Gu Kun gave Mahathir the opportunity to invest and offered high-quality assets for the other party to share the investment dividends, in exchange for Mahathir and the Abu Dhabi consortium behind him, and united with the Lanfang people on the issue of leading the fashion trend of the global luxury industry.

Is this done authentically, and does it damage the prestige of the Lan people?

This is a very complex question, and to the uninitiated, it will surely find confusing.

Especially the Chinese, perhaps they have seen too much of the weak "humiliation of the New Year's coin" of the Song people, or the "harmony" of the Han Dynasty, or the "land reparation" of the late Qing Dynasty, so they are still a little resistant to the matter of giving up profits and seeking alliances.

After Mahathir and Gu Kun reached a secret tacit understanding, Gu Kun's subordinate, Tang Jia, who was in charge of foreign affairs, had to remind Gu Kun many times from the perspective of an international relations expert to pay attention to this situation.

"Kunkun, your purpose for this is good, but you also have to pay attention to the impact. Historically, when I went public or accepted external investment, it was in the spirit of making money, that is, I took unprofitable business to invest in those big oil dogs or retail investors.

If it's a very profitable business, and you still allow big oil dog investors or retail shareholders to share, it will be a shame. Money is a trivial matter, I am afraid that you will leave a weak image of 'losing power and humiliating the company, and paying compensation for relatives' to your peers, which is not conducive to you leading the top luxury fashion, how can a weak big boss be sought after. ”

These words were reminded by Tang Jia the day after Mahathir was sent away.

Gu Kun listened to the advice of his subordinates, but he was very calm and Zhizhu was in his hands: "You also said that small money is not important, the key is reputation." Therefore, if we do a good job of secrecy, wouldn't it be good, give money without giving face, and give money without letting people know that we gave money, then it doesn't matter. What we pay is just 'unimportant little money' and nothing else. ”

Tang Jia was a little puzzled: "This ...... Can confidentiality be done so well?"

Gu Kun lit a cigar: "If I can't do it, I'll suppress those new luxury brands that Mahathir has invested in, so that Mahathir will lose money, and this is all in the attached secret agreement." Anyway, if he wants to get the benefits, he has to make sure that he cooperates with us throughout the whole process. ”

Gu Kun said, talking about it with great interest, and couldn't help but give a specific example: "Jiajia, you are studying international relations, anyway, it's okay today, I'll tell you something about the past and the present."

Let's put it this way, do you think that the rule of Wenjingzhi and the Xiongnu and the alliance of the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty gave the New Year's coin, where is the shame of these things?

Tang Jia: "Of course women and money are not important, the key is that the Xiongnu don't want women, the Xiongnu Shan Yuken secretly dragged the princess of the Han Dynasty to sleep like elopement?

In the same way, for Song, 30,000 taels of silver silk per Chinese New Year's Eve is a fart. In the past two years, I don't know if you have paid attention to the country, there is a new thing called the Internet, I saw this year that there is a book that crossed into the Song Dynasty network, which mentioned the little old coins for the Liao and Western Xia, in fact, the Song people earned back several times and dozens of times through the later trade of the field, which caused the financial difficulties of the Liao State.

But the key is that the Song people have lost face, and after giving money once, people feel that you are weak and can be bullied, and the negative speculation about your determination to resist in the field of international relations is the biggest harm!"

When you were a child, you were bullied at school and robbed you of five dollars, and you admitted it, the biggest loss in this matter is of course not the five dollars, but the "this kid can't fight, and he is also afraid to make trouble at the teacher's place, so it doesn't matter if he robs his money, he can still come to rob it next time he has no money to spend".

Once this realization spreads in the circle, don't mix up the kid who was robbed. This is a truth that primary school students understand, so many primary school students are bullied ruthlessly, even if the trouble is out of control, they have to take revenge, revenge is to regain their prestige that cannot be bullied, is to kill the enemy.

Therefore, Gu Kun just reminded Tang Jia: "What you said is very reasonable, but it is precisely because this kind of inertial thinking is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that it is easy for many people to be in the dark, and it is easy to associate 'sending money' and 'losing face' together, and ignoring the possibility that another operation is very subtle, that is, 'I only send money without losing face, I sent money and did great things, but outsiders still don't know that I sent money'." The key here is whether it's open or secret.

When the Song Dynasty sent money to the Liao people, secrecy was of little significance, because in the world at that time, international relations were too simple, and you can't deceive yourself about the Song and Liao sides, so the Song people didn't play the string of 'international relations conspiracy' in their minds.

But in fact, if the Song people could give money to the Liao people secretly, and not let other international forces and fetters know, it would actually be beneficial-that would at least not give the later Western Xia people a psychological expectation that 'it is easy to take New Year's coins from the Song'. It's just that the corrupt Confucians who engaged in diplomacy in the Song Dynasty were too mentally retarded, so they messed up again and again.

Why are we Chinese always overly sensitive to 'compromise with foreign countries', and always feel that it is not good when we mention it, and that when we mention it, it involves 'weak countries without diplomacy'? It is because we are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as the superior country of the Celestial Empire and the country of the central government, so we subconsciously feel that there are only 'China' and 'foreign countries', that all foreign countries are one, and that all foreign countries are interconnected and open up the whole picture to see through the perspective of God.

But in reality, foreign countries are a group of countries. The more modern they get, the less intelligence is shared, and if you compromise with one of them in exchange for greater practical benefits, the other counterparties don't necessarily know, and the French can't see the Italians' field of vision, and for them Italy is shrouded in the fog of war.

Therefore, in this case, weak countries also have diplomacy, and 'inter with Qi Chu' is the diplomacy of weak countries, giving one of them a little benefit in secret, but in exchange for the other party openly respecting you and fearing you, and respecting you as the leader of a certain field, this is the most successful diplomacy of weak countries, there is nothing to be ashamed of, why should we be ashamed of secretly giving Mahathir money in exchange for Mahathir openly respecting us as the leader of the alliance?"

Gu Kun's thinking was very clear.

Just like the Cuban missiles in the 60s, if you really look at the actual cost in the end, the scale of the medium-range ballistic missiles that Kennedy withdrew from Italy and Turkey was far greater than the number of slippers that he withdrew from Cuba.

But Kennedy won because he withdrew late, and in the form of a secret supplementary agreement that did not disgrace, ostensibly claiming that "we took the initiative to leave six months after the bald head removed the slippers, because we ourselves did not want to continue to deploy ballistic missiles in Turkey, not because we made a deal with the bald head."

So that Kennedy would have face.

This is the grand strategy for the success of high-IQ people.

It's not the same as the protagonist of Xiaobaiwen who can't stand it at all, he must be just to the end, and he can't be coerced at all, and if he is a little angry, he will be coerced by Xiaobaiwen readers with the threat of abandoning the text.

There is no shame in giving money.

As long as you give money to no one knows, and you can hit the recipient in the face, so that the recipient agrees to get the money at the cost of being slapped in public, then the party giving the money is a top successful person.

"This ...... Is there still such a way in the world to consider the issue of international relations...... It seems that I am indeed a bit narrow-minded. I feel that the international relations I studied at Jiao Tong University was all in vain. Is it really because I have always subconsciously felt that there are only 'China' and 'foreign countries' in the world, and that all foreign countries share a common vision, so this blind spot has arisen......

Tang Jia couldn't help but feel shocked in her heart, and felt that Gu Kun, a non-Chinese person, had refreshed her cognition.

It's really dark under the lights.

Gu Kun saw that she was enlightened, and finally nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, it's good that you can accept this, I hope it can guide you to do a better job of foreign affairs for Lan Fang in the future, and know which benefits can be conceded not only without shame, but also with a long face."

I'm going to test you now, do you think, as a national ideaner, let you stand from the perspective of a bystander, and then look at the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, those Han generals who dealt with the Hu people in the north, who are the real heroes - you also said that in the past two years, something called 'Internet' has risen on the Internet, and historical travel should also be one of the more mainstream contents.

According to those Xiaobai's statements, Gongsun Chan must be a big hero, there is no doubt about this, but Youzhou Mu Liu Yu is said to be a surrender faction, because he likes Huairou, even if his prestige among the Hu people is so high that a letter can make Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuhuan, beg for mercy and surrender, and behead the traitor, there are still many Xiaobai complaints.

Some people also say that Liu Yu is hypocritical and upright on the surface, but in fact, after being killed by Gongsun Zan in the end, it was found that Liu Yu's concubines were all wearing gold and silver, and the family property accumulated countless amounts, which shows that his prestige for subduing Wuhu was actually bought by spending money to reward foreign races - what do you think about this?"

Tang Jia is rarely serious, and seems to have returned to the diligence and seriousness when he was studying at Jiaotong University. She thought very carefully, and then replied firmly:

"Gongsun Chan is still a great national general, and his contribution to defending the country and driving out Hu Lu is certain.

However, Liu Yu is not a coward who complains about Xiaobai, the real world is complex, and it is not a simple dichotomy of 'the enemy of the good guy or the bad guy'.

If Liu Yu lived in the Western Han Dynasty and lived in an era when there were only Xiongnu except for the Han Dynasty, then his practice of secretly spending money to beat the Hu people and warning the Hu people not to reveal how much money he took to be loyal to the Han Dynasty was worthless, and it was as humiliating and traitorous as the Song Dynasty's New Year's coins.

But the key is that Liu Yu was not born in an era when there was only one kind of 'Hu' of the Xiongnu, he was facing the Wuhu, so as long as he could be like the modern master of high-end international relations, he could do a good job of ensuring that the Wuhu could not open a full picture of each other, so that the Wuhu would be suspicious of each other's price code.

Then, he secretly sent money to one or two of them to buy loyalty, did not betray the international prestige of the Han Dynasty, did not let the other Hu despise the Han because of this, and separated the Wuhu and let them eat dogs, Liu Yu's actions are also national heroes.

For example, the rise of Germany can be attributed not only to the military victories of Gongsun Chan or Marshal Moltke, but also to Bismarck's or Liu Yu's diplomatic fraud. The general bribery of Dan and Austria does not know the bribery of Dan, the general bribery of Austria does not know the bribery of Austria, the general bribery of France and the British does not know the general bribery law, you bribe a and the law does not know that you bribe a person, with this ability, it is a genius of diplomatic deception. ”

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