Chapter 1013: This City (3)
The Korkoshko brothers and Yuri Yagushevsky were taken to the club's largest box, only to find that several of the Rivne's bigwigs were there.
In addition to the brothers' father, Vladimir Kolkoshko, there are Andrei Smirnov, the head of the Rivne region, Sergei Komorov, the head of the Ordeck company, Sergei Komorov, the head of the Rivni media company, and even Andrei Vodemirka and Alexander Nagiev, the two heads of the resort, can only accompany the last seat.
In addition, there are one or two pretty girls with different styles sitting next to these bigwigs.
The lights in the box were blurry and flickering, and the smell of tobacco, spirits and perfume in the air was mixed with each other, and it was absolutely difficult for those who were not used to this kind of occasion to say a word, and a middle-aged man with a red face was still holding a girl with a microphone and singing loudly on the small stage on the side of the box.
A revolutionary song from the Soviet era.
After the four of them entered the door, they simply greeted each other, sat down temporarily, and waited for the red-faced middle-aged man to finish singing a song, and then everyone greeted each other.
Although they are still not on the right path, the Kolkoszko brothers are aware of the reason why several high-ranking government officials of the Volyn region came to Rivne Oblast, for the purpose of cooperation in power transmission.
Compared with other regions of Ukraine that are still struggling in the quagmire of collapse, Rivne Oblast is developing too fast, and the economic development of a region has never been inseparable from strong and comprehensive infrastructure support, just like China's saying that has been circulated at some point and directly to the essence of 'if you want to get rich, build roads first', construction, transportation, energy, water conservancy, telecommunications, etc. are all indispensable.
Now Rivne Oblast, with the support of the Westeros system, the development of various industries is extremely rapid, a number of factories in Rivni and even Rivne all over the ground, other aspects can be supported for the time being, but energy, especially power supply, has become the biggest shortcoming restricting the development of the region.
In fact, this problem was expected by everyone last year, so funds were introduced to start the construction of Unit 4 of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant, but the new unit will not be put into operation until next year, and both the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant and the original dynamic power generation system have reached the limit of the power supply to the Rivne Oblast, so that in order to ensure industrial electricity, many areas of the Oblast, and even the capital Rivne City, have regular power outages.
Considering the future development prospects of the Rivne region, the construction of unit 4 of the Rivne nuclear power plant is accompanied by the planning of a thermal power plant with a planned power of 2,000 megawatts that can provide 10 billion kilowatts of electricity per year.
This is a good thing for all parties.
Because before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the annual power generation capacity of the Ukrainian region could reach 290 billion kWh, and there was no shortage of power resources. With the collapse of the economy after the collapse, the capacity of coal-fired power plants across the states has shrunk dramatically, with the exception of a few functioning nuclear power plants, which by two years ago had plummeted to 170 billion kilowatt-hours, a drop of more than 40 percent.
Power generation has fallen, but the power infrastructure of the year is still there, especially thermal power plants, as long as the funds are in place and there is demand, they can re-enter full capacity operation, and greatly increase power generation in a short period of time.
The main issue is funding.
After all, unlike nuclear power plants, which can operate stably for decades at a relatively low cost once they are built, thermal power plants need to burn a lot of coal, which needs to be bought with money, and in addition, if you want to bring in electricity from other states, the grid lines also need to be renovated, which also involves financial problems.
Fortunately, this problem is relatively easy to solve on the side of the Rivne region. In any case, it is more advantageous in terms of time and cost to bring in electricity from outside the city than to build a new power plant.
I've already talked about it during the day, and tonight's box is for entertainment.
Vladimir Kolkoshko called his two sons over, just to let them and Rivne help the others have more contact, while Yagushevsky and the others, all parties just said hello and left, after all, all sides want to avoid suspicion.
Entertain yourself late into the night.
Several high-ranking government officials in the Volyn region rushed to the hotel area with the girls they fancied, and the Kolkoshko brothers were supposed to stay and continue to have fun, but they were shouted by Vladimir Kolkoshko to leave together, Kirill Kolkoshko protested, and was slapped in the back of the head, and immediately honest.
When they came to the parking lot, one of the brothers' subordinates stepped forward to report that they had already watched the pair of siblings they met a few hours ago return to the hotel area, and there were no further problems. Moreover, this clever subordinate also helped to inquire and learned the identity of the mother of the key siblings.
When Vladimir Kolkoshko heard this, he asked a few more questions in detail, and also confirmed that the two sons did not lie to him, and then pulled them into a Mercedes-Benz car, and sat in the back seat himself, with the eldest son next to him, and the younger son could only sit in the passenger seat.
Waiting for the car to start, Vladimir Kolkoshko, who had been tired all day, leaned back on the leather seat and did not forget to say to the eldest son next to him: "You did a good job in that incident just now." ”
Kirill in the front row turned his head and said, "If I knew it was the woman rumored recently, Nick and I might not care." ”
As soon as he finished saying this, Vladimir leaned over again and unceremoniously slapped his second son on the head.
Kirill just rubbed his head, he was beaten too much, and he got used to it, and he couldn't help but think of his sister's little temper in front of their two older brothers, which was completely infected by his father.
After drawing the second son, Vladimir did not forget to teach him a lesson: "Don't think like this in the future, haven't you two always respected and worshiped Simon, stick to this, it will only be good for you two fools, just like last year, why our family is fine, and now we can get more attention from Simon, because we all know to put ourselves in the right position." ”
When Kirill saw that his father began to nag, he hurriedly said, "Old man, I know. ”
Vladimir has to raise his hand again, think about it or put it down, the two sons have been fighting since they were children, and they have already beaten the skin, and they don't see how much. Fortunately, this kind of recklessness can be mixed better in a turbulent era like Ukraine. At least, the various businesses that the two sons are running now are actually developing very well.
Nikoas Kolkoshko, who was more or less stable than his younger brother, waited for his father to teach his younger brother a lesson, remembered what happened in the box, and said: "Dad, Cherpchenko invited us to open a factory directly in the Volyn region, I think this is a good idea, why don't you all seem to be interested?"
When Kirill heard his brother say this, he also turned his head and said, "Yes, Dad, this can also develop the power of our Rivne Gang by the way, and directly swallow the Volyn State in the future." ”
That's the right thing to do.
The two sons were able to mention this, which also made Vladimir very pleased, and moved his body in the seat for more than a year to make himself more comfortable, and did not shy away from the henchman driver who drove in the front seat, saying: "Now is not the time, we need to lay our roots in Rivne Oblast to the deepest before we can try to expand outward." ”
Kirill added: "I think it's very deep now. ”
Vladimir shook his head, simply took out another cigarette, saw the second son in the front row twisting his body and very attentively leaned over a lighter to light a cigarette for himself, stretched out his head to light it, and pulled down some car windows before saying: " In fact, many people in our circle have this view of yours, and previously suggested that Simon expand outward, but Simon personally vetoed it, because they didn't understand a little, we seem to have completely controlled Rivne Oblast, but this control is far from the extreme, once there is turmoil on the Kyiv side, or make up your mind to move on us, it will still be very troublesome. ”
Nicholas asked at this point, "What is the extreme?"
Vladimir remembered the words of the young man at the last meeting with Simon, and said: "When we tie millions or even tens of millions of people to the Rivne Gang train through profits, once something happens to our train, millions of people will also be unlucky, and even they have to firmly support us, then we will be truly entrenched." ”
Nicholas realized.
Kirill also seemed to understand something, and couldn't help but turn his head from the front row to look at his father from the front row with wide eyes: "Dad, Rivne Oblast is only a million people, if we want to bind ten million people, it just needs to be developed." ”
Vladimir shook his head and said: "Of course not, we don't develop, but we can attract more people to Rivne, think about it, how many people were in Rivni two years ago, and how many are there now?"
Kirill apparently didn't care much about this, and tentatively asked, "500,000?"
Vladimir shook his head, did not let his two sons guess anymore, and said directly: "Recently, it has exceeded 800,000." ”
Two years ago, before the Westeros system developed Rivne, Rivni, the capital of the state, was forced to flee the city in order to feed and clothe the city, either returning to the countryside to farm or smuggling to Western Europe, so that the original population of nearly 300,000 fell to only 220,000.
And now, because the Westeros system will be Nokia, Tinkobair, LTD and other companies of many foundries are opened here, coupled with the development of the local industry with Ordeck as the core, hundreds of thousands of labor demand, attracting people from all over Ukraine have gathered, according to the latest statistics, the current population has rapidly swelled to more than 800,000 people, and it is expected to exceed 1 million people before the end of the year.
Breaking through 1 million is still just the beginning.
If all the business plans in the plan can be implemented, it is not impossible for Rivni to surpass Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and develop into a megacity with a population of millions or even tens of millions in the future, after all, behind this city stands a large economy that has reached trillions of dollars enough to compete with many countries.
Hearing the figure of 800,000, the brothers were also a little surprised.
However, it is probably understandable to consider the large number of apartment buildings that Aldecker's construction company has been building in the north of the city without interruption.
What the brothers didn't know was that because of the skyrocketing population, not only did the prices of houses for sale and rent in Rivni rise sharply, but there were even large shantytowns in the western part of the city where more than 100,000 people had gathered.
This is also a matter of great concern to the senior management of the Rivne region and the municipality of Rivni in recent times.
Huge shanty towns, it's good to say now, in winter, think about the temperature in northern Ukraine that is enough to reach minus 30 degrees, if it is not handled well, it is not impossible for people to freeze to death. Moreover, because the shantytowns are too dense and all of them are simple prefabricated houses, if a fire breaks out, it will also be a catastrophe that may cause the fire to burn down the camp.
Vladimir Kolkoshko knows that his abilities are not outstanding, and he completely depends on someone's favor, and since the other party intends to put him in the position of governor in the next few years, he also intends to completely take root in Rivne Oblast, without the slightest intention of attacking the core of Kiev.
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
Although I don't know this proverb from the East, the Kolkoshko family, father and son, in the final analysis, have come to this point because they have firmly put themselves in the right position. After all, think about the Smirnov family, the former governor who was completely knocked to the dust, as long as they are not stupid, understand that the youth is far from being harmless because of his age.
Therefore, the problem of shantytowns has become a problem of his own in Vladimir's mind.
After thinking about it for a moment, Vladimir Kolkoshko thought about what he wanted to say today when he insisted on pulling his two sons home, looked at his eldest son and said: "Over for the amber mine, in the next few months, leave some of the best ore to your sister." ”
Nicholas has not yet expressed his position, and Kirill raised an objection in the front row: "Dad, my sister uses much better things than us on weekdays, and besides, she has taken several boxes last time, there is no need to keep them all for her, we just opened up the market on the Chinese side, I didn't expect that the Chinese would like amber so much, and they are willing to pay a high price, but they also want the best." We just recently traded a batch of amber for 100,000 TVs, the freighter has already arrived in the Red Sea, hey, Chinese TVs are much cheaper than Western Europe now, I heard that they are in a price war, causing a lot of inventory backlog, in short, we can make about $3 million this time back and forth. ”
Vladimir asked the brothers to keep the best amber for their daughter, not for her own use, of course, but to give her a gift to Mrs. Westeros in Los Angeles at the end of the year after learning about her daughter's experience in the past month.
After a month, the three girls experienced something, after all, after eating rice for decades, Vladimir can understand better that although his daughter has been trained for a few months, she has actually been recognized by the official lady of the Westeros family, and in this case, it is only good to further please that lady.
As a result, the daughter's position within the Westeros family is more secure, and correspondingly, the Kolkoszko family will be more stable in Rivne.