At London Heathrow Airport, a civil airliner from Moscow slowly landed on the runway of the airport.
A group of Soviet officials dressed in suits got off the plane, left through the VIP passage of the airport and got into the Soviet embassy car.
In a black Seagull sedan in the convoy, Yakovlev, who had just arrived in London with the team, was in the car to learn about the latest situation from Seryosha, who had been here for more than a month.
"Well done, Seryosha, Secretary Gorbachev spoke highly of your actions and even publicly praised you at the Politburo meeting," Yakovlev said.
"Does Secretary Gorbachev have any instructions for me next?"
Seryosha asked with a lowered posture, although he had made great contributions this time, but he did not think that his status in Secretary Gorbachev's heart would suddenly surpass Yakovlev, who had been a member of the Central Committee.
He is still a small character in front of him.
At present, the interests of the two men are the same, that is, to assist Gorbachev in gradually increasing his prestige in the party.
Only after Gorbachev really became general secretary did the two reap the victory.
"I'm afraid you'll have to stay here to help us with our work, and Secretary Gorbachev instructed you to be in charge of the business negotiations on gas, coal, and other trade.
I was in charge of liaising with the British Foreign Office and the Soviet-British Liaison Group on the arrangements for the visit.
It's not that simple, it's not like you can come with a phone call, we have a lot of work to do, and sometimes the biggest difficulty doesn't come from the outside, but from within," Yakovlev said.
"Is there something wrong?"
Seryosha heard what Yakovlev was saying, and hurriedly asked.
"There are different voices within the Politburo about the invitation, after all, it is not an invitation to General Secretary Chernenko.
Do you guess who is the strongest opponent of Secretary Gorbachev's visit this time is Foreign Minister Gromyko, who does not know his careful thoughts, he wants to become the successor of the general secretary, naturally Secretary Gorbachev has tried his best to suppress some things that are difficult to say at home, but now that I am abroad, I have not so many constraints.
Seryosha, you must know that Secretary Gorbachev completely lost the last contest for general secretary, and according to the convention, he will withdraw from the Politburo as the core of power two years later, at the 27th Party Congress.
It will be possible to change this practice unless we can make Secretary Gorbachev's prestige in the party surpass that of all current Politburo members," Yakovlev explained to Seryosha earnestly.
"I will definitely work hard to live up to the cultivation and trust of Secretary Gorbachev," Seryosha hastened to express his attitude.
The convoy slowly drove into the compound of the Soviet Embassy in Britain, where Seryosha stopped for a while, where he discussed some work matters with Yakovlev and the Soviet ambassador to Britain, and after dinner, Seryosha left the embassy by car and returned to the hotel where the Soviet trade negotiation delegation was staying.
Seryosha had now made his identity public in England, which caused a lot of trouble for his Japanese plans, and many of the bankers who had been attracted by Seryosha's vast plans in the banking association began to turn cold to Seryosha.
However, the banks that had business cooperation with Seryosha persevered.
Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Rothschild Bank still invite Seryosha to participate in some of the activities of the banking association from time to time.
Seryosha had already called Mikhail, who was going to have Mikhail register a foreign-funded financial company in Japan under the name of the Mediterranean Trading Company, specializing in the business of packing mortgages.
The sooner you enter this market, the more you will be able to make huge profits.
Mikhail has been a trader in Seryosha's underground financial business for many years, and he is already very intelligent, diligent and studious, and because of his interest, he has now become an expert in finance.
In recent years, Yakov and Yuri have successively gone abroad and created new careers overseas, among which Yuri relies on a drive, and Yakov relies on his character of being good at dealing with people.
But behind the success of the two, if Mikhail did not have the funds at their disposal to support them, they may not have a smooth operation.
Seryosha's financial group is now a gangster bank, except that the bank's customers not only have no interest on deposits, but also have to pay high service fees.
At the same time, Seryosha's financial group also granted loans to the gangsters, with interest calculated on a monthly basis and as high as 50 percent per year, which was just a little more generous than loan sharks.
Seryosha's business is getting bigger and bigger, and it is very common for him to borrow some gangster deposits to run his own business.
Mikhail has been carefully managing this huge amount of money, supporting Seryosha's various businesses while trying to avoid the problem of poor cash turnover.
Because if an ordinary bank has this kind of problem, it will go bankrupt at most, and if a gangster bank has this kind of problem, it will be fatal.
After accepting Seryosha's assignment, Mikhail personally led a team to Japan the next day to set up the organization's first Asian branch, the Sanjin Society, which is called the Sanjin Society because this company mainly conducts credit asset restructuring business for Japanese financial companies that operate housing loans, personal consumption loans, and personal operating loan businesses.
If we explain it in simple terms, then the customers of the Three Gold Society will be mainly banks and some small financial companies, mainly loan sharks of the underworld, and the business of the Three Gold Society is to buy the debts that have been issued from these institutions at a low price, package them into financial derivatives, and then sell them to large financial institutions.
This kind of business does not violate Japanese law, there is nothing to hide, and Japan does not seem to strictly manage funds from foreign countries, there is neither foreign exchange control, nor any strict supervision of anti-money laundering, the street is full of gold vaults and marbles is the best proof, which allows Mikhail to calmly and conveniently transfer the organization's huge funds to Japan.
Mikhail was not going to worry about the affairs of the Mediterranean Trading Company for the time being, he transferred his work at the Mediterranean Trading Company to Boris through the organizational process, and then began to devote himself to the operation of Seryosha's Japanese plan. t1706231537: