Since Seryosha succeeded in squeezing out the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Zhuravlev, the oil supply of the Mediterranean Trading Company began to increase significantly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 However, in the current world trade pattern, due to the long-term economic recession, oil cannot be sold at a very good price.

The oil that Glencore obtains is obtained from the exchange of grain, and the cost is so low that it can still be made even if it is halved at the current price. However, the Soviet oil industry could not afford such low international oil prices. If Seryosha wants to hold the power of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation for a long time, he must not let the Soviet Union's foreign trade data be too ugly. Therefore, finding large buyers of oil around the world who are willing to pay high prices has become the common interest of Glencore and the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. In addition, Glencore is also the exclusive agent of Iran's oil export business, the sanctioned country, and the supply pressure of the two major oil producers, the Soviet Union and Iran, has made Mark Ritchie begin to feel the pressure of market sales that he has never felt before.

Mark didn't hesitate for long, and soon set his sights on South Africa, a wealthy country in the southern hemisphere.

Just last year, the South African National Party (SNP), which won the general election in South Africa, came to power and immediately began to impose a stricter apartheid system across the country. The South African government's policy immediately sparked sanctions and condemnation around the world. Several major Western economies, including the United Kingdom, the former suzerainty of South Africa, have begun to impose comprehensive embargoes and economic sanctions on South Africa. The South African National Party still refuses to give in, preferring to suffer the losses of sanctions and carry out its racial system to the end.

So all of a sudden, the prices of various daily necessities in South Africa have risen across the board, South Africa is one of the few rich countries in Africa, this country has a high degree of industrialization, has a huge consumption capacity for oil, and South Africa is also the world's largest gold producer, and the ability to pay for bulk commodities is extremely strong, and it is definitely the best partner of Glencore, a strange company that specializes in doing business with sanctioned countries.

Mark Ritchie's followers soon developed this new way of making money. With Tonya in charge of the Mediterranean shipping system, the Gorky Brotherhood was no longer in the way, and Glencore began planning to smuggle Iranian and Soviet oil to South Africa.

Mark Ritchie's chief deputy, Green, ventured out of Switzerland and came to South Africa with a Soviet diplomatic identity that Seryosha had asked the Ministry of the Interior to forge for him. You must know that this time in order to do this business, Green is taking a great risk, because once Green's true identity is discovered, then he is likely to be extradited to the United States for trial, but for this big business, Green has already given up.

Green is a man who has seen the big picture, and in the past, when Mark Ritchie was not wanted worldwide, Green was the trader who opened the door to Iranian oil. He has met with Ayatollah Khomeini several times to discuss cooperation in the oil sector, and has even spoken directly to Iran's oil minister at any time. It was Mark Ritchie and Green who snatched a place from the monopoly oil Seven Sisters, the pioneers of the oil spot market and the most legendary of countless spot traders, with the banned oil shipped from Iran.

When Green arrived in South Africa, he quickly took on a new identity. Chief Trade Representative of Petrocoria. Naturally, this identity is also fake, and Green himself is very intelligent, and in addition to his native English, he can also speak Persian, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, French, German and other languages fluently. Impersonating the trade representative of a small South American country is not difficult at all. Soon he was in South Africa with senior executives of the South African National Energy Corporation and South African energy ministers.

"Gentlemen. I'm here to save you! If you don't want to be ousted because you can't afford gas, you'd better work with me! Because only I can meet the huge oil gap that you have created because of the sanctions! Green said unceremoniously during the negotiations.

A group of South African government officials sitting across from Mr. Green looked at each other, unable to refute Mr. Green's claims. It's not the same as it was a few decades ago, even the United States has abandoned the racial system, and South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that adheres to a tradition of white supremacy. But this persistence has come at a heavy cost.

"We still doubt that the Colombian oil company you represent will be able to meet our needs, and I wonder how you can prove that you do have that capability? It's just empty white teeth! Officials from South Africa's Ministry of Energy retorted.

"I think while we're talking, one of our Suez-class tankers is about to dock! We declare the export of industrial pulp raw materials from the USSR! If you call the customs office at the Port of Cape Town right now, you know we're right! Anyway, the first ship of crude oil has already arrived in Hong Kong, whether it is your business or not! Whether we do or don't do this business has no impact on us! Green was actually very nervous when he said this, but he trusted his own judgment. The South African government, which has already tasted the power of economic sanctions, will not ignore a trading partner who is willing to take the risk to help them smuggle oil! If successful, Green will harvest South African gold, which in today's world has been strengthening because of the risk of economic downturn, and even the US dollar cannot match the value preservation effect of gold.

"How much oil can you supply us with each month?" The Department of Energy official asked expectantly as he suggested that his men should confirm Green's news.

"We can have as much as you want, and we can also provide some agricultural and sideline products such as coffee, wheat, soybeans! But we want to pay in gold, and of course in terms of price, it is also a little more expensive than the price in the international market, you know, we are not taking a risk in this matter! Green said to the other side.

The officials of the Department of Energy, who turned to leave the meeting, quickly contacted the customs, and within ten minutes the customs confirmed that Greene was indeed true, and that a mixed tanker of the Panamanian-flagged Mediterranean shipping company, Juliet (Tonya had replaced all the ships of the Mediterranean Trading Company with the name of a woman), had indeed docked at the port of Cape Town with crude oil, and the declared goods were not on the embargo, paper raw materials, industrial pulp. After receiving the confirmation, the official wrote the news on a note and quietly handed it to the Minister of Energy, who was still waiting in the conference room.

"Mr. Green, I think we can try to work together first!" When the energy minister saw the news, he immediately relented.