Purchasing the development rights of Galloping Horse Atoll is indeed a bargain.
However, there is a price to pay for picking up leaks.
Especially for a new upstart like Gu Kun, who has just stepped into the ranks of multi-millionaires. After removing more than 3.5 million yuan in cash, his capital flow will immediately be tight.
In subsequent auctions of several scattered movable properties, he did not bid again.
Seeing that the entire auction was about to end, the part-time auctioneer from the execution chamber of the Langfa Court knocked the hammer in his hand and announced:
"The last lot of this auction is announced below. A Yamaha 80-ton yacht, the specific specifications are as follows... The boat is five years old, used frequently, with a depreciation ruling of 70%, and the starting price is 300,000 ringgit."
Gu Kun didn't want to buy it anymore, but when he saw the price, he couldn't help but raise the sign tentatively.
The yacht he just bought was too small and could only be used for commuting offshore. If he prepared a medium-sized speedboat, it would be useful for special operations in the future - Gu Kun's fishing boats were of sufficient tonnage, but they were too slow.
Well, it's not easy to run away from Indonesian fishery patrols.
Sa Wuyang saw him raising the sign and didn't think much about it. He was just slightly surprised: "Don't you have a small yacht?"
Gu Kun: "It's cheap, just buy it for fun."
Sa Wuyang: "I thought you definitely don't want this kind of luxury. You are not allowed to do it without taking care of others."
Gu Kun smiled: "It doesn't matter. If the price is not cost-effective, I won't grab it. It's just a bargain."
While the two were talking, someone actually raised a sign in the venue: "RM320,000!"
Gu Kun looked at the sound and saw that he was a man in his thirties with a Chinese character face. He was not sure whether the other person was acting for a bid or if he really wanted it, so he raised the number one more time: "330,000!"
The other party quickly said: "350,000!"
Now Gu Kun confirmed that the other party was serious and gave up.
The auctioneer shouted three times to announce the deal.
“Congratulations to Mr. Zhu Jingye on purchasing this Yamaha yacht!”
"I declare that this auction is over!"
Gu Kun stared at the other person for a moment: "So he is Mr. Zhu."
Zhu Jingye was also regarded as Lan Fang's number one figure, as Gu Kun knew before he was reborn.
However, in his impression, the Zhu Jingye was already fifty years old. Now it was the first time he saw him when he was young, so he didn't recognize him.
As the auction ended, Zhu Jingye came over very familiarly and said hello to Sa Wuyang: "Uncle Sa, I heard that you didn't care to keep this boat at that time. My nephew happened to be short of a yacht, so it didn't hurt you.
Okay. This is Mr. Gu, it’s our first time meeting you."
Gu Kun greeted him with a smile: "It doesn't matter. I wasn't in a hurry to use the boat. I only bought it because it was cheap. I'm glad to see you."
Sa Wuyang stood aside and introduced Gu Kun expressionlessly: "Mr. Zhu has a lot of connections in the Ministry of Construction. Xiao Gu, if you want to develop Benma Atoll in the future, you need Mr. Zhu's guidance on planning."
Gu Kun just smiled and didn't say anything more in front of everyone. He just pretended to be dumbfounded and didn't understand.
Considering that Gu Kun was indeed young, Sa Wuyang was also deceived and assumed that Gu Kun really did not care about this matter and did not know about the internal struggle.
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As the auction ended, Gu Kun drove directly to the s600 Daben he had just bought and took his sister and Lin Ying to take over the newly purchased villa.
As soon as he entered the door, Gu Pan couldn't help but rushed upstairs and chirped: "It's such a big villa, it's so cool. The second floor facing east is mine! I want to lie in bed and watch the sunrise over the sea every day!"
Gu Kun looked at it, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This is a house that was auctioned after all. Even if it is not renovated, it would be unlucky to change the bedding and sleep with you directly."
Gu Pan just didn't think deeply about the matter, but he still listened to the advice. He felt that what his brother said was reasonable, so he got up quickly: "Then let's go shopping. I'll count how many things we need to buy first."
"Do you need me to do such a trivial matter in person? Isn't it a woman's duty to do the shopping? I'm only responsible for driving."
After another two hours of busy work, the family finally bought all the necessary items at the only decoration market on the island. They then went to their old house, picked up the old items they couldn't bear to lose, and then returned to their new home to decorate.
Gu Kun called a few more part-time workers to clean and order a table of takeout.
After everything was packed up, it was already evening.
The three of them were dirty and smelly. Fortunately, the new villa has a large bathroom on each floor, so Gu Kun monopolized the bathroom downstairs and took a slow bath. The two girls took a bath together upstairs.
Lin Ying didn't bring her own clothes. After soaking, she put on Gu Pan's pajamas and went downstairs to eat.
She virtuously took the initiative to serve the three of them with food, and said nonchalantly: "I called home and said that I would sleep at my female classmate's house that night. It was safe. I would be back tomorrow."
Gu Kun ignored it, just took the rice from Lin Yingsheng, took a piece of roast goose and chewed it carefully.
Lin Ying didn't find it boring, so she looked for other topics to talk about to relieve the embarrassment while eating.
So, she naturally thought of what she saw at today's auction, and asked: "By the way, who is the person who robbed the yacht with you at the end of the bidding today? He seems to be quite powerful, right? I think he and Sa Wuyang, on the surface, are
I'm very polite, but the actual relationship should be quite subtle."
"You, a high school student, can see this?" Gu Kun didn't believe it at all.
Lin Ying: "You have to trust a woman's intuition about interpersonal relationships."
Gu Pan, who was cooking rice on the side, rarely found a topic that he could talk about. He quickly put down his chopsticks and said: "Sister Lin, you are a foreigner and don't understand the characters in Lan Fang. Even I know that Boss Zhu and Boss Sa
We are all relatives of the Grand Duke, how can we have a bad relationship?"
After hearing this, Lin Ying covered her mouth and smiled: "So they are all relatives of the monarch? Then I trust my intuition even more."
Gu Kun wiped his mouth with a napkin and looked at Lin Ying carefully: "Where did you get all these messy speculations?"
Lin Ying: "Do you still need to learn this? Just watch the Qiong Yao drama Gong Du Opera."
Gu family siblings: "..."
Especially Gu Pan, her heart is filled with dark threads. She was born into a poor family. Over the years, she has been busy making a living and doing endless housework every day. When she was a girl, she had no time to watch palace dramas.
Lin Ying is a native eldest lady. She usually doesn't have to do any work except studying, but she has learned a lot of strange things.
Gu Pan felt that he had lost at the starting line again.
Gu Kun had no choice but to nod and admit: "Ying'er was right this time. Zhu Jingye and Sa Wuyang should have some secret conflicts, and I don't want to get involved too much.
However, Zhu Jingye controls Lanfang's largest infrastructure engineering/real estate company, and his brother is the top leader of the Ministry of Construction. If I want to develop my own island in the future, I will inevitably have to deal with them. Let's take it step by step and try to have both sides.
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If we look at Chen Mingcheng’s family fortune before his accident, it would be considered to be at the level of the 20th to 30th place on Lanfang’s wealth list;
Then Savu Yang just barely squeezed into the top 10.
Zhu Jingye's family fortune is still higher than that of Sawuyang, hovering between 5th and 7th in the past few years.
When Lin Ying heard that Zhu Jingye's family fortune was so big, she couldn't help but wonder: "What kind of relative of the Grand Duke is he? Why can he control the real estate and infrastructure industries?"
Gu Kun was still carefully organizing his words, and Gu Pan answered like a teacher again: "Sister Lin, you should know that Grand Duke Lanfang's ancestor was not originally named Zhu, right? It was given by Emperor Yongli when Lanfang was granted the title in the late Ming Dynasty.
Two years later, Emperor Yongli was strangled to death by Wu Sangui.
Therefore, the nobles surnamed Zhu you see in Lanfang are basically the same clan as the Grand Duke. Zhu Jingye’s father is the Grand Duke’s cousin, so he is considered the Grand Duke’s nephew.”
When Lin Ying heard this, she became even more curious: "How can he be so respected as a cousin? Doesn't the Grand Duke have any other closer relatives who can be reused?"
Gu Pan couldn't answer this question, so Gu Kun cleared his throat and took over the topic: "The Grand Duke had no biological brothers, but he himself had several children in his early years. But in 1984, an accident happened and everything was gone.
That year, the Grand Duke was already over fifty, and the Duchess was almost forty. The Grand Duke's eldest son, already in his early 20s, was studying abroad in Brittany with his younger siblings.
You should also have heard that the Brittanians generally use the method of persuading their children to study in London to restrain the monarchs of their semi-colonial "protected countries", which is actually a disguised form of taking hostages.
As a result, independence broke out in Lanfang. Originally, the Grand Duke planned to bring back his children who were studying abroad. But just when the pickup was about to take place, the Grand Duke's eldest son, who was studying at Cambridge University, went out for an outing with his younger siblings who were studying at Eton College.
As a result, there was a car accident, and all four brothers and sisters died. Including the Grand Duke's two sons and one daughter, as well as one of his nephews, the eldest son of Savuyang.
The conclusion of the investigation is that it was an accident anyway. But you also know the "accidental" water content of Brittany, right? Even if it was killed by James Bond, the conclusion must be an accident.
This is also a common tactic used by the Breton colonial dogs when they evacuate from every colony that cannot be taken. They must dig holes and lay mines to divide the locals and make it difficult for the locals after the colonists leave.
You have also taken a history class. I don’t need to say more about this. Just look at the India-Pakistan partition plan of the poisonous Shishan Patton. How many people died, and the India-Pakistan vendetta continues to this day.
In early 1984, after hearing that his children had died together, the Grand Duke himself was overly sad and fell seriously ill. In addition, he was over 50 years old, and after he recovered from the illness, he was no longer able to have children.
It's just that no one expected that before the accident that year, the Duchess was still pregnant with a child. Unfortunately, she gave birth to a daughter. The little princess must have been 11 years old this year. Of course her uncle Sa Wuyang wanted to encourage her.
The grand duke supports the amendment of the law so that he can inherit the title of grand duke if he becomes a princess, so that as a relative, he can be wealthy for a long time.
Zhu Jingye, on the other hand, secretly wooed the other faction, hoping to focus on the traditional patriarchal system of Eastern Confucian civilization. He also cited the example of the Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito who did not dare to modify the royal model because he had no heirs, and obstructed the revision of the law. I don’t need to tell you the truth.
, because as long as the princess cannot succeed to the throne, the Grand Duke can only adopt a branch of the clan, then he is most likely to be the next Grand Duke.
As for the Bretons, they may have been hiding behind the scenes and watching the fire from the other side for these years, feeling complacent about their Bond's masterpiece."
After hearing this, Lin Ying felt a chill that was even more exciting than a palace drama: "The struggle has become so straightforward? Then as a businessman, you'd better be careful and don't get involved in the struggles of those big shots. Let's just stay safe.