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Chapter 1357 Intelligence Officer's Diary (Second update, please subscribe)
Far away, what is there in the distance?
There are strange countries!

Although it is unfamiliar, it makes me full of yearning for that land.

The Tu-114 aircraft from Moscow flew over Myanmar and continued to fly on a fixed course. Now the nose of the aircraft was facing southeast, and it would eventually reach Chang'an.

On the plane, Polyakov spent most of his time on the documents in his hands. The black briefcase was placed against the cabin wall. Since boarding the plane, he had been concentrating on thinking. Although he was in the cabin, there were no passengers around him.

"In a few hours, it will be on NBC!"

As he was thinking this, he turned his gaze to the document in his hand, which was a document about the "Congo Crisis".

In addition to describing in detail the events that took place there, the document, like analyses in other countries, ultimately points the finger at NBC.

But so what?

Not every country is NBC!

The war in Congo and the "accident" of the UN Undersecretary-General shocked the world, but that was all. The shelling there continued.

Not only that, bombers appeared in the sky over Elizabethville - thousands of pounds of bombs fell into the city like raindrops. Naturally, the UN commanders were unwilling to endanger the lives of their men while being surrounded, so they sent telegrams for help to New York.

Although there is evidence that large amounts of supplies are shipped from Northern Rhodesia to Congo every day, the United Nations is helpless in the face of the evidence and can only make accusations.

After all, not every country is NBC!

Not every country can be so rogue!
No, this is slander!

Although some observers have linked the war in Central Africa to NBC, the broadcaster has strongly denied the slander.

Looking out the window at the vast blue sky with white clouds, Polyakov saw a trail of white smoke from an airplane in the distance, and he followed the white smoke and finally found the small silver-white fuselage.

His thoughts once again returned to the document and the next job. He was about to take over as the military attaché to NBC!

As an intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Agency, also known as the GRU, he was once sent to the United Nations headquarters in New York, and later transferred to Myanmar and India to be responsible for espionage activities.

And NBC is another battlefield for him.

“It’s really an interesting country!”

More than two hours later, the plane finally landed at Chang'an International Airport, and Polyakov, holding a diplomatic passport, quickly passed through customs.

It was raining heavily in the night sky outside. After getting on the car sent by the embassy, ​​Polyakov looked at the city outside through the window.

The city was shrouded in heavy rain and fog. The neon lights made the rain colorful, which gave people the illusion of being in a dreamland. This magical feeling made Polyakov think of another name for this city - the city of the future.

“Is this the future?”

Polyakov was thinking this in his mind, but he had no answer. The car just kept driving along and soon he arrived at the commercial representative office.

“NBC is different from all the other countries!”

In the Russian Embassy in Chang'an, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander threw a document on the table and said to Lieutenant Colonel Polyakov who had just returned from the country:
“That’s something we have to understand.”

"How to say?"

Alexander took up the tin cigarette case on the desk, took out two cigarettes, gave one to Polyakov, and lit one for himself. Then he said:

"This is not a country, but that's not important. What's important is that this is neither Europe nor Asia. They are more European than Asia, but they are still Asia at heart, of course, in terms of lifestyle and habits."

Taking a puff of his cigarette and pointing at the city covered in heavy rain outside the window, Alexander asked:
"Do you know what this place was seventeen years ago?"

“Rainforest.”

Polyakov replied:

"As far as I know, 17 years ago, this was just a small coastal town, and most of the area was rainforest and plantations."

"So what about now?" Alexander walked to the window, looking at the city outside that showed various colors in the night, and said in a low voice:
"It's a big city with a population of over 2000 million. Do you know how many people there are in Moscow? Less than 700 million!"

Listening to the lieutenant colonel's story, Polyakov did not interrupt him, but listened to him continue. After all, as his predecessor, the lieutenant colonel had been observing this place with a magnifying glass in the past few years:

"I came here after finishing my service in Yugoslavia and have been here for eight years! In the past eight years, I have been learning about this place from all aspects."

After taking a puff of his cigarette, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander said:
"NBC's history began when the Allied Forces launched the Borneo Campaign. They recaptured Sandakan, the predecessor of Changan, and then began post-war reconstruction. In fact, it was not reconstruction, but a brand new construction. At that time, they even built factories while fighting."

"This is very similar to us. Didn't we also build under the bombing of the Germans? Do you remember Volgograd? At that time, our factory was still producing tanks and weapons even when the Germans entered the factory area. Those workers sometimes even became soldiers and drove tanks directly from the production line to counterattack!"

When Polyakov mentioned the old story, the lieutenant colonel nodded in agreement and continued:
"…They spent four years to complete basic industrialization, from nothing to building a million-ton steel enterprise, a shipyard, and a modern machinery factory. They used cotton textile machinery dismantled from Japan to establish a cotton textile industry, basically realizing the industrialization of the country, and earned a large amount of foreign exchange through exports to the United States and Europe."

Although he had some understanding of all this, Polyakov still listened very carefully.

"If that's all, then that's all. In 10, they formulated and issued the "National Income Doubling Plan." The goals of this plan are very similar to ours, except that their plan is not to achieve a certain amount of steel and coal production. Its key goal is to "double the national income within years."

Polyakov then broke the silence and said:
"Many people mentioned this plan, especially economists, who prefer to mention this plan."

Alexander nodded and said:

"Yes, this plan is very important. Their universal income doubling plan is a very detailed plan from top to bottom. They have implemented industrial promotion measures: tax incentives, subsidies, low-interest policy loans, R&D assistance, small and medium-sized enterprise promotion, entry restrictions, output, investment and export coordination, infrastructure construction, etc."

In the following time, Alexander smoked his cigarette while talking about the increase in NBC's income after the implementation of the plan. Then, he realized that the cigarette was burned out, so he put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray.

Then he lit another cigarette, took a puff, and said:

"In the end, this plan did not proceed at the expected pace - because the actual development speed was faster than expected! In the first ten years, NBC GDP almost doubled every five years, with an average annual growth rate of 5%! It took only six years to double the national income. In those years, they surpassed France and Britain and became the second most powerful economy in the Western world after the United States."

Alexander frowned, holding the cigarette between his fingers. He was silent for a while before saying:
"In the year before the Olympics, NBC's GDP growth rate exceeded 16% due to the Olympic boom. In the past decade or so, NBC's economic growth has often been described as a "miracle" because the speed and duration of industrial expansion they experienced during this period were unprecedented internationally. However, with the Olympics a few years ago as a symbol, NBC's economy entered a truly rapid era, with NBC's GDP growing by an average of more than 15% per year; perhaps the next decade will be the true heyday of NBC's high economic growth era..."

Taking a deep puff of his cigarette, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander said a few numbers.

"..., 1089 billion, and after entering the new decade, 1295 billion, then 1477 billion, and then 1713 billion... Yes, these are the numbers. If they maintain a similar growth rate this year, their GDP is likely to exceed 2000 billion US dollars. In terms of economic growth rate, this is an unprecedented growth rate!"

In fact, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander still had something to say - this was even because of the devaluation of the NBC dollar. If they hadn't taken the initiative to devalue it, the number would have been extremely shocking at the exchange rate of the NBC dollar.
In the view of many economists, NBC actively promotes currency devaluation. In addition to stimulating exports, they also have another idea, which is to hide their economic strength. They do not want to be in the spotlight. But even so, the rapid economic development is still difficult to conceal.

"Yes, that has never happened before."

Polyakov agreed.

"I don't know how to calculate the gross national product, but last year the United States produced 9356 million tons of steel, ours 8500 million tons, and NBC's 5500 million tons. The United States produced 9514 billion kWh of electricity, the Soviet Union produced 3692 billion kWh, and NBC's was 3276 billion kWh..."

Polyakov said these numbers one by one. Although they were in the military, they had some understanding of these economic data. After all, as intelligence officers, they needed to understand and master all of this. These data were actually a country's war potential.

These are also some of the data they value most when collecting intelligence.

“…So, from these data, we can see that NBC’s industrial scale and economic scale are already equivalent to the sum of West Germany and the United Kingdom!”

As he finished speaking, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander said:
"That's about it. In Europe, we have to deal with Western European countries such as Britain, West Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, but here, we have to deal with NBC, Malaysia and Siam. In fact, it's mainly NBC. With the economic scale of a single company, it's equivalent to Britain and Germany. If you add Malaysia and Siam, their strength may be weaker than Western Europe, but in fact, they are very powerful..."

“It’s really incredible!”

Polyakov said:
"Who would have thought that we would have to face those Western European countries in Europe, and here we would have to face an NBC that is not weaker than them, and even stronger than them?"

After looking at him silently for a while, Alexander said in a slightly gentle tone:
"However, the current problems between NBC and the United States are very serious, which is likely to lead to a deterioration in relations between the two countries. This may be an opportunity for us."

"Chance? What do you mean?"

Polyakov asked curiously:

"NBC..."

(End of this chapter)