The effect of this lottery draw was quite great. For three or four days after the draw, its legend was still circulating in the streets and alleys.
But Wan Feng has completely put this matter behind him.
September is the harvest season. The fields are filled with the roar of machinery as farmers are busy harvesting the year's crops.
The surface of the Longjiang River was also busy. In the less than two months before the river was closed, all matters that required transactions were carried out quickly and intensely.
The Soviet side knew that the port was getting closer to closure and that if they missed the port, they would never get it again. Therefore, the steel mills suddenly burst into enthusiasm and the amount of steel coming in increased significantly.
The amount of steel arriving at the Heihe Port every day has exceeded 1,000 tons, reaching a peak of 1,500 tons.
The steel consumption at Sijitun Port and Fuyuan Port is also close to 1,000 tons.
Almost all the steel in Wan Feng's hands is of high quality. Although the profit from trading with the military is less than one-tenth of the profit from the Heihe Port, the average profit per ton is still over 1,000 yuan, which means over 100 million yuan in profit in a month.
These three docks are bustling with activity every day.
At this time, another big event happened in China. Soviet President Gorbachev was going to visit China in the golden autumn of October.
This is a major event that shocked the world.
This was the first contact between high-level officials from both sides since the Sino-Soviet split in 1960, and also the first official visit by a Soviet leader.
Wan Feng actually looked down upon the intelligence of the Soviet high-level officials. If the Soviets had not wanted to develop a long-wave radio station and a joint fleet, how could such a big ally have become enemies?
If the Soviet Union had not acted so domineeringly and unreasonable at the time, and if both sides had played the role of the boss and the second in command in the socialist family, and respected and helped each other, what place would there be for Western countries in this world?
Now that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, Golbachev had no choice but to visit China in a hurry, hoping to get economic relief.
In Wan Feng's memory, this visit happened more than half a year earlier. It was supposed to happen in May 1989, but now it happened in October 1988.
During this negotiation, the Soviet Union, under economic pressure, opened up the door to arms sales.
It was because of this opening of the arms sales that China bought the Su-27, Kilo-class submarines, Sovremenny-class destroyers and other national treasures, which immediately brought China's national defense to a higher level.
"You little bastard! Give me back my phone."
This was the first thing Zhu Guoxiong said when he saw Wan Feng.
"Grandpa, the phone hasn't been returned yet. My wife used it as a toy."
"Ah! Being treated as a toy? You are just a person in society. If you were in the army, I would punish you."
"Haha, if I were in the army, you wouldn't even buy me a cell phone."
Zhu Guoxiong felt sad when he thought of this: "More than 30,000 yuan, and you gave it to your wife as a toy. What a waste of money."
"Grandpa, what do you need to come to Heihe? Even if you need it now, it's probably too late. The river will be closed in the middle of next month. After that, there will only be half a month left before the port closes. By then, I will have started to clean up, and it will be too late to do anything."
"I'm not doing anything this time. I came to Heihe to do something and just came to take a look."
I would be surprised if I believed your lies. You are not in charge of border defense, and there are no military-industrial enterprises here. Why would you have nothing better to do and come to this remote place?
"Kid! The leader of the other side is going to visit our country. Give us your opinion."
Wan Feng frowned. "Grandpa, have you thought this through? The leader from the other side of the strait is visiting our country and you're asking for my opinion. Even if you were my grandpa, I have to say that your thinking is very foolish."
"How dare you call me stupid, you little bastard?"
"Of course I dared. You didn't ask the Ministry of National Defense about this matter but came to ask me. You are not just stupid, you are stupid to the extreme."
"Stop bullshitting me. You have very unique perspectives on some things. What you think about is fundamentally different from what others think about."
How can there be no essential difference? The answers are all in your head and you don’t have to guess at all, you can get straight to the point. Of course, it is different from other people’s ideas.
"Tell me what's the purpose of this guy called Golba something coming here?"
"Grandpa, aren't you making things difficult for me? Of course, there are more things to do when he comes. How can I answer your barrage of questions?"
"Then give me a rough idea. Considering your long experience with the Soviets, I find your previous judgments to be very accurate."
Wan Feng didn't understand. Both the top leaders and the military had think tanks. Instead of asking those think tanks, this old man came here to fight with him in a coughing match.
"Grandpa, since you insist on asking, I'll just make up a few words. Just treat it as a joke and don't take it seriously, okay?"
"Come on, there's so much going on."
How can there not be a lot of trouble? What if I say something I shouldn’t and you send me to forced labor?
"Let's just pick out the topics of interest and skip over anything irrelevant. Golbachev's hasty visit to China at this time shows that the contradictions and problems within the Soviet Union have reached a point where they cannot be resolved. Let's skip the political aspects and focus on the economic ones, which essentially mean that the Soviet Union is struggling to make ends meet."
"We know the Soviet economy is in trouble, but is it really that serious that they can't even afford to eat?"
"Don't judge a thing by its surface. A president of an empire rushes to visit a country it's been hostile to for nearly thirty years. What could he possibly be doing here? It's like when you're in trouble in a village and can't get any help from anyone else, so you shamelessly go to the home of someone you've been at odds with all your life and grovel. What's your purpose? Simple: to borrow money!"
Zhu Guoxiong nodded: "That makes sense."
"Don't listen to the nonsense on the news about Sino-Soviet friendship and the long-standing friendship between the two peoples. Golbachev is here to help: lend money! His subordinates are too small and not well-off. They've been at odds with the Soviet Union for years. Even if they had money, they wouldn't lend it to the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union wants to overcome its difficulties, it can only turn to China."
“It seems we don’t have much money.”
"Don't ask me if the country has money now. I don't know either. But it's been ten years since the reform and opening up. We are definitely better off than the Soviet Union."
"Do you think we'll lend them money?"
Wan Feng shook his head: "It's unlikely that we can borrow money, but if the Russians are willing to do business, we can buy some things from them."
"Xiao Wan, you've been dealing with the Soviet Union for a long time. What can we buy from them?"
"The Soviet Union has something that interests us in one area, but in other areas it is worthless."
"Military trade!"
"Yes! Military trade!"
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