Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
It is said that the Soviet army fought bravely. When charging, the instructor was the first to stand up and shout "Ura", and the Soviet soldiers would charge forward desperately.
In fact, there is a lot of bullshit and bragging involved.
This is what they usually do when they charge.
The instructor took out a wine flask from his waist and drank it in one gulp. Then he stood up dazedly, took out his pistol and led the charge.
The soldiers did the same. They drank the wine they had on them before charging, and then rushed forward drunk.
It is said that alcohol makes heroes brave, but in fact, even a coward can burst out with great courage when he is drunk.
Wan Feng believed that if all the liquor was confiscated from them before the charge, it would be uncertain whether they would be able to jump out of the trenches during the charge.
Shamilov glared at Wan Feng: "You are blaspheming our great Soviet Red Army soldiers."
"Haha, Shamilov, that's not what I meant. The contributions made by the Soviet Red Army soldiers in World War II are obvious to all, and I don't mean to slander them. I'm stating the facts. Your Soviet newspapers are reporting quite a bit of this now, aren't they? Is this how you write it to try to expose the truth?"
Shamilov was silent for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
The media in the Soviet Union are now making a lot of trouble. All they do is smear, slander and tamper with the Soviet history and heroes, and talk nonsense all day long.
This is a common tactic used by the West to overthrow regimes in other countries.
It makes you unable to recognize the history of your own country, doubt your own national heroes, and ultimately cause you to doubt and lack identification with your own country.
The Soviets were fooled by them and began to doubt their own country and regime. When the country was in trouble, they not only did not resist but went with the flow. The result was the collapse of an empire.
In fact, this trick also appeared in China twenty years later. Those historical inventors made up history and those heroes were slandered and defamed.
Unfortunately, the Chinese people are deeply influenced by the doctrine of the mean and are not easily fooled. These tricks that have always worked in other countries have not caused any waves in China.
It has nothing to do with what Wan Feng is about to do.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. How do I get to Komsomolsk-on-Amur?"
"Take the train. Take the Baikal-Amur Railway through Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk-on-Amur. It's nearly 900 kilometers long."
Damn, this distance is not close!
The Baikal-Amur Railway is arguably the longest railway in the world, stretching nearly 9,000 kilometers from the European section to the Soviet port.
This highway was started to be built during the Tsarist Russia period. It is said that it took thirteen years to build, but in fact it took only more than ten years to build until the entire line was fully opened to traffic, which was in the 1990s.
It is still nine hundred kilometers from Blagoveshchensk to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
If we get the goods from Gongqingcheng and then go to Heihe, wouldn't that be a long detour? It would be better to go through Khabarovsk, which would save nearly 600 kilometers.
The nearest famous Chinese city on the other side of Khabarovsk is Jiamusi, and the port on the other side of Khabarovsk is Fuyuan.
Fuyuan!
This port seems to be very unprosperous.
The only pity is that Fuyuan is a port that is idle for half a year. Not to mention the current trial opening stage, even when it was officially opened in 1992, it was only open from May to October, and was closed for the rest of the time.
The biggest problem with the Fuyuan Port is that the Chinese customs are very strict. Anything you can bring in from other ports in Heilongjiang Province will most likely be seized here.
At other ports, people are worried about Russian inspections, but here it's the opposite.
The result is that merchants from Russia are unwilling to use this port. They would rather take a train for hundreds of kilometers to Bu City and then go to Heihe to purchase goods than go to Fuyuan.
This is the reason why the Fuyuan Port remains deserted despite being open for decades.
Although that happened decades later, who knows if this is still their tradition!
Wan Feng thought about it for a long time and finally gave up the idea of opening a transfer station in Fuyuan.
He has already managed to get everything going smoothly with Heihe, but he still needs to put a lot of effort into laying channels in Fuyuan, and it may not work.
If the goods were seized every two or three days, he would have nothing to do and would just spend every day trying to build relationships.
It would be better to go to Heihe instead, at least it is familiar.
After Wan Feng inquired about the precautions for taking a train in the Soviet Union, he asked Shamilov, "Don't you know anyone in Komsomolsk-on-Amur?"
Shamilov shook his head.
"That won't do, Shamilov. You should build your own network along the way. Whether it's Khabarovsk or Vladivostok... forget about Vladivostok, it's not very useful. You should have your own network in Komsomolsk-on-Amur."
"I'll think about this later."
What Wan Feng didn't expect was that just because of his casual remark, Shamilov actually established a network with mafia characteristics, and after more than ten years of development after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it actually became the largest gang in the Far East.
"How about asking Nisha's brother to bring a few people to accompany you?" Shamilov suggested.
This is a good idea. We must have a local to lead the way on the Soviet side, otherwise a group of Chinese people will be torn into pieces.
"Just lend me Alexei, and Nisha's brother, and prepare another 100,000 rubles for me."
Shamilov looked at Wan Feng in confusion: "What are you going to do with so many rubles?"
"I'm just going there to take a look. I'm not bringing any goods to trade. If I don't have rubles, I'll sleep on the street!"
"That won't cost a hundred thousand, right? That's a huge sum of money. It's very dangerous for you to carry so much money on you."
"Are you afraid we'll be robbed?"
"Besides these considerations, there are also the police and so on."
"Haha, Shamilov, are you saying that your Soviet police are almost the same as robbers?"
Shamilov laughed and did not answer, probably thinking the same thing in his heart.
"Let Alexei carry this money with him. It shouldn't be a problem for us to carry less, right?"
Shamilov thought for a moment: "That's all right."
"Five people will be coming over here. Please prepare five tickets for me to Komsomolsk-on-Amur."
This time I am just going there to explore the way, and it is not easy to bring too many people. I must go to Han Guang's house, and Zhang Zhiyuan must go with me this time. He is the translator.
Chen Dao had to go with them too, in case they had to rely on him for a drinking contest, along with Han Meng or one of Zhao Gang.
Since Chen Dao and Zhang Zhiyuan had followed him, Yang Jianguo had to stay. As for the others, they were of no use for the time being.
"So are you planning to go there that day?"
Wan Feng thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait until I get my visa. Once I get it, I'll go to Bu City and then to Gongqingcheng."
He still needs to make some arrangements here, and also get a visa, which will take at least a few days.