Chapter 664 Departure for Russia, Sending Charcoal in the Snow
In 97-98, an Asian financial crisis unexpectedly affected the fish in the pond and affected the Polar Giant Bear, a large Asian and European country. X
From October 1997 to August 1998, Russia experienced a financial crisis composed of three major financial turmoil, which was characterized by shorter and shorter intervals of financial fluctuations, larger and deeper scales, and deeper and deeper financial fluctuations, which eventually led to the collapse of two governments, and even spread to the whole world, producing a global effect.
Seeing that the financial crisis was getting worse and worse, the international speculators led by Soros set their sights on themselves again, and the Russians, who were in a hurry, simply broke the jar, flipped the table, and said to European and American capital, "Lao Tzu will not play with you anymore, and the debts owed will not be repaid." Thus they relied on tens of billions of dollars of foreign debts of European and American countries, and even the scheming Soros was planted in the hands of the Russians.
The Russians have a very cheerful character of daring to flip the table, they are very simple and rude, and they are also very militant nations! The nature is a bit similar to the fact that after the founding of New China, they turned their faces and denied all the unequal treaties of the old China. Creditors from all walks of life, various European and American banks, oligarchs, can only blow their beards and stare at the fighting nation.
Of course, this kind of cheating has dealt a great blow to the country's credit, and it cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary, and it cannot be used if the fist is not strong enough.
In today's world, that is, the five hooligans of the Security Council dare to use this trick, and if a country like Myanmar and Laos dared to use this trick, they would have been beaten to death long ago.
After the Russians defaulted on their debts, the country's credit went bankrupt immediately, and European, American, Japanese and South Korean capitals withdrew from Russia one after another, and the consequence was that the stock fell sharply and led to a shutdown, and the ruble exchange rate plummeted.
Then, Russia's central bank simply announced that it would allow the ruble to float freely, a move that caused people to run on the ruble to exchange it for dollars or to buy consumer goods. A large number of Russian companies and banks have collapsed, prices have skyrocketed, and the economy has fallen into a deep recession.
At the same time, soaring prices and the depreciation of the ruble have cost Russia half of its domestic savings, nearly a third of its population is below the poverty line, and Moscow has almost reproduced the tragedy of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, when people began to riot in order to eat bread.
It stands to reason that since Russia is so chaotic, Lin Cheng should not go to Moscow to stir up peace again, but Lin Cheng always remembers what the ancestors of the old clan said: The icing on the cake is better than sending charcoal in the snow.
Now is the time when European, American, Japanese and South Korean capitals are fleeing Moscow in a big way, and Russia's economy is deteriorating day by day, and it seems that it is about to repeat the mistakes of the collapse of Soviet imperialism.
After entering 1999, due to the surge in oil prices, the price of crude oil rose from a minimum of $10.35 to $147 in 2008, and Russia's oil production and oil exports increased significantly.
As a reborn, Lin Cheng knew that Russia's bad luck period was less than a year, and after entering 1999, Russia had a good life because of the oil surge, and its GDP growth rate was even on par with China's, and even surpassed China when oil prices soared.
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In addition to Hualong Petrochemical and Lin's Bank, which are registered in Xiangjiang, Lin Cheng's Supermarket, Feixiang Industry, Lin's Food, Xuefucheng Beverage and other enterprises under the Lin's Group in the mainland will also invest in Russia.
Now that the credit of the Russian state has collapsed, the capitals of Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea have fled, the seven oligarchs of Russia have suffered heavy losses in the financial crisis in the past two years, and the Russian market is in a state of extreme emptiness.
It's just that on the plane, the high-level executives who were on the same flight with Lin Cheng were a little sullen, and some of the high-level executives even had worries written on their faces, obviously not optimistic about this trip to Russia.
Looking at everyone's sad faces, Lin Cheng suddenly spoke: "It seems that everyone is very dull, this is not good, why don't I tell you a story to relieve boredom." ”
How strange is this when the boss tells the employees stories to relieve their boredom? When everyone heard this, they all hurriedly looked at Lin Cheng and listened attentively.
I only heard Lin Cheng say: "The story is about the Warring States Period, the Chu State was in the late winter of the year, and it was snowing everywhere, and the weather was cold. King Chu Huai asked someone to light a fire in the palace, and it burned vigorously, and put on a thick leather jacket, but he still felt cold on his body and shivered.
Suddenly, he pondered for a moment, and his conscience found something, and he couldn't help but think of his subjects: I have lit the fire so big, and I am wearing such a thick leather jacket, and it is still cold, and it is still cold, and my people have neither a fire nor a leather jacket to wear, and is not it even colder?
At this time, King Chu Huai was in a very good mood and appeared to be very generous, so he issued an edict to send coal for heating to the poor people and tourists across the country. After receiving the fuel sent by the monarch, the people were very happy and very moved, and they were very grateful to King Chu Huai, and they all praised him as a good king. ”
This is not an allusion to the idiom "sending charcoal in the snow", you don't need to say that we all know it!
Everyone looked at each other, puzzled by Lin Cheng's meaning.
Facing everyone's puzzled eyes, Lin Cheng continued: "King Chu Huai was originally an image of a faint monarch in history. The state of Chu was originally a powerful country among the seven heroes of the Warring States and had strong national strength, but the king of Chu Huai was greedy and repeatedly mistook the conspiracy of Zhang Yi, the prime minister of Qin, and the gains outweighed the losses.
During his reign, he made Zhi faint, appointed Yin Zilan, Shangguan Doctor Jin Shang and others, favored Zheng Sleeve of the Southern Queen, and squeezed out loyal ministers and good generals such as Qu Yuan, the doctor of Zuotu, which caused the decline of state affairs.
It stands to reason that such a king should be abandoned by the people, but then King Huai of Chu entered the Qin negotiations, and the Qin State failed to achieve his wish, so he detained King Huai, and King Huai finally died in the Qin State, and the Qin State sent him back to the Chu State, and the Chu people all pitied their misfortune and grieved like the loss of relatives.
Undoubtedly, King Huai of Chu was still remembered by the people of Chu for his kindness in the snow in the early years, and he sent warm carbon to the people on a snowy day, which made the people of Chu feel grateful for a lifetime. ”
Zhu Ziqing, deputy general manager of Lewanjia Supermarket, said suddenly: "What Mr. Lin means is that we are investing in the Russian market at this time, and this move is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow to the Russians?!"
Lin Cheng nodded and said, "Our trip to Russia is a trip to send charcoal in the snow. Now that Russia's stock prices have plummeted, the foreign exchange market has collapsed, and prices have skyrocketed, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a sentence of people's misery.
At this time, we have brought money and bread to Russia, and they will definitely thank us for our good as the Chu people miss King Chu Huai, and when the Russian economy improves and the country has the ability to pay, it will be time for us to reap the fruits. ”r