As the ceremony entered the "tanker's first sailing ceremony" part, a beautiful white etiquette lady led Mr. Yang from Huahai Oil and ordered:
"Mr. Yang, please come over here. According to the procedure, Mr. Gu will smash the boat on the left, and you can smash the boat on the right. Don't remember it wrong."
In fact, the ceremony has already been explained before, but when things come up, the emcee still has to remind the guests.
"Don't worry." Mr. Yang nodded slightly and glanced at the row of hostesses in front of him who were holding bottles of champagne on red satin trays.
Because today is the first-day sale ceremony of the oil field, the oil tankers actually arrived a week ago. Then these ships spent five days in advance to fill the crude oil with the pumping and filling equipment at the dock. They were just filled last night. OK
Departure.
Since it is a launch ceremony, the ship must be ready for sailing after the ceremony. There is no reason to refill the tank temporarily.
The origins of these two ships are that they were built by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Hujiang. This is the first time they are used. They are both extremely new ships, which can be regarded as a lucky draw. The industry in Lanfang is
It is not capable of building such a large ship, and there is not enough order demand. In the future, if a tanker of this level has a minor fault and needs repair and maintenance, it will have to be returned to China.
But fortunately, China is only a leg away from Lanfang, a mere two thousand nautical miles away. What can happen? There is no need to spend a lot of money to build a super-large ship repair yard in Lanfang. Lanfang's ship repair operation capacity so far is only
There is only one wet dock of 80,000 tons, and a dry dock of only 50,000 tons.
Normally, when a new ship is launched, there should be a champagne-smashing ceremony at Jiangnan Shipyard. However, for the needs of the ceremony, Gu Kun told the people at Jiangnan Shipyard to save this ceremony until the first time.
Before shipping the goods, Lan Fang comes here to say "Shaishianpingping" again.
Anyway, the senior management of Jiangnan Shipyard are all seniors of the Department of Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University. To Gu Kun, they are all alumni. This is not worth mentioning. As long as Gu Kun’s people are
When you open your mouth, everyone agrees.
"Clang Lang~Clang Lang~" There were two crisp sounds, and two bottles of 1971 champagne from Amiens in the Picardy region were smashed at the stern of each boat. The scene suddenly burst into warm applause.
A successful celebration.
Mr. Yang's hand strength was relatively weak, and the ship had already been launched into the water. It was not like the kind in a dry dock where you could get very close, so he just threw the champagne on the side of the ship near the stern, and it almost didn't get smashed.
broken.
Gu Kun's power was astonishing. He threw a large bottle of champagne twenty or thirty meters away like a grenade, and accurately hit the vertical rudder surface where the rudder was out of the water. He looked like an expert at first glance——
When smashing champagne in the shipyard, because the boats have not been launched yet, so the bottom of the boat is exposed, everyone agrees to smash the red painted part below the waterline. At this moment, the tanker is already fully loaded, so the red painted part below the waterline is basically
They were all submerged below and were not exposed. Gu Kun had no choice but to smash the rudder if he had to smash the red paint.
Although the onlookers only saw a small detail, they could still tell that Gu Kun did not forget his roots.
Even though he is twenty-four or five years old, he is no longer the young man who braved the wind and waves seven or eight years ago, but he still has the feelings and meticulousness of an old captain.
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After the ceremony, a banquet was held for the guests as usual. The guests could take the opportunity to exchange views on the prospects of the industry. By the way, they could inquire in detail about what Gu Kun mentioned in his official speech at the ceremony just now: "Lanzhou will introduce more mutually beneficial policies to give back to China."
"Assisted construction", what are the specific measures.
The guests attending today's ceremony are not only Mr. Yang, people from CNOOC and even COSCO, but also many well-known domestic travel agencies, friends such as China Travel Service who are responsible for cross-border visa business, and some from Southeast Asia and even Japan.
Travel industry tycoons from South Korea and the Middle East came to learn from us.
These guests in the tourism industry are more concerned about "After Gu Kun used the pre-sale of the Lanfang Hotel to eat up all the bonuses from the fully booked hotel when it first opened, how will he deal with the blackout that just happened in the European and American tourism markets in September?"
Swan, how to maintain the continued growth of tourism business in the future."
Gu Kun's good luck in the cultural tourism industry has given him a legendary reputation in the industry, and everyone is willing to listen to his advice.
However, today's ceremony is to celebrate the opening of the oil company and the use of the oil port after all, not a ceremony for the tourism industry, so those guests can only wait in line, and even the banquet cannot be too extravagant and wasteful.
So, the banquet was held in a port authority building on the pier, and we didn't even go to the hotel.
Gu Kun also wanted to save face. He had just talked about sharing the joys and sorrows with the oil workers and sharing the development dividends. It was hard to turn away from the masses and go to a seven-star hotel to eat and drink.
The wine used for the banquet was the same batch of Amiens-Picardy champagne that was smashed on the bow of the ship just now. It was 30 years old. It's not that Gu Kun couldn't afford it and couldn't buy an older one. The main reason was that the champagne was low-alcohol.
Yes, sparkling wine cannot be aged like white wine or red wine.
Champagne that is 30 years old is already at its limit, and the bubbles are almost gone. There are only very fine and delicate bubbles, but the taste is much smoother than champagne that is less than ten years old, almost with a hint of mead.
The taste is no longer like champagne.
Mr. Yang, who was singing the leading role along with him, was not an extravagant person. He was afraid that he would be gossiped about if he was too extravagant. As a result, when Gu Kun was hosting a banquet in the form of a buffet cocktail party, the first thing he brought out was champagne, and
The canapés served with champagne made me feel relieved.
"It's just champagne and snacks, and you won't be accused of extravagance and waste. Besides, it's Party A's treat." Mr. Yang thought to himself, "But the champagne and snacks look so exquisite, Gu Kun
After all, everything here has aristocratic heritage, and every little thing and every gesture is made with originality."
While thinking about it, Mr. Yang just followed the local custom and imitated Gu Kun's posture, picking up a small snack that looked like a pancake from a tray next to the champagne tray.
When he first saw this thing, he was a little surprised. At first glance, he thought it was a pancake fruit. Later he noticed that this pancake fruit was much more delicate and elegant than ordinary ones. He guessed that it was a French crepe with some rolls.
Fillings.
After all, Mr. Yang is a senior executive of CNOOC. He has traveled to France many times on business and has seen many crepes on the streets of Paris. He knows that the French have certain crepes that are paired with champagne.
Habit, especially the food culture of the Picardy Champagne region, I like this the most.
However, after taking a bite, he realized that this "pancake fruit" that seemed to be more delicate than the small ones on the street was definitely not as simple as it seemed.
"Damn it! Shouldn't it be rolled with a piece of bacon? This is Ibérico ham. When I ate it on the streets of Paris, it seemed that the vegetable slices should be thinly sliced mushrooms stir-fried in butter, right? This is special
Was it replaced with sliced white truffle and small onions?
Why don’t you waste so much? You’ve already added small onions and mushrooms are enough. Even if you use white truffles, most of the smell of white truffles will be wasted by the small onions.”
There were several other exquisite ingredients that Mr. Yang couldn't eat anymore. He made a rough estimate and found that with Gu Kun's skill in selecting ingredients, such a small "pancake fruit" roll would cost at least a few dollars just in terms of material cost.
One hundred yuan.
And these are just materials. If you include superb cooking skills and sell them in a restaurant of a seven-star hotel, what price will they get?
After all, it is the aristocratic aura bathing from the Tianlinggai Baihui point on the top of the head to the Yongquan point on the soles of the feet. The nobility has been passed down since the late Ming Dynasty.
Even if the occasion is limited and I can't be extravagant and can only eat pancakes and fruits, I can still eat the pancakes and fruits like I can't afford it.
After enjoying some champagne and snacks, this less formal cocktail party quickly entered the probing part.
Mr. Yang and Gu Kun were chatting. Next to them, a tycoon from a Japanese tourism industry came over and chatted with Gu Kun.
"Gu, remember me, JTB's Yamazaki. Can I keep you for two minutes?"
Gu Kun turned his head and looked. He didn't know the person opposite him very well. He thought about it for a while before he remembered it.
After all, Mr. Yang on the side is from the oil industry and has no impression of this kind of cross-circle friends. Gu Kun quickly introduced him with a wink: "Mr. Yang, let's get to know each other. This is from Tokyo JTB Group.
Senior Vice President Mr. Yamazaki, JTB Group is a long-standing tourism group with a history of nearly a hundred years. It is of course the largest in Japan and is equivalent to China Travel Service in China. I have in-depth cooperation with them."
Mr. Yang looked up and down, nodded and shook hands with the other person, and even said a greeting in Japanese. He was well-informed, and after listening to Gu Kun's brief introduction, he knew that Yamazaki was not a particularly rich tycoon, but
He is a professional manager.
After all, JTB is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise in Japan. It was established in the late Meiji and early Taisho years (1912), and now it is just a group of managers who are just messing around.
After the greetings, Yamazaki asked with concern: "Gu, I have seen the financial report of your 'Lanfang Culture'. Lanfang's tourism industry is mainly operated under the banner of Lanfang Culture. Last year, Lanfang Culture's tourism industry
The gross profit of the business is less than one billion U.S. dollars. Excluding amortization costs and financing interest, the net profit after tax is only 200 million U.S. dollars.
Now look at the mining plan you just announced. You have to sell more than 80 million barrels of crude oil a year. Now the oil price has also risen. It is currently more than 40 US dollars a barrel. Even if the war in Afghanistan ends immediately, it will only stabilize at 40 US dollars.
If it turns into a quagmire, there may still be considerable room for growth.
Then your annual oil sales revenue is at least 4 billion US dollars. Compared with this, your tourism revenue is not worth mentioning. I wonder if you will continue to follow the construction of the tourism industry in the future.
Do you work as hard as you did in the years before oil came out?
As a collaborator, we hope you can give us a sincere answer so that we can allocate market development resources."
"Of course we will continue to work hard to build Lanfang's tourism market! And we will feed back all the profits from the oil industry into related construction. Please rest assured that Lanfang will definitely develop rapidly every year in the future. Let everyone know what it means.
The prosperity of paradise. Even if everyone goes all out to develop it, whoever helps me attract more customers, I will give them more rewards. This will never change."