Volume 6: The Great Change Chapter 0840 Before Opening
Bolshoi Theatre.
On the stage, Farok Ruzmatov and Nina Ananiashvili are performing the ballet "Don Quixote - Grand Pas de Deux in Act III".
In the fifth row of the audience, Yepisov handed a piece of paper to Nan Yi. Nan Yi, who was staring at the stage, took the paper and put it in his pocket without even looking at it.
"Only $500,000 in cash is needed," said Yepisov.
"In the car."
"You don't need to give it to me today. Give it to my subordinate Leerlin tomorrow."
On the stage, a dance ended, and Farok Ruzmatov and Nina Ananyashuvili posed and stood still. Nan Yi clapped his hands and turned to say, "My subordinate, Sergei, your KGB veteran, will be the one to handle my side from now on. I will notify you in advance if there is a replacement."
"good."
The applause stopped, Farok Ruzmatov and Nina Ananiashvili left the stage, and after a moment of silence, Farok Ruzmatov appeared on the stage again and began to dance solo.
"Mr. Yepisov, if I want to set up a paging station in Moscow to serve Chinese traders, who should I contact?"
Yepisov replied: "Just a few days ago, the Eighth Directorate responsible for technical communications and the Sixteenth Directorate responsible for electronic intelligence gathering and radio interception were separated from the KGB and reorganized into the Communications Committee, headed by Felenin."
"Episov, I hope that we can become more than just a relationship of interest. How about we become partners?"
"I have no objection, Adam," said Yepisov, after thinking for a moment.
"Then let me change the way I put it." Nan Yi nodded slightly, "The purpose of building a paging station is to assist projects like Modan Barracks. The profit that the paging station can generate each year is very limited. I only plan to take half of the profit. For the remaining half, I hope you can help me give it to the right person.
For you personally, starting from Modan Barracks, you can get 10% of the profits from all the plans and legal businesses we operate together. I mean the profits that belong to you personally, and the rest will be included in the cost expenditure. "
Yepisov's expression became serious. "Long-term effectiveness?"
"5% of it is valid for a long time, which is the right you should enjoy as a shareholder; the other 5% is what you enjoy in your current position, once..."
Nan Yi didn't finish his words, but he believed that Yepisov could not fail to understand his meaning.
Yepisov said meaningfully: "Adam, you are a very good partner."
"Yes, I think so too." Nan Yi said without any modesty: "So, happy cooperation?"
"It's a pleasure to work with you. I will be responsible for solving the problem of the paging station."
Nan Yi shook hands with Yepisov and asked, "I have a question to ask you. Who was responsible for investigating the Vasily Group?"
"You want revenge?"
"How is that possible? This is a perfectly normal process. Why would I want to retaliate? I'm just a little curious."
Yepisov hesitated and said, "Vladimir, the agent who was originally stationed in East Germany to be responsible for economic intelligence, has now left the KGB and is working for the International Liaison Committee of Leningrad City."
"Thanks."
Nan Yi thanked him, stood up, and walked towards the exit with steady steps.
In fact, his heart was in turmoil. "I never expected, I really never expected that he would reveal my secrets. It seems that I need to arrange a trip to Leningrad."
In the next few days, Nan Yi temporarily put aside his personal affairs and began to busy himself with sacred official business. He first went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to complete the necessary procedures, and then looked for a house.
After searching for a long time, we chose a three-and-a-half-story building with a wall at No. 316 Xincun Street. The area of a single floor is 320 square meters. Half of the roof is covered with tiles, and the other half is an attic without tiles, and people can go up to the roof.
With the green light all the way, he bought the house for 2.2 million rubles, and No. 316 Xincun Street became the Honorary Consulate of Delnan in Moscow. Nan Yi now had a closed safe island in Moscow, and he officially took office as the honorary consul.
Sitting in the office, I looked through the documents sent from Pavama, the capital of Delnan - there are only three Delnan citizens in the Soviet revisionist territory, and they are all one family. Three months ago, their hometown was Hujian, but now it has become their ancestral hometown.
Although the information did not indicate why they came to the Soviet Union, Nan Yi could guess with his appendix that the three of them were traders, but he did not know what they were trading here.
There is no pressure on the "national citizens" side, and the only thing left is the visa issue. There is nothing to be busy about. Delnan has visa-free access to most countries. If you want to go to Delnan, just buy a plane ticket and fly there directly. You don't have to come to Nan Yi to see his face.
With nothing to do, Nan Yi's dedication to public service only lasted for two days. On the third day, he started to busy himself with his own personal affairs.
Holding a teacup, Nan Yi brought Kukov, who was from the KGB squad of the advance platoon, to the yard to talk to him about setting up a security company.
Arriving under an apple tree, Nan Yi jumped on the spot, picked an apple from the tree, put it under his nose to smell it, and threw the apple to Kukov, "Have you contacted your former colleagues?"
Kukov wiped the apple on his sleeve, brought it to his mouth and took a bite. "For confidentiality, no."
"From today on, you don't have to go back to the advance platoon. You can move back home and spend more time with your wife and children. You can also contact your old colleagues who were laid off. If they are willing to leave their hometown, I can arrange a job for them. Well, it's a job that's on the edge of life. You know the salary and benefits, so you can tell them directly.
If it is difficult to leave their hometown, you can give them a job..." Nan Yi paused, and then said: "Your new position is to serve as the manager of the Command and Conquer Security Company, which is responsible for providing security for our own industries.
In order to avoid causing excessive concern among some people, the security team should not have too many former KGB personnel, preferably no more than 20%, and the main members should preferably be retired police officers, ordinary retired soldiers, and active economic police officers. "
[① The police during the Soviet revisionist period were not actually called police. The Russian word for the police was “militia”. It was not until 2011 when the federal law “On the Police” was signed that Russia began to change the name of the militia to police. In theory, the KGB is the police, the secret police. In order to avoid changing the name, I will just use the word police.
② The economic police is an armed garrison force of the Soviet revisionists responsible for protecting the country's important large-scale factories, mines and enterprises. They will soon be reorganized into a state-owned security company. They can be hired as long as they pay, of course, for legal matters. "In principle" it is impossible to hire them to help rob. ]
"On-duty economic police? How do we resolve their identities?" Kukov asked.
It turned out that Kukov was just an armed member of the KGB. He mastered various combat skills but did not have the versatility of an agent.
"It's very simple. You go find a company that has economic police guards but is not doing well, talk to the company's leaders, and ask them to second a group of people to help us. By the way, you are not good at communication, that's ok, find someone who is good at it to help you.
You will be in charge of the command and conquest. I will not send anyone to you. I will only give you a sum of start-up capital. From the registration onwards, you will be responsible for all matters. This company belongs to you in name only. "
Neither the Soviet revisionists nor Russia have relaxed the gun ban. After the security company is established, it is very difficult to apply for gun ownership. It is necessary to recruit a group of economic police who can legally own guns.
As for the Command and Conquer Security Company, Nan Yi really intended to give full responsibility to Kukov. He only wanted the company to perform its basic security functions and would not rely on or trust it too much. Anyone who wanted to interfere could do so at will, and he would not let this company execute any matters that were too confidential.
"clear."
"Campus beauty, give the money to Kukov."
Nan Yi gave an order and climbed up the apple tree to observe the twigs and branches on the treetop. His grafting addiction came over him. He wanted to graft pear branches onto the apple tree, and they had to be apple pears.
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The sun sets, and half of the sky is dyed with the remaining clouds.
In the corridor on the third floor of the Modan Barracks, Nan Yi stood there quietly, gazing at the slowly fading sunset in the sky. Ueto Masami stood on his right, talking on the phone with someone.
On the handrail, a stick of sandalwood had been burned for the most part, and the ashes fell off one by one, forming a miniature hill. From time to time, workers carrying solid wooden beds and solid wooden tables passed by in the corridor, and the sounds of coordination and collision could be heard from time to time, but Nan Yi's heart was at peace.
Nan Yi was distracted and thinking.
In three days at most, Friendship Leather City will be ready for use. The next thing to do is to attract investment, starting with supporting services. The restaurant will be self-operated and people are already waiting. The convenience store will also be self-operated and people can be transferred from Vasily Supermarket.
The service of safekeeping valuables and funds needs to be upgraded. Vasily Bank can directly open micro branches here to attract traders to deposit their money in the bank with the quality of service.
The phone bar must be self-operated. The price difference for international long-distance calls is still quite large. Paging (calling someone to answer the phone) can be charged on a per-call basis. The translation agency and the phone bar must be next to each other, so that they can conveniently provide telephone translation services, as well as secretary or any other job services.
You also need to install a programmable switching system and provide extension installation services for the rooms, which can earn you the difference in phone charges and monthly rental fees.
The facilities to be rented out include a barber shop, a laundry room, a bathroom, a foot bath room, a video room and videotape rental, a medical station; an electrical appliance store, we can talk to a domestic home appliance manufacturer and ask them to come over to explore the international market.
In addition to basic corridor and outdoor cleaning, the property department can also provide value-added indoor cleaning services;
Even if you buy a TV and a VCR, you cannot watch videos every day. When you wake up in the morning, you can turn on the TV and listen to the greetings from your motherland's TV station, "Good afternoon, dear viewers." The strong local accent and warm greetings only require you to pay $15 a month for satellite and cable TV. I believe many people will accept this.
When the last trace of sandalwood turned into ashes, Nan Yi came out of his distraction and saw that Ueto Masami was still on the phone. Nan Yi motioned for her to continue and he walked downstairs.
Most of the time, Nan Yi only needs to point out a direction and set a goal. The rest is done by Scarlett supervising, Liang Huiwen and Ueto Masami working hard. Nan Yi says he is busy, but in fact he spends most of the year wandering around. The three girls are really busy, the kind that never touches the ground.
Masami Ueto is in Moscow, but the things she may be in charge of may be in the South Pole and the North Pole. Nan Yi asked her to be stationed in Moscow to show the focus of her work, but it does not mean that Masami Ueto can let go of the affairs that need to be managed.
Nan Yi went downstairs to find the company commander of the Seventh Company, Vatutin, and discussed with him the idea of generating income.
When the guys move in, when it's late at night and everyone is asleep, there will always be some who feel lonely and want to find a girl from Moscow or other places to chat and relieve their boredom. No matter what they come for, as long as they walk in, they have to pay the "road maintenance fee".
Girls usually wear high heels, which cause great damage to the road surface. It is only natural to charge them some road maintenance fees. After collecting the money, there is no formal invoice. Just give them a receipt, and they can take the receipt to ask the client or the entertainment company behind them for reimbursement.
After chatting with Vatutin, Nan Yi toured the entire barracks under Vatutin's leadership.
There are a lot of open space and a forest in the Modan Barracks, but it does not have its own logistics system, so it does not have any self-reliant initiatives such as breeding and planting. Looking at the open space and the forest, Nan Yi came up with the idea of setting up a small breeding farm and planting farm.
Thousands of people will live in the Modan Barracks, and the slop produced every day can easily feed a dozen pigs. The grove can also be sprinkled with grass seeds, and some earthworms and mole crickets can be raised. Some of the profits from the crops in the fields can be used as feed. It is entirely possible to build a pig farm with five to six hundred adult pigs and three to four hundred piglets.
Nan Yi racked his brains to find every possible way to increase revenue and reduce costs in the Modan Barracks. He was under a lot of pressure. Every day when he opened his eyes, he had to spend at least $41,000. If he didn't think about earning more or saving more, then who was he working hard for throughout the year?
In October, Nan Yi met with Fei Lenin from the National Communications Committee and finalized the specific cooperation intention for the Ganfeng Paging Station. Nan Yi would be responsible for the funding and daily management, while Fei Lenin would be responsible for the base station construction and technical maintenance. Of course, Nan Yi would still be responsible for the cost expenditure.
Not only does Nan Yi have to give out 50% of its shares, it also has to help support a group of redundant employees. There is no choice but to support them. The six words "national communications security" are a hurdle that Nan Yi cannot get around. Fortunately, the redundant employees do not draw salaries for nothing, but the benefits they have to pay are definitely greater than the labor value they create.
Yiwu, Huagong Road, the president's office of Nan Guo Hongdou Commercial Real Estate Development.
President Lou Yuchun was holding a secondment letter in his hand, distracted.
The person on secondment letter was Gong Ziqiang, the company's vice president, who was to be seconded to Moscow to assist a sister company in developing a wholesale market. The fact that the person on secondment was a vice president who was very busy with official duties made Lou Yuchun have bad associations.
In July, Nan Guo Hong Dou just underwent a financial audit. In August, the company's original finance officer was transferred away and a new finance officer, Wu Buqing, was brought in. According to the previous rule that financial positions were rotated every two years and were all carried out after the year-end accounting, this was not a normal rotation.
There is no need to say whether Gong Ziqiang has a problem or not. The cost expenditure of the projects he is responsible for will be about 5% higher. Although he always has reasons to make excuses, he is not a fool, the original finance department is not a fool, and Boss Nan is even less of a fool.
Is transferring people to Moscow a temporary move to see the results, or is it a warning to others and a deterrent?
Lou Yuchun couldn't help but think about it. After all, Gong Ziqiang was related to him. It was he who brought him into Nan Guo Hong Dou and promoted him step by step. If something really happened, he would have a hard time explaining himself.
Thinking about this, Lou Yuchun picked up the phone and dialed.
In the cafeteria of the Seventh Company, Nan Yi and Vatutin sat at a table and ate the standard lunch of the army. A little mashed potatoes, some cabbage, two slices of bread, and a cup of mixed black tea was the soldiers' lunch, and there was no smell of meat at all.
Scooping mashed potatoes with a spoon, Nan Yi sighed that the Soviet revisionist economy was really in bad shape. The Seventh Company was a company of the Guards Division, stationed in the capital, not a border defense force in a remote area. The food here was only of this standard. One can imagine how bad the food was in some troops that were not loved by their grandmas or uncles.
Nan Yi wanted to improve the food of the Seventh Company so that the young men could have meat for every meal and fruits. Cigarettes should also be supplied. Regardless of whether they smoke or not, each person should be given two packs a month.
Just as he was thinking about it, the school beauty came up behind Nan Yi, whispered, and handed him the phone. Nan Yi apologized to Vatutin, took the phone and walked out of the cafeteria.
"Hey, Lao Lou, what's up?"
Lou Yuchun: "Boss, I want to ask about Ziqiang's secondment."
"Ask."
Lou Yuchun was silent for a while, then said, "Boss, Ziqiang and I are related."
"I know. 724,136 yuan. This is the money of all shareholders, including your share. Tell him to make up the money and come to Moscow as soon as possible. We are in urgent need of someone who knows the wholesale market."
Lou Yuchun: "Thank you, boss."
"You're welcome, Laolou. It's easy to get lost in the bright lights and nightlife. It's good to come back and reminisce about the good old days. You haven't been to the fields for years, right?"
Lou Yuchun: "Six or seven years."
"It's just right. It's time to harvest the late rice. Give yourself a day off and go home to help out. Go to the ridge of the field and look for the muddy trouser leg you lost. Let Vice President Gong come over boldly. What he did was not a big mistake. I will give him a chance."
After saying that, Nan Yi hung up the phone and went back to the cafeteria to continue his lunch.
He contacted Ge Cuizhu and asked her to send people to Modan Barracks to reclaim land and raise pigs, in preparation for the next step of going to Siberia to establish a farm ; he divided the business of Friendship Leather City, registered N companies, and then contacted Huang Saner and asked her to recruit for "special positions" in Beijing.
"Special positions" are special in terms of labor remuneration. The company will not only not pay wages, but will also charge new employees an annual fee, which is the so-called paid work. Those with rich experience in trading will be charged more, while fresh graduates will be taken care of and can be charged less.
People were sent to Moscow University to recruit part-time workers, offering a wage of $1 per hour, plus performance-based compensation and commissions. It was not easy to recruit several college students from China who were studying here. Once the people were in place, they still had to undergo pre-job training, and because of the shortage of staff, Nan Yi personally conducted some of the training.
The owner of the barber shop was introduced by Bao Huantou. He had no money to pay the rent, so Nan Yi could only let him pay it back first and pay it back slowly when the business was booming. However, the rent could be owed, but the money for the "work visa" could not be owed. The couple paid $1,500 a year to each other, $3,000 for the couple. Friendship Leather City had its first income.
For the laundry, we found a local Moscow lady who was running a laundry business. She had a lot of contacts with Chinese traders and was optimistic about the prospects of Friendship Leather City. She readily paid a year's rent without wasting a minute, and started decorating the place right after signing the contract.
After inquiring, he found out that the old lady was a Jew, which made Nan Yi have to say it was no wonder.
The bathroom business is a good business. There is no shortage of customers for seven or eight months a year. The rent is relatively expensive. Several people have come to see it and were scared away by the high rent. So it is still unrented for the time being.
The rent for the foot bath room is more expensive, but it is easy to rent. When the second person who came to see it heard that it was an exclusive business, he quickly decided to rent it.
The video hall and videotape rental business were rented out by a Hong Kong trader who not only valued the business itself, but also used the store as a place to stock up on goods.
The medical station was rented by an old military doctor who had returned from Afghanistan, and it was not known whether he had a side room for treating gonorrhea.
After a round of detours, it was found that the bathroom was rented by the owner of a foot bath house. He wanted to make it so that ordinary people could not afford to take a bath there. Nan Yi righteously demanded that there must be a public bath project. After a few stalemates, the other party finally agreed.
Now that the logistical support is in place, the next step is to attract investment.
October 9th, the second day of the ninth month in the lunar calendar, is Cold Dew, a good day for opening a business.
With less than a week left, Nan Yi asked Bao Huantou to take invitations to places where dealers frequented and invite those who mainly dealt in leather to attend the opening ceremony.
It was impossible for Nan Yi to stand at the forefront and be the owner of Friendship Leather City by himself. Bao Huantou, who had not yet found a project to work on, caught his eye. After some communication, Bao Huantou came to Moscow.
The South Building is the restaurant operated by Friendship Leather City. In order to save time, the restaurant adopts a veneer decoration model. Various semi-finished and finished decoration parts are shipped from outside. The walls and ceilings only need to be installed, which greatly shortens the construction period. The private rooms and the hall are separated to ensure privacy, and the decoration is just like that.
Even so, the decoration of the South Building has not been completed yet and they are working overtime, but the kitchen is already in full swing. Peng Jingchuan's team first helps Cai Haochi's team to prepare the ingredients.
The opening banquet cannot be sloppy. The prepared dishes are not only hard to find in Moscow, but also hard to find in China. Orders have been placed to the shores of Lake Baikal. It is the season for hunting Asian black bears, and the hunters' bear paws can be sold at a good price.
Various wild delicacies from Changbai Mountain and the third-grade linden honey cultivated in Qiantang had their grade labels torn off and were transported to the Moscow airport; eels from the reclamation group, kelp caviar that tastes as good as sturgeon caviar, shad, venomous snakes, centipedes, scorpions, and top-quality local pork were prepared and vacuum-packed and delivered to the Moscow railway station.
An arrow pierced the clouds and shot towards the border. Nan Yirang had already become a big trader on the border. Ye Wei, whose nickname was very famous as "Wei Ye", would come over to help. With so many good ingredients prepared, there had to be someone of high enough status to be responsible for telling the traders who came to the banquet how expensive these things were.
The 10% shares given by Nan Yi were still very useful. When communicating with Yepisov, they could talk less nonsense and get straight to the point.
"The Moscow mayor is Gavriel, a member of the Gore faction. The deputy mayor is Mikhailovich, who is close to Boris and a staunch supporter of Boris. He is also within Boris' core of power. If you want the land near the Olympic Village, you should go to him."
In the open space outside the kitchen of the South Building, Nan Yi and Yepisov sat opposite each other. Nan Yi was eating salty dumplings while Yepisov was eating sweet dumplings with sesame filling.
"Land is the next thing to discuss. The first step is to invite Mihajlovic to attend the opening ceremony of Friendship Leather City. Yepisov, our Chinese businessmen are very superstitious about power and pomp. On the opening day, military personnel and a deputy mayor will attend. This will deeply shock them and make it easier for us to complete the investment promotion work."
"I will be responsible for inviting the military personnel." Yepisov said, "It would be more appropriate for you, Adam, to invite Mihajlovich. He doesn't have a very good impression of the KGB."
Nan Yi ate the last glutinous rice ball, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and nodded, "Fill this up as soon as possible and get it up and running, and there will be a steady stream of profits flowing into our pockets; I can also work on the next project and make our cake bigger and bigger."
“What’s the next project?”
“Queen of Spades Clothing City will include all clothing categories except leather clothes.”
“Need a bigger place?”
"Yes, it would be best if it could accommodate 10,000 people." Nan Yi nodded. "The threshold for ordinary clothing is not as high as that for leather clothing. The business can be operated with less capital, and more merchants will participate in the operation. Therefore, the operation mode of Queen of Spades will be a little different from that of Friendship Leather City. However, I expect Queen of Spades to generate more profits than Friendship Leather City."
"This is good news." Yepisov smiled and said, "I'll be responsible for finding the place. Queen of Spades, Pushkin?"
"Yes, I think this period is very similar to the early 19th century described by Pushkin. The wind of pleasure will blow again. We must be careful that the Ace will become the Queen of Spades."
Nan Yi's words had a hidden meaning. He was telling Yepisov to stop while he was ahead and not to be too greedy.
Yepisov smiled faintly at Nan Yi, "Don't deceive life, and don't be deceived by life. Let us become each other's Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova."
["If Life Deceives You" is written by Pushkin. This poem was written to his girlfriend, Yevbraksiya Nikolayevna Volive, during his exile. He eventually married Goncharova and died in a duel for her.]
Nan Yi looked up at the sky. "It's a little cloudy today, so tomorrow should be a sunny day. Yepisov, how about we go fishing in the suburbs?"
"Now is the season for sturgeon fishing. I have a fishing spot I often go to, and there are a lot of sturgeons there."
"That's great. I'm very good at cooking sturgeon. I'll bring two bottles of good wine. Tomorrow we can enjoy the freshest sturgeon dishes by the lake for a long time. Yepisov, you're in for a treat."
"It just so happens that I know how to grill sturgeon. Adam, you can also try my skills. I will definitely make you praise me." Yepisov responded with a smile.
