"The Chinese are coming, honorable Mikhail Sergeyevich." Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's chief of staff quietly briefed the Soviet president on recent developments.

Mr. President of the Soviet Union, who had a map of Europe on his head, waved his hand a little impatiently, "Let them go, Vice President Yanayev is too naïve, does he think that the Chinese can provide enough help to the great Soviet Union?" ”

"Yes, honorable Mikhail Sergeyevich." The chief of staff replied, "Mr. Vice President has high hopes for the arrival of the Chinese, and he even wants to reopen the full range of border trade activities with the Chinese, so that cheap Chinese daily necessities and food can enter the great Soviet Union." ”

Gorbachev scratched his bald head, very careful not to touch the birthmark of the naturally produced blood-red map of Europe, and said in a mocking tone, "How can the Chinese really help the great Soviet Union?" Even the reopening of border trade would be of only modest benefit to the Soviet Union today, and in order to solve the problems of the Soviet Union, it is necessary to carry out all-round reforms! If you don't reform, you'd rather die! Only the West will be able to help the USSR get out of the quagmire and regain its glory! ”

"Dear Mikhail Sergeyevich, I think Mr. Vice President may not think so." The chief of staff shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Although Yanayev is not a qualified politician, improving relations with the Chinese is not a bad thing." Gorbachev scratched his head again, and then decided, "Just find some people to watch them and don't make any trouble." ”

"Yes, honorable Mikhail Sergeyevich." The chief of staff made a note of it, then bowed and withdrew.

"Only by cooperating with the West can we get the great Soviet Union out of its predicament! As for the Chinese, hey, they're afraid they're too busy to take care of themselves, right? Gorbachev said to himself.

As for the situation in China, as the president of the Soviet Union, who has a common border with China for thousands of kilometers, it is naturally impossible not to understand that although China has carried out relatively successful reform and opening up, which has greatly improved the living standards of the people, there are also some problems, such as the problem of "bourgeois liberalization", such as the problem of "peaceful evolution", these problems are actually not problems in Gorbachev's view, but in the eyes of the Chinese, they are quite untouchable.

In order to achieve this goal, Gorbachev even did not hesitate to destroy nuclear weapons, reduce military spending, shrink strategy, abandon support for some allies, tolerate the Americans, and stop the research and development of weapons of mass destruction.

Naturally, such an approach was praised by the Americans, and he even won the Nobel Prize last year.

It may seem ridiculous to award the Nobel Prize to his traditional enemy, but it did happen, and it did affect the always arrogant, blind and pompous President of the Soviet Union, who went further and further on the road to the destruction of the Soviet Union, and in fact acted as the gravedigger of the great socialist Soviet Union.

While the arrogant Soviet president was contemptuous of the Chinese, Ye Kai was also making his own arrangements.

"Vice President Yanayev is still quite sincere." Ye Kai analyzed, "However, although the reopening of border trade is of great significance for the improvement of Sino-Soviet relations, the economic significance is better than nothing. ”

Zhong Liyu said after hearing this, "I really don't know much about the situation in the Soviet Union, after all, the non-normalization of Sino-Soviet relations has been too long, and we are all in the fog about everything about them. Under such conditions, it is estimated that it is very difficult for you to make a reasonable decision. ”

"I'll give you some crucial guidance, of course." Ye Kai replied.

"What guidance?" Zhong Liyu asked with some curiosity.

"Instruct you on how to ransack the largest socialist country in the world." Ye Kai said with a smile.

In fact, the ransacking of the Soviet Union mentioned by Ye Kai is not impossible.

On New Year's Day this year, Soviets watched Gorbachev's New Year's address on television. He said that in the coming 1990, the Soviet Union was faced with many difficulties, including the phenomenon of crisis in the economy, the weakening of personal security, the weakening of discipline, the failure of the leadership of the country, and other shortcomings. In his opinion, the task of resolving the fate of the country falls on the new year. And stressed that the preservation and revival of the alliance is a task that is more important than anything else. In 1991, the key to solving all sorts of acute problems fell on the "process of preserving and reviving the Soviet Union."

In his speech, Gorbachev did not talk about reforms, new thinking, and other things that he had always advocated, but mentioned the need to maintain the stability of the state and the regime, and Gorbachev insisted that he would not back down, but in fact, the whole country and its leaders have lost course, and the worsening economic situation is no longer a matter of low growth or stagnation, but a particularly chaotic and serious decline.

The year 1990 was the last year of the 12th Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union did not officially publish any information about the Five-Year Plan, and even the 1991 development plan and budget were not submitted to the Supreme Soviet for discussion, and the work of drawing up the 13th Five-Year Plan was postponed. In the first half of 1990, social production continued to decline, the state did not achieve financial stability, the prices of daily necessities and services soared, and the foreign trade deficit continued.

The economic situation in the second half of 1990 was even worse. The amount of money issued exceeded the limits of what the people could afford, and the Soviet people began to rush to buy all kinds of goods, and foreign trade hit a record low - 10 billion rubles. The Soviet government also procured large quantities of grain and tobacco products from abroad, something that had not been done in the Soviet Union since 1947.

The chaotic economic situation naturally led to social upheaval, and throughout the Soviet Union, separatist and centrifugal tendencies continued to grow, and even party publications considered Gorbachev's perestroika a complete failure. The "fruits" of Gorbachev's perestroika were "the country is in decline, the regime is powerless", "empty shelves in stores", "crime is rampant, unemployment is rampant", etc. In order to get out of the economic crisis, the Soviet government began to borrow a large amount of foreign debt, and by 1990 the country's foreign debt had reached $50 billion, and by the end of 1990, the Soviet Union's gold reserves were running low, and the country was on the verge of bankruptcy.

In response to this dire situation, the Soviet government began to raise the prices of daily necessities, which was followed by an increasing number of large-scale strikes. Soviet Prime Minister Ryzhkov could not withstand such tremendous social pressure and was hospitalized for a heart attack in December 1990.

In such a complex situation, Ye Kai, who has abundant funds in his hands, Ye Kai, who has a deep understanding of the situation in the Soviet Union, and Ye Kai, who has a strong national strength that can be borrowed, naturally has enough ability to loot this most powerful socialist country.