"Mr. Gu, congratulations on your successful admission to SJTU. This is your notice. You can just register in September. It doesn't matter if you are busy."
Two days later, He Lan came to the Xijiao Hotel in person and formally handed over the admission notice from the Jiaotong University Admissions Office to Gu Kun. (The house Gu Kun bought in Jing'an Plaza is still being renovated, and it will take a few months before he can move in.
)
"Classmate Gu?" Gu Kun took the notice and didn't react.
He Lan smiled easily: "What? Can't I call you a classmate? Our COSCO is a respectable company, with a lot of graduates from Jiaotong University and Hujiang Maritime University."
Gu Kun: "So, you also graduated from Jiaotong University?"
He Lan: "Is it weird? It's just a management major."
Gu Kun nodded: "No, no matter what, thank you - I have stayed in Hujiang long enough, forget this is just a worry, I'll see you in three months."
A person with hundreds of thousands of dollars a week actually spent two weeks negotiating and mediating with people from the design institute, and by the way participated in the selection and assessment of Jiaotong University. This is quite strange in detail.
He Lan asked out of politeness and concern: "You are busy with business, do you want to go back to China to deal with it? Then I wish you all the best."
Gu Kun laughed at himself: "Don't you know? Before I took the exam, I had already talked with Dean Xu and rented a survey ship from their design institute to go to Lanfang to measure the hydrology and seabed topography of the waterways around Xingang. Dean Xu
I'm still waiting for my data to make a design plan for channel dredging.
According to him, if I had more measured data, he could still sell it. If you don’t make the money, it’s not free. Maybe with me supervising the work, everyone will be very efficient."
He Lan nodded: "Of course I know about this, but you haven't seriously studied marine engineering yet, and you want to do it yourself? Why not let them specialize in the industry."
It turned out that Gu Kun had already figured out the rhythm.
As early as the day he agreed to He Lan's persuasion and applied for Jiaotong University, he had already paid Dean Xu and rented a surveying boat from the Design Institute of Jiaotong University.
After he paid the rent, the ship set sail for Lanfang with the people on the same day.
Generally speaking, for a sea-going ship with a cruising speed of 15 to 20 knots, it takes seven or eight days to get from Lanzhou to South China, and half a month to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
So counting the days, Gu Kun had completed the assessment and completed the formalities and received the admission notice, and the rented survey ship was about to arrive in Lanfang.
Gu Kun took a flight to Guangdong today and transferred to Kuching. He was just in time to catch up and there was no delay at all.
This is worthy of his precious time of hundreds of thousands a week.
In addition, the "survey of hydrology/seabed topography of the waterway around Lanfang" and the design of supporting dredging and maintenance plans that Dean Xu originally reported to Gu Kun would cost more than 400,000 yuan in design fees.
After Gu Kun decided to do it himself, he only had to pay 1 million for renting a survey ship and hundreds of thousands in pure design fees in the future. In total, he could save nearly 3 million.
There is no way. When a design institute engages in this kind of business, hardware costs only account for a quarter.
That leaves a small half of the designer/surveyor salary, 10% to 20% of the financial cost repayment risk, and the last quarter of the expected profit.
In this case, Gu Kun himself can keep the cost of technical personnel and other financial costs to a minimum.
Moreover, during those days of communicating with Dean Xu, Gu Kun also found out some good news:
China's maritime administrative department has always been quite concerned about the seabed topography/hydrological data in the southern South China Sea, and has thought about conducting a comprehensive and systematic survey.
Because these data are also useful in national defense engineering. Knowing where the water is deep and where the water is shallow can be used to prevent foreign submarines from deep diving. In the future, terrain comparisons can also be made. When encountering enemy submarines sinking and camouflaging, they can also
Find it out.
(When a submarine is floating in the water, it will have obvious echoes when illuminated by active sonar. However, if it sinks to the bottom, it will not be easy to find out if it is illuminated by active sonar, because the sonar does not know whether it is a submarine that is sinking or a submarine that is sinking.
Undersea rocks.
Only by knowing the seabed topography data in advance and inputting it into the sonar computer, and using the principle of "Originally, there were no reefs at this coordinate when measured, but now there are more" can we find the submarine hiding on the bottom.)
Therefore, in terms of these data, the relevant departments are still willing to be the big donors and pay for it.
Unfortunately, the Chinese navy was too weak in the 1990s, and its actual control over the South China Sea only extended to the Weisha Islands.
Further south, the waters of the Chausa Islands are actually patrolled by the fishery administration of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and India. If a Chinese survey ship goes to operate in those waters, it will be relatively easy to be driven away.
At this time, it will be easier to deal with friendly foreign ships.
According to what Dean Xu's friend secretly revealed, for every unit area of 5o by 5o nautical miles of sea area, some departments are willing to pay two to three million yuan to buy seabed topographic survey data with shipping-level accuracy.
There is no certainty whether it is two million or three million, but Gu Kun decided to settle for two million for the sake of sharing the same culture and species, as long as the other party is willing to approve it.
Gu Kun has a well-established Lanfang Port project. He can draw some lines on the chart at any time, such as drawing a straight line from Lanfang to Yalong City on the sea, to Yuezhou in eastern Guangdong, and Hu Jian's Xiamen
, and even Manila in the Philippines.
Then, along these "planned routes", we cast a net to measure a width of 50 nautical miles, and the length may extend to the sea area two to three hundred nautical miles north of Lanfang.
This money is not earned in vain. By then, the accurate topography of the waters north of Lanfang and about two to three hundred nautical miles in diameter in the South China Sea will be measured. The total price of the data is estimated to be tens of millions.
If he encounters an Indonesian or Vietnamese fishery boat patrolling and driving away, he can justifiably say that he is surveying a newly planned international route.
According to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, it is completely reasonable to survey a new international route from the country, even if it is measured to be two to three hundred nautical miles away.
Most small countries will not do this, not because it violates international law, but simply because they are poor and cannot measure the precise seabed topography of such a large area.
For a small country, a port channel measuring a few nautical miles wide is enough.
They have no ambitions and no need for military and coastal defense. They just expect to spend some money to buy weapons and equipment from Oceania, which is regarded as paying protection fees. Once they are bullied, they will wait for Oceania to drive an aircraft carrier to them.
What about after-sales service?
Opportunities can only be advantageous to a prepared person like Gu Kun.
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On the day he received the admission notice, Gu Kun bought a flight ticket from Hujiang to Guangdong. However, there was no flight from Guangdong to Kuching that day, so he had to wait an extra day.
It is now June 20th, and Gu Pan is still living in a small apartment in Kuching. He is busy preparing for the final exam these days. He will not go back to Lanfang's villa for summer vacation until he finishes the exam.
Gu Kun happened to be free, passing through the house without coming in, not disturbing his sister's review, and doing his own thing wholeheartedly.
After coming out of Kuching Airport, he took a taxi and went straight to the pier, then put on his small yacht and let Gao Jianxiong sail the boat. After an hour and a half of sailing, he returned to Lanfang Port.
Lanfang Port is such a big place that it is impossible to hide a big ship, so Gu Kun can tell at a glance whether the survey ship sent by the Design Institute of Jiaotong University has arrived or not by scanning the dock.
"Why haven't you arrived yet? It shouldn't be. Forget it, let's go ask Savu Yang first."
Gu Kun didn't find it, so he decided to go see his business partners first and report back.
He went to China this time for more than half a month. Although he didn't get any real money investment, he gained a lot from those people who talked and laughed, and the connections he made were also very rich. Even if Gu Kun didn't take the initiative to report
, Savuyang will also send people to find him.
So Gu Kun picked up his Mercedes-Benz at the dock garage, pointed in the distance, and ordered his men: "Old Gao, have you seen the tallest building? Send me there."
"Yes." Gao Jianxiong's words were wordless and his execution was very straightforward. In two minutes, he sent Gu Kun to the bottom of the "luxury" office building that integrated Lanfang Foreign Affairs Department, Ministry of Commerce and Lanfang Import and Export Company.
The front desk and security personnel in the building all knew Gu Kun, so they politely sent him in without asking, and helped him press the elevator without saying a word.
When Gu Kun came here to talk to Savu Yang, Gao Jianxiong hadn't followed Gu Kun yet, so it was his first time to come to such a place.
"It's actually upstairs in the Foreign Affairs Department? These foreign trade people are really powerful. But Mr. Gu can come and go freely, and he is no longer an ordinary person if he is in a deserted place." Gao Jianxiong became more and more awe-struck in his heart.
He had seen the majesty and solemnity of those authoritative institutions in China, and always felt that they were very sacred places. When he came to a foreign land like Lanfang, a small country with few people, and saw the contrast, he naturally felt a temporary confusion that was almost comical.
Damn, it’s just like Xu Jinjiang in Dushen 2, that feeling of déjà vu.
When he saw Sa Wuyang, he was also very friendly: "Xiao Gu, you are finally back. I really didn't expect that you could invite the Chinese design institute and ocean survey ship so quickly. Lanfang Port's
The expansion project must be finalized."
Gu Kun smiled in an easy-going manner: "If I don't need a loan from Huaxia Bank and COSCO takes a stake, then of course I can start work at any time. They support me spiritually."
Sa Wuyang: "Don't play nonsense, just tell me which big figures you met this time, and what is the highest level of the person you talked to. Forget it, show me the memo!"
Sa Wuyang didn't want to play Tai Chi anymore and go official, so he directly asked Gu Kun for the memorandum.
People from a small country are people from a small country. They don’t have any hypocritical etiquette. They are so straightforward.
Gu Kun could only hand over the memo and explain it with a smile.
Before Sa Wuyang finished reading, he felt that Gu Kun was too capable and the progress had exceeded his expectations.
After all, the memorandum contains the conciliatory statements of department-level leaders, as well as the minutes of speeches by the CEO of a company like COSCO. It is already a bombshell when it comes to Lan Fang.
"After receiving so many statements from China's leading figures, even if the Grand Duke approves the design fee and survey fee immediately, and it comes from Caizheng's budget, it will probably be fine."
In Sa Wuyang's view, design fees and survey fees are expenses incurred during the negotiation process, which are two different things from project construction fees. So as long as there are people of sufficient level in China to negotiate with you, Lanzhou should
I paid the money first to show my sincerity.
I believe the Grand Duke would feel the same way.
When the time comes, Zhu Jingye will have to pay for it even if he doesn’t want to.
Gu Kun finally waited for Sa Wuyang to finish, then took the opportunity to ask a question: "By the way, you said that the survey ship I invited has arrived. Where is that ship? I didn't see it when I returned to port."
Sa Wuyang: "Ship? They are more diligent. They arrived the afternoon before yesterday. Then when they saw that you didn't come, they went to sea and started work. But it's not far away and will return to Hong Kong tonight. They also know that you are coming soon."