Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 930 - 865: Itinerary Arrangement_2

Chapter 930: Chapter 865: Itinerary Arrangement_2

Of course, Wang Ye gave him his full support!

Polar Bear Investment Company had a staff member stationed at Apple, serving as a company director, essentially to oversee the investment.

Wang Ye had directly told that director that anything Boss Qiao proposed at the board meeting should be supported unconditionally!

After all, a genius needs to be given enough freedom to tinker as they please...

The iPhone project was initiated by Boss Qiao at the beginning of last year’s board meeting, and it is currently underway.

Because Boss Qiao’s demands were so uncompromising, as he wanted to introduce a revolutionary, truly smart phone, the project was progressing slowly.

Almost every component needed to be selected from the best available worldwide, with even higher standards, and some required custom fabrication!

In Wang Ye’s memory, the first-generation iPhone seemed to be slated to debut in January of ’07.

But in this life, with Wang Ye’s hearty support and Apple’s financial situation being much better than in the previous timeline, it might be introduced earlier...

Honestly, Wang Ye was looking forward to it too!

The affairs with Tencent Company had concluded, and the trip seemed to have taken seven or eight days, so it was time to go back.

For Wang Ye’s current status, being able to spare a week to get away was quite difficult.

Even though he dealt with some public affairs daily through the internet, there was still a significant portion of important work that couldn’t be handled online and would have to wait until he returned to Moscow.

.........

The next morning, Wang Ye got up rather late.

Just after freshening up and getting dressed, he came downstairs, planning to have some breakfast.

The butler approached him respectfully and bowed, "Good morning, sir. Your breakfast is ready.

There’s a lady outside named Wang Xueqing, who said she has an appointment with you.

What do you say..."

Wang Ye nodded and casually replied, "Let her in."

As he sat down at the dining table, Wang Ye glanced at the butler-prepared breakfast, which was quite lavish!

It was also precisely to Wang Ye’s request—all Chinese breakfast items, and remarkably authentic.

Fried buns, large fried dough sticks, steamed dumplings, tea eggs, sweet soy milk...

These items were hard to come by in Moscow!

Although, with Wang Ye’s stature, he could easily hire a couple of Chinese chefs to cook specially for him.

But it wasn’t necessary, and these intricacies of life are more prone to issues, so Wang Ye simply adapted to the local customs and completely Russified his lifestyle...

As he was enjoying his meal, the butler led Wang Xueqing in.

Wang Ye looked up, greeted her nonchalantly, and asked, "Have you had breakfast? Come and have some."

Actually, Wang Xueqing had already eaten, but she still smiled, nodded, and sat down, asking the butler for a cup of soy milk. She then took a tea egg and began eating with Wang Ye.

After gorging himself for a while, Wang Ye finally stopped, satisfied.

Just as Wang Xueqing finished her last sip of soy milk, she smiled and looked up at Wang Ye.

"It’s been a long time since I’ve had a Chinese breakfast. Very delicious," Wang Ye mused.

Although Wang Xueqing knew his true background, Wang Ye couldn’t be too casual. Whenever he appeared before others, he constantly reminded himself that he was "Mikhail."

He even demanded of himself to forget the identity of "Wang Ye..."

When Wang Ye said this, Wang Xueqing smiled and nodded, her words laced with meaning, "Then, Mr. Mikhail, you could stay a few more days here. As for gourmet food, China is renowned worldwide."

Wang Ye shook his head decisively and said,

"Ah, I’d love to, but I’m reluctantly swept up in trivial matters.

By the way, I’m going to Zhongyuan Province tomorrow, and I don’t need anyone to accompany me.

I’ll stay there for two or three days, then fly from Zhongyuan Airport to Peng City. After spending a few days there, I’ll go back to Moscow.

When I go to Peng City, do you think it’s necessary to arrange for someone to follow me?

I’m planning to take a look around our company’s gas stations and oil refinery bases there."

Wang Ye had learned his lesson after a setback in the United States.

He’d rather trouble himself a bit more to ensure his absolute safety!

The reason he asked Wang Xueqing to come see him was precisely for this purpose.

Wang Ye knew that Wang Xueqing must belong to some powerful department. Casually assigning one or two security personnel to him would make him almost untouchable domestically.

At the very least, his personal security was certainly guaranteed.

Sure enough, upon hearing Wang Ye so readily reveal his travel itinerary, Wang Xueqing also acted decisively.

She took out a small notebook and quickly jotted down Wang Ye’s just mentioned schedule.

"Of course, there’s no problem," she said as she was recording.

"In that case, when you’re in the capital, I’ll accompany you.

"Do you need me to find you a car here?"

"Oh, you don’t need one? Right, you have several company branches here, all luxury vehicles, you definitely wouldn’t fancy the old clunkers from our department.

"But when you return... to Zhongyuan, I’ll have someone follow you.

"Don’t worry, my personnel won’t disturb you, they will just follow at a distance.

"If anything happens over there, they can intervene straight away."

"You know what I mean."

Wang Ye didn’t refuse and readily agreed.

After all, Wang Xueqing’s people wouldn’t hinder his activities, and he didn’t have any secrets to hide from her, so if they followed, so be it.

......

After breakfast, Zhang Xiaoxi had already come by car to pick Wang Ye up.

They had agreed the night before that today Zhang Xiaoxi would drive Wang Ye around for a tour, so Liu Mei did not need to come.

Zhang Xiaoxi specially drove the Mercedes-Benz over because Wang Ye would need this car to return to his hometown tomorrow.

Upon seeing Wang Xueqing, Zhang Xiaoxi also greeted her.

The two of them were not very familiar; Wang Xueqing had more interactions with Liu Mei’s side.

After getting into the car, Zhang Xiaoxi expertly drove towards the International Trade area; their first stop was the Yukos Group’s branch office in the capital.

The branch office was also located in the International Trade area, in the same building as the company of Zhang Xiaoxi and Liu Mei.

The head of this office was an old Russian who spoke fluent Chinese and had studied in the capital.

He was just a bit straightforward; even when the big boss came over, he did not meet Wang Ye at the airport because he was told it wasn’t necessary, and indeed he did not go.

Even when Wang Ye came to inspect the branch office, he only waited at the company entrance and did not come down to greet him...

Of course, Wang Ye didn’t care about such details.

He didn’t lack people to "flatter and bootlick" around him, so he rather preferred subordinates who were straightforward as long as they could do their job well; everything else was secondary.

Indeed, this straightforward Russian did not disappoint Wang Ye.

In just over a year, both major oil refinery bases, one in the south and one in the north, were nearly complete and were undergoing final production testing and were soon to be put into operation.

As for the petrol stations, they were being built even quicker.

In Guangdong Province, there were already over seven hundred petrol stations sprouting up!

And the ultimate goal was one thousand five hundred petrol stations!

Listening to the head of the branch report, Wang Ye quietly nodded without expressing any opinion.

But internally, he was very satisfied.

Because these petrol stations were like taking a slice of the cake directly from the plates of the massive oil and petrochemical giants!

To be honest, it was only because Wang Ye had the clout.

If it had been anyone else trying to set up so many petrol stations, they wouldn’t stand a chance!

Because these petrol stations would become veritable money trees in the future...

............

After spending a little over an hour at the branch office and receiving the report from the head, Wang Ye took a map of the petrol station locations and stood up to leave.

His schedule was very tight; he still had to go see Joy City in the afternoon.

So he didn’t have more time to waste here.

Thus, Zhang Xiaoxi drove, accompanied by Wang Xueqing, as Wang Ye went to take a look around Joy City.

He didn’t say much, just casually encouraged Zhang Xiaoxi a few words.

With this, his schedule in the capital was concluded; tomorrow morning, Wang Ye planned to drive home by himself...