Although Ye Kai also came to Ukraine last time, he did not come to Kyiv.

Kiev was also the capital and center of Kievan Rus', the first Russian state, and was known as the "Mother of Russian Cities", which was occupied by German troops in World War II. After the war, the industrial base continued to expand.

The city is close to the steel base along the Donbass and the Dnieper, and is surrounded by a rich agricultural zone with a well-developed machine-building industry and light industry. There are many categories of machinery manufacturing industry, most of which are related to the transportation industry, as well as machine tools, instruments, chemicals and machinery.

Kyiv's light industry includes cameras, food, knitting, etc., the chemical industry and the printing and publishing industry are also well developed, and it is a transportation hub of Ukraine, with an international airport in the eastern suburbs and direct river transportation to the Black Sea.

Before Ye Kai and others arrived, the military personnel stationed in Kyiv had already made preparations for reception in advance.

After staying in the hotel, Zhang San and Li Si began to collect information on the current situation in the Soviet Union through various channels, and then provided it to Ye Kai for reference.

After some research, Ye Kai found that the Soviet Union had reached the most critical juncture, sharp social contradictions were about to erupt, and the unbreakable alliance was facing the end of falling apart.

"Since Russia's presidential elections on June 12, Yeltsin, the leader of the democratic faction, who had already enjoyed widespread support, was elected with a large number of votes, while the opposition also won the mayoral elections in Moscow and Leningrad, and the majority agreed to change the name of Leningrad to St. Petersburg." Zhang San said with some emotion while analyzing, "It seems that socialism in the Soviet Union really can't last." ”

The renaming of Leningrad to St. Petersburg is actually to restore the former powerful glory of Tsarist Russia, naturally the people have been completely disappointed in the existence of the Soviet Union, if it is placed in China, it is equivalent to taking off the portrait of the leader hanging above the south gate, this impact is naturally extremely far-reaching, so Zhang Sancai felt that the Soviet Union was about to finish.

Ye Kai is more concerned about these issues, and they are not superficial things.

As a matter of fact, Ye Kai noticed that Yeltsin visited the United States a week after the election, and many of his remarks, such as stopping aid to Cuba and drastically reducing the Soviet Union's military budget, won great favor from the US side.

Moreover, after Yeltsin's visit to the United States, the inauguration ceremony of the President of the Russian Federation was held in the Kremlin Assembly Hall on July 10, when Yeltsin's face was full of a smile of victory, while Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was extremely depressed.

Yeltsin's victory showed that the infrastructure of the alliance has been greatly damaged. At this time, the crisis in the Soviet Union was no longer just an economic crisis, but also a political crisis had reached a very dangerous level, and in mid-July, Gorbachev met with the heads of seven Western countries in London, trying to win loan assistance from the West through the reform of the market economy, but did not receive the support of the West.

After Gorbachev returned to Moscow, he tried to submit his new plan for the development of the market economy to the Supreme Soviet, but the domestic situation could no longer proceed as planned.

"The main work of the party and government of the Soviet Union at present is to prepare a new CPSU charter, and the formulation of the new CPSU program involves a change in the status of the CPSU, at this time the CPSU is facing a serious crisis both ideologically and organizationally, from January 1990 to June 1991, the membership of the CPSU has decreased by more than 4 million, and there are still people, the new CPSU program will be written into the content of "democratic socialism, progress", and the ruling position of the CPSU is also facing a serious threat. Li Si picked up another analysis material and read the main points to Ye Kai.

According to rumors, Gorbachev is discussing with the leaders of the union republics the names of the new Union States, the form of political organization, and the attribution of power, in short, the formation of a new Union State.

The negotiation process was naturally very arduous, and the parties basically reached a new draft union, the name of the country would be changed from "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" to "Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics", the autonomy of the republics would be expanded, and according to the new draft of the Union, the new state would be a loose confederation.

"But it's good that the old state system is going to be destroyed, and the new state system has not yet taken shape, and now is a good opportunity for us to show our talents." Ye Kai's heart was even more determined.

In the afternoon, the person in charge of the Military Intelligence Department rushed over to meet Ye Kai.

The person here is a direct subordinate of Uncle Li, and his public identity is an embassy staff, and after seeing Ye Kai, he said, "Mr. Ye, we have found the whereabouts of Victor Bout, but he is in trouble at this time." ”

"What's the trouble?" Ye Kai asked, "Economically, or in other aspects." ”

"Politically, the Kyiv Military District took him and supposedly imposed severe sanctions." The head of the military intelligence department on the ground replied.

"Can you arrange for me to see him?" Ye Kai asked with a frown.

"Yes, the Kyiv Military District has officers that we bought." The other party replied in the affirmative.

Although it is not clear what the purpose of the Ye family's second young man looking for this Soviet man is, he still expressed his support very clearly, because Uncle Li had instructed before that Ye Kai should be given enough help without affecting their work, including some important connections in the local area.

Soon after, Ye Kai was in the prison of the Kiev Military District and met this Viktorbut.

Many people may be very unfamiliar with the name Victor Bout, but if you mention a later movie, the film "Lord of War" starring Nikola Raskecher, it should be clear.

Yes, Victor Bout is the archetypal character of the male protagonist of this movie.

Viktorbut's experience is legendary, he graduated from the Moscow Military Academy of Foreign Languages and is fluent in 6 languages, which are Russian, Uzbek, English, French, Portuguese and Chinese. After military training, he served as a navigator at an air base in the northeastern Soviet city of Vitebsk.

Later, he served as a translator in the Soviet contingent of the peacekeeping forces in Angola.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bout's task force was also disbanded, and later he began to drive the Shaolin abbot of Anton's 80s to spread all over the world, selling some Soviet-made tanks, helicopters and other weapons to many war zones, such as Afghanistan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

There is also evidence that Bout has supplied arms to Taliban forces and Al-Qaida, and that he is also suspected of reselling weapons and technical intelligence to Iraq.

Bout's sales network extends almost all over Africa, including Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Eswatini and Uganda. Experts who study illegal arms smuggling believe that in Africa, Bout can be seen in even larger wars, and without Bout, Africa would be much more peaceful.

It's just that when Ye Kai found him, the future king of war, an internationally notorious arms dealer, was sitting in a corner of the prison with a swollen nose and a swollen face, one eye was swollen, narrowed into a slit, and his nose was a little crooked.

"Major Victor Butt?" Ye Kai pinched his nose and asked.

Originally, he didn't want to pinch his nose like this, but the smell in this prison was a little too bad, moldy and damp, and the smell of dead rats, which made it a little difficult to breathe.

"Chinese? Who are you? Victor Bhut's age was about twenty-five years old, and he looked like he had deep eye sockets and Caucasian temperament, and he looked at Ye Kai very vigilantly and asked.

"It doesn't matter who I am, but I can get you out of here safe and sound." Ye Kai replied.

"I'm afraid it's difficult, you don't know what kind of big people I've offended." Viktor Butt shook his head and said, "Chinese, this is the Soviet Union, your set will not work." ”

"How to get you out, that's my business." Ye Kai said, "It's just, don't you want to know, why did I come to you?" ”

"I really don't know about that, and I don't think you'll be able to handle the KGB." Victor Bout shook his head.

"What the hell have you done?" Ye Kai asked.

"The head of the KGB in the Kiev region, General Zyuanov, I gave his only daughter!" Victor replied very calmly.

After hearing this, Ye Kai looked at Victor Bout very seriously, and then rubbed his nose and said, "This matter is indeed more difficult to deal with than I imagined, so if you want to come out, you must promise to serve me for three years, what do you think?" ”

Victor Bout listened, his eyes rolled and he said, "I will not betray my motherland!" ”

"There is no such possibility!" Ye Kai replied with a smile, "I just asked you to help me be a middleman and sell some materials abroad!" ”

"Deal!" Victor Bout thought about it and agreed.

He really has enough of this dirty place, and if the Chinese in front of him can let him go out safely, he should have a very strong force, and it is also worth his temporary service.

After leaving the prison, Ye Kai said to the local person in charge of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, "I want to meet General Zyuanov of the KGB as soon as possible, can you arrange this?" ”

"Yes, but that person is very difficult to entangle, and he may not buy our account." The local head of the Ministry of Military Intelligence replied.

"I naturally have a way to deal with this matter......" Ye Kai seemed to be quite confident in this.

"It may take a little while." The other party said.

(To be continued)