Gu Kun's report in the capital and his secret friendship with friends in the Internet circle soon came to an end.
The various businesses he arranged were not accomplished overnight and required time to brew slowly.
As for the promotion of the cultural tourism industry of Lanfang Islands by these layouts, it is even more subtle. A year and a half of construction will not be able to accumulate solid results.
However, Gu Kun is not in a hurry, because Southeast Asia tourism in recent years has been in a period of digging holes. The generally high currency exchange rates and high commodity prices in Southeast Asian countries have restricted the scale of Chinese tourists.
Nowadays, Gu Kun has basically tapped the potential of tourists who have spare money to go to Nanyang. There are only hundreds of thousands of people a year. Even by this time next year, it is impossible to exceed one million.
The real surge in the first wave of Chinese tourists will not occur until next year after the Southeast Asian financial crisis.
Historically, the Thai baht exchange rate has fallen by more than half, the ringgit has also fallen by more than a third, and prices have fallen slightly further based on the original denomination currency.
As a result, prices in Thailand can basically drop from four times as high as in the coastal provinces of China to only 1.5 to twice the price.
Prices in Malay and Lanzhou can also drop from four times to twice those in coastal provinces of China.
In this way, the purchasing power of RMB is barely enough for the Southeast Asian countries.
Gu Kun can completely predict that the reason why he has made so many arrangements in advance and seems to be like a horse race without interference is entirely because Malay and Thai people still look down on the Chinese tourism market and think that the Chinese people are too poor.
, optional.
Therefore, their attitude towards Gu Kun remained at "If this kid wants to do anything, let him do it. Anyway, Lanfang is a small country with a booger. If Lanfang Town develops Chinese people's travel and consumption habits one day, Huaxia
One day when people are really rich, it will be too late for us to pick peaches and steal the fruits."
It can be said that both the Thai and Malay cultural and tourism authorities regard Gu Kun as a trailblazer at this moment.
All these contradictions will only break out after the Southeast Asian financial crisis, with serious attacks on customers. Until the crisis comes, everything can still be covered up under the illusion of harmony.
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Gu Kun flew back to Lanfang with this very self-aware mentality.
Counting the days, it is already late September. It has been a full month and a half since the end of the Olympic Games.
However, strictly speaking, this is the first time Gu Kun has set foot on the territory of his motherland after the Olympics.
So even if he is used to all kinds of honors in his heart and doesn't care about the welcome from others and the conferment of honors by the Grand Duke, he still has to deal with pomp and ceremony.
Lanfang International Airport has been under construction for nearly a year, but the first runway has not yet been put into use.
The two- to three-kilometer-long cross-sea bridge connecting the outlying island of the airport and the main island of Lanfang has not yet been opened to traffic.
The construction team sent by China is working intensively, and it is expected that it will not be put into operation until after the Spring Festival of 1997. However, Gu Kun is not worried about the hard work of these people.
Especially this year, the relationship between Oceania and Eastern countries has been somewhat tense, and the construction teams building the airport have worked even harder.
Even sometimes when part of the project bill of quantities exceeds the budget and Lanzhou's auditors are not in place, the Huaxia construction team is willing to advance funds to eliminate the extra unexpected project quantities.
It seems that the purpose is just to complete the construction and put the long-range radar station of Lanfang International Airport into use. So that it doesn't matter if Lanfang takes advantage of the infrastructure cost.
However, the airport was not completed, so Gu Kun still had to fly to Kuching and then take his own yacht back to Lan Fang. This caused some inconvenience and also caused a lack of etiquette when Grand Duke Zhu Youdong of Lan Fang greeted Lan Fang's great hero.
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When Gu Kun approached the port on his yacht, he saw an honor guard of about two companies lining up in the sun to greet him - this was composed of the Grand Duke's royal guard and most of Lan Fang's own police force.
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Two salute guns were also fired at the port, and they fired randomly for a while.
In addition to the two companies of honor guards, most of the citizens in Lanfang came to watch the fun, especially the 50,000 to 60,000 residents on the main island. Except for those who were too young to go out or too old to go out, the rest were basically
All have arrived.
Zhu Youdong declared the day when Gu Kun returned to Lanzhou as a national holiday. People working in the mixed-career industry already had a rest, so of course they wanted to watch the fun. As for the fishermen's families, who account for more than half of the country, it doesn't matter if they don't go to sea for a day. The time is very limited.
free.
In all these years, Lan Fang has never won a gold medal in the Olympics. Not to mention Lan Fang, Malay next door has also not won a gold medal.
Gu Kun won 11 gold medals at once, and with so many world records, who wouldn’t watch if he had the chance to watch?
"I heard that when Gu Kun was in Oceania, the fee for a commercial appearance cost millions of dollars. The people he met in China were all big shots. We can watch it for free today. The ticket price is probably worth several hundred ringgit. Compared with
We can make a lot of money just by working and fishing in one day, and if we see Gu Kun, we will make a lot of money!"
This kind of talk has long been spread among the crowd, and generally all onlookers have this mentality.
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"Gu Kun is here!" Everyone held the tropical bouquets in their hands and waved them together.
As the crowds of people welcoming the national hero began to cheer, Gu Kun waved his hand and stepped on the pedal, jumped onto the shore, and hurried a few steps to shake hands with Zhu Youdong who came up.
Zhu Youdong naturally held a section of his right arm with his left hand, and posed a gesture similar to a hand-raising salute with his right hand, leading Gu Kun to review the guard of honor (there are many hand-raising salutes, including the one similar to "Hello, comrades").
, not like the head of state)
Without saying a word, Gu Kun walked through two companies of ceremonial guards until he was put into the car, and then the lead car opened the way and was taken to Zhaoming Palace for the state banquet.
It wasn't until he got in the car that Zhu Youdong put down his previous solemn demeanor and stiff smile, put on a gratified but complicated expression, and couldn't help but sigh:
"Hey, you are good at everything, you just have to be a public person."
Gu Kun responded politely: "My publicity is all for the country's propaganda and people's employment. Ordinary people may not understand this simple truth, but you don't understand it."
A trace of pain flashed in Zhu Youdong's eyes: "It doesn't matter if you are arrogant and domineering in a foreign country. This is for the good of the country and the good of these tens of thousands of mouths.
However, you are so filthy with those ‘ladies’ from the so-called ‘commercial real estate tycoons and hotel tycoons’ families in Oceania… Is this purely serving the country and not selfish?”
Of course Gu Kun knew why Zhu Youdong was suffering.
Zhu Youdong lost his son in middle age (to be precise, he lost his son in middle age, because he was already in his early 50s at the time), and then he had an only daughter. Of course, he loved her in every way.
This is the human nature of parents. Parents already love their young children. If they experience the death of their eldest son or daughter, their love for their young children will become even more intense.
Therefore, no matter what he does for this country, Zhu Youdong hopes not to sacrifice any happiness of his daughter. He does not want to use his daughter as a bargaining chip in exchange for national interests.
Unfortunately, Zhu Youdong also knew that it was not easy for Lanfang to establish a country. The outside world was watching eagerly, and there were "clan" side branches watching. If the son-in-law his daughter would marry in the future was not prestigious, skillful and powerful enough, he would not be able to control the situation at all.
It was a bit difficult to find a son-in-law who was capable and prestigious, but also wanted him to be not lewd and dedicated. That's why he hadn't identified a sure candidate in advance over the years.
How can a successful man not be lewd?
He is single-minded but also dislikes others for being incompetent.
Gu Kun knew that there was no need to get entangled in this matter anymore. The other party must either give up or accept the reality.
Anyway, even if Zhu Youdong gives up, he still has other ways to turn the future Lan Fang leader into a puppet.
Lan Fang's market was too small, and Gu Kun's strength was already too great. It was impossible for the local forces to resist him.
"Your Highness, I know what you are worried about. Let me tell you the truth. Regardless of what the princess will think of me when she grows up in the future, let's just talk about the objective truth: I am seven years older than her, and the young man is full of energy.
, do you think I might not be sexually attracted to women until she reaches adulthood?
As for that Pablo, I have no feelings for her at all. We all just use each other to have sex. I need to use her to show that I have the ability to make the top socialites in Oceania’s luxury culture and tourism circles humble themselves and let me be their boss.
The first man. She also needs to prove through me that the ladies of her family can seduce the most manly man in the world, who is also a top business tycoon, to play with them and prove their personal charm.
Apart from that, there is nothing.
What I said today is not a lie. I’m not afraid to tell you that before that Pablo, I already had another female companion. You have also seen it. I should at least be more careful with that girl.
After all, she doesn’t ask me for anything. As a man, I have to take care of her for the rest of my life.
You are worrying so much now. I think you are overthinking it. If you really love your daughter, you should not choose a husband for her, but let nature take its course. If the princess is older in the future, she will be more interested in me.
If she doesn't like her and thinks I'm of low character, then I will never seduce her with sweet words. If she can really accept everything about me, why do you have to worry?"
"You...ahem..." Zhu Youdong has been in the upper position for a long time. Although he knew that Gu Kun's strength and wealth were no longer inferior to him, he was still a little short of breath after being stated so straightforwardly by the other party, and he couldn't help but cough a few times.
After all, he is almost 65 years old, and the unopened saber he wears as a guard of honor is sometimes used as a crutch.
Fortunately, the sound insulation of the car was very good, and the driver's cab was separated separately, so there was no chance that anyone would hear Gu Kun's words that made the royal family lose their dignity.
Zhu Youdong finally calmed down his emotions and breathing, and then poked at the scabbard of his saber and taught angrily: "Okay, you are good enough. If you dare to do it, then I am not a villain in vain. If I knew you were like this, Youran would still be able to see you in the future.
If I want to get along with you, I won’t stand in the way too much.
However, I have a bottom line that you must abide by: I mean, if you have the ability to survive until that day, you must also agree not to have children with women other than Youran in this life. Secondly, if you have the ability to let your
If a child inherits the title of Grand Duke in the future, then the child who inherits the title must have the national surname——
As for you, I won’t force you. I see you are a man of character. The Ming Dynasty has been dead for three hundred years, and you won’t agree to change your surname. Anyway, if you don’t change it, you will never change your name.
Just inherit the title."
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ps: I have slightly deleted some of the originally written plots, and have postponed writing some new content, so it is a bit late.