Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 195: A Profitable Investment

"The second thing," Chen Guobang paused for a moment before continuing, "is about the military. Last night I was drinking with their general, and I mentioned the purchase of equipment at the table, and he agreed."

At the end, Chen Guobang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "He asked me what I was going to use the equipment for, and I just told him I was buying it for a mercenary group."

After hearing these words, Lu Shaohua gave a thumbs up. Indeed, if you tell someone that you want to buy a lot of equipment or a lot of different types of equipment, it might make them suspicious and they will be wary of you the next time they get along with you. But Chen Guobang said that if he bought it for a mercenary group, it wouldn't happen. After all, a mercenary group wouldn't buy too much.

As for business, the first time is new, the second time is familiar. As long as there is a good start, the subsequent business will be much easier. The same is true for buying military technology from the Soviet military. As long as the first deal is done, the second and third deals will be easy to follow.

"Okay, let's do this first business with him. They can set the price, and we'll pay whatever they set." After saying that, Lu Shaohua pondered for a while before continuing. "As for the types of weapons and equipment, let Brother Zhijie make a list!"

"Well! I'll go find Zhijie to make a list, and then pick out the equipment models tomorrow and buy them." After saying that, Chen Guobang was about to stand up, as if he was going to find Li Zhijie.

"Brother, please sit down. There is no need to rush." ​​Lu Shaohua stopped Chen Guobang who was about to leave. After hearing what Lu Shaohua said, the latter sat back down and listened to what Lu Shaohua had to say. Seeing Chen Guobang sitting down, Lu Shaohua stopped talking nonsense. "I want Brother Zhijie and the others to form a mercenary group in Africa. Do you think it's okay?"

Many small countries in Africa have some unknown mercenaries stationed there. It can be said that Africa is a paradise for mercenaries. Lu Shaohua has long planned to set up the headquarters of the mercenary group there. In addition to facilitating the operations of mercenaries, Lu Shaohua has another plan, which is to build a more secret base in Africa. After all, building a secret base in the Soviet Union is a helpless move. Although the name is taken as a secret base, is it really secret?

If you don't want people to know, then don't do it yourself. On the surface, it seems to be a secret, but the truth is not necessarily. Lu Shaohua believes that neither the Soviet military nor the Soviet government would be so stupid. How could he build a base under the noses of so many people without anyone noticing? Moreover, in the future, if he digs up talents, he must send them to the base. Even if he is not discovered now, he will definitely be discovered in the future.

The Soviet Union is in chaos now, and no one would bother to mess with a base that doesn't look that good. But in the future, after the chaos is over, the situation will be different. Who knows what a non-governmental secret base is doing? This is an unstable factor, and a government will not allow the existence of such an unstable factor. So once the country stabilizes, sooner or later it will have to deal with this unstable factor.

Therefore, it is very important to build another secret base in Africa. Africa has a vast territory and a sparse population. If the selected area is remote, the chance of being discovered will be greatly reduced.

Chen Guobang thought about it seriously and said, "There are only two good places to build the headquarters of the mercenaries. The first is the Middle East, and the second is Africa. But I think Africa is better. It is more remote, and there are more mercenaries stationed there, so it is easier for them to survive."

"Okay, let's decide it this way. Let's choose Africa." Lu Shaohua finally made the decision.

Since the decision had been made, Chen Guobang went out. He wanted to take advantage of the time he still had in the morning to make an appointment with Li Zhijie, and then go out in the afternoon to meet the candidate he wanted to support.

After Chen Guobang left, Lu Shaohua sat in a chair alone and began to ponder. It had been more than ten days since he came to the Soviet Union, and the current development of the situation had not exceeded his expectations, that is, it was as smooth as he had imagined.

As long as he can make the deal with the military, it means he is closer to his goal. As long as he gets what he wants, he will leave the Soviet Union and return home, and he will leave the Soviet side to Chen Guobang to handle.

"Huh" Lu Shaohua let out a long breath, stood up from his chair, and muttered to himself: "The bank should be open for business."

That's right, although Lu Shaohua had been here for more than ten days, he did not open the bank immediately, but asked those people to be on standby at any time to familiarize themselves with the Soviet environment first. Although there were many reasons for not opening the bank, the main reason for Lu Shaohua to delay the opening was that the degree of chaos in the Soviet Union was beyond imagination. Now that he has truly opened up the relationship with the military and has a backer in terms of personal connections, Lu Shaohua dared to open the bank at this time.

I picked up the phone in the room and dialed a familiar number. Not long after, Li Yunqing's voice came from the receiver. "Hello! Who is this?"

"It's me. The bank will open tomorrow." Lu Shaohua said simply.

"Okay, I'll call you later." Li Yunqing said again on the other end of the phone.

"Okay, hanging up." After saying that, Lu Shaohua hung up the phone.

Neither the staff who came to the Soviet Union to open the Phoenix Bank branch nor the staff of the head office in Hong Kong knew Lu Shaohua's identity. The bank was all under the banner of the financial company, so the orders were issued through Li Yunqing, the deputy general manager of the financial company! Who let Liu Mingzhang hang the title of general manager, but rarely manage the affairs of the financial company!

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The opening of the bank also means that he will have a large amount of funds to transfer. The current ruble has not depreciated yet, and it will depreciate sharply after the disintegration. That is why Lu Shaohua wants to make a huge fortune in this link, but this also requires a large amount of deposits after the bank opens. With a large amount of deposits, he can transfer part of it and convert the rest into US dollars to earn the difference after the depreciation.

Even though the profit from the price difference was very tempting, Lu Shaohua didn't really want to make any money! He mainly wanted to transfer the deposit to do other business, which was also a trick of making money out of nothing. He didn't invest a penny himself, but used Soviet money to buy Soviet goods, and then shipped them to other countries to sell them, which would make more profit.

"Hey! How could I forget about this?" Lu Shaohua suddenly paused, patted his head vigorously and said loudly. Just now, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and remembered something that could make a lot of money.

Yes, it is a profitable business. He can make a lot of money with just a penny investment. According to his memory, a currency called virtual currency was used among state-owned enterprises in the Soviet Union. This currency could only be used by people within state-owned enterprises. Virtual currency was used to buy raw materials and to sell products. It could not be used by outsiders.

However, these are not difficult for Lu Shaohua. No matter whether it can only be used within state-owned enterprises or not, what he needs to do is to make full use of the temptation of money to bribe the staff of state-owned enterprises, and then exchange rubles for virtual currency, so that he can use this virtual currency to buy things in disguise.

At this time, the leaders of Soviet state-owned enterprises thought that since the company's performance was good but they could not share the money, it would be better to exchange it for benefits. Since someone was willing to pay rubles to buy virtual currency, this was a great benefit. No one could resist money. Lu Shaohua also fully grasped the greed of human nature. Oh, no, this was not greed, but planning for his future.

This is a typical case of collusion between officials and businessmen. Yes, collusion between officials and businessmen. They give enough benefits to officials in state-owned enterprises to let them buy some products produced by state-owned enterprises and sell them abroad. Virtual currency is optional. In other words, if Lu Shaohua's plan is successful, he can get a lot of products without spending a penny. Except for the money used to bribe officials in state-owned enterprises, the remaining profits will be all his.

"Hahaha!….."

Lu Shaohua laughed wildly. He had never been so excited since his rebirth. Even when he made more than 89 billion US dollars in the Japanese stock market crash in , he had never laughed so hard. The reason why he laughed so hard this time was because of this huge profit. He had to be excited. Just imagine, as long as he spent money to manage the relationship, he could get countless wealth.

This plan is more effective and direct than trying to get something for nothing. Apart from the shady private bribery, the rest can be said to be done openly and completely legally.

After laughing, Lu Shaohua slowly calmed down. He thought that it seemed that all this was just his imagination. It was just talk on paper, but not really implemented! Even if it was implemented, it might not be so smooth. There would definitely be some minor problems in the process, but they were just minor problems. It was not difficult to solve them. As long as he was willing to spend money, he believed that everything would no longer be a problem.

After taking a deep breath and exhaling for several times, Lu Shaohua finally regained his composure. According to Lu Shaohua's personality, once he came up with a plan, he would perfect it before implementing it. But now, the plan was only half completed, and the other half was what to do after the product was sold?

It is not the end of the matter once the products are sold. Don’t forget that they are now in the Soviet Union. The products still need to be shipped out, and then they need to be sold. There are also a series of problems to be solved, such as choosing a place to sell them, etc.

The more he thought about it, the more troubles Lu Shaohua could imagine. So he decided to solve them one by one. He would set up the Chinese sales point in Hong Kong and then expand it slowly. As for how to sell, he could ask Liu Mingzhang to find a talent in this area to be responsible for this matter. However, if he did so, Phoenix Group would have another subsidiary.

"Well! All other problems have been solved, only the transportation problem remains?" Lu Shaohua's mind was spinning rapidly, and one transportation route after another took shape in his mind, but it was overturned again after a short while. "No, no."

“Still not working”

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It was unknown how much time had passed, nor how many transportation routes had been rejected one by one. Finally, Lu Shaohua slapped his head hard again and said in a tone that rarely swears since his rebirth: "Fuck! How come I didn't even think of such a simple method?"