Zhou Lao has a comfortable recliner, and when he is at home, he spends most of his time sitting on the recliner. Sometimes he can't sleep at night, so he sits on a recliner, and only when he has to go to work, or when he cooperates with a health care practitioner, he gets up and moves.

If someone came to visit, Zhou Lao usually leaned back on the recliner to talk. At night, all the people who come to the house are acquaintances, most of them are also elderly, and when the health doctor sometimes comes to remind him to take medicine, he will find two or three people leaning on the chaise longue, talking like old farmers chattering under the big locust tree in the village.

At noon on the 16th, Zhou Lao stayed at home to rest as usual.

He said he was resting, but the phone would not stop, and the secretary would send documents from time to time. After lunch, the two leaders of the Planning Commission came to visit them together.

Whenever this happens, the health care practitioner's brow furrows.

But he had no choice but to check Zhou Lao's pulse and heartbeat and other physical conditions, and then leave the living room and let them talk in private.

Leaning on the recliner, Zhou Lao flipped through the documents, put them down for a while, and said with a smile: "This Su City, there is a ghost idea at any time." What is the opinion of the Planning Commission?"

"We're ashamed that we didn't do our job properly. It stands to reason that what Comrade Su Cheng can think of, we should all think of. "Director Lu rarely saw Zhou Lao, and he was in the environment of a private house, so he spoke a little intermittently, but the meaning was still quite clear. He paused for a moment and then said: "However, although we have not considered this plan, we do not quite approve of it within the Planning Commission. ”

"Why?" Zhou Lao raised his head. I can't see the joy or anger.

Director Lu hesitated and said, "We think that it is a bit too obvious to take advantage of the fire. In this way, if it is 10 billion, the Soviet Union will at least give us 10 billion, maybe more, and it is difficult to say whether Russia will settle accounts in the future. Again. I have heard that the State Department already has a countermeasure to the Soviet problem and will also preside over the purchase of some arms and equipment, and if the Planning Commission implements such a plan. Inevitably, there will be interference. ”

"What about handing it over to a social company, will it affect Sino-Soviet relations?"

"You mean private enterprises?" Director Lu said softly: "The credibility of private enterprises is not high enough, and the Soviets are probably not recognizable." We haven't been in the private sector for a long time. In 10 years, there are few private companies that have money. ”

"Didn't Sioux City control a bank? Shen Shen Zhi would? Then let him take Shen Cheng to the Soviet Union to engage in this business. ”

"We're not participating?"

"How not to get involved. Isn't there still a state-owned stake in the deep development of the country? The state and it jointly contribute capital and share profits. Of course, you don't interfere with what to do, let him play freely. Also tell him that if something goes wrong, he will be responsible. ”

Zhou Lao gave his opinion so quickly, and Director Lu had no choice but to agree. He swept Su Zhenguo beside him with the rest of his eyes, a little surprised by his silence. Then he said in a low voice: "The problem now is the subject of the loan, we can't borrow from the National Bank of the Soviet Union, because we are afraid that it will be taken over by the Central Bank of Russia in the future, and the loan agreement we signed may become invalid." But when Russia will take over the banks of the Soviet Union, we do not know. So, I had to wait. ”

"I see the report from Sioux City that there will be news within this month, and maybe in the last few days?"

"This ...... We can't tell. ”

Zhou Lao frowned and said: "The State Planning Commission can't judge, but a private enterprise can?

Director Lu really felt that Su Cheng had come up with it in his head, but how could he say that, he could only look forward to Ai Ai's words: "I heard that Dahua Industrial has a strategic business department. There is also a section in it, which is for intelligence gathering. It mainly collects official information, and then analyzes and draws conclusions. ”

Intelligence analysis and intelligence gathering are equally important. For companies, thrilling espionage warfare is not what they want, and commercial spies are better off not being knights. Spending a lot of money to hire some students majoring in social behavior analysis and then analyzing and discussing the intelligence is the best solution.

The conglomerates of Japan, South Korea, Germany, and the United States all use the same system, mainly collecting public information, and then analyzing the public information, and often reaching correct conclusions. Greenspan in history is a typical example, when he was not the chairman of the Federal Reserve, but a wage earner, he analyzed the American aircraft industry during World War II, and through public information, he got specific answers to the data of American industrial aluminum, industrial rubber, etc., which was exactly the same as the Pentagon's storage, and shocked the American generals into a cold sweat back then.

In fact, he just made a model and added the data. Many of the Nobel laureates in economics since the 80s have been designers of economic models.

China in the early '90s, when it was just beginning to be interested in money, had not yet sublimated to the level of an economy, let alone a boring intelligence analyst. Even if they were, they were subordinate to the intelligence department, which was different from the analysis department of Dahua Industrial.

Zhou Lao had seen Dahua's intelligence collection system in other reports, and he briefly said a few words, and then he made a point: "The Planning Commission has concluded that it must be based on correct and reasonable information. Dahua's information collection, in terms of its size, is far superior to yours. ”

Director Lu was a little unconvinced, and finally said helplessly: "Yes."

Zhou Lao didn't say much, pressed the speakerphone on the phone, and spoke directly: "Find some information about the Soviet financial system, and in the last few days, see if there are any changes between them and Russian banks." ”

After speaking, he quietly leaned on the recliner and motioned for Su Zhenguo to lie down as well.

Director Lu was not treated so well, he sat on the independent sofa with his hands on his knees, a little unaccustomed to such quietness.

Suddenly, Zhou Lao's secretary pushed the door in, inserted a box of video tapes into the video recorder, and handed Zhou Lao a document, saying: "This is the latest news from the embassy, this morning, Yeltsin has announced that he will take over the power of the central finance, including the precious metal production department. and stop providing funds to about 80 central departments...... A little later, Yeltsin again announced the takeover of the State Bank of the USSR by the Central Bank of Russia, the Bank of Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR ......"

Director Lu's face stiffened, and he hurriedly asked, "What happened today?"

"Yes. ”

"This guy guessed right again. Director Lu muttered to himself, and Su Zhenguo and Zhou Lao were a little amused and a little surprised.

Zhou Lao smiled and asked, "Since this is the case, then inform Su Cheng." ”

"Okay. "Ruth Zhang didn't say anything else, people can guess this, which means that the information is obviously smoother than his own, so what is there to fight for.