Many people in later generations who have not experienced that period in the early 1990s have a crude and general understanding of the decline of Lucia, Lucia White and Blackland after the demise of ussR.
That is to say, it seems that as soon as Oceania's "shock therapy" was launched, the three countries were immediately affected and then collapsed.
But this is actually a misunderstanding and a propaganda method to warn against Oceania.
In fact, in the two years before the end of ussR, the temporary effect of "shock therapy" was very good, and the national economy of the relevant countries showed a booming prosperity. It seemed that the problem of poor living materials in the ussR era suddenly disappeared
It was solved.
It was only after two or three years of operation that the problem started to become serious.
Du Guowei and Gao Jianxiong both experienced this period of time, so they will not have the blind spots of those who will read this period of history from history books.
In the past two years, what they have seen in the media are positive reports on the new economic situation in Lucia and Blackland. When Du Guowei went to Blackland last summer, he saw with his own eyes the wealthy material life of the people there.
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This makes the contrasting impact of this trip abroad even more huge.
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Early the next morning, Gu Kun and his party took a Black Air flight, landed in Odessa, and then transferred to trains to nearby Nikolayev and Kherson.
Visas and other matters have been processed long ago, especially Gu Kun’s Lanzhou passport, which is really easy to use. Many countries in the East and West provide visa exemption.
Among the three, Gao Jianxiong's visa application was a bit slow. Du Guowei came to Blackland last year and had a very good record, and he was able to get his visa issued in seconds.
There were not many strict checks when passing the customs. Heikelan didn't care whether you brought large amounts of cash or not. Gu Kun and Gao Jianxiong each carried a suitcase full of US dollars in cash, and they both passed the customs easily.
As for the domestic trains, there was even less control. There were two words to describe the current situation in Blackland at that time, and that would be chaos.
In order to protect his own safety, Du Guowei also relied on a relationship he met last year to help apply for a license to hold weapons in the name of a foreign investor inspection.
After arriving in Sevastopol, both Gu Kun and Gao Jianxiong brought a Makarov pistol with them. In the rented car, Gao Jianxiong also put an Akm in case of emergencies. Du Guowei was a scholar and had no ties.
Chicken power is not needed.
However, these weapons can only be legally possessed in Blackland, and it will be impossible to get on a plane when leaving in the future.
It was easy for Gu Kun to apply for legal documents in Lanzhou. In Malaysia, he could also buy a durian plantation in exchange for legally possessing a pistol.
Maybe after buying a boat from Heklan in the future, I can legally carry self-defense equipment back to Heklan by sea.
Along the way, Du Guowei also told Gu Kun: "I have contacted Manager Cheryshev of Kherson Special Shipyard in advance. He welcomes us to see the ship at any time.
But Mr. Gu, I hope you are mentally prepared. Doing business with Heklan people is actually similar to the custom of doing business with state-owned enterprises in China in the past few years. They are very generous with public funds, and you must not be vague about returning gifts in private.
In addition, when they treat you to drink vodka and eat caviar, you must not shirk it and try to be more generous... When our hospital sent people here last year, they specially found two good drinkers to pretend to be negotiators.
, just be responsible for eating, drinking and having fun.”
Gu Kun: "You don't need to worry about this. Just pay attention to the technical details."
In order to support their appearance, the group stayed at the most luxurious and only four-star hotel in the Kherson and Nikolaev areas, called the "Mankasky" Hotel, which was the hotel in Nikolaev during the original USSR era.
It is a converted seaside guest house. It is located in the southeastern suburbs of Nikolayev City, not far from Kherson.
Because Kherson is a purely industrial town, the reception facilities are really poor. Living there would be disrespectful to Kunlanfang's status as a wealthy businessman, and would also be detrimental to the other party's emphasis on this cooperation. He would rather go to the shipyard to negotiate every day and let Gao Jianxiong
It’s a round trip drive of more than ten kilometers.
Kherson and Nikolaev are both port cities near the estuary of the Dnieper River. They are not far from each other. The distance between the two city centers is only 40 kilometers, and the suburbs are almost connected together.
The shipbuilding industry in both cities is also very advanced, but each has its own focus. The shipyard in Kherson is not large in scale, but has a lot of special equipment. It mainly builds small and beautiful ships for various special purposes.
The shipyard in Nikolayev specializes in large, thick and black ships. They can build flat-deck ships of tens of thousands of tons at will. Kiev-class ships, Minsk and so on, and even that unfinished ship that is not easy to describe.
, are all products of Nikolaev Shipyard.
After making all preparations in the hotel, Gu Kun asked Du Guowei to call and ask people from the Kherson Shipyard to come to Mankaski for the banquet.
More than an hour later, at almost four o'clock in the afternoon, several old-fashioned Volga cars arrived and stopped at the door of the Mankasky Hotel on a familiar road. Gu Kun and his men went to the door of the hotel to greet them in person, shook hands and exchanged greetings.
Fortunately, the latitude of Blackland is relatively high, similar to that of northeast China, so it gets dark very quickly at the end of October, and after 4 o'clock, it's almost time for dinner.
"This is Manager Cheryshev of Kherson Shipyard, and this is Boss Gu of Lanfang Maritime Group." Du Guowei introduced both parties in the middle.
"Boss Gu is really young and promising. I didn't expect that the new customers brought by Du Gong this time are more promising than last year." Cheryshev is about forty or fifty years old, with a hair that is somewhere between He's bald head and Ge's.
Between his Mediterranean head, he was a greasy fat man. When he shook hands with Gu Kun, a pair of mung bean eyes suddenly flashed with greed.
However, Gu Kun did not show any expression: "Come on, let's not talk about business today. It's so nice to meet a friend like Mr. Cheryshev. Let's drink tonight first and I won't go home until I'm drunk."
Cheryshev showed a satisfied smile, waved his hand, and asked his followers to carry a small box of caviar and a large box of vodka upstairs.
This is also the habit of Heklan people to join in the drinking party. Even if there are foreigners treating them, the vodka and caviar will still be brought by the Heklan people. Even if a few decades later they will take the money and go to Brittany or Monaco to work as pawns.
I am an invisible rich man, but I still bring my own vodka and caviar.
However, Gu Kun was also prepared, and of course he would bring out more decent treats, so the battle would definitely not be lost to the Heiklan people.
When leaving the Netherlands, he tried his best to collect as many luxury consumer goods that were easily available in the markets of Western European countries in preparation for making friends here.
There are several pure acorn-raised Iberian hams from Spain, as well as truffles from the mountains of South Tyrol. Not to mention other precious foods.
These ingredients, carefully processed and cooked by the hotel chef, were placed on the table hot and soon made the guests of Heckland in the bitter cold land have their breaths twitching.
Du Guowei was in the middle to help translate in Russian at the beginning.
However, after a few rounds of drinking with those guys, Gu Kun learned to say "cheers" in Chinese, and Gu Kun also learned to say "zBc", so there was no need for a translator. Anyway, everyone just yelled and drank.
"Gu, you are truly the most generous Chinese person I have ever seen!"
"Hey, uncle, you must have drunk too much. I am from the Huaxia ethnic group and I am from Lan Fang."
"It's all the same, come on, keep drinking!"
After Gu Kun drank five large bottles of vodka by himself, all the guys across from him fell down.
Nothing happened to Gu Kun, he just felt that he needed to jump into the sea and swim a few kilometers to relax.