In the restaurant.
Lin Shuyi held a goblet in her hand and looked at the other people attending the banquet. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "It seems that my son has a lot of influence in Moscow. If I can cooperate with him, Lehman's investment in Russia will be more secure."
After a period of investigation, Lin Shuyi has figured out how to invest in Russia.
Before Lin Shuyi came to Moscow, Lehman Brothers had formulated a "Russian investment" plan with US$100 million and US$50 million in reserve funds, preparing to reap huge profits from Russia's misfortune after the complete disintegration of the Soviet revisionists.
In fact, it is not just Lehman Brothers. Many investment banks and funds in the United States and Europe have plans to invest in Russia. These investment banks and funds are different from those capitals that are involved in politics. Their investment in Russia is a relatively pure investment behavior, simply because they foresee that Russia can bring them rich returns.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. This is a well-known truth, and capital cannot be unaware of it. When capital reaches a certain scale, foreign investment is often multi-field and diversified, and will not be concentrated in one region or one industry. Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows, and capital that gathers a group of top people will only be more cunning.
Once the Soviet revisionism collapses, Russia will be the country that will receive the most inheritance, followed by Ukraine. This is obvious when analyzing the Soviet revisionism's light and heavy industrial layout.
Whenever there is a period of change, there will be a situation where new and old forces alternate. The combination of massive inheritance and privatization reforms means countless speculative opportunities.
Those who go into battle on their own or invest to acquire the "heritage", as long as they succeed in swallowing the elephant and can acquire a certain enterprise at a low price, will make several times or even dozens of times the profit, whether they break it up and sell it piecemeal or manage it well and make it revive in the new year.
Of course, Russia can attract a lot of capital, which is inseparable from the exchange rate. There are too many indexes and charts to prove that the ruble will definitely depreciate, but everyone has different expectations for the extent of its depreciation.
In addition, from the perspective of credibility, the Soviet revisionists have a full history of darkness, and the capitalists are relatively pessimistic about the credibility of Russia, which has inherited the same lineage. Therefore, they will not miss this rare opportunity, but will not place a heavy bet on Russia.
The same is true for Nan Yi. He knows better than most that Russia is a big gold mine, so he started preparing for a gold-digging trip to Russia several years ago. And because he has more information, Nan 's investment in the Soviet revisionist areas is more conservative.
Although 500 tons of gold is worth more than 6.5 billion US dollars based on the current gold price, 6.5 billion US dollars is not a serious loss to Nan, even if he loses all his money. Moreover, the value of the "bulk trade energy" that Nan has transported from the Soviet revisionists so far has far exceeded this figure.
This does not even include the huge profits that Vasily Bank is expected to bring, the daily turnover generated by Vasily Supermarket, and the profits from Haitang Trading's non-stop import of food and clothing into the Soviet revisionist territory.
Although the profits of Haitang Trading in food trade are not as exaggerated as those of the clothing dealers, with a net profit of less than 60%, it wins in terms of volume. On average, Haitang Trading needs to pay more than 15 million RMB in goods to domestic factories every day, which means a profit of about 3.28 billion RMB per year.
RMB 3.28 billion is not the final profit. Haitang Trading’s food trade adopts a barter method. What is shipped in is food, and what is shipped out are various minerals and energy. The exchange process also involves "non-cash" and secret operations. The RMB 3.28 billion will expand by about 65% in this process, that is, the final profit is RMB 5.4 billion.
The minerals and energy that Nan transported away were not sold immediately. For example, scrap steel was always stored and never sold. Although the word "scrap" was in front of the word "steel", every ton was actually good steel. There was no need to worry about selling it. If the steel was kept in hand, the price could easily double.
Excluding unfavorable factors such as inflation, Nan's could still earn at least 70% to 80% more.
In addition, the incident in Copenhagen was a blessing in disguise for Nan Yi. The channels provided as compensation to the Japanese Ivankov actually broadened the sales channels of Haitang Trading and brought it into contact with a new group - Ворвзаконе (thieves or legal thieves).
In Soviet revisionism, there are two groups walking in the gray and black areas, one is thieves, and the other is called сука (bitches). Previously, Haitang Trade was dealing with bitches, and now there is one more thief, and the shipment volume has increased a lot.
Organized criminals have never been absent from Russian history. This is related to Russia's vast territory. Once the Eurasian dividing line of the Ural Mountains is crossed, the central government's control is greatly reduced. Local officials act on their own, and in places they cannot pay attention to, bandit groups composed of wandering farmers and veterans maintain local order.
The situation of organized crime became increasingly serious under the increasingly harsh exile system in the Tsarist era and the Gulag system in the Soviet revisionist period.
St. Petersburg or Moscow always simply and roughly deprive criminals of their political identities and then throw them into the vast Siberian forests to do hard labor, but they never thought that these people's skills, identities and wealth could still be utilized in remote areas.
Those exiled criminals who were extremely strong in either martial arts or intelligence gradually became leaders among the hard labor prisoners, and the prisoners evolved their own social hierarchy.
In order to avoid prison supervision, they compiled a set of tattoo codes.
One day in 1974, a floating corpse floated onto the beach of Leningrad. The body had been floating in the Gulf of Finland for several days. It was swollen and smelly, and its face was swollen and deformed. There was no clothing or identification documents, and it was almost impossible to identify it. The only thing that showed that the person was injured by a sharp weapon was a knife wound on his stomach.
Upon closer inspection, the police discovered that he had several tattoos: a leaping stag on his chest, three crosses on his knuckles, and an anchor wrapped in barbed wire on his upper arm.
The experienced policeman took only two days to confirm the identity of the deceased based on the patterns. He was a naval officer who committed crimes during his service and was imprisoned three times in a northern prison. After he was released from prison, he became a thief leader.
The leaping stag symbolizes the Soviet revisionist North; the number of crosses on the joints symbolizes the number of sentences served; the anchor symbolizes his naval origin; the barbed wire symbolizes crimes committed during service. This set of tattoos constitutes the resume of this former naval officer, and it is easy to infer his identity based on the resume.
The tattoos of thieves are different, and different factions have different tattoo styles, but through certain rules, the identity and status of the tattoo owner can be analyzed through the tattoo.
A thief cannot get a tattoo casually. Only after being imprisoned many times and proving himself to the prisoner leaders in prison can he get a tattoo.
The tattoo process is also quite complicated. The prisoners must go through a set of established rituals. This process is called "coronation." The thieves who become leaders after being crowned are called "legal thieves." As the name suggests, they are recognized and acknowledged by everyone.
It is said to be legal, but in fact it is still illegal. All the "thieves" must swear not to cooperate with the authorities in any way to express their resistance to Soviet revisionism.
However, not everyone could resist the temptation of amnesty. After the outbreak of World War II, as the Soviet revisionists waged a scorched-earth war against Germany in part of Europe, the number of available young and middle-aged soldiers became increasingly limited, and conscripting criminals became the last option.
Thieves appeared in Gulags everywhere who volunteered to go to the battlefield in exchange for reduced sentences. As the Soviet army won the Great Patriotic War, these prisoners returned to prison with their military merits and were released after symbolically serving their sentences.
Such people obviously violated the thieves' oath not to cooperate with the government, so they were hated by conservative thieves, who called them bitches and often provoked fights.
The bitches would be released from prison soon, so they naturally didn’t want to have anything to do with the conservative diehards, so they helped the prison guards suppress the rebellion, and the two sides broke off completely.
By the 1950s, the earliest batch of thieves had disappeared under the joint suppression of the bitches and the government, and the bitches who were released from prison became the new thieves. It was at this time that the definition of a thief was changed.
In the 1960s, the Soviet revisionists' agricultural collectivization was basically completed, and industry was completely controlled by . The planned economic system began to get on track. However, the sluggish planning system could not fully take care of the needs of all people and all enterprises. It was common for residents to be unable to buy light industrial products and food, and for enterprises to be unable to obtain raw materials.
Thus, the black market came into being, and the only ones who could escape the ordinary sequence of workers and peasants and run the black market were thieves. The materials they sold did not come out of thin air. If we traced the source, the thieves were just acting as black gloves for some big shots.
The Soviet revisionists at that time were still following the cadre title list system inherited from the Stalin era. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union drew up a list of leading cadres in all government departments and kept personnel power, including at the local level, firmly in their own hands. In other words, the cadre list was drawn up entirely from top to bottom.
Under such a system, officials only need to be accountable to their superiors, or even just to a certain leader above them, in order to get promoted. Transferring secret benefits to superiors has become the key to climbing up, and political achievements have become secondary.
Where does “benefits” come from?
Without a doubt, it is to fleece the public.
The more daring ones would give the thieves notes to go directly to the factory to steal goods, or even give leave notes to the "outstanding workers" in the factory and arrange for them to work in underground factories on the black market in exchange for greater profits for themselves.
The workers are also very happy to take this kind of work. Not only will they not lose a penny of their factory wages, but they can also receive an extra salary and various popular tickets from time to time.
The thieves play the role of downstream organizers and distributors. Their status is actually very low. They usually have to act according to the mood of the big shots. Moreover, in order to take the safety of the big shots into consideration, most thieves are similar to the domestic speculators. They hide their heads and show their tails, and will run away at the slightest sign of trouble.
In general, the "thief" family was relatively quiet in the 1960s and 1970s, doing their own black market business in places where the state administrative power could not control. When the wheel of history turned to the 1980s, many thieves began to enter the house, transformed themselves into cooperative national entrepreneurs, and laundered all the black money earned from the black market.
At this time, thieves and bitches experienced another redefinition. Those who were whitewashed were called bitches, and those conservative who were still running black market businesses became new thieves.
Before, food products from Haitang Trading flowed through the hands of bitches to the big men behind them, and then entered the national supply system openly. The canned food that cost 1.5 yuan from Haitang Trading became 1.5 rubles when it reached consumers, making a profit of more than 3 times.
Moreover, many foods need to be purchased with coupons, which can generate some tangible or intangible benefits.
Now, Begonia Trade has opened up the black market channel for the thieves through Ivankov. After negotiation, the price of goods flowing out of the thieves must be more than 50% higher than that of the Bitch channel, and the extra 50% will be taken away by the Bitch and does not belong to the thieves.
Despite this, the thieves' channel has fewer people to share profits with than the bitch channel. Starting from the supplier Haitang Trading, there is only the channel merchant Ivankov, the wholesalers of thieves from all over the country, and the distributors under the thieves. A total of four parties need to share profits.
The thieves are not as strong as the bitches, and Begonia Trading can provide the thieves with about 30% more profit from supplying goods.
Moreover, everything about Haitang Trading's business was legal. All taxes owed in China were paid without a penny less (in fact, not much tax was paid, as there were tax refunds in China, and because the Soviet revisionists were in urgent need of materials, there were tax concessions, so the tariffs were almost negligible). No step of the necessary procedures was omitted. How the trading parties sold the goods and whether they paid taxes was none of Haitang Trading's business.
[I have strayed off topic. I did not intend to write in detail about the thieves, but once I started, I could not stop. So, I will just get back to the topic.]
The invitation was written by Vasily and delivered by Aksinya. When Berezovsky received the invitation, he was full of anticipation for the party. After arriving and seeing other people attending the party, he became even more excited about what was going to happen.
Izmailov was very confused from the moment he received the invitation. He was even more confused about why Aksinya could send the invitation. After reading the invitation and knowing that it was issued by Vasily Bank, he asked, "I am just an ordinary businessman. Why would they invite me to the banquet?"
After arriving, his mind became even more confused. He had heard of Smolensky, Khodorkovsky, Berezovsky, Gusinsky, no matter which "Sky" they were, and each of them was a "big shot" with whom he would never have any intersection. Why would he be invited to a banquet of this scale?
Be it cooperation, expectation or confusion, when the time reaches 5:10, the banquet officially begins.
Vasily walked to the front of the crowd with the cup in his hand, facing them, and tapped the cup wall with the spoon in his other hand. When he attracted everyone's attention, he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the venture capital meeting hosted by Vasily Bank.
Those who come here today are all God's chosen people. The genes of finance and investment flow in our blood. Russia is in a period of historical change. Whether it is finance or investment, it is now a very good period of development. Many of you here have opened banks and are developing very well.
However, in the process of doing business, you will inevitably encounter a lack of funds. When you encounter this situation, you can contact our Vasily Bank or Ms. Lin. "
Vasily pointed his right hand at Lin Shuyi, who smiled back and raised her glass to everyone present. "Hello, everyone. I am Lin Shuyi, a partner of Lehman Brothers."
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[To explain, God’s chosen people here actually refer to the Jews. According to the teachings of Judaism, only Jews are God’s chosen people (Judaism is a relatively closed Jewish sect, just like we call ourselves descendants of Yan and Huang, it is none of the outsiders’ business, so there is no need to over-interpret it). Christianity is more than a thousand years later than Judaism, and it was improved on the basis of Judaism.
Let me do some science popularization (it may not be 100% correct, but this statement is accepted by most people). Jehovah and Jesus are not the same thing. Jehovah is God and Jesus is a believer. It can also be said that Jesus is the son of Jehovah. The term "son" is similar to the emperor in the past being called the Son of Heaven, and there is not a real blood relationship.
In addition, Jesus was actually a Jew. He belonged to the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. So the saying that Judas betrayed Jesus and led to his being burned to death is not groundless or unfounded. There is some truth in it, but it has been distorted and misinterpreted.
Note: There are many descriptions of Jews in the book. This is because I thought it would be untrue to avoid writing about Jews when describing the story of a consortium. This does not represent my personal subjective feelings of praise or criticism towards Jews. In fact, I try to describe them in objective words.
The same goes for other things. I have tried to be as objective and logical as possible, including the story paragraphs. I can say "based on real events". Well, if you are not happy with it, you can understand it as fabricated stuff.
In fact, in order to conform to the word "real", my thinking was restricted and it also prevented me from trying to write a more exciting story.
Sorry, there's too much explanatory text.]