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Chapter 1118 Big Brother's Problem (First update, please subscribe)
Inadvertently, before some countries realize it, they are served on the table, and in many cases, the parties involved are completely unaware.

This is the complexity of international affairs. Even a superpower holding a knife and fork can sometimes become a dish on the plate for other countries to feast on because of a problem of choice.

It is for this reason that even a big country cannot be arrogant in international affairs. Behind the seemingly invincible situation, it is very likely that it has already become a pie in the sky.

Just like Nanyang, although Nanyang has become an influential major country since 1955 or 1956 by virtue of its direct confrontation with the Soviet Union, it still deals with the chaotic international affairs with caution.

Confrontation is never eternal, and there is rarely a need to ease the situation during confrontation.

In order to ease relations with the Soviet Union, Nanyang first extended an invitation to Khrushchev to visit Nanyang.

This news naturally shocked the world - after all, it is well known that Nanyang is the number one thug in the Western world!
Although Nanyang's invitation was somewhat unexpected, Moscow was delighted. After all, using every possibility to divide the Western bloc was the Soviet Union's established strategy in the post-steel era.

In the past few years, Khrushchev has frequently visited Western European countries, essentially for the purpose of easing tensions and dividing them.

Therefore, Khrushchev was very happy about Nanyang's initiative to invite him. He even took the invitation letter from the Nanyang Embassy and said excitedly:
"You see, this is Nanyang... In the past year, we have put pressure on them in various directions, and have made them realize that the confrontation with the Soviet Union is unsustainable and will not lead to victory, so they are beginning to make concessions!"

In the conference room of the Kremlin's Arsenal Building, sitting in front of a green baize-covered conference table, Khrushchev appeared quite high-spirited as he faced his colleagues.

At this moment, he undoubtedly benefited from it.

Last year, at the end of October, a large number of former ministers including Molotov, Kaganovich, Voroshilov, Bulganin, etc., joined Malenkov in launching an attack at a meeting, demanding that Khrushchev step down.

Seeing that the situation was not favorable to him, Khrushchev had to announce a temporary adjournment and resume the meeting tomorrow.

Malenkov and others did not take it seriously, after all, most of the committee members were on their side.

Re-discuss? The same result will be achieved if we re-discuss.

However, they were destined to pay a heavy price for their underestimation of the enemy.

In the past few years, by correcting the mistakes of the Steel Age, Khrushchev had gained the support of many middle and lower-level party members, especially local support. As long as these people were convened and an enlarged meeting was held, Malenkov and his gang would become a minority.

Khrushchev acted immediately, dispatching planes to various parts of the Soviet Union overnight to bring committee members to Moscow for a meeting. At the meeting the next day, he directly reversed the situation and drove Malenkov and others out of the Central Committee.

Not only did he successfully thwart the coup, but he also successfully seized power. In the past, the old ministers of the previous dynasty were on an equal footing with him. But what about now?

All those sitting here were promoted by him.

"Yes, Comrade Nikita, Nanyang's weakness was caused by your wise decision."

Brezhnev, who had just been promoted last year, immediately echoed in a humble and respectful tone. As soon as he finished speaking, Aristov, Kozlov, Kuusinen, Furtseva and others began to compliment him one after another, and even Mikoyan, Suslov and others followed suit.

Now the voices in this conference room are finally harmonious. Without the objections from Malenkov and others, everything is so perfect.

"I have accepted their invitation, but..."

After a brief pause, Khrushchev said.

"Not now. I can't take a propeller plane to Southeast Asia. Comrade Bervukhin, go ask Comrade Tupolev about his aircraft design and when I can take it to Southeast Asia."

Khrushchev was a man who cared a lot about his reputation. Two years ago, when he saw Li Yian boarding a C707 at the Moscow airport, he certainly would not have taken the twin-engine Tu-104 to Southeast Asia.

Unlike in history, because the MiG-4 bomber used a new turbofan engine, Tupolev's turboprop strategic bomber plan was naturally rejected, which allowed him to devote more energy to the research and development of jet airliners.

The Tu-104 was his masterpiece. In 707, when the C White Swan landed in Moscow for the first time, Soviet leaders such as Steel felt very frustrated. They immediately summoned Tupolev, Ilyushin, Antonov and other aircraft designers to discuss the manufacture of jet airliners and asked them to develop a Soviet airliner with a rear engine.

The new aircraft was required to have a larger payload and more seats. Facing his father's request, Tupolev naturally did not dare to neglect it. They made in-depth improvements based on the C717: lengthened the fuselage, moved the engine to the tail and modified it into a "T" shape. As a result, the Tu-104 was launched and began test flights at the end of .

This aircraft can accommodate 135 people, can fly farther and carry more passengers than the C717. After the aircraft was accepted, Khrushchev could not wait to order the Tu-104 to visit the UK. In the following two years, Khrushchev frequently visited Western countries including the UK and France on it, which allowed the West to learn about the strength of the Soviet aviation industry and also made Khrushchev feel very satisfied. However, after seeing Li Yian's C717 in Moscow, he felt dwarfed by it and asked the Soviet Union to develop a similar aircraft, and the aircraft should be larger and fly farther, and this task was still in the charge of Tupolev.

"Comrade Nikita, I was just about to report this to you."

In response to the question, Belusin answered quickly.

"The Tu-114 aircraft had already completed its test flight at the end of last year, and I believe it will be completed and accepted soon."

After hearing this answer, Khrushchev nodded with satisfaction and said.

"Tell Comrade Tupolev that I look forward to his good news. This is not just for the visit, but for our country. In the past three years, we have exported hundreds of Tu-104s. The export potential of new large aircraft is still very large. Nanyang has sold their C707 and C717 all over the world. We can also sell our aircraft to our friends. They definitely need these aircraft!"

This is true. In fact, after the C717 began to be delivered and put into commercial operation in 717, even the other side of the Iron Curtain was extremely envious of it. If they had enough hard currency, they would even want to buy the C6. Eventually, Yugoslavia purchased 717 Cs from Southeast Asia through loans. For a time, Yugoslav civil aviation even became the most handsome guy in the blue sky of Eastern Europe.

It was not until two years later that the launch of the Tu-104 finally gave Eastern European countries a taste of the aircraft, with more than 100 aircraft exported in just two years.

For a time, Eastern European countries became pioneers in the jet age. Even TASS proudly said that Eastern European countries were the first to realize the jetization of civil aviation, which was certainly their great achievement.

However, Khrushchev obviously had a special preference for large passenger aircraft with four engines. Bigger and more powerful were his favorites!

Then they discussed some more issues, and finally Khrushchev asked:

"Now, any questions?"

After saying this, he glanced at his new comrades one by one, finally landing on Kozlov, who was in charge of agriculture.

"Now that spring planting has begun, how is the spring planting going today? Can it meet the needs of the whole country?"

Faced with inquiries, Kozlov quickly reported;

"This year's spring sowing area has increased by 7% compared to last year. If everything goes well, the output will increase by more than 5%. However, according to the analysis of the State Planning Commission, even if the output increases by 5%, our food supply will still be very tight.

After all, people's living standards are improving, their demand for milk and meat is increasing, and collective farms need to use more grain to produce milk, beef and pork. So, this year we may need to import grain."

After thinking for a while, he added:
"Even if we don't import this year, we will always import next year or in the future. Even if we increase the intensity of land reclamation, so what? People's demand for milk and meat far exceeds the increase in grain production."

Amidst all the good news, the sudden bad news made everyone fall into silence. If Malenkov and others were there, they would definitely accuse Corn Emperor of abolishing the rationing system - in order to let people eat more and better.

They would even say that in the past our food exports accounted for 40% of the world's total, but now we produce more food but it is not enough to eat, which is a great sin, and we even need to import food - using our precious gold to import food.

Of course, no one will say it now, but that doesn’t mean no one wants to. Those people may have been defeated, but that doesn’t mean their supporters will be silent. They are also waiting for opportunities.

Khrushchev was very clear about this.
He took a puff of his cigarette silently, then spoke.

"We need to further increase the efforts to reclaim wasteland, and mobilize more people and more machines to reclaim wasteland. Our country is so large, there is still a lot of land suitable for farming, and..."

Khrushchev turned his head and looked at other comrades and said.

“In addition to reclaiming more land, we also need to breed better seeds and produce more fertilizers to further increase our food production.

Of course, there are also pigs. We can find ways to introduce better breeding pigs from Western countries and increase pork production. I think these are all solvable and this is not a difficult problem.

We can always work through these issues.”

(End of this chapter)