Two days after the auction.

Lanfang city center, a ten-story office building.

This is the tallest building in Lanfang, with a total construction area of 12,000 square meters, which can accommodate nearly 1,000 people.

At half past ten in the morning, Sa Wuyang sat in his Porsche and came to work at the company.

For him, who has a rich nightlife, going to work at this point is quite dedicated.

The driver respectfully parked the car at the elevator entrance of the underground garage, and got out of the car to help Sawuyang open the door and press the elevator. After seeing the boss go up, he parked the Porsche back into the parking space.

There are hundreds of people under Sa Wuyang (counting all the sailors), more than a dozen ships running international routes, and most of the import and export trade of the Lan side is in control.

However, his hundreds of people are obviously not enough to fill such a large office building.

Therefore, there is only one truth - this building is shared by him and other units.

Above the 6th floor, is his foreign trade company.

The 4th and 5th floors downstairs are Lanfang's Ministry of Commerce.

FLOORS 1 TO 3 ARE LANFANG'S "OUTER JIAO DEPARTMENT".

Two ministries and a company share an office building, and this kind of small country can do it. Lanfang's Ministry of Commerce is like a rubber stamp of Sawuyang.

The same is happening in another office building two blocks away, where Zhu Jingye's real estate development/infrastructure engineering company is located.

The downstairs of Zhu Jingye's company is the finance department of Lanfang, which is mainly responsible for the country's infrastructure budget and planning. On the ground floor is the Lanfang Construction Department.

This strange pattern makes it very fast and convenient for anyone who has the power to do something in Lan Fang and get an approval or something.

For example, if you want to establish a business cooperation relationship with a foreign country that you have not dealt with before, you only need to persuade Sa Wuyang, and he will ask the secretary to go downstairs with the application to stamp a seal, and the relevant department of commerce will handle the approval.

In the same way, if you can persuade Zhu Jingye to build a certain road and do the underground pipeline construction in a certain area this year, when he takes a lunch break and eats, he can ask the Ministry of Finance to approve the budget.

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Gu Kun wants to find Sa Wuyang for office work, of course, he will inquire about Sa Wuyang's work and rest time, and make an appointment in advance.

So he stuck half an hour after Sawuyang started his office and came to visit.

In this way, it is estimated that the other party has also handled the daily routine chores almost completely.

Gu Kun is still wearing the same hard linen shirt and LEE brand denim today, wearing a sun hat and sunglasses, Shi Shiran walked into the hall on the first floor.

There is a reception right next to the elevator hall, as well as security and security. A middle-aged female staff member politely asked him: "Sir, this is the J Department of Lanfang Wai, may I ask what you are ......?"

"I'm not here to find you, I made an appointment with Mr. Sa. Gu Kun said, and handed over his ID card.

After verifying the appointment, the female front desk respectfully returned her ID card to him and instructed the security guard next to her: "Give this gentleman an elevator to the ninth floor." ”

There's no way, who let Lan Fangshuang and the foreign trade company hire the same group of security guards.

The country can only support two or three thousand financially allocated personnel (1,000 regular civil servants, and the rest are counted as career/temporary workers).

Compared with the population of more than 80,000, basically one of the 30 taxpayers feeds the emperor's grain.

After enjoying the treatment of a foreign affairs officer, Gu Kun was sent to the ninth floor.

"Come on, sit down. Sa Wuyang took a cup of tea soaked in wolfberries, took a sip, and raised his hand slightly to signal Gu Kun to take care of himself, "How did you think of talking about business during work hours?" ”

It is natural for Sawuyang to say this, as if you shouldn't talk about business during working hours.

Gu Kun sat down on the sofa opposite and poured himself a glass of water from the water dispenser: "After buying Galloping Horse Reef that day, I went back and pondered for two days, and I felt that the current environment and infrastructure of our Lanfang were too poor to engage in tourism. We must make great efforts in at least two aspects: transportation and publicity, so that it is possible to attract wealthy foreigners. ”

Sa Wuyang nodded noncommittally: "It seems that you have done your homework seriously." However, it's useless for you to tell me about this, you should go to Zhu Jingye. He is in charge of the country's transportation infrastructure. Anyway, it's less than 100 million reams a year. If you want him to tilt, it's up to you what you can bring him. ”

Gu Kun could hear that Sa Wuyang was very indifferent when he said this.

Obviously, he felt that Gu Kun would run into Zhu Jingye's hands if he did anything that wanted to improve the country's infrastructure.

Then, there are only two possibilities:

Or, Gu Kun was regarded by Zhu Jingye as a person on his side, and in the end, he couldn't do anything, and he would be discouraged.

Or, Gu Kun did get things done, but he must have been co-opted by Zhu Jingye and changed his court.

In either case, he didn't seem to be doing any good.

And the reason why Sa Wuyang didn't deliberately hide his emotions was because he despised Gu Kun's ability to observe words and feelings. He still regarded Gu Kun as a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man.

It's a pity that Gu Kun is an uncle in his early forties, how could he not see the other party's concerns.

He said cleverly: "Of course, finding Boss Zhu and Minister Zhu is also a way, but I have thought about it, the construction effect of transportation infrastructure should be seen quickly within one or two years, and it is simply not enough to rely on his financial allocation." We should look for foreign investment, or foreign bank financing. ”

Sa Wuyang couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous: "Just kidding, how can there be foreign capital willing to invest in infrastructure projects like Lanfang, and it is not feasible to issue treasury bonds for foreign banks to underwrite." ”

Gu Kun: "But if it is a project with a relatively mature business model, and it can be mortgaged with the construction target and repaid with the future rent, there will be foreign banks willing to give money." Moreover, if this is the case, you don't have to beg Minister Zhu for money, you can apply for contracting. ”

Sa Wuyang felt a little surprised, but he didn't dare to finally be convinced: "You mean ......"

Gu Kun: "I think we can put aside those highways, bridges and airports first, and focus on expanding the port - you are the controller of the country's foreign trade, and the facility specifications and throughput capacity of Lanfang Port involve the scale of the country's foreign trade."

Therefore, as long as you don't need the state's financial allocation, you can apply directly to the Grand Duke or the Second Minister for the expansion of the port, and you should be able to get the authorization, right?"

Lan Fangguo nominally had a prime minister, but for ten years of independence, it had been concurrently held by the Grand Duke himself, and later it was simply abolished. There is only one deputy minister, who can be regarded as helping the Grand Duke deal with the general affairs.

There is nothing strange about this pattern, Saudi Arabia is like this, the king is also the prime minister, and he will remain in office until he dies.

Contemporary countries that still use traditional monarchies (as opposed to "constitutional monarchies") are basically no less bizarre than this. The UAE also has a sheikh under the president, and the president is generally the chief of the Abu Dhabi tribe.

As for Gu Kun's purpose of focusing on port affairs, it is actually obvious: he knows that it costs more money to build an airport, so it is better to expand the port first, so that Lan Fang can dock ocean cruise ships within a few years, so that his tourism island owner plan can have a source of tourists.

"Bypass Zhu Jingye and directly apply for port expansion with the second minister?" Sa Wuyang's eyes flashed with a flame of desire for power and interests.

In the past seven or eight years that he has helped his brother-in-law to take charge of the country's foreign trade, he has always been mainly engaged in the operation of the fleet and the import trade of consumer goods, and he really has not had the idea of expanding Lanfang Port.

The main reason is that the subtle competitive relationship between him and Zhu Jingye makes it difficult for him to open his mouth, and the country's infrastructure budget is really not much. Now that Gu Kun has brought a big cake of expanding authority to his mouth, he must have subconsciously wanted to bite it.

But after a moment of calming down, he realized that it was not that simple.

Expanding the port without spending the state's money can indeed bypass Zhu Jingye.

But no one dared to do it for so many years, and it was not for nothing -- how could it return to its original cost after expanding the port? The Lan side had just a small amount of import and export trade business, and when the time came, the port was expanded by issuing treasury bonds, and the utilization rate of the wharf could not be satisfied, so it had to go around.

After he calmed down, he sighed, "This is the ...... It's easy to say, after the expansion, how can the business volume be solved? We have such a little domestic demand, even if I count the share of the Chinese import market in Kuching that I control through the S channel, that is, the consumption power of 500,000 people, how much transportation capacity can we need?"

Gu Kun: "There was no way in previous years, it doesn't mean that there will still be no way in the future, Mr. Sa, the outside world has changed, and the environment is very different from the 80s - Huaxia has risen and will become a bigger and bigger world factory in the future."

If we can be one-sided diplomatically, thoroughly establish relations with the Chinese side, and let them come up with some guiding policies, even if it is just a few percent of the business of refueling and repairing passing ships in Lijiapo, it will be enough to feed our cheap little port.

After all, Lijiapo has three to four million people, more than half a million employees, and tens of billions of dollars of port investment that depend on the shipping industry for food. However, we only have more than 80,000 people in Lanfang, and even if we expand Lanfang Port now, in the next few years, we will have at most a few thousand people and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, relying on shipping to eat. From Li Jiapo, snatching 5% of the volume of China-related entrepot trade is enough for us to eat and drink spicy food. ”

Gu Kun's opinion made Sa Wuyang's blood boil completely.

He is a knowledgeable person, of course he knows Li Jiapo's shipping business, and it is not impossible to grab it.

Many spectators who don't know much about Li Jiapo feel that the reason why Li Jiapo's economy is developed is because of the monopoly advantage of the shipping industry, and even think that Li Jiapo's start is Panamanian, which is really a big misunderstanding.

The Strait of Malacca is a natural waterway, and even if it requires manual dredging maintenance, it is free to pass, and it is impossible to charge high tolls like the Panama Canal.

So Li Jiapo didn't start by buying road money. It's just that they have tax and entrepot advantages after passing by more goods, plus the Chinese are shrewd, and they are slowly rising-

In other words, in the long Strait of Malacca, there are many ports in Malaya and Indonesia, which can compete with Li Jiapo and want to replace it all the time. This is an open market, not a monopoly.

It is because in the years of business that the Malays and Indonesians are not as efficient as the Chinese in terms of organizational efficiency and are not as shrewd in business as the Chinese, they can't grab it, so Li Jiapo is dominant.

However, the fact that Malays and Indonesians "can't grab it" means that this business is "allowed to be robbed".

And the Lan side, in fact, is not far from the main channel of the East Asian trade route - the Lan side is located near the Natuna Islands, look at the map of the South Seas, you can see that from the Lan side to the southwest 330 nautical miles, to Lijiapo, this distance is really not far.

If a ship coming out of the Strait of Malacca is going to ports in southern China, then the Lailan side may have to make an additional detour of more than 100 nautical miles - the normal route should be to sail out of the strait, immediately turn north-northeast, sail through the Badas Islands from the Gulf of Siam, and then stick to the coast of Vietnam and head north.

However, after coming out of the Strait of Malacca, ships heading to ports in East China and even Japan and South Korea will hardly need to make a detour when passing through the Lan side, or at most twenty or thirty nautical miles, and the matter of stretching their legs is negligible.

"Do you have any ideas about how to grab the method, how to have a good relationship with the Huaxia side, and what kind of list to concentrate on grabbing?" Sa Wuyang became more and more eager the more he thought about it, and couldn't help but ask Gu Kun for details.