The passionate years starting from the college entrance examination

Tokyo, Ginza, the most prosperous place in the whole of Tokyo.

Ginza today is different from before. It seems that over the past year or so, due to the increase in mortgage rates, other unexpected events have begun to occur during holidays.

There is a high probability that house prices will fall.

In the past, houses in Ginza were very easy to sell. You could just put them on the market and there would be buyers no matter how high the price was.

But recently, no one has come to inquire about the price.

Takeuchi Shuei, Sumitomo Hikoichi, Mitsubishi Inada and others have returned to Tokyo. They gave a detailed report to the head of the consortium on their cooperation with the California consortium.

A general report had already been made before. After all, their decision still needed the approval of the real person in charge at the Tokyo headquarters.

After the report was completed, the leaders of the six major chaebols fell into collective silence.

They can shout "Bagayalo" and "The Eagle Sauce is going too far", but will it be useful?
Everyone present is a predator at the top of the food chain, and they know very well about the exchange of interests.

There is no free lunch in this world. The winner takes all and the loser loses money. This is the natural law of the survival of the fittest and it cannot be changed.

Since you can't change it, just lie down and enjoy it.

However, even if one knows all this in his heart, as a top predator, who would be willing to do this?
Therefore, silence is their best disguise and their last dignity.

"That's it, then. Get ready and start executing on the scheduled date."

In the end, it was the head of the Mitsui Group, an old man with a white beard named Mitsui Messi who made the final decision, and the matter was finally settled.

After Tokyo had made a final decision, Chen Guohua and his colleagues in Beijing had already started to act.

All the white glove companies, including those in New York, London, Garden City, Tokyo, Hong Kong Island and other places, are ready to go.

This is because this plan, code-named Ghost Hunting, was decided seven or eight years ago, and then in 1985, a plan called Ghost Raiding was implemented.

Several different plans, such as plundering ghosts, ruining ghosts, hunting ghosts, etc., all point to one goal: Tokyo!

Since the goal is to hunt Tokyo, the next thing to do is to loot the place.

When the order was issued and most of the white glove companies kept a close eye on Tokyo, Sergeyevich in Moscow was almost going crazy.

It can even be said to be extremely stressful!

In his office in the Kremlin, Sergeyevich had lost a lot of weight and his white hair had become even thinner.

"What on earth does he want to do? What good will the division bring to them?"

The roar echoed throughout the office, but the sound insulation was so good that the guards outside could not hear it.

But at this moment, everyone in the office was silent and did not dare to speak.

At the end of 1990, as 1991 approached, the clouds over Moscow became darker and darker.

What made Sergeyevich so crazy was that some people had proposed to break away from Moscow and become an independent country.

But even so, Sergeyevich did not think it was his fault. He was angry and even wanted to take action.

But what about in practice?
Even if there was no former opponent Nikolayevich, Sergeyevich's own failed actions accelerated Moscow's fall into the abyss.

Let’s not talk about Nikolayevich himself, but what Sergeyevich did after he took control of the entire Kremlin.

First of all, before taking control of the Kremlin, Sergeyevich had been engaged in agriculture-related work for a long time.

Ustinovich died in March 1985, and Sergeyevich became the new squad leader. At that time, everyone thought that such a young and promising person would lead Moscow out of the trough, but no one thought that he would lead Moscow into the abyss.

In April 1985, Sergeyevich proposed an economic reform program called the Acceleration Strategy.

This is just imitating the reform and opening-up policy of the East, and this accelerated strategy is more radical, violent and fierce.

From the word "acceleration" in the acceleration strategy, we can see that this reform plan is not simple.

Unfortunately, Sergeyevich knew 'nothing' about the economic situation in Moscow.

Simply put, Sergeyevich wanted to return Moscow to its old path of planned economy and emphasis on heavy industry, which had been proven to have serious problems.

In just two years, Moscow's economy has become increasingly worse.

In fact, it is precisely because of this acceleration strategy that products from the East sell better in Moscow.

Because Moscow has returned to its old path, focusing more on heavy industry and paying almost no attention to the development of other areas such as light industry.

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, the manufacturing industry in the mainland has changed day by day.

Not to mention the electronic technology products, which are already unparalleled in the world, even many manufacturing products related to food, clothing, housing and transportation are leading the world.

why?

Just because there are one billion people in the East, plus Chen Guohua, the Amazon butterfly, no matter what the product is, the manufacturing technology must be excellent enough to break through the siege.

Otherwise, you will just be lost in the crowd.

The Eastern-made products that are selected to become export products must be the best of the best.

This kind of oriental manufacturing not only has excellent product quality, but also has an incredibly high cost-effectiveness.

Made in the East at very low cost, the price won’t be very expensive even if it’s exported.

Under the premise of ensuring relatively sufficient profits, the price is definitely a dimensionality reduction blow to similar foreign products.

Not to mention Moscow as a whole, there are not many competitors at all. One can even arrogantly say that the competitors are their peers and rivals from the East.

It's very simple. There are many Moscow nobles like Kombarov. Zhang Qingshan, Zhao Zunmin, Ma Shouchang and others have many such friends.

In other words, almost all high-ranking Moscow nobles were friends of Zhang Qingshan and his friends.

With such a relationship, there are certainly not many "foreign companies" that can enter the Moscow market.

You have to know that people like Zhao Zunmin have been operating in Moscow for more than 20 years. Even a considerable number of Moscow nobles have reached their current position with the support of Zhao Zunmin and others.

Therefore, the entire Moscow economy was in a state of false prosperity, and the problems became more prominent and the contradictions more obvious because of Sergeyevich's acceleration strategy.

Two years later, in 1987, Sergeyevich made another effort to strengthen the autonomy of enterprises.

This time the reform has achieved some results.

However, the entire Moscow's light industry was half-dead, and agriculture was completely hopeless because it could not be saved.

And most importantly, Sergeyevich's efforts this time, which emphasized profits, made some people uneasy. Why?

Because in the subsequent series of economic adjustments, not only did Moscow become worse off, but he also turned around and did other things.

This is the second point that pushed Moscow into the abyss, that is, learning the Western liberalization and democratic reforms.

The person who influenced Sergeyevich to make such reforms was Yavkorev, a spy developed by Washington.

Chen Guohua knew Yavkorev, but he did not let Zhao Zunmin and others interfere in this matter, and even tried to avoid contact with this person as much as possible.

Just do one thing, and that is to keep a close eye on Yavkorev.

The reason is very simple. If Yavkorev had not been developed into a spy by Washington, if Yavkorev had not become friends with Sergeyevich, it would be hard to say whether Moscow would have fallen into the abyss.

But obviously, history is just so coincidental.

After returning from the Maple Leaf Country, Yavkorev entered the Kremlin office. His suggestions to Sergeyevich on democratization, openness, multi-party system and squad leader system were all regarded as the guiding principles by the latter.

Yavkorev began to be in charge of the news and newspaper sector. In a very short period of time, he replaced Aliang's newspaper and magazine directors with people who supported liberalization.

Thus, under the auspices of liberal humanity, a large number of publications distorting Stalin appeared before the people of Moscow.

How can ordinary people know the truth behind this?
They were originally full of confidence in the future of Moscow, but now their minds are completely confused.

By 1990, Sergeyevich completely abolished book and publication censorship, and a lot of Western propaganda entered the Moscow public more violently.

All in all, the whole of Moscow was in chaos.

Originally, at the suggestion of Yavkorev, Sergeyevich had delegated a lot of power to the member states.

Originally, Sergeyevich thought that such a situation would definitely surpass the Federation of Eagle Sauce.

But reality gave him a slap in the face. Today, someone actually asked him to break up.

It was like a bolt from the blue.

In other words, although he had troubled Moscow so frequently and introduced so many reforms, he still underestimated the people's hearts.

On the other hand, Nikolayevich has been acting dishonestly recently, but Sergeyevich can't care about that and wants to deal with the current crisis first.

Otherwise, due to the chain reaction, Moscow would fall apart in the next moment.

"How is it? This batch of supplies is pretty good, right?"

Just as Sergeyevich was furious in the Kremlin, Zhao Zunmin and others appeared in a heavy industrial factory workshop on the outskirts of St. Petersburg in the delta of the Neva River.

At this moment, the person who introduced these supplies to Zhao Zunmin and others was Ivanov, the workshop director of the factory.

There was another big man ahead of Ivanov, that was Kozlov, the third-in-command of St. Petersburg.

This time, it was not Zhao Zunmin and others who took the initiative to contact them, but Kozlov must have seen something, so he was in a hurry to cash in the power in his hands.

Yes, he also wanted to escape from Moscow.

The dark clouds gathering over Moscow had already turned purple.

If I don't escape in time, I'm afraid I'll be finished.

As one of the senior members of the Moscow nobility, Kozlov understood one thing better than anyone: even if Moscow was not finished, he would be finished if an accident happened.

Rather than living in fear in St. Petersburg, it would be better to go abroad and live in peace.

Anyway, he has earned more than 3 billion US dollars in the past few years, all of which has been transferred abroad.

His children have already acquired a lot of assets abroad. With their many years of living experience abroad, plus the more than 3 billion US dollars they now have on hand, it is enough for their family to not have to work for several lifetimes.

Therefore, before leaving Moscow, Kozlov prepared to do something big.

So he took the initiative to contact Zhao Zunmin and others, and began to make full use of his power to sell some "bankrupt old factories".

My goodness! After Zhao Zunmin and the others finished the inspection, they couldn’t help but gasp.

The factory in front of us is a large factory that supplies important parts for fighter jets to military enterprises in the army. It is equipped with extremely advanced heavy industrial manufacturing equipment.

It can be said to be almost a complete set of manufacturing equipment. After it is shipped back to the mainland, all we need to do is recruit skilled technical workers to start production.

No delay at all!

While taking a deep breath, Zhao Zunmin and the others couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

Moscow is a place that is rotten to the core and has completely rotted away.

Moscow, which seems to be still powerful, is actually on the decline and can even be said to be not far from destruction.

"Satisfied, of course we are satisfied, but..." Zhao Zunmin smiled, but Kozlov frowned when he heard it.

Upon hearing this, Ivanov immediately responded:
"But what? Are you still dissatisfied?"

"No, no, no, we have nothing to complain about. We just hope you can make more money."

Zhao Zunmin immediately said that it would be better if more skilled engineers could be recruited, and they would pay 150,000 rubles for each engineer recruited.

Fifteen thousand rubles can still be exchanged into US dollars.

hiss!
This agency fee immediately made Ivanov's eyes widen, and even Kozlov, who had more than 3 billion US dollars, was excited.

Of course, it is hard to say whether you can make this money.

Anyway, for Kozlov, selling assets is a faster way to make money.

Therefore, the task of recruiting can be directly assigned to Ivanov, while Kozlov has already taken Zhao Zunmin and others to other factories.

For one factory, Kozlov could earn between 10 million and 50 million US dollars.

If he didn't do such a profitable business, he would be doing a disservice to the power in his hands.

In just one month, Kozlov made more than 500 million US dollars.

You can imagine how greedy he is.

It can also be seen how long he has been running this place in St. Petersburg.

After getting the money, Kozlov couldn't wait to leave Moscow. (End of this chapter)