Three days later, Gu Kun finally took Gao Jianxiong and embarked on the road back to China.

All the details of the deal for the purchase and conversion of the ship have been negotiated.

Du Guowei was temporarily left in Hekeland by Gu Kun, and he also left him some extra budget to spend a while - he finally persuaded Gu Kun to stay in the Kherson shipyard as a "supervisor", responsible for communicating the needs of this side in a timely manner, and by the way, dealing with possible accidents in the process of installing equipment on site.

Gu Kun felt that his proposal was reasonable, so he kept him until he returned to China with the boat in the future.

Counting the days, this trip to Hecland was delayed by at least ten days longer than originally planned.

Who asked to buy abandoned aircraft carriers and open theme parks and museums, all of which came out of nowhere.

The reason why Gu Kun asked for leave from school was to coordinate the handling of the port project with COSCO East China Company, and he came to the Netherlands and Hekeland to carry private goods. Now that I'm back, I don't have to do some more make-up classes.

Spend a few thousand dollars more and find a teacher to tutor privately, hoping to keep up with the progress.

As for the two boats that Gu Kun bought, because they had to sail all the way back from the Bosphorus Strait and the Suez Canal, the total voyage was 7,000 nautical miles.

His Nightingale "research ship" can maintain an economic cruising speed of 16 knots, and it will take a month to return home. The abandoned "Kharkiv" can only cruise at 12 knots, which takes 40 days.

Plus the time it takes to disassemble and assemble the equipment. Gu Kun estimated that it would be good for the "Nightingale" to return to China in two months, which should be about January and a half next year.

The Spring Festival in 1995 was the end of January, so it was almost the end of the final exams in college, so there would be no delay at all.

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On November 20, Gu Kun, who had been away for more than 20 days, finally returned to Hujiang and returned to the campus of Jiaotong University in Xuhui.

With the school, it is naturally indispensable to explain, cover up and down, and everything goes smoothly.

However, Gu Kun is very motivated, he is not satisfied if the teacher lets him go, he has higher requirements for himself.

The lessons that have been missed in more than 20 days need to be redoubled to make up for it. So for more than a month, he concentrated on his studies every day, almost didn't participate in campus club activities, and didn't go out to play with other classmates except in the dormitory.

The friendship between classmates is limited to those in the classroom, mysterious and low-key.

Occasionally, some female classmates were curious and wanted to know what kind of big business he had done, and he also said a few vague words. Over time, everyone has also become accustomed to his diligence and low-key, and they will not disturb him without anything.

After a month and a half of personal training and dinner, the calendar quietly turned to 1995.

As the end of the semester approaches, Gu Kun is about to usher in his first semester final exams at SJTU.

He had caught up with all the courses and thought that he could get an upper-intermediate grade, so he decided to relax a little during the New Year's holiday.

New Year's Day in '95 was originally a Sunday, so the national holiday was postponed for one more day.

Before the holiday, a group of roommates in the dormitory agreed to go for a walk in the city center.

This way of celebrating the festival is really a bit earthy in Gu Kun's opinion, but if you are reborn, you have to follow the customs.

Nowadays, people still like to go to shopping malls. Even if you don't buy anything, looking at the high-rise buildings and looking at the prosperous good things in the mall is a pastime in itself.

Early in the morning, Gu Kun instructed Gao Jianxiong to drive to pick him up. In order to keep a low profile, he didn't drive the extended Lincoln, but drove a new SUV he recently bought, similar to the SUV of later generations, suitable for six or seven people to hang out together.

Since his classmates know that he has a little money, it would be too hypocritical to hide a taxi or squeeze a bus.

After getting in the car, Gu Kun let the others decide where to go, he didn't care anyway.

"Yaoguang, you local, where are you going to speak?" Huang Han, the head of the dormitory, saw that Gu Kun did not say anything, so he casually called.

Zhou Yaoguang thought about it for a while, and said calmly: "Why don't you go to the new department store on the east side of People's Square." You haven't paid attention to the relevant policy news, the abolition of foreign exchange coupons has been transitioning for one year, and it was only officially abolished yesterday.

Therefore, several friendship shops in the city were officially closed yesterday, and those stores will be repurposed when they are renovated. However, there are many good goods in the Friendship Store that can only be bought with foreign exchange coupons, and all those that have not been sold out have been moved to the new commercial building in the east of People's Square. ”

Huang Han looked at Gu Kun's expression, and saw that Gu Kun didn't object, so he made a decision: "Okay, then go there and have a look." ”

The abolition of China's foreign exchange bills coincided with the end of the dual-track system of the renminbi exchange rate. Both were announced on January 1, 1994.

However, when it was announced, it only said that "no new foreign exchange coupons will be issued", but there is still a lot of stock on the market, so it is necessary to give those foreigners a time lag and spend all the foreign exchange coupons that have been hoarded in their hands.

Historically, the time difference between spending money given by the National WU Academy was exactly one year. All foreign exchange coupons issued before '94 can continue to be circulated and used until December 31, '94, and those that have not been spent on this day will be considered invalid.

Today is the New Year's Day of '95, so the last batch of "friendship stores" in the land of China is the first day of complete closure. All the good things in the friendship store that were not sold out during the exchange control period have flowed into the state-run renminbi department stores.

Gu Kun was also happy to witness this era, so he inspected several high-end shopping places with the mentality of leading inspections.

Several roommates saw some things that they couldn't buy openly if they had money, and they all reluctantly took action.

Because Gu Kun has been mixing abroad all the year round, he can buy it anywhere he wants, so he is naturally not in a hurry to make a move.

The group walked around for a while, and Zhou Yaoguang saw that Gu Kun didn't make a move once, so he changed his way to help.

"Brother Kun, haven't you been talking to me about imported laptops before, saying how good Microsoft's new system is coming out this year, epoch-making. I also paid attention to "Computer World", and I heard that WIN95 is officially released today.

If you want to say that the people of Oceania are efficient, if you say that 95, it will be officially sold on New Year's Day, and I heard that the country may also accept simultaneous reservations. Anyway, if you're free today, why don't you look for a place to sell it?"

Gu Kun smiled dumbly: "How can it be so fast, but you reminded me that I had thought about buying a batch of computers before." ”

What he said was to donate a batch of computers for teaching and scientific research to Jiaohai Academy, before he was just thinking about it in his own heart, in order to wait for the WIN95 system computer to appear, so he never publicly announced.

Now Zhou Yaoguang's proposal, although it is not nutritious, is also crookedly hooked up the idea that Gu Kun has forgotten.

It just so happened that boys also liked electronic products, so they followed Gu Kun to go shopping.

The group wandered around for a while, and finally found a store that sold computers.

In this regard, we have to admit that the Hujiang River in 95 years is much worse than the special zone in the south. In the 95th year of the Special Economic Zone, Huaqiangbei was already so prosperous that it was not wanted, and a group of primary school graduates were working there to install computers.

It is said that after graduating in July last year, Brother Xiao Ma also installed a computer in Huaqiangbei first, earning a computer installation fee of 50 yuan, which was considered a high salary at that time. It was only later that I saw that people with no academic qualifications could grab this job, so I was unwilling to change careers to write software.

Here in Hujiang, although the latest computers are also sold, there are really not many choices, just two big brands.

"DO YOU HAVE A NEW COMPUTER WITH A WIN95 OPERATING SYSTEM?" ASKED GU KUN AS SOON AS HE ENTERED THE DOOR.

"Ha? sir, can you speak Chinese?" The clerk at the computer store was actually a little confused.

After a few words between the chickens and ducks on both sides, the other party decided to fight their own and recommended a few to him: "Sir, I don't understand the English models you said, it is estimated that they are original imported models, we also have them here, and they are mainly sold to foreign offices."

I advise you to buy domestic big brands, this is Lenovo Oh, support Chinese display, fonts have Chinese, very conscientious. Only a few hundred dollars more expensive than the original one, you can display Chinese! Those original machines buy back, and you only have English letters to display. ”

Gu Kun raised his hand to stop: "We have no problem with English, we will leave without me." ”

When the clerk saw that the rebate was gone, the boss was unwilling, but when he saw that Gu Kun was very temperamental, he didn't dare to offend.

In the end, Gu Kun still wrote down the string of letters WINDOWS95, and the other party corrected them letter by letter, so he understood what Gu Kun was going to buy and showed him the price list.

In terms of price, Gu Kun is not worried about being a fake. There must be a premium for buying a computer this year, and it must be much more expensive than an assembly machine, but the price is clearly marked, and it will not be served by customers.

He calculated, 30 units, just less than 500,000, and install some necessary software, basically about the same.

"I buy 30 units, can you help me deliver them to Jiaohai Yard?"

When I heard that there were 30 units, the other party was so frightened that he was in awe, and directly asked the store manager to come out and serve tea and cigarettes.

"This little comrade wants 30 units?"

"You just say that there is no goods to be delivered, I am in a hurry, so I came to you to see, otherwise I will let people bring goods from Lijiapo from the Special Economic Zone, and there is no problem with normal customs declaration." ”

"Yes, yes, don't worry, I will serve you. ”

An hour later, a pickup truck drove steadily into the campus of Jiao Tong University, and the driver of the car seemed to be taken care of and drove slowly.

Rao is the carriage is separated by thick shock-absorbing foam, and the speed of the road has not exceeded 30 kilometers per hour, lest something be broken.

In addition to 30 desktops, Gu Kun also bought himself an IBM ThinkPad-T200, which is also the latest model that has just been launched simultaneously, and the first high-end notebook equipped with a WINDOWS95 system in IBM.

It's been almost 1 year since I came to this world, and I've finally lived the days when I can rely on a computer for portable office, and I really miss it.