Sooner or later we will leave this world, and all we can leave behind are our descendants and a few funny, pitiful or respectable gossips related to our lives.
Li Muye is now curious about what kind of gossip Li Zhonghua can leave behind. In order to find out more true and detailed content, he decided to move to Soren's house. The people in this place are very xenophobic, and Sauron was a little resistant at first because his wife would not agree. Soren's wife Natasha is a typical Yakut woman, with a body and appetite like a female bear. At the same time, she is as family-oriented as a female wolf, and treats her children as docile and gentle as a doe.
No food can be grown here, and the local traditional food structure is mainly meat. The most common ones are raw and frozen fish, horse meat and reindeer meat.
Their family is considered middle-class in this city, and they always have raw and frozen fish made from white salmon. The daily staple food is mainly horse meat, and the food includes bags of cereal and dry bread, which can be eaten about three times a week to enrich the nutritional structure. Reindeer meat is used to entertain the most distinguished guests and friends.
Li Muye wanted to live there for a month first, and Soren was worried that his wife Natasha would not agree. Li Muye said, I ordered people to prepare a lot of flour and eggs, as well as several boxes of dried vegetables, fruits and canned beef, and of course the best vodka. Shipped directly from Moscow by plane, it is enough to feed a hundred people until the summer. Petrovich and the others kept some of it, and if it was just Lao Cui and me, it would take a long time to eat the rest.
After hearing this, Sauron immediately expressed his warm welcome.
What makes Lao Cui particularly happy is that the Sauron family has five large Caucasian dogs. It is usually used to pull sleds to transport children to school, but it is also responsible for hunting and protecting the homeland. As soon as Lao Cui, who was fully armed and had extraordinary skills, came to this house, he got involved with the five dogs and Sauron's three bear sons.
Natasha's sliced raw fish fillet was delicious, paired with top-shelf vodka and precious black caviar, which complemented each other perfectly. Li Muye bought the reindeer meat from the Daur people in exchange for flour. He cut it into thick slices and grilled it over charcoal fire. It was served with sauces and seasonings, and it tasted particularly delicious.
The Sauron family was more interested in the cans and flour brought by Li Muye. Fragrant bread is available in unlimited quantities, and delicious canned fruits can be eaten with open arms. This kind of life can only be enjoyed at a banquet at Mr. Anasayev's house.
Almost overnight, Li Muye and Lao Cui became noble and close friends of the Sauron family.
Once we become friends, some things become easier to say.
Nominally, Li Muye came to inspect the mining industry under the name of Eljin Mining Company. According to Solon, although the mines owned by mining companies have abundant reserves, due to limitations of natural climate conditions, the mining efficiency is extremely low and the cost is astonishingly high. The Agricultural and Industrial Bank of China originally bought Elgin just to respond to the country's call, not because it was optimistic about the gold and diamond reserves here. So the price spent at that time was extremely low.
Due to low output, the mine is basically unable to make ends meet. In recent years, tens of millions of rubles have been invested every year to support the more than 1,000 employees of the mine. Gurnov had long wanted to put Elgin Mining up for sale when he was in charge, but due to federal laws, he had never found a suitable successor.
Solon said that in order to save costs, the mine has been suspended for two years. In the past two years, the Agricultural and Industrial Bank has only provided very little funds to maintain the daily maintenance and operation of equipment and office areas. The workers have long since stopped working and went home to find other jobs. There's a way out. Because of this, he would put a bad face on his new boss when they first met.
Li Muye is still not sure of Chen Miao's real purpose of bringing him here. Based on the current situation, from a purely economic perspective, the investment value of this place is not very high. If he were just a simple businessman, he would definitely continue to implement the policies left by Gurnov without hesitation.
Regarding Anasayev, Li Muye just tentatively mentioned it, which immediately aroused Natasha's strong attention. According to her, Anasayev is the supreme presence in this city and even in the entire Republic of Yakutia. He is the high priest of shamanism and a businessman who helps the Yakuts connect to the world. He uses his personal wealth to support the needs of the Yakuts in medical care, education, etc...
Twenty years ago, Yakutsk had a population of less than 100,000, and the entire Yakutia region had a population of only 400,000.
After Anasayev came here, he brought Americans, Japanese, Israelis and British people. They came here to explore the land, study natural creatures, bring information from the outside world, and also bring wealth. As the son-in-law of the Yakuts, Anasayev broke the former Soviet Union's simple blockade and looting model of this land and built a bridge between this land and world civilization.
Eleven years ago, the Republic of Yakutia became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Independent States. Although an ethnic Russian became the first president, the Yakuts remained the masters of the country. Anasayev has never held any position in the government, but he has established a stable relationship with the top federal officials with his excellent business skills, and essentially controls this land with the business empire he established.
He is the largest fur trader in the world, supplying 3% of Japan's fish market. The diamond mining factory jointly established by him and the federation and personally managed by him owns the largest diamond mine in Yakutia, providing The source of 80% of the diamond market in the Russian Federation. Every year during the Ensakh Festival in June, he would select outstanding talents among Yakut young people and spend large sums of money to support them in studying abroad.
Natasha and her family talked endlessly about Anasayev, and it seemed that they could not finish talking about this man for three days and three nights. Li Muye already knew that what he left behind in this land was not just gossip, but a truly epic legend.
The next question is, since this person has so much, why has he ignored his biological children who stayed in the country for more than 20 years
You can't get this answer from Natasha.
Three months have passed, and Chen Miao still has not made any further instructions, but has begun to blatantly interfere in the affairs of the Makino Group.
Spring plowing and sowing have begun on the farm in Bisk, and the storage base and supermarket jointly built with Kirichenko in Kiev have also begun operations. Lao Chu was sitting in Moscow, and the trading companies under the Makino Group, with the secret support of Timov, successively won the import and export trade quotas for a variety of controlled commodities, from China, to Russia, to the storage base in Ukraine, and finally distributed them to the entire Eastern Europe seems to have formed the prototype of a stable business channel.
Although Li Muye stayed in Yakutsk, his wealth was increasing day by day. He knew very well that he was only a 23-year-old young man. If it weren't for the complicated factors behind it, he might still be working tirelessly to pursue his dream of wealth in Coal City. Everything he has now, except for the money he got from the initial deal with Li Qizhi, the rest of the increased wealth is almost entirely led by Chen Miao.
During this period of time, Li Muye tried not to think about other things and only tried his best to understand Anasayev. What the Sauron family can provide is known to everyone, but what Li Muye needs to know is something only a few people have. For this reason, he thought of Timov who was far away in Moscow.
This cheap brother-in-law has been engaged in intelligence work for many years. Even if he himself has not been in contact with Anasayev, there are probably some of his former colleagues who have studied Anasayev's rise and rise. Before that, Li Muye still had a trace of luck in his heart, imagining that there might be two people in the world who looked exactly the same but were not related, and Li Zhonghua happened to meet them. However, news from Moscow shattered this illusion.
Anasayev went to Yakutia from China in the early 1980s. And it was initially with the help of the Americans that it gained a firm foothold there. In the early days of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Yakutia existed as an economically backward and politically disordered region. The first people to establish order were actually four countries from the Western camp. Moscow had too many directions to take care of at that time, and it was really impossible to take care of this barbaric land with a population of only a few hundred thousand.
Even now, the Republic of Yakutia is an administrative region under federal rule, and it is still not the Russian Federation that occupies the dominant position here. This country's military security is nominally established under the exclusive military framework of the Russian Federation, but in fact, this land is absolutely not suitable for any military operations. Whether it is ground advancement or high-altitude bombing, it is meaningless. No matter who wants to completely conquer this place, they can only rely on bread and vodka.
After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, this area became an area of political chaos and economic construction completely stagnated. Anasayev introduced Western economy and saved the Yakut nation in danger. Became the actual owner of this land. This has been controversial in Moscow, with pro-Western politicians arguing it could be retained as a pilot and communication channel. The hawkish politicians in the federation believe that the federation should take a tough stance, use thunderbolt means to kill this person, encourage Russians to immigrate there, and make that rich land completely belong to the federation.
Timov personally prefers the views of hawkish politicians. He told Li Muye that Westerners simply do not have the conditions and sincerity to develop there. What they value there are only some special resources and political benchmark significance. Only the Russian Federation and true friends deserve everything there. This true friend naturally refers to China, which has the greatest potential to replace Russia in front of the Americans.
According to Timov, hawkish politicians in the federal government have actually targeted Anasayev more than once. But the results have all ended in failure. This man seemed to be able to hear the good and evil voices of all things in the world, just like the legend said. Whether it was a sniper assassination, poisoning or assassination, or even a few times using fighter planes to eliminate targets, but every time he seemed to be able to predict the danger in advance and avoid the assassination in time.
The process of getting to know that man is like seeing flowers in a fog, and the fog never lifts. You can never be sure that everything you see is completely real.
The winter in Siberia is long, but the ice and fog will always dissipate. Li Muye was waiting for that moment to arrive.
Small yellow flowers are beginning to appear on the meadows along the Lena River. The winter ice and fog are about to dissipate, and the annual Ensah Festival is approaching. The Soren family received an invitation letter from the Yakutia State Electric Power Information Company to participate in the grand event, and invited Li Muye by name to participate in the Ensakh Festival... (End of this chapter)