Chapter 986 (1/2)
At the present stage, in addition to the Rovno Gang controlled by the westero system and the petrovsk Gang controlled by Kiev, another important political and economic force in Ukraine is the Donetsk Gang based in Donetsk, an important industrial town in eastern Ukraine.
According to Simon's information, Ukraine's prime minister Pavlo razarenko was assassinated. It was yev sherban, the leader of the Donetsk Gang, who was behind the assassination.
As for the reason, it is still for the benefit.
Unlike western Ukraine, which is dominated by agriculture, eastern Ukraine concentrates most of the country's energy industrial assets, especially Donetsk, where 90% of Ukraine's coal resources are stored.
Razarenko has been trying to get in touch with the Donetsk Gang since he was only Minister of energy two years ago. This year, he was promoted to Prime Minister of Ukraine successfully. This greedy politician, who is famous for losing several layers of skin in any passing project, naturally will not be restrained any more. He joined his partner Yulia Tymoshenko to try to carve up the steel and coal industries in Donetsk, As a result, it encountered the most fierce rebound of the Donetsk gang.
Just yesterday, July 18, on his way to the airport, razarenko was hit by a car bomb, and he was not in danger.
As a latecomer, Simon also knows the follow-up.
After all, even in a small country like Ukraine, the assassination of No. 2 will certainly attract the attention of the international community.
In history, after this incident, probably at the end of the same year, razarenko's family returned a tooth for a tooth, and yef sherban was not as lucky as razarenko. Sherban and his wife were screened by several professional killers together.
This is actually the current cruel situation in the former Soviet Union.
It's not just that the business oligarchs who took advantage of the situation in this period didn't have a clean foundation. Even the middle and lower classes, in order to compete for an enterprise, a real estate, or even a department store, may trigger a fire. In order to prevent violent robbery from happening at any time as far as possible, the main commercial places in many big cities of the former Soviet Union will have bright security guards with AK47 hanging directly,
in fact, it is not clear whether they are security guards or gangsters.
It's like a wild age without rules.
In a high-end club not open to the public in the north of Livni City, Simon stood with a glass of red wine in front of the wall specially hung with a map of Ukraine. Next to him were Sergei komorov, head of oldek company, Kerim jelevyanko, President of ufms, Andrei Smirnov, governor of lovno state, and Alexander lyudayev, head of Livni media People.
After sipping a sip of red wine, Simon drew another hand toward the location of the state of Rovno on the map and said to the people around him: ”I know that you have become more and more dissatisfied with the fact that you want to limit your power to the state of Rovno and want to expand more and more, but now you should see that it is not an easy thing. The petrovsk Gang controls the political power of the country, and the Donetsk Gang inherits most of the industrial heritages of the former Soviet Union. Compared with you, what do you have? ”
Simon said so, and saw jereevyanko slightly pick his eyebrows at him, and said with a smile, ”yes, you have me.”
Everyone chuckled.
Simon waited for a moment, but shook his head and said, ”but I have to pour cold water on you. I'm not interested in competing with those people for the assets you value, because I can't see that with such time and energy, I can find hundreds of more profitable investment projects in other parts of the world.”
Think about the latest news about Simon's $1.3 trillion personal fortune. Everyone in the reception hall has no way to refute it.
What's more, everyone knows that Simon's fundamental appeal to the state of Rovno lies in one thing: the Ukrainian front line military service company (ufms), a private armed force launched two years ago in the Rwandese war and continuously active, is the fundamental reason why this young man with a fortune of one trillion will appear here.
Otherwise, as Simon just said, he doesn't look up to the tattered frontier state of Northwest Ukraine.
And These people.
It's a fact that Simon westero doesn't look up to them. Another fact is that the greatest reliance of all the people on the scene is actually the young man standing in the middle of the crowd. If there is no other party, the people on the scene, or just an ordinary businessman who can only do small business in a corner, or just a veteran who does not know where he will eventually go after retirement, or just a politician on the edge who has been overturned in a gust of wind and waves
Now, they are the Rovno gang that no one in the country can ignore.
Even if the political forces can't compare with the petrovsk gang and the economic strength is not as good as the Donetsk Gang, with the support of the towering tree of the westero system, who can be sure where the Rovno Gang, which has been silent and developing rapidly, will go in the future when other forces are fighting hard for various interests?
In the reception hall, Simon finished pouring cold water, took another sip of red wine, looked at the map of Ukraine in front of him, and suddenly asked, ”do you know why I can have more than a trillion dollars of wealth?”Everyone looked at each other.
They haven't really considered this question seriously. In the face of Simon's question, they didn't speak rashly even if they had some ideas in their mind.
Simon did not wait for the answer, nor was he disappointed. He said to himself, ”because I am good at taking the road that others have not taken, and developing industries that others have not noticed. The most typical one is the Internet. The term Internet actually appeared in the 1970s, but it was not until 20 years later that the Internet began to break out. It is no exaggeration to say that the westero system dominated by itself In this outbreak, Cisco, AOL and igrit constitute a whole industrial chain of network equipment providers, network service providers and network content providers. Now, the combined market value of these three companies is more than US $1 trillion. Compared with the national wealth equivalent to five times of GDP, the whole Ukraine is worth US $200 billion. ”
speaking of this, Simon glanced at the expressions of the people around him. Some people were fascinated, some were surprised, some were thoughtful, and he laughed again. Then he said, ”I'm not showing you anything, but pointing out a way. The assets left over from the Soviet era, as well as other resources of the country, seem to be a very delicious piece of fat, but if you want to get it, it will cost you a lot, and you may even lose your life. Moreover, once you set your goal on these things, you will spend most of your time fighting in the future, which will hinder your progress. Then, the question comes again. Apart from those people are fighting for, what other precious wealth in Ukraine has not been noticed by razarenko? ”
Another question.
This time, there was no more silence. Sergei komorov quickly said, ”Simon, I remember you once said that it should be Well, population. ”
Simon raised his hand and snapped his finger: ”yes, the population, more than 50 million people, is definitely the most valuable and unimportant wealth in Ukraine. It is also a road that you can follow like me, which others have not taken.”
With that said, Simon no longer looked at the reactions of both sides, but drew a virtual line towards the gray area around the map of Ukraine, and then said: ”first of all, we should start from the overall situation. On April 15, 1994, the world trade organization was established, which is an important time node, a node of accelerating globalization of the world economy. The most obvious result of globalization is that capital will naturally flow to cheaper regions, such as China, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe. In contrast, although the human resources in Eastern Europe are equally cheap, they are not competitive compared with those in Asia. As for the reasons, you should understand. ”
Around Simon, whether he really understood it or not, he showed a knowing smile.