Chapter 49 The Chicago School

Father Petrov asked Hassan to ask Pavlyuchenko what he meant, to see if he would like to join the Gorky Brotherhood to deal with the issues of dealing with the police. In exchange, the Gorky Brotherhood can provide him with a stable and generous salary. Almost all of Pavlyuchenko's business now comes from the Gorky Brotherhood, so he naturally readily agreed.

Father Petrov wanted to use Pavlyuchenko's relationship to establish some relations with the Internal Affairs Bureau near the Workers' New City. At least he could say hello in advance if there was any trouble. And Pavlyuchenko is just the best candidate.

The matter of the Sontsevo Brotherhood has not been resolved for a while, and Petrov contacted more Slavic gangs to track down the whereabouts of Mikhailovich and Mogilevich. However, according to the current situation, the two people may have fled abroad. Father Petrov greeted Yakov and asked him to try his best to find out the whereabouts of the two men.

Xie Liaosha is an airborne cadre in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and lacks his own team. However, because Gorbachev stood behind him, the people below did not dare to perfunctory him during these days. Xie Liaosha successively transferred some cadres from the Youth League Committee to assist his work. Seryosha wants to do things and employ people. In the past few years, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has focused its energy on Eastern European countries, which deviates from the general direction of Seryozha. This kind of strategic error cannot be corrected in a short while, and the world's economy is currently in a recession. Although Japan is thriving, it is controlled by the United States. Instead, these countries in the Middle East can be used as a breakthrough for Seryozha's foreign trade. The aircraft project in the UAE is the first business that Sergey Sha will get.

The project is now in the hands of Goldman. In order to prevent the Ilyushin Design Bureau from bullying customers, Sergesha specially communicated with their person in charge, emphasizing the importance of this business. However, after the Tuponev Design Bureau learned that these Emiratis were interested in their supersonic airliner, they wanted to use foreign funds to restart the tu-144d production line. Seryozha felt that they took it for granted. Now this kind of aircraft can only be handled by pilots of the level of test pilots. How can it be put into commercial use, and the safety record of tu-144d is not very good. However, Seryozha introduced the Tuponev Design Bureau to these Arabs.

Goldman learned of another way of making money through contacts with these people. That is the UAE intends to invest huge sums of money in the construction of desalination plants and petrochemical projects. Now Sergey is very interested in these lucrative projects. Sergey asked Yeltsin to recommend several domestic construction units that can undertake these projects. In any case, go to the United Arab Emirates to participate in the bidding first, and we have to talk about whether we win or not. Although Xie Liaosha himself did not get any benefits in this matter, Xie Liaosha could increase his voice in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. The reason why Xie Liaosha worked so hard to achieve success in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is largely to be able to monopolize the power of the entire department.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is simply too important to Seryozha because it is now Glencore's largest trading partner. Sergey took advantage of the resource advantages of the Soviet Union to quickly make Glencore a new force in the commodity trading industry. As long as he occupies the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation for one day, Glencore's grain, oil, and metal businesses will not lose money. This is no longer money laundering. Strictly speaking, it is more like a kind of benefit transfer that is beneficial to both parties.

But Seryozha is still far from discovering the greater value of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, because the Foreign Trade Bank, the most important asset of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, is still in the hands of Minister Zhuravlev. The Foreign Trade Bank is in charge of the foreign exchange receipts and payments of the Soviet Union's international trade. Whether it is an enterprise in the Soviet Union that exports goods or imports goods from abroad, it must ultimately be settled through the Foreign Trade Bank. However, Sergey's National Residential Bank is a local bank, and its foreign exchange quota is limited, which cannot support Sergey's current business. It is precisely because the Foreign Trade Bank is not in hand that Seriosha allows Glencore to trade with the Mediterranean Trading Company through barter transactions. Only in this way can the Foreign Trade Bank's supervision of foreign exchange be avoided.

Although Zhuravlev had a good attitude towards Seryozha, Seryozha would not simply think that Zhuravlev would obediently hand over the Foreign Trade Bank to himself. Moreover, Zhuravlev is in the prime of life and is still far away from retirement, so Seryozha has always had the idea of ​​​​moving him.

This matter still has to wait until Secretary Gorbachev takes office! Moreover, there is still a distance of several deputy ministers between Seryozha and Zhuravlev. Only after all obstacles are cleared, can Seryosha have the possibility of monopolizing power.

Sergey and Yakovlev now go to meet with Gorbachev to report to Gorbachev every week. Yakovlev is now mainly studying the political and economic systems of Western countries. This is what scholars do, and it was not convenient for Seryozha to participate in it. However, Comrade Hamer and some authoritative institutions abroad exaggerated Sergey's subprime mortgage concept to the sky, which made Sergey's reputation in the field of economics more and more famous. This also made Gorbachev pay attention to Seryozha's opinions. But Seryozha did not want to upstage Yakovlev, and he rarely expressed his opinion. Even if you express your opinions, you are limited to the fields that your work has involved.

Although Yakovlev is only the director of a research institute, his position is much lower than that of Seryozha. But after all, he was the one who openly fired at Brezhnev, was a member of the Central Committee, and was an expert in the field of diplomacy. Therefore, some officials of the Gorbachev faction will come to this politically experienced expert to discuss whatever they encounter. Yakovlev has now turned his Institute of World Economics and International Politics into a salon-style political club, and many cadres who hold the same views as him are regular visitors to his institute.

Yakovlev most admired the economic propositions of the Chicago School. This school once shined brilliantly in Chile's economic reform and attracted the attention of the world. Although Pinochet, who came to power through a coup in Chile, was an out-and-out dictator, the economic policy he implemented was a liberal economy that the Chicago School personally participated in formulating. According to Yakovlev's introduction, Seriosha felt that this school of thought was very similar to Mrs Thatcher's ongoing reforms. What surprised Sergei the most was that when the Chicago School was carrying out economic reforms in Chile, it also created a brand-new economic concept, which made Sergesha feel deeply, that is, the "shock therapy" that made Russia miserable after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. .