Shortly after Seryosha visited Yakovlev, Yakovlev presented Gorbachev with his first report after taking office, demanding that the government deregulate certain historical and ideological issues and implement open and democratic political reforms.
Yakovlev's report was published in Izvestia, the organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and sparked a general discussion among officials.
Yakovlev was a man who was not afraid of threats, and more than a decade ago, he preferred to put a bright future on the line and openly criticized Brezhnev's foreign policy in the newspapers as great power chauvinism.
Yakovlev's article stirred up a thousand waves for a while, and after seeing that Gorbachev did not mean to punish Yakovlev in any way, many more excessive remarks also appeared in the newspapers.
Seryosha is well aware of the background of this change, the top leadership of the Soviet Union has been exploring the path of reform for many years, but the successive deaths of leaders have made all reform actions seem to have reached a dead end, and now the bureaucracy and intellectual class in the Soviet Union are becoming more and more confused about the path of reform, and everyone has been arguing about the direction of economic and political reform in the future.
Yakovlev's article was originally intended to play the role of a brick-thrower, but his views were too radical, and Gorbachev's remarks did not appear to be criticized, so the bureaucracy and intellectuals took Yakovlev's remarks as the right path and began to imitate and surpass them, so that in the following days, more and more radical remarks appeared in the newspapers.
Gorbachev praised the phenomenon as the beginning of improving freedom of expression in the country.
He motioned for the Ministry of Culture to lift the ban on the famous Soviet film Argonia, and then the people of Moscow rushed to the theater to watch the film, and for a moment everyone seemed to feel a kind of freedom that they had never felt before.
Seryosha has a first-hand experience of these changes.
Because of the change in the attitude of the Soviet top to cultural products, Yulia's business can be a little more hands-on, she personally came to Moscow to ask Seryosha for more investment, hoping to continue to expand his video rental business to all parts of Ukraine, Seryosha happily gave Yulia a new investment.
The vigor of Gorbachev and Yakovlev did not allow Seryosha to delay the task of promoting the Youth Center of Science, Technology and Culture throughout the country.
In order to firmly control the Youth Science, Technology and Culture Center in his own hands, and at the same time to make the greatest use of the preferential policies granted by Gorbachev, Seryosha intends to expand the operation of the Youth Science, Technology and Culture Center in the form of an enterprise nationwide.
Since the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center is now more similar to a financial investment institution, the necessary risk control mechanism still needs to be in place, and Seryosha does not want to introduce a large number of inferior projects to the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center because of its promotion to the whole country, so he has copied some of the rules and regulations similar to the loan business in Western commercial banks as the system and process for attracting investment from the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center.
What Seryosha didn't notice was that his unintentional move turned the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center into a real commercial bank within the Communist Youth League.
And thanks to the encouragement of the top management, more elites began to emerge from the Communist Youth League who devoted themselves to business, and these are all for another time.
Thanks to the guarantee of the commercial system, Seryosha's first step was to open branches of the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center in the districts of Moscow and Leningrad.
Khodorkovsky soon applied for a new investment from the Youth Centre for Scientific and Cultural Affairs to develop his second enterprise with a different business, while Berezovsky's was involved in the business of buying and selling auto parts.
In a market like the Soviet Union, which did not have a high degree of marketization, Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky, who were the pioneers, were naturally smooth, and Seryosha was not the kind of person who could not be riched, and he still looked down on these small businesses, and his mind was not on this aspect.
Seryosha is now considering how to temporarily borrow the vast foreign exchange reserves of the Foreign Trade Bank to hollow out Japan's plans before the Plaza Accord is signed.
The accounts of the Foreign Trade Bank have now been counted clearly by the accounting team trusted by Seryosha, and the bank now has more than one trillion US dollars in foreign exchange reserves, with this money, Seryosha does not need to mortgage all his net worth to obtain a huge amount of funds through leverage, but Seryosha does not have the courage to use all the foreign exchange reserves to implement this operation, he intends to use about 100 billion US dollars of funds for the early deployment.
In this case, Seryosha has the question of how to transport the 100 billion money from the Soviet Union to the foreign banking system The central bank's supervision of the funds of the foreign trade bank is carried out on a quarterly basis, and basically every quarter people will be sent to check the accounts, that is to say, if Seryosha wants to use the funds of the foreign trade bank unknowingly, it will take about three months as a cycle, and within this cycle, Seryosha must ensure that the funds can freely enter and exit the borders of the Soviet Union and foreign financial systems.
This is a big problem that Seryosha has never dealt with.
Since he couldn't come up with any good ideas for a while, Seryosha could only do something that he was sure of first.
At this time, Comrade Hammer, who had not been in contact for a long time, suddenly called him.
"Seryosha, I just came back from China, and I have already done what you asked me to do, and you want to know how the other party replied to you," Comrade Hammer said on the phone.
"Old Comrade Hammer, since there is good news, don't sell your officials.
Hurry up and tell me how we can get our products into the Chinese market," Seryosha asked impatiently.
"They agreed to use Hong Kong as a transit point for trade, and you could sell your goods to their state-owned enterprises in Hong Kong, and of course, if relations between your two countries improve in the future, you could also go directly to the Chinese market," Hammer explained to Seryosha.
"That's very good, thank you very much, Comrade Hammer, when will you come to Moscow again, our Secretary Gorbachev would like to see you again," Seryosha warmly invited.
"Wait until it's warmer," Hammer agreed casually. t1706231537: