The Western world was looking for opportunities to make money in the Soviet Union. In the current situation, the business world was making huge profits by investing, and the scientific and technological world was seizing the Soviet Union's science and technology talents.
A senior physics researcher's salary was only 1,500 rubles, not even as high as a bus driver's salary, and prices in Moscow increased by 350% in January.
Under the double pressure of research and personal difficulties, many researchers with good relationships with foreign colleagues decided to work abroad to tide over the difficulties.
Especially young researchers abandoned their scientific careers in the process of economic privatization to seek jobs that could earn more money.
The Western countries, especially the United States, were both happy and worried about the brain drain.
They were happy that the influx of Soviet researchers into the West could strengthen their own research capabilities and make up for the shortage of domestic researchers.
They were worried that the brain drain of the Soviet Union created a very special problem for them.
The Soviet Union's huge military industrial system had created a large number of nuclear weapons and missile experts in the past few decades. So many nuclear experts wanted to go abroad to make a living. This was a godsend for those countries that wanted to develop nuclear weapons.
The United States was very worried that people like Master Sa and Libya's Old Khatay might use money to lure the Soviet Union's strategic weapons experts to work for them, thus creating a very serious potential threat to the West.
In order to eliminate this hidden danger, the United States was considering some corresponding measures, such as cooperating with the Soviet Union's intelligence agency. Look, your people have all defected. Are you going to do anything about it?
Unfortunately, the Soviet Union's military and intelligence agencies were busy with money and political struggles. No one cared about this.
The United States had no choice but to quickly allocate hundreds of millions of dollars, hoping to get these extremely important nuclear experts back to the United States before many other countries.
Gorbachev didn't have the ability to control it. His orders were limited to a few buildings in the Kremlin. He was trying to borrow money everywhere and shamelessly asked to attend the Seven Western Countries Conference, also known as the "G7", which was held in England.
At the conference, he begged his western friends to lend him money.
Old Bush patted him on the shoulder. Brother, I have faith in you. You must hold on!
As for borrowing money, I will do some research.
The whole of Moscow was already under Yeltsin's control. He had already stopped the financial allocations to various parts of the Soviet Union. For these various parts of the Soviet Union staff, they were given two choices, either get out of Russia or obey.
Anyway, all the independent countries followed suit. There was no way for the Soviet Union, led by Ge Tu, to get money from here!
Anyway, all the independent countries followed suit. There was no way for the Soviet Union, led by Ge Tu, to get money from here!
Therefore, the research institutions, military units, enterprises, and even the military and intelligence agencies that originally belonged to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were worried. They either had to find a backer or find a way to make money before Russia took over.
So, more and more people came to the Soviet Union to look for gold. It was not only the westerners. People from all 7 continents and 4 oceans had come to the Soviet Union. They were not afraid of the US.
The Soviets themselves did not care, so why should the Americans care?
The Soviet Union?
Even Britain and France might not necessarily have the same interests as the United States, let alone other countries. For example, China was the first to stand up and express its dissatisfaction. I have just tasted the sweetness of victory. You want me to stop? Dream on!
Moscow could be said to be in chaos. The forces of various countries were competing here, and it fell into a situation of "you can't eat me, and I can't eat you". Behind these forces were the forces of a few big countries and "rich countries". Their relationships were complicated, and the situation was rather chaotic.
Although the oil from the rich countries could not be sold at a high price, they were not short of money.
As an individual, Li He had always been a timid person. He also knew his limits, so he only fished up small fish and shrimps.
But he encouraged Liu Baoyong, Yuan Ming, and the rest to fish for big sharks and whales. Once the state starts to work, no matter how big the problem is, it will be a small problem.
That was why the China delegation came to Moscow in waves. He saw Liu Baoyong and the rest laughing at him. He thought that it was a fruitful trip, but he did not ask what he should not ask.
In the face of such great benefits, the Chinese thugs in the Soviet Union did not care about their own safety. Many of them were not as scrupulous as Li He. They dared to fight, rob, and do anything.
The China people were hardworking, but when they were cunning, they were afraid of them.
They slowly learned from the Japanese and Americans how to play the game of joint ventures. With a little investment, they could empty a factory's core assets. After that, they could leave.
Although there were 4,000 to 5,000 joint venture factories in the Soviet Union, less than 100 of them were in operation.
The more China people came to the Soviet Union, the happier Li He was. He hoped the Chinese people could learn from the Soviet Union. This was because 90 years later, the Westerners had used this game in China.
After a Western company invested in a Chinese company, it would use a series of tricks, such as "Setting up a trap in the contract", "Joint Venture", "Losses", "Capital Increase", "Changing the Board of Directors", "Forcing the Chinese side to give up or withdraw", "Controlling shares" to obtain absolute control of the original joint venture company. After that, they will either reshuffle the China market according to their wishes to maximize their profits, or they will get the core assets and leave.
Li He was famous, and more and more people came to him to borrow money. He was easy to talk to, and as long as the people he met were similar, he would lend money to them.
Was this good or bad?
Not every pimp came to him to borrow money.
"Mr. Li, don't look down on this business. This is a big business. Let's form a partnership."
A dark-skinned, honest-looking fellow approached him and wanted to do business together.
"Brother, are you addicted to doing this?" Li He was not fooled by this guy's honest appearance.
This guy was called Chen Youli. Not long ago, he was a China labor export farmer to the Soviet Union.
Labor export was to provide labor or services to foreign countries for foreign exchange earnings.
Labor export was a new industry in China, and Chen Youli came to the Soviet Union. His biggest dream was to farm in the Soviet Union for the rest of his life. But most of the Chinese here were making money, and this made Chen Youli feel stimulated. He decided to leave the team and quit farming to become a pimp.
Relying on his good spoken Russian, he found a large number of Soviet girls who were struggling to make ends meet and introduced them to the Chinese who came here to eat foreign meat. Needless to say, his business was really good.
In Moscow, this was not considered a crime, and he had nothing to fear.
Li He did not have a good impression of Chen Youli, nor did he have a bad impression of him. But if they were to do this kind of business together, he would reject him immediately, even though he acknowledged this guy's ability.
To be able to lead a 50-60 women's army, he was definitely not an ordinary person.
Li He had seen the women's army in Chen Youli's hands. In terms of age, there was a big difference. There were 14 year old girls, and there were even old ladies in their 50s.
There were all kinds of backgrounds. Some were old, some were released from prison, some were addicted to alcohol, and some were forced by life to find shortcuts to success in this industry.
Among them, there were even aristocratic families that engaged in this line of work, including the maternal grandmother's daughter and the maternal granddaughter's mother. The three generations of the family "worked" together.
They were all unkempt, with swollen faces, and indifferent expressions. They were soliciting customers at the three railway terminals near Moscow's Gongqing Square. But Chen Youli gathered them together, spent money to groom them, and then introduced them to the Chinese customers.
The Chinese customers introduced by Chen Youli were generous, of good quality, and had good character. They were definitely their ideal customers, and they decided to follow Chen Youli.
For some Chinese people, they were also willing to look for Chen Youli's women, mainly because of the safety.
Some of them did not know the industry at first, and to save a little bit of pimp fees, they went to the railway station to look for girls. But they were stolen, robbed, and even got drunk and pushed out of a taxi.
To make matters worse, some of the money they had painstakingly saved up suddenly disappeared after a night of debauchery. The girls left them without saying goodbye. This kind of unlucky thing happened to many people, but they could not complain because it was too shameful.
But with Chen Youli, this kind of thing would not happen, so Chen Youli's business was getting better.
Even if something happened, Chen Youli would bear the responsibility and made a name for himself here.
Li He sighed. It was true that every profession had its own master!
Chen Youli passed a cigarette to Li He and scratched his head. "Boss Li, I'm already in my thirties, and I still don't have a wife. I need to earn some money to return to China and marry a wife. If not, my Chen family will have no more descendants! You understand. "
Ding Shiping laughed and kicked Chen Youli's leg. "Go play somewhere else. I don't have time to accompany you."
As more and more people came to Li He to borrow money, Li He got frustrated and let Huang Bingxin handle this problem.
Huang Bingxin also treated this as an opportunity to expand his business. The Commercial Bank immediately organized a financing team to come to Moscow and used the slogan, "If you want to borrow money, look for the Commercial Bank."
That red banner was hung at the entrance of the Moscow Hotel, and it was very eye-catching!
The people from the Commercial Bank, including Li He, knew that it was impossible to make a loss when lending money. These customers who wanted to borrow money would use the equipment and assets they had brought back from Moscow as collateral.
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