"Brother Ma, why is it embarrassing for you to send me today. When I first came to the capital, you were also here to pick me up. ”

At the military airport in the southern suburbs of Beijing, when Gu Kun's Lincoln car arrived, he saw that Ma Feng had already been waiting there in advance, so he hurriedly got out of the car and shook hands with the other party.

To tell the truth, Ma Feng has no interest in friendship with him. The previous exchanges between the two sides were only like-minded and sympathetic to each other in terms of business views, and there was a kind of "heroes see the same thing" to see each other.

Moreover, the specific functional departments that Ma Feng works in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs are not from the Department of Maritime Trade, and Gu Kun's visit to China this time has no direct relationship with his political achievements. It's just that the two had a personal relationship before, so they were introduced through Ma Feng.

In this case, Ma Feng is so concerned about his affairs, which is really righteous.

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Ma Feng said bluntly: "Brother Gu, we can be regarded as gentlemen's friends, not to mention those false ones." The main reason is that some words must be written into the memorandum during formal negotiations, and it is inconvenient to say them. So before you go south today, the leader specially asked me to convey it. ”

Gu Kun listened respectfully: "Brother Ma said, you are showing the way to the younger brother." ”

Ma Feng looked left and right: "COSCO, after all, it serves the overall situation of the country, which country's port to choose in Nanyang to stop and replenish, this can also be used as a card to attract foreign countries, you should be able to understand this, right?"

"Of course, this is understood, just like the competent department of culture and tourism, support foreign-related tourism, and guide the people to travel to which country, depending on which country is better for China. Gu Kun understood as soon as he heard it, and he also drew inferences.

Because he has seen too many examples of this in later generations.

After entering the 21st century, the coastal countries of Southeast Asia have some minor disputes with China.

At this time, "tourism diplomacy" is an important card, who is friendly to China and willing to "put aside disputes", then the Chinese diplomatic department and the cultural and tourism department will work together to guide the people to visit those countries when they visit the sea in tropical tourism.

Before 2010, Thailand has always shared the most benefits from it, that is, because Thailand's territorial waters are in the Gulf of Siam and do not border the South China Sea, so the Thais made a lot of money at the earliest.

Later, the Vietnamese, Malays, and Filipinos couldn't hold back anymore, and they gave in one after another, just to make more money now, temporarily pinching their noses and "shelving the dispute" with you, and finally being slowly consumed by boiled frogs in warm water "since ancient times".

However, this point of view was still very fresh in 94, and even few Chinese people could understand it.

In addition, in 94, the Chinese people are still relatively poor, and there are only a small number of "Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand selected routes" in Southeast Asia, and even the tourism tycoons of the Nanyang countries rarely understand it.

Gu Kun said it so incisively and lightly, he had to shock Ma Feng.

He was originally prepared to spend a lot of words to make Gu Kun slowly accept the reality of this philistine.

"Ahem...... Brother Gu, you are really a happy person, you can understand it at one point, this saves me a lot of tongue, and it is easy to talk to smart people. Ma Feng laughed at himself awkwardly, and then skipped the originally prepared persuasion and directly apportioned the answer.

"Then I'll tell you clearly, the country, for one more spare tire to balance Li Jiapo in Nanyang and increase the risk resistance of China's foreign trade routes, it must be supported.

However, now we have relatively good relations with the West, and Li Jiapo has always followed the ocean country in diplomacy. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, as long as the relationship between Oceania and us does not deteriorate, we will not be guilty of withdrawing from Lijiapo in a big way.

Therefore, the Lantian side has to receive more work, one is to wait for changes in the international situation, and the other is to see whether you can make more friendly gestures towards China. A lot of chips can be traded across circles, not necessarily if you give me economic benefits, I will return your financial benefits...... You can comprehend this by yourself, and it is difficult to elaborate on it. ”

These words, as expected, cannot be conveyed through the official negotiations written in the memorandum, but only between friends.

Gu Kun nodded solemnly: "I understand, then, I have an operational problem, I want to ask Brother Ma to make it clear: I don't know, what areas are COSCO willing to carry out some cross-circle exchanges for the interests of the country?"

Ma Feng: "COSCO is a maritime company after all, and the exchange chips they are willing to serve the country cannot be too far away from the maritime field." In general, the biggest credit is definitely the issue of territorial waters, but you definitely can't help with this.

Secondly, there is cooperation in naval equipment, providing a convenient environment for special marine projects around the South China Sea, or cooperation in marine cultural relics/ecological protection and fishery law enforcement...... These areas, as long as you have a friendly attitude and achievements towards China, will be weighed. It's hard to go into details. ”

It's really hard to go into details.

After all, the country's industrial orientation and foreign cooperation support scale are not a system.

If there is a system, it will be easy to do, and directly give you a "ding" sound, and a task will emerge: "Help the country to cover up, buy a foreign unfinished aircraft carrier, and the prestige of the national maritime department +2000"

Or "help the country recover a batch of ancient shipwrecks and cultural relics in the South China Sea, XX prestige +500", "help the country win N votes at the International Conference on Fishery Law Enforcement and Fishing Moratorium and Environmental Protection in the South China Sea, XX prestige +300", "hand in a US military's most advanced towed sonar prestige +50, and hand over a new US military unmanned submarine detector prestige +100"......

But after listening to Ma Feng give him a thorough explanation, Gu Kun at least knew that this "hard currency bargaining" did exist, and he would see it in his eyes.

It's just that there is no system that gives you a specific value, so that you can't see the progress bar, and it is inevitable that you will be itchy when you do good deeds, and you don't know if your efforts are worth it.

But that's life.

In reality, when you chase a woman, there is still no progress bar, and you can't see the favorability, but you have to chase it.

A person with perseverance and a good mentality, as long as he is told that he will definitely succeed if he works hard, there will definitely be a good reward, he will work hard, and he can hold on without a phased progress bar.

The progress bar is only for people who are not strong-willed, to prevent the collapse of the confused mentality after half of the struggle.

"I know what to do, thanks to Brother Mar. Don't thank you for your kindness, if you have any difficulties in the future, just come to me. Gu Kun shook hands firmly with Ma Feng at the end, and then said goodbye to the plane.

"Have a nice trip. Ma Feng stood on the side of the runway and waved.

……

From Beijing to Hujiang, it is only a short two-hour flight.

Along the way, Gu Kun pondered Ma Feng's words and screened the chips for himself in the next stage in exchange for Chinese support.

Those tasks of "adding prestige" are not something that can be done casually, and some things can only be involved if you have enough strength in yourself.

Moreover, the environment must allow.

Although the cooperation between the military industry and the territory can theoretically get the most support for the shipping industry and tourism, Gu Kun thought about it a little and rejected this direction of efforts first.

The reason is very simple, Gu Kun also thought through - at the moment, the relationship between China and the West is still very good.

Historically, after the end of the Cold War, Oceania was not the first to find China as its new imaginary enemy. It was not until about 96 that some military crises forced the Chinese side to protect themselves.

If Gu Kun intervenes too early, not only will he not get too many benefits, but he will not be able to wait for the treatment of "strange goods", and he will even expose himself.

Generally speaking, according to the laws of history, the years when there are no military crises are the ones in which the interpenetration between countries is the most serious. And once there is a military crisis, the lurking needs of both sides to do things, and it is easy to be exposed.

Therefore, we have to wait until 96 years when the fuzi of both sides are spontaneously exposed, and the interior is clean, and some international cooperation can be considered.

After excluding the two areas that have benefited the most but cannot be done temporarily due to security concerns, there is not much left to "brush up the prestige of the faction".

"Cooperation in fishery law enforcement and environmental protection, cooperation in the protection of maritime cultural relics, and cooperation in the protection of maritime cultural relics seems to be relatively easy to implement for the time being, and there are countless ancient merchant ship wrecks in the South China Sea from the Tang and Song dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are many porcelain and other non-perishable cultural relics on them...... Next time I go back to Lanfang and save enough money to get a salvage clipper, I can start preparing for this!"

Gu Kun thought of the place of pride, and couldn't help but be satisfied.

Moreover, he has one of the biggest advantages in doing this - before he was reborn, he was involved in various maritime businesses in Southeast Asia for 20 years, and he remembered some of the major ancient shipwreck salvage records of various countries.

Among the most famous shipwrecks, he still remembers the latitude and longitude coordinates accurate to the second!

I couldn't fish before, mainly because the equipment was not good enough, and the boat was not fast enough, so if I operated secretly, I couldn't avoid the fishery patrol ships of the Indonesians or Vietnamese.

It was decided that the focus of the next stage of personal work would be shifted to this field.

As for the hard-earned money of fishing in person, it is better to do less and save energy. That thing doesn't have a lot of money, and it's capped at one million per trip.

"Boss, fasten your seatbelts, you're about to land. ”

Gu Kun was still pondering in his mind when Gao Jianxiong's voice interrupted him.

Gu Kun subconsciously raised his head, only to remember that he was sitting on a transport plane, without a porthole, and he couldn't see the scenery outside.

……

The plane stopped on the runway, Gu Kun sat in the car, and Gao Jianxiong drove directly from the tail of the plane out of the cabin, without taking a single step.

The sunlight outside made his pupils shrink instantly, and when he adjusted to the brightness outside, he found that there was still a group of guards with guns standing guard next to the runway.

Is the salary of charter planes so high these days?

Gu Kun subconsciously pressed down the window and waved his hand in a friendly manner: "Comrades, hard work!"

"Serve the people!" the security personnel outside also instinctively responded in unison.

Gu Kun shrank his hand, and then realized that some condolences could not be said nonsense.

Heaven and earth conscience, he really didn't mean it. After all, he didn't say "hello comrades" first, right?