Li Huilan, who didn't want to wake up Yang Zhen and chose to leave gently, didn't know that behind her, Yang Zhen, who was still sleeping soundly, opened her eyes. Who is Yang Zhen? Although she hasn't been on the front line in the past two years. He fought hard, but his almost innate alertness cultivated over many years has not diminished.
Although Li Huilan's movements were very gentle, Yang Zhen had already been awakened when she removed Yang Zhen's hand. However, after Yang Zhen woke up, he didn't open his eyes for some reason until Li Huilan turned around and was about to leave. At that moment, he slowly opened his eyes and watched Li Huilan's beautiful back disappear before his eyes. When Li Huilan left, Yang Zhen, who understood Li Huilan's concerns, did not say anything to stop him.
After Li Huilan left, Yang Zhen did not get up immediately. Instead, he sat up and leaned on the bed, lost in thought. It was not until the sky was completely bright that Yang Zhen got up, put on his clothes, walked to the window, and looked out the window, not knowing what he was thinking. , this tranquility was not broken until Zhang Zixiong came in to bring him hot water,
After hastily washing up, Yang Zhen and Wang Guangyu talked alone for a whole morning. During the conversation, although Yang Zhen clearly told this old subordinate what his relationship with Li Huilan was, he more or less gave some hints. With Wang Guangyu's personality, it's not impossible to understand the meaning of Yang Zhen's words. With Wang Guangyu's care, Yang Zhen will feel more at ease leaving Li Huilan in Qiqihar.
After talking to Wang Guangyu, Yang Zhen politely declined Wang Guangyu's request to stay for lunch before leaving. He left Qiqihar in a hurry, took the special plane that had been waiting at the airport and flew directly to Harbin, and came up at the airport. Among the people seeing him off, Yang Zhen did not find Li Huilan.
Li Huilan did not come to see her off. Although Yang Zhen felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, she was really relieved. At least she has not been carried away by her feelings yet and is still very calm. If Li Huilan really came to the airport to see her off, Yang Zhen was a little worried that she would be emotional.
After the things that needed to be explained had been explained, Yang Zhen glanced at the airport and Wang Guangyu and several deputy or above cadres of the Nenjiang Military Region who were seeing him off at the edge of the plane. He never looked back and resolutely lowered his head and got into the cabin. After Yang Zhen got into the cabin Finally, the C-47 transport plane, whose engine had started to rotate, left the runway without any hesitation under the escort of two escorting P-39 fighter jets, and flew into the sky with its head held high.
But Yang Zhen didn't know that it wasn't that Li Huilan didn't want to come, but that she was afraid that when she saw Yang Zhen leaving, she would pounce on him desperately and want to go with Yang Zhen. As a mature woman, Li Huilan had already passed the time. At the age where she would risk everything for love, she knew that when she saw Yang Zhen leaving, she might not be able to control her emotions.
After much hesitation, Li Huilan finally did not go to the airport to see Yang Zhen off, even though she was very reluctant to do so. Although Wang Guangyu had invited her to see Yang Zhen off with him, Li Huilan still refused. She did not want to lose her composure in front of outsiders, let alone in public. Yang Zhen was embarrassed, but although she did not go to see Yang Zhen off, Li Huilan looked at the direction of the airport infatuatedly and stood until dark.
Li Huilan stood for a whole afternoon looking in the direction of the airport. After getting on the plane, Yang Zhen leaned against the cabin with his eyes closed and said nothing, but he didn't know that Yang Zhen closed his eyes and said nothing, and no one in the entire cabin dared to While talking, Yuan Zhiruo was looking at the sky outside the cabin window and not knowing what she was thinking.
The straight-line distance between Qiqihar and Harbin is not far. In addition, airplanes are much faster than cars and do not need to rely on roads. In less than an hour, Yang Zhen's special plane has arrived at Harbin Airport. At this time, he made a special trip from the Jiamusi Military Region Station Guo Bingxun, who arrived, and Du Kaishan, the commander of the first column stationed in Harbin and the commander of the Harbin garrison, had been waiting at the airport for a long time.
When the plane was stable, Yang Zhen got off the plane and couldn't help but be startled when he saw Guo Bingxun. He didn't expect that Guo Bingxun would come specially from Jiamusi, but when Yang Zhen stood next to Kovalev who saw the helpless Guo Bingxun, After that, I understood in my heart why Guo Bingxun came to Harbin to greet him when he was so busy that he didn't even have time to rest.
After shaking hands with Guo Bingxun and Du Kaishan one by one, facing Kovalev who was about to give Yang Zhen a bear hug, Yang Zhen frowned, rejected his enthusiasm, and just smiled lightly and said: "Kovalev Comrade Husband, why do you no longer need to hide your identity? Why did you come to Harbin so arrogantly? Are you not afraid that the Japanese will cause trouble to the Soviet Union?"
Seeing that Yang Zhen refused his affectionate move, Kovalev was somewhat embarrassed when he heard Yang Zhen ask, but he waved his hand indifferently and said: "Comrade Yang Zhen, I am now a member of the Soviet Consulate General in Harbin. The military attaché, who also serves as the liaison officer in the Anti-Japanese Federation, is coming to Harbin today to officially take up his post, and I would like to greet you by the way. What's the matter, Comrade Yang Zhen doesn't welcome you?"
Hearing that this guy was actually transferred to Harbin as a military attache, Yang Zhen, who already had a rough estimate of this guy's identity, couldn't help but feel his heart sinking. He also thought about how Jiangbei had been stuck on the engine issue and refused to hand over the engine production. Regarding the technology and drawings, Yang Zhen guessed that Jiangbei was thinking about him again.
But if Kovalev doesn't say it, Yang Zhen will naturally not mention it. The most important thing for fighting against the Jiangbei gang is to keep calm. As long as they keep calm, they will tell it themselves. The two people with different thoughts looked at each other. , but no one said anything. Everyone knew that this was not the place for conversation.
After a brief silence, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun got into their car. After getting in the car, Yang Zhen was silent for a moment before saying: "Old Guo, why are you here and getting together with this difficult guy? Could it be that Jiangbei Those guys have done something to get us in trouble again, that guy doesn’t list anything."
Hearing Yang Zhen's question, Guo Bingxun shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, so I came here to discuss it with you. The day before yesterday, this guy found the political commissar and me and proposed that the engine drawings could be forwarded to We, and they can also send some technical personnel to support us."
"However, they also asked us to increase our annual grain supply to 150,000 tons and 20,000 tons of potatoes from this autumn, and all the grains should be wheat. At the same time, we should provide 10,000 pigs and 2,000 beef cattle every year, as well as, They want our canned luncheon meat production technology."
"At the same time, they also proposed that all future transactions with Jiangbei will be based on grain and livestock products, and they will no longer accept coal and other mineral products, because they believe that the coal produced by the few coal mines in their base area is enough for them. Therefore, grain will be the main type of trading material in the future."
"Actually, there is no need to go to you for this matter. We should go to the Commander-in-Chief and Director Li. But this Kovalev has to see you. I know that this guy will definitely not come to you for such a simple matter. He should There are other reasons, but he refuses to tell us, and there is nothing we can do against him."
Hearing Guo Bingxun's intention to express Kovalev's visit, although Yang Zhen did not answer directly, he frowned slightly. One hundred and fifty thousand tons of wheat was almost equivalent to 70% of the entire fine grain output of the entire Production and Construction Corps last year. It was also At present, almost the entire base area has fine grain storage capacity.
Spring has just begun this year, spring plowing has not yet begun, and climate change is still unclear. As for the total grain output at the end of the year, there is no shadow yet. In the event of a natural disaster, if the contract for 150,000 tons of grain is fulfilled, the entire The food reserves in the base area are now empty.
The matter of 10,000 pigs and 2,000 beef cattle is not a big deal. A production and construction corps can completely afford it. In order to ensure the nutrition of the troops, when the production and construction corps was established, Yang Zhen made great efforts to focus on animal husbandry. In the production of food products, in addition to short-growing meat such as chickens and ducks, the annual number of pigs remains at more than 100,000 pigs every year.
After the large-scale introduction of mechanization, cattle, which used to be the main livestock power in cultivated land, were also freed. However, because beef is rich in nutrients and can withstand roughage, it is easy to raise. The production corps has also increased the number of cattle. After capturing Pseudo-Longjiang Province, which is rich in livestock resources, a large number of Mongolian cattle were seized.
Compared with grain, the 10,000 pigs and 2,000 beef cattle proposed by Jiangbei are not large quantities at all, but they are still within the affordability of the base area, and the luncheon meat production technology is even less technical. The food is easy to produce and has little taste. Compared with nutritious canned beef, the nutrients contained in it are even less.
The original intention of producing this product, which is simpler than pure Japanese canned beef, was just to provide the troops with meat to supplement their calories when marching in the severe cold of Northeast China. It was also to make use of the limited meat production to produce as much meat as possible. Meeting the needs of the troops is not something confidential, so transferring it to Jiangbei is not a big problem.
But the problem of food gave Yang Zhen quite a headache. Without food, he was unstable. This is something that even a fool understands. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. Spring has not started this year. What is the weather like? There is no doubt whether there will be a natural disaster. I don't know, the lion in Jiangbei is asking for 150,000 tons of grain, and they all ask for wheat. This amount is not a big pressure on the base area.
Even if Jiangbei does not have detailed figures for the yearly grain and meat production in the base area, he will at least have a rough estimate. With Jiangbei's intelligence capabilities, there will be no problem in obtaining this. I am afraid that these 150,000 tons of grain will Jiangbei also opened its mouth based on its annual production capacity.
Others only saw the surface number proposed by Jiang Bei, but Yang Zhen saw some hidden things behind this number. This time Jiang Bei proposed a trade between the two parties to stabilize the country with food. It was definitely not as simple as it seemed on the surface. There were so many As for grain, they all specify that they all require wheat.
The black bread called Leba, which is mainly made of rye and wheat bran, and is the staple food of Jiangbei people, cannot use so much wheat, 150,000 tons of wheat. According to Jiangbei's eating habits, this amount is enough to satisfy Jiangbei's needs.
All the garrisons in the Far East, including the so-called Red Flag Pacific Fleet, have met their entire wheat demand for a year. The reason why they did this should be that they are prepared to retain a certain amount of reserves in the Far East to reduce the pressure on supply in the western region.