One day in early October, an Air China Airbus A320 flight that took off from Beijing and went directly to Lanfang landed at Lanfang International Airport as scheduled.

The plane was bustling with guests and almost completely full.

So much so that a few slightly wealthy but not so rich guests who originally planned to take advantage of the availability of seats in the first class cabin and temporarily add less money to upgrade the cabin after getting on the plane were a little unhappy.

As we all know, in the early years, it would be relatively expensive to buy first class directly when pre-purchasing tickets on the ground. And if the plane is about to take off, and the first class cabin has not been sold out, it is idle and wasteful at this time, and the flight attendant can help the interested economy class guests upgrade at a discount. (Later, some airlines upgraded their services, and the discounts were more flexible, and you can also redeem mileage points.) The trapeze mileage points that are often flown are not spent, and they can also be exchanged)

A person in a suit surnamed Yang whose name is inconvenient to disclose is sitting by the window of the first-class cabin at the moment, and he also has some emotion in his heart when he sees that the seats next to him are all full.

He was the CNOOC executive who had some business dealings with Gu Kun three years ago, in the spring of 1998. Considering that he is unwilling to reveal his name, let's call him Mr. Yang.

The purpose of his visit this time was also to attend the opening ceremony of the official commercial oil sale of Lanfang Oilfield, and by the way, he also shouldered the mission of some fraternal units, to help the lining lobby for some other things.

Of course, just like all other business executives or leaders of government agencies and institutions who have business dealings with Gu Kun. In the past three years, he has also been promoted because of the outstanding performance of the projects he has cooperated with Gu Kun.

Three years ago, he was just a head of CNOOC's overseas business unit. Now, with the final production of oil from Lanfang Oilfield and the start of commercial sales, Mr. Yang is already the vice president of CNOOC Corporation.

Some people may think, is such a promotion too fast?

After all, other people who followed Gu Kun to cooperate to reap the benefits of it took five or six years to rise so much.

For example, President Xu of Jiaotong University was only the dean of the Haiyuan Academy back then, and he was the vice president of Gu Kun shortly after he entered the school, and he has just arrived as the president now.

The other Gu Kun collaborators of the COSCO department have also climbed the first level in five or six years. Whether it was He Lan, who initially matched Gu Kun, or Mr. Ye of COSCO.

Mr. Yang of CNOOC has risen rapidly in three years, which is too exaggerated in the eyes of ordinary people, right?

But in fact, a careful analysis of the exploits he has made will show that this is not an exaggeration.

After all, in 2001, CNOOC still had few overseas cooperation projects. Although the name of the company "CNOOC" has the word "sea", it does not refer to overseas, but to offshore oil, and its original business was mainly to carry out business in the offshore waters of China, especially in the shallow sea of Tianjin.

Therefore, the scale of CNOOC is far less than one-fifth of that of PetroChina or Sinopec, and it is more than one percent of the market value. Any overseas project is a very valuable achievement. With reserves of 5 billion barrels upward, there is no small room for imagination.

In addition, Lanfang Guo did not have a local currency and borrowed RMB as its local currency, so when Huahaiyou bought oil from Lanfang, it should pay the settlement money to Lanfang in proportion, which is undoubtedly also in RMB.

This is the world's first batch of crude oil settled in RMB, which is an additional plus, which can be regarded as helping the internationalization of RMB. With such achievements, Mr. Yang was promoted from the overseas business department to the head office as a deputy in three years, which seemed logical.

And as an aside, the fact that the Lan side uses RMB to sell oil can only be done because of the situation of the Lan side and the international relations environment at that time.

Because the dogs of the Oceania countries are very ruthless about selling oil without dollars in international trade, the reason why the Lan side can be exempted is because the Lan side does not have its own central bank and local currency, and uses the RMB, so it is not easy for the Oceania country to use the RMB for transactions with other RMB countries.

And there are precedents for such exemptions, for example, after the establishment of the eurozone, many European countries have used the euro. And although the vast majority of European countries do not have oil resources to import oil, there are a few countries in the eurozone that have a small amount of oil.

For example, Hungary, which joined the European Union in 2004, and Romania, which joined the European Union in 2007, typically switched to the euro after joining, and then the small amount of exported oil sold by Hungary and Romania to Germany was also settled in euros.

Even if the Oceanic countries have to be the international stirrger, "the international crude oil trade is settled in dollars," it can only manage "transactions between two foreign countries with different currencies," but not "transactions between two foreign countries with the same currency." As long as the currency of the selling country and the buying country are the same, people can save trouble, and they can count dollars without having to do more.

The Oceanic countries would not dare to be so domineering as to obstruct even such a trivial matter, which would definitely cause global outrage.

On the other hand, Oceania does not dare to make a black hand on Gu Kun's foreign exchange settlement decision, which is also related to the current situation in Southeast Asia.

After all, Gu Kun did it in 98 and at a juncture when Wall Street Sogou caused extreme hostility among more than 500 million Southeast Asian people. Three years later, the strategic focus of the Oceanic States is now on Afghanistan and in the future, Iraq. Before the Middle East issue is completely resolved, they have no intention of "returning to the Asia-Pacific region" and "front-line existence" in Southeast Asia. Gu Kun took advantage of the vacuum period to create established facts, so he led his cooperative allies to make meritorious contributions together.

Gu Kundu gave such a big investment in sincerity and goodwill, and indirectly helped the internationalization of the RMB.

It is reasonable for CNOOC to give a high price subsidy when buying oil, and to ensure that "I will give you a protective floor price when the international oil price rises, and I will give you a protective floor price when the international oil price falls, or postpone the observation for a few months to ensure that the international oil price is down for a long time before lowering your purchase price".

Flower sedan chair people carry people, both sides are convenient with others and their own convenience. As long as Gu Kun firmly believes in being an old friend of the Chinese people, he will not lose his benefits in terms of oil money.

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Mr. Yang's "fairy and chicken dog" will stop in the past and will not be repeated.

In a word, he followed Gu Kun to get to where he is today, which further determined that he would continue to cooperate with Gu Kun more actively in his future career.

At the opening ceremony of the Lanfang Petroleum Company the day after tomorrow, the face that can be given must be given even more.

When his thoughts were flying, the male secretary next to him reminded him: "Mr. Yang, we are going to land, the ground temperature is very hot, why don't you just wear your shirt first, and I will help you get your coat." ”

As an executive in a central enterprise, you still have to pay attention to your public image, so Mr. Yang's secretaries are all men, in order to prevent others from gossiping.

After listening to the suggestions of his subordinates, Mr. Yang came back to his senses, he looked at the terminal and the shuttle bus outside the runway, and said with emotion:

"I really didn't expect that this place in Lanfang is becoming more and more like China in terms of culture and festival atmosphere. People who don't know think that they are taking a domestic flight, and when they get off the plane, it is still crowded with people, just like the National Day Golden Week. ”

Of course, he has been running to Lanfang every year over the years, but even if it was only last year or the year before last, he could feel that the festival atmosphere of Lanfang was different from that in China.

On the one hand, the traditional cultural atmosphere of the Spring Festival here is stronger, and it is necessary to adapt to the tropical climate and make adjustments.

On the other hand, it is the Lan side that obviously will not celebrate the "National Day" of China, after all, the Lan side ended its "protection" at the same time as Brunei on January 1, 1984, and the National Day is naturally different from that of the northern country.

In previous years, even if Mr. Yang came at eleven, he only felt that there were more domestic tourists in China than usual, and the life of the Lanfang people was as usual, and there was no festive preparation at all.

This year is the first year of the Golden Week in China, and Gu Kun set the opening date of Lanfang Petroleum Company's oil sales at this juncture, which led to the unusually festive and lively this year.

Mr. Yang can even infer in his heart: with the improvement of the quality of life of tens of thousands of people in Lanfang District by this oil field, I am afraid that Lanfang will give birth to a new festival out of thin air during the November Golden Week in the future, such as the "Oilfield Festival".

Maybe the festivity of this oilfield festival can be more grand than the National Day. After all, the fact that Lan Fang completely got rid of the protection of foreign colonial dogs back then actually didn't have much to celebrate for the common people. After the complete withdrawal of the Bretons in 84, the quality of life of the fishermen and farmers did not improve immediately. How can it be so cool to sell oil in the current oil fields and have benefits throughout the country.

Mr. Yang's secretary is surnamed Liu, so he is called Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu listened to the leader's emotion, and hurriedly echoed: "Who said no, Gu Kun chose to be the first to sell oil on this day, and it is estimated that he also wanted to curry favor with us, to be precise, to curry favor with Huaxia in international relations."

I have also seen the causes and consequences of the design exploration and development progress of the technical department and the engineering department, and I was in a hurry to rush the work, and the oil could be sold in the second quarter of the first half of the year. It was Gu Kun himself who asked for more benefits, didn't allow us to work overtime, and let our people work slowly, which dragged it out until now.

I think he just wants to create a tourism festival in Lanfang, which coincides with our future National Day holiday, so as to attract more tourists to us - after all, there are three Golden Weeks in China now, and they are the same as us during the New Year, they are all Chinese cultural circles, and May Day is unified all over the world. There is only one eleventh schedule left, and the performance of tourism growth and shopping growth in previous years is not as good as the Spring Festival and May Day.

Now that Gu Kun is doing this, the schedule of eleven in the future will also be fully squeezed out by him. Hey, don't say that Gu Kun is also a blessing and a good person. He just wanted to choose a holiday that caters to us to please us, but who knew that when I read the news this morning, it was Oceania, and during the day yesterday, that is, in the early hours of this morning, we officially announced the use of force against Afghanistan, and the price of oil has already begun to move.

If the Oceanic people can end the fighting as quickly as the Gulf War, then the price of oil will not continue to rise, and maybe it will fall back after a move. But I read a lot of analysis, and Oceanians underestimate Afghanistan, the 'graveyard of empires'.

Although Afghanistan and Iraq are not far away, the geographical environment is very different, and Iraq's two-river valley plain can be compared with Afghanistan, a country of ten thousand mountains. If Oceania is mired in the Middle East, oil prices will continue to rise all year round. Gu Kun delayed the sale, and he made a much higher starting price in vain, and when others mention the Lanfang Oilfield in the future, it will be opened at a high level of fifty or sixty dollars a barrel. ”

"Come on, I know it all. Mr. Yang listened for a while, got up and got off the plane, and told the secretary to stop.

Of course, he didn't scold, because he knew that the secretary was "giving things", lest there were any congratulatory words and selling points that could be blown up with Gu Kun Business at that time, Mr. Yang didn't know, and he had to remind him first as a secretary.

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