When the coach comes to battle, it means that the war has begun.

The Soviet negotiating team, whom Liang San described as cargo, was sitting on the train, looking curiously at this ancient land.

The Northeast is coveted by both the former Tsarist Russia and the current Soviet Union.

The land and materials here are so fertile.

The leader of this delegation is Andreev, a senior director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an expert on Manchurian intelligence.

In the early years, he also served as the transportation manager of the Middle East Railway Company, so he knows Harbin well.

This is not a good thing!

As a leader of the international communist movement, he openly concluded a contract with imperialism and recognized its puppet regime. This could have been said to be a betrayal.

Of course, this situation is still extremely confidential.

But there is no airtight wall in the world, and sooner or later it will be made public.

At that time, I don’t know what Dawari from China will think of him as a sinner.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not want to start negotiations so early, but the catastrophe in Ukraine has become unavoidable.

The Soviet Union's food supply relied heavily on the Great Plains of Eastern Europe. This reduction in food production can be attributed to natural and man-made disasters.

The local comrades' concealment of reports, coupled with the drought, contributed to this tragic incident.

The Soviet Union had to get enough food from Nanyang to alleviate the domestic food gap. The British were unreliable and could only rely on the Japanese.

The people from Lubyanka have gone to investigate, just to bring these stupid guys to justice.

"Comrade Andreev, the train will start in five minutes and arrive in Manzhouli in an hour."

"Secret representatives from Japan and Manchuria will come in the car to visit."

"Comrades from the Manzhouli Consulate will also protect us when we go to the local consulate."

"I don't know. What instructions do you have?"

A tall woman wearing a black windbreaker walked into Andreev's box and reported in a low voice.

Andreev nodded, and then asked in a low voice in Russian: "Valeria, has the radio been sent to Harbin?".

Valeria quickly closed the door of the box and replied: "Comrades from the Lubyanka First General Administration have secretly sent the six radio stations they need to the Harbin Consulate."

"The message, password, and frequency are all brand new."

"This is just for this negotiation. I wonder if you have any other instructions?"

"Comrade Valeria, no more."

"You are very well prepared. When you arrive in Manzhouli, do not attend the welcome banquet and do not give the Japanese a chance to talk."

"Members of the delegation are not allowed to have private contact with the Japanese."

"National interests are above all else, long live Comrade Stalin!"

Andreev glanced at the snowflakes outside the car window, and his many years of work experience allowed him to make a precise decision.

Valeria did not question anything, but wrote down Andreev's decisions one by one on the notepad. Seeing that there were no other instructions from him, she turned around and left the carriage.

A few minutes after Valeria left, a middle-aged man with typical Caucasian features quietly walked into the box. When he saw Andreev sitting in his seat, thinking deeply, he interrupted with a smile: "My dear friend."

"Shouldn't you be happy to set foot on Manchuria again?"

"But why don't I see the smile I deserve on your face!".

Andreev was not in the good mood of the visitor, but smiled bitterly and said: "Sorge, friend, my dearest friend, don't you still know about our mission?"

"As for the Middle East Road, we all understand its value."

"Since we took over, we have made profits of tens of millions of rubles every year."

"This is a good hen that can lay eggs. I really can't bear to give it up to others like this!".

Sorge was selected by the First General Administration to perform secret missions in the Northeast.

His public identity is that of a German journalist.

Many years ago, he had served as a publicist for the Zhongzhong Road Company and knew the situation in Harbin thoroughly.

Comrades from the First General Administration also considered his previous experience before sending him back to Harbin to form a new intelligence team.

He is of German descent and holds a German diplomatic passport.

Sorge was born in Baku, Caucasus, to a German engineer father and a Ukrainian mother. He longed for socialism when he was in college and joined the German Communist Party and the Allied Communist Party.

That area was originally a mixture of German and Russian ethnic groups, and the composition was very complex.

He himself also joined the German army, experienced World War I, and was wounded three times.

While recuperating in the hospital, he had many contacts with left-wing socialists.

After graduating from university, he worked in education and journalism.

Some people are born to be agents.

Sorge loved the communist cause very much and wrote many classic works.

In January 1930, Sorge was sent to China to collect intelligence on the situation in China.

Sorge traveled through Berlin, obtained a letter of introduction from the editorial office of the German Agrarian Newspaper, and then came to Shanghai as a reporter for the newspaper.

Afterwards, he met with the staff of the German Consulate General in Shanghai and got to know Agnes Smedley, a reporter from the German "Frankfurter Zeitung" and other internationally renowned people.

A spy network was quickly established, including Smedley, to collect extensive intelligence.

Smedley introduced Sorge to Japan's Asahi Shimbun reporter Hidemi Ozaki, who later agreed to join Sorge's spy network.

Sorge bribed the Chinese wife of Stolz, a German engineer and radio communications officer who worked for the Nanjing government.

Mastered the radio communication codes of the Nanjing Government Headquarters and its affiliated units, as well as the radio communication codes of German military advisors.

Then, he managed to steal the telephone number of the German military adviser to communicate with the Kuomintang government.

Since then, a large amount of intelligence on China issues has been continuously flown to Moscow and the Communist International.

At the same time, Sorge, as a journalist and agricultural expert, was able to travel around China conveniently and inform the Chinese Communist Party of the movements of the Kuomintang troops, which played a certain role in the Chinese revolution.

For example, he notified the Chinese Communist Party of the information about the new weapons introduced by the Kuomintang. The Red Army became familiar with this weapon before the Kuomintang put it into use.

In 1931, Sorge successfully used money to bribe relevant personnel in the Chinese Kuomintang government to rescue the Lawrence couple, international revolutionaries working in the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

It can be said that he is a China expert!

"Friend, when people are starving to death, they have no patience to wait for tomorrow's eggs."

"We need the Japanese to let them go and create a hole in Southeast Asia and Nanyang."

"That way the food we need can be transported by sea back to our hungry motherland!"
Chapter completed!