Despite the fact that he had fallen out in Georgia, Seryosha remained in Moscow and seriously dealt with the accounts of the Foreign Trade Bank and the newly acquired Bank of Housing and Utilities and Social Development.
Gorbachev's gift made Seryosha very happy.
Because the economic reforms of the Soviet Union were now in trouble, Seryosha, who had always performed well, regained Gorbachev's favor.
He was entrusted with the thorny issue of resettlement of Afghan troops and the Soviet Union's foreign investment.
Perhaps to show his trust, Gorbachev sold housing to Seryosha along with the Bank for Utilities and Social Development.
This bank was originally established for the Soviet Union's housing reform program, but now the Soviet Union's state finances have been in trouble, because the huge financial deficit caused by the Chernobyl accident has completely messed up the Soviet economy, and now housing reform is no longer the most urgent task, how to revive the Soviet economy is the main concern of the Soviet government.
Gorbachev handed over the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank to Seryosha in the hope that Seryosha would use the bank to raise funds for the resettlement of the Afghan withdrawal troops.
However, Seryosha played a trick on this issue, he drummed up in advance the slab houses that can be seen on almost every construction site in the land of Shenzhou, and asked the Housing and Utilities and Social Development Bank to lend Hassan to produce such houses.
After months of preparation, the factory began production, and the first batch of products was shipped to the construction site of the Samoterol oil field for the oil workers.
Perhaps this product is so new that the workers who have lived in the container for several months are not unhappy with this kind of house, but have a sense of novelty.
The excited workers soon assembled the first slab house in the Samotallole field, a beautiful two-story building with two rows of houses upstairs and downstairs, with simple decorations on the walls and floors that didn't look so bad inside and out.
After an initial run-in, Hassan's factory gradually became familiar with the production process of this type of housing and began to work overtime at full capacity, while at the same time, in order to make up for the housing gap in the Afghan withdrawal, Seryosha began to place production orders with some logistics equipment factories of the Ministry of Defense.
The reason why Seryosha chose to cooperate with the military factory, in addition to some personal debts, the most critical point is because of the good production quality of the military factory.
The board building is already very excessive, and if there are a large number of quality problems, it will be Seryosha who suffers.
The advent of slab housing has made the otherwise thorny housing problem much easier.
Although most of the territory of the Soviet Union is at high latitudes, the main materials for building houses are foam and steel, and the thermal insulation of foam itself is not bad.
With the existence of slab houses, Seryosha can accommodate a large number of newly recruited oil workers.
At the same time, a large amount of money that would have been used to solve the housing problem for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan flowed into Seryosha's personal account.
In total, the Samotallol field provided about 30,000 jobs, while the Gorky Volkswagen Group provided 5,000 skilled jobs, and the two enterprises together solved a third of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The remaining 70,000 people will return to the country in the coming months, and Seryosha will need to continue to provide them with jobs.
With so many workers needing to solve the problem of unemployment in the short term, Seryosha cannot consider building a heavy industrial plant, because the construction period of such factories is too long.
Seryosha set his sights on the abundant natural resources of the Soviet Union.
The mining industry can provide many jobs, so Seryosha plans to have Glencore set up a joint venture with the Soviet government to develop a non-ferrous metals business in the Soviet Union.
At Seryosha's suggestion, the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry consolidated its own gas companies into a large conseil.
Seryosha and Gorbachev's old friend, Chernomyrdin, became the head of the company, which was called the Soviet gas industry Konzen.
Under the unified management of this enterprise, there was a more comprehensive plan for the development and sale of natural gas in the USSR.
So on this basis, Seryosha intended to persuade Gorbachev to reform the electrolytic aluminum industry in the USSR in the same way.
As a result, not long after the establishment of the Soviet natural gas industry Konzen, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry integrated dozens of electrolytic aluminum plants in the lower reaches of the Volga River and connected the supporting hydropower stations to establish Rusal Konzein.
One thing that is different from the Soviet gas industry is that this company is actually involved with foreign capital.
Seryosha also incorporated several bauxite mines in Kazakhstan into Rusal's Konzeen company, and the development of these mines was financed by Glencore.
This allowed Glencore to begin to intervene in the upstream sectors of the Soviet resource industry, strengthening Glencore's control over the Soviet aluminum industry.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank, which Seryosha was in charge of, often had business contacts with the Soviet Ministry of Machine-Building Industry, the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry, the Ministry of Automobile Industry, and other Soviet industrial departments.
So Seryosha has a bit of face in these departments.
Now is the time to put these favors to use.
Seryosha naturally won't be polite.
And the resettlement of the Afghan withdrawal has now become almost a sword of the sword for Seryosha to infiltrate Soviet state-owned enterprises.
Seryosha has been using his influence to help Glencore open the way in the Soviet Union's domestic resource enterprises, these resources flow into the international market through Glencore, although the global economy is still sluggish, but the United States is in full swing of the information industry revolution has a large demand for non-ferrous metals, this contradiction between supply and demand allows these resources of the Soviet Union to sell at a good price in the international market.
The money earned was returned to the domestic market of the Soviet Union to buy more minerals, and the whole process snowballed.
Thanks to Glencore's years of experience in the aluminium trade, coupled with a stable supply of supply, Glencore has now become the absolute dominant company in the London metal exchange.
With just a few phone calls in Switzerland, global aluminum futures will be adjusted as Markridge requires.
It was no longer difficult for the Gorky Brotherhood to control the futures trading market for a single product. t1706231537: