In Cooks County on the coast of the North Sea, in a hotel that is considered high-end in the entire city of Hamburg.
Gu Kun, who had just experienced a tiring flight and difficult negotiations with the shipyard, ordered room service and asked the hotel staff to bring dinner to him.
Although the content of his negotiation is just buying and buying, buying and buying is also very tiring.
Especially when you have to deliberately dress yourself up as a prodigal who is not afraid of death and just wants to live to spend all his money, the calories consumed by acting are very high. Even if the expression is not realistic enough, the effect of the actor will be greatly reduced.
discount.
Germans generally define cities very small, which is why their urban population appears to be so small. However, Hamburg is an exception because Hamburg, Bremen and Berlin are all state-level cities, so there are many counties below them.
Cooks County, where Gu Kun stayed, is about 30 to 40 kilometers away from the core urban area of Hamburg. It is located at the estuary of the Elbe River, where the Port of Hamburg is located, and the Lüsen Shipyard is also here. The hotel where Gu Kun stayed,
It's not the highest quality in Hamburg, but at least it's the highest quality in Cooks.
The room service was fast, and the hotel waitress brought over local specialties such as steak tartare, salt-baked pork knuckle, fried Bavarian sausage with Brussels sprouts, and a Swiss cheese fondue that you can eat with bread slices and sausage slices.
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The standard Swiss cheese fondue only comes with bread slices and no other items are allowed. If you insist on eating it, the store will think you are uncivilized and an insult to Swiss culture. But in Germany, they don’t pay attention to it. Customers can eat whatever they like.
, let the Swiss's poor sense of things go away.
Gu Kun was used to living a life of fine clothing and fine food. During those days at the Snow Lake Castle in Bavaria, he always had the cooks around him cook Chinese or French food, so when he occasionally ate rough German food, it still had a unique flavor and he was not disgusted by it.
In 1999, it was still difficult to find Chinese restaurants in Hamburg because China was not strong enough. Even if there were local restaurants, they were all vulgar restaurants that seemed to have no style, so there was no need to force it.
After the female secretary Saranova finished serving the dishes, Zhu Youran sat elegantly opposite Gu Kun and ate a piece of cabbage silently. Seeing that Gu Kun didn't seem to want to say anything, she took the initiative and asked with concern:
"What you said to Mr. Eric Hansen today is not true, is it?"
"What's not true? It's basically all true." Gu Kun is a straight man, and he is planning a big event now. How can he consider the feelings of the girls around him.
He thought Zhu Youran was asking whether he wanted to participate in the Olympics and whether he really needed a luxury yacht to show off and defend himself...
These points are of course true.
Zhu Youran was so angry that he stomped his feet slightly: "I'm talking about your bastard words of 'licking blood with the tip of a knife for the rest of your life, and you just want to spend all the money before you die'!"
Gu Kun was stunned for a moment before he realized what he was doing, and then looked around.
There were no other people around, and there was no possibility of a bug. Only Saranova stood cautiously at the door, and after Gu Kun glanced at her, she quietly exited the room and closed the door behind her.
Gu Kun actually didn't want to avoid his secretary. He could only say that the secretary was too clever.
"Of course these words are meant to discourage competition and reduce competition from potential rivals." Gu Kun sighed a little tiredly and impatiently. He did not continue to eat, but impatiently cut a cigar with a cigar cutter.
lit with a sulfur match,
"I am completely inspired by Paul Allen, Microsoft's second largest shareholder and co-founder. Sometimes, when competing for the world record of money burning in certain niches, make your enemies think you are a currently powerful person.
When you are drunk and a desperado who burns money without blinking an eye or asking for anything in return, you can better deter your opponents and prevent them from following the cards.
This is actually the same as playing stud. Sometimes the amount of bet you can put is not the most important, nor is the size of your hole cards the most important, but the momentum is the most important - this is a kind of game psychology."
Gu Kun spoke slowly and earnestly, recounting many of his considerations at the time to Zhu Youran, which amounted to several thousand words. (The specific content is the same as Gu Kun's brain activities and experience calculations in the previous chapter, so there are no details here.
(Write the word "avoid water")
Zhu Youran looked nervous at first, but after listening, he let go of his tightly clenched hands and let out a long breath.
She involuntarily moved from the other side of the table to sit next to Gu Kun, and finally sat on Gu Kun's lap, her two small hands still pinching Gu Kun's trousers, sweating:
"During the day, I was worried. I suddenly felt that this world is too sinister, and doing business would always put your life in danger! You should tell me in advance in the future. You are not even able to protect your own people now.
Scared together!"
Gu Kun: "Is it that serious? Even if I don't lick blood now and just scare the enemy, if I go back up to two years, I will definitely be mentally prepared to die at any time. People who make a living at sea
, from Captain Drake to Pirate Kidd, who doesn’t have that kind of psychological preparation? It’s not the first day you met me, at least when you first regarded me as a friend, my life was so dangerous.
It's just that I never thought that this kind of danger was a kind of misery. Instead, I regarded the danger as a gift from God. Thinking about the problem from another angle, I thought that I could use these dangers to hint to my enemies and let them know that I would risk my life at any time.
, they were so scared that they didn’t dare to follow even though they had the ace of spades as their trump card, I was so excited.”
There are many desperadoes in this world, but apart from Gu Kun, there is no other desperado who is a billionaire, so the power of this card is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
When Gu Kun needs to put his life on the line with others to compete for many world first places, it is enough to scare those unsteady competitors.
Zhu Youran was dumbfounded when he heard this. The contrast between ups and downs had a profound impact on people's soul.
There is no such thing as quiet time. In a small country like Lanfang, if it is not pro-China, it will be easily targeted. If it is too pro-China, it will be easily targeted. It is not valuable and will not be well-off.
If they want to avoid being destroyed, they can only act appropriately and pretend to be pro-China "for a reason" in exchange for some benefits when Oceania and the Bugou camp have shown that they have obviously failed the people of Southeast Asian countries and aroused public indignation in Southeast Asia.
"Have you... ever thought about when you want to get married? I mean, since you are mentally prepared to be a desperado, don't you want a son and have some security?" When Zhu Youran said this, his face turned red.
Have to shed blood.
In fact, she did not do it out of ignorant emotional needs, but simply because she was a princess and had accepted the responsibilities of her family, country and world since she was a child.
She knows her mission.
"It's not that exaggerated. I'm just acting today. Don't be mentally burdened!" Gu Kun patted her on the shoulder and told her not to take it too seriously.
Zhu Youran breathed a sigh of relief. All these changes were indeed a bit sudden, and she was really not mentally prepared. Just because of her status, her blood boiled a little, and now she was looking forward to comforting and delaying Kun Kun. She was really looking forward to it.
"There is indeed no imminent danger now, but before going to Sydney next summer, Brother Kun should still have a wife so that the world can be protected."
Not to mention giving birth, at least one must be pregnant. B-ultrasound can determine the gender. (Of course, this is not to favor sons over daughters, it is just to inherit the title)
Zhu Youran suddenly thought of his own life experience. If his three brothers and sisters, who he had never met in his life, died in the trap caused by the dog, his mother-in-law had not happened to be pregnant with him. I am afraid that Lan Fang would not have been pregnant with him today.
Guo Zuo probably has no successor.
Bulldogs and those dogs that serve as dogs for Bulldogs are always ambitious dogs and must be guarded against.
There is still more than a year left, so I won’t think about it for now.
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In the following days, Gu Kun's "pretend to be a desperado" negotiation strategy was quite successful.
He walked around Hamburg and fully communicated the data of the yacht he wanted to order with the people at Luessen Shipyard.
It also subtly stated, "In order to compete for world records in various luxury fields, I will risk my life regardless of the cost. I just want to burn all my money before I die. Anyone who has a son to inherit the inheritance should not compete with me, because I won't."
The concept of "cost-effective" has been implanted in the minds of relevant collaborators.
I believe that if Prince Diba comes to Lusen Shipyard to place an order for a world record in the future, Eric Hansen might also think, “It’s best not to compete with a desperado like Gu Kun, otherwise he will do things regardless of the consequences.”
, may kill your whole family", convey it to the other party subtly.
Of course, these are purely tactics. Of course, Gu Kun will not buy gangs, intelligence agencies, or killer organizations. He just asks his imaginary competitors to imagine him as another Paul Allen, and let them make up their own minds about those with small names.
The heart of a man is the element that determines the belly of a gentleman.
"Mr. Gu, it's a pleasure to cooperate with you, so the order is here. We charge you 1 billion euros, which is more expensive than our previous two customers, Abramovich's 700 million euros and Larry Ellison's 800 million euros."
, the indicators will be higher than theirs, and they will be kept secret from them absolutely, and they will not be told that their ship is already lagging behind before it is launched.
The design length of the "Youran" you want will reach 216 meters, which is much longer than the 168 meters of Abu's. And we will use an extremely advanced trimaran ship design to ensure stability, so the width will also be 21.5 meters longer than Abu's.
Much wider, reaching 36 meters——
The central main hull is 20 meters wide, with fully-through transverse decks extending 8 meters wide on both sides. The sub-hulls on both sides are each 3 meters wide, but the draft is only 1 meter wide, ensuring excellent fluid efficiency in small water planes.
, with a total displacement of 24,000 tons.”
These designs were definitely extremely advanced and novel in 1999. Many of them were developed by Gu Kun during the negotiation process. Because he knew the industry and knew the evolution route of luxury yachts and the emerging high-tech elements in the next 20 years, he took the initiative to design each project.
After careful consideration, Party B is forced to increase the amount.
If it were a tycoon like Abramovich who didn't understand technology and placed the order, and only knew that he wanted the biggest, heaviest and most expensive product in the world to spend money on, then Party B might be able to fool him by just piling up paper indicators.
That’s why an old Poseidon like Gu Kun is less likely to be deceived when he spends money to buy a boat.
Moreover, this size also has a very large margin of resistance to overtaking - historically, Dubai people began to compete for world records in the yacht field around 2008/09, but when their "Azzam" was launched in 2011,
It’s only 180 meters long.
Gu Kun directly built the world's first private yacht exceeding 200 meters, which is absolutely as shocking as the later generation's "Burj Khalifa" was built in 2010, surpassing the world's second-largest yacht at the time.
That's not just breaking the world record a little bit, but directly raising the original world record by one-third instantly!
This is similar to Gu Kun breaking the swimming record. Either he doesn't break the 400-meter record, or if he wants to break it, let the 400-meter singles record directly exceed the 400-meter relay world record. Let the people on earth know that Oceania can send four people to compete in a wheel battle to beat Gu Kun alone.
I can't beat him in a one-on-one challenge.
If you want to break the record, you have to break it bigger at once. This is like Gu Kun's style.