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The Rise of China in the Rebirth of the Republic of China 5200 Volume 2 562 The Painful Stalin

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    "Our country's annual oil production is also very limited. Therefore, our government can only pay 300 tons of crude oil, not even one more ton, and we can only transport it to the Sino-Soviet border by railway" the deputy staff officer of the Soviet Red Army after a brief silence.  The leader bargained without hesitation

    "Three million tons of oil is too little We need at least 700 tons"

    "Four million tons of crude oil, not even one ton more"

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    Five minutes later, under the gaze of Li Guosheng's striking eyes, the Soviet Deputy Chief of Staff had no choice but to nod in agreement with a heartbroken look on his face: "Okay, just six million tons of crude oil. However, this amount is really too big, we need  It takes a week to collect the money before it can be sent by train to the Sino-Soviet border and handed over to your army."

    "Yes, we will make a deal with six million tons of crude oil. However, the delivery location must be determined by us The specific location and delivery method. After the negotiation is over, we will give you a satisfactory answer" Looking at the other party  With a helpless expression on his face, Li Guosheng affirmed without any discussion.

    When the first round of confrontation ended, the Soviet deputy chief of staff couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

    However, what he did not expect was that this was only the beginning of the negotiations, and the price the Soviet government had to pay in this negotiation had also just begun

    After a ten-minute break, the two negotiators once again entered into a fierce confrontation.

    The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Soviet Red Army first said righteously: "Commander-in-Chief Li, now that the war between the two countries has ended, our country's Comrade Stalin hopes that your army will follow international practice and return all our soldiers captured on the battlefield after the war.  Our government¡­¡±

    "International practice" Li Guosheng couldn't help but said with a sarcastic smile on his face.

    Seeing the embarrassed expression on the other party's face, Li Guosheng said without hesitation: "Don't tell me about international practices. Besides, even with these international practices, your Soviet government has not reached a consensus agreement with any country.  .So, between us, there is no so-called international practice to talk about"

    Facing Li Guosheng, who looked like a profiteer, if the Soviet deputy chief of staff did not know what Li Guosheng wanted to achieve through this negotiation, then the deputy chief of staff's decades of military career would have been in vain.

    After looking at Li Guosheng for a full minute, he asked bluntly: "In that case. Commander-in-chief Li, let's get straight to the point What price does the Soviet government need to pay so that your army can capture the number of prisoners on the battlefield?  One hundred thousand soldiers are exchanged for our government. You must know that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers captured by your army have family members in the Soviet Union. Even if your army keeps them all, they who care about their families will not be able to bring much benefit to your army  ¡­¡°

    Li Guosheng smiled and retorted tit for tat: "I cannot agree with what the deputy chief of staff said. Although the families of hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers are in the Soviet Union. But if we promise hundreds of thousands of captured Soviet soldiers: as long as they  If they serve in our country for a certain number of years and the value they create meets the requirements, we will unconditionally release them back to the country. Do you think, under such circumstances, these captured soldiers will still be a group of wastes wasting food? "

    The deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Red Army was once again choked by Li Guosheng's answer and could not say a word.

    After knowing that it was impossible for him to take advantage of Li Guosheng verbally.  The deputy chief of staff wisely shut up.

    After discussing quietly with his deputy for a few minutes, the Soviet deputy chief of staff, sitting directly opposite Li Guosheng, had to ask.

    "I wonder what Commander-in-Chief Li means?"

    "It's very simple. All officers and wounded prisoners of war can be returned to your government. However, ordinary soldiers among the prisoners must follow the rules of our national defense army for treating prisoners of war. After serving in China for five years, they will be returned to your government unconditionally." Li Guosheng thought.  He answered without thinking.

    Under the gaze of Li Guosheng with a smile on his face.  The deputy chief of staff asked very wisely: "I don't know how much our government has to pay to redeem these wounded and captured officers"

    Li Guosheng pointed to Yan Xishan, who was sitting next to him, and responded to the deputy chief of staff in front of him: "The specific negotiations are chaired by Vice Chairman Yan next to me, so you should ask him this question directly"

    Under Li Guosheng¡¯s instructions, Yan Xishan fully utilized the negotiation potential of Shanxi businessmen.

    Before the other party could speak, he took out a forged bill and said with a solemn expression.

    "Before negotiating, I would like to inform your government of the various costs paid by our National Defense Forces in this military war First of all, in the war that lasted for more than a month, a total of 200,000 soldiers of our National Defense Forces were killed (actually killed in action).  More than 115,000 people), and more than 80,000 casualties of various types"

      ¡°It can be said with certainty that so many fallen soldiers and lightly or seriously wounded soldiers were caused by your country¡¯s army¡¯s brazen invasion of our territory. Therefore, the pensions and subsidies required by these fallen soldiers and lightly or seriously wounded soldiers will be provided by your government.  Make an unconditional commitment¡­¡±

    Seeing the stunned expression of the other party, Yan Xishan, who had taken the absolute initiative in front of the great powers for the first time, was in a good mood.

    He continued: "In addition to the unprecedented casualties, the large amount of military expenses and equipment consumed by our national defense forces in the month-long war should of course also be borne by your government"

    "Our preliminary statistics show that during the entire war, the additional military expenditures incurred by our national defense forces, in U.S. dollars, totaled 250 million"

    "Coupled with the pensions and subsidies I just introduced, your government only needs to pay US$500 million to our National Defense Forces to redeem all Far East Army officers captured by our army, including of course your army's Chief of General Staff Tukhache  Fsky.¡±

    "Why don't you grab the $500 million ransom" Seeing Yan Xishan's evil smile, the Soviet deputy chief of staff roared loudly at Yan Xishan like a frantic leopard.

    Yan Xishan, who had full control over the negotiation, did not say a word, and just looked at the other party motionless with a smile on his face.

    Because he knew that as long as tens of thousands of captured Soviet officers at all levels were in hand.  The deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Red Army, who seemed to be full of anger, would sooner or later want to compromise himself, unless he really didn't want these officers.  I don¡¯t want the Chief of General Staff of the Red Army.

    You should know that in order to prevent the other party from giving up the redemption of prisoners of war because the price they asked for was too high, Li Guosheng had summoned all the think tanks for a discussion before the negotiations began.

    The result of the discussion is: As one of the founders of the Soviet government, Tukhachevsky had unprecedented influence in both the Soviet army and the Soviet government.  Coupled with the various involvements of tens of thousands of officers in the Far East Military Region throughout the Soviet Red Army, as long as Stalin gave up redeeming them.  This meant that Stalin gave up the prestige he had accumulated little by little in the Soviet Union over several years, and even threatened his dominance in the Soviet Union.

    Because of this, facing the furious Soviet Deputy Chief of Staff, Yan Xishan dared to sit on Diaoyutai with a smile.

    Sure enough, the deputy chief of staff in front of him had just vented his anger for less than five minutes. With the comfort of his assistant, he returned to his duties without saying a word.

    A small conference room.  As a result, he fell into an awkward silence.

    At this moment, Li Guosheng, who had already prepared to act out a scene with Yan Xishan next to him before the negotiation, suddenly said

    "Since your government does not agree to this method of compensation, we can also change the method. Depending on the rank of the officers, your government will pay different redemption fees to redeem all captured officers from our army"

    Li Guosheng¡¯s suggestion is obviously to give the other party a step down.

    The Soviet deputy chief of staff¡¯s eyes lit up.  Suddenly I remembered the Chinese proverb ¡®bargaining¡¯¡­

    After nodding to Li Guosheng, he asked with interest: "Then our redemption standard is"

    "For ordinary lieutenant-level officers, the uniform fee is US$5,000 per person, and for general-level officers, the uniform fee is US$20,000 per person. As for general-level officers, a major general is US$200,000. A lieutenant general is US$1 million. The chief of general staff of your army  Tukhachevsky. Because his status is too special, our asking price is 10 million US dollars. If nothing else happens, we still have tens of thousands of wounded soldiers from your army. We will not charge a penny for these tens of thousands of wounded soldiers.  , even if it is given to your country for free" Li Guosheng replied with a smile.

    After finishing speaking, without waiting for the other party to react, he ordered Yan Xishan beside him: "Chairman Yan, please work hard. According to the number of officers at all levels captured by our army and the redemption standards I just mentioned, we will immediately  Calculate a total price for the comrades from the Soviet Union and let them refer to it"

    When Yan Xishan called on his subordinates to start making calculations, the Soviet deputy chief of staff sitting opposite also silently made calculations in his letter.

    Soon, a list was sent to Yan Xishan.

    Under the gaze of the Soviet Deputy Chief of Staff, Yan Xishan said with a smile on his face: "The results have come out According to the standards just proposed by the Commander-in-Chief, your government has to pay us a total of 350 million US dollars in redemption.  gold¡­."

    "Compared with the compensation just now, it's a direct burn of 150 million. If your government still doesn't agree, then we really have no choice In addition, in order to understand that your government does not have US dollars and other foreign currencies, our  The requirement is that all the redeemed pounds be converted into gold and delivered to us, which is 350 tons of gold"

    The deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army, who had already decided to bargain with Yan Xishan, immediately replied: "Three hundred and fifty million is still too much, far from it.""With the authorization given to me by Comrade Stalin of our country How about 100 million US dollars"

    In this way, after some hard bargaining, the final result finally appeared.

    The Soviet government paid a price of US$250 million to redeem more than 35,000 Far Eastern Army officers captured by the Wehrmacht.

    Faced with this result, Yan Xishan immediately added: "In accordance with the requirements just now, the redemption fee of 250 million US dollars will be paid in gold, that is, 250 tons of gold"

    "As long as two hundred and fifty tons of gold are handed over to our army, a total of more than 35,000 officers will be released to the Far East"

    The Soviet deputy chief of staff, who had breathed a sigh of relief just now, frowned again.

    You know, in order to turn the Soviet government into a real industrial country, Stalin almost exhausted most of the domestic gold reserves and food.

    The remaining gold reserves in the country have reached their limit. If two hundred and fifty tons are taken away, the deputy chief of staff can be sure that the ruble circulating in the country will depreciate as a result.

    Therefore, the result of using gold to pay the ransom is absolutely unacceptable.

    Facing Yan Xishan, he subconsciously refused: "Our country refuses to pay in gold If your army is the same, we can pay in rubles of the same value"

    "No" Yan Xishan refused without hesitation.

    He said sarcastically to the Soviet Deputy Chief of Staff without hesitation: "Don't forget. We are still in a state of hostility now. Who knows if you will allow us to go to your country to buy us with rubles after you give me so many rubles?"  Something urgently needed¡­.¡±

    See the embarrassed expression on the other person's face.  Yan Xishan, who had already made up his mind, suggested with a smirk on his face: "Since your government does not have gold to pay, I have a suggestion, which is to use mineral resources of equivalent value to pay"

    "Okay" A relaxed expression quickly flashed across the face of the Soviet deputy chief of staff.

    As if he was worried that Yan Xishan would regret it in front of him, he eagerly asked: "I wonder what mineral resources your army wants?"

    "We only want crude oil and logs grown in Siberia" Yan Xishan said with a smile the decision he had already discussed.

    Crude oil, not surprisingly, is the resource most needed by the National Defense Forces at the moment.

    Although six million tons of crude oil have been obtained from the Soviet government, in the absence of other sources of crude oil, the more crude oil the better for Li Guosheng.

    As for the logs growing in Siberia.  At present, it has only one use, which is to produce a large number of sleepers needed to build railways.

    In Li Guosheng¡¯s long-standing plan, only by building railways to Outer Mongolia, Lake Baikal, and even major cities in the Far East can the lost land just recovered by the National Defense Forces truly become Chinese land.

    So many railways consume rails and logs.  It must be an astronomical number.

    Rail tracks can be produced by major domestic steel plants. However, if snowy railway sleepers are still obtained from the Northeast, it will not only cause huge economic pressure on the Northeast, but also cause damage to the forest resources in the Northeast.

    Therefore, Li Guosheng naturally set his sights on the Siberian region of the Soviet Union, which has rich forest resources.

    After listening to Yan Xishan¡¯s answer.  The Soviet deputy chief of staff was suddenly startled.  In his eyes, faced with such a good opportunity, the first resource that the other side wanted to obtain from the Soviet Union must be iron ore and coal mines.

    However, I didn¡¯t expect that the other party would once again focus on the crude oil that had been obtained, and that¡¯s not all.  I also focused on the logs that, in my opinion, had almost no use

    Since the other party wants these things so much.  Of course the Soviet Deputy Chief of Staff would not refuse.  Without thinking, he answered: "There is no problem with the logs. There are plenty of logs in Siberia. We can give you as much as your army wants However, I have just given your army six million tons of crude oil on behalf of the Soviet government, and our country's annual  Crude oil production is also very limited. Do you think it can be replaced by other resources, such as iron ore and coal mines"

    "No, we only want oil and logs Otherwise, your government will pay us gold. Otherwise, there is no need to continue this negotiation. Because, in this negotiation, our army has made concessions many times, and it absolutely cannot  Continue to make concessions." Yan Xishan refused with a rare categorical expression.

    Then, without waiting for the other party to react, he continued: "Of the 250 million U.S. dollars, we want logs worth 50 million U.S. dollars, and crude oil worth 200 million U.S. dollars"

    Under Li Guosheng¡¯s coercion to expand the war, the Soviet Deputy Chief of Staff had no choice but to once again take out six million tons of crude oil and logs worth $50 million from the Wehrmacht.Return captured officers.

    Just when the Soviet deputy chief of staff was preparing to leave Shenyang with a secret agreement, the oil distribution plan was also relaxed.

    "A total of 12 million tons of crude oil must be transported by the Soviet army within half a year Two million tons of crude oil will be transported to Outer Mongolia via the Siberian Railway for storage. After the Outer Mongolia refinery is established, it will be refined on site.  , supplying the Armored Group Army with daily training"

    "Five million tons of crude oil were transported to Qingdao Port by sea and handed over to Shandong Refinery for production and reserve"

    "Five million tons of crude oil were transported by sea to the Vladivostok military port and handed over to the Northeast Refinery for production and reserve"

    Stalin¡¯s official residence in Moscow, Soviet Union. After learning that the deputy chief of staff had returned successfully, Stalin, who had been nervous for several days, breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously.

    In his eyes, as long as the battle between the Soviet Union and the Chinese National Defense Forces can be minimized, the various threats that this defeat may bring to the Soviet government will be reduced to a minimum.

    However, when the deputy chief of staff delivered the contents of the agreement to Stalin, Stalin's facial expression that had just relaxed became solemn again.  At the same time, an expression full of heartache appeared on Stalin's face.

    "Twelve million tons of crude oil is enough to account for 40% of my country's total annual crude oil production. How can the appetite of the National Defense Force be so big Why does a small local army need so much oil"

    "Also, have you ever considered what will happen to domestic industrial production after we produce 12 million tons of crude oil in half a year? Are we going to let the large number of cars and tanks equipped in the army lie down because they have lost fuel?  On the battlefield¡­¡±

    Facing Stalin¡¯s anger, the aggrieved deputy chief of staff could only tell the story of his negotiation process in Shenyang.

    When he learned from the Deputy Chief of Staff that the purpose of this negotiation by the National Defense Forces was to obtain the crude oil they urgently needed, Stalin felt not only angry but also aggrieved.

    As the head of a big country, Stalin felt aggrieved to be threatened by the commander-in-chief of a local army.

    Of course, after the frustration, there will be heartache, heartache for more than 10 million tons of oil
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