Chapter 117 Conspiracy to confront
The Chebisshev recommended by Rubik, Yakov did not have a deep impression of him. Because no one of the capable men who was trusted by Yakov did not follow him to make a fortune in Italy. He would never send him to Africa no matter what. However, since this was something Rubik took the initiative to ask, Yakov would not refute Rubik's face, and at most he would send one more person to Colombia.
After Yakov and Yuri called Rubik over to finalize the matter, they began to contact Eskobar in Colombia. Seriosha also called to ask about this matter specifically, which made both Yakov and Yuri feel very abnormal.
In fact, Seriosha is indeed in a little trouble now. Since the Chernobyl incident, the central finance of the Soviet Union has suddenly become tense. In order to alleviate the central government's financial pressure, Ligachev, the secretary of the Secretariat in charge of the economy, began to extend his hand to the ministries and commissions below. In recent years, bureaucracy and hedonism have been prevalent in the officialdom of the Soviet Union, and the daily expenses of various departments have become increasingly large. In addition, Gorbachev has liberated some areas for economic reform. In order to expand financial resources, many ministries and commissions have used their power to support some of their own tertiary companies. These companies
First, some related households in the department can have a decent job, and more importantly, they can earn profits for the department to use as small treasurys within the department. This has almost become an open secret. For example, the fishery department focused on the Soviet specialty product caviar. Although during the Andropov period, the fishery department and the Soviet naval department jointly smuggled caviar, under the conditions that the Soviet Union had never developed a market economy, even Gorbachev could not tell whether the fishery department's behavior should be criticized during the reform process.
How could there be only one fishery department doing this kind of thing? The Soviet Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry, Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, and Ministry of Automobile Industry are all doing the same thing. However, these departments can never avoid Selyos' Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs.
Ligachev, who is now worried about financial issues, wants to rectify these enterprises under the name of ministries and commissions, and include their management rights and income in the central finance of the Soviet Union. This is equivalent to weaning various ministries and commissions of the Soviet Union, and the first thing to be affected is Selyosha's Ministry of Foreign Trade.
Although Selyosha is now only the deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs, everyone knows that Selyosha is the mastermind of this department. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs is definitely the richest among the Soviet ministries and commissions. Selyosha has now firmly grasped the two major sources of wealth, namely the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank and the Mediterranean Trade Company. Whether it is the cotton from the foreign school of the Ministry of Agriculture, the electrolytic aluminum that the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry can take, or the resource products of the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry, they are inseparable from the foreign trade exports of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs, the Soviet Union's foreign trade exports. One of the most technical steps here is how to settle foreign exchange after these products are exported. It is to transfer all the money to the corporate credit books of the Central Bank of the Soviet Union, or to leave a portion of cash from the foreign trade bank to directly hand it over to the small treasury of these departments. It is all about Selyosha's words.
Now Ligachev is going to use everyone to do the operation, and the ministers of several ministries who are unwilling to let it go all the way to Selyosha and discuss together how to deal with Ligachev. However, when they arrived here, they saw a person whom they would never have imagined. He was Jeltsin, the first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee.
"Why is Secretary Jelitsin here too?" When these ministers saw Jelitsin, they thought Ligachev had already known everyone's small actions, so they specially sent Jelitsin to discipline everyone. Seeing this, Seryosha quickly called everyone to sit down, and then said, "Don't be afraid, Secretary Jelitsin has encountered the same problem as us. Ligachev wants to stop the project of the Moscow Workers' New City..."
Needless to say, everyone knows what happened. The conflict between Ligachev and Jeltsin has been going on for a day or two. When Seryosha mentioned it a little, everyone understands why Jeltsin came today.
"Since everyone has arrived, I will say a few words first! I still support Secretary Ligachev's proposal, but Secretary Ligachev is in the central government, and there are some specific problems. Maybe he doesn't know much about it, or maybe he is blinded by the people around him! As members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, we all have the responsibility to point out these problems for Comrade Ligachev, so today we are not to disagree with the Central Committee, but to truthfully reflect the problems to the Central Secretariat and Secretary Ligachev on issues that we are concerned about." Seryosha gathered these ministers together and first set the tone of this meeting so as not to betray everyone in the future and give Ligachev a verbal statement.
"Okay, let me talk first!" After Jelitsin, who was sitting in the main seat, waited for Selyosha to finish his opening remarks, and then asked for a speech. He looked at everyone present, who were basically the first and second leaders of the domestic industrial sector of the Soviet Union, and most of them had business dealings with Selyosha, such as the Ministry of Automobile Industry. Their products are now sold in South America and occupy the market locally. In the past, Soviet cars could only be sold to Eastern Europe and other countries in the socialist camp, and a large part of them were even used as aid for export. He had made so much foreign exchange like now, but he didn't dare to think about it in the past. Whose credits for all this? Isn't Selyosha?
"The Workers' New Village Project is a key project in China, which is related to the housing problems of thousands of families in Moscow. I think it is unfair to the Moscow citizens who are looking forward to their new homes just because of temporary funding. I want to point out that although there were state funding in the previous few phases of the Workers' New Town, most of the funds in the Workers' New Town are from social financing. If you stop like this, those citizens who have purchased the Workers' New Town construction bonds will not agree! So on the issue of the Workers' New Town, on behalf of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, we do not agree to the Central Secretariat's mess!" Jeltin said seriously.
Selyosha looked at everyone with a smile. With Jeltsin's throwing bricks, everyone agreed, but no one took the initiative to speak. At this time, Selyosha quietly gave a look to the comrades of the Ministry of Automobile Industry, and the other party then raised his hand to join the ranks of denying Ligachev's policy.
Chapter completed!