Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 1015 Classmate 2
"Oh my God! Igor, Nikolay, Anderson, and the beautiful Lillian, you are here."

Jiang Yan was very happy to see a few familiar people. He greeted them with a smile. When Nicholas saw Jiang Yan, he hugged him.

"Nikola, now you are a real black bear. I can't handle your size. Get out of my way." Jiang Yan broke free from Nikola's arms and said with a smile.

In comparison, Nikolai and I have the best relationship. How should I put it? First of all, this person is very loyal. When I was studying abroad in Russia, he helped me with many things. In addition, he is simple-minded and never thinks about so many things. So the two of us get along quite well. As for Igor, the relationship is also quite good, but it is still a little less than Nikolai. As for the other few people, they are just familiar classmates.

"Beautiful Lillian, it seems that time has not left any mark on your face. You are still as young and beautiful as ever. You are worthy of being the most beautiful person in our class. By the way, who is the person next to you?"

"Jiang Yan."

"You should just call me Nikita! I feel weird when you call me that." Jiang Yan interrupted Lillian and corrected his address.

What Jiang Yan said was right. The biggest difference between Russian and Chinese is that Russian has retroflex sounds that are not found in Chinese, and their pronunciation is at the back. Russian mostly uses rolled tongue pronunciation, so calling Jiang Yan's name in their tone really sounds weird, otherwise Jiang Yan would not have spoken like that.

"Nikita, this is my daughter, Angel." Lillian introduced.

"Angel, you can call him Uncle Nikita."

"Hello, Uncle Nikita."

"Hello Angel." Jiang Yan still spoke with a smile.

"Come on, come in and sit down, come in and sit down." After the greetings, Jiang Yan invited them into the hotel where he was staying.

When they entered Jiang Yan's room, everyone was stunned by the luxurious layout inside. They had imagined the luxury of the hotel's top suites, but they had never thought it could be so luxurious. It was simply beyond words.

"It's okay, you can look around." Seeing that they were interested in the room, Jiang Yan spoke directly.

"Nikita, how much does it cost to stay in a room like this for one night?" After taking a quick look around, Nicholas sat next to Jiang Yan and asked.

"One thousand two hundred rubles or the equivalent in US dollars." Jiang Yan said casually.

After World War II, the post-war reconstruction of the Russian bear was surprisingly fast. In 1947, food stamps were abolished, which was earlier than many other countries.

By the end of 1953, life had returned to pre-war levels, with the average national wage at 719 rubles. But this was after the 1947 currency reform, which included the abolition of coupons, by issuing small-denomination notes and withdrawing excess currency.

The highest paid workers at the time were Stakhanovite miners and steel workers, whose wages sometimes reached as much as 8000 rubles.

However, the development of the Russian bear was still very unbalanced at that time, and prices were relatively high, so such a high salary could still only afford a limited amount of things.

The late 20s and early 70s were referred to in official documents by the Russian bear as the period of "advanced socialism." We now call this period the "period of stagnation."

In the early 80s, the average salary in Russia was 148.74 rubles. However, this was the salary after the currency reform. This wage standard was slightly higher than the 1000 rubles before the reform. Moreover, during this period, Russia was strong and had abundant resources. The prices of materials were relatively low, so the happiness of the people in this world was quite high.

Later, the wage standard was raised to more than 200 rubles in the mid-s, but by then the Soviet Union had already begun to decline. Although prices had not changed, meat was almost unavailable in stores, and the price of meat in the market was twice as expensive as in stores. When queuing to buy sausages, I often heard people say: A pair of hands can't carry two kilograms (meaning that the supply is limited and one person can't buy two kilograms). Ah San's black tea and instant coffee were out of stock, and red caviar and sturgeon were only known to most Soviet people at the time. Despite this, no one was starving.

At that time, if you were lucky, you could get 2 or 3 kilograms of sausages, and during festivals, you could also have a whole pack of Indian tea to have a good holiday.

Of all these people, Anderson was naturally the one with the highest salary. However, even with other gray income, he only made about 3,000 rubles a month, and his monthly salary was only enough to stay here for two nights. So when Anderson came back from the tour and heard the price of this room for one night, he gasped.

"Would you like tea or coffee, or some vodka?" Jiang Yan said with a smile after sitting down.

"My daughter and I will have black tea, and I want to eat Black Forest cake." Knowing that Jiang Yan was a wealthy man, Lillian naturally did not hesitate.

"Okay, I'll arrange it later. What about you guys? Have some vodka." Jiang Yan said.

"Men should drink vodka, so let's give each of them a bottle of vodka." Nicholas said.

"As you wish." Jiang Yan called his bodyguard Lao Wei and asked him to go and urge the things they had just requested, and to prepare some things for them.

"Speak up! You must have something to talk to me about today. If you have something, just say it directly. There's no need to be so restrained." Seeing their hesitant expressions, Jiang Yan simply laid out his thoughts.

"Well, we heard that you have a batch of supplies in your hands, so we wanted to come over and get some." Igor heard Jiang Yan say it without any reservation, so he just spoke up.

"You are short of supplies." Jiang Yan asked.

"Nikita, it seems that the person you mentioned has no shortage of supplies. I was able to become the secretary of our branch factory thanks to Nikolai's help. He works in the supply and marketing cooperative and can provide some supplies."

"Anderson, Lillian, it's the same for you." Jiang Yan asked.

When they heard Jiang Yan ask them, they nodded.

"Nikita, I can add five points to the price you charge today for your goods." Anderson said.

After hearing Anderson's words, Jiang Yan fell into deep thought. Five points were not a small number. Five points on ten million was five hundred thousand.

Jiang Yan was naturally happy that he could sell it at a high price, but when he thought about it, wouldn't he really be going further and further down the road of being a big trader? As an industrialist, the richest man in the country, and a pioneer of reform, was this really a good thing?

"How much goods can you sell? Do you want to trade in rubles or something else?" Jiang Yan asked.

Jiang Yan has already decided to sell these goods to them, at least most of them. It doesn't make any difference whether he gives them the goods or not. As for who they sell them to, he doesn't care.

With these people taking action, it will help Jiang Yan sell the goods quickly, and Jiang Yan can also take this opportunity to get to know some people, which will facilitate the subsequent things.

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(End of this chapter)