"So these people are the Indonesian fishermen you mentioned back then? No wonder. But they didn't offend us. You are always so aggressive subconsciously, so you are not afraid of provoking the Indonesian authorities in the future? Killing them will do the same to us.
Not much profit, right?"
As Tang Jia spoke, she shrugged helplessly and playfully. Gu Kun's teachings back then were instantly recalled in her mind.
Indonesian fisher slaves were a concept that she originally had when she was a sophomore in college. During the winter vacation, she went on an overseas internship with other classmates. She heard Gu Kun introduce it to her, but she didn’t expect to see it with her own eyes today.
See you soon.
She was very impressed at the time, because Gu Kun took Kobayashi Takiji's "The Crab Boat" and analyzed how miserable the minimum labor security for fishermen in the world is.
It is decided by the fishermen. Because the sea has no national borders, the global competition for cheap labor on the sea is the fiercest and most thorough."
Fortunately, the Lu Rongyu incident has not happened yet, otherwise Gu Kun would not have used "Crab Boat" as an example but directly used Lu Rongyu.
Gu Kun sighed, lit up a cigar, and puffed at the sea outside the ship's side to relieve his emotions: "How can there be no profit from destroying them? Let me tell you, as long as you find a reporter who goes undercover to expose Indonesian fishermen slaves,
If I come back alive, I can easily win the Pulitzer Prize. If I go to destroy it without damaging the Indonesian sovereignty and causing disputes, even a Nobel Prize and peace are not impossible.
You are engaged in international relations, so you can't be so ignorant and underestimate the difficulty of those Western Notre Dame watches. This thing was done smoothly. What a publicity effect it has. It has made me an international hot spot after the Olympics, especially the high-end Notre Dame watches.
It will be no problem if the hot spot in the circle remains for several years.
The key cost is not big. I now have submarines and destroyers. When the time comes, I deliberately let them provoke me. If I kill a group of slave owners in "justifiable defense", won't it be easy? Moreover, related industries in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and the Philippines
The association, the official force, will also thank me - even the Australians will thank me, but I don't care about the gratitude of the Australians.
Because as long as the Indonesian fishing slave interest groups are destroyed, the entire Southeast Asian seafood industry can improve its competitiveness, and it can also dig out the cancer of lowest price competition. The entire industry will naturally increase prices. The only losses may be those who eat the most.
Consumers of low-end seafood, represented by cheap Sabah fish, will have to pay a slightly higher price for fish and seafood in the future.”
As a Chinese citizen, it seems very far and difficult to judge whether you are a beneficiary of Indonesia's fishing slave production system, but in fact there is a very simple and crude shortcut, which is to see whether you eat the cheap Sabah food.
fish.
The domestic seafood industry has always attacked Sabah fish for all kinds of uncleanness, parasites... and a lot of black stuff, which is worse than the salmon sashimi industry's attack on rainbow trout.
A considerable part of those problems do exist, but it is hard to say whether they are that serious. Ultimately, from the perspective of interest groups, the key is that Sabah is too cheap. This kind of goods is a specialty of Southeast Asia. It is Indonesian fishermen who determine its global status.
lowest price.
With the support of slavery, other nearby fish can no longer sell for high prices. If slavery in Indonesia is outlawed, then at least the lower price limit will be raised to the level of Vietnamese production costs.
So you have to look at both sides of everything. If Gu Kun acted heroically and fought against slavery, it cannot be said that consumers were not harmed at all - those who specialize in cheap Sabah fish will have to pay a little more in the future, at least for the fishermen.
Pay the bill.
From Gu Kun's point of view, he is like a high-end OEM practitioner who feels unfair when he sees Sony and IBM moving their OEM factory to Foxconn's sweatshop. Therefore, he wants to launch a review of "basic protection of workers" and ask Foxconn to
Brands that manufacture products in sweatshops pay a price to position themselves in the industry chain to make profits.
There is no problem with this. Just because he is Chinese by blood, he does not automatically think that enslaving cheap labor is right and enhances international competitiveness. Butt determines head, there is no problem in this regard.
Who told him to take the high-end route, and all industries must be luxurious and stylish.
Tang Jia silently listened to his nonsense, still feeling a little unwilling in her heart. The main reason was that she was the foreign minister, and she was the one who wiped Gu Kun's butt every time he caused international disputes, so her position was that she always wanted to cause less trouble.
"It's impossible to do something like this without angering the Indonesian authorities. You're doing cross-border law enforcement. That's nonsense." Tang Jia couldn't help but remind him of some risks.
Gu Kun snorted coldly and flicked the butt of his cigar into the sea:
"It's okay, Shanren will have his own plan when the time comes - I know the Indonesians too well. This is the country with the highest FB index on the planet. New Guinea's generation of maritime patrol and fishery administration are actually indifferent. They would rather
The law enforcement rights of the sea areas outside the territorial sea and within the exclusive economic zone are ceded to the Australians either explicitly or implicitly.
And the Australians are actually too lazy to take care of this matter, so this is actually a no-care zone bought by the slave owners. I will have my own way when the time comes."
Tang Jia echoed suspiciously: "Then your intelligence work is really good and your research is so thorough. Why don't even I, the foreign minister, know about it?"
Of course she would not know. The information that Gu Kun knew was all obtained from the Pulitzer Prize-winning feature of a certain year. It was the intelligence gathered by several Western reporters who had sneaked into Slave Island undercover for many years.
After all, Gu Kun started his career in the seafood industry in his previous life. Of course he was very familiar with the relevant industry news from neighboring countries in Southeast Asia. He read it very carefully at the time, and he still roughly remembers it even many years after his rebirth.
There is no need to explain this to Tang Jia.
…
The two of them were eating the freshly caught Australian dragon and grilling it on the side of the boat, chatting while watching the trawl continue its operation.
Unknowingly, Luo Haili, who was bored on the other side, noticed something unusual.
"Don't eat. It seems that there are more and more ships nearby. What do they want to do? Are they going to become pirates?"
Only then did Gu Kun notice that because his boat was cruising at a medium to low speed, it was definitely much slower than the top speed that the small boat could reach, so it seemed that some nearby boats had gotten the news and gathered around again.
However, pirates are definitely out of the question. After a little observation, Gu Kun said firmly: "Maybe they want to force a sale, or they want to ask for tolls. If they don't pay, they will destroy our trawl net."
People who have traveled to Southeast Asia, especially those who have been to Bali and Semporna, are certainly familiar with the kind of water people boats that come over to buy and sell seafood, especially those who have stayed in a water house in Semporna.
, everyone knows that the popularity of this kind of scam is almost as high as that of shopping groups forcing shopping.
In addition, there are people in Indonesia who use worthless boats and worthless slaves to cause maritime traffic accidents.
But when encountering such a luxurious ship as Gu Kun's, even if they haven't read the TV newspaper and don't know it is Gu Kun's ship, most pirates will not dare to do so, and these people will not always be equipped with weapons.
Gu Kun really wished they could become pirates. That would save him the trouble of making excuses. He could just open up the two 730 close-in defense cannons on the side, one on the left and one on the right, and teach them how to behave.
Teach me how to be a good person in my next life.
Therefore, Gu Kun watched all this calmly and continued to eat lobster with good wine.
Unfortunately, things did not develop in the direction he expected.
"Huh? Why do they seem to be leaving again? Ah, look, it's the 'Yonghua' coming over to escort." Luo Haili observed this scene and felt a little strange at first, but then she discovered the reason and shouted happily
The sound comes.
Finally, there will be less trouble.
"Gan! It seems that if I really want to fish and enforce the law next time, I can't let the escort destroyer get too close to me!" Gu Kun sighed, and then he felt relieved.
Forget it, the Olympics are more important right now. At worst, when we return home, we will deliberately show off a flaw and pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger.
If the Australian dog wants to go against him during the Olympics, he can still use his law enforcement powers at the last moment to leave Australia's territorial waters and show some bitterness to the international community.
For a cunning and cunning person like Gu Kun, the conspiracies and schemes in his mind are like crude oil from a blowout well, which will naturally flow out. Every drop is black and shiny, and his heart is rotten.
As Gu Kun sighed, those Indonesians' high-speed small boats had fled far away, and they were completely scattered.
The other party's malicious intentions were not yet clear, and Gu Kun was not easy to pursue, so he just pretended that nothing had happened.
The "Yonghua" docked near the yacht, and then called via short-range wireless communication to confirm the safety situation.
"It's okay, continue sailing as planned." Gu Kun personally ordered over the intercom.
"Understood, please let our ship lead the way." Ma Jiahui, the captain of the destroyer on the opposite side, asked for instructions.
"Okay." Gu Kun agreed casually.
Ma Jiahui was the sergeant who followed Gao Jianxiong to guard the border on Treasure Island in the Weisha Islands. He was from the navy (at that time, the number of soldiers guarding the islands in the South China Sea was also in the navy). Compared with Xu Hu and other Ma Zai who were still soldiers at the time
, his military rank is higher, and his cultural literacy and military theoretical quality are also better.
It has been four or five years since he defected to Gu Kun along with Gao Jianxiong. He had been working with the Blackwater Security Company for a few years without making any mistakes. This time Gu Kun established the Lanfang Navy and transferred his confidants to the newly purchased destroyer.
captain.
It is said that Gao Jianxiong was quite envious of him. After drinking several bottles of boring wine, he finally adjusted his mentality. He realized that "the position of president of Blackwater Security is more important than a mere captain" and stayed with Gu Kun to control the security company.
Only in this way can he do more things. But after drinking, Gao Jianxiong still often complained: After being in the navy for so many years when he was young, it was his subordinate who finally became the captain of the main combat ship.
However, Ma Jiahui is still in the adaptation stage of getting familiar with his job. In fact, most of the things are done by the acting captain. Before the acting captain was "demobilized and unemployed", he used to be a relevant professional cadre in the country. After all, driving a warship is still a matter of
There are those who specialize in the arts, and Ma Jiahui, who is parachuted in, can only be regarded as a "supervisor" for the time being. As Gu Kun's confidant, it is easier to control the situation and report at any time. He is not good at combat tasks, so he has to hone his skills for a few more years.
The fleet continued to meander eastward, sailed through the Torres Strait that night and entered the Pacific Ocean.
The Torres Strait is the dividing line between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. After passing through the strait and entering the east coast of Australia, the Pacific Ocean is considered.
"Is this the Great Barrier Reef? It's so beautiful. It seems to be of better quality than the coral reefs on our far northwest offshore islands. No wonder the tourism industry is so prosperous here."
When the sun rose the next day, the female ministers around Gu Kun were all attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of them.
"God rewards us with food, so it's better to work hard to earn food. Australians are just pigs lying on resources. Wake up." Gu Kun rapped a few words to let everyone pay attention to their morale.