1.5 billion dollars?

For the average person, the news may not be worth a penny.

For stock index futures traders, this news may be worth tens or hundreds of thousands.

For an intelligence monger, the news could be worth millions.

And for Khodorkovsky, the news is priceless!

"Did you get the news from an American doctor?" Khodorkovsky felt a little out of shape, took a deep breath, sat back in his chair, took a sip of a glass of water. But the slight movement of his nose proved that he was still very excited.

In addition to the experts from the Moscow Central Hospital, Yeltsin was given heart surgery, and a team of experts from the United States and Germany was specially invited to provide guidance.

Considering Zhang Chen's U.S. background, it is more likely that the U.S. side will leak it.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Chen shook his head: "No, I did try to contact Debeki to get first-hand information, but Debeki's tone is very tight." And, he did consider the surgery a success. ”

Khodorkovsky frowned, even American experts said so, proving that the operation was indeed successful, why would Zhang Chen say that the operation was not successful?

Zhang Chen smiled: "Yeltsin visited China last month, you know about this, right?"

Khodorkovsky said in a deep voice: "Of course, the specifications of this trip are very high. ”

Zhang Chen shook the vodka in his hand: "For a visit of this specification, Huaxia is going to set up a state banquet to entertain you." Yeltsin loved to drink alcohol, and of course Huaxia used the national liquor Moutai to entertain him, and he thought it was delicious, so he drank a few more glasses. His wife knew that he had a bad heart, so she advised him to drink less, but he scolded, 'Get out of the way, I'll beat you up if you talk again!'" After the banquet, he deliberately approached the Chinese leaders and proposed to bring the chassis Moutai back to China. ”

Khodorkovsky laughed: "This is indeed Yeltsin's style. ”

Zhang Chen laughed mockingly: "But that night, Yeltsin's heart began to have problems, and there was insufficient blood supply to the heart. The casual health care doctor could not deal with it, so he had to notify Huaxia temporarily and ask for assistance. ”

Khodorkovsky looked surprised.

Zhang Chen continued: "Of course, the Huaxia side immediately arranged an emergency consultation with experts from Union Hospital, and the result of the consultation was that Yeltsin's coronary heart disease had recurred, and it was difficult to cure it with surgery, so it could only be treated conservatively. ”

"Privately, doctors in Huaxia view Yeltsin's condition as a result of excessive alcohol consumption leading to poor recovery after surgery. If he quits drinking and maintains a healthy diet, it will not be a problem for him to sit in the presidency for another term, but you also know that Yeltsin was a heavy drinker, and he had just walked around the ghost gate and had another drink before he left China. ”

"So, Yeltsin's heart condition has been getting worse and worse recently, and according to reliable sources, just two days ago, he did not attend the Rakshasa-EU summit, and it was announced that it was pneumonia, which should actually be the cause of a heart attack. ”

Khodorkovsky touched his chin: "If it's true。。。。。。 ”

Zhang Chen said lightly: "In short, Yeltsin's heart condition is indeed not optimistic, and he may not be able to endanger his life for a while, but if he wants to continue to serve as the president of a big country or the president of real power, it is becoming more and more difficult for his physical condition." Therefore, at most a year or two, he will have to retire to save his life. Presumably, Yeltsin himself had a premonition of this, so he has recently begun to examine his successor. ”

"Successor ... Khodorkovsky muttered to himself, "Who could it be?" Chernomyrdin? No, Yeltsin did not like him. Primakov? It's possible, he's been gaining momentum lately... ”

The corners of Zhang Chen's mouth curled slightly, "You know Rakshasa better than me, you can think about how to influence Yeltsin to choose an heir who is most beneficial to you." I don't think Yeltsin will choose from the current high-ranking officials, these people have big roots and deep roots, Yeltsin has offended many people in recent years, and he will definitely choose a person who has no foundation to be his successor. On the one hand, he is worried that others will counterattack him, and on the other hand, it is easier to manipulate behind the scenes. ”

Khodorkovsky's fingers unconsciously tapped on the table.

Reasonable.

After a long time, Khodorkovsky raised his head: "Okay, I agree with your second plan, but I need at least a month to prepare for the funds of 1.5 billion dollars." ”

Zhang Chen raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Happy cooperation." ”

Khodorkovsky's eyes flashed, and he also smiled: "May friendship last forever." ”

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Zhang Chen stayed in Estonia for only one night, and the next day he returned from Khodorkovsky's forest hut, where he saw returning Finns carrying boxes of beer onto the ferry.

Wine in Finland is expensive, very expensive, more than twice as expensive as in Estonia. Finland has one of the highest beer tax rates in Europe, at 65 percent, so Finns often take a ferry to Estonia across the sea to buy alcohol in order to save money.

This can also be regarded as the European version of overseas purchasing.

In order to hide people's eyes, Zhang Chen deliberately stayed in Finland for two more days and visited Nokia's headquarters.

Nokia is now Finland's largest company and the proudest company in Finland, beating Motorola to become the world's largest mobile phone brand last year.

Thus began Nokia's fifteen-year domination of the mobile phone field. It was not until 2010 that the launch of the iPhone 4 and the popularity of Android phones ended Nokia's dominance in the market, and Nokia completely withdrew from the mobile phone market more than two years later.

Its rise is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden.

However, Nokia has experienced many bankruptcy crises in its history, and they have all avoided them one by one. Including after being defeated by Apple and Google, Nokia has survived despite the fact that its stock price has fallen to one-twentieth of its heyday, and it is still alive and better.

Just two or three years ago, in '94, Nokia was close to bankruptcy. But in just two years, through business restructuring and strategic transformation, it has achieved a Jedi counterattack with its mobile phone business, and achieved a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

As early as a year ago, Zhang Chen had gradually begun to hold Nokia shares, and Nokia had a heavy position in Nokia's No. 3 fund, which raised $500 million.

Zhang Chen's visit was warmly received by the current CEO of Nokia, Yoma Ollila, who took Zhang Chen to visit Nokia's production base and R&D center in Helsinki, and introduced the history of Nokia in detail to Zhang Chen.

Joma Ollilah's eloquence and personality are not at all like that of a Finn, who is introverted and shy, and is not good at communicating with people, and two Finns can sit opposite each other for an afternoon without saying a word. But Yoma Ollilah is very outgoing, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as enthusiastic.

"Seven years ago, we sold our former core business, paper mills, four years ago, we sold our home TV business, three years ago, we sold our tire manufacturing business, and two years ago, we sold our port equipment business. The current Nokia is already a new Nokia that only retains the telecommunications and mobile device business. Nokia is out of the woods, and our investors have responded positively, and that feedback is directly reflected in Nokia's share price. "In Nokia's staff cafeteria, Joma Olilla is in high spirits.

Zhang Chen quietly pushed aside the smoked salmon in front of him and smiled: "As a shareholder representative, I am very satisfied with Nokia's recent performance, which is entirely due to Mr. Ollila's outstanding leadership and strategic vision. Cowyce will continue to hold Nokia shares, and it is hoped that Mr. O'Lellah will urge the board of directors to approve a private placement plan for Cowyce as soon as possible. ”

Yoma Ollilah laughed: "Of course, Nokia will set up its first global R&D center in Huaxia next year, and expand our three production bases around the world, in addition to the private placement of $500 million to institutional shareholders, we will also consider a part of the rights issue to accelerate the expansion in the Asia-Pacific and American regions." ”

With the results, the stock rose, the relationship between the management and the shareholders was naturally happy, and after eating a meal, Yoma Ollilah felt that the guests and hosts were happy, but he didn't know that Zhang Chen was about to vomit.

Finnish rice is so unpalatable!

Two days ago, I just talked about the problem of discrimination in Europe, and yesterday there was an incident of a Chinese aunt being discriminated against in Paris Spring.

Such events are not isolated, as is the case in European society as a whole.

The condescending discrimination of the old capitalist countries is really brought out from the bones.

(End of chapter)