The next day was also the day before Gu Biao left Monaco.

One Saturday.

He slept in the hotel where he was staying, then put on the most modest clothes he had recently bought, packed up his handsomeness, took the invitation to the morning dinner, and walked to the Monte Carlo Blockade.

At a distance of about two or three hundred meters, the country is too small.

It is not accurate to say that it is a big blockage, because this is a complex of buildings that comprehensively operate the entertainment industry. It covers an area of about 5,000 square meters, with a total of four floors, that is, a construction area of 20,000 square meters.

The main building and the northeast podium are the blockages, and the lobby of the main building also serves some catering and drinking.

On the southwest side of the podium is the Monte-Carlo Theater, which houses a concert hall and an opera hall for thousands of people, as well as several smaller cinema halls, from the first to the third floor.

Locals are not allowed to enter the blockade, and foreign adults must be over 21 years old, and they must have their passports checked before they are allowed to enter the blockade. However, drinking in the lobby or going to the opera house does not matter.

Although Gu Biao is a foreigner, his passport is not yet old, so he just relies on invitations to participate in the routine cocktail party for business people.

"Gu, why are you here!"

Before Gu Biao was led into the banquet hall by the waiter, Tiffany found him, the girl was wearing a long skirt today, and she was slightly dragged on the ground, but the ground here was a soft velvet blanket, and everyone's shoes were basically not dirty, but they were not violent.

"It's a luncheon on the invitation. "Gu Biao is very innocent.

Before he went upstairs, he also specially changed into a new pair of lambskin soft-soled shoes, and threw the old shoes that he wore on the dirty road on the way to the dressing room in the locker room.

It's not easy to walk a few steps in this kind of place. It was only after Gu Biao came to Monaco that he understood why some upper-class people, even if they were only 200 meters away, had to take a car - people's shoes could only step on the soft ground from the red carpet to the red carpet, and not a single cement road or bluestone slab could not be touched.

If you dare to walk outdoors, even if it is just one step and step on the dirty, it is disrespectful to the inviter's stall.

That's why the lambskin soles of luxury shoes are so soft and comfortable to step on on soft ground. Later generations of female hangers who limited their imagination wore out and complained about the quality - of course it is not difficult to make the soles firm, the problem is that the life of your shoes is long, and the life of other people's blankets is short, so it is not too unethical to harm others and self-interest.

Don't talk nonsense, and say that Tiffany pulled Gu Biao and walked inside, while complaining: "I'm going back to China, don't you take the opportunity to stay with me for a while!"

Gu Biao could only divert the topic: "Why are there so many people today? ”

"Because it's going to be the Cannes Film Festival in a month's time. Many of my mother's friends in the film industry came over in advance to communicate with each other, maybe they were paying tribute. Today, there are actually dozens of judges from the jury of the film festival alone. Tiffany said proudly and pretending to be low-key.

Gu Biao took a look, and sure enough, in the past, the customers of Monaco's major pillar industries were almost half open at this kind of business reception. Today, there are significantly more tycoons in the European film industry, far overshadowing the ship kings, real estate tycoons, and luxury merchants.

But none of this has anything to do with Gu Biao.

He weaved through the crowd with his glass in hand, and soon saw Prince Albert.

The main task of today's banquet is to have a more in-depth chat with Prince Albert and strive for cooperation in the future.

"Your Highness, you are in good spirits today. I have come to bid you farewell today. Gu Biao walked up to Prince Albert and politely raised his champagne glass and touched it.

He was careful not to hold Tiffany, but to let Tiffany grab his wrist and pull it, so as not to resent the prince.

Although culturally speaking, these guys are French and not German, and they never look at orthopedics. However, after all, there is no mistake in being careful.

Seeing that Gu Wei was so attentive, Prince Albert seemed to be in a good mood: "Then I wish you a smooth journey." Why, aren't you a well-known film investor, there are so many VIPs today, don't get to know each other, waste time and have something to talk to me. ”

Prince Albert looked a little lost, and as he said this, he squinted to the left with his peripheral vision.

There were a bunch of French and Italian filmmakers, surrounding his sister, Princess Caroline, talking and laughing there.

Who made Princess Caroline the most beautiful of the three siblings, about ninety percent of her mother's appearance when she was young? She is destined to inherit her mother's film investment and production company business.

In the entertainment industry, it's also a big advantage for the boss to be good-looking, even if you don't have to act in person.

And Prince Albert has a congenital deficiency, that is, he is too ugly. At a young age, he had a tendency to be bald, and he simply shaved his head in order to rebel.

In addition, the nutrition is too good, he is a foodie, and he doesn't like adventure sports, so he has become a round-faced bald fat man with a meat mound.

Gu Biao could see that he was a little disappointed and envious today, but he couldn't talk about jealousy and hatred, after all, he was his own sister, and there was nothing to be jealous of. He just wanted to find his worth.

After grasping the other party's mood, Gu Biao can certainly do what he likes.

"Your Highness, I am a well-known film investor, don't you say this to me. I also led the investment in "The Terminator" in my life, well, and I also voted a little bit in "The Last Emperor", it's just good luck, and winning a bet is nothing.

Her Royal Highness Caroline has been a little busy in Cannes for the past two months. Monaco's economy, the royal family's business, after all, depends on you and His Royal Highness, and movies are just a small amount of money. ”

As soon as Gu Biao said this, Prince Albert was still very comfortable in his heart.

I was slapped by my brother-in-law.

However, he was also a little vigilant: "I'm afraid what you said is inappropriate." China's gaming industry and tourism real estate, has been almost excavated, I have advised my father several times to reform the revenue model of blocking the market, engage in chip exchange fees, change the catering, tobacco and alcohol to VIP customers free supply, learn from your Oriental Australian county model, but my father has not listened. If this continues, how can my business at hand have as much imagination as my sister's film and shipping industry. ”

In the 80s, it was indeed the era of the explosion of the shipping industry, and the real estate tycoons were generally not awesome, the theme of the global economy was "industrial transfer", the country with expensive land, with the rise of container transportation, the transfer of manpower-intensive industries to the outside world, many large cities in Europe and the United States began to hollow reverse urbanization, and land prices could not rise at all.

The situation in Xiangjiang in China is similar to that of Monaco, and the strength of the charter ship king at that time obviously crushed Li Jiacheng and others a lot.

However, Gu Biao quickly showed his vision, proving that he was not a sycophant, but sincerely felt that the prince had a future: "I think His Royal Highness the Prince has a very clear idea, your country has the national conditions of your country, and you can't imitate our Australian county model." ”

Monaco's Monte Carlo blockade now has a net profit of only about 50 million francs a year. The most bizarre thing is that Monte Carlo relies on 20 francs per person for admission and other food, tobacco and alcohol fees in the stadium as its main profit, compared to the margin of chip exchange.

This is completely incomparable with Ao County. Before the return of later generations, the gambling king family of Ao County paid 78 billion Hong Kong dollars in gambling taxes every year. Even in 1982, there were more than 1000 million Hong Kong dollars, which was converted into about 6 or 700 million francs.

Ten times that of Monaco.

It is not for nothing that Prince Albert envies the Australian county model.

"Why can't you imitate?" the prince was immediately attracted by Gu Biao's arbitrariness.

In contrast, Tiffany, who was originally accompanying Gu Ao, was angry, and she shook her hand hatefully: "Gu! I said that I would accompany me, and you talked to Brother Wang about business again! Ignore you! Hey, if you don't coax me anymore, I really ignore you!"

"Little sister, don't make trouble! we adults have something to do!" Prince Albert reluctantly pushed his sister away.

Gu Biao also ignored her and concentrated on explaining to the prince:

"In East Asia, the vast majority of large countries are absolutely blocked, and the traffic dividend that Aoxian can absorb is very large. Therefore, it is feasible for them to eat and drink for free, enter for free, and make money by exchanging chips for pumps.

But how many countries in Europe are there that are really absolutely banned? As far as I know, it is very easy for the people of Honang to share your gambling income. Therefore, there is no uniqueness in your country's policy advantages, and the prince's thinking is actually very clear: the gambling industry is just a bait to attract rich people to your country to hide their wealth and buy real estate, not the real main source of profits.

The real advantage of your country is your permanent exemption from all personal income tax and all inheritance/gift taxes. Therefore, all the rich people in Europe and the United States want to come here to retire, buy a house, and leave their inheritance to their children. This is something that the people of Honans cannot grab, and it is impossible for them to make the scale of tax exemption so large, which can only be done by small city-states and offshore tax havens. ”

Prince Albert actually knows this truth almost well, but he has just graduated from college for more than half a year, and he has not thought about it against the frame of reference of the Honans. Therefore, Gu Biao dialed a little, and he immediately understood it.

There is no such thing as gambling in Europe.

Albert hesitated and asked, "So, do you think that the two businesses that my father asked me to take care of should be real estate and tourism consumption that are more promising than gambling?

"There is no doubt about it. Gu Biao replied as a matter of course.

There is no income tax in Monaco, but property and excise taxes are not low. Otherwise, there is no tax, and what kind of money is still earned, Prince Rainier has been painstakingly pondering for 30 years, that is, how to attract rich people from all over the world who are afraid of being charged inheritance tax, and then sincerely provide them with a good environment to spend all their time and drink.

Albert: "But it's hard to develop these industries. Monaco has a limited land area, and most of the land that can be developed is now developed, even the mountains on the border with France that can be leveled. If you want to rely on real estate to make money, where will you get the vacant land, what Monaco lacks most is land. ”

Gu Biao: "Hasn't His Royal Highness been reclaiming land from the sea all these years? 20% of your country's land area is now filled out of the sea. ”

Albert: "Of course, land reclamation is also a solution, but the cost is too high, and it costs hundreds of millions of pounds to fill a hectare of land. Second, the coastline that can still be filled in for us is not long-

Many private plots that have been sold have been given adjacent easements when they bought the house, and the state promised them first-line sea view houses. If you fill in another piece on the outside of those sea view houses, their original house will not be considered a sea view house. That is an infringement, which will cause a lot of disputes and affect the credibility of the state to attract rich people. ”

Speaking of this, Albert pointed out the window helplessly: "At present, what my father dares to plan is the idea of the coastline next to the public buildings near the sea, such as the big opera house. These buildings are all state-owned, and even if they are no longer 'seascapes' in the future, and a piece of land grows outside, there will be no complaints from the sufferers. ”

Gu Biao: "Then why don't you consider changing the reclamation to a kind of 'multi-layered seascape' that stretches into the sea with a long breakwater and then blooms on both sides." Your Highness, have you ever been to Miami, where the sea view houses are all like this, a unit length of beach, maybe can feed three times as many sea view houses. ”

Later generations were far more obsessed with sea view rooms than in the 80s, so much so that in the new century, there was finally a design that maximized and optimized the sea view - the "Palm Jumeirah" of Dubai.

Of course, Dubai is still a relatively poor chiefdom in the UAE, and it doesn't want to be a luxury capital. The rich Arabs are still used to coming to Monaco to make money.

Many of the obvious ideas of the people of Dubai in later generations were shamelessly appropriated by Gu Yutian.

Albert was taken aback: "Wouldn't this infringe on the French right to territorial waters? Moreover, the deeper the place, the higher the cost of reclamation." The French will also accuse us of destroying the undersea ecosphere and of obstructing us in all ways. ”

Gu Biao kindly persuaded: "If your country still has spare money financially, it is better to dredge the joints with the French sooner rather than later." No one in the world has thought of such a solution today, and the French will not ask for too much compromise.

If other peers do this in the future, and the adverse effects are revealed, the French will only ask for higher and higher prices, and the approval will become more and more stringent.

On the technical side, I can also give you a little advice, you can invest in a shipping company and a shipbuilding company. Study the technology of the submarine sand pumping and filling ship. And you'd better find a hidden collaborator, in the dark corners of the world that the French are not very aware of, lest the French wake up to what you want to do.

In addition, I have another suggestion, your country currently has too much land left for blocking venues, opera houses, and catering, which is too wasteful. In particular, catering and hotel accommodation are not very profitable, and they will occupy every inch of your country's land resources.

In this case, it is better to convert these plots of land into luxury houses, and then buy some of the top luxury passenger ships that are about to be decommissioned, docked off the coast of the port of Monaco, and provide guests with boat jamming and entertainment services at sea. ”

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