Chapter 1411: Caucasian Club

'Boss, I'm back.'

'Big brother-in-law, there are no strangers here, just call me by my name.'

That afternoon, Xia Yu was leisurely drinking tea in the pavilion by the fish pond, feeding the koi in the pond as he went. His eldest brother-in-law, Ma Qianjun, walked over from a distance.

Hearing Xia Yu's words, Ma Qianjun was unmoved, and said expressionlessly, 'Rules cannot be broken.'

Just as usual.

Xia Yu shook his head and laughed, speaking slowly.

'In a little over a month, you'll be an uncle. It's better to smile more, so your nephew won't be afraid of you.'

'Also, you're not young anymore. You've been putting it off for so many years, it's time to get married.'

'I know what you're thinking. Let someone else take over from Sun Qing. After Xi Xi gave birth, she had no more energy to manage the Jiuding Charity Foundation. Let Sun Qing take the position of deputy manager of the foundation, and help Xi Xi in the future.'

Ma Qianjun could no longer hold back, and with a complex expression he looked at Xia Yu. After a few seconds, he nodded and said, 'Okay.'

Xia Yu gave a knowing smile and said to Ma Qianjun, 'You go and tell Xi Xi yourself later.'

Ma Qianjun felt a little uncomfortable, but he did not refuse and accepted Xia Yu's kindness.

Sun Qing, who Xia Yu mentioned, had actually always been in love with Ma Qianjun and had followed him early on.

During the period when he was a mercenary, Sun Qing was code-named 'Green Snake' and was the only female member of the team. Later, she followed Ma Qianjun and was recruited by Xia Yu. She now also holds an important position in Luo Wang.

Unfortunately, although Ma Qianjun is very decisive and calm when handling work, he is single-minded when it comes to relationships and is not man enough.

As a result, Sun Qing has been waiting from her twenties to her thirties.

The reason Xia Yu took the initiative to intervene today was actually because Sun Qing couldn't help herself and secretly sought out Li Qian once. Then Li Qian told Xia Yu about it in bed, which led to the current situation.

However, there was no need to tell Ma Qianjun about these things. By transferring Sun Qing from the trap, it is believed that in the near future Ma Qianjun and Sun Qing will definitely become lovers and eventually marry. At that time, everything will naturally become clear.

As long as Ma Qianjun is willing to settle down, the two families will be able to get along better, and Xia Yu will feel more at ease about Luo Wang.

After a few idle words,

Xia Yu took the initiative to ask, 'How is the investigation into the matter concerning Ukraine that I arranged last time?'

'Is it all in here?'

As he spoke, Xia Yu's gaze focused on the bulging confidential document bag in Ma Qianjun's hands.

'Yes,'

'The information that could be investigated is all here, and it has been refined.'

After saying this, Ma Qianjun handed Xia Yu the document bag.

After opening the bag and taking a look, he found that there were quite a lot of documents inside, and it would take more than a short while to read them all. Xia Yu gave up the idea of reading them now.

He smiled and nodded: 'Okay, I'll take a look at them in the next couple of days.'

'In the meantime, don't leave Xiangjiang for now. If there's anything, just arrange for someone to do it.'

Ma Qianjun nodded and replied with competence: 'Okay.'

Afterwards, Ma Qianjun simply drank a cup of tea and then chose to leave.

This was his temperament. Sitting with Xia Yu, most of the time, apart from talking about work, he would not take the initiative to find a topic, and would feel uncomfortable just sitting there.

Xia Yu did not insist on keeping him, and after watching him leave, he finished the tea in his cup, poured the remaining fish food in the basket into the pond, and then picked up the file bag and went back inside.

...

The situation in Ukraine is indeed very complicated.

This makes intelligence gathering and consolidation very difficult.

However, with the ability to weave a web, the intricate situation has been investigated relatively clearly.

In eastern Ukraine, the military stronghold of Dnipropetrovsk is the political power centre.

In western Ukraine, the political centre is the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.

Although Kiev is the capital of Ukraine, it is very normal for orders not to reach the political forces in the east.

The two poles are the 'Dnepropetrovsk faction' and the 'St. Petersburg faction'.

The 'Dnepropetrovsk faction' is a nickname for the faction of the people, and is also called the 'Brezhnev faction'.

That said, due to the sudden death of Brezhnev and the heavy-handed suppression of the St. Petersburg faction,

the influence of the 'Dnepropetrovsk faction', which had Brezhnev as its absolute core, has only continued to decline.

Although it was not an embarrassing situation of having no leader, the head of Ukraine, Vladimir Shelbitzky, could not suppress everyone.

One reason was that Vladimir Shelbitzky was already 68 years old, and the other reason was that there were still people of similar rank to him.

Xia Yu knew this person very well, and he was the first president of post-Soviet Ukraine, the one who signed the Belovezh Agreement, which truly represented the dissolution of the Red Soviet Union.

For Xia Yu, this guy was definitely someone worth investing in and winning over, even if he didn't belong to the 'Dnepropetrovsk gang'.

Xia Yu believed that as long as the stakes were high, Leonid Makarovich would definitely dare to sell.

Then there was the Ukrainian business community.

After all, Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union, and even though extravagance was now prevalent within the Soviet Union, it was not yet time for capital to emerge.

The various famous capital oligarchs of later generations had not yet appeared.

Or rather, all the capital oligarchs were either relatives or partners of the political bigwigs.

Since the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed, they were not yet in a position to do whatever they wanted, and they still had to exercise restraint!

...

The situation in Ukraine has been investigated thoroughly.

The documents also contain information on various important political figures.

In particular, there is information on the Southern Design Bureau and the 'Dnipropetrovsk Gang'!

There is information on all the important figures in this political group.

These people are either in important positions now or still in their prime, with a bright future ahead of them.

But among these people, Xia Yu has set his sights on one.

A character who is not particularly prominent for the time being!

A 1938-born Leonid Danilovich Kumach, currently the deputy chief engineer of the Red Soviet Southern Design Bureau.

Although in his capacity, he is more of a technical manager and scientist, Xia Yu knows that this one will have a smooth future. Not only will he be valued by Gorbachev and become the chief engineer of the Southern Design Bureau, but he will later become the second president of Ukraine and remain in office until 2005.

The ten years he was in power coincided with the collective rise of the Ukrainian oligarchs, and it was also during this period that he opened the curtain on Ukraine's privatisation.

Of course, even if he had not yet succeeded in taking power, but in his current capacity as deputy chief engineer of the Southern Design Bureau, and later chief engineer of the Southern Design Bureau, he would have the final say in the infinitely valuable Southern Design Bureau.

If Xia Yu wanted the missiles, spacecraft, aircraft, machine tools, etc. in there, he would have to go through him.

And it is only through him that it is the safest and most secure.

There is nothing more to say.

Xia Yu directly pulled out his file and marked him with a ②.

As for the ① mark, it goes without saying that it belongs to the current number three in Ukraine and the future first president, Leonid Makarovich.

Afterwards, Xia Yu combined his memories from the future and gave these people a ranking.

If there were any omissions, Xia Yu would write the names on a separate piece of paper based on his memory, and then have Luo Wang investigate and verify them later.

Xia Yu spent two full days making the relevant strategic arrangements.

Afterwards, Xia Yu once again summoned Ma Qianjun and asked Luo Wang to take the lead in selecting a few suitable agents to establish a club within Hongsu—the Caucasus Club.

The Caucasus Mountains have always been a strategic location for military forces, and for Hongsu, they are also of vital importance.

The name is absolutely able to leave a deep impression after just one hearing, and give people enough room for reverie.

The goal of the Caucasus Club is to attract all the bigwigs within Hongsu who are already 'like-minded' or potentially 'like-minded'.

Once the platform is established, the Caucasus Club will be qualified to become the shadow conference of Hongsu or the countries that will emerge after the dissolution of Hongsu.

Xia Yu has high hopes for this platform.

How much power and influence he can get from the Red Soviet Union in the future depends on how strong the Caucasus Club becomes!