Chapter 196 Oil and Gas Concern
Gorbachev left the employment problem of hundreds of thousands of people to Sergey Sha, who knew that only industries such as industry and agriculture could absorb this batch of employed people. However, industry has certain requirements on the quality of the population, especially automobile manufacturing companies like Gorky Volkswagen, which need skilled workers, while the threshold for agriculture is relatively low. In addition, the Soviet Union’s material supply problem has never been resolved. So Seryozha decided to take agriculture as the main breakthrough.
In high-latitude areas like the Soviet Union, the crops that can be grown are very limited, and the farming hours are relatively short. However, the pilot farms that Sergey built in Ukraine when he was working in the Ministry of Agriculture are still running well. Sergey decided to invest heavily in the development of greenhouse cultivation technology in Ukraine. If this thing is done, it can be regarded as a good thing that benefits the country and the people. In later generations, many Chinese farmers went to Russia to engage in planting and made a fortune, which proved that this is indeed a path that can be followed. The Soviets There's no reason to mess this up.
Naturally, Seryozha will not personally intervene in this matter. Let the Shenke family do it at the end of the season. Seryozha is only interested in the financial industry, because there is nothing more worry-free than the business of money making money .
If hundreds of thousands of people are employed, corresponding jobs need to be created, which means that the state needs to make a lot of investment. This is a good opportunity to steal the country's foreign exchange. Now that Ligachev is gone, no one can stop Seryozha. So Seriosha began to issue a large number of foreign exchange loans to enterprises affiliated to the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center Department under the Communist Youth League system, in the name of introducing advanced foreign technology and equipment. But when the loan was repaid, it was in rubles. As a result, more and more foreign exchange entered into Sergey's bank account in Switzerland through the underground bank opened by Sergey, and because of the interest rate difference between the official exchange rate and the private exchange rate, the enterprises of the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center one by one They all made a lot of money. Many of these enterprises are white gloves cultivated by Sergey for many years. They helped Sergey launder money, and they also made a fortune accordingly. Everyone has become a closed interest community, and they are all making a fortune in a tacit and muffled voice.
In just one month, the production line specially ordered by Hassan from Germany for the production of boards and houses began to run and debug in Dnepropetrovsk. The day of official production is not far away, and some of them have been withdrawn from Afghanistan. More soldiers were assigned to work in this factory, which immediately provided nearly 5,000 job opportunities. Because Seryozha is in charge of this matter, the board-built house will become the country's preferred housing type for resettlement facilities. As for whether these people living in it will be cold in the long winter in a high-latitude country like the Soviet Union, that is not something that Seryozha has to consider. Anyway, he will not spend a penny.
It's not winter yet, so the workers who live in the iron container have not yet reached the worst time. Thanks to Sergey Leosha's good reputation during the construction of the workers' new city, many workers did not complain to Sergey Shah, but instead pointed the finger at those guys in the Politburo, especially Gorbachev. Yes, who made Seryozha a small official? Anyway, he solved the employment and housing problems of these people. A tin house is also a house, so it's better than setting up a tent.
During this period of time, there was too much work, and Yulia was a little overwhelmed. Seryozha saw it and thought it was time for Nastya to come back. During his stay in the UK, Nastia studied economics and got a diploma. In addition, he has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation for many years, and his level has reached a certain level. Xie Liaosha thinks that Na Sijia can be appointed as the secretary-general of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, leading the work of the entire department. And Yulia is responsible for the things he explained.
Such a decision is definitely good news for Nastia, because the secretary-general of the ministry is one of the senior leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and his level has reached the vice-ministerial level. It is only behind Sergei Sha in the ranking. But Seryozha is no longer so enthusiastic about official positions, the Soviet Union is almost doomed,
What's the point of giving it to a minister?
The current Soviet Union is precarious, economic reform is struggling, and political reform seems to have triggered a greater crisis at the top. Even if Gorbachev's reform plan is really feasible, the biggest problem is the lack of spontaneous motivation for reform at the lower levels, and everything needs to be promoted by the superiors. In the final analysis, the vast lower-level bureaucratic groups in the Soviet Union were unwilling to reform, and even within the Politburo there were disagreements over the ways and means of reform. However, in the past few years, under the leadership of Prime Minister Thatcher, the United Kingdom has gotten rid of the plight of economic downturn, and the economy has begun to return to the path of growth, while the French government has followed Mrs. Thatcher's reform line closely. Let the French economy also begin to get rid of negative growth, and the information technology revolution in the United States is in full swing, which will bring new economic growth points. But the Soviet Union seems to have no chance.
The Kremlin's top priority now is to accommodate the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and reduce the number of unemployed. These people are not ignorant and ignorant white lotus, they came down from the battlefield, and they can do anything in a hurry. But most people would not take risks as long as there is still a chance of survival. In order to provide as many jobs as possible, under the suggestion of Yakovlev, Gorbachev planned to follow the reform measures of Roosevelt's New Deal period and launch some large-scale national projects to provide employment. But the Soviet government owed a lot of debt and lacked start-up funds. So Seryosha, the only department that can get foreign capital, began to show its importance.
The relationship between Gorbachev and Sergey became warm again, and he began to re-invite Sergey to the Kremlin to attend important meetings, changing his previous cold attitude. For these changes of the General Secretary, Seryozha naturally had to express something, so he suggested to Gorbachev that he could cooperate with more foreign capital and use foreign funds to exploit Siberia's rich oil and natural gas resources.
Seryozha's proposal was to reorganize the Soviet Union's Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry into a company, forming a monopoly Conzern Group, and they could use the form of subsidiaries to attract foreign capital for cooperation. Seryozha's suggestion made Gorbachev a little tempted. If this is the case, all the oil and gas companies in the Soviet Union will be integrated into a giant company. Under the management of this company, the following subsidiaries will come forward Cooperating with foreign countries has solved many institutional problems and strengthened the central government's control over the oil and gas industry.
Gorbachev promised to discuss this proposal at the Politburo, and Seryozha was somewhat looking forward to it. He hoped that reality would force Gorbachev to implement the plan as soon as possible.