After pacifying the rear, Gu Kun felt that he could have a few days of leisure for the time being, and waited quietly for the day when the whole country celebrated.

Yesterday was the graduation ceremony, today is June 29, and the day after tomorrow is the return of Xiangjiang.

Every descendant of Yan and Huang, especially Gu Kun, who has a grit for colonial dogs, who doesn't look forward to this day.

However, it seems that an important person like him is destined to be idle.

In the morning, in the river-view villa in Lujiazui, he was blocked by several visitors.

Two of the people who came were local, and one was from Lanfang.

They are Mr. Ye of COSCO Group East China Company, and He Lan, who was sent by COSCO to Gu Kun as a liaison officer in the past few years.

As for the third one, it is Lan Fang's envoy to Huaxia, and Gu Kun is also familiar with it. Don't look at the five and six people he has in Huaxia, and when he goes to Lanfang to report on his work, he will only be given shoes to Gu Kun.

This kind of transactional staff usually has some courtesy affairs to invite, and Gu Kun has a rough idea in his heart.

Sure enough, after Gu Kun invited the group to come in and sit down, He Lan took the lead and politely congratulated Gu Kun:

"Gu Sheng, it's rare for a busy person like you to be willing to go back to Huaxia at this juncture. Originally, we welcomed international friends to watch the ceremony, and we have won a place for you here, and you can go to Xiangjiang to watch the day after tomorrow.

I know that Lingzun Lingtang died at the hands of colonial dogs, and you once swore that you would never set foot on the land controlled by Bugou in your life. We understand the enmity between our parents. But the day after tomorrow, it is already our land in China, and we welcome you to go. ”

Gu Kun knew that this was the case, in his previous life, he watched TV, and he also saw that there were many foreign ex-dignitaries who had left office to cheer at those grand ceremonies, but he didn't expect that he would also be mixed to this level in his life.

He also learned that Zhu Youdong and his wife were originally among the invitees, after all, no matter how big or small the country is, as long as they are willing to come, the Chinese side is welcome, which is the tradition of the state of etiquette.

"Then thank you Manager He and Mr. Ye for their kindness, you must have helped me mediate. Gu Kun generously accepted the other party's kindness.

After the benefits are delivered, it is time to negotiate the conditions. He Lan glanced at the boss behind the scenes, who was silent about serving tea, and said cautiously:

"Gu Sheng, you have been for more than half a year, but let's find it easy, you haven't returned to Hujiang for a single trip, and the people from the relevant departments want to ask for something, but they don't know where to find someone. On Lan Fang's side, you left Tang Jia and Luo Haili to cut them off, and you played and disappeared to delay, this is not the way of friends. ”

Gu Kun knew that what she said must have been about the bet he had drawn a big pie before.

Gu Kun told others at the beginning: you have to bet in advance in order to live in strange goods.

But now it's 97, and it's been a year since the wind direction changed on the Oceanian side. Gu Kun was reluctant to cash in on any substantial benefits and remained superficially neutral, which couldn't help but make those friends who lost money and earned favors very uncomfortable.

He Lan saw that Gu Kun was still groaning, and added: "This year, we have always been benevolent and righteous, COSCO should support Lanfang Port in the shipping industry and transit port contracting, and it is all full of support."

Gu Sheng, you should know in your heart that this year, Lanfang Port has a total of eight berths of 35,000 tons to 50,000 tons, but there is almost no idleness. Hundreds of thousands of transit revenue per ship per day"

In the 90s, the competition in the port industry was not as fierce as in later generations, and the berth fee generally charged was 3 cents to 5 dimes per ton per day.

A 50,000-ton bulk carrier costs more than 20,000 yuan for a day of docking without doing anything. The key is that there are other shore consumption and peripheral driving after the transfer, so it is definitely not an exaggeration to say that the one-day transit of a ship will bring a turnover of more than 100,000 yuan to the port location.

Gu Kun's Lanfang Port, the rental income of the whole year last year totaled more than 48 million yuan, which is not far from 100% full load of 52 million.

At the beginning, the total share capital (including land) of port construction was more than 300 million, and at this rate, the rent alone could be repaid in 7 years, with an annualized rate of return of 15%, which was already very unfavorable in the field of infrastructure investment.

What's more, in addition to berth fees, the port also has other big money-making.

And if the throughput is not full, a berth is idle for a day, and the rent alone will be reduced by 10,000 or 20,000 yuan in vain.

With Lanfang's current shipping conditions and operational efficiency, it is actually impossible to compete with Li Jiapo normally.

The reason why COSCO East China Company transferred the business originally done to Li Jiapo to take care of Gu Kun, what exactly it was trying to do, the two sides knew it.

Why do you still use the "Isakov" to continue to operate the gambling industry, and hang COSCO's appetite and prevent it from being used to sell favors, right?

Gu Kun knew that when he came to Huaxia this time, he would definitely not be able to give an explanation.

He pondered the wording: "Manager He, Mr. Ye, please don't be impatient." It's not that I'm taking advantage of nothing, but it's just that the time is still not ripe yet.

Our Lanfang country is small and weak, and we can't afford to leave any handle and let Oceania or Brittany deal with us, and we can't afford that anger. ”

He Lan was a little annoyed and raised her voice a little: "Of course we know your difficulties, and I'm not inconsiderate. But if that's the case, the difficulties have existed since ancient times.

Your country is weak and unable to withstand its anger, and this is an objective reality that will persist for a long time. Are you ready to fail to fulfill your contract for a long time? That's not what you said when you asked us to support you!"

Difficulties do exist.

But this difficulty has been present since the beginning of the negotiations and will continue to exist for the foreseeable future.

Then, anyone who talks a little bit about the spirit of contract knows that this kind of difficulty certainly cannot be used as a defense for refusal to perform a contract of "material misunderstanding" or "manifest unfairness" as mentioned in the Contract Law.

Oh, I almost forgot that Huaxia's "Contract Law" is still in legislation, and it was originally planned to be introduced in 98, and now it is already being drafted.

At the outset, in the process of amendment, it was intended to add the paragraph "manifestly unfair" to article 54 "revocability of contracts".

However, the legislative process happened to encounter the Southeast Asian financial crisis, which led to the fact that if "obvious unfairness" is allowed, then those contract prices caused by drastic changes in exchange rates will be eligible to invoke this clause to break the contract, which will have a major blow to China's foreign trade.

So in the end, the matter was heard until the National Assembly, and after the prime minister personally listened to the opinions, he insisted on letting it go, but because of the delay, the final date of adoption was delayed to March 15, 99.

It can be seen that China is still a big country with a great sense of international responsibility on the issue of foreign trade.

Gu Kun's credit is still very good, so of course he can't rely on his debts.

"Manager He, don't be impatient, I said that there was a difficulty, but I didn't say that I would not perform the contract. The time is really just 'temporary' premature. Why don't you do this, I promise you a deadline-

Before, I just told you that 'the time is ripe', but I didn't promise you a deadline, so it's not a lack of credit, right? Now that this is the first time I've talked to you about a specific deadline, is it not worth it for me to care about someone's name?"

He Lan and Boss Ye glanced at each other, and then He Lan nodded, indicating that Gu Kun had indeed not talked about a specific deadline before, and this was the first time at this moment.

Boss Ye nodded slightly.

He Lan was authorized, so he said businesslikely: "Then you try to say a deadline, it's not outrageous." ”

Gu Kun: "Give me more than half a year, it will definitely not be a year anyway." We will soon see before the end of this year, and it will be delayed until next spring at the latest. When the time comes, if there is no suitable excuse, I will make excuses and fulfill the contract.

Whoever you want to get on, whether it's to study how to modify, or to do various other surveying and mapping, testing, I won't stop you, you can toss. ”

"More than half a year?" He Lan glanced at the leader's expression slightly, and felt that this deadline was acceptable.

They just want to ask for merit and rewards, so that the brother units can study and study the research and development addiction, and it is really a nerve-wracking thing, and no one can afford to spend it for a while.

The credit is determined qualitatively, and the most important thing is to settle the bag.

"Then give you some more time to prepare. ”

He Lan and his entourage said goodbye, and politely said to Gu Kun, and saw you the day after tomorrow.

......

Two days later, as a well-known international friend, Gu Kun went to Xiangjiang for the first time and participated in the ceremony.

Together with many other former foreign dignitaries, he was photographed by many media as a background board.

The process is too solemn to be repeated.

He was on the plane on the day of the ceremony, so he looked for a place to stay after the ceremony.

He is also not particular about it, and chooses to stay at the Peninsula Hotel directly.

Unexpected, reasonable. Gu Kun's arrival also attracted a small number of celebrities in Xiangjiang to watch, and many people sent invitations one after another, hoping that Gu Kun would be able to enjoy some drinking parties in the next few days.

It's a pity that Midlova helped Gu Kun screen it and found that there were more people in the entertainment and media circles, and several major chaebol families didn't look at him at all.

"It seems that they still value my two resources of 'world superstar' and 'having dealings with many Hollywood celebrities', and they think that I am a pure playboy, but they don't regard me as a top rich man. ”

Looking at these invitations, Gu Kun sneered in his heart.

Indeed, his wealth is never disclosed in any listed company, so he does seem to be more "invisible rich".

Outsiders only know his stake in travel companies/resorts and port authorities/airports in Lan.

Those are fixed assets, net assets, lack of imagination and capital market premium.

As for Gu Kun's investment in the NASDAQ stock market, as well as other hidden investments, outsiders can't see them, so in the eyes of several major Xiangjiang chaebol families, it is estimated that they think that Gu Kun has just reached hundreds of millions of dollars.

The major chaebols in Xiangjiang generally had a net worth of billions of Hong Kong dollars in the 80s, and 97 is the peak of housing prices in Xiangjiang, and those tycoons who have intersections with real estate are now at least tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, and the Li family has hundreds of billions of dollars, equivalent to more than 10 billion US dollars.

(Historically, during the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, with the expansion of land supply by the country after the handover, until 2002, the housing prices in Xiangjiang would fall to 30% of the peak of 97, and the book assets of several major chaebol families shrank by more than half during the trough of 02.) But then they forced the authorities to reduce the supply of land, bring up housing prices again, and then get rich again. So in 97, they were actually at the peak of a bubble, and at this time they were arrogant and justified. ）

I believe that in their eyes, Gu Kun is just a poor sling silk whose family property is equivalent to one percent of the Li family, so how can they take a second look.

However, Gu Kun will soon prove himself.

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