Finally returning to Lanfang, the "Zhussen" was immediately sent to the decoration dock of the Lanfang branch of the Hamburg-Lüssen shipyard for decoration and painting.
Gu Kun himself reported to the Grand Duke in a routine manner. The family had a banquet, talked about daily life, and then went about their own lives. Gu Kun was tired of the delicacies at the banquet every day, and there was nothing much to say.
Zhu Youdong was a little concerned about Gu Kun's arrangements for the next period of time. Gu Kun also answered all questions: "Recently, I will put aside other things and spend at most one or two hours a day to watch. The Olympics are coming soon, and I want to
45 days of retreat training to get back to the state.
By the way, how are the two high-end shopping malls that opened in the first half of the year going? I think it is necessary to carefully collect business data and conduct sufficient market research, including sampling questionnaires to foreign customers and giving out small gifts.
compensate.
When the Olympic season comes, I will definitely go all out in publicity. Therefore, how big is the difference in effectiveness between publicity with me and publicity without me? It cannot be just a mess. It must be well-reasoned and well-reasoned.
Only in this way can big European and American brands such as Gucci and Versace see the value of in-depth strategic cooperation with us and accept our stake in Lanfang Capital, setting a benchmark for subsequent cooperation."
Zhu Youdong nodded slightly when he heard this: "You can just ask someone to arrange these. I haven't asked much about it, but it seems that the tourism and shopping data in the past few months are still good. I will ask someone to provide you with the data that the finance and taxation department has.
Before you go on your Burj Al Arab and Lanfang Tower projects, you can check to see if they are keeping up with the progress. I heard that people from Wanwan in the north are also building high-rise buildings in Wanbei City. The foundations were laid at the end of last year.
It took more than half a year to build a ground-level building. The construction progress is faster than ours. We started the construction in early 1999 more than half a year earlier than them. Now the construction progress seems to be similar to theirs, right? Is it a construction team from mainland China?
Not strong enough?"
Zhu Youdong's thinking is also a stereotype of the older generation, which cannot be changed. After all, Zhu Youdong was already fifty years old when Lanfang founded the People's Republic of China. In his impression, the construction level of the mainland is very poor, and it can certainly not be compared with that of Wanwan.
.In fact, in the first ten years of opening up, there were indeed many shoddy projects in mainland China. Especially before real estate was marketized, there was a lack of incentives and chaotic management.
It is mainly a project designed by the state, and the budget is quite tight.
But Gu Kun will definitely solve these situations. He knows how much potential the infrastructure madman from the mainland can tap if he has money and management.
As for the appearance that Zhu Youdong saw that "the Lanfang Tower was built much slower than the Wanbei 101", it was exactly what Gu Kun was pursuing. This shows that the Wanwan people have fallen into a trap and have not adopted a new fully enclosed
The load-bearing tube structure and the corresponding foundation construction plan are why the foundation can be raised so quickly.
After the foundation was laid, there was no possibility for the people of Wanwan to turn over and start over again. No matter how they changed the plan, it was just fine-tuning. At best, they spent money to raise the height by 10 to 20 meters, which cost 7.8 billion US dollars.
It was ranked second in the world with no coverage at all.
Gu Kun didn't want to say more about this matter, for fear that the technical details would be leaked, so he just comforted Zhu Youdong a little, telling him not to worry about it: "Don't worry, I know what happened to Lan Fangta, and how talented Wanwan is,
That’s not our opponent—the opponent I’m really worried about is the oil giants in the Middle East.”
Zhu Youdong saw that he looked calm and had his pearls of wisdom in hand, so he felt a little relieved and said nothing more.
After dinner, Gu Kun got up and said goodbye, first going for a walk in the imperial garden of Zhaoming Palace to relax.
The little princess Zhu Youran also followed up quietly, walking as lightly as a little fox, sneaking around Gu Kun's waist from behind: "When you go to Australia this time, will you take me with you? The new yacht has been built, and I'm still
You haven’t sat there yet, you have all sat there, even your female secretaries and Sister Ying have sat there.”
Gu Kun grabbed Zhu Youran's hand and pulled it away gently: "I'm doing this for your own good. It's quite dangerous to go to Australia. After all, it's a cloth dog. Think about how your brother and sister died back then.
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Zhu Youran was a little worried, and his palms were slightly sweaty: "If you are really afraid of being dealt with by others, the worst thing you can do is declare that you will not participate in the Olympics. You can rely on just a yacht, no matter how strong it is, it may not be safe."
Gu Kun didn't want to frighten the girl too much, so he comforted her softly: "After all, I am an Olympic champion for so many times, and it is during the Olympics. If they attack me personally, they still have to be careful and pay attention to concealment, and not show obvious flaws.
Otherwise, it will be a complete trampling on the spirit of international sports, and the world order will have a great impact from now on.
But for the people around me, the situation is different. The bodyguards I brought with me have no motive to go to great lengths to kill them. But if you show up, you are worthy of being killed, and the enemy will also harm you.
Motive - If something happens to you, where Lan Fang will go in the future and what system it will become, everything will be lost in confusion. Therefore, we must not appear in any of the four dog countries of Buga, Australia and New Zealand at the same time."
Zhu Youran bit her lip, and after a while of tempering with some reluctance, she finally gave in.
Gu Kun finally added a layer of insurance to her heart: "Don't worry, I bought a yacht to go abroad in a high-profile manner, but actually I have other backup plans. When I was in mainland China in the first half of the year, through Sister Jiajia, I
In the name of the royal family, a 052 destroyer was purchased, and they promised to complete the modification and ship it in September.
It is more than 100 million US dollars, which is more expensive than their cost. With the money and orders, they can build better and improved models for their own use. I rely on the relationship between COSCO and it is relatively secretive until the shipment.
I’m not even planning to publicize it to the outside world. When the time comes, I will have more than one ship, more than one anti-submarine helicopter, and the Kidd-class submarine to secretly go to the high seas outside Australia, and everything will be fine.”
Zhu Youran was shocked when he heard this: "Is it possible to buy this kind of warship?"
Gu Kun: "Why can't we buy it? Although our Lanfang family is small, we are also completely sovereign. All countries are equal regardless of their size. Why can't we have our own navy when we are rich? Besides, the crew are all hired by us.
Yes, when I signed the contract, I promised the black box model. I would not dismantle or explore the principles, just use it. Why are they worried?
It's just that the establishment ceremony of the Lanfang Navy will have to wait until I return safely from Australia. The Olympic Games are from September 15th to 30th, and I won't stay there until the closing ceremony. I will definitely finish the competition.
Come back. I think Lan Fang’s Navy Day, or the founding anniversary, will be scheduled for October 1st, which happens to be the day after the Olympics."
In the 1990s, mainland China built two 052s, the basic type. Later, because the situation was quiet for several years after 1996, there was no demand, and they kept a low profile and did not want to spend money to upgrade. It was not until the beginning of the 21st century that they began to develop the follow-up C-type improved model.
, was completed and entered service in 2005. The D-type and E-type that followed were all from the 2010s.
The cost of the later 052D is about more than 2 billion yuan, which is equivalent to about 3.5 billion US dollars. However, although D is just a different letter than C and the basic model, in fact, the progress is still relatively large, but the mainland is relatively low-key.
Every time the weight is increased by one or two thousand tons, the suffix letter is changed, and it is still said that it is just a minor change, just to keep a low profile to the outside world.
Therefore, each level of transformation will bring about a cost difference of at least 20 to 30%. Taking into account the inflation and RMB appreciation in the next ten years, a 052C around 2005 will basically cost 17.8 billion RMB.
At that time, the exchange rate was only 220 million US dollars.
Type B costs only 1.34 billion yuan, which is equivalent to US$160 million. The basic type is only one billion yuan, which is equivalent to US$120 million.
What Gu Kun bought was a spot that had been used for five years. When someone was willing to give money to make a new one, people from COSCO finally helped to secretly match up, and he got it, plus 30 million US dollars in consumables, personnel hiring, and training.
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The final "move-in" price totaled US$150 million.
Only one-sixth of the world's most luxurious yacht, bought by Gu Kun from Germany, was still affordable to Gu Kun.
For sellers, Gu Kun hired a whole group of demobilized unemployed people anyway. And to put it bluntly, some ships parked on the north coast of the South China Sea to deter Vietnamese and Filipinos, and parked on the opposite side of the South China Sea, on the south coast of Lanfang, also served as a deterrent to Vietnam and the Philippines.
People, there is actually no difference in usage.
It's just that when Gu Kun needs self-defense and escort, he often takes him out for a walk. This business can be done.
After the seller took the money, he could just start construction of the C-type improved first ship, which is currently in the budget approval stage. Even without Gu Kun's appearance, the B-type would be launched in 2002, and the C-type would be launched more than a year later.
It's launched. It's just a matter of building an extra one to clear the inventory.
The only thing Gu Kun regretted about this transaction was that the anti-aircraft missiles on the destroyer he bought were not modular unit-mounted vertical missiles, so strictly speaking they were not as good as the French Aster missiles on the yacht. In terms of quantity, they were
It has eight tubes and twenty-four spare parts, HHQ7 type.
But there is nothing we can do. At worst, the air defense depends on the yacht itself, and the destroyer is just doing odd jobs.
It's enough to participate in the Olympics. After returning, you can also protect Lan Fang and help promote some domestic reforms in Lan Fang.
A "Zhu Sen" yacht, a 052 destroyer, and a Kidd-class submarine set off early to hang out there, and the "Iron Triangle" camp team for Gu Kun's trip was set up.
At most, I am afraid that conventionally powered submarines will not have enough endurance and supplies, and adding a scientific research ship "Nightingale" as a guest supply mission is just like the German supply ships that replenished submarines on the high seas during World War II. As for why the scientific research ship is in Australia
Just explain the reason for wandering around the open sea as "going to Antarctica for scientific research and passing by". Anyway, I have freedom of navigation.