Chapter 31 Yeltsin

It took about a week for Seryozha to sort out a plan for the handover of the Workers' New City, which included the expenditure and income of the entire Workers' New City, the overall debt situation, and future planning plans, etc. The buyout of the National Bank will not start until Gorbachev has found a suitable successor. Just after Seryozha submitted the plan to the secretariat, it didn't take long before news spread that Gorbachev was looking for a new candidate to take over the handicraft new city project within the Supreme Soviet and the Joint Council of Ministers.

Now the development of Workers' New City has gone far beyond what Seryozha had imagined at the beginning, and it is truly developing towards a comprehensive urban area, not just a sleepy building. There are not only modern residences with complete facilities, but also a shopping mall where you can easily buy foreign goods. There are many parks and recreational facilities around Workers' New City, including the largest playground in Moscow, the most modern theater, the new campus of primary school, secondary school and Moscow University, and even an artificial ski resort. This place is far from the neat and uniform living quarters of tube buildings in the Khrushchev era. It has almost become a fully functional satellite city inside Moscow. The Moscow city government even once considered upgrading it to a new administrative district of Moscow.

Anyone with a discerning eye understands that the new head of the Workers' New City project will be an excellent political springboard, and those who can get this position will definitely become the key training targets of the central government. Climbed up to a cadre at the deputy ministerial level, and even Secretary Gorbachev personally fought for him to be a member of the Central Committee at the regular personnel arrangement meeting of the Central Committee. It's done.

The cadres most eager for this position were naturally concentrated in the Central Committee. Those cadres who serve as members of the Central Committee and alternate members of the Central Committee have stepped into the highest level of the Soviet political ecology with one foot. Most of them serve as top officials at the state level in the republics of the Soviet Union. For example, the secretary of the state party committee of Gorky State is member of the Central Committee. But not all the members of the Central Committee are eager for this position. Those who have already taken refuge in the Central Committee of a certain boss are not very interested in the olive branch thrown by Gorbachev, while others who have reached the retirement age Naturally, they were not that eager. Only those members of the Central Committee who were eager to go further and had no background were the targets of Gorbachev's win over.

Yeltsin, the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk State Party Committee, is such a person. After the 50-year-old Yeltsin became a member of the Central Committee three years ago, he has never been able to make further progress in his official career. Yeltsin has now been the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk State Party Committee for nearly ten years, and Ryzhkov, who is only one year older than him, is now a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo. Both Ryzhkov and Yeltsin were cadres from Sverdlovsk Oblast. When Yeltsin became the first secretary of the state party committee, Ryzhkov was still a Ural heavyweight in Sverdlovsk Oblast. The general manager of the machinery factory is just an industrial cadre, but Yeltsin never thought that he would stand still for nearly ten years. Now every time Yeltsin sees Ryzhkov, his heart will feel a lot of emotion and melancholy.

Yeltsin was always waiting for his own opportunity. Just after the staff in Gorbachev's office revealed that the workers' new city project would change hands,

Yeltsin instinctively sensed his opportunity had come. Yeltsin was familiar with all the backgrounds of the hundreds of Central Committee members of the Central Committee. Although it seemed that the competition for the Workers' New City project was fierce, those Central Committee members who had a deep brand of Brezhnev on their bodies and those who took refuge in Apart from other members of the Central Committee, Secretary Gorbachev did not have much choice. And Yeltsin has an unparalleled identity and background among these people.

Yeltsin is a cadre born in the Sverdlovsk region. He was born in a peasant family. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Department of Architecture of the Ural Institute of Technology. After graduating from university, Yeltsin became a construction engineering specialist. Has been working in the construction department of the Sverdlovsk region, as well as in the Construction Administration of the Southern City Construction Trust. Before Yeltsin served as the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk Oblast State Party Committee, he had been in charge of the industry and urban construction of Sverdlovsk Oblast. The professional and working background that Yeltsin has acquired through his conscientious study and work over the past few decades is definitely not comparable to that of laymen. Yeltsin has absolute confidence that he can prove to Secretary Gorbachev that he is absolutely The most suitable candidate.

But Yeltsin didn't know how to get through Secretary Gorbachev's door, because he had been working and living in the Sverdlovsk region, and after being elected as a member of the Central Committee, he only came to Moscow once a month, but In Moscow, Yeltsin still failed to accumulate many relationships and connections. If this kind of initiative to take effect is not followed by an official whom Gorbachev absolutely trusts, it will have a bad influence if it is not done well. Although Ryzhkov was a good connection, Yeltsin couldn't be ashamed to beg Ryzhkov anyway.

"It's hard! It would be great if Ulyanov, the current person in charge of Workers' New City, could even recommend himself! This person is really capable! A few months ago, he helped the Ural Heavy Machinery Factory win Ars during negotiations in the UK. This is one of the key technologies of the Su-Ou natural gas project!" Yeltsin couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Wait! Ural Heavy Machinery Plant! Steam turbines! I have a solution!" Yeltsin was brainstorming while feeling melancholy, but suddenly realized that the steam turbine project at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant had already started production, so it should be done anyway. Send an invitation to the leader of this project, Comrade Ulyanov! As long as he is invited to the Sverdlovsk region and finds an opportunity to establish a good relationship with him, then the workers' new city may really fall into his own hands. At that time, I can use the Workers' New City project to take a step forward in my official career.

Thinking of this, Yeltsin immediately called the person in charge of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant and asked them to postpone the commissioning ceremony of the steam turbine for a few days. Then he called his secretary and asked him to call Ulyano, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the chief negotiator of the Soviet-European gas project, in the name of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant and the Sverdlovsk State Committee. Comrade Fu sent an invitation letter, inviting him to attend the commissioning ceremony of the steam turbine project of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, and Yeltsin's name must be signed at the end of the invitation letter.