After listening to Fang Chen's simple explanation, a look of surprise suddenly flashed on Gaidar and Chubais's faces.

"Fang, no one told you what the secret meeting talked about the day before yesterday, did they?" Chubais asked suddenly.

Fang Chen paused for a moment, and then shook his head a little helplessly, "I didn't even know that you had a secret meeting the day before yesterday, how could I know what was discussed at the meeting." ”

"Seriously, Fang, if we hadn't understood your genius intelligence, I would have thought that there was an inner ghost among the people who attended the meeting that day. Chubais sighed.

In the face of Rudskoi's increasingly aggressive offensive, the people of their department naturally held secret meetings frequently, and those who could participate were the most hardcore members of their department, and even Luzhkov and Kadannikov were not qualified to participate.

However, the day before yesterday, they finally discussed a general counterattack plan, and he and Gaidar came to Fang Chen this time, in fact, they used this counterattack plan to solicit Fang Chen's opinion.

But unexpectedly, before he could say it, Fang Chen already coincided with the plan.

"Indeed, as you said, Mr. Yeltsin's biggest supporters are the people, and the people are the well-deserved masters of Russia, so once the support of the people can be won, no matter how strong Rudskoi and others are, they can only back down, let alone veto shock therapy and privatization in parliament. ”

Speaking of the words "shock therapy", Chubais's face suddenly showed a slightly sad look.

In fact, in the past few years, Russia's economic situation has not been well improved, but has caused violent inflation, currency depreciation, and people's lives have also fallen into hardship.

However, the reason for this tragedy was, in his opinion, that the red factory directors led by Rudskoi were too greedy and plundered the wealth that originally belonged to the people.

Because inflation was caused by the huge injection of subsidized credits into the economy by the Central Bank of Russia, which were issued precisely at the request and threats of these red directors to Rudskoi and Khasbulatov, who were behind the scenes of the Supreme Soviet.

The current head of the Central Bank, a Soviet-era banker, Viktor Gerashchenko, was appointed by the parliament.

Under his leadership, the central bank has given factories a credit rate of 10%-25% per year, while inflation is a staggering 25% per month, which means that the cost of credit for these factories is not as fast as inflation.

After these factories get credit, even if they just buy materials and then do nothing, they can easily make more than 10% profit when they sell these materials in the next month, and the longer the materials are kept, the greater their profits.

At the rate of 25% inflation, they can make three times as much profit as they only need to stay for six months, and thirteen and a half times a year for a year.

These floods of credit did little to revive industry, but they had a negative impact on the economy.

However, what made him even more painful was that he knew this, but he had to compromise with Rudskoi and others.

There is no way, these red factory directors control a large amount of Russia's industrial productive forces, and if they strike or go bad, Russia will inevitably fall into chaos and even despair.

When the time comes, those angry people who have no food, drink, daily necessities, or even jobs will definitely point the finger at them, even if they are torn apart and eaten, it is not unexpected by him.

This is also the reason why he will actively promote privatization, that is, in order to take away the management and ownership of enterprises from the hands of these red factory directors and hand them over to the people.

Again, this is why Rudskoi is reluctant to see privatization move forward and become more and more aggressive, knowing very well that once privatization, especially the voucher program, is actually carried out, the shackles around their necks will become tighter and tighter, and they will eventually strangle them.

If Rudskoi's roots, the red factory directors, cease to exist, then Rudskoi and they will be nothing more than sheep to the slaughter, unless they dare to carry out a military coup.

"So, after our deliberations with Mr. President, we decided to call for a referendum on the reforms!" Chubais said with a serious face.

Although he knew that Yeltsin's next move was absolutely shocking, when he heard the second half of the sentence, Fang Chen couldn't help but gasp.

Yeltsin's play is a little too big.

To be honest, his so-called mobilization of the people is just to let the people know the truth, and then hold a few demonstrations in support of Yeltsin.

Anyway, the people don't have a good opinion of their factory director, management, or to be more precise, their current boss.

Their factory directors basically bought the factories they managed and became bosses.

If the people knew that their boss was behind Rudskoi, the wave of anger would definitely drown Rudskoi, not to mention let Rudskoi finish, but it would definitely make Rudskoi lose his skin and take care of himself completely.

In this way, the dilemma that Yeltsin is now facing will naturally be solved.

But now, Yeltsin is going so far as to launch a referendum to vote on such a big killer weapon.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that he knew history and didn't perceive from the performances of Gaidar and Chubais that Yeltsin had any intention of driving out Rudskoi and others, he really thought that Yeltsin couldn't help it and planned to kill Rudskoi directly.

However, Fang Chen suddenly realized at this time that he seemed to be underestimating Yeltsin, and Yeltsin's courage and courage were much higher than he imagined.

At the very least, if he were in Yeltsin's position, he would not have the courage to call a referendum in the face of such a situation.

"The referendum vote is a double-edged sword, and it can even be said that there will be more disadvantages for Mr. Yeltsin, so does Mr. Yeltsin really plan to do this?" Fang Chen said with a solemn expression.

If the result of the referendum is favorable to Yeltsin, then Rudskoi will naturally have to bow down and admit defeat and lie dormant for a while, after all, although the parliament represents the right of use of the people, it is not as effective as the referendum.

If Rudskoi dared to ignore the results of the referendum, then he could only say that Rudskoi had really killed himself, and Yeltsin would naturally let him know how the flowers were red.

But what if!

If the referendum fails, then even if Yeltsin does not resign, Chubais, who is now actually in charge of privatization, will have to resign, and Yeltsin's prestige will be greatly weakened.

It is not even surprising that Rudskoi, with the help of strong public opinion, directly submitted a motion to recall Yeltsin and asked the parliament to approve the removal of Yeltsin.

All in all, the consequences of defeat, Yeltsin absolutely could not bear.

And to be honest, Fang Chen feels that the situation of the matter should not have developed to this point, almost to the point where you die or I live, Rudskoi's current aggressiveness is only fighting for more rights, or bargaining chips, not to completely oust Yeltsin from power.

"This can only be done, other methods can only say that it is only to delay Rudskoi for a while, to cure the symptoms but not the root cause, and if the result of this referendum vote is in our favor, I will promote privatization in a very fast time, completely remove those red factory directors from power, and dig up Rudskoi's foundation, once the foundation is cut off, then Rudskoi will not be far from death!"

Looking at Chubais's slightly hideous complexion, Fang Chen's face couldn't help but change slightly, Yeltsin's game of chess was even bigger than he imagined.

However, it is easy to explain why Yeltsin would resort to such a big killer weapon as a referendum at such a moment when he was clearly not in a desperate situation.

It turned out that he didn't just want Rudskoi to lie dormant for a while, but planned to eradicate Rudskoi.

And in this way, Fang Chen is linked to the October incident in his previous life, and he believes that in his previous life, Yeltsin also launched such a referendum and won it.

It was precisely because of this victory that the privatization was rapidly pushed forward, and the foundations of Rudskoi collapsed, and then the October events bombarded the White House and completely eliminated the Rudskoi family.

It's just a ring-by-link.

Moreover, it was precisely the October events that opened the era of the big oligarchs in Russia!

First of all, Yeltsin eliminated those red factory directors and distributed all Russian assets into private hands, which means that the big oligarchs not only lost the constraints to compete with them, but also ushered in the opportunity to develop rapidly.

These big oligarchs naturally took advantage of this opportunity to develop and grow rapidly.

By the time Yeltsin came back, the oligarchs had developed to an incomparably huge point, firmly grasping the economic lifeline of Russia, and becoming a monster even more terrifying than the red factory directors at the beginning!

Coupled with the drawbacks of the democratic electoral system itself, presidential candidates must bow to the capitalists, and only with the financial support of the capitalists can they have the possibility of becoming president, so Yeltsin can only sit back and watch the existence of the big oligarchs, and closely unite with them, inviting them to enter the house and participate in politics.

Berezovsky and other six oligarchs control 50% of Russia's economy.

Thinking of this, Fang Chen glanced at Berezovsky.

Berezovsky, Russia's largest oligarch, is a good example, after supporting Yeltsin's successful election, Berezovsky was appointed deputy secretary of the National Security Council and chief negotiator for Chechen affairs, becoming Russia's top bigwig, and also the "Kremlin red godfather" in the mouth of US presidential candidates.

In an instant, Fang Chen understood, all understood, and he really had a feeling of sudden enlightenment, as if all the future developments of Russia were in his eyes.

Seeing that Fang Chen seemed to have some disapproval, Gaidar was about to explain a few more words, but who knows, Fang Chen suddenly straightened up and said impassionedly: "I fully support Mr. Yeltsin's idea of launching a referendum!"

Hearing this, Gaidar and Chubaiston were stunned, and even Berezovsky and the others, who knew each other better, were dumbfounded, as if their necks had been twisted one hundred and eighty degrees.

Mr. Fang obviously didn't agree just now!

After a few dozen seconds of slowing down, Chubais said with a little crying and laughing: "Fang, although I'm glad you can think like this, but you have changed too quickly. ”

He was still thinking about what method and rhetoric to use to persuade Fang Chen just now, but the result was good, before he could speak, Fang Chen himself changed.

He now really feels like he has a punch full, but it's empty, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

"I just figured it out, it's good, seriously, I can't wait to have a big battle with Rudskoy and them!" Fang Chen said with a smile.

Seeing that Fang Chen really understood the meaning of the referendum, Gaidar praised: "Fang, you are indeed the smartest person I have ever met. ”

To be honest, when Yeltsin threw out an idea, they actually disagreed, and it was not because of Yeltsin's great strength that they were completely convinced.

Fang Chen smiled nondeniably, and then asked directly: "Then what question does Mr. Yeltsin plan to use to launch a referendum?" ”

He didn't want to get caught up in endless business blows with Chubais and Gaidar, he had already passed that strength, and now whoever can move him a little with praise in this world is probably Dean Zhu, the elder, and Taizong.

Other than that, even Yeltsin and Clinton almost didn't mean it.

"There are four questions in total, first, do you support Yeltsin?"

"Second, do you support Yeltsin's economic policy?"

"Third, do you agree to an early presidential election?"

"Fourth, do you agree to an early parliamentary election?"

After listening to these four questions, Fang Chen subconsciously smashed his mouth, Yeltsin's ruthlessness once again exceeded his expectations, and he was indeed a generation of ruthless people who overthrew the Soviets.

Once the people agree to hold early parliamentary elections, the power of Rudskoi and Hasbulatov in parliament can basically be declared to be half disintegrated, and Yeltsin will definitely not let go of the opportunity to mix sand into it at this time.

But in the same way, once the people agree to hold an early presidential election, then Yeltsin is not far from the end, after all, only if the current president is very dissatisfied will he hold an early presidential election.

At that time, even if the former president is eligible to run, the people will definitely not choose him.

Seriously, Fang Chen suddenly had a sense of déjà vu when he saw Cameron holding a Brexit referendum and shooting himself in the foot.

Although the two are not comparable, and the results can be very different, Fang Chen just can't control himself from thinking in this direction.