"You say the Indian Navy wants to negotiate with us to lease a Kyiv-class aircraft carrier as a backup aircraft carrier for their navy? Comrade Yazov, this kind of thing can be handled by your Ministry of Defense, and you don't have to report it to the Central Committee, right? Yanayev flipped through a book casually, he looked up from the heavy book, glanced at Yazov's somewhat unnatural face, and asked softly, "Do you have anything else to report to me?" ”

Yazov took off his hat, scratched his head, and didn't know how to speak, "It's still about aircraft carriers, Comrade Yanayev, although we have announced that we are going to sell two aircraft carriers, but except for the Indian Navy, other countries are not interested, so I think this negotiation with India will not be so easy, at least not as easy as we imagined." ”

Yanayev closed the book, and he finally knew why Yazov had come to him for advice. Because he knew very well that what Yazov said was not easy to refer to was the last time when the Soviet Union sold the Gorshkov, the Soviet Ministry of Defense played a cruel trick on the other side, and India paid the price of a new aircraft carrier to refit the Gorshkov. Marshal Ogarkov, the former director of the Strategic Deception Bureau, said before that the aircraft carrier that India bought from the Soviet Union could sail, and it would be good if there was no problem, and if there was no big problem at that time, the Soviet Union would not be responsible for the warranty.

"This time India has done its homework and is prepared, do you think we can still fool each other?" Yanayev smiled, people never make mistakes in the same place twice, and if they want to succeed in trapping Ah San, they must find ways to lay out in other places to fool each other once.

He suddenly remembered something, looked up and asked. "And Comrade Yazov. Who is the representative that the Indian Navy is going to send to negotiate with us this time? ”

"It's Admiral Ramdas. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Indian Navy. Yazov didn't understand why Yanayev suddenly asked about it, but from the smile on the corner of the other party's mouth, Yazov understood that General Secretary Yanayev had already thought of a conspiracy to trap the other party.

"Unexpectedly, Ramdas has now become the deputy chief of staff of the Indian Navy, and the timeline is really becoming more and more detached from the original historical development trajectory." Hearing this name, Yanayev couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"General Secretary Yanayev, are you alright?" When Yanayev came back to his senses, Yazov was looking at him suspiciously. Yanayev coughed and waved his hand at Yazov. Said that he was fine.

Yanayev reminded the defense minister, "Perhaps Comrade Yazov does not understand one thing, that is, Admiral Ramdas is a rare Orthodox Christian in the Indian Navy and the first senior Orthodox general in the Indian Navy. I think Comrade Yazov should have a good idea of the next itinerary, right? ”

"Orthodox, Orthodox ......" Yazov was stunned at first, not knowing why Yanayev brought up this matter, but he immediately understood the hidden meaning of the words, and said with some excitement, "You mean to wait until Ramdas visits the Kyiv-class aircraft carrier." Let our Orthodox Patriarch accompany us? ”

"Yes, there is nothing more infinitely glorious than the deed of an Orthodox being accompanied by Patriarch Alexei II. For this alone, Admiral Ramdas must have been grateful to the Soviet Union. Yanayev sneered and said that although the Soviet Union is still as unsparing as ever to attack religion, it will also be very generous on some issues, and the Orthodox Church has lost its moral authority under the rule of the Soviet government, but this does not represent the influence of the Orthodox Patriarch in the minds of believers all over the world.

"In this way, we first raised the other party's goodwill towards the Soviet Union, and thus further raised the goodwill towards the Gorshkov, and the basis for joint cooperation is there, but we are worried that we will not find an opportunity to make India unable to suffer losses on the issue of leasing aircraft carriers?" Yanayev said with a smile.

"Isn't India emboldened because it is unique in its customers' problems? That being the case, we also need to create a little tension for them so that they know where the two sides are in this lease negotiation. ”

"Nervousness?" Minister Yazov was a little baffled by Yanayev's series of dazzling methods, of course, if he wants to pit the other party again in the Indian Navy, which has been pitted once, this is a battle of wits and courage and the acting skills of the Oscar-winning actor.

"Yes, after agreeing to the request of the deputy staff of the Indian Navy, immediately released the news that the Soviet Union was seeking cooperative buyers all over the world, and then blew the wind in front of the Indian Navy, like Argentina, Thailand, Egypt and even India's old adversary Pakistan, they were very interested in the remaining Kiev-class aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union, and even sent a secret delegation to Leningrad to discuss the purchase of aircraft carriers, so do you say that the Indians will start to panic first? If there are many competitors, their quotations will naturally rise, which is a routine. ”

"When the negotiations are deadlocked, we can also release some false news to stir the tiger, such as we will sell some second-hand Hyundai-class destroyers to Pakistan, especially those that have been modified to deal with aircraft carriers active in the Indian Ocean, will India panic? Surely they will, it is equivalent to the Soviets teaching Pakistan how to deal with India's aircraft carriers. This is our third smoke bomb. When I negotiate with the Indian delegation about the leasing of aircraft carriers, I believe that I will definitely not be arrogant before. ”

"If it really doesn't work, doesn't our KGB still have swallows? Although the means are somewhat less above board, everything is forgivable for the lease of the Kyiv-class aircraft carrier. ”

Yanayev crossed his hands on his chin and said calmly to Comrade Yazov, "The current GLONASS system renewal program is short of money, and it is impossible for us to allocate the original budget of the Navy's Poseidon program to the space department, so we can only withdraw some budget from the Kyiv-class aircraft carriers." In recent years, the budget of the navy has also been a little tight, and the launched Ulyanovsk and Varyag are simply gold-absorbing monsters, plus the eight Glorious-class cruisers and five Kirov-class cruisers in the Poseidon plan, without a strong comprehensive national strength, it is impossible to really build a steel wave. ”

"Comrade Yazov, I have to trouble you to prepare next, this time the layout must be cautious, the budget of the space department GLONASS depends on this price negotiation, Comrade Yazov."

Yanayev patted Yazov's arm and said solemnly. (To be continued.) )