Nan Yi stayed in the partition room behind the restaurant hall, waiting for his moment to appear.
At this time, his phone rang. It was Chen Feng calling.
Chen Feng: "Lao Nan, are you in Moscow?"
"Just tell me if you have something to say. I'm busy."
"Okay, let me make it short. In a few days I will go to Moscow to set up the Russian branch of Central China Trade. Please remember to welcome me. That's all. I will notify you on the day of departure. Now, you can do your own thing."
After saying that, Chen Feng hung up the phone.
“Tsk.”
Nan Yi smacked his lips and listened to the busy tone on the phone, seeming to be thinking about something.
At this time, Huazhong Trade came to Moscow to set up a branch and sent General Chen Feng. The meaning is self-evident. They probably came for the machines and raw materials in the factory.
Even though Chen Feng was not very consistent when he was with Nan Yi and Lai Biao, he was not a fool and his working ability was absolutely good. He entered Central China Trade with a high starting point, which could be said to be due to his family background; but whether he could gain a foothold in Central China Trade and get the opportunity for promotion mainly depended on his own ability.
After Lin Shuyi finished greeting everyone, Vasily tapped the cup in his hand again.
"Today, we have a mysterious guest here. He is Mr. Adam, the major shareholder of Vasily Bank. Please welcome Mr. Adam."
As soon as Vasily finished speaking, Nan Yi immediately walked out of the partition room. His black stand-up collar jacket was straight, and a Lenin commemorative badge was hanging on his right chest. He walked with firm and powerful steps.
Halfway through, he picked up a glass of wine from the waiter's tray, walked in front of everyone, and raised his glass to greet them, "Hello everyone, I am Adam Smith."
After briefly introducing himself, Nan Yi continued, “To form a correct judgment about a country, we must compare two periods of the same country that are far apart.
Progress is slow, and the times are too recent to show any improvement. Sometimes, even if a country has improved, we often suspect that the country's wealth and industry are declining because we see the decline of a certain industry or a certain place.
Energy neither appears nor disappears; it is simply transformed from one form to another or transferred from one object to another, while the total amount of energy remains unchanged.
This is the law of conservation of energy. If we replace energy with wealth, this theory still makes sense.
The great Soviet revisionist wealth did not disappear out of thin air, it just exists in a more obscure form, covered by a black cloth, hiding its light. As businessmen, what we have to do is to lift the black cloth covering the wealth and transfer more wealth to our own pockets.
As he spoke, Nan Yi raised his glass again, "Cheers to Su Xiu, and to wealth!"
Nan Yi's words resonated with everyone present. What businessmen do is nothing more than transferring wealth from other people's pockets to their own pockets . Everyone wants to transfer more wealth to their own pockets. This is the core. Other sacred or dirty things are just added actively or passively in the process of transfer.
Everyone raised their glasses and echoed, "Cheers to Soviet revisionism, and to wealth!"
After taking a sip of wine, Nan Yi walked away from the spotlight. Music started playing in the restaurant. The girls that Aksinya invited from the dance troupe wore dresses with white lining and large red skirts. They slowly slid to the center with birch leaves in one hand and a small square scarf in the other.
Yes, they are sliding, their torsos are not moving, but they are moving forward. When they reach the focal point, they form two circles, spinning there like beautiful girls on a music box. Visually, it feels like they are not moving, but rather, they are standing on a turntable that is spinning with them.
After spinning for a while, the two circles flowed together like water, forming a big circle. They kept spinning, and the surface was calm.
It seems that Soviet revisionist choreography is always against the dancers' feet. No matter whether it is "Cossack/Commissar Dance", "Ballet Swan Lake", or "There is a Birch Tree in the Field" in front of us, they are all very foot-wasting dances, especially the "birch trees" in front of us. They look silky on the surface, but in fact, under the invisible skirt, the female dancers' small feet are stepping in small steps at a high frequency, which not only wastes the feet but also has high demands on one's physical fitness.
Nan Yi walked up to Berezovsky with a glass of wine in his hand and raised the glass to him. "I need a lot of trucks. Let's talk some other day."
When Berezovsky heard Nan Yi's words, he smiled back and also raised the glass in his hand.
Nan Yi took a sip of wine, excused himself, and walked towards Izmailov calmly with his glass in hand. When he got close to him, he got straight to the point and said, "Mr. Izmailov, I have a big market plan and would like to invite you to participate."
"Mr. Adam, what's the big plan?"
"Let's find a quiet place to talk slowly." Nan Yi said, made a gesture of invitation, and took Izmailov to a corner of the restaurant, and asked the waiter to bring a plate of hazelnuts.
He picked up a hazelnut, peeled it, crushed the kernel with his fingertips, removed the peel, repeated several times, peeled several kernels, and then put a kernel on the table. "I have rented the Central Lenin Stadium. I plan to transform it into a clothing retail market, specializing in selling clothing to ordinary people."
Nan Yi put another nut on the table and said, "I plan to rent three of the National Economic Achievements Exhibition Halls and transform them into a clothing retail market that mainly sells mid-range clothing."
Another nut was placed on the table. "This is the empty space in Mr. Izmailov's hand. I originally planned to transform it into a small commodity retail market, with small sundries, small hardware, etc. , everything is included. Whether it is daily necessities, room decoration, personal decoration, you can buy it in this market, even some small appliances.
I plan to have the three parts complement each other and attract each other so that their advantages can complement each other. "
Nan Yi spread his hands and said, "Who knows, I was a step too late. The vacant land has already been bought by Mr. Ismailov. So I want to consult you, Mr. Ismailov, you can choose to sell the land to me and I will buy it , or we can cooperate, you invest in the land and I will give you a reasonable share of the shares."
"Mr. Adam, let's talk about shares."
Ismailov said bluntly that he had to do something. The other party had already explained the whole plan, implicitly stating that it was either cooperation or becoming an enemy. He could easily figure out that cooperation was definitely better than confrontation.
“I have always been sincere to my partners, Mr. Ismailov. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, in two days, you will find a lawyer, and we will sit together and slowly sort out how much your land is worth, how much you will invest, and how much .
In my dictionary, shareholders of a joint-stock company have no obligation to contribute to the common business for free. Every penny of contribution should be reflected in the shares, so, Mr. Ismailov..."
Nan Yi pointed at Izmailov's palm and said, "Please wear gloves tomorrow. We should have one or more arguments before the contract terms are signed. It hurts to slap the table with bare hands."
Izmailov smiled and said, "Okay, I will definitely wear a pair of thick sheepskin gloves."
"Uh-huh, excuse me for now. I'll talk to someone else."
"Please feel free to do so."
Smolensky, Khodorkovsky, Gusinsky, Nan Yi talked to them one by one. He didn't talk about anything too specific, just a few simple words to deepen the impression of each other. Finally, Nan Yi came to Lin Shuyi's side.
"Hey, why isn't Ms. Wood here?"
"Kathy went back to New York yesterday. Nan Yi, you did a great job in Moscow. Those who came here today are the most promising businessmen in Russia." Lin Shuyi praised.
"Ah, it's OK. I've been preparing for a long time and invested a lot. But my current performance can't be said to be outstanding."
Lin Shuyi nodded. "We at Lehman Brothers have a fund of $100 million to invest in Russia. Do you want to discuss it?"
"Okay, the day after tomorrow, the 21st, I'm free." Nan Yi nodded and said.
Nan Yi did not participate in the negotiations with Izmailov, but the cooperation between the two parties did not have many twists and turns. They just argued for two days over the number of shares. Both sides argued for every "0.1%" of shares. In the end, they negotiated a result that Izmailov held 37.7% of the shares. The land could offset 17.7% of the shares, and the remaining 20% ​​was invested in cash.
Izmailov was interested in participating in Nan Yi's entire big market plan, but his funds were limited and he couldn't invest even if he wanted to. Nan Yi left a door open for him. If Izmailov had enough money in the future, the two sides could sit down and talk again, and Nan Yi would give him some shares.
This statement contains some empty promises, and also lays the groundwork for running away. Perhaps in the future it is really possible to sell the entire "big market" to Izmailov.
The negotiations with Lin Shuyi were not very smooth. Although there was the mother-son relationship and the issue of small shareholders, the conditions put forward by Lin Shuyi were very harsh.
Nan Yi felt that he was at a disadvantage. The fact that Scarlett Fund was a small shareholder of Lehman Brothers became Lin Shuyi's bargaining chip. She equated the interests of Lehman Brothers with the interests of Scarlett Fund, and openly or secretly wanted to make Nan Yi, the representative of the small shareholder, work in vain.
Therefore, Lin Shuyi is a running dog raised by the damn capitalists. In the face of the capitalists' interests, she does not even give preferential treatment to her own son. Nan Yi can only leave her alone for now.
On the overall situation of the Soviet revisionists, Gorbachev and the leaders of eight republics first signed the "Treaty of Economic Cooperation between Sovereign Republics", but Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine did not participate in the signing.
The treaty stipulated that the ruble should retain its role as the common currency of the unified monetary system, and that participating countries should fulfill all the Soviet revisionists' foreign economic obligations and pursue a coordinated economic policy. However, due to the lack of political binding force, the treaty was basically a piece of paper.
On the Russian side, Boris quickly announced 10 presidential decrees, taking over a series of powers belonging to the Soviet revisionist central financial and fiscal departments, including the precious metal production department , depriving the union of an important source of funds, and stopping funding for about 80 central ministries.
Later, Boris announced that the Russian State Bank would take over the Soviet revisionist State Bank and the Foreign Economic Bank, thus gaining control of the monetary power of the union.
On December 1, Ukraine held a referendum on leaving the union and electing a president. Before the vote, the United States said that if the results of Ukraine's vote indicated independence from the union, the United States would recognize it as soon as possible.
This change in the US position played a big role in the Ukrainian vote, with 99.85% of voters in favor of independence. After the Ukrainian presidential election, the new president immediately stated that Ukraine would not participate in the union of sovereign states initiated by Gorbachev.
The independence of Ukraine, with a population of nearly 52 million and a GDP accounting for 25% of the Soviet Union, was a fatal blow to Gorbachev's plan to form a new alliance.
Also in December, Nan Yi met with Boris's good assistant Chubais and expressed optimism about Russia's future economic development on behalf of the Vasily Group, and said that the Vasily Group would invest huge amounts of money in Russia.
Afterwards, Nan Yi boarded the train to Warsaw. All necessary preparations had been made. As for the last few days left for the Soviet revisionists, he decided not to stay in Moscow. The fattest piece of meat from the disintegration of the Soviet revisionists would not fall into his mouth. There was no need for him to stand under the dangerous wall. The farther he went, the better, and come back after the situation calmed down.
After enjoying Sophie Marceau's passion and craze for a few days in Paris, one day, when Nan Yi was checking his emails, his head started buzzing.
After 1988, the credit cards of customers of Jardine Matheson Bank, Viagra Bank and Southland Bank under the Southland Bank Group were frequently stolen. Every year, the Southland Bank Group suffered a loss of one to two million US dollars in this regard. After a customer's card was stolen, the bank was definitely responsible for the loss. There were also cases where a customer copied his or her own credit card, used the card to shop in another place, and then called the bank to report the credit card being stolen.
When encountering such things, there is no solid evidence and the South China Bank Group cannot investigate further. It usually just swallows the loss. Facing customers who are its bread and butter, South China Bank can only be a vulnerable group.
During this period, we have considered measures to improve credit card security and have even come up with practical plans. However, when we conducted a questionnaire survey among customers, most of the customers surveyed were not interested in the so-called "safer" credit cards.
Even if it were Nan Yi, he wouldn't be upset. After all, the loss is the bank's and the trouble is his own. Why should he compromise with the bank and use a safer credit card?
One customer even suggested that if the Southland Bank Group insisted on its own way, he would switch banks.
Faced with threats from customers, the South China Bank Group had no choice but to compromise. The credit card iteration plan was stillborn, and within the bank, the losses caused by fraudulent use of cards were implicitly treated as normalized costs.
However, the Southland Bank gave in, while the group of people who forged credit cards became more and more arrogant and aggressive.
In November, the entire Southland Bank Group's losses from credit card fraud exceeded 1 million US dollars, especially the Southland Bank's losses in the Asian market exceeded 700,000 US dollars. The losses this time increased abnormally, and the main problem lies here.
Nan Yi printed out the statistical table of credit card fraud locations attached to the email, skipped the cities where credit card fraud had only occurred once or twice, and went directly to the list of cities with high incidence rates - Xiangkeng, Beijing, Yangcheng, and Qindao.
This data reveals a problem: a Chinese leader has appeared in a credit card counterfeiting gang, or a new gang mainly composed of Chinese has just emerged.