It was early Monday morning, January 18th.

Get up early in another manor in East Hampton, and with Chen Qing, a girl bluntly said she didn't want to have a group of vases

It's still about the children.

Lin Su's belly has grown bigger again, and Chen Qing's mood is inevitably more urgent when she wants a little guy.

The breakfast this time was very special.

The chef team comes from a Chinese restaurant that just opened on Manhattan's Upper West Side a few years ago, called "Gangnam Time".

That's right, it was named "Jiangnan Time" one of the self-media teams that Simon Xing had built in China in the past year. However, behind the scenes was the capital of the Westeros system, and it was endorsed by three of the most successful pastoral landscape self-media bloggers in China, including Xie Qingtai, Yu Xiaomin and Jing Xiaosui. The three girls came to the United States when they opened their business.

Therefore, it can be imagined that this restaurant focuses on various Chinese cuisines in the programs of three self-media bloggers.

There are mainly two types.

Various dine-in dishes that need to be made immediately, as well as Chinese dim sum that can be packed with takeout.

China attaches great importance to a series of YouTube Chinese self-media studios that can support cultural output attributes, and even this restaurant has provided sufficient support. In addition to providing official convenience and benefits in the process of forming a chef team, it also quietly provided a special support fund.

When the business opened here, many reports were conducted in China.

In addition, the Westeros system in the United States is easy to operate. For example, on the day of opening, Madonna went to try it out as soon as possible. In addition, there were other New York celebrities. Driven by various sources, this special Chinese restaurant soon became famous in the Upper West Side, and recently it has logged into some TV and print media.

Under the cultural output, of course there is a complete game of chess.

All are business.

This "Jiangnan Time" restaurant is just a signboard. Using this signboard, the catering chains and food companies behind the scenes are quietly rolling out, and to be precise, they have been rolled out in advance. Of course, considering the reality, the current business is mainly aimed at China, focusing on chain restaurants, bars and cooked foods, ready-to-eat, snacks and other ready-made food types.

Brands that foreigners like, such gimmicks are very marketable in China.

In the early morning restaurant.

Simon ate the wontons in front of him with satisfaction, and did not talk much about this matter. After all, he had given a good start and sufficient resources. If the people below do not do well, what should they do?

The topic mainly revolves around recent Asian affairs.

"On the 5th of the beginning of the month, the anti-smuggling police department was officially established in China to specifically crack down on smuggling," Chen Qing was in front of a dumpling, a special salty meat filling. Her boss didn't like sweets, so a girl also didn't like it and ate it with satisfaction, while saying, "Boss, you don't know that the smuggling in China has been very powerful in recent years. In the past two years, there was even an oversupply of refined oil. If you continue to investigate, it turned out that it was because oil smuggling was too rampant. Even oil can be transported to China by ship. Other industries can imagine that if there is no blow, it will go to heaven."

When Simon heard Chen Qing mention it, he immediately remembered that there was probably a major smuggling case in the original time and space that broke out this year, which was obviously a typical example of being arrested and killed a monkey to scare the chicken.

Thinking of this, Simon asked directly: "Where are you involved?"

Chen Qing immediately shook her head: "I don't do such a tasteless thing, I can't make enough money..." As she said that, facing the eyes of her boss, a girl shrank her neck and smiled, saying: "In the South Korean side, Black Star Club, boss, please remember, before I came, I specifically reminded them to stop the semiconductor smuggling business that was exported to China."

Simon nodded slightly, but there was no sign of anything.

Even though China's anti-smuggling police force was established in 1999, the huge parallel goods market in coastal areas has never been cut off, so many genuine products have been impacted and will be much cheaper in coastal areas.

Chen Qing also knew that his boss would not care about these things. After all, the Black Star Association was personally encouraged to support it, and then said: "However, the Black Star Association's business is still continuing, mainly entering from Russia and Ukraine through shipping, and then turning to other European countries. Boss, you know, the PC industry has exploded in recent years, and even in Eastern Europe, there is a very large market demand for PC chip products such as CPU and memory. The problem is that all countries have high tariff barriers for this."

Simon is certainly clear about this.

For example, in Ukraine, the Korkishko family controls a huge smuggling network, and Ukraine is just a transit base, covering the entire Europe. Because the entire Ukrainian upper class can eat meat and drink soup, it is quite prosperous. Even if the authorities have a few people who understand the degree of harm to smuggling to the country's economy, they cannot control it at all.

China's luck is that the authorities have enough execution to suppress this matter, even if it cannot be eradicated, it can avoid hurting the root cause.

Chen Qing did not wait for her boss to answer, so she continued by herself: "This is actually a good thing for excellence. We focus on cost-effectiveness, but even if we can get discounts from suppliers, the tax card is still somewhat incomparable to those low-priced parallel products. If we can kill the limelight this time, the excellent market share can be increased a little further. Well, after the merger, Lenovo will basically retain an excellent product line."

Simon nodded and turned to say, "Tell me about those two refining projects."

"The early work has been completed, and these bosses should have read the relevant information," Chen Qing said: "The next thing is construction. The two projects are expected to be controlled at about one and a half years, and at most no more than two years. By the way, the supporting thermal power plant projects are still being discussed during this period. There is still a serious power shortage in China. Our projects are all large electricity users, and building a supporting power plant is the best choice. In addition, a little further away is the raw material issue after production. The above promised our 10 million tons of crude oil import quota, but the specific procedures must be processed before it is put into production. After all, this quota permit is time-efficient, which is also a small problem, but there is no big problem."

“What about the future product sales?”

"This boss doesn't need to worry even more," Chen Qing said: "Although there is an oversupply of refined oil in China, there has been a shortage of crude oil deep-processed products, and this situation cannot be changed in a short period of time. Moreover, we are also investing in the textile industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. These are big demanders of olefin raw materials. Even if outsiders don't want it after production in the future, we can fully digest it in our own industrial chain. Haha, this is also the boss's layout, isn't it?"

Simon knew that a certain girl was talking about the oil mining project he started in Angola, which could be supplied to China in a year or two.

It's just a question about sales.

China is now in short supply of deep-processed crude oil products. Next, joining the WTO will start the world market to stimulate the outbreak of productivity. For a long time, the related shortage will only become more serious.

After breakfast, Chen Qing stayed to deal with some trivial matters in East Hampton, and Simon took a helicopter to Manhattan.

Westeros headquarters in Midtown.

The morning was mainly about discussing some potential cooperation projects for stock replacement plans with James Rebelde.

"In Russia, all the replacement applications from oligarchs such as Berezovsky have been rejected. The country will have too many variables in the next few years. It is not a relatively certain operational object like Ukraine. If they must want to change, either cash or gold, and the others are free of negotiations."

Interior of a conference room at the headquarters of Westeros.

When discussing some replacement applications from Russia, Simon directly rejected them all, which made James a little puzzled: "Simon, through cooperation during the crisis last year, I think we have established very good relations with Russia in all aspects, and these exchange applications are also very consistent with your requirements. Russia has also given more concessions to allow us to have considerable voice?"

Simon did not rashly talk about some of his own layout to James. He heard this and just shook his head: "I heard it all over Australia during Christmas that the Russian opposition forced Yeltsin to force him to remove his presidential chief Varentin Yumashev. You should have seen some information here. Yumashev is actually the lover of Yeltsin's second daughter. In addition, Primakov, who took office last year, recently threatened to launch an investigation into the Yeltsin family. Jim, through these, you should be able to feel how unstable the political situation in Russia is."

"But the Russian economy..." James continued: "I mean, the oligarchs who have basically controlled the Russian economy should be very stable, and they will only be more stable in the future."

"Ha, according to common sense, maybe that's right," Simon nodded and shook his head: "The problem is that Russia cannot infer using common sense."

James became increasingly puzzled.

Simon said this, it was a bit mysterious.

Simon also knew that these words were difficult to convince others, so he thought about them for a moment, and still revealed to James: "Frankly, Jim, I have reached some tacit understanding with Yeltsin, but I cannot be sure whether things will succeed. Next year, I mean, at least another year, and then we will decide whether to make a further arrangement for Russia."

James grasped the key to things exactly: "The next president?"

Simon nodded: "Yes."

James went further accurately: "Simon, or, if I guess correctly, will the next Russian president conflict with the existing oligarchs?"

Simon was a little surprised this time, but he did not deny it, and nodded slightly again.

"This doesn't seem to be in our interests," James said. "Russia under capital control is more suitable for us to make arrangements, rather than a strong leader appearing?

Simon shook his head and said, "I happened to discuss with them when lobbying Washington and the IMF for saving Russia last year that if Russia collapses completely, it will not be beneficial to the Federation and us."

"I know this," James nodded, "but I think what we need is a formal opponent, not a really tough opponent?"

"Jim, if you were just a scarecrow, do you think it would be useful to those smart birds? Just like recently, with the release of the euro, in order to avoid threatening the status of the dollar, Europe needs some turmoil, and a weak scarecrow is even less likely to stir up any storm," Simon spread his hands a little and continued: "And, since I have made some arrangements, at least, our economic interests in Russia will definitely be guaranteed."

James thought about it and nodded: "Okay, you're the boss."

After hesitating for a moment, James did not ask questions when he saw that Simon did not reveal his intentions on his own initiative.

But then I remembered another thing: "Simon, there is one more thing."

As he said that, he found a piece of information and handed it over, and then said: "This was sent to the Russian replacement plan last Friday. The investment plan for building an oil pipeline from Siberia, Russia to Northeast China. This matter has been discussed since 1996. Due to various reasons, the main problem is the funding issue, and it has been shelved. Yukos, the company currently leading the project, hopes that we can participate in the investment together with a budget of US$2 billion. Over the weekend, I asked our team to conduct some evaluations. It may actually take US$2.5 billion to US$3 billion to be completed, but the expected returns are very considerable. You know, this is like building a toll highway, and the income is richer and more stable than the highway."

Simon took the folder and before he could open it, he just heard James talk about it roughly and understood that this should be the 'Anda Line' that was finally completed for more than ten years. He silently opened the information and browsed it quickly. After a few minutes, Simon closed the folder, pondered for a while, and said, "Let's just drag it and wait for next year."

If someone comes to power smoothly next year, he will always have some outstanding achievements.

This project happens to be a gift.

Of course, Simon won't give it for free.

The Westeros system gives political achievements and regains its interests.

As for whether the oil pipeline is profitable or not, think about the chaos of a group of major countries around Beixi No. 2, you can imagine that the natural gas pipeline is the same as the oil pipeline. Simon is not worried that the pipeline will lose money when it is repaired because China does not have enough demand. China's demand for energy will only continue to increase in the next twenty years.

However, even if things really happen, Simon will definitely not work with Yukos.

In the original time and space, Mikhail Khodorkovsky behind Yukos can be said to be the most unlucky one of the seven major oligarchs in Russia. When faced with suppression, the other oligarchs were either lucky to survive the tribulation or fled overseas. Only Huo was arrested and worked as a tailor in the Siberian prison for many years.

In short, compared to Yukos, Simon prefers to cooperate with Russia.

It’s not that the official is definitely reliable. Simon is just standing on the side of the winner, and the winner is particularly closely related to his family, so he must be more secure than a bad second-hand tailor.

Let’s talk about China.
Chapter completed!