Although according to Mina's rough estimate, there is a turnover of $2 million per week in handling fees alone, plus other income to offset most of the hard expenses and depreciation, then the pre-tax profit of a million dollars per week should still be there, which is 70 or 80 million a year.

It's a pity that the tax rate of special industries has always fluctuated around 60%, so it was cut down so ruthlessly, plus the capitation fee for the Monte Carlo home company that solicited customers, and the net profit after tax for a year belonged to Gu Biao, and now it is calculated to be more than 20 million US dollars, or converted into 200 million yuan.

This amount of money is really not much compared to Gu Biao's current main business. Even compared with Mina's liquor business in Lucia, it is only equivalent to more than half of the latter's profit - on the Lucia market, the annual income attributable to Mina is as much as three to five million dollars.

That figure also excludes the income of the national team, because the income of the national team is at least several hundred million US dollars, and the amount of foreign exchange earned is more than one billion. Mina only acted as a handler and paver for the gray channel, accounting for a very small part of the total revenue of the business.

Gu Biao's advantage in running the "Princess Caroline" is nothing more than worry-free, this is a brainless business that automatically comes to money when lying down and falling asleep.

And from another perspective, considering that this is only a one-time investment of tens of millions of dollars, plus a precious license, it should be very satisfying to be able to exchange so much.

Mina's vodka substitution business was also done by some chance, and it involved the import and export of liquor at the national level, which was ten times larger than the European gaming industry in scale, which was completely deserved.

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In later generations, many people said that cruise travel is a kind of travel lifestyle that makes people bored, can only find excitement and relax their desires.

If you're not married and you want to get married, you can go on a cruise. The women on the boat are also tired of looking at the sea every day, so they want to find excitement, and when you get off the boat, there is basically pào yǒu.

But if you are already married and you want to divorce, you can also go on a cruise. After both parties are tired of it, you can get a divorce and then play around for a while.

This is an exaggeration, of course, but it also shows that entertainment at sea can easily get boring:

In fact, if you stare at the sea view for a maximum of an hour every day, you will get tired of it, and no one will sit on the balcony and watch it for a long time. All the rides are also available for up to two hours a day. Unless you're a sports fanatic, you might be able to double the time you can use the facility.

And then, how much time does it take to eat and drink? Besides, eating and drinking alone is boring. So all the time you have left at sea, you have to make friends to pass the time.

On the Princess Caroline, things were slightly better, because people were bored and were led to play for money, not just meet new men and women.

But Rao is like this, Gu Biao still has to keep a close eye on Mina.

This girl is so attractive and has potential, and the beauty of mixed race is not at all something that those white invisible rich can resist.

When Gu Biao followed, someone came over to talk about business cooperation and talk to him, but fortunately, Gu Biao had a big face, and there were many bodyguards following him all the time, and it was in his home field, so he was not asked by those billionaires to go to Mina's personal contact.

"I won't bring you to this kind of occasion in the future!" After a few days, every night when he was alone in the dead of night, Gu Biao couldn't help but complain and admonish like this.

Every time at this moment, Mina fought back sharply: "Know how attractive I am, if you don't hurt people well, the people who chase others will line up from China to France." ”

"I don't love you enough, I love you so much every day!" Of course, Gu Biao wanted to viciously suppress the other party's attempt to turn over and be the master.

He knew that he couldn't convince a woman by going straight, so he had to play the extra emotional card, so he changed the subject: "Don't think that you are popular on the boat." I've sacrificed a lot in the past few days, so I just guarded you and didn't go looking for beautiful women. ”

Mina smirked and debunked: "Most of the rich people on the ship are men, and even if there are women, they are all female companions they bring - when did you become interested in other people's wives or girlfriends?"

Gu Biao: "Nonsense, you haven't paid attention, the waiters arranged on my ship, except for those who do technical maintenance and manual work, or cooks, are all women! ”

Mina looked disdainful: "Cut, aren't they all maids, and they're not in high society." I know you're not the kind of person who can even do your own staff, which would hurt your sense of accomplishment and your pride in your charisma. ”

I have to say that Mina really knows Gu Biao too well.

Gu Biao is indeed a very narcissistic guy with his personality charm. So he never eats the grass on the edge of the nest, and so far he has never done anything with his female artists, and even the female secretary around him has never been poisoned.

Because he felt that oppressing women with power was too tasteless, and it was an insult to his personality charm. What he likes to see the most is that he stands there, even if no sister knows his identity and no sister knows that he is rich, he is still intimidated by his charm and embraces him.

At this moment, being squeezed by Mina like this, Gu Biao suddenly felt a little short of words, so he could only adjust his language, and said strongly: "Even if I am not interested in the women I ask for, at least they are beautiful, you look at those local tyrants who play with money, they are all shriveled little old men who are not wrinkled." ”

"There are also young rich second generations!"

"That's not as handsome as me!"

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Abalone, sea cucumber, geoduck, lobster, golden qiāng, mahogany clams, truffle roe, king crab, and all kinds of amusement facilities.

For seven days, because of the closed and boring environment, Gu Biao almost took out a wrist that was more diligent than when he first succeeded, and spent his mind chasing Mina again, tying Mina tightly to his side, and not letting her leave his field of vision at all.

To speak in conscience, five and a half years ago, when Mina and Gu Biao were together, Mina took the initiative herself.

Although, at that time, there was an opportunity behind the "Gu Biao was about to be arranged by the state to go to Georgetown University's Wales School of Diplomacy to study for a doctorate", giving people the illusion that "from now on, they will not return to China", which made Mina firm in her determination.

But after all, Gu Biao still owes Mina something. There is such a thing as love, which should be a matter of course, and men should take the initiative. Men who get their hands without exerting any effort are incomplete.

During the week, although Mina occasionally put on a smiling courtesan appearance, it was actually just a diplomatic trick. She also enjoyed her husband chasing her again, which made her heart only unwilling, which was buried deeper and deeper, and completely disappeared, leaving only the sweetness to death.

Only this kind of opportunity to isolate a man from the world for a week, no matter how ambitious he is, he can't pay attention to it, to think, and force him to completely empty his heart once, can a successful man like Gu Biao temporarily get rid of a sick straight man, and he has to figure out a woman's mind because he has nothing to do.

On the day of getting off the boat, Mina had been subdued as soft as a bone, and she would go wherever Gu Biao pointed out, and she was temporarily held in the palm of her hand and melted, and it was not bad to give up her self-thinking ability for a while and just listen to her husband's arrangement and go with the flow.

Although Gu Biao also has a sense of accomplishment in his heart, he is more tired, nervous and excited.

He didn't want to chase Mina for any longer, and he was afraid of staying in Europe and continuing to play long nights, so he soon chose to say goodbye to Caroline and return to China.

This trip out to play, Europe and the United States add up to another month, watched the World Cup, saw the Latin style, and got on the "Princess Caroline", but it is not completely unprofessional. After all, Gu Biao also made an appointment with Chambers and accompanied Mina to inspect the effect of Red Bull's World Cup sponsorship and promotion, and took time to do a few practical things.

Even if you look at the repercussions of the opening of the gambling business, strictly speaking, it is a practical matter.

After returning to China, Gu Biao ran at both ends of Xiangjiang, the Special Economic Zone and Qiantang as usual, taking care of the progress of Xiangji and Hanle Electronics, and following up the follow-up improvement and run-in progress of the Tiankun learning machine.

The other is to go back to Qiantang to supervise the formal preparation and layout of Tiankun's domestic software studio - as mentioned above, in May, as soon as the Tiankun learning machine was launched, Gu Biao put forward a systematic request for the promotion of sinicization work, and asked Yang Hao and Erikson to make the software outsourcing studio that Qiantang had built a few years ago by relying on the exchange program of Zhejiang University and Stanford Commission, and made it a more formal company.

On the other hand, when watching the World Cup at the end of June, after talking to Chambers, Gu Biao officially decided to start the layout of "preparations for the development of personal computer operating systems", and before digging up the technical backbone of Wang An's department, he made preparations for absorption and digestion.

This also requires the establishment of a new software development team in the mainland.

Since this is the case, Gu Biao will easily leave the software development department in Qiantang, and it will be convenient to work and communicate in the future. On the side of the Special Economic Zone, after all, there are only production bases and Xiangji, which are still hardware-based.

With the domestic environment of 86 years, most of the software talents are decent people who sit in the office, and they don't like to go to newly developed cities. The SEZs are more likely to be engaged in foreign-funded industries and import and export of wealthy people.

In the last ten days of July, and even the hottest day of the year in early to mid-August, Gu Biao spent this time in the process of cooking the new team.

With Gu Biao and Tiankun's current reputation in China, when the news is released, there will naturally be a steady stream of people coming from the capital and even other first-tier cities, and some people will not even wait for Zhongguancun, which is still in its embryonic form.

However, Gu Xiao has not met the cattle who have left their names in history for the time being, at least Qiu Bojun and other elders of the Jinshan system who do Chinese wPs, Gu Xiao has not seen any of them. As for the founders of Starcom, who engaged in PHS in later generations, I haven't seen any of them.

Those who come are all doing basic work, and they need to be slowly run-in and cultivated, and in a year or two, they can only work under those technical cattle who will be dug from Wang An's department in the future.

At the same time, the liaison work on Chambers's side gradually became apparent, and the first batch of technical backbones who fled Wang An began to join Tiankun under the mediation of Chambers. Moreover, many of Wang An's computers are Chinese engineers, and even Chinese who were born in China and later went to the United States to study and work.

Of course, these people can talk to them about coming to China to work, as long as Gu Biao adds money and promises to guarantee living conditions.

However, at the same time, Chambers also gave Gu Biao another piece of news:

As mentioned earlier, the "delegation of American entrepreneurs" planned by the American Times Group to visit China and share its experience is finally about to come to fruition.

Wang An's son, Wang Lie, will officially come to China to brush his face again as the CEO of Wang An's computer, and will be invited by the relevant departments to teach industrial strategy.

Anything that allowed Wang Lie to successfully strengthen his prestige was something that Gu Biao did not want to see, although the loss to Gu Biao was not obvious.

But since it doesn't cost anything to snipe, Gu Biao didn't hesitate to participate.

On the phone call with Chambers, Gu Biao did not express his position directly, because there was no need to tell Chambers about this.

However, after hanging up the phone, Gu Biao immediately asked the secretary to arrange a plane ticket for him, and he was going to the capital to scare people.

This is also a matter of both family and country: not to let the company that he is ready to swallow up in the future, because the prestige of the leader has risen, the stock price does not fall fast enough,

It can also prevent the relevant departments from being deceived because they "must call it the United States".