“…… The torpedo tube that completes the first salvo is rotated and aligned with the torpedo reloader, and the conveyor belt powered by an air motor fills the tropedo into the launch tube with a reserve torpedo, which only takes 20 to 25 seconds to reload. However, if this work is carried out with traditional chain blocks and trucks, as in other countries, the reloading time is about 30 minutes. It can be said that it has twice the number of torpedo tubes and a similar effect......"

Yang Shuoming finished reading the design drawings and instructions, and a strange smile appeared on his face again.

"Since everything is in my hands, why not give them a chance to be born?"

Yang Shuoming said to himself, flipping through the drawings in his hand.

"If the super battleship is built like this, I am afraid that in the future, the members of Congress will have to scold to death, and the heavy cruiser and torpedo cruiser may as well build a few of them for fun."

At this time, Yang Shuoming did not expect that the change of mind he had just made would make the Chinese Navy write a brilliant and alternative chapter in the history of world naval warfare.

"Looks like the Navy's budget has to be increased again." Yang Shuoming put down the information in his hand, picked up a data sheet and looked at it.

"Ben, the Soviet Union, are all great enemies, and neither end can relax!" Yang Shuoming said, came to the huge world map by the wall, and his eyes first stayed on the location of the book for a while, and then turned to the long border between the Soviet Union and China.

Yang Shuoming turned around and came to the filing cabinet and took out a thick stack of information about the Soviet Union, and he seemed to be a little unsettled. He glanced at the papers in his hand a few times and put them back where they were.

Yang Shuoming came back to the map, staring at the location of the Soviet Union, his brows furrowed unconsciously.

Although a steady stream of information about the movements of the Soviet Union in all aspects was sent to him from various channels, Yang Shuoming still felt that the country of the Soviet Union was still mysterious and unpredictable to him, a traveler.

Just then, the phone on the desk rang suddenly.

Yang Shuoming turned around and came to the phone table, picked up the microphone, and on the other end of the phone, a hurried and excited voice came.

"The number two man in the USSR? Who is it? Oh, I see, good. Yang Shuoming put down the microphone, returned to the table and flipped through it, found a table with a photo of a Russian with a mustache, looked at it a few times, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"It's interesting, he actually chose to come to China, and it's really hard to predict the future historical trend."

Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Finance of the Chinese Federation, Secret Conference Room.

At this moment, in this small conference room, there were four people, three of whom sat in a row, quietly listening to the man whose face was hidden in the shadows on a chair opposite.

These three people, one is the intelligence chief "Descending Dragon", one is Zhou Guansheng, and the other is Shuijing.

“…… I know this is just the beginning. This will be followed by a series of mass trials aimed at cutting off almost all of the founders of the Bolshevik Party and the leaders of the October Revolution. From that day on, the assassination of Kirov was to be brought up at every major political trial, and each time it was imposed on all the accused. ”

"Many critics of this so-called Moscow trial believe that Stalin decided to cut off the old Bolsheviks. The root of his sin lies in his unquenchable vengeance against these people**. He wanted revenge for not following his political line, for their insistence on carrying out Lenin's will, which recommended the removal of Stalin from the post of General Secretary of the Party Central Committee. Stalin's term 'pleasure for revenge' was uttered by him once inadvertently in a seemingly friendly conversation with Kamenev and Dzerzhinsky. The conversation took place on a summer night in 1927. It took many years for this series of trials to take place. At that time, Stalin put on a look of reassurance: 'Keep your eyes on the enemy, carefully study every detail of the strike, and rejoice in the inevitable revenge.' Then take a break to rest. …… Well, what could be a faster way to live than to do this? ’……”

"It is not surprising that Stalin had such a murderous consciousness. In the Caucasus, where he was born and raised, bloodshed and vendettas continued for hundreds of years, and even today are common. Needless to say, the desire for revenge played a non-negligible role in Stalin's plot to cut off the Bolshevik 'Old Guard'. But it's not just about revenge. In fact, Stalin was, first and foremost, a political pragmatist. He is calm and calculating. It is known that he has repeatedly restrained his emotional actions out of strategy. On the road to power, he more than once gave up his dignity to praise his opponents, and sometimes even touted his sworn enemies. And, as long as it's good for him, he can turn his back on his closest friends. For example, in spite of his hatred of Trotsky, on the first anniversary of the victory of the October Revolution, he touted this opponent out of personal necessity. In an article in Pravda, he praised Trotsky as the main leader of the October revolutionary uprising, and the party should credit Trotsky for the merit of enabling the Petrograd garrison to defect to the Bolshevik front with almost no firing a shot. As you can imagine, Stalin so skillfully buried his bitter hatred of his sworn enemy in his heart. Later, this hatred was vented with ferocity, which eventually led to the complete downfall of Trotsky. ”

"Also, years of friendship did not in the slightest affect Stalin's killing of Budu? Moody Vani and Sergey? Kaftaradze, only because the two men were at one time on a political side opposed to him. ”

"I should say that you know him very well." Zhou Guansheng looked at the revolutionary and social activist he once admired, and said fluently in Russian, "Your statement verifies what we know about him." ”

"I know Stalin's political ambitions better than anyone else. I just emphasized to you that Stalin was particularly vindictive. However, I believe that the insatiable desire for power was the main characteristic of Stalin. I remember one night in 1928, when I was a member of the Politburo and president of the Comintern, I quietly visited Kamenev to show my support for him and my stand against Stalin and his despicable conspiracy. In my conversation with Kamenev, I used these words to describe Stalin: 'He was an unprincipled conspirator who subordinated everything in the world to his lust for power...... He's always ready to change his opinion, as long as doing so will help him get rid of you and me...... All he was thinking about was seizing power. In order to consolidate power, he temporarily concedes to us, but later he will strangle us all...... Stalin had only revenge, and he always carried a dagger in his arms. ’”

"This assessment of yours is factual because it was not intended for a mass meeting, nor was it intended to demagogue, but to a person who knew Stalin very well." Zhou Guansheng nodded, and motioned to the Russian-Nikolai? Ivanovic? Bukharin continued.

"In retrospect, Stalin's decision to eliminate the Bolshevik 'Old Guard' was the inevitable result of his entire usurpation of power. At first, he was content to exile the leaders of the opposition to Siberia and imprison them in concentration camps. But this is only temporary, as he is busy consolidating his [***] system. Once this was achieved, he believed that his position was secure, and he began to unscrupulously attack potential opponents. One by one, these people were killed and completely and forever withdrawn from the political scene. ”

"For Stalin, the assassination of Kirov was an indispensable step in the trial and suppression of the old Bolsheviks. And it is no accident that this conspiracy took place in 1934. This year, our country has just emerged from a deep economic crisis, and the reason why the country is in this crisis is because of the blind and aggressive policy adopted by Ji Dalin on the road to industrialization and collectivization. Few people now know that the idea of a comprehensive economic transformation was first and foremost put forward by Trotsky. At that time, Stalin was also firmly opposed to such ideas. He even claimed at a meeting of the Central Committee that the construction of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station was for Soviet Russia what a Russian redneck tried to sell his cows to buy a gramophone. Later, however, when he declared that the opposition elements were not protected by law, he changed his mind about this idea, and even worse, he adopted it as his own. Moreover, since Trotsky insisted that the collectivization of agriculture should be carried out gradually according to the ability of industry to provide the necessary machinery for large-scale collective farm production, he Stalin simply went into a campaign of 'total collectivization'. In this matter, as on many other issues, Stalin tried to present himself as a more thorough and uncompromising revolutionary than Trotsky. ”

"Stalin, in the campaign for the collectivization of agriculture, also used the old methods of terror and coercion. He refused to admit a simple truth: the whip was not a substitute for a tractor and a combein. The resistance of the peasants to collectivization brought the country to the brink of economic collapse. Stalin responded to the peasant resistance with mass repression. But this repression caused the peasants in many provinces to take up swords and guns. In the North Caucasus and in some provinces of Ukraine. In order to suppress the uprising, the political axe used armed forces, even tanks and military aircraft. ”

"The Red Army itself, however, was largely made up of peasant children. They understand that while they are suppressing riots in this area, the troops in another area are using the same means to suppress their parents, brothers and sisters. As a result, small groups of Red Army defected to the rebellious peasants. And not surprisingly. In the North Caucasus, a flying group refused to take off to bomb the rebellious Cossack villages. As a result, this flying group was disbanded, and half of the personnel were shot. One of Stalin's followers, Akulov, deputy head of the State Political Security Service, was soon removed from his post because he failed to send troops from the State Political Security Service in time to rescue a besieged regiment, which was annihilated by the rebellious Cossacks. There is no life left. The commander of the border guards of the State Directorate of Political Security, who was responsible for suppressing the insurrection and directing the sweeps, Freinovsky, reported at a meeting of the Politburo that hundreds of corpses had fallen down the rivers of the North Caucasus - and that the losses of the crusading forces were so great. Similarly, the riots were suppressed in a horrific manner. Thousands of peasants were shot without trial. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were exiled and slowly waiting to die in concentration camps in Siberia. ”

"I know that on that day a large number of Russian peasants fled to the Kazakh province and sought protection from our political axe. Due to the large number of refugees, there is a lot of pressure on the political axe of the Kazakh province. Suijing nodded and said.

"That's right." Bukharin, he continued, "Another consequence of total collectivization was the great famine that swept through Ukraine, the former great breadbasket of Europe, as well as the Kuban, the Volga valley, and the rest of the country. Even foreign journalists, who often praise the Stalinist system, believe that the number of people dying of starvation is between five and seven million. The statistics reported to Stalin by the State Political Security Bureau were between 3.3 million and 3.5 million. The cause of this horrific mass death is not a natural disaster that does not depend on people's will, but the ignorance and arbitrariness of [***] people. He was incapable of foreseeing the consequences of his actions, and he was indifferent to the suffering of his people. It is indeed not without reason that the Western press wittily referred to this disaster as an 'organized hungry belly'. ”

"I remember that at that time the Soviet press did not say a word about this mass famine that shocked the whole country, but only trumpeted the industrialization achievements of the 'wise and beloved' Stalin. At that time, censorship was so severe that it could not have been more severe. Foreign journalists are also barred from covering outside Moscow and in the suburbs. The well said.

"Yes, in the country, hundreds of thousands of children and adolescents are homeless and homeless. Their parents may have died of starvation. or executed or exiled. Begging and pickpocketing became a livelihood for these children. In order to control the movement of adult residents, an identity card system was immediately introduced. During the Great Depression and the Great Famine. So-called 'internal supply' outlets appeared, which supplied food and other goods exclusively to Stalin's bureaucrats. These in-house shops have deepened the people's hatred of the upper ruling group and the privileged class. With the same ruble, privileged elements buy ten to twenty times more in such stores than ordinary citizens buy in ordinary stores. ”

"In order to create a prosperous scene in the capital for foreign envoys and foreign journalists, Stalin's officials really tried their best. Trains carrying food to the provinces were often 'confiscated' en route and turned around on their way to Moscow. Instead, the police are busy hunting down homeless children, snatching them off the streets and sending them to their cells. In the theater, it was a different story: lavish plays were still staged, and the famous ballet troupe's program was still in full swing. What a feast in times of famine! ”

"The hatred of Stalin [***] has deepened throughout the country, even affecting the party activists. Even the morale of the State Political Security Bureau is low, and the staff are worried and worried about their future. In some cases, Stalin himself felt that the foundations under his feet were shaking. Every day when he listens to reports from the State Political Security Bureau. There is always a fear of these reports of an intensification of civil unrest. Opposition from party members is high. Leaflets propagating the programme of action of the Trotskyists began to circulate throughout the Supreme Party School. Students of the Caucasus School of Political Education and the Moscow Pedagogical Institute almost all had a copy of Lenin's 'testament' that belonged to the contraband. On the walls of the factory, angry slogans against Stalin were everywhere. ”

"Perhaps, it was in these days of danger and turmoil that he secretly made up his mind that once fate assured him to survive this crisis, he would purge all the hidden opponents who were gloating at the critical moment and waiting for his downfall." Zhou Guansheng said, "I know this kind of people, they all have such a mentality. ”

"That's right. Long before the killing of Kirov, Stalin had freed himself from any scrutiny from the masses of party members by resorting to all sorts of political tricks and forceful means. After Lenin's death in 1924. Zinoviev and Kamenev, intimidated by Trotsky's great prestige, supported Stalin for a time. And Stalin, with their support, announced the so-called 'joining the party in memory of Lenin'. As a result, a large number of workers and functionaries who had stood by and watched from the struggle during the most difficult entrepreneurial period of the revolution poured into the party, while the old party members, who were faithful to the revolutionary ideals, were isolated by the lack of enterprising new party members. Then, between 1924 and 1936, Stalin carried out several purge campaigns. During the purge, many thoughtful and war-tested party members, persecuted by Stalin's political line, were declared unreliable and lost their party cards, and their positions were replaced by some new party bureaucrats. In exchange for material comforts and a chance to get promotion, these people are willing to bow down and be ready to carry out any orders given by their superiors. ”

"In particular, the purge that followed this crushing of the opposition greatly weakened the vitality of the party. Disagreements within the party were resolved by the use of force by the State Political Security Bureau, rather than by discussion and voting, as Lenin had done during his lifetime. The slightest disobedience to the leadership of any party member is enough to cause him to lose his party card and be dismissed. At this time, the main merit of the party members should be obedience to the party committee, and not to the party programme, as Lenin did during his lifetime. Under Lenin, the Bolshevik Party, a vigorous and ideologically active party, has gradually degenerated into a cold machine, completely losing its role in enlivening domestic political life. ”

(To be continued)