Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 647: The Best New Year’s Gift_1

Chapter 647: Chapter 647: The Best New Year’s Gift_1

Wang Ye has always been unclear about which faction Khodorkovsky is closer to.

He is supposed to be at odds with the first faction.

After all, the first faction is Puding’s "personal territory".

The second faction?

Also unlikely, because the second faction is the bastion of Moscow State’s political arena, and it is not often seen that Khodorkovsky is close to that side.

As for the Third Faction, it is a bit possible.

Because people like A Bu and Rilinov, who are the backbone of the Third Faction, are all good friends of Khodorkovsky.

But now Wang Ye is the party leader of the Third Faction. If Khodorkovsky enters the Third Faction and runs for the general election through this faction...

It’s not impossible, but it feels strange....

Could it be that Khodorkovsky wants to form a new faction?!

........

Upon hearing Wang Ye’s question, Khodorkovsky laughed and casually said, "I will probably pull some people together to form a new faction. The general election in the year after next will be very lively. Your Third Faction should also prepare well, don’t lose those seats you have now."

Sure enough!

Someone like Khodorkovsky, who has climbed to the oligarch level in the business world, will not remain a subordinate when they enter the political arena.

He made a big move, forming a new faction to compete for the Duma seats and the position in the Kremlin!

Wang Ye chuckled bitterly, saying, "It would be quite troublesome to start everything from scratch. Why not consider joining our Third Faction...."

Before he could finish speaking, Khodorkovsky shook his head to refuse, saying: "No, even if I were to join the first faction, I couldn’t join your Third Faction. With that arrangement, not only would you have difficulties, but I would also be left without a retreat path."

Wang Ye understood his meaning, and indeed it makes sense.

If Khodorkovsky joined the Third Faction to run for the election, wouldn’t Wang Ye have to fully support it?

If that happens, wouldn’t the Third Faction become the "opponent" in the eyes of the Kremlin, including Wang Ye himself, who might have to face the "pressure" from the Kremlin?

Khodorkovsky establishing a new faction is more of a consideration for Wang Ye, so as not to put him in a difficult position.

Moreover, if the election was to fail, with the existence of Wang Ye as a "buffer", there would still be room for maneuver in many things, so it wouldn’t be wrong to call it a route of retreat.

Once he figured this out, Wang Ye nodded in agreement, "In any case, there is still plenty of time before the next general election. Take your time Uncle, there’s no rush. But I still want to advise you, when running the election, attack the issues not the person, so you don’t strain the relationship too much."

He didn’t spell it out, but Khodorkovsky understood.

Wang Ye was advising him not to ruin his relationship with the Kremlin too badly and not to attack the Kremlin through the media during the election.

After all, it was because Wang Ye knew very well the style of the Kremlin!

He wasn’t so much worried whether Khodorkovsky would succeed in the election or not, as there was no suspense to that - there was no way he would be able to compete....

What Wang Ye was most concerned about was Khodorkovsky’s personal safety!

If he didn’t succeed in the election, and ended up imprisoned....

The reason he didn’t strongly oppose Khodorkovsky’s participation in the election was just to let Khodorkovsky try and experience a setback.

For this kind of thing, mere persuasion wouldn’t work.

Khodorkovsky wouldn’t believe it until he actually suffered a loss!

Although Wang Ye meant well, Khodorkovsky didn’t seem to agree.

He shook his head and laughed, "Since I’ve decided to participate in the election, many things are out of my control. If I don’t attack the other party to lower their prestige, why am I there to compete. I think the other party would also do the same, we all understand."

Wang Ye had nothing to say. He didn’t know whether Khodorkovsky was too naive or just didn’t care.

Although he was very grateful to Khodorkovsky, and was genuinely considering for him, there were some secrets that he definitely could not tell Khodorkovsky.

Moreover, even if Wang Ye risked everything and told Khodorkovsky that he had "returned" from twenty years in the future, so he knew the world trend and clearly understood that the person in Kremlin was unshakeable....

Would Khodorkovsky believe him?

He would probably just think that Wang Ye had gone crazy!

So, saying more would be useless. Wang Ye could only sigh secretly in his heart and give up trying.

........

As Wang Ye was busy with the reorganization and public listing of the Yukos Group, they just finished celebrating the New Year back in his home country.

On the eighth day of the lunar new year, many places started to go back to work.

In Wang Ye’s hometown junior high school, the principal’s office received a "distinguished guest".

A young girl who looked just a little over twenty.

Zhang Xiaoxi came to handle the donation matter commissioned by Wang Ye.

She just rushed back and did not have time to rest at home, and went directly to the school.

After sorting out the school’s affairs, she planned to stay at home for one night and then rush back to the capital the next day.

There were many things to do there. After all, she isn’t just an ordinary college student now, but the head of a company with tens of billions of CNY in assets!

Of course, Zhang Xiaoxi did not tell her parents about these things....

It wasn’t that she wanted to hide it from her parents forever but to wait until she felt that she could truly control the company before telling her parents.

Right now, she always felt that she got this CEO position from a "favor", not so glorious.

"Principal, I’m here. Here is the design proposal for the new campus that I mentioned on the phone. Please take a look."

As soon as they met, Zhang Xiaoxi took out a thick folder from the large briefcase she carried with her and handed it to the principal.

She had already communicated with the principal in advance by phone, but didn’t explain in detail.

She just mentioned that someone had commissioned her company to donate a new campus to the school....

The principal was dumbfounded at the time, as he had been a principal for half his life and this was the first time he had heard of such a good thing.

He had heard that there are such things abroad where students who have graduated for many years and have made a fortune donate a large amount of money to their alma mater.

But this kind of thing usually happens in world-famous schools like Harvard and Stanford.

The principal had once secretly envied them, thinking that many individuals of some importance have graduated from the school where he worked. Although none of them became very rich, it’s not like they have never received donations....

He could only attribute the reason to the lack of such a culture in the country!

However, last year a student who had graduated not long ago donated a large amount of money, an entire million US dollars!

He built two beautiful buildings for the school, which made the principal smile for an entire year.

He always told others that the donation was the best New Year’s gift he had ever received in his life!

He had no idea that one year later, another New Year’s gift was on its way!

And this New Year’s gift seemed a bit outrageous!