The pattern of the Soviet Union at this time, in Li Yadong's view, can be described in seven words - the calm before the storm.

The sun drove away the night and obscured the first signs of darkness – the Russian mafia was born at this time. People take to the streets, walks for walks, shopping for shopping, parks for parks, the city of Moscow seems to be business as usual, quiet and peaceful.

But only a few people understand that all this is a façade.

In fact, in the heart of the city, in the magnificent Kremlin, the battle between the three forces is in a white-hot stage, and the war is about to break out. There are also countless potential forces that are clinging to these three forces and are ready to stir up and fuel the fire.

The first force is the presidential faction headed by Gorbachev.

They are implementing reforms that do not want to lose their dominance, but also to westernize the Soviet Union and improve its increasingly volatile employment and livelihood problems.

The second force is the comprehensive Westernization faction headed by Yeltsin.

They preached freedom and democracy, and wantonly bought people's hearts, which made the Soviet people yearn for a free and democratic life in the West.

With the power of the people, it is enough to confront President Mikhail Gorbachev head-on.

As for the third force, it is a scattered collective, but there are many of them, mainly high-ranking officials within the Soviet Union who do not approve of Westernization and believe that they should firmly follow the ** line.

We can call it conservative.

It's also one of them, but now others speak lightly.

But he had the KGB, a high-ranking part of the government that shared the enmity of the KGB, a mysterious organization, in plotting a coup d'état to overthrow Gorbachev.

So yes, the sky in Moscow is not as blue as it sees, and behind that blue, in fact, there are dark clouds gathering in the sky, brewing a storm of time.

This storm will not fall all at once, it will be like the "Heavenly Tribulation" in ancient Chinese mythology, one heavy and one more powerful.

Until the entire Soviet Union was bombarded to pieces.

What Li Yadong has to do is to improve his layout as much as possible before the first "catastrophe" comes.

Because the more he goes to the back, he is in the heart of the "Heavenly Tribulation" array, and he will inevitably be shocked, and the primary purpose at that time must be self-preservation, and then he wants to arrange the wealth accumulation array against the "Heavenly Tribulation", but I am afraid that it will not be easy.

The agreed meeting was held on time, on the third floor of the temporary office building in the base camp, in one of the largest conference rooms.

The people under the group, except for Xiaoshu who went to the "Red Star Market" to preside over the wholesale store, everyone else arrived.

Red Star Market is currently the largest and best daily necessities market in Moscow, and 80% of the stall owners are Chinese, and the goods they sell are naturally from China.

However, as the largest trading firm in the market, with six stores, Dongfanghong Trading Company not only wholesales and retails high-quality and low-cost Chinese grain, oil, rice and noodles, canned food, towels and other goods, but also sells bird's nest shark fin from Southeast Asia, high-end clothing from Hong Kong and Italy, high-quality red wine from France, high-quality coffee beans from Africa and other goods.

It's just that few people can afford to spend it, because their prices are very high.

It doesn't make sense if it's not high, it's really not easy to turn these goods upside down, and ordinary traders don't have this channel at all.

It's one of a kind.

In this way, it highlights that its grade is different and is favored by dignitaries.

In order to take care of the needs of some dignitaries who are not easy to buy goods at home, the store also provides telephone orders and door-to-door delivery services.

At least in the past few months, Brother Shengli's 100-open small phone book has been used up for most of it.

And don't look at these six small stores, they can create at least 100,000 rubles of profit for Li Yadong every day, that is, 55,000 US dollars.

After the ruble is in hand, it will be converted into US dollars at the current exchange rate before the bank closes work on the same day.

"Our people only have a small tree, right?" Li Yadong asked after looking around at the first seat.

The so-called "our people" refers to the regular employees of the group, including Victor, Linna, and Xiaoshu, and several Manchurians hired by Xiaoshu, who are not in this category.

"Yes. Brother Shengli nodded.

Although his identity is the same level as Xiaoshu, Xiaohui, Xiaotao, and Uncle Luo, because he was personally entrusted with important tasks by the boss and did a really good job, everyone benefited from it, so he has been regarded as the "first manager" by everyone.

"Well, our meeting has officially begun. Li Yadong nodded and said: "This is our first formal meeting after coming to the Soviet Union, and it is related to the specific layout of the next. ”

Everyone laughed, "That can't be".

Just kidding, the big boss dares to wander in front of him, I'm afraid it's too comfortable, right?

"When you came here, I had already made preliminary plans, such as this base camp, which was pretty good. Then there are some things that I haven't seen right now, so you can report them one by one. Zhang Shengli, you come first. ”

"Yes, Brother Dong. After Zhang Shengli nodded, he said: "There are two main parts of other work I am responsible for, one is to open up logistics relations, and the other is to make contacts with the Soviet government.

"I'll start with the first piece. In terms of logistics, we have now abandoned the old method of dumping goods from the Manchuria border and have partnered with Sheremetyevo Airport, which will leave us with a storage space on irregular flights to China, about the size of two train cars. This greatly improves our logistics efficiency, ensures the safety of goods, and saves a lot of manpower. But it is not perfect, the current cooperation for more than a month, but also gradually exposed a problem, the supply of replenishment can not keep up with our sales speed, such as the current market is very popular canned vegetables, we have been out of stock for five days, the Chinese headquarters has long been ready, but there are no flights to and from China at the airport recently. Again, the problem lies in the three words I just said, 'not fixed'. ”

"No fixed flights?" Li Yadong frowned slightly, this is really a problem.

In this regard, the airport is also in the way, and the air ticket cannot be sold, is it possible to fly at a loss on empty planes?

Naturally impossible.

It is no wonder that there were too few Chinese tourists to and from the Soviet Union in this era.

But then again, not only China, but also the Soviet Union, a ghost place, is now in turmoil, and if it is not a speculative person, who will run this way without anything?

Traveling?

Do you want to give it a try?

It doesn't matter what country you are a citizen of, if you die in the USSR, you will die in vain.

The condemnation of your country has no effect on the world's largest nuclear-armed power.

"Have you considered a solution?" asked Li Yadong.

Since Brother Shengli has discovered the problem, he should think about the solution, based on Li Yadong's understanding of him.

"Of course. Brother Shengli nodded and said: "I have thought about it for a long time, maybe there is only one way to solve the problem of continuous supply." ”

After he said this, he glanced at Li Yadong.

"I'm listening. Li Yadong said lightly.

"......" Brother Shengli looked stupid.

Can't you show a little surprise if you don't say that you want to praise me twice?

"Buy a plane, negotiate with Sheremetyevo Airport and the Capital Airport to open up a cargo route. ”

That's a good idea. Li Yadong groaned. But at this point he had to think about another issue - cost.

At present, the Soviet Union has not yet collapsed, and cheap planes are not easy to buy, and a large aircraft that can meet international voyages will normally cost at least hundreds of millions of yuan.

There are also maintenance costs and crew staffing.

This is still a small head, and the cost of the airports on both sides is not a small amount.

It doesn't matter if it's a long-term business, but Li Yadong knows very well in his heart that this business is destined to not last long.

It's not that trade business can't be done after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's just that the ruble was not worth anything at all at that time, and it will become less and less valuable, and finally it was directly abolished, and a new version of the ruble was released, and the ratio of the new ruble to the old ruble was 1:10,000.

Isn't it possible that you still expect people to buy things from you for dollars?

Naturally impossible.

And such rubles are like waste paper, what kind of momentum is earned, but I am afraid that even the money for aircraft fuel will not be enough.

Of course, these things that have not happened yet, he naturally can't tell Brother Shengli who has an expression of invitation.

Although there are only 50,000 or 60,000 US dollars a day, he knows that as the situation in the Soviet Union becomes more and more turbulent, the leaders have no time to take care of the people's livelihood, and this number will rise in a straight line.

He is now going to make enough effort to make money, he wants to be the richest man in the world, and he wants to kill Yoshiaki in Japan, so he will not miss any channel for money.

Dry, it still has to be done.

But it seems a little uneconomical to buy planes and open up new routes just for a year's trade.

You have to come up with another point of interest to maximize the benefits of your aircraft investment.

After sorting out this idea, Li Yadong tapped his fingers on the mahogany table top and fell into thought.

The others didn't dare to disturb, and sat quietly with bated breath.

After a while, Li Yadong looked at Brother Shengli and asked, "Is there a small airport in Moscow that we can buy?"

He came up with an idea and decided to do something big.

"Buying an airport?" the crowd gasped.

Sure enough, it's not an ordinary person, and I really dare to play.

"This ......," Brother Shengli smiled, "I really didn't dare to think about it before, because airports are generally strategic locations, and I didn't think that the other party would buy them." However, there are indeed many large and small airports in Moscow, some civilian and some military, especially those military airports, which seem to be idle now. Brother Dong, if you think about it, I can contact you to try it, but it's hard to say that it will definitely succeed. ”

Li Yadong thought for a while and said: "You collect the information of the idle airports you just mentioned, I will take a look at it first, and then contact the relevant government officials, and I will personally come out for an interview." ”

Not for sale?

Li Yadong really doesn't believe it, how ** the Soviet government is now, according to historical records, he probably knows something.

What can't be sold?

He doesn't want to learn from Uncle **, otherwise he will have the heart to make two nuclear warheads.

Not to mention a semi-deserted airport.

Do you keep the eggs?

"Good. ”8)