Chapter 1385: The Last Banquet
Shamilov was originally a mixed little bastard in Blagoveshchensk, the Soviet Union, and he didn't know anything about politics, but in the past two years of contact with Wan Feng, he also cared a little about politics, so he would also ask some political questions.
"Wan, our Soviet Union was also once a huge empire in the world, and when we Soviet Union sneezed, the whole of Western Europe trembled. If it's really splitting up as you say, what's the reason?"
"What is the reason? The old sheep froze to death on June Day, and that's a long story. There are many reasons in all aspects, hegemonic expansion, national contradictions, and policy mistakes, but the main reason is that the military-industrial complex of your Soviet Union is too huge, and in layman's terms, the Soviet Union is a country that has been kidnapped by the military-industrial complex, and almost many policies are influenced by the military-industrial complex, and they are all beneficial to the military-industrial group. Compared to them, other interests are insignificant, and you probably don't understand it, but I will illustrate the strength of the military-industrial complex with the example of aspects related to your life. β
Wan Feng paused for a moment and continued: "Your Soviet Union has a huge and comprehensive industrial system, and you also have advanced technology in the world, but you can't even produce products that are closely related to the lives of the people, don't you think this is very abnormal?"
Shamilov scratched his head: "It seems to be very abnormal, so why is this phenomenon happening?"
"Do you say that building needles and threads has a big impact on brains or building aircraft cannons?"
"Of course, it's the construction of aircraft cannons. β
"Isn't this over, those military industrial groups that make ordinary daily necessities for the people go to drink the northwest wind, so they can only build aircraft artillery. But building aircraft cannons is not used to scrap copper and rotten iron, and these things have to come in handy, so how do you say aircraft cannons can come in handy?"
Shamilov replied mechanically: "Export or war." β
"That's right, this is one of the reasons for the constant expansion of your Soviet Union over the years, and one of the reasons for launching the Afu Khan War. At its peak, your country's spending on military spending used to account for 40 percent of the gross national product, that is to say, nearly half of the value created by the Soviet Union in a year was taken away by the military-industrial complex, and they used this money to build planes, artillery, hegemony, expansion, aggression, and Afghanistan to support puppets, and then your domestic economy was unbalanced and contradictory, and it was not normal for it to disintegrate or split?"
A country's normal military spending is usually between 2 and 4 percent of national income, and more than 5 percent will cause a country's fiscal imbalance.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's military spending was usually between 20 and 40 percent, and how could such a country not produce national contradictions and social unrest.
Most of the soldiers are hawks, and the most direct reaction to many things is to do it if they are not satisfied.
A country cannot do without such figures, and if there are no hot-blooded soldiers, the country will be weak and powerless.
But if a country is kidnapped by the military or kidnapped by military-industrial interests, then the country becomes a country with two heads.
It is strange that the country does not have problems if it does everything without convincing itself.
Moreover, the military is usually not very good at the economic field, so few countries in the Third World that come to power in a coup d'Γ©tat at every turn have a good economy.
Not only the third world countries, but also the developed countries in Latin America in the sixties and seventies, have not all finally become third world countries under the leadership of the military government?
"According to you, our Soviet Union is doomed to disintegration?" Shamilov asked, still a little unwillingly.
"The probability is more than 90 percent, you should be ready to be a Russian screwman, maybe in a few years there will be another country like the Soviet Union in the world. When we meet again, you may be a citizen of Russia. β
Shamilov shook his head bitterly.
His psychology has always been a little unconvinced that the huge Soviet empire will disappear from the world.
Its practical Wan Feng's explanation doesn't need to worry about being sad, for them, who comes to power, it has nothing to do with them, whoever comes to power and the sun rises as usual, they all have to live a life of firewood, rice, oil and salt, instead of worrying about those things that have little to do with themselves, it is better to do something mysterious in a down-to-earth manner.
Time is advancing unhurriedly, and in the blink of an eye it is December.
On December 5th, Wan Feng completed all the transactions in the warehouse of the base, and Wan Feng also announced the closure of business.
After the closure of the business, the personnel of the base were dismissed.
On the second day of the closure, Wan Feng invited all the employees of the base to the hotel for a meal at the riverside hotel, and then paid them all their salaries, and gave them a bonus of 10,000 yuan each.
These people are all locals, many of them are people who have been carrying out basic services at the base since the beginning, there are about thirty of them, including those five people with fire attributes.
After more than two years of getting along, both parties are a little reluctant to give up.
The loyalty of these people that Wan Feng likes, in more than two years, there has never been a self-theft in the base, and everything is in order.
These employees like Wan Feng because Wan Feng is an easy-going boss, and if he has time and anyone in the base, he can talk to him for a long time.
There is also generosity, their salary level is always at the highest level in Heihe, and the bonus at the end of the year is very generous.
"Boss, will you come back in the future?"
"It's coming, but then it's just coming as a tourist to see everyone, and you don't have to do any business. β
Wan Feng will definitely come, but he will not do any business, although at that time the domestic steel is still in short supply, but he is not ready to do it again.
Because the reopening of the port is not as disorderly as it is now, the Swiss franc will be used as a currency anchor to measure prices.
In other words, there will never be such a thing as him exchanging a ton of steel for a case or two of wine.
The transaction between the two sides has entered a rational state, so that the profit margin will be greatly reduced, and he will no longer have hundreds of millions of profits a month.
If he earns 1.8 million a month, what else is he going to do?
He now has a billion dollars of raw money, which is enough for him to do a lot of what he wants.
Wan Feng shook hands with the departed people here one by one.
After sending these people away, Wan Feng set up another banquet, and this time the banquet was for some local households in Heihe.
People in the Heihe government who have a relationship with Quyang, people in the public security system and taxation system, and some local people who have a good relationship with Wanfeng on weekdays.
The entire second floor of the riverside hotel was wrapped by Wan Feng, and there were more than a dozen tables of banquets.
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