Seeing that Gu Kun was so knowledgeable, Van Bilson saved some words.
So he went straight to the final precautions and kindly suggested: "Since you are mentally prepared, I won't say much else. I think it is best for you to entrust an auction lawyer to deal with possible disputes before the official auction.
dispute.
Because if you collect evidence temporarily, you may not be professional enough and the collection will not be comprehensive. Facing other people’s doubts and arbitration applications, the effect may not be good enough.”
Gu Kun smiled slightly: "When I was salvaging, I took photos and videos of many aspects of the whole process, marked the precise coordinates of the sunken ship, and left enough original remains in the sea. But you are right, I really need an auction lawyer—
—I don’t have to worry about you anymore. Please introduce me to a reliable one. The fee will be calculated together with the commission anyway. I hope to find a Dutch lawyer, or one from France or Germany."
Although Gu Kun was confident, even if the Filipinos or Spaniards jumped out to question him in the future, they wouldn't be able to take away anything.
But as long as the other party muddies the waters and successfully applies for arbitration, it will be a problem.
It wouldn't be worth it if the other party delayed his auction cycle for several months or even a year and a half.
"Okay, then I will find you someone who meets your conditions. Gu, your distrust of the Brittanians is really written on your face." Van Bilson agreed with a smile, and then hung up the phone.
At noon that day, he found a lawyer and contacted Gu Kun, and the three parties had lunch together at a high-end cafe near Van Bilson's office.
"This Miss Sophia Grimaldi is of French origin, but definitely Dutch. I have been working with her for several years. She is very careful in her work, good at pre-trial work, and her fees are relatively low." Van Bilson took center stage.
Introduction by both parties.
She was a woman in her mid-twenties, she looked French, and she wore a lot of perfume.
Fortunately, Gu Kun had an amazing lung capacity and could talk to the other person for a short time without taking a breath, so he was immune to the perfume.
Gu Kun questioned businesslikely: "Lawyer Sophia, I hope you won't disappoint me. I heard that your full service fee is 1.5% of the auction target, which is not cheap. With all due respect, your age and practice
experience……"
Gu Kun's English was not very good, so Van Bilson also helped him translate some.
After listening to this, Sophia responded very directly and succinctly: "I charge 1.5% as a risk agent. If you think it is too expensive, you can choose the non-risk mode, which only costs 0.5% of the auction target."
Gu Kun nodded subconsciously: "Then what does your so-called risk mean when the agency is successful?"
Sophia raised a finger: "You want the auction to start on May 1, right? I can guarantee that you will not delay the auction for more than one month due to other international defenses.
In other words, if you are unable to complete the auction due to legal disputes in May, I will not charge attorney fees. Of course, if the delay is due to reasons other than legal disputes, it has nothing to do with me."
"That's very reasonable. If you delay it for one more month, the interest will be quite high." Gu Kun nodded, indicating that he accepted this condition.
He calculated in his mind that if he sold for 20 million US dollars, he would have to pay Sophia 300,000 US dollars in legal fees.
Sure enough, in this profession, you are determined and claim to be powerful, but younger lawyers can only choose this method to take orders. Otherwise, people will not believe you at all.
As if to show her strength, after the two sides chatted in depth for a while, Sophia took the initiative to give Gu Kun some suggestions for auction preparations:
"Gu, I want to know whether my client is willing to be high-profile and make high prices the first priority, or whether he is willing to sell things steadily and get the money as the first priority.
This will affect my preparation style - with all due respect, your property rights this time are very clear. In fact, if you are bolder, it will be very beneficial to your hype."
Gu Kun: "What do you mean?"
Sophia: "I mean, you did a very good job in pre-evidence collection for this shipwreck. Even if others come to question you and apply for arbitration and freezing, they will not be successful. So, in fact, you should be more worried because they dare not come.
If I question you, I dare not apply for arbitration.
If you are willing, I can act weakly when I initially disclose the information in March, bait the other party to question, and let them see some hope first. In that case, the controversy will easily be published in newspapers and TV news programs.
Cooperate with the hype to help the final lot fetch a high price.
However, if you are also in this industry, you should know that many boat fishermen are afraid of being famous. They are afraid of being jealous, so they cannot enjoy the premium dividends of fishing speculation.
If you use phishing, you will cause embarrassment to the relevant departments of the Philippines, which ultimately failed in their defense. And if you catch the defenses of minimally relevant countries such as Spain, Peru, and Bolivia and reject them one by one, they will also be embarrassed.
In this way, you have to consider whether you will not be welcomed by these countries in the future and whether you will have trouble when you go to those countries in the future.
Personally, of course I want you to speculate, because you sell it more expensively. My percentage commission is also higher, but I must make it clear to you what the consequences will be. This trick is not new. When they sold the bronze animal heads from the Old Summer Palace,
It is also deliberately to anger your Chinese media, exaggerate and stir up the national mood, and then let the wealthy Chinese businessmen spend a lot of money to buy it back after the defense fails.
If you can anger the relevant departments in the Philippines or Spain and use their national sentiments to redeem the national treasure at a high price, then of course you can earn a much higher premium than a normal auction."
These Dutch lawyers are really despicable about how to act as shills.
But Gu Kun likes it.
Anyway, Spain and the Philippines are countries that are not afraid of offending. As for Peru and Bolivia, where the possibility of jumping out is slim, Gu Kun will never have any intersection in his life.
"I believe you are worth the 1.5% of the legal fees of the transaction. Miss Sophia, you know, I just like the cheerfulness of you Dutch people when they betray their country for glory. Come on, have a drink."
The three parties drank a toast while chatting and laughing. Sophia smiled and drank the wine, and responded politely: "First of all, thank you for your compliment, but this time I really didn't 'traitor my country' - don't get me wrong, I don't dare to do anything wrong.
Dare to be honest, just clarifying a fact.
You Chinese people always like to regard all Westerners as 'foreigners'. But 'foreign' is not a country. I am French and Dutch. It doesn't matter whether the Spanish and Filipinos will lose face and pay more for this.
For my own business, I definitely give priority to my own commission. Of course, if one day the client really needs it, I can sell it to the Netherlands."
Of course it is not impossible to let Jin Yiwei kill his closest relatives, friends, and brothers.
Need to add money.
…
With Van Bilson and Sophia, the two old and young Yinbi, worrying about the auction setup and hype, Gu Kun no longer has to worry about the business in Europe for the time being.
He and Gao Jianxiong stayed in the Netherlands for just one night before preparing to return. They passed through Hekland on the way and stayed there for another two days.
He made use of the business relationships established by buying a ship before, and introduced a few friends to buy some light equipment. In the future, he would use regular shipping channels to deliver the goods back to Lanzhou as the equipment needed to open a security company.
Until the mid-1990s, it was too easy to obtain insensitive conventional weapons from Blackland, so there is nothing to elaborate on the process.
For a total of not much money, just a few hundred thousand dollars, you can buy two BTR-80 wheeled armored personnel carriers for urban warfare.
In addition, there are various small weapons enough to arm a platoon, CPC ceramic-lined body armor, and K6-modified titanium alloy helmets.
However, the original Soviet-style K6 helmet did not have a personal intercom, and the modified version had to be purchased from Germany.
People who are not military fans may not be familiar with CPC-lined body armor and K6 titanium alloy helmets. However, as long as you know that these two things are the prototypes of the three-level armor and three-level head in Chicken Fight, it is easy to understand.
Gu Kun has been living a hard life at sea since he went to sea during the winter vacation. Now that he is passing by Kherson and Nikolayev, of course he has to stay at the Mankaski Hotel and recruit Midrova
It’s a good few days to relieve my depression.
There is no need to mention these.
During the two days of vacation in Heklan, he did not forget to call all his close friends and partners in China.
In case there is something important that needs to be dealt with urgently, it would be a mistake to be too carefree.
Things like hanging out with foreign girls on vacation can only be used to relax and not miss the main business. He still has this priority in mind.
After completing a round of international long-distance calls, he actually heard two important things.
The source of the information is Tang Jia, because she is in the external relations department of the Jiaotong University Student Union and is responsible for contacting international students. So if anyone comes to the school to find Gu Kun, she will know:
"Student Gu Kun, when you are done with your work, please return to China as soon as possible. Coach Chen of the school swimming team has been looking for you for several days, and the school leader in charge of special admissions has also asked about it. This year's Universiade will be held in Japan in August.
was held in Fukuoka.
The domestic qualifiers are about to end, and you have never trained with the school team even once. Even if you are a freshman, no one has any expectations for your results, but if you don't even go to the trials, it is a bit unreasonable, and you have not done your best.
Enrollment obligation.”
At the World University Games, qualifications for swimming events do not require results from other official international or national competitions as a prerequisite.
Instead, we directly set an absolute speed score line of A and B. If you can swim at this speed, you will be eligible to participate in international competitions. This is much more convenient than those confrontational events, and it will also help newcomers get ahead.
This is also where track and field and swimming are exciting.
If you encounter various ball games, or diving gymnastics, etc. that require subjective scoring, then you have to participate in lower-level events one after another to earn international ranking points. Then someone like Gu Kun who never participates in pre-competitions will definitely be
Totally unqualified.
Gu Kun: "Okay, I understand. I will return to China as soon as possible. When is the domestic selection competition?"
Tang Jia: "It's the end of this month."
Gu Kun counted the days, and it didn't delay him from auctioning off the money. It just happened to be done this month.
"Thank you, I understand. Is there anyone else looking for me?"
"A few days ago, a friend who said he was from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation came to see you twice, but it didn't seem to be a big deal. He gave up when I told him you hadn't returned to China."
"I know, I will go back to China for a visit as soon as possible. Then I will report back to school."