Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 915 - 858: The Good Deed You Did_2

Chapter 915: Chapter 858: The Good Deed You Did_2

But this year, the situation seemed to have changed...

"Daria, have you heard? Tomorrow several enterprises will come to our school to recruit graduating students. They’re said to be very powerful big companies, like the Russian Gas Industry Group, National Construction Company, Yukos Group, Russian Auto Group, and such," said a student excitedly to his classmate in the dormitory.

The young man named Daria was full of surprise, "Really? Where did you find out about this? These big enterprises didn’t use to recruit at our school in previous years, did they? And even if they did, they usually went to prestigious institutions like Moscow University. It’s been too hard for graduates from our school to get in!"

"Hehe, it’s posted on the notice outside the Teaching Building. Tomorrow, there will be a recruitment promotion conference in the school auditorium. It seems like there are a lot of positions available, almost every major is needed. I was thinking that I’d have to go back to work in Siberia after graduation, but now there’s a chance I could stay in Moscow!" the classmate said with a beaming face.

Daria’s face brightened with a smile. But then he seemed to remember something, and he shook his head with a look of helplessness, "It would be fine if these companies provided housing. But if they don’t, it’s going to be difficult to stay here, isn’t it? The rent here is too high!"

Indeed, while living in the school’s dormitory, they hadn’t felt much of it, since the dormitory was almost free.

But according to the seniors who had graduated and started working, the rent in Moscow was too high, far beyond their means.

Even renting a room could cost four to five hundred US dollars a month... That was almost the monthly salary level of a fresh graduate...

And that’s not even considering the costs of food and clothing!

"Hehe, if worse comes to worst, a few of us good friends could just rent a place together. It doesn’t matter if the conditions are a bit tough, as long as we can stay in Moscow. Besides, I think the city has changed quite a lot over the past two years, the economy seems a bit better than before, and it could get even better in the future," his classmate said nonchalantly.

Staying in Moscow, that’s the dream of most university students.

This is the largest and most prosperous city in all of Eastern Europe, without a doubt!

Of course, some particularly outstanding students may not care because they can apply to famous schools in developed countries in Europe and the United States or for opportunities to work abroad.

However, such top students are after all in the minority. The majority of university students do not have such opportunities.

...

The next day, Daria and a few of his close friends arrived at the university auditorium on time to attend the recruitment promotion conference.

Those legendary companies really did show up!

And this year, it seemed like these companies were recruiting on a large scale, with numerous positions available.

Basically, any graduate with above-average grades could land a job.

Most importantly, the salaries offered by these companies were quite good, with undergraduates starting at six hundred US dollars a month.

Doctorates started at a thousand US dollars!

The salary levels were much higher than in previous years.

For those like Daria who were worried about housing, this issue was also well resolved.

At the promotion conference, all companies promised to help the newly employed staff apply for government-subsidized housing, or said they could provide some housing themselves.

The cost was very low!

Daria and his friends all applied to the National Construction Company, because their majors were in expressway construction, which was quite relevant to their fields.

According to the Group’s human resources, the reason for such a large-scale recruitment this year was that the Group had many new projects to start!

The country was going to build expressways on a large scale...

This news was a source of joy for Daria and his peers.

Originally, their specialty was considered quite niche.

Because there were few road-building projects domestically. If no roads were being built, their major would be of no use.

They were just lucky. They thought they might be unemployed after graduation, but they happened to catch the wave of the national highway-building project, thus landing good job opportunities and staying in Moscow!

...

Similar scenes were playing out at numerous universities in Moscow.

Due to the Great Infrastructure Project forcefully driven by Wang Ye and the enormous additional government budgets, various large enterprises smelled the opportunities...

Especially those groups related to the industry were eagerly expanding their company sizes, recruiting a large number of employees to carve out a bigger slice of this "huge cake."

A whopping five trillion Rubles in the budget, this was almost two years of total government spending!

And these funds were to be channeled into a few major industries, so it’s not hard to imagine that the related big enterprises would be making a killing!

Therefore, they naturally did not hesitate to set aside a sum of money to recruit a group of fresh university graduates with a relatively high salary.

Even the Duma had already spread the word that regulations would soon be issued, and companies employing more recent university graduates would enjoy more favorable tax policies.

That essentially meant the government was taking on part of the cost of salaries for recent graduates!

With this incentive, everyone was naturally very willing to recruit recent university graduates to work. After all, these were young people just stepping into society, who, besides lacking a bit of experience, had a significant level of knowledge and were not short of enthusiasm for work!

So now, with university graduations just around the corner, a fierce competition for talent had broken out within the universities...

On the surface, all of this seemed quite ordinary.

However, it was only achievable under a series of initiatives set forth by Wang Ye.

The government injected a tremendous amount of capital, large enterprises received major projects, employed more staff, offered higher wages, the population of Moscow increased, consumption increased accordingly, which in turn promoted the prosperity of various industries, increasing the government’s tax revenue and GDP growth...

With this cycle, wasn’t the national economy growing rapidly?

Of course, the reason Wang Ye had the confidence to do this was based on his "accurate judgement" that international energy prices would rise sharply in the next few years!

Crude oil prices could double or even triple, and natural gas would break into the Eastern and Western markets.

Just on the income from these two industries alone, he was confident he could pay off the five trillion ruble debt.

That’s why he dared to carry out this so-called Great Infrastructure Project...

...

While Wang Ye was busy boosting the economy, the General Election also kicked off.

The real frontrunners in the "finals" were just two candidates.

One was the incumbent, and the other, of course, was Wang Ye’s "dear uncle" Khodorkovsky.

Before the election got into full swing, Khodorkovsky had a deep conversation with Wang Ye.

"Misha, do you think I should drop out of this election?" Khodorkovsky asked with a helpless look on his face.

Wang Ye was a bit surprised and countered, "What’s wrong Uncle, why are you thinking of dropping out all of a sudden?"

Khodorkovsky casually grabbed a newspaper, pushed it in front of Wang Ye, and with a nudge of his chin said, "Take a look at the latest support rate polls."

Wang Ye picked it up and the front-page headline displayed the latest poll results.

Khodorkovsky’s support rate was just 26%...

While his father-in-law’s was an overwhelming 74%!

Wang Ye let out a wry smile, no wonder Khodorkovsky didn’t want to run in the election – with such support rates, what was there to compete for...

"This... I remember two months ago, the gap between you two wasn’t so big. Didn’t you have over forty percent then? Could it be something happened recently that caused your support rate to plummet?" Wang Ye asked with a bit of confusion.

Khodorkovsky gave him a glare and half-jokingly scolded, "It’s all your fine doing!"

Wang Ye was a little confused, what did this have to do with him? He’d always avoided this topic in public and had never declared his support for anyone.

Even his own faction had not proposed which candidate they supported.

"The idea you proposed last time, about deploying strategic weapons in Kaliningrad, ended up boosting his popularity and support rate significantly.

And now, with all this Great Infrastructure Project, the introduction of low-rent housing, the improvement of urban infrastructure, and the construction of expressways.

Those in the know are aware that you’re leading these things, but the average voter doesn’t know that.

They believe it’s the accomplishment of the incumbent government, that they have really done a lot of good work.

So, his support rate has soared this high..." Khodorkovsky said with a sense of resignation.

Wang Ye was at a loss for words, he only wanted to do something worthwhile, but it turned out he inadvertently gave a significant boost to the Kremlin!

No wonder the Kremlin had been so supportive of his work lately...

It seemed the better he performed, the higher his father-in-law’s support rate climbed, and the greater his chances of winning the election!

It just came at the expense of his dear uncle Khodorkovsky...