One day after catching the boat, Gu Kun and the entire crew returned safely.
Half an hour before arriving at Lanfang Port, Gu Kun ordered Chen Li to stop the ship first on the sea more than ten nautical miles outside the port.
He has something to say.
All the crew members stood on the deck with curiosity, excitement and enthusiasm, blowing the sea breeze, waiting for the boss to speak.
There were only a dozen people in total, but Gu Kun walked from beginning to end, from end to end, patrolling several times, pacing very slowly, which took a few minutes and also temporarily dissipated everyone's passionate expectations.
Some.
At this time, he asked coldly: "Everyone is still very excited, right?"
Some people wanted to say it was right, but after seeing Gu Kun's expression and his tone, they swallowed it back.
"Don't be embarrassed to admit it, I'm also very excited." Gu Kunpi encouraged with a smile, "But I believe you all know the importance. No matter how excited you are, you should never say anything you shouldn't say, and you shouldn't drink.
If you're a big drunk and talk nonsense, just stop bragging and just bear with it for a while."
"Captain, don't worry. I don't dare to say anything else. I must be very strict with my mouth." Xu Hu, whom Gu Kun brought from the Weisha Islands, was the first to express his opinion.
After all, they are disciplined and have not developed the habits of those old sailors and ruffians.
Regarding confidentiality, Gu Kun has tacitly emphasized it many times these days.
Gu Kun observed the reactions of others, nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to hammer further:
"Now, we are almost docking. I will stop the ship here again and emphasize that everyone should calm down. I want to give everyone the basic salary for this trip - the same as the red envelope that day, which is still at least one thousand US dollars per person.
However, I have one more thing to say. That is, the originally promised dividends will be delayed for several months, but I can guarantee that the final amount of dividends will not be less than the base salary and red envelopes combined."
As soon as these words came out, some people staggered and seemed to be unable to stand, which showed their moods fluctuated violently.
Gu Kun struck while the iron was hot: "Do you think I'm going to default on the debt? Haha, let me tell you, now your low salary and dividends are all paid for in advance with my own money. I have already made the dozen or so profits I made by chance on my last voyage.
A considerable part of the proceeds from the shipment of boxes of things was spent.
Because what you got is porcelain, not gold bricks and silver coins, you need to wait for the opportunity to sell it at a good price. And for the sake of safety, I can't even find someone to ship it as soon as I get it. You can ask around, this industry is waiting for you
Shipping within three months is considered fast.
Therefore, I also hope that you will have this awareness: the basic salary and red envelopes are what the boss should give when he hires people. I am absolutely unambiguous. Regardless of whether I make a profit or lose, I will support you. And the dividends, of course, are
We should wait until there are real dividends before we talk about it. Being a boss also has its own difficulties and risks. You rely on the weather and customers to survive."
"Captain is magnanimous! Captain is upright! We all understand!" A bunch of chaotic boos were expressed.
Gu Kun nodded, knowing that he was talking about the issue of patience, so that was enough.
It's not that he doesn't believe in the loyalty of his subordinates, it's that people who haven't been tested by wealth before are prone to wandering and getting carried away after being poor for a long time and suddenly become rich. This must be carefully punished.
On the final return trip this time, Gu Kun relaxed the alcohol ban, allowing everyone to drink as much as they wanted on the ship. But after landing ashore, he asked everyone to exercise restraint in drinking.
Sailors can spend money to find women as soon as they land, but they can't drink too much.
If he discovers that someone is drunk as soon as he returns from a special mission, then he will not be able to hang out with him again next time, and he will have to pay the price.
This point was so crucial that when he got off the ship, he shook hands with the crew one by one, and with a very brotherly attitude and a lewd "you know it" expression between men, he earnestly told:
"Don't be afraid of spending money. Just find a woman and have a great time when you get ashore. I will reimburse everyone later. But don't drink. You should supervise each other and no one will be reimbursed if he drinks."
A man who has been a captain for decades in his two lives is so skilled at controlling his subordinates.
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Because Gu Kun's ship had just completed all operations and returned home the afternoon before, and it sailed slowly on the return trip, leaving time for the crew to vent their alcohol addiction, it was already midnight when they docked.
This timing is exactly what Gu Kun wanted.
Because dozens of tons of fragmentary cargo are not containers, the movement of transshipment and landing is very loud. If it is during the day, it will inevitably attract attention, but it will be much easier to do things in the middle of the night.
Gu Kun in advance ordered Gao Jianxiong, who was on standby in the port, to prepare a container truck, two empty containers, and a loading and unloading crane with a maximum lifting capacity of 50 tons.
Under normal circumstances, it would be more cost-effective to rent these things. However, in order to keep it secret, Gu Kun did not want the lessor to know the duration of his lease, and considering that he would have other boats to fish in the future, he ruthlessly chose to buy them in advance.
The purpose of purchasing equipment is to meet the construction needs of certain survey projects during the expansion of Lanfang Port.
But it doesn’t matter if it’s old or new, you can save some money on the old one.
The second-hand container truck is not expensive, equivalent to tens of thousands of dollars. The key is that the crane is expensive, nearly 200,000. Add in the previous expenses for piecemeal fishing equipment such as inflatable high-pressure pontoons, and all is taken into account, which is basically the same as the last time Gu Kun sold it.
All the $500,000 spent on the porcelain was spent.
Therefore, those who engage in industry are harming the country. Even if it is a seemingly lucrative business like boat fishing, the money earned will be reinvested in "expanded reproduction" and turned into fixed assets.
Capitalism is true.
After the empty container was hoisted onto the ship, Gu Kun directed all the crew members to manually carry all the containers into the container and stack them. A layer of shock-absorbing foam padding was placed in the empty container in advance to further reduce the risk of damage due to bumps.
It was very fast for a dozen people to move hundreds of wooden boxes, and they were all loaded in 15 minutes. Gu Kun only left a few boxes of samples outside for use when negotiating with Van Bilson for inspection, and all the others were posted.
Apply the seal and lock it, lift it to the trailer by a crane, pull it back to the warehouse and lock it.
Together with a small warehouse on the dock, Gu Kun bought it in advance for these things. It is a medium-sized warehouse that can hold hundreds of containers. The other containers inside are piled with miscellaneous goods, or are rented to
Other cargo owners piled up goods to hide it.
It is safest to hide Gu Kun's two boxes in it, which is safer than finding a separate place to store them.
This is all common sense accumulated from more than ten years of doing gray business in my previous life.
After all this work, it was already dawn. Everyone dispersed and went back to their homes to have a good sleep.
It is estimated that these sailors can sleep until evening, then eat something and take a bath, then go to the nightclub to spend money to have some fun, and then go back and ask the boss to pay the bill.
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Gu Kun also slept until dusk before getting up, but he did not immediately think of finding a woman like those short-sighted people.
He has a busy career and there is too much aftermath information that he needs to deal with.
His sister Gu Pan woke up earlier than him because she wasn't as hard as him on the boat, so she helped him make dinner.
"Brother, aren't you going to play with them? Will you stay at home in the next few days?"
"I have so much aftermath work to do, how can I think about it?" Gu Kun ate the Tingzi porridge cooked by his sister and was too lazy to explain.
Gu Pan sat next to him and thought for a while: "Is it a matter of finding someone to ship the goods?"
Gu Kun never told his sister Van Bilson's name, so Gu Pan didn't know who he was looking for to deliver the goods.
Gu Pan only knew in general terms that his brother had shipping channels from foreign friends.
After hearing his sister's speculation, Gu Kun couldn't help but smile softly and said: "You have no experience, right? How can you find a channel for this kind of thing immediately? It hasn't been long since I last fished a boat. If you come here again now,
What will the other party think?"
Although the Dutch are more business-minded, if the Dutch feel that "this company seems to have the ability to acquire new ships one after another", then it is inevitable that they will not be attracted by the money and will try to peek further up the supply chain.
Gu Pan listened and seemed to understand.
Gu Kun continued his analysis: "Moreover, the last time I went to sea with Du Guowei and the others, when I glanced around, I found more than just the boat I fished out yesterday. There were also one or two relatively worthless little guys.
If I talk about a shipment now and another shipment in two weeks, the other party will definitely be jealous and crazy. It is better for me to fish out everything I may see, and then close the deal this year and withdraw temporarily.
Jianghu, and then merged it all at once to find a new supplier to ship the goods to."
Of course, merging is not that easy, it has to be selective. Because each ancient shipwreck may belong to a different dynasty, you can only merge the ones that are closer in age together, and those that are far apart will be confused.
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For example, if Gu Kun fished out a Ming Dynasty ship and a Qing Dynasty ship, then destroyed the remains of the ships and threw them back into the sea, he would take out the goods inside and tell Van Bilson that they were "the same larger ones."
Fished out of a sunken ship."
So what would Van Bilson think? He must have thought Gu Kun was Shark Arm.
What about the liar?
The same boat sells both blue and white Ming Dynasty porcelain and ordinary Hu Jian foreign trade porcelain from the Qing Dynasty?
However, if they are within the same dynasty, such as the early Qing Dynasty, the Kang and Yong dynasties can be merged, and the Qianjia dynasties can be merged together. This level of merging also existed in ancient trade.
Keeping a low profile, everything is for the sake of being low-key. Gu Kun would rather let people think that he has caught one or two very expensive boats, rather than let people think that he can catch many relatively less valuable boats one after another.
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Therefore, he just dealt with some aftermath work, rested on shore for three days, made some intelligence preparations for the next operation, and then went to sea again with the relaxed crew.
With the first experience, everything will be easier to handle.
Within half a month, he successively caught two more boats within 100 nautical miles of Lanfang's coast.
One of the smaller ones was from the Qianjia period. It happened to be about the same age as the cargo from Galen's ship that he fished for the first time and could be merged together.
The other one is earlier and is a Dutch ship from the 17th century. The goods on it correspond to the Kangyong and Yong periods. The patterns and colors of the porcelain are generally plainer than those in the Qianjia period, so this one can only be shipped separately.
The harvest of these two boats is relatively small, and the total value combined is not as high as the first one.
So far, Gu Kun has fished out all the boats in Lanfang's offshore waters that can be used for scientific research on the waterway.
If you want to fish for other things in the future, you won't be able to do it with this rented ocean survey vessel. This thing is not professional after all.
"It's finally time to find Billson to ship the goods. I've been holding back for so long and not being able to cash out. It's really frustrating." Gu Kun sighed inwardly. "It's a pity that the money from selling the goods will probably not be left. I have to buy it again."
Professional high-speed salvage ship, preparing for the future."
The curse of not being able to save cash in business seems to be working again.
Every time Gu Kun started renting a boat for business, even if he made a lot of money, he could not save any money. The end result was to "buy a boat based on the profit from the boat rental business."