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In any case, Russia and China are getting closer and closer.

Fan Wuxian was not idle, and treated Yeltsin with a little golden needle, and the old man suddenly felt as if he was twenty years younger, refreshed, and the accumulated defects in his body seemed to be cleaned up.

"Chinese medicine is truly incredible!" Yeltsin said to Fan Wuxian with great emotion.

Fan Heng has already gone back, after all, he is also the executive vice premier, so naturally it is impossible to stay here and chat all the time, it is a waste of resources and disrespect for his identity, and Fan Wuxian naturally has no scruples.

"It's just a temporary feeling, in fact, if you could have met me five years ago, or even two years ago, and you could have recuperated for it, this disease is nothing, but now, the accumulation of disadvantages has deepened, and it is difficult to return, and now it is just for you to experience a healthy feeling." Fan Wuxian explained to Yeltsin, "This feeling will only last for about a week, and it will slowly return to its usual state." ”

"It's nice to be able to take it easy for a week, and doctors all over Russia are not capable of doing that." Yeltsin's age is not young, but his personality is still as summarized by the outside world, very straightforward, and he actually patted Fan Wuxian on the shoulder and said to him, "What I want most now is to dance a few tunes with the young girls to accompany the Katyusha songs!" ”

"It's not impossible." Fan Wuxian laughed, and said in his heart If you live a long life, then I don't have any opinion.

Just looking at the problem from a higher level, Russia can't be chaotic at this time, especially before Putin can control the overall situation, Russia can't be chaotic, otherwise it will only make the Americans' power expand even more, and China is facing more and more pressure.

With Russia helping China to support a little, the pressure on the Americans will always be less, and if they survive the past ten or eight years, when the national strength will become stronger, things will be much easier.

"Actually, Mr. President, as you know, I'm not a doctor." Fan Wuxian felt that it would be better to try to say some things earlier.

Yeltsin nodded and replied, "Of course I know that the wealth of the Fan Investment Group is jaw-dropping, and as the only major shareholder of the group, you have immeasurable wealth. ”

"In fact, we Fan's Investment Group now want to participate in Russia's economic reform, especially in energy and minerals and even some other areas of in-depth cooperation, such as telecommunications or oil and gas transportation, there are very promising opportunities for cooperation, but I don't know if the Russian government has such considerations, to bring us foreign capital?" Fan Wuxian said directly to Yeltsin.

In fact, Fan Wuxian has been coveting Russia's natural resources for a long time.

Chinese often pride themselves on their country's vast land, but in fact, Russia is the country with the largest land and natural resources in the world.

From oil, coal, iron to agriculture, livestock and seafood, from forests, hydropower, to rare metals, Russia is one of the world's largest countries in terms of resources. All these will become the key forces for Russia's re-emergence, and they will also be one of the basic factors influencing the direction of Russia's domestic and foreign policies.

Russia is the only country in the world that is almost completely self-sufficient in natural resources, and as a major country in the world's resources, Russia's proven resource reserves account for about one-fifth of the world's total resources, ranking first in the world.

The total value of all Russian natural resources is about $300 billion, of which the proven reserves of resources are worth about $30 trillion, compared with Russia, the United States has proven reserves of natural resources worth $10 trillion, China $5 trillion, and Western Europe $2.5 trillion.

In terms of categories, Russia's reserves of various resources are almost in the forefront of the world, especially in terms of minerals, forests, land, water and other resources that are very short in other countries, Russia has a very large advantage.

The understanding of the country's abundant natural resources can be basically summarized into two categories, one is the theory of resource opportunity, and the other is the theory of resource disaster.

Before the seventies, it was generally believed in the world economic community that the richer natural resources a country had, the more conducive it would be to economic development, but later it was believed that abundant natural resources might not be conducive to economic development. For example, after the discovery of oil and gas in the North Sea, the Netherlands was suffering from slow economic growth and high unemployment, which was known as "Dutch disease".

Therefore, some people believe that oil and other resource wealth may eventually bring more harm than good to Russia, and they worry that the Russian economy may lose its competitiveness as a result, thus suffering from "Dutch disease".

However, it is clear that the Russian government does not feel that the abundance of natural resources will be a burden, but believes that natural resources are the strategic basis for Russia's re-emergence, and has therefore increased its control over resources.

Fan remembers very well that within a few years after Putin came to power, the Russian government explicitly announced that it would prohibit foreign companies from participating in bidding for the development of Russia's natural resources such as oil, gas, gold, and copper. If a foreign company holds more than 49 percent of the shares in a Russian joint venture, the company is also not allowed to participate in the exploitation of Russia's natural resources. This means that foreign companies will not be able to participate in the extraction of Russia's natural resources.

In this way, Fan Wuxian hopes that at this critical moment when Western funds will flee Russia as soon as possible because of the economic crisis, he will be able to achieve his goal of entering the Russian resource market by taking the upper route.

Sure enough, although Yeltsin already wanted to push Putin out of the forefront, when he heard Fan Wuxie's intention, he couldn't help but ask a few more questions, "In which aspect does Fan's Investment Group want to invest more?" How much can I invest? ”

"We are still quite confident in investing in Russia, if we can get permission to drive oil and gas resources in Eastern Siberia, the initial investment will not be less than 20 billion US dollars, and if the Russian government allows us to enter the telecommunications market, this part of the investment will not be less than 10 billion US dollars." Fan Wuxian carefully considered and reported two figures to Yeltsin, which was already the conclusion he came to after thinking about it again and again, neither too little nor too much, otherwise Yeltsin would regret hearing that Fan Wuxian would actually invest so much money into Russia.

Sure enough, Yeltsin still felt that he could bear the two figures reported by Fan Wuxi, and if this thing could be done, then he would introduce 30 billion US dollars of foreign capital to Russia, and there would be follow-up development funds, which would be a great gain.

If he can do this before he leaves office, he can make his political achievements appear more decent, and what is in Putin's hands is also a political resource that seems to be relatively rich.

From the bottom of his heart, Putin still hopes that Russia will become better in his own hands, although he has smashed the old system to a pulp, but this does not mean that he does not want to build a richer and stronger Russia, and not just in the face of the embarrassing situation of high unemployment and economic hardship, and the people living in poverty.

Therefore, these topics that Fan Wuxian proposed to him were something that he could not ignore lightly no matter what, or rather, it was also a condition that could not be refused.

It's just that I don't know where Fan Wuxi's bottom line is? And how much does he want from Russia?

"In fact, I only have one additional condition, which is that I hope that Russia can use its influence to help our Fan Investment Group obtain mineral exploration rights and mining rights in Mongolia." In response to Yeltsin's question, Fan Wuxian put forward his own request to him: "As for my investment in Russia, I can also consider a sole proprietorship or a joint venture, and even a stake of no more than 49 percent in some joint ventures can be considered, which is enough to show our sincerity." ”

Listening to Fan Wuxi's request, Yeltsin's heart suddenly relaxed a lot, what he was most worried about was that Fan Wuxian opened his mouth, now it is very difficult for Russia to attract foreign investment, the main reason is because of the political instability, under his high-pressure policy, the cabinet is changed every few months, foreigners simply do not see that Russia has any stable economic policies, this kind of risky market, if there is no great courage, no one dares to set foot in it.

Fan Wuzhi expressed his willingness to invest tens of billions of dollars into the Russian resource market, which was also a very big thing for Yeltsin, but he was also worried that Fan Wuxi's asking price was too high, and it would be difficult for him to make a trade-off.

As a result, Fan Wuxian did not have much extravagance at this time, and said that the acquisition of a controlling stake was not necessarily certain, but he put forward a compromise condition for wanting to enter the Mongolian resource market, which made Yeltsin feel a little surprised.

However, it is much better to sacrifice the interests of other countries than to sacrifice one's own interests.

It is true that Mongolia became independent at the instigation of the former Soviet Union, and the Soviets did use Mongolia as a springboard to enter China and stationed a large number of troops, but now it seems that Mongolia, which has lost its military significance, is already a chicken rib for Russia, as long as it is not a direct establishment of a military base in Mongolia that threatens Russia's national security, what is the point of mining a mine?

Could it be said that the resources of the small Mongolian country can still surpass that of Russia?

Yeltsin felt that the condition put forward by Fan Wuxian was really impossible to refuse.

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