Gu Kun knew that the re-hostility of the Oceanic countries to the Eastern world in history was about after April and May 1996. As a person who had been begging for a living at sea in his previous life, he was too sensitive to movements in this regard.

The reason why we want to add "renew" is because we were hostile during the Cold War, and we relaxed for a few years after the end of the Cold War.

However, after May '96, it was already an escalation to consider the use of military confrontation, and if you dig into the subtleties, the initial cause of this matter can be pushed back half a year - that was around 1995, around November, when Wanwan began to disagree and spread some inappropriate remarks.

It's just that from November '95 to April '96, everyone was fighting diplomatically, which was a foreshadowing, and neither side thought deeply about showing their muscles at first.

Nanbang's Daewoo Shipbuilding was able to succeed in the fire at the end of 95, on the one hand, because people are sensitive and have a sensitive sense of smell, and on the other hand, because Nanbang has always been the little brother of Oceania, so Nanbang Company has not been monitored much.

It can be seen that this kind of business, seeing the general trend and timing of the world, is much more important than its own strength and friendship.

A person with a very hardcore friendship background, he spent a lot of money to do it a year later. In other words, it is possible to do it at a small cost as long as it is a year in the morning.

For Gu Kun, he estimated that his biggest difficulty was not to make up his mind to buy a boat, but how to make people believe that he really bought a boat for the sake of tourism.

He can be willing to stop making money for a while and wait for the time. But he can't let others "think" him like that.

In the eyes of others, he must act like a man who wants to make quick money.

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Early the next morning, Manager Cheryshev, who had just gotten up from the woman's belly, heard Gu Kun's intentions, and was immediately speechless:

"Dear Gu, are you telling the truth? Just because you still have four or five million dollars in hand and want to spend them on our investment in Hekland, you can just look for a project? Our Kherson shipyard still has a lot of products to meet your needs, so why should you go to the people of Nikolaev!"

Cheryshev has already tasted the sweetness of doing business with Gu Kun and is addicted, and there are definitely not many businesses in this world that are discounted in public accounts and opened in private accounts.

It is equivalent to him selling a ship of a former state-owned enterprise, and the money equivalent to 15% of the original price, or 30% of the actual book transaction price, will become his money and that of other business managers/management.

This kind of good thing, the more the merrier, how can you let the gold owner go.

Fortunately, Gu Kun had fully understood his personality, so he had a showdown with him in time:

"Mr. Cheryshev, whether I buy Kherson goods or Nikolaev goods, your share will not be less. You will always be my introducer for all my business in the Greater Odessa region, and I am a very righteous person who will not go it alone from suppliers with excellent cooperation experience. My only request is that you can't let the people of Nikolaev know how much money you have taken. ”

Gu Kun knows the business logic below the countertop, and he must not do it like the official business above the countertop.

For businesses above the countertop, price reduction is the first priority. In a business below the table, not offending people is the first priority. Otherwise, the cost will only be greater than that of official business.

We want to pull more people into the water, and everyone is in harmony. Preferably, this group of harmonies will not collude with each other.

Or at least let them all wear masks, even if they take a bath together, kill chickens together, and pretend to be completely honest and colluding, the number of "how much benefit I actually got" told others is much lower than the real data, pretending to be pitiful, so as not to make the other party jealous and unwilling.

Gu Kun was not afraid of giving Cheryshev money, he was only afraid that the number he gave Cheryshev would cause jealousy when it fell into the ears of the relevant person in charge of the Nikolaev shipyard that he was going to cooperate with in the future.

Of course, Cheryshev also understood as soon as he heard it: "Gu, you are so open, I have made a friend of yours, we are friends for life." I know how to do this kind of thing. ”

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In the afternoon of the same day, Gu Kun met with the Nikolaev shipyard, a manager who was solely responsible for the evaluation and disposal of decommissioned and scrapped assets. An old man with slightly gray hair and a mustache named Dimitri.

The two sides naturally staggered for a while, and Gu Kun also put forward his own needs just right, and after a little negotiation, Dimitri said that there was no problem in principle, and the abandoned mothership could have been sold. It's just that whether it is based on scrap prices has to be specifically evaluated.

In addition, it is necessary to consider whether to disassemble the power system of the "Kharkov" before selling. Because according to industry practice, those who sell scrap steel are dismantled and dismantled.

Of course, Gu Kun said that he didn't want to dismantle the power system, and the price was that he could add money.

For this reason, Gu Kun put forward a very realistic reason: "Uncle Dimitri, I hope you recognize a practical difficulty. You Nikolaev shipyards, and even the factories in Kherson and Sevastopol next door, have a problem, and that is that you are shipyards on the Black Sea.

If your ship is to be sold abroad, it must pass through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles of the Ottomans. Historically, the Ottomans refused on the grounds that towing unpowered ships through the strait would threaten the safety of the shipping lanes.

In addition, this drag risk justification, for Asian buyers, can also be applied to the passage of the Suez Canal. If the Suez Canal refuses, we will have to go through the Strait of Gibraltar and finally pass through the Cape of Good Hope by towing power, which is too much of a cost!

If you have to feel that the power system and the navigation control system are sensitive, you must dismantle it, and I hope that you would better wait for our sailors to drive the ship through the Bosphorus and the Suez Canal on their own steering, and then find a third-party controlled port to dismantle it.

For example, the port of Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, I think it is good. Then we can find a tugboat and drag this pile of rag from the port of Aden back to the Blue side, then it will be enough to cross the Indian Ocean.

Of course, what we hope most is that you allow us to drive the ship directly back to Lanzhou, and we can hire your people to travel abroad, not on a business trip, to supervise the construction at Lanzhou's ship repair yard, completely dismantle the power system and navigation control system, and transport it back to your Hekland. Or it can be dismantled and destroyed under the supervision of the site. ”

What Gu Kun said was very practical in maritime operations, and they were all truths, and the other party couldn't help but believe them.

Anyway, he left the conditions there, and if he didn't dismantle the steam turbine and boiler, he could give an extra $1 million. Because the tugboat fee and insurance premium that can be saved without demolition add up to 1 million, which is a real cost saving.

As for the form in which it is given, it depends on how the other party wants to operate.

"We can also consider this in principle, so let's conduct follow-up negotiations according to the framework of not dismantling the power system. We're going to evaluate the price one last time. ”

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Dimitri took the people back to appraise the price.

Two days later, he quoted Gu Kun a high price of seven million US dollars.

"What are you kidding, this ship will be sold for a maximum of $4 million for scrap! Mr. Dimitri, don't you understand the market? Even if you add the hard work of the power system, I will never ask for more than 5 million!" Gu Kun became angry directly.

Dimitri had to patiently explain to him: "Gu, after all, we Nikolaev are also big factories, and we also have a financial supervision department. At our internal meeting, one of the annoying guys suggested that your ship could be reused for military research, and maybe it would be able to extort you some more money.

They don't mean that they can't be sold. I'll open the skylight with you and say something, in fact, we don't care if you buy it for military purposes, or if you really open a museum, we just need to collect money. They just feel that people who want to use it to study the reverse are willing to pay a higher price, and that's it. ”

Gu Kun: "The conscience of heaven and earth! I am the owner of a tropical scenic country in Southeast Asia! I just want to build the tourism industry in my own territory! So as long as it is not a cost-effective business, I will never do it! Dimitri, please make sure that those people in your factory who may do bad things believe that I am really a cultural and tourism tycoon, otherwise I don't want it!"

Speaking of this, Gu Kun changed his words and said simply and rudely: "Can you invite the questioning people out, play together, and see each other frankly?"

Dimitri laughed strangely: "I'm afraid the other party is not interested, it is the kind of difficult and ugly old woman, who is not interested in eating, drinking and having fun between us men." ”

Gu Kun shook his head: "Then is there a way to bypass her and directly make the bigger leaders believe me?"

Dimitri: "That's fine, but I want you to not only arrange for you to be honest, but also to really say that you're ugly." Because once several important people in the collective decision-making are invited by you, everyone wants to save face, and the reasons you say cannot be convincing to the public, they will also be afraid that they will fall into the hands of each other, so they will have scruples. ”

Gu Kun: "Don't worry, I have a lot of research on tourism, I just see that buying a mothership to engage in tourism is really profitable, you have to believe me." ”

Dimitri: "Then I'll hire someone for you." ”