Why is the Politburo not satisfied with Li Xiaofeng's plan? Could it be that Li Xiaofeng really pointed at the elders like a 25-year-old?

Surely not. Li Xiaofeng is not a political idiot. Although his performance has been really good recently, no matter how good he performs, he cannot challenge the Politburo. The Politburo is the core of Russia, and they are qualified to decide all matters in Russia. Stalin didn't understand this point back then, and set up a small military group to challenge the Politburo, but was dismantled.

This is a lesson from the past. You must know that Stalin was one of the great elders of the Politburo at that time. Even a big man with qualifications like him was beaten up. Li Xiaofeng was just an alternate Central Committee member, and probably only had the life to be exposed.

Therefore, in the report submitted to the Politburo, Li Xiaofeng did not speak arrogantly about how the navy should be built, but instead put forward opinions and opinions carefully. The words revealed the meaning of modesty and caution, which was low-key enough.

Since that's the case, why is the Politburo! No! Wrong! F is not satisfied with this report? The reason is very simple. The elders of the Politburo think that a certain immortal is too conservative!

According to Li Xiaofeng's plan, the Red Navy's final battleships were 12, 4 battle patrols, three fearless, and five German fearless. At first glance, the displacement of more than 300,000 tons was one hundred times stronger than the destructible Red Navy in the 1920s and 1930s in history!

But the elders of the Politburo were not satisfied and thought that this share was too small! Yes, you read that right, the elders were just dissatisfied with this share, which was amazing, right? You should know that in this period of history, the elders, including Lenin and Stalin, looked down on the navy very much. The mentor said that the navy was a flashy ornament. Stalin simply asked the navy what the use was? This fully demonstrated how miserable the Red Navy was in that year!

Then why is the situation completely different in this historical time and space? It’s very simple. The Red Navy did not show much in that history, and there was a strange Durbinko and the scandal-like Kronstadt sailor uprising, which made the mentor lose all his appetite for the navy. Naturally, he had to underestimate and suppress the navy.

Now, the performance of the Red Navy is much stronger than in history. The critical period of encirclement and suppression of the Czech Legion in 1918 was the Black Sea Fleet's timely help. Not long ago, the Baltic Fleet also fought with great success when facing the powerful Anglo-American joint fleet, and achieved victory in both tactical and strategic direction.

You read that right. The mentor and other elders of the Politburo thought so, even though they knew that most of the results were from Sukhoi's HNA and that Basilev lost three Ganguts before sinking a Tiger, they thought it was too difficult for the navy to perform like this. In 1904, when facing the "weak" Japanese combined fleet, the navy destroyed and did not sink an enemy ship. Now, facing a stronger British-American combined fleet, it is not easy to achieve results.

And from a strategic perspective, the Red Flag Baltic Fleet did repel powerful enemies, forcing the enemy to retreat and abandon the plan to invade Szechin from the sea. Even if Britain and the United States have been clamoring for naval battles without falling behind, and the like, the great elders, including the Master of Mentor, saw it very clearly that the Red Flag Baltic Fleet did defeat the enemy's attempts. Since the British Royal Navy felt that they were the winners of the Battle of Jutland, then naturally the Red Flag Baltic Fleet was also the winners of this naval battle.

Lenin even felt that the meaning of this "victory" was more than that. The Red Flag Baltic Fleet resisted the attack of the British and American joint fleet and "driven" the opponent out of the Baltic Sea. At this moment, the sea control power of the entire Baltic Sea had actually fallen into Russia's hands, which means that the possibility of the enemy threatening Petrograd from the direction of the Baltic Sea has been completely strangled, and Petrograd is safe!

This is too great. You should know that in February and March this year, when Yudenic emerged from Estonia to cause trouble, the Politburo was really worried that the Allied Navy or the German Navy would attack from the sea to cooperate with Yudenic to occupy the huge center of the revolution. Even though Lenin once had the idea of ​​giving up Petrograd, he also knew that if he really wanted to do that, the impact would be quite bad, and doing so would be equivalent to cutting off his arm.

Now Lenin would no longer have such concerns. Even after seizing the sea control of the Baltic Sea, the Bolsheviks had a new route to export revolution. The Red Navy had the ability to reach Germany and Denmark directly, and could support the proletariat of these developed countries from the sea, allowing them to once again get a knife to imperialism from behind.

In short, Lenin and the Politburo were quite satisfied with the performance of the Navy. These great elders discovered for the first time that the Navy was not a useless decoration, but was of great use. Especially in the current confrontation with the Enemy, it would be quite meaningful to retain a strong enough navy.

At this time, Li Xiaofeng was talking about how to reduce the size of the navy. Although someone did not immediately say the reduction, and with Russia's national strength, it could not afford to support a large fleet. However, the Politburo still believed that someone's situation was small!

Yes, in the Politburo's opinion, although the current revolutionary situation cannot be said to be very good, it is generally good. Tukhachevsky annihilated an entire enemy division, captured more than 7,000 people, and also blocked the Allied Army from Warsaw. Of course, the battle was very tangled, but overall it was not inferior. I believe that as Fu Longzhi's troops arrived at the Warsaw battlefield, the situation would soon improve. At this time, the situation should be a little larger! The German revolution was victorious, and even if it could not immediately cause a chain reaction between Britain and France, the power of the proletariat was stronger? Including Germany's national strength, what is it to retain a strong fleet?

Moreover, in the long run, to eliminate the imperialist forces of Britain and the United States, one must cross the sea, and a strong navy must be needed. Since there is a demand, how can it be arbitrary abolition?

It would be fine if the four German Emperors changed their directions to Jewish allies. This is also a good method. From the perspective of the elders of the Politburo, they could naturally see someone's idea of ​​fishing big fish with a long line. Objectively speaking, it is indeed a good method. But the same thing is still the case. The pattern is small. Because someone's methods are based on the fact that the World Revolution is not going well, and based on the victory of only the Russian Revolution.

As mentioned earlier, did the German and Austro-Hungarian Revolution win? What big problems are the few dreadnoughts? I guess the real problem at that time was that the fleet was not strong enough, right?

Everyone read that right. The Politburo was indeed so optimistic at that time. Based on this optimistic sentiment, he naturally looked down on someone's arrangements. So the Politburo immediately discussed and studied the naval issue, and specifically called Trotsky from Warsaw back to Moscow.

After some research and discussion, the Politburo's opinion on the naval issue was that there was nothing to move for the time being, and the four German Emperors could not be sold to East Prussia, and even those who seemed old-fashioned former fearless could not be retired. Everything would be waited until Warsaw decided to win or lose.

Out of the most pessimistic prediction, the Politburo felt that if the war in Warsaw was not going well (please note that the Politburo felt that Tukhachevsky would not go well at most, and the worst result was a draw with the Allies), and when the proletarian camp and the imperialist camp could only maintain a balance of power, they would consider longer-term goals.

What is a longer-term goal? That is to accumulate strength and wait for the next revolution to come. In this state, the old former fearless and old cruisers need to be retired. But for the main ships, the Politburo believes that maintaining at least one battleship squad (four ships) in each area is the minimum requirement, and two battleship squads should be maintained in key areas.

In other words, in the Politburo's vision, the Red Flag Baltic Fleet is definitely a key sea area, and two battleship teams will be retained here, specifically two Bavarians, four King-class ships with two German Emperors. The Black Sea Fleet has two German Emperors in addition to retaining two Queens of Maria and one Poltava. Four German war patrols are retained in the Arctic Ocean direction. As for the remaining two German emperors, go to the Pacific Fleet. Anyway, the Pacific direction is not the focus for the time being, and it is enough to have two fearless guards.

In other words, the Politburo is preparing to keep all the main battleships, and even according to their theory, there are still two vacant ships. In fact, they all thought of the way to fill the vacancy. Aren’t the Izmael-class battle cruisers half built? Are the four battle cruisers waiting to be installed? Although we don’t have that much money to build all four ships, it’s okay to build half of them?

To be honest, this idea is too naive. It is simply treating the dreadnought as a cabbage. It is preparing to sell it in large quantities. And if you really want to do this, you are really looking for abuse. It seems that the overall scale of the Russian navy is quite amazing, and the displacement of the main battleship is definitely among the top three in the world. However, it is evenly distributed in four sea areas that cannot be communicated. Each fleet has no advantage when facing the most powerful enemies in the sea area, and will eventually be defeated by others. At that time, it is probably a joke about the Japanese-Russian naval battle.

More importantly, the Politburo may not have thought about the price to pay to maintain such a powerful fleet. They probably thought that most of these battleships were ready-made and did not require any money, and they did not need to be used for nothing.

But the problem is that the cost of maintaining ships is actually the real big deal. A battleship costs more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, and twenty battleships cost 20 to 30,000 people. These people need to eat, drink, defecate, and training. The simplest thing is, fuel is needed to go to sea? Equipment needs to be updated and maintained? Although the expenditure of a single ship is not very conspicuous, the total amount is astronomical!

Unfortunately, in this year, the Bolshevik Politburo bosses were full of "revolutionary romanticism" in their concepts and means of governing the country. They would unnaturally underestimate the difficulty of the problem and unnaturally solve the problem with the means of taking it for granted. Then... and then they would burst into blood in the face of iron objective laws and reality.

So when Li Xiaofeng received the opinions and opinions of the Politburo on his report, he was a little helpless. However, he was not too disappointed, because he had long realized that the Politburo would be too optimistic and take it for granted. The reason why he wrote this report was actually more of a vaccination, which was a reminder.

When the problems are exposed in the future, the elders of the Politburo will remember his reminder, which will help him to gain political prestige.

And there is no need to be too anxious to sell the German Emperor level and catch big fish. Anyway, the Jews cannot take over immediately for a while, and some details still need to be studied and discussed. Before that, he could have helped the Jews train sailors first. When the war in Poland came to an end, the great elders of the Politburo discovered that the World Revolution turned into a vortex of the moon in the water. When the main ship revealed the essence of the gold-swallowing beast, the great elders might be eager to remove these hot potatoes. That was the best opportunity to operate this deal.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng was not in a hurry at all now. He felt that the most important thing for him was to deal with land battles. The Allied coalition forces gathered an army and rushed out of Berlin and rushed out of Szechin. For the time being, let's consider how to deal with them first!

However, what Li Xiaofeng did not expect was that his idea was interrupted just now, not the Politburo or the Jew, but the Germans whom people never thought of!

"Akimovich, what's this guy doing?"

When Wufengjievich informed someone that Akimovich was about to see him, he was also surprised. When a certain immortal was intimidating the Germans, the two sides had a bad time. Anyway, Akimovich's face was not much better than the bottom of the pot when he left. With the Germans' little vengeance, there is no reason to send him to his face so soon, right?

However, the more important reason that surprised Li Xiaofeng was the current world pattern. He had heard that the Germans had basically reached an agreement with the Allies, and the rest were some details. The Versailles contract will be reached soon, and Germany should not send people to contact him at this time. Instead, it should be like the Albert government verbally shouted that it would cooperate with the Allies to wipe out the evil Bolshevik devils.

Based on these questions, Li Xiaofeng skipped the greetings and asked politely, straightforwardly: "What are you here to do?"

Akimovich was actually unwilling to come, but who made him one of the few people in Germany who had a deeper contact with someone? At this moment of national crisis, even if he doesn't like someone anymore, he has to suppress his disgust and take the overall situation into consideration.

", our government and people have actually always hoped to maintain peace and friendship with your country. We have reached an agreement on some major issues before. However, due to changes in the international situation, our government has to..."

Li Xiaofeng was really not interested in listening to these unnutritious nonsense, so he reached out to stop Akimovich from continuing to say: "Stop! I don't have time to listen to these nonsense, you'd better say something, otherwise I can only let you get out!"

Akimovich showed an awkward look. The meeting of this nature was awkward. If you don’t say some scenes, you can break the deadlock even if you talk about serious matters later. Isn’t there any drama at all when you talk about the serious matters later?

If someone else was in Akimovich's position, he would probably be stupid because a certain immortal was uneasy and seemed aggressive and unqualified. However, this is not the first time Akimovich has been defeated by someone, nor is it the first time he has experienced someone's qualities. He has experience in dealing with such scenes - that is, pretending not to hear those insults and directly getting to the topic according to someone's request.

"My government hopes to restore normal relations with your government and carry out cooperation in related fields!"

Li Xiaofeng narrowed his eyes because Akimovich's words surprised him a little, because according to the historical trend, Russia and Germany should have cooperated in the 1920s, and now it is undoubtedly much ahead of schedule.

However, it is not bad for Li Xiaofeng in advance, because it is obvious that Germany and Russia do have a basis for cooperation. As the two countries that have suffered the most severely in World War I, as the target of the Allies' key attacks, is the enemy of the enemy a friend?

But what interested Li Xiaofeng was how the Germans wanted to cooperate?

"Given the current international situation, our public contacts between our two countries may be too sensitive, so even after our two countries resume normal relations, our cooperation can only be carried out through third countries and hidden channels."

Seeing that Li Xiaofeng did not speak, Akimovich thought someone was not satisfied with this cooperation model, so he quickly explained: "Although this cooperation method is a bit strange, the sincerity of our government is quite obvious."

Li Xiaofeng asked with a smile: "What sincerity? I'm sorry, I haven't seen any sincerity yet!"

Akimovich knew very well the personality of someone who didn’t see a rabbit or an eagle, so he didn’t go around in circles and said, “The Baltic Fleet in your country should have been damaged in the previous battles, right?”

Li Xiaofeng's brows moved, could it be said?

Sure enough, Akimovich continued: "So my government is willing to provide enough accessories to your country. Do you think this sincerity is enough?"

Li Xiaofeng exclaimed in his heart. He had to say that the people who advised the Albert government were very clever. How to repair the four damaged German war patrols before did give him a headache. The supporting system of these stolen ships was completely different from that of Russia. If you want to repair it, you feel a little unstoppable. Unless someone sacrifices his efforts and directly replaces all German products, there is no way to repair it.

But now, the Germans have taken the initiative to supply accessories. This is too clever. Anyway, those fleets no longer belong to them, and keeping the reserved accessories has no meaning. It is better to be a favor that can bring closer relations with Russia, break the deadlock, and also disgusted the Allies by the way. Why not do it?

However, Li Xiaofeng did not rush to take the sincerity of the Germans, but asked: "Your conditions!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!