Chapter 55: Spending money is my job

After having a bunch of new Lan Fang's official identities, Gu Kun has a lot more confidence in his swagger and deception next time he returns to China.

However, the necessary preparations still need to be made.

After more than a week, Gu Kun made a preliminary review of the preparation documents and plans that might be used in the negotiation - all relying on his half-understanding of the shipping company when he ran the shipping company in his previous life, and the historical cases he knew.

After all, in his previous life, he did not systematically study maritime university or marine engineering, so he relied on the education of a high school student and slowly learned by experience in decades of work.

The professional planning work is handed over to the highly educated and professional assistants around you.

Gu Kun himself can only be said to be well-informed and well-informed, so he understands shipping management/port planning a little.

However, it is enough to deceive the relevant departments of China, which are not very professional in international trade and ocean for 94 years. In 94, there are not many professional maritime/marine engineering students in COSCO.

Doing planning can be done anytime and anywhere, so Gu Kun will not delay making money.

HE GOT AN IBM THINKPAD LAPTOP, COPIED A BUNCH OF RELATED MATERIALS IN KUCHING, BORROWED AND BOUGHT A LOT OF BOOKS AND PERIODICALS AS REFERENCES, AND THEN MOVED TO HIS BIGGEST AND FASTEST FISHING BOAT.

Then, on the way from Kuching to Canton, the project was completed.

Along the way, he also personally explored the fish every day, commanded his subordinates to fish, and easily made millions of net profits on one trip.

On June 1, "Benma 001" finally docked in Guangdong.

"Galloping Horse 001" is the name of Gu Kun's largest and fastest fishing boat just mentioned, which he just recently chosen.

Because traditional small and medium-sized fishing boats are not eligible to take names such as "so-and-so"/"so-and-so maru".

Most of the fishing boats seen by Chinese people are "Zheyu XXXX" or "Minyu YYYY", which is the same as the car license plate number, just a string of numbers and letters.

Lanfang's fishing boats are also divided according to the fishing area, or directly called "Lanyu ZZZZ". Gu Kun's three boats could only be directly called Lanyu + numbers and letters.

However, after he became the "owner of Benma Island" and the "director of the Management Committee of Benma Island Tourism Development Zone", according to the relevant laws and regulations of the Lan side, he can name the new fishing area - Benma Island is to the Lan side, in fact, it is equivalent to the provincial-level administrative regions such as Zhejiang/Fujian to China, a reason.

Why don't you use it if you have a "pretty number"?

When he went ashore, Gu Kun called Xu Feng first as usual and asked Xu Feng to send someone to receive the goods.

Xu Feng didn't realize that Gu Kun's identity had changed, and he didn't even show extra respect, and on the grounds that he was busy with business, he asked a subordinate Ma Tsai to take care of this kind of daily purchase and settlement work, and paid Gu Kun more than 1 million seafood.

After receiving the money, Gu Kun asked the other sailors to return with the ship. I only brought two bodyguards, Gao Jianxiong and Xu Hu, to stay at the White Swan Hotel and book a flight to the capital the next day.

When checking in, the female receptionist of the White Swan Hotel was really surprised when she saw Gu Kun taking out a diplomatic passport, and subconsciously popped out a few words in a foreign language - although Gu Kun did not accept the title of counselor, non-governmental exchange organizations with China can also issue diplomatic passports, which is not a conflict.

Fortunately, Gu Kun told her in Chinese, and Gu Kun's face was also obviously Chinese, and the female front desk reacted.

In the end, Gu Kun booked a standard room for the two horses, and he lived in a business suite.

After returning to the guest room, Gu Kun took a bath to relieve the fatigue of the voyage, and called a serious Masha pilot to knead it.

Taking advantage of the moment of relaxation, he also silently calculated his current assets and cash flow in his heart.

As mentioned earlier, even if he no longer personally opens and directs fishing at sea, just relying on his subordinates to operate his fleet, the total profit of foreign trade and fishing can be nearly one million every month.

And if he leads the team in person, he can add nearly a million more to one trip.

It is now the beginning of June, and with the recent vote to China, his total assets have increased by more than 2 million more than when he first killed Chen Mingcheng.

In addition, although he spent the equivalent of 3.5 million yuan on the purchase and development rights before, just a few days ago, he directly found a branch of a foreign bank in Lanfang and mortgaged the development rights for a loan of 3 million.

As a result, Gu Kun's current controllable assets have reached as much as 15 million yuan - of which more than 5.5 million are the value of his fixed assets of sea vessels, 3.5 million are island development rights, and about 1 million yuan are garage yachts.

So the real asset is worth 10 million.

The cash flow on hand is 5 million, and at the same time, it just owes a loan of 5 million (2 million by the previous mortgage of the ship, 3 million by the mortgage of the island development rights).

In other words, his net worth after deducting liabilities is exactly 10 million, which is exactly the same as the value of his physical assets. And the cash flow is also just hedged against the loan.

The 5 million cash can be used at will during his time in China, or used as a faΓ§ade, or used for pomp and circumstance to make friends with dignitaries, it doesn't matter.

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The next day, because the flight was going to be noon, there was no need to rush, so Gu Kun got up quite late.

After washing up, I was ready to go downstairs for a buffet breakfast, but I was startled as soon as I went out.

It turned out that Gao Jianxiong and Xu Hu were like when they were in the army, standing guard at his door.

Although neither of them wore military uniforms, but the black suits for ordinary bodyguards that Gu Kun bought for them, that posture still made many residents look sideways.

"When did you stand here? "Gu Kun is very awkward.

Gao Jianxiong actually saluted him: "It didn't take long for me to start standing at seven o'clock in the morning, and I didn't dare to disturb your rest." You are now a foreign envoy, and when you come to the territory of China, we should protect our international friends. ”

Gu Kun felt a chill in his heart......

I'm not an official envoy at all, and I'm not an official dignitary! Can you not be so restrained just because I have a diplomatic passport?

However, it is estimated that with the ideological education and simple three views that Gao Jianxiong and others received, it is useless to talk about it for a while.

Gu Kun could only tell them to follow him and go downstairs to eat the buffet.

Then the two of them stepped on the neat and uniform steps that deliberately suppressed their voices, and quietly followed behind.

When eating the buffet, Xu Hu's eyes moistened while eating, and Gao Jianxiong, who still had better psychological quality, scolded him in a low voice to let him control his emotions.

Xu Hu snorted and apologized: "I'm sorry, Mr. Gu, I am a soldier who has turned into a career, and I never thought that one day I would be able to live in a white swan and eat a buffet here." I didn't sleep all night last night, I'm a rough person, I can't speak. ”

Gu Kun patted the two of them on the shoulder and encouraged easily: "Follow me to work hard, there will be more opportunities to open your eyes in the future." ”

After eating the self-service check-out, the three of them took a taxi to Baiyun Airport. Gao and Xu also took a civil aviation plane for the first time, and during the period, they had to be restrained and curious, and secretly felt that they had followed a good boss.

Three hours later, the flight arrived in Beijing, and Gu Kun and his entourage met an old friend at the airport to pick up the plane, who was Ma Feng, who worked in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs.

Before Gu Kun came, he had called Ma Feng and said what he hoped to negotiate in China this time.

With the business environment in the 90s, COSCO Group is also inextricably linked with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs.

In addition to the professional maritime business, many other major policies of COSCO have to follow the planning of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics, so Gu Kun is absolutely wrong to find a friend from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs to introduce him.

However, he still didn't expect Ma Feng to come to pick up the flight, and he was really a little too enthusiastic.

"Chief Ma, how embarrassing is this, I should come to visit after I settle down. This time, I'm actually here to explore the way. Gu Kun talked and laughed freely with Ma Feng.

Ma Feng was very polite: "It should be, it should be, although this matter is not in my charge, but to help matchmaking and promote foreign cooperation, the more the better." Brother Gu, you came to me to give me results. You will stay in the Friendship Hotel for the next few days, I will make a reservation for you, now do you want to stay and wash the dust first, or go to the ministry first?"

Gu Kun waved his hand: "It's too grand, it's too grand." ”

Ma Feng: "Countries don't matter how big or small, I heard that you have changed shotguns this time." ”

Gu Kun: "It's better to wait for tomorrow, I'll clean up, and then visit the door, and I'll deal with some personal matters today." Since you sent a car, let's take us to Dongzhimen first. ”

"You're going to the embassy district on an errand. Ma Feng immediately understood and instructed the driver to drive.

An hour later, the car traveled from the Beijing Airport to the northeasternmost corner of the embassy area outside Dongzhimen, and stopped at the entrance of the Lanfang Pavilion, which was somewhere in the same building as the Malayan Pavilion, with only a few offices, and even the envoys lived next to the offices.

Further north, there are the Korean Pavilion, the Asan Pavilion and the Ocean Pavilion.

When Gu Kun arrived, the Lan Fang personnel stationed abroad had obviously been taken care of by Sa Wuyang, so he prepared what Gu Kun wanted - he divided one of the two "make" license plates from the Lan Fang Pavilion for Gu Kun to use, so that he could run around and run errands during his stay in China.

The Lan side is a small foreign country, but the management is too chaotic.

Then, Gu Kun went to a nearby car shop, found a ready-made car and bought one, and then went to the vehicle management office to put the spare prefix license plate on it.

94 years S500 and even S600 Daben, in China is not very rare, the capital of this kind of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, at least can find hundreds of cars, and the general price of Daben will not exceed one million.

Since he came to seek cooperation, Gu Kun certainly wanted to make himself look more confident, so he spent 2 million to buy a top-of-the-line executive version of the extended Lincoln. It's also a loss to the capital, such luxury cars can actually have physical samples, and Gu Kun can pick up the car with one hand and the other.

This car is equipped with a license plate, and it is absolutely enough to pretend to be lethal.

After everything was done, Gu Kun remembered a question: "Lao Gao, can you drive a big car with your driver's license? ”

Gao Jianxiong: "Mr. Gu, don't worry, I took photos of various carts when I was in the army. ”

Xu Hu, who didn't know much about it, couldn't help but ask: "Why don't you get a driver's license for a sedan to drive this car? ”

Gu Kun: "It's already more than six meters." ”