So far, Gu Kun's several businesses and next ones have all been negotiated, but the money has not yet been received.
Strictly speaking, he has to wait until October for his net worth to officially exceed the 30 million yuan mark.
The money from the relevant departments in China to buy the marine topographic survey data from him will not be officially received until then.
The accounting period of the relevant departments is quite long, and they also have to verify the authenticity and reliability of the data, which all takes time.
As for the verification method, I will mention a few words, mainly randomly selecting points for review.
For example, in each sea area with a unit area of 50 by 50 nautical miles, 100 coordinate points are randomly selected, and then a more accurate method than the sonar detection method is used, such as the plumb method to measure the water depth. The general industry requirement is to randomly check 100 points.
If the accuracy rate is above 98%, even if the data is completely valid, you can pay the full amount. If the accuracy rate is only 95%, the remuneration may have to be discounted by 20%. If it is worse, the discount will be further reduced until it is free.
These are professional knowledge related to marine engineering. It is estimated that most people will not understand and are not interested, so I will not go into details.
In short, there is a process to get money, and the process is not short.
Compared with the survey fees, the payment for the shipment of the sunken cargo will be later, not until November. After that money arrives, Gu Kun's net worth will exceed 100 million yuan.
However, just because he didn't get the money, it didn't mean that he couldn't brag about his skills first and be selective and high-profile first.
His principles for the future are very clear: for white income, be as high-profile as possible, show off the money before you get it, and try your best to blow up the number as many times as possible before others can believe it.
In this way, other income can be obtained as low-key as possible, or even completely cover other income with white income.
Now, it is almost mid-September. Counting the days, Gu Kun will soon return to China to register as a freshman at Jiaotong University and handle transaction details with the Design Institute and relevant departments.
Therefore, before leaving, he decided to talk to Savuyang about the new progress in port preparations, and by the way, he had a good time and spread the news about making money.
He called Savu Yang and learned that the other person was in Kuching.
Gu Kun has to go to Kuching to take a flight anyway, and at the same time, it is not troublesome to send his sister Gu Pan back to Kuching to start school.
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The next night, a mansion on Damai Beach in the north of Kuching City.
Gu Kun had a meeting with the other party at Sawuyang's outer house.
As mentioned before, most of the beaches in Kuching have poor seawater quality. This is because the sediment and nutrients washed away by the Sarawak River cause turbidity.
However, there are some exceptions. Damai Beach at the western foot of Santubong Mountain in the north of the city is a rare beach with clear blue water.
This is because the main stream of the Sarawak River enters from the northeast of Kuching, and the mouth of the river is separated to the east by Mount Santubong, the highest mountain in the surrounding area, so the Damai Beach facing west happens to be very clear.
This is a famous high-end private resort, more than ten kilometers away from the city. It is just too small in scale, so it does not accept business. It is a place where rich people in Kuching buy villas.
Savu Yang also has a villa here, on the halfway slope of the western foothills of Mount Santubong. The style is like imitating the villas built by wealthy people in Hong Kong on the halfway slope of Victoria Peak near Repulse Bay. It is very obvious.
Because it was the first time to meet in this villa, Savu Yang inevitably had to take the guests to visit and show off a few words:
"I heard that you have made a fortune again. Why, have you considered buying a villa here? I'm not telling you, a multi-millionaire should have the dignity of a multi-millionaire. Your sister is also studying and living in Kuching.
, just live in that shabby house..."
Gu Kun responded with a smile: "I will consider it in the future, but I am not busy now. The most important thing is to be close to the school. I will buy it when she graduates. Anyway, the house price in Kuching will not rise."
Savu Yang narrowed his eyes: "You actually bet on the housing price in Kuching? Malaysia's economic situation has been so good in the past few years, and you are still betting on the decline?"
You will know when the financial crisis in Southeast Asia comes.
But Gu Kun didn't bother to answer, it was hard to talk about it.
He changed the subject: "Uncle Sa, I came here this time to talk to you about something. To be honest, my ocean survey cooperation with the relevant departments in China was very successful in the first phase. Not only did I make a lot of money,
A lot of money also allowed COSCO to further relax its cooperation on the Lanfang Port project——
China has now officially agreed to invest in port construction in the form of equity participation. As long as we agree, they will immediately provide the money. This is all because I contacted them on the phone yesterday. The other party just informed me that it was Boss Ye of COSCO East China Company in person.
The final decision."
Everything Gu Kun said is true.
This is the additional benefit brought about by his harmony and friendship with the North in defense cooperation.
Prior to this, COSCO's attitude was more ambiguous, tending to provide some financing assistance rather than investing personally.
Savu Yang was secretly shocked when he heard this.
Xiao Gu, this guy is incredible. It has only been a few months, and his right to speak out about cooperation with China has become more important again.
He couldn't help but test: "Let's not talk about that for now. Just tell me how much money you made from that ocean survey."
Gu Kun boasted without blushing: "Twenty million! The account will be paid soon. In addition, I have rented other additional boats and am planning to buy one soon to expand the scale of this business cooperation. I have about one or two thousand
Wan, you can get it soon in the next quarter!"
In fact, he hasn't received a penny yet, and he has to wait for more than a month for the only more than 10 million. But he is confident that he can brag ahead of time.
Even if Sa Wuyang didn't believe it and wanted to find out, by the time he found out, Gu Kun's bullshit had also come true.
Bragging about something you are about to achieve is not bragging.
"It turns out that such a large-scale cooperation has reached this point." Sa Wuyang unknowingly thought that Gu Kun's credibility was a little higher.
And he won't be jealous because he knows his abilities and weight very well.
If Gu Kun had made tens of millions by relying on foreign trade monopoly, it would be different, and it might affect the alliance between Sawuyang and him. But Sawuyang didn't understand scientific surveys in the first place, so there was nothing to be jealous of.
"So, what are the latest conditions offered by COSCO?"
Gu Kun: “They are willing to vigorously support the bulk carrier transshipment business here after the completion of Lanfang Port in the future, and give priority to moving all the bulk carriers they operate on the Malacca route to us for transshipment.
The price is that they will provide three-quarters of the funds to build the port and require the establishment of a joint venture company in which they will hold 51% of the shares."
Sa Wuyang was stunned: "Before, we were talking about financing support, but now it turns into wanting to hold a controlling stake? They have taken a big step forward."
Gu Kun advised: "You can't think like that. They didn't promise to move all the bulk carriers on the Malacca route owned by East China Company as a priority before. Only by letting them occupy a large share and share the majority of the port operating profits,
They are willing to give priority to the continuous flow of cargo ships. This is the international practice.
We are only a small country with more than 80,000 people. Even if a port is built on our land, why should we compete with a country with a foreign trade market of 1.3 billion people for the dominance of shipping and port services? Uncle Sa, look further, they missed it
Order some soup for us and we’ll drink it till we die.”