At two o'clock in the night, Lieutenant Colonel Lviv walked out of the Nikolskaya Hotel in the center of Moscow. He looked back at the splendid hotel lobby, where foreigners in twos and threes came in and out with their arms around beautiful women...
The lieutenant colonel felt very uncomfortable.
The Slavs in Eastern Europe are a messy mixture in terms of blood and culture. In the long historical process, they have long been in a backward state of tribal alliances.
It was not until Peter I began to carry out drastic reforms in the country at the beginning of the 18th century that Mao Xiong gradually formed a formal country.
This was already the early to mid-Qing Dynasty, and Kang Mazi had been in power for almost forty years.
Anyone who says that Mao Xiong has a long history and culture, please slap him in the face.
Wooly bears have strong Mongolian genes. The population of 20,000 and 300,000-year-old bears is considered Caucasian, but the big-haired bears actually... have more yellow skin.
But from a geopolitical perspective, Mao Zi always wanted to become a European country from the bottom of his heart. After the disintegration of the Union, as a remnant of a great empire, Mao Zi did not want any outsider to be better than himself.
This is like the old and young of the Qing Dynasty who are still dissatisfied with the end of their country.
From a historical perspective, the rise and fall of a country does not occur in a short period of time.
for example......
The decline of the Qing Dynasty can be calculated from the Opium War in 1840. But this was only the beginning.
Taiping Rebellion of 1851.
The Second Opium War in 1856.
In 1861, the Westernization Movement was intended to revive.
The Sino-French War of 1883.
The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894.
The Revolution of 1911.
Later there were the chaos of the Republic of China, the Anti-Japanese War, and the War of Liberation.
We stayed up until 1949, more than a hundred years later. We suffered a lot before crawling out of the abyss. When we looked around, the world had changed. We still had to grit our teeth and continue to endure hardships to rebuild the country.
Judging from a series of situations in the next thirty years, the Mao Xiong in 1991 was still in the "Opium War" stage. The unlucky days had just begun, and a bigger, deeper, and more painful mud pit was waiting for it in the future.
As the adjutant of General Chechevatov, Lieutenant Colonel Lvov was full of resentment about this trip to Moscow. He had to ask an Asian yellow monkey for help and let him find a way to meet his needs.
In the three months since he took office, the General has been walking a tightrope. He is among a pack of wolves and tigers, and may be devoured by a certain force at any time. He can't even trust his subordinates, because no one can be trusted.
Lieutenant Colonel Lviv's trip was secret and not known to outsiders. The content he discussed with the Holy Light was also relatively sensitive. The two parties agreed to establish a fixed liaison group to discuss the details of the barter trade.
Your Excellency, the General, will sell a number of valuable possessions in your hands, such as the IL-76 fleet, which totals more than one hundred aircraft. These military transport aircraft are very loss-making when used for commercial transportation, and it makes no sense for Ermao to keep these things.
‘Holy Light’ is currently setting up an airline company, and the General has decided to sell at least half of these transport aircraft and quickly replace them with a batch of daily necessities to appease the market.
Considering that four Tu-154s only cost 500 carloads of cargo, fifty second-hand IL-76s equal 10,000 carloads of cargo. Don’t think this is a lot, but it is just the capacity of two or three large container ships at present.
That's all.
I guess what I got in exchange was just some clothing, food, low-end appliances and the like.
Lieutenant Colonel Lviv argued hard and even slapped the table and glared at Zhou Qingfeng. In the end, he safeguarded the national interests and asked for an extra 100 million U.S. dollars worth of high-end products.
Mainly communication base stations, program-controlled switches, mobile phones, pagers, and computer equipment. The prices of these items are indeed very high at present.
The current price of electronic equipment is extremely expensive. One communication base station alone costs US$100,000, not including ancillary facilities. The price of one hundred base stations exceeds US$100 million.
Faced with 'blackmail', Uncle Zhou endured the 'pain' in his heart and reluctantly agreed with an extremely 'annoyed' expression. However, the President put forward additional conditions.
"How about this? It's all barter anyway. Why don't we go bigger? I'll give you another $100 million worth of electronic products, and you sell Nikolayev Shipyard to me. How about that?"
It’s not like we can’t afford a hundred communication base stations. At worst, the towers, batteries, cables, and all ancillary equipment attached to the base stations will be given away for free.
Zhou Qingfeng felt that his barter trade was very conscientious.
Anyway, the Nikolayev Shipyard in the Black Sea is currently in a state of shutdown, and no one will invest any more money in the shipyard.
Rather than letting this shipyard rot in the next twenty or thirty years, leaving thousands of technicians separated, tens of thousands of workers unemployed, and the largest and only aircraft carrier assembly base in Mao Xiong being scrapped.
Not as good as...
Sell it to me in exchange for 100 communication base stations? This sounds like a pretty good deal!
Bah...!
You black-hearted capitalist, covered in blood and filth from head to toe. You actually want to spend 100 million US dollars...
No, this guy is still bartering. Just goods worth 100 million US dollars, and he wants to buy the shipyard that the Soviet Union spent decades and invested heavily in building?
Go ahead and dream!
The aircraft carrier in the shipyard, which is more than 60% complete, costs more than this.
Lieutenant Colonel Lviv "vomited fragrance" at Zhou Qingfeng, and almost sprayed him with salt soda water to death.
"Don't be excited, don't be excited. If you have something to say, talk it over. Isn't this a bargain?"
Zhou Qingfeng comforted him for a long time, still muttering silently in his heart.
"The 'Nikolaev' is an aircraft carrier that is more than 60% complete. But after a lot of work, it was sold for only 20 million US dollars for scrap metal.
The other ship, the Ulyanovsk, which was more than 30% built, was even worse. The majestic nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was fully loaded with nearly 90,000 tons, and was demolished into scrap metal by Yingjiang.
As for the 'Nikolayev' shipyard, in the end it is just a rusty industrial wasteland by the beach. The empty and expensive slipway is covered with grass, and the huge gantry can only be used to recall regrets.
Of the more than 30,000 employees, only 2,000 old and weak were left to survive, and the young people had to leave to make a living on their own. All the equipment and assets in the factory could only be sold at low prices, and everything was lost."
well......
Lviv was walking in the wind and snow outside the hotel at the moment, and the low temperature of more than ten degrees below zero made him tighten his neck. He had to walk a certain distance to catch the old-fashioned Volga he came in, and he was still thinking about the previous week.
Qingfeng's conditions.
"One hundred million U.S. dollars is not enough, we can add more."
As for how much to increase, there is no discussion. This requires the leaders of both parties to have relevant intentions and arrange a liaison group for further consultations.
In real history, the rabbit once asked for a price in 1992. But it was only a price. The price was quoted at one billion dollars, which directly scared the poor rabbit away.
Lviv walked out of the hotel, thinking for sure: "The shipyard will not be sold, absolutely will not be sold. This is a national important weapon, how can the general sell it?"
But when he sat in the old Volga car, with his hands on the faded and peeling steering wheel, Lvov, who had come for a secret meeting, was not so confident.
At least he came to the talks on behalf of a dominant force, but in the end he had to do it secretly, with only a few followers, for fear of being exposed.
Your Majesty the General is now like a rat in a bellows, anxiously looking for a way out.
Selling at a low price? Only outsiders can't think of it. There is nothing Ermao can't do. But when you feel that a transaction is very loss-making, Ermao can make a deal with an even greater loss that will shock you.
As recently as November 1991, a Norwegian company had proposed to the Nikolayev Shipyard to build six cargo ships, and specified that they would be built on the shipyard's No. 0 slipway.
At the same time, a U.S. steel company expressed its willingness to pay a high price for the scrap steel of the Ulyanovsk nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, provided it was dismantled.
This is what has happened. It is just because General Chechevatov came to power, the Ermao family was in chaos, and things did not go smoothly.
For such a big event, Lieutenant Colonel Lviv knew the interests behind it - only people with a wet mind would believe that this was not a coincidence. To put it bluntly, didn't he just want to dismantle the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier under construction in the Red Navy?
But it really happened.
The Ulyanovsk, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Red Navy, was built at the end of November 1988 and was stopped at the end of November 1991.
In just a few months, in early February 1992, Dalimao and Ermao will reach an agreement to dismantle the "Ulyanovsk" on the zero slipway in order to build the cargo ship order placed by the Norwegian company.
This decision-making speed is astonishingly fast. If you say there is no mole, even a fool would not believe it.
As a result, once the ship was scrapped, the Norwegian order disappeared, and the Americans who collected scrap metal also regretted it.
The people at the Nikolayev Shipyard were dumbfounded and caught nothing.
It doesn't matter, it's a small scene.
Do you think this is the biggest loss Ermao has ever suffered?
The pattern!
There will be bigger losses later.
Ermao has such a short memory that he falls from one pit into another bigger pit. The title of global death-defying champion is definitely not an exaggeration.
And now...
The key is who General Chechevatov believes - the unfaithful Yingjiang, or the CEO of the 'Holy Light' who caused a huge disaster?