In the freight railway station on the eastern outskirts of Moscow, a stuffy tank train slowly drove in.

The temperature rises quickly after the winter, but the sunshine doesn't bring much laughter to the city, but the big-character posters plastered all over the platform make people feel uneasy. These big-character posters included photographs and exploits of the great leader Stalin, pictorials exposing the true face of the reactionaries, and slogans to defeat imperialism and eliminate the bourgeois kulaks.

After the train came to a standstill, several military trucks came out of nowhere. Vasily jumped out of the car and watched around vigilantly, and when he noticed that there was no conspicuous person, he immediately waved his hand to let the dozens of soldiers who followed him get out of the car. Then, together with the soldiers, they skillfully opened the train door and brought out boxes of bundled Chinese liquor from inside.

The Soviets were famous for their alcoholism, but because of the serious shortage of grain production in recent years and the severe famine in Ukraine, Moscow issued a ban on alcohol. However, how can a single alcohol ban control tens of millions of mouths, so the smuggling of alcohol in the Soviet Union has been repeatedly banned. Because the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region do not drink alcohol, Europe has not been rich in grain in the past two years, and the low-alcohol wine produced in Britain and France is not strong and smuggling is troublesome, so Chinese liquor has suddenly become fragrant and sweet, and even the worst local wine can be sold at a gold price when packaged.

However, it is also extremely risky to want to do this business, after all, the prohibition still exists, and you can't play without deep connections and backers. Vasily was such a figure in the eyes of outsiders, because his uncle was the head of the section in charge of railway transport in the Soviet Committee for Planning and Economy, and the right-hand man of Minister Kuibyshev. With this layer of umbrella. He soon became a well-known underground wine merchant in Moscow, and because most of his wine was sold to certain privileged classes and military officers. So everyone turned a blind eye to this smuggling.

But one person snorted coldly: "It's really looking for death!" ”

While Vasily and the soldiers were frantically carrying liquor, two rays of light flashed in a black sedan in the distance. Beria sat in the car, sneering in his heart as he wore the loaded and unloaded liquor. Although Moscow indulged in the smuggling of liquor, Vasily was too blind this time, General Secretary Stalin has now hated China to the core, and it is not time to openly transport Chinese liquor into it is not to find death!

"Let's do it!"

Beria didn't bother to think about it again, he was here to arrest Vasily this time, so he immediately raised his hand to the officers beside him. Then knocked on the car and gave the order to drive back to the Security Bureau. As the train started, a large number of soldiers of the Political Protection Bureau suddenly poured out around the freight station, which had rarely been visited in the past, and it only took a few moments to arrest all the smugglers.

The car drove quickly into the city, through the window, and the outside was full of the same slogans as in the station. While converging into a sea to flood the city, it also brought a solemn and oppressive atmosphere to Moscow, where the mountains and rains were about to come.

As Trotsky met with Chinese naval officers and also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in reactionary funds after Pravda was exposed. The political atmosphere in Moscow suddenly became very delicate. In those corners, there are all kinds of negotiations, deals, promises, and interrogations. Some people are nervous and afraid, and some people are rejoicing, because they know that Moscow at this time is almost Mars! When this fire is completely burned, I am afraid that it will be a situation where the bayonet will never die.

Beria, of course, who was sitting in the car, was a happy person. This fellow Stalin, with a wide forehead and glasses, and a sven-looking appearance, has been dormant for a long time. No one understands better than him that in order to ascend to the throne in Moscow, which is particular about class and seniority, it is necessary to first trample to death the so-called meritorious veterans. But he is also a person who understands that he can't defeat those so-called "heroes" on his own. It was necessary to rely on the power of Stalin, and Vasily's arrest was a harbinger!

Merely. His mind was not on how to take advantage of Vasily's affair, but took out two photos from his personal pocket. The first one is a photo of Qin Jian with his wife and daughter, and the second is a short and thin Nikolai Yezhov like a cunning goblin. With the photo, Beria pushed his glasses with his hand, these two people are his biggest opponents at the moment! If you want to keep climbing, you have to take them down first, no matter what.

But after Beria finished the two photos, he put away Yezhov's first, leaving only the image of Qin Jian's family and frowning secretly.

"This guy is so tricky!" Beria frowned and muttered inwardly. Since he entered the Security Bureau, he has been secretly collecting all kinds of information about Qin Jian, at the beginning, he only wanted to grasp the weaknesses and bring down the opponent if necessary, but as he collected more and more information, he gradually smelled a strange aura.

Because Director Ivan Myr is too clean!

There was no problem with his birth, and his resume of participating in the revolution was clean and he couldn't find any flaws, but it was this cleanliness that made him feel weird. Beria has always known that no one is a saint, especially in the atmosphere of Moscow. For example, Yezhov is cold and murderous, Motorov is fond of cigars, Kuibyshev is an alcoholic, Bukharin's rhetoric, etc., but this Ivanmir is like a puritan, except for the use of power to transfer Mariana to his side and occupy him ten years ago, there is no flaw. What is even more rare is that he does everything he does perfectly, from the civil war to the recent extermination of the kulaks. But it is this innocent and flawless resume and investigation report that always makes him feel like a tiger meets a hedgehog, he is completely sure, as long as he seizes the opportunity, he can immediately clean up Yezhov and Kuibyshev and others, and even bring down Motolov is not a dream, but this Ivanmir does not dare to guarantee. There are no more than three reasons, first of all, he is Stalin's savior, like himself, and has followed him since before the October Revolution. Secondly, his ability to do things and comprehend the spirit of Stalin is exceptionally high, and he does not have any bad habits or stains of his own. Finally, he had been in charge of the Political Security Bureau for ten years, and he did not know that many clerks and spies had been trained by him, so it was impossible for even Stalin to touch him without any evidence.

As the car slowed down, Beria looked up and found that he had arrived at the security bureau, and immediately put the photo back to his body.

"Report."

Beria knocked on the door of Qin Jian's office, which he regarded as his first opponent, and after entering, he saw that the director was putting something in his pocket. This subtle movement aroused his curiosity, but he knew that he was not anyone's opponent now, so he quickly withdrew his gaze: "Director, Vasily has been caught." ”

"Where's the cargo?"

"People get stolen goods."

"Well done." A smile quickly crossed the corner of Qin Jian's mouth. This Vasily is too critical, his uncle is one of the heads of the Planned Economy Committee, as long as he puts on the hat of communicating with China, even if he is scared, he can scare Kuibyshev to death. However, on the surface, he was not happy, and after a faint compliment, he continued: "Chief Beria, the current situation is very dangerous, the enemy is using various methods to incite reactionaries, and it cannot be ruled out that the use of liquor smuggling to do things we don't know about, so you immediately go and interrogate Vasily to find out if any officials are involved, and whether there are any other things that have been brought in besides liquor." ”

"Don't worry, Director, I will personally take care of this matter. It's just that. Beria put away his distractions, his greatest strength is that he knows how to judge the situation. Now the director of the bureau is powerful, and there is no sign of collapse, so he must do his job well at present. But this arrest was different, no matter what Vasily said, he was a member of the Planning and Economy Committee, and after a moment of hesitation, he asked: "Director, do you want to talk to Minister Kuibyshev about this case?" ”

"You're right, I'm going to see the minister." Qin Jian pretended to be serious, picked up his hat and prepared to see Kuibyshev, but because of his body movements, he didn't notice that a train ticket in his coat pocket poked out half of his body.

The sharp-eyed Beria's eyes flashed after arriving at the train ticket, and then returned to normal.

There was a lot of turmoil in Moscow, and every day I heard the news of people being arrested. The Trotsky affair had completely angered Stalin, and the secret police, led by the Political Protection Army, were arresting people everywhere, and those who had supported the Trotskyists would not die this time. This terrible political whirlpool made Kuibyshev, a minister in charge of the national economy, secretly nervous, especially after the last time the Security Bureau revealed that his subordinates had embezzled and defected to the United States, he had been sitting on pins and needles, for fear that Stalin would use the topic to play.

For this reason, he even hid all the top-secret information in his hands, and was ready to use these things for his life if he had a plan. Thankfully, as time went on, it seemed like it was over, so he focused on the all-important Second Five-Year Plan.

"Tuk-tuk."

But he had barely finished meeting the documents when a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts, and the secretary walked in and stopped talking about Kuibyshev. "What's the matter?" When Kuibyshev came to this picture, for some reason, an inexplicable feeling suddenly swelled up. The secretary hurriedly said, "Minister, the Security Bureau just called. They have already arrested the head of the traffic section, Barkov, and made you and the people concerned wait in Moscow and not allowed to leave! ”

"What!" The more afraid he was, the more he came, Kuibyshev never thought that the case would be overturned just now, so he arrested his assistant here, and asked with a pale face: "Why?" What is it because of? ”

"Vasily was arrested for smuggling liquor."

Liquor? Kuibyshev was stunned, he didn't expect this to happen. He knew about the smuggling of liquor, but the buyers of those liquor were all officials and officers, and no matter how strong the security bureau was, it would not move a group of people, so most of the tension in his heart dissipated in an instant, but he didn't dare to slack off, and told the secretary to pay more attention and pay more attention.

The secretary naturally knew what he meant, nodded and turned around and was about to go out, but there was a burst of footsteps outside.

"Minister Kuibyshev." Qin Jian appeared coldly at the door of the office with a black leather suit