After completely setting himself up to expose the evil nature of Wall Street's financial dog, Gu Kun's life was on the wrong side of things and there was no turning back.
With the support and support of hundreds of millions of poor people in Southeast Asia, the benefits are huge and the risks are huge. However, with Gu Kun's foresight, he is absolutely sure to control the risks.
At this point, the dividends from the Thai baht crisis and the ringgit crisis have been completely drained by Gu Kun.
After a long period of nervous tension, Gu Kun could finally breathe a sigh of relief, slow down a little, and plan for the next stage.
Today is January 3rd, which is also the New Year’s Day holiday.
Gu Kun slept fully in his Benmajiao villa until he woke up naturally. Then, with Midrova waiting on him, he washed, changed clothes, had breakfast, and picked up a newspaper to read current events.
Gu Kun glanced at the calendar in the newspaper and thought about it: "The New Year is quite early this year, the Spring Festival is January 28. During the New Year, I can go back to China and do some errands."
Gu Kun silently calculated the progress of various businesses.
Soros is still targeting the Philippine peso and Indonesian rupiah.
Nowadays, because of Gu Kun's disruption, the timing of attacks on various currencies in the Southeast Asian financial crisis has changed. In addition, even the outbreak of the initial Thai baht crisis was delayed by nearly two months. But Gu Kun
I believe that the preparation time and rhythm Soros needs between each stage of the campaign should be roughly the same.
Therefore, after the peso and Indonesian rupiah exchanges are completed, and the preparation period is over, Gu Kun estimates that Soros's move on the Hong Kong dollar will be delayed until after the lunar new year in 1998.
If you are lucky, you may even be able to postpone the Lantern Festival.
Therefore, at least for a month, Gu Kun will not have to worry about fighting Soros again.
Moreover, when the battle for the Hong Kong dollar comes, he will be on completely hostile positions with Soros, so he doesn't even need to sneak in to open a position in advance, he can just confront him when the time comes.
"In this way, it is still not suitable for me to immediately fulfill the promise I made to Manager He and Boss Ye. If I let Chinese scientific researchers board the 'Isakov' to plan further transformation and surveying now,
Or allow China to have in-depth cooperation in Nanyang ocean engineering, which will definitely attract more hatred from Oceania.
Why not, just postpone it for another two or three months. After the Hong Kong dollar war is over and the hatred between me and Soros deepens, I will pretend that I was almost bankrupted by Soros because of my confrontation with him. Fortunately, because of China's
The foreign exchange reserves supported me, so I turned the loss into profit. In this way, it seemed more reasonable that I was forced to deepen cooperation with China. As for the news of the exploration and discovery of Lanfang Oilfield, at least it should be suppressed until after that incident.
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Gu Kun was a little lost in thought while reading the current affairs in the newspaper, thinking about it in his mind.
However, even if cooperation can be postponed, explanation must be given.
In July last year, when he had just graduated from Jiaotong University, he was blocked in Shanghai by Manager He and Mr. Ye of COSCO. At that time, he personally promised that "we will see the outcome within half a year."
This time, I am taking advantage of the Spring Festival to go back to China, sort out these causes and effects, and make a report. It is a promise worth a thousand dollars.
Moreover, wasting time is not Gu Kun's style.
Before the Hong Kong dollar war came, it was the deepest and darkest moment of the Southeast Asian financial crisis.
If darkness is used well, it is the best bargain-hunting opportunity. Gu Kun took advantage of the low period of these two months to engage in some major construction and set up some projects at low cost, especially international projects that require cooperation with neighboring countries.
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When you order a project at this time, the price is the cheapest.
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Gu Kun had a do-it-yourself temperament. After figuring out the plan, he single-handedly drove the yacht back to the main island that day and went to Zhaoming Palace to ask for an audience with Zhu Youdong.
He was not polite to the Grand Duke and said straight to the point:
"I am planning to go to China. Now is a good time for Southeast Asian neighboring countries to have generally undervalued assets and resources. I want to use COSCO's investment and production capacity to carry out some more major construction projects."
Of course, Gu Kun would not mention the cooperation that he had already agreed with He Lan. In front of Zhu Youdong, it would be enough to mention the secondary motives.
Zhu Youdong had no doubts, but he half agreed and half rhetorically asked, "Taking advantage of the financial crisis to expand investment in infrastructure is indeed a good decision - that's what Roosevelt and Adolf did back then.
However, what else can we invest in in the near future? Ports, airports, roads and bridges, hotels, our stalls in various fields in Lanfang have already been fully developed."
Gu Kun said confidently: "The airport is sufficient for the time being, but the port can continue to be expanded, and there are not too many hotels. At present, the several hotels in Lanfang are all funded by our own funds and the investment of the Hilton family.
We can further liberalize access to foreign investment and allow Chinese businessmen to invest in 100% Chinese-owned foreign-owned hotels. This kind of service industry requires full market competition. It is impossible to improve service quality by relying on state-owned enterprises and monopolies.
For the country, the hotel's direct income is not important. What is important is the improvement of the national cultural tourism industry, so it doesn't matter who opens it.
However, these are not mega-projects. What I mainly want to plan this time are some major international cooperations that require the use of Malaysians. The assets of Malaysians are now at a low point, and the cost of infrastructure is also low."
Zhu Youdong was quite surprised: "Is there anything we can build good cooperation with the Malaysians?"
Gu Kun put it bluntly: "I would like to refer to the internal agreement on the purchase of water resources between Xiangjiang and Eastern Guangdong Province that was newly implemented last year, as well as the international treaty on Malaysia's water supply to Lijiapo, so that our Lanzhou side can also purchase water resources from Malaysia and build a few
Ten nautical miles of submarine freshwater pipeline.
In addition, I also hope to form a joint venture with the Malaysian side, with each side contributing half, to build a cross-sea bridge connecting Lanfang and Kuching."
As soon as he said this, Zhu Youdong was instantly shocked by Gu Kun's generous and whimsical writing:
"Are you crazy! This kind of cross-sea bridge and cross-sea water pipeline project can probably reinvest most of the money we made from the Thai baht crisis! This kind of project will return money for decades.
If you don't know the origin, you may not be able to get it back even if you use it to pieces.
Besides, we already have our own airport in Lanzhou, so why do we need a cross-sea bridge? There is no need to use Kuching Airport to come to Lanzhou! As for water supply, our country’s fresh water resources are more than enough. Why do people like Lijiapo spend their money?
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When it comes to Zhu Youdong's rebuttal, we have to talk about Lan Fang's objective environment.
As we all know, in any country with a small island topography, water shortage is the norm.
In countries like the Maldives, water is shipped in barrels, and even fresh water for washing is shipped in barrels. Therefore, the cost of water in the Maldives is extremely high, and water bills are extremely expensive.
Let’s not talk about distant places, let’s talk about Southeast Asia, Xiangjiang and Lijiapo. They also buy water from outside.
According to the contract, Xiangjiang has to purchase 800 million cubic meters of Dongjiang water from eastern Guangdong Province a year. The contract that just came into effect last year was about HKD 2 per ton of river water.
Lijiapo, on the other hand, buys water from Johor Bahru in Malay across the strait. However, the cross-sea water pipeline was funded and built by Lijiapo. Malaysia does not have to bear any infrastructure costs, so the water charges in Johor Bahru are much cheaper.
, which is about 10 ringgit per ton (according to the latest exchange rate after the Southeast Asian financial crisis, it is equivalent to 18 cents, and after the appreciation of the renminbi in 2005, it is equivalent to 16 cents).
Some outsiders may think that the Malays are very generous in selling resources, while the prices in eastern Guangdong are relatively expensive - but this is definitely a misunderstanding. Because the price Malaysia asked Li Jiapo charged was stated in the water supply treaty between the two countries signed in 1961.
Obviously, the people in Lijiapo are quite shrewd. At that time, it was written down and would not be changed. It was valid for 99 years until 2061.
Therefore, Malaysia has been asking Li Jiapo whether the price of water charged in the early 1960s was much cheaper than the Guangdong-Hong Kong Agreement 35 years later.
If Gu Kun asks Malaysia to sign a water supply treaty now, as long as the price can be as low as that of Li Jiapo, it will already be a great diplomatic victory. To put it bluntly, it is taking advantage of the financial crisis to take advantage of the situation.
If you can even sign a contract for RMB 20 to RMB 30 per ton, Lanfang can be considered a profit.
But the reason why Zhu Youdong felt that Gu Kun was thinking too far and was a bit wasteful was mainly because he felt that Lanfang was not short of water at present - both Lanfang and Lijiapo were located in the tropics, with more than 2,000 millimeters of rainfall each year.
The reason why Lijiapo is short of water is simply because the land area is small and the population density is too high. If the population density of Lijiapo were reduced to the level of a former agricultural country like Lanfang, there would be no need to buy water at all.
In this regard, Gu Kun of course had to calculate a detailed account for Zhu Youdong:
"Your Highness, you feel that there is no shortage of water in Lanzhou at present, and I completely agree with this point. However, people who do not think long-term must worry about the short-term. Since we want to develop a world-class cultural and tourism resort, the number of tourists in the future will be very large.
I have sent people to understand the local hydrological conditions. The local water resources in Lanfang can meet the water needs of about 300,000 agricultural people. At present, our permanent population is only about 100,000. Including tourists staying at the same time, the maximum is 50,000.
, there is still double the amount of water left.
However, in the future, with the increase in port throughput, mobile supplies, and passenger surge, sooner or later we will have to build a water supply project. As long as there are more than 300,000 permanent residents here, it will definitely not be enough. In addition, we need to build something that can make big news.
Grand projects can also exaggerate the future per capita wealth of Lanzhou. You should also take into account the intangible value of these publicity."
In addition to the water diversion project, Gu Kun also wanted to build a cross-sea bridge. Projects like the cross-sea bridge can obviously be used as publicity landmarks. Just like Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao in later generations, it may not necessarily mean that there is really such a huge demand for traffic, and the same is true
The consideration of the wonders of infrastructure points is the same as the victory of culture in playing "Civilization 6".
Since Gu Kun wants to play the local tycoon card, of course he can't spare the expense of spectacle.
From the world's tallest building originally belonging to Dubai, to the magnificent cross-sea bridge, to the water diversion project that shocked the world, they all need it.
As for the cost, as long as Gu Kun finds a Chinese construction company and borrows some new infrastructure plans, the cost may not be as high as Zhu Youdong imagined.