Chapter 72 The ghost knife can't be seen when it is opened, and the hand continues to work
After finishing his business in Jakarta and returning to Lanfang, Gu Kun only rested at home for one day and then went to sea in a hurry.
Some people may be curious: You are already running for your life, you have completely fished out the three ships within 100 nautical miles around Lan Fang, and you have even negotiated the shipping matters. What else is there to fight for?
Isn’t it hard to make so much money but have no time to enjoy life?
It's hard work, of course it's hard work, but it's also forced by the situation.
Once the flywheel of history starts rolling, inertia will push you forward. You cannot stop when going downhill. You can only control the direction carefully and wait until you reach flat ground to take a breath.
The biggest pressure Gu Kun faced was that he had to complete the seabed topography survey task he had promised as soon as possible and sell the data to relevant Chinese departments.
When he originally rented the survey ship from the Grand Design Institute, the lease was for three months, and the reason was for exploration.
As a result, the ship was secretly used for other purposes, and he made extra money by salvaging ancient sunken ships. The three ships wasted more than two weeks of his normal working time.
This is like a primary school student who asked for leave to do homework, but ended up playing games at home for most of the day. Out of a desire to survive, this primary school student should reluctantly stop a few hours in advance before his parents get off work, and copy the answers to the unfinished homework.
, so as to better cope with the inspection.
If you really want to play games until your parents turn the key in the door lock and then turn off the phone, you will not want to live anymore.
Therefore, under this pressure, Gu Kun lived a miserable life without going ashore for almost a month.
Throughout August, he was drifting on the sea north and west of Lanfang, taking his crew with him to measure data in two shifts, without stopping the ship.
Fortunately, the majority of Lanfang's ethnic group has always been Chinese, and they have a hard-working and brave overtime culture that has existed since ancient times. Under the temptation of double overtime wages and extra bonuses, they managed to survive with a lot of perseverance.
If it were a Malay or an Indonesian person doing this kind of work, they would be so lazy. Those lazy people wouldn't do it if they were given more money. They are already lax in nature.
At the same time, Gu Kun counted the days. It had been three weeks since Du Guowei and other Chinese surveying technicians who had been sent away by him had returned to China to report on the survey results of the port area.
So at the end of July, he actually sent a letter to China, contacted the country, and asked those people to come back to Lanzhou to continue helping with the work and speed up the progress. By the way, at the end of the lease period, they could inspect the ship's condition in person in Lanzhou.
After completing the handover, sail back home.
China originally wanted to save money, but felt that since Gu Kun had mastered the use of survey equipment, and the lease term was only a little over a month, it would be a waste of money to have domestic experts travel from place to place.
In 1994, China was still relatively frugal and simple.
However, Gu Kun said very generously that there were still some things he didn't understand in the process of using the survey ship, and it might be more efficient if he asked for instructions. He was also willing to bear all the travel expenses.
He was so gracious, and the Chinese side followed suit and granted all the people the benefits of going abroad again. Anyway, this trip was to take a plane to Kuching when going and sailing when coming back, so the travel expenses were not too much.
In this way, the Chinese personnel were actually only technically absent during the three weeks when Gu Kun misappropriated the survey ship to salvage the sunken ship, and the reason for the absence was very sufficient:
Party A’s father is eager to ask Party B’s surveyor to make a trip first to send back to China the information that is urgently needed for the port design, so as not to delay the progress of the designer. After they have completed the handover and communication with the designer, Party A’s father will pay for the travel expenses again.
They came back to continue assisting with measurements.
Therefore, Gu Kun never thought about leaving the Chinese staff and going it alone! Never!
The transportation time difference in the intervening weeks meant that no one would doubt whether he had misappropriated the purpose of the boat.
The aftermath was perfect.
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In this way, Gu Kun, along with his own men and several Chinese "supervision consultants", worked very efficiently until the beginning of September.
During this period, Gu Kun finally measured the seabed west and north of Lan Fang, with a total area of about 150 nautical miles by 100 nautical miles, according to the speed of "doing work in one week that a normal survey team would take more than a month to complete."
terrain.
According to the purchase price offered by the relevant departments of approximately "200 to 300,000 yuan for every 50 times 50 nautical miles of terrain data per unit area," these jobs can be sold for a total of about 1.5 million yuan.
Du Guowei was very shocked by Gu Kun's efficiency. Gu Kun's explanation was, "I am born with good hearing. When I listen to the echoes of terrain survey sonar, I can outline the topography of the seabed in my mind." Anyway, he is trying to shirk his talent.
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Du Guowei could only believe that the reason why Gu Kun made great progress was because he didn't know enough about the instrument at the beginning, but now that he has completely mastered it, he can work faster than others.
"Fortunately, there is only one such person. If there were more people like us, people like us would starve to death." Du Guowei thought to himself, wishing that Gu Kun's talent would not be known. Even if others notice it in the future, he will
Hope to cover up for Gu Kun.
It's like a designer who obviously does a slightly modified job, but 95% of it is copied from old projects. He still asks Party A's father for a few months of design period, but he delays and doesn't give out the drawings.
At this time, if there is an outlier who breaks the rules and publishes pictures within a week, colleagues are not allowed to help him cover up. Otherwise, Party A’s father will not pay such a high design fee in the future.
September 10th, a Saturday. Gu Kun counted the days and found that the lease period of the survey ship was almost up. On this day, he announced the official end of the scientific survey and handed the ship to Du Guowei to sail back to China.
When leaving, Gu Kun set up a few tables in the best hotel in Lanfang as usual, treated the Chinese visitors to a drink, and said goodbye to Du Guowei: "Gong Du, Senior Du, I have benefited a lot from your guidance these days. From now on.
, I will continue to do this business and hope to have a pleasant cooperation with you.
However, I may not rent your boat anymore - it's not a matter of money. I also know that your rent this time has been very conscientious. But I can also see that as the RMB exchange rate has been consistent for almost a year, you are facing difficulties in all aspects.
Prices are bound to skyrocket.
Moreover, Nanyang is a place where various forces are mixed, and I don’t want to leave a pro-China mark on scientific research. We can cooperate secretly, so that there will be less resistance."
"I understand. I'm just a part-time worker anyway. It doesn't matter. I will explain it to you when I have the opportunity." Du Guowei answered openly.
This is also a kind of protection for the old friends of the Chinese people. You can be old friends secretly, there is no need to say it out loud.
Just like Mr. Huo from Xiangjiang, in those years he did nothing but said nothing. Isn't he a patriotic capitalist?
In this way, Gu Kun also cleared the way for the high-tech research ship he would resell after receiving the proceeds from the sale of the salvaged cultural relics.
We are lovely and peaceful scientists.
You can't see the ghost knife once it's opened, so you continue to work with your hands.