Chapter 746: A Change of Mind

What happened in Germany was only casually mentioned by Hu Wenhai, and in the period from the Berlin Wall to the reunification of the two Germanys, many domestic projects that urgently needed to be imported from East Germany had been completed. Later, whether it was providing loan guarantees or opening up land and sea communication lines to China, more work was handed over to China Railway Construction Investment and various civil society organizations to carry out spontaneously.

In the early 90s since 1990, the international situation has been turbulent and turbulent. The collapse of the Soviet Union made even the Americans eat a pound. How to face this history is a real test of one's wisdom.

The wisdom here is already beyond the category of profits, talents, technology, and capital, but requires great wisdom and a large vision, with the ability to see through the essence of human history and examine the destiny of mankind itself.

Undoubtedly, with Hu Wenhai's current ability, it can be said that he can barely stand on the chessboard of history. From a chess piece, he has become a "villain" behind the chess player who watches chess and has many words.

In the past few years, Hu Wenhai's actions have been more about taking advantage of his foresight and seizing every opportunity to accumulate his own capital. One of the advantages of this is, of course, that there is no need to measure the changes in the situation in the whole world, as long as you can put other people's money in your own pocket wholeheartedly.

However, as a chess player, Hu Wenhai had to start to change his mind. Money doesn't mean much to him anymore. If the pattern of doing things continues to be limited to things like "money" or technology and equipment, then he can only stop at a relatively important chess piece position on the chessboard.

As his influence on this world line grows, it is foreseeable that the future direction of history will no longer be fully controlled by him. If Hu Wenhai wants to maintain his superiority, he must not simply "plunder" the development of the world line, but pay more attention to "layout" and create a favorable situation in which he will continue to hold the future in his own hands.

The change from chess pieces to chess players directly led to the upgrading of Hu Wenhai's methods. The most direct thing is that he looks at problems and deals with them, and is no longer limited to the level of "art", but is more inclined to create "momentum".

However, at present, it seems that the history of the Soviet Union has not changed much. In August 1991, despite calls for a referendum to maintain the federal system of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev reached an agreement with the heads of the 15 union republics to form a new confederation of the Soviet Union under the New Union Treaty.

On August 14, the text of the "New Union Treaty" was released to the public, which immediately caused a general uproar throughout the Soviet Union.

The fate of the USSR, in any case, seems to have entered the countdown.

At such a critical juncture, what can and should Hu Wenhai do?

"Comrade Schinin, welcome to lead a delegation to visit China. ”

The flash of the camera flickered frequently, and elementary school students wearing red scarves ran up with flowers in their hands. At the end of the red carpet was a long line of imported Ford official cars, filling the entire venue with a long-lost sense of familiarity to the Soviets.

The staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a rather enthusiastic ceremony to welcome the members of the Soviet mission to China, which did not exist in history.

Since the United States began to tighten its containment of China in the 90s, China has also been looking for ways to break this situation. As one of the two world levels, the elder had a leadership visit to the Soviet Union in May this year. Proceeding from diplomatic etiquette, the Soviet Union also arranged for a return visit to the Chinese side led by Oleg Simonovich Schernin, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, at the invitation of the Chinese side.

Of course, the leader who was originally planned to visit back was definitely not at the level of Schönin. However, under the manipulation of some Soviet insiders, such as Kryuchkov's recommendation, or some arrangements by Borispugo, Schönin himself did not have much opinion on this.

Although his position can already be regarded as a high-level Soviet one, it is not enough to be able to refute the arrangement of the core of the CPSU.

Unlike the visit to the Soviet Union at the beginning of the year, the scale of the Soviet delegation led by Schönin can be said to be quite large. Four Il-86 airliners with 350 economy class seats landed at the airport one after another, indicating that the number of Soviet visitors to China exceeded the scale of 1,000 people.

The size, which far exceeded diplomatic practice, was not so surprising in reality, and it seemed that in order to show its "big brothers" what China had achieved over the decades, Nemart had made a rather tempting deal for it.

The number of official missions of the Soviet Union was only 34 people, but the accompanying Soviet experts, scholars and high-level think tanks in various fields were partially reimbursed by Nemart in the Soviet Union.

In addition, for every scholar accredited by the Nemart Group who joins the visiting entourage, the CPSU Organization Office receives an additional "remuneration" of 1,000 dollars.

This is a very "stop-and-go" figure, and in terms of the official exchange rate, a thousand dollars is really nothing. The monthly basic salary of a professor in the Soviet Union was about two or three thousand rubles, and one thousand dollars was theoretically only half a month's or ten days' salary.

However, if this money is used centrally, more than a million dollars will be a lot of fat for the organization of the CPSU.

It has to be said that as one of the two poles of the world, the Soviet Union's foreign exchange reserves were not even as large as China's. One million dollars for the organization of the CPSU means that the voice in the system has been greatly improved.

Although by August 1991, it had long since had no say in it. However, if it is to organize a visit abroad, the appeal of the CPSU can still take on the role of a luxury team.

From the Black Sea shipyard in Ukraine to Sukhoi in Komsomolsk, the organization of the CPSU almost completely followed the list drawn up by Nemart to "arrest" people according to the side. In the end, Soviet civil aviation used four Il-86s to meet the needs of the mission. A week-long visit can earn a million dollars, which is honestly not a lot of good things.

After the brief but warm welcome at the airport, the group's financial aid was certainly not so easy to get, and these elite Soviet scholars will rush to various parts of China in the coming week to "participate" in various study activities arranged by the Chinese side.

If Soviet experts were able to come up with rationalization proposals during the expedition, the Nemart group had already promised hundreds to millions of dollars in additional bonus planning.

The Organization Office of the CPSU knew this, and this was nothing more than a means for the Chinese to turn around and want to buy Soviet technology on a large scale. If the technology is bought and sold according to the normal procedure, the money will not fall into the hands of the CPSU, and the time and procedural costs for the Chinese side are unacceptable.

The KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have long conducted emergency training for experts and scholars before leaving the country. What can be taken out, what needs to be kept secret, and how to divide the remuneration for the sale of technology, have all been planned.

What is it? Preventing the Chinese side from acquiring Soviet technology? No one will ever have a chance to say such a thing! Anyone who has such an idea would have thrown people into a secret prison long ago.

No, the day after the arrival of the Soviet delegation to China, two teams of Soviet experts boarded a passenger plane of the Chinese Civil Aviation and set off for Shengjing and Dagang respectively. There, Sheng Fei and Dagang Shipyard are already looking forward to it.

Sukhoi's technical team was the main invitee of the Chinese side this time, especially the technical and process designers of the Su-27, and even offered a sky-high price of $10,000 for a lecture. Although a large part of the money has to be handed over, the Sukhoi engineers can still leave a sum of money, or Nemart's pick-up voucher is also a tempting option.

Of course, Sukhoi's team wasn't the only ones who took part in the exchange. Comrade Valery Vasilyevich Babich of the Black Sea Shipyard also received a warm welcome at the Dagang Shipyard, and this aircraft carrier chief engineer who would be well-known in the circle of future Chinese military fans was the object of Hu Wenhai's hand-picked invitation.

This old man can be said to be a legend of the Soviet Red Navy, from the subsystem engineer of the two helicopter carriers Moscow and Leningrad, to the comprehensive designer of the Kiev class, to the core design chief engineer of the Minsk. By the time he arrived at the Kuznetsov, Babich was already the head of the aircraft carrier design department at the Black Sea Shipyard.

The Varyag, the foundation of China's first aircraft carrier in the future, is simply this "own son".

Of course, these resumes do not make him famous in the Chinese military fan circle. The reason that really made Hu Wenhai "miss him" was mainly because after China bought the Varyag, this old man took his resume "buy one get one free" and followed the aircraft carrier to the "***" of Qingdao Special Ship Design Institute.

In later generations, the old man Babiqi, who simply settled in China, can really be regarded as an "old friend of the Chinese people". Of course, Hu Wenhai has a deep memory of such international friends. With his relationship with China Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd., he booked a heavyweight position in Dagang Shipyard for the old man early.

Of course, these arrangements have not yet been formally contacted by Babich or other Soviet experts. For these Soviet experts, the visit was nothing more than a short sabbatical and a large-scale academic exchange. Although the scale is a little too large, the Nemart Group has a lot of money, and the uncle who paid for it is, of course, what you say.

A guaranteed income of $1,000 a week on a business trip is not something that happens at any time, and everyone is thinking about how to improve their lives when they return home after getting this money. As for the thousands of Soviet experts who came with the delegation this time, they did not know that this time they left the Soviet Union - perhaps forever.