Then I won't delay you, I'll take care of the affairs of Hang Seng, you're busy. ”

After reporting to Gu Kun about the final shipment in the stock market, Liang Jinsong got up and prepared to leave.

Gu Kun politely kept the guest: "Eh, what's the hurry, now is not the critical moment, just throw it away, and throw it to your subordinates." It's rare to come to Lanfang, if I let you go so far and eat some durian and drink some coffee, it would be too unkind.

Let's stay and play for a few days, we have two big projects here recently to lay the foundation stone one after another, so it's not too late to go after watching the ceremony. ”

Liang Jinsong was as he pleased, so he agreed.

Gu Kun immediately instructed his subordinates to arrange a separate manor villa for the guests to stay.

Anyway, the land price in Sarawak is too cheap, and Gu Kun will not talk nonsense even if he builds hundreds of farmhouse villas on the freehold plantation land he bought.

In the next two days, taking advantage of the time for other guests to relieve the fatigue of the journey, Gu Kun also calculated an account for himself a little.

In the first seven months of this year, the operation of completely selling Hong Kong real estate stocks has nominally brought Gu Kun 156 billion yuan of capital backflow, (those stocks sold last year only paid off all leverage and other financing, which belongs to the cost part, and there is not much left)

However, not all of this money was left in Gu Kun's own hands, and he paid a lot of money and opened a lot of new pits during this time.

For example, the plantations, mining, and bridges in Malaysia...... After the second half of '97, it was not paid in full at that time, but it was paid in stages according to the progress of the project.

As mentioned above, it cost a total of RM3 or 4 billion to buy the freehold property rights of these hundreds of nearly 1,000 square kilometers of plantation land, and even if the ringgit had fallen by two or three percent against the US dollar at that time compared to the exchange rate in '96, it would still cost US$7 or 800 million.

To engage in the plantation economy, it is not enough to have land, Gu Kun also builds roads, pulls hydropower, and engages in water conservancy. Even if the land itself has a certain degree of development and basic infrastructure, it will cost hundreds of millions if it is not completely started from scratch.

Coupled with the need for such a large number of high-end varieties of durian, coffee, and cocoa tree species, transplantation and replanting, all the costs add up, Gu Kun's high-end luxury plantation economy in Sarawak has a cumulative cost of 2.5~3 billion US dollars.

In addition, he also has about 1 billion US dollars spent on copper mining rights, and more than 1 billion yuan on cross-sea railways, highways, bridges, and water diversion projects......

More than US$6 billion will be invested in all the projects in Sarawak, which will certainly be paid off by the end of 2000 at the latest.

In this way, Gu Kun's $15 billion cash flow came in, and there was only 9 billion left at once.

At the beginning of the year, it cost 1 billion yuan to buy the world's first luxury yacht in Germany, and it started with 1 billion yuan to invest in the world's most luxurious yacht decoration factory in Lanfang in cooperation with Lu Sen Shipyard, which is another 2 billion US dollars.

In Germany's royal castle of two or three billion, luxury cars and other luxuries add up to two or three billion, and when investing in top luxury brands in France and Italy, cash injection to make up for the equity difference of several hundred million, adding up to a total of 1 billion - this is still based on Liang Jinsong's operation is better, for Gu Kun to save money as much as possible, with Hong Kong stocks in exchange for financial stocks of luxury company shares, to exchange shares for shares, to minimize Gu Kun's cash expenditure. Otherwise, just buying luxury goods companies will cost billions of dollars.

The balance of 9 billion is only 6 billion.

Now, the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel is about to officially lay the foundation for construction, as a competition for the world's first seven-star hotel, the world's most luxurious hotel, the main construction cost of this project may not be too expensive, but the decoration must be extremely expensive, Gu Kun first spent hundreds of millions of dollars at the bottom, that is necessary.

The world's tallest building, Lanfang Tower, has also begun to do foundation excavation and preparation operations, but the building has not risen, but there is a starting capital of 20 billion yuan waiting for Gu Kun.

In the past half a year of self-enclosed farming, the designers of Jiaohai Institute and Tongji Construction Institute hired by Gu Kun have not been idle. Those people are passive about tens of millions of dollars in design fees, and they are as excited as chicken blood, working overtime day and night without fear of overwork and sudden death, and frantically rushing to catch up with the design schedule. Those projects that are a little spectacle started at a faster pace than Gu Kun expected at the beginning.

Sure enough, I still can't believe the speed of the work of the designers invited by the Dubai people in history, and the design that the designer invited by the Dubai people takes two or three years to complete is replaced by the Chinese designers who are willing to work overtime if they have money, and the efficiency gap is flying fast.

Counting the other sudden investments and sudden additional expenses, not considering the subsequent batch of Internet stocks that are currently claimed to have a market value of nearly $40 billion, Gu Kun previously only relied on real estate stocks to get $15 billion, and it would be good to have 3 billion dollars in cash left.

"The money is really unspent, 15 billion was sold in half a year, and 12 billion has been spent, at least the arrangement is clear. If it weren't for the reborn, Lao Tzu would have to eat grain, and finally understand Wang Wanda, who claims to have hundreds of billions of assets, but also has hundreds of billions of additional debts to operate. If Lao Tzu hadn't been supported by the financial crisis's crazy money and oil field expectations, he would have had to continue to operate in debt. ”

After settling the accounts, Gu Kun couldn't help but complain that Qian Te was too useless.

......

Three days later, it was the groundbreaking ceremony of the Burj Al Arab Hotel.

After inspecting the durian/coffee plantation in Sarawak, Gu Kun himself returned to the main island of Lan Fang to preside over the ceremony.

For general hotel projects, it is not Gu Kun's turn to cut the ribbon or speak in person, but this seven-star Burj Al Arab is extremely important, and Gu Kun has to do it himself.

Because the biggest selling point of this kind of hotel is the positioning gimmick of "the world's most upscale", bragging is far more important than hard work, and it must have continuous media exposure and touting from the start of construction to the opening.

Propaganda is the primary productive force, but hard work is not.

For this groundbreaking ceremony, Gu Kun invited many friends from Hollywood, as well as friends from the luxury industry in France and Italy, to invite everyone to eat, drink and play.

Among the celebrities in the luxury world, John Rupert, Francis Pinault, Giorgio Armani, Galeazzo, McQueen, and other Gu Kun who had a little friendship were all invited. There is also Pabrie, an old lover who has broken up, as well as Pabrie's father, Richard Hilton, and several other core members of the Hilton family.

The people of the Hilton family don't feel embarrassed, anyway, they are in this business, and they will definitely blow each other up when they have the opportunity to appear on camera.

The face is not valuable, but the exposure is valuable. Richard's expression didn't show the slightest embarrassment of playing with Gu Kun and dumping his daughter for more than two years.

Hollywood celebrities, not much to say, anyway, the celebrities who have had a little cooperative relationship with Gu Kun, whether it is Roland Emmerich or Tom Hanks, one counts as one, as long as the current schedule is empty, Gu Kun is all invited.

He even invited the hottest little plums at the moment, and it didn't cost much - "Titanic" at the end of last year, but an epoch-making masterpiece that claims to dominate the global box office list for ten years, DiCapio, as the actor, is now red and purple.

But who made Gu Kun also the world's top superstar + top aristocratic celebrity, and there are so many Hollywood stars who come to him to lose weight, Xiao Lizi is just starting out to show that he is not floating, and it is normal for him to come over to cheer.

As for those Asian guests, seeing the list of Hollywood and the luxury industry is already a little weak.

While the fragrance of birds and flowers penetrates, mosquitoes and flies will inevitably run in.

Therefore, there are also some spies who are either uninvited or have a secret mission, and they have also come to explore the way - especially those potential competitors who want to grab the spectacle, and they all want to spy on what scale Gu Kun's spectacle will be and how to snatch the spectacle from Gu Kun's hands.

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