Companies in which they hold shares have gone public one after another, and the Internet companies in which they bought some shares have seen their stock prices rise as the winter recovered. Together, these two have added more than 20 billion U.S. dollars to Gu Kun's wealth this year.
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Among them, Ali Baba's listing contributed more than 15 billion US dollars, Huangyi's stock price recovery contributed 4 billion, and Zhongwang Games contributed 2 to 3 billion.
In addition, Gu Kun a few years ago, excluding oil assets, already had assets of 40 to 50 billion US dollars, plus the additional 20 billion US dollars, plus the Lanfang Oilfield worth hundreds of billions of US dollars (excluding Huahai
After the rights and interests of oil, only the net rights and interests attributable to Lanfang are calculated),
Adding up these assets, as of early August 2005, the combined family wealth of Gu Kun and the Lanfang royal family had reached 160 to 180 billion US dollars.
Among the personally wealthy people in listed companies around the world, who are apparently wealthy, no one can rival Gu Kun in terms of asset size.
Of course, there must be those invisible rich people, or the royal family of Middle Eastern oil giants who do not need to be listed, who have greater wealth than him -
For example, the Abu Dhabi Consortium is the royal family's asset in the city-state of Abu Dhabi. Most of the equity belongs to the royal family, and only a small number of management shares are given to professional managers. However, when the oil price was at its peak in 2008, the assets of this consortium were
It’s more than 500 billion US dollars. (Calculated based on the oil price during the same period when they bought the Manchester City club)
The Saudi Aramco oil company, which is a big family, is a completely privatized company by the royal family. When the oil price peaked in 2008, its asset valuation could reach two trillion US dollars.
Of course, this is 2005, and there is still a long way to go before the highest oil price in 2008. Today, the valuation of the Abu Dhabi consortium is more than 300 billion US dollars, and that of Saudi Aramco is between 130 and 150 billion US dollars.
Fluctuations between U.S. dollars.
Compared with the big oil companies who are enjoying a good life these days, there is still a gap between Gu Kun and the Lanfang royal family, and they must make up for their shortcomings through hard work and hard work.
Of course, Gu Kun's wealth is actually more than what was mentioned before - the so-called 160 to 180 billion does not include the appreciation of the global luxury brands he has held in the past three years.
.It also did not include Lanfang’s profits from tourism and other shopping in recent years.
Gu Kun had so much money that he couldn't count it, so he never checked his accounts once a year. He didn't even take into account the small profits of more than a billion dollars a year and the small value-added of several billion dollars a year.
If we really want to do a detailed calculation, I estimate that the Gucci Group, which had a market value of nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars a few years ago, is now worth 17 to 8 billion U.S. dollars. It should be the one with the largest increase in value among Gu Kun's many brands.
Giorgio Armani is almost there. It may have only increased in value by US$2 billion in three years. But fortunately, Gu Kun’s shareholding ratio in Giorgio Armani is higher. As for Cartier jewelry, the market value should also increase from US$7 to 8 billion.
It’s over 10 billion.
Lin Lin finally calculated that the value-added operations of several major luxury brands in recent years can be attributed to Gu Kun's rights and interests, as well as dividends, totaling no less than 15 billion US dollars.
In addition, the benefits brought by Lanfang's tourism and duty-free shopping paradise are directly operated by Gu Kun and the royal family, and the annual profits are more than one billion US dollars.
Therefore, including all the properties of Gu Kun and the royal family, the total should be around 1.8 billion to 200 billion US dollars. It is Gu Kun who keeps a low profile and does not want to attract more hatred, which is why he has been reluctant to tell the public about his relationship with the royal family.
The total wealth has exceeded 200 billion.
It's not a listed company, so it would be great to just make a fortune in silence.
In addition, the income from tourism and shopping only includes the direct sales of Gu Kun. In fact, the private hotel industry, tourism shopping industry, and entertainment industry in Lanfang have also developed very rapidly in recent years.
In fact, Gu Kun actually did not want to compete with the people for profit. In his early years, he did everything himself to set an example for the people of Lanfang. He also considered that Lanfang was too poor in the early days and private capital was not enough to start up.
Over the years, as ordinary people in Lan Fang have become rich under the guidance of Gu Kun, those industries that have no technical content and are difficult to monopolize have relatively low profit margins. Gu Kun always makes concessions.
To "take care of the people and advance the people" and promote free development.
Gu Kun's food appearance is already very good, which is all due to his declining interest in money.
The creativity of the Chinese in how to serve rich people is endless. Who doesn't know how to serve people?
Without Gu Kun's intervention, Lanfang's tourism and entertainment industry has become more and more flourishing, with new tricks, which often makes wealthy Chinese tourists and Japanese and Korean tourists linger and say that their visit was not in vain.
Lanfang's permanent population, including foreign workers, has more than doubled in the past few years. In 2002, the national population was only 70,000, and the total foreign workers and other labor forces were about 300,000.
Now, according to the data in mid-2005, the permanent population has exceeded 500,000. However, the nationality population is still very stuck, with an increase of one or two thousand people compared with 2002 - this is the result of Bailan's always strict naturalization policy.
According to the regulations, a person must be born in the territory of Lanzhou, and both parents are citizens of Lanzhou. Only the child born can have Lanzhou nationality.
In order to reduce the welfare of the nationality population, Gu Kun even took advantage of the current situation in Lanfang where there were more men than women (after all, compared to the welfare that Gu Kun used the Lanfang Oilfield to distribute to people with nationality, they paid
The taxes are almost negligible. The way Gu Kun wants to make the royal family live well and gain support is to give high treatment to all locals with nationality. As for the labor force, it doesn’t matter, those people are foreign workers)
As we all know, Chinese culture has always had a problem of favoring boys over girls, and the poorer the place, the more boys are given priority to girls. Before Lanfang discovered oil and did not develop tourism resources, because of poverty, there were also cases where men were more likely than women.
There are many problems, just because the country is too small and the population is too small. It doesn't matter that there are not enough girls. When they reach the age of marriage, many people go to the other side to find Malay-Chinese girls to fall in love with.
Since Gu Kun began to rise in 1994, Lanfang has become increasingly prosperous and powerful since 1996. In fact, it has only been nine years. Nine years is less than half a generation, so the population structure of Lanfang has not changed much.
Those poor people who don't care about the nationality of their children, after Gu Kun introduced a large number of Mao Niu, mainly from Hackerland and Lucia, because locals with nationality are provided with welfare, houses and money, and they also have rented rooms in state-owned hotels.
Being able to collect rent, he immediately became a popular target for single and innocent foreign girls.
Many local men who had no hope of marrying a girl with a Lanfang nationality married Mao Niu, or a Chinese girl who came from China to enter the world. Then their children naturally lost their Lanfang nationality and could only live with those from the maternal side.
Country of Citizenship.
All in all, Lanfang's three-thirds of an acre of land has been taken care of by Gu Kun in recent years.
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That's a bit far.
After Ali Baba went public, Gu Kun stayed in Xiangjiang for a while to escape the summer heat, and rushed back to Lanfang before the end of July.
The reason why he wanted to come back in such a hot day was because his wife Zhu Youran couldn't wait - Zhu Youran was pregnant at the end of last year. In fact, when Gu Kun went north to handle the listing business at the end of June, she was already seven or eight months pregnant. Gu
When Kun rushed back to Lanfang, Zhu Youran was eight and a half months old.
Therefore, no matter how hot it is, you have to endure it, especially pregnant women who are not suitable for using air conditioners. For the health of his wife and children, Gu Kun chose to place Zhu Youran in a water palace in the Yongxi Palace that was completely completed last year.
Yongxi Palace was started in 2001, and now it is 2005. Of course, it has been completed long ago, and even the decoration was completed last year. Yongxi Palace covers an area of dozens of hectares, which is equivalent to less than half the area of the Forbidden City.
.(Only the area and specifications are not over-standard, because most of the buildings in Yongxi Palace are in modern style, so there is no problem of over-standard eaves, structures, and columns due to antique imitation.)
Naturally, such a large palace must be equipped with some water palaces, that is, there are pools around the house, and water is pumped to the roof, and the water flows down like waterfalls to cool down. It is much more elegant than the Xiongxi Water Villa.
Considering that tropical pool water itself is easily overheated by the sun, Yongxi Palace uses groundwater pumped from below the coral sand layer on the seabed. Although it is salt water, it is still no problem to circulate and cool it. At most, the copper heat dissipation pipes will corrode.
Replace a batch every few years.
In order to facilitate replacement, the supporting pipelines of the entire water feature are specially made into a relatively modular design, which is very convenient to replace. As for the few copper coins, it is nothing to the Lanfang royal family. They just throw away a batch a year.
Not distressed.
In addition, in order to ensure that the water that constitutes the waterscape in Yongxi Palace is clear enough, Gu Kun also asked a construction team from China to dredge an entire two kilometers of coastline near Yongxi Palace, removing all silt and humus from the seabed.
Everything was dug out, and the dredging width was more than 500 meters, which means the total area is one square kilometer. Then the two kilometers long and 500 meters wide were completely re-paved with screened pure white coral sand.
Although the quality of the beaches on the main island of Lanfang is far inferior to that of Benma Atoll, which is dozens of nautical miles farther away from the mouth of the Sarawak River, with Gu Kun's financial resources, it is absolutely easy to get the beach in front of the palace.
Isn’t it easy? There’s nothing you can’t do with money.
All the water features in Yongxi Palace are created from deep below the white coral sand water purification filter layer, and then the seawater that penetrates is extracted to create beautiful landscapes.
Zhu Youran lives in such a cool and luxurious world-class palace to raise her baby and prepare for childbirth. She doesn't need to think about the problem of "how to spend the summer without air conditioning when the hottest weather can exceed 40 degrees."
Gu Kun stayed at home with his wife for several months. At the end of August and the beginning of September, the imperial doctor who performed physical examinations every day finally came to report that the princess was in labor.
Apparently, the child is a Virgo.
"Take good care of him. If the prince is born smoothly, each of the medical staff will be rewarded with at least one million U.S. dollars, and the chief surgeon will receive additional rewards."