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"Minister Tang, have you read the embassy's domestic briefing?"

Tang Hua: "I see. You want to tell us about the preparations for the sixth campaign?"

Chapter 216, Teaching the President of the Council of Ministers to Use a Computer

"Minister Tang, in the briefing the day before yesterday, it was stated that the sixth campaign is no longer in the planning and preparation stage, but has entered the battle preparation stage."

Tang Hua turned his head to look at Commander Xiao, not knowing what to say for a while.

No, I went to Tula and Smolensk in the past four or five days, and Boss Peng and Boss Ye are ready to start...

But it's not a big deal. According to the scale of the sixth campaign planned by the Military Commission and Zhisi in March and April, as long as the ammunition, supplies, weapons, and reserves are in place, it's fine to fight earlier and later.

If there is any time requirement for the sixth campaign, it should start before September 1952.As long as the campaign is launched before September 9, the purpose of the campaign can be met.

The purpose of the campaign can be summed up as "Operation Fighting the Stick", which is to fight a shallow and deep offensive war on the western front and cooperate with the eastern front, weakening or even destroying the troops of the South Korean army reorganized by the U.S. military.

Now there are three South Korean trainers on the front line of the Korean peninsula. The Volunteer Army also calls them 21000-man divisions, and the South Korean divisions that have not been reorganized by the United States are called 15000-man divisions.These two types of divisions are not just different in number. The trainers are trained through the full training system of the US military. The direct trainers are the first division of the US Marine Corps. Therefore, their combat effectiveness is greatly improved compared with those of non-trainers. In March 1952, the first batch of three trainers went into battle, and the volunteers immediately felt that the combat effectiveness of the new South Korean army was indeed different on the front line.

These three trainers returned to China from Hokkaido, and the new three divisions went to Hokkaido from South Korea. The training period was 6 months, that is, they returned to South Korea in early September 1952 to fight.

The main goal of the Volunteer Army is to attack the South Korean Army, especially the three trainers currently on the battlefield.The sixth campaign was not a full-line and deep offensive campaign aimed at liberating all of Korea, but an offensive campaign aimed at annihilating the vital forces of the United Nations Army.If the campaign is launched before September 9, then the United Nations forces on the Korean peninsula will have 1 US divisions, 7 Commonwealth division, 1 South Korean training divisions, and five or six South Korean non-training divisions with negligible combat effectiveness.If this battle can bury two South Korean trainers, coupled with the indiscriminate attack on the U.S. and Commonwealth forces, the U.S. and South Korea have spent so much effort training their troops in the past year, and the results of teaching them how to fight will be in vain.

Tang Hua: "The action is so fast....The chairman and Mr. Peng are very determined. I don't know if we can catch up with the sixth battle when we return to China."

Commander Xiao: "It's hard to say. When we came back from the fleet visit, you said that there is a PT-76 for us, and the discussion is almost over. If you go to Stalingrad again, it will take four or five to say nothing. Days, then go back to Moscow, come back and chat with the Soviet Defense Commissioner for a few days, take the train back to China, and another 10 days..."

Luo Shunchu: "In the sixth battle, the navy's torpedo boat units in Dalian and Weihai raised their alert, and went out to sea from time to time to help build momentum. The battle is mainly fought by the army and air force. Our navy... our navy will make big moves in the future, but it is estimated that It may have been 1954 or 1955 to appear on the screen. It is the right way to practice internal skills now."

Tang Hua nodded.Commander Xiao and Deputy Commander Luo are right. From the perspective of their navy, it is difficult to intervene in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.The recapture of Yamato Island off the west coast of North Korea last year was done by the Air Force and the ground forces of the Volunteer Army.Of course, the chairman gave the navy a task, and the task is very important, to win Taiwan.However, the Navy has two to three years to prepare, follow the steps to complete the preparation step by step, and now you can ignore the North Korean affairs.

Tang Hua: "The sixth battle will definitely involve Hongqi-2 air defense missiles. Air-to-ground electronic countermeasures may start in May. I don't know how Li Qiang is controlling the front line, and whether he will suffer from arm wrestling with the U.S. Air Force. Except for air defense missiles , and... in short, a lot of surprises."

Commander Xiao: "If the sixth campaign is successful, we can reduce the troops and military expenditure in North Korea accordingly, and even the truce negotiations in North Korea will usher in a turning point. This is a good thing for the navy. Now, we can start fighting in the southeast coast earlier and get more funds and manpower.”

Tang Hua: "There is this advantage. But the sixth battle does not necessarily mean that the Korean armistice negotiations will definitely sign an agreement, but it is very likely that we will continue to toss and toss, but the more painful it is to fight the United Nations Army, the more beneficial it is to us. Thinking about it this way, I seem to be even more anxious, can I contact the embassy to get a plane..."

"No. You and Deputy Commander Luo and I are all at the level of 'don't fly if there is nothing urgent' named by the Prime Minister."

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Well, then slowly climb the Trans-Siberian Railway again.

And we can't go back now. The PT-76 of a regiment has to inspect first and then sign the contract. We have to wait.Ambassador Zhang and Director Wang Wenbo, who was in charge of trade with the Soviet Union, made a big electronic export deal to the Soviet Union. The embassy in the Soviet Union invited Tang Hua to hold a celebration party together—it was also a meeting for the next work.

"One hundred and five T52s! Director Wang, you have worked hard. ... This is more than 7000 million rubles, and it is just a trade order confirmed in June. There are 19 in May, 23 in April, and [-] in March. There were also some in February, and this year’s computer export volume must have exceeded [-] units, and it may break the record of [-] units. I think Minister Ye should give you an award this year.”

Wang Wenbo: "Where, these orders are basically from the Soviet government and central agencies in Moscow. I just sell door-to-door in Moscow department by department. My group has never left Moscow, so it is not hard. And before we sold T51 It has a good reputation with T50, so in general it is relatively smooth."

These more than 100 T52s were basically bought by Soviet government agencies.There are 10 industrial committees, 6 energy committees, 7 transportation and post and telecommunications committees, 15 planning and budget committees, 11 housing, public utilities and urban affairs committees, 7 aviation industry departments, and 3 oil industry department...

Tang Hua: "Since the foreign trade order has been signed, we should immediately notify the country and ask Vice Premier Chen to arrange production. The factory of the Ministry of Electronics Industry has about 20 units in stock, and the rest will be produced one after another, but delivery within three months should be no problem. .”

Ambassador Zhang: "Because the export of electronic industrial products continues to rise this year, the Prime Minister has instructed the Ministry of Trade to set up a new company to operate the export of electronic products. It may be called China Electronics Import and Export Corporation. If everything goes well, this year It will be established in September.”

Tang Hua: "I'm also thinking about this issue. The current idea is to set up two companies, one to operate the export of consumer electronics products. The so-called consumer electronics products are not a production tool, but used for Personal consumption. The company’s products will not involve our or the Soviet Union’s major military technology secrets, so they can be exported to the West through gray channels under the condition of patents first. For example, radios and microphones. In fact, these two products have quietly passed through Hong Kong in Guangdong The port is exporting to the west. Another company can be called China Precision Instrument Import and Export Corporation, which exports more important electronic products. The Precision Instrument Import and Export Corporation may be divided into two departments, A and B. Department A sells computers like T52 equipment, and Division B sells some of the more sensitive equipment."

Ambassador Zhang: "In this way, less important... consumer electronics products can be sold more widely."

Wang Wenbo: "When it comes to radios, our foreign trade comrades have divided into three groups to do publicity and sales in various parts of the Soviet Union, and put samples in many department stores for the Soviet people to try. In fact, the results of feedback over the past few months show that radios are very popular. Welcome, but the supply and marketing system in the Soviet Union has its own rules of operation. People want to buy and commodity departments want to buy. There are many procedures in between. So now only a few thousand units are sold in Moscow and Leningrad. Orders have not been placed in the republics, especially in remote areas. ... I hope that the trade of radios can be started in the second half of this year. But the most fundamental thing is to slowly shorten the response time of consumer electronics products."

Tang Hua: "Indeed, the export of computers has been a fast channel for signing, paying and ordering since 1950, and the export of other commodities is relatively slow. But Director Wang, you should continue to stay in Moscow and don't run around. There are still many Soviet government agencies. Woolen cloth."

Wang Wenbo: "Haha, I know. I will continue to do door-to-door sales."

The current presidium of the Soviet Council of Ministers, headed by Comrade Stalin, has more than 50 or almost 60 ministries under it...

This is not over yet, there are still 27 ministerial-level committees of the Council of Ministers, such as the State Planning Commission, the National Construction Commission, and so on.

Nor was the Council of Ministers the entirety of the Soviet Union's government apparatus.There are more than a dozen committees under the Union Academy of the Soviet Union.

In addition to the Union House, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union also has the House of Peoples.

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR also has its own institutions, such as the General Office of the Presidium, the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Presidium, and so on.

Now it's the 50's and that's pretty rare.When Gorbachev came up in the 80s, there were 74 ministries under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, such as the Ministry of Automobile Industry, the Ministry of Natural Gas Industry, the Ministry of Aviation Industry, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Machine Manufacturing, the Ministry of Light Industry, the Food Industry and the Ministry of Daily Equipment, Animal Husbandry and Feed The production machinery manufacturing department... is so bloated that it is about to ascend to the sky.

Therefore, it is nothing to sell more than 100 computers now, and slowly develop the market, there is still a big gap.

……

"Hello, Chairman Stalin."

Tang Hua held out his hand.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, Minister of Defense, and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin shook Tang Hua's hand.

The Council of Ministers of the USSR is roughly analogous to our Council of Ministers/State Council, and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers is analogous to the Prime Minister.So Stalin is now the general secretary and prime minister.

Of the 6 T105 computers sold in June, 52 were ordered by ministries under the Soviet Council of Ministers.The Secretary's Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers also bought one. This one was given the highest priority. After the order was placed, Director Wang of the Ministry of Trade delivered it from the warehouse.

Before a large number of orders came, the office clerks of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union needed to learn how to use the T52 computer. This preemptive version of the computer could just be used as a teaching aid.

Unexpectedly, Stalin came to try the computer. — This computer was supposed to be used by his secretary.

The Chinese comrades here must improve their standards. The original computer basic operation instructors were afraid that they would be numb if they saw Stalin, so Tang Hua and Zhang Wentian came to sit in charge.

"We sent hundreds of thousands of tons of steel to Chinese comrades, and the Chinese comrades gave back small TVs."

Stalin said something half-jokingly.

"Steel and silicon wafers are the crystallization of modern industry," Tang Hua replied, "A powerful country must be built on steel, but it cannot lack silicon. Only the combination of steel and silicon can improve our productivity. to unprecedented levels.”

Tang Hua asked Stalin to sit on the chair in front of the monitor.Of course you can't teach computers, binary, and digital logic to seminary dropouts...

"Since the Industrial Revolution, human industrial production has undergone tremendous changes. The labor productivity of a worker has increased ten times or even a hundred times compared to before the Industrial Revolution. However, the efficiency of office clerical work has not developed so fast. The most basic production The tools are still paper and pen, there is no essential difference from 300 years ago, or in other words, since the Chinese invented paper, the labor production method in the office has not changed..."

Tang Hua directly asked Stalin to try calling out the command to read the file on the computer.

"This is a virtual document from Arkhangelsk. After you entered the command just now, the computer displayed this document on the screen from the memory..."

"Unlike the paper documents we got, this table can be reordered. If you want to sort the industrial output value of the state jurisdiction from large to small, you only need to output this command; if you want to sort by population, enter this Order……"

Stalin, who was wearing presbyopic glasses, pressed the letters on the keyboard to enter commands with one finger, and then watched the changes on the screen.Stalin began to scroll through the screen continuously, turning over a dozen pages in a row, until the data read into the computer memory was finished, and a new part of the data was automatically read from the tape drive.

After reading the briefing, according to Tang Hua's instructions, he entered a sentence of instructions at the end of the document, pressed the print button, and the report and the one-sentence instruction written by Stalin were printed out.

"Now you sign your name here, and the document has been approved by you."