Zhuang Rui got up early in the morning and played with the white lion in the yard for a while. When he walked to the middle courtyard, he saw his mother and Zhang's mother, Mrs. Li, doing health exercises.
This is what a few old ladies learned in a park not far away, but there were too many single old men there. When they saw three "young and mature" old ladies, they always liked to strike up a conversation, and it ended in
A few people can only go home to practice.
"Good morning, Xiaozhuang, where is Xiao Qin?"
At Ouyang Wan's request, Zhang Ma and Li Sao finally stopped calling the boss, but when they saw Zhuang Rui coming, they still stopped and said hello to Zhuang Rui.
"You guys keep going, you guys keep going, she's washing up, come right over..."
When Zhuang Rui saw that he had come to disturb several people from doing morning exercises, his mother looked very unkindly and quickly waved her hand to let them continue.
"How many days will you be out again this time?"
Ouyang Wan didn't stop moving, but her eyes looked at her son.
Zhuang Rui said with a playful smile: "Mom, we have a flight in the afternoon, stay in Hong Kong for a day, and fly back in the evening. Hehe, I will take you to travel around the world then..."
"Take your wife with you. Mom won't go. Okay, you go and do your work..."
Ouyang Wan was also amused by Zhuang Rui. She also didn't expect that Zhuang Rui said he wanted to buy a plane, but within half a month, he actually bought it.
"Sister Ouyang, your son is really filial..."
"Yes, the people in Xiaozhuang are really nice. Such a big boss stays at home almost every day..."
Hearing that Zhang's mother and Li's sister-in-law started to praise themselves again, Zhuang Rui and the white lion hurriedly ran to the front yard. Whenever something happened, the two always praised themselves non-stop, but their mother loved them the most.
Listen, Zhuang Rui feels uncomfortable all over.
Half a month has passed since the last time I talked to Tom about the Hawker plane. Although there was no result from the discussion that day, when Tom reported Zhuang Rui's request to the headquarters the next day, something happened.
Turnaround.
Since the aircraft ordered by others are indeed difficult to sell, and Zhuang Rui is the first one interested in purchasing, Raytheon Company has considered that if Zhuang Rui does not change any part of the aircraft, they will give Zhuang Rui a discount.
Price of $2 million.
In this way, Zhuang Rui only needs to spend 10 million US dollars, which is less than 90 million RMB, to acquire this ready-made Hawker aircraft. After Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing discussed it, they signed a purchase agreement with Tom.
contract.
Originally, the safety inspection of this aircraft required not only inspection by relevant US departments, but also the approval and signature of the customer present. However, Raytheon has a branch in Hong Kong, so Zhuang Rui left this matter completely to his father-in-law.
Processed.
After all, Qin Haoran has a private jet at home, as well as a private pilot, and is familiar with the operation of this matter. Moreover, Zhuang Rui knows nothing about the performance of airplanes, so he might as well entrust it to professionals for testing. The father-in-law can do the signing for him.
While Zhuang Rui stayed in Beijing, he didn't do anything. He found Ouyang Lei and tried hard to get a pilot who was about to retire from him.
Of course, the main reason for this was the generous treatment given by Zhuang Rui. After contacting the pilot who was preparing to retire, the two sides agreed. Ouyang Lei only introduced him and helped him go through the retirement procedures.
However, this act of poaching the country somehow reached the ears of Mr. Ouyang. The old man rushed to Zhuang Rui's courtyard without saying a word, picked up his crutch and almost chased Zhuang Rui into the courtyard.
This made Zhuang Rui very tired, not because he was tired of dodging, but because he had to hold on to the white lion with all his strength, otherwise this guy would lose his temper. It didn't know who Ouyang Gang was. Afterwards, Zhuang Rui shook his head, and it seemed that he was trying to make up for the old man.
Too much, and the anger is too high.
Not only Zhuang Rui, but also Ouyang Lei were in trouble. Originally, Zhuang Rui wanted to poach the two of them and find another driver, but Ouyang Lei refused to help even to the death, and the crutch almost missed him.
, Looking for another one? The old man will be able to go to the Military Commission compound tomorrow.
Even though Zhuang Rui was prepared to pay the price of a tiger whip, Comrade Ouyang Lei refused to be corrupted and refused Zhuang Rui righteously. However, after leaving in the end, Ouyang Lei still introduced a pilot to Zhuang Rui.
For some reason, I pulled the tiger whip away.
It's no wonder that the old man is angry. You know, it is not a simple matter for the army to train a pilot. From a novice to a mature fighter pilot, the army costs nearly 5 million.
Therefore, the air force has always been the most popular among all branches of the military. The military ranks of pilots are generally much higher than those of the army and navy. In a flying group, there is not a single soldier, not a single officer.
The talents that the country has spent so much effort to cultivate are poached by Zhuang Rui. Do you think the old man can't be angry?
However, the pilot Zhuang Rui found was already over 40 years old, and he really planned to change his career, and he had been flying transport aircraft in the past few years, so he and Zhuang Rui hit it off immediately, changed careers and left the army.
In the end, Zhuang Rui found Ouyang Jun and hired a co-pilot from an airline at a price that was twice the salary of civil aviation.
We haven't seen the plane yet, but Zhuang Rui has spent a lot of money, but everything is done, including the military pilot's certificate conversion. To fly civil aviation, you must have a certificate issued by civil aviation.
A regular airline pilot's monthly salary plus subsidy is generally between RMB 30,000 and RMB 50,000, depending on his monthly flight distance, while that of a co-pilot is RMB 7,000 to RMB 20,000.
In order to poach these two people, Zhuang Rui offered them a monthly salary of 80,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan respectively. In addition, through the civil aviation pilot, he also poached two experienced flight attendants and gave them a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan each.
Now just to maintain this aircraft, not counting downtime costs and flight fuel costs and life insurance, Zhuang Rui has to spend 160,000 RMB every month, which is 1.72 million a year. Zhuang Rui now knows why there are so many people.
When it comes to private jets, you can’t afford to buy them.
This is nothing. What hurts Zhuang Rui the most is that he rented the Capital Airport apron for three years at a time and paid a full RMB 15 million. Ouyang Jun found someone related to civil aviation to give him a discount and bought it.
Almost all of the $2 million saved from the plane was spent on it.
In addition, every time a plane is put into operation, it needs to pay general aviation fees, as well as some miscellaneous fees that Zhuang Rui is not aware of. In short, if the plane wants to take off, it should first pay for paving the runway, and these troubles are all from beginning to end.
Zhuang Rui took Peng Fei and two of them to run away.
After Zhuang Rui signed the contract with the pilot and stewardess and paid all the required payments, he wondered if he was stupid and had an intermittent neurotic attack at that time, which was why he decided to buy a private jet. Of course, now,
There is no point in thinking about this issue anymore.
In fact, Zhuang Rui feels that spending money is too much and troublesome, which is also the reason why he does not have a team. Like those big group companies that purchase private jets, why does the boss need to worry about these trivial matters? The people below naturally handle them properly.
, the boss only needs to take a plane and leave.
Zhuang Rui was also deeply aware of this problem. When he convened a meeting with the two pilots and two stewardesses, a team of four people in total, they clarified their tasks and clarified their responsibilities.
In addition to doing his job well, the co-pilot has to handle all the chores, such as contacting the airport and navigation, etc. He has a background in civil aviation, so those who can do more work, otherwise Zhuang
How could Rui offer him a salary that was more than double the usual salary?
During this period of time, in addition to doing these tedious things, Zhuang Rui also took time to practice skydiving. The reason was that this guy was afraid of death.
Although the military pilot could fly civilian aircraft like fighter jets, Zhuang Rui was still a little worried and trained with a flying group for a week.
Under the condition that Peng Fei guaranteed that there would be no problems, he completed his first jump in a practical jump training. However, what was a little sad was that Zhuang Rui was kicked down by someone at the time. As for the footprints on the back of his butt,
Zhuang Rui still hasn't figured out who left it behind. Of course, the biggest suspect is Peng Fei.
After having lunch in the courtyard, Zhuang Rui took Qin Xuanbing and Peng Fei to the Capital Airport to meet the pilots and stewardesses, and took a flight to Hong Kong to receive the aircraft that Zhuang Rui loved and hated.
The high-profile private jet represents a status symbol.
"Hello Mr. Zhuang, hello Mrs. Zhuang..."
After arriving at the airport, several people were already waiting in the terminal. The two flight attendants were very discerning and came up to say hello to Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing, and took the small suitcase from Qin Xuanbing's hand.
The two pilots stood up and nodded to Zhuang Rui. Regarding this young and somewhat outrageous boss, except for the man who retired from the army who knew a little bit about the background, Zhuang Rui gave the other people the feeling that
Incomparably mysterious, I only know that Zhuang Rui is the assistant to the general manager of a large company.
Of course, they don't really believe in this identity. When they go out to do business these days, when they hand out business cards, it's either the general manager or the chairman. However, domestically and abroad, there are not many chairman and general managers who can own private jets.
of.
Some time ago, Zhuang Rui asked Ouyang Fourth Young Master to get a business card for the assistant general manager of a real estate company in order to make things easier. Ouyang Jun was very pleased at that time. This younger brother finally knew how to do something to help his family, even though the general manager was a professional manager.
He already has a team, but Zhuang Rui's attitude deserves praise.
Who would have thought that after just one day, Ouyang Jun was so angry that he almost pointed at Zhuang Rui and cursed like a shrew, because this guy was doing things in the name of the company and even dragged himself, the chairman who was several levels higher than him, into the company.
He was running around doing things about his broken airplane.
Isn't this using bean bags as food? Ouyang Jun felt very unhappy, so he took the opportunity to blackmail Zhuang Rui with two tiger whips, and finally he felt a little more balanced.
"Oh, damn, I don't know if it's worth it..."
After the plane took off, Zhuang Rui was still struggling with this problem. He spent nearly 100 million RMB, and there was not even a trace of a private jet.
Zhuang Rui, who closed his eyes and was thinking in his mind, didn't know that his behavior, in the eyes of several flight attendants and two pilots, added a touch of mystery. The boss is the boss, and he was thinking while flying.
question.
Only Qin Xuanbing could more or less guess what her husband-in-law was thinking, but she used to just take the family plane and not think about so many things. Now it was her turn to buy something, and she was shocked by the expense.
Now Qin Xuanbing knows why her family's private jet is rarely used. She dared to buy it just to show off her face. Apart from the top wealthy people in Hong Kong, I'm afraid many people have the same thoughts as Qin's.
After arriving in Hong Kong, the Qin family sent two cars to pick up the airport. One car took the crew and Peng Fei to the hotel, while the other car took Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing to the Qin family villa. Now Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing booked
Now that he is married, he is already the uncle-to-be of the Qin family, so it would be appropriate for him to live at home.
"Zhuang Rui, the annual International Jewelry Expo will be held in a few days. The organizer has sent us an invitation letter. I want you and Bing'er to attend on behalf of our Qin Jewelry this time..."
After dinner in the evening, Zhuang Rui and others sat in the living room and chatted. Qin Haoran's words made Zhuang Rui feel very abrupt. How could he represent the Qin family?
"Uncle Qin...Dad, regarding this matter...it wouldn't be appropriate for me and Xuan Bing to go, right?"
Although Zhuang Rui is now thick-skinned, calling him Qin Haoran is far less affectionate than calling his mother-in-law, mainly because his father passed away early, so the name he calls dad is a bit jerky.
"Why isn't it appropriate? It's inappropriate for us to go..."
Qin Haoran saw Zhuang Rui's puzzled look, smiled and continued: "Last year, your purple-eyed jade necklace won the gold medal at the International Jewelry Expo. However, according to convention, the award ceremony for the jewelry that won the gold medal last year will be
It will be held in the second year, do you think you, the master, should go?"
The reason for this provision is that the organizers want to expand the influence of the expo, because the jewelry that wins the gold medal in each session is often resold quickly, and allowing the new owner of the jewelry to receive this award will undoubtedly attract people.
More people's attention.
"That necklace is not mine anymore, it belongs to Xuan Bing..."
Zhuang Rui muttered something in a low voice, but if Qin Xuanbing was asked to go alone, Zhuang Rui was still worried, so he immediately said: "Okay, let's go. When is the specific time?"
Fang Yi said with a smile: "It will be held in London in a week. Your private plane will come in handy this time..."
Regarding what Zhuang Rui whispered just now, the mother-in-law is still very happy. The son-in-law is very sensible and knows that the jewelry worth more than 100 million yuan belongs to the daughter. If there is any disturbance in the relationship between the two in the future, the daughter
At least it's not that bad.
But Fang Yi didn't know that in Zhuang Rui's heart, Qin Xuanbing belonged to him, so what was the difference between Qin Xuanbing's things and his own things?
"Well, Xuan Bing and I will go there then. Mom, why don't you go there this time?"
Thinking that he would be able to fly to the UK on his own private jet in a few days, Zhuang Rui also became a little hot in his heart. He had never dared to think about such a thing before.
"We won't go, but someone from the company will attend, and you can also let them arrange your schedule then..."
This time, Qin Jewelry also participated in the expo with several models of jewelry. The raw material used was the red jadeite that they bought in Myanmar. However, although the red jadeite is rare, its quality is not top-notch. Therefore, Fang Yi and Qin Haoran are not very good at it.
We are optimistic about Qin's jewelry's performance at this expo.
After Qin Haoran and his wife had a conversation with Mr. Qin, it was already 11 o'clock in the middle of the night. Zhuang Rui was taken to the room to rest by the servants of the Qin family. Of course, he was in the same room as Qin Xuanbing. The elders were not so uncivilized.
Otherwise, Zhuang Rui would definitely choose to stay in a hotel.
"Zhuang Rui, who are you calling so late?"
After Qin Xuanbing came out of the shower, she saw Zhuang Rui holding a mobile phone and dialing a number. They had already called Zhuang's mother when they got off the plane, and the call now should not be to home.
"Shh..."
Zhuang Rui made a gesture because the call was already connected.
"Brother Huangfu, I am Zhuang Rui. I am not disturbing you, right?"
Zhuang Rui just remembered the special auction of Chinese antiques in London that Huangfu Yun mentioned. It seemed to be held in these few days. Since he went there, he naturally wanted to see it, so Zhuang Rui called Huangfu Yun to confirm the time.
"Hey, brother Zhuang, I just got up and didn't bother you. Why did you have time to call me? Do you want to sell me the fixed lightsaber at a cheap price?"
Huangfu Yun is not in London now, but in Paris. The time difference between Paris and Hong Kong is almost seven or eight hours. It is exactly six or seven o'clock in the morning. Huangfu Yun saw the blonde beauty sleeping beside him getting up naked.
He stretched out his hand and pinched her chest. He couldn't help but secretly blame Zhuang Rui for not being able to exercise in the morning.
Huangfu Yun can be regarded as an alternative among Chinese students studying abroad. He is tall, elegant in appearance, and very attractive to girls. He is also a romantic person by nature, and has had romantic affairs in many cities. With him,
In other words, it is to enhance the prestige of our country and we must deal with the descendants of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces.
This girl was Huangfu Yun whom he met in a bar in Paris yesterday. After a happy night, he was planning to do some exercise in the morning, but Zhuang Rui's phone call ruined it.
Zhuang Rui on the other end of the phone naturally didn't know that Huangfu Yun was slandering him, and said with a smile: "Brother Huangfu, I really want that sword. Let's find someone to evaluate the price of the sword. I'll sell it to you at 60% off. Why?"
Like? It’s cheap, right?”
After Zhuang Rui's sword was recognized by Professor Meng as the "fixed light sword", it caused an uproar in the domestic archaeological academic community. During this period, Zhuang Rui took the sword to attend several academic seminars, and the "fixed light sword" also
It is designated as the "first sword of the Yin and Shang Dynasties" that has not been unearthed so far.
As for the price of this sword, there are different opinions, but one thing is certain, that is, this "fixed light sword" will not be less than 200 million RMB.
Zhuang Rui didn't care whether the final result of the debate was worth 300 million or 500 million. He wasn't planning to sell it. Besides, the state did not allow private sales of this kind of bronze.
"40% off?! Brother, you are not kind. You called me early in the morning to tease me. Let alone 40% off, even 10% off. I can't even afford it now..."
After Huangfu Yun heard Zhuang Rui's words, he was so depressed that he didn't even want to pay attention to the woman who was getting dressed next to him. He had only accumulated a net worth of five to six million RMB in these years, and the "fixed light sword" was only 10% off.
For 20 million, I can only look at it with greed.
"Haha, brother Huangfu, don't worry about that sword anymore. It will be my family heirloom from now on..."
During this period, many people mobilized Zhuang Rui to donate swords to the country, but Zhuang Rui refused. Why? Why should I give my own things to the country? We are just a small citizen, and we don’t have such a high consciousness. Wait for me
After playing enough for his son, Zhuang Rui has no control over whether he donates or not.
Huangfu Yun waved to the blond girl who was opening the door and going out, and said to the phone: "Come on, don't be so embarrassed. What's the point of calling so early?"
"I just wanted to ask, what is the specific time of the Chinese antique auction in London that you mentioned last time?" Zhuang Rui faintly heard a female voice and couldn't help but laugh. He felt that he was really disturbing someone.
"There are still five days left, but the location of the auction has changed. It is not in England, but in Paris. Why, brother, do you want to come over?"
After Huangfu Yun heard Zhuang Rui's words, he became interested. Although he was not an angry young man, he also hoped that these Chinese cultural relics lost abroad would return to his homeland. However, he did not have enough financial resources. If Zhuang Rui came, with his
With financial strength, I should be able to take more pictures.
Compared with London, the artistic atmosphere in Paris is stronger, so half a month ago, the internationally renowned auction house held this special auction of Chinese cultural relics in Paris, France, and subsequently,
A series of auctions of precious cultural relics from various countries will also be held.
"in Paris?"
Zhuang Rui frowned when he heard this. He will attend the International Jewelry Fair in London in a week. I wonder if there is enough time?
"Brother Huangfu, please wait..."
Zhuang Rui turned to Qin Xuanbing and asked, "Xuanbing, how far is Paris from London? Can we make it in time if we go to Paris first and then rush to London?"
Zhuang Rui thought that the capitals of the two countries couldn't be close to each other no matter what, right?
To be honest, Zhuang Rui's world geography is really not that good. As soon as he said this, Huangfu Yun on the other end of the phone and Qin Xuanbing next to him both started laughing.
Qin Xuanbing smiled and said: "Zhuang Rui, Paris is only three or four hundred kilometers away from London. Let alone our private plane, it only takes three or four hours by train. What are you worried about?"
"Wow, a private jet? Brother, do you even have such a thing?"
Huangfu Yun on the other end of the phone heard Qin Xuanbing's words and exclaimed in surprise, then said: "Brother Zhuang, there are many good items in this auction, some of which cannot be seen in China. If you have sufficient funds,
