I couldn't help but cursed secretly in my heart.

Berezovsky then said to Fang Chen with some embarrassment: "But if you want these oil and gas fields to operate smoothly, you probably need to invest about 500 million US dollars in them first."

Hearing this, Fang Chen was stunned for a moment, and then stared at Berezovsky intently.

Fang Chen's eyes made Berezovsky's whole body tremble.

Moreover, Fang Chen's stare lasted for two or three minutes. In Berezovsky's opinion, these two or three minutes were as long as two or three centuries.

Moreover, this feeling is as unbearable as suffering all kinds of torture in hell.

"Berezovsky, I can read two words from your face now, 'make money'!" Fang Chen said angrily.

However, just when Berezovsky and others looked confused, Wu Maocai suddenly burst into laughter, and he laughed loudly.

Now Berezovsky and others were completely confused. They could still understand Mr. Fang's attitude, but why did Wu Maocai laugh, and even laugh so exaggeratedly?

"You don't know something about this. Master Jiu may have thought of Lao Duan." Wu Maocai saw that there seemed to be three black lines on Fang Chen's face, and then he stopped laughing and explained.

"At that time, when Master Jiu just took over Little Overlord, Lao Duan gave Master Jiu such a powerful blow. The whole plan he gave him had only one content, which was to ask for money." Wu Maocai raised his head slightly and said a little pretentiously.

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This shows the importance of qualifications. When this conversation between Jiu Ye and Lao Duan happened, he was by his side. Although Ma Yun already knew Jiu Ye, he was still teaching in Hangzhou at that time and running a translation agency.

, not to mention Berezovsky and Yelena.

As for Chen Mingyong...

Thinking of this, Wu Maocai was a little dumbfounded. Chen Mingyong was also at Little Overlord at the time, and he was also the office director of Little Overlord. Chen Mingyong also knew about the trouble.

Wu Maocai glanced at Chen Mingyong secretly, and found that Chen Mingyong was looking at him slyly. He felt as if he was electrocuted, and his eyes instantly retracted, and he huddled up like a quail.

Not paying attention, Wu Maocai failed to show off and ended up being fucked instead.

Fang Chen's mood at this time was suddenly filled with helplessness. The vast and desolate wilderness, as well as the kowtow machine erected high up, suddenly became boring. He was neither sad nor happy, as if he had entered the sage mode.

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To be honest, this time because of the 1.6 billion US dollars in vouchers, he was already bleeding heavily. He had already spent more than half of his money. He was waiting for the oil field to make some money for him and lost money under subsidies.

The result was great, but it actually cost him another 500 million US dollars. It was really terrible.

Thinking back to last September, when he still had 3 billion US dollars in his pocket, and if he squeezed it, he could almost get 178 billion in happy time, Fang Chen had an unreal feeling as if it was yesterday's flower.

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In September last year, he was the richest in his life. He had just scraped more than 1.3 billion US dollars from the British, and then the oil fields in Malaysia brought him an income of more than 1 billion US dollars.

Including the money he has earned over the years, he has almost three billion US dollars in hand, and it is all cash that can be used at any time.

But then, the money in his pocket plummeted, no, it plummeted.

No matter how harsh the compensation was, it was nothing more than throwing one Ferrari into the river a day, but he was so good that he threw almost a hundred Ferraris into the river a day.

First, in order to drive the eight international communication giants Fujitsu, Lucent, and Towa Electric out of China, Qingtian Communications promised that anyone who purchases an 04 machine will not charge any fees for two years.

This time, it was like stabbing Ma Feng. Postal and telecommunications offices in various provinces, cities and counties in China went crazy looking for equipment from Qingtian Communications.

I can't help it, this is a free thing, it just smells good.

As for giving money after two years, they never considered it, as if it didn't exist.

There is no way. For the current communication phone market, it is a complete seller's market. As long as there is a switch, you can easily make money.

I haven’t seen it. In many areas, if you want to connect a telephone line, you need to give gifts to people at the post and telecommunications office and build relationships.

Originally, Qingtian Communications' production capacity of 3.6 million lines per year was not weak, ranking fourth to third in the world. However, it was so squeezed by the post and telecommunications offices of these provinces, cities and counties, even though the production capacity has now increased.

20%, reaching 4.3 million lines, directly ranking second in the world, but it still cannot meet the needs of these post and telecommunications offices.

This is not to say that Qingtian Communications is very powerful, but that things like switches have begun to be gradually eliminated abroad, so Lucent has moved their production capacity to 1G or even 2G mobile networks. This has made Qingtian Communications such a new player.

A year after its establishment, the new company miraculously became the second largest switch manufacturer in the world.

Shen Wei made many reports, saying that he hoped to increase the production capacity of the switch production line and other communication equipment, but all of them were rejected by Fang Chen.

What a joke, 4.3 million lines of switches a year, plus these other communication equipment, basically means an annual revenue of more than 8 billion Huaxia coins. Even if he is only paying the cost now, that's almost a year

It also requires an additional payment of more than 5 billion Chinese coins in real money.

Although the battle with Fujitsu has reduced the profit margin of Qingtian Communication a lot, the cost and profit are still almost half, that is, two-thirds of the cost and one-third of the profit.

Now it costs him more than 5 billion Chinese coins a year. If this is expanded by another 30% according to Shen Wei's intention, wouldn't it mean that he will lose nearly 2 billion more yuan a year.

Without charging money now, the more these communication equipment are produced, the more money he will subsidize.

Therefore, when Fujitsu and the other eight international communication giants were unable to fight back, he still preferred a more conservative approach instead of taking over the entire Chinese market in one go.

Not to mention, he can't occupy it, and he can't occupy it. The important thing is that this step is too big, and it is easy to get involved.

Then there are the video players and VCD discs. He spent one billion just to build the factory, and then the three million video players he delivered cost him another three billion in deposits, and there are still sixty more to come.

Hundreds of millions of bills are waiting for him to pay.

However, there is no rush for this. After the first one million video disc players are sold and he has money, he will buy the parts for the remaining two million video disc players bit by bit.

And it also takes time for those suppliers and supporting factories to produce these parts.

The only thing that can make Fang Chen talk about it is that Duan Yongping gave him a report that the sales growth rate of video disc players is faster than the best results they had previously expected. If this rate continues, it will reach 300 in the first half of next year.

It is very likely that all 10,000 DVD players will be sold.

The next step is the more than 1.6 billion US dollars spent to purchase the vouchers. If you add the 50 million political donation he gave Yeltsin before, converted into Chinese currency, it is almost 9 billion.

These nine billion, plus the more than five billion from Qingtian Communications, the one billion from the construction of the video disc player factory, the three billion down payment for three million video disc players, and some other mess, we can get three to four billion from

The scientific research expenses he paid here, and the more than 16 billion Chinese coins he had accumulated before, have been completely spent, not even a penny is left. Instead, he also used the profits of other branches such as Xiaobawang last year.

Put it in.

In less than a year, nine months to be precise, he spent more than 18 billion in 270 days, which averages out to more than 70 million per year.

The Ferrari Li Xiaohua bought cost 138,800 U.S. dollars. If converted into Chinese currency, it would be over 700,000 U.S. dollars.

Dividing more than 70 million by more than 700,000 is not equivalent to Fang Chen throwing a hundred Ferraris into the river in one day.

Now if it weren't for Little Overlord, Qingtian Communications' Xiaolong pager, and these three Russian companies could still earn him a net profit of about one billion per month, he would really be sitting on nothing now.

But after all, it's only May now, and the three Russian companies have all been hit hard before and have been out of business for a while. Fang Chen just did the general ledger a few days ago, and he has almost 4 billion in cash in his pocket.

That's more than $600 million.

The result was good. Berezovsky actually asked him for another 500 million US dollars to renovate and upgrade the oil field equipment. All the money in his pocket was almost spent again. What could he give Berezovs?

Does Jihao look good?

Seeing that Fang Chen's face was not pretty, Berezovsky became mute for a moment, squeaking and not knowing what to say.

After a long time, he gritted his teeth and plucked up the courage to say to Fang Chen: "Mr. Fang, if this is not the case, you can give me less money and give us 300 million U.S. dollars. No, 200 million U.S. dollars will do. Let me give it first."

Oil fields need to replace some equipment, otherwise these oil fields will not be able to operate at all, let alone create benefits for the company."

The oil field is undoubtedly a very important existence in the cognition of Russians. It can even be said that if you ask a Russian child what career he wants to do when he grows up, oil workers will be the second most popular one, on par with soldiers.

The reason is very simple. The Soviet people's comfortable life is actually based on these oil fields and natural gas. If oil and natural gas cannot be exported, the Soviet people will not be able to obtain enough daily necessities at all.

Every year, the Soviet Union needed to import a large amount of daily necessities from abroad, and Pepsi-Cola was an obvious example.

Since 1959, the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union has held an American National Exhibition in Moscow in order to let the Soviets experience American culture and give them a taste of "capitalism."

Nixon was the Vice President of the United States at the time. He went to the Soviet Union to attend the opening ceremony of the American National Exhibition. Unexpectedly, Nixon and Khrushchev had a heated argument over the issues of capitalism and socialism.

In order to lighten the atmosphere, the accompanying Vice President of PepsiCo offered Khrushchev a "sharp weapon" - a bottle of Pepsi-Cola. Khrushchev immediately fell in love with the taste.

The cameras and cameras of media reporters took the opportunity to record this classic scene during the Cold War. Then these photos quickly spread throughout the Soviet Union and became the best advertisements for Pepsi-Cola. What followed was a craze of people rushing to taste Pepsi-Cola.

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But by 198.9, the Soviet Union, which was in financial distress, could no longer continue to import Pepsi-Cola, and its weapons and equipment were piling up.

In this case, the Soviet PepsiCo reached a new agreement, which was to exchange arms with PepsiCo for Coke worth 3 billion US dollars, and then the Soviet Union provided PepsiCo with 17 submarines, 1 cruiser, 1

A frigate and a destroyer, with a total tonnage of up to 180,000 tons.

This fleet transaction made PepsiCo the sixth largest naval presence in the world at the time.

It is worth mentioning that before PepsiCo took over, China was the sixth largest navy in the world...

That year, the total tonnage of China's navy was 162,300 tons, and Pepsi-Cola's total tonnage was 180,000 tons, which just squeezed out China.

And because China has a total tonnage of 160,000 tons, many of them are small boats with a tonnage of no more than 500 tons, as well as old ships from the 1950s that have been in service for 40 to 50 years. The largest warship has a tonnage of no more than 300 tons.

Thousand tons, Pepsi's naval combat power absolutely crushed China at that time.

I have to say, it's quite embarrassing...

But what is even more worth mentioning is that with the efforts of 1.4 billion Chinese people, in just thirty years, the Chinese Navy has grown into a navy with two aircraft carriers, 20 shield ships in service, and 20 shield ships.

It has been launched and is ready for service. With a total tonnage of 1.5 million tons, it is the second largest navy in the world after the United States.

The tonnage of large warships launched each year alone is as high as more than 200,000 tons, accounting for more than 45% of the total tonnage of large warships launched in the world that year.

What kind of strength is this? To put it bluntly, China has basically launched a German navy in one year and rebuilt a British navy in two years.

However, Pepsi soon changed hands and sold the fleet as scrap to a Swedish scrap recycling company.

Afterwards, Pepsi manager Kendall told President Bush's national security adviser Brent Scowcroft: "We are faster than you at disarming the Soviets."

As for the so-called relatively developed heavy industries and large machines in the Soviet Union.

hehe!

Apart from making weapons, what is its use?

Not something to eat or something to drink.

Furthermore, because oil and natural gas support the operation of the entire Soviet Union and ensure the comfortable life of the Soviet people, as oil and natural gas producers and workers in oil and natural gas fields, their status in the Soviet Union will naturally increase, and they will be extremely rich.

The Soviet wage system is the same as that of China. After all, they are both planned economies.
Chapter completed!