Chapter 7 Don't be nervous, there are no oil fields under my feet

After discussing the situation behind closed doors for an afternoon, he made clear arrangements for the whereabouts of the investment funds of 30 million or 40 million US dollars.

There are more than 10 million yuan, which will be used as reserve funds for emergency purposes for the time being.

For others, the return on investment in tourism is slow.

To build a hotel, you need a loan and mortgage, and it will take six or seven years to pay back the business.

Because there is always an off-peak season in tropical scenic spots, even in the Maldives, where you can't see the blue sea and blue sky in the rainy season half of the year, the hotel will be crazy discounted, and you can't live enough.

Therefore, the best tropical scenic hotel is estimated to be priced at a one-third full rate.

If the business is a little worse than expected, it is not surprising that the financial cost and interest of the capital account will be calculated in ten or twenty years.

In the same way, under normal circumstances, if tropical countries build new airports for tourism, then the cost and usage fees of the airport will basically rise slightly compared with the hotel industry, and the unit price will generally be higher, so that there is hope.

Beginning in 2016, Huaxia Cultural Tourism Capital entered Nha Trang, Vietnam, which had no foundation, and built it into a tourist city exclusively for Chinese consumption within two or three years.

However, all these rules do not apply to Gu Kun here.

He is using the pricing strategy of "tropical seasonal hotel", and in the future, he will set the basic average price of room rates and consumption higher, but will never meet the occupancy rate of only one-third per year.

What he wants is a business volume that is not only blatantly high price, but also almost full every month, and the appearance is so ugly.

But he has his own cards, and he knows someone will play it.

......

Zhu Youdong, the Grand Duke of Lanfang, did not know much about the industry situation of the tourism industry before.

However, since the banquet for Gu Kun, after everyone chatted about the prospects, he also made up for it temporarily.

I found a few so-called think tanks and had a preliminary understanding of the situation of Southeast Asia, including the Maldives in South Asia.

Therefore, when he saw the planning plan submitted by Gu Kun, Zhu Youdong was slightly surprised:

"You...... Do you dare to invest in these projects on your own? There is no need for state matching funds at all? So how young do you have to be to recoup your capital?"

"If there is a low-interest loan, of course that's the best, and as for investment, I don't need it. Because my plan is to pay back in three years. Gu Kun's statement was very crisp.

In fact, he still discounted it, according to his original intention, as long as COSCO is willing to help him pull the relationship tray, it is possible to return to the capital in two years.

Since the turnover is three times faster than other peers, the source of funds is not so important and cannot be used for too long.

Of course, the two-year return he said is that after the hotel is built and the airport is built, the business will return to the cost in two years, and the time to build a house cannot be counted.

"How is this possible?" Zhu Youdong couldn't help but ask.

Gu Kun: "On the premise of not betraying the interests of the country, I can let COSCO and other related customers continue to support me for two years." I was able to get enough chips. I can handle all the other conditions, but there is one thing that you need to approve of: the radar station equipment at Lanfang Airport needs to be donated by the Chinese side, and it will be operated and provided by the Chinese side. ”

As soon as he said this, Zhu Youdong immediately reacted: "You don't want to allow foreign countries to build military bases on our territory, do you? That is a big taboo." ”

Gu Kun: "It's not a military base, it's just a civil aviation monitoring radar station." Completely for civilian use, I'm measured - isn't my scale and skill on the issue of the aircraft carrier theme park enough to convince you of my proportion?"

Zhu Youdong sighed: "I'll give you approval, but I will send someone to supervise it, I hope you will do what you say, it is limited to civilian radar stations, and if there are foreign active troops coming in, I will stop it at any time." ”

Gu Kun grinned: "Of course - oh, by the way, I also know that the state can't afford to pay for it, but the airport is a facility that is of a public welfare nature to the government, and it completely makes me pay, even if I charge for the use of it, I can't get it back, and I hope the state will compensate at other levels." ”

Zhu Youdong: "What compensation do you want?"

Gu Kun: "The allocation of state-owned land. ”

Zhu Youdong was slightly strange: "Of course, the state has to allocate the land used by the airport, this is planned, and you will not be asked to pay for it." As long as you build the airport, the full ownership of the airport is yours, and the land is given to you. ”

Gu Kun: "This is not enough, Lan Fang's current land is not valuable. In China, 80,000 people can live in cities with only a few tens of square kilometers, and even in rural areas, more than 100 square kilometers is absolutely enough.

And we have 2,600 square kilometers of land in Lanfang, and there are dozens of small and medium-sized desert islands that are completely uninhabited. I spent money to build the airport, at least the entire outlying island where the airport is located should be allocated to me. In the future, if my investment increases, I will give some other uninhabited islands.

There is a basis for this, 150 years ago, the oceanic countries carried out the westward expansion movement, went to the west to pan for gold, and gave the four major companies, including the Pacific Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad, all of which were very favorable land enclosure conditions.

If the borderless land along the railroad line is only allocated to Bintie, who is willing to spend a lot of money to build the Rocky Mountain? Bintie has obtained the ownership of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land from the federal government in addition to the land along the railway!"

The history cited by Gu Kun is from the 1850s when Oceania developed the western region, and the data is absolutely true. At that time, the federal government had so much money to build railroads, so it used a large amount of terra nullius in the west to give to the railroad companies.

The land area of the four major railroad giants was often measured in states, and the entire state of Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico at that time was the territory of the Penn Rail.

Faced with the historical case of reference, Zhu Youdong pondered for a moment: "This matter...... In principle, you can do it, but your current initial investment is too low, only one or two hundred million yuan, and the capital density is not large, but the area is so wide, it is good to give you the area of an airport.

However, a supplementary agreement can be signed, for example, if your airport builds a third runway, or upgrades the existing runway to the size of a Boeing 747, or builds a new high-specification terminal, then the new land will be allocated step by step according to the agreement. ”

Gu Kun was originally asking for a sky-high price, waiting for the Grand Duke to repay the money, so after a little mediation, the two sides agreed happily.

As for Zhu Youdong's mention, "You only have an investment of one or two hundred million yuan," this figure certainly includes radar stations and all kinds of high-precision and sophisticated technical equipment.

In the accounts announced by the Lan side in the future, these will also be counted as money.

Gu Kun can get the money in vain, that is Gu Kun's ability, and he can't lower the scale of his nominal investment because of this.

After a little discussion, the two sides selected several deserted islands or sparsely populated islands on the east side of the main island of Lanfang, ranging in area from a few square kilometers to dozens of square kilometers, and drew up a survey list. When the time comes, the design institute of Huaxia will send people to survey and see where the construction difficulty is low, the cost of ground leveling and anti-settlement is low, and the island will be allocated to Gu Kun.

By the way, the two sides also took advantage of the model of this airport to set a framework agreement on a long-term cooperation model: in the future, Gu Kun can also get some state-owned land from the Lan side as compensation if he invests in roads, bridges, and transportation infrastructure projects that have a certain public welfare nature and are not 100% recouped by fees.

Because the Lan side had never done this kind of thing before, there was no agreement template.

Gu Kun also empathetically provided a model for an agreement between the government of neighboring Malaya and infrastructure investors.

However, there are actually many versions of the contract of the Malayan government, and the terms borrowed from each situation are different. Gu Kun naturally imperceptibly chose a group that was more fair in the open, but secretly the most beneficial to him in the long run-

The template of the agreement chosen by Gu Kun is an infrastructure agreement signed between Bourhol Shell Oil and the government of Sarawak, Malaya.

The gist of the agreement was that Shell could help Sarawak to build ports, pipelines, bridges, and highways...... But the price was that Sarawak would have to transfer all the rights and interests in a part of the state's land to Shell.

Including in the future, if mineral deposits are explored on these lands, the ownership of mineral deposits must also follow the land ownership.

When Sarawak signed a contract with Shell Petroleum a few years ago, I didn't think there was anything extra wrong.

The main reason is that Malaya was originally a colony of Brittany, so it is used to using the common law system.

But later, it took a huge profit for Shell Oil, because he actually came for the ownership of the oil fields under the land. Later, it also made Malaya miserable.

Anglo-American law and French law were originally owned by the owner of the land, and were not separated.

It was the German law, the Soviet law and the present law, which studied the German system, and the Chinese people, who later learned from the Soviet Union and Japan, that had a special provision that "all mineral deposits belong to the state".

For example, Article 46 of China's Property Law clearly stipulates that "mineral deposits, water currents, and sea areas belong to the state". There are exceptions to land ownership, at least in the countryside there is land under collective ownership, but mineral deposits are no exception.

Lan Fangguo has few talents, unprofessional in all aspects, and the law is basically copied from the east and copied from the west, and there are many copies from the colonial era, and there are many copies from Huaxia of the same language and species in the north, but the property law is clearly followed by the colony.

Gu Kun took Shell's template and signed an agreement with Zhu Youdong, and Zhu Youdong didn't think there was any problem.

The main reason is that the Lanfang has not yet discovered the oil field.

Historically, more than 2 billion barrels of oil in Lanfang were not discovered until the beginning of the 21st century.

Zhu Youdong felt that his land was so barren, so he signed it.

As for Gu Kun, he didn't expect to swallow all the benefits by relying on a paper agreement, it was impossible.

In the face of huge interests, it is also possible for national policies and legislation to change course.

Gu Kun just wanted to occupy a pit first and occupy the name of righteousness, so as to reduce the hatred of others for his profits in the future and increase his degree of justification "since ancient times".

As for the real development of oil fields, there are no oil fields on the small islands that Gu Kun used to build airports, and the oil is in the territorial waters and exclusive economic zone on the west side of the archipelago, which is a shallow sea oil field.

Gu Kun has to continue to forbear, and in the next year or two of development, he will gradually extend his land ownership from these islands to the territorial waters, and when the time comes, he will definitely spend money on public welfare and national construction, paving the way to invite people's hearts.

It can't be done overnight.

Today, doing so is the limit.

"That's it. Holding the thick stack of agreements signed and stamped by Zhu Youdong that had not yet dried out, Gu Kun was secretly refreshed.

The next step is to go to the design and planner of Huaxia, and to order equipment on credit.

Read the URL: