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Just when the whole world was in a turmoil due to the Cuban crisis, an air force plane landed in Hakodate in the distant East. An old man wearing a marshal's epaulette walked off the plane. Just like thirty years ago, the two beards on his lips were still so conspicuous. The only thing that changed was that there were layers of wrinkles on his face and his hair turned gray.
Sukhoi took a deep breath. Although Hakodate's latitude is not low, it is still much warmer than Leningrad in the snow. This is not the first time he has arrived in Hakodate. In order to obtain Hokkaido at the end of World War II, Sukhoi once led a special mixed formation to land on this island. Speaking of which, he has revisited the old place.
The difference is that last time he was the commander of the Taiping Fleet of the Red Navy, but now he has become the governor of the Hokkien Republic. Of course, the official name of the Soviet Union was the general counsel, but everyone knew that he was a governor was real, and everything in the Hokkien Republic was decided by the Soviet Union.
Of course, this position is a hot potato now, because the previous governor almost stepped down in shame. As a political star, he had endless potential and was hailed as the leader among the next generation of successors. But now, the leader is not as good as a chicken. After returning to Moscow, he can only go to the party school to study again. As for what position he can be assigned after "achievement", he is really not optimistic. It is estimated that this leader will be treated at most at the ministerial level after retirement.
To be honest, Sukhoi didn't appreciate this master, he thought that the other party was a complete scholar. Apart from the theory of talking about military affairs on paper, he would be blind in practice. How could he be so polite to the Japanese? That was a bunch of sluts and thief bones, and he had to greet him with an iron whip and a big stick. The more you didn't treat them as human beings, the more they treated you as their masters.
Anyway, Sukhoi saw through these ugly Japanese people and vowed to make these devils look good. So the first thing he did after taking office was to convene the military and political leaders in his jurisdiction and hold a breathing meeting.
Please note that Sukhoi held a ventilation meeting rather than a discussion meeting, and there are big differences here. Discussion meetings are brainstorming, listening widely to the opinions of the people below before making decisions. The ventilation meetings are a meeting that conveys the spirit. To put it bluntly, it is a meeting that gives instructions. To put it bluntly, Sukhoi gives orders.
The first order issued by Sukhoi was to prohibit all kimonos, declare kimonos as illegal clothing, and was a symbol of Japanese colonization of Hokkaido. Anyone who wears kimonos on the streets will be fined 100 yuan and forced to work for ten days. By the way, forced labor is really not easy, it is basically a heavy physical work, which is quite harsh.
The first step is to abolish Japanese clothing. The second step is to modify the textbook of the Hokkien Republic, delete all entries that beautify Japan's "invasion" and "colonization" of Hokkien, and change them to criticism and condemnation of historical materialism. In short, it is a complete distinction between Japan and Hokkien, indicating that the two sides are two groups of different races and cultures.
Please note that this is just the second step. The third step involves language. According to Sukhoi's plan, the pseudonym will be gradually abolished and changed to the alphabetical pinyin similar to the pinyin of later generations. The pseudonym will be abolished from the official documents, and all official documents will be used in Chinese characters.
Sukhoi didn't believe it. After just a few decades of walking in three steps, the Essays and Japan could still stick together. Just like the Green Party's brainwashing Bay in later generations, it took less than twenty years to make most of the normal young people on the island become ** and funny. So brainwashing is good!
Of course, this is the general direction. Sukhoi is not careless at all in terms of details. The most important thing is to change customs, that is, to completely de-Japaneseization. Anyone involving a little Japanese element will be abolished and banned.
What, you said the Japanese did not execute them, do you think Sukhoi's big stick was for a good meal? The Japanese who fell into his hands could be shot at the worst, and he would be hard labor. He used power to open the way and crushed them all the way!
Let me put it this way, in the first year, the Japanese were still quite strong and protested constantly. Sukhoi was really unmoved and killed blood. After executing tens of thousands of people and forcing nearly 100,000 people to work in a year, the Japanese lost their backbone. They would never dare to give anything to Sukhoi anymore. They really did whatever they wanted. Even if Sukhoi said that they would dig up the ancestral graves of the entire Emiratii tomorrow, the Japanese also brought their own hoes, shovels, and brought their own dry food.
Of course, some people in later generations do not quite understand some of the reforms carried out by Sukhoi, such as requiring female students in school to wear short skirts and sailor suits, which is puzzling. Will Sukhoi, a dead gentleman, tell you, is he a sailor suit controlled?
Anyway, the evil Sukhoi lived a very happy life in the Hokkien Republic. As the Supreme Emperor of the All Emily, he received high respect. When the Japanese mentioned Sukhoi, they did not dare to call him directly, and respectfully called him General Consultant Sukhoi. Every year when Sukhoi celebrates his birthday, the entire Hokkien Republic is also full of joy. Let's put it this way, the Hokkien people pay more attention to this day than themselves or even their own father and mother. It is true that the whole family burns incense and bathes, so they almost set up an incense case to establish a longevity card and build a temple.
Since 1949, Sukhoi served as general counsel for Essay for a total of twenty years, until he died of illness in 1969. On the day Sukhoi died, the entire Essay Republic became filial sons and grandsons, and he cried so hard that he screamed with tragedy!
With Sukhoi's level, it is definitely enough to be buried under the red wall of the Kremlin. Since 1970, on Sukhoi's death day, tens of thousands of Ekima people traveled thousands of miles to mourn the Supreme Emperor. This makes you sigh how strange these grandchildren are.
This is the end of Sukhoi's story. He also needs to slowly transform the filial sons and grandchildren, so that we can temporarily return to Cuba and see Castro's movements. Without much effort, Castro's armed struggle won. After liquidating the puppet army, the mess placed in front of Castro was a mess. There is almost no industry in Cuba, and the most common ones are plantations, such as tobacco, sugar, etc. It can be said that it is a pure agricultural country, and it is not accurate to say that it is an agricultural country, because most of the agricultural products exported by Cuba are primary products, which are quite disadvantaged in international trade.
What is even more disadvantageous is that Cuba's economy was firmly linked to the United States, which means exporting primary agricultural products to the United States for high-priced industrial products from the United States. It doesn't say anything about being sheared. What's even more serious is that this linkage relationship is too close. Once the United States interrupts its economic relations with Cuba, almost no one knows who Cuba's agricultural and sideline products should be sold to.
The Americans blocked Cuba economically, and most American countries controlled by the United States also adopted the same strategy for Cuba. Of course, even if they did not adopt the same strategy, these countries would not give Cuba a good face, because the economic structure of the entire Latin America is similar to that of Cuba. Most of them rely on exporting agricultural and sideline products in the international market to live a life of one less Cuba to grab a job. Maybe those funny guys in Latin America are so happy!
Don't believe it? Just give an example. Look at Argentina. This country was a developed country in the first half of the 20th century. It relied on exporting beef, but by the end of the 20th century, Argentina could only cry because it was really shocking to develop from a developed country to a developing country.
Back to the point, the fundamental purpose of Castro's revolution is to let the people of his country live a good life, but now with the lockdown line raised by the United States, let alone living a good life, I'm afraid I will not be able to survive even the life. If you want to get rid of the passive situation, Castro must find a new market.
Castro first targeted the Soviet Union. In his opinion, the big brother should have been the little brother Lacuba. However, the matter was not that simple. Although the Russians had a heavier taste and liked greasy sweets, the amount of sucrose consumed by the entire Soviet Union could not be increased invisibly. Moreover, the sucrose in Cuba is good, but the freight cost is not low from the Caribbean Sea to the Soviet Union, and the cost is spread out.
As for tobacco, Cuban cigars are really great, but Cuban cigars are not cheap either! For Soviet smokers, they are not as wealthy as a normal cigarette.
Let me put it this way, the consumption capacity of the Soviet Union was quite special. The whole people basically eliminated hunger and achieved food and clothing. However, the consumption capacity of the middle class in the traditional sense was limited. Not only could they afford cars like the middle class in the United States, but they were even far behind that of the United States in their daily consumption. For example, the most popular means of transportation in the Soviet Union is motorcycles. Families with better conditions have owned motorcycles as their identity. Do you think that families who drive motorcycles can open up the Cuban cigars with high consumption?
Even in recent years, the Soviet Union's consumption of high-end luxury goods has not increased but decreased. The reason is very simple. Previously, because of the spread of ** and bureaucracy, the breeding privileged class began to pursue those "capitalist mood", such as foreign-imported cars, foreign-imported cigarettes, red wine, food, clothing, jewelry, etc.
As Li Xiaofeng and others carried out rectification, a large number of cadres were dismissed. This not only directly destroyed the source of luxury consumption, but also greatly shocked the group of people who were preparing for the epidemic. Officials no longer dared to compare with those capitalist things and began to live a quiet life honestly. Naturally, luxury goods were no longer popular in the Soviet Union.
Such a general environment also determines that it is unrealistic for the Soviet Union to help Cuba consume Cuban specialties on a large scale. The Soviet Union could only help symbolically, but it is probably unrealistic for the Soviet Union to replace the US consumer market.
Some comrades may ask, not only is the Soviet market! There is also a vast Central and Eastern European market. The class brothers in Central and Eastern Europe have also reached out to solve the difficulties of Cuba?
This is really because I am standing and talking without a back pain. Maybe the Central and Eastern European markets were still careless before World War II and had a certain consumption capacity. However, the legs of Central and Eastern Europe were lame after World War II. The severe famine from 1945 to 1947 made this area breathless. Finally, it was easy to breathe a sigh of relief from 1948. Generally speaking, it was from hunger to half-full. You let the hungry and half-full people consume precious Cuban cigars and good sugar. You are going to let them sell blood!
Therefore, the Central and Eastern European markets are quite limited. I am afraid that this area can only determine the consumption capacity of the United States, and how to solve the problem of most of the gaps?
To be honest, this is impossible to solve, because in the current world, the best consumer market is the United States, and the consumption capacity of the United States market is unsubstituted. After Cuba abandoned the American market, he still wanted to maintain the same status, which can only be said to be too naive.
Soon Castro was at a loss. No matter how you look at it, it was all about to lose the game. At this moment, Li Xiaofeng extended a helping hand. It was not that a certain immortal could help Cuba develop the market or ease relations with the United States. This was absolutely impossible. Even immortals could not violate the basic economic laws. As for ease of the relationship between Cuba and the United States, it was even more silly. Castro's victory in the Cuban revolution was equivalent to slapping the United States hard. Uncle Sam, who had lost face, could he have a good face to Cuba before he found the venue?
The solution Li Xiaofeng came up with was to help Cuba "invest investment". In fact, Cuba does not only have sugar and cigars, but also has relatively rich mineral resources. For example, nickel ore, chromium ore, manganese ore, copper ore and iron ore in non-ferrous metals are relatively rich. Especially nickel ore, its reserves occupies the forefront of the world. From the perspective of future development, the market for nickel-based stainless steel is quite broad.
The Soviet Union could help invest in developing Cuba's non-ferrous metal resources. In the long run, non-ferrous metals will become more and more important in the future, and it is also good to develop and utilize them.
Li Xiaofeng signed an agreement with Cuba to jointly develop non-ferrous metal resources and iron ore resources. The Soviet Union gave Cuba economic assistance in exchange for the power of relevant Soviet enterprises to mine in Cuba. After high-quality ore was transported back to the Soviet Union for processing, it was then sold all over the world.
Although this is somewhat unfair to Cuba in the long run, what Cuba needs is a way to save his life at this time. Not to mention selling mineral resources, Castro may agree to it even if he sells blood. Of course, the Soviet Union was not that ruthless and would force Castro to sell blood. Overall, this deal is still unfaithful. The Soviet Union paid a certain amount of funds in exchange for mining rights in Cuba in the next ten years. This is acceptable to both sides, and the only person who may be unhappy is probably the United States... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!