Chapter 167 Ocean Shipping
It's November.
After An Feng's new identity was confirmed, he went to the immigration bureau to update his green card information, and Friedman, a banker in Switzerland, sent a clerk in the United States to complete the information for him to help protect the privacy of customers.
An Feng also bought a stack of checkbooks to spend in the name of GP International. His U.S. account has also been upgraded again, and the corresponding services will be taken over by the telephone secretary, that is, those fundraisers, cocktail parties and dinners recommended by the bank, first through Angela, and then her team will screen out the projects of interest according to An Feng's interests and habits. Otherwise, what does it look like for a rich person to answer a referral call every day?
In addition to these, An Feng often goes to UCB to watch the game.
Nothing else, it's that Joanna recently joined a women's sabre competition, and she has been on the field these days, so as a husband, she naturally has to be a cheerleader. And in order to train her, he hired a team, not many people, but all of them were professional athletes, and they were able to give Joanna a lot of tips.
There was another game this afternoon, according to An Feng's observation, it is obvious that the sports cells of students in colleges and universities in the United States are very developed, usually not in the classroom, the school library or on the sports field. In addition to basketball and American football, there are also competitions for some unpopular ones such as fencing and shooting.
Joanna is dressed in a snow-white sword suit, revealing her trademark blonde hair behind the mask, and she is heroic. Her opponent was a brunette girl, slightly shorter than her, but she was nimble, and she was able to defuse Joanna's attacks several times, and although the brunette retreated repeatedly, she always relied on her luck to hit the effective part first.
There are also a lot of spectators around. There are men and women, some are interested in fencing, and the other is purely to see female swordsmen. Fourteen-meter kendo platform. The tense duel, the fierceness of which makes it impossible to see the trajectory of the sword swing, only the frequent French from the referee's mouth can be heard.
After the match, the referee announced that Joanna's opponent had taken a small lead in the score and won the victory, and Joanna, who took off her mask, was disappointed, but An Feng gave her a thumbs up. When she came, she congratulated: "Today's performance was really wonderful, if it weren't for the opponent's luck a few times." She's going to lose. β
Joanna pouted: "It's really comforting, but her skills are indeed better than mine, and I have been spoiled by you since I got married, and I am much more rusty." β
An Feng handed her a towel to wipe her sweat. The mouth said: "The battle for the top two is over." But isn't there a battle for third place? Even if you can't and lose the game, you win the love! Winning or losing the game is temporary, and love is for a lifetime, so let them envy it! β
Joanna smiled: "So sweet. β
Back at home, a specially hired chef had already prepared dinner for them, which was also too lazy, and An Feng himself was reluctant to enter the kitchen. And I don't want Joanna to waste time in the kitchen and sacrifice training time, so having a dedicated chef is the best way to go.
The chef is a middle-aged French immigrant. She specializes in French food and is only responsible for their dinners, but usually spends two to three hours preparing them meticulously for $6,000 a month. That's how the craftsmanship and the big names are shown, the dinner was great, and the French are especially artistic.
After the meal, after giving the French chef enough praise, he left satisfied. An Feng felt so happy, the chef hired at a high price, after enjoying it at the employer, had to evaluate his cooking skills every day and give advice, otherwise he would think that the dishes were not good and secretly sad.
Joanna said, "You don't understand people who are looking for the ultimate in cooking, they are artists in some form. Artists are all crazy, do you know the Tao? β
An Feng agreed: "That's true. β
Joanna said, "Shall we do a dance later?" Fencing today is a lesson, I have to keep it as a habit, and I can't let you spoil it. β
An Feng said: "Is it wrong for your husband to love you?" β
Joanna shook her head: "That's right, but you don't think it's a little too ...... Don't you think we should all have something to attract each other? Don't you like my beautiful, tall and sexy, or do you like your addictively toned body? β
An Feng smiled: "I can't refuse you, you always have a lot of opinions." β
After a half-hour break after the meal, the two of them waltzed together in the fitness room. An Feng's learning speed is very fast, and Joanna keeps increasing the difficulty. In the end, he came to the conclusion that if he went to participate in the modern dance competition, it would not be difficult for him to get a place...... To be honest, An Feng also felt that he was too powerful.
In the evening, when Joanna was in the beauty, An Feng took the time to watch something.
The design of the Turku shipyard is preliminarily completed, and the rest will have to travel to San Francisco to listen to Anfeng's opinion and have the design team at the headquarters revise the details...... And with that came the shipyard. Anfeng must have a shipyard, even if it is not used. Because if you buy a cruise ship as an individual, the expenses are not deductible from the tax, but if you calculate the expenses from commercial activities, they can be deducted here.
When it came to the design style of the cruise ship, Turku's designers were constantly seeking the views of An Feng and Joanna. Naturally, the cruise ship cannot be parked in its own yard as a private yacht, because it is too large, the maintenance cost is terrifying, commercial operation is a must, and it is also a way to break even.
You can't park a cruise ship comparable to a small city, only a few people go up to play, and then spend hundreds of millions of maintenance costs every year, right? So from the day it was built, commercial operations had to be taken into account. But An Feng doesn't care about the dozen or so floors below, the top layer he needs is specially customized.
That is to say, luxury is required to be like a palace, and everything is based on the ultimate enjoyment. In this regard, An Feng has made up a lot of knowledge, and learned about the luxury brands in the world, because of the splendid and tall style, so the carpet is considered to be handmade in Persia, like the Arabian Nights described in the Arabian Palace.
There are also options such as lighting, Swarovski's crystal chandelier is obviously atmospheric enough, and there are more details such as the choice of glasses, the glass must be a high-end crystal glass, and what kind of attention is paid to, the glass of champagne must not be filled with red wine......
After a few days of brain cell death, the Turku design team is now focused on the construction of the palace of the owner of the top ship, and everything else is almost complete, almost moving a palace city up, full of gold, ivory and sea blue.
An Feng looked at the renderings, luxurious but not lacking in elegance, this should be the appearance of a tasteful palace, just make a bunch of gold, that's the nouveau riche, you have to have other embellishments to decorate it, ivory white is essential, and then a little blue, perfect!
When the designer was trying his best to modify Suite 1, An Feng flew to Florida with Joanna on the weekend, accompanied by Eve, a female assistant from Texas. Ludlow, originally intended to be called John...... But forget it, he's too busy right now, and his wife recently had a birthday.
An Feng understood him very well, so he replaced him with Ludlow.
The reason why I came to Florida was that in addition to a day or two vacation, I also considered registering a shipping company and signing a contract with the Turku shipyard in the name of the company to avoid the taxes and fees that Anfeng needs to pay. By the way, take a look at the deep-water docks in Miami, which can berth hundreds of thousands of tons of giant ships.
The name of the company has been thought of, called "Ocean Shipping Company", although there is already a giant in the shipping industry in the local area: Royal Caribbean Company, but An Feng now likes to smash the field - because he has confidence, now he is also a big role, not to mention that his partner is stronger, isn't it?
The matter of registering the company kept Eve and the assistants she brought busy, and An Feng and Joanna continued to wander around, first revisiting the original road of marriage proposal - that is, at that time, two young people in love made a decision to start their life path.
It's November, but there is no winter in Miami, and the climate is warm, so it's no problem to lie on the beach and bask in the sun. The two of them were dressed casually like last time, wearing sunglasses, wearing flip-flops, and walking on the coastal path with a lot of laughter, and Joanna asked him to carry it.
"Keep carrying me." "It's the same as before," she said. β
An Feng carried her behind her back and asked, "Do you want to propose like last time?" β
"If you want......" Joanna smirked, "I will allow itβbut I won't say yes." β
An Feng laughed dumbly, and pinched her ass mischievously with the hand holding her thigh: "If you dare to refuse my words, this is the punishment." β
Joanna laughed, "Ha Lu Ha! Yes! No! β
Strolling along the beach, looking at the rows of beautiful sea-view villas in front of him, An Feng said: "It is said that these villas are often millions of dollars, and they all have private beaches. β
Joanna asked, "Do you want to buy a property here?" β
An Feng didn't care about spending money, he asked rhetorically: "I'm casual, but do you like it?" β
Joanna said: "It's okay to come on vacation for a few days once in a while, but I think it's a bit extravagant. β
An Feng smiled: "Hey! Look at your concerns just now, quickly drive your thoughts out of your home woman's mind, from the moment you promised me to propose, it is destined that in the future, the money will only make you lose count of how many zeros, you just want to burn it, and gasoline is also for you. β
Joanna buried her head in kissing him on the cheek and said, "You always make my heart melt." β
An Feng said proudly: "You know that I am the best husband in the world. β
"You're the best." Joanna smiled, "It's okay to buy it, but you haven't thought about the castle or manor or palace you mentioned earlier?" β
An Feng sighed: "What a headache!" The good places are all occupied by people, if it weren't for the cultural relics protection policy, I would just buy you a European palace. β
"No!" Joanna shook her head, "I want you to build it for me with your own hands, even if it takes a long time, I am willing to do it for ten years and a hundred years." β
An Feng nodded: "Okay, think slowly, you will always come up with it." β
A one-and-a-half-day vacation in Miami is very free and happy, the resort is always comfortable, and at the same time, the registration of the company is also very smooth, the name of Ocean Shipping is not repeated, Anfeng only needs to prepare 600 million US dollars, and after the company is established, it will pay 30% of the cost of the Turku shipyard. (To be continued......)