Chapter 707

The independence of Lithuania set a very bad precedent among the Soviet republics, followed by the Supreme Soviet conference of Estonia and Latvian, which also announced the start of the independence process. Therefore, for Gorbachev and the central government of the Soviet Union, the 28th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the last chance for the Soviet Union to unite the country.

Although Lithuania has declared its independence, the Communist Party of Lithuania has split up. Moreover, from the perspective of the constitutional process of the Soviet Union, unilateral declaration of independence is invalid and should be formally recognized by the Supreme Soviet. Therefore, Lithuania still sent representatives to the 28th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Xie liaosha's constituency is not in Leningrad. He was elected as the people's representative by the foreign economic and trade system. Therefore, the people's representative election in Leningrad just left a large number of vacancies for Xie liaosha's group. Sobchak, Yeltsin, nasja, Gorman and Pugachev were elected as the people's representatives in Leningrad, Thus entered the Leningrad Soviet conference.

The original purpose of this election was to enable the various political factions of the Soviet Union to unite temporarily and put contradictions on the table of the Supreme Soviet Conference for public discussion. Therefore, many Democratic organizations that have never held public office have appeared in the list of people's representatives. Based on this list, Xie liaosha can imagine what the 28th Congress will look like.

Although Xie liaosha's voice was very high at the 28th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and he is likely to go further in his official career, his age has always been his tough injury. Therefore, Yeltsin, who is under the command of shagliaosha, has become a key support object. No matter in terms of age or resume, Yeltsin is a trump card in shagliaosha's hand. Now there is a good tacit understanding between seliosha and Yeltsin. Seliosha can easily raise funds for various large-scale infrastructure projects, and Yeltsin has rich experience in the management of these projects. Can help Xie liaosha deal with some trivial things in the process of the project. Moreover, Yeltsin is very fond of feathers now, and seliosha will not worry that he will enrich his own pocket. With his help, Yeltsin's daughter tajijana now runs a plank house factory, which is responsible for providing part of residential plank houses for the huge natural gas pipeline project in seliosha. Because the natural gas pipeline of seliosha will run through the whole territory of the Russian Republic, the project is too huge, and it will have an immediate effect on the domestic industry of the Soviet Union. I don't know how many factories there are just like this. Therefore, this small business of the Yeltsin family is insignificant.

The total investment of the whole natural gas pipeline project is nearly 200 billion US dollars. After completion, Gorky financial group will get the exclusive right to operate for 50 years. This is a BOT project constructed with international funds. The so-called BOT is the abbreviation of build operate transfer. Xie liaosha provided funds for the whole project through the financial institutions of Gorky group, then recovered the cost and profit through operation, and finally transferred it to the Soviet government. In the whole process, the Soviet government didn't have to spend a cent, but it would get a natural gas pipeline across the East and west of the Russian republic in 50 years. The pipeline would connect all areas including the Qiuming oil and gas field and the Siberian oil and gas field. In addition, the pipeline will extend northward in Leningrad, connecting the natural gas pipelines of Sweden, Finland and Norway, and southward connecting the existing natural gas pipelines in Central Asia and Caucasus. Finally, it is connected to the pan European natural gas pipeline project.

The whole project is so huge that many European media even call it the eighth wonder of mankind. As a matter of fact, the construction of this project has been started very early. As early as when sheriosha went to Europe for financing, the preliminary exploration work of the project started. Later, due to the lack of confidence of European investors caused by the Georgia incident, there was a large amount of withdrawal, and the whole project was in trouble for a time. At the critical moment, the Bank of Columbia revitalized the whole project. Later, Western oil companies, Glencore, Enron energy, and British natural gas all joined in one after another. Subsequently, a brand new company, Eurasian natural gas group, was set up.

In the future, Eurasian natural gas group will be responsible for the construction in the early stage and the operation in the later stage. Among the shareholders of the whole Eurasian natural gas group, Golgi group of seliosha directly or indirectly controls 60% of the shares, while the remaining 40% are mainly controlled by European investors. As for those investors who withdraw in the middle, I'm afraid they've lost their guts.

Because this is a BOT project, the profit can be generated by completing the whole project one day earlier. Xie liaosha issued a dead order, requiring that the main natural gas pipeline connecting the East and the West must be built before the end of the year. It was under such harsh conditions that the whole natural gas pipeline project absorbed a lot of labor force at once, and even the engineering troops of the Soviet Red Army were put into the project.

In Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin's hometown, Urals heavy machinery plant, the pride of heavy industry in the Soviet Union, has put into full operation to produce special steam turbines for the Eurasian natural gas pipeline project. In Ukraine, dneppetrovsk City, abundant orders for the Eurasian natural gas pipeline project have revived many steel enterprises that have been in trouble.

Control of natural gas has always been Xie liaosha's wish for many years, because oil resources have long been controlled by the seven oil sisters. No matter how hard Xie liaosha splashes, he will not be able to set off much waves. However, natural gas is different. In the future, natural gas will be the basic energy source of power, metallurgy and other industries in Europe. To control natural gas is to seize the throat of the whole European industry. The stable profit brought by natural gas is more than that of oil.

Eurasia natural gas group has seen a glimmer of dawn for the volatile economy of the whole Soviet Union. Not only the whole Europe, but even Japan and South Korea in the Far East are looking forward to the early production of the project. Now Japan's desire for natural gas is almost crazy. Because of this bait, Xie liaosha obtained from Japan the key technology of natural gas pipeline production and large gas turbine production that the Soviet Union could not master for many years. He has now spread these technologies to the metallurgical industry in Ukraine, Russia and Poland. This makes the total cost of the whole natural gas pipeline project drop a lot.