If Moscow is the heart of the country, then Red Square is undoubtedly the anterior descending branch of Moscow.
The full name of Red Square is Krasnaya Ploshchad. Krasnaya means red, and it means "beautiful" in ancient Russian.
On November 7, 1941, it was snowing heavily in Moscow and it was very cold and haggard.
At that time, Mustache invested 1.8 million troops to launch the Battle of Moscow, and Moscow was in danger.
The Iron Emperor held a Red Square military parade at the risk of being bombed. The troops marched through the Red Square shouting slogans and went directly to the battlefield where they fought to the death with the enemy.
As for the subsequent story, many people must know it from history textbooks.
The bear relied on his will to defend Moscow. The word "Ula" resounded throughout the bear territory, and the Red Square was given a more sacred light.
Therefore, in the era when Xu Yun came, Red Square also had a very special status in the hearts of Chinese people like Lao Guo - even if the relationship between rabbits and wooly bears was not good at this time.
If divided by buildings, there are a total of five special buildings on Red Square.
The first one is naturally the famous Kremlin, the place where the furry bear leader clocks in for work, which was just visited by a drone some time ago.
The other three are churches: Kazan Cathedral, St. Basil's Cathedral, and the Cathedral of Our Savior.
In the words of later generations, these three churches are all very special.
For example, Kazan Cathedral is one of the most important Orthodox churches in Moscow.
If you want to talk about the original intention of building Kazan Cathedral, it is very lofty:
In 1612, the Mao Xiong people finally drove away the Polish-Lithuanian allied forces from Moscow. People attributed their victory to the blessing of the Kazan Madonna, and a wooden cathedral was specially built for this purpose.
As a result, the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow was destroyed by a fire after only being open for 20 years.
Then let's rebuild it - this time I have experience, instead of using wood, I will use bricks and stones.
It is said that churches with masonry structures are not afraid of fire, but they are afraid of people - this person is the Iron Emperor hundreds of years later.
Didn't I mention it above, the Iron Emperor likes to hold military parades?
However, the military parade is a good thing, but there is a problem that is neither big nor small, and that is how to solve the problem of high-density crowds going to the toilet?
The organizers were scratching their heads over this, but the Iron Emperor said it was a simple matter. Wouldn't it be okay to demolish the church on Red Square and turn it into a toilet?
As a result, in 1936, the historic Kazan Cathedral was demolished into toilets.
It was not until the mid-to-late 1990s that the large toilet on Red Square was restored to the Kazan Cathedral...
In addition to Kazan Cathedral, St. Basil's Cathedral also has a rich story.
Unlike the Kazan Cathedral mentioned earlier, St. Basil's Cathedral itself is not unlucky, but its designer is unlucky.
Those students who visited heaven in their previous lives should all know this.
Before the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral, there were four beautiful churches in the Kremlin, namely the Church of the Assumption, the Church of the Annunciation, the Church of the Twelve Apostles, and the Church of St. Michael.
And Ivan the Great, who ordered the construction of these churches, was a super architectural enthusiast, and he also ordered the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral.
After the construction was completed, the more this architectural enthusiast looked at these churches, the more beautiful they became. The more he looked at these churches, the more worried he became - he was very worried that his royal designer would continue to perform in the future and design works that surpassed St. Basil's Cathedral.
Come.
So, the architecture enthusiast asked the designers Balma and Postnik quietly: Can you design a more beautiful church?
The two designers thought they had another job, and immediately clapped their chests and promised:
sure!
Emperor Ivan was even more worried.
In the end, in order to completely dispel this fatal worry, Emperor Ivan ordered the designer's eyes to be gouged out.
Wonders spoil the country.JPG.
In addition, there is a circular guillotine in front of St. Basil's Cathedral. At that time, this place had three main functions:
Read out the tsar's decree, preach to the Bear Men, and behead prisoners in public display.
However, now and then, in the later generations that Xu Yun traveled through, this place only had one function left - tourists throwing wishing coins here.
Probably wishing for a long life...
As for the Church of the Savior, it is relatively ordinary. From the literal description, it is not difficult for many people to figure out that the reason it was built was to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon.
At that time, Napoleon triumphantly fought all the way to Moscow, but found that he was lonely because Moscow had to fortify its walls and clear the country, and resorted to the empty city strategy.
Coupled with the timely heavy snowfall in Kazan, which seriously lowered the temperature in Moscow, Napoleon couldn't bear it anymore and was finally defeated.
Russian Tsar Alexander I couldn't help shouting to the sky: As long as the savior is on my side, I am a weakling who cannot be killed! So let's build a church to thank the savior and commemorate the French dwarf we defeated!
Then the Church of the Savior was built and took 40 years to build.
Of course, the result of such a big undertaking was good - it has become one of the tallest Orthodox cathedrals in the world, and it is also one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world.
Of course.
In addition to these four buildings, there is another most famous building in Red Square, which is the GUM Department Store.
This building is a standard Moscow State Department Store. Today, its bustling level is even higher than that of the No. 1 Department Store on the Pedestrian Street of the Moscow City in later generations.
Here you can buy cheap daily necessities, and you can also use quota tickets to buy luxuries such as chocolates and cream cakes - these things are considered luxuries at least in this era.
As for the salespeople who can work here, not to mention how high their salary is, at least their knowledge is much higher than that of ordinary people.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! For example, these salespersons must all be university graduates, proficient in Russian and English, and those at the manager level must even be proficient in Portuguese and Spanish.
But today, these knowledgeable salespeople would cast their curious eyes to the right side of the entrance on the second floor of the department store from time to time, and occasionally lower their heads to talk.
"Sister Sophia, what are they doing?"
"I don't know. The manager just said that they would use the venue for some activities and waived the rental fee."
"Nina, that guy with glasses is very handsome. I wonder if he has a girlfriend..."
"Hey, yellow-skinned Asians, are they Chinese or Neon people?"
"There is no second head or third pair of hands, and there is only one pair of eyes. He is obviously Chinese."
And in the direction where the sales assistants are looking.
Liu Yunquan held a document and confirmed the final information with Yang Wen with a solemn expression:
"Comrade Yang Wen, our booth has basically been decorated. I just went through it myself and there is no problem."
"I have to say that the location arranged for us by Mao Xiong is still very good. The booth area is about ten square meters - and this does not include the warehouse where Coca-Cola is located."
Upon hearing this, Yang Wen glanced around a few times and nodded slightly.
This time, the location arranged by the Bear for the exhibition group is near the entrance on the second floor of GUM Department Store. You must pass through here to enter and exit the second floor. It is an absolutely prime location.
Therefore, although the booth area is only more than ten square meters, neither Liu Yunquan nor Yang Wen have any objections.
Liu Yunquan and others borrowed several long tables from Mao Xiong yesterday, and set up a seven- to eight-meter-long booth at this location. They also prepared some Russian banners for promotion.
As for the Coca-Cola, it was placed in a small warehouse behind the booth. It is said that the department store was originally used to store Lieba... which is also the place where the stuffed bear bread was stored.
You can see it very clearly at this point.
The booth made up of tables is covered with two layers of red polyester cloth. The red cloth covers the exhibits in the booth. Behind the tables stand young Chinese people wearing white T-shirts.
Seeing that Yang Wen's eyes stayed on these young people for a relatively long time, Liu Yunquan explained aloud:
"Comrade Yang Wen, according to the previous plan, our external relations officer is mainly responsible for the control and dispatch of some on-site situations, and at the same time, we must prepare for the occurrence of some special situations."
"So after taking this into consideration, we got in touch with several international students in Moscow yesterday and found about ten government-sponsored international students to come and help."
"Of course, we will definitely not ask them to work in vain. During the entire exhibition period, they will be subsidized according to the salary of ordinary workers in Moscow - but the settlement will be in Chinese coins."
Yang Wen nodded clearly.
I see......
He had some special tasks after arriving in Moscow, so he was not involved in the layout of the exhibition site. Some specific situations are indeed not clear.
For example, the specific location of the exhibition site, or the Chinese students recruited by Liu Yunquan.
Although the relationship between rabbits and fur bears is not very good at present, in fact, the two parties have not completely severed contact with each other in many fields.
For example, the food aid mentioned before, and the cultivation of international students.
At present, in addition to the atomic energy, missile and rocket majors that are stuck, Maoxiong is still accepting Chinese students in other fields, including some science and engineering majors.
within the past ten years.
A total of nearly 8,000 college students, graduate students and advanced teachers in China, as well as nearly 8,000 interns, have been sent by the country to study abroad in Maoxiong, distributed in many universities and scientific research institutions in more than 20 cities in Maoxiong.
This situation will continue until fifteen years later, when the country once again expands the number of publicly funded students studying abroad, and more and more students will turn to European and American countries to study abroad.
Of course.
There must be some complex political calculations behind Mao Xiong’s acceptance of Rabbit as an international student, so I won’t go into details here.
Then Yang Wen looked outside the supermarket and said curiously:
"Comrade Yunquan, didn't anyone from Mao Xiong show up today?"
"Comrade Yang Wen, this is an exhibition with no political significance. They don't have any reason to show up."
Liu Yunquan smiled at Yang Wen, and then said meaningfully:
"Besides... maybe you just can't see them - Comrade Yang Wen, I work in external relations, so I am relatively sensitive to the surrounding environment."
"I went to GUM Department Store once on the day I left Mao Xiong. At that time, there were only about twenty salespeople on the second floor, but today...hehe..."
Yang Wen was stunned for a moment.
Then he suddenly realized something. He quickly scanned the surrounding area and found that the number of salesmen he could directly see was upwards of thirty...
And at the same time Yang Wen was a little surprised.
Boom——
As a bell rang in the distance, the time came to eight o'clock in the morning in Moscow.
GUM Department Store has officially entered business hours.
.............
be honest.
Throughout the first half of his life, Yevgenyev considered himself relatively successful.
After graduating from the well-known University of Amsterdam with a major in mechanical engineering, he first served as a teaching assistant at Moscow State University after returning to Mao Xiong's country, and became a full-time teacher ten years ago.
Now his monthly salary is about 400 rubles, and more than 330 rubles after tax.
What is this concept?
In March this year, Mao Xiong implemented the third currency reform.
The official took back the old ruble at a ratio of 1:10, and at the same time increased the gold content to 0.g, which means that the ruble has appreciated.
The current exchange rate of the ruble against the U.S. dollar is 0.9 rubles per U.S. dollar, and the distinction between trade exchange rates and non-trade exchange rates has also been abolished.
Today, the monthly income of an average worker is about 70-90 new rubles, and the purchasing power of 1 ruble is roughly as follows:
5 haircuts/10 eggs/2 liters of sunflower oil/8 boxes of Mao Xiong cigarettes/5 liters of milk/6 pieces of one kilogram bread/25 kilograms of tomatoes/5 kilometers of taxi fare.
Yevgenyev gets more than 300 rubles every month, which can indeed be regarded as a middle-to-high-income earner.
With this relatively solid financial foundation, he married a girl eight years ago and has a pair of six-year-old twins.
Of course.
The high income means that Yevgenyev's working hours are also quite crowded, so when it is his turn to have a holiday like today, Yevgenyev will take his family out to relax.
It happened that the supplies at home had been almost exhausted recently, so today he chose to take his wife to visit GUM Department Store. After all, the supplies at home were running low.
Yevgenyev's wife Irina is a standard Slavic woman. After entering middle age, like many furry bear women, she experienced rapid aging and her body looked a bit bloated.
However, the change in appearance does not affect her being a very virtuous wife, and the relationship between the couple is still very good.
At this moment.
Yevgenyev and his wife stood in front of the crowd waiting for the department store to open, waiting for the rolling shutter door to be pulled up.
It is not difficult to see from the positions of the two of them following a team that they should be preparing to split up.
"Honey."
Irina wiped the sweat from her forehead with one hand, and held a list of supplies written before departure in the other hand. She was making "pre-war arrangements" for her husband:
"We have a lot of things to buy today, including ribs, eggs, cabbage... I heard that potatoes are also expensive recently..."
"The other thing is chocolate. I don't know how much I can buy with this luxury ration ticket. If it's too expensive, I'll save it for next time."
"There are also schoolbags that Eva needs for school... You must grab Swiss goods. I heard that only more than thirty Swiss schoolbags came this time..."
I heard what my wife said.
Yevgenyev couldn't help but smile, took his wife's hand, and said:
"Dear, we don't have to buy Swiss products, right? That will make money for Western countries."
"I remember that your impression of those European countries was not very good. Why are you thinking about buying imported things now?"
Irina rolled her eyes when she heard this and put her hands on her waist:
"Yes, I hate those Western countries very much, I hate their greed and hypocrisy, but who makes the quality of our own school bags not good?"
"As long as our schoolbags...or light industrial products are even remotely reliable, how many times more rubles will I have to spend on Swiss goods?"
"...Last year you bought Andre a domestically made schoolbag. Have you forgotten what happened next?"
Yevgenyev's expression suddenly froze.
The Andrei in Irina's mouth is the boy of the twins, the brother who is a few minutes older than Eva.
However, the Mao Xiong early childhood education system now implements a rationing system. The Yevgenyev family only has one enrollment quota per year, so they gave the quota to Andrei in order of birth.
Last year, in order to give Andrei a perfect school experience, Yevgenyev also carefully prepared a gray schoolbag made by Mao Xiong for his son.
As a result, on the first day of school, Andre's schoolbag suddenly opened a slit from the bottom, exposing little Andre's books and diapers to outsiders.
The next day, little Andre would rather go to school with a sack than to have a schoolbag sewn by Irina...
no way.
Mao Xiong’s light industrial products are so outrageous these days.
Thinking of this, Yevgenyev could no longer explain the fur bear product:
"Okay, dear, then when you go in later, you go buy vegetables first, and I'll go to the second floor to grab Eva's schoolbag. Is that okay for the head office?"
Irina nodded with satisfaction and gave Yevgenyev a loving kiss.
Then she opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something more.
But before she spoke, a bell rang from the Kremlin in the distance.
Boom——
at the same time.
Wow——
There was a wave-like sound coming from the rolling shutter door at the entrance of the department store, as well as the sounds of unlocking and conversation.
After a while, the rolling shutter door was pulled up from the inside, and several soldiers on duty walked out.
There was also a push from behind Irina - this was the pressure caused by the crowd behind her pushing forward.
Although the order of the team was well controlled and the push did not turn into a stampede, it is not difficult to see everyone's enthusiasm for buying.
See this situation.
Irina quickly swallowed up the meaningless chat and said to Yevgenyev:
"My dear, I'll leave Eva's schoolbag to you! Otherwise, you'll have to wait until you kneel down like a durian!"
Yevgenyev only had time to say yes before he was aborted and pushed into the department store.
Fortunately, this is not Yevgenyev's first visit to GUM Department Store. He knows very well how capable his wife is in shopping, and he doesn't have to worry about her at all.
So soon, Yevgenyev turned his attention to the situation in front of him.
At this moment, he was surrounded by furry bears rushing to buy goods:
"Hey! Alexander, grab more potatoes, potatoes are very cheap today!"
"Sukabule! That's my coffee!"
"Mom, I want to buy a pair of leather shoes..."
In the crowd.
Yevgenyev even saw the figure of his wife - in less than half a minute, there were several cartons of milk, two pieces of toothpaste and several corns in Irina's basket...
.
Then Yevgenyev looked around a few times and soon discovered the stairs leading to the second floor.
Then he squeezed his way to the stairs with some difficulty, and followed the crowd to take the escalator to the second floor - the escalator was invented in 1900.
"School bags are considered stationery. If I remember correctly, imported stationery should be on the south side of the second floor, and you have to pay directly at the counter..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! While taking the elevator, Yevgenyev quickly went through the information he had written down in his mind, even thinking about his actions when he was on the way.
alright.
Half a minute later.
The escalator stopped steadily and reached the second floor of the department store.
Yevgenyev quickly stepped on the second floor holding the handrail, and prepared to rush towards the south of the second floor.
However, just as he passed the entrance to the second floor.
Yevgenyev suddenly noticed a row of seven or eight-meter long tables near the entrance, as well as several yellow faces behind the long tables.
Chinese?
This was the first thought that came to Yevgenyev's mind. After all, Chinese people are not uncommon here in Mao Xiong.
But why do Chinese people come to GUM Department Store?
Selling silk? Ceramics? Or selling pandas?
But soon, Yevgenyev's attention returned to reality - no matter whether the Chinese people were selling pandas or not, if he hadn't grabbed the schoolbag, Irina would have turned into the big orange cat in Northeast China!
So Yevgenyev hurriedly left the entrance on the second floor and ran to where the imported stationery was.
I don’t know if it’s just luck or just running fast.
When Yevgenyev came to the stationery section, he didn't encounter any customers trying to grab his school bag.
Less than ten minutes.
Yevgenyev held a schoolbag in one hand and returned to the entrance with the receipt in the other hand, distressed and happy. The whole process was so smooth that it felt like an unscripted plot in a novel...
All in all, now that my task has been completed, I can buy a few bottles of vodka.
But just when Yevgenyev fantasized about drinking vodka.
Suddenly there was a loud noise in his ears, and a man's shout:
"Comrade! Please, sell me one bottle! Just one bottle!!!"
to be honest.
As a well-known commercial department store in Moscow, the internal environment of GUM Department Store during business hours is very messy most of the time.
But this kind of clutter is more of an integrated sound composed of a large number of conversations and contact sounds, which is similar to the noise of a vegetable market.
It is rare for an individual to yell like this nowadays, so Yevgenyev couldn't help but look towards the place where the sound came from.
I only see this moment.
At some point, a large group of people had gathered at the long table he was passing by in a hurry, so that the flow of people on the escalator was somewhat blocked.
Many of them were holding small paper cups in their hands, which looked like...
Beverage tasting party?
The speaker who attracted Yevgenyev was a man at the long table. He was about forty, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, an exquisite long slim suit, and holding a cane in his right hand.
, the economic conditions are pretty good at first glance.
But at this moment, this man clasped his hands gracelessly and made a prayer gesture to the yellow-skinned man in front of him. The style of the painting was quite inconsistent.
See this situation.
Yevgenyev also walked to the long table with some curiosity and carefully looked at the booth that he had ignored before.
Immediately afterwards.
His attention was attracted by a Russian banner on the booth:
[Cola drink from the East! Anyone can try it for free! It’s free anyway, just give it a try!]
A second later, Yevgenyev suddenly rubbed his glasses in a funny way.
etc!
Comrade Ulyanov, what do I see?
Cola?
The moment I saw this word.
In Yevgenyev's memory, a certain fragment that had been forgotten for a long time was suddenly awakened.
Yevgenyev's family conditions are not very good. Both his parents are ordinary workers. He relied on his own ability to study abroad. At that time, the relationship between Mao Xiong and other countries was not that bad, let alone Europe.
, there are even foreign students with furry bears on the other side of the sea.
Later, Yevgenyev was admitted to the University of Amsterdam and received a student subsidy from Mao Xiong. By coincidence, there also happened to be a Coca-Cola factory in Amsterdam.
Therefore, it was inevitable that Yevgenyev came into contact with Coke during his studies.
When he tasted Coke for the first time, Yevgenyev was conquered by this highly sweet sparkling water. From that day on, almost all of his subsidies for studying in the Netherlands were spent on purchases.
Coke is a drink.
But after returning to Mao Xiong, due to the well-known situation, it was difficult to buy Western products like Coke in Mao Xiong.
So gradually, Yevgenyev forgot about this drink, and slowly drank vodka like a traditional furry bear man.
Unexpectedly... more than ten years later, he actually saw a Coke tasting party in Moscow?
Dead memories suddenly started attacking me.jpg.
And just when Yevgenyev's expression changed, perhaps noticing his special literary temperament and clothing, a Chinese young man couldn't help but take the initiative to step forward and ask:
"Hello, sir, excuse me, we are currently conducting a Coke tasting event. Are you interested in trying our drink?"
"..."
Only then did Yevgenyev come back to his senses. He did not directly agree or refuse, but asked:
"Comrade, are you Chinese? Zhongguo people?"
The last three words of Yevgenyev are a bit not standard, but it is still not difficult to hear that this is Chinese Chinese.
Opposite Yevgenyev, Jiang Jingshan, who is currently studying at the Leningrad Electrical Institute and was recruited by Liu Yunquan to be a salesman, immediately showed a smile:
"That's right, we are Chinese, and what we are trying to drink this time is our own Coke produced in China."
Yevgenyev was silent for a moment.
Are they really Chinese?
This tmd is so nonsense...
When will the Chinese master the production technology of cola?
You know, the main reason why Mao Xiong did not introduce Coca-Cola technology thirty years ago was because when Mikoyan went to inspect it, Coca-Cola had offered a sky-high price for the formula.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The sky-high price made Mikoyan directly reject the intention to cooperate, and Mao Xiong has been unable to produce his own Coke until now.
As a result, at this moment, the little brother next door actually said that he had invented the Coke produced in the East?
Are you kidding me?
Suddenly, Yevgenyev thought of a Chinese friend he knew back then, who once gave him something called Laoshan Snake Grass Water.
Could it be that the Chinese people came up with this kind of Coke this time?
Of course.
The complaints in his heart were complaints. After meeting Coke again after more than ten years, it was impossible for Yevgenyev not to have the desire to try.
So he just hesitated for a moment and nodded quickly:
"No problem, please give me a drink to try, thank you for your help."
"Easy to do."
Jiang Jingshan smiled at Yevgenyev. Under Yevgenyev's gaze, he returned to the long table and said something to a middle-aged man. He quickly returned to him with a small cup.
:
"Sir, this is the Coke we produce."
Yevgenyev took the cup and was slightly startled after seeing what was inside.
how to say.....
The color is quite close to Coca-Cola, but the quantity is too little, right?
I guess there is not even 10ml?
Then he looked up at Jiang Jingshan, raised his head and drank the small cup of Coke in one gulp.
As soon as the drink hit my throat.
Yevgenyev's eyes suddenly widened.
With the emergence of a burst of excitement brought by carbonated bubbles, the memory of his lips, which had not been touched by sugary drinks for a long time, was instantly awakened. Yevgenyev's whole body seemed to be submerged in a river of sucrose, and he felt clearly
When the crystal clear and mellow sugar granules rolled over my tongue and throat, it was as comfortable as being kissed by Irina for a dozen times.
At this moment, Yevgenyev had only one thought in his mind:
This is what he remembers... so happy!
After a few seconds.
Yevgenyev suddenly looked at Jiang Jingshan in front of him and asked hurriedly:
"Comrade, can you give me another drink?"
"of course."
Jiang Jingshan smiled at Yevgenyev, and then magically took out a piece of paper from his body:
"But you have to fill out a questionnaire first."
...........
Note:
Coco Lee actually passed away. It’s hard to believe that she was the one who sang the Lotus Lantern episode. I remember...
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