Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 1136 Paper Economy
"Everyone, we are friends. It is my natural duty to help you. But how do you want me to help you? To mobilize more goods to Moscow? I will do whatever I can."

Kadanfu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Jiang Yan's words. He looked at Jiang Yan with gratitude in his eyes and felt that it was not in vain that he made Jiang Yan his friend and soulmate.

"Jiang, how much cargo can you deliver? Can you get a hundred train cars?" Kadanfu asked.

One hundred carriages of supplies only carry 5,000 tons of cargo, but for a country with a population of over 100 million, these goods could not even make a splash before being swallowed up by the desert-like dry land.

However, he also understood how difficult it was to increase these supplies. Now that he was the deputy manager, he searched all over Russia, but he couldn't even transfer an extra 100 tons of goods.

Now the Soviets have turned to dust, and their newly established regime has not yet completely taken over Russia, so the command and control from Moscow to the distant states are almost ineffective, and the chaos in Russia is even worse than before.

However, as the huge, orderly planned economy was disrupted by them and the factory director obstructed, the entire production situation in Mao came to a standstill. The factory could not get raw materials and could not produce. Even if the goods were produced, there were no trucks to transport them, so the stores were empty.

Because they could not buy enough daily necessities, ordinary people, either voluntarily or involuntarily, focused their energy on how to get food, clothing, and daily necessities. This further aggravated the severity of the economic crisis, and the whole of Russia fell into a vicious circle.

"It's more than this, at least three hundred train cars." Jiang Yan said in a deep voice.

Jiang Yan had predicted this situation a long time ago, and he also notified the country through Cao Bin. Now domestic factories have begun to speed up production, and many squeezed materials have begun to be shipped. The country has even opened special trains. At this time, every penny earned is a penny earned. Not only that, but it can also gain the favor of the new Mao. It really kills two birds with one stone.

At present, Jiang Yan has almost 20,000 tons of supplies in his hands, and the supplies are still increasing.

This time's sales volume can be said to have enabled many areas across the country to have a good year.

"I have almost 20,000 tons of goods on hand now, and they are all in the warehouse. If you need them, you can transfer them directly." Jiang Yan then looked at Kadanfu and spoke.

Jiang Yan is not a saint, but he is not a hard-hearted person either. He has spent happy years in Moscow. It is really impossible for Jiang Yan to stand idly by, otherwise he would not have given the supplies to Kadanfu so readily.

"Jiang, how did you think of preparing so much goods in advance?" Kadanfu asked

You know, they expected Jiang Yan to transfer 100 train cars of goods now, so they should thank God. After all, these are light industrial products, not bulky and heavy coal and ore. A carriage with a load of 60 tons is enough for the production enterprise to produce for a long time.

But now Jiang Yan actually said that he had 20,000 tons of supplies on hand.

Jiang Yan pretended to be a little embarrassed and said, "I originally thought that after the disintegration, Russia would become better and would need more goods, so I ordered them to speed up production. I didn't expect..."

Hearing Jiang Yan's words, Gaidar became a little embarrassed. In this scene of depression, it was really embarrassing to say that Russia would get better and need more goods. "But this can be considered as a blessing in disguise, Fang." Gaidar said bitterly.

"Maybe! But on the other hand, I have confidence in Russia and the Russian market. As long as the market exists, no matter what happens, as long as I have goods in my hands, I can make money. Also, I don't believe that Russia will continue to be in chaos. This is the darkness before dawn."

"Yes! The darkness before dawn." Kadanfu said.

"Jiang, I don't know why this happened." Gaidar said.

After hearing this, Jiang Yan was silent for a while. The specific reasons were analyzed quite clearly by later generations.

After the 70s, the Russian bear reached its economic and military peaks and maintained a global offensive against the West. At that time, the Russian bear's military power almost broke the spirit of the entire West, but when the Russian bear's light went out in 1990, people discovered that the Russian bear had burned almost everything in the house to emit that dazzling light.

毛熊在80年代初已形成极度的军工经济特征。军品占机器制造业的60%以上，军事支出占国民总产值23%，到80年代末上述指标分别提高到80%和28%。毛熊破产的原因是强大武力建立在虚弱而原始的粗放经济基础上，所以他们失败了。

In the mid-1970s, while becoming the world's largest oil exporter, the U.S. also became the world's largest importer of grain and food. Despite the life-and-death ideological struggle with the West, the U.S. has been deeply involved in the international trade system dominated by the West. By the 1980s, more than half of the U.S.'s foreign exchange earnings came from oil exports, while more than half of its foreign exchange expenditures were used to import grain and food. Therefore, the economic situation of the U.S. is directly dependent on the fluctuations of world oil and grain prices, the overall demand for oil and food in the world, and the price and supply manipulation of Western countries such as the United States.

It was because Western countries, led by the United States, saw this situation later that they started to take action on oil. Without sufficient foreign exchange, there would be no food, which is also the reason for the food shortage.

Another issue is statistics.

In fact, the Russians have reached a considerable height in the study of planned economy. The Russian economist Kantorovich made outstanding contributions to the theory of optimal resource allocation for his book "Mathematical Methods in Production Organization and Planning Management" and won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. In theory, Kantorovich's research can achieve the optimal allocation and utilization of resources across the whole society, that is, under the existing resource conditions, the whole society can obtain the maximum production with the minimum labor consumption. The production plan obtained from this is called the optimal plan.

A scholar once summarized that the statistics of the national economy of the Russian bear have always looked good on paper, because they have the invincible weapon of the State Planning Commission of the Russian bear.

The State Planning Commission adjusts various planned indicators for the national economic production of the Russian bear several times a year, and then each unit "achieves" these indicators on paper. For example, the largest poultry farm in Kazakhstan has an indicator of producing 10 eggs per day. This number is also reported to the State Planning Commission, and 3 to 4 eggs are listed as "broken." The feed received by the farm every day is also 15% to 20% less than the "plan", indicating that other departments are also using the same method of shortage to complete their own "plans"

Agriculture is still the same, with production estimated before harvest each year and these figures announced as actual production. This conceals the various losses in the harvesting, transportation, and storage stages (due to the backward infrastructure and storage technology of the bears, this waste reached an appalling level in the 65s and 70s). As a result, the actual amount of grain stored in warehouses is only about % to % of the announced production.

On paper, it can be said that the Russians have an abundance of supplies. The previous short-term abundance of goods also created this illusion. They did not conduct a serious count, which led to a shortage of supplies.

(End of this chapter)