Chapter 239: The Cabinet Chief's Speech
The well-deployed Japanese plan has finally begun to generate profits, and now Sergei no longer needs to worry about it. International hot money is frantically shorting the Japanese real estate and stock markets and longing the Japanese foreign exchange market. After the initial trial, the inaction of the Japanese government has greatly contributed to the arrogance of hot money. Now the only thing that can frantically confront the funds of the world is the Japanese banking system.
With the rising of the yen, sums of dollars were lost from Japan to overseas, and the foreign exchange accumulated by the Japanese people after the war was divided up by the financial oligarchs. What is left to Japan is endless debts, tens of thousands of unfinished buildings, and broken families one after another due to inability to repay debts.
The financial market is a zero-sum game, where there are winners, there are bound to be losers. Every penny earned by Sergei Shah is lost by others. But for the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, it is finally possible not to worry about funding.
The demonstrations on the Baltic Road have caused some foreign investors to withdraw from projects in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone. Now the foreign financing of the entire Special Economic Zone has been reduced by half, and foreign companies that have decided to settle in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone are even fewer. Not much. Most of Seryozha's own companies have established new projects in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, which finally made Seryozha look less ugly.
The rest of the companies are mainly energy companies from various countries, such as France’s Total, BP, and even Mobil are planning to set up branches in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone. What they value is nothing more than the oil and natural gas resources of the Soviet Union. That's all.
The reality before Sergei Sha is now very clear. The Iron Curtain and the torrent of steel that the Soviet Union has painstakingly managed for many years have begun to collapse and cannot play their due role. But the Soviet Union still has something that Europe cannot refuse, and that is natural gas and oil. As long as oil and natural gas are under control, even if the Iron Curtain does not exist, Europe will never be able to fall out with Russia. Although the United States has money, it cannot solve the problem of stable energy supply in Europe, and stable energy supply is the decisive factor for the economic development of European countries. This is a problem that America will never be able to solve for Europe. So even if the Soviet Union is no longer welcomed by European countries, the natural gas resources of the Soviet Union will always be the best friends of European governments.
European and American oil companies are still sticking to the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, hoping to get as much natural gas from the Soviet Union as possible. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Seryozha launched a long-distance pipeline project connecting Siberian oil and gas fields with the Leningrad Special Economic Zone. Even if all the enterprises in the Soviet Union did not make money, natural gas could still bring steady profits. Moreover, the pipeline project will provide a large number of jobs, which will improve the current chaotic economy of the Soviet Union to a certain extent.
Seryozha submitted the report to the Politburo, and the plan was quickly approved. At the same time, Shevardnadze also reached an agreement with the Polish and Hungarian governments. Withdraw the garrison. The placement of these garrisons has a safe placement plan because of Seryozha's pipeline project plan. The entire pipeline project is expected to provide about 50,000 job opportunities. If the supporting facilities and some temporary jobs are counted, it is basically malicious to provide nearly 200,000 jobs in the short term.
Seryozha asked Gorbachev to implement an autonomous policy in the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, because this is an area open to the world, and it is impossible to carry out administrative work in the usual way of the Soviet Union, because the efficiency is too slow. Gorbachev understood what Seryozha meant, but he was a little dissatisfied with Yeltsin, the candidate proposed by Seryozha.
"Comrade Yeltsin served as Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee,
He has more experience in large-scale urban construction than all of us, and Yeltsin has a good reputation in the European and American media. With him, those foreign investors can't find any faults, so..." Seryozha asked carefully.
Gorbachev thought about it. The financial power of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone was not in the hands of the government, but in the hands of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. Although Yeltsin said that he was the leader of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, he actually He is just the second in command to help Sergei Shale manage the construction of the special zone, which is still deserted. Even if Yeltsin was given this chance, he couldn't make any waves.
After thinking for a long time, Gorbachev couldn't find out where Yeltsin was threatening, so he simply agreed with Seryozha's suggestion. After all, a person who had served as an alternate member of the Politburo and the first secretary of Moscow was appointed as the economic secretary. The head of the administration of the special zone also expressed to the world the Soviet Union's importance to the special economic zone.
With Gorbachev's approval, Sergey could finally straighten Yeltsin, who had always held the title of consultant. Sergey is now the leader of Yeltsin, and Yeltsin will report to Sergey. However, Seryozha has a clear understanding of himself. The tens of thousands of construction workers on the construction site are not easy to manage. They are not machines, but living people. They have various needs besides eating and working. , They want housing, medical treatment, joining the party, marrying a wife and having children. Sergey can't manage these cumbersome things at all. Sergey only cares about how to complete the infrastructure construction work of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone faster. , So Seryozha pushed all these uninteresting tasks to Yeltsin to deal with.
Lebedev, who has been staying in Switzerland for a long time, accepted an interview from the Japanese media with the approval of Sergei. He described to the Japanese media that all his research materials on the Japanese economy came from public materials. Lebedev's remarks did not make the Japanese feel suspicious, because the facts are true. What they care about is who is the short seller behind the muddy water. Lebedev said he had no knowledge of this, and he was only providing consulting services. This disappointed the Japanese guests who came from afar.
However, Japanese journalists don’t have to worry about having no news materials, because just after the police announced that they would formally issue an arrest warrant for Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujinami Takao, who was appointed by Noboru Takeshita, his body was found at his home. According to the preliminary investigation, Fujinami Takao committed suicide by taking medicine. As soon as the news came out, the whole of Japan was in an uproar. For whom Fujinami Takao died, even unrelated people know it clearly. His death made the police's investigation stop at Takao Fujinami, and it was impossible to investigate the responsibility of Prime Minister Takeshita Toboshi in the whole incident.
Takeshita Noboru, who escaped from prison, no longer has the face to continue to be the prime minister, and other leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party have also been criticized by the media. So after some entanglement, Takeshita boarded the cabinet and finally announced his collective resignation.