.Chapter 71

After Poland acquired three million-ton steel plants, Zhang Yan began to shift his target. Because the acquisition price was very low, Zhang Yan was satisfied and turned his attention to another country - the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic was originally an industrial area of ​​the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the industry was concentrated here.

Unlike Poland, the Czech industry mainly focuses on mechanical manufacturing, various machine tools, power equipment, ships, automobiles, electric locomotives, steel rolling equipment, military industry, light textile industry, and chemical and glass industries are also relatively developed. Textile, shoemaking, and beer brewing are all world-renowned and have a strong industrial foundation. However, after World War II, in order to adapt to the needs of the Soviet elder brother, they were forced to change the original industrial structure and focus on the development of steel and heavy machinery industries, which has no longer restored their original strength.

No matter when a nation cannot dominate its own destiny, it is sad!

At this time, the largest steel company in the Czech Republic, the Vitkovi Steel Plant, is in a state of waiting to marry. Due to its long-term inefficiency and the continuous decline in steel prices, the Vitkovi Steel Plant's debt is as high as 700 million kroner US dollars) and nearly 4.5 billion kroner funds that need to be renewed. Of course, the most important thing is the cruel reality of years of losses, which makes the Vitkovi Steel Plant look like a shameful ugly girl.

So when Zhang Yan and his group invested 12 billion kroner and promised to bear the debt, the Czech government was overjoyed. The Chinese people had a lot of money and were foolish. They even made such a big sucker. Such a price was really not enough to describe it. According to the intentions of some people, this matter had to be delayed, so that the Chinese people would spend more blood. However, after a little of this intention, Zhang Yan and his group made a move to Ukraine. They frightened the Czech government all at once, so the agreement was signed and finally implemented, which took only half a month.

On December 31, 2003, the Czech government approved the privatization plan for the largest state-owned steel enterprise, Vitkovice Steel Plant, and agreed to sell 99% of the state-owned shares of the enterprise to the Chinese steel giant Hongxing Steel Plant for 12 billion kronor (about 450 million US dollars).

After acquiring several steel plants such as Vitkovi Steel Plant, the steel production of Hongxing Steel Plant increased from 7.5 million tons to 15 million tons, of which the output of high-profit steel such as crude steel plates reached 7.3 million tons, second only to Baosteel in the domestic steel plant rankings and became the second largest steel company.

Of course, this kind of output is not added immediately. Zhang Yan is planning to demolish all of these steel plants. It will take about a year to restart the construction at the earliest. Of course, even with this loss, these steel plants will still save half the cost of land than the construction of new steel plants. The construction time is very cost-effective. Only after the steel prices rise next year will these benefits be seen.

Considering that these acquisitions only consumed less than US$1.2 billion, they doubled the production capacity of Hongxing Factory. For this effect, Zhang Yan was very satisfied. He originally wanted to end the acquisition journey, but sometimes good things always came together, and Zhang Yan received an invitation from the Ukrainian government.

"What? Let's go to Ukraine, and the round trip fee is all included?" Zhang Yan looked at the beautifully packaged invitation letter and felt a little hesitant. The acquisition of the steel plant does not mean that it can be opened to eat if it's okay. Although there is a Mital company in the future, it is not like a purchase of the steel company all day long, but in China, it does not feel like it is a financing environment. If you want to eat the steel plant continuously, it does not meet the actual conditions. If you can't eat it, it will be a tragedy. Zhang Yan does not want to mess up the matter.

Another point is that Ukraine was split from the Soviet Union. According to the Soviet Union's usual chauvinistic attitude, this is mostly impossible to remove. If the steel mill cannot be demolished, Zhang Yan did not want to buy it, because no matter from any perspective, the Soviet Union was not a participant in the game that abides by the rules.

However, in the end, Zhang Yan decided to go and talk about it again. After all, if Ukraine is really sincere, what's the problem with buying another steel plant? However, more reason is that Zhang Yan wants to enter Ukraine at close range. If he remembers correctly, after the Rose Revolution in Georgia, Ukraine's orange revolution will follow. Although he cannot track this major historical event throughout the whole process, capturing Ukraine, which is about to happen on the eve of major changes, is also a valuable memory for Zhang Yan to capture the memory of Ukraine, which is about to happen on the eve of major changes.

With a try-out attitude, Zhang Yan came to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Then he realized that there was indeed a trap this time, and Mital Company also began to bid for Ukrainian steel mills! After realizing this conspiracy, Zhang Yan handed over the important task of negotiation to the factory director and then walked on the streets of Kiev himself.

On the spacious streets of Kiev, you can see Yushenko's large propaganda posters from time to time. This former prime minister, who successfully implemented monetary reforms, reduced the annual inflation rate of Ukraine from three digits to one digits, seems to have a higher popularity than the president of Xi'an. What makes Zhang Yan feel strange is that the current public opinion does not seem to be under the control of the president, but rather under the control of Western countries.

It seems that the ideas of Western countries are really fierce. After the violent turmoil in 1990, the Soviet Union fell apart overnight, leaving more than a dozen republics, including Russia and Ukraine, which can be regarded as the most important part of it. The ability to have nuclear power to strike nuclear power also shows this.

However, after the disintegration, Western countries did not seem to let Russia go. They repeatedly made things difficult for Russia in terms of economic and political situations. Yeltsin returned in vain after several diplomatic icebreakers. After Putin came to power, the relationship between the two sides became even more tense. The Serbia-Black War, the Rose Revolution, the Chechen Rebellion, and the West seemed to be always testing Russia's bottom line.

Under this circumstance, the "rift" between Russia and the United States and Europe further deepened. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West took advantage of Russia's decline to deliberately build an encirclement and continuously squeeze Russia's strategic space. The first step is to implement NATO's eastward expansion and the EU's eastward expansion plan, and include Central and Eastern European countries that belonged to the Russian sphere of influence in the territory, so that they can be completely "integrated" into the Western system.

The second step is to penetrate Russia's "backyard", dig up Russia's walls, and establish a pro-Western regime in as many CIS countries as possible. The ultimate goal of the West is to build a "arc encirclement" that starts from the Baltic Sea in the north, passes through the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the middle, and connects to Central Asia in the south, so as to tie Russia's hands and feet tightly. At present, the first plan of the West has been basically completed, while the second plan is being implemented. They adopt a "gradual approach" to support the pro-Western opposition in various CIS countries through economic aid and political contact, find the right time to seize power.

The "Rose Revolution" in Georgia in November 2003 and the "Orange Revolution" that will happen in Ukraine soon after are typical examples of success in the West. Since Ukraine is close to Russia's hinterland and the second largest country in the CIS, the damage and threat of Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" to Russia far exceeds that of the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia in the small country.

Once that time comes, what kind of situation will China usher in? What impact will it have on the revitalization of the Northeast? Zhang Yan fell into deep thought again.

When Zhang Yan returned to his residence, he realized that since Mital's quotation was higher than that of Red Star Factory, the Red Star Factory had withdrawn from the auction, which was also Zhang Yan's instruction. Unlike the huge steel kingdom a few years later, Mital is not very strong now. If Zhang Yan wanted to, he could completely defeat Mital, but the value of one thing was roughly constant. Zhang Yan did not want to spend more money to buy this factory. Even if the money was not spent, it would be useful.

This is also a necessary quality for a shrewd businessman. What Zhang Yan needs is to create an illusion that the Northeast economy is very hot. As long as the owner of a part of the hot money believes this, everything will be convenient. Zhang Yan has put the prepared cage in front of these economic mice, and then decorated it with exquisite food, and the rest will be waiting for these curious little guys to take the bait.
Chapter completed!