"Since everyone is a fellow villager, why can I sell at least fifty rubles of goods, so why do I only sell 200 RMB?" Liang Haiping smiled and exposed Andre's old background and directly shook the market price.

What surprised Liang Yuan was that Andre, who was exposed, didn't even have any strangeness. He just laughed, reached out and patted Liang Haiping on the shoulder, stretched out his thumb and shook it and said, "Looking at Brother Haiping's dress, he doesn't look like an ordinary vendor, I'm really guessing it wrong."

Listening to the mixed-race guy in front of him, Liang Yuan finally couldn't help laughing. The guy in front of him had a very thick skin.

"The windbreaker is 400, and the down jacket is 800, so I can't be too much. We won't tell lies in front of those who understand." Andre took out his Soviet ID card with Cyrillic letters and shook it a few times, and continued: "Brother Haiping doesn't have this, and he can't enjoy the discount for non-trade rubles. Even if he takes the risk, there is no way to exchange non-trade rubles for international currency. I think Brother Haiping should not have the intention to settle in the Soviet Union and hold rubles for a long time."

After World War II, the Soviet Union's planned economics was paralleled with the market economics of the capitalist camp and became one of the two most mainstream economic theories on this planet. From the logical point of view of the text, planned economics combined with the ** society should be the most advanced model for the development of human civilization. However, in terms of actual implementation, it was one of the worst economic policies of mankind in the 20th century.

From a scientific point of view, the difference between planned economics and the current level of real human civilization is like an interstellar engine that can achieve curvature navigation and is installed on a cart driven by animal power. The Soviets conducted an extremely crazy super-large-scale economic practice experiment.

The non-trade ruble was one of the strange products produced by the Soviet Union under the guidance of planned economics. After the Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact and established the Cold War pattern of the mutual economic association was officially formed. The concepts of market and capital became major issues related to ideology and were abandoned. The Soviet government began to implement new tricks of trade ruble and non-trade ruble within the mutual economic association.

Apart from the twists and turns of economic terms, simply put, if the goods from the Soviet exporting countries can be sold for eight rubles in the Soviet Union, it does not mean that the goods from the exporting countries have a value of about eight rubles. These eight rubles can only represent the price of the goods in the Soviet Union's non-trade rubles. If the goods are settled in the trade rubles, it is only worth one trade ruble. In other words, it is not a matter of eight dollars for you to sell. But you can only take one dollar away and sell wherever you love.

What's even more scammed is that the foreign settlement of trade dominated by the Soviet government only uses trade rubles. Of course, private trade in the Soviet Union can be settled in non-trade rubles, but does the concept of private still exist in the socialist camp?

After all, the Russians did not play with the United States' cunning of capital for hundreds of years. The United States used soft means such as debt, interest rates, capital, deflation, etc. to exploit allies. The exploited people were still crying and grateful. The new trick of the Soviet Union's trade ruble and non-trade ruble had no technical content, and was basically the same as that of the open grabbing.

This policy, which is similar to robbery, will naturally arouse strong resistance from members of the Warsaw Pact camp. After the Soviet Union introduced the new gameplay of non-trade rubles and trade rubles, through countless quarrels and negotiations among members of the Communist Party of China, the exchange ratio between the two declined from 8.7:1 at the beginning, and by the end of the 1980s, the exchange ratio between the two had become around 2.2:1.

In addition to the depreciation of the Soviet ruble in a few years, the overlord policy of trade ruble and non-trade ruble is also the key to Liang Yuan's failure to invest in shopping malls in the Soviet Union. The same fifty ruble will become a trade ruble in Liang Yuan's hands, and it can only be exchanged for USD 80. In Andre, it will become a non-trade ruble in his hands, but it can be exchanged for nearly USD 180.

It can be said that in the era when Russia fully embraced the West. The reason why the future Russian oligarchs are all native Russians is also closely related to the fact that this policy has been maintained during the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Ignoring the pride hidden in Andre's eyes, Liang Haiping turned his hand and patted Andre on the shoulder and said, "Big brother, speak quickly, but as far as I know, there are other settlement methods in Sino-Soviet trade, besides the use of rubles settlement, thank you brothers Andre."

"Another way?" Andre repeated in Russian with some confusion.

"For example, bartering." Liang Haiping said as he took out a black business card holder from his coat pocket, took out a gray business card from behind and handed it to Andre.

"Chinatown, Suifenhe City, Hei Province..., Brother Haiping, who are you?" Andrei's face showed an extremely surprised look.

The Suifenhe Market is known to everyone in the Sino-Soviet border trade circle. As a pioneer in the Russian slander, Andrei knows that the current Sino-Soviet border trade is more accurate than two countries.

"Take this and go to the group procurement office in Chinatown. They will give you diamond-level membership treatment." Liang Haiping said with a smile.

A trace of blood rose from Andre's neck and passed through his entire face in a blink of an eye.

Although Liang Yuan built a large market in Suifenhe uses the shell of traditional commercial, the internal operation ideas use the framework of Taobao, the overlord of the later Internet. The only difference is that all the stores currently operate on the large market themselves.

In addition to lower discounts, annual rebates and other discounts, diamond-level membership benefits can also receive considerable credit points for purchasing daily necessities in the large market. For all the bankers who operate small funds, this credit points are disguised small loans, which greatly promote the expansion of bankers' business scale.

If members of this level of membership slowly accumulate trade volume by individual fighters, it will take nearly two years to obtain. These things are simply clear to Andre, who is rolling around among the crowd of rebels.

I met a noble man, picked up money while walking, and pies fell from the sky...

He interrupted Andre's words of gratitude that he wanted to say. Liang Haiping laughed and said, "I'm going to the consulate soon. This batch of goods is destined to be separated from the eldest brother. However, everyone is a compatriot who is unable to make a deal. If the eldest brother has time to return to Chinatown, please take care of him."

After refusing Andre's advice to lead the way, leaving Andre's contact address in Moscow, Liang Haiping and Liang Yuan walked around the Red Square in Moscow.

Because the Republic was extremely heavy in the socialist camp, the Republic's Embassy was not far from the Kremlin. After leaving Red Square, the two walked less than twenty minutes before they arrived at No. 6, Friendship Street, Moscow - the Chinese Consulate in Moscow.

The Embassy is a typical pink-gray synagogue building. The square building has no excessive curves. The seven-story building is inlaid with rows of neat windows. The only alternative is that the building's architect bulged the load-bearing frame of the building, making the building's style more tough.

Pushing open the revolving glass door on the ground floor of the building, Liang Yuan followed Liang Haiping into the consulate.

Perhaps because China and the Soviet Union have not resumed normal state relations, the reception hall on the first floor of the embassy was silent, and only two embassy staff members who seemed to be receiving personnel sat in the office position on the left side of the hall.

Liang Haiping took out his passport and documents brought from the country, and explained his purpose in the reception staff's curious eyes. After a while, a middle-aged and elderly person in his early forties and three middle-aged and young men in their thirties walked down the stairs on the right side of the hall.

"Welcome to Moscow for inspection and visit." As the middle-aged and elderly people stretched out their hands to Liang Haiping, and the enthusiasm that came to their face scared Liang Yuan.

"We confirmed it with the country several times after receiving the news that Mr. Liang went to the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, we didn't get Mr. Liang's specific itinerary. It's a pity that we failed to greet Mr. Liang as soon as possible."

"Amistantor Kong is so polite. He has been dealing with the company's business in Shenzhen recently and cannot confirm the time to leave. I feel ashamed of the ambassador." Liang Haiping said with a smile.

Liang Yuan looked at Liang Haiping and the Republic's Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Kong Huarong, holding hands and praising each other. After a little thought, he found out the truth behind Kong Huarong's enthusiasm.

At this time, the Republic's Embassy in the Soviet Union was definitely a cold yamen. Since the conflict between China and the Soviet Union entered a superficial confrontation, the embassies of both sides were all in name only. After cutting off official exchanges at any level, they basically became targets for the other people to vent their anger.

In the 1970s alone, the Republic's Embassy in the Soviet Union was smashed four times by the Soviet people protesting and marching. After each storm, the embassy's glass would be completely replaced once, and several trucks of rotten eggs, bricks, ink bottles and other debris could be cleaned out of the yard. Although Sino-Soviet relations eased slightly after the 1980s, for the embassy, ​​it only means that there is no need to change glass frequently. It is still a long way to go before the embassy's normal functions and business are restored.

The obvious acceleration of the thawing of Sino-Soviet relations is that Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, who had just obtained the highest power not long ago, is that the core work of the embassy is to break the diplomatic ice to promote Gorbachev's visit to China, and thus pave the way for the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations. In this context, Liang Haiping, who has received official support, came to the Soviet Union under the guise of buying a plane, which has a very obvious promoting effect on promoting Gorbachev's visit to China.

For the Soviet Union, it would make money just after the basic exchanges resumed. If the relationship between the two countries went normal, wouldn’t it be even more wealthy?
Chapter completed!