Chapter 226: The Collapse of the Soviet Union
The transformation of McGraw-Hill's fiction website has not been able to reverse the status of IReader's fiction website!
The development of the IReader novel website is getting better and better, while the McGraw Hill novel website is seriously losing money, and the offline physical books have been seriously affected by online piracy, resulting in a decline in sales, which in turn has caused dissatisfaction among many writers!
The reason why Henry's physical book "Resident Evil" sold so well was not only the excellent novel itself, but also related to Henry's personal charm! Countless gimmicks can attract people's curiosity, and Henry is so young, he is simply an American idol and a representative of the American dream!!
Obviously, not everyone can learn from him, and if you publish books online, offline physical books can also sell well!
For McGraw Hill's novel website, Henry actually didn't pay attention to it at all, writers are also human beings, and they are also profit-seeking animals, so they naturally know which website has more traffic and which website is more profitable, and they will not stupidly run to a website that is not popular to publish new books!
IReader has established itself as a leader in the industry, and it's hard to be shaken by other fiction sites. What's more, there is also the ICQ company standing behind it.
Now that we are approaching the end of 1991, there are two things that deserve Henry's attention, one is the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the other is the upcoming US presidential election!
The presidential election in the United States will begin in January 1992 and last for half a year, this stage belongs to the caucuse, mainly the major parties compete for presidential candidates, and Clinton was elected chairman of the Supreme Committee of the Democratic Party as early as 1990, so he should be able to become the presidential candidate of the Democratic party without dispute!!
On the Soviet side, Henry had asked Blackwater to send 3,000 members to the Soviet Union to carry out the "war for talent" plan.
This time, Henry wanted to carve up the Soviet talent with the countries of Europe and even the United States. But Henry was able to anticipate the approximate time of the collapse of the Soviet Union and a series of policies in Russia after that, so he was more prepared, and even before the countries reacted, he would preemptively attack. Ship away talents!
Before that, Henry had people collect information on top talents from all walks of life.
As soon as the USSR is concerned, act immediately!
The resources used this time were so great that at the end of November Henry had 20 large steamers with a capacity of more than 1,000 people rented at various docks along the Russian coastal border. In addition, ten Boeing 747 aircraft were leased to escort the top high-tech talent!
This action to snatch talents must be made into a blockbuster!
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Three months ago, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldavia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Armenia, and Tajikistan announced their secession from the Soviet Union! In the spring of 1990 and 1991, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia announced their secession from the USSR!
Seeing that time passed day by day, a tense atmosphere permeated the entire Soviet Union. By December 8, 1991, when the heads of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed an agreement, the Soviet Union existed in name only!
On December 25-26, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR confirmed the dissolution of the Union, which meant the official dissolution of the Soviet Union!
"Hello, Mr. Williams, the plan has already begun!"
"Okay, stay safe!!" Henry replied lightly. Then he hung up. Then, he stood up from his seat, his eyes shining brightly, and he couldn't help muttering: "Hehe, the talents of the Soviet Union, will be used by me!!"
At this time, the members of Blackwater were already active in various countries and were actively carrying out their actions. At this moment, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the situation of governments in various countries is extremely chaotic and they are facing a serious economic crisis. Especially in Russia. Even more confusing!
Yeltsin appointed Gaidar, a young liberal reformist, as the head of government, to carry out radical "shock" economic reforms! Objectively speaking, the effect of "shock" therapy is very obvious, and it can put an end to socialist public ownership in a very short period of time. Denationalization and privatization were achieved!
One of the biggest features of shock therapy is that "long pain is better than short pain", and only after the pain is almost in shock can it be reborn!
The contents of this plan are broadly as follows: the implementation of tight monetary and fiscal policies, the reduction of government spending, the elimination of subsidies, and the liberalization of prices. Trade liberalization, exchange rate stability through currency devaluation, further reform of the administrative and tax systems, privatization of some public sectors and enterprises, rearrangement of debts and foreign aid, etc.
However, after this policy was implemented, ordinary people in Russia almost despaired. The ruble has already depreciated like crazy, and now the government has depreciated it, and the money in everyone's hands is about to turn into waste paper, how can they live?
The economy of the entire country was paralyzed for a time.
Factories closed down, state-owned enterprises were sold cheaply!
Banks go bankrupt and laid-off workers are in droves, filling the streets!
Even scientific research institutions have closed down one after another due to lack of funds, and high-tech talents have no choice but to lay off!!
Henry's Giant Bear International Headhunting Company, which he established in Russia, was suddenly busy and received many inquiries from many people!
Then, Blackwater cooperated with Giant Bear International Headhunting Company to transfer talents one after another!
As long as it is talent, then all of them will be pulled away and sent to the United States. In order to buy people's hearts, Henry took them with his family and promised to arrange jobs for them in the United States!
It is impossible for so many people in Russia to leave without alarming the authorities, and then they were hindered.
However, the Blackwater company is not a vegetarian, it has already opened up a smuggling route in Russia, and there are Blackwater members escorting it along the way, if Russia dares to intercept it, it will run if it can't be beaten, and if it can fight, it will do a battle!
Russia is in a state of turmoil, the whole country is in a mess, even the police can't get their salaries, they can't get enough to eat, and as for the army, hehe, they are busy selling arms, and Blackwater has bought a lot of them from them, and it has a good relationship with the military! So, where can the Russian government take care of so much, and the talents have been escorted out of Russia by Blackwater members one after another.
Henry is particularly fond of Russian arms experts and aerospace technology talents, so the main purpose of the Soviet Union's talent snatching this time is to poach these people.
Under the strong temptation of money, many talents have agreed to work for Henry!
Among them, more than 400 people were poached from the "Korolev Energy Rocket and Space Corporation"! Korolev is praised as the "father of carrier rockets," who invented artificial satellites, and was the chief engineer and designer of the Soviet rocket program; although he is dead, the group's technology in the field of rockets, satellites, and spacecraft is superb!
In addition, Blackwater has also poached more than 50 technical personnel for the research and development of rocket engines from the "Power Machinery Research and Production Complex," the most first-class rocket engine company in the Soviet Union, more than 40 R&D personnel for rocket propulsion from the "Keldish Research Center," and more than 20 R&D personnel for energy supply systems from the "Institute of Quantum Science." Of course, there are far more aerospace technical talents dug up. Other companies add up to more than 200 people.
All these talents combined, it is completely possible to develop rockets, satellites, spaceships!
At the same time, Blackwater also bought a lot of technical data at a low price!
However, Henry's steps are not so fast, he wants to first achieve results in the field of rockets, then develop satellites, and finally build spaceships!
Henry was the first to dig people, so the people who dig are naturally the elite of the elite. When other countries were about to dig people, they couldn't help but be stunned, they found that the object they wanted to dig had actually been poached. In the end, I had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and dig up the slightly worse level!
The U.S. government also discovered this situation, but when it investigated, it suddenly found that the high-tech aerospace technology talents who had been poached had actually arrived in the United States......
NASA is very concerned about this matter!
(To be continued.) )