[264] Russia's Pawn

In order to promote China to the world, Yao Fan's government of the People's Republic of China adopted the method of cultural entrainment, on the one hand, a large number of Western films from later generations, and on the other hand, Chinese historical films were interspersed into the schedule, including a number of films produced by various domestic film studios in the past two years, which helped foreigners understand the current social situation in China.

In fact, the later films available for the Ministry of Culture to choose are basically only historical themes and cartoons, even if they are cartoons, many of them must be named in the name of science fiction, otherwise the audience will not be able to accept the future life in the film, but even if it is a cartoon with a future theme, the stimulation of the people in Western countries is also extremely strong.

What makes foreigners yearn for the most in the film is the socialist democracy and freedom, a fair society, the main body of public ownership, the private economy under the constraints of the law, and a modern and beautiful life.

For a time, the topic of China became the focus of discussion on the streets and alleys of the West.

Since the Western countries had not yet established the idea of ideological warfare, the ideological infiltration of the Chinese People's Republic was very successful, the propaganda of socialism was very popular in the West for a time, the left-wing political and left-wing cultural movements in various countries intensified, and all kinds of regularly published books and underground printed pamphlets spread rapidly among the working class in the Western countries.

Together with Western capitalism, the socialist trend of thought is carrying out the final extermination of the feudal remnants of the world.

With the introduction of cassette recorders, music stores began to spring up all over the world, and Chinese-style music naturally became the main theme of tape sales in video stores, such as the famous musician Lin Hai's Chinese-style music album "Pipa Language", which is now occupying the top spot in the North American tape sales charts.

Of course, Westerners are also keen to buy cassettes of classical music, and a large number of later musicians' works came out ahead of schedule, resulting in a boom in the entire music market.

After several years of hard work, the image of the Chinese in the world has swept away the ignorance and backwardness after the Opium War, and has become a civilized country and a wise race in the eyes of the people of all countries in the world.

In the Kremlin, the atmosphere was depressing.

The aristocratic ministers were dejected, unable to come up with feasible plans and programs in the face of the Tsar's inquiries, and even the most hard-line pro-war faction was struck by the mobilization and execution of the Chinese army in the war.

Especially for China's endless weapons, the Russian War Department is helpless and cannot think of a way to deal with it.

Alexander III sat sadly at the head of the long table in the chamber, looking at the nobles, and the more he looked, the more annoyed he became.

"Sue me! What the hell is going to do! ”

"Duke of Paros, didn't you want me to teach the Chinese a lesson before? Now that the Chinese have fought back, why don't you speak? ”

"Count Ludeyev, you said at the beginning that the Chinese would compromise, so now? How can you get them to compromise? ”

The Duke of Paros, the Minister of War, licked his lips with difficulty and said, "Your Majesty, because of my stupidity, which has caused heavy losses to the Empire, I am willing to resign from all my positions in the War Department and assume a responsibility. But now, we should consider suing for peace with China, we can't fight, China's strength is too terrible. ”

Alexander III said angrily: "And what about the loan we just received? Is it used to pay war reparations! ”

Count Ludeyev, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, was a friend of the Crown Prince Alexander III as early as the time of St. Petersburg.

"I am also willing to resign from my position as an army staff officer and take responsibility for the defeat.

At the same time, I support the Duke of Paros's suggestion, we can't continue to fight with China, the British want us to fight, so they give us a loan, and now that we have received a loan, it can be used to supplement the loss of the army, build a series of new fortresses, cast larger caliber fortress cannons, imitate advanced weapons, carry out a complete refitting of the army, and even ...... And even pay for it with a part of it...... in exchange for peace and not confrontation. ”

"You !! You guys!!! You guys!!! Alexander III was speechless.

After being silent for a long time, his expression became more and more depressed, and finally he held back a sentence: "If my father is still here, he will definitely whip me with a horsewhip......"

The nobles' expressions sank again.

Duke Nikonov, the Minister of Finance, said: "In my opinion, even if the emperor is reincarnated, in the face of a powerful eastern enemy, we must consider taking measures to ease up, in fact, when the emperor was here, Sino-Russian relations have always been very good, and we are China's largest trading partner outside of Germany." ”

As soon as these words came out, the focus of the contradiction returned to Alexander III, and the ministers nodded secretly, sighing in their hearts, feeling that it was Alexander III's self-righteousness, and the frivolity of the warlike ministers around him, that caused the current irreparable situation.

Post Minister Count Andreevich said: "If the war continues, we will not be able to purchase telephone and radio equipment from China, these things can only be made by the Chinese, and if this drags on, once there is a problem with our existing radio, we will not even be able to guarantee maintenance." ”

Count Kanchesky, Minister of Culture, said: "At the moment the left-wing parties in the country are making a lot of trouble, and just yesterday they went on strike again to demand that the government immediately enter into peace talks with China. ”

Alexander III said viciously: "These left-wing parties are all dogs raised by the Chinese Socialist Workers' Party!" They are treason! It's treason!

I said a long time ago that they could no longer be allowed to print sensational pamphlets in such a presumptuous manner! Even those Marxist books cannot be allowed to continue to be sold in bookstores! ”

The Minister of War, Duke Paros, said excitedly: "Yes, including those movie theaters opened by businessmen, those Chinese films with bad morals should also be banned!"

From St. Petersburg to Moscow, now the aristocracy spends their days in the cinema, not doing their business. Young people learn a lot of bad words from movies, drink and have fun all day long, drink and feast all night at night, play movies, and do all kinds of bad things! ”

Count Ludeev said sadly: "But the Chinese's movies are really great, "War and Peace", the works of Mr. Leo Tolstoy, have been restored so realistically by them, which is really admirable!" Even as an enemy, I would say that the Chinese simply know Russia better than we Russians. ”

The Duke of Paros said angrily: "This is all a good thing done by those left-wing parties, they have long colluded with the Chinese Socialist Labor Party, the Chinese pay for technology, these dog mongrels produce actors, and even hide from us, secretly filming the exterior in Russia, this group of dog # mother-bred mongrels, they should all be hanged!" ”

Culture Minister Count Kanchesky said: "But the Chinese's movies are really good, it is said that in order to make war and peace well, they deliberately copied and built a model of the Kremlin in the domestic film shooting base, this kind of frenzy is really incredible."

And the film master tape of "Peter the Great", which was originally scheduled to be released this month, is now being held in my hands, which is really nerve-wracking, this is a good film, but at this time, how can I allow a Chinese film to be released. ”

Duke Nikonov said: "The Chinese's fanatical study of Russian culture is really frightening, and it is a very terrible thing that our enemies know us so well, but we know nothing about them." Look at their restored Kremlin and Winter Palace, which look like the prototypes of St. Petersburg and even Moscow from the movies. ”

Alexander III said sadly: "I have already seen "Peter the Great" in the palace, and it is indeed very good, but unfortunately I am old, otherwise I would rather pretend to be a Chinese, like Peter the Great, and go to Beijing alone to learn their science and technology." ”

He continued: "Bad news from the military factory, China's 56 semi-automatic rifle is so good that we can't copy it at all, that damn rifle actually has a full four turns of rifling, and our machine qì can only be loaded half a circle in the barrel."

The Chinese's bullets actually use high-quality steel as warheads, covered with a layer of copper, whether it is bullets or bullets, or even the primer of smokeless gunpowder, we can't make it.

The Chinese 54 pistol is also perfect to the extreme, the accuracy and power are incomparable, and the military factories are copying it, but they frankly tell me that our imitation will be greatly inferior in accuracy and power, and even weigh much more than the Chinese product.

At present, the Royal Academy of Sciences and the St. Bertin Arsenal are pinning their hopes on the Chinese grenade # bomb, which is said to be very promising and the manufacturing process is not too complicated. If we can replicate it successfully, we may be able to try it on Ottoman Turkey and make up for some of the benefits we have lost in the East. ”

Hearing these words of Tsar Alexander III, all the ministers understood that he was planning to compromise.

The Duke of Paros said with a heavy heart: "As long as Your Majesty works hard, maybe in ten years, we can return to Lake Belga, or even to ...... ...... Vladivostok"

Alexander III's face turned pale and said: "Immediately send a telegram to the Chinese ambassador to China, Kryyan, that the Russian Empire wants peace talks. ”

Knowing that Russia had asked for peace talks so lightly, Yao Fan couldn't believe his ears.

"Is this swollen fighting nation? Don't you like the character of stumbling to the end? Why did you suddenly play the trick of being able to bend and stretch, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and lying on the salary to taste the guts? Can they really give up Central Asia and Siberia? Can you really give up Vladivostok? ”

Yao Fan told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "In any case, the Chinese People's Republic will never spit out what is eaten in its mouth." You sue the Russians, not only to cede the land, but also to compensate, but also to lower the tariffs, and the lion opens his mouth widely, and asks for a little more if you can. ”

At the same time, Yao Fan ordered the Ministry of Railways to seize the time and immediately build a railway, extending the railway from Beijing to Kulen all the way to Irkutsk, which had been renamed the new Beihai City. At the same time, the railway lines in the northeast will be extended to Vladivostok, Chita, Boli and Hailanpao.

"The next step is to enter Southeast Asia, and it is really unacceptable that small countries like Spain and the Netherlands still occupy China's South Sea." Yao Fan sighed in his own office in Fengze Garden.