Trade

　　Led by Chicherin, the crowd arrived at the restaurant, where Red Square was displayed under huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

　　Lunch is a traditional Russian cuisine, starting with smoked salmon with caviar, jelly and sour cucumber, along with appetizers vodka that ethnic Russians can't do without, and of course kvass for non-drinkers.

　　Then there is Russian mushroom soup and the famous borscht, this borscht is based on red cabbage, so the whole soup looks blood red, which is also the most authentic borscht.

　　Next up is the main course, which is the big lieba, various cured fish, salted bacon and pilaf.

　　The dishes are hearty and traditional Russian, but one thing is that they are too traditional – all the meat is raw, just pickled.

　　Leon and Sophia did not have the stomachs of others, the two just took some big lieba and pilaf to eat, Chicherin was happy eating all kinds of raw cured fish cured meat with this vodka, seeing that the two hardly ate much food, he couldn't help but be a little puzzled, he asked Ratnau, who was also eating happily next to him, and said: "Why don't you two eat food, is it not to your taste?" "

　　Ratnau glanced at the dinner plates of the two, only ordered staples such as pilaf and big lieba, and busily made eyes at the two, disgusted with their traditional cuisine on the host's territory, and was not afraid of people taking the opportunity to make trouble.

　　Leon and Sophia understood what Ratnau meant, so they smiled wryly and picked up the raw meat on the plate, closed their eyes and put it in their mouths.

　　The lunch made Leon and Sophia feel like a century had passed, but it had finally passed.

　　After lunch, everyone returned to the room for a brief rest, and then returned to the conference hall to continue the morning's discussion.

　　It may have been Germany's concessions in the morning, or the horrific amount of alcohol at Ratnau's table, which made the afternoon negotiations unexpectedly smooth, and the two sides quickly made rapid progress on the international relations and economic trade between the two countries, signing a series of memorandums of understanding and trade agreements.

　　As a representative of the military, Lyon sat on the side and listened to the conversation between the two sides boredly, thinking about the future development methods of the air force and armored forces, the problem of armored forces is that the scale cannot be too large, otherwise even if the two sides of the military supervision bureau want to win over Germany, they will definitely not sit idly by and watch Germany so brazenly destroy the contract, but the armored forces, as a group force, cannot exert their power at all without scale. And compared to the problem of armored forces, the development of the air force is more difficult, tanks can still be hidden, and planes cannot but fly into the sky, right? However, Lyon thought about it for a day: the armored forces could let the army secretly train in batches, and the air force could only rely on civilian flying clubs and civil aviation to train pilots. Although both methods are extremely inefficient, they are now the best method.

　　"We will start cooperation with your country as soon as possible, then our economic exchanges will end for the time being, and we will have other relevant parties to contact your country in other aspects." Chicherin sorted out a series of documents signed by both sides, stood up and said goodbye to Ratau and others with a smile.

　　Ratnau also stood up with a smile and said: "I am very happy to communicate with people like you, and I hope that the friendship between your two countries will always exist in the future!" Then the group walked out of the conference hall and returned to the resting room.

　　Ratnau seemed very happy on the way, and with Germany's current international status, it has to be said that Ratnau has performed very well.

　　"Colonel Lyon, the task of our Foreign Ministry has been carried out smoothly, and the demands of the Wehrmacht will be discussed with you tomorrow by someone from the Soviet army." Ratnau said to Leon.

　　Leon nodded, and before coming, Lieutenant General Strauss and Leon said that the Wehrmacht had no clear requirements for this visit. Lyon also understood that the technology mastered by the Soviet army was not as advanced as that mastered by Germany, and there was indeed no place worth trading with the Wehrmacht, and it could be said that the current Soviet Union had little value except land.

　　Land! Leon suddenly thought, isn't the current Wehrmacht just short of space? Perhaps the Wehrmacht could borrow Soviet lands to train its own soldiers.

　　This method made Leon excited, and he quickly ran back to the room to jot down his thoughts, and then began to think about how to persuade the Soviets to agree to this seemingly harmful and unhelpful plan tomorrow.

　　The next day, Lyon finished breakfast early and took a sleepy Sophia and several other Wehrmacht representatives to a Soviet aircraft factory outside Moscow, where the Soviet military representative informed Lyon and others of the meeting last night.

　　After everyone arrived at the factory, a colonel of the Soviet Red Army was already waiting for Lyon here.

　　"Hello guys! I am Colonel Yevgeny. The colonel officer greeted him with a smile.

　　"I am Colonel Leon Andrés, plenipotentiary of the Wehrmacht for this meeting." Leon smiled and shook Yevgeny's hand.

　　"Colonel Leon, let me show you around our aircraft factory, we don't have much to talk about anyway." Yevgeny took Leon and others as he walked and said that in fact, not only the German military leadership thought that there was nothing to deal with the Soviet Union, but also the Soviet Union also believed that the German Wehrmacht with only 100,000 could not make any good chips.

　　"No, no, no, we are not here to visit, we have a good project to cooperate with you, I wonder if you are willing?" Leon replied to Evgeny.

　　"Haha! Your army has only 100,000 people, and your military technology is more advanced than ours, what do you need from us? Could it be these planes? Evgeny quipped, pointing to the unassembled plane in the factory.

　　"I'm afraid so!" Leon said seriously.

　　Evgeny gradually became serious: "Colonel Leon, do you understand what you are talking about?" The Treaty of Versailles clearly states that your country cannot be equipped with aircraft, I don't know what you mean by this? "

　　"Of course, I understand the Treaty of Versailles, but it doesn't stipulate that we can't have pilots." Leon said slowly.

　　Evgeny thought carefully for a long time, and then replied to Leon: "Sorry, I'm afraid this is not something I can fathom, I will take you to the conference room of this factory, and someone who can make decisions will come to see you later." Then he paused and continued: "Man, in my personal opinion, you really shouldn't do this, it's dangerous! "

　　Leon smiled: "Thanks for the reminder, please take us to the conference room." "

　　Evgeny shook his head and stopped talking, and then led Leon and his party to the conference room.

　　Not long after, a man in the uniform of a Soviet marshal walked into the conference room with several high-ranking generals: "Mr. Colonel, I am Tukhachevsky, People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR!"