Chapter 310

Volgograd, formerly known as zarizin, Stalingrad. Located on the Bank of the Volga River, the city is moistened by the abundant Volga River, which has always been the granary of the southern tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. The battle of Stalingrad, which happened here in July 1942, became the turning point of the Second World War. After the war, the people here built a brand-new city on the ruins. The Soviet Union made every effort to help the city recover. The largest hydropower station in Europe was built here, which provided sufficient power for the whole city, There is no doubt that it has become the metallurgical industrial center of the Soviet Union, especially the production base of electrolytic aluminum and special alloy steel (electric furnace steelmaking).

It was his first time to come to this city, together with Yakov, the head of Moscow trading company, who came here to discuss the export of electrolytic aluminum. As a newly established small company, Moscow trading company is unlikely to get involved in this field in the short term. Although Secretary Gorbachev is involved in this field, in front of these old state-owned enterprises, the small Moscow trading company is nothing at all, and Secretary Gorbachev is in charge of agriculture after all. If there are no good conditions, Xie liaosha is not going to take the share he wants from here.

Xie liaosha is not helpless to these aluminum production enterprises. The Russian Romanov trading company, the partner of Moscow trading company, can provide sufficient wheat. Now the grain in the Soviet Union is much more important than industrial raw materials. Xieliaosha believes that his condition can't be refused.

Yakov is responsible for the specific matters of the negotiation, and seliosha does not intend to participate. Now he is waiting for the result of the negotiation in the restaurant of the hotel. At the same time, he is still thinking about a question, such as when to negotiate with state-owned enterprises one by one, which is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also inefficient. Now the Moscow trading company is on the advantageous side. What can we do to let these enterprises come to the door on their own initiative?

Under the system of planned economy, the advantage of holding grain of Moscow trading company of seliosha could not be exerted at all. This is the most important reason why seryosa's trade is always inseparable from the help of those bureaucrats. We should know that every product of every enterprise is not worried about sales under the planned economic system. The state arranges production plans for the enterprise. As long as the enterprise concentrates on production, the state is fully responsible for the sales of its products. When the transaction is completed, the income from product sales is automatically transferred to the enterprise account of the National Bank, and the cash is only used when the workers are paid. But when the workers came into the shop with their wages, they found that there was nothing to buy. Things in the shop are either old-fashioned or available by ticket. So we can only take money to the black market to buy high price food. Although the official prices have not changed, but the ordinary people actually feel the high cost of living.

If the Moscow trading company of Xie liaosha cooperates with the other party in this way, it will be a dead end. The other party has to arrange the production plan for Xie liaosha's order. When Romanov company got the products, they didn't know it was a long time ago. This kind of model is a disaster for the spot dealers who are very sensitive to the price.

When Xie liaosha was in distress, the waiter informed him that there was a phone call for him on the counter. Xie liaosha couldn't wait to walk to the phone, picked up the receiver and asked, "how's it going? Has the other party agreed? "

"They agreed, but they can't guarantee the stable supply of goods to us, and they have great concerns! They also talked about their own difficulties. They can't assign too many production tasks to the workers because they can't increase their wages. The workers won't agree. So they can only give us the remaining inventory in the off-season of demand! " Yakov said with emotion.

"What can you do?" Xie liaosha asked Yakov on the phone.

"I'm going to send someone to the electrolytic aluminum factory in Siberia to ask if we can solve the problem of supply! The government's control of industrial raw materials is too rigid, so we can't do it at all! " Yakov complained helplessly.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning. Let's go and watch one first." Xie liaosha also said helplessly that this is a system problem. It can't be solved by personal strength.

"The director of the Bureau of industrial technology export, smiliakov, was sentenced to death, and general secretary Andropov sent an investigation team to Uzbekistan to investigate the chaos of cotton subsidy funds..." Xie liaosha called, and a guest at the next table subconsciously read the headlines of the newspaper. Xie liaosha was immediately surprised!

"Comrade waiter! Please give me a copy of today's newspaper Xie liaosha hung up the phone and called the waiter. He wanted to see what was going on?

"Comrade, the newspaper you want!" The waiter put a local Volga daily on the desk of sheriyosha, and then left. The front page of the newspaper read "smiliakov, the director of the Bureau of industrial technology export, has been sentenced to death, and now he has been sent to the execution ground for execution". The photos of smiliakov when he was the director of the Bureau and when he became a prisoner are the pictures of the news, Looking at the two photos, Xie liaosha couldn't believe that they were the same person.

Smiliakov, a prisoner of the lower echelon, was thin and gray, as if he were twenty years old overnight. This picture is so shocking that even Xie liaosha feels a little scared. Since Khrushchev's time, the Soviet Union has never shot a serving official, which is a matter of Stalin's time. Who would have thought this would happen now. Moreover, it is reported that smilyakov is not the only one who has been sentenced to death, followed by Sokolov, the manager of the food department of the first food store in Moscow. His death sentence is scheduled for tomorrow.

Xie liaosha looked at the long list of people involved in the case attached to the newspaper and looked at the positions they had held. He can't believe it happened. He even began to doubt his own mode of operation. He doubted that he would be like smiliakov one day.

What he didn't know was that almost all the bureaucrats in the Soviet Union were in fear. Andropov's way reminds people of the Stalin era, how many officials in so many regions of the country dare to pat their chest to ensure that they are innocent. After so many years, we have been used to the tolerance of the president. Now Andropov tells us that your good days are over.