"What? You are Roman Abramovich?!"

"Yes, I am." The man who claimed to be Berezovsky's "assistant" nodded in confusion, "Well, is there anything wrong with that?"

"No, there is nothing wrong with it. I'm glad to know you, Mr. Abramovich." As he said, Zhuang Mingge stretched out his right hand like the "assistant" comrade in front of him.

"I am also very happy to see you, Chairman Corleon." Abramovich, who was still not famous at this time, was flattered by Zhuang Mingge's "condescending" behavior.

After all, Abu heard from Berezovsky that although the Florence club president in front of him had obtained a football club to develop his own business with the help of his family, since 1993 when he had his own industry, Antonio Corleon, the youngest son of the patriarch of the Corleon family, had earned hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for himself in less than two years. His nouveau riche experience made Abramovich, who had not yet become a billionaire at this time, fascinated him.

Although Abramovich, who was less than 30 years old at this time, felt a little confused about the "kindness" expressed by the young man in front of him for no reason, the shrewd Abramovich obviously would not refuse such kindness: "Chairman Corleon, if you are in private, just call me Roman. Always call Abramovich or something, it sounds too confusing."

"Haha, OK, Roman, just call me Antonio privately." Zhuang Mingge immediately climbed up the pole, and kindly approached the "assistant" gentleman in front of him, and instead turned Ivanov and Karin aside.

"That Roman, I want to ask you something." After chatting around the world for a long time, Zhuang Mingge pulled the topic back and said, "Why did Mr. Berezovsky want to see me?"

When Abu heard this, he knew that the main show was coming, so he closed his expression and answered irrelevantly, "Antonio, do you know who organized this party?"

"Well, let me guess... Could it be Mr. Berezovsky?"

"Haha, you guessed half of it. Mr. Boris is indeed one of the organizers of the banquet." Seeing a waiter passing by with a plate of drinks, Abu picked up a glass of vodka from it, took a sip of it, and said, "Guess who the other one is?"

"Uh..." Zhuang Mingge's brain began to quickly recall the various deeds of the seven major oligarchs in Russia in the 1990s.

Russia's seven oligarchs refer to the seven major capitalists who became rich overnight during the privatization process in the 1990s. They are Berezovsky, president of United Bank, Gusinsky, president of Bridge Bank, Vinogradov, president of International Commercial Bank, Smolensky, president of Capital Savings Bank, Friedman, president of Alpha Bank, Khodorkovsky, president of Menagep Bank, and Malkin, president of Credit Commercial Bank of Russia.

These seven people are all smart and risk-taking elites. Almost all have bachelor's degree or above, aged between 40 and 50 years old. Some have received state bonuses, while others are correspondent academicians of the Academy of Sciences. These seven people, together with Chubais, the president of Unified Power Company, basically controls Russia's oil, gas, power, metallurgy and finance, and to a certain extent manipulates Russian domestic public opinion. They not only make a fuss in the economic field, but also make a lot of effort to engage in political speculation. Former Russian Vice Premier Yegor Geidal once said: "When they are the most powerful, they can even replace government personnel as they please."

According to the news obtained from the previous chat with Abu, Zhuang Mingge knew that most of the guests who attended the banquet at the Air Force Club today had a considerable industry in Russia and had a certain interest in participating in politics.

So, besides Berezovsky, which oligarch would be so passionate about Russian politics? Zhuang Mingge began to eliminate it one by one in his mind.

Friedman? No, in Yeltsin's era, Friedman always had his own representatives in the Russian government, but Friedman never thought of entering Russian politics; in Putin's era, the Alpha Group he was in charge was the closest company to the Russian government, and obeyed the government. The final result was that this brother, Taiwan, was the only one among the seven oligarchs who had a good end. Friedman's style of conduct was very low-key, and he would hardly pay much attention to anything except being interested in making money. So it was impossible for him.

Could it be Khodorkovsky? It's not right. During this period, he was still focusing on his investment banking of Menatap. In the near future, he would acquire 78% of Yukos Oil's shares for US$350 million, thus becoming Russia's richest man and the idea of ​​entering the political arena has not yet appeared.

As for Smolensky and Vinogradov, Zhuang Mingge said that these two guys made a fortune entirely by making money from the national crisis. They lacked judgment on the situation, otherwise they would not have gone bankrupt in the financial crisis in 1998. Therefore, these two people are also PASS.

Then, only Gusinsky and Malkin are left. In contrast, Zhuang Mingge feels that Gusinsky is a organizer is more likely.

Zhuang Mingge clearly remembers that after Yeltsin left office from the Russian government, Gusinsky, a media tycoon, set off a media war, trying to interfere with Yeltsin's political will, vilify Putin's encirclement and suppression of illegal armed forces in the Chechnya region, and set off a wave of anti-war in Russia. He was extremely interested in politics and once said that if he was born an ordinary person, if he wanted to have social appeal, he should first establish a strong media empire, fundamentally control Russia's public opinion orientation, and realize the political ambition that "unfaithful president can still control the government."

"Is it Gusinsky?" After thinking, Zhuang Mingge gave his own answer, and what he got was naturally Abu's praise.

"The guess is very accurate." Abramovich smiled and clapped, and said, "Then, let me tell you the purpose of this banquet."

So, from Abu, Zhuang Mingge learned that the evening banquet was indeed not a simple "private" banquet!

The initiator of the banquet was the two most influential of Russia's "seven oligarchs" - Gusinsky and Berezovsky. The banquet invited many celebrities from all walks of life in Russia to attend. Except for some invited people from the news media industry, most of these people have a "common point", that is, everyone has the same or similar "political stance".

What surprised Zhuang Mingge the most was that the main purpose of the two oligarchs holding this dinner was to build momentum for Yeltsin, the Russian presidential candidate they jointly supported!
Chapter completed!