Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Rise of China

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

"300 million tons of oil is too little... We need at least [-] tons...."

"400 million tons of crude oil, not a ton more..."

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Five minutes later, under the watchful eyes of Li Guosheng, the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army had no choice but to nod in agreement with a painful expression on his face: "Okay, just 5 million tons of crude oil. However, this amount is too large, we need a After a week of raising time, it can be sent to the Sino-Soviet border by train and handed over to your army."

"Yes, the transaction will be made with 600 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 your country a satisfactory answer..." Looking at the other party's face Li Guosheng affirmed the helpless expression on the face without any discussion.

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

However, what he didn't expect was that this was only the beginning of the negotiation, and the price paid by the Soviet government in this negotiation had only just begun...

After a 10-minute break, the two negotiators entered into a fierce confrontation again.

The deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Red Army first said righteously: "Commander Li, since the war between the two countries has ended, Comrade Stalin of our country hopes that your army will follow international practice and return all our soldiers captured on the battlefield after the war is over. Our government..."

"International practice..." Li Guosheng couldn't help but said with a mocking smile flashing across his face.

See the embarrassment on the other person's face.Li Guosheng said without hesitation: "Don't tell me about international practices, let alone. Even with these international practices, your Soviet government has not reached an agreement with any country. Therefore, there is no so-called agreement between us. International practice can say..."

Facing Li Guosheng with the expression of a profiteer, if the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet army is not clear about what Li Guosheng wants to achieve through this negotiation, the deputy chief of staff's decades of military career will be in vain.

After looking at Li Guosheng for a full minute, he asked bluntly: "In this case, Commander Li, let's get straight to the point... What price does the Soviet government have to pay so that your army can kill 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 will not bring much benefit to your army because they care about their families... ..."

Li Guosheng smiled and retorted tit-for-tat: "I can't agree with the words of the deputy chief of staff. Although the family members of hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers are in the Soviet Union. However, if we promise to the hundreds of thousands of captured Soviet soldiers: as long as they After serving a certain number of years in our country and the value created meets the requirements, we will unconditionally release the other party back to the country. Do you think that under such circumstances, these captured soldiers will still be a group of waste that wasted food in vain?"

The deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Red Army was once again choked by Li Guosheng's answer, unable to utter a word.

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

After discussing with the deputy next to him in a low voice for a few minutes, the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army who was sitting directly opposite Li Guosheng had no choice but to ask.

"I don't know what Commander-in-Chief Li means?"

"It's very simple. All the officers and wounded among the prisoners of war can be returned to your government. However, the ordinary soldiers among the prisoners will all be returned to your government unconditionally after five years of service in China according to the rules of the Chinese National Defense Forces for treating prisoners of war," Li Guosheng thought. He answered without thinking.

Under the gaze of the smiling Li Guosheng.The deputy chief of staff asked very wisely: "I don't know how much our government will have 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 negotiation will be presided over by Vice Chairman Yan next to me. So, you should ask him this question directly..."

Under Li Guosheng's explanation.Yan Xishan directly brought into full play the negotiating potential of Shanxi businessmen.

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

"Before the negotiation, let me inform your government of the various prices 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 20 soldiers were killed in our National Defense Forces (actually killed in battle More than 11 people), more than [-] people with various injuries..."

"It can be said with certainty that so many dead soldiers and lightly wounded were caused by your army's brazen invasion of our territory. Therefore, the pensions and subsidies needed by these dead soldiers and lightly wounded will be provided by your government Unconditionally undertake..."

Seeing the stunned expression on the opponent's face, 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, during the month-long war, the large amount of military expenditure and equipment consumed by our National Defense Forces during the war should of course be borne by your government..."

"According to our preliminary statistics: During the entire war, the additional military expenditures of our National Defense Forces, if calculated in US dollars, totaled 5000 million..."

"In addition to the pensions and subsidies I just introduced, your government only needs to pay [-] million U.S. dollars to our National Defense Forces to redeem all the officers of the Far East Army captured by our army, including the Chief of Staff of your army, Tuhache, of course. Fowski."

"The ransom of [-] million U.S. dollars, why don't you grab it..." Seeing Yan Xishan's smirk, the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet army roared at Yan Xishan like a mad leopard.

Yan Xishan, who fully grasped the initiative of the negotiation, didn't say a word, 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 doesn't want these officers, he doesn't want the chief of staff of the Red Army.

To know.In order to prevent the other party from really abandoning the redemption of prisoners of war because their asking price is too high, before the negotiation begins.Li Guosheng has called all the think tanks for a discussion.

The result of the discussion was: Tukhachevsky, as one of the founders of the Soviet government, had unprecedented influence both in the Soviet army and in the Soviet government.Coupled with the involvement of tens of thousands of officers in the Far Eastern Military Region in the entire Soviet Red Army, as long as Stalin gave up redeeming them, it meant that Stalin gave up the prestige he had accumulated in the Soviet Union little by little over the years, and even threatened the Soviet Union. His dominance in the USSR.

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

really.The deputy chief of staff in front of him had just vented for less than 5 minutes, and under the comfort of his assistant, he sat down again and did not say a word.

Because of this, the small conference room fell into an embarrassing silence.

At this moment, Li Guosheng, who had already prepared to play a scene with Yan Xishan beside him before the negotiation, suddenly said...

"Since your government does not agree with this method of compensation, we can change another method. According to the size of the officer's rank, your government will pay different ransom money to redeem all captured officers from our army..."

Li Guosheng's suggestion obviously gave the opponent a step down.

The eyes of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army lit up.Suddenly remembered a Chinese saying 'bargaining'...

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

"Ordinary lieutenant-level officers are uniformly priced at 20 US dollars per person, and school-level officers are uniformly priced at 100 US dollars per person. As for general-level officers, a major general is 1000 US dollars, and a lieutenant general is [-] million US dollars. Chevsky. Because our status is too special, our asking price is [-] million US dollars. If nothing else, we still have tens of thousands of your wounded in our hands, and we won’t charge any money for these tens of thousands of wounded. I gave it to your country..." Li Guosheng replied with a smile.

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

When Yan Xishan called all his subordinates to start calculations, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army who was sitting across from him also silently calculated in the letter.

Soon, a list was sent to Yan Xishan.

Under the gaze of the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army, Yan Xishan said with a smile on his face: "The result has come out... According to the standard proposed by the commander-in-chief just now, your government will pay us a total of 5000 million US dollars in ransom money." . . . "

"Compared with the compensation just now, it directly burned 5000 million. If your government still doesn't agree, then we really have nothing to do... In addition, in order to understand that your government does not have foreign currencies such as US dollars, our request Yes, all the redemption catties will be exchanged for gold and delivered to us, that is, 350 tons of gold..."

The deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army, who had already negotiated with Yan Xishan, immediately replied: "5000 million, [-] million is still too much, far exceeding the authorization given to me by Comrade Stalin in our country... how about [-] million dollars.... .”

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

The Soviet government redeemed more than 5000 Far Eastern Army officers captured by the Wehrmacht at a price of 5000 million U.S. dollars.

Faced with this result, Yan Xishan immediately added: "Still according to the request just now, the redemption money of 5000 million US dollars is all paid in gold, that is, 250 tons of gold..."

"As long as 250 tons of gold are handed over to our army, a total of more than [-] officers will be sent back to the Far East..."

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

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

At present, the remaining gold reserves in the country have reached their limit. If 250 tons are taken away, the deputy chief of staff can be sure that the ruble circulating in the country will definitely depreciate.

Therefore, paying the ransom in gold is absolutely unacceptable.

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

"No..." Yan Xishan refused without hesitation.

Facing the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army, he sarcastically said without hesitation: "Don't forget, we are still in a state of hostility. Who knows after you give me so many rubles. Will you allow us to take rubles to your country to buy us? something urgently needed..."

Seeing the embarrassed expression on the other party's face, Yan Xishan, who had already made up his mind, suggested with a smirk: "Since your government doesn't have gold for payment. I have a proposal, that is to use equivalent mineral resources Make payment...."

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

It was as if he was worried that Yan Xishan would repent in front of him.He eagerly asked: "I don't know what mineral resources your army wants?"

"We only need crude oil and logs grown in Siberia..." Yan Xishan said with a smile on his already discussed decision.

Crude oil, unsurprisingly, is the resource most needed by the Wehrmacht at this moment.

Although 600 million tons of crude oil has been obtained from the Soviet government, the more crude oil is definitely the better for Li Guosheng in the absence of other sources of crude oil.

As for the logs grown in Siberia, there is currently only one use for them, which is to produce a large number of sleepers needed for the construction of railways.

In Li Guosheng's long-term plan, only the railway can be built to Outer Mongolia and Lake Baikal.Even if it reaches major cities in the Far East, the lost land just recovered by the National Defense Forces can truly become Chinese land.

With so many railways, the consumption of rails and logs must be astronomical.

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

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

After listening to Yan Xishan's answer.The deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army was taken aback for a moment.In his eyes, facing such a good opportunity, the first resources the opponent wanted to obtain from the Soviet Union must be iron ore and coal mines.

However, he did not expect that the other party would once again focus on the crude oil he had already obtained.Not only that, but he also focused on the logs that, in his opinion, had little effect...

Since the other party wants these things so much.Of course, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army would not refuse.Without even thinking about it, he replied: "There is no problem with logs. Siberia has plenty of logs. We can give you as much as your army wants... It's just that I have just given 600 million tons of crude oil to your army on behalf of the Soviet government, and our country's annual crude oil The output is also very limited, you see, can you switch to other resources, such as iron ore and coal mines..."

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

Then, without waiting for the other party's reaction, he continued to speak: "Out of the 5000 million US dollars, we want logs worth 5000 million US dollars, and crude oil worth [-] million US dollars..."

Under the threat of Li Guosheng not hesitate to expand the war, the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army had to take out 600 million tons of crude oil and logs worth 5000 million US dollars again to redeem the captured officers from the National Defense Forces.

Just as the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet army was about to leave Shenyang with a secret agreement, the oil distribution plan was also loosened.

"A total of 1000 tons of crude oil must be transported by the Soviet army within half a year...of which 200 tons of crude oil will be transported to Outer Mongolia via the Trans-Siberian Railway for storage. Panzer Army conducts daily training...."

"500 million tons of crude oil is shipped to Qingdao Port by sea, and handed over to Shandong Oil Refinery for production and storage..."

"500 million tons of crude oil are transported by sea to the military port of Vladivostok, and handed over to the Northeast Oil Refinery for production and storage..."

Stalin's official residence in Moscow, the Soviet Union, after learning the news that the deputy chief of staff returned smoothly, Stalin, who had been nervous for several days, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

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

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

"Two million tons of crude oil is 1000% of our country's total annual crude oil production. How can the National Defense Force have such a big appetite... What does he need so much oil for a small local army..."

"Also, have you ever considered that after we produce 1000 to [-] million tons of crude oil within half a year, what will happen to domestic industrial production? Is it possible that a large number of cars and tanks equipped in the army will all lie on the battlefield due to the loss of fuel? superior…."

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

When he learned from the deputy chief of staff that the purpose of the National Defense Forces through this negotiation was to obtain the crude oil they urgently needed, Stalin felt aggrieved besides anger.

As the head of a big country, he was threatened by the commander-in-chief of a local army, which made Stalin feel aggrieved.

Of course, after being aggrieved, there is heartache, heartache for more than 1000 million tons of oil... (To be continued..)