Two days later, Wan Feng returned to Heihe.

The first thing he did after returning to Heihe was to ask Shamilov to notify Li Mingzhe and ask Li Mingzhe to come to Blagoveshchensk.

Now we can only rely on Li Mingzhe to get the tanks.

Three days later, Li Mingzhe arrived in Bu City.

In Shamilov's villa, Wan Feng met with Li Mingzhe.

"Boss, what's the matter that you called me here in such a hurry?" Li Mingzhe asked respectfully.

"Li Mingzhe, don't be nervous. I called you here mainly to understand the current situation in Gongqingcheng."

"Are you going to Komsomolsk-on-Amur?"

"I don't have any plans for now, but I won't rule out going in the future."

Li Mingzhe began to talk about the situation in Gongqingcheng. Due to rising prices and the lack of tasks in factories, the situation in Gongqingcheng was very unstable. There were small-scale demonstrations demanding that the government reduce rising prices and wages.

Golbachev's wholesale implementation of Western methods led to chaos in the Soviet industrial system.

This is just the beginning. It has not yet begun to be fully privatized. When the Soviet Union begins to truly implement privatization in the next two years and workers begin to be laid off, the social order will become even more chaotic.

The chaos continued until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Because of Qin Yuan's incident last time, Yevgeny was dismissed and went home to retire. Now Komsomolsk-on-Amur has a new police chief, who only cares about money and not people.

The fact that he knows money shows that the new director is a good comrade. It would be difficult if someone who doesn't know money came in.

Thanks to Wanfeng's orders, the steel plant is doing relatively stable, but its output is low.

The workers were a little nervous and lacked motivation.

The lower classes of the Soviet Union now feel that their future is uncertain, but they can only remain in confusion and anxiety.

"If the steel plant is privatized, can you find a way to buy it?"

Li Mingzhe has never considered this issue.

"Buy it? I'm afraid I can't do that. I'm not a Soviet citizen, and they wouldn't sell it to me. I don't know how many Soviet dignitaries are eyeing it."

Wan Feng thought about it and felt a little anxious. The privatization of the Soviet Union really began when it started to be called Russian screws.

Li Mingzhe also saw the essence of the matter. The political and economic oligarchs that emerged later in Russia were indeed government officials from the former Soviet Union.

Initially, privatization securities were distributed free of charge. Every Russian citizen paid 25 rubles to receive a purchase voucher with a face value of 10,000 rubles. The voucher could be used to purchase shares in state-owned enterprises or to transfer or sell them for a fee.

After September 3, Yeltsin turned completely to the West. In order to resist Western infiltration, he allowed his people to sell state-owned assets at low prices and carry out the so-called centralized privatization.

Those government officials used their power to take advantage of the opportunity to buy these securities cheaply.

The securities issued to ordinary people were thus concentrated in the hands of these government officials, and eventually formed oligarchs of various sizes.

There are still six years from now to 1993.

A lot of things will happen in six years, and Wan Feng himself is not sure whether he will come to Russian Screw to do business by then.

His original plan was to take advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union was not clear about China's value system to fish in troubled waters.

When the Soviet Union became a screw to Russia and the ports were reopened, the Soviets also understood China's value system, and it would no longer be easy for them to take advantage of the situation.

He also thought it was basically impossible to make a profit of over one million from a batch of goods.

So at that time, whether he would come or not was a matter of debate.

"Let's talk about this later. The main reason I came to you this time was because of one thing. Last time I went to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, you said you could get a T72 tank?"

Li Mingzhe blinked and nodded: "It's not difficult! You can get it by spending money or exchanging materials."

"I know it's not difficult to get tanks in the Soviet Union, but how can you get them across the river for me?"

When the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from the Chinese border, those old T54T62 and other tanks were buried in the ground. In their eyes, tanks were really no different from steel.

Now many citizens in Blagoveshchensk are digging out these buried tanks and bringing them to China to exchange for the supplies they need, and no one cares at all.

However, as the Soviet army's current main combat equipment, it is not difficult for Li Mingzhe to get the T72 from the Soviet Union, but it is not a simple task to get it from China.

Even though the Soviet Union is in a state of chaos now, it has not yet reached the point of complete chaos. There are always people who are loyal to their duties.

Li Mingzhe had considered this issue when he said this.

"This isn't a difficult problem. I have a few ideas. The first is to dismantle the tank into parts, blend in with the crowd of people exchanging scrap tanks for supplies, and then transport them here. Once you get there, you can reassemble them yourselves."

"I've thought of this method, what else?"

"The other option is smuggling. Now we can use smuggling ships to load tanks from Komsomolsk-on-Amur and send them upstream to your side, but we have to take care of the border defense."

Wan Feng thought about it and decided that this option was feasible. To cross the river, they had to deal with the Soviet border defense. Otherwise, the Soviet border defense speedboats would be swimming in the river every day, and they would be caught if they were not careful.

But a problem also arose.

The Amur River turns from Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The distance of more than a thousand miles from Blagoveshchensk to Khabarovsk is dotted with Soviet border guards. Although they are all Soviet border guards, they do not belong to the same unit. It is no small project to take care of them.

You can't take care of all the units, right?

But if you don't take it seriously, there is a possibility of capsizing.

Wan Feng was convinced that Li Mingzhe could deal with one or two of the border guards, but he didn't believe that he could deal with them all.

"I've considered this issue as well. That way, we can't sail the entire Heilongjiang River. Once the ship enters the Amur River, shared by China and the Soviet Union, it would be best to cross directly and land opposite Khabarovsk. That way, wouldn't all the border defenses along the river be omitted?"

In that case, we have to land in Fuyuan County.

"The last one will have to wait until winter. When the river is closed, we can use a flatbed truck to pull it directly from the river. This should be the most convenient way."

"Let's consider the first and second points first. Winter is too long. There are still several months left. How much money do you need to operate?"

Li Mingzhe thought for a moment and said, "Including the tank itself, I need no less than 300,000 rubles or an equivalent amount of supplies. Supplies are best, because supplies are more useful than money right now."

"I'll give you 100,000 rubles for activities first, and then allocate 200,000 rubles worth of supplies to you. What do you think?"

Li Mingzhe nodded: "No problem, it should be almost done."

Wan Feng asked Shamilov to give Li Mingzhe 100,000 rubles in cash.