Chapter 353: Funding and Technology

A special dismantling center was built at the Yaroslavl railway station in Moscow.

Many of the scrap steel that arrives by train is part of the equipment, or simply the equipment in good condition. Researchers from the Dahua Laboratory, as well as hundreds of workers from the Jinan Power Engine Factory, first analyzed the equipment before deciding whether to continue to dispose of it as scrap steel or as old equipment.

If it's an old device, it gets a set of shock-absorbing equipment and ships it in a wooden case. If it is scrap steel, it can only be piled up with other scrap steel, and then transported to Beijing, and then the fate will be decided.

There are not many people who are interested in Soviet equipment, but there are very few companies that can go deep into the Soviet Union like Dahua Industrial, and the Chinese companies that can transport back two or three trains of equipment every day can be called Feng Chapter 353 Capital and technology. As a result, people who were interested in Soviet equipment and did not have the resources to go to the Soviet Union to select equipment would go to Huochang in Dahua to "pan for gold".

Indeed, it can only be regarded as gold panning. Intact equipment will definitely be picked up by Dahua, equipment with expensive parts will also be listed separately, and only extremely rare equipment will be sold to other factories at the price of cabbage. It is not uncommon to expect technicians and front-line workers in Dahua laboratories to walk at the same time, especially when there is a list of Soviet factories that sell equipment, and the price of equipment will almost always get a similar evaluation.

Be that as it may, equipment from the USSR was cheap after all. Moreover, Dahua is indeed not ready to make money through this means...... Reduce the cost of affiliated enterprises and improve the production capacity of supply chain enterprises. It has an improvement that cannot be ignored for Dahua Industry itself.

The depth of an enterprise is not necessarily reflected in profits, but it will be manifested in anti-loss. With the support of thousands of companies and the technical efforts to continuously reduce costs, such companies can survive for a long time and resist the effects of political movements and the economic climate to the greatest extent.

The Russians watched truckloads of light industrial products come in, and truckloads of scrap steel from Chapter 353 capital and technology trucks were shipped out. Most of them don't feel anything. The vast majority of them still believe in shock therapy in Western countries. Many officials, including those at the top of the state, believed that the Soviet Union's economic misery was caused by ideology. As soon as the ideology is changed, the Russians will immediately become rich, like the people of Europe and the United States.

That's exactly what comes to mind. sustained the Russians through many difficult years...... It's been a long and long hard time......

Before that, few people cared about whether some dismantled machines could be used. Anyway, the factories are not producing anymore, so what does it matter if they are good or bad.

Of course, there will always be responsible workers, or officials with ulterior motives, who will try to keep the factory, but in the midst of chaos, there are very few companies that can do that. Some companies are able to stay not because of how hard the management is, but because it is not cost-effective to tear it down.

Dahua Laboratory has also organized a technical team. Pick up equipment on the territory of the USSR. However, there are not as many that can be disassembled as Sioux City imagined, that is, a few devices a day - of course. In the eyes of the technicians, there is enough of this equipment.

Corresponding to the expenditures are an ever-increasing number of small deposits.

This was something neither the Bank of China nor Sioux City had anticipated. Because of the microloans, Chinese banks such as Shenzhen Development have a very good reputation in Russia, so much so that they have attracted many people to deposit money to the bank, and many of them have completed the loans. Not only do you keep your money in Chinese banks, but you also save more for easy use.

In March, when the National Bank of Russia conducted its first survey of the country's banks, it was found that the number of deposits and loans of Shenzhen Development had entered the top 100 banks, followed by several other Chinese banks......

At this time, there are many banks in Russia, and foreign banks are as numerous and indiscriminate as winter bamboo shoots, and it is not easy to enter the top 100, especially the banks of non-Western countries, which are already weak, and have lost many government thresholds, and have little resistance to the banks of developed countries.

The success of Deep Development immediately piqued the interest of other banks.

It didn't take long for the Menatepa Bank to start the same business, and even in Sioux City, when passing by Red Square, you could see billboards on the side of the road with people's portraits and large Russian letters.

"What is written?" Sioux asked, sitting in Volga, next to him.

The latter squinted his eyes for a while and said with a smile: "It's an advertisement from the bank." I'm Mikhail Khodorkovsky, vouch for your future, buy shares in Menatepa Bank, a commercial bank. ”

"The famous Yukos oil company of the future. Su Cheng sighed, not whether it was praise or belittlement, but more, just a pure admiration.

As one of Russia's seven financial emperors, Khodorkovsky, since the first pot of gold, has shone in the financial and oil industries, and was once considered the hope of Russian industry. However, after all, he made Putin's sacrifice, and used his life to interpret the character and characteristics of another public figure.

He made his fortune faster than Sioux City. The money he made and the place he occupied in the country's economic system was far greater than that of Sioux City.

Khodorkovsky's ending also made many people sigh.

Right now, the billboard that Sioux City sees is the toddler Khodorkovsky, who is taking the first step of his monopoly oligopoly.

Su Cheng couldn't help but sigh.

Sikong Guan, who was in the same car, looked at Sioux City in confusion, looked outside, and asked: "Yukos Oil Company? Is it Russia's most expensive oil company, does it have anything to do with Khodorkovsky?"

"I've heard that he's interested in Yukos Oil. Su Cheng's explanation was enough to dispel Sikong Guan's thoughts.

The latter really didn't ask much, just shook his head and said: "Yukos oil company is worth billions of dollars. This is the lowest estimate, where did Menatepa Bank come out. Or, are you interested? With Dahua's asset situation, it is still possible to buy Yukos Oil Company. ”

Su Cheng was moved, but he still shook his head and said, "The situation is turbulent, such an investment is too big." ”

If Russia didn't have a wicked Putin, he might really do it. But Putin, who was born in the KGB, is really not a good bird. He has done everything he can in the process of renationalizing the oil and gas industry. Khodorkovsky was arrested and imprisoned amid a wave of opposition, and foreign executives at Yukos were shot dead in a plane crash and journalists and government officials...... Russian environmental ombudsmen and special prosecutors have run rampant across Russia, and they have even created models for nationalization, the dismembered Yukos model that threatens criminal charges, the Siberian model for more peaceful low-cost purchases, and the helium model that has been used on Shell and BP, where officials claim that world-class helium is stored in a place and their licenses can be revoked......

This policy of renationalization makes no sense at all, and energy companies have encountered it not only in Russia, but also in Venezuela, Egypt or Saudi Arabia, as a strategic risk in their operations. If Sioux City didn't know, forget it, now that he has foreseen the nationalization happening, he naturally can't rush over like a reckless bull...... In BP's experience, no matter how big the oil field is, when you finally leave, it would be nice to get back a few hundred million dollars. Counting the cost investment in the whole process, whether or not you make money is two words, not to mention the energy and time wasted.

Sikong Guan just talked casually, and when he heard Su Cheng say "the situation is turbulent", he couldn't help but turn his head and ask: "I thought you were optimistic about the situation in Russia, if the situation is turbulent, our loan will be in danger." ”

"It's just the turmoil in the energy industry. Russia's foreign exchange earnings depend mainly on oil and gas. The government is now powerless and has little enforcement power over the businesses. But after all, there is, this is different from financial investment, once the oil industry enters, it will exit in ten or twenty years, not to mention making a profit, it is good to be able to not lose money. ”

Hearing him say this, Sikong Guan nodded and said, "I thought that Dahua Industrial would learn from those foreign oil companies and settle in Russia." It seems that Su Dong will not do this?"

"If only technology and capital were invested. It's not entirely impossible. Sioux City smiled slightly. Since the beginning of the 90s, the pace of economic development in Russia has not slowed down, exceeding 5% per year. In it, the income of the energy and financial oligarchs is doubled. If it only appears in the name of shareholders, although it does not obtain the profit of a whole oil field, it can also save a lot of trouble, and the influence remains the same.

At worst, by around 2000, it will be enough to withdraw from Russia. Before Putin bared his fangs, Russia's financial oligarchs were crazy about money, and they must have been happy to do so.

Sikong Guan suddenly realized: "No wonder you want to meet with the Communist Youth League Chamber of Commerce." ”

The Communist Youth League Chamber of Commerce is actually the Chinese side's term. In the course of Gorbachev's perestroika in the Soviet Union, the Komsomol was one of the few institutions allowed to freely dispose of the profits, and was a typical representative of self-financing. As a result, the Komsomol of the Soviet universities became a chamber of commerce, all doing business as best they could.

The Soviet Union collapsed, and the Komsomol Chamber of Commerce changed its name and surname, and it remained and became a real company. Because they are commercial establishments that have been operating for a long time, they are the companies that are most qualified to inherit the Soviet legacy. Many of Russia's super-rich started their careers in the Komsomol League, and those young high-ranking officials of the Komsomol often have prominent family backgrounds and dense networks.

What they lack, that is, financial and technical support.

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