Several Soviet guards immediately ran to stop the workers. Yan Xishan quickly looked at Zhou Guansheng when he saw it. Zhou Guansheng's eyes moved left and right. Yan Xishan immediately knew what he was doing. He only saw that after a while, the workers were taken away.
When he came over, Malenkov asked with a smile on his face, "Hello, it seems to me that none of you are Chinese. I wonder which country you are comrades from? Why did you run away when you saw us? Has anyone told you?
What? How long have you been here?"
One of the white men nodded and said, "Hello, sir, we are workers in this steel plant. I am a worker from the United States. You can call me Trump. I have been here just over a year. We don't want to come because we are afraid of what you will do."
I arrange work, you know, we are on a monthly salary system, no matter whether we do it or not, you have to pay us, so if we can't do it, naturally I don't want to do it."
Malenkov happily said to Zhou Guansheng, "He is actually an American. I wonder why there are American comrades in our Taiyuan Steel Plant?"
As he spoke, Malenkov asked Trump again, "I wonder why you are here?"
The white man smiled and said, "Half of it is for money, and the other half is because we already like the work here and this ancient country."
Malenkov nodded and looked at Zhou Guansheng again.
Zhou Guansheng smiled slightly and asked the other two workers, "Where are you all from?"
A worker took off his hat, took out a small hat from his pocket and said, "I'm from Germany, I'm a Jew."
Another worker smiled and said, "I'm from the Czech Republic. I'm a Czech."
Malenkov's doubts became even more intense. He originally thought that the Chinese Red Party might have an affair with the United States, but now there are Germans...or German Jews? There are even Czechs who have perished. Malenkov has no idea about this steel.
What is the structure of the workers in the factory?
Zhou Guansheng looked at Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan nodded and said, "Comrade Malenkov, let me explain, we have relatively few workers in China, especially the skilled workers in these heavy industries, so there are even fewer of them, so from my perspective,
Since the founding of Shanxi Province, we have been vigorously recruiting workers and technicians from abroad. We have not only Americans and Germans, but also French, British, and even you Soviets. We also have overseas Chinese from all over Southeast Asia. Really
In fact, less than half of the local workers are local workers.”
Malenkov shouted in disbelief, "This is impossible. In this case, wouldn't your place be just a small League of Nations? How do you solve the language problem with so many people from so many countries, if not other things?"
Yan Xishan immediately put on a sad face and said, "My dear friend!! Comrade Malenkov, what you are talking about is also something that has been worrying me. How can people from so many countries manage them? We don't have enough managers.
The skilled workers often get into trouble with us because they have some skills. Sometimes they have to fix something when something is broken. Just looking for a translator is exhausting. Look at what he just said. How irritating! But there are
There are both disadvantages and advantages. Their technology is quite good and they have helped us build a lot of heavy industry factories. But fortunately you are here this time. This is my plan. We, the workers and skilled workers hired with huge sums of money, will not need them anymore.
, all replaced by our own workers and technicians from the Soviet Union. I believe that we are all proletarian revolutionaries and are fighting for the cause of all mankind, so you will definitely help us, otherwise you would not come.
no?"
With that said, Yan Xishan held Malenkov's hand tightly and said, "Brother, if nothing else, thank you very much. I've been tired of looking at them for a long time. When will your people arrive? Hurry up and help us."
Put it on!"
Malenkov asked in confusion, "Do you want our Soviet technical workers to support you? How many do you want?"
Yan Xishan waved his hand and shouted, "We will not let our big brother suffer. You will be provided with food and accommodation here. Big brother only needs to help us pay their wages. We have 30,000 steel workers, including
The technician costs five thousand."
Malenkov was so frightened by these words that his eyes almost popped out. He shouted loudly, "No! No! Thirty thousand? What do you think workers are? Animals? Where did so many workers come from? Besides, I
I gave you so many workers, have you used them?"
Yan Xishan immediately nodded and said, "It's used, it's used, can we build another steel plant? Besides, the steel development of the Chongqing government has not been very good, can we still support them?"
Malenkov no longer wanted to talk to Yan Xishan. In his mind, Yan Xishan was the Chinese Red Party who came to disrupt the situation. He looked at Zhou Guansheng viciously and looked away as if he didn't know anything. "Comrade Zhou Guansheng, the source of our red power is
Working class, the development of your workers’ power is too slow, this is not going to work, I think you must make corrections immediately!”
Zhou Guansheng smiled and said, "Comrade Malenkov, what you say must be based on evidence. You see, in January 1937, our Chinese Red Party had less than 3,000 workers who could be counted as workers. But now
?The number of workers in factories and workshops in various places reached 50,000 in the early 1940s. In the past three years, our worker strength has grown more than ten times. At this speed, I think the Red International should recognize us!"
Jiang Cheng looked at Zhou Guansheng's serious look and couldn't help asking in a low voice, "Vice Chairman Zhou, how many workers do we have?"
Zhou Guansheng spoke through his teeth: "How did I know that factories are open every day, and there are wars everywhere? The guerrillas build a workshop today and close it tomorrow. I just said this number casually. Do you think he will go and investigate?"
Not once?"
Jiang Cheng couldn't help but give a thumbs up in his heart after hearing this. This is why Malenkov has no time to check this. Using this to attack the Chinese Red Party is not just what the Chinese Red Party says.
Malenkov continued, "Also, people from these messy countries should be cleared out as soon as possible. Many of these people must be capitalist countries who come to steal our secrets. Your Chinese Red Party's awareness of confidentiality must be strengthened!...
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Before Malenkov finished speaking, Yan Xishan held his hand again. God knows how Yan Xishan grasped it accurately. Yan Xishan looked at Zhou Guansheng and others gratefully and said, "Look, look, I
What are you talking about? Isn’t the Red International just expressing its position? Don’t worry, Comrade Malenkov, I will clean up all the foreign workers in Shanxi within three days. As soon as your assistance arrives, I will let them leave immediately!"
Malenkov took a deep breath and shouted loudly, "I didn't say that our Red International wanted to aid your workers! No!!!"
Yan Xishan shouted loudly, "Did you all hear clearly? The Red International did not assist us! Those materials and people came here on a voluntary basis!"
Immediately, someone laughed softly and said, "How come you volunteered for these supplies?"
Yan Xishan glared at him and said, "Why can't you volunteer? Can't those workers carry it with them?... Even if it's not reliable to carry a blast furnace with you, can't you let our volunteer workers carry it separately? What kind of brains do you have?
!”
Malenkov felt his head was dizzy as he listened to the translator. Who asked him to come here in the name of preparing for future assistance?
Malenkov no longer wanted to see the steel plant. Anyway, he already knew the actual situation of the Taiyuan Steel Plant. He was going to go back and have a rest immediately, and then think about countermeasures.
When Zhou Guansheng heard that Malenkov wanted to go back, he immediately said, "What? Comrade Malenkov won't go to the arsenal? Where are our comrades waiting for you?"
With that said, Yan Xishan left under the pretext of going to the toilet. When Malenkov saw that the short and round Yan Xishan was gone, he immediately pulled Zhou Guansheng and said, "Then let's go immediately."
Zhou Guansheng looked towards the toilet and said, "Chairman Yan is still going to the toilet. Let's wait a moment."
Malenkov immediately said, "No wait, no wait, you must have been preparing for a long time. Your frontline soldiers are still waiting for your arsenal to produce weapons. If we make them wait for less than an hour, how many weapons will be produced?"
Come out and fight the damn Japanese devils."
Zhou Guansheng led Malenkov towards the arsenal with a helpless expression.
Malenkov looked at the heavily guarded arsenal, nodded and said, "Your defense force is very strong, including anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns."
Zhou Guansheng said with a smile, "These are the Japanese we captured. Did you know? The Japanese Emperor has a nickname here, called the Captain of the Logistics Brigade!"
Malenkov asked confusedly, "What does this mean?"
Zhou Guansheng smiled and said, "It's very simple. It means that the weapons of our soldiers and the equipment, funds, and food we need were all seized from the Japanese army. I have a photo here that was taken when we went on an expedition in 1937.
Look, seven out of ten weapons at that time were swords and spears, but now, they are all Japanese-style weapons. Many people don’t understand why we keep winning battles, and they say we have some advanced weapons. In fact,
Our weapon is very simple, that is to mobilize the masses and fight people's war!"
Although Malenkov was also a soldier, he had never fought in a war. Some smart people like Malenkov who had never been on the battlefield liked to be smart in the military. He listened to Zhou Guansheng explaining various guerrilla warfare tactics to him.
, I just felt like I was enlightened, especially when Zhou Guansheng introduced the Shanxi Campaign, when the Eighth Route Army blocked various checkpoints and defeated the Japanese troops one by one, he suddenly felt that fighting was not difficult. As long as I have more people, I can find the weak points of your troops.
Naturally, they can be defeated one by one and win. Malenkov, who has gained the essence of war, can't help but be very satisfied with this trip to China. He knows that he has no military exploits in the Soviet Red Party, so it is difficult for him to aspire to that position.
But looking at it now, it’s not difficult to gain some military merit.
Zhou Guansheng would not have thought that his casual explanation would fuel Malenkov's ambition. Later, Hitler found out about this and almost awarded Zhou Guansheng an Iron Cross!
Zhou Guansheng and others entered the arsenal and talked to the workers as usual. Zhou Guansheng and Malenkov, accompanied by several arsenal leaders, began to inspect. While they were watching, suddenly Malenkov heard a loud noise.
Malenkov quickly looked at the source of the sound and asked Zhou Guansheng, "Where does this sound come from?"
Zhou Guansheng said with a panicked look, "It's nothing, maybe something exploded."
Then, there were bursts of explosions, and Malenkov immediately shouted, "No! This is the sound of heavy artillery! Oh, Comrade Zhou Guansheng, can you already produce heavy artillery? Is your technology developing very fast? I don't know.
Where do all the equipment and technologies come from?”
Zhou Guansheng shook his head and said, "Where are the heavy artillery? Since he is the leader of a red country, there is nothing to hide. I just hope that Comrade Malenkov can keep it a secret for us."
Malenkov nodded quickly, and came to an open space with Zhou Guansheng expectantly. He only saw a lot of fortresses in the open space, and they were all targets.
Zhou Guansheng pointed to one of the fortresses that had been bombed into a mess and said, "The sound just now should have come from here. Look, there is still smoke. Who is in charge here?"
A man in the uniform of the Eighth Route Army ran over and saluted and said, "Hello, Chief! The Guard Artillery has met the Chief. The 107th Artillery Team is testing weapons. Please give instructions!"
Zhou Guansheng pointed at Malenkov and said, "Come, tell our Red International leaders what kind of weapon we just used to shoot."
Malenkov looked at the traces of the bombing and said, "Comrade, I am also from the army. I'm afraid your weapon is a heavy cannon, right?"
When the guard gun heard this, he laughed and said, "It's really not true. It's a very light gun. Please come with me, chiefs."
Malenkov followed the guard artillery in disbelief. After walking a few steps, he saw a small hillside. Behind the hillside was a position on which cylindrical objects were placed diagonally.
The guard gun said, "This is the one that was shot just now. It's called the Heartless Cannon! It's also called the Flying Thunder Cannon. It can fire a 20-pound explosive package and can hit more than three hundred meters."
Malenkov looked at it, rubbed his eyes, looked again, and shouted to Zhou Guansheng and Wei Pao, "What is this? Isn't this just a gasoline barrel?"
Jiang Cheng, who was hiding behind Zhou Guansheng, couldn't help but smile. This unscrupulous cannon that later showed its prowess in the Huaihai Battle is now only used by the New Fourth Army. It was used a lot when they attacked Yancheng. Those captured in Lianyungang
Most of the gasoline barrels were given to the New Fourth Army. I didn't expect to see them here.
Zhou Guansheng asked, "How is this used?"
The guard gun said, "This is actually a kind of mortar. The huge explosive package it launches will produce a strong explosive impact. Wherever it passes, bunkers, people and horses will be blown away. Many enemies who are blown down often cannot find anything on them."
The wounds, but bleeding from seven holes, were all shocked to death. It can be said that it is extremely powerful. If the leaders don’t believe it, let me set an example."
Malenkov immediately said, "Okay, okay, let me see how powerful your light cannon is!"
