After completely putting himself on the example of exposing the evil nature of Wall Street financial dogs, Gu Kun's life can be regarded as a horse and cannot turn back.

With the blessing of the grievances of hundreds of millions of poor people in Southeast Asia, the benefits are huge, and the risks are also huge. However, with Gu Kun's foresight, he is completely sure to do a good job in risk control.

So far, the dividends of the Thai baht crisis and the ringgit crisis have been completely squeezed out by Gu Kun.

After a long period of nervous tension, Gu Kun could finally breathe a sigh of relief, let himself slow down a little, and think about the next stage of planning.

This day is January 3rd, which is also the New Year's Day holiday.

Gu Kun slept fully in his Galloping Horse Reef villa until he woke up naturally, and then, under Midlova's service, washed and changed clothes and had breakfast, while picking up a newspaper and reading current affairs.

Gu Kun glanced at the calendar on the newspaper and pondered for a moment: "This year's New Year is quite early, January 28 Spring Festival." Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, I can go back to China and hand over some errands. ”

Gu Kun silently calculated the progress of various businesses.

Soros, for his part, is still playing against the Philippine peso and the Indonesian rupiah.

Now, because of Gu Kun's turmoil, the timing of the successive sniping of various currencies in the Southeast Asian financial crisis has changed somewhat, and even the outbreak of the initial Thai baht crisis has been delayed by nearly two months. But Gu Kun believes that the preparation time and rhythm required by Soros between the various stages of the battle should be roughly the same.

Therefore, when the peso and the rupiah are finished and the preparation period is over, Gu Kun estimates that Soros's attack on the Hong Kong dollar can be delayed until after the end of the 98 lunar calendar.

If you're lucky, you can even drag it out.

Therefore, at least for a month, Gu Kun can not worry about fighting Soros again.

Moreover, when it comes to the battle of Hong Kong dollars, he will stand on a completely hostile position with Soros, so he doesn't even need to sneak away in advance to open a position, just do it directly when the time comes.

"In this way, it is still not suitable for me to immediately fulfill the promises I told Manager He and Boss Ye before. If I let the Chinese scientific researchers board the 'Isakov' to plan for further transformation and mapping, or allow the Chinese side to cooperate in depth in the Nanyang marine engineering, then I will definitely get more hatred from the Oceanic countries.

It's better to simply delay it for another two or three months, and when the war for Hong Kong dollars is over, the hatred with Soros will further deepen, and then I will pretend that 'I was almost bankrupt by Soros because of my work against Soros, but fortunately, because of the foreign exchange reserves of the Chinese side to support me, I will make a profit', so that I was forced to deepen cooperation with the Chinese side, which is more reasonable. As for the news of the exploration and discovery of the Lanfang oil field, it will be at least pressed after that. ”

Gu Kun looked at the current affairs in the newspaper and was a little distracted, and he thought about it in his heart.

However, even if the cooperation can be postponed any longer, the explanation must be explained.

In July last year, when he had just graduated from Jiaotong University, he was blocked in Hujiang by COSCO Manager He and Mr. Ye, and he personally promised that "we will see it within half a year".

This time, I just took advantage of the Spring Festival to go back to China, cut off these causes and effects, and make a report, which can be regarded as a promise.

Moreover, wasting time is not Gu Kun's style.

The battle for the Hong Kong dollar was preceded by the deepest and darkest moment of the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

If darkness is used well, it is the best opportunity to buy the bottom. Gu Kun happened to take advantage of the trough period of these two months to engage in some major construction and set some projects at low cost, especially international projects that need to cooperate with neighboring countries.

At this time, the project is fixed, and the price is the most cabbage.

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Gu Kun has a temper that he does what he says, and after thinking about the plan, he drove the yacht back to the main island with one hand that day, and went to Zhaoming Palace to meet Zhu Youdong.

He was not polite to the Grand Duke, and said straight to the point:

"I'm going to go to China, and now is a good time for the general undervaluation of assets and resources in Southeast Asia's neighboring countries. I want to use COSCO's investment and production capacity to embark on some more significant construction projects. ”

Of course, Gu Kun would not mention the cooperation that he had already negotiated with He Lan, and in front of Zhu Youdong, it was enough to only say the secondary motives.

Zhu Youdong also had no doubts, but he asked very politely, half-echoing, half-rhetorically: "Taking advantage of the financial crisis to expand infrastructure investment is indeed a good decision - Roosevelt and Adolphus did it back then."

However, what else do we have to invest in in the near future? Ports, airports, roads and bridges, hotels, and all the stalls in various fields of our Lanzhou side have been spread out enough. ”

Gu Kun said confidently: "The airport is enough for the time being, but the port can continue to be expanded, and there are not too many hotels." At present, several hotels in Lanfang rely on our own funds and the investment of the Hilton family.

We can further liberalize the access to foreign investment and let Chinese businessmen come to us to invest in 100% Chinese-owned foreign-funded hotels. This kind of service industry must be fully market-competitive, and it is impossible to improve the quality of service by expecting state-run enterprises and monopolies. For the country, the direct income of the hotel is not important, the important thing is the promotion of the national cultural tourism industry, so whoever opens it is the same.

None of these are huge projects, though. What I want to plan this time is some major international cooperation that requires the use of Malaysians, and now the assets of Malaysians are also at a low point, and the cost of infrastructure is also low. ”

Zhu Youdong was quite surprised: "What is there to build cooperation with Malaysians?"

Gu Kun said: "I want to compare the internal agreement on the purchase of water resources from Xiangjiang and Guangdong Province, which was newly implemented last year, as well as the international treaty on Malaysia's supply of water to Lijiapo, so that we can also buy water resources from Malaysia and build a submarine freshwater pipeline with a length of dozens of nautical miles."

In addition, I would like to build a joint venture with Malaysia, with half of the two sides contributing to the construction of a sea-crossing bridge connecting Lanfang and Kuching. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Youdong was instantly shocked by Gu Kun's whimsical ideas:

"You're crazy! This kind of cross-sea bridge and cross-sea water pipeline project can probably spit out most of the money we have earned from the Thai baht crisis! This kind of project will not be able to recover its original cost for decades, and it may not be able to recover its original cost until it is used to a pulp.

Besides, we already have our own airport, so why do we need a bridge across the sea? We don't need to use Kuching Airport in Lanzhou! As for water supply, our country's fresh water resources are more than enough.

When it comes to Zhu Youdong's rebuttal, I have to talk about the objective environment of the Lan side.

As we all know, water scarcity is the norm in countries with small island terrain.

In countries like the Maldives, water is bottled by boat, and even fresh water for washing is transported in barrels, so the cost of water in the Maldives is huge, and the water bill is expensive.

Not to mention far away, let's just say that Southeast Asia, Xiangjiang and Lijiapo are also buying water from abroad.

According to the contract, Heung Kong will purchase 800 million cubic meters of Dongjiang water from eastern Guangdong Province a year. The contract, which came into effect last year, was about HK$2 per tonne of river water.

Li Jiapo is to buy water from the Malay Johor Bahru on the other side of the strait, but the water pipeline across the sea is funded by Li Jiapo, and the Malaysian side does not have to bear any infrastructure costs, so the water fee charged by Johor Bahru is also much cheaper, about one cent per ton (according to the latest exchange rate after the Southeast Asian financial crisis, equivalent to one cent and eight yuan, and equivalent to one cent and six yuan after the appreciation of the yuan in 05).

Some laymen may think that the Malays are very generous in selling resources, while the prices in eastern Guangdong are relatively poor - but this is definitely a misunderstanding. Because Malaysia asked Li Jiapo to collect the price, it was written in the water supply treaty between the two countries signed in 1961, Li Jiapo people are more shrewd, and they were not allowed to change it at that time, and it was valid for 99 years, until 2061.

Therefore, Malaysia has been asking Li Jiapo to collect the price and water fee in the early 60s, which is of course much cheaper than the Guangdong-Heung Kong agreement 35 years later.

If Gu Kun asks Malaysia to sign a water supply treaty now, as long as it can achieve the same low price as Li Jiapo, it will already be a great diplomatic victory.

Even if it can be contracted to two to three cents per ton, Lan Fang can be regarded as profitable.

But the reason why Zhu Youdong felt that Gu Kun was thinking too far and was a bit of a loser was mainly because he felt that Lanfang was not short of water at present—both Lanfang and Lijiapo were located in the tropics, and the annual rainfall could be more than 2,000 millimeters.

The reason why Lijiapo is short of water is only because of the small land area and high population density. If the population density of Lijiapo is reduced to the level of a former agricultural country like Lanfang, then there is no need to buy water at all.

In this regard, Gu Kun of course has to give Zhu Youdong a detailed account:

"Your Highness, I fully agree with your opinion that there is no shortage of water in Lan Fang at the moment. Since we want to develop a world-class cultural tourism resort, the scale of tourists in the future will be very large.

I sent someone to find out about the hydrology of the country. The local water resources of Lanfang can meet the water supply of about 300,000 agricultural people. At present, we have a permanent population of only about 100,000, plus the number of tourists staying at the same time, up to 50,000, and the water is more than double.

However, in the future, with the increase in port throughput, mobile supply, and passenger surge, sooner or later we will have to establish a project to introduce water sources. As long as there are more than 300,000 permanent residents here, it is definitely not enough. In addition, engaging in some grand projects that can make big news can also render the per capita prosperity of the blue side in the future, and the intangible value of these propaganda should also be counted in the account. ”

In addition to the water diversion project, Gu Kun also wants to build a cross-sea bridge. And projects like the sea-crossing bridge can obviously be used as a promotional landmark. Just like the future generations of Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao, it may not really have such a big demand for traffic, but it is also a consideration of infrastructure point wonders, just like playing "Civilization 6" to win the cultural victory.

Since Gu Kun wants to play the local tyrant card, of course he can't save the spectacle.

From the world's tallest building in Dubai, to the majestic bridge across the sea, to the water diversion project that shocked the world, all of them are needed.

As for the cost, as long as Gu Kun finds the construction party in Huaxia and borrows some new infrastructure plans, the cost may not be as high as Zhu Youdong imagined.

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