Almaty is two hours behind the capital, which means that after more than five hours of flight, we arrived in Almaty at around 1:00 local time. After checking in and having lunch arranged by Kazakhstan, Chen Hai said with great interest
Come out and take a walk.
Yao Yuan happened to be going out to meet He Xueli and others, so he smiled and said, "Call Director Jiang and some old comrades. I happen to have a friend who is doing business here, and I asked him to be my guide."
"Do you have friends here?" Chen Hai was very surprised.
Yao Yuanxin opened his mouth and said, "There are many people in our hometown who are engaged in foreign trade, but they are actually corrupt people."
"So that's it, that's great. I'm unfamiliar with the place and I'm worried. It's great to have a guide. I'll go tell Director Jiang and the others." Chen Hai said excitedly, without any sense of fatigue from a long journey.
Yao Yuan took out a small bag from his backpack and put tens of thousands of cash in it. The small bag bulged up and there was no room for anything else after adding a pack of cigarettes.
He couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly. He had been the shopkeeper for too long, including when he was working in Xinfeng County. He was always followed by Lin Xiaohu or Xiao Yun. He didn't need to worry about these chores, but now he suddenly had to do them by himself. It was strange.
I feel unsteady and always feel like I haven’t brought something with me.
After a while, Chen Hai came back, and Lao Jiang and three old comrades followed him enthusiastically. Lao Jiang even had a seagull camera hanging around his neck. They all imitated foreigners and wore caps, but they wore Chinese tunic suits.
, carrying a satchel, which looked nondescript.
It's easy to handle if you have a package.
Yao Yuan immediately took out the money and said with a smile, "Director Jiang, you are here just in time. Share the money. My bag is too small and can't hold much."
As he said that, he took out all the money. They were all Chinese coins worth ten thousand yuan each. They were all brand new. When he saw it, there were exactly five pieces, one for each person, so he smiled and said, "Just right, ten thousand yuan per person."
money."
He picked up his ten thousand yuan and put it into a small bag, and then put cigarettes, lighters and satellite phones in it.
The main thing is to put the satellite phone. If he carries all the money, the satellite phone will have to be carried in his hand, which is very inconvenient and too ostentatious.
He didn't have to worry about safety issues, because when he checked in, he saw Lin Xiaohu and Xiao Yun drinking in the lobby lounge. They had undoubtedly moved in, and the Chen Chao security team from the concierge department was definitely around.
As long as Yao Yuan goes out, the security team will quietly follow him to protect him secretly, and there will be more stupid security personnel in overseas branches.
Yao Yuan packed up and raised his head to greet everyone to go out. He found that they were all looking at him in shock. He asked strangely, "Director Jiang, why are you guys looking at me like this?"
Chen Hai pointed to the money on the table and stammered, "Old Yao, you, you, you, you, where did you get this money? Where did you get so much money?"
Yao Yuan suddenly came back to his senses.
Tens of thousands of dollars is just pocket change in his eyes. In the past, Lin Xiaohu and the others would always carry some cash with them. When traveling far away, there would usually be a person carrying a backpack. The bag was full of cash, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions, mainly
Because the payment method in this era was primitive cash transactions, and he often had to spend a lot of money. The food and accommodation expenses for his entourage alone cost a lot of money.
As time went by, he gradually lost his proper concept of tens of thousands of yuan, but this was not the case at work. He could quickly put himself into the specific situation to evaluate it. For example, when he first learned that Li Jingming had paid nearly 10,000 yuan in fines for having a child,
At that time, he was very shocked, because he knew that this was a huge fine that most people could not bear, and it was a fine that could kill a household worth ten thousand yuan.
Yao Yuan came to his senses and knew that Chen Hai had misunderstood.
How can you, a grassroots official-level cadre, get so much money? Apart from public funds, where can you get so much money? It is absolutely impossible for your unit to approve so much funding for you. This is 50,000 yuan. According to the current criminal law,
The maximum penalty is life imprisonment!
Chen Hai was so shocked that he stuttered. Just when he thought Yao Yuan was a corrupt person, Yao Yuan quickly explained, "Everyone, everyone, where did you go? If it was public money, I wouldn't use it for you."
Ah, isn’t it?”
Shaking his head with a wry smile, Yao Yuan began to lie again, "To be honest, my family is in business. I made some money through the spring breeze of reform and opening up. I have a deposit of 1.8 million, so I am very good at the economy.
Freedom. Really, if you don’t believe it, you can call our county and ask.”
As he spoke, he took out the satellite phone and said, "This is a satellite phone. You can make direct calls back to China. Of course, the premise is that the other party also has a satellite phone or a communication terminal that can receive satellite signals and is under the same network."
Except for Chen Hai, the three veteran cadres could not understand what he said at all.
Chen Hai subconsciously said, "Satellite phone? I heard this thing is very expensive."
"Well, one phone costs 100,000 yuan, and a call costs one or two dollars per minute." Yao Yuan said.
One hundred thousand yuan includes network access and other expenses. The value of the terminal is not that much. The call fee depends on which operator is used.
Chen Hai and others were dumbfounded. They spent 100,000 yuan to buy a phone. It was true that his family had money. If he thought about it carefully, if he was a corrupt person, of course he would not be so high-profile. This is not lighting a lantern in a manhole -
— Looking for shit?
"Everyone, bring your money and set off. You still have to ask for leave from the team leader. We don't have much time." Yao Yuan smiled and handed the money to them one by one. "Don't think about the money now. Use it first. We will worry about it after we return home."
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When he said this, everyone stopped being pretentious. Some thought that they could just pay him back as much as they spent, and it didn't have to be all spent. This made it much easier.
The group went to the head of the business inspection team, Deputy General Manager of the Petrochemical Corporation Liu Zhiyuan, to ask for leave, and they also had to report to the deputy head of the foreign affairs department for approval. In fact, Liu Zhiyuan’s words did not count when it came to discipline, it had to come from
Approved by the Deputy Head of Mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Kazakhstan is neither the United States nor Europe. It was once a fraternal country in the same camp, so everyone thought it was okay to take half a day off to go out for a walk. Comrade Chiang Kai-shek was more confident. He was a college student who had returned from studying in the Soviet Union, and he volunteered to ask for leave.
But I never expected that not only the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs disagreed, but also Liu Zhiyuan disagreed. Comrade Chiang Kai-shek's face turned ugly on the spot. This was not giving him face!
It happened that Zhan Sheng came over at this time. After understanding the situation, he said, "Captain Liu, deputy commander, and Director Jiang are very familiar with the former Soviet Union. This Yao Yuan also understands Russian. There is no big problem in letting them go out for a walk."
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Lao Jiang and the others immediately changed their impression of Zhan Shengcai, and Yao Yuan smiled and said nothing.
Liu Zhiyuan hesitated, looked at the deputy captain and said, "Wang Chu, why don't we let everyone go out for a walk?"
Deputy leader Wang Chu thought for a while and said, "Okay, then don't go far, come back on time to cancel your leave, and be sure to abide by foreign affairs disciplines outside."
"Don't worry, Wang Chu, I'll take them out." Zhan Shengcai smiled.
Lao Jiang and others immediately realized that this guy wanted to go out for a walk, and thought he was really so kind!