On a sunny afternoon, Jing Jian suddenly received a call from Nona: "Dear Bramble, what's going on? I haven't been in touch for a while, how did I hear that you have terminated the car factory project?"

"Really?" Jing Jian was lying lazily on the recliner between shooting, "Dear Nona, how is the scenery of Mars? Did you catch aliens?"

There was a chuckle on the phone: "Okay, okay, I apologize." I admit that many of us are excited by your Chinese government's proposal, and there is some controversy within us. But I'm personally inclined to you, so I'd love to hear your opinion. ”

The reason why Jing Jian gave up so simply was because some of the thinking of Soviet officials was very similar to that of Chinese officials. They are more trusting of state-to-state cooperation and less concerned about business reputation.

In fact, Jing Jian didn't care about a certain failure, the reasons for the miscarriage of the commercial case were already strange, and the failure rate has always been high, did he care about it? Originally, Jing Jian was ready to be vague and withdraw silently, at least no one was offended. However, since Nona had already come to the door, Jing Jian simply expressed his attitude: "Nona, I don't want to care what the reason is, all I see is the result." I will continue to give you the $100 million I promised, and the same will continue with reciprocal trade. Let this be the end of the matter! I can only express my deep regret. ”

There was silence on the phone for a moment, and Nona seemed to be considering something. After a long time, she said: "Is there no room for redemption? Although your $100 million is only a drop in the bucket for us in the Soviet Union, we attach great importance to our friendship with you." ”

Jing Jian smiled. Indeed, for the Soviet Union, the red empire, the figure of $100 million is really negligible. However, by this time the Soviet economy was on the verge of collapse, and in real history, in 90 years, that is, this year, GNP fell by 2.4%, compared with about 13% in 1991, fixed asset investment fell sharply by 21% in 1990, and by an estimated 25% in 1991, the government budget deficit continued to rise, and inflation was completely out of control. Gorbachev's economic reforms are no longer in the air.

In addition, the Soviet Union still has a large number of half-dead enterprises, plus 1 trillion rubles of domestic debts and $120 billion of foreign debts? Compared with those debts, Jing Jian's money is indeed a drop in the bucket, but his package agreement can revitalize a considerable part of the upstream and downstream industries of the Soviet Union, and can also bring in a steady stream of foreign exchange earnings. In a way, not only was Jing Jian profitable, but it was also a very important boost to the Soviet economy. Well, that's theoretical, if the USSR doesn't collapse in the future.

"I also value my friendship with you. Jing Jian said to Nona, "Nona, let's put it this way! I don't want to hide my thoughts, and I also know my weight." Now that the two governments have made a choice, I will honestly withdraw from it. Thank you for calling today, and I hope you will come back often in the future. ”

"But......" Nona hesitated, "but we still want to work with you?"

“......”

To be honest, the shock in Jing Jian's heart at this time was indescribable. It feels like the world is unreal. He really couldn't figure it out, even if it was himself, it would definitely be a direct cooperation with the Chinese government, okay? This is not the same as Andrei's loan, which can be said to play a decisive role. And for such a package agreement, the decision-makers must be a group of people, who will definitely meet to discuss, and they have no relatives and no reason with themselves, do they all collectively eat brain fragments?

"I'm sorry, Nona, I don't understand what you mean?" Jing Jian asked with doubts.

Nona on the other end of the phone was actually already pretty, and her heart was full of slander. Indeed, at the beginning, the opinions of the Chinese and Soviet governments on cooperation gradually prevailed, and the advantages were too obvious, and what Jing Jian could come up with, the Chinese side could basically come up with, and the Soviet Union's equity could be greatly increased.

But gradually, there was some opposition, and the opposition became louder and louder, and we pointed to the core of the problem - state-owned enterprises!

Undoubtedly, if it is a direct joint venture, the model of this enterprise must be a state-owned enterprise model. However, at this time, the ideological trend in the Soviet Union was already in a mess, and due to the mistakes of the Soviet Union's reform policy and the deepening of the economic crisis, the Soviet leaders not only failed to correctly sum up the lessons, but simply blamed the socialist public ownership system for the failure of the economy. Therefore, such an idea of economic reform has gradually taken shape, and its basic starting point is that the state has concentrated too many assets, the people are alienated from the state-owned system, and the workers have no sense of ownership and enthusiasm, thus causing a huge waste of social wealth, so it is necessary to carry out the decentralization of state-owned assets and the privatization of state-owned enterprises, and take the road of "mixed economy" in developed capitalist countries.

So in the middle of the debate, some opponents argued: "...... Problems have already arisen in the Soviet Union's state-owned enterprise model, do the Chinese comrades have a panacea in their hands? Moreover, the news coming from China that China's state-owned enterprises and factories are also suffering large-scale losses, can it be that the two loss-making enterprises can immediately turn losses into profits if they join forces?"

“...... On the face of it, it seems that we have a lot more shares in our hands. But I would like to ask if there is a loss, should we continue to inject capital for the sake of a frivolous Sino-Soviet friendship? If it goes on endlessly, are we not asking for our own burden? Well, if we do not continue to inject capital, the result will be even worse. When the factory goes bankrupt, we don't get anything, and the Chinese side at least gets equipment and plants. I think this kind of investment might as well be used in China. ”

“...... What we need is a free economy, and behind closed doors, the socialist economic system has failed. We would rather cooperate with the capitalist, and we would rather have less shares in our hands, at least he will run the factory carefully to ensure the success of this project. ”

“......”

Perhaps such a statement, in the eyes of people today, is a complete joke. In fact, whether an enterprise's operating conditions are good or bad has little to do with what the state or private have, and the key is the advanced management system and the spirit of continuous innovation.

Well, the question of economics can be argued. But as long as there is some basic common sense, they will never say such a thing - they would rather give profits to the capitalists than cooperate with state-owned enterprises, right?

However, in the Soviet Union at that time, and even in the vast majority of socialist countries, including China, most sociologists and economists had turned to Western-style liberal capitalism. So it's no surprise that such bizarre rhetoric has emerged.