Russia's seven oligarchs were precisely the de facto rulers of Russia in the 90s, and even Yeltsin, Russia's first president, was supported by the oligarchs headed by Berezovsky when he ran for president, so that he could be re-elected smoothly. Ｘ

One day in March 1996, Yeltsin secretly summoned seven financial oligarchs, namely, Berezovsky, President of Union Bank, Gusinsky, President of Bridge Bank, Vinogradov, President of International Commercial Bank, Smolensky, President of Metropolitan Savings Bank, Friedman, President of Alfa Bank, Khodorkovsky, President of Menatep Bank, and Malkin, President of Credit Bank of Russia.

The two sides reached a secret agreement: the seven oligarchs provided financial support to ensure Yeltsin's re-election, and Yeltsin promised to safeguard the oligarchs' economic interests. Since then, a new political vocabulary has emerged in Russia: the "seven oligarchs".

These seven oligarchs are all flexible and risk-taking, almost all of them have graduated from university, aged between 40~50 years old, some have won national bonuses, and some are still corresponding academicians of the Academy of Sciences.

These people, together with Chubais, the president of the Unified Power Company, basically controlled the country's oil and gas, power, metallurgy, and financial industries, and manipulated public opinion to a certain extent.

Not only are they turning things up in the economic sphere, but they are also hollowing out their minds to engage in political speculation. Yegor Gaidar, the former deputy prime minister of Russia, once said: "At its worst, the Russian government was surrounded by 710 businessmen, and they could even remove the prime minister at will." ”

In 1996, the seven oligarchs reached their heyday, and Yeltsin's re-election as president depended on the seven oligarchs, and Russia's economic lifeline was in their hands.

It was only after entering 1997 and 1998 that the Russian economic system collapsed, the foreign exchange market and the stock market plummeted, and the seven oligarchs also suffered heavy losses.

After entering the new century, they single-handedly supported them to fight back, crushing the seven oligarchs one by one, and the seven oligarchs who had been calling for wind and rain in Russia for a whole decade did not end very well, except for Friedman, who was low-key and forbearant and constantly offered to ***, all ended in tragedy.

Although Lin Cheng knew that these seven oligarchs ate jujube pills, it was still 1998, and in addition to the debt-ridden Smolensky, the remaining six oligarchs still existed and held the economic lifeline of Russia.

Even if Lin Cheng is the richest Chinese in the world, and he actually has more wealth than the seven oligarchs combined, but in terms of influence, he is still far inferior to the seven oligarchs who control a country's economy, not to mention that he is still in Russia and is in the opponent's home field.

But when the wealth reaches a certain level, it can also pile up dead people. Although Lin Cheng's strength in Russia is not as good as that of the seven oligarchs, if the seven oligarchs are not good for Lin Cheng, these seven oligarchs will definitely not be able to eat and go around.

Zhang Hong looked at the invitation letter in Lin Cheng's hand, and said worriedly: "Lin Sheng, we can fully guarantee your safety in the embassy of the motherland, but if you enter Berezovsky's villa, then your life safety is in the hands of the other party." ”

Zhao Hu also said: "Lin Sheng, it's not that we have the ambition of others to destroy our own prestige, the other party is a local snake, and even the Russian prime minister can be replaced at will, and we have arrived at the other party's land, and there is really no guarantee in terms of security." ”

Lin Cheng waved his hand when he heard this, and smiled disappreciatively: "Are you too worried, the other party just invited me to come over to talk about business." When you say this, it seems that the other party invited me to go to the tiger's den in Longtan. ”

"Lin Sheng!" Seeing that Lin Cheng didn't care, Zhang Hong couldn't help but be a little anxious, "These seven oligarchs are not a good thing, the reason why they started their business was completely won by force, and it was accompanied by despicable acts such as conspiracy and assassination. But Lin Sheng, you are an out-and-out businessman, if they want to take advantage of you, we don't have strong countermeasures!"

Lin Cheng said confidently: "You are too arrogant, although I am an authentic businessman, but without the support of the state, I would not be able to do this."

I will definitely go to tomorrow's banquet, but I will invite two military attaches from the embassy of the motherland to accompany me, and I will definitely not refuse to come to the ambassador. Don't forget, behind me is a rising Eastern power. ”

Actually use the motherland to ensure their own security?!

What kind of operation is this?

Zhang Hong and Zhao Hu glanced at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes.

Originally, in their eyes, Lin Cheng was an authentic businessman, in addition to being a good businessman, he was only an eighteen-year-old young man.

It's just that the two of them have followed Lin Cheng for too short a time, and they don't know Lin Cheng as well as Wang Chao and Ma Han.

If it was Wang Chao and Ma Han, they would definitely not stop Lin Cheng from going to the oligarchs' appointment, because they all knew that Lin Cheng was a ruthless person who attached great importance to his own safety.

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That night, Lin Cheng approached Ambassador Wu Luo and asked him to send two military attachés with him to the oligarchs' appointment.

Ambassador Wu Luo has the greatest characteristic of a Chinese official, that is, stability overrides everything, he is familiar with the seven oligarchs are wild wolves that eat people and do not spit out bones, and strongly oppose Lin Cheng to go to this oligarchic appointment.

However, Lin Cheng persuaded Ambassador Wu Luo with only one reason, that is, the "Anda Line". Lin Cheng promised Ambassador Wu Luo that he would try his best to persuade Khodorkovsky to facilitate the groundbreaking of the Ontario line as soon as possible.

The Ontario line refers to the oil transportation pipeline from the Angarsk oil field in Siberia, Russia to Daqing, China, with a total length of about 2,260 kilometers and an estimated cost of about 2.5 billion US dollars, after the completion of the project, Russia can transport 20 million tons of crude oil to China every year.

The Ontario Line project began in 1994, when Khodorkovsky's Yukos Oil Company proposed to China to build an oil pipeline from Siberia to Northeast China, and in 1996, the two governments signed the Sino-Russian Agreement on Joint Cooperation in the Energy Field.

After the signing of the agreement of intent for the Ko'an line, for some reason, the progress of the project was extremely slow, and it was not until September 2001 that the heads of government of China and Russia formally signed an agreement on the laying of the Sino-Russian crude oil pipeline.

However, it was precisely because of the procrastination of the two governments that the Japanese countries were given an opportunity to take advantage of. In 2001, in order to disrupt the Ontario line, the Japanese government proposed the Anna line, which was more in line with Russia's interests, and finally caused the Dean line to come to an untimely end.

The death of the Ontario line is a heavy blow to China's energy strategy, and Lin Cheng, as a Chinese, is very dissatisfied with this.

The Anda line was originally proposed by the Russian side, but the bureaucratic style of some people caused this line related to energy strategy to drag on for seven years, and was finally disrupted by the ill-intentioned Japanese people.

Lin Cheng was reborn in my life,