The leisurely life of rebirth

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In the Soviet Union during this period, there happened to be a very strange phenomenon - there was an extreme shortage of goods and empty store shelves. No matter what you bought, in addition to paying, you also needed a "purchase certificate" issued by the civil department.

In short, all in all, the common people have money but can't buy anything. Large sums of rubles have no value except being deposited in the bank. The only thing those who run border trade know is to do business with Lao Maozi.

Business is easy and very profitable. Most of them have no cultural background, and some only need to speak a few simple words in Russian, such as "Halasao" (good), "Okinharasha" (very good), "Dallas"

"Vijay" (Hello), "Davalish" (Comrade) and other simple terms, and then you can count on your fingers. Those old fools are very generous, so generous that they are stupid, and they will spend contentedly.

Forty or fifty rubles can buy a low-quality down jacket that is not worth twenty or thirty yuan in China; they are willing to spend thousands of rubles at a time to buy the whole fan of pork you just put on the shelf; they will buy a box of canned fish.

They competed with each other to make bids, and fought with each other to death.

It is self-evident that it relies on Chishan and water to draw water, so it is self-evident that it relies on the border. The savvy Chinese people started border trade smuggling activities.

Compared with those of them who run small businesses on the border, Ye Laosi can be said to be a big spender, but he also has a weakness, that is, his identity is very sensitive. He had to get a fake passport and fake identity, and he also suffered a loss.

The rebelliousness of adolescence, contact with many people, mixed with three religions and nine streams, a complete playboy, cynicism, and a gangster atmosphere made Ye Laosi dumbfounded. It took several years of military service to cover up the temperament of a son of a noble family.

, otherwise it might not have been heroic at first.[

It is well known that the more countries prohibit private sales of goods, the more profitable they will be. This will not change at any time. The Soviet Union is located in the far north. Tobacco and alcohol have always been indispensable consumer goods in the lives of Soviet people.

National policies strictly restrict the sale of tobacco, but cannot prohibit private trade. Therefore, contraband has become the only way for smokers to relieve their addiction.

Just take tobacco as an example. On the black market in the Soviet Union, the price of a regular ounce (international unit of weight: 28,350 grams per ounce) of medium tobacco ranged from 80 to 150 rubles. In China, anyone who dared to

Ordinary tobacco sold for one to two hundred yuan for a few dozen grams, and people would probably beat them to death. As for finished cigarettes, the price on the black market in the Soviet Union was even higher. During this period, the Far East region of the Soviet Union sold the most on the black market.

Cigarettes are basically from China. Domestic "Daqianmen" and "Dafuzi" cost two cents a pack, and the black market price is twenty rubles a piece; "Beidaihe", "Hengda" and "Hengda" cost one yuan a pack.

"Shanhaiguan", the black market price ranges from 120 rubles to 150 rubles a piece; "Ashima" and "Five Golden Flowers" in a pack of 2.51 yuan, the black market price ranges from 400 to 470 rubles.

One ruble per ruble. As for those foreign-made "San Wu", "Hilton" and "Marlboro", there is no fixed price on the black market, because there is a price market, and even if someone has the goods, they dare not take it.

Sell ​​it on the black market - smuggle Western cigarettes. If you are caught, there is no fine.

What Ye Laosi first smuggled were tobacco, alcohol and civilian light industrial products. There was no need to worry about being investigated by his own people in China, because the superiors turned a blind eye, and all he had to do was to open a route to the Soviet Union, and then

It was completely unobstructed. At the beginning

, Ye Laosi is not that ambitious, and for the sake of long-term interests, he is relatively cautious in his actions. After all, the Soviet regime is still there, and it is still on other people's territory. However, as time goes by, his ambitions become more and more

The bigger you get, the bolder you become.

As Ye Laosi's ambition expands, his perception of life as a whole feels like it is a game on the gambling table. Once he enters this game, there is no day out. If anyone wants to win in this game,

You must keep winning money and keep increasing your bets until one day you become the banker.

You can do anything with money, as long as you can pay the price. Ye Laosi came in with a purpose, and he didn't dare to forget his original intention. That was to get close to the Soviet military for what he needed.

square.

However, he did not lead him to win over the corrupt ones. The Soviet soldiers were so poor that they came to their door. This also made Ye Laosi clearly see how serious the corruption in the military was. If you can see the whole picture at a glance, you can know that the entire Soviet Union

level of corruption.

It is not easy to be a soldier in the Soviet Union these days. The salary is not only pitifully low, but also often in arrears. The large-scale corruption in the Soviet army is not without reason. For an army that is about to become fully corrupt, it is possible to get

Getting money, getting the most money in the shortest time is the most important thing, no matter where your money comes from.

Have you ever seen army smuggling? It was the first time Ye Laosi saw an entire division smuggling. The scene was really spectacular. It turned out to be secretive, but this year it was completely made public.

The Kremlin's "mainstream faction" comprehensively denied the Soviet Union's decades of construction achievements, abandoned Marxism-Leninism, and leaned toward the West, which led to confusion in the thinking of the Soviet leadership and aroused dissatisfaction with the "traditional" military hard-line forces. In order to force the Kremlin

After giving in, the military forces dominated by traditionalists began to evade the leadership of the central government.

The Soviet Central Committee lost its dominance over the military, which resulted in the expansion of the authority of local military regions. In turn, in order to force the "traditionalists" to give in, the Kremlin tightened military spending and cut off the military's financial allocations, thus causing the local military regions to

Financial difficulties have led to continued military expenditures, which has become the most direct inducement for the military to become corrupt.

An army with relatively independent authority but lack of military spending is terrible. Therefore, to a certain extent, collusion between the military and businessmen and wanton corruption is already the best choice. At least it is better than rioting, smashing, looting, etc.

Burning is much better.

Just in March this year, the situation in Moscow deteriorated sharply, and the struggle for power between the three factions reached a fever pitch. At the just-concluded extraordinary session of the Russian Federation People's Congress, the "radicals" defied the Kremlin's ban in Moscow.

, openly provoked a demonstration of 100,000 people, demanding the dissolution of the National People’s Congress and the Supreme Soviet. The outbreak of this incident completely shook the foundation of the central and local governments of the Soviet Union, making people everywhere in the Soviet Union panic, and even far away on the border

Naturally, the governments of all the states and cities in the country are no exception. Almost every government official knows that it is time to "stand in line". But having said that, the Far East is close to our border and is not the same as the one in the Soviet Union.

In other places, this is the border, where the military is the strongest. Here, the guns in the hands of the soldiers are far more powerful than Moscow's policies and doctrines. Therefore, the situation of local government compromising with the local garrison emerged.

Immediately afterwards, a series of major events occurred in Moscow that shocked the entire Soviet Union. The occurrence of these events made everyone in the Soviet military leaders in the Far East feel insecure. There is no doubt that compared with ordinary people in the country, these high-ranking people

The generals are more aware of the changes in world affairs. The continuous large-scale demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people in Moscow have made them sensitively aware that the current Soviet regime is in danger. And the so-called "mainstream faction" among the top government officials "

The repeated compromises and concessions made by the "traditionalists" to the "democratic programmer" obviously intensified the sense of crisis among these generals, so unknowingly, a desire to protect themselves and make large sums of money for their future plans began to take over.

on the minds of all military forces.

As a soldier, it is his duty to protect his family and the country. This is true at all. However, soldiers also have family members, and everyone has to eat and support their families. People say, "Raising an army for a thousand days, but using it for a while." Obviously,

These soldiers need to be raised. "Only let the horses run and don't let them eat grass." The horses will also rebel. What's more, the Far East Military Region has hundreds of thousands of soldiers with weapons in their hands.

However, in the face of the delayed funding from the Ministry of National Defense, the heads of the major military regions had no choice. So, under desperation, everyone learned from the practices of the garrison in Eastern Europe and issued instructions to the commanders at all levels of their own troops.

An order - "As much as possible, raise military salaries independently", once the word is given, it cannot be held back.

Of course, looking at the Soviet Union as a whole, there is nothing the top management can do about the problem of unpaid troops' salaries. Faced with financial shortfalls, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a fool of herself.

As the saying goes: "You can rely on mountains to eat mountains, and you can rely on water to eat water." What can this army rely on to survive? There is no doubt that it is smuggling and selling arms.

At that time, Ye Laosi hesitated, and finally gritted his teeth, why the hell not do it. At first, he did it in a small way on the border of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe was the first to be turbulent, so Western forces continued to infiltrate. However, right after

This year, the entire Soviet Union is in turmoil, and the Far East is far away from our border. There is no reason to let this fat guy go, so he started smuggling arms.

At the beginning of this year, the financial difficulties of the Soviet government finally broke out, and the ensuing comprehensive corruption of the military finally came to the fore. For those ignorant people in the Soviet Union who advocated Western-style democracy and clamored for reform all day long,

The disaster they have caused is about to break out in full force, and for guys with ulterior motives like Ye Laosi, a new golden age has begun to dawn.

There are two most profitable things in the world, one is drugs, and the other is arms smuggling. Of course, keep the good stuff for yourself and sell the rest. Arms smuggling is not just about firearms, it can resell aircraft, tanks, cannons, and even nuclear materials. (To be completed.)

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