Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 1169 Natural Gas Company

"Jiang, now you understand! Boris also gave some quotas to you foreigners who have been of great help to Russia. It can be said that you are not the only one, but you are special." Chubais joked with a smile.

"That's right. You can accept it with confidence. It won't affect your majestic image at all. In the eyes of the people, you will still be the kind and loving Mr. Jiang." Gaidar also interrupted.

After hearing these two people teasing him, Jiang Yan couldn't help but roll his eyes. Although these words sounded like good things, why did he feel uncomfortable? He felt like he was something or other.

"Jiang, how are you going to spend your 40 million US dollars?" Gaidar asked curiously.

Not only Gaidar was a little curious, Chubais was also quite curious. He also wanted to know what kind of enterprise Jiang Yan was going to take over. He believed that no matter what enterprise it was, as long as it was in Jiang Yan's hands, it would definitely develop greatly. As long as Jiang Yan developed well, he didn't mind shaping Jiang Yan and letting others see the benefits of privatization.

Hearing this, Jiang Yan was stunned. He had never considered this at all. But it was not too late now. Jiang Yan carefully calculated in his mind that he would have to deduct 5 million from his quota to invest in the Vodka Automobile Factory. This was not only Arov's wish, but also Jiang Yan's idea. After all, it would be a pity to lose such a huge automobile factory.

This car factory has sales channels and skilled workers, but the only thing it lacks now is the ability to design the car's appearance and performance, which happens to be something Jiang Yan is extremely good at. Not to mention anything else, he has so many car appearance designs in his head that any one of them can beat the current car industry. With these as a foundation, what may be useless to others is a huge cash cow for him.

By designing a new car, Jiang Yan was sure that he could not only sell this car all over Russia, but he could even radiate the whole of Western Europe through Russia, so these must be kept.

Without exception, I want to invest the remaining money into the resource industry.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan looked at the two people and said directly: "I want to invest in Damao Natural Gas Industry Company or some other oil fields."

“The best way is to adopt a joint venture and cooperate with the government.”

"Jiang, are you sure you are not kidding?" Chubais said in disbelief.

"That's right, Jiang, you have to be careful." Gaidar also spoke.

Although natural gas and oil fields are indeed good things, according to what they know, the international prices of oil and natural gas are relatively low now, with oil costing less than twenty dollars per barrel. Moreover, the oil fields in Russia are not as convenient as those in the Middle East for collection. After deducting the transportation costs and labor wages, the profit of each barrel is only a few dollars. At least this little profit is not as much as that made by reselling to factories and shops.

Even if they don't resell, and run the factories and shops well, the goods they produce are much more valuable than oil. For Russia now, filling its stomach, having clothes to wear and toilet paper to use are more important than having gasoline.

In other words, Russia is short of everything right now. As long as it is produced, there will be no problem selling it. It is still a rigid demand. To be honest, oil is not as important as survival.

In addition, they had predicted that Jiang Yan would purchase those factories, and they even had the idea of ​​recommending the factories to Jiang Yan, but what they never expected was that Jiang Yan would choose the energy sector.

Hearing their words, Jiang Yan smiled but said nothing. However, Jiang Yan knew that they meant well. However, Jiang Yan had his own ideas and plans.

To be honest, it is more cost-effective to use this money to buy a factory store, whether it is for resale or for producing goods by oneself.

Unfortunately, reselling is too dirty. Jiang Yan disdains to do this. If he wants to make money, he needs to go through finance, which is much more than this. In addition, Jiang Yan once heard a saying that money that has not been spent is just a bunch of numbers. Now Jiang Yan has a lot of numbers.

Another option is to open a factory in Russia to produce goods. It seems that this is possible. Now, by transporting supplies from China to Russia, you can get two or three times the profit. Not to mention that by producing goods in Russia, the price will be lower and you can earn more.

However, what Jiang Yan is considering now is these managers. To be honest, the managers of those factories in Damao are rotten to the core. With his own quota, if he only buys factories, there will be dozens of them, not to mention other things. This requires a large number of managers. According to the ratio of the number of people in the Zhonghua factory, if he wants to completely take over these enterprises, he will probably have to mobilize more than 500 middle-level cadres from the country. Jiang Yan would not be surprised even if there are thousands of them. Otherwise, how can he manage enterprises with hundreds of thousands of employees?

Moreover, Jiang Yan needs to spend more energy and effort to fully control it.

If the country didn't need me, I would have laid down in the country long ago. At the age of 50, I am still running these businesses. I am either sick or something.

He doesn't want to bring trouble upon himself.

Another most important point is that, judging from the situation in the past, Russia's manufacturing industry has always been in a mess, and this has not changed even after Comrade Vladimir came to power.

Take the heavy industry that Russia is so proud of, for example. The military industry has always been the essence of heavy industry, the most important part, and the one that best reflects a country's industrial strength.

Moreover, the most developed industry during the Soviet period was the military industry, which even made the United States tremble.

But in the more than 20 years since the founding of the Russian Federation, the 4,500-ton Gorshkov frigate has become Russia's highest shipbuilding achievement.

It was originally planned that 2015 ships would be put into service in , but only the first ship was put into service. It can be said that Russia's heavy industry is weak. Almost all the large machines and weapons and equipment that can be produced are left over from the Soviet era.

Even until the time when Jiang Yan traveled through time, the entire Russian military industry was still patching up its old foundations and living off its past success, and had been completely surpassed by the Flower-Growing Powers and the Eagle Sauce.

So if the heavy industry that they are so proud of is in this state, then their weak light industry is simply a mess, and there is no way they can make it work!

If Jiang Yan were asked what is the real thing that supports the survival of Damao, he would definitely answer that it is natural resources. The vast land of Damao has almost inexhaustible natural resources.

Russia not only has vast land, but also has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It is the largest exporter of oil and natural gas and has a large number of various metal deposits, such as iron, copper, nickel, tungsten, gold, silver, etc.

Even Siberia, a country rarely visited by humans, has a large variety of precious fur animals and valuable medicinal plants, and even forests that have been producing for thousands of years.

It can even be said that the economic lifeline of Russia depends on its natural resources, especially natural gas and oil. Every time the United States imposes sanctions on Russia, it starts with natural gas and oil, and the results are immediate and accurate.

Anyway, every sanction is like moving Russia's cheese and making Russia jump up and down.

(End of this chapter)