I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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After forcing out a smile, Vyshinsky tried his best to look humble and personable: "It turns out that your Excellency is the famous Second Young Master Jiang. I have admired the Second Young Master Jiang's name for a long time. Second Young Master Jiang..."

"Stop talking nonsense and get straight to the point!" Jiang Weiguo coldly interrupted Vyshinsky's tirade at the beginning.

Vyshinsky had no choice but to stop talking, his face turned blue and then pale, and he didn't feel uncomfortable when he was choked on the words.

After regaining his composure, Vyshinsky spoke again: "Dear Second Young Master Jiang, Minister Zhang, I have brought the utmost sincerity and the most generous conditions from our government..."

"Are you here to ask for peace?" Jiang Weiguo was bored, and he went straight to the point, "Mr. Vyshinsky, I don't like to listen to nonsense, you ask you questions, and you directly answer 'yes' or 'no'.

Let me ask you, is the Soviet Union going to seek peace with China? "

Vyshinsky had to say with difficulty: "Yes!"

"Conditions!" Jiang Weiguo said concisely.

Vyshinsky knew that there was no way to play around with Jiang Weiguo in a way of talking around the bush, so he had to honestly state the conditions: "Our country hopes that China can withdraw from the Soviet war. In return, our country recognizes that China except Baku and Omsk is in the The occupied areas in the Soviet Union are all China's sphere of influence!"

Jiang Weiguo didn't say a word, just lifted his ass and left. He had no interest in listening to Vyshinsky's nonsense.

Vyshinsky panicked immediately, and he hurriedly said: "Please wait, there are other conditions!"

Jiang Weiguo turned around and looked at Vyshinsky without saying a word, his eyes were sharp.

Vyshinsky had no choice but to show his hole card: "On the basis that China returned Baku and Omsk to our country and withdrew from the war..." he said bitterly, "Our country recognizes that all Central Asia except the west bank of the Ural River Belongs to China ("except the west bank of the Ural River" refers to a small part of the northwest of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan is one of the five countries in Central Asia, the country belongs to Asia, but a small part of the northwestern part of the country is on the west bank of the Ural River, which belongs to Europe, Because the Ural River and the Ural Mountains are the dividing line between the two continents of Asia and Europe); in addition, everything east of the Yenisei River also belongs to China!"

Jiang Weiguo narrowed his eyes. According to the intention of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is willing to cede all Central Asia (except for the small area belonging to Europe) to China, and also cede East Siberia and Central Siberia to China (Siberia is mainly divided into three major regions. East of the Ural Mountains and west of the Yenisei River is West Siberia, east of the Yenisei River and west of the Lena River is Central Siberia, and east of the Lena River to the Bering Strait is East Siberia).

The Soviet Union gave up all of Central Asia and two-thirds of Siberia, with a territorial area of ​​more than 1000 million square kilometers. It was indeed a huge concession.

But Jiang Weiguo was not moved, he looked at Vyshinsky expressionlessly: "Sooner or later these places will belong to us.

By destroying you, we can gain more, not only Central Asia, Eastern Siberia, Central Siberia, and Western Siberia are all ours.

So, what you just said is nonsense!" He walked away.

"Wait!" Vyshinsky was completely anxious, "Mr. Xiao Jiang, please wait a moment! We have something else!"

Jiang Weiguo sneered: "What else do you have? You are so poor that you only have territory left, and your territory will belong to us sooner or later, so you have no bargaining chips to ask us for peace!"

"Yes!" Vyshinsky gritted his teeth, "We still have...gold!"

Jiang Weiguo was surprised for a moment, he looked at Vyshinsky and remained silent.

"A lot of gold!" Vyshinsky said eagerly, "at least a thousand tons!"

"One thousand tons of gold?" Jiang Weiguo laughed, "It's really a lot!" He was a little moved, because China was too short of money, and if he could get [-] tons of gold from the Soviet Union, things would be easy. Of course, Jiang Weiguo He will not take money and let people go. On the one hand, he wants to obtain the gold of the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, he unswervingly wants to destroy the Soviet Union.

Jiang Weiguo estimated that Vyshinsky must be bragging and exaggerated the amount of gold. In addition, he estimated that the gold Vyshinsky mentioned should be the gold reserves in the Soviet state treasury.

In fact, whether it is Jiang Weiguo or Hitler, they are already planning how to divide the wealth of the Soviet Union after the demise of the Soviet Union. This is not only the territory, but also a large amount of wealth in various other aspects, such as population, mineral resources, and industrial equipment. Wait, wait, gold is one of them.

Both Jiang Weiguo and Hitler considered the Soviet Union's gold, but they both felt that it was very difficult to obtain the Soviet Union's gold reserves intact. First of all, although the Soviet Union was completely blocked, it was not really without access, such as airplanes, such as Submarines can transfer the Soviet Union's gold reserves out of the country. Secondly, if the Soviet authorities really cannot transfer the gold reserves, unless Stalin orders an unconditional surrender, otherwise, according to the style and virtue of the Soviets, they will definitely say "I can't get it, Let you not get it." Although gold cannot be destroyed, it can be buried in the vast territory of the Soviet Union. Three feet to the ground, right?In case the gold was thrown by the Soviets into forests, snowfields, and deep seas, although the gold still exists on the earth, it will never be found.

"Okay!" Jiang Weiguo finally showed a smile on his face, "However, empty words are useless, Mr. Vyshinsky, you must always show your sincerity? First, bring over a hundred tons of gold as your sincerity!"

"No, no, no!" Vyshinsky shook his head, "Mr. Jiang, the gold I'm talking about is not the imperial army reserve in the Soviet state treasury, but..." He deliberately hesitated to speak.

Jiang Weiguo could see that Vyshinsky wanted to whet his appetite so as to gain the initiative in the conversation, and he immediately became annoyed, because he didn't like the other party's tricks of playing tricks on him, so he raised his leg again and prepared to leave .

"Wait!" Vyshinsky was very frustrated. He found that Jiang Weiguo was completely invulnerable and could not use any means, so he had to honestly show his hole card again, "Mr. The gold that was exchanged was actually just..." He licked his lips, "Tsar's gold!"

"What?" Zhang Qun, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help being surprised.

Jiang Weiguo lit a cigarette: "Mr. Vyshinsky, I admit that I like gold very much, but I will not be led by your nose.

what happened?To be specific, no nonsense is allowed! "

Vyshinsky had no choice but to tell the truth: "You all know that when Soviet Russia fell into the red-white civil war, the tsarist ruling clique was determined to make a comeback and make a comeback, so they urgently transferred the gold reserves in the Russian treasury. This matter is the Tsarist Russian Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak.

At that time, the Soviet Red Army had seized control of Eastern Europe. In 1918, Kolchak took his henchmen and the gold handed to him by Tsar Nicholas II, fled eastward from Eastern Europe, crossed the Ural Mountains, entered the A stronghold was established in the Omsk area. After a year of stubborn resistance, he was defeated by the Soviet Red Army again. He had to take the remaining party members and the gold and continue all the way east, trying to pass through the vast Siberia, reach the Far East, and finally support in Japan Rebuild Tsarist Russia.

In February 1920, the Soviet Red Army chasing Kolchak completely wiped out his power and arrested him, executed him, but the whereabouts of the gold was unknown!"

"How much is that batch of gold?" Zhang Qun asked with fiery eyes.

Vyshinsky said: "The specific figure is not very clear. It is conservatively estimated to be 1000 tons, and there are even claims as high as 1600 tons!" He looked at the calm Jiang Weiguo and continued, "After the collapse of the Kolchak Group, our Soviet The new government has been sparing no effort to find this batch of gold belonging to the Soviet people, and finally found a lot of clues and very reliable evidence.

Kolchak first stored his gold in Omsk. When Omsk was captured by the Soviet Red Army, he fled to Siberia with the gold and hid it in several places.

After we arrested Kolchak and his main faction leaders, we conducted various interrogations, investigations, explorations, and finally determined where the gold was buried!"

Zhang Qun asked suspiciously: "Then why don't you dig it yourself?"

Vyshinsky said with a wry smile: "Most of these golds are in places already occupied by you. We have been trying to dig them out, but before we have time to put them into action, the Far East War broke out!" He looked at Jiang Weiguo with eyes It became bright and with a kind of temptation, "Mr. Jiang, we know where the gold is, most of it is in the area controlled by your Chinese army, we can't dig it now, but if we don't provide you with detailed information, I'm afraid you will find 100 I can't find it for years!" The temptation in his tone became stronger and stronger, "Mr. Jiang, this is a condition that we and your country are willing to stop the war. As long as you withdraw from the war, we will bury the gold. Details Provided to you, it is conservatively estimated that there are more than [-] tons of gold, and it can even reach [-] tons of gold.

Mr. Xiao Jiang, there is a saying in your country called "breaking money and avoiding disaster". This is how we are now. You get this huge amount of gold, and your country can become richer. After the war stops, you can develop with peace of mind. Sooner or later Wouldn't it be nice to be a world class powerful and rich country? "

Jiang Weiguo smoked deeply, did not speak, but his heart was stirring up turbulent waves.

Chapter 521 Big Avalanche (1)

One thousand tons of gold, according to the current international exchange rate of 15 to 20 U.S. dollars per ounce of gold, is almost [-] billion U.S. dollars when converted into U.S. dollars. However, the current world situation is chaotic and turbulent. It is an absolute hard currency, so the actual value of gold is actually greater. Therefore, a thousand tons of gold is worth almost [-] billion US dollars.

20 billion U.S. dollars is undoubtedly an extremely huge wealth, and Jiang Weiguo "salivates" about it, because China is so short of money, and Jiang Weiguo's lack of money has already reached the point where his eyes turn green.

If China can get the 20 billion US dollars, "that would be too beautiful", Jiang Weiguo thought about it, and couldn't help but heat up his blood and feel hot all over his body.

However, Jiang Weiguo did not lose his mind. Although a thousand tons of gold is an irresistible temptation, the fact is: From the current point of view, this batch of gold is just a big cake drawn by the Soviet Union for China. It is very doubtful whether it exists. Jiang Weiguo would not be deceived by the Soviets' method of painting cakes to satisfy their hunger. He has always been safe in his pockets, and he will not scatter eagles when he sees rabbits.

Unless the Soviets put a pile of gold in front of Jiang Weiguo, he will really "faint". He also wants the land of the Soviets.

Jiang Weiguo was certain that Vyshinsky was lying, either [-]% or exaggerating on the basis of facts. It is not impossible for him to blow up ten tons of gold into a thousand tons.

Jiang Weiguo carefully asked Vyshinsky repeatedly, trying to find the flaws in his words.

"Why haven't you unearthed this batch of Tsar's gold yourself?"

"In fact, after the Kolchak gang was completely destroyed in early 1920, the new Soviet government has been sparing no effort to search for these gold treasures. For 20 years, we have arrested hundreds of people, including Kolchak himself. The insiders are mainly the leaders of the Belarusian gangs. We have conducted strict interrogations on them. At the same time, we have collected a lot of information and sent hundreds of search teams to search repeatedly in Siberia. The footprints are all over the Ural Mountains. Ling, and even sent many search teams to sneak into the territory of Central Asia, Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia, and Northeast China to search. This matter is one of the top secrets of the Soviet Union. The third chief of the Soviet intelligence agency) was personally in charge and reported directly to Stalin himself.

In the end, relying on more than ten years of continuous efforts and a lot of hard work, we officially found out several places where Kolchak buried the Tsar's gold!"

"Since you have already found out, why haven't you discovered it yet?"

"There are three reasons. One is that after we found out the location, the time was too tight, and the Far East War broke out before we had time to start a full-scale excavation. We are beyond our reach. In order to prevent you from discovering it by yourself, we have completely terminated this secret plan to avoid being noticed by you. The second reason is that our plan has been being spied on by the British, French, and Japanese. The three countries supported Kolchak during the Soviet-Russian Red and White Civil War. They did not necessarily support Kolchak sincerely. Their greater purpose was to monopolize the Tsar’s gold in Kolchak’s hands, which made us suffer a lot. Interference and obstruction; the third reason is that most of the gold burial sites are difficult to be excavated smoothly, and the excavation is very difficult, and it will take at least two or three years and at least four or five years!"

Jiang Weiguo narrowed his eyes slightly, and exhaled a smoke ring: "That's right, very realistic nonsense, I almost believed it.

Are you Soviets going to play the empty glove white wolf trick on us?Make up a good story with no real basis, just want us to give up this war?It's a good plan!How should I put it, Mr. Vyshinsky, even if you don't consider it from the perspective of national interests, at least I don't want to be the laughing stock of the ages.

I don't know how many people will laugh at me if I give up a great war for a batch of non-existent gold!Mr. Vyshinsky, I suggest that when you return to the Soviet Union via the United States, sell your story of this treasure to Hollywood, I believe it can be made into a very popular movie!"

"No!" Vyshinsky looked firm, "Mr. Jiang, this is not a lie, it is a real state secret! The Tsar's gold treasure is real! A large archive room of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (KGB) There are dozens of tons of materials, documents, reports, photos and other evidence that can prove the absolute existence of this treasure!"

"Chinese intelligence agencies also have this ability: within a month or even a week, dozens of tons of fake materials have been produced, proving that the Manchu Qing royal family has hidden a secret treasure of more than 1000 tons of gold!"

"As long as you agree to withdraw from the war, we can immediately transfer all the tsarist gold burial sites!"

"Quit the war? Well, I want to hear what you're going to ask us to do?"

"It's simple.

The Soviet Red Army will launch an attack on Omsk and the southeastern Baku oil fields that have already been occupied by you. Your troops in these two places lost these two places because they were caught off guard. Omsk does not matter, but southeastern Baku The oil field area must be basically completely handed over to the Soviet Red Army. As long as we cooperate with each other tacitly, it is enough to deceive the Germans.

Once these two places are handed over to us by you, we will immediately hand over the golden place to you!"

Jiang Weiguo smiled contemptuously, because the two places mentioned by Vyshinsky are very critical. Of course, there is no need to say more about the Baku oil field, and Omsk is a hard thorn for the Nanjing Army to insert into the Soviet Army's hinterland. The Soviet army is stuck in the throat, and the Chinese Air Force can use Omsk as a bridgehead and springboard to bomb the Soviet Ural industrial zone. The most urgent thing for the Soviet army is to regain the above two places.

"I'm very tempted, but I won't give in!" Jiang Weiguo smiled, "Unless you send at least one hundred tons of gold to me or make me sure that I can really get at least five hundred tons of gold steadily At that time, I will never believe you!"

Vyshinsky's face became ugly, because Jiang Weiguo didn't take the bait at all.

Jiang Weiguo threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, showing a mysterious smile: "Actually, we have already found that batch of gold!"

"What?" Vyshinsky was taken aback, his eyes widened in disbelief.

"It's just..." Jiang Weiguo approached Vyshinsky and whispered, "The bottom of Lake Baikal, right?"

Vyshinsky looked at Jiang Weiguo dumbfounded.

Jiang Weiguo admitted that he was defrauding Vyshinsky, but the facts told him that he succeeded.

Molotov, a huge basement of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Army.

On the chairman seat of the suffocatingly wide conference table, Stalin sat with a stone-like expression on his face. Intimidate.

On both sides of the conference table, seven senior generals were sitting in turn, namely Chief of the Soviet General Staff Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of General Staff Meretskov, Commander of the Moscow Special Military District Zhukov, and Commander of the Transcaucasus Military District Vasilev Sky, 16th Army Commander Rokossovsky, Ordnance Minister Kulik, and Reserve Front Commander Budyonny.

The number of participants is so small. On the one hand, the meeting must be kept strictly confidential. Naturally, the fewer people who know about it, the better. Most of them performed unsatisfactorily on the battlefield, which disappointed Stalin. At the same time, a group of rookie generals emerged on the battlefield and were reused.

Among the five marshals of the Soviet army before the war, two died in the Great Purge, one died in the Far East War, and two were still alive, namely Budyonny and Voroshilov. Budyonny was brave and decisive, but He is the main creator and leader of the Soviet cavalry. He still believes that the cavalry is invincible. On the German-Soviet battlefield, he even used cavalry to fight against German tanks. The result is predictable. You know; Voroshilov's ability is completely mediocre, and he has been completely ignored by Stalin. At present, Timoshenko is the only one in the Soviet army who has been promoted to marshal because he is sticking to Stalingrad. Stalin promoted him to marshal. In order to boost morale (this move is similar to Hitler's promotion of Paulus to Marshal in the original history), Shaposhnikov and Kulik were also promoted to Marshal in the original history, but at present, the Soviet army is steadily advancing. Although the two men also made great contributions during the war, the overall environment of the defeat of the whole army must have affected their promotion.

"Comrades..." Stalin said in a hoarse and dry tone, "Before the meeting begins, I propose to observe a minute's silence for the martyrs who died on the front line!" His tone was full of vicissitudes, even desolation.

Everyone at the scene looked at Stalin and sighed in their hearts, because Stalin was indeed old.

After a minute of silence, the atmosphere in the meeting room was still as heavy and depressing as it was during the moment of silence.

Stalin looked at everyone: "Comrades, after the end of winter, we will start a new round of contests with the German and Chinese invaders.

The fate of the Soviet Union will be decided within the new year. Will it perish, or will it persevere tenaciously?We firmly believe in the latter.

Therefore, we must formulate a rigorous, new war plan.

According to the plan previously submitted by Comrade Zhukov, he proposed that during this winter, we should concentrate our forces, attack the Chinese first, use pre-emptive strikes to injure the Chinese with all our strength, and force the Chinese to withdraw from the war, thus ending our army's continuous struggle with the enemy and the two sides. The unfavorable situation of front-line combat!"

"I support Comrade Zhukov's plan!" Shaposhnikov said, "Comrades, last year's war experience has told us deeply, yes, the Chinese are much weaker than the Germans, but the Chinese give us The harm it brings is no less than that of the Germans, even more than the Germans! The Germans are our frontal enemies, and the Chinese are our scourges behind us! We want to defeat Germany in this hard and long war People must have a stable and safe rear, but because of the existence of the Chinese, our rear is not stable and safe at all, but is in the same danger. In fact, we have almost no rear, because the Chinese let us Our rear has also become the front.

The strength of the Chinese is much weaker than that of the Germans. This is why we need to concentrate our efforts on launching a major counterattack against the Chinese. We cannot always be caught in a two-front battle. Since the Chinese are weaker than the Germans, it is natural to force the Chinese to withdraw from the war. Great choice!"

"Comrade Vasilevsky!" Stalin looked at Vasilevsky, "What do you think? Oh, I haven't rewarded you yet, Comrade Vasilevsky, you performed very well on the Transcaucasus battlefield, Reserved half of Baku for the Soviets, and while many people think you did it wrong, I know that you did it right, and that you took clever and optimal decisions!"

Vasilevsky stood up: "Comrade Stalin, this is my duty. I also agree with Comrade Zhukov's suggestion. If it is feasible, this plan is the only way for us to break the current unfavorable situation!"

"Comrades, I think this plan is bold, but it is very risky!" Meretskov disagreed. "If we take the initiative to fight back against the Chinese, how much military power will we have to invest? If we invest less, it will be meaningless. It will even make us waste our military power further and needlessly, and if we invest too much, the Germans are very likely to take advantage of it!"

"Comrade Meretskov, I have already considered this issue!" Zhukov said, "It is true that there are certain risks, but it is worth a try, because we really have no choice but to continue to be defeated by the Germans and Chinese." If we attack head to tail, we will never be able to get rid of the dangerous situation of fighting on two fronts, we must fight hard!"

"But what about Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad?" Meretskov retorted, "We mobilized our troops to the Eastern Front, and the Western Front will inevitably be weakened! Timoshenko (Commander-in-Chief of the Stalingrad Soviet Army) ) and Govorov (the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army in Leningrad) kept asking for additional troops and assistance, but we still have to spend a lot of military power on the Eastern Front!"