Age of Dreams

It's just that Xiao Qi is not doing it for personal benefit. When dealing with Russia, he is more like a national comprador.

The benefits and benefits given by Russia basically fell into the hands of the country Hua, and Xiao Qi himself got very little.

Even those oil shokis are not needed at all.

The Tsar has been thinking about how to make friends with Xiao Qi.

If you want others to help you, you must give benefits.

Even if Xiao Qi is only helping Russia for the benefit of China, if he can establish more personal friendships, then there will be more cooperation in many things in the future.

It was also because of this that the Tsar sent Xiao Qi a lot of Chinese cultural relics that Tsarist Russia had snatched under the pretext of being a "Russian friend" twice in a row.

Now meeting directly with Xiao Qi, the Tsar asked the question first, and seeing Xiao Qi willing to talk about it was a victory.

As for the price to be paid in the future, the Tsar did not care.

Russia has nothing, but there is no shortage of various resources. Take diamonds as an example. The diamond mine exposed in the past two years is enough to mine for 100 years. It doesn’t matter if you send thousands or tens of thousands of carats to Xiao Qi, anyway. There are many of these things.

Also, China needs oil and natural gas, which is very simple. Russia is worried that it can’t sell more. Anyway, Russia’s resources are too rich, and they can’t be sold out in 300 years. Now many people in the country are very poor. It would be best to exchange oil and natural gas for more living supplies.

Hearing Xiao Qi talk about this matter, the Tsar took the initiative to give more bargaining chips: "Russia is very sincere in cooperating with Huaguo, and it is estimated that within two years at most, the first pipeline will officially start to export. There will be a lot of natural gas and oil transportation, and there will be a 30 billion annual transmission quota. After 5 years, the construction of the three lines will be completed together, and we are expected to reach an annual transaction volume of 100 billion U.S. dollars."

Don't look at the few times Huaguo has bought oil worth tens of billions of dollars, if it is really used, we can eat more.

The living needs of 1.5 billion people, as well as industrial needs, will consume a lot of oil and natural gas.

As I said before, Huaguo's strategic oil reserves are only about one month old now. If you want to have more room in the future, you must have at least 90 days of stockpiles.

Even with Huaguo holding 180 days of inventory for half a year, it wouldn't be too much at all.

At that time, it will be like the United States. Once the oil price is too outrageous, Huaguo can immediately release the inventory and directly invest tens of billions of dollars in oil to stabilize oil prices.

Not to mention natural gas. In 2013 in the previous life, the annual consumption of natural gas in Huaguo exceeded 150 billion cubic meters. It is similar in this life. In 2010 this year, it is estimated that more than 120 billion cubic meters will be used.

According to some estimates, the consumption of natural gas in power, industry, transportation and other sectors will further increase, and by 2020, the annual gas consumption will reach 300 billion cubic meters.

Everyone knows that natural gas is a derivative of oil. Since China is short of oil, it must be short of natural gas.

Natural gas is also much more widely used than oil.

In the cities of Huaguo, every household basically uses natural gas, even if it is not pipelined natural gas, it is also canned liquefied petroleum gas.

Even in not so remote areas, the original old stove method is gradually being phased out, and canned liquefied petroleum gas or even piped natural gas is used.

Think about it, almost 1 billion people use natural gas for eating, bathing, etc. How much consumption is this?

Then there are almost all the public transportation vehicle resources in Huaguo, such as buses, taxis, etc., which use GAS, and there are millions of vehicles modified to use gas, which is also a huge consumption.

From this point of view, there is no need to worry about the resource storage of natural gas in Huaguo, even if it is stored for a year and a half, or 500 days. Consumables related to people's lives, Then it must be profitable!

Russia's natural gas resources supply almost half of Europe, and there is still a large surplus. Therefore, transporting them to China can not only solve the problem of overproduction, but also increase income. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The Chinese people have a very good reputation in terms of payment, and they are not as rascals as countries like Ukraine.

Xiao Qi also understands that if he wants to obtain the most stable oil and natural gas resources, then Russia is the most reliable source

After all, the two countries directly border each other, so there is no need to worry that Europe and the United States will set up a checkpoint for you in the middle, and you will be pinched immediately if you encounter anything.

Moreover, Russia is not rich, which further ensures that they need a stable super large market.

No matter from which aspect, Huaguo is their best export trading partner.

If you want to have a stronger relationship with Russia, it seems that you need to come up with more things.

"Russia's currency system is not sound." Xiao Qi pondered, "Because oil and natural gas exports are the main driving force of Russia's economy, once this problem is not resolved, it is difficult to say how much the Russian economy can bear. And the currency is It is closely related to economic development, so in fact the Russian ruble is also very fragile.

According to my opinion, Russia should develop its own processing trade as much as possible, not simply export of energy, food, resources, etc. Only when Russia's industry is also developed, such as the ability to further process oil and other products and obtain sufficient profit margins, will it be possible to withstand the suppression. "

"industry?"

The Tsar smiled bitterly, "Russia's population is only 200 million, and 130 million are women. Such a population of 200 million is distributed over a vast territory, and they are not diligent enough on weekdays. How can we develop industry?"

"There are many types of industries." Xiao Qi said with a smile, "For example, Russia's military industry is very powerful, so we can use it to do something."

"Where?" the Tsar asked succinctly, cleverly.

Xiao Qi stood up, walked in front of the Tsar, poured out a little water from a glass, drew a rough outline, and then clicked a position.

Then he walked back.

The Tsar used to be a secret agent, and his memory is very strong. Although Xiao Qi drew a map just now, he clearly saw that Xiao Qi drew the Mediterranean region.

And if you're not mistaken, Xiao Qi's last point refers to the central area of ​​the Qiongdao Department in the ground.

And the name of the country in that place has long been known to the Tsar. .

The Tsar smiled instead, "Where...is there a possibility that a spark could start a prairie fire?"

"Undoubtedly." Xiao Qi said, "The one who has ruled for 40 years has not made much achievements. He only pays attention to his own enjoyment, and ignores the construction of the country and the gathering of people's hearts. If there is no strong help, start a war." After half a year at most, he will be wiped out."

"So, what can we do?" asked the Tsar, tilting his head.

"I don't know. Anyway, if you want to intervene, you should hurry up. At the latest at the beginning of next year, others will intervene." Xiao Qi said, "Although that person has no achievements, and his mind has been corrupted by Ruanxiang, as long as he is given up in advance In fantasy, the large sum of dollars in his hand can still be used as waste."

"So... there is no way to recover?" The Tsar thought about it.

"It's difficult, unless you go directly to battle." Xiao Qi said, "So the best way is to take advantage of the current time to communicate directly with that person, let him know the seriousness, and then purchase Russian equipment in large sums. Actively prepare for war. The longer the war is fought, the more money will naturally be made."

After hesitating for a while, Xiao Qi said, "Even Russia can use a tougher attitude at the beginning. In this way, in order to appease you, they will definitely have to give up part of their interests. There are rich oil resources! At that time, whether you use it for yourself, Whether to sell it to someone else, Russia has its own limits.”

"Papa..."

The Tsar didn't answer, just clapped his hands, and the gleam in his eyes was visible.

...

"Your Excellency, we believe that what Xiao Qi said is very likely to happen, but we don't know why he is so anchored, and the whole country will not be able to support it for half a year." An aide stood beside the tsar and said respectfully , "Although their army is weak, the opposition is even weaker. No matter how powerful Europe and the United States are, they dare not openly send troops?"

"His army is just paper tigers." The tsar said disdainfully, "I have been promoting him for half a year. If he really sends ground troops there, he will be finished within three months at most."

"We calculated that if we try our best to build a good relationship with him, and he already knows that something is not right, he should buy our equipment. He will extravagantly hope to get our support by purchasing equipment." Another staff member said solemnly. Dao said, "It is estimated that at least 5 billion US dollars of equipment can be sold. If we play for a long time, we can reach 20 billion US dollars, and our profit is very high."

"But I don't know, why Xiao Qi would take the initiative to tell us about this, it won't benefit the country at all." Another staff member said doubtfully.

"Why is there no benefit?" The Tsar said lightly, "Russia and Europe and the United States are facing each other there, and the center of gravity of Europe and the United States has to shift to Russia. , give some benefits to prevent them from falling to us even more!"

"So that's how it is!" The staff suddenly realized, "Then if we do what he said, we will be fooled!"

"No, we must do this!"

The tsar's answer surprised everyone.

He looked around and found that everyone looked puzzled, and sighed unconsciously.

The Russians are not bad at fighting, but in terms of skill and intelligence, they are not good, they are far worse than Xiao Qi!

"The first point is that Russia can obtain a large number of weapons orders, consume a large amount of inventory, create more industrial output value, and earn more dollars. This alone is not something we can refuse." The Tsar said, "And more importantly, if Russia has an interest there, we will drive a nail firmly in the Mediterranean, directly towards the hinterland of France, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Even if we can't gain a foothold there, in order to let us quit, they will also give us some compensation. Digging out some benefits from the hands of European and American countries is very good for the national confidence of our entire country. This proves that we are also capable of fighting against Europe and the United States and make our own voices heard! "

Speaking of this, the Tsar sighed again, "This is the upright scheme that the orientals said! Even if you see through it, you have to do what they want... Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi, you are truly smart People!!" (~^~)