the world is at stake

The "Foreign Military Intelligence Bureau" originally sent people to collect information on Siberia. The original idea was to send people to get a few farms, pretend to be farming, and actually investigate the geography of mountains and rivers.

But the Russian bureaucrats in the Far East are themselves corrupt. The annual rent for a hectare of land is only ten rubles, and the price of forest land is halved.

Those black soils are very fertile, and they seem to be able to produce oil in the hands.Not planting any crops is a waste of natural resources such as sunlight, rain and dew.

The people sent by the 'Intelligence Bureau' planted and planted, and they became addicted to one kind.When it was found that this matter could make money, the scale could not be controlled, and it gradually increased from a few hundred mu to tens of thousands of mu.

Even with a steam tractor with low thermal efficiency, it is not difficult to cultivate thousands of acres of land.In just three or four years, the area of ​​land reclaimed by the 'Intelligence Bureau' farms exceeded one million mu.

The summer temperature in the Far East and Siberia is quite high, which is very suitable for growing wheat.There are often hundreds of kilometers of uninhabited land, full of wilderness, forests, wetlands, and lakes.

The wilderness is full of weeds as tall as a person, and the black humus layer will be exposed when it is burned.There is no need for any chemical fertilizers and pesticides, just driving agricultural machinery for reclamation, and the output per mu will not be less than [-] kilograms.

All the trees in the mountain forest have a DBH of more than [-] centimeters, and they are all high-latitude cold zone hardwoods of excellent quality.The wood reserves are high, and you can earn when you cut it.

According to reports from the intelligence agency, Russian officials themselves do not know how much land there is in the Far East.They went to apply for the construction of a farm and asked for five hectares, fearing that the request would be too much and the other party would not approve it.

As a result, the Russian officials were not happy, and forced to approve [-] hectares, and then asked for money.

But in fact, the steam tractor drove over, let alone [-] hectares in the vast wilderness, there are [-] hectares - anyway, Maozi doesn't care about anything after collecting the money.

But the place is big, and the traffic is inconvenient.

It just so happens that the second-hand small trains obtained from various countries can come in handy, and it is not troublesome to lay a narrow-gauge railway of more than ten or twenty kilometers.There are three to 4000 people, and it can be done in half a year.

When there are many people, they will naturally gather into villages and even towns.In order to fight against the fleeing bandits and beasts, it is inevitable to carry a gun.Let alone rifles, farming veterans install machine guns on cargo trucks. This is a subconscious behavior.

Piansheng Maozi is extremely backward in the Far East, with a small population, and it is concentrated in only a few slightly larger cities.

Its native settlements in the wild have neither medical care nor power supply, let alone any administration. They are all natural villages.Russian farmers do not have cattle and sheep in the fields, they rely on human power to pull wooden plows, and cats cook in wooden houses when it snows.

By the beginning of spring, the Russian peasants were almost like savages.

Chinese manor workers drove steam tractors and repaired small steam trains. Seeing those poor Russian farmers, recruiting them as labor is to save them, and marrying those village girls is to benefit.

According to the annual report issued by the Foreign Intelligence Agency to the country, they plan to reclaim 1000 million mu of land along the Siberian Railway within ten years, resettle a million people, and hand over 50 tons of wheat to the country every year.

One day the National Defense Forces really want to chase the dead and chase the north, just drive along the railway line to accept the land, it will not take any trouble at all-the State Department is also scratching its head on this situation.

Stop it - the Russians themselves don't care.

Don't stop it--the scale of this reclamation is really getting bigger and bigger, and the Russian side will be furious.

"This incident happened. Tsarist Russia was not furious, but the Russian Communist Party 'B' was furious."

Zhou Qingfeng gathered the information collected by the diplomats stationed in Russia, and repeatedly confirmed with the domestic team and the intelligence agency, and found that the country has indeed made a lot of profits from Russia in recent years.

But the 'Old Master' shook his head after summarizing relevant information, "Lenin didn't oppose us because we took advantage of them. He probably had no choice."

When it comes to revolution, justice and ideals can be talked about, but in reality, contradictions need to be discovered in order to mobilize strength. 'Back then' the Chinese revolution was to overthrow the 'three mountains'.

Imperialism, feudalism, bureaucratic capitalism.

Lenin looked around at home and abroad, and found that only China and the tsar could be targeted together to mobilize anti-corruption and nationalist sentiments.

Just like he signed the "Brest Treaty" with Germany, for the survival of the party and the regime, he can do whatever it takes - severing ties with China is the lightest of all costs.

"We made this trip in vain. The idea of ​​helping the Russian Communist Party is just wishful thinking." Zhou Qingfeng could only announce that his trip had achieved nothing after sending telegrams to the country many times.

In the name of the Comintern, the country sent a report to the Russian Communist Party "Bolsheviks", and the response was that Comrade Lenin had decided that the Russian Communist Party "Bolsheviks" would withdraw from the Communist International, which seriously damaged Russia's interests, and no longer recognize its leadership.

The 'Old Master' sighed: "If nothing else, the Russian Communist Party 'B' will soon demonize the Tsar and the Chinese government, which in turn will arouse national anger against bureaucratic corruption and economic chaos.

The Germans might communicate with us, but I hope Lenin can light the fire.As for us... it seems that we can do nothing but watch. "

The development of the situation was exactly as the "Old Master" expected. Lenin aimed his artillery at China without any hesitation when he couldn't find a better target.

A large number of mimeographed pamphlets claimed that Chinese dumping had bankrupted small Russian business owners, cut off the livelihood of craftsmen, and hit unemployed workers hard.

A major corruption case in the railway sector was exposed. Corrupt officials sold all the locomotives and carriages to China, which led to coal and food shortages in major cities in 1916 due to lack of transport capacity.

The cover of shameless bureaucrats allowed China to invade and occupy Russian territory, resulting in the outflow of a large amount of resources that should belong to the people of all Russia. The Far East has almost become the possession of the Chinese.

During this period, various gossips were mixed in.For example, making up a story about the rape of innocent girls by the Chinese in St. Petersburg will definitely make the drunks come out and make a big fuss.

Tsarist Russian officials hardly responded to these matters. After all, with their credibility, nothing they said would be recognized by the public.Except for Pu Dadi smelling a hint of danger, his bureaucrats didn't feel that there was any major problem at all.

Zhou Qingfeng, who made a trip for nothing, returned to the imperial capital at the end of January and reported to the Standing Committee what he had seen and heard in Russia.

For 'Holy Light', it is best to continue to immerse itself in development for five to ten years.The current national strength is still too weak.

For Germany, its navy currently has a certain advantage in aircraft carriers. If it doesn't take the opportunity to compete with the British navy, which has a wrong "tech tree", it will be difficult to have a chance to come back.

Britain and France can support Tsarist Russia, but they cannot control the bureaucrats of Tsarist Russia to kill themselves.What King Pu the Great could not do, Charles I was even more powerless.

Lenin certainly would not sit back and watch Tsarist Russia take the route of bourgeois reform, and it is very likely that there will be riots within the year.

As for the United States, they are making a fortune in silence and are watching a show.

Xiao Jinlang led the Standing Committee to hold several enlarged meetings to discuss the development of the international and domestic situation, and finally agreed that the war was likely to break out at the end of 1917 or early next year.

China has to be ready for this... Japan first.

Chapter 11

At the beginning of February 1917, the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party held a special meeting to discuss the resolution of the armed uprising.

At the meeting, Lenin severely criticized Kamenev for arbitrarily undermining the relationship between the communist parties of China and Russia, criticizing him for disseminating information that has not been verified by the party organization, which led to the Russian Communist Party's "cloth" breaking away from the Communist International.

Once he thinks that he wants to sit in the mountains and rivers, the mud legs have to put on a bit of airs.

Lenin had previously promised to return the Chinese territories seized by Tsarist Russia after he seized power.Whether it's true or not, at least it's a friendly gesture.

Now Kamenev's big mouth exposes his true thoughts, which has caused the Russian Communist Party's "Bolshevik" and the Turkish Communist Party to tear each other apart, and they are extremely passive.

At the special session, Lenin made a report on the current situation of the revolutionary struggle, mentioning how to deal with domestic and foreign contradictions and challenges once the armed uprising succeeds.

Among them, the first is Germany, which is fully supporting the Russian Revolution, the second is Britain and France, which are fully supporting the Tsarist Russian regime, and the third is China, which is thousands of miles away but has certain influence.

Without actual investigation, the leaders of the Russian Communist Party's "Bolsheviks" do not know that China's hand is so long, and it poachs Russia's corners through economic and people's livelihood means.

The subtle influence is the most terrible. Once the Russian people do not reject China, and then want to expel its forces, the resistance will be particularly great.

In any case, China has emerged from poverty and weakness.After seven years of development, its industrial strength has been comparable to that of Russia, and it has far surpassed it in terms of supporting industrial chains.

The market opening policy has made China's economic vitality explode violently, and large-scale infrastructure construction has greatly promoted the development of productivity.Its more than 100 million National Defense Forces are all serious and fully trained troops, not "gray animals" that go to the battlefield with a rifle.

Although the face is torn because of pig teammates, politicians just have thick skin.

At the special meeting, Lenin ordered Comrade Molotov, a member of the Russian Communist Party's Central Committee, to go to the imperial capital to restore the relationship between the two parties as much as possible and lay the foundation for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries after the seizure of power.

Molotov bit the bullet and took on this task. He didn't know how to talk to the leaders of the Turk Communist Party, so he could only start from Moscow and fly eastward by passenger plane.

Now there is a flight route between China and Europe. Although it needs to land and refuel along the way, it only takes four days to reach the imperial capital.It is much faster than the Trans-Siberian Railway, which takes more than half a month to run.

However, this flight is fast, but Molotov frowned at the first moment of boarding the plane - the plane is the "Ke-1" made in China.

Civil Aviation of China used to make do with transport planes as passenger planes, but now it finally has the world's first passenger plane with a closed pressurized cabin.In order to develop it, China, the United States and Germany joined forces to solve problems such as materials, airframe, control, and engine.

Four 350-horsepower engines, upper monoplane fuselage, 16 tons of empty weight, a maximum load of two tons, or a cockpit of 1000 people, and a range of [-] to [-] kilometers.

After the aircraft appeared, the Americans were ecstatic.It is especially suitable for long-distance flights between the east and west coasts of North America.Japan was very nervous, because starting from Shanghai, Nagasaki and other places entered its cross-sea bombing radius.

China has models that can more efficiently communicate between the coast and the hinterland, and the early improvised models can be eliminated and resold or used for frontier immigration.

'Guest-1' departed from Moscow and flew eastward, and needed to enter Kazakhstan occupied by Tsarist Russia on the way, and landed in the northern city of Akmolinsk.

This place "later generations" became the capital of Kazakhstan, and is now a small town on the banks of the Ishim River, with a population of only 3 to [-].

After an hour of refueling and maintenance, Molotov got off the plane to go to the bathroom, and was surprised to find an open-air stall built with wooden sheds near the crude airport.

Seven or eight Chinese traders from nowhere were buying furs and selling medicines, tools and the like.Molotov thought they had come by plane, but after careful questioning they confirmed that they were coming from the direction of Moscow.

At present, the population of Central Asia is only 200 million, but the area here is nearly 400 million square kilometers, which is larger than India.The fact that the Chinese are able to come to such a place where the birds don't shit shows that they are infiltrating in an all-round way.

"On this earth, probably only Antarctica has no Chinese."

Worried, Molotov boarded the plane again and continued eastward.After landing in Urumqi, Jiuquan, Yinchuan and other places in turn, they finally arrived at the imperial capital.

During the flight, he saw the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway under construction, the "Yellow River Irrigation" project, and more than a dozen large and small hydropower and thermal power generation projects.

Molotov was still in a Russian prison for the first two years.Like other Russian revolutionaries, he seldom paid attention to the changes in the Far East. At most, he knew that China and Japan fought a war, and Russia's interests in the Far East continued to shrink.

Tsarist Russia has made many industrial achievements in recent years, which makes the Russian people very proud.

But its construction speed seems to be a lot worse than that of China.When landing at the Imperial Capital Nanyuan Airport, Molotov saw in the air a 330-kilovolt transmission and substation with the same scale as the German Ruhr.

The large cooling tower emitting white smoke is a very conspicuous landmark. It is a million-kilowatt thermal power plant supporting the transmission and transformation substation, and the elevated transmission lines spreading around like a spider web.

Cooperating with 110 kV, 35 kV and 12 kV stepped substations, the power from the power plant will be sent to industrial and mining enterprises and thousands of households within [-] kilometers.

Before coming, Molotov at least read the transmission network information Lenin obtained from Germany.

Germany only needs to build seven or eight equivalent power grids to cover the whole country, but China is not enough to build eighty, and 330 kV is not the end of China.

Large-scale engineering projects are like a spectacle, which can give people a strong psychological shock - standing in front of the pyramids, can humans be amazed at the power of the Egyptian pharaoh more than 4000 years ago?

Similarly, when a small mortal stands in front of a large power station or power transmission grid, he will be amazed at where industrial creation will lead human civilization?

After Molotov got off the plane, he understood why Lenin was suddenly very interested in power transmission and transformation.The combination of this technology and the communication network has connected countless isolated towns and villages in the country.

As long as you have a little knowledge of social management, you will understand that 'isolated points' and 'networks' are two social structures of different dimensions.

"No wonder Comrade Lenin has repeatedly emphasized that Russia must also build a high-voltage transmission network."

For Molotov's arrival, the Chinese side reacted very coldly - the chosen forces were all clear cards, and everyone knew the opponent's means and goals.

The chosen ones have an overwhelming information advantage in the face of local forces.Molotov didn't need to speak, the Chinese knew what he was going to say.

The External Liaison Department of the Turkish Communist Party did not invite Molotov to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, but left him in the newly built Imperial Hotel—paying for his own accommodation.

Molotov did not come through the relationship between the Communist International, nor the communication channel between the two parties, nor the two countries, but only appeared in a private capacity.He wanted to see Xiao Jinlang, the chairman of the party, but was rejected directly.

Old Xiao didn't bother to talk about it, let's wait for a few days before talking.

'Thinking of the past', Taizu went to Moscow and was left alone by Stalin for a few days, almost under house arrest.The leader of my great country was treated with such arrogance.

This is revenge for revenge, revenge for injustice.Not to mention Molotov who came after tearing his face, even if Lenin and Stalin came in person, let's wait and see.

Molotov also knew that the trip would not go well.He could not send messages to Tsarist Russian diplomats, so he could only ask his entourage to report to the Turkish Communist Party’s International Liaison Department in the imperial capital on a regular basis every day, and asked to see the top leaders of the Turkish Communist Party, hoping to ease the relationship between the two sides.

In addition, Molotov's daily job is to go shopping and learn about the rising eastern power.He went to Chang'an Avenue on the first day and saw the city being rebuilt, such as the subway under construction.

In 1863, Britain opened the subway in London; in Paris, France, the subway opened in 1900; in Berlin, Germany, in 1902; in New York, the United States, the subway opened in 1904.

China obviously does not intend to drag the Queen Mother.

The "civil dogs" of the "Holy Light" team are showing their talents in various parts of the motherland. Naturally, they will not forget to build the subway in the imperial capital, and use the "high-tech" shield machine as soon as they make a move.

The shield machine is nothing new. It was used in the construction of an underwater tunnel through the Thames in 1825.However, due to poor technology, the construction encountered a lot of troubles, including the tunnel being flooded by the river twice.

In 1917, almost 100 years have passed since the first use of the shield machine.Air pressure shield technology has matured.

If China wants to carry out infrastructure construction, it is indispensable to dig holes through mountains.For example, the Chengdu-Kunming Railway is under construction, the geological environment is complex and changeable, and the construction environment is extremely harsh, known as the railway restricted area.

"Back then" when the Kunming Line was built, the country had absolutely no experience in engaging in such complex railway projects, and had suffered a lot. Not only the construction period was delayed many times, but also a lot of personnel sacrificed.

And because the technology is backward, there is no ability to build super-long tunnels and long-span bridges, and the construction process has several ups and downs.

'Sacred Light' has been incubating technology in the United States for five years, focusing on large-scale infrastructure equipment including shield machines, bridge erecting machines, and tower cranes.

Compared with a [-]-horsepower steam turbine, a large shield machine is quite difficult.It requires the coordination of design, material, process and assembly.

When Molotov appeared at the subway construction site, what he saw was that three American-made and one domestic shield machine were constructing along the line.One of the devices was disassembled and hoisted into the subway construction entrance for assembly.

The Imperial Metropolis Metro was 'originally' an open excavation, with a super-large ditch directly on the ground.Now using the shield machine, the progress of the project will be greatly increased, and the difficulty will be reduced by an order of magnitude.

Shield tunneling can be more than five times faster than manual tunneling, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive and dangerous.A single machine can dig three to four kilometers of tunnels per year.Several pieces of equipment are being constructed in sections, and it is hard to think of a slow speed.

Molotov was very curious about the construction of the subway and walked around the construction site.He took a cold breath and saw many Western faces on the construction site, so he went up to chat with them while they were resting.When asked about the origin of an engineer, it turned out to be Kazan, Russia.

"Why did you come to China?"

"I am an engineer who graduated from Kazan State University in geology. I found a job on the railway. The monthly salary is 150 rubles. But I have worked for more than ten years, and I have never received full salary, and even often defaulted.

When I shivered in winter and begged the officials to give me the salary I deserved, I only saw them singing songs day and night in the mansion and traveling around in cars.

The powerful wives and daughters wear gorgeous clothes and expensive jewelry, and spend extravagantly in extravagant salon receptions.But my wife and daughter lined up all night in the cold wind, and couldn't even buy bread.

The bureaucrats keep saying that the people should be patriotic, and the people will make choices with their feet.I would rather come and join the Chinese than stay in Russia. "

The Maozi engineer from Kazan took a look at Molotov's attire, and spit at his feet, "You should be a Russian official. If I can make you feel unhappy, I will be very honored."

Chapter 12 Just a Card

A fence was erected at the site where the subway was being built in the imperial capital, a tall pile driver hoisted the heavy hammer, and the winch motor made a booming sound.Every time the heavy hammer fell, there was a bang, and the people watching the excitement outside the fence exclaimed in amazement.

The whole city is like a big construction site, with new or under-construction buildings everywhere.Trucks carrying construction materials and scraps are on the streets all the time, day and night.