The days of retreat training passed quickly and very purely, allowing Gu Kun to regain some of the long-lost sense of youthful passion.
Get up every day, do some stretching exercise for an hour and a half, swim a kilometer to warm up, then take a walk and have breakfast, take a rest for an hour or two and continue training.
Four two-hour training sessions a day, with three two-hour breaks in between, and then going to bed early at night. My life is very regular.
Among the three breaks, the one after breakfast is used to chat and play with friends and wander around. The one after lunch is used to take a nap directly to restore physical strength. The two hours after dinner are used to deal with business and listen to the reports accumulated by subordinates throughout the day.
, make immediate decision-making.
The last week or so of July was spent in such an unshakable rhythm of the biological clock, and the calendar quietly turned to August.
Early that morning, as usual, under the personal supervision of his senior "Minister Luo", Gu Kun swam 1,500 meters according to the rhythm of the competition, and then prepared for dinner.
"13 minutes and 57 seconds! It's one and a half seconds faster than your Olympic gold medal record four years ago. It's great to congratulate you. I didn't expect that you haven't trained much in the past four years. You have been living and drinking every day before you resumed high-intensity training for more than a month.
In just a month, we can achieve such a speed, and it seems that we are still on track to break several more world records this year.”
When Gu Kun finished swimming 1,500 meters, Luo Haili grabbed a dry towel from the platform and quickly threw it to him.
When Gu Kun was swimming, Luo Haili stood on the shore to observe at first, and only wanted to swim with him during the last 300 meters to help Gu Kun set the pace. But soon Luo Haili discovered that she was wrong, because even if she kept
Sprinting at full speed, and Gu Kun had already swam 1,200 meters, Gu Kun was still faster than her and couldn't catch up at all.
She could only swim with him for a mere 200 meters before giving up. Then during the last lap, she just floated at the finish line and waited, telling Gu Kun the time.
Gu Kun wiped his hair and face with a towel, but did not go ashore. He smiled teasingly: "What? Originally, you doubted whether I could continue to win the championship this time?"
Luo Haili smoothed her wet hair: "How could it be possible? I have never doubted that you can win the championship. Two months ago, I was sure that you could win the championship. Now that I look at the state, it is nothing more than confirmation that you can still break your own world record."
——Just kidding, the 1500-meter freestyle world record you set four years ago is still half a minute faster than the current second best time in the world. If you want to win the championship, is there any suspense?"
The two chatted for a while, and Gu Kun ordered him to go ashore to have breakfast. Luo Haili quickly went ashore first, helped him dry his body, and then ordered breakfast to be delivered.
"Drink a glass of lemon water first and sit for 20 minutes before eating. Do not eat immediately after exercising."
"I know, I talk about it every day. Besides, I'm not a normal person. I had my appendix cut out a long time ago." Gu Kun teased, but did not resist.
He has become accustomed to Senior Sister Luo being like a housekeeper who follows every detail and sets the rules every time he has to train. But she is a professional in the sports department. In this regard, Gu Kun really can't find other professionals in Lanfang, so he can only
I can listen to others.
Who makes Lan Fang a small country that usually does not have such management needs and talent reserve needs?
As long as Gu Kun does not participate in the Olympics, the "Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism" will only be the "Ministry of Culture and Tourism", and there is no need for that character to exist. And when Gu Kun wants to participate in the Olympics, only minister-level people will personally coach Gu Kun.
daily rhythm.
"24-year-old female ministers" have become a part of the landscape of Lanfang's national governance. In the past, there was Tang Jia from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and later there was Luo Haili from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. They are all young seniors who are only one year older than Gu Kun. They are the top leaders.
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The maid quickly laid out breakfast. Gu Kun already ate a lot, and now that he was in training mode, he had two tomahawk steaks and a tube of teriyaki chicken legs without teriyaki sauce (Kenji Family Bucket/Wing Bucket)
bucket), a bowl of avocado and tomato lettuce salad, and plenty of cheese sandwiches and yogurt.
Unfortunately, he had to follow the "doctor's orders" to rest for ten minutes before eating, so he had to endure his hunger and chat with Luo Haili to divert his attention.
"You are very busy today, right? Do you have any business to deal with in the morning?" Luo Haili took the initiative to divert his attention very thoughtfully.
Gu Kun took a sip of yogurt and said, "It's indeed quite busy. The rest of the training and rest time may have to be moved to the back, but the rest time in the evening can be adjusted to training."
Luo Haili: "It's your decision. Just tell me the time adjustment. I'll be free all day anyway."
Gu Kun wiped his mouth with a wet napkin: "Why are you free? There are so many official things that you don't have to deal with? Strictly speaking, you should be the one to handle the official things I have to deal with later."
Luo Haili was slightly embarrassed: "Really? Then I have neglected my duty. Who told me to only know sports? I said at the beginning that I should not be the leader of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Department."
Seeing that the other party was serious, Gu Kun patted his shoulder to encourage him and told him not to take it seriously: "As for what, I'm going to the shopping mall to inspect the situation in a while, to closely investigate the actual situation of foreign tourist groups' shopping tours, and to give actual feedback.
During the Olympic Games, several European luxury brands in which I have a stake will receive strong publicity. It is necessary to obtain before-and-after comparative marketing effect data and take more footage of the first scene so that I can discuss cooperation with more European brands in the future.
More evidence chips.
The cross-border shopping drive of the tourism industry is also a topic you should be concerned about. There will be no work in sports in the future, so why not learn more common sense in this area, at least keep up with the rhythm of your subordinates, and be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of talents."
Luo Haili nodded shamefully: "It's true that I haven't paid attention to this aspect yet. Let's do this. I'll go shopping with you later for inspection. I've really been away from the masses recently."
When Gu Kun heard the word "separate from the masses", he couldn't help but feel a little funny. He seemed to have returned to his college days: "It's not 'shopping', it's 'research'."
"Yes, yes, it's research."
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After breakfast, at about ten o'clock in the morning, Gu Kun took Luo Haili with him to inspect the new shopping mall that had just been completed less than half a year ago in the center of Lanfang.
This shopping mall has a total construction area of more than 200,000 square meters, which is really huge in Lanzhou. In addition to shopping, there are also many municipal life and recreational facilities, such as cinemas, karaoke, one-stop dining and leisure...
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There is even a swimming pool/indoor water park, bathing center, indoor real ice skating rink, tennis hall...
It is enough for all foreigners who come to visit to enjoy shopping and fun for a few days.
As for the name and brand of the shopping mall, it is actually not very important. Gu Kun has no plans to waste time and effort building additional shopping mall brands.
So at the beginning, he chose to use faster and more crude methods such as acquisitions/shareholdings, etc., and directly applied a mainland China brand-Intime.
This is also a relatively well-known SHOPPING-MALL chain company in later generations. Later, Ali Baba acquired part of the equity and became a pioneer pilot of Ali's online and offline integration and new Internet retail.
Yintai opened for the first time in 1998 in Fangzhou City, Donghai Province. It was established around the same time as Ali Baba, both of which were also in Fangzhou City.
Considering that when Gu Kun decided to open a shopping mall/commercial real estate complex in Lanfang, it was almost at this time. It is impossible for him to go to Wanda Plaza or Suning.com. These two products are either now
It doesn't exist yet, or it doesn't fit the positioning of luxury shopping, so there really aren't any other options.
As for whether the brand quality of Yintai Shopping Center is too low, don’t worry too much. When Gu Kun came to visit, the first store had only been opened for more than half a year, and the chain expansion of new stores was still on paper. Therefore, most of the domestic stores in China
Consumers don't know this brand, so they don't think they are low-quality.
As long as Yintai opens its second store in Lanfang and makes the brand famous, the brand will naturally be of high quality.
For Gu Kun, he just needs a team and structural design that can be used as soon as possible. The shopping center brand management team can be transplanted.
Faced with the entry of such a large overseas behemoth, Yintai's management, including the founder team, showed no resistance at all and allowed Gu Kun to invest and take away most of the group's shares.
Gu Kun's shareholding is far more than 50%. The equity payment to Yintai is only three times the net assets. Other intangible assets are not evaluated much. Anyway, you have only opened one or two stores.
year. And the two parties also agreed that in the future, the shares of Intime's stores in Lanfang will not all belong to the parent company of Intime. The royal family of Lanfang will also contribute capital and occupy a large share. Therefore, the operating income of all shopping malls in Lanfang
, the main part still belongs to the Lanfang people.
Because Yintai’s founding team knows that Gu Kun just needs to find a reliable domestic high-end retail commercial real estate mature team. If Yintai doesn’t let go, Gu Kun can find someone else. This is an absolute buyer’s market. Buyers want to squeeze it out.
Just flatten it and roll it into a round shape. What can the seller suggest? Just follow it.
There are not many three-legged frogs, and there are not many mature shopping mall group companies.
Finally, Lanfang's first Yintai City covers an area of more than 40,000 square meters. The main buildings are built to 6 to 7 floors, so the total construction area reaches more than 200,000 square meters. The construction is not difficult. The project started at the end of 1998 has been decorated at the beginning of this year.
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Especially for this kind of commercial complex with a relatively short number of floors, it is very convenient to invest a huge amount of construction power in parallel, and it is easy to complete the house in one year.
This construction area is approximately 2.5 times that of the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel, and nearly half of the future Lanfang Tower.
However, due to the low building height and low construction costs, the total construction cost is actually only US$160 million. The construction cost per unit building area is only one-third of the Burj Al Arab Hotel and one-seventh of the Lanfang Tower.
This is not surprising. Building a 100,000-square-meter house with fifty floors on an area of 2,000 square meters is definitely much more expensive than building a twenty-story house on an area of 5,000 square meters.
However, even if the construction cost is low, it does not prevent the Lanfang people from bragging about the cost of this project. In previous external publicity, it has always been said that the total cost of this complex is 400 million US dollars, and the extra
It should be included in the land cost - there is a price for building a house with a high floor and a low one, that is, it takes up more land.
Land in the urban area of Lanfang is not very valuable to begin with, but when you turn your left hand over to your right hand, no one can bite you if you have to define false height.
Over and over again, a total of 80,000 square meters of land supporting the project was bid at a high price. It was 30 million US dollars per hectare, which was outrageous. (The entire plot area must be larger than the building area, because
It also needs supporting facilities such as greening and roads)
Before Gu Kun's inspection today, it had been receiving shopping tourists from various countries for three or four months, and the operating data was quite good.
"I really didn't expect that in just a few years, tourists from our mainland would actually be able to afford suits and dresses worth tens of thousands of yuan. I have only been away from the mainland for more than three years. Why can't I believe it."
On the first floor of the shopping mall, after taking a few glances at the yellow-skinned compatriots who shopped in Chinese, Luo Haili couldn't help but sigh, feeling very strange.
"To get used to it, I can only say that you were originally in China and had no contact with the wealthy class." Gu Kun gave her a vaccination.