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"Xu, my dear friend, you're talking about dollars, right?"

Xu Cun looked at the cautious Peter Shevardnadze and said with a smile: "It can be dollars or rubles." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Today, the ratio of the dollar to the ruble is 1:0.6, and this exchange rate has been in place for almost three decades.

In other words, if Xu Cun invested 10 billion rubles in the Soviet Union, it would be 1.8 billion dollars in dollars.

Moreover, Xu Cun is talking about at least 10 billion.

In other words, Xu Cun may even invest more than $20 billion in the Soviet Union.

Peter Shevardnadze first peeked at the reactions of George W. Bush and Bill Francis Adams, and found that their expressions were as usual—which showed that George W. Bush and Bill Francis Adams did not doubt that Xu Cun would be able to come up with $20 billion.

With this judgment, Peter Shevardnadze immediately laughed and said: "Xu, my dearest friend, you have a saying in China, yes, we hate to meet late, I really hate not to know you earlier!"

Xu Cun smiled and said meaningfully: "Peter, I am a businessman after all, so if the cooperation plan that your Soviet Union came up with cannot impress me, or if your Soviet Union cannot clear the way for me to invest, then I can only say sorry to my friends." ”

Pyotr Shevardnadze swore and said: "Don't worry, my friend, if I can't even do this little thing, then I won't have the face to come out and attract investment!"

There is water, a lot of water, in what Pyotr Shevardnadze said! Moreover, this water does not come from within, which the Soviet Union can easily regulate, but from its adversary, the United States.

After the global recession of the 70s, the North Sea littoral countries, led by the United Kingdom, turned their attention to the North Sea oil fields, which had been dormant for many years. As a result, since 1980, the North Sea has gradually become an important oil producer in the Western world, which has weakened its dependence on Middle Eastern oil to a certain extent. Of course, this is also the result of the Middle East countries themselves -- after the defeat in the Middle East war, the Middle East countries first blockaded the oil blockade of the Western countries, and then wantonly and arbitrarily raised the price of oil in order to force the Western countries to turn against Israel.

The oil market is so big, and the large-scale development of the North Sea oil fields immediately caused the price of oil to plummet.

Imagine that in the early days, when oil prices were high, the shortage of goods caused by the dysfunctional development of light and heavy industries in the Soviet Union could be masked by the large imports - the Soviet Union mainly relied on the contribution of the traditional blood transfusion sector, including the oil and gas industry, to develop its economy.

But when oil prices plummeted, the Soviet Union was immediately dumbfounded—the rigid economic system plunged the Soviet Union into poverty.

In the autumn of the previous year, that is, in the autumn of 1985, at the behest of the United States, Saudi Arabia announced that it would withdraw from the OPEC price agreement. The price of oil in the world fell from $29 to $30 per barrel to $12 to $15, a drop of more than half. As a result, the hard currency revenues of the Soviet treasury fell sharply. And then the Soviet Union was even more miserable!

In addition, the United States has been blocking oil exploration technology against the Soviet Union, and even blocking Soviet gas pipelines.

The most ruthless thing is that the United States also asked Saudi Arabia to increase oil production in order to seize the oil market with the Soviet Union.

In a word, the United States has been suppressing the Soviet Union to make money with oil.

In the last life, some people even said that the Soviet Union collapsed because the United States defeated the Soviet Union with oil.

Therefore, although Xu Cunti's conditions were not many, it was extremely difficult for Pyotr Shevardnadze and the Soviet Union behind him to achieve them.

Of course, this is not to say that Pyotr Shevardnadze and the Soviet Union behind him are completely out of the possibility of meeting Xu Cun's conditions -- after all, it will not be long before Gorbachev will visit the United States, and it is not impossible to reach a concession of tens of billions of dollars.

Does that mean that if the Soviet Union can't convince the United States, Xu Cun really won't go to the Soviet Union to invest?

How can it be?

The collapse of the Soviet Union may be the biggest feast of this century, including the next!

Let's ask, how could Xu Cun not participate in this feast?

Therefore, regardless of whether Pyotr Shevardnadze and the Soviet Union behind him can clear the way for Xu Cun to invest in the Soviet Union, Xu Cun must get this VIP middle P seat to participate in this feast.

The difference between the two is simply that one is a half-true investment and the other is a completely fake investment.

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After the four of them finished playing, Bush Jr. excused himself to come to see Xu Cun's home in the United States and walked to Dreamland with Xu Cun.

En route.

After enduring it again and again, Bush Jr. said, "Do you really want to go to the Soviet Union to invest in oil?"

Xu Cun looked at Bush Jr. with a smile and asked, "Can't you?"

After hesitating for a moment, Bush Jr. pointed to Xu Cun and said: "For a long time to come, the price of oil should not exceed 20 US dollars per barrel, and investing in oil outside the United States is very likely to lose, and the environment of the Soviet Union is so special......

Bush Jr. is a typical American redneck, so he admires Xu Cun very much for a self-made person, so he can't help but mention Xu Cun, whom he regards as a friend.

Of course, this also shows from the side that the current Bush Jr. is not that mature politician.

Xu Cun is definitely the kind of person who repays the favor -- when Bush Jr. mentions him, he can't help but mention Bush Jr.: "Where there is great chaos, there are great opportunities." ”

Bush Jr. frowned and said: "But what the Soviet Union has is not a big chaos, but a big ossification, so how can there be big opportunities in the rigid economic environment?"

Xu Cun didn't argue with Bush Jr. about anything -- he had already given Bush Jr. the opportunity, and he could be regarded as fulfilling his obligation as a friend, and as for whether Bush Jr. could seize it, he didn't care.

Xu Cun's tone changed, and he said, "Will my uncle participate in the presidential election next year?"

Seeing that Xu Cun did not accept his kindness, Bush Jr. did not insist on persuading Xu Cun -- like Xu Cun, Bush Jr. also believed that he had fulfilled his obligations as a friend.

Shaking his head and throwing out the conversation he had just had with Xu Cun, Bush Jr. said, "I should be able to participate." ”

Xu Cun said with a smile: "Then I must do my best for the younger generation." Well...... How about I honor my uncle a billion dollars first?"

"This ......"

George W. Bush was surprised by Xu Cun's generosity, but he was also a little hesitant whether he should accept Xu Cun's large amount of funding.

Xu Cun pretended to be a straight face and said, "What, George, can you Bush family accept other people's political investment, but can't you accept the political investment of my friend?"

Just like Wang Xifeng said in "Dream of Red Mansions," there are great difficulties -- the Bush family is rich, but it is not easy to support such a large family.

Moreover, since neither Bush Sr. nor Bush Jr. has yet to become president of the United States, the current Bush family is not one of the four major American families that traversed the US political and business circles in the previous life.

Therefore, Bush Jr. really can't refuse Xu Cun's funding on behalf of the Bush family, especially with such a large sum and a steady stream of follow-up funding!

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(To be continued.) )