After sending off the Japanese comrades such as Hitoshi Kuroshima, the meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee continued.

"After reaching an agreement with the Russian Communist Party this time, I looked at the Russian Communist Party as if it had been accomplished. The Russian Communist Party does not seek allies, but implements different ways of cooperation for different situations. Zhang Yu praised the performance of the Russian Communist Party.

"Japan is now clinging to the Anglo-Japanese alliance and will not let go, is this a must rely on force to threaten other countries?" Shang Yuan praised Japan's diplomatic efforts at the Paris Peace Conference, but Japan's latest choice also made him feel quite regretful.

Chen Ke did not want to discuss too much on the superficial aspects of these issues, he said: "Comrade Berkov brought the news that the Russian Communist Party is ready in principle to agree with us on a new state border. ”

"Isn't Comrade Hua Xiongmao struggling to push forward?" Chen Tianhua said with a smile. Being able to avoid all-out war with a party that also believes in Marxism, Chen Tianhua is naturally quite supportive.

"Comrade Mu Husan has almost arrived at the predetermined area. However, we have not reached the old border for hundreds of years, and the difficulties are still very great. Chen Ke replied.

The Far East and Siberia are indeed vast, but this is a real bitter cold. It was so bitter that even the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army could not complain about it. Bitter cold, mountains, forests, swamps, wilderness. According to the Air Force, the scenery is beautiful. But it was from the sky, when I walked into the mountains and forests, that I realized how hard it was.

"It's still the same sentence, steelmaking, railroad construction!" Needless to say, You Gou emphasized the established policy. The basis of the industrial rise of the United States, and even of Europe, is the railroad network. Germany has one of the strongest industries in Europe, as well as one of the best and densest rail networks in Europe.

"Over the years, our construction has been focused on infrastructure construction and heavy industry, right?" Shang Yuan asked.

"There's also a big part of it in imports and exports." Qi Huishen added, "Almost a quarter of the raw materials of our light industry are imported. The last time I looked through the stats, it was close to a third. ”

"It's okay, Russia will also be a big supplier of raw materials in the future." Chen Ke replied calmly.

"Now that the international market is in a depression, are we making enough money in World War I?" Chen Tianhua is quite worried about the future situation. The more he was able to look at the world, the more Chen Tianhua discovered that the whole of China was actually built on a peculiar situation in terms of integration into the world trade system.

While the world needs Chinese goods, China is also desperately importing the world's raw materials. At this time, it can be seen that Chen Ke's layout thinking in the past ten years is unusually clear, that is, to develop trade and improve employment opportunities without debts. So far, this line of thinking has really led to China's rapid development. However, such a development gives people the feeling of "being controlled by others".

Chen Tianhua said slowly: "I didn't understand what kind of system the colonial system was, because we were bullied, so we felt that the colonial system was a crime. Why do I now think that the colonial system is not without inherent rationality? ”

Chen Ke couldn't help laughing, to have this kind of thought, it shows that Chen Tianhua has indeed made real progress, he replied: "Everyone wants to get a bigger raw material production area, everyone wants to get a bigger commodity sales market." This is naturally an intrinsically justified choice. However, imperialism has no future, and everyone will certainly be able to profoundly understand this in the future. ”

"How much later?" Zhang Yu said jokingly.

"It won't be too long, this year and next year, imperialism will start selling nooses." Chen Ke is quite confident in this, "The economic crisis is once in ten years. This economic crisis has already begun. ”

"Who's going to sell the noose this time?" You Yu said expectantly.

Chen Ke didn't know who would come to the door, history has changed so much, it is not unusual for anyone to come to the door, "Comrades Shang Yuan and Zhang Yu have already contacted many countries at the Paris Peace Conference, and the seeds have been planted, waiting to slowly grow into a towering tree." We don't have to worry about it. However, Kolchak has already sent people to contact us and want to go to Japan through our territory in order to make a comeback. I would like to discuss this matter with my comrades. ”

"Is there any big oil and water?" You Wei was very curious, Chen Ke spoke so calmly, there must be something greasy in it.

"It is said that Kolchak brought out the gold from the tsar's treasury." Chen Ke replied, and without waiting for a major change in the faces of the comrades, Chen Ke continued, "The problem is that the number of Kolchak's gang is as high as one million. They are all extremely hostile to the Russian Communist Party. So these people can't be very friendly to us. You don't have to fight these gold ideas anymore. It's best to have them pull out some of them, and it's not realistic to get them all. ”

"How much gold?" You's eyes are already shining.

"Maybe four or five hundred tons, right?" Chen Ke replied.

The eyes of all the Standing Committee members suddenly became bright, and the conference room became quiet.

"Hey, hey! You don't have the idea of killing people and buying goods, right? The silence frightened Chen Ke.

Even though Chen Ke admonished him, the comrades remained silent. What the BJP lacks most is hard currency, and although fiat currency can be extremely circulating, a currency backed by precious metals is obviously more attractive. The Ministry of Finance has made several proposals to issue gold and silver dollar bills as collateral. It was later vetoed by the Politburo. At that time, the BJP's own amount of gold and silver was very limited.

After the First World War, China's gold and silver reserves increased rapidly. Moreover, after the reunification of China, the renminbi has now been exchanged for a large amount of gold and silver, and the Ministry of Finance has once again proposed the issuance of gold yuan bills and silver dollar bills. The reason is also very sufficient: "With the improvement of the people's living standards, the quantity of commercial grain that can be used as collateral is not increasing, but decreasing. Now may be the time to change the renminbi collateral. ”

There is no way to pledge heavy industrial products, unless you can hoard steel and make a profit by buying and selling. Otherwise, how many tons of steel do the people want to put in their homes? The most profitable light industrial products, however, have adopted a mode of distorting supply and demand in daily necessities because China's resources are tilted towards heavy industry. The forced reduction of the prices of daily necessities has directly led to great problems in monetary policy. The whole country is in a situation of deflation.

Fortunately, the People's Party has always paid attention to foreign trade, and with the shot of the First World War, the economy of the whole country can still develop at a high speed. Before World War I, the People's Party (BJP) adopted industrial transformation in a timely manner and adjusted the proportion of investment, but the external impact was not strong. Even so, all departments are facing a shortage of money. The Ministry of Finance was forced to jump up and down, and even lobbied members of the Politburo and Politburo Standing Committee.

After laying out the facts, reasoning, and even repeatedly discussing and analyzing Chen Ke's previous economic policies, the rhetoric of the Ministry of Finance has made people feel that they have made great progress. If a few hundred tons of gold could be obtained from Kolchak, the possibility of issuing gold and silver dollar bills would be greatly increased. Other ministries may be able to ignore this for a while, but You You, who is in charge of the industrial sector, cannot turn a blind eye to it.

"It's absolutely not going to work to change the current economic policy." Chen Ke replied immediately. The economic situation facing the People's Party now is much better than it was in the first 30 years of New China. Just one coconut is bought and sold, two billion buttons a year, even if one button can save one gram of cotton, two billion buttons can save 2,000 tons of cotton. How much cloth can be spun from these two thousand tons of cotton? How much employment can such an industrial chain drive?

"I know how tough this stage is. It's not about going through, it's about getting through! It's going to be in dire straits. Chen Ke said. In Chen Ke's time and space, many people use the economic achievements of the last 30 years to negate the policies of the first 30 years. Chen Ke felt that this was complete nonsense. In 1949, China was an agrarian country, and by the next 30 years, China was already a semi-industrial country with a rudimentary industrial system. No worse industrial country can match than the best agricultural country. Otherwise, Argentina was once one of the top 10 powers in the world, why did it enter the point of bankruptcy several times in the second half of the 20th century? What kind of foreign trade did New China have in the first 30 years? In the current time and space, the People's Party is trying its best to improve the living standards of the entire country in many industries, even as a "high-tech" country, exchanging industrial products for raw materials.

"According to the latest population statistics, our national population is almost 600 million. Now there are only 2 billion people in the world, and we account for 30%. We are not those capitalist countries, and the people live or die with them. Calculating this per capita, we know what level of life the Chinese can live. We now feel that the work is very difficult, very painful, and it is inevitable. What we need to do now is to bury our heads in education, infrastructure, production, and science and technology. As the level of productivity increases, the standard of living naturally rises. If a monetary policy can solve the problem, then do you have to wait for the Ministry of Finance to say? Chen Ke was not angry when he said this, but felt very helpless. He also listened to a lot of lectures when he was in college, and in retrospect, the policy of fast and free convertibility of the renminbi proposed in the lectures was complete nonsense. However, Chen Ke, as an extremely pure second-class young man at that time, felt that this idea was really reasonable, and he also promoted this policy in many places. Every time he thinks about it now, Chen Ke feels ashamed. If people are stupid and think that there are shortcuts, they will be so stupid that there is no bottom line.

"To put it simply, work hard and get paid on time. If the economic policy can carry this out, it will be a great success. What ingenuity, what kind of miracle power, we don't have to think about this kind of thing. Now it's time to think about who will do the hard work and how! Don't promise the people any bright future, the people's eyes are bright. Whether this life has changed for the better, whether there is a bright future, the people can see it better than us. All we can promise is blood, sweat, and tears. And how to be more effective in bleeding, sweating, and tears. Or even how to willingly shed blood, sweat, and tears. I want to make my country strong, I want to have a good life, I want to have a bright future, I want to have personal freedom. There is no other way but this path! ”

There was silence in the conference room for a while, and You Yu asked, "When will such days come to an end?" ”

"For us BJP, this is fate. If you choose this flag, you must go through these pains. As for whether it is happy or not, everyone feels differently. But whether life has changed for the better, whether there is light in the future, I still say that the people's eyes are bright, and they can see these clearly. Chen Ke's attitude towards this has been consistent.

The question about the higher psychological feelings did not last long, and soon the topic returned to Kolchak. Chen Ke's attitude towards these people, especially the gold they carry, is simple. Trade normally, don't loot. Anyway, they have to eat and drink, and normal trading is enough to strip them clean. If the gang wanted to be able to sail back to Europe, that would be even better, and they would be able to make more money.

"No matter how much the Russian Communist Party hates these people, these people are Russians after all. We didn't have a good impact after we did it. Chen Ke summed it up with these words.

The gloomy days did not last long, and imperialism soon began to sell nooses. In September 1920, when the Chinese delegation to the Belgian Summer Olympics returned, official delegations from the Netherlands, Italy, and the Czech Republic also came.

The Netherlands has a large colony in Asia, and since the United States can sell coconuts, the Netherlands can also sell them, and the British have been selling coconuts for a long time. Not just coconuts, but also rubber, as well as spices and tropical crops, and the Dutch delegation hopes to be able to expand comprehensive trade with China.

After accounting for both sides, the Netherlands had a slight surplus. The People's Party asked the Netherlands if it would accept British war bonds. The Dutch were embarrassed and refused. Although Britain won the war in Europe, there was no special benefit after the war, so the price of British bonds fell all the way.

The BJP has proposed to make up the difference with the trade in medicines. The Dutch side was very interested. Chinese medicine is now a very well-known name in Europe. In particular, drugs containing pearls, musk, rhino horn, and bezoars have been dubbed China's "royal secret medicine", and have been used in Europe by Chinese medical staff and drugs including sulfonamides and Chuanbei loquat ointment. Europe and the United States are interested in expensive and mysterious Chinese drugs.

For the BJP, anything that can be obtained by breeding, such as musk, pearls, etc., is easy to obtain. In particular, when Chen Ke was in junior high school, there was even an explanatory text about pearl farming in his textbook. After getting North Vietnam, there was even an excellent artificial pearl breeding base.

The trade with the Netherlands was balanced with drugs, and at least in 1921, China's economic development was more secure. Along with it, the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis and Technology have also received certain funds.

After the Czechs stabilized their situation, they urgently needed the market. Shang Yuan had negotiated with them on the issue of technical cooperation, and the Czechs were not as picky as the Dutch, and they also wanted British bonds. A package agreement was reached for the sale of equipment and the transfer of technology. The Czechs are not unaware that increasing China's industrial capacity may have an impact on their future. However, the Czechs are faced with the fact that no matter how difficult tomorrow may be, tomorrow is a problem that only those who can survive today are qualified to consider.

The attitude of the Italian delegation pretending to be stupid was very cute, and the prime minister talked to Shang Yuan affectionately about the unfinished agreement last time as if he had never written a letter to scold Shang Yuan. Prices have finally returned to normal levels, and technical cooperation has been able to continue on a profitable and productive business track.

However, after suffering from the Italians, the Chinese side is extremely worried about Italy's creditworthiness. So the original plan was to build eight 10,000-ton ships, and the Italians built two in Italy first, and then the remaining six in China. Now it is planned to shrink by half, and a total of four ships will be built. Now the Italians build one there, the rest in China. Wait until all the orders are completed, and then discuss the remaining half of the matter.

Since it is China that pays for it, the Italians have no way to refuse. In the end, the two sides finally signed an agreement in this regard. At a time when Europe is in a state of depression and chaos, half a piece of fat is much better than not eating no meat.

China's position in the Western Pacific, a unified market, is becoming more and more important.