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The full circle of members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of India and the Soviet Union sat solemnly, looking at a briefing note placed in front of each of them in a daze. And Lu Yi sat at the head of the conference table, his eyes gloomily scanning everyone, and he also didn't say a word.

Outside, there is a very large courtyard left over from the era of the Kingdom of Mysore, the sun is shining, and the courtyard is full of flowers, so full of life, but the same sunlight spills in, and in this conference room, in this low and depressed atmosphere, it becomes gloomy.

The content of that bulletin was not about military issues, but about another major event that had plagued the GCD in India since the fall of 1934, 350 million (there are certainly not so many problems with the Indian people now!). Eating has always been a problem in India, a populous country, and every year before the victory of the Indian Revolution, some Indians starved to death because they had nothing to eat! However, in general, there is no overall food shortage in India, and the reason for starving people is mostly due to unfair distribution. In fact, India has always been the most important breadbasket of the British Empire, and after the outbreak of World War I, it became the world's second largest grain exporter after the United States - Russia was the world's second largest grain exporter, and before World War I, it could export more than 10 million tons of grain every year. And this miracle had already befallen the People's Republic of India a year earlier, and on the basis of India's lack of collectivization of agriculture, it could really be regarded as a blue.

However, it is not surprising that this situation has arisen, because although the Indian GCD has temporarily retained the small-scale peasant economic model in rural India, it still implements a strict system of unified purchase and marketing in the distribution of grain. Other words. All the grain that the Indian peasants have worked so hard to grow, except for rations, growing grains and public grains, must be sold to the sole grain purchasing and marketing department at the price set by the Indian People's Government. And the grain purchase price given by the Indian People's Government is extremely low, which is acceptable to the Indian Farmers Act. They used the banknotes issued by the Indian People's Government to sell their grain, and they had no way to buy the industrial products they needed.

Due to the devastation of the war and the imperialist blockade and sanctions, India's light industry production has long been paralyzed, and although India has carried out socialist transformation of Indian industry and commerce after coming to power, India did not have a complete industrial system before the revolution, although the industrial base is not bad. There were also many factories, but they were part of the industrial system of the British Empire. Or to be more precise, the Indian industry is a production workshop of the British industry. The market, raw materials, technology, management, capital, etc. are all in the hands of the British, and most of these elements are not on Indian soil, and the industry taken over by the Indian G is like a workshop in a large factory, and there is no way to operate it alone! Therefore, it is not possible to produce enough industrial products to exchange agricultural products with farmers...... Moreover, some of the living habits of Indians are different from those of East Asian people. They did not like to save money, and since they could not buy what they needed with the money they needed, they were reluctant to sell grain, and even took the initiative to reduce the area sown with winter wheat in 1934 and spring in 1935. As a result, the Indian government's 1934 autumn grain purchase plan and 1935 winter wheat purchase plan were not completed. As for the autumn grain purchase plan in 1935, it was completely ruined by the occupation of the two major producing regions of East and West Punjab and Bengal by the Chinese army.

One of the worst famines in India's history is looming!

According to the estimates of the People's Commissariat for Food in the People's Republic of India, the population currently living in the GCD-ruled areas of India must be more than 200 million, of which more than 35 million are in need of food rations from the People's Commissariat of Food (the urban population before the victory of the Indian Revolution was more than 60 million, after deducting the cities that had fallen and were about to fall). Coupled with the Indian people who fled to the G-controlled district of India who were unwilling to be slaves of the country, this figure was roughly obtained. In addition to these 40 million people, India's food sector also needs to provide military rations for the 5 million commanders and fighters of the Indian Red Army (this figure is provided by the Working People's Commissaripe).

That is, the People's Commissariat of Food would theoretically have to provide rations for up to 40 million Indians! In reality, there are far more Indians who rely on the People's Commissariat for Food rations to survive. This is because India's food production has always been concentrated in the northern regions, especially the three major states of East and West Punjab, Bengal and the Ganges River Basin. However, the land in southern India is barren due to excessive rainfall, and it is mostly mountainous, and natural disasters are more frequent, so it is not suitable for growing grain (it is an important production area of Indian spices, tea, tobacco and other cash crops, so it has long needed to import grain from the north). After the victory of the revolution in India, most of the cash crops were out of market. Therefore, several states in southern India can only change to grow grain, but the grain production there is not enough to feed the local population, so they can only hope for relief from the Indian people's government. It turned out that when the eastern and western Punjab and Bengal were in their hands, although the food was not enough, everyone tightened their belts and could still maintain it. But now that only the Ganges Plain is left, how can it be possible to feed so many people?

People's Commissar of Food in India Satya. Bhakta sat there and sighed vigorously, he had led the drafting of today's briefing. The scale and causes of the food shortage that the People's Republic of India is about to encounter are clearly explained, but there is no solution! Because he estimated that even if the war situation did not deteriorate further and the Ganges grain-producing area did not fall, there would be 35 million people in the area under the jurisdiction of India and G who would not be able to get the most basic rations! And it's based on the fact that the remaining 200 million people are tightening their belts......

"Comrade Bakhtar, could you please explain how we should solve the problem of food shortage?"

Lu Yi's voice suddenly sounded in Bhaktar's ears, and this expression was distressed, and the diminutive member of the Indian GCD Political Bureau stood up, as if he didn't want to see anyone in the room. just lowered his head and stammered: "There's no way, there's really no way!" If the East and West Punjabs are still around, they can also reduce rations and use food sparingly to sustain themselves. But now. Only Uttar Pradesh and Bihar remain, and Bihar is still on the front line and could be invaded by Chinese troops at any time...... Even if there were no invasions, the two states would not be able to requisition up to 2 million tonnes of wheat or rice compared to Punjab and Bangladesh......"

He said it a little upside down. But the general meaning is one, there is no way! Charia, India, who had been sitting upright, suddenly said: "Don't we have a socialist system that can greatly liberate the productive forces?" How can it not solve the food problem? ”

Bhakhta lifted his glasses, glanced at the successor of the Indian revolutionary cause with strength, and said in a low voice: "The plan for the 'communalization movement' to carry out the socialist transformation of the countryside has been formulated, but communization can only solve the problems encountered in the process of grain procurement, and it cannot immediately provide the productivity of Indian agriculture. Moreover, in the process of collectivizing agriculture in the Soviet Union, it was met with resistance from the peasants...... Livestock were slaughtered in large quantities, and agricultural sown areas fell sharply...... If such a situation were to occur in India, I am afraid that it would cause unimaginable consequences......" Hearing this, the face of Borodin, the Soviet adviser who was present at the meeting, suddenly became gloomy - what Bakta said was a rumor! The official Soviet Union categorically refused to admit it!

Lu Yi also shouted in a low voice at this time: "Comrade Bhaktar, please pay attention to your words!" ”

Bacta was stunned for a moment, knowing that he had lost his words. He sighed and stood there without saying a word. Lu Yi ignored him either, but called the name of Prime Minister Coats of the Indian People's Government: "Comrade Coats, you are the chief steward of the people's government, now you will tell you about it, we should overcome the food difficulties if there is a food shortage, right?" ”

Coats, India's prime minister, now looks very tired, and the recent series of military defeats and the relocation of the capital of India and G have made this Indian G No. 2 man very tired to cope, and he has less than three hours of rest left every day. With deep bags under his eyes, he slowly stood up and watched Lu Yi be silent for a while, as if he was doing some fierce ideological struggle: "I agree with Comrade Chalia that there is only one way to solve the current difficulties, that is, to use the socialist system to transform our countryside, transform our agriculture, learn from the Soviet Union, and implement an efficient collectivized agricultural production model......"

Before he could finish his words, Bhakhta interrupted in a loud voice: "Comrade Coats! What are you talking about? Don't you know that collectivized agriculture in the USSR was more difficult than we were before the fall of Punjab and Bangladesh? Don't you really know how the Soviet peasants resisted collectivization back then? If our agriculture suffers another blow like this, it will not be millions of people who will starve to death. It's tens of millions, even 100 million! ”

As soon as these words came out, the air in the entire conference room suddenly became extremely tense. The faces of Ruy, Coats, Borodin, and Carya were gloomy and dripping. Carya suppressed his anger and said coldly: "If we do not carry out the communization movement, will the People's Commissariat of Grain be able to complete the grain purchase plan for 1935 and 1936?" ”

"That's impossible!" Bhakta shook his head sharply: "The original plan was based on the fact that Bengal and northwestern India did not fall. Now that two of the three major granaries have been lost, how can the People's Commissariat of Grain complete its plan? Is it necessary to take the rations of the peasants? At this point, he seemed to suddenly understand something, and then shook his head heavily: "No." That's not going to work...... Food rations are the lifeblood of farmers! No one will hand over their lives, and the People's Commissariat of Food does not have such strength! ”

"But we need food, the army, the party cadres, and the residents of Bangalore!" Lu Yi took the question and said coldly: "And we also know that the People's Commissariat of Food cannot accomplish such a task, so we have to launch a rural communization movement...... As long as thousands of rural communes are established in rural India, food production is strictly regulated, and we at the Indian GCD are firmly in control, so that we can get food. So I immediately launched the communalization movement in rural India! Now it's up to the political bureau to vote! Raise your hand if you agree. He was the first to raise his left hand.

"Agreed." "Agreed." "I agree too......" In a chorus of agreement, Bhakta could only raise his trembling left hand. As People's Commissar of Grain, he had a very deep study of the policy of collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. The essence of this system was known long ago - it was nothing more than a method by which the Soviet government wanted to pay for the fruits of peasant labor! The ideal state of agricultural collectivization is that the peasants hand over all the grain they have earned from a year's labor to the state to support industrial construction, after deducting the necessary rations and growing grain. But this ideal state is very difficult to achieve, because the peasants are also human beings, and they also have their own ideas, and they also have a little bit of selfish desires, and they want to get a good life. They will not watch the fruits of their labor being taken away by others, they will do everything they can to resist, even if this boycott will severely destroy the rural productive forces! After the boycott effect, they will also be passive and slack, even if the consequences of passive slacking are likely to starve themselves to death...... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the www.biquge.info of Biquge (qidian.to vote for recommendation votes, monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m.qidian. )

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