Berezovsky's impromptu speech in the hall was rather old-fashioned and superficial. It is nothing more than "how wise and powerful the great Comrade Yeltsin was, and under his leadership, we will all be able to live a better life in the future" and so on.

Zhuang Mingge chose to ignore Berezovsky's speech, which had little practical content, and used this time to pull Abu, who was relatively close to him, aside and asked him about the next private party.

Through Abu's introduction, Zhuang Mingge knew that the next people to participate in that small party were mainly the seven oligarchs who are now calling for wind and rain in Russia, since this is a banquet held for the Russian presidential election, then these oligarchs are the real protagonists of this banquet.

These people in the hall now say that they want to unite all the liliang who can be united, and what they say is that they want these peripheral people with limited influence to boost Yeltsin's popularity when the presidential election is held.

If Yeltsin really rested his hopes for election success on "numbers" rather than "quality," then he would not be far from stepping down.

Yeltsin, who did not achieve much in his first term, had only the oligarchs who held the lifeblood of Russia's economy on the backstage to defeat his rivals.

Because these oligarchs have a lot of resources at their disposal, which allows them to change the situation in the Russian presidential election to some extent.

So, what exactly was the purpose of Berezovsky's invitation to such a meeting? After listening to Abu's narration, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

……

After the impromptu speech was over and the banquet in the hall began again, Berezovsky left the splendid hall under the escort of his bodyguards. Zhuang Mingge and Karin were also led by Abramovich into a small hall located in the innermost part of the club.

"It's such a luxurious place here." This is Zhuang Mingge's most intuitive feeling after walking into this small hall.

If the outside hall gives people the feeling of magnificence with atmosphere, then the layout of this small hall can only be described as extremely luxurious, I don't know what materials are used to make the medieval court frescoes, faintly emitting a faint light, making the whole small hall look natural and bright. On the floor, a thick handmade carpet of fine Iranian wool was covered, which made the guests feel warm from the bottom of their hearts after suffering from the cold winter in Moscow.

When Zhuang Mingge walked into this small hall, he saw a slightly obese middle-aged man in the hall giving a speech.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think the purpose of this banquet is very clear to all of you, and what I want to say is that none of us can back down until this presidential election! All we have to do now is to fight for President Yeltsin, for the national interests of Russia! ”

As the two initiators of the banquet, Berezovsky and Gusinsky, the two "good friends", seemed to have a clear "division of labor" in advance, and the former had just made an agitatory speech in the hall, and the task of making an impromptu speech in the small banquet hall naturally fell on Gusinsky's shoulders.

Zhuang Mingge entered here under the leadership of Abu, and Abu also quietly told him at this time that the current actual controller of the Moscow Air Force Club was this Gusinsky.

Zhuang Mingge's first impression of Gusinsky was not very good, first of all, this guy seemed to be an unreliable guy, Berezovsky had been in the hall before, and he could also euphemistically express in his words, "The purpose of this banquet is to call on everyone to come together to protect our own interests"; And what about this Mr. Gusinsky, who, on this occasion, which is still known to each other, is ashamed to claim that the purpose of this gathering is actually "for the good of the country"!

What Zhuang Mingge didn't know was that Gusinsky's style of doing was already used to by the bigwigs who were familiar with him for a long time, and who didn't know that Gusinsky, who graduated from the Lunacharsky Academy of Dramatic Arts of the Soviet Union, liked to act in public the most? Just like after he went into exile in Israel, he popped up every now and then to criticize the policies and decrees of the Putin government.

Zhuang Mingge looked around and found that except for himself and Karin, everyone else in the venue seemed to have a common characteristic, that is, they were all Russians.

In this room, we are not the only outsiders, right? Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but smile bitterly, although no matter in the East or the West, as long as a person is famous and has money, then it is inevitable that he will have something to do with damn politics, but his attitude towards the big quagmire of politics is something that he can't avoid.

The most haode example is that after Zhuang Mingge led Fiorentina back to the Serie A league, he was approached by representatives of countless Italian parties, hoping that Zhuang Mingge could join their party, but Zhuang Mingge refused all, and also publicly published a statement in the newspaper stating that he would not participate in the election of any government office. If Berezovsky had sent someone to probe his own details before, he would have known these things, and what kind of help could a person who was not interested in politics bring Berezovsky?

The second point is that Gusinsky gives Zhuang Mingge the feeling that his idea of being in the limelight is too strong, even if Zhuang Mingge is no longer interested in politics, he also knows what it means to "shoot the first bird", if Putin, the bull, comes to power, the first thing to be cracked down on and eliminated must be people like Gusinsky!

Zhuang Mingge may not remember other details very clearly, but in Zhuang Mingge's memory, Putin once said in an interview that oligarchs like Berezovsky and Gusinsky must "abide by the rules of this era" if they want to survive in Russia during his administration.

And the fate of the older generation of oligarchs in Russia is nothing more than that: either they mismanaged and went bankrupt in the financial crisis of 98 years later; Either they crossed the line and were sent to prison by Putin, who came to power later, or they escaped prison and were forced to go into exile; Only a handful of survivors, such as Friedman and Potanen, have been able to remain active on the stage of the twenty-first century. In place of these older financial oligarchs are a new generation of oligarchs such as Abramovich and Oleg Jeripaska, who have close ties to the new Russian government.

PS1: Chapter 23 of "Add More to Supplement Jihua".

PS2: Sure enough, I caught a cold, so uncomfortable......