Chapter 417

The photo of Xie liaosha shaking hands with the Minister of Commerce has become the top news in the media these days. It also poses a huge challenge to the current presidential team, which is busy with the general election. Because the current President Reagan is highly praised by the voters for his strong opposition to the Soviet Union, it is easy to misunderstand Reagan's policy by shaking hands. The Minister of Commerce reported the real situation of the incident to the president that night. Reagan immediately called his staff together to discuss this matter. The staff tended to think that this might be a signal that the Soviets wanted reconciliation, and the president should give some response. But this matter can only be carried out in secret, and it is best to carry out after the election.

Xie liaosha doesn't care about the views of the White House. He is busy doing his duty as an official of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation of the Soviet Union, trying to sell Soviet products to overseas countries. In addition, Xie liaosha also arranged for Boris to buy the Plaza Hotel. Because he heard that Hilton Hotel Group, the current owner of Plaza Hotel, is negotiating to buy Waldorf Hotel, another pearl of the hotel industry. They are very likely to sell the Plaza Hotel to raise money, and Xie liaosha doesn't want to miss this opportunity.

With the initial cooperation projects gradually increasing, Xie liaosha's energy is not enough. He talked to Gorbachev on the phone. Gorbachev was satisfied with his performance in New York, but general secretary Chernenko also hoped that he could get substantive communication. He understood that he had successfully helped Gorbachev build a reputation in the diplomatic field. If Gorbachev can seize this opportunity, no one will hinder his visit to Britain. This is Gorbachev's major victory in the internal struggle.

The five-day meeting soon ended, during which he met many businessmen and politicians from all over the world. Originally, according to the schedule, shagliaosha should return home immediately after the meeting, but general secretary Chernenko thought that he should stay in the United States for a while to see if the U.S. government could have more positive feedback. So he continued to stay in the United States.

Because of his diplomatic breakthrough, gromico had to cooperate with him against his will. The Embassy in the United States has arranged several staff members to assist Xie liaosha in his work here. They contacted some Soviet friendly American celebrities to build momentum for the platform. Among them, comrade Hamer is the most well-known one, but the one who impresses him most is Samantha Smith's American child star. She is famous for writing to Andropov and receiving Andropov's personal reply. She also visited the Soviet Union. But to tell you the truth, he doesn't think these people's ideas can influence the American government and people.

On the contrary, mark Ritchie, who lives in Switzerland, is the most helpful person for cheriesha. Now Glencore has taken over all the food related enterprises except Monsanto. In addition to mark Ritchie's original business contacts, mark Ritchie has introduced to cheriesha the gateway of American farmers' Union. To be honest, it's more useful than that little child star.

As the American farmers' Union is a non-governmental organization, shagliaosha's contact with them will not be obstructed by the US government. He did it in the name of inspecting American agricultural production, but he did it for business. The American farmers' Union seems to be grassroots, but in fact it has great power. In fact, it is protecting the interests of large farmers in the United States, and the biggest guarantee of this interest comes from the price protection program of the United States Department of agriculture for the members of the American farmers' Union. According to the plan, when the price of grain on the market is lower than a certain amount, the USDA will protect the grain of the farmers' Union at a price higher than the market price. Then wait until the price of grain rises in the market, and the Ministry of agriculture will sell off. In this way, farmers and the Ministry of agriculture are profitable. Even all along, this business has gradually become a small Treasury within the Ministry of agriculture. But this small Treasury is about to be destroyed by the U.S. Food embargo. In recent years, the U.S. has been imposing sanctions on the Soviet Union, Iran, and Eastern Europe. In addition, the United States has had a bumper harvest year after year, and the price of grain has fallen again and again, which makes the Department of agriculture's plan of purchasing and storing grain almost bankrupt. If we don't find a way out for these grains as soon as possible, the Ministry of agriculture will lose a lot of money.

In this context, it is possible for shagliaosha to import American wheat and barley indirectly through the American farmers union. You know, the subsidies from the Department of agriculture are all approved by Congress, only so many every year. Agricultural subsidies have now taken up a large amount of congressional funding, so as long as they can handle the food in hand, and as long as mark Ritchie doesn't make a big effort to transport the food directly to the Soviet Union, it is still possible for the Department of agriculture to turn a blind eye.

After shagliaosha communicated with mark Ritchie and his friends within the American farmers union, a bold plan began to emerge. The two sides bought food from the U.S. Department of agriculture in the name of a non-governmental charity organization and then shipped it to Africa to help the famine there. In fact, most of the grain was sent to the Soviet Union in exchange for oil. Because it's a charity, it won't be censored by the U.S. trade department. So it will be much safer in practice.

Seryosa has targeted Somalia and Ethiopia on the Mediterranean coast. As these two countries are on the east coast of Africa, their transportation routes will pass through the Mediterranean. Seryosa can load the grain onto the freighter bound for the Soviet Union as long as his fleet stops at the Italian port. Of course, seryosa will not transport nothing to Somalia and Ethiopia, because that would be too obvious. What should be done should be done.

With the outline of the whole plan in place, shariosha asked Mark Ritchie to let his friends work on it. Xie liaosha returned to the Soviet Union with anxious UAE customers. He made a report to Gorbachev, saying that things on this side will not continue to operate until after the end of the US general election, and the time is not very ripe. Gorbachev immediately conveyed Xie liaosha's opinions to general secretary Chernenko, who reluctantly agreed with Xie liaosha's idea.

Before returning home, Xie liaosha made a special call to dongnia, asking him to send his tu-144d airliner to the United States to pick up Xie liaosha and his UAE guests back to the Soviet Union.