As long as Li Kefu recalls the political gambling carried out by Li Xiaofeng, he feels incredible. He couldn't understand why someone dared to gamble like this, could someone really be an economic genius and really be able to see through the essence of capital?

To tell the truth, Rykov was neither willing to admit nor believe that someone had such a genius, this terrifying ability to see through the essence of things, I am afraid that only Marx had before, right? If we admit that someone has this ability, is it not necessary to admit that someone has the possibility of becoming the next Marx? And admitting this, doesn't it mean that a certain immortal is the successor of the Eight Classics?

Rykov was resolutely reluctant to admit it, because his good friend and Sverdlov were in competition, and Bukharin was three years younger than Xiao Si, so he could compete with Xiao Si. And if Li Xiaofeng has this terrifying ability, with his relationship with Xiao Si, it is tantamount to giving Xiao Si a big bonus to take over. How could Rykov endure this?

But the problem is that if you don't recognize Li Xiaofeng's ability, you need to have real evidence. Even if you want to discredit someone, you have to have a handle. However, since joining the revolution, Li Xiaofeng has hardly made any mistakes, has always stood firmly on Lenin's side, and at every moment when he is about to turn around, he will choose the right camp very correctly. With such a perfect resume, there is no way to hack it!

Rykov knocked on the door of his head, and said that he was very speechless about the upcoming visit of a certain immortal, if it was possible, he would definitely find a way to find something awkward for someone, but there was no excuse to start, and even the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs still owed a lot of favors to a certain immortal, which made Rykov more and more headaches.

Why does the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs owe Li Xiaofeng a favor? That's all about starting from the beginning. After the creation of the USSR. As the debate within the party intensified and the practical need to settle the counter-revolutionaries once and for all. The suppression of rebellion has become an unavoidable issue.

At that time, the purge tended to expand, and the Cheka became an almost national nightmare, with spies, spies, and counter-revolutionaries who were dissatisfied with the state and the party constantly being uncovered. Among them, the hardest hit area was the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.

Originally, how could a person who was engaged in diplomatic work not have contact with foreign countries? But even the most normal contact can't withstand the slander of those people with ulterior motives in China. During that period of time, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs was almost scrutinized by various "paparazzi" with a magnifying glass, and if they said the slightest wrong word, even if it was just an innocuous complaint, they could be invited to tea by the Cheka.

And at that time, the chief Cheka Minzhensky was really a bastard. Let your subordinates toss around. For a time, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs was in a state of panic, and all the staff members were in a state of panic, almost to the point where they could not even carry out their normal work.

At this time, it was the People's Commissar for State Security (the State Political Security Bureau was reorganized in 1924) who dared to suppress the Cheka's arrogance.

At that time, Li Xiaofeng was also considered to be taking a risk, making a joke about his life, after all, the purge was something that Lenin and Trotsky nodded and agreed to at the same time. Who would dare to oppose it then? But Li Xiaofeng not only objected, but also succeeded. Not only did he rescue a persecuted old revolutionary, such as the former NKVD Tsicherin, and the former heroes of the Red Army, Chabaev and Mironov, from black prisons and labor camps, and did not offend Lenin and Trotsky for this, but he also made these two mentors think that someone was the only one in the party who dared to tell the truth!

Speaking from the heart, at that time, Rykov was shocked to drop his glasses - Nima, is this okay?

All in all, Li Xiaofeng was right that time, and these glorious histories that are correct are too scary, which makes the psychological pressure on many people who don't like someone, or even hate someone, not ordinarily. As someone's political enemy, when you're facing an opponent who is always right, that sense of futility and powerlessness is really torturous. So much so that it will give you the feeling that someone will never be able to defeat you!

Li Kev hated this feeling, but he couldn't get rid of it, and every meeting he had with Li Xiaofeng was quite stressful under this kind of psychology. So why did Li Xiaofeng go to see him? This involves a very sensitive issue -- attracting investment.

Although in the early twenties, Lenin put forward the idea of this in order to solve the strict economic problems at home, hoping to use foreign capital to revitalize the domestic economy. However, there was a great deal of opposition at the time, and Trotsky regarded it as a capitalist road in disguise, a strong resistance. Later, because of the imperialist economic blockade, this policy was actually put to rest.

However, in 1929, after the economic crisis of the capitalist world, the topic of concern returned as the external blockade was lifted. The representative of actively advocating the attraction of foreign capital is Li Xiaofeng.

This time, Li Xiaofeng used Trotsky's line of developing industry in an all-round way, especially focusing on the development of heavy industry. He pointed out: "In order to achieve comprehensive industrialization, it is necessary to introduce advanced foreign technology, and at present, the pressure on China's foreign trade is relatively large, and we have no way to obtain funds for the introduction of foreign technology for unsalable agricultural products...... Under these circumstances, we must find a different way to accomplish the goals of the Second Five-Year Plan (the first Five-Year Plan from 1925, historically in 1928). It is a good way to introduce foreign capital and obtain foreign technology through joint ventures......"

Li Xiaofeng glared at Trotsky with anger, which was completely contrary to the highly centralized planned economic system he advocated. Especially allowing foreign capital to enter the country, which in his opinion is simply a wolf into the sheepfold! What made Trotsky most angry was when someone said this under the guise of reviving industry, which was a slap in the face.

But after being slapped in the face, Trotsky did not have much to do to fight back, because the situation in the Soviet Union at that time was not particularly good. As I said before, because of the collective farm. Because of the large amount of grain exported. There was even another famine in Ukraine. At that time, there was a considerable backlash against Lao Tuo's policy in China.

Moreover, in order to achieve comprehensive industrialization, a large amount of capital is inevitably needed, but according to Lao Tuo's method of squeezing the peasants, he has not obtained particularly abundant funds. And because of the outbreak of the economic crisis, the export of agricultural products has also become impossible. It's a dead loop!

But Lao Tuo still can't admit defeat, and is even more unwilling to give up the established national policy of comprehensive industrialization, so what should I do? It seems that only Li Xiaofeng's method can be tried. Anyway, someone also said that the introduction of foreign capital is not to let foreign capital run rampant in the country. Rather, it is to make more rational use of them, which has achieved a win-win situation, and the areas that attract foreign investment cannot involve the national strategic level, such as finance, oil, coal and iron, and transportation.

Anyway, at that time, the plenum of the Central Committee discussed for a week, and Lenin decided to try it first, and the first batch of experiments was in the field of automobile and machinery manufacturing. For example, now Li Kefu and Li Xiaofeng mainly want to talk about these two fields.

In 1928, led by Li Xiaofeng, he made contact with the international McCormit Company of the United States, and the two sides intended to establish a joint venture in the Soviet Union to establish a tractor factory with an annual output of 50,000 tractors. It stands to reason that this should be a good thing, but it also fulfills the saying that good things are grinding. This cooperation agreement is due to interference from some quarters. It has never been implemented.

For this reason, Li Xiaofeng had to run around the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, the People's Commissariat for Commerce, the Ministry of People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry, and the General Office of the People's Commissariat for three days. This run has been running for more than a year. It wasn't until this morning that the intention finally turned into a draft contract.

As People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and People's Commissar for Commerce, Rykov needed to take a final look at the draft contract until it was determined that there were no problems before submitting it to Lenin for signature. And the reason why Li Xiaofeng came to see him is probably to prevent Li Kefu from playing tricks at the last moment.

However, Rykov really did not mean to play tricks, and in a certain sense, Rykov actually supported cooperation with the international McCormitt Company. The reason is very simple, as Bukharin's partner, he also attaches great importance to agricultural production, even if Bukharin and Trotsky have differences, but he is still willing to give the green light to the good thing of improving the level of agricultural modernization in Russia.

It has to be said that Russia's agriculture is too backward, and many areas are still at the primitive level of slash-and-burn farming, and even in Ukraine, a region with relatively developed agriculture, its agricultural productivity is extremely low, and most of the cultivation still uses animal power, and the level of mechanization is abnormally low.

What's even funnier is that after determining the established national policy of comprehensive industrialization and focusing on the development of heavy industry, Lao Tuo basically ignored agriculture. I really want to be a farmer is an ATM, I just think about how to get money from farmers, as for improving the level of agricultural modernization, hehe, I'm sorry, we don't have so much foreign exchange, and the precious foreign exchange should be reserved for the introduction of heavy industry!

And then what? Then there was a tragedy, because agriculture was too backward, and the agricultural "commodity rate" in Russia was extremely low, that is, the production cost of most agricultural products was too high, and most of the grain farmers kept their own food and could not go to the market at all. If agricultural products cannot enter the market, they will naturally not be able to exchange foreign exchange, and then there will be no funds for industrial development.

All in all, the Politburo suddenly discovered that the tractor was really important, and without the completion of the industrialization of agriculture, the country's heavy industrialization was almost impossible.

In fact, the Politburo had previously attached great importance to tractors and agriculture, for example, in 1919, at the height of the civil war, when Lenin said: "If we can come up with 100,000 first-class tractors tomorrow to supply gasoline and supply drivers, then the middle peasants will say: 'I am for Comni [communism)." But in order to do this, first we must defeat the international bourgeoisie, we must force it to give us these tractors, or we must increase our productivity to the point where we can produce tractors ourselves! ”

Not only the Mentor, but also Dzerzhinsky, the man in the iron mask, said in 1925: "In order to increase agricultural production, in order to consolidate the union of workers and peasants, it is necessary to build a huge tractor-making plant!" ”

However, after Lao Tuo's request to focus on the development of heavy industry was passed, the tractor was forgotten, and only Li Xiaofeng insisted on establishing a tractor factory first. Of course, the reason why a certain immortal insisted on doing this. It's not just because you know that the Politburo will fall into the pit. More critical because of the Red Army at that time. In particular, Tukhachevsky, Ubolevich and Triandafylov, who advocated mechanization, constantly muttered in the ear of a certain immortal: "We want tractors, we want a lot of tractors!" ”

So why do these three love tractors so much? The reason is simple, the poor infrastructure construction of the Soviet Union is simply a nightmare for the army, especially for the artillery, and the reason why the Red Army soldiers in the Civil War did not like artillery is that it is too difficult to serve. Animal power simply did not meet the need to tow artillery, and Russia did not have so much animal power (cavalry accounted for it), as for cars. It's too tall, there aren't so many cars in Russia.

And the tractor is a good thing, it is easy to operate, much stronger than the traction of ordinary trucks, and the price is cheap, which is simply the gospel of artillery!

Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of building a mechanized army, Tukhachevsky and his team set their sights on tractors, so that a considerable part of the tractors imported by Russia from abroad and produced at home were taken away by the Red Army. Even, the three said that the number was not enough, and it was better to get another 20,000 or 30,000 units to make do so-so.

The rigid demand forced Li Xiaofeng to help find a way, and he also had a small calculation. Who said that tractor factories can only produce tractors? The Soviet tractor factory was able to produce tanks and armored vehicles in World War II. If it is possible to build a tractor plant with a huge capacity in the Urals in advance. In case the USSR had another tragedy at the beginning of World War II, wouldn't it have been as busy with emergency relocation as it was historically?

All in all, Li Xiaofeng attaches great importance to tractors, but Lao Tuo's side has resistance, and the People's Committee of Heavy Industry, which is controlled by Lao Tuo, strongly resists the construction of joint ventures, always saying that there is no money.

So much so that Li Xiaofeng was furious later, and he came directly with a ruthless move, didn't you say that you have no money, then Lao Tzu will lend you a loan. Who would have thought that Lao Tuo would be even more ruthless, and that the International-McCormick Company was suspected of being a spy and had come to steal intelligence from our country. If not for the later General Staff of the Red Army. The gap in the General Armament Department and tractors in agricultural production is too large, and Lao Tuo will really get stuck.

In this regard, Rykov also sighed very much, it is not easy to do something these days, especially if you want to do something in Russia, it is even more difficult, I don't know how someone will attack you with inexplicable excuses, so that you can't do something. In this regard, Li Kefu still admires Li Xiaofeng a little, from 1928 to 1932, for four years, someone finally survived, which can be regarded as gratifying!

But when Li Kefu saw Li Xiaofeng, he was stunned to find that someone didn't have any joy on his face, but a look of anger, what happened again?

Li Xiaofeng did encounter something, but he still encountered an incomparably painful nonsense. Over the years, he has been preparing for World War II and investing in research and development. For example, his North Industries Corporation has extensive cooperation with the Central Aeronautical Power Research Institute, especially in the field of vehicle power, and the cooperation between the two sides is quite deep. Since 1925, the two companies have invested in the development of a diesel engine, and this research has finally come to fruition in 1932, when the famous B2 diesel engine finally came to the production line several years ahead of schedule.

This was supposed to be a good thing, but then the problem came, when B2 bore fruit, according to the previous agreement, the two parties shared intellectual property rights and co-produced. But the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry got the hang of it. First, they demanded to buy out the patent rights of the B2 at a very low price, and after refusing to do so, they played a trick and refused to sell the B2 diesel engine produced by the 75th plant in Kharkiv to NORINCO.

At this time, NORINCO is carrying out an epoch-making tank development project, and the design of the whole vehicle has begun, and it has been waiting for the power system (NORINCO's B2 production line has not yet been established) loading test. In this way, the rhythm of North Industry has been greatly slowed down and several key nodes have been delayed.

Before coming to talk to Rykov, Li Xiaofeng was negotiating with Ulitsky, People's Commissar of Heavy Industry, asking the other side not to deliberately set up obstacles. However, it is clear that the outcome of the negotiations may be unsatisfactory.

Ulitsky did not directly refuse Li Xiaofeng's request, but said: "Comrade Andrey, it is not that we deliberately want to set up obstacles, but that there is indeed a problem with the production capacity of the Kharkov 75 plant, and by November this year, the plant had produced only 35 B2 diesel engines in total. These diesel engines are not enough to meet our domestic demand, and they really can't be exported! ”

Is this justification valid? Maybe there is a problem with the production capacity of the 75 factory in Kharkov, but Li Xiaofeng does not want to take all 35 units in one go, for NORINCO, only 5 units, or even 3 units, can start the design work alive. Can't you get 3 B2s?

Li Xiaofeng didn't say anything at that time, because everything he said was empty, and the other party made it clear that it was revenge, and it was a fair and honest revenge, so what's the use of arguing with him? And what makes Li Xiaofeng even more angry is that he can't retaliate yet, he does have a way to make the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry uncomfortable, but if he really wants to do that, it is the Soviet Union that will be most affected, and the entire Soviet Union must not be allowed to pay for the mistakes of Ulitsky alone, right?

At least Li Xiaofeng is not so superficial, but a certain immortal has secretly made up his mind that he must settle accounts with Ulitsky in the future! (To be continued......)

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