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Chapter 472: Kozlov

This Kozlov is not tall, and Li Zhiyang can have a meter 70 by sight, which is not the same as the figure of the polar bear in his impression...

However, although this guy is not tall, he looks very stocky, Li Zhiyang looked at it, and he was really similar to a small brown bear.

As soon as this guy showed up, he was very enthusiastic, and when he came over, he gave everyone a big bear hug, regardless of whether he knew him or not.

At the moment when Kozlov just hugged Mrs. Carnegie and saluted, Li Zhiyang saw the trace of reluctance and unhappiness that flashed in Mrs. Carnegie's eyes.

Hehe, it seems that his mother-in-law really hates this Kozlov to the core.

Although Li Zhiyang and Li's father and Li Ma were very unimpressed by the etiquette of the Russians, they all came over enthusiastically, so the three of them could only follow the local customs and hug others.

Here Kozlov finished his Russian salute with the group, and then said to the people led by James.

"You've already visited the house, right?"

James turned his head and gestured to Li Zhiyang, meaning that you have seen enough, if you haven't seen enough, let's go around.

Li Zhiyang hurriedly nodded, he had almost seen it, such a big manor, he didn't want to go around, if he looked at a detail, a detail, it was estimated that he would not be able to finish it in a day.

He didn't have that patience and idleness, James saw that Li Zhiyang didn't want to look at it anymore, so he turned around and said to Kozlov with a smile.

"Haha, we've all seen it almost, Mr. Kozlov. ”

Kozlov originally thought that James was going to buy a house, and he knew that this James was a celebrity who lived in this area, and the Hampton area of Long Island, New York, could be said to have been developed by the Rockefeller family.

At the beginning, it was Lawrence who took the lead and built a mansion here, and now the house where James lives is left to him by his ancestor Lawrence, so James can be regarded as a celebrity in this high-end aristocratic community.

But Kozlov saw James give Li Zhiyang another look, so he felt strange in his heart, at the beginning, when he saw Li Zhiyang and his parents, he felt strange, originally he thought that these people were Rockefeller's subordinates

But now it doesn't seem to be very similar, Kozlov immediately paid attention to Li Zhiyang and his parents from the bottom of his heart at this time.

You must know that in this world, there are not only white people who are rich, but also rich people from Asia, there are many rich people in Japan and South Korea, and even the Celestial Empire, which has exploded in recent years, is also rich in nouveau riche.

He is now in short supply of funds, otherwise he doesn't plan to sell this castle, and now it doesn't matter what kind of white, black, or yellow person he is, as long as he can afford it, he will sell it

"Well, it's not too convenient for us to stand here and talk, let's go to the study, where do I still have several bottles of fine vodka. ”

Kozlov said hello to a few others, then turned and led the way, walking towards his study.

Li Zhiyang and the others could only follow him, and then Li Zhiyang heard Mrs. Carnegie muttering again.

"It's about to go bankrupt, what kind of room is there?"

It seems that her old mother-in-law really doesn't like Kozlov, who was born in this nouveau riche, and it has reached the extreme, Li Zhiyang thought with a secret smile in his stomach.

After passing through the corridor on the right and walking a short distance, Kozlov pushed open a door, and Li Zhiyang and the others followed in.

As soon as he entered this study, Li Zhiyang was bright-eyed, this study was decorated with a lot of personality, the decoration on the north side was the decoration style of the old-fashioned European study, on a wall on the east side, there were books, and on the north wall was a fireplace, on the top of the fireplace, there was a bear skin, and several deer head specimens with antlers.

On the south side, on the other hand, it is a modern style, a simple and refreshing glass house with modern decoration, and the whole room can be well exposed to sunlight.

And when you open the door of the glass house, you can see a small lake in front of you, this design is really too nb, Li Zhiyang can't help but wonder, why didn't he visit here before

"Everyone, please take a seat, Vasily go and ask the butler to bring me my good wine. ”

Kozlov beckoned, and everyone sat down on the side of the glass house, and ordered one of the bodyguards who came in with him to go to the butler and get a drink.

Several people sat down separately, and at this time, Kozlov looked at Li Zhiyang and asked.

"Who is this?"

"Oh, this is my son-in-law, and he is the real buyer of your castle. ”

James replied with a smile.

"Hello, my name is Li Zhiyang, I am from the Celestial Empire, you can call me Li. ”

Li Zhiyang got up with a smile and stretched out his hand to Kozlov.

"Hello, hello, Mr. Li. ”

Kozlov hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook hands with Li Zhiyang, who could see that his blue eyes were full of surprise at this time.

It seems that a kid from the Celestial Empire can get together with the daughter of the Rockefeller family, which really surprised this Kozlov.

"I don't know, Mr. Li, what kind of business do you have?"

Kozlov had been to the Celestial Empire a few years ago, and as a cynic from Russia, he had a pretty good impression of the Celestial Empire.

After all, for a long time after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Celestial Empire were both friends and enemies, and sometimes they were relatively close.

"I do everything, stocks, futures, including all kinds of resources. ”

Li Zhiyang smiled and began to talk to this Kozlov Mountain, isn't it just blowing Weifu with these people, you can only blow the more mysterious the better

Kozlov's eyes lit up when he heard this, he couldn't see through this young man at first, but a young man who can be engaged to the daughter of the Rockefeller family, and he is also a Celestial Empire, it is definitely not simple.

As a Russian who experienced the era of the collapse of the Soviet Union, how can a former Soviet Red Party not know what is abundant in the country of the Celestial Empire?

He and the Red Son Party of the Celestial Empire have not never dealt with each other, and when Li Zhiyang said this, Kozlov couldn't help but feel a little more cordial to Li Zhiyang.

Because he defined Li Zhiyang as a Red Party from the Celestial Empire, and he was once a Red Party from the Soviet Union.

Then Kozlov's bodyguard, Vasily and his butler, pushed the door in, followed by a maid with a small cart with tea, coffee, wine, brandy, whiskey, and vodka.

The cart was pushed in front of the crowd, the servant poured tea and coffee for the ladies, the butler poured whiskey for the gentlemen, and Kozlov himself poured vodka with his own love.

After the servant and the butler had gone down, Kozlov said, shaking the glass in his hand.

"Today is a lot of people here, it's the first time I've met, everyone make new friends, cheers"

said that the vodka in his hand was clean, James was used to it, Li Zhiyang and his father were staggered, this old hairy man is really a typical old hairy man

I've heard before that Russians love to drink, but I didn't expect to drink so much

Kozlov took the bottle and poured himself another glass, while Li Zhiyang only took a sip of wine.

"Well, my house, you've seen it, what do you think?

After Kozlov finished pouring the wine, he asked Li Zhiyang directly.

He was really anxious, his life was quite moist, but it was in Boris. The era of Yeltsin's rule.

It was the golden age of the financial oligarchy and the Red Sons of the former Soviet Union, and Kozlov was in high spirits with several bigwigs who controlled Russia, Berezovsky, Potanin, Gusinsky, Khodorkovsky, and Arvin.

At that time, a few of them controlled more than 50 percent of Russia's wealth, and a few of them were able to control the entire Russian government.

Later, they chose Pu Ting to take the stage, but they didn't expect this to become their most wrong decision. A few of them would definitely not have thought that this Pu Ting would actually become the end of the oligarchic era, and it was the Pu Ting that ended the glory of several of them and shattered the dreams of many oligarchs and oligarchs in Russia

Berezovsky and Gusinsky were forced to take refuge abroad, while Khodorkovsky was directly sentenced to eight years in the first trial, and next year's successor elected by Putting, Medvedev, will have to be sentenced to another eight years after taking office

And Potanin was forced to announce that he would donate naked, and after his death, he would force out all his property, leaving only one million assets for his children

And he, a little shrimp, took advantage of the moment when Pu Ting was fighting with several bigwigs, and secretly transferred his net worth abroad.

is different from A, he has lived the life of a rich man, but in recent years, he has not lived very well

In recent years, his business has not been particularly smooth, and several investments in the early stage have been discounted, and now in the Western world, after all, it is not the Russia he is familiar with.

It turned out that when he was in Russia, he could collude with several bigwigs to buy and sell the original state-owned assets wantonly, and Russia's rich mineral resources made them even richer.

Every year, through Gazprom, the gas sold to Western Europe makes a fortune, not to mention the oil that belongs to Yukos.

They originally relied on the political resources in Russia to play the game, but after they arrived in Europe and the United States, they couldn't play it at all, so now Kozlov's business suddenly fell into trouble.

Besides, he didn't make as much money as Abramovich, and he wasn't as smart as Abramovich's brains.

Therefore, in the past few years, his business has been losing money year after year, and many of his shares in large companies in Russia have been state-owned as the crackdown on the original oligarchs has intensified in recent years.

Either the other oligarchs will swallow it, so now Kozlov's life is extremely difficult.

In addition, in the past few years, he has spent a lot of money in the United States and Germany, so his funds are now facing a serious depletion problem.

Now all he had left was a few minerals in Siberia, and if the situation had been calm, Kozlov's life would have gone on for a while.

But now that the financial crisis is so troubled, his life will not be able to play immediately, and when he immigrated to Germany, his net worth was two or three billion dollars.

But in the past few years, his spending and drinking life has helped him ruin a lot of money, and several of his investment businesses in Germany and the Netherlands have also failed with the arrival of the financial crisis.

In this way, he must keep his mines in Russia, but now with the blow to the domestic oligarchs, the oligarchs in Russia have basically been swept away.

But the big oligarchs have fallen, but the small oligarchs have stood up again, and it can be said that Pu Ting has simply redivided the wealth that was originally concentrated in the hands of those six or seven oligarchs to dozens or even hundreds of people

This time, he sold his property and raised funds, also to do a big thing.

Recently, he heard that a banquet was going to be held for the rich Russians at home and abroad, and Kozlov knew that it would be another spoil-sharing meeting.

No one in Russia doesn't know the strength of Pu Ting, so the rich will definitely buy it, and as long as they give Pu Ting face this time, then they will definitely be able to get the corresponding benefits at that time.

The financial crisis has brought a great impact to Russia, they originally relied on the export of resources, only to gradually come out of the initial decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and now all the resource products in the international market are not in a good mood, and even the national economy with Russia is also in trouble.

Everyone knows that the dinner held by Puting this time is in the name of a charity dinner, but it is the idea of taking everyone's pockets out.

But who dares to say a word?

Although everyone knows that the richest oligarch in Russia is Pu Ting himself, no one dares to say this.

He listened to Khodorsky and swallowed Yukos, everyone knows it, but who made the family the president of the country

Nominally, Yukos was given to the state, but these companies were still joint-stock companies, so could it be that so many of Khodorsky's shares were divided among the Russian people?

But now that the general people are calling on everyone to open their money bags and give the people of Russia a way to live, many other rich people feel that there is suffering, and everyone does not want to pay for it, after all, no one has a good time at this time.

However, Kozlov keenly felt that this was a good opportunity, as long as he could make a bold donation at this banquet, then he would definitely be able to win the hearts of the general public.

And this Kozlov and that legend of modern Russia, Roman. Abramovich's relationship is pretty good.

When Abu was working on the large baths in Montenegro, he was fighting with the Rothschild branch from Hungary and the chief of the United Arab Emirates.

In the end, if it weren't for the fact that he Kozlov helped Abu through his own connections, how could he Abu win that battle in the end.

Therefore, it is by virtue of this relationship that he has become the guest of honor in Abu's family, and he has been an important person to be invited to Abu's drinking party every year.

This time, Abuke promised him that if he was a little more bold when the time came, he would introduce him to Pu Ting.

That's why this Kozlov is in such a hurry to sell assets and raise funds

Because by now, he has figured out that he is not a genius like Abu at all, and he can't do business in Europe and the United States.

If he wants to maintain his rich career, then he still has to go back to Russia and play the Russian business rules.

He attaches great importance to this matter, and he is also determined to win this business, because he now wants to get an iron mine in Russia.

A few years ago, when his old man was still an official in the Soviet Union, his old man got the news that the Soviet mineral company had discovered a huge iron ore mine near Kixinkan in Siberia.

However, at that time, the transportation conditions there were not very convenient, and Russia did not lack iron ore resources, and if it was developed, the cost would be very high, so this iron ore was abandoned at that time.

At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everything was in chaos, a lot of the materials of the State Archives of the USSR were lost, and a lot of the map materials of the State Mining Service were lost.

And that piece of land was quietly bought by this Kozlov, but then he also went to see it for himself, and the natural environment and traffic there were really bad.

Within a radius of 100 miles, there are no people, and in terms of transportation, there is not even a railway

Even the nearest attractive town is a Jewish autonomous state hundreds of miles away, and it would be very expensive to develop this iron mine.

This was not something that Kozlov could do alone at that time, and Kozlov also knew that Piff was innocent and guilty, so he never spoke out.

But now the situation is completely different, when he emigrated from Russia, he brought a lot of money with him, and his last few investments have lost money because of this damn financial turmoil.

So now he had to find a new way to make money, and what he was fighting was the idea of the iron mine, because what he knew was that under the land of that place, there were not only iron ore, but also many other precious metals.

If these resources are exploited, then he will definitely become a billionaire

But now it is quite difficult to develop that mine, and he has never been back since he ran away from Russia.

Therefore, he is still a little confused about the thoughts of the current Russian rulers