Chapter 45: Old Friends Meet
Plane to Moscow.
As soon as he got off the plane, his old friend Yalikov had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing Zhao Zhuo's figure, Yalikov shook the pick-up card in his hand vigorously.
Zhao Zhuo felt a little familiar at first glance, and when he looked at it carefully, he couldn't help but cry and laugh.
It turned out that this was the last pick-up card, and there were still a few crooked big words on it, "Welcome, Zhao!" ”
"I said you're really not ashamed, why did you bring this thing again?"
Zhao Zhuo asked helplessly.
Yalikov looked confident:
"Hmph, these words I wrote are just a little ugly in your opinion.
You go and look at the Chinese character pick-up cards of other people around you, there are really few that are more beautiful than my characters. ”
Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo looked around in disbelief, and found that it seemed to be as Yalikov said.
If Yalikov's words are crooked, then the others' can be said to be horizontal, crabs crawling ...
"Okay, okay, you're a Chinese passer."
Zhao Zhuo echoed with a wry smile.
Hearing this, Yalikov became even more proud.
The two of them are old friends, and there are no many greetings, Yalikov directly took Zhao Zhuo to a nearby restaurant.
Of course, it was still Yalikov's old and dilapidated car.
"I beg you, get rid of this broken car."
Zhao Zhuo sat in Yalikov's broken car, and his body was about to fall apart.
Yalikov looked helpless:
"My friend, don't you want to change when I do? I can't afford to change it! ”
Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Before he came, he had already inquired about the current Soviet car market.
Even in Moscow, a new car can be bought for a few bucks.
It is even cheaper in a city like Berezniki, which itself has a large car production plant.
Seeing Zhao Zhuo's surprised expression, Yalikov immediately understood Zhao Zhuo's thoughts:
"You're trying to say that cars in the USSR are cheap now, right?"
"That's right."
Zhao Zhuo nodded.
Seeing this, Yalikov shook his head helplessly:
"Cars are cheap, but petrol is expensive! Although my current car is broken, it has the advantage of saving fuel.
Those new cars are really cheap, but they cost too much gas!
It's not that I can't afford a car, but I can't afford to fill up gas! ”
Hearing Yali's customer service's words, Zhao Zhuo understood.
"I see..."
After a pause, Zhao Zhuo suddenly felt a little strange, but he couldn't say it.
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Zhuo finally reacted:
"No, aren't you rich in gas and oil? How can oil prices be so expensive? ”
In Zhao Zhuo's memory of his previous life, natural gas and oil resources were old. The killer weapon in Maozi's hands is to reduce gas pipelines and raise oil prices at every turn to deal with international sanctions.
Hearing this, Yalikov glanced at Zhao Zhuo with some surprise, as if he didn't expect Zhao Zhuo to know so much about the Soviet Union.
Yalikov then explained:
"That's right, we do have oil, but now all of them are exported as commodities by those oligarchs to earn foreign exchange, and there are very few that really supply the country!"
Speaking of this, Yalikov couldn't help but itch at the root of his teeth.
And hearing this explanation, Zhao Zhuo somewhat understood.
The Soviet Union was largely at the hands of the oligarchs.
Of course, this kind of thing is just a joke. Oil, a national strategic resource, Zhao Zhuo didn't even have to think about it, and it was impossible for him to get involved.
At least the current Zhao Zhuo can't interfere.
Zhao Zhuo and Yalikov were eating and chatting about the situation in Berezniki.
Gradually, Zhao Zhuo also had a deeper understanding of this small city.
Berezniki is a city located in the central and western part of the Soviet Union, which is said to be a small city, but in fact the area is not small, located in the Dara Plain, and is very rich in mineral resources.
And the place where Zhao Zhuo is going is not Berezniki in the strict sense, but the town of Dala next to the city of Berezniki.
The reason why the town of Dara is located outside the city is precisely because all the people in this town are workers and families of the Dala Automobile Factory.
In other words, the establishment of the Dara Automobile Plant brought a whole town!
The main production of the Dala Automobile Factory is the Dala brand freight trucks specially used for long-distance transportation, and the output in the past few years is extremely high!
However, because the Dala Automobile Factory was established relatively late, it did not produce military cars, and in the later peacetime years, everyone paid more attention to Volvo, a sedan brand.
As a result, the reputation of the Dala truck has not been very well-known.
However, this does not affect its own excellent quality.
"If you want me to say, you really went to Berezniki by the right way."
Yalikov took a sip of Zhao Zhuo's second pot head, and said with a satisfied grin.
"Oh, what do you mean by that?"
Zhao Zhuo asked.
Yalikov picked up another piece of beef, threw it in his mouth, and said mutterably as he chewed:
"Everyone knows that our Soviet cars are everywhere, and the cheap ones are simply the price of cabbage.
As a result, countless people go to the Volvo factories every day to buy cars.
But it is precisely because of this that the price of cars has also risen during this period, from the previous exchange of daily necessities to the hard currency of gold. ”
Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be surprised.
Sure enough, what you can think of, there will also be others who can think of it.
I thought it was still a blue ocean, but I didn't expect that someone had already taken the lead.
However, Zhao Zhuo was not upset by this.
After all, Yalikov is talking about the sight of Moscow.
Zhao Zhuo asked:
"And what is the situation with Berezniki now?"
Hearing this, Yalikov snapped his fingers and said:
"That's exactly what I'm telling you! The Dara Automobile Plant is located in Berezniki, a broken place where birds don't, and few people know about it, let alone buy a car!
I just called my old classmate this morning and heard that they couldn't even get enough supplies for long! ”
Looking at Yalikov's excited appearance, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be in a trance:
"I said, are you Soviet? Why do you look so gloating? ”
Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but look at Yalikov and asked.
Who knows, Yalikov said seriously:
"Of course I'm Soviet, and I'm not gloating.
You think, although Sholokhov is running out of food, isn't it because you will send them supplies right away!
This time in business, you and I can make money, and Sholokhov's side will also be able to solve the problem of eating, what the best of both worlds! ”
Sholokhov is Yalikov's comrade-in-arms at Berezniki's deputy director-in-arms.