Chapter Seventy-Six: The Distress of the First Pot of Gold
Although Zhou You's both fast and affordable, the salvage vessel he wants is around 5,000 tons. Such a medium-sized salvage ship, even if it sails at full speed, consumes only about fifty tons of fuel a day, which is affordable for him.
For salvage ships, he is most familiar with the Guard-class ones, and the Guards-class salvage ships are modified from the US ** ships, and he can't buy them. So far around, he has not considered what style of the salvage ship will be used in the future, and he can only wait for him to have a deposit and open up the procurement channels, and the follow-up work can be determined.
After the new century, Huangpu Shipyard built several internationally influential salvage and search and rescue ships, and after seeing the number of those ships, Zhou You liked them very much.
But the purchasers of these ships are all the State Salvage Bureau, and he is really not sure if the other party will sell this individual seller.
If he doesn't sell it at home, he can only turn his attention abroad.
But how to buy it, and in what name, you still need to think carefully about it.
The main reason why Zhou You wants to immigrate is that China does not support and oppose the marine salvage business. State-run salvage companies do not go abroad for commercial missions, while private individuals who want to carry out commercial salvage need to go through too many procedures. It can even be said that the action of traveling around will not be permitted.
So, he needs an expatriate status.
Singapore has always been more supportive in this regard, Singapore is an island country, and their economic development is developed through the guò sea, so they have a relatively strong support for this aspect of business.
However, Zhou You does not have Singaporean nationality now, whether to buy a boat first and then join Singaporean, or to join Singapore nationality first and then buy a boat, Zhou You has not yet considered all of it.
The order of the two options is different, and the procedures for intermediary negotiations are also different.
If you buy a boat first, you can go directly to Huangpu Shipyard to inquire. If the other party accepts the order, pay a deposit of about 30%, and you can wait for the ship to be built. However, this ship is registered in China, and it will be subject to domestic laws and regulations in the future, and it will have to apply wherever it goes.
So this plan was rejected by Zhou You at the beginning, he had to do his best to get a Singapore green card, and then register a company in Singapore, and place orders with this company, so that he could act more freely in the future.
But now if you want to become a Singaporean, you need a minimum investment of 1 million, which is 5 million RMB. Zhou You can't even take out 500,000 now, so he has to refine his salvage ship concept first.
"Fourth brother......" Zhou You looked back, and Liang Hao walked in from outside. As soon as he finished taking a shower, he put on a pair of shorts, revealing a strong muscle.
"Finished washing? How's your yoga practice? ”
"It's too difficult, I can't master this breathing rhythm at all." He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can you tell others about salvaging the treasure outside?" ”
"Of course not, why do you ask?"
"I've been thinking about your words just now, since I want to make friends and win over a group of classmates. If we don't tell them what we're going to do, how can others feel comfortable doing it with us? ”
"You're thinking too far now, and the main purpose now is to make friends and understand each other's temperament. As for wooing them, it's not too late for us to have a ship. ”
He said disapprovingly: "If, as you said, we will win them over when we have a ship, then why should we look for them, and it is not much better to find a group of skilled people than them?" ”
Zhou You laughed, nodded and said, "Under normal circumstances, it is indeed like what you said. If it's just a one-time deal, then we can just find a group of people on board. As long as they are controlled on the ship, the treasure is salvaged, they are paid a little salary, and the rest is ours. But what if it's not once? ”
He took out a book from the table, threw it in his arms, and said, "Look at this book when you're fine, the world's shipwreck treasure." There are countless treasures in the sea waiting to be discovered, how can we just stop once? Anyway, the pharmaceutical company can provide us with basic living expenses, and we can look for treasures all over the world. In such a situation, do you say we need a cohesive team? ”
"How can we trust them? Like you said, the price of hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars may not betray us, but what about tens of millions? ”
Zhou You laughed, "Then I will give you this task, and spend a year thinking of a plan, and strive to be able to control everyone and not betray us." ”
He opened his mouth wide in surprise and pointed at himself and asked, "Let me think?" ”
"Use your brain."
Zhou Minghong also finished taking a bath and shouted at the door: "Fourth, we are all done, you can also go take a bath." ”
Zhou You nodded. "After resting for a while, I started practicing, although yoga is difficult to practice, but after practice, there are many benefits."
He said with a bitter face: "I also know that there are many benefits, but this is too difficult to practice!" ”
Zhou You laughed, "Don't worry, it's very good to practice within two years." ”
He asked, somewhat unconvinced, "Then why can you practice so fast?" ”
"Who said I made it? I'm just like you, and I can't touch the door! If I really practiced, then I would be even better! ”
For his brothers, Zhou You didn't want to be too alienated, nor did he want to distance himself from them. The emperor still has a few poor relatives, and he doesn't want to be a lonely person when he travels around, living in this society, he still has to have three or five confidants, a group of lovers, and this kind of life is meaningful.
If you keep exaggerating too much, and the gap with them is too big, so that they unconsciously distance themselves from themselves, this is not what you want to see.
Zhou You came out of the shower, they all started to practice, pointed them out a few times, Zhou You returned to his room, and began to look at the password written down in the notebook again.
It's December now, and if you want to make your first money during this Chinese New Year, you need to add it up now to see if it's going to New Zealand or Spain.
Winter is the best time to visit New Zealand, because it's summer. Now when I go to Wellington, I go to the sea to swim and dive, and it will not attract attention.
But Wellington's treasure was located in the harbour area, and was found in a bay of nearly two square kilometres, and it took ninety-nine divers to clean the seabed before they found the more than 800 gold coins.
What's more, this treasure is not large, only worth more than a million US dollars, and after deducting the money and taxes to be paid to the New Zealand government, he can personally get up to 70%. This money is a pity for Zhou You, and it is a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless.
First of all, a million dollars is not enough for the ship's deposit, that is, it is barely enough, and it is not enough for him to do other things. And it takes a lot of time to find it, and Zhou You can't guarantee that he will find all the gold coins.
You know, the bottom of the sea is not a pool, and the gold coins can be seen and waiting for you to get them. There are countless silts and quicksands on the bottom of the sea, and it would be a bit of a mistake to put your hopes in this treasure.
In addition to this, Zhou Yu also knows two treasures that can be discovered on a personal basis. One is located in Caesarea, a small town in central Israel, where the treasure is more than 2,000 gold coins from the Tang Dynasty.
Unfortunately, the information here is not very clear, and the specific address and latitude and longitude are not remembered. As with Wellington's treasures, it's a matter of luck.
The most promising thing about the trip is the treasure in Cape Rochi, in the north of the small island of Ibiza, Spain. The lucky one who discovered this treasure was a British tourist who, while diving, found a necklace and several gold coins dating back more than a thousand years.
However, he is the biggest unlucky guy in the world, because he thought that there were only so many treasures here, and he celebrated and publicized it on the island that day.
The incident attracted a lot of attention, and the next day it attracted countless locals and tourists who gathered at Cape Rochi in San Miguel Bay to start a treasure hunt.
This time, the lucky one turned into a Spanish DJ named Canto, who found the chest that the British had overlooked, and the whole box of gold and silver treasures instantly made him a multimillionaire.
In Spain, as in many countries of the world, private property is inviolable.
In other words, as long as the treasure you find, it belongs to the individual, and the government does not have any power to demand that it be handed over, they only have the power to collect taxes.
Cantor became a multi-millionaire, but he also became a target of the Black Society because of this wealth. Soon after the treasure was auctioned, he was kidnapped, and until the end, no one knew where the others were, whether they were buried in the sea.
Spain is not one of the Nordic countries, they are like Italy, they have a harsh social environment, rich in thieves and robbers. Cantor thought he could enjoy a luxurious life, but he could only enjoy it in the underworld.
This place of wealth is well-located and concentrated, and the value of wealth is also high. Since Zhou You's rebirth, he has always used this treasure as his first pot of gold.
But the time is not right because it is the off-season for tourism, and it is cold now, and it is not a good time to dive. Zhou You originally wanted to wait until next summer to salvage that treasure, otherwise, you would go there to dive in the winter, and no one would know that something was wrong.
But now that there is no money, nothing can be done, and Zhou You is thinking about whether to salvage it first.
It will take a while to salvage it during the winter vacation, and then entrust the auction, and when you get the money, I'm afraid it's summer.
If it drags on any longer, when will your own ship be built?
But after thinking about it again, Zhou You still gave up this plan.
I am a foreigner, and once I find this treasure over there, I can't take it out of the country, and I can only auction it in Spain. It's too noticeable to go to the treasure hunt in the winter, even if no one pays attention now, you can just find a reason to prevaricate in the past. But if I want to continue this business in the future, if another treasure is discovered, others will think of this time, and they will have great doubts about themselves.
Besides, the social atmosphere in Spain is not good, so it's better to plan everything properly.