"Brother Boris, Professor Sobchak is my teacher, he has been conscientious during his tenure as the leader of the National Housing Bank, if you take him away, where will I find such a capable person!" Seryosha was so excited that he almost told the Foreign Trade Bank about it, but now this is a secret, and Seryosha doesn't want others to know that he plans to calculate the minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Brother Seryosha, you also know that my brother and I have some experience in construction, and financing is not my strong point, if you don't leave Professor Sobchak behind, if something goes wrong, how can I explain it to Secretary Gorbachev!" Yeltsin complained.

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Seryosha and Yeltsin argued for a long time about Sobchak, but neither could convince anyone. In the end, Seryosha chose to back down, he would rather let Yeltsin owe him a favor than let Yeltsin have any ideas. After all, in a few years, the country will be ruled by Yeltsin.

Seryosha's eventual letting go cost him the best candidate for the Foreign Trade Bank, but Seryosha didn't regret it that much. After all, he now has a multinational commodity trading empire on his hands. Its in-house economists alone are enough to advise the Bank of Foreign Trade. Seryosha's ultimate goal was not to make the VTB grow stronger, on the contrary, Seryosha was to use the VTB as a breakthrough to control the bulk commodity trade of the Soviet Union, and the final result was that the VTT Bank would become an insolvent shell before its collapse. In fact, if a puppet can be placed in this position, it will be easier for Seryosha's plan to be carried out smoothly. Sobchak may not be willing to help Seryosha do such a thing, and Seryosha doubts that Sobchak has the guts.

After ending the discussion with Yeltsin about Sobchak's office, Seryosha had dinner with Yeltsin before leaving. On the way back, Seryosha suddenly received a call from Gorbachev asking him to go to the Supreme Soviet.

Seryosha felt a little strange, what was the matter with summoning himself so late? Seryosha did not dare to delay and immediately asked the driver to turn the car around and drive towards the Supreme Soviet. About half an hour later, Seryosha finally arrived at the White House, the seat of the Supreme Soviet. He drove to Gorbachev's office, and soon his secretary ushered him in.

When Seryosha entered the house, he found that the room was already full, and Yakovlev was sitting next to him. When he saw Seryosha coming, he hurriedly beckoned Seryosha to sit down.

"What the hell is going on?" Seryosha asked in a low voice.

"Don't mention it, I don't know what's going on, Gromyko got the budget report on the Central Bank's acquisition of the workers' new city, he was very dissatisfied with your Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation taking such a large sum of money, and claimed that he would hand over the money to the state treasury for unified planning and use...... " Yakovlev explained in a low voice, just after talking about the cause of the incident, Seryosha stood up in anger, slapped his palm heavily on the coffee table on the side, and asked sharply: "Is there any royal law!" ”

Gorbachev and all the people in the room looked at Seryosha, and Gorbachev said lightly: "Seryosha, don't get excited, the matter has not been decided yet!" Gromyko just stabbed this matter to the Politburo and the General Secretary, and it is still inconclusive! ”

"Secretary, this matter is not only a matter of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Communist Youth League, I think that when we planned the workers' new city from scratch, we received a large amount of money from the hands of the common people in Moscow, Gorky and other places! Although the New City of Workers has now been taken away by the Central Bank, this debt remains with us in the Komsomol and the Mediterranean Trading Company. Gromyko wants to take possession of this money, in order to drain the life savings of ordinary people in Moscow who trust us......" Seryosha explained angrily.

"Seryosha, this matter is not for me to decide, I hope you can understand. Now I have summoned all my staff officers who are familiar with the economy, and I have informed Comrade Yeltsin that he will also come in a moment. Secretary Chernenko said that tomorrow he wanted you and Gromyko to go to the Central Hospital and explain to him face to face. We still have more than a dozen hours left, so let's help you figure it out! Gorbachev personally poured a cup of coffee for Seryosha and handed it to Seryosha and said.

Seryosha understood why so many people were here today, and he thanked everyone first, and then Yakovlev began to convene everyone to discuss how to respond tomorrow to General Secretary Chernenko. Fifteen minutes later, Yeltsin hurried here. Seryosha told Yeltsin about the matter, and Yeltsin naturally stood on Seryosha's side.

"Seryosha, comrades, Secretary Gorbachev. I just want to say one thing, if there is a problem in the payment of the construction bonds of the Workers' New Town, then how will our next project of the Workers' New Town be financed! Now the workers' new city is already a key project in Moscow, and if something goes wrong, it will be a big unfinished building in the future! Yeltsin spoke from his own point of view about his support for Seryosha.

"Secretary, there is a reason why we left this money, according to the original bond issuance contract. We are obligated to pay interest and principal on bonds when due. We have to trade to keep this money in value. Now the Central Bank has only paid our part about the principal, and the interest part would have been paid through the rental income of the workers' new town. At the beginning, the Central Bank said that the interest part would not be included in the cost price of the workers' new city because some of it had become the internal income of the Communist Youth League. We've made sacrifices for our country, do we have to go bankrupt? Seryosha said excitedly.

Gorbachev rubbed his temples and listened quietly, without expressing any opinion. He wondered if he was a little flustered when he was in England. He thought that Gromyko had really thrown in the towel, but in fact people never forgot to hit you. Gorbachev was almost unprepared for this surprise attack, and he now had to let his men put together a makeshift countermeasure.

Seryosha also slowly calmed down, and he looked at the questions that Gorbachev's aides envisioned the general secretary would ask tomorrow, and felt the cruelty of the political struggle in his heart. When he was in England, Seryosha successfully played the role of a chess player, and the British Prime Minister and Gorbachev became his pawns. However, he did not benefit from this except for a part of the natural gas trading rights. And this time, Seryosha instead became a pawn in the game between Gromyko and Gorbachev.