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"The Communist International can agree to turn the CCP into a special member—it doesn't have to be a branch of the International, nor accept international assistance and guidance." Stalin immediately made a decision: "Comrade Molotov, please inform the CCP of this decision." On the one hand, and at the same time tell them that the Soviet Union will continue to support their revolutionary cause, and the Soviet Union can secretly provide assistance to them.” After speaking, he waved his hand and ordered Molotov to leave.Then he turned his stern gaze to Voroshilov: "Transfer all the troops of the Siberian Front to Budyonny, and order him to end the war in the Far East and East Siberia within this year!"

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Shanghai Bund.British Consulate General.

Outside the window, many students and Shanghai citizens were marching in the International Settlement in the cold wind.Although these parade people kept shouting the slogan "Britain! Get out!", and held various placards insulting the British Empire and His Majesty the King, there were even some angry people who did not obey the rules. Asan guards with rifles throwing stones... But the officers and soldiers of the British and Indian colonial troops who have been acting fiercely in the past few decades are all as cute as sheep at the moment, basically they can't fight back or scold them Pay back!In fact, the Lee Enfield rifles in the hands of the soldiers had neither bullets nor bayonets, so they were simply scaring things!

Sir Lampson stood on the balcony of the British Consulate General in Shanghai, braving the biting cold wind, watching the protesters and the two "Karl Marx" class ships being fitted out on the Huangpu River not far away. Battleships... These two battleships probably have a displacement of 380 tons!Most of the nine [-]mm cannons can penetrate the armor of the "Hood", and then consider the number of four ships.Lampson sighed softly, those Chinese are indeed entitled to return to the Shanghai International Settlement, and even the sovereignty of Hong Kong!The British Empire should not be too persistent in this regard.

In fact, he came to Shanghai specially from the embassy in Wuhan this time to negotiate the return of the Shanghai International Settlement to China.Although his instructions from Whitehall were to "do everything possible to preserve the International Settlement".But after all, Lampson is not those fools who are far away in Europe, burying their heads in the sand, pretending that the British Empire is still the hegemony of the world, and China is just a sick man in East Asia with braids and opium.

He is in this country, and he has also witnessed the rebirth of this old empire!Jazz, who is familiar with Chinese history, is not at all surprised by what is happening in China now. The same thing has been happening repeatedly in this country in the past 2000 years.A decaying and declining dynasty collapses, then becomes chaotic for a while, and then is replaced by a new and powerful dynasty, which will soon become the leading country in East Asia.In history, her civilization and wealth far surpassed that of Europe!And now... this new powerful dynasty must be the national government.China has been unified by them, and even the army of the communists who have always insisted on building an ideal society are now surrendering to the blue sky and white sun of the national government.Moreover, in foreign wars, the army led by this "emerging dynasty" is also invincible, including the Soviet Union and Japan, which have already been defeated by them.Especially Japan, they mobilized an army of 300 million and a navy that ranks first in Asia, but they were still defeated, and now they have turned back into a watchdog of the British Empire.

Moreover, Lampson also discovered that the current national government is different from those powerful dynasties in Chinese history. This national government has a strong impulse to expand.Perhaps China has too many people and too little arable land?So they are going to use "China's sword to go to China to seize land for China's plow", this kind of Prussian-sounding rhetoric is now flooding the major newspapers in China... and considering the "five-year Heavy Industry Development Plan" and "Overall War Plan", it is obvious that China is now making material and spiritual preparations for the next round of war of aggression and expansion!There are only two directions for China's expansion, one is to invade the Soviet Union northward; the other is to sweep southeast Asia.

However, it is still difficult for Lampson to determine which direction China will eventually choose to implement their aggression and expansion.Although judging from the current situation of China's support for the Soviet Union's civil war, the possibility of going north to invade the Soviet Union seems to be greater.However, the just-concluded "KMT-CPC negotiations" made him feel a little puzzled. The KMT seemed to have no intention of controlling Mongolia, and there was no sign of eliminating the CCP.If the Kuomintang’s expansion plan is the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the CCP seem to be two things that must be resolved...how can they fight a protracted war with the Soviet Union without resolving the CCP?Without Mongolia, how could the Kuomintang army cut off the Siberian Railway, which was of great significance to the Soviet Union?Could it be that China's real goal is not the north, but Southeast Asia, which is warm and humid and suitable for the development of planting?

Since Mr. Lampson cannot determine the direction of China's next expansion, the focus of his current work is to try to find out whether the Chinese are going north or south?So today, he invited Marshal Luo Yaoguo, the vice chairman of the Kuomintang, vice chairman of the military committee, and chief of the general staff, who was inspecting the Republic Aircraft Factory in Shanghai, to the consulate general for afternoon tea, and to test the tone of this young Chinese marshal.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo was in Anting, visiting his own Republic Aircraft Company with two Belarusian engineers, Shevelsky and Katveli.Luo Yaoguo's Republic Aircraft Company has a total investment of about 1000 million French currency, and it is still under intense construction. It is estimated that it will be completed and put into production within this year.All the machinery and equipment of the aircraft factory are purchased from the United States. Since the construction was carried out in the era of the Great Depression, the investment cost is relatively low.With an investment of almost US$300 million, it has several large assembly workshops and a research and development center including a medium-sized wind tunnel.Along with the factory under construction, Luo Yaoguo also showed a prototype aircraft that had just been assembled in the R&D center of Republic Aircraft Corporation, a monoplane with a retractable landing gear and a sealed cockpit—Yan 1.

Chapter 0647 Anti-Comintern Pact ([-]) We Have a Dream

On January 1932, 1, Luo Yaoguo arrived in Shanghai by train on the third day after seeing off CCP leader Zhou Enlai in Peking.In name, it was because of the protests caused by the slow progress of Sino-British negotiations on the Shanghai International Settlement during this period of time, but in fact, they got off the train at Anting Railway Station on the outskirts of Shanghai. Accompanied by Wang Zhu, the director of the institute, he quietly went to the Republic Aircraft Manufacturing Company located in Anting Town.

The national government's heavy industry plan led by Luo Yaoguo pursued efficiency and speed. It neither considered independent research and development and independent intellectual property rights, nor built those important factories and research institutes in deep mountains and old forests to avoid imperialism. Peep and bomb.Instead, they are placed in Jiangnan, Guangdong, and around the capital Wuhan, where the economy is the most developed and the transportation is the most convenient.

And this China's second largest aircraft manufacturing plant is located in the suburbs of Shanghai, Anting Town next to the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway, and it is adjacent to China's largest automobile and tractor manufacturing enterprise, which has just been acquired by the Ministry of Armaments of the Nationalist Government GM China, with a [-]% shareholding, is also one of the two largest tank manufacturing factories in China.

After the convoy entered the empty factory area, several small monoplanes made Luo Yaoguo excited immediately. After four years of design and continuous improvement, the Yan 1 prototype finally completed its final shape.

这是一款真正的单翼飞机，采用了中德飞机公司生产的750马力14缸BMW-131星型风冷发动机，此外还拥有可收放式起落架和全封闭的座舱。飞机的翼展达到了10.97米；全长为7.49米；全高2.62米；机翼面积20.44平方米；空重1633千克；最大速度410公里/时；航程高达1400公里。

Compared with the current Me-2 series of biplanes in the Kuomintang Air Force, this Yan-1 can be said to be the crystallization of the most advanced aircraft design concepts and new technologies.

The streamlined fuselage adopts the lower monoplane design, completely abandons the wooden board and canvas, and adopts the new aluminum alloy produced by Sino-American Guangxi Aluminum Company.The rear three-point retractable landing gear makes the flight resistance smaller, and the closed cockpit can provide the pilot with a more comfortable and safer driving environment, so as to maximize the performance of the aircraft.

Of course, this prototype, which uses quite a lot of the latest technology, still does not meet the ideal standard.The retractable landing gear designed by a German company is too complicated, and the requirements for the manufacturing process are too high; the lateral stability of the aircraft is not good, and it will be more risky when doing certain tactical maneuvers; and the closed cockpit seems to be large. It is a little bit more spacious after installing short-wave radio, gyroscope and other equipment. It should be very comfortable to sit in, but it wastes the extremely limited space on the plane.In addition, this aircraft is not equipped with any weapons now, but only reserves the internal space for installing one 12.7mm aviation machine gun and two 7.62mm aviation machine guns, but this firepower configuration is obviously too weak.

Despite its deficiencies of one kind or another, this monoplane is still an epoch-making aircraft.Its appearance made China's aviation industry truly at the forefront of the world for the first time in this time and space. In the process of designing and improving this aircraft, a large number of aviation technical personnel were also trained, including Luo Yaoguo's wife Lu Xiaobei. Students from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Metallurgy of the United Institute of Technology have participated in related research and development work.Moreover, during the design and development process, a large number of technical researches on monoplanes were carried out, including the development and production of landing gear, cockpit, airborne radio, airborne radio navigation equipment, special aluminum alloys and other special alloys. .It laid the foundation for the further development of China's aviation industry in the future. Of course, quite a few German companies and engineers also participated in this project, and also accumulated a lot of valuable experience for the design and development of German monoplanes.

After watching the flight performance of Yan-1 at a small military airport outside Anting Town, Luo Yaoguo, who had already obtained his pilot's license again, took the opportunity to fly the plane himself, because it was "the first time" Driving the monoplane, Luo Yaoguo only carefully circled in the air a few times without making any major maneuvers.When he was flying the plane in the sky, he suddenly discovered that the small town of Anting below was already a modern large-scale industrial base... Strategic air strikes on the enemy's industrial bases were the key to the defeat of Germany and Japan by the United States in World War II The most important method!Should China also be prepared in this regard?

After experiencing a new aircraft, Luo Yaoguo visited the R&D center, which are F3A, F3B and F3C three new aircraft developed based on R&D 1, which are being assembled and waiting for flight test.Personally, F3A is a two-seat trainer; F3B is an air force fighter; and F3C is a naval carrier-based fighter with foldable wings and reinforced landing gear and fuselage structure. For the biplane carrier-based fighter jets of various countries, they are still advanced for a whole era!This is not to say that China's aviation technology has really caught up with the United States and the United States, but because of the Great Depression, Britain and the United States are now tightening their military spending, and many new aircraft development projects have been forced to stop.

Later, Luo Yaoguo also visited the assembly workshop which was undergoing final equipment adjustment. According to the introduction of the company's general manager Shevelski, all the equipment of the factory was purchased from the closed down American Fokker Aircraft Company and several other American companies that were struggling.Although the equipment is second-hand, the maintenance is not bad, and the other party's engineers and skilled workers can be packaged and invited to China to help build factories and train China's own technicians.Like those Sino-German joint venture companies, Republic Aircraft Company has now established its own technical school, where American technicians teach and train young Chinese workers who have just graduated from primary or middle school.According to the plan, the factory can start production after the first batch of workers complete a two-year technical training.If production is carried out at full capacity, Republic Aircraft Corporation can produce more than a thousand Yan-1 series aircraft at most next year. Of course, the premise is that the National Government can provide enough orders...

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"I feel that China is improving every day. I really can't believe that in this era when the whole world is in a depression, there is such a place that maintains such a high-speed development."

In the living room of the British Consulate General on the Bund in Shanghai, Sir Lampson said to Luo Yaoguo and Natalie in an obviously flattering tone: "What is even more exciting is that China is now a unified country. Knowing that in history, whenever this country achieves unity and stability after great chaos, it must be the beginning of another era of prosperity."

Natalie smiled and took over the topic: "It's like this. Stability and unity are the foundation of a strong country. Our people have been looking forward to this era for a long time, and civil wars and divisions will only consume national power. Sir Lampson, now The Soviet Union is in the midst of a brutal civil war, do you know what plans the British Empire has for this?"

Sir Lampson took a sip of his coffee cup and replied calmly: "The empire has provided humanitarian assistance to the people in the Soviet Far East and Eastern Siberia. If necessary, the empire can increase the assistance appropriately." scale."

Luo Yaoguo didn't open his mouth today, just listened silently to the conversation between Natalie and Lampson. He didn't know the real purpose of Lampson inviting him to have afternoon tea this time?Could it be because of the ongoing negotiations to take back the concessions in Shanghai and Tianjin?The National Government was quite polite on this issue, and did not forcefully take it back immediately after the victory of the Sino-Japanese War. It just negotiated slowly with the British... This should fully take care of the face of the British Empire. This Lampson should There will be no dissatisfaction.

Today's meeting was informal, Lampson only invited Luo Yaoguo and Natalie, while Lampson was the only one on the British side.

"Your Excellency Marshal, what do you think of the revolution launched by Trotsky? Is it possible for him to replace Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union?" After chatting with Natalie about the ongoing Soviet civil war, Lampson said, Then he opened his mouth to test Luo Yaoguo.

Luo Yaoguo secretly smiled in his heart, the heart of this British guy is really still in the Soviet Union, the communism of the Soviet Union is regarded as a thorn in the side of the capitalist countries all over the world, and the British top management is no exception.However, due to Britain's consistent thinking of maintaining the balance of power among countries, the demise of the Soviet Union will make China or Germany stronger. I am afraid it is not the situation they want to see, right?

"Trotsky's replacement of Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union has not changed anything for us. The Soviet Union is still a country that pursues extreme Bolshevism. They will still spare no effort to subvert the legitimate governments of all countries in the world, including our government." Luo Yaoguo Then he paid attention to Lampson's expression, and sure enough, the British ambassador raised his white eyebrows slightly, and his eyes showed some approval and expectation: "Unless we and the Western world can join hands to fight back against the expansion of the Bolsheviks, and Liberate all of Russia from their brutal rule. Otherwise, whichever Bolshevik leader is in power in the USSR, they will do everything in their power to export their revolution to the rest of the world and destabilize it."

Hearing this, Lan Pusheng looked at Luo Yaoguo in disbelief. Do these Chinese really have the ambition to destroy the Soviet Union?Or do they want to use the demise of the Soviet Union as an excuse to expand their military power and finally expand to the south?

He cautiously probed Luo Yaoguo: "Since your country has realized that communism is a threat, why don't you eradicate the Chinese Communist Party's armed forces entrenched in Mongolia and northern Shaanxi? With their existence... I don't think you will be able to Conflict with the Soviet Union, right?"

A smile appeared on Luo Yaoguo's face: "Sir, I have always believed that the issue of communism is not a military issue, but a political issue. The main reason for the victory of the Bolshevik Party in Soviet Russia was not how powerful they were, but the tsarist Russia. Political corruption and participation in the world war regardless of the actual situation of the country... Of course, the Allied Powers adopted a series of countermeasures after the Soviet Russian Revolution, and there were some inappropriateness. The combination of all these political mistakes gave the Bolshevik Party a chance to seize power in Russia. Now if we want to change this mistake, we must truly unite China and the Western world and take concerted steps to attack and weaken the Bolsheviks from all aspects; at the same time, we should treat the Russian people and the Bolsheviks differently... In the future, our military operations Only against the Bolsheviks, not all of Russia!"

"Then you really plan to launch a war to destroy the Soviet Union!" Lampson couldn't help but gasped, shaking his head slowly: "But the Soviet Union is such a vast and powerful country, relying on China and maybe Poland How could power possibly defeat them?"

"If you add Germany, and... what about the Russian Empire?" Luo Yaoguo put down the small coffee cup in his hand, and looked at Lampson solemnly:

"Sir, as I said just now, the Bolsheviks are a political problem. If we want to eliminate this scourge, we must find a political solution instead of relying solely on force. After this Trotsky uprising, all the Soviet Union Judging from the problems exposed...the Bolshevik rule was quite brutal, and the living standards of the Soviet people are far inferior to those in the Tsarist Russia era. Especially their peasants, even lived harder than those years in the world war If we can call for the restoration of the Normanov dynasty, and then unite the power of the entire Western world and Eastern free countries, we should be able to overthrow the tyranny of the Bolsheviks!"

Lan Pusheng's mind turned, and he analyzed the idea proposed by Luo Yaoguo in his mind.This old British diplomat, who is over 50 years old, couldn't help being a little excited and excited at this time.Because he knew that the present meeting would most likely be recorded in history in the future!

He took a deep breath and calmed down: "Of course, Marshal's vision is likely to become a reality. It's just that what kind of return does China want to get in this overthrow of the Bolshevik tyranny? And other countries in the Western world What good can the country do?"

It was only then that Luo Yaoguo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Judging from the excited expression of the gentleman in front of him, overthrowing the Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union was indeed a long-standing dream of Western countries.In the memory of his previous life, this dream did not come true until 1991!He smiled slightly and said:

"The Russian Empire is a very vast and wealthy country, so she is capable of paying enough for her own restoration. For example, China's request is to withdraw the historical "Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty" and "Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty" , The land ceded to Tsarist Russia in the "Sino-Russian Ili Treaty", the recovery of historical Chinese compensation to Tsarist Russia and the corresponding interest...Poland may be able to restore its historical heyday to a certain extent, and Germany should eliminate it in this battle. The Bolshevik War was revived, and they could gain colonies in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. As for Britain and France, of course, they also have their own interests. For example, the restored Russian Empire is obliged to repay the huge debts owed to France, and to protect French capital in Russia. interests. For Britain... A restored balance of Europe and the world should be the best reward. In addition, I heard that the royal families of various European countries are actually relatives. I don’t know if the British royal family has blood relationship with the Normanov dynasty. Relationship? Can you inherit the crown of Peter the Great?"

Lan Pusheng nodded slowly. He was a little stunned by the wonderful prospect that Luo Yaoguo described. According to this plan, the Chinese can get more than 100 million square kilometers of land.Poland can swallow Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania and become a major country in Eastern Europe in one fell swoop.Germany can get rid of the shackles of the "Treaty of Versailles" and restore its status as a great power in one fell swoop, and at the same time gain colonies from the Soviet Union's South Caucasus and Central Asia... Maybe they will annex Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia to become the hegemony of Central Europe.However, there is a powerful Poland and the pro-British Russian Empire and France together, which should not pose any threat to the hegemony of the British Empire.If this wonderful prospect comes true, the hegemony of the British Empire may last another century or even longer!

"Your Excellency Marshal, I will truthfully report the conversation with you today to London. I believe the politicians in London will be very interested in it." Sir Lampson asked after thinking: "But you still haven't answered my question. The first question, how do you plan to deal with the Bolsheviks in China? Do you really believe that they will give up their arms and become a peaceful party?"

"Sir, they're not real Bolsheviks. At least most of them aren't!"

Luo Yaoguo smiled and shook his head: "There are no real Bolsheviks in our weaker countries. They are just some nationalists who pretend to be Bolsheviks, and there is no essential difference between us and the Kuomintang. The differences are now gradually being bridged. Through the ongoing land reform, the CCP is losing the support of the peasants. According to our intelligence reports, soldiers and junior officers in the CCP army from Hebei, Shandong, and the three northeastern provinces now want to I have returned to my hometown to farm and live a stable life... You may not know that more than [-]% of the soldiers in the CCP army are from those provinces. At the same time, the local power that the Nationalist government is establishing also gave the middle-level intellectuals inside the CCP a good A way out. And their high-level leaders can also get good positions in cooperation with the national government, such as the chairmen of the six provinces, members of the legislative and supervisory chambers, and if the mutual trust between the two sides is further strengthened in the future, many of them You can also find your own position in the national government. So we don't need to use force to solve the CCP issue."

Chapter 0648 Anti-Comintern Pact ([-]) Stalin's Divisive Plan

There was a sound of "pa--".Stalin angrily smashed the folder in his hand on the forehead of Voroshilov, chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, who was standing across from the desk.

"Voroshilov! The Politburo of the Central Committee entrusted you with the glorious task of eliminating the Trotsky gangsters, and has high hopes for you and the commander of the Far Eastern Front, Budyonny, but how did you do it! I have long I told you to bravely cross the Amur River before Trotsky's bandit army grows stronger, regain the Vula unit Stoke, and drive all Trotsky's rebels into the cold Sea of ​​Japan to feed the fish! But what about you? You are afraid of sacrifice, you are afraid of losing troops, you have to prepare, you have to wait until the Amur River freezes... Well, now you are ready, the Amur River is also frozen, but the enemy is also ready and has a strong defense line, We also received aircraft and artillery aided by Chinese and Japanese imperialists! As a result, the Politburo and I only received casualty reports! In just one month, 15 people were killed or injured, but even Khabarovsk was not shot down...shame What a disgrace!"

Stalin roared in his Georgian Russian, making everyone in the office shudder.Voroshilov was even more trembling, not daring to distinguish a word, only dared to respectfully listen to Stalin's reprimand.

Stalin's anger was actually somewhat justified. In this war with the Trotskyists, the performance of the Soviet Red Army was indeed unsatisfactory.Facing the Trotskyite Red Army's defense line that was already as solid as a copper wall, it was just fighting hard.Use artillery fire and the lives of soldiers to gnaw at the opening.Although the artillery preparation plan has been so detailed that it cannot be detailed.The artillery shells delivered to the front line every day can be described as astronomical figures even in comparison with World War I.But the Trotskyite Red Army also has no less troops and firepower than them!As Stalin said, China and Japan are also sending supplies to the Far East every minute.And Japan even sent a huge military advisory group including heavy artillery and aviation, almost directly involved in the war!It greatly offset the firepower and air superiority of the Soviet Red Army, turning the original sea of ​​fire tactics into sea of ​​blood tactics.

The speed with which the Japanese turned their faces and refused to recognize others, as well as their determination and strength to intervene in the war, shocked and helpless the top Soviet Red Army leaders including Stalin and Voroshilov!If China is still afraid of the Soviet Union directly attacking Xinjiang or instigating the CCP to launch a "suicide attack"...the Soviet Union has nothing to do with Japan, and the two countries basically do not border each other on land.At sea, although the Japanese navy was in ruins, it took no effort to clean up the few Gangut-class ships of the Soviet navy.In fact, half of Stalin's anger today is due to Japan, a treacherous former ally.

Voroshilov saw that Stalin had gradually calmed down after his outburst, and he opened his mouth carefully: "Comrade Stalin, now Trotsky has turned to the Japanese and Chinese imperialists at the same time. The heavy artillery, aircraft and mercenaries (referring to Wang Zhongyi). Especially the Japanese heavy artillery and aircraft pose a great threat to the Red Army of Workers and Peasants. If this threat is not eliminated..."

"Wait a minute." Stalin seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly waved his hand to interrupt Voroshilov's complaints, picked up the carved pipe in his hand, and took a light puff: "You just said that Trotsky took refuge at the same time. China and Japan... But what does he have to sell to these two imperialist countries?" As he spoke, he pointed his pipe at the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs who was standing in the corner and sighing: "Comrade Chicherin, come here Tell me, what can Japan gain from aiding Trotsky in the war?"

"The Far East." Chicherin thought for a while and replied, "It should be the Far East. Trotsky must have given the Far East to the Japanese imperialists!"

"What about China? What can China gain?" Stalin asked rhetorically.

"Should... be the Far East, too?" Chicherin saw that Stalin was trying to use tricks to drive a wedge between China and Japan. In the current war in the Far East, Stalin's Soviet Union was on one side; Trotsky, China, and Japan were on the other.As long as there is any unhappiness between China and Japan, their struggle will definitely affect Trotsky, and even Stalin can attack the other two by wooing one side.

"Comrade Molotov, I remember you mentioned to me two days ago that some representative of the Workers' Party of Korea came to Moscow and wanted to join the Communist International, right? Where are they now?" Stalin ignored Chiche Lin turned to Molotov.