"My nephew, my brother and sister-in-law are busy. He has no place to go during the winter vacation, so he comes with me."

Both primary and secondary schools and universities in China have officially started five days ago. Liang Haiping cannot say that the real boss behind him is the real one, so he has to talk nonsense about running the train.

Kong Huarong has experienced many hardships. He not only has no strange colors when listening to Liang Haiping's nonsense, but instead nodded frequently and said that reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles, and he looks very convinced.

Kong Huarong introduced the embassy counselor behind him, and then took Liang Haiping and Liang Yuan to the top floor of the embassy by taking the elevator.

The layout of the eighth floor of the embassy is significantly different from that of the general offices of the Republic. Since the entire space is divided into spaces of varying sizes, the corridors connecting each room are of different widths and narrow and extremely twisted. Kong Huarong led Liang Yuan and Liang Haiping to five or six corners before pushing open a seemingly plain door and letting the two in.

The crimson carpet, the crimson floor-to-ceiling thick velvet curtains, the array of varnished mahogany sofas, the light yellow ceiling is inlaid with several pairs of long-tube fluorescent lights. If it weren't for the work photos of older revolutionaries hanging on the walls, the whole room would look exactly the same as the small meeting of senior leaders in the Republic.

"This conference room is inconspicuous. When the Chairman, Prime Minister, and the Old Commander visited the Soviet Union, they always held meetings here." Kong Huarong said meaningfully.

Although Liang Haiping has good business talent, he has limited information after all, and he has been in the world for a short time. He did not hear Kong Huarong's voice. It was Liang Yuan, who learned about the Soviet KGB that he had learned in his previous life. He could hear Kong Huarong's true meaning in conjunction with the bad deeds of pre-buried eavesdropping machines in the cement walls of embassies in various countries in the Soviet Union.

It seems that he was very powerful to say hello to the embassy through the Air Force. The embassy may mistakenly think that it is carrying some special tasks. Otherwise, how could it be specially selected for such a meeting room in the embassy? Liang Yuan turned his eyes and covered things up for a moment.

Now the information security between the embassy and the country is poor enough, and it should not be better than the sieve. Liang Yuan thought that in the late 1980s, the president of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong, the memoir written by the president of Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong complained about the information security of the embassy. At that time, the confidentiality rule of Xinhua News Agency was that if a certain message wanted to be known to the West, use Xinhua News Agency's local telegram or telephone number in Hong Kong to contact Peking directly. If you don't want to, you will go back to Shenzhen to contact Peking.

"Ambassador Kong. My main purpose is to purchase the Tu 154 passenger plane this time, but I was completely disgusted with the situation in the Soviet Union. I hope the embassy can provide support in terms of information and language." Liang Haiping said straight to the point after sitting down.

"No problem, supporting the rapid development of the motherland's enterprises is one of the core tasks of the embassy. As long as President Liang does not dislike him, during his time in the Soviet Union, the embassy's secretary was Mr. Liang's work assistant." Kong Huarong pointed to Jianjie, a secretary of the embassy sitting diagonally opposite him.

After finishing the translation, Kong Huarong put on a heart-warming attitude and talked with Liang Haiping about the trend of diplomatic trade between China and the Soviet Union. After the atmosphere between the two sides was very good, Kong Huarong asked tentatively if Liang Haiping had any other purpose in going to Jiangsu besides buying planes.

"I'm not hiding it to President Liang. Huang Jiaming, the Ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Democratic Germany, and I was a college classmate. From him, I learned a lot of anecdotes about President Liang when he founded Yuanjia in Democratic Germany. I really yearn for it. I really don't know if I will be lucky enough to see President Liang repeat the legend in Moscow in the future." Kong Huarong said.

Liang Haiping listened to Kong Huarong taking the opportunity of flattery to explore Yuan Jia’s next moves in circles, and couldn’t help but smile bitterly in his heart. This matter was not something he could decide. The one who looked at the photos of the founding fathers by the wall was the real person.

Liang Haiping also guessed some of Kong Huarong's thoughts. In terms of diplomacy, the international status of the embassy and the embassy itself have a decisive impact on the country's ambassador's career.

The international status of Democratic Germany is not only a model in the socialist camp, but also a developed country that surpasses Britain in terms of economic data statistics. Yuanjia made such a big noise in Democratic Germany, which deeply influenced the daily lives of the people of Democratic Germany. These things are tantamount to rocket propellers for the career of the Ambassador to Germany Huang Jiaming. It is normal for Kong Huarong to have expectations of Liang Haiping.

"I don't say two words to Ambassador Kong, and I don't hide it from Ambassador Kong. The investment issues in the Soviet Union have been included in the group's strategic plan. However, I really can't clarify the specific implementation time. After all, the diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union are still in a freezing period, and many things cannot be decided..."

On the premise of retaining good hopes, Liang Haiping directly used the rhetoric of Dongde Yuanjia to fool Putin, and then made a little modification and took it out to deal with Kong Huarong.

Kong Huarong also knew that such a plan involving huge funds was not careless. Being able to learn this level of reply from Liang Haiping means that Yuanjia was very interested in the Soviet market, and it also means that the business miracle created by Yuanjia in democratic Germany is likely to be replicated in the Soviet Union. At that time, the embassy will still have the opportunity to rise with the waters.

Liang Haiping and Kong Huarong chatted for more than an hour, but they did not leave the embassy with Liang Yuan until after three o'clock in the afternoon. But when they were gone, they were two people, but when they returned to the Rikkong Hotel, they became three. Jianjie, a secretary of the embassy, ​​also followed Liang Haiping back to the hotel.

The next day, under the leadership of Fang Jianjie, Liang Haiping and Liang Yuan visited Moscow for more than half a day, which gave him a rough understanding of the Soviet Union's business atmosphere.

Although Liang Yuan had read a lot of information about the Soviet Union before the collapse of the Soviet Union and had a rough understanding of the situation related to the Soviet Union's livelihood economy, what Liang Yuan never expected was that the real situation was several times more ridiculous than the history formed by the text.

Moscow State Department Store was built in 1893. This palace-style commercial building complex located on the east side of Red Square and opposite the Kremlin. It was known in later generations as one of the top ten commercial shopping centers in the world. Even in the Soviet era, it was the top commercial center in the entire Soviet Union.

Sitting on the rest bench on the top floor of the Moscow State Department Store, Liang Haiping turned the glass filled with Gwas (Note 1) in his hand and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect that the Soviet Union has been founded for more than 70 years. As the people's winter down jackets have been produced only for men's and not women's models. It really makes people wonder what to say."

"Mr. Liang will know after staying in the Soviet Union for a long time. The Soviet Central Planning Commission's main energy is all about aircraft, missiles, tanks, and submarines. What kind of down jacket should be like? Even if it is scheduled for 30 years, it will not be included in the committee's work schedule." Fang Jianjie said with a wry smile.

"It seems that the situation in the Soviet Union is somewhat similar to before we started the opening. The style of a product has not only been fixed for decades, but also has a very low output. Just now, we passed the counter selling daily necessities below and found that it was similar to that of Democratic Germany. Many things were left with a few samples, and the stock was very serious." Liang Haiping said.

Fang Jianjie nodded.

"Brother Fang, this should be the best commercial center in the entire Soviet Union. How long does it take to make up for the out-of-stock products?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

Due to someone's psychological disorder, in addition to his close relatives, young and middle-aged people are collectively called by someone a certain brother or sister, which has caused Liang Haiping's seniority to grow a lot.

Listening to Liang Yuan calling "Brother Fang", Liang Haiping could only look at Fang Jianjie with a little embarrassment and smiled. Fang Jianjie didn't care and said with a smile: "I'll tell a story, Xiaoyuan will know how long it will take to fill out the out of stock products."

"There was a young man from the Soviet Union who worked hard for five years and finally saved enough money to buy a car. The young man hurriedly came to the car sales center to buy a car. After paying the purchase of the car, the young man's counter staff would need to pick up the car. The counter staff said that you can come today ten years later."

"The young man nodded and asked if I came to pick it up in the morning or in the afternoon. This time it was the counter staff who was surprised and asked if there was any difference between the morning and the afternoon. The young man said that my faucet had just broken and that morning I was going to wait at home to repair the faucet."

Listening to Fang Jianjie finishing the story seriously, Liang Yuan and Liang Haiping laughed first, and then looked at each other speechlessly.

Liang Yuan recalled the economic data from Comrade Liang who had carefully studied in his previous life that the economic data of the Soviet Union in the past few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union gradually matched the boring data in his memory with reality, just like a retrospective look. In the three years from 1986 to 1988, the Soviet economy had a high growth rate, but if you have money, you can't buy things, and this phenomenon of inability to meet demand is still serious.

At this time, the Soviet society was in a state of economic growth, with people's income increasing, and the contradiction in commodity supply exacerbated this vicious cycle. In 1988, the total food shortage of social stability reached 21 billion rubles, which was equivalent to one-sixth of the annual total output of the food industry in the whole Suzhou, and the gap in light industrial products such as clothing was as high as more than one-third of the total annual output. With the purchasing power of the 300 million people in the Soviet Union, the market caused by this shortage of goods was almost infinite.

"When Mr. Liang and Xiaoyuan got off the international train, someone picked up the station. When he left the station, he took the VIP channel. He didn't meet the local slander in front of the Moscow Railway Station. Next week, the international train arrived at the station on T3. If Mr. Liang had time to go to the square in front of the station, he would know how much the lack of Soviet goods had reached."

"As long as you walk out of the exit, every Chinese will be surrounded by a large group of people. Countless people will pull your clothes, pants, belts, and travel bags. If you want to sell them, what price is for you? After taking the annual leave last year, I took the T3 International Train to the Moscow Embassy. After leaving the station, I even pulled off two buttons." Fang Jianjie said with emotion.

Liang Yuan and Liang Haiping did not wait for the T3 international train once a week. Three days later Putin called and said that four new passenger planes were off the line in the Tu154 production line located in Gubishev. Liang Haiping and Liang Yuan were invited to go to Gubishev Aircraft Factory to see the new passenger plane test flight and visit the production workshop.
Chapter completed!