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After returning from Rockefeller Manor, Sean became interested in what old man David said.

Lithuania wants independence, my dear!

What this means is clear to Sean.

With such a big thing happening in front of his eyes, Sean felt that if he didn't participate, he would be sorry for himself.

However, participation is participation, and you must not act blindly. If you don’t act, you will get absolute benefits!

As soon as he came back, Sean brought Armstrong over with a phone call.

“Lithuania is going to be independent?”

One sentence confused Armstrong, "Do you know?"

The intelligence organization of Umbrella is already very large, with thousands of personnel. But just look at the scope of the branches and you will know that spreading out these people is like spreading sesame seeds and salt. They can only be deployed in key places, such as when Lithuania wants to become independent.

It is impossible to know this kind of news.

After all, this is Northern Europe, Lao Maozi’s territory...

Of course, this does not mean that the protective umbrella is afraid of Lao Maozi. It is impossible to be afraid, and it is not afraid of anyone!

The main reason is that there is no fighting in that poor place for the time being, and there is no money to be made.

"Send all the people from Europe over there to investigate the situation there. Um... don't just stay in Lithuania. Just look around and get some information," Sean ordered.

"What are the main aspects?" Armstrong asked with a frown. The scope of intelligence was so large that there was no direction. Even if he spread a thousand people there, it wouldn't be enough.

Sean pursed his lips and tapped lightly with his fingers for a while. He didn't know anything about Lithuania except for its name. How could he know what information he wanted.

"Forget it, don't ask so many questions, send the person over first." After thinking about it, Sean waved his hand, "I want to get some information from the CIA, wait for me to take a look, don't worry."

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Langley, Virginia, CIA headquarters.

Speaking of the relationship between Sean and Cia, there really wasn't much communication in the past, but after the last Pablo incident, the communication between the two parties suddenly became closer.

After all, CIA is an external department, and it is actually possible to cooperate with Umbrella in many places, but we have never found any opportunities before.

For example, if CIA wants to send something or someone, Umbrella can definitely use its own channels to help!

As long as there are not a few big countries, but in the small countries where Umbrella has business, Umbrella's channel security is still very high.

Since the barrier was broken last time, the exchanges between the two parties have become more frequent in the past six months.

This is why Sean thought of CIA when he needed information.

After a phone call, Sean took a plane to the headquarters.

Of course, theoretically, Sean is not a member of the CIA and has no right to access some intelligence documents here, but as an actual "shareholder" of the United States, many of the things Sean knows are highly confidential.

These wealthy individuals have a level of confidentiality within the intelligence services themselves.

Attributes such as patriotism are not quantifiable and can only be judged subjectively, but things like interest bundling can be completely quantified.

Anyone can betray the United States, except the major conglomerates and the super-rich. If the United States is finished, these consortiums and big families will also be finished.

Who says money has no borders!?

"Intelligence about Lithuania, let's go to the archives." Elio Bowie greeted with a smile.

"Well, that's not good. I have people who are not from your CIA." With that said, Sean stood up and followed him.

Elio Bowie laughed and shrugged, and the two walked out one after another.

In the archives room, Elio Bowie ordered his men to get the files and hand them to Sean.

After all, it is a department set up specifically for the government, and it knows very well what the big guys need to see.

Sean just looked through it and came up with a "professional" evaluation.

Most of the time, the orders from superiors are ridiculous. It is very likely that if they hear that gas poisoning is easy to occur in winter, they will order a test for the entire city within 24 hours. There are only more than 10 million people in the city.

From the Women's Federation to the streets, from the tax department to the police, everyone went out

It doesn’t matter whether you know about firefighting or not, all come forward for the 24th big battle!

In the middle of the night, I broke open the door and entered the house to take a look and sign a notice...

At about 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, the number of complaints was overwhelming. The next day, you told the leader, and the leader said lightly that you should do some ideological work for the masses. If you don't know what to be afraid of, just lie down on the pipe and smell it.

It’s obvious at first glance that he understands grassroots work!

Therefore, when the superiors wanted to see the information, Sean didn't even know what he wanted to see at first glance... Besides, he had so many things to do, he didn't have time to understand it in such detail.

This kind of comprehensive and general approach is good.

Lithuania 1990 data.

Population: 3,697,800 (population shows a downward trend year by year).

GDP: US$5.2 billion.

Import: 5.2 million.

Export: 800,000.

"Why is it so low?" Sean asked looking at the data in astonishment.

"In a planned economy, where is the import and export volume? As for GDP, we have rough statistics. Everything is produced within the plan and must be supplied to Moscow." Elliot Bowie shook his head and said.

Sean nodded and continued reading. Below is a brief history of Lithuania.

In 1569, according to the Treaty of Lublin, Poland and Lithuania merged to form the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania.

Lithuania was annexed by Tsarist Russia in 1795. Later, Lithuanians participated in the Polish uprisings in 1830-1831 and 1863-1864 to resist Tsarist Russian rule.

During World War I, Lithuania was occupied by Germany. After the war, it declared independence on February 16, 2018 and established a bourgeois republic.

On June 4 of the same year, the regime was overthrown and the restoration was completed, and the Kingdom of Lithuania was established. On November 2, the red ideological trend passed over and the kingdom's regime was overthrown again and became a republic.

Three months later, Lithuania united with Belarus to establish the Soviet Socialist Republic. Five months later, it was overthrown by the bourgeoisie again and declared independence.

On September 28, 1926, Su Li concluded a non-aggression pact. In December of the same year, another coup occurred.

In 1940, the Soviet army occupied Lithuania.

In 1941, during World War II, Lithuania was occupied by the German Army.

In 1944, the Soviet army occupied Lithuania again and established the Socialist Republic, joining the Soviet Union.

Seeing this, Sean was stunned. Good guy, in this Lithuanian land, you sing and I appear, but basically nothing happens to the Lithuanians.

Elliot Bowie nodded and said: "After all, it is a small country, and there is a group of gray beasts like Russia around it. Every Russian will expand abroad after recovering their strength. They are eager to get an outlet in the Baltic Sea, and the three Baltic countries are blocking the way.

It gets hacked every time."

"The hatred between Lithuanians and Russians has lasted for hundreds of years. Although they joined the Soviet Union in recent years, they were annexed and not voluntarily. In addition, Russia has been sucking the blood of these countries and mining minerals over the years.

, from the perspective of wood, it is completely a raw material supplier. The problem is that food is not self-sufficient yet..."

"In these years, the resistance in Lithuania has never stopped. Of course, during this period, all countries are supporting them in getting rid of the evil Russian rule."

Sean nodded and listened to Elio Bowie's words. Generally speaking, he had some understanding of Lithuania, and then asked: "What was their economic policy like after independence?"

"Privatization and attracting foreign investment must also be done in this way." Elio Bowie explained: "Lithuania was just a raw material supplier before. There was not much industry at all. Compared with relying on them to develop, there was no capital."

"This is the current economic situation in their country." After saying this, Elio Bowie ordered someone to bring another report and handed it to Sean, "This is a brief introduction. If you want to take a look, if you are interested,

I'm giving you the details."

Sean flipped through it. Here is a brief introduction to the current situation of Lithuania's planting industry, animal husbandry, fishery, forestry, light industry, mining industry, manufacturing, chemical industry, etc., including GDP proportion, development curve in recent years, etc.

After reading for a while, Sean looked up and asked: "Which aspects have the most potential?"

“Mining and manufacturing.” Elio Bowie again

He waved and handed over another document, "Here are the industry forecasts made by our economic experts."

Sean looked through it again. According to economic expert predictions, Lithuania will establish its own industrial system after independence, get rid of the simple raw material export-oriented economic model, industrial capacity will experience explosive growth, and domestic GDP will usher in a wave of high growth.

Expect.

Lilan has plenty of space!

But compared to what these experts saw of Lilan, Sean saw more!

After independence, Lithuania was so poor that it could be described as a newborn baby, which was really allowed to be manipulated and manipulated at will.

You can cultivate yourself into whatever you want to be.

Not to mention completely controlling Lithuania's economy, even if it only controls one-third, its influence on the country will be unparalleled.

If you can control some of the media again, then...

The real emperor!

Thinking of this, Sean raised his head and looked at the map hanging on the wall. The Soviet Union was a huge territory!

This time there are drastic changes in Eastern Europe and they have separated from so many countries. Gee, what a big piece of fat!

It will not be countries like the United States, Britain, or France that eat up this piece of fat, but only capitalists and systemic problems.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no state-owned enterprises in capitalist countries. This is a huge misunderstanding.

Old capitalist countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom also have state-owned enterprises. After World War II, in order to restore the economy as quickly as possible, 80% of enterprises in the United Kingdom are state-owned, such as electricity, railways, coal, telecommunications, postal services, steel, shipbuilding, and aircraft manufacturing.

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It’s just that state-owned enterprises are the same regardless of which country they are in. They have low efficiency, poor innovation capabilities, and low output. Therefore, after 1979, the UK carried out privatization reforms.

The United States also has a national flag, but there are only 17 of them, such as public hospitals, public welfare insurance, public schools, power networks, postal systems, land management companies, transportation, and highway construction. They are all non-profit, purely investment companies.

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Closer to home, Sean was immediately moved after seeing that Lithuania’s GDP currently only exceeds 5 billion. With the capital in his hands, he can definitely leverage a lot of power there.

Thinking of this, Sean looked up and looked at Elio Bowie, "I need more detailed information about the economic situation, agriculture, light and heavy industry, mining, and forestry."

"Look now?" Elio Bowie asked.

"Go back and watch."

"Okay, no problem." Elliot Bowie readily agreed, as this was not a high-level confidential information.

As long as you are willing to spend time and ask an investigation company to investigate, you can get it. It is nothing more than a waste of time.

Firstly, what Sean lacked was time, and secondly, he wanted to move around more with Cia. The more they move around, the closer they will get to each other step by step.

After talking about business, Sean started chatting with Elio Bowie again. This time it was not limited to Lithuania, but also several surrounding countries, including Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, and Ermaozi.

Especially Ermaozi, cough cough...

After chatting for a while, Sean was about to leave, and then he asked as if by accident: "By the way, do you have any information on government relations there, so that I can know how to open the network."

"Yes, Brock, come here." Elliot Bowie waved.

The man named Bullock hesitated for a moment, looked at Sean, then at Elio Bowie, and said with some embarrassment: "Boss, this is A-level intelligence."

"Really?" Elliot Bowie curled his lips, "Well, it is now B-level. The independent process is already underway, and the confidentiality level will naturally be lowered."

"Okay, I understand." Bullock turned around and walked over and took out a document again.

"Is this okay?" Sean smiled and looked at Elio.

"I'm fine with that," Elio Bowie shrugged.

"I remember you have been taking action in Nicaragua?" Sean took the file without reading it, but looked at the other party with a smile and said.

Elio Bowie nodded.

"There happen to be some people over there under the umbrella. If necessary, call them. Some things are more convenient for us. Don't be polite. It's all for you.

We want the United States to contribute." Sean blinked.

"You're right, it's all for America!" Elio Bowie laughed.

After all, CIA is a government department with very strict rules and is subject to supervision and inspection by Congress.

They bribed informants and came up with immigration and other policies. They couldn't provide any real benefits, so it was very difficult to do many things.

This is also one of the reasons why the CIA has always been involved in the spread of drugs. It is indeed to raise funds, to raise funds that are invisible and unsupervised. This is an open secret among the upper levels of the United States. It is indeed forced by the situation.

This does not mean that Congress can just approve a certain amount of funds. If the rules are not strict, the CIA will be ruined in a minute, and there will be no good people here.

It is better to believe in the character of people than to believe in the system.

Even if you secretly allow them to use poison, it is better than opening up the rules.

This is also the reason why several times someone exposed and sued the CIA, but nothing happened in the end.

Of course, some of the money is indeed used by insiders to "improve" their lives, but that's just human nature.

In this regard, Sean really understands it better. It's not that people in CIA are more restrained or noble. It's entirely a system issue.

The IRS is too strict. Legally, money must go into the bank, and any larger deposits in the bank must be reported to the IRS immediately. This makes embezzlement very expensive!

Even slightly larger purchases will be reviewed immediately because taxes need to be paid!

Just tell me, how difficult is it to embezzle a little money?

…

After leaving CIA's headquarters, Sean returned to New York. Just after New Year's Day, old Shen Bi was recruited by Sean.

When meeting Sean, Shen Bi's entire company stinked.

"Can we let people take a good rest? Can capitalists exploit employees like this? Do you understand annual leave? Do you understand it?" Shen Bi pointed at Sean's nose and started yelling, "It's hard to find time for our family." I’m on vacation on the island, and you’re still calling me all the time!”

"Okay, okay, okay, okay, it's my fault, don't be angry!" Sean raised his hands repeatedly to apologize.

Shen Bi snorted heavily, then sat down and asked angrily: "Why are you yelling at me to come back?"

"Well, don't be angry." Sean looked at Shen Bi seriously, "After this matter is done, I will buy Arsenal for you later, and then you can do whatever you want, okay."

Shen Bi sat upright immediately, "Ahem, if you say that, then I won't be sleepy anymore!"

"What a joke!" Sean patted his chest heavily, "Who am I, Sean? How have I ever deceived people with every spit and nail?"

"No, no, no, don't say that. If you say that, I will feel uneasy."

Sean's face turned dark on the spot, "Forget it then!"

"Hahaha, just kidding, why are you so angry? Come on, if you have anything to do, just leave it to my old man, I can still do it!" Shen Bi moved his buttocks to Sean's side, hugged his shoulders and said.

Ha, Sean curled his lips, there is nothing that cannot be done with money. If there is anything, then it must be that the money spent is not enough.

After a few words of teasing, Sean finally said the matter, "The Soviet Union is going to be finished. Lithuania has decided to declare independence on March 1."

"Ah!?" Shen Bi suddenly stood up from the sofa, waiting for Sean with his mouth wide open, his face full of disbelief.

If you are not a person of this era, it is difficult to imagine the shock that the disintegration of the Soviet Union brought to people.

Especially when Shen Bi is still a veteran of World War II.

That was the Soviet Union, one of the most powerful countries in the world, a regime that had been tit-for-tat with the United States for so many years, making the world tremble.

The system exported by the Soviet Union swept half of Eurasia. After Sandezi was defeated, it can be said that the entire Western society was on guard against the Soviets.

Especially in Europe, it has almost reached the point where the Soviet Union has changed its color.

There is no possibility of reconciling the contradictory contradictions in the system. It is a real life-and-death struggle. Once it is revolutionized, the capitalists will be killed. It would be strange not to resist like crazy!

The Soviet Union, for people in Western society, they have been listening to this legend since the day they were born.

Growing up, I didn’t expect that the Soviet Union, which had been wreaking havoc for more than half a century, would suddenly disintegrate. It would be strange not to be shocked.

"What you said is true, you didn't lie to me?" Shen Bi grabbed Sean's shoulders and shook him back and forth.

Although Sean is very rich and has a wide range of business, most of his influence is in the United States, Colombia, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, so Shen Bi has not received relevant news at all.

Shen Bi sat on the sofa in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.

"What are you going to do when you call me back?" Shen Bi asked in a hoarse voice.

"I got relatively detailed information about Lithuania from CIA before..." Sean expressed his thoughts.

Shen Bi looked Xiao Xiao up and down for a while, and then said: "Oh, it's time for you capitalists to show off your skills again."

"Hey!" Sean glared at Shen Bi angrily.

"Isn't it? Without the Soviets..." Shen Bi shook his head and did not continue. I really don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for the British Empire.

Anyway, Shen Bi didn't feel very good, and the role of leading the British to the United States dropped by one point again.

After calming down, Shen Bi began to play his role, "Controlling the lifeblood of a country and making money are two different concepts. You have to distinguish them clearly."

"How do you say that?" Sean raised his eyebrows.

"This means that some industries are very profitable, but they do not play as big a role as imagined for the country, and they are not the lifeblood of the country. Some businesses do not make much money, but they are very crucial and are indispensable."

"Just like agriculture, you don't make much money but it is very important. After all, people need to eat. Now tens of millions of people die of hunger every year."

"Like the service industry, the investment is low and the return is high, but it is not that important. If it is missing, the quality of life will only decrease slightly."

"Work hard in the mining and manufacturing industries." Sean thought for a while and said.

"Not entirely correct." Shen Bi shook his head and said: "First, the repeatability is too high. A related industry only needs to control the terminal links, preferably with high technical content, so manufacturing is okay, but mining is not necessary. "

"Your goal is to control the lifeblood, not to control an industrial chain and swallow up all the benefits. Lithuanians will not agree to that. Politicians are not stupid, and you are not the only one they choose."

"Okay, that's why I called you back." Sean spread his hands and said.

"Textiles, machinery manufacturing, transportation, finance, and media, you need to be involved in all five of these." Shen Bi said directly without thinking.

"Lithuania's woolen and linen textiles are good."

"Not to mention machinery manufacturing, transportation is very important, including railways, roads, and ports. Minsk, the capital of Belarus, is very close to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Belarus is a landlocked country. Once independent, almost most of its foreign trade will depend on Lithuania. .”

"Furthermore, I think that even if Lithuania becomes independent, it will still be heavily dependent on the Russians economically. Even though they have been fighting with Russia for hundreds of years, dividing and reuniting, it seems that the hatred is as deep as the sea, but time is the best Weapons, the Russians have left too many traces on the Lithuanians, and they have complemented each other economically."

Why the hell did it leave too many traces... This description made Sean cough. Okay, it's accurate.

Shen Bi glanced at Sean strangely. He didn't know what was wrong with him, so he ignored him and continued: "I don't need to say more about financial weapons. If you become a big creditor in Lithuania, then he is hooking up with anyone. You have to consider your feelings at all times."

Sean:???

"Finally, the media, your old profession, it would be good to open up a territory in Northern Europe, even if it is used as a bridgehead into Europe." Shen Bi said and shrugged.

"And communication!" Sean suddenly added.

Shen Bi tilted his head and looked at Sean, "What's the need?"

Sean's mouth twisted, with a look of disdain, and he tilted his head to look at Shen Bi, "If you don't understand, don't ask!"