Chapter 595 (1/2)

”Norman met Yeltsin at a reception for foreign investors in the Kremlin last week. He mentioned your recent selection of girls in Russia.”

Domay point manor.

It's Friday, January 28.

Simon and Anthony Johnston had just sat down in the sea view reception area beside the curtain wall of shell villa when Anthony talked about it.

Janet brought coffee to her husband and brother in person. She was going to sit down next to Simon. Hearing that she lost a look in her eyes that said, ”my brother's taking it out on me. Be careful.” she walked away.

Simon didn't feel guilty. He wasn't surprised that Yeltsin knew that he was recruiting Uyghur waitresses in Russia. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. If Russia, which inherited the KGB intelligence system of the former Soviet Union, can't even find out this kind of thing, it may be a complete threat to the country.

Simon also knows that he has been the focus of governments all over the world from a very early age, both overtly and covertly.

After all, he is the only one in the world who has made hundreds of billions of dollars from scratch.

After taking a sip of the coffee Janet had sent, Simon asked with a smile, ”what did Yeltsin say?”

Antony didn't mean to ask questions for his sister. For his brother-in-law's unusual existence, he could hardly put on the airs of his brother: ”Yeltsin said that the girls in Russia are excellent. Your selection criteria are too strict. In addition, he invited you to visit Moscow.”

”I'd like to go to Moscow if I have a chance.”

Anthony nodded and said, ”what are so many girls for?”

Simon also did not hide, said: ”I plan to train some maids for my family, you know, they must be more reliable.”

Anthony said: ”Sophia faessy, Alice Ferguson and Claire Gaines?”

Sophia, who runs melisandro, Alice, who runs igritte's e-commerce business, and Claire, who founded Tinkerbell, are all sort of waistrows.

Although the public media rarely discuss these, the circle is still very fond of talking about the women who stand out one by one around westrow. For this reason, there are too many women who want to get together with Simon.

Sophia fishy, these women were only selected by Simon after their personal abilities were basically shaped. Now, her brother-in-law plans to cultivate them from scratch. Anthony thinks that Norman, the younger brother in charge of the Russian business, talked to him about this, and Yeltsin said Simon's screening criteria were too strict. We can be sure that these girls will only be better in the future.

Almost can't help but ask Simon for one or two to be an assistant, but Anthony still gives up.

As an elder brother and brother-in-law, it seems that this is not very serious.

So he changed the topic and said: ”speaking of Russia, Dad scolded Norman at Christmas last year. He said that you were right to remind our agent in Russia, Mikhail Friedman, not to show too much ambition in the political field. He also warned Norman to break his leg if he got too close to Yeltsin.”

In recent years, the collapse of Russia has created a large number of capital oligarchs. Taking advantage of this country's opportunity to promote privatization, Russia has been vigorously expanding its assets in various fields.

Russia's local emerging oligarchs can not have too much of their own funds, so they all rely on overseas capital for blood transfusion, and the westero system has not let go of this feast.

Simon chose Mikhail Friedman, one of Russia's seven oligarchs in the 1990s, as the spokesman of the westero system, including the Johnston family, in Russia. It's the other side because Mikhail Friedman is the only ”Survivor” of the seven old oligarchs since the great emperor came to power.

It's no accident.

Mikhail Friedman is a businessman who is very good at judging the situation and taking the initiative to avoid too much involvement in politics. Although doing so made him the bottom of the seven old Russian oligarchs, when other capital oligarchs who interfered and manipulated the political situation in Russia were won one after another, Friedman, who was very knowledgeable, was affirmed by the great emperor.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the westero system got in touch with Friedman ahead of other capitals and funded the other party to set up the alpha group. In recent years, it has bet more than 500 million dollars on this businessman. That's not much money for the Westeros, but it's enough to buy too much in Russia.

Although Mikhail Friedman has no political ambition in his memory, Simon is not sure whether the other party will still be like this after the time shift incident, so he has taken the initiative to remind the other party more than once.

At this point, listening to Anthony's tone, Simon asked, ”Tony, don't you understand?”

”Norman was always in charge of Russia. I wasn't there that day, and my father didn't explain to me later.” Anthony shook his head and said, ”I just don't think it's your old layout style?”

Simon has always attached great importance to the political layout of North America and Australia. Anthony also knows that the westero system has secretly funded the affairs of current President Clinton. Therefore, Russia, which is still in turmoil, is arguably the best platform for political layout.Simon sorted out his ideas and explained: ”Russia is different from us. Although it has implemented federalism, the political gene of this country that has lasted for nearly a century can not be changed. It is doomed that Russia will be a country more suitable for strongman politics. In fact, I don't think much of Yeltsin. He is more a speculator than a qualified politician. ”

Anthony thought about it and said, ”do you mean that there will probably be another strong national leader in Russia in the future?”

Simon nodded: ”it's very likely that this kind of person will not allow the existence of business oligarchs who like to interfere in national politics. That's when oligarchs will encounter liquidation. So in Russia, as far as possible, we only do business and don't talk about politics. ”

Anthony probably understood Simon's idea and said, ”it's impossible not to talk about politics at all?”

”Of course, so we subsidize Yeltsin's participation in the election campaign and try our best to expand our political contacts, but we do not interfere or even manipulate. I understand that this may prevent us from fully integrating into the core circle of Moscow, and Friedman's achievements in recent years are not as good as those of other oligarchs, but this is the way to go for a long time. ”

Anthony nodded and said, ”I'll explain your point to my father when I go back.”

Simon wondered, ”well?”

Anthony said with a smile: ”since my father didn't explain it to me last time, maybe he didn't quite understand it. He only warned Norman out of his trust in you.”

Simon laughed, too.

With the old man's character, even if you don't understand it, you won't ask him directly. It's even more simple and rude for your son.

Simon also found a small mistake. When he reminded Mikhail Friedman, he forgot to explain his intention to Norman Johnston.

Simon has a lot of memories of his two lives. He lived on the other side of the ocean in his previous life, so it's easy to understand these joints.

In contrast, Raymond Johnston, who has been living in an open political environment in Australia, has been used to exerting influence on the government to safeguard his family interests. Therefore, even if he has enough life experience, it is probably not easy to understand the thinking mode of political figures in another system, let alone see the future like Simon.

At the end of the day, Simon is really an outlier.

All things are learned.

People's life is limited. No matter how smart and sophisticated people are, they can't cover everything. They will inevitably have their own knowledge and thinking limitations.

Simon is equivalent to having someone else's life of more than ten lives, and his insight into the future is a super bug.

With this conversation, Anthony thought of another thing: ”the Russian Office of westero company is set up in St. Petersburg, and the headquarters of viper communication company is also there. Is there any special arrangement?”

Simon didn't expect Anthony to bring up the details.

The answer, of course, is yes.

Someone is working as an assistant mayor in St. Petersburg at this time. The core of Moscow used to come from St. Petersburg. Maybe some things will change in this time and space, but it won't do any harm to have a good relationship at this time. Even more, if the westero system can provide assistance at some critical moments in the future, it will surely get more generous returns.

It's just that this matter can't be explained to Anthony frankly in any case.

Fortunately, this question is easy to answer.

”At present, westero's investment in Russia is mainly in telecommunications business. As you know, St. Petersburg is very close to Helsinki. Both cities are on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, less than 300 kilometers away, which is convenient for Nokia to cooperate with Russia.”

Anthony nodded, feeling nothing wrong with Simon's explanation.