Reminiscing about old times with Zhu Youran was originally supposed to be a piece of shit between the fiancé and his fiancée.
It's a pity that when they have reached the status of Gu Kun and Zhu Youran, it is very difficult to talk about things without mentioning the business in a few sentences, so chatting has become a national event.
This is normal, and people who have endless money to spend do this. In order to solve the problem of my wife having to get out of school close to home, then build a new school or even upgrade the entire country's education system.
At any rate, Gu Kun has not done anything as outrageous as "the princess gets married and the whole world is amnesty", and he is already very restrained.
After discussing it with Zhu Youran that day, Gu Kun took the opportunity to report it to the Grand Duke. The Grand Duke also liked the plan and thought it was a good benefit to win people's hearts, so he nodded in approval.
Zhu Youdong said: "This matter can be done, but you don't have to worry about it recently. You can celebrate the New Year with peace of mind and arrange the wedding after the Lantern Festival. As for this good news, I think it can be announced to the public as a benefit for you and Youran's wedding.
It’s a celebration for everyone. I’m already old, I just want to be loved by the people leisurely in the future.”
Gu Kun followed his orders.
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There are only three days left until the Spring Festival. Since then, Gu Kun has been peaceful every day, spending the New Year with his family and dealing with some warm daily routines every day.
He definitely did not look for Zhu Youran to have sex with him. He was used to living and drinking anyway, and he had no shortage of women. It would be good to abstain from sex for a month to maintain his health and change the rhythm of his life.
After all, Zhu Youran is a princess, and she has to take into account the dignity of the royal family. Gu Kun will never do the stupid thing of getting on the bus first and then paying for the ticket. It's not that he is not qualified to marry the princess, so he has to rely on raw rice and cooked rice to increase his chips.
Right?
On January 23, New Year's Eve, Gu Kun came to Zhaoming Palace again and accompanied the Grand Duke and his wife, Zhu Youran, and a few relatives of the royal family, such as the Grand Duke's brother-in-law Sa Wuyang, to have a New Year's Eve dinner together.
Maybe it’s because Zhu Youran is coming of age and getting married soon. This year’s New Year celebrations are the most complete. In addition to the Grand Duke and his wife, other royal relatives also treat Gu Kun with more respect than in previous years. Playful uncles like Savu Yang
I don’t dare to show off my uncle’s score anymore.
The ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner are naturally exquisite and high-end.
With Gu Kun's current financial resources, whether it's top-grade Astrakhan white sturgeon caviar, Alpine black and white truffles, or Belfast gooseneck barnacles, he can get whatever he wants.
"This gooseneck barnacle was sent by President Robin Southwell from Belfast Airport yesterday. They happen to have a few Airbus flights passing by, so I just need to pick it up with the transfer."
"This white truffle was flown in from Zurich by Richemont boss John Rupert. Yes, it's the richest man in South Africa. I've been friends with him for a long time."
“Needless to say, Astrakhan paddlefish caviar, I have so many friends in Blackland Lucia, they rushed to send it to me for tasting.”
Gu Kun didn't bother to explain the source of the ingredients for most of the dishes. It was just some interesting stories he casually mentioned while everyone was chatting, which aroused the topic, and Gu Kun mentioned it casually.
Although Lan Fang and other relatives of the royal family have always been pampered, they can still see the difference between the past few years and previous years.
It started around the Chinese New Year in 1999. As of now in 2001, the treatment of the royal family in the past three years has obviously been much better than a few years ago. Before 1998, the "royal family's annual living expenses were only more than 10 million yuan, and they could only have pocket money every day"
The hard days of "tens of thousands of yuan" simply exist only in remembering the bitterness and thinking about the sweetness.
"Xiao Gu, your life is really the same every year." Sa Wuyang, a former partner who has not had much contact with Gu Kun for a year or two, couldn't help but sigh while eating these high-end products, "However, this year's seafood seems to be
A little too much, why are there so many Australian dragons and white oysters, and those are green Su Mei and blue Tsing Yi?"
Gu Kun: "These are worthless. They are just congratulatory gifts sent by our colleagues from Malay, Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua. I can't accept them. They are just a display for the New Year's Eve dinner for the sake of etiquette between countries. If you don't like them, don't eat them. Qian
Don’t force yourself——
This is not the case last year when I took the lead in Southeast Asia’s international fishery cooperation to rectify the slavery issue. Now in the ASEAN Fisheries Cooperation Organization, our international status in Lanzhou has risen rapidly. For the new categories they want to define, some of them are here to try.
."
Sa Wuyang was slightly speechless: "It's amazing. I didn't expect that a country as small as ours in Lanzhou would have a day to shine in international cooperation affairs."
"It's funny, what's the point? My uncle likes it and will send one to his house when the time comes." Gu Kun followed Zhu Youran's title, but he didn't feel that he was at a disadvantage because of his seniority.
Sa Wuyang is a bit of a debaucher, but he is unambiguous in business, and his position is also unambiguous. In the future, Gu Kun and Zhu Youran will officially get married. The business is too big, and the shipping and foreign trade industry cannot be managed. They can leave it to Sa Wuyang's family.
When it comes to cooking, it's better to be more professional than the earliest mazai under Gu Kun.
Sa Wuyang thanked Gu Kun first, and then joked casually: "Then I have thanked you, but I am not very good at receiving gifts during the Chinese New Year. I wonder what gifts I have prepared for His Highness and Princess this year."
Everyone must share in the New Year gifts and exchanges. This is not for money, but for the atmosphere.
"We are all a family. Maybe he didn't think of backing her." Zhu Youran was afraid that her fiancé would be embarrassed, so she said something to pave the way.
But it caused his parents and uncle to laugh softly: "You just turned your elbow outward? Why do you need to worry about embarrassing him for such a small thing? Even if he didn't prepare anything, he could easily say something casually, and it's not like he couldn't come up with it.
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Zhu Youran looked down at his belt in embarrassment, then whispered into Gu Kun's ear: "It seems to embarrass you instead."
"What's this?" Gu Kun stroked the girl's hair lovingly, then thought for a while, hesitated for only two seconds, and then turned to Zhu Youdong and the princess,
"I also thought of a gift here that can just honor my parents - a while ago, I traveled around Europe, bought controlling stakes in several luxury brands, and also competed with some competitors. During this period, I learned a lot about
Many of their lifestyles and methods of raising their children.
For example, François Pinault, the boss of the Kering Group who competed with me for Gucci, just took over the 99-year lease of Palazzo Grassi, the Palazzo Grassi, the Renaissance-era consul's palace in Venice, and converted it into a private art collection.
The museum also invited Mr. Jean-Jacques Aragon, the former French Minister of Culture, to serve as its director.
This deed gave me great inspiration. You see, we Han people do not have such a tradition. In the northern mainland, they also transformed the palaces of the previous dynasties into museums. Our tourism and cultural industries in Lanzhou have developed so much in recent years.
Come on, there are some shortcomings that have not been made up. Although I have built two museums, they are both related to the history of navigation. The Zhaoming Palace here is more than 300 years old. Although it has been repaired and transformed many times, the facilities are not modern enough after all.
Forcible renovation also harms the monuments.
I would like to take this opportunity to implore Zhaoming Palace to be donated and transformed into an art museum. In the future, Ming Dynasty clothes and clothes will be exhibited to tourists from all over the world, and it will definitely be loved by the people. I will also invest additional money to choose a location to build a new palace for the royal family to live in. Guaranteed.
In accordance with etiquette and law, taking into account practicality, and protecting ancient relics, wouldn't it be the best of all three? Moreover, if the royal palaces obeyed the nationwide renovation of old cities and the city's appearance was reorganized, the resistance from the people would be much smaller."
After hearing this, Zhu Youdong's eyes lit up slightly: "This method is not bad. It can share the joys and sorrows with the people and protect the relics of the ancestors. But since it has to be done, it must be treated equally - let the municipal department issue a notice at that time and select the city's relics.
Ancient buildings with protection value that meet the conditions will be renovated and protected according to the specifications of celebrities' former residences and cultural heritage, and will be exempted from demolition. The state will also allocate separate houses for resettlement."
In fact, these words are completely empty promises. In this poor place like Lanfang, apart from the palace, I really can’t find any ancient buildings with cultural heritage value. Even if I go through the history, I can only dig out three or two and put them away.
During the same period in the Mainland, there were at most only half-qualified ancient literati who were awarded Jinshi (equivalent to the same period as the Qing Dynasty).
Therefore, except for a few courtyard houses with some classical stories to tell, no one else can enjoy this treatment, but it can build momentum for the implementation of reform nationwide.
Isn't it beautiful?
The whole family enjoyed the New Year's Eve dinner happily and felt deeply in their hearts as they experienced the increasing international status of Lanzhou and the rapid development of civil construction.
Near midnight, a row of mortar-shaped small steel cannon salutes lined up in the royal garden of the palace. The palace internal affairs officials purchased a thousand rounds of fireworks in advance for the New Year's Eve ceremony and fired them into the sky in the palace. Civilians within ten kilometers around also
Being able to enjoy it together is like having fun with the people.
Countless civilians outside the palace seemed to have a premonition that many drastic construction projects would be implemented in the country this year.
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The New Year's Day is warm and ordinary, eating, drinking and having fun every day, but it's so boring.
They said they were preparing for their big wedding, but in fact they had their subordinates taking care of it. Gu Kun and Zhu Youran traveled around every day to further enhance their understanding and relationship.
In the blink of an eye, February 7th was the Lantern Festival, and five days later it was Zhu Youran's 18th birthday. Gu Kun stayed with Zhu Youran for a day, and made a multi-layered cake with her. It was just for fun.
, the technique is similar to learning pottery from a potter, with cream, cheese and clay smeared everywhere.
Two days later, it will be Valentine's Day on February 14th, which is also the date of the wedding.
On this day, all citizens of Lanzhou have a holiday, and the number of tourist groups coming to Lanzhou has been reduced a lot in advance to avoid poor hospitality. Domestic travel agencies that cooperate with Lanzhou have postponed tours or
, or move in advance or stagger the date of February 14th, and visas are also tight.
If you really can't stop the free and distinguished guests, or those who come to watch the ceremony, just let them in.
Therefore, the foreign workers in Lanzhou are not allowed to take vacation on that day and have to work overtime to provide services. However, all foreign workers will be paid according to the highest standard for overtime work on holidays, some are three times, and some are five times.
"From now on, the territory of Lan Fang will be completely owned by the Gu family."
"Whatever, Boss Gu is in charge of the overall situation. Everyone has a good life, so why can't we live well?"
Seventy thousand nationals and hundreds of thousands of tourists and foreign workers spontaneously came to the square in front of Zhaoming Palace to watch the ceremony.