Bloody Heart

Almost with Felix's wind/wave front and back, the negotiation between Ivan and Wang Yao has reached a deadlock.As early as three years ago, Wang Yao proposed to want an atomic bomb, but was rejected by Paul. Ivan thought that Wang Yao, who had no raw materials and no technology, would retreat in spite of the difficulties. Unexpectedly, the two sides had been entangled in this for the next three years.

"I have already promised you, we have the atomic bomb, we will protect you, why are you so stubborn?"

"Your atomic bomb is not my power."

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"Okay, the technical support given to you is enough for you to conduct scientific research, is it okay now?"

"Scientific research is not enough, what I want is weapons."

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The two sides went back and forth many times, and Ivan found to his dismay that he never knew that his old neighbor was such a stubborn person.However, depression is depression, and he is determined not to cross his bottom line.If you can't give something like an atomic bomb, you just can't give it.

However, at this critical moment, the tug-of-war between the two sides had to be suspended.At first Wang Yao was a little puzzled, but soon he knew what was going on - a storm broke out next door, and Ivan got involved.

It happened very suddenly. Several elders suddenly held a meeting of the central chairman/presidium to criticize Nikita's work style and leftist economic policy, and advocated his removal from office.This sudden attack seems like a risky and lack of confidence palace change, but many people still know it well - without Ivan's support, this group of people might not dare to choose this time to start an uprising .

It was Ivan who backed Nikita to take over power, and now he feels the time has come to kick this guy out.Because Nikita did not act as an obedient successor according to his expectations, but became a reformer on his own initiative, trying to subvert the Joseph era.The chaos he caused was beyond Ivan's control and tolerance—Paul's change of attitude is a clear example—so Ivan decided to dismiss him.

Sure enough, this surprise attack caught Nikita by surprise, and he stubbornly asked the chairman/bureau to "explain" his mistakes.So many meetings were held, and Nikita's attitude changed quickly. He admitted his mistakes and made a self-criticism. Several elders were satisfied with this - after all, it is very good to have achieved so much progress in one day. , who thought they would encounter a fierce dispute, now it seems that victory is in sight.

However, when they stepped into the Ke/Li/M/Lin Palace the next day, they could no longer maintain their self-confidence.The entire Ke/Li/M/Lin Palace was surrounded, not by the army, but by members of the Central Committee from all sides.They are like bamboo shoots springing up after a rainy night, as if emerging from the soil.

"The chairman/presidium has no right to remove/remove the first secretary, we demand a special plenary session of the Central Committee!" protested one of the members.

Ivan felt like falling into an ice cave when he heard it.How are these people...

... It's the army!Only the army!

Zhu/ke/husband!The moment this name appeared in his mind, Ivan knew that he had failed.He ignores this layer of human relations in Nikita.The current Minister of National Defense/Defence/Ministry/Ministry is a figure promoted by Nikita who is similar to a cronies.Nikita used the whole day of yesterday's spat to quietly arrange all of this, and this morning he delivered a fatal blow.In front of the army, any human resistance is insignificant, even if they are all powerful.

There is no need to elaborate on the latter.The Plenary Session of the Central Committee was held, and Nikita had an absolute advantage. Several veterans were labeled as "anti-party groups" and lost all power since then.In addition, Ivan's strength was also greatly damaged-Nikita certainly knew who the master/envoy was behind it, and he was a man who would take revenge.However, just like Nikita's previous behaviors, his move once again aroused doubts from abroad. Ivan had to use some external forces to help Nikita stabilize the domestic situation before he could stabilize his position.

There is only one reliable helper he can find in the huge socialist camp.So he had no choice but to lower his face, change his tough and arrogant attitude during the negotiations before, and ask Wang Yao for help.

Wang Yao's position in the socialist camp is no longer what it used to be.With just one sentence, he suppressed the doubts of the fraternal parties.He said, "The truth is on Nikita's side." So the truth is really on the side.

After this time, Ivan already owed Wang Yao a huge favor, but the matter did not end like this.Although the storm/wave calmed down with Wang Yao's help, Ivan still faced severe challenges.Everyone's trust in Paul and Ivan has dropped sharply because of repeated outrageous actions, but they favor Wang Yao; if Ivan wants to maintain Paul's leadership in the socialist camp, he must let other people People clearly know that Wang Yao is on their side.Therefore, he invited Wang Yaolai to attend the Moscow meeting held at the end of the year. Although he didn't want to say it clearly, the latter was keenly aware of his intentions.

Therefore, Wang Yao, who has become more and more sophisticated in recent years, is ready to make good use of this opportunity.

"Comrade Ivan, it's not that I don't want to go to your meeting. It's mainly a matter of diplomatic etiquette. You see, the chairman and I have been to your place for 50 years, but we haven't paid a return visit for so many years. I can't get old. Is it me running to you?"

Well, consider a reason.So Ivan arranged for someone to go there, and then mentioned to Wang Yao about attending the meeting.

Wang Yao calmly said, "I'll think about it again. Isn't it only opening at the end of the year? Don't worry, I'll let you know as soon as I think about it."

Ivan had to follow him and wait for a while before mentioning it.He doesn't like to accommodate others, but, there is no way, who told him to need the other party now!

After a while, and the date of the meeting was getting closer, Ivan contacted Wang Yao again.This time Wang Yao put on a helpless posture: "Oh, I'm so sorry, the chairman is not in good health recently, you know that your place is very cold in winter, we may not be able to go..."

Ivan on the other end of the phone couldn't help sneering, wondering why this disease happened at such a timely time.Of course he knew what Wang Yao was procrastinating, he was hanging out with the old foxes who went in and out of Ke/Li/M/Lin Palace every day, Wang Yao couldn't fool him with this little trick.But that thing...

Forget it, he gritted his teeth, after all, solving the immediate crisis of trust is the most important thing, and Wang Yao is an indispensable help. "Comrade Wang Yao, if you come to the meeting, I will provide you with support."

Wang Yao was silent for a moment, and promised him in a steady tone that he would "consider it carefully", and then hung up the phone.The next day, Ke/Li/M/Lin Gong received a telegram, and Wang Yao readily agreed to the invitation to attend the conference.

You are cruel!After Ivan read it, he crumpled up the telegram and threw it into the trash/trash can.

On November 11, Wang Yao's special plane landed in Moscow. Before the plane landed, he saw the situation outside through the porthole, and couldn't help but be speechless.

The apron was full of well-dressed welcome teams, each holding a bouquet of flowers with warm smiles on their faces.Before the crowd was a heroic guard of honor, with neat uniforms and sharp bayonets, exuding an invincible aura just by standing.Nikita and almost all the party, government, and military officials have been waiting below, and everyone is either in suits or medals, and the grandeur is to the extreme.

After getting off the plane, Wang Yao skillfully shook hands with Paul and greeted each other with other dignitaries. The atmosphere at the scene was joyous.When shaking hands, perhaps because of the similar situation, Wang Yao recalled the scene when he came to Moscow seven years ago: that day when the train entered the station, there was grand military music as the background, and the guard of honor at that time was also neatly uniformed , the bayonet was sharp; but when he got out of the car that day, someone gave him a warm hug and said: Welcome to Mo/S/Ke, this is Paul - Braginsky, you can call me a Soviet.

Now there is the same voice in my ear as in memory: "Welcome, Comrade Wang Yao. It is my honor that you can come to the conference."

Wang Yao looked into his eyes, and he clearly felt that when they looked at each other again after seven years, apart from the business-like politeness in Paul's eyes, all enthusiasm had already dissipated.

However, the tarmac is still in full swing.The severe cold of winter is almost dispelled by this atmosphere, and spring is everywhere.Nikita enthusiastically shook hands with Wang Yao's boss, the movement involved so much that the flesh of the upper body trembled.When reviewing the guard of honor afterwards, the momentum of three consecutive "Ula" yells went straight into the sky.

Wang Yao listened to his superior give a short speech: "...the people of our two countries have formed a brotherly alliance in the common struggle, and no force in the world can separate us...the great Soviet/Union-led socialist The camp is a strong bastion that guarantees world peace."

Hearing the phrase "No power can separate us", Wang Yao somehow thought of Alfred's jealous sentence "Signing a treaty on Valentine's Day is to show affection, show affection", and then a wave of evil appeared all over his body. cold.If he heard this speech, he would definitely misinterpret it maliciously again.He couldn't help turning his head to look at Paul, but Paul didn't look at him, he seemed not interested in the welcome ceremony before him.

It really wasted Alfred's imagination, Wang Yao thought.The relationship between him and Paul has never been as close as the West imagined.Today, although he is still emphasizing that "the Soviet Union is the leader"-this statement has basically been used by no country since Paul and his superiors did a series of stupid things-but he also has a long-term heart. I have my own plan.

He has never been willing to be anyone's shadow, and he clearly knows that his prestige is far higher than that of Paul, whether at home or abroad.So, why not use such a good opportunity?

"Brotherly alliance"?

That's all, I know it well.

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Of course, Wang Yao also knew that he was here to help this time, at least he had to do enough superficial work.During the meeting, he was not idle at all. He repeatedly emphasized "Paul as the leader" among the national wills present at the meeting publicly and privately, and made great efforts to maintain Paul's prestige.However, many people don't appreciate it.

Felix is ​​probably the most typical and the most distinctive one. "With Paul at the head?" He habitually tucked his hair behind his ears and snorted contemptuously, "Wake up, he is no longer good. As soon as that old man Joseph died, he started to go downhill,' great Su/ Lian'? But mediocre!"

Elizabeth's performance was more flat, but her words were equally merciless: "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Paul's current system/system has serious flaws. What he uses now are all old things left over from the Joseph era. , although there have been reforms, but not thorough enough. Joseph came to power in the war years, and the ideas in the war years are not suitable for the development of the peace years. It's going downhill."

Gilbert also half-jokingly said to Wang Yao: "It's a good choice for you to replace him. I'm a good judge of people. You won't cling to us like him, right Right?" After following Paul for so many years, he restrained his former flamboyant personality, but the flame burning in those red eyes never cooled down for a moment.Both Felix and Elizabeth knew that he had never given up on breaking free from the cage of the Red Empire—just as they had.

Wang Yao realized that the topic would be taken in a dangerous direction if he continued talking, he quickly said: "Everyone, don't say that, Paul has his difficulties, what Elizabeth said is right, but it is really difficult to do it. Between us It is better to understand each other. As for who is the leader, Gilbert, I know you are just joking, there is no doubt that we should take Paul as the leader. He has the most experience, and only he can overcome the difficulties in front of us Finally, lead us out on a clear path." He said solemnly.

But all he got back was silence.

Of course, apart from completing these thankless "tasks", Wang Yao has more important things to do.

He went to the auditorium on Mount Lenin. Before lunch that day, many students came early to take a seat and waited for his superior to receive him.Wang Yao chatted happily with this group of young people. He felt very cordial to see so many family members in a foreign country, especially seeing so many young people full of vigor.

Someone asked him: "Comrade Wang Yao, which cities in the Soviet Union have you been to? What do you think of this place?"

Wang Yao thought for a while, and said a little embarrassedly: "Ah, I seem to have only been to Moscow...a total of three times, each time the feeling is different. But generally speaking, the people of the Soviet Union are very enthusiastic, Very friendly and comfortable dealing with them.”

He came to Moscow the last two times to sign the treaty, and he suffered from cold reception and grievances. Ivan's arrogant and tough attitude made him loathe this place, but he had to be patient and grind with him slowly. .It's just that now that he sees these young people learning advanced knowledge here, with longing for the future in their eyes, he also feels that the grievance he suffered at the beginning can be easily covered up with a smile.

He was asked again: "How is your relationship with the Soviet? Ah—does this question offend you?"

Not to the point of being offensive, Wang Yao glanced at the door and thought calmly, but he needed to be careful when answering. "It's okay, it's not a secret, we signed a treaty of friendship!" Wang Yao said with a smile, "Soviet is our big brother, I can always learn a lot from him; you should also Learn a lot of useful things here."

He did learn a lot from Paul. If it weren't for the deceptive enthusiasm at the negotiating table, the repeated temptations before the Korean/Korean War, and the Felix and Elizabeth incident later, he might have spent a lot of time. It took much longer to understand how to grasp the "degree" of this alliance and to straighten out my relationship with him.It was Paul's actions that allowed him to understand the essence of this so-called alliance, and made him very sober from the beginning, knowing what path he would choose, until today.

Paul Braginski, I really want to thank you.Wang Yao thought to himself.However, he also cannot deny that after so many years, he still misses the young man who hugged him on the station platform, and also misses the person who took him to dinner on the eve of the negotiation—he was there Paul captured an indescribable, fleeting, warm and bright thing.

However, that kind of thing, that kind of light that he didn't know the name of, probably won't be found again.

The last question the students asked him was: "Comrade Wang Yao, can our future be as good as the current Soviet Union?"

Wang Yao looked around, the faces of these young people were not particularly radiant, but the trust and hope in their eyes lit up their ordinary faces, just like people's expectations for the future in beautiful dreams.

"It's up to you," he said. "In any case, this future world belongs to you."

After the lunch time, his boss came soon, and the atmosphere suddenly became high when he came. At this time, Wang Yao left the auditorium unobtrusively.Outside the auditorium, he met Ivan as expected.They didn't ask each other why they were here, some things don't have to be too clear.

"...I hope you will always support the Soviet, Comrade Wang Yao." In the end, Ivan spoke first, "I recently... heard some bad rumors."

Wang Yao said: "It's just a rumor, why should you worry about it?"

But Ivan said stubbornly, "I just need your assurance."

At this time, there was a sudden tide of applause in the auditorium, and the waves were higher than the waves, as if the roof was about to be overturned.Ivan asked Wang Yao for an explanation with suspicious eyes, but Wang Yao only smiled lightly and did not answer.He heard a faint voice from the auditorium, and the words of the boss that caused warm applause were - "The world is ours, and it is yours, but in the final analysis it is yours."

——Ivan, the world belongs to all of us.

Amid the applause, Wang Yaoping said flatly: "I promise that I will meticulously fulfill all the obligations stipulated in the treaty that an ally should perform. Besides, what else do you expect?"

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The day after I met the students was the closing day of the Mo/S/Ko meeting.At the closing ceremony that day, Wang Yao's boss was the last to speak. Paul sat in the audience and listened to each other, and suddenly asked Ivan without turning his head: "Lucia, let's go to the previous attempt/ Did you plan the storm/wave from Nikita?"

Ivan glanced at him and said, "He's pulling you farther and farther in the wrong direction."

Paul made a sound that was like a sneer or a dry laugh, and shook his head. "I'm not a horse and carriage, I'm a country. People can indeed influence me to a certain extent, but it's up to me to choose which way to go."

Ivan was silent for a while before saying: "At this meeting, I asked Wang Yao to use his influence and continue to call on everyone to follow your leadership."

"Ah...thank you," Paul smiled, but the tiredness in his eyes was not broken by the smile, and there was a bit of stubbornness hidden in the tiredness, "but I won't stop."

"Thank you, Lucia." He added another sentence as if he was afraid of not showing enough sincerity.

Ivan didn't speak anymore, and the two continued to live in peace and listen to Wang Yao's boss's speech.

There is such a sentence in the speech: "Now there are two winds in the world, the east wind and the west wind. The current situation is characterized by the east wind overwhelming the west wind..."

"The east wind prevails over the west wind?" Paul repeated it expressionlessly, as if he was thinking about something.

Immediately he smiled a little weirdly, and there was a trace of cruelty in the weirdness.

"That's right, Beijing is indeed to the east of Moscow."

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There have been 5000+ updates in three consecutive days, and the previous two updates were from "Dawn of Camelot".The golden week is coming, I am also very hard 0w0