To put things into perspective, Gu Kun's own reaction speed to external public opinion was actually slower than Kong Shangzhong and even other enemies.
There was no other reason. After killing Mitchell Hatcher, he had to lead the "Nightingale" and "Seagull" to report for handover, repair and return.
During these days at sea, in order to ensure safety and prevent retaliation, he did not even turn on the GPS positioning during the whole process, and even turned off the satellite phone receiver. Everything remained silent until he returned to Lanfang Port.
When we landed at Lanfang Port, it was already June 22.
On the dock, Gu Kun was blocked by Tang Jia, who was full of anger.
Tang Jia didn't have the consciousness of being a subordinate at all, and bluntly blamed Gu Kun for causing trouble for her. (It may also be that she resigned from her position in the corporate world in the past two years and concentrated on Lanfang's foreign affairs work, which made her subconsciously feel that she was not Gu Kun's
Personal subordinate)
"Look at the good things you have done these days! The Filipinos' solemn representations, strong protests, and a lot of notes have been thrown at me! It's really tiring to work in foreign affairs for a master like you who is causing trouble and causing international disputes! If you keep doing this,
You have to pay me more!"
Gu Kun looked indifferent and just thought it was funny: "What are you protesting for? Protesting that I hit something and sunk something? This is a typical accident. Are all Filipino maids useless and have insufficient professional knowledge? They are not even talented people who understand international law.
None."
Tang Jiayi gritted his teeth: "Who will protest against this! They are protesting against your refusal to surrender to them after causing trouble! They say that the Lanfang people have violated other countries' law enforcement rights in their territorial waters! They also said that they will never admit any other aspects
Regarding the maritime arbitration award, if you do not apologize to the Filipinos or submit a statement regarding that accident, they will try you in absentia."
Gu Kun didn't want to let other people watch on the dock, so he pulled Tang Jia into the luxury car, sat down and chatted slowly while driving: "Is that all? You haven't finished it? Then what did I hire you to do?"
Tang Jia shook off Gu Kun's tugging and replied angrily: "Of course I will respond to strong protests and stern representations for you, but subsequent substantive sanctions are unavoidable. We have been so tough on the Filipinos, and they are sure
To ban some economic and trade cooperation is something that our diplomacy cannot solve.
Now, here is the bill! The Filipinos sent the protest I responded to the day before yesterday. In 1997, according to their statistics, nearly 3,000 Filipino tourists came to Lanzhou for tourism throughout the year. As of the first half of this year
Before the incident, the total number of Filipino tourists dropped to only 880 due to the impact of the financial crisis.
From now on, they are calling on all private travel agencies in the Philippines not to organize tour groups to Lanzhou. They also recommend that ordinary Filipino citizens not to travel to Lanzhou on their own initiative! They claim to be able to reduce thousands of tourists throughout the year.
Don’t drive down the country’s tens of millions of ringgit in GDP!
In addition, last year, 70 bulk carriers such as oil tankers and ore ships docked at Lanfang Port across the Philippines. After this incident, they stated that they would all switch to ports under Maersk Maritime Company and stop communicating with Lanfang Port and
Maritime cooperation with all ports in which COSCO Group has a stake! Let us bear all the consequences!"
"Oh, I'm so scared. What's tens of millions of ringgit in GDP!" Gu Kun couldn't help laughing, "Why do they always talk about the old almanac? Our Lanfang side has revised the relevant legal provisions on the local currency last year. From now on
Lanfang is now a RMB country and no longer uses ringgit, so how come the notes they gave us are still calculated in ringgit?”
And Gu Kun also knew that he estimated that the Filipino's note must be exaggerated.
How can the GDP generated by thousands of tourists a year be "tens of millions of ringgit"? It's only a thousand to ten million at most. It's just that Filipinos like to pretend to be fat, so they always add water and round up during the photo session.
Well.
In fact, they even inflated the number of tourists. In fact, last year it was just over 2,000, so they rounded it up and said it was 3,000, so as to exaggerate the seriousness of the loss of cooperation and put pressure on the Lanfang people.
Even among the so-called Filipino tourists, not many of them come by themselves. Most of them come as Filipino servants for wealthy businessmen and tourists from Lijiapo, Xiangjiang or other Southeast Asian countries.
These Filipino maids seem to be spending a lot, but in fact they are just helping their masters with purchases. Can that be considered the GDP created by them? What they spend is not their own money!
Just like when any country counts a family's consumption, it cannot count the money spent by the hired nanny and grocery shopping aunt at the market as the consumption of the grocery shopping aunt! You should count it as the food consumption of the employer's family.
Well!
But I’m too lazy to dig into these details.
Tang Jia, on the other hand, felt speechless at Gu Kun's indifference.
At this time, the car had already arrived at Zhaoming Palace. Tang Jia pulled up her skirt and got out of the car in a hurry. She stood in front of Gu Kun and asked: "Is this a matter of wording of the note? Are you really unable to grasp the focus or are you angry with me? I
What I’m telling you is to ask you to pay attention to your business losses, and don’t blame us for not doing a good job in the field of foreign affairs. This is not our fault.”
Gu Kun folded his hands in front of his legs and replied seriously: "Of course I have grasped the key point. I just think you are making a fuss. You don't need to report this financial loss to me one by one in the future. I can still distinguish the severity clearly. No
It's your fault.
In fact, you shouldn't bother me about this in the first place, just transfer the bill directly to Manager He Lanhe, and she will beat around the bush and find the responsible department to reimburse me."
Tang Jia finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I was just waiting for your words. People like us are actually just puppets who help you answer protests and negotiations. We don't even have the right to make independent decisions. Alas."
Tang Jia said, getting ready to deal with it.
But Gu Kun thought for a moment and called her from behind: "Wait!"
Tang Jia turned around quickly subconsciously: "What's wrong?"
Gu Kun scratched his temple: "Since you have been waiting for me to come back, you can't wait in vain. Let's do this. You can make a fake account yourself, add some details, add a zero to the number reported by the Filipino, and then transfer it.
Reimburse He Lan."
How valuable is Gu Kun's time? If Tang Jia had handled this matter privately without going through Gu Kun's brain, then the original price would have been reimbursed.
But now that Gu Kun's precious time and mental resources have been used, it is only right and justified to charge ten times the consulting fee or labor fee.
How embarrassing is it that the Philippines is a "big country" with a population of only 100 million people, but only more than 3,000 people come to visit the Netherlands a year?
In order to maintain the face of the Filipinos, Gu Kun kindly helped the Philippines to brag, saying that they had 30,000 people a year who could afford such high consumption.
It is because of my service to COSCO and other relevant maritime departments that I suffered the consequences of being protested and receiving economic sanctions from the Philippines. It is up to me how you should compensate me.
The number of extra tourist groups we guide is less than 30,000 per year. Are you sorry?
If you can't convince the public, I'm afraid not many small countries in Southeast Asia will join China and serve as your pawns.
Anyway, Gu Kun always wanted to ensure the same profit margin as the ancient tribute trade. In the Ming Dynasty, the Bangzi Kingdom paid tribute to a few ginsengs every year and could exchange for so much property. I can't be worse than that.
And he didn't cheat the country.
Because after the Southeast Asian financial crisis in 1997-98, the currencies of Southeast Asian countries have depreciated by an average of one-third compared to the RMB.
Therefore, starting next year, there will definitely be a big blowout in the development of domestic tourism to Southeast Asian countries.
You can imagine that if local prices for Chinese people drop by one-third, then the number of people going abroad and the total amount of consumption will definitely increase several times. Just like if a supermarket runs a 40% off sale for the entire store, then the total amount on the day of the sale will
The turnover is definitely several times higher than that on non-promotional days. Anyone who has done a little business marketing will agree with this truth.
And Gu Kun just created a secondary diversion from the Chinese tourists who were about to go abroad, so that Lan Fang could account for a larger proportion.
Speaking of traps, Gu Kun was also trapping Li Mattai, but he couldn't trap Huaxia.
China’s total foreign tourism consumption will not increase, nor will its total foreign exchange spending.
What's so embarrassing about doing something like this that benefits both the family and the country?
…
Although Tang Jia couldn't bear it in her heart, she still followed the invisible boss's instructions and reported the account.
He Lan now lives in Aoxian County, so she herself cannot come to Lanzhou often. Instead, she has left a resident office here as a liaison (some matters cannot be negotiated directly through the embassy because they are not of an official nature, but in fact this
The Office in Lanzhou and the embassy have almost completed their establishment)
Tang Jia said hello to the people from the China Liaison Office in Lanzhou so that they could have some idea.
And it was when he was handing over this matter that he received unexpected good news from the Chinese personnel.
"Foreign Minister Tang, we have important results to report to Mr. Gu! It's about shallow sea oil field exploration!"
Tang Jia was still in the dark at the time: "I know, the report must have been falsified with help, thank you all for your hard work."
"It's not a forgery! The oil field was really discovered! Gu Sheng is really the chosen one. Good people are rewarded! We heard that he acquired that piece of land last year in response to the financial crisis. Lanfang's finances were tight and he was perfecting the relief for the poor.
There is not enough money for social insurance, so he bought an island to raise money to provide insurance to the people, right?
God's eyes are open, he bought the right land! Not far from the easternmost island, only a dozen nautical miles away, there is an oil field! At least two billion barrels!"
When Tang Jiagang heard the news, he was definitely no less shocked than those villains in the future.
"What the hell? Are you really so lucky? You won't lie to me, will you? God helps him so much. When is it bad to find oil, but now?"
Tang Jia didn't wait for the other party to confirm, and subconsciously slapped both of them lightly.
It hurts, it really hurts, I'm not dreaming.
I wouldn’t dare write a script like this.
"I'm going to notify Mr. Gu right away... By the way, you guys should contact China Construction Bank immediately. Bah, it doesn't have to be China Construction Bank, it can be any other bank. We may need to urgently handle a financing mortgaged by part of the oil reserves.