Chapter 181 Electrolytic Aluminum

"Romanov Trading Company? Is it Russian-owned?" Gorbachev asked curiously. Romanov is the surname of the Tsarist family, so it's no wonder he would ask this question.

"I don't know, I heard that the founder of the company doesn't show up often, and I only deal with the traders of their company!" Seriously replied.

"How much wheat can you import every month now?" Gorbachev kept asking.

"I think it's about 10,000 tons!" Seryozha replied.

"Why so little?" Gorbachev said with some dissatisfaction.

"We are just a small trading company, and the cotton and oil we can get are very limited!" Seryosha reflected his difficulties to Gorbachev.

"If I want to import 200,000 tons of grain every month, do you think the Romanov Trading Company can do it?" Gorbachev asked curiously.

"Yes, of course!" Although Sergey didn't know whether the Saskatchewan Wheat Consortium acquired by Karim could provide so much grain, he still felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. First promise to come down and talk. But Seryozha still felt that we need to talk about the conditions first, so he added: "But we can't buy so much oil or cotton. Do you think you can help us think of a way?"

"Only oil and cotton? Can't other things work?" Gorbachev said with a slight frown.

"What do you think...?" Seryozha asked nervously.

"Such as timber, or other primary resources, oil is too troublesome?" Gorbachev directly interrupted Sergey's expectations.

"But things like wood are not easy to deal with? How about other things? For example, what about minerals and aluminum? The price of electrolytic aluminum in China is also very competitive!"

"Yes, I agree with your idea in principle, but can you guarantee the stability of the other party's supply?" Gorbachev said worriedly.

"I heard that the other party has acquired Canada's largest grain company!" Seryozha responded.

The two of them talked about getting what they wanted here, and Seryozha didn't say anything, but his heart was already full of joy. He did not expect to tie the future general secretary to his own trade ship so smoothly. Since the early days of the establishment of the Romanov Trading Company, Seryozha has already taken a fancy to the rich resources in the Soviet Union. In fact, the Soviet Union is quite similar to Canada and Australia. It has a small population, a vast land and rich resources, and the industrial system of the Soviet Union far surpasses the latter two countries. However, because of the Cold War and the trade blockade, the Soviet Union's rich resource products are difficult He sells internationally for profit, so his trading partners are only limited to Warsaw Pact countries. However, in recent years, with the relaxation of relations between Cold War countries, the original trade barriers have begun to show signs of loosening, and many Countries on the European continent also began to tend to import resource products and primary industrial products from the Soviet Union. At the same time, the top leaders in the Soviet Union also discovered that oil, natural gas and other resources in their hands are powerful weapons to divide the attitudes of Western European countries towards the Soviet Union. Italy, which has been suffering from oil resources for many years, is a big buyer of Soviet oil. Relying on the resources business, West German Prime Minister Kohl also established a very close personal relationship with Mr. Bo.

So in Gorbachev's office, Seryozha came into Gorbachev's sight by virtue of his advantages in grain trade. What the two agreed upon was actually semi-secret, and no third person knew about it. On the contrary, Seryozha was more at ease with this secret agreement. In order to obtain a stable grain trade, Gorbachev would never prevent Seryozha from being the first secretary of the Moscow Youth League Committee. On the contrary, he would do everything possible to protect Seryozha. Needless to say, the cooperation based on mutual benefit and win-win made Seryozha feel at ease.

Sergey stayed in Gorbachev's office for a full hour. Gorbachev made several phone calls to the offices of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Central Economics and other ministers. When Sergey left,

He had already received an invitation from the Ministry of Industry to visit the Volgograd Soviet electrolytic aluminum production base in the lower reaches of the Volga River. This made Seryozha couldn't help feeling that the strength of the members of the Politburo is great.

However, before leaving for Volgograd, Seryozha still planned to go to Tula. Just a few days ago, Seryozha contacted his teacher, Semyon, and asked him to get in touch. The middle and lower-level officers built large-scale low-rent housing similar to the workers' new village. He wanted to take this opportunity to draw closer to himself and the Airborne Forces.

If such a good thing comes to your door, and the other party is a legendary hero of the Airborne Forces, the attitude of the senior leaders of the Airborne Forces is naturally welcome. However, many organs and units of the Airborne Forces are located in the Tula and Ryazan areas in the south of Moscow. . Soon the local person in charge contacted Seryozha. After thanking Seryozha, Seryozha first invited him to Moscow to visit the first phase of the new workers' village project that had been completed.

It is no exaggeration to say that the first phase of Seryozha’s New Workers’ Village project is definitely the best living area in Moscow. Of course, this is not comparable to the luxury apartments in Moscow and the official villas outside the city. This made the commanders of the Airborne Forces Tula area very appreciative, and they were very eager for Seryozha's low-rent housing project.

"Comrade Ulyanov, thank you for still thinking about the old army!" The guest from Tula said, shaking Seryosha's hand very sincerely.

"This is what it should be. Sooner or later, our project in Moscow will be promoted to the whole country, so I thought why can't we improve the living conditions of our old troops first? After all, when I joined the army, I saw that many friends were dragging their families. No, everyone is waiting to get their own house!" Xie Liaosha 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 one day sooner? As long as you give us an order, we will do it right away!" The other party said bluntly.

"If it's not troublesome, you can help us level the land first. It's best to help us connect water, electricity and roads in advance, so that our engineering team can directly enter the site for construction!" Sergesha said bluntly.

The other party readily agreed, and Xie Liaosha was naturally very grateful. The two parties finalized the Tula low-rent housing project in a pleasant atmosphere. At the same time, in Gorky, Boris also discussed the renovation project of the workers' living area of ​​the Gorky Automobile Factory. But in general, except for the Moscow project, the other two projects are not very big, and are completely within the scope of the National Housing Bank's financing capacity. The reason why Seryozha did this was not only to show favor to the place where he used to work, but also to digest the funds raised by the bonds of the National Housing Bank as soon as possible. Now due to the emergence of the anti-corruption campaign, more and more unknown funds Starting to purchase the forward bonds of the National Residential Bank, Seriosha must invest the money in projects with stable income as soon as possible, so as to reduce the impact of monetary policy on the National Residential Bank.