In just six months, the city was almost razed to the ground, with millions of casualties on both sides. In modern history, such a large-scale offensive and defensive battle was fought around a city, and the Battle of Stalingrad was probably the number one. At that time, the people in the city also picked up all kinds of tools, those who could join the army joined the army, and those who could not join the army went to work as porters and dig trenches, which really blocked the advance of the German army with their flesh and blood, and it is not an exaggeration to call them a fighting nation. In contrast, we have not done enough in this regard, but the kung fu of bragging is far stronger than that of fighting nations, which is also a different national character that cannot be changed in a short period of time.

When Hong Tao arrived here, there was no more gunsmoke and artillery fire, this is a new city full of former Soviet style buildings, Yulia said that this is called the Soviet Baroque style, what exactly is it...... It's easy to identify, go to the Great Hall of the People, the History Museum and the Moscow restaurant in the capital to know what the Soviet Baroque is. According to Hong Tao's own understanding, it can be summed up in one word: tall, tall everywhere, windows, doors, rooms, columns, and so on.

In fact, Hong Tao likes this tall and mighty architectural style, especially for people like him, who are relatively tall, and those buildings with a net height of less than 2.5 meters in later generations are really depressing. There are still a lot of expert buildings built for Soviet experts in the capital, as soon as you enter that room, the roof is more than 3 meters up, and it is absolutely impossible to change the light bulb without looking for a ladder, and it is only possible to complete this work by pedaling on a chair.

Whether it is the Soviets or the Russians, they seem to be constantly trying to show their interpretation of the big picture from the bottom of their hearts! There are four airports in Moscow, and none of them can be reached by car for an hour in Nima. Volgograd is also this virtue, from the airport to the city. Even if there is not much traffic jam, two Mercedes-Benz 320s and a van can run for more than 50 minutes. Hong Tao felt that they were giving foreigners a disadvantage: Look. We are a big place, how to drop it!

"This is the Mamayev Monument, which was also the main battlefield of the war. As she was about to enter the city, Yulia pointed to her left and introduced to Hong Tao, where there stood a statue of a woman with her arms outstretched, holding a stick in her right hand.

"Why is she holding a stick?" Hong Tao is very studious, so he asked if he didn't understand.

"That's a long sword!" Yulia leaned against Hong Tao and quietly pinched him. In fact, Hong Tao really didn't mean to slander this kind of heroic sculpture, he really didn't see the long sword. The hilt is too short!

The hotel I stayed in this time is in the office building of Sberbank, and there are only three floors of guest rooms, but the quality is not to say, the carpets they use are all hand-woven, and the patterns are very exquisite, and Hong Tao is eager to move back to his home. To the east of the building is the Volga River, the boundary river between Europe and Asia. Standing on the huge balcony and looking south, you can see that the Volga River has made a large bend of almost 90 degrees to the east. The waterways have also become thinner, and the rivers are crowded with all kinds of large ships, all of which are ocean-fringers of 3 to 5,000 tons.

"Do you know where these big ships came from and where they're going?" Yulia may have returned to her hometown, or she may have been trained by Hong Tao these days. The femininity is getting more and more sufficient, as long as she is alone with Hong Tao, she always hangs on Hong Tao like a bird.

"Is there a reward if I answer correctly?" Hong Tao simply lifted her up. I sat on the edge of the balcony on the 9th floor.

“…… Of course, you can offer any reward you want. But you're going to answer wrong?" Yulia trusted Hong Tao so much that she leaned back. Leaning only on Hong Tao's arm, if Hong Tao let go, she would immediately become a trapeze.

"I answered wrong, it's all up to you, Singh and I are your servants!" Hong Tao was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he quickly pulled Yulia back.

"Hahaha...... I'm looking forward to that day, well, answer the question!" Yulia was overjoyed, she had already determined that Hong Tao had not set foot on this land before, and she did not believe that there were people in the world who were born to know.

"Ships going north, from the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, enter the Volga through the Guò Don canal, and go north to the Baltic and White Seas. The big ships that went south came from the Baltic and White Seas, and they could go to the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, and the Caspian Sea, which was called the Five Seas Navigation, and it was the main construction project of the Stalin period. I envy that your country can have such a big river, and if I were a mustache, I would have come to rob it. But for now, let's talk about the bet, you lose, so in these days, you have to be a good Russian wife, not a president, and I hope that by this time next year, we can come back here with our own children. Rest assured, your country will not be in such a slump, and it will soon recover. As a fishing fan, Hong Tao has studied almost every well-known river in the world, and the Volga River is of course among them, but it is still relatively high, and Yulia is considered to have thrown herself into the net.

“…… Okay, I listen to you, I like it very much, it makes me feel very affectionate, I don't want to go back to Santa Cruz, can you let me come and live here?" Yulia let Hong Tao's words infect, and actually came up with the idea of spending the rest of her life here.

"That's not going to work, you're going to have to help me earn money! It's a waste for your clever brain not to make full use of it, the Santa Cruz house is yours again, and I'll buy it for you here." If the matter of the Sea Launch Platform is negotiated, I am afraid that you will be busy again, and you need to run around the world, I want you to go to the European region to help Han Yan, and be her deputy, specifically in charge of this project, the headquarters is located in Paris, it is not very convenient here. Hong Tao doesn't want Yulia to really become a housewife, let alone live here, otherwise she may become a Russian aunt weighing more than 200 pounds in two years, which is terrible.

"Hee-hee-hee...... Can there be only two people that night, wife and husband? Don't Singh!" As soon as Yulia heard that Hong Tao was still planning to let her go to work, and she was also in charge of a big project, the smile on her face bloomed extremely bright, and she couldn't help it.

"But you can't play at a high level alone, every time you have her, you can be 100% committed. Hong Tao pretended to think.

"I can...... Can it really be...... Let me try it once, don't want her!" Yulia will also be coquettish, leaning her body against Hong Tao's body, twisting and turning hard.

The city of Volgograd, there is really no investment project that Hong Tao can look at, this city is very perverted, it stretches along the Volga River for more than 60 kilometers, all industries are related to this river, Hong Tao does not plan to engage in any shipping industry, and is not interested in this rich farmland, so he talked intermittently for two days, and there is still no result. In the end, the people of the Volgograd region government simply came forward, since they can't find a suitable investment project in the Volgograd region, it doesn't matter, you can also look elsewhere, such as Sochi on the Black Sea coast, where it is a resort, tourism or something can always be invested, right?

Not to mention, the two small cities of Sochi and Anapa really made Hong Tao take a fancy to them, especially Sochi. It faces the sea, backed by the Greater Caucasus Mountains, not hot in summer and not cold in winter, you can play in the water on the seaside and go on alpine skiing, no wonder the Winter Olympics in later generations are arranged here, it is indeed a good place.

In fact, this sentence does not need to be said by Hong Tao, since the Stalin period, it has been a health resort for high-ranking officials of the former Soviet Union, and many villas have been built. Almost all industries throughout the USSR had sanatoriums here, and workers of their time had a vacation of about a month a year and could take their families on a free recuperation vacation. You only have to count the large and small sanatoriums to find out, and there is also a very unique thing here, which is hydrogen-laden hot springs that treat tracheitis.

However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the number of tourists who come here every year has dropped sharply, and the people and the state have no money, except for a few enterprises, most of the sanatoriums are abandoned, and many can't even pay for maintenance, so they can only be thrown there and watch them slowly fall into decay.

"That's it, can it be sold?" Hong Tao drove around the narrow city of Sochi, and finally took a fancy to a huge sanatorium, which has three six-story buildings alone, and there are football fields, tennis courts, large hot spring pools, and a beach across the road in front of the door.

"It's a sanatorium affiliated with the railroad union, and there's a small railroad in the back that leads to the Red Polynaa Snow Mountains, and it's about the same price as my Seal Rock estate. But according to the law here, foreigners are not allowed to buy Russian land, they can only rent it. Yulia negotiated with her entourage, and the replies were both good and bad.

"You tell them that if it is sold, I will buy it along with the broken yard and invest in building a 20-storey luxury hotel over there, which will be turned into a private residence. If you don't sell it, then you don't have to talk about it, we never rent it, we only buy it! The hotel can be a joint venture, such as a joint venture with the government of their border state or a joint venture with the city of Sochi, and give them some shares and solve the local employment problem, which is better than rotting here, right? Do they love tens of millions of dollars of investment! But it's not worth renting, and when the house price appreciates in the future, it has nothing to do with you, and you don't lack a house. (To be continued......)