Manaus, Brazil.
Aboriginal Brothers Farm, tobacco growing area.
Growing tobacco causes considerable damage to the soil. The tobacco growing area is located at the outermost part of the farm, close to the Amazon jungle, and only 800,000 acres are planted.
Since the upper, middle and lower areas of tobacco leaves mature at different times, tobacco leaves used to make flue-cured tobacco are not suitable for mechanized harvesting and can only be harvested manually one by one. The ones at the bottom are harvested first, as the ones above need to grow longer in sequence. Otherwise, immaturity will affect the color quality after roasting.
Chu Dexian is a farmer in Shaozhou who has been growing tobacco for many years and is very proficient in tobacco roasting. He is 45 years old this year, which is the prime of life for a farmer.
Last year, he was invited by the Aboriginal Brothers Farm to serve as deputy director and chief technical engineer of the tobacco-growing area. His basic monthly salary is equivalent to 5,000 kilograms of pork, not including the year-end bonus and a series of subsidies.
Standing next to the endless tobacco field, Chu Dexian took out a cut newspaper from his pocket, then took out a tobacco tube, poured some tobacco on the newspaper, rolled the newspaper into a trumpet shape and held it in his mouth, took out a bamboo fire starter from his waist, opened the lid, blew twice, lit the newspaper, and took a deep puff.
Immediately, he exhaled a puff of white and black smoke, took the cigarette out of his mouth, pressed his nose with the thumb of his left hand and blew his nose. After blowing his nose, he wiped his fingers on the clothes in front of his chest, rubbed his feet on the ground, sniffed, and put the cigarette in his mouth again.
He took two steps forward, picked up a leaf and looked at it in his hand for a while. Chu Dexian sighed: "The land is good, the sun is good, this tobacco leaf will not be bad."
Holding the tobacco leaves in his hand, Chu Dexian walked towards his office.
There was a microphone in Chu Dexian's office, which was directly connected to the radio station. After entering the office, Chu Dexian picked up the microphone, rang it twice to test it, and then shouted, "Open it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, crowds of people came out of the three dormitories in the planting area and ran towards the tobacco fields.
The workers in the tobacco-growing areas come from a variety of sources, including tobacco farmers recruited from China, trainees from Southeast Asia, and most importantly, people from South America, including people from all over the world.
Chu Dexian shouted in Chinese, and few people could understand him. But it didn't matter, the workers all knew what was going on. As long as the broadcast sounded in the morning with words they couldn't understand, it meant that they had to work, and if it sounded again in the evening, it meant they had to finish work.
You don't have to call for lunch at noon, the canteen will drive a car to deliver lunch to the field. In the tobacco field, there are scattered thatched huts where you can take a nap at noon. There are also public toilets and showers next to the huts. If it is too hot, you can take a shower.
A helicopter was flying at a low speed above the tobacco fields. In the cabin, Chen Jingyang, vice president of Yunxiao Tobacco Group, was sticking his head out to inspect the tobacco leaves below.
Yunxiao Tobacco Group was jointly established by the tertiary industry company of the indigenous Brothers Farm and an investment company owned by Nan Ruoyin that has not yet been registered and has not even had a name decided. It is considered the fifth-level subsidiary of Shennong Nanliang.
Chen Jingyang, Hu , was formerly the deputy production director of a small cigarette factory in China. He was proficient in all aspects of cigarette production and was poached to serve as the group's vice president, responsible for the group's technical management.
The helicopter flew over the tobacco field and then flew to the farm's dock.
At the dock, a small cargo ship was docked there, and farm workers were happily carrying various frozen seafood from the ship to the dock.
Every month, the supply ship of Jiang Shang Fisheries' South American branch delivers seafood to the indigenous brother farms, and also takes away some fresh fruits and vegetables from the farms.
Some fishing boats would stay at sea for half a year or even a year. In order to ensure that the crew could eat fresh vegetables and meat, Jiang Shang Fishery established its own logistics supply fleet, which was scattered all over the place and exchanged goods with the nearby farms of Hou Ji Agriculture.
This model is very popular among various farms. It is a very enjoyable thing to eat the vegetables grown by yourself, the beef, mutton and pork raised by yourself, and occasionally have some seafood.
Manisa Province, Eastern Türkiye.
Huang Hexiang, president of Yunxiao Tobacco Group, is inspecting the quality of tobacco leaves in the tobacco fields. Although Turkish tobacco also adopts a monopoly system, tobacco farmers cannot sell tobacco leaves directly to buyers. They are all purchased by the Tobacco and Alcohol Bureau. However, it is impossible to evaluate the product and quality in advance without walking around the fields.
After meeting Nan Yi, Ueto Masami sent Elena to Noginsk, Luhansk, and Novosibirsk from far to near. Her purpose was to find a location for Yunxiao Tobacco Group to build a cigarette factory.
The Soviet revisionists implemented a monopoly on tobacco, but now the tobacco monopoly system is being abolished and the tobacco market is showing signs of being fully opened to the outside world.
When Nan Yi was a graduate student, after hearing the term "shock therapy", he has been paying attention to its proposer, American economist Jeffrey Sachs.
The stabilization plan that Jeffrey Sachs implemented while serving as an adviser to the Bolivian president helped reduce Bolivia's inflation rate from 40,000% per year to 10% per year. He later provided advice on financial reforms to governments of Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and other countries.
Until the past two years, Sachs was invited to prepare a radical economic transformation plan as an economic reform advisor to the Polish Solidarity movement; assisted the Slovenian government in introducing a new national currency, assisted the Mongolian government in macroeconomic reforms and privatization, and so on.
Whether it is "shock therapy" or "privatization", they are both very wonderful terms for Nan Yi.
After leaving the Modan Barracks, Nan Yi came to Gorky Park. After walking around, he found a chair to sit down and started reading the past issues of Pravda that he had collected a few days ago.
As early as the late 1980s, radical reform ideas emerged in the Soviet revisionist theoretical circles.
All this stems from the economic difficulties of the Soviet revisionists. It's not that God has not given the Soviet revisionists opportunities. As early as the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet revisionists' foreign exchange earnings increased greatly due to the skyrocketing oil prices. At that time, they had the opportunity to readjust the deformed economic structure with serious imbalances in light and heavy industries.
Unfortunately, the Soviet revisionist upper echelons did not seize this opportunity. They used their precious foreign exchange for the arms race and for purchasing large quantities of consumer goods from abroad to improve the people's living standards.
As a result, when oil prices plummeted in the late 1980s, some problems that had been concealed by the rise in oil prices were gradually exposed. Not only did the Soviet revisionists fall into economic difficulties, but they also faced a political crisis. Under such circumstances, it was not surprising that radical reform ideas emerged in the country.
In May last year, young economist Yavlinsky proposed the "400-day plan". At the end of August, commissioned by Gorbachev and Boris (Ye), Academician took the lead in formulating the "500-day plan". However, due to the struggle between parties, these plans were not implemented.
There is an economist in Moscow named Yegor Gaidar, who is only 35 years old this year, and his life seems to be a cheat.
Graduated from Moscow State University in 1980;
From 1980 to 1986, he worked as an assistant researcher at the Department of Economics of Moscow State University, and as a researcher and chief researcher at the All-Union Academy of Sciences of the State Committee of Science and Technology.
1983-1985, member of the expert group of the National Economic Reform Commission;
From 1986 to 1987, he was the chief researcher and senior researcher of the Institute of Economic and Scientific and Technological Development Forecasting of the Academy of Sciences during the reform period of Lao Ge;
From 1987 to 1990, he served as editor of the important theoretical journals of the CPSU, CP Magazine and Pravda, and director of the Economic Department;
It was during this period that Gaidar paid close attention to the economic reforms taking place in Poland, and published many articles in newspapers praising and advocating shock therapy. Gaidar can be said to be a believer in shock therapy.
After leaving Pravda, Gaidar served as director of the Institute of Economic Policy of the Soviet Revisionist Academy of Sciences and the Academy of National Economics.
Nan Yi was familiar with the name Yegor Gaidar. He had seen this name from time to time in reports about Boris in his previous life. He would be an important member of Boris's Russian government in the near future.
As an economist and a senior government official, and someone who advocates shock therapy, it goes without saying that Gaidar will be a major promoter and executor of the shock therapy that Russia is about to implement.
Nan Yi has read the theory of shock therapy in its entirety. In his personal opinion, shock therapy is definitely a good theory. As long as it is read seriously, it is unlikely to go astray. If someone gets a broken leg, the blame will be placed on the person who read the theory.
Nan Yi estimates that the reason why Russia adopted the shock therapy proposed by Jeffrey Sachs was because Jeffrey Sachs was indeed a capable person.
When Jeffrey Sachs served as an economic adviser to Bolivia and other Latin American countries in 1985, he proposed a radical anti-crisis program to address the hyperinflation and achieved positive results. The inflation rate dropped from 24,000% in 1985 to 21.5% in 1986.
In addition, Sachs also used shock therapy when he served as an economic adviser in Eastern European countries such as Poland, and achieved good results in these countries, especially Poland. Not only because of historical factors, the Soviet revisionists paid more attention to this country, but also the situation in Poland was very similar to that in Russia, and they had many common pain points. Poland's effective measures should not be bad if transplanted to Russia.
The second reason should be political. Nan Yi hasn’t figured it out yet. He needs to understand the current situation and factions in the Kremlin.
Nan Yi vaguely remembered that Russia's shock therapy involved large-scale privatization. As for the privatization model, it seemed to be "securitization." As for what kind of securitization it was, he couldn't remember. When he saw the content about this, he had no idea about securities. He didn't understand anything about it, so it was impossible for him to have a deep impression.
"When I get old, I will leave a message for my grandchildren. I don't know which will come first, tomorrow or time travel. Learn more, remember more, and be prepared."
It took Nan Yi two hours to read through all the newspapers. During the rest of the day, he went to the Central Racecourse to have lunch, and then wandered around the bustling area of ​​Moscow.
In the evening, when Nan Yi was having dinner, Alexei came back to report.
"Boss, I visited the Modan Barracks this morning and felt that it was very suitable for transformation into a leather city. Later, through the contact of the commander of the 7th Company, Vatutin, I met with the commander of the 358th Regiment, Mikhail. He was very interested in my proposal, but said he would consult with the commander of the 3rd Guards Division, Maslenki."
"Have you seen Maslenki?" Nan Yi asked as he cut a piece of beef and put it in his mouth.
"Not yet, we just talked on the phone." Alexei looked at Nan Yi hesitantly and said, "Maslenky meant for the person behind me to talk to him."
Nan Yi put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, placed the napkin on the table, then picked up the red wine glass and shook it, staring at the red wine in the glass, thinking in his mind.
After thinking for a while, Nan Yi put down his glass and said, "Before Maslenki said this to you, did he pause, like talking to someone?"
Alexei recalled the entire conversation with Maslenki in the afternoon, and then said: "There was a pause in the middle, about fifteen seconds."
Nan Yi nodded and said, "Okay, let's do this for now. Go to bed early, get up early tomorrow, and go out for a walk with me."
"OK."
After Alexei left, Jincuibao came to Nan Yi and said, "Boss, I found someone following my car this afternoon. The method was very professional. I suspected they were from the KGB. I didn't get rid of them, so they should have followed me here."
"Interesting, the KGB came to our door so quickly."
"Not surprising, the KGB has a Military Administration Bureau." said Crunchy Burger.
…
Less than ten kilometers away from the Model Worker Apartment, the Chief of Staff of the 3rd Guards Division, Altonyan, got out of the car and walked into a villa, which was the residence of Yepisov, the director of the Military Administration Bureau.
The Military Administration, also known as the Third Administration, consisted of twelve departments that monitored the entire Soviet army, including the activities of the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff, and the Red Army Intelligence Bureau.
KGB personnel were involved in the army, navy, air force, and border guards (directly under the KGB). Even the military and internal affairs forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had KGB personnel holding important positions. Even the missile forces, nuclear weapons forces, and the Moscow Military District had KGB personnel.
KGB officers were stationed on every front of the Soviet army. Although they wore military uniforms, they reported directly to the KGB headquarters, and officers could be exempted when necessary. They had their own spy system in the army, monitoring the dynamics of each unit and each person, especially the officers' thoughts, and often investigated and controlled them ideologically to ensure that the army would not rebel against the leaders.
The KGB constantly monitored the thoughts of every active soldier, from the Ministry of Defense to the company level, especially in terms of ideology. If there was even the slightest sign of unhealthiness, a purge would be carried out to prevent the infection of other soldiers.
Alton Yang walked into the study and saluted a sturdy but slightly obese elderly man sitting on the sofa, "Director."
"Altonyan, sit down." Yepisov pointed to the sofa next to him.
As soon as Altonyan sat down, he said, "Director, someone contacted Maslenki today and wanted to rent the Modan Barracks. I happened to be in Maslenki's office at the time. I heard that the person who contacted was Alexei, so I prompted Maslenki to ask the person behind the other party to come out for a talk."
"Alexei..." Yepisov recalled, "The one brought by the Japanese woman Ueto Masami?"
"Yes, I asked Lehrlin to follow Alexei. He followed him all the way to Building 15 of the Model Worker Apartment. Lehrlin spotted a suspicious person there and didn't dare to follow him into the building."
"What suspicious person?"
"It should be a bodyguard."
"Altonyan, tell me your guess." Yepisov said thoughtfully.
"Adam is here."
When Yepisov heard what Altonyan said, he stood up and walked to a safe, opened it, took out a document and opened it. In the upper right corner of the document, there was a photo of Nan Yi.
There is no doubt that what Yepisov has in his hand is Nan Yi's information.
Yepisov flipped through the materials he had read many times, thinking deeply.
Ever since the KGB's participation in the failed August 19th coup and the imprisonment of the Chairman, the KGB has become precarious. According to information obtained by Yepisov, Gorbachev has planned to liquidate the KGB, and nothing good will be waiting for him.
Yepisov had already begun to have the idea of ​​giving up.
Because he wanted to retire and also wanted to live a decent life after retirement, Yepisov thought of making money.
"Altonyan, find out whether Adam is here or not. If he is, I want to meet him. Whether we can live a decent life in the future may depend on him."
"Yes." Alton stood up and saluted.
For some reason, Altonyan particularly likes to salute during this period. Perhaps it is because he knows that he will soon lose the qualification to salute, and every less time he salutes, it is precious and he cherishes it especially.