July 1st of the Hebrew calendar, West Bank of the Jordan River.
Nan Youqiong wrote down the sins he had committed in the past year on pieces of paper, about ten in total, six or seven of which were related to Nan Yi, such as urinating on tomatoes and leaving them for Nan Yi to eat, damaging the flowers and plants Nan Yi grew, etc.
Perhaps because of rebellion, or perhaps because of lack of companionship, Nan Youqiong would occasionally deliberately cause trouble for Nan Yi.
After writing, Nan Youqiong threw the piece of paper into the flaming iron can, took out the Bible, turned to the Book of Micah, and recited a verse. When he finished reading, he shook his clothes three times in a row, indicating that he had abandoned his sins and become extremely pure.
After finishing everything, Nan Youqiong walked aside and quietly watched Scarlett throw a long, densely written piece of paper into the sea of ​​fire.
When Scarlett's atonement ceremony was over, she came to Nan Youqiong, who asked, "Mom, you have so many sins."
"No, 90% of the blame belongs to you, PaPa." Scarlett squatted down, kissed Nan Youqiong on the cheek and said, "Let's go back to Jerusalem to prepare for the dinner now."
"OK."
Driving back to Jerusalem, the mother and son came to an ancient castle in Jarrad - Adler Castle, which Scarlett bought as a New Year's gift for Nan Youqiong.
After washing up, the mother and son went to the kitchen and began to prepare food for the New Year's dinner.
The Jewish New Year’s Eve dinner is relatively simple, with honey, round bread, apples, fish heads, pomegranates, dates, black-eyed peas, etc., which are few and easy to prepare.
Scarlett shaped the dough into bread and put it in the oven. She opened a box and took out a whole piece of honey. She cut a small piece with a knife and put it in Nan Youqiong's mouth. Then she cut two pieces the size of soap and put them in a glass bowl.
Nan Youqiong tasted the honey carefully and felt that the taste of honey was a little strange. She must have never eaten it before. "Mom, where is this honey from? It tastes a little spicy and has the fragrance of eucalyptus flowers."
“Eucalyptus honey produced by the 102 bee farm of the Reclamation Group in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”
“Why is it the Reclamation Group?”
"Because the Reclamation Group has the most beekeeping technology reserves." Scarlett handed a glass bowl filled with black-eyed peas to Nan Youqiong, "Wash them clean."
Nan Youqiong took it, went to the sink, and said while washing, "I want to call PaPa."
"Use the red phone."
"OK."
Nan Youqiong washed the black-eyed beans, wiped his hands, ran to the study to find the red telephone, and ran back to the kitchen.
As soon as Nan Yi and Lin Shuyi separated, Nan Youqiong called. The father and son chatted for a while, and a quarter of an hour later, Scarlett joined the call.
"Adam, I have invested in two companies. One is called DSW, which has advanced desalination technology. The other is Netafim, which holds many patents for drip irrigation technology."
"Where's Hazera?"
Hazera is a long-established vegetable and crop seed company. It is not well-known outside the industry, but it is well-known within the industry. It has monopolized the supply of many vegetable seeds in many countries.
Scarlett: "We are still negotiating. Hadomi (Chairman of Hazera) doesn't care much about the money. He wants some of our technologies more."
"What technology?"
Scarlett: "Hadomi wants several technologies related to Holstein cows."
"Hmm? Hazera is going into animal husbandry?"
Scarlett: "Hadomi means to do technical reserve and further research."
"What do you mean?"
Scarlett: "Yes, we can. We entered the packaged milk market too late, so our future development is limited. We should focus on developing primary milk supply and storage technology."
Nan Yi: "We will discuss the business direction at Christmas or other times. You can decide on the technical matters. Let's talk about something else. Let Gaojue Satellite design a plan to improve the signal in the Far East and Eastern Europe."
Scarlett: "We can only add satellites."
Nan Yi: "Make a plan first. The fewer satellites the better. Right now the technology is not good enough, so launching too many will be a waste. When the technology is mature enough, we can even wrap the earth."
Scarlett jokingly said, "So, do you want to plan rocket launch technology?"
Nan Yi: "No, we are going to launch Nan's Explorer 1 into space and follow in the footsteps of travelers and pioneers to explore space."
Scarlett: "Adam, are you serious?"
Nan Yi: "Yes, I want to know what is on the back of the moon."
"PaPa, that's an interstellar colony base on Cybertron." Nan Youqiong interrupted.
Nan Yi: "Hmm? Decepticons or Autobots?"
Nan Youqiong: “I don’t know.”
Nan Yi: "Ha, then let's go and have a look. 5 dollars, I bet on the Crazy Party."
Nan Youqiong: "I am an Autobot."
Nan Yi: "Deal, goodbye, Adler, we'll talk next time. Science has no boundaries, but scientists have boundaries. For the sake of the Milky Way, the people of the Milky Way will never be slaves. Happy New Year."
"For the sake of the galaxy, PaPa, bye."
Nan Yi was on the phone, and at Domodedovo International Airport, a private plane had just landed on the runway.
The cabin door was opened, and a short but elegant woman walked up the gangway. Not far away, Boris's good assistant Chubais was already waiting to greet the woman.
This woman had met Nan Yi once in the Scarecrow Village. The eldest daughter of the Mitsui family, Yukiko Mitsui, was already 35 years old but had not yet married. She was highly regarded by the Mitsui family, but because she was a girl, she was at a disadvantage. She had always served as the core think tank of the Mitsui Group. She had been more or less behind all the external actions of the Mitsui Group in the past five years.
Although Japan and the Soviet Union fought two fierce wars and had territorial disputes, the two countries restored diplomatic relations as early as the 1950s and signed a trade treaty and trade payment agreement.
Afterwards, Japan-Soviet import and export trade continued to expand, and because the Japan-Soviet import and export trade structure was complementary, that is, Japan's exports to the Soviet revisionists were mainly machinery and equipment, non-ferrous metals and other processed products; the Soviet revisionists exported to Japan mainly industrial raw materials, wood, oil and other primary products. Until the end of the 1970s, the development of Japan-Soviet import and export trade was relatively stable.
However, in the 1980s, the development of Japan-Soviet economic relations stagnated. The proportion of Japan's trade with the Soviet Union in Japan's total foreign trade once exceeded 2%, but has dropped to 1.5% in recent years. In the first seven months of 1989, Japan's exports to the Soviet Union decreased by 2.8% over the same period of the previous year, while imports increased by 9%.
Economic exchanges between the two countries came to a standstill because the Soviet side emphasized the separation of politics and economy, while Japan always adhered to the position that "politics and economy are inseparable" and emphasized that the return of the Northern Territories was a prerequisite for improving and expanding Japan-Soviet economic relations.
Of course, this is not the main reason. The key factor is the Toshiba incident in 1987, which made Japanese companies adopt a cautious attitude when exporting to the Soviet Union.
There is a saying that "Japan is sinking". Japan is a country with relatively poor land resources. Not only does it lack natural minerals such as oil and metals, the soil itself is also very nutrient-poor, making it difficult to carry out large-scale agricultural production.
What’s even more terrifying is that Japan has to endure natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons all year round.
The reason why Japan's land environment is so bad is actually because the Japanese island plate activity is very active. Its location happens to be the junction of the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate. The earth is undergoing plate movement every minute and every second that ordinary people cannot feel. This has caused a relatively severe impact on the Japanese region.
Japan is currently getting closer and closer to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world. Theoretically, the sinking of Japan seems to be a foregone conclusion, it is just a matter of time.
The claim that Japan is sinking appears frequently in Japanese newspapers and literary works. Many Japanese are very worried about this. Perhaps some force has been spreading and promoting this claim in order to achieve its ulterior motives.
Regardless of how this statement came about, and regardless of whether it is true or false, Japan is in fact exporting capital and labor in a premeditated and planned manner.
In the 1960s, due to the international economic situation and the supply and demand of resources and energy worldwide, Japan had negotiated with the Soviet revisionists for the sake of resources and energy supply, and the two countries cooperated in the plan to develop Siberia.
However, during the second oil crisis, Japan completed the adjustment of its industrial structure and energy consumption structure. In addition, the supply and demand relationship of resources and energy in the world tended to ease. Throughout the 1970s, no new plan for cooperative development of Siberia was formulated, and the corresponding export of large-scale complete sets of equipment to the Soviet Union was not realized.
After entering the 1980s, the Soviet revisionist economic situation further deteriorated, the economic structure was out of balance, scientific and technological progress was slow, economic efficiency declined, and production stagnated, which caused sharp contradictions between social demand and production capacity, and between demand with paying ability and commodity supply.
Under such circumstances, Gorbachev proposed the "acceleration strategy" at the 27th Congress of the CPSU, and then advocated using "new thinking" to comprehensively adjust the Soviet revisionists' foreign economic relations and accelerate the pace of opening up to the outside world.
To this end, the Soviet revisionists first vigorously reformed the economic management system. In August 1986, they established the State Foreign Economic Commission under the Council of Ministers to strengthen macro-leadership of foreign economic relations and coordinate and manage the work of various foreign economic departments throughout the country.
At the same time, the previous over-centralized planned economic system was changed, and joint state-owned enterprises were granted the power to directly engage in foreign economic activities, thus changing the situation in which domestic production was divorced from international market needs and enterprises did not participate in international competition.
Another thing is to strengthen legislation. Since 1986, more than 20 foreign-related laws and regulations have been promulgated. Among them, the Joint Venture Law passed by the Council of Ministers in January 1987 clearly stipulated in legal form for the first time that foreign economic ties should be strengthened through joint ventures, marking the further deepening of the Soviet revisionists' opening up to the outside world.
In 1987, the Soviet revisionists approved the establishment of 23 joint ventures, which increased to 191 in 1988. By September 1989, the number had exceeded 700.
Judging from the direct investment of various countries in the Soviet Union in 1988, Western countries accounted for more than 85%, with Germany ranking first, followed by Finland, Austria, Italy, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. Western European countries accounted for the vast majority.
The industries in which these countries invest in Russia are widely distributed, including machinery, transportation vehicles, electronics, chemicals, resource recycling, wood processing, clothing, food, publishing, sports facilities, hotels and other industries.
Compared with European and American countries, Japan's direct investment in the Soviet Union progressed slowly. In 1987, the Soviet revisionists approved only one Japan-Soviet joint venture, which increased to six in 1988. By October 1989, there were only 15 joint ventures, accounting for about 2% of the total number of joint ventures between the Soviet revisionists and Western countries. There were 19 Japan-Soviet joint ventures.
The Soviet revisionists placed the Japan-Soviet joint venture at the core of Japan-Soviet economic relations and hoped to cooperate in a wide range of fields such as machinery, precision machinery, household appliances, fibers, chemicals, and finance.
However, Japan has always been cautious about making direct investments in the Soviet revisionists, and has limited its investments to relatively small projects, such as processing timber for construction, building sports facilities, and processing aquatic products.
By 1989, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union began to ease, and the Soviet revisionists were removed from the Batumi embargo list.
On the Soviet revisionist side, according to the Joint Venture Law passed in January 1987, the establishment of joint ventures with non-socialist countries must be approved by four levels of agencies below the Council of Ministers; the foreign investment ratio must not exceed 49%, and the chairman of the joint venture must be a Soviet person.
A joint venture is exempt from profit income tax in the first two years of operation, and the tax rate is 30% thereafter. When profits are remitted abroad, a 20% tax is paid.
In September 1987, the Soviet revisionist Council of Ministers passed the "Decision on Supplementary Measures to Improve Foreign Economic Activities under New Operating Conditions", which made two major revisions to the "Joint Venture Law". First, the approval authority for establishing joint ventures with non-socialist countries was delegated to the relevant ministries and the Council of Ministers of the Union Republics; second, the joint venture's "exemption from profit income tax in the first two years of operation" was changed to "exemption from profit income tax in the first two years from the time of profit".
In December 1988, the Council of Ministers adopted the Decision on Further Developing the Foreign Economic Activities of State-owned Enterprises, Cooperatives and Other Social Enterprises, Joint Companies and Organizations, which redefined several major issues regarding the establishment of joint ventures. The main contents are as follows:
The establishment of a joint venture only requires approval from the company's superior authority; the investment ratio is determined by negotiation between the two parties, and the foreign investment ratio can exceed 49%; the chairman of the joint venture can be a foreign citizen; joint ventures established in the Far East are exempt from profit income tax in the first three years from the date of profit, and the tax rate is 10% thereafter.
Through continuous revision and supplementation of the Joint Venture Law, the Soviet revisionist laws and regulations on joint ventures have become increasingly perfect, greatly simplifying the approval procedures for establishing joint ventures and increasing preferential treatment for joint ventures.
Especially after resolving the two key issues of capital contribution ratio and chairman selection, which were often disputed between the Soviet revisionists and foreign investors, foreign investment increased rapidly, even setting a record of registering and establishing five joint ventures within a week.
Faced with the Soviet revisionists' superior investment environment and the rich underground resources and energy, Japanese companies would certainly not turn a blind eye and remain indifferent, especially since South Korea had already engaged in trade cooperation with the Soviet revisionists. The trade volume in 1989 was US$700 million, and in 1990 it exceeded US$1.2 billion.
In addition, the Blue House has come forward to seek the development of Siberian natural gas and log logging, and has reached an agreement with the Soviet revisionists on jointly developing logs in the border areas for 30 years. The economic cooperation between South Korea and the Soviet revisionists has expanded to a wide range of fields such as timber, coal, natural gas, oil, shipbuilding, and chemicals.
Even Taiwan came to get involved, investing NT$600 million in 1990 to promote economic and trade relations with the Soviet revisionists, and signed trade contracts with the Soviet revisionists totaling US$400 million. In addition, Taiwan also provided the Soviet revisionists with 100 sets of factory equipment and 20,000 computers in exchange for their raw materials.
All of the above will undoubtedly bring about major changes in the existing international relations and international division of labor in East Asia, and lead to the emergence of a new economic competition situation.
Under such circumstances, in order to avoid setbacks in the competition and loss of possible benefits and consolidate the dominant position it has always sought in the Asia-Pacific economy, Japan will certainly adjust its foreign economic relations accordingly, seize the initiative, and promote economic cooperation among multiple countries centered on Japan, thereby expanding Japan-Soviet economic relations, including direct investment in the Soviet Union.
This is the case at the national level. For the Mitsui Group, they attach great importance to the "ruble exchange rate opportunity". Otherwise, Yukiko Mitsui, the core think tank who has been sitting in the rear and commanding, would not fly here in person.
Before coming, Mitsui Yukiko had already made a rough plan, the starting point of which was highly consistent with Nan Yi's idea. Mitsui Yukiko wanted to use Soviet revisionism, or more precisely, Russian rubles, to complete the Mitsui Group's investment layout in Siberia and the Far East.
Mitsui Yukiko is just like Nan Yi, both are shameless hungry wolves, the difference is that one is a male and the other is a female. In addition, in terms of the overall situation, Nan Yi may be slightly inferior. Nan Yi's plan tends to be more speculative, while Mitsui Yukiko can be clearly an investment, but she has not thought about taking a penny out of her own pocket.
[Don’t think that the tax issue here conflicts with the previous trader issue. The two are not the same thing. One is corporate investment, and the other is simply doing trade , or one-way trade, taking the money away.]