Gu Kun's money spent on the index of "grabbing the world's first luxury yacht" far exceeds that of other wealthy people of his time.

Abramovich, the owner of the Lucia National Gas Company, spent just over 700 million.

Although Oracle boss Larry Ellison spent 800 million, nominally more than Abu, he didn't pay the full amount at once, and he couldn't afford it. It can only be said that the boss of Oracle is now a little swollen, swollen and fat-

Because from 1999 to the beginning of 2000, it was the peak of Internet mania, and now the market value of Internet companies is extremely foamy, and Microsoft's market value was even close to one trillion US dollars at the peak!

You must know that after the bubble ebbs, it will take nearly 20 years for Microsoft to briefly return to such a high position, which shows how exaggerated the peak of the bubble was.

Oracle is just an Internet software company, so Ellison's net worth has temporarily skyrocketed many times, and he can get a lot of money for luxury consumption by relying on equity pledges. And he was unwilling to really sell some shares of the company to buy a yacht, so he paid a small deposit in advance and paid the balance after completion.

Historically, by the time Ellison came to settle the final payment, the millennium dot-com bubble had already collapsed, and he had to spend much more to sell shares to settle the bill. So much so that since then, Larry Ellison has withdrawn from the luxury wealth war that only a few of the world's top richest people can grab.

In contrast, it is still the oil tyrant like Abu, although he is not the second most expensive at the moment, but he is the most enduring, and he can last longer in the field.

Gu Kun spent 1 billion euros at a time, and the crushing he pursued was naturally all-round, and there were many more far-reaching schemes, not only that the yacht was bigger, heavier, more luxurious and more expensive than others, and it could be satisfied with the design of a trimaran.

The ship that Gu Kun wants to order is full of science fiction, and it must be enough to become an enduring urban legend in the world's mouth.

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Seeing that there is only one week left before the Spring Festival, the people of Lusen Shipyard have finally sorted out all the final needs of Party A, and the guarantee must be done for Party A:

"Mr. Gu, please confirm the requirements of these additional designs: the hull is mainly made of titanium alloy and magnesium-aluminum alloy shells, the important compartments are required to be titanium alloy shells, and some magnesium-aluminum alloys are used for non-critical cabins.

The hull propulsion system is a newly developed waterjet propulsion system, and the trimaran hull design is fully tank tested to ensure efficiency/fit. The total power of the main engine is 150,000 horsepower, which ensures that the 24,000-ton hull can also sail at a high speed of 37 knots, and the top speed can even reach 39 knots in a short period of extreme overload......"

Speed is also an indicator that Gu Kun pays great attention to, after all, flexibility is still very important. For a normal ship, it is almost impossible to drive a hull of more than 20,000 tons to 39 knots.

For example, the 055 destroyer produced in later generations has a single power of about 40,000 horsepower, and a destroyer is equipped with 4 main engines, with a total power of 17~180,000 horsepower, but the top speed is only 34 knots, but the 055 destroyer is only about 14,000 tons.

However, warships do not pursue extreme speed, and they are monohull types, and the waterline is very wide, so it is normal to drive slowly.

Gu Kun's trimaran sacrificed some other performance, using a small waterline cross-sectional area/underwater bulbous bow in exchange for greatly reducing drag, driving fast at the same time, the price paid was extremely inflexible steering. Because there is a main and two auxiliary hulls in the transverse direction, the resistance of the transverse axis is extremely great, especially when sailing at high speed, the turning radius is at least several nautical miles.

Warships can't sacrifice steering flexibility for high top speed, so it's normal for each to have their own strengths.

At the same time, the efficiency of the electric motor-waterjet propulsion system required by Gu Kun is much higher than that of the traditional gas turbine with propeller structure in a high-speed environment. Yachts sacrifice fuel efficiency and low power economy in this regard. In other words, Gu Kun's energy consumption per unit mileage is much higher, which is very unenvironmentally friendly.

And when it is slow, it also burns fuel, and it cannot go very fuel-efficient at "economic cruising speed" like a warship.

It can only be said that economy is not a factor that Gu Kun considers, the endurance is almost a little worse, and with more supply ships, he doesn't expect to cross the Pacific Ocean, as long as it is enough to drive from Southeast Asia to Australia. And the oil money is not what Gu Kun cares about, he can't wait to burn more oil to show off his wealth.

Although there is some soil, but in real life, those coal bosses are not less than the fuel consumption of their luxury cars, and they are proud of the high fuel consumption: who is who, the family car is 17 oil per 100 kilometers! Don't look at the standard is Volkswagen, in fact, it is called Phaeton!

If you can't show off the oil meter, how can you "inadvertently" let the layman know that you are not a Passat?

After showing off the speed, power, fuel consumption materials, of course, Gu Kun has other requirements, after all, even if it is a warship in modern times, it can't withstand much damage by armor alone, and everyone has already taken the school of thin skin and big stuffing.

The Chief Engineer of the Lusen Shipyard continues to report:

"In addition, we will find a way to get you the French Aster anti-aircraft missile, according to the minimum package configuration, equipped with 4 launch units, plus two rounds of spare ammunition, a total of 3 rounds of salvo, 12 anti-aircraft missiles, not only can hit incoming enemy aircraft, but also have a certain cruise missile interception capability.

The bow and stern of the ship are also reserved for the installation of a close defense system according to your requirements, and you can install the close defense system of various countries below 30 mm, and you can find a supplier to fill in the things yourself.

All anti-aircraft search radars and anti-submarine sonars, we can only follow the highest standards of civilian use, that is, the ability to release air in the theater and continuous tracking of multiple targets has been removed...... The price of these equipment does not include the cost of the yacht, which adds up to an additional 200 million euros. ”

Anti-aircraft missiles sound a bit prohibited, and if you are a private buyer, it will definitely be more troublesome. But Gu Kun was bought in the name of the Lan Fang royal family, and there was no prohibition on this kind of thing that was purely defensive and had no offensive ability.

To put it mildly, for the sake of his own national defense, Lan Fang wants to buy a frigate, so that the royal family can escape and transfer in the event of an accident (Gu Kun does plan to buy another frigate in the future when he has money.) But there is no need to buy a frigate from Germany, because it is not a luxury, there is no need to talk about forced qualifications, just buy a cheap from China)

Therefore, the so-called "better than the best radar in the civilian version" mentioned by the designers of the Lusen shipyard are actually the German/French military air defense radars in service today.

It's just that some functions have been cut to completely shield and simplify the air defense capability in the theater.

Officials who are not military fans may not know much about this point.

Translated in human terms, it is equivalent to the Aegis of the Ocean Country, the King Kong-class of the Ocean Country, and the early warning radar systems used by these so-called "Aegis ships" all have theater air defense capabilities, in other words, they do not protect their own ships, but hold up an air defense umbrella for the entire friendly fleet within a radius of 200 nautical miles.

Not only will enemy missiles attacking the Aegis ship itself be intercepted, but those missiles that hit other ships more than 100 nautical miles away from the Aegis ship will also be tracked and locked on fire control by the Aegis ship's radar in an attempt to intercept it.

And as long as the anti-sky theater air defense-related modules are removed, and the remaining single-point emptying is against the sky, the international community will not sanction and restrict your exports, because that thing has no strategic threat, purely for self-preservation.

If all these equipment are counted, it is estimated that the cost is less than 100 million euros, but Lu Sen Shipyard dares to ask Gu Kun to collect 200 million, on the one hand, it costs money for construction and installation, and on the other hand, it also needs to be up and down, but these don't matter.

The only disagreement between the two sides in the end was that the construction was so complicated that it seemed too late to schedule.

Even if the work starts immediately, Gu Kun will use it in 18 months, which is a bit too rushed.

For this difficulty, the two sides could not negotiate many times, so Gu Kun had to give a new suggestion for the other party's reference:

"I'm willing to invest another 1 billion euros, at least 1 billion, it's not enough. I would like your company to build a world-class yacht refitting facility on top of the existing shipyard/ship repair yard in the Lanfang Islands.

I don't require a dry dock with a hull to build, as long as there is an outfitting berth for wet work. In the future, when you deliver it, you can first drive the unrenovated semi-finished ship to Lanfang for use. Then slowly decorate in Lanfang.

The 1 billion euro decoration branch investment, I only need 15% of the equity of the Lusen shipyard in exchange - your current company valuation is absolutely not 5 billion euros, I increase the capital by more than 1 billion euros, as long as 15% of the equity below the warning line, and will not interfere with your business decision-making and design, as long as the corresponding dividends, this should be very cost-effective.

You can go out and inquire, sooner or later I'm going to be the 'barbarian at the door' of the top luxury industry." Moreover, in the maritime field, a top luxury yacht shipyard has an additional legendary shareholder like Poseidon, isn't this kind of strong alliance bad for the company's promotional image and brand positioning? If you don't let me join the shares, I will join your competitors, but I can't do it. ”

Spending more than a billion euros to do this, financially Gu Kun is actually definitely at a loss.

The reason why he did this was also for a publicity gimmick, just like he spent 15~2 billion US dollars to build the world's tallest building, and he absolutely lost money financially.

But the most expensive and largest yachts, and the shipyards that build the most expensive and largest yachts, are as much a part of the world's tallest building as they can help compete for Dubai's place. So the accounts cannot be calculated only from a financial point of view.

Gu Kun believes that no other investor in the world dares to bid like him, with both courage and threat.

Lu Sen Shipyard negotiated again and again, and finally Chairman Eric Hansen replied to Gu Kun with an additional condition: "If it is only a financial investment, we can consider it, but you can never try to sell the shares." If you don't want to be a shareholder one day, you can only sell the shares to us again, and the price must be agreed, according to the upper limit of the bid price when you increase the capital today, and the price cannot be increased.

But if the company loses money in the future and the equity corresponding to the net assets is insufficient, we have to discount and repurchase according to the net asset assessment - of course, you can never sell and never ask us to buy back. ”

To put it bluntly, it is not allowed to leave room for Gu Kun to resell this part of the shares to cash out for profit.

No other financial investor would agree to such harsh conditions, because everyone else wants to be promoted and run away from the next family.

But Gu Kun didn't plan to run away.

What is there to run for a billion euros.

"Deal, let's take what we need. ”