"Is the Romanov Trading Company owned by Russians?"
asked Gorbachev curiously, Romanov is the surname of the Tsarist family, no wonder he asked.
"I don't know, I heard that the company's founders don't show up very often, and I only deal with the traders of their company," Seryosha replied earnestly.
"How much wheat can you import each month now," Gorbachev kept asking.
"I think it's about 10,000 tons," Seryosha replied.
"Why is it so," Gorbachev said with some dissatisfaction.
"We are only a small trading company, and we have limited access to cotton and oil," Seryosha told Gorbachev about his difficulties.
"If I want to import 200,000 tons of grain a month, do you think this Romanov trading company can do it?"
Gorbachev asked curiously.
"Yes, of course I can" Seryosha didn't know if the Saskatchewan Wheat Consortium that Karim bought would be able to provide so much food, but he still felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he agreed to come down anyway.
However, Seryosha still felt that he had to talk about the conditions first, so he added: "But we can't buy so much oil or cotton, see if you can help us figure out a way?"
"Is it just oil and cotton, can't anything else," Gorbachev said with a slight frown.
"What do you think?"
asked Seryosha nervously.
"For example, timber, or any other primary resource, oil is too troublesome," Gorbachev directly interrupted Seryosha's expectations.
"But wood is not easy to deal with, you look at other things, such as minerals, how about aluminum, domestic electrolytic aluminum prices are also very competitive."
"Yes, I agree with you in principle, but can you guarantee the stability of the other party's supply?"
Gorbachev said uneasily.
"I've heard that they've bought Canada's largest grain company," Seryosha responded.
The two talked about getting what they wanted here, and Seryosha didn't say anything, but his heart was already happy.
He did not expect that the future general secretary would be tied to his own trading ship so smoothly, and since the early days of the Romanov trading company, Seryosha had already taken a fancy to the abundant resources of the Soviet Union.
In fact, the Soviet Union is quite similar to Canada and Australia, with a small population, a vast territory and rich resources, and the Soviet Union's industrial system far exceeds that of the latter two countries, but because of the Cold War, because of the trade blockade, the Soviet Union's rich resource products are difficult to sell internationally for profit, so his trading partners are only limited to the Warsaw Pact countries, but in recent years, with the easing of relations between the Cold War countries, the original trade barriers have begun to loosen.
Moreover, many countries on the European continent began to prefer to import resource products and primary industrial goods from the Soviet Union.
At the same time, the high-level leaders in the Soviet Union also discovered that the oil, natural gas and other resources in their hands were powerful weapons to divide the attitudes of Western European countries towards the Soviet Union, and Italy, which had been suffering from oil resources for many years, was a big buyer of Soviet oil.
Relying on the resource business, West German Chancellor Kohl also established a very intimate personal relationship with President Boe.
So in Gorbachev's office, Seryosha came into Gorbachev's sight with the advantage of grain trade.
What the two men agreed on was actually semi-secret and not known to any third person.
In order to obtain a stable grain trade, Gorbachev will never prevent Seryosha from becoming the first secretary of the Moscow Youth League Committee, on the contrary, he will do everything possible to defend Seryosha, this kind of thing goes without saying, and the cooperation based on mutual benefit and win-win results makes Seryosha feel reassured.
Seryosha stayed in Gorbachev's office for a full hour, and Gorbachev made several phone calls to the offices of the ministers of the Ministry of Industry and the Central Ministry of Economy, and by the time Seryosha left, he had already received an invitation from the industrial department to visit the Soviet electrolytic aluminum production base in Volgograd in the lower reaches of the Volga River.
This made Seryosha sigh with emotion, and the Politburo members and other forces are great.
However, before leaving for Volgograd, Seryosha was still going to Tula, and just a few days ago Seryosha contacted his teacher, Semyon, and asked him to contact him, and he wanted to build a large low-rent house similar to the workers' new village for the middle and lower officers of the Airborne Forces, and he wanted to take this opportunity to get closer to himself and the Airborne Forces.
With such a good thing coming to the door, and the other side is also a legendary hero of the Airborne Forces, the attitude of the top brass of the Airborne Forces is naturally welcome, but many organs and units of the Airborne Forces are located in the Tula and Ryazan regions south of Moscow.
Soon the local person in charge contacted Seryosha, and after thanking Seryosha for his kindness, Seryosha first invited the other party to Moscow to visit the first phase of the new workers' village project, which had been built.
It is no exaggeration to say that the first phase of Seryosha's new workers' village project is definitely the best living area in Moscow, and of course it is not comparable to the luxury apartments in Moscow and the villas of officials outside the city.
This was appreciated by the commanders of the Tula region of the Airborne Forces, who were eager for the project of low-rent housing in Seryosha.
"Comrade Ulyanov, thank you for still thinking about the old troops," said the guest from Tula, holding Seryosha's hand very sincerely.
"This is as it should be, sooner or later our project in Moscow will be rolled out to the whole country, so I thought, why can't we improve the living conditions of our old army first, after all, when I joined the army, I saw that many friends were dragging their families, and everyone was waiting to stay up for years and mix their qualifications, hoping to get their own house," Seryosha responded with a smile.
"I don't know what we can do to help you, you also know such a good house, I'm afraid everyone wants to move in a day earlier, as long as you give us an order, we will do it immediately" The other party said dryly.
"If you don't bother, you can help us level the land first, and it's best to help us connect the water, electricity and roads in advance, so that our engineering team can go directly to the construction site," Seryosha said unceremoniously.
The other party agreed, and Seryosha was naturally grateful.
The two sides finalized the project of low-rent housing in Tula in a happy atmosphere, and at the same time in Gorky, the project of renovating the living quarters of the workers of the Gorky Automobile Factory was also negotiated by Boris.
But in general, in addition to the project in Moscow, the other two projects are not very large and are completely within the financing capacity of the National Housing Bank.
Seryosha did this not only to show favor to the place where he had worked, but also to absorb the funds raised by the bonds of the National Housing Bank as soon as possible, and now due to the emergence of the anti-corruption campaign, more and more unknown funds have begun to buy the forward bonds of the National Housing Bank, and Seryosha must invest the money in projects with stable returns as soon as possible, so as to reduce the impact of monetary policy on the National Housing Bank. t1706231537: