In mid-January 1996,

Gu Kun, who had been tossing and turning at sea for a long time, and had several flights after coming ashore from Casablanca, finally returned to Hujiang.

After spending a few days remotely handling some business on Lan Fang's side, listening to some reports, Gu Kun reviewed his homework again, and then ushered in the final exam of the first semester of his junior year.

A lot of professional knowledge in naval architecture and offshore engineering is still very useful to him, and he didn't learn it for the sake of gilding, but he really needed this knowledge.

As far as the courses of ship design are concerned, a lot of knowledge has played a certain role in his procurement negotiations, at least helping him to achieve the assessment of the cost required for ship refit, and he is more handy when bargaining.

These can be learned and used at any time, of course, you have to learn hard.

Because he hadn't attended classes for more than two months, Gu Kun's progress was a bit behind. Fortunately, the Lunar New Year in '96 was relatively late, and the Chinese New Year was only celebrated in mid-February, so the university also had to have final exams in the first week of February, and then the winter vacation.

When Gu Kun returned to China, there was still half a month before the final exam, and under the urgent need to make up for it, relying on his many years of practical experience and relatively fast mastery of practical courses, he also quickly caught up with the progress.

It's just that the results of the final exam, each course is on average ten points lower than the mid-term, and it is generally in the seventies, but I have passed all of them.

After the exam, Gu Kun flew back to Lanfang without stopping.

Lin Ying, who came to study abroad with him, as well as Tang Jia, who was already serving under him, and some other Heikelan girl students he sponsored also followed back to Lanfang.

Some are going back for the New Year, some are busy with business to learn skills, and some are looking for a hotel to intern in advance.

Who asked Gu Kun to give internship salaries to the international students he sponsored, those Black Kland girls are happy to come out in advance to make money.

On the first day after returning to Lanfang, Gu Kun first cared about where his ship went. Among the Lan Fang sailors on the ship are people from the Blackwater Security Company, and they are also equipped with civilian satellite phones, so they can be contacted at any time from any location on the earth.

(The original military satellite communication system on the aircraft carrier was dismantled, and the Nikolaev shipyard temporarily installed a civilian satellite phone when it was retrofitted after signing the contract.) ）

At this time, more than a month had passed since Gu Kun disembarked from Casablanca in early January, and after contact, Gu Kun learned that the "Isakov" had arrived in the Namibian waters of South Africa, and could pass the Cape of Good Hope after a short rest and preparation in Kalibib or Cape Town.

As an old captain, Gu Kun of course knew that the killing waves in the Cape of Good Hope were very violent, and the westerly circulation and other undercurrents converged and stirred violently, and it was not impossible for the aircraft carrier of tens of thousands of tons to be overturned if it was not operated well. He therefore fully agreed with the prudent decision of the crew.

Luckily, the Cape of Good Hope's most stormy season of the year is the local winter, which is the summer in the Northern Hemisphere, around June and July. And now it's the local summer, so the waves are smaller.

During the week of anxiously waiting for the New Year, Gu Kun would care about it on satellite phone almost every other day, and finally got a good news on Chinese New Year's Eve:

The "Isakov" had already passed the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas in succession in one day, finally bypassing the southernmost tip of Africa and entering the Indian Ocean.

Apparently, the crew waited for several days near Cape Town, and did not begin to circumnavigate the danger zone until the weather forecast was for a day when the wind and waves were relatively minimal.

After carrying the murderous wave of the Cape of Good Hope, the rest is all side dishes. Gu Kun was in high spirits and estimated the operation on the map, and in two months, the ship should be able to return to Lanfang, that is, before May Day.

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In the months since, Gu Kun has kept a low profile.

After all, there is a half-finished aircraft carrier floating on the sea, so it is better to do things steadily, try not to provoke new enemies, and do not do anything to attract attention from the public.

After returning to school after the winter vacation in early March, in the first three months, Gu Kun studied in peace, occasionally took stock of his business, or took leave to go back to Lanfang to live and personally lead the boat to the sea.

Since there have been no new cooperative construction projects recently, everything is progressing steadily.

It is nothing more than that in the past three months, the civil construction of the tower facilities of Lanfang International Airport has almost been completed, and two berths of 350,000 tons of bulk carriers have been completed in Lanfang Port.

In addition, the days when Gu Kun personally led the fleet to go to sea also accounted for more than a month, plus a month of winter vacation was also in Lanfang, so he used this time to complete the "Submarine Topographic Survey in the Southern South China Sea" project, which had been dragged by a long stream of water.

After all, he was too busy before and didn't have time to calm down and run the ship in person, so the "Nightingale" survey ship was dug by Du Guowei from the Design Institute of Jiaotong University for most of the previous half a year.

After all, Du Guowei did not open the hanging, and it took more than a month to complete the measurement of a 50 by 50 nautical miles sea area terrain with a contract price of 2 million yuan. How can he open a plot like Gu Kun, and he can measure a plot worth 2 million yuan in a week.

With Gu Kun's business now further expanding and about to become one of the top cultural and tourism tycoons in Nanyang, of course he doesn't have to deliberately earn 2 million yuan of hard-earned money this week.

The reason why he still leads the team in person is because he needs to be low-key in the past few months, and he can't do anything else, so being idle is also idle, and going to sea to explore in person can also play a role in acting.

It's like Liu Bei planting vegetables in the back garden in the sensitive period when he took refuge in Cao Cao, and it is not because Liu Bei's labor force is only worth the level of a peasant, the real purpose is to show that he has no ambitions.

And the value of two million yuan of hard-earned money a week to Gu Kun,

It is equivalent to an acre of leeks, the value of Liu Bei.

In addition to money, Gu Kun personally operated the ship to engage in marine surveys, and another purpose was to close the project as soon as possible - he had estimated that this project would generate a cumulative income of about 50 million yuan, but last year, it actually only had a turnover of more than 10 million yuan, and there were still more than 30 million left.

Relying on Du Guowei alone, he couldn't do the 30 million in a year, so after Gu Kun personally went out for two months, he could be regarded as completing the cooperation project of the South China Sea topographic survey before May Day.

In this way, it can also avoid that after the "Isakov" sails to Lanfang Port in the future, Gu Kun's other cooperation with the relevant departments of Huaxia has not ended, creating opportunities and suspicions for the other party.

This also means that this 50 million yuan list has been delayed for nearly a year and a half, and the project has finally been completely completed, and the money has been completely received.

In the process of surveying, Gu Kun just picked two relatively invaluable and inconspicuous shipwrecks and salvaged them a little. Each ship benefited more than $5 million, with a combined valuation of $13 million, but it was not until the second half of the year that Van Birsson and Miss Sophia could help him arrange sales channels and collect payments.

As a result, the number of shipwrecks that he still remembers in the waters around the South Seas has dropped to eight.

Among them, 3 belong to the "world's top 20 famous shipwrecks" in later generations, with an estimated value of hundreds of millions of dollars, and the remaining 5 are also worth more than the two newly caught by Gu Kun, at least more than 5 million US dollars, most of which are distributed in the range of 10 million or 20 million.

The survey and auction allowed Gu Kun to earn a total of 18 million US dollars in the first half of 1996 during the time of "pretending to grow vegetables".

In addition, the shipping industry (including self-operated import and export trade) and the fishery have a monthly income of nearly one million US dollars.

There is also the Lanfang tourism industry supported by COSCO, which can achieve 20,000 or 30,000 tourists per month, equivalent to a turnover of 20 million US dollars, and a net profit of 4 million US dollars.

By the end of May 1996, Gu Kun had amassed an additional cash flow of $35 million.

At this moment, his "Isakov" finally returned to Lanfang Port and entered a 50,000-ton wharf to temporarily berth and await transformation.

Gu Kun himself almost finished his busy sprint study in his third year and took the final exam in advance, the reason being that he was going to participate in this year's Olympic Games and preparing to go abroad in advance to adapt to the environment and prevent adaptation.

His senior sister Luo Haili has now officially graduated from Jiaotong University and has become a 96 graduate, and then immediately served as a member of the Lanfang Islands Olympic Committee and a deputy of the Lanfang Islands Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Under Luo Haili's control, Lan Fang completed all the procedures for joining the Olympic family in the first half of this year, and then also helped Gu Kun himself complete the athlete registration procedures.

As for Gu Kun's Olympic A-standard qualifiers, most of the events are not required to participate, because last year's World Universiade competition is less than one year before the current Olympic Games.

According to the Olympic selection criteria, as long as the valid results achieved in any official international competition within one year before the start of the Olympic Games have reached the Olympic A standard, there is no need to swim again.

However, Gu Kun still took time to participate in the notary selection competition in some projects, mainly because he did not register for these events at the World Universiade last year, and there were no valid results - in the past six months, he took some time to relearn how to swim butterfly swimming with Coach Chen, and barely learned to make his movements meet the standards of professional competitions without being judged to be a violation.

With Gu Kun's level, it must be a bit difficult to win the gold medal in the butterfly again, because his movements are not very accustomed to it, and he can't swim fast. However, he is also well aware of his own strength, as long as he can swim and not violate the rules, then he can register for the 200m and 400m medley trials.

Because even if his butterfly stroke is slower than others, he can easily overtake it with the time of the other three strokes.

Therefore, in the end, at the Atlanta Olympics in the summer vacation, Gu Kun registered for 11 events, two more than the 9 events in last year's World Universiade.

The time finally came to June 1996, and a new curtain was about to open.

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(PS: In the middle of the past few months, you have to be patient and reluctant, it's not easy to write, and there is nothing exciting to develop.) I looked at the outline and could do all the old things that I had done before, so I didn't water it and fast-forwarded the timeline a little.

After the 97 Southeast Asian financial crisis and the complete reversal of the name with the West, many plots are easy to write and easy to unfold. There is no way, if you want to take into account IQ and authenticity, you can only be able to be strong, but once you get up, you can't take care of it. If there was a system, the plot would be much smoother. ）

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