps!

And much more! The sound of sleepless teeth grinding in the Kremlin.

Every dead soul curses underground, the one who has implicated them and is still at large. GC personnel all over the world were ordered to find this man! A million Soviet Red Army swore to catch the defectors. But that's not the end of it! As it is written on the front page of the memoirs, as a man who followed Stalin from Georgia to the peak of power, Stalin would not be at ease for a day as long as he could not find the body. Because with Qin Jian's twenty-three years of latent career, what he left behind was an intricate network of people. So when the newly promoted internal guard troops rushed into the Southwestern Military District of the Soviet Union and arrested Bubnov and Savitsky, who had fought side by side with him in the civil war, a greater catastrophe was lifted!

According to his will, there are no photos or inscriptions on the white marble tombstone, only one name, and even the two relatives who accompanied him are pseudonyms. The salute soldiers did not know who they were sending to, only that the president, the chief of the general staff, and the minister of defense all braved the light rain and stood with the javelins with them, allowing the rain to splash on their faces.

Three days later, the memoir, along with the top-secret material that would have been transported by truck, was locked in the deepest part of the General Staff Archives, where thick armored iron doors buried the truth and history. On that day, Chen Haohui, known as the father of intelligence in the Republic of China, handed over his position to Yan Baohang, retired with the rank of general, returned to Hubei Xiantao National Farm, and never went out. On that day, Jiang Feng, Wu Rui and other veteran intelligence officers who were at the same time as Qin Jian left their intelligence posts one after another and handed over the position of director of the National Security Bureau to Dai Yunong. But their story will not stop, Zhang Zhidan, Huang Yufei, Qian Zhuangqiu and other new generation of dragon teeth are ready to write their own legends on the secret front with loyalty.

On that day, Yang Qiu began his second term, and Zhang Wenjing, Xu Xiujun, Cai Gongshi, Yang Du, Yan Xishan, Wu Peifu, Shi Xiaolou, etc. either stepped down or were promoted to the reserves.

The names of the second Cabinet and the General Staff were announced later.

Independent ** Official Huang Yuansheng, Speaker of the House of Representatives Chen Guofu, Senate Speaker Wang Zhaoming (Kuomintang), Premier Wang Zhengting, Foreign Minister Gu Weijun (Vice Premier), Minister of Defense Song Ziqing, Minister of Justice Murong Han, Minister of Education Zhu Jiahua, Minister of Civil Affairs Shi Yixuan (former mayor of Beijing), Minister of Finance Pei Zuyi, Minister of Industry and Commerce Liao Zhongkai (Kuomintang), Minister of Communications Li Shixing (former Vice Minister of Communications, disciple of Zhan Tianyou), Minister of Agriculture Dong Yongwei, Minister of Water Resources Zhou Hannian (Kuomintang), Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Dai Jitao, Minister of Health Zheng Yuxiu, Minister of Land and Resources Weng Wenhao, Minister of Labor Kuang Xukun.

Zhang Gongquan, governor of the central bank, and Jiang Zuobin, chief of police.

Chief of the General Staff Yue Peng, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Zhang Xiaozhun, Qin Zhangshu, Qiu Wenbin, and Xue Muhua. Army Commander-in-Chief Fang Wei (Chief of Staff Chen Meng/Zhu Peide), Navy Commander-in-Chief Chen Shaokuan, Chief of Staff Bai Yutang (First Fleet Commander Shen Honglie, Chief of Staff Zhang Zhaoyang, Second Fleet Commander Bingwen, Chief of Staff Chen Shiying), Air Force Commander He Ning (Chief of Staff Yu Lei), National Guard Commander Wang Geng, Director of the Northwest Military Administration Bureau Fang Rui, President of the National Defense University Wang Zhuo (former commander of the 103rd Central Guard Division, director of the Political Department of the National Defense University).

The end of 1934 in the lunar calendar was so solemn that the entire first half of 1935 was filled with dreary and depressed government and parliament in Beijing. No one knows why the president's anger has suddenly become so great, and in just half a year, he has named and reprimanded hundreds of officials and parliamentarians for inaction, and hundreds of officials have been dismissed from their posts.

Some people say that this is the president's blow to the opposition, some people applaud that the government should continue to be purged, and of course, some people secretly speculate whether the Great Purge in Moscow is going to take place in the country. But regardless of the speculation, tensions within the government have not affected construction and economic development, on the contrary

The dismissal of a large number of officials has only improved the efficiency of the government.

On the plane to Shanghai, Miao Luo peeled an orange and handed it to Yang Qiu, as the first lady, she knew very well the reason for his unstable temper during this time, and hoped to use the upcoming industrial fair event to dilute the thorn in her husband's heart.

"This is the report on the development of workers and peasants for the past five years."

The new finance minister Pei Zuyi and the economic adviser of the presidential office Gu Yuwen sat opposite, and they also knew that Yang Qiu was in a bad mood during this time, so they deliberately sorted out the economic development data of the past five years in advance, hoping to be happy.

Although the end of 1934 was extremely heavy, the economic growth rate soared to 10.2, reaching double digits for the first time, due to the tight monetary easing policy in the United States. This made the two very happy, and the tone of the introduction was particularly excited: "As of last year, steel production was 26.5 million tons, because the operating rate of American steel plants is less than 30%, so we have now surpassed the United States to rank first in the world." The output of coal is 560 million tons, 35 million tons of coke, 1 million tons of copper, 370,000 tons of aluminum, 22.5 million tons of cement, and 3.2 million tons of triacids and alkalis. On the oil front, the fastest improvement was in Saudi Arabia's oil fields, which brought back a total of 8.8 million tonnes of light crude last year, compared to 6.2 million tonnes in Sumatra. Yumen and Beihai both have 8 million tons, the Han River has 5 million tons, Yanchang, Andijan Chimion and Karamay have 1 million tons each, and Sakhalin Island also has 350,000 tons. In addition, the Daqing Oilfield in Heilongjiang will be able to produce oil initially in two years, and all the personnel are arranged by the Ministry of Defense in the name of building a military oil depot base, and it is expected that by 1940 the output will reach 10 million tons, and at that time, even excluding Sumatra and Saudi Arabia, there will be at least 40 million tons per year in the country, which can ensure national defense and basic industrial and agricultural consumption.

The production of automobiles is estimated to exceed 1 million this year and 1.2 million next year. Last year, the country produced a total of 5,520 train cars, 390 locomotives, 457,000 tractors, 4,500 combine harvesters, 350,000 two- and three-wheeled motorcycles, 5,103 steam turbines and water conservancy impeller generators, and 1.47 million engines. It produced 120,000 machine tools for turning, drilling, grinding, planing, milling, boring, and cutting needed for basic industries, and the inventory increased from 150,000 in 1930 to 550,000, 13,131 new automatic machine tools, and 572 complete sets of semi-automatic assembly lines.

Last year, a total of 2.72 million tons of ships were built in China, 13 large oil tankers, 7 were rebuilt, 53 10,000-ton sea vessels, and 19 warships of various types (including torpedo boats). More than 4,000 kilometers of railways and 14,000 kilometers of roads have been built every year for ten consecutive years, and the power generation capacity is expected to reach 67 billion kilowatt hours this year. The national high-voltage power line network basically covers the provincial capitals, and the second-tier cities are expected to be mostly completed before 1939, and the country's major cities have all been electrified, and the national power grid can be connected to the grid by 1950 at the latest.

The fastest growing sectors are in the communications and aviation industries! In 1930, there were 750,000 telephones in the country, and now there are 5.13 million telephones, with an average of one telephone per 100 people. There are 1,232 civil wireless transmission towers in the country, which can basically cover the whole country. The aviation industry has also developed rapidly, the number of national airlines has increased from 7 to 17, the number of civil fixed routes has increased to 57, and the country has 627 passenger planes of various types and 2,233 rural and commercial aircraft. Last year, total production of military aircraft was 1,783, with a total of 560 civilian production, and 275 white-shouldered Eagle fighters and 87 multi-role aircraft were exported to Saudi Arabia, Iran and Siam. With the stimulus of the Air Force's refitting and the 9 billion special military spending payment, the total production this year is likely to exceed 3,500 aircraft.

Finally, grain, last year's total output was 220 million tons (including miscellaneous grains), ranking first in the world, 23.3 million tons of pigs, beef and mutton, 10.39 million tons of ocean fishing, 470,000 tons of wool, 2 million horses, the introduction of high-yield long-staple cotton after the total annual output of cotton has reached 1.3 million tons, 370,000 tons of natural rubber, 5.5 million tons of chemical rubber, fertilizer, tea, raw silk, tung oil, etc. are the highest in the history. Judging from the first three quarters, this year's total value of industry and agriculture in the country will certainly reach 195 billion yuan, of which agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, and service commerce are still the majority, accounting for about 53 percent of the total, and the proportion of manufacturing industry has increased from 28 in 1930 to 41 percent. The total fiscal revenue for the year is expected to reach 30 billion yuan (including state-owned enterprises and arms), 5.4 billion yuan of various bonds will be issued, gold reserves will increase to 5,712 tons, 42,000 tons of silver, and foreign exchange inventories of various countries will reach 650 million US dollars. If this rate of growth can be maintained, the risk of inflation after a forced currency depreciation can be offset in five years. ”

If it was Yang Qiu in the past, he would definitely hold these numbers and read them with relish for a few days. Although the figures do not represent the comprehensive strength of the country, it still has not completely shaken off the hat of an agricultural country, but it is a true embodiment of the country's progress. But at the moment, for some reason, he couldn't arouse any interest, and he always felt that he had paid too much for these things.

Staring at the white clouds outside the window, Yang Qiu was in a complicated mood, the road was only halfway through, and there would be more intense, more complicated, and more sinister waves waiting for him in the next years

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The autumn rain poured down, washing the Bund Avenue outside the 16th Shop Wharf to the dust. The slogan of the combination of East and West has made Shanghai the magic capital of the East, with skyscrapers rising from the ground and giant ships connecting the world, from South America to Europe, as long as the country can be named, you can find your own trading posts and companies here.

Relying on its unique geographical advantages, Shanghai has become a veritable world port, and its annual throughput has even surpassed the port of Toulon in France to rank fifth in the world. The Eisenia, which had sailed from Hamburg, approached the dock with the help of two tugboats, and a long-lost figure appeared on the deck. "Hakan, this is Shanghai?" Falkenhausen came out of the cabin with a tired face, but when he saw the crowded dock and the buildings comparable to the Empire State Building in New York in the distance, he was stunned.

"yes, it seems to have changed a lot." Hakan was equally drawn to the sight. No one denies that even though more than 20 years have passed since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the city, which is the country's economic leader, is still full of a large number of civilian houses, and the streets are chaotic and disorderly, but its changes still shock all those who come here for the first time.

Falkenhausen took a deep breath, he had come with a special mission. At first, he didn't think that Germany needed China, after all, they were too far away from Europe, and there were Britain and France blocking them on the way, and the Soviet Union was eyeing them, but when he saw this scene, he finally understood how ridiculous the descriptions in the European newspapers were!

Isn't an emerging country with enough potential to break the old world order exactly the partner Germany needs right now?! Mr. Falkenhausen was suddenly full of energy, and his goal was to draw the country into the arms of Germany. (To be continued)