Chapter 204: Board Buildings Are Popular in the Soviet Union

Let him Georgia fall apart, and Seryozha still stays in Moscow and seriously deals with the problems of the foreign trade bank and the newly acquired housing and public utilities and social development banks. This great gift from Gorbachev made Serezha very happy. Because the Soviet Union's economic reforms were now in trouble, Seryozha, who had always been outstanding, regained Gorbachev's favor. He was entrusted with the task of dealing with the thorny issue of Afghan troop withdrawal and resettlement and the Soviet Union's foreign investment promotion.

Perhaps to show his trust, Gorbachev also packaged the housing with utilities and social development banks to Sergei. This bank was originally established for the Soviet Union's housing reform plan, but now the Soviet Union's national finances are in trouble, because the huge financial deficit caused by the Chernobyl incident has completely messed up the Soviet economy. Reform is no longer the most urgent task. How to revitalize the Soviet economy is the most concerned issue of the Soviet government.

Gorbachev handed over the Housing and Public Utilities and Social Development Bank to Sergey in the hope that Sergey would use the bank to raise funds to solve the resettlement problem for the withdrawal of Afghan troops. But Seryozha played a trick on this issue. He fiddled with the board-built houses that can be seen on almost every construction site in the future city of Shenzhou, and asked the Housing and Public Utilities and Social Development Bank to give Hassan a loan. Specialize in this kind of house. After several months of preparation, the board building factory has started formal production, and the first batch of products were delivered to the construction site of the Samotloor oil field for the oil workers to use.

Maybe it's because this product is so novel. The workers who lived in the container for several months didn't feel displeased with this kind of house, but felt a sense of novelty. Excited workers quickly built the first board-built house in Samotloor Oilfield. It was a beautiful two-storey building with two rows of housing upstairs and downstairs. The walls and floors in the room were Simple decor, it doesn't look that bad inside and out.

Hassan's factory gradually became familiar with the production process of this kind of housing after the initial run-in, and began to work overtime at full capacity. Some of the logistics equipment factories in the company placed production orders. The reason why Seryozha chose to cooperate with the military factory was because of the good production quality of the military factory, in addition to some debts of gratitude. It is already too much to build a house with boards. If there are a lot of quality problems again, it will be Sergey who suffers the most.

The emergence of board-built houses has made the originally difficult housing problem much easier. Although most of the land of the Soviet Union is at high latitudes, the main materials of board-built houses are foam plastics and steel. The disadvantages of housing have not yet been reflected. With the existence of the board building house, Sergei can place a large number of newly recruited oil workers. At the same time, a large amount of funds that were originally used to solve the housing problem of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan flowed into Seryosha's personal account.

The Samotlol oil field provided about 30,000 jobs in total, while the Gorky Volkswagen Group provided 5,000 technical jobs. The two companies together solved one-third of the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan. The remaining 70,000 people will return to China one after another in the next few months, and Seryosha still needs to continue to provide them with jobs.

With so many labor forces needing to solve the unemployment problem in the short term, Sergei could not consider building heavy industry factories, because the construction period of such factories is too long. Sergey set his sights on the rich natural resources of the Soviet Union. The mining industry can provide many jobs, so Seryozha's next step is to let Glencore establish a joint venture with the Soviet Union and the Soviet government to develop non-ferrous metals business.

Under Sergey Sha's suggestion, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry really integrated its own natural gas companies into a large-scale concern.

Sergey and Gorbachev's old friend Chernomyrdin became the head of this enterprise called the Soviet Gas Industry Concern. Under the unified management of this enterprise, the Soviet Union has a more comprehensive plan for the development and sale of natural gas. So on this basis, Seriosha intends to persuade Gorbachev to reform the electrolytic aluminum industry in the Soviet Union in the same way. So not long after the establishment of the Soviet Union's natural gas industry Concern, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry integrated dozens of electrolytic aluminum factories in the lower reaches of the Volga River, and established the Rusal Concern company together with the supporting hydropower stations.

Rusal Concern is different from Soviet Gas Industry Concern in that this company actually has foreign capital involved. Seryozha also merged several bauxite mines in Kazakhstan into Rusal Concern, and the funds for the development of these mines came from Glencore. This allowed Glencore to intervene in the upstream industry of the Soviet resource industry and strengthened Glencore's control over the Soviet aluminum industry.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank under the control of Sergei Sha often have business contacts with Soviet industrial departments such as the Soviet Ministry of Machinery Industry, the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry, and the Ministry of Automobile Industry. So Seryozha has a bit of face in these departments. Now is the time to use these favors. Seryozha, of course, would not be polite. Moreover, arranging the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan has almost become a magic weapon for Seriosha to infiltrate Soviet state-owned enterprises. Seryozha has been using his influence to help Glencore open the way among resource companies in the Soviet Union. These resources have flowed into the international market through Glencore. Although the global economy is still in recession, the information industry in the United States is in full swing. The revolution has a large demand for non-ferrous metals. This contradiction between supply and demand allows these resources of the Soviet Union to be sold at a good price in the international market. The money earned was returned to the Soviet domestic market to buy more minerals, and the whole process was like a snowball.

Because Glencore has been deeply involved in aluminum trading for many years, coupled with stable and sufficient supply, Glencore has now become an absolutely dominant company in the London metal trading market. Mark Ritchie only needs to make a few calls in Switzerland, and the global aluminum futures will be adjusted in the way Mark Ritchie requires. It is not difficult for the Gorky Brotherhood to control the futures trading market of a single product. ...