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"Fuwen, are we really going to sell F-1 fighter jets to the Soviet Union this time? Are you not afraid that the Soviets will use this fighter jet to attack us in the future?"

It was another beauty, Natalie, who spoke.At this moment, she frowned slightly, sitting on the seat opposite Luo Yaoguo, holding a stack of documents in her hand and slowly flipping through them.These are all led by Lu Ming, and the "arms trading group" on the other two planes is going to get some technical information and data of weapons and equipment sold by the Soviet Union, Poland, Turkey and other countries.Among them is the newly finalized F-1 or Me-1 (German code name) biplane fighter.The German shareholders of Sino-German Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd. saw that Krupp had made a lot of money through the "Karl Marx" class battleship, and they had long been tempted.So when Lu Ming gave a little hint, they all expressed their desire to use this aircraft for arms trade.

Luo Yaoguo rubbed his chin, looked at Natalie who seemed to be a little worried, and thought, "This woman has left the Polish Communist Party now and knows that she will love Poland. She is not worried that the Soviets will use F-1 to attack China, she is clearly I am worried that the Soviets will find trouble with her Polish motherland after they have advanced fighter jets! Moreover, the two "Marx" class ships are also a big threat to Poland. Now the Polish government is eager to buy new warships everywhere. It's just a big wave Boco is not as wealthy as Stalin. He can’t afford a “Marx” class worth more than 3000 million US dollars. But the Germans also took out what they say is a good thing at the bottom of the box—an armored ship, and intends to use it to kill Big Bobo... And this time the F-1 fighter jets are also going to be sold to Da Bobo. Let them use them against the Soviet F-1 fighter jets, these German guys are really proficient in the arms trade."

"Hehe, I don't know if Stalin can take a fancy to our F-1?" Luo Yaoguo waved his hands indifferently, and said with a smile: "This fighter jet is not as durable as a battleship, and this F-1 looks quite advanced right now. It will be eliminated in less than two years! The Sino-German company and the Aeronautical Research Institute are already developing the F-2, and BMW is also developing the latest engine, which is said to have more than 600 horsepower."

Natalie said: "Then this new fighter jet can no longer be sold to the Soviet Union."

Luo Yaoguo shook his head, and said with a smile: "Even if we are willing to sell it at that time, the Soviet Union probably won't take it, right? The Soviet Union's current investment in the aviation industry is probably no less than ours. It's just that we borrowed the advanced technology of the Germans, so A little bit ahead, in fact it's not our lead but Germany's lead."

Natalie nodded thoughtfully: "Actually, as far as I know, the Soviet Union already has two self-designed military aircraft, the El-3 reconnaissance plane and the Iraqi-3 fighter jet. The engines are all imitated by the German BMW-6 liquid-cooled aircraft. type engine, the fuselage is wood. But the quality of the Soviet engine seems to be very bad..."

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January is the coldest month in the high-latitude Soviet Union, where snow and ice are everywhere.But right now the hearts of the entire Soviet people are warm inside, and it is said that they are full of drive and enthusiasm!

Because the No. 15 Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) held in December last year passed the instructions on formulating the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy (1928...1933), as in history.According to this instruction, the Soviet people will transform their motherland from an agricultural country into an industrial country in just five years.And initially established an independent and relatively complete national economic system, laying a solid material foundation for the realization of socialist industrialization.

However, the Soviet Union's "First Five-Year Plan" in this time and space may be a little smaller than in history.Due to the disastrous defeat of the second Russo-Japanese War, Stalin and the top leaders of the Soviet Bolshevik Party realized that the Soviet Union was facing a large-scale imperialist invasion at any time!Moreover, it is obvious that the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army cannot complete the task of defending the motherland well in the face of a large-scale invasion of imperialism!The reason is that the weapons and equipment of the Soviet Red Army are "too backward".In particular, the weapons and equipment of the Red Navy and Air Force are simply vulnerable to imperialism with advanced weapons!As a result, the mission of escorting the first five-year plan cannot be completed very well.Therefore, Stalin had to consider squeezing some funds out of the already tight foreign exchange reserves for importing advanced weapons and equipment.It’s just that this brought a lot of difficulties to the formulation and implementation of the first five-year plan. For this reason, V. V. Kuibyshev, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), not only He came to the Kremlin once in a while, and repeatedly studied countermeasures with Stalin.

"Comrade Stalin, the two 'Marx'-class battleships have already spent too much foreign exchange." Kuibyshev, who has a high forehead and a big nose, is frowning at the moment, sitting opposite Stalin's desk : "Right now we are too short of foreign exchange... In the first five-year plan, we need to build more than 500 large-scale industrial enterprises equipped with modern technology. To this end, we need to import a large amount of machinery and equipment and technical materials, so Our foreign exchange is very short, can we reduce some..."

"Reduce the import of some advanced weapons?" Stalin smiled bitterly: "Now the Soviet motherland is surrounded by the enemy, and we are building heavy industry under the threat of the enemy's bayonet! Comrade Kuibyshev, can't you start it?" Brainstorm, think about where there is still potential to increase foreign exchange income? You know, even the poor and backward China has found enough foreign exchange to build heavy industries. How can we be inferior to China? "

Kuibyshev has deep bags under his eyes, and it seems that he has been worrying a lot about the first five-year plan these days.After pondering for a while, he said with a wry smile: "Comrade Stalin, we are on two different paths with China. We rely on ourselves, and the only source of funds for industrialization is the countryside! But China is on a semi-colonial path. Their industrialization Most of the funds come from imperialist capitalists... But the industry we built belongs to the people, while what they built belongs to imperialism, there is no comparison at all!"

Stalin smiled wryly, took out a carved pipe from the drawer, picked a few pinches of tobacco leaves from the cigarette case, put them into the pipe, struck a match, lit the tobacco leaves, and smoked dully.What I think in my heart is China's development ideas. China's current development route is actually similar to that of Russia in the Tsarist Russia era.At that time, Tsarist Russia was a heavy industry developed with investment and loans from imperialist countries, mainly France. Most of the steel plants in Tsarist Russia were invested by French capitalists, and most of Tsarist Russia’s military technology came from foreign companies.But didn't Tsarist Russia also develop into imperialism?Hasn't it also established more than 500 million tons of steel production?Can't you also build battleships?If it weren't for that world war, maybe I wouldn't be able to sit here and lead the country at all, right?Now China is also developing along this line of thinking, and those Chinese can endure hardship and work harder than the Russians. If they are allowed to develop into imperialism...the situation of the Soviet Union will be even more dangerous!So it must be far ahead of China in heavy industry, but where will this foreign exchange come from?Alas... this "socialism in one country" is really hard work!

"How about... let's find a way to strengthen economic cooperation with Japan and see if we can get some foreign exchange from them?" Kuibyshev suddenly reminded:

"I heard that Japan is increasing its reserves of strategic materials, especially oil. Our country is very rich in oil resources. If we borrow some money from Japan for oil development, and then sell the extracted oil to In Japanese..."

Stalin continued to smoke, his eyes rolled, but he didn't speak.

Kuibyshev followed his own train of thought and continued to say: "In fact, not only Japan, but also Germany is short of oil. We can sell oil not only to Japan, but also to Germany! Maybe we can use oil to pay for the two ships. The balance of the battleship. The current oil price seems to be between 750 and 3000 US dollars, [-] million US dollars, which is more than [-] million barrels of oil. This is a piece of cake for the rich oil resources of the Soviet Union Dish. In our first five-year plan, we can give priority to the development of oil. Then export to Germany and Japan, exchange their machines and foreign exchange, so that we have extra foreign exchange that can be used to purchase weapons and equipment. Comrade Stalin , what do you think?"

Stalin couldn't help smiling: "Comrade Kuibyshev, you really deserve to be an economic expert in our Soviet Union! You have thought of such a good solution! Okay, let's do it like this. Exchange oil, Germany and Japan for machines, foreign exchange."

Chapter 0385 Half-Empire, Half-Colony ([-])

January [-], [-] AD.On the outskirts of Moscow, somewhere unknown military airport.

There has just been a heavy snowfall, and this place seems to be a world covered by ice and snow, and the sky and the earth are all white.The cold wind blows, and among the tall and straight pines, the light is like fog.A runway at the airport had been cleared by Soviet engineers, and two small biplanes were parked side by side at one end of the runway.Baranov, Director of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Air Force Directorate; Minister Secretary Natalie, General Manager of Sino-German Aircraft Company Joseph Franz Papp, Chief Engineer of Sino-German Aircraft Manufacturing Company Messerschmidt and others surrounded the two planes.While pointing and pointing, they exchanged views with each other.

One of the two aircraft is the latest Me-1 (F-1) destroyer launched by the Sino-German Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and the other is the I-3 fighter developed and produced by the Soviet Union.Both planes are the latest products manufactured in [-], and the technical data of the two planes are on par at first glance.

Me-1 uses a Star-1 450-horsepower air-cooled radial engine produced by the Sino-German Aircraft Manufacturing Company.The maximum speed is 280 kilometers per hour and the maximum range is 350 kilometers.A semi-metal structure is adopted, that is, the fuselage is supported by a steel pipe structure, and the aluminum plate is used as the skin.The main wing is still made of wooden skeleton, covered with cloth skin, and the overall structure is compact and strong.

The engine used by the Yi-3 fighter is a BMW-6 liquid-cooled engine imitating the German BMW company, and the Soviet code is M-17 engine.The maximum speed is also 280 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range is 585 kilometers.Its fuselage is still made of wood, and the wings and empennage are also covered with cloth skins.

However, the appearance of this Soviet aircraft is very ugly, and the craftsmanship is extremely rough. Compared with the fighter jet manufactured under the strict requirements of German craftsmanship, it seems to be rubbish!In addition, the climb rate and practical ceiling of the Me-1 destroyer far exceed that of the Yi-3. In the flight show just now, the excellent dogfighting performance and flexibility shown by the Me-1 also stabilized the Yi-3. , not to mention the reliable performance of the Star-1 engine.

"Comrade Baranov, the flight show just now has proved to you the excellent performance of the Me-1 destroyer." Papp, the German general manager of the Sino-German Aircraft Company, was standing at the head of the Soviet Air Force Directorate Barano. Beside her husband, he was counting the advantages of Me-1 with his fingers in fluent Russian:

"Me-1 is not only excellent in performance, but also very reliable and strong. Now the Sino-German Aircraft Company is planning to use it as a basis to design light dive bombers and carrier-based aircraft. In fact, there are very few changes that need to be changed. Basically, it hangs With a bomb, it can be used as a dive bomber, and with some modifications, it can be used as an aircraft carrier. If the Soviet Union buys this aircraft, you will have both a destroyer and a dive bomber with excellent performance. If you plan to develop an aircraft carrier... Even carrier-based aircraft are owned!"

Baranov's face was slightly livid. As an air force expert, he could of course tell the pros and cons of these two aircrafts at a glance!In fact, you don't even need to look at it. You can tell that your plane is not as good as theirs just by the German brand.But the gap is so big, he never thought of it!The two aircraft simulated air combat in the aircraft performance just now.If it was a real air battle, the Soviet I-3 fighter jet is now a pile of ashes.I-3's crawling, diving, flipping, turning, etc., are all inferior to others, and it seems that the speed is not as fast as Me-1!Although both have the same data on paper...but the Germans have different standards for paper data than the Soviets.The performance data written by the Germans on paper is generally rigorous and conservative, and can often exceed some in actual use.The Soviet Union is just the opposite. The data on paper are used to fool the leaders, and they are often discounted a lot in actual use.Moreover, Baranov knew in his heart that the I-3 in front of him was carefully selected and carefully inspected N times. If he randomly found one, it might not be able to fly into the sky!

What makes Baranov even more unacceptable is... This Me-1 destroyer with such excellent performance was produced in the aircraft factory in Guangdong, China!Although this factory adopts German management and technology, it is indeed on Chinese soil!Even the engine is made in China!If China and the Soviet Union go to war in the future, the Soviet Air Force may have no chance of winning at all.

On the other end, Luo Yaoguo, Natalie, and Mukelevich, director of the Soviet Red Navy, got together to chat about naval aviation.The eight seaplanes on the two Marx-class battleships ordered by the Soviet Union this time were all produced by China.In addition, Mukelevich also wants to know about the aircraft carrier. China has ordered an aircraft carrier with a displacement of [-] tons from the United States. In addition, another order has been placed to the British businessman Jesson Shipbuilding in Shanghai. factory.

"I said, Comrade Muklevich, as far as I know, the Soviet Union currently has four battleships of the Gangut class, and with the addition of Marx and Engels, there will be six battleships, but there is no aircraft carrier, don't you think Is there a problem?" Luo Yaoguo spoke blunt German, those Soviet revolutionaries might not be able to speak English, but most of them could speak fluent German, and the Polish Mukelevich was no exception.

Mukelevich shook his head regretfully: "Your Majesty, as far as I know, neither France nor Italy has aircraft carriers. Don't they also have several battleships? It can be seen that aircraft carriers are not necessary."

Luo Yaoguo smiled faintly and shook his hand: "Why don't you see that Britain, the United States, and Japan now have many aircraft carriers? These three countries are the real naval powers. If there are no aircraft carriers, it will be difficult for your six battleships to leave the territorial waters of the Soviet Union." Combat. Although with the strong defense of the Karl Marx class, it may not be sunk by the torpedoes or bombs hung on the enemy planes, but the damage can still be done. If the battleship is damaged, it will take several Months to repair, that is to say, battleships will not be able to go to war for several months! Maybe when you repair the battleships, the war will be over. So at present, Britain, the United States, and Japan are equipped with aircraft carriers, and we also have Two aircraft carriers are under construction. Besides, even France and Italy are currently not equipped with aircraft carriers, and they both have an aircraft carrier quota of [-] tons in the "Washington Naval Treaty."

Mukelevich froze for a moment, staring at Luo Yaoguo's face with a pair of brown eyes, as if he wanted to see a hint of conspiracy from it.Luo Yaoguo just smiled, and continued to talk: "Actually, the so-called aircraft carrier is just a product of the Washington Naval Treaty. Article 1 of the treaty stipulates that the aircraft carriers of the signatory countries must not be equipped with a caliber exceeding 8 inches ( 203 mm) naval guns. Article 6 also stipulates that the number of naval guns over 203 inches shall not exceed eight. That’s why there are aircraft carriers like this. But this treaty is not for non-parties like China and the Soviet Union. What constraints, we can install more 280mm naval guns or [-]mm naval guns on aircraft carriers, so that they have more firepower than heavy cruisers! Such aircraft carriers can be used to escort battleship formations, and can also be used by single ships Sortie or pair a fast heavy cruiser with a two-ship sortie to take on the task of breaking diplomatic relations. Right now we are cooperating with Germania Shipyard and Blom Foss Shipyard to develop this new type of aircraft carrier. I don’t know if the Soviet Red Navy has ordered it What about your intention?"

An aircraft carrier with more firepower than a heavy cruiser?Mukelevich took a deep breath, and thought to himself: "Could it be that the Chinese and those German shipyards are really tinkering with this kind of warship? Well, this thing is quite in line with the idea of ​​​​the Germans breaking the war! Those on the aircraft carrier Aircraft bombing battleships may not be effective, and bombing merchant ships is not negotiable! And 280mm naval guns are enough to repel heavy cruisers, and the high speed of aircraft carriers is enough to escape the pursuit of battleships. Finally, as long as the performance of the aircraft on it is good enough, It should not be wiped out by other aircraft carriers...unless the number of opponents is large enough. Such a warship sounds like a good thing, why don't you ask Comrade Stalin to see if we should develop or buy it ourselves?"

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"Use an aircraft carrier... to break diplomatic relations?"

Stalin quietly listened to Mukelevich's speech, picked up the iconic carved pipe, and smoked it.But the bushy eyebrows were tightly frowned, as if thinking hard: "The Chinese want to develop aircraft carriers with heavy naval guns... This news is very important, and our potential ally Japan should pay attention to it. But should we What about the development of aircraft carriers? Comrade Muklevich, what advice does the Red Navy have?"

Hearing Stalin's question, Muklevich glanced quietly at Baranov, director of the Air Force Directorate who was standing side by side with him: "Comrade Stalin, the world's naval powers are developing aircraft carriers, and we seem to need them too." After all, the Red Navy will have a powerful fleet of battleships in the future, and if there is no aircraft carrier escort, it might be messed up by a few small planes, Comrade Baranov, don’t you think so?”

Stalin nodded and glanced at Baranov again: "Aircraft carriers rely on airplanes to fight. I would like to hear the opinion of the Air Force Directorate. In addition, how is your negotiation with the Sino-German Aircraft Company? Their Is Me-1 similar to our Yi-3? Is it necessary to buy it?"

Baranov smiled bitterly: "Ah...Comrade Stalin, our I-3 may not be worse than the Me-1 on paper, but if it really goes to the sky, only two or three planes will be able to match it. A Me-1. So the Air Force Directorate still wants to introduce this type of aircraft. It is best to buy it together with the aircraft factory. Oh, and the most important thing is the engine factory. The engines produced by us... the quality is too high No, to be honest, flying a plane equipped with a domestic engine is really a very dangerous thing.”

By the way, the director of the Air Force General Administration fell to his death on a Soviet-made plane in history, so he escaped the big purge and saved his wife and children. It's really good luck.

Stalin's face darkened slightly, he picked up the pipe and smoked again.Of course, he knew that the current Soviet aircraft were of poor quality, so he would never travel by air.Only two or three of them are worth one Me-1, which is really bad!You must know that the output of the Yi-3 fighter jets is not high, and it can produce more than 100 aircraft a year.According to the internal report of the CCP in the Sino-German Aircraft Company, the designed production capacity of the Sino-German Aircraft Company is 1 Me-[-] destroyers per month!It seems that this aircraft factory can't work without spending a lot of money to import it from Germany.

Baranov paused for a while, thinking about the aircraft carrier: "Comrade Stalin, regarding aircraft carriers, my personal opinion is that we should not listen to the Chinese or the Germans, after all, they themselves have no experience in this area. The Japanese seem to be doing a good job in this regard, why don't we ask them for advice? Maybe we can also order an aircraft carrier from Japan. In addition...we can use the Me-1 to compare with the Japanese aircraft to see whose aircraft It’s better, maybe we can also introduce some Japanese aircraft.”

Stalin pondered for a while with a pipe in his mouth, and said with a smile: "Japanese aircraft carrier? This proposal is good. We can use oil to pay for the purchase of aircraft carriers. In the First Five-Year Plan, we will vigorously develop the oil industry. Comrade Muklevi, the matter of aircraft carriers It's up to you to negotiate with the Japanese, ask to order a smaller aircraft carrier first, plus dozens of aircraft. Oh, and tell the Japanese about China's development of an aircraft carrier equipped with large-caliber naval guns, and study with the Japanese Let’s see if we need to follow up. In addition, we will buy 1 Me-1 destroyers first, and we will buy [-] Star-[-] engines. The introduction of the aircraft factory and the engine factory was carried out by Comrade Baranov and the Germans. Negotiate, tell them we want to pay for planes, engines and aircraft factories with oil."

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The delegation of the Armament Department of the National Government stayed in a luxury hotel in Moscow.Luo Yaoguo and Natalie lived in the most luxurious suite in the hotel, which also had the most bugs.In the living room of the suite, Luo Yaoguo and Natalie were snuggled up on a sofa, and there were two cups of fragrant coffee on the coffee table.

"Natalie, do you think Xiaoying was sent by the CCP to come to me?" Luo Yaoguo was playing with Natalie's plump breasts while talking to her about another woman. It's really...

Natalie glanced at him, with a hint of resentment in her eyes, white jade-like white teeth gently biting her red lips, and said with a half-smile: "If the CCP's agents can tell at a glance, they still don't know what to do. Can it develop so prosperously? If you really want to know if Xiaoying belongs to them, there is only one way... I just don’t know if you are willing to give up?"

"Eh? You mean..."

"Catch it and have a trial."

Natalie smiled lightly, lost her winking eyes again, and said sweetly: "When I return to the country, let Fatty Wu send someone to arrest her in the dungeon of the Military Intelligence Bureau. I will personally interrogate her. from."

Luo Yaoguo frowned: "What kind of trial do you want?"

At this moment, Natalie's body was limp, her voice was sweet and greasy, but what she said was somewhat murderous. She smiled and said, "How else can I judge the law? If you ask nicely, she will tell the truth." I have received special training for interrogation. You can use whips, electric shocks, electric shocks, soldering irons, bamboo sticks to pierce your fingers, and iron nails... There. Uh, in short, you can rest assured Right. Just hand over Qu Ying to me for a few weeks, and tell me everything to be kept.”

Luo Yaoguo broke out in a cold sweat, and stammered, "Natalie...you...you..."

"Why? Distressed? Are you reluctant?"

Natalie's voice was still sweet and pleasant to hear: "I don't think that girl Qu Ying is particularly strong. I think she can say anything after a little torture, so you don't have to worry about breaking it. And... After the training is completed, it must be more obedient than before, so I will keep it obedient and let you eat it in your mouth."

"No way? I think the communists are very strong. They are all powerful and cannot be subdued, and they are rich and cannot be lewd. Uh, of course you are an exception. The main reason is that you are not born well, you are an aristocrat... so you can't bear hardships " Luo Yaoguo put his hands on the pair of towering jade peaks, and his words seemed to be mocking Natalie.