Chapter 545: Flickering
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The KGB used Xu Cun's weakness to attack Xu Cun, so what was Xu Cun polite to the Soviet Union?
On the second day after meeting the four Romanova sisters, Xu Cun finally relented on the condition that "the East Siberian-Pacific oil and gas pipeline plan must be supported by the United States" -- Xu Cun took the initiative to change this condition to "the East Siberian-Pacific oil and gas pipeline plan must at least be acquiesced in by the United States." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At the same time, Xu Cun also put forward three additional conditions:
The first additional condition is that the five-year low-interest loan of 10 billion rubles proposed by the Soviet side to Xu Cun must be changed to an eight-year low-interest loan of 20 billion rubles, and the low-interest loan of 10 billion rubles must be paid on the date of signing the contract, and the remaining 10 billion rubles of low-interest loan will be paid in a lump sum after the basic equipment enters the Soviet Union.
The second additional condition is that the Soviet side must cooperate with Xu Cun's bank to establish a bank in the Soviet republics (including: Russia, Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan) within one year. Establish more than 2,000 outlets of the bank.
The third additional condition was that the Soviet side must help Xu Cun persuade the four Romanova sisters and their immediate family members (that is, the parents and two elder brothers of the four Romanova sisters) to live in Xiangjiang -- this condition was privately negotiated by Xu Cun with Pu Whale, who represented the KGB.
Changing the phrase "the East Siberian-Pacific oil and gas pipeline plan must be supported by the United States" to "the East Siberian-Pacific oil and gas pipeline plan must at least be tacitly acquiesced in by the United States" was not a little less difficult for the Soviet Union -- but anyone with a little political wisdom knows that as long as the Soviet Union is willing to give up certain substantive interests, it will certainly be able to exchange for the United States, which is not a promise.
In addition, Xu Cun also used his connections to help the Soviet Union -- Xu Cun called Bush Jr. and others one by one, telling them that if the United States acquiesced to Xu Cun's investment in the Soviet oil business, and Xu Cun's oil company would purchase all the high-end equipment used by the Soviet Union in the future, he would place an order of $5 billion for basic equipment from the United States on the day he signed the contract with the Soviet Union.
After this, Xu Cun asked Bush Jr. to deliver a message to the US Government and the US Congress on his behalf: I will first build the 'East Siberia-Pacific Oil and Gas Pipeline,' and then help the Soviet Union increase its oil production.
The meaning of this sentence that Xu Cun asked Bush Jr. to hand over to the US Government and the US Congress is to tell the United States: You in the United States are assured to release its strategic petroleum reserves, and you are assured to let Saudi Arabia increase its oil production and suppress the price of oil in the international market.
On the other hand, Xu Cun told the Soviet Union: If you want to get rich, you must first build roads! Without the 'East Siberian-Pacific Oil and Gas Pipeline,' even if the oil production of the Tyumen oil fields increases, who can the oil produced be sold to?
At the same time, Xu Cun secretly told the Soviet Union: The most important thing in the 'East Siberian-Pacific oil and gas pipeline' plan is this oil and gas pipeline. Only by building the 'East Siberia-Pacific Oil and Gas Pipeline' can the Soviet Union's oil and natural gas have a price advantage over that of the Middle East, and can the Soviet Union's economic predicament be completely resolved. In addition, you Soviet Union has so many nuclear bombs, are you still afraid that the United States will come to your Soviet Union to prevent you from increasing the output of the Tyumen oil fields? Therefore, it is imperative for us to hurry up and concentrate all our efforts on building the 'East Siberia-Pacific Oil and Gas Pipeline' before the United States can react!
In order to gain the acquiescence of the United States, the Soviet Union did make a lot of sacrifices.
In addition, Xu Cun's flickering.
The United States really acquiesced in Xu Cun's joint implementation of the 'East Siberia-Pacific Oil and Gas Pipeline' plan with the Soviet Union.
After solving the big trouble of the United States, the Soviet Union had to face the small trouble of Xu Cun.
The last two additional conditions put forward by Xu Cun were not worth mentioning at all to the Soviet Union.
What really made the Soviet Union feel embarrassed was the first additional condition that Xu Cun put forward -- to put it bluntly, money.
The current Soviet Union is too poor, even three points poorer than the current China!
Two hundred billion rubles, according to the current ratio (one dollar to 0.6 rubles), is three hundred and thirty billion, four billion dollars.
Moreover, these 20 billion rubles have to be traded on the international market (to buy the materials needed for the project of the 'East Siberian-Pacific oil and gas pipeline'. )。
Therefore, if the Soviet Union printed 20 billion rubles that could not be circulated on a large scale in the international market, and asked Xu Cun to use the 20 billion rubles that could not be circulated on a large scale in the international market to buy the materials needed for the 'East Siberian-Pacific Oil and Gas Pipeline' project, Xu Cun would not be able to do it, and the Soviet Union would not be able to do such a delay.
Under normal circumstances, the Soviet Union would have to pay for such a large cross-border transaction with its foreign exchange reserves.
But how can the current Soviet Union have so many foreign exchange reserves?
In the end, Xu Cun negotiated with the Soviet Union, and this part of the money was divided into three forms of payment.
The first is naturally foreign exchange, and the Soviet Union has scraped together three billion rubles (five billion U.S. dollars) of foreign exchange for Xu Cun, which can be said to have made the already poor Soviet Union even poorer.
The second is the ruble, which was forced into the dead air of the Soviet Union to Xu Cun for seven billion rubles. For this reason, the Soviet Union even agreed to pay the second 10 billion rubles when it only saw Xu Cun's $5 billion infrastructure equipment order with the United States -- as soon as he got the 7 billion rubles, Xu Cun asked his Baye Bank and Standard Chartered Bank to exchange all the 7 billion rubles for US dollars, yen, marks and other currencies that could maintain their value for a long time.
The third is gold, the gold paid by the Soviet Union to Xu Cun 10 billion rubles -- at present, the international gold price is close to 400 US dollars per ounce, which belongs to the period when the gold price is relatively expensive, so it is not a good time to reserve gold. But the Soviet Union, as the world's second largest gold producer, really can't come up with anything else that can make Xu Cun's heart flutter except gold. Therefore, Xu Cun could only reluctantly accept the more than 1,100 tons of gold from the Soviet Union, and asked the Soviet Union to help him send the more than 1,100 tons of gold to Xiangjiang, and Xu Cun sent people to secretly send the more than 1,100 tons of gold to his five vaults.
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