Chapter 217: The First Meeting with Govorov
Now that the entire Western world is under a tight blockade of China, things with slightly higher technology content can either only be smuggled into the country, or they can be bought back secretly through third parties at a very high price. This is still some inconspicuous little things, if it is something like a large CNC machine tool and today's production line and the like, it is impossible to buy it anyway, no country is willing to take this risk for China, only a stupid hat country like China has done such a thing more than once. Not to mention that there are so many related automotive design bureaus. Engine design and research institutes, various applied materials research institutes, and a wide variety of talents can be taken with them.
These research institutions and designers are the foundation for an enterprise to really be able to stand on the development foothold, which is from the developed countries in the West no matter how a car manufacturing company can not buy, even if it costs more money, no one will sell! That is, now, when the Soviet government is about to fall, and everyone is full of confusion in their hearts, these losers will be the cubs who sell Ye Tian without pain!
If the production equipment of these two automobile factories is really packed and taken away together, basically the foundation of the Soviet automobile industry will be almost bottomed out by Zhang Lan. If the two auto factories can be packed and taken away with all the engineers, designers and mechanics, by the time Yeltsin and Putin recover and want to rebuild their country's auto industry, they will only cry in the face of an empty shell. Basically, as long as I return to China, all the equipment is assembled, and even put into production immediately after installation and commissioning.
And if he wants to get all this, he just needs to pay almost 200 million US dollars, 200 million US dollars is definitely not a lot, and it can definitely be regarded as a huge amount of money in this era, but Zhang Lan doesn't think it's much, and the money he earned from investing in oil futures in the Gulf War a few years ago just came in handy.
Compared with buying automobile production lines from European and American countries, not to mention whether the production line with the same technical level can be bought by itself, but in terms of price. The price couldn't be cheaper. In the 80s, Shanghai Volkswagen Group, which cooperated with the government, invested more than 4 billion yuan in total, and now it needs to spend 200 million US dollars to obtain more advanced technology and equipment than Shanghai Volkswagen, and can obtain so many technical talents and R&D institutions! It's much more cost-effective than Shanghai Volkswagen!
It's almost the equivalent of giving it away for free! It is in this special period that this once-in-a-lifetime strange thing can happen!
All right. In this case, there is no reason for Zhang Lan to change his mind, and if he wants to transport the Gorky Automobile Plant back to China again, he will have to wait about four to five months for Lidikhanov and others to operate this matter, and this time Lidikhanov and others can make perfect. It doesn't take half a year to get things done perfectly.
In this way, if these production lines are to be shipped to China, they will have to wait until about February next year at the earliest.
However, Zhang Lan also kept an eye on it and told Singh and others that this time 30% of the "hardship fee" to be paid to the Germans in Lidikhanov first, and of the remaining 70%, 40% would be paid after the matter was completed, and the last 30% would be paid after the safe transportation was determined. It's not that he doesn't believe in Li Dikhanov and others, it's that Zhang Lan doesn't believe that a group of moths who can even sell national interests for money can keep any promises.
But now, there is one more problem that remains unsolved. That is, how can so much of the production equipment of the Stalin Automobile Plant be safely transported out of the territory of the Soviet Union and transported to China?
The most ideal and safest way is, of course, to use the railway through the whole of Siberia to transport the equipment, although the cost of rail transportation is higher, but the territory through which it is passed is Russian territory, as long as the heads of several military districts and the Pacific Fleet can directly load ships from Vladivostok, the home port of the Pacific Fleet, and then pass through the Sea of Japan, through the Korean Strait (which can also be called the Tsushima Strait), you can safely enter the waters of the Yellow Sea, China's territory. In this way, these equipment will be transported to Qingdao Port in the shortest and safest route, without worrying about which country will use this excuse and that interface to check and seize your ship when you go from the Mediterranean, Zhang Lan does not want to come to an early version of the "Milky Way".
Well, now the safety of transportation is not an issue. It is not a big problem to find a transport ship of such a large tonnage, and these problems can be easily solved. The main question now is, how to deal with these feudal officials with heavy troops in the various military regions along the way?
Zhang Lan knows very well that so much equipment is definitely not something that can be transported by one train, and it is absolutely impossible to move two large automobile factories without three or five trains to move it in a month.
Then new problems arise again. Now, due to the turmoil in the political situation in the Soviet Union, the situation of railway transportation in the entire Soviet Union is also chaotic, which makes people want to go crazy. Putting aside the high cost of transportation on civil lines, for the time being, the headache is the uncertainty of civil transportation, and no one is sure what strange problems will occur on the halfway of civil railway transportation. The only thing worth believing and having a high safety factor is to use military trains, but if you use military trains, the fucking thing is back to the damn beginning, how can you get the bigwigs who pass through these military regions along the way? You must know that only these bigwigs have the right to use and pass through the military columns.
In order to move the contents of these two automobile factories from Moscow and Gorky by rail transport, it is necessary to pass through the Moscow Military District, the Volga Military District, the Ural Military District, the Siberian Military District, the Trans-Baikal Military District, the Far Eastern Military District, and finally the Vladivostok military port, where the Soviet Pacific Fleet is stationed, so that a total of 7 military districts need to be passed! And these seven military districts turned out to be the seven largest in the USSR!
Zhang Lan had a headache about the map of the Soviet Union on this wall: If you want to pass through these military regions, every military region must take care of it! Otherwise, how can you get by?
The bigwigs of the seven military districts need Alice's company to visit one by one, and the first thing to be placed is naturally the commander of the nearest Moscow Military District, not because of anything else, because he is in Moscow now, can he not let the nearest Moscow go to the farthest Pacific Fleet?
The current commander of the Moscow Military District is General Govorov, although the status of the Moscow Military District in the major military districts in the Soviet Union is almost equivalent to the Beijing garrison in the country, but at this turbulent moment, the life of the old man Govorov is not very good.
The entire Soviet Union was intoxicated with struggle and democracy. No one pays attention to these guys with guns, and now many people describe these soldiers who only know how to spend money but don't know how to generate benefits as rice worms. It used to be fine, but now the rice worms are having a hard time, and the high-level people are busy with each other's rectifications and yin people all day long. Or to guard against being made into a human being, how can you pay attention to these soldiers, as for military spending? It's a bit of a flower to starve to death, why do you want so much? As for equipment maintenance costs? Sorry, but the state also has no money.
To say who is the guy who is most familiar to Admiral Govorov in officialdom. I'm afraid that all those who say it will drop their glasses, neither Soviet President Gorbachev, nor Defense Minister Yazov, but the head of the KGB, the current chairman of the USSR National Security Council, Kryuchkov! This is a guy who is hated and feared by Govorov, and although Govorov is the commander of the military district, no one wants to receive a call from Kokryukchikov inviting him to coffee.
Tonight, Comrade Kryuchkov, who made everyone feel terrible, did not visit Govorov in person, but called Admiral Govorov to ask him that some of his friends wanted to visit General Govorov tonight, and I wonder if it would be convenient for the general to receive him?
That, of course, is convenient. Fuck, even if it's not convenient! If the boss of the entire KGB can call and inquire in person, Govorov asked himself, even if he is going to attend a meeting of the Ministry of Defense tonight, he will ask for leave, right? It's just that Govorov is a little curious about Kryuchkov's so-called friend, and he naturally doesn't believe that things are really like what Kryuchkov said, and there are two friends who want to visit him, and there must be something to help him, but when is there a problem that the KGB boss can't solve, and he needs something to trouble him? This would be surprising to Govorov.
Full of doubts, Govorov waited until eight o'clock in the evening.
At eight o'clock, the guards came to report. There were several people who claimed to be friends of Comrade Kryuchkov outside, asking to visit the general, did they let them in?
"Please!" Govorov said, but in a moment he stood up and went to the gate of the villa with the guards to greet him. In the face of Kryuchkov, he himself had to come to greet him personally.
When he came to the gate, Govorov froze for a moment, and there were four cars parked at the door, one of which was an elongated three-row Mercedes-Benz, and the rest were Volga cars that could be seen everywhere in the Soviet Union. Obviously. The one inside the extended Mercedes-Benz is the people who came to visit him this time, and the two Volga cars in front and behind are undoubtedly the cars that the bodyguards are riding, and the pomp and circumstance of the people who come is not small!
As Govorov walked out of the gate of the villa, the people in the car had already come down, and when he saw the five people who got out of the car, Govorov was stunned again: among the five people who got out of the car, there were two people he still knew, one was Lidikhanov, who is currently the director of the Stalin Automobile Plant; And there is another one, that is, Singh, the executive president of the American Alice Group, who has recently become popular in the upper social circles of Moscow, and Govorov is no stranger to these two people, but for the other three, Govorov is a little confused.
One of them is a beautiful Western beauty, about 1.75 meters tall, with the most typical characteristics of Western beauty, even at night still can't hide the peerless demeanor of this beauty: blonde hair and blue eyes, as high as a marble carving nose bridge, delicate facial features comparable to Venus, but the skin is different from the rough and hairy of Western beauty, but under the yellowing light of the doorway, the milk-like delicate and smooth skin glows with a soft luster like ivory. The figure is even better, but in an instant, a thought automatically came to Govorov's heart, this is a demon! A demon who is fascinated by death!
The other was a typical Chinese beauty, slightly lower than the blonde beauty next to her, with long black hair that seemed to be as smooth as the finest silk and scattered on her back, and even in the dark night you could still notice the reflective hair. The light at the door was a little dim, and the position of the Oriental beauty was a little away from the light, so that Govorov could not see the appearance of the Oriental beauty clearly, but in the dark night, the eyes of this beauty were shining like stars in the night sky, not really shining, but it could magically make you notice her eyes in such a dark night.
As for the last one, Govorov glanced at it, but he was a little disappointed, but he didn't expect it to be just a small little kid, who looked eccentric, and seemed to have a little blood relationship with the oriental beauty.
At this moment, Govorov suddenly complained about the light on his door: why can't the lights be brighter so that he can see more clearly? You know, there are really not many opportunities to see two stunning beauties from the East and the West at the same time! As for Zhang Lan, well, every time she can't escape the fate of being ignored by others.
"Hello Dear General Govorov," at the moment when Govorov looked at Alice and Xiao Chenxi, Litikhanov had already smiled and came up to shake hands with General Govorov warmly, "It's so nice to see you again, your body still looks so good." As he spoke, he turned around, "Allow me to introduce you to a few friends from afar, Your Excellency. ”
"That's exactly what I'm expecting," Govorov nodded reservedly, "I already know this Mr. Singh, and now Mr. Singh is a well-known celebrity in Moscow's upper class!" I don't know these two beautiful young ladies," after a pause, he finally decided to add Zhang Lan, "And this cute little friend?" ”
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