As long as Li Kefu recalls the political gambling that Li Xiaofeng has conducted, he feels incredible. He completely cannot understand why someone dares to gamble like this. Could someone be really an economic genius and can really see through the essence of capital?

To be honest, Likov is neither willing to admit nor willing to believe that someone has such a genius. This terrifying ability to see through the essence of things is probably Marx before, right? If he admits that someone has such ability, wouldn’t he have to admit that someone has the possibility of becoming the next Marx? And admits this, wouldn’t he mean that a certain immortal is the real successor?

Likov was unwilling to admit it because his good friend and Sverdlov were in a competitive relationship. Bukharin was three years younger than Xiaos and could compete with Xiaos for the best. If Li Xiaofeng had such terrifying ability, with his relationship with Xiaos, it would be equivalent to giving Xiaos a big plus points to succeed him. How could Likov tolerate this?

But the problem is that if you don’t recognize Li Xiaofeng’s ability, you need to have real evidence. Even if you want to discredit someone, you have to have a handle. However, since joining the revolution, Li Xiaofeng has almost never made any mistakes. He has always stood firmly on Lenin’s side. At every moment when the turning point is about to happen, this person will choose the right camp in a very correct way. Such a perfect resume is simply impossible to attack!

Likov knocked on the forehead and was speechless to a certain immortal who was about to visit. If possible, he would definitely find a way to find some awkwardness for someone, but there was no excuse for him to take action. Even the People's Committee of the Diplomatic Affairs owed a lot of favors from a certain immortal, which made Likov even more headache.

Why did the People's Committee of Diplomatic owe to Li Xiaofeng? It has to start from scratch. After the founding of the Soviet Union, as the debate within the party became more intense and the actual needs of all counter-revolutionaries were completely settled. Punishment became an inevitable issue.

The anti-counterfeiting trend was once a tendency to expand at that time, and Cheka almost became a nightmare for the whole country. There were constant spies, spies and counter-revolutionaries who were dissatisfied with the country and the party. Among them, the worst-hit area was the People's Committee of Diplomatic Affairs.

Originally, how could a diplomatic work not have contact with foreign countries? The "paparazzi" looked at it with a magnifying glass and said a little wrong. Even if it was just a harmless complaint, it might be invited by Cheka to have tea.

At that time, Akihitosky, the chief of the chief Cheka, was really a bastard. He let his subordinates make trouble. For a moment, the People's Committee of Diplomatic Affairs was in chaos, and all the staff were in panic. Almost in a situation where the normal work could not be carried out.

At this time, the one who dared to suppress the arrogance of Cheka was the National Security People's Committee (the National Political Security Bureau reorganized in 1924). As the People's Committee on National Security, Li Xiaofeng washed away the grievances for many people who were beaten to be counter-revolutionaries, and almost forced the anti-counterfeiting and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to force the anti-counterfeiting to not be fully expanded.

In that operation, Li Xiaofeng was also considered to be taking risks and making jokes about political life. After all, the anti-counterfeiting was the matter of Lenin and Trotsky nodding at the same time. Who dared to object at that time? But Li Xiaofeng not only opposed it, but also successfully opposed it. Not only did he rescue a vote of persecuted old revolutionaries - such as former diplomatic people's committee member Tichilin, such as former Red Army heroes Chabayev and Mironov, from the black prison and labor reform, and did not offend Lenin and Trotsky for this, but also made these two mentors think that someone was the only person in the party who dared to tell the truth!

To be honest, Likov was shocked at the time - Damn, is this okay?

In short, Li Xiaofeng also bet right that time, and these glorious history that went back to the right was so scary. This made many people who didn’t like someone or even hated someone to the core with great psychological pressure. As someone’s political enemy, when you face a permanently correct opponent, that sense of futility and powerlessness is really tormenting. It will make you feel that someone will never be able to defeat!

Li Kefu hates this feeling very much, but he can't get rid of it. Under this mentality, he has a lot of pressure to meet with Li Xiaofeng every time. So why did Li Xiaofeng go to see him? This involves a very sensitive issue - attracting investment.

Although in the early 1920s, Lenin proposed this idea in order to solve the serious domestic economic problems, hoping to use foreign capital to drive the domestic economy. However, there were great opposition at that time, Trotsky believed that this was a disguised capitalist path and strongly resisted it. Later, due to the imperialist economic blockade, this policy was actually left unresolved.

However, in 1929, after the capitalist world experienced a serious economic crisis, with the lifting of external blockades, related topics came back. Li Xiaofeng, a representative of actively advocating the attraction of foreign capital.

This time, Li Xiaofeng took Trotsky's comprehensive development of industry, especially the route of focusing on the development of heavy industry. He proposed: "To achieve comprehensive industrialization, we must introduce advanced foreign technologies. At present, my country's foreign trade pressure is relatively large. The unsalable agricultural products have caused us to be unable to obtain funds to introduce foreign technologies... In this case, we must find another way to complete the goal of the 25th Plan (the first five-year plan was implemented since 1925, which was historically 1928). It is a good way to introduce foreign capital and obtain foreign technology by joint ventures..."

Li Xiaofeng was so angry that he glared at Trotsky, which was completely contrary to the highly concentrated planned economic system he advocated. Especially allowing foreign capital to enter the country, this seemed to him to let the wolf enter the sheep pen! What made Trotsky angry the most was that someone said this under the guise of revitalizing industry, which was simply slapping him in the face.

But Trotsky didn't have many ways to fight back because the situation in the Soviet Union was not particularly good at that time. As mentioned before, because of the collective farms and large amounts of food exports, Ukraine even experienced a famine again. At that time, the domestic policy on Lao Tzu had a considerable rebound.

Moreover, to fully industrialize, a large amount of funds will inevitably be needed, but according to Lao Teng's approach to exploiting farmers, there is no particularly abundant funds. Moreover, because the economic crisis broke out, the way to export agricultural products was not working. This is simply a vicious cycle!

But Lao Tuo cannot admit his failure and is even more unwilling to give up the established national policy of comprehensive industrialization. So what should I do? It seems that only Li Xiaofeng's method can be tried. Anyway, someone said that introducing foreign capital is not to allow foreign capital to rage at home. Instead, it is more reasonable to use them, and the goal of win-win has been achieved. Moreover, the field of attracting foreign capital cannot involve national strategic levels, such as finance, oil, coal and iron, and transportation.

Anyway, the Central Plenary Session had discussed for a week before Lenin decided to give it a try first, and the first batch of pilot projects were the fields of automobiles and machinery manufacturing. For example, what Li Kefu and Li Xiaofeng mainly talked about now are these two fields.

In 1928, led by Li Xiaofeng, he contacted the United States' international McCormit Company. The two sides intend to jointly establish a tractor factory with an annual output of 50,000 tractors in the Soviet Union. This should be a good thing, but it also responded to the words of good things. This cooperation agreement has never been truly implemented due to some interference.

For this reason, Li Xiaofeng had to run around the People's Committee on Diplomacy, the People's Committee on Commerce, the People's Committee on Heavy Industry, and the General Office of the People's Committee. This ran for more than a year. Until this morning, the intention finally became a draft contract.

As a member of the People's Commissar of Diplomacy and People's Commissar of Commerce, Li Kev needs to review the draft contract at the end until he is sure that there is no problem before he can submit it to Lenin for signature. The reason why Li Xiaofeng came to see him was probably to prevent Li Kev from playing tricks again at the last moment.

However, Likov really has no intention of playing tricks. In a sense, Likov actually supports cooperation with the International McCormit Company. The reason is very simple. As a friend of Bukharin, he also attaches great importance to agricultural production. Even if Bukharin and Trotsky have differences, he is still willing to give the green light to improve the level of agricultural modernization in Russia.

It has to be said that Russia's agriculture is too backward, and many areas are still at the primitive level of slash-and-burn farming. Even in Ukraine, where agriculture is relatively developed, its agricultural productivity is extremely low. Most farming still uses animal power, and the level of mechanization is abnormally low.

What’s even more funny is that after determining the established national policy of comprehensive industrialization and focusing on the development of heavy industry, Lao Tuo basically ignored agriculture. He really thought about how to make money from farmers. As for improving the level of agricultural modernization, hehe, I’m sorry, we don’t have that much foreign exchange, and the precious foreign exchange should be left to the introduction of heavy industry!

Then what? Then it was a tragedy. Because agriculture was too backward, Russia's agricultural "commodity rate" was extremely low. That is to say, the production cost of most agricultural products was too high, and most grain farmers kept them to fill their stomachs and could not enter the market at all. If agricultural products cannot enter the market, they will naturally become foreign exchange, and then the funds for the development of industries will not be settled.

In short, when the problem was exposed, the Politburo suddenly realized that the tractor was really important. Without completing the industrialization of agriculture, the country's heavy industrialization would be almost impossible to talk about.

In fact, the Politburo attached great importance to tractors and agriculture. For example, in 1919, at the most intense and critical moment of the civil war, Lenin once said: "If we can take out 100,000 first-class tractors tomorrow to supply gasoline and drivers, then the middle peasants will say: 'I agree with Comney (Communism).'. But to do this, we must first defeat the international bourgeoisie, force it to give us these tractors, or increase our productivity to the point where we can produce tractors ourselves!"

Not only the mentor, but also the iron-faced man Derrensky said in 1925: "In order to improve agricultural production and to consolidate the alliance between workers and peasants, a huge tractor manufacturing plant needs to be established!"

However, after Lao Tuo asked for a route to focus on the development of heavy industry, the tractor was forgotten. Only Li Xiaofeng had been insisting on establishing a tractor factory first. Of course, the reason why a certain immortal insisted on doing this was not just because he knew that the Politburo would fall into the pit. More importantly, the Red Army at that time. In particular, Tukhachevsky, Ubolevic and Triandafilov, who advocated mechanization, kept muttering in the ears of a certain immortal: "We want tractors, we need a large number of tractors!"

So why do these three people like tractors so much? The reason is very simple. The harsh infrastructure construction of the Soviet Union was simply a nightmare for the army, especially for artillery soldiers. Why did the Red Army soldiers in the Civil War not like cannons? The reason is that it is too difficult to serve. The animal power cannot meet the demand for towing cannons, and Russia does not have so much animal power (cavalry occupied). As for cars, this thing is too tall and Russia does not have so many cars.

The tractor is a good thing. It is simple to operate, much stronger traction than an ordinary truck and cheaper. It is simply a blessing for artillery!

So in order to achieve the goal of establishing a mechanized army, Tukhachevsky and others set their sights on tractors, so that a considerable number of tractors imported from abroad and produced by Russia were taken away by the Red Army. Even the three said that the number was not enough, and it would be better to get another 20,000 or 30,000 units to make do with it.

The rigid demand forced Li Xiaofeng to help find a solution, and he also had a little plan. Who said that the tractor factory could only produce tractors? The Soviet tractor factory was both civil and military in World War II, and it was no problem to produce tank and armored vehicles. If a tractor factory with huge production capacity could be established in the Ural region in advance, what if the Soviet Union had another tragedy in the early stages of World War II, wouldn’t it be too busy with emergency relocation like in history?

In short, Li Xiaofeng attaches great importance to tractors, but Lao Tuo has a resistant feeling. The People's Committee of Heavy Industry, which is controlled by Lao Tuo, strongly resists the joint venture and builds a factory, and always says that it has no money.

So much so that Li Xiaofeng got angry later and made a ruthless move. Didn’t you say there was no money? Then I would lend you a loan. Who would have thought that Lao Tuo was even more ruthless? He said that the International McCormick Company was suspected of spying and was here to steal our country’s intelligence. If it weren’t for the gap in the General Staff of the Red Army, the General Equipment Department and the tractors in agricultural production that was too big, Lao Tuo would really be stuck.

Li Kefu also sighed that it is not easy to do something these days, especially if you want to do something in Russia. I don’t know why someone will use inexplicable excuses to criticize you and make you unable to do anything. In this regard, Li Kefu also admires Li Xiaofeng. From 1928 to 1932, for four years, someone finally got it through, which is a gratifying congratulation!

However, when Li Kefu saw Li Xiaofeng, he was shocked to find that someone had no sign of happiness on his face, but instead looked angry. What happened again?

Li Xiaofeng did encounter something, or encountered a very painful nonsense. Over the years, he has been preparing for World War II and investing in the field of research and development. For example, his Northern Industrial Company has cooperated extensively with the Central Aviation Power Research Institute, especially in the field of automotive power. The cooperation between the two parties is quite in-depth. Since 1925, both parties have jointly invested in the research and development of a diesel engine. This research has finally come to fruition in 1932. The famous b2 diesel engine in history has finally entered the production line a few years ahead of schedule.

This was a good thing, but the next problem arose. When b2 produced fruitful results, according to the previous agreement, the two parties shared intellectual property rights and jointly produced it. However, the People's Committee of Heavy Industry made a splash. First, it demanded to buy out the patent rights of b2 at an extremely low price. After a bad and stern refusal, they used tricks to refuse to sell the b2 diesel engine produced by Kharkov Factory 75 to Northern Industry.

At this time, Northern Industry was carrying out an epoch-making tank development project. The design of the vehicle had begun and was waiting for the loading test of related power systems (the B2 production line of Northern Industry has not been established yet). This greatly delayed the rhythm of Northern Industry and delayed several key nodes.

Before coming to talk to Li Kev, Li Xiaofeng was negotiating with Ulitsky, the People's Committee member of Heavy Industry, asking the other party not to deliberately set up obstacles. However, it is obvious that the result of the negotiation is probably unsatisfactory.

Ulitsky did not directly reject Li Xiaofeng's request, but said: "Comrade Andrei, it's not that we deliberately set up obstacles, but that there is indeed a problem with the production capacity of Kharkov 75 Factory. By November this year, the factory only produced 35 B2 diesel engines in total. These diesel engines are not enough to meet our domestic needs, and they really cannot be exported!"

Is this reason valid? Maybe there is indeed a problem with the production capacity of Kharkov 75 Factory, but Li Xiaofeng didn’t want to take away all of these 35 units in one go. For Northern Industry, it only takes 5 units, or even 3 units, to start the design work. Can’t even get 3 B2 units?

At that time, Li Xiaofeng didn't say anything, because everything was empty, and the other party clearly stated that it was revenge, and it was open and honest revenge. What was the use of arguing with him? What made Li Xiaofeng even more angry was that he could not revenge. He did have a way to make the People's Committee of Heavy Industry difficult, but if he really wanted to do that, the Soviet Union was the biggest impact. We couldn't let the entire Soviet Union pay for Ulitsky's mistakes alone, right?

At least Li Xiaofeng is not so superficial, but a certain immortal made up his mind to settle the accounts with Ulitsky in the future! (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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