In January '92, Moscow was still surrounded by a slaughtered and withering winter, and it had just snowed heavily yesterday, and there was thick snow everywhere on the streets, street lamps, and rooftops, but there was no trace of any sanitation workers, and they could only be trampled by hurried pedestrians at will, and then stepped on more and more solidly.

Fang Chen, Gaidar, and Chubais walked casually on the street, their faces were a little heavy, while Wu Maocai, Huiming, and Gaidar's security personnel followed from a distance, not daring to disturb the interest of the three bigwigs.

"I don't know, what kind of madness these two have today, they came to find the ninth master in the morning, and they have to go out to walk the road, isn't this sick. Wu Maocai complained to Huiming.

Huiming glanced at Wu Maocai, his expression was a little weird, and then he said with a smile: "Some of them can understand Huaxia dialect." ”

Hearing this, Wu Maocai's face froze, and when he turned his head, he saw that some of the guards under Gaidar and Chubais showed embarrassment, and there was not only one, but two.

They smiled at Wu Maocai, with a hint of flattery in their smiles.

If they heard it, they heard it, and they didn't dare to make a small report to Gaidar and Chubais, knowing that Wu Maocai openly fired four rockets at the Yakovlev Design Bureau, but he was still safe and sound.

It can even be said that the impact of that incident has slowly dissipated, but he still remembers it.

Moreover, now the two big leaders Gaidar and Chubais still have something to ask Mr. Fang for help, and they just make a small report, I'm afraid it's useless.

Fang Chen's boots stepped on the snow, making a squeaking sound, which was particularly harsh on the empty and silent street.

Gaidar and Chubais's faces were extremely heavy and silent.

After a long time, when he walked to the door of a grain store, Gaidar suddenly stopped and said to Fang Chen, "Fang, how do you feel?"

Fang Chen's lips were tightly closed, and after dozens of breaths, he said faintly: "Empty." ”

Gaidar and Chubais nodded helplessly.

"It's empty, everything is empty, the streets are empty, the grain stores are empty, people's stomachs are empty. Gaidar said in a deep voice.

Chubais looked at the grain store not far away with some horror, he felt that the grain store at this time was the most frightening and sad scene he had ever seen, and he probably never forgot this scene in his life.

People lined up in front of the grain store, two or three hundred meters long.

However, it is not this that is unusual, but that there is no such thing as the usual noise, because the grain store is almost empty.

But the women still did not give up, and one by one they went to the grain store, and when they received the reply that there was not a grain of grain, they shook their heads and left quietly, or they did not take two steps, and then they squatted on the ground, holding their heads and crying, and they could not face the children who were waiting to be fed.

They knew that there was no food in the grain store, and even ten days ago there was no food in the grain store, but they had nowhere to go except for the numb queue here.

This is the place of greatest hope, and if there is no hope here, then the rest of the place is surrounded by despair.

"Now the whole of Moscow, and even Russia, is paralyzed, people have long since lost their desire to work, and all they think about all day is how to find ways to get food, use, and clothing. ”

"Obviously, everything was changing for the better, Fang, you know, the workers were protesting against the fact that the stores were not buying milk, and the stores were full of all kinds of goods, how could it suddenly become like this!" Gaidar said bitterly.

Fang Chen sighed helplessly again, to be honest, such a scene had already been in his foresight, as early as the first day he came to Moscow this time, when he saw the truck workers strike, he knew it.

As he told Berezovsky earlier, a surplus of goods does not mean prosperity, but the beginning of an economic crisis.

Obviously, now the economic crisis in Russia has erupted.

And what made him feel laughing and crying was that the two people next to him, even if they were not the initiators of this economic crisis, were also the igniters of the fuse.

It was they who hid under Russia and accumulated hidden dangers for countless years, and the contradictions were stimulated.

"Fang, we need your help now. Gaidar suddenly looked at Fang Chen, his eyes flashing with a dazzling light, like a small sun, dazzling and dazzling, making it impossible to look at directly.

Chubais also looked at Fang Chen with a nervous expression.

Fang Chen nodded lightly, "Gaidar, Chubais, we are friends, it is my duty to help you, just to say how do you plan me to help you?

Hearing this, Gaidar and Chubaiston breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Fang Chen's eyes full of gratitude, feeling that they had not made Fang Chen's friend in vain, bosom friend.

Looking at the appearance of the two of them, Fang Chen smiled secretly in his heart, although the two of them are shaking hands now, they are essentially just a young man in his early thirties, not to mention that he was still in an ivory tower like a university and research institute a few months ago.

"Fang, how many goods can you transport? a hundred wagons?" Chubais asked with a worried heart.

Although an increase of 40 wagons is equivalent to an increase of 2,400 tons of cargo than usual, for a country with a population of more than 100 million, 2,400 tons of cargo cannot even stir up a drop of water, and it is swallowed up by Russia, which is as dry as a desert.

But he knew very well how difficult it was to add 24 million tons of cargo, because he searched all over Russia, and he couldn't even bring up an extra 100 tons of cargo.

Now that the Soviets have turned to dust, and their newly established regime has not yet completely taken over Russia, the order and control from Moscow to the distant states have almost failed, and the chaos in Russia has become even greater than before.

Even the military and security organizations are in a state of shock, they don't know who to listen to, who to support, and the member states are going their own way.

However, with the disruption of the huge, orderly planned economy and the obstruction of the factory directors, the entire production situation in Russia came to a standstill.

Factories don't have access to raw materials, they can't produce them, and even if they do, they don't have trucks to transport them, so the stores are empty.

Because they have not been able to buy enough daily necessities, ordinary people have taken the initiative or been forced to focus on how to get food, clothing, and daily necessities.

This in turn exacerbated the severity of the economic crisis, and the whole of Russia fell into an endless loop.

"A little more than that, at least two hundred wagons. Fang Chen said in a deep voice.

Since he knew that Russia would fall into this situation, coupled with the fact that he wanted to take over the market vacancy left by Liu Mazi and Jiantou, he ordered Ma Yun as early as November to tell all the enterprises that supplied him to speed up the production schedule.

Two days ago, Ma Yun just told him that the company's warehouse could no longer be stacked, so 200 train wagons and 12,000 tons of goods were probably not a big problem, and it could be regarded as a good year for the people of the three eastern provinces to live.

Gaidar and Chubaston's eyes lit up, Gaidar held Fang Chen's hand and shook violently, "Fang, this is the best news I've heard in recent times, how did you remember to prepare so many goods in advance?"

You know, they expected that Fang Chen would be able to transfer a hundred wagons of goods now, and they already needed to thank God.

After all, this is a light industrial product, not a bulky and heavy coal and ore, and a wagon with a load of 60 tons is enough for a production enterprise to produce for a long time.

But now Fang Chen actually said that he could pull over two hundred train wagons in one go, which was obviously prepared in advance.

Fang Chen pretended to be a little embarrassed and said: "I originally thought that under the formulation of your two economic policies, Russia would become better and would need more goods, so I ordered them to speed up production, but I didn't expect ......"

Hearing this, Gaidar and Chubaiston became a little embarrassed, and in this scene of depression, it is really a slap in the face to say that Russia will become better and needs more goods.

"However, this can be regarded as Fang, Fang, you are crooked. Gaidar said bitterly.

But who knows, Fang Chen's face changed, and he waved his hand a little seriously, "No, Gaidar is wrong, I have confidence in Russia, I have confidence in the Russian market, as long as this market is there, no matter what the situation is, as long as I have commodities in my hands, I can make money." ”

Hearing this, the two were stunned.

After a few breaths, the two of them suddenly realized, Gaidar smiled bitterly, "Fang, no wonder everyone says that your vision and insight are the best, as you say now, Russia has become better, more prosperous, market demand has increased, you can make money, Russia has become this ghost, you can also make money." ”

Fang Chen smiled and didn't speak.

"Blame the damned bureaucrats and factory directors!" Chubais couldn't help but curse loudly.

In his opinion, if it were not for the remnants of the Soviets, Russia would not have become this ghost.

Dozens of Soviet remnants of government dominate the various industrial divisions, and among them the bureaucrats want to retain the bastions of power in their hands, and in the factories, the powerful factory directors insist on not giving up their superior position and the lazy empire, and they all want to stop the radical reforms.

In addition, some people have already begun to enjoy the feast, and the assets are stolen, taken, and taken by some conservatives, factory managers, who take advantage of the chaos of the country to take advantage of the fire.

He called this phenomenon spontaneous privatization, which was difficult to control, but it was ordinary people who suffered in the end.