If we trace the history of trade between China and the Soviet Union, we can trace it back to two or three hundred years ago, and in the twenties the trade between China and the Soviet Union was still in full swing.

But then there was a hiatus after the devil came, and it was restored when the state was founded, but after the two countries became hostile in the sixties, trade was interrupted again.

In 84 years, the general secretary once visited Heihe to inspect and encourage the development of non-governmental trade.

Since '85, the border residents of the two countries have taken advantage of the opportunity of the winter closure of the river to have sporadically trade on the surface of the Longjiang River, but the scale is very, very small, so small that it can be ignored.

On the Chinese side, as long as it is a daily necessities, it can be traded, while the Soviet Union can supply very few kinds of goods, most of which are fox skins, mink, fur hats, tweed coats, large leather boots and other products.

Wan Feng looked at Dahei Island, which was still under construction, and always had a premonition that Dahei Island could not be put into use before the river was closed.

Longjiang is usually closed in late November, and now it is only early August, if you wait for the closure of the river, it will be early, there are still more than three months.

If that were the case, he would have come early.

It's too early to come, so I'll have to rely on it here.

If you don't rely on it, you can't do it, Zhang Xuan also went to Jiangwei, and his two wives were over there, he couldn't find a partner even if he wanted to spread fire.

Although there are also people in the leather and meat business on the side street in front of the warehouse, Wan Feng is not prepared to stick these fireflies.

I have to find something to do for myself to pass this boring time, Wan Feng thought for a long time and asked Qu Yang to inform Liang Bingyu to go to work, since he was idle, he would take advantage of this time to learn Russian.

You don't need to be able to write, as long as you can speak it simply.

Anyway, Lao Tzu has money, doesn't he just pay the other party 300 yuan a month?

Carrying a letter asked Li Mingdou, Li Yong and He Xiao to also come to Heihe and learn Russian for me.

Liang Bingyu became a Russian teacher for a group of men, and Yang Pao and Wang Zhonghai also came to join in the fun, saying that they would learn Russian well and contribute to the future Sino-Soviet trade.

It's just that looking at the posture of these two goods, it doesn't look like that.

Han Guangjia and Yang Jianguo and other four people with military experience studied very seriously, Wan Feng also studied very seriously, and even Zhang Shiqian learned attentively, while Li Yongye and He Xiao were a little perfunctory.

Especially Li Mingdou, he didn't learn Chinese well, and you let him learn Russian is more uncomfortable than killing him, and he fell asleep in class several times.

"I can tell you, your future daughter-in-law can be on the other side of the river, if you don't learn to use your hands in the future, you two will have to use your hands. ”

The corners of Li Mingdou's mouth twitched on the spot, and his actions at that time were very similar to Keiji Yokoji in the movie Hunt.

"Actually, this thing is rote memorization, if you work hard, you can really learn it, if you learn Russian, you will earn a lot of money as a translator for a year. ”

Wan Feng persuaded Li Mingdou bitterly, but he didn't believe what he said.

If Li Mingdou can be a translator, he feels that he is an eight-legged donkey.

After a month of study, almost all those who concentrate on their studies will simply use Russian to communicate some simple words, while Li Mingdou only learned three words: Harashao, Wodega, and Heilieba.

Among the three words, Wodega is liquor, Heilieba is bread, and two are related to eating.

During this period, Quyang gave Wanfeng a trade license, and the business scope is still very large, covering clothing, small daily necessities, steel, agricultural materials, etc., that is to say, Wanfeng can operate many projects in addition to energy and munitions.

During the same period, Guo Wu and Jiang Ming each sent a batch of goods, and Wanfeng's warehouse is now full of eleven, and the cost of the goods has reached 250,000 yuan.

Wan Feng temporarily stopped stocking, and the remaining warehouses still had to be filled with the goods that had been traded, and it seemed that there was no sign of the transaction starting before the closure of the river.

There are more than 200,000 goods in the warehouse, and the intensity of vigilance is naturally enhanced.

The dozen or so guards patrolled day and night, guarding the warehouse tightly.

Heihe Port is a four-season trade port, which is crossed by ferry in summer and transported back and forth by car in winter.

The reason for the delay in the use of Dahei Island is that it has increased investment, expanded the scale of construction projects, and has 5 trading halls of various sizes, more than 300 booths, and hotel parking lots.

The current scale is not achievable in a few months, it is said that it will take many years to build.

This is the news that Qu Yang passed on to Wan Feng.

Wan Feng's heart sank.

If it is going to be built for several years, won't the goods he bought be wasted!

If the money for the goods is lost, it will be lost, and the right to be lost in the transaction, but will he have to wait here for several years?

Qu Yang shook his head: "It's not as serious as you think, that's just the time for official operation, before the construction of Dahei Island, trial operation will be implemented, and it will not delay your business." ”

Hearing this, Wan Feng was relieved.

"When is the trial operation going to begin?"

"The original plan was in September, but now I am afraid that it will be postponed to October, and it will start in another month, in fact, it is more convenient to cross the river in winter, and then the two open ice channels can be used to transport bulk commodities back and forth. ”

The business that Wan Feng wants to do is a large-scale commodity transaction, and he is not here to dump the big leather boots and binoculars of the Soviet Union.

Blagoveshchensk is the third largest city in the Soviet Far East, and there are thousands of companies in this city alone, and it is these companies that Wan Feng wants to trade.

Another month of trade opening that Quyang said did not materialize, but was postponed until mid-November.

Like Wan Feng's original hunch, it was really only when the river was closed that trade was opened.

The taste of waiting is painful, and Wan Feng has been here for two months, and the only benefit is that their Russian level has increased significantly, and they can talk most of the spoken language without a translator.

The way the Longjiang freezes in winter is very different from the rest of the country, and it is not a one-time closure.

The Longjiang River was closed for half a month, and in the early days of the closure of the river, the Longjiang River was always in a kind of alternation of freezing at night and melting ice during the day.

The surface of the river that freezes at night will melt when the temperature rises during the day, forming a spectacle of running ice rows all over the river.

In this way, after more than a dozen freezes and thawings, Longjiang was finally completely sealed.

This kind of river closure will cause two unique results, one is that the river surface is extremely uneven, because the river surface is finally frozen by large and small ice rows, so there are potholes, which is not similar to the freezing of other inland rivers.

Another consequence is that the ice surface is very thick.

The thickness of the ice on the surface of the ordinary river is about 30 centimeters to 1 meter, while the thickness of the ice in the Longjiang River is generally between 1 and a half to 3 meters.

This thickness of ice is enough to weigh twenty or thirty tons of trucks to drive on it, but it is not easy to walk in potholes.

On November 23, 1986, Wanfeng's long-awaited trial operation of Heihe port trade finally began.