After sending away the obstructive "monitors" from the Jiaotong University Design Institute, this survey ship is basically equivalent to a big cleanup.
Only Gu Kun's confidants whose loyalty had been tested were left on the ship.
It's time to do some cheating without killing people.
However, you still need to spend two or three days doing some extra preparations before setting sail.
"Long Wu, I'll give you this money. You can go to Kuching and buy these marine equipment. Be careful to buy secretly, make cash transactions, and don't leave the buyer's information."
"Yes, boss, I understand what to do."
Long Wu agreed wholeheartedly.
It turned out that Gu Kun asked him to buy some special pontoons, containers, hooks and other accessories for salvaging sunken ships, as well as some equipment for temporary protection of ancient cultural relics.
After all, the purpose of this rented boat is not to salvage, but to survey the topography of the seabed. Therefore, the original equipment of this boat may be very accurate in locating sunken ships, but the salvage aspect is not very professional and must be slightly modified.
Get twice the result with half the effort.
In addition, most of the cargo in sunken ships are relatively well protected in the high-pressure anaerobic underwater environment. Once fished out, except for porcelain and lacquerware, most other perishable items will quickly oxidize.
Lose.
For the black-hearted cultural relic dealers, that doesn't matter. They just sell porcelain and lacquerware jewelry anyway.
Those things that are easy to rot, such as ancient silk, cannot be sold in the relevant market because collectors do not have professional equipment to store them, or professional storage is not conducive to displaying them for show.
But Gu Kun will never leave just by grabbing a ticket. He has a sense of social responsibility. In the future, he hopes to open a museum in Lanfang and become a celebrity. Therefore, buy some professional nitrogen-filled protective containers. Once you catch ancient silk,
Clothing can also be placed in a nitrogen container to prevent rapid oxidation and decay, and then it can be donated to the museum.
While Long Wu and Chen Li went to separately purchase the tools needed to salvage the sunken ship, Gu Kun himself took advantage of these two days to fly to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and met with a Dutch businessman.
He handed over the porcelain he had retrieved from the previous trip to the other party for sale, and took this as an opportunity to talk about subsequent long-term cooperation.
Gu Kun had no choice but to find the Dutch.
As we all know, apart from the Philippines, which belonged to Spain/Oceania, the colonies in Southeast Asia were mainly divided between Brittany and the Netherlands.
Later, Malaysia was mainly composed of cloth colonies, while Indonesia was independent from the Dutch colony.
But Gu Kun had a grudge against the Bretons, and the Bretons were quite xenophobic and liked to snoop on sellers' information and cut off their business, so he had no choice but to go far and go to Jakarta to sell goods to Dutch merchants.
This worry is not unreasonable, because the most famous Nanyang shipwreck robber in history is Michel Hatcher of Brittany.
This Hatcher not only illegally salvaged ships in the territorial waters of countries such as Malaysia, India, and Vietnam, but also violated China's territorial waters as early as 1985 and stole the "Geet Mohsen" merchant ship (ship type) that the Dutch East India Company sank in the South China Sea in 1752.
It was a Galenic sailing ship, which everyone who has played in the Age of Discovery should recognize). It took away 120,000 pieces of foreign trade porcelain from the Qianlong period, hundreds of thousands of silver pesos, and more than a hundred gold bricks weighing two pounds each.
Therefore, the fabric shipping channels in Nanyang are all friends of that Michelle Hatcher, or have an indirect control relationship with him. It is absolutely impossible for Gu Kun to knock on the door.
Relatively speaking, the Dutch have no idea of national unity. They have always been purely business-minded. As long as you leave them enough profit margins, they can even provide loans to enemies who attack their motherland during the war.
When it comes to doing business, Gu Kun likes buyers who don't care about relatives and only care about money.
…
After much searching, the collaborator Gu Kun finally found was a guy named Van Bilson.
A very classic Dutch name, the surname is "Fan".
Another reason why I chose this person is because Gu Kun had shipped goods to this guy before he was reborn. However, Gu Kun's development in his previous life was relatively slow. Around 2005, his business scale expanded for the first time.
To be qualified to sell this kind of goods.
Gu Kun vaguely remembered that when he first found the other person in his previous life, the other person was already in his forties, so he estimated that he would have been working in this industry even ten years earlier, and it turned out to be true.
The two parties sat down and made an assessment, and they both knew tacitly that if these dozens of boxes of mainly porcelain were taken to the auction house in The Hague, it would be easy to fetch six to seven million US dollars as long as the caretaker didn't mess up.
(Fees and commissions have been deducted, net income).
Because it was their first time working together, and he was eager to open up business routes and become familiar with each other, Gu Kun also gave in a little profit, and finally agreed to sell the deal directly for US$500,000. Van Bilson would give him cash, and he would not have to worry about subsequent auctions.
Always leave a percentage of the profit to the other party, otherwise no one will take the risk of cooperating with you.
"It's a pleasure to cooperate. I hope that the next time we cooperate, we will meet in The Hague." When shaking hands and saying goodbye, Gu Kun said some encouraging words, suggesting that he might have new sources of goods on hand soon.
"It's a pleasure to serve you, Mr. Gu. My door is open to you at any time."
…
After purchasing the equipment and paving the shipping channels, all preparations were finally completed.
July 10, Sunday. Gu Kun returned to his villa in Lanfang Port, preparing to rest for the night and set sail early tomorrow morning.
When he got home, Gu Kun saw in advance that the lights upstairs and downstairs were brightly lit, and it didn't look like there were only cleaning maids looking after the house.
"Panpan should be on summer vacation." Gu Kun rubbed the bridge of his nose before walking in, remembering this.
He has been busy since he returned to Lanzhou in late June. At that time, his sister Gu Pan was still preparing for the final exam, but now she has been away for a week during the summer vacation.
"Brother, you've worked hard... I thought you would be back at least the day before yesterday. During the summer vacation a while ago, Sister Lin also came to play with me, but I don't know when you will come back. Her family can manage it.
Yan, I can’t stay for a long time, so I went back.”
Gu Pan originally had a lot of things to complain about, but when he saw his brother's tired look, his nose felt sour, so he held it back.
It is not a natural thing for a brother to raise a sister. You must be grateful.
No one owes anything to anyone, and we have no right to complain that "people who make a lot of money don't care about their families."
Gu Kun coughed slightly: "I went to Jakarta for two days to discuss business. I have to go to sea tomorrow."
Gu Pan tried his best to express himself: "It's summer vacation. If I can help you, take me to sea with you. I will never hold you back."
"Do you know what confidentiality is?" Gu Kun said coldly.
Gu Pan lowered his head and reflected for a moment: "I know you mean that you can't tell anyone, including Sister Lin - but I haven't leaked any truly confidential things that can't be told.
It doesn’t matter what you did with Chen Mingcheng back then. I only saw you acting in a high-profile manner, so I boasted in front of Sister Lin. I have never said anything about you being low-key."
Gu Kun poured himself a glass of gin, recalled it carefully, and then relaxed after confirming that this was what happened.
"Then you can follow me on board the ship. I told you in advance this time. Nothing is allowed to be leaked. Don't say it was unforeseen."
"I'll cook for you, you go to bed early."
After eating the dinner cooked by his sister, Gu Kun went to bed early and spent the night without talking.
Early the next morning, he came to the dock refreshed and boarded the ship with his sister and Ma Zai.
"Pull anchor and set sail, left rudder heading 255, direction of Lijiapo, full speed."
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(This week from today to Saturday, there will be no recommendation slots, so the editor said that the word count will be slightly slower in these two days, so as not to have too many words to compete with other books in the same period. Please understand)