From Du Guowei, Gu Kun learned about some of the pitfalls China encountered during its procurement last year.
For example, the polar research vessel "Dragon" was already extremely unsalable in Hekland at that time. The ship was originally used as an Arctic icebreaker in the former Soviet era.
After the disintegration, Heklan had nothing to do with the Arctic. Among the dozen or so member states of the former Soviet Union, only Lucia bordered the Arctic. So why did Heklan need an ice-breaking research vessel?
Therefore, if we can do a better job, it is not impossible to buy those goods as scrap metal, as long as the specific handlers do enough work.
However, the biggest pitfall at that time was that the design of the Soviet icebreaker itself could not meet the needs of other countries. You had to ask the manufacturer to modify it and add a lot of equipment.
Once shipbuilding involves modification, it means that the buyer wants the ship very much, and therefore cannot deal with it at a half-sale, half-free scrap price.
The former bosses of state-owned shipyards also need to be a bit of a fig leaf. Even if they want all shareholders to sell their shares at a low price as soon as possible in order to make low profits and losses, they cannot do it completely and shamelessly.
When Gu Kun buys a scientific research vessel, he also has a lot of modification needs. If he also adopts a business-related modification contract, the price of the ship itself will never be reduced.
But he successfully avoided this pitfall this time.
Under his offensive of vodka friendship, all-inclusive consumption, and extra promises of benefits, Cheryshev and others quickly surrendered and showed him the most thorough way of cooperation:
The factory claims that this ship is really bad and no one wants it. It is a freak waste left over from the former Soviet Union's plan that does not match the demand and supply. It can only be sold half as a scrap ship and half given away.
As for the modifications Gu Kun needs, Cheryshev will still handle them, and even the workers and engineers will still be the same small group of original people doing the work.
However, when those people were working, they were not using the brand name of Kherson Shipyard.
They are "one set of people and two sets of teams", one for public affairs and one for private affairs.
The outfitting berths and construction equipment that this private team needs to use when working are also from the Kherson Shipyard. However, strictly speaking, it is the private contracting team, which comes from the Kherson Shipyard.
"Rent", just pay the rent according to the official guide price.
The specific language and dialogue used in the negotiations are too shameless and dirty, so I will not describe them directly.
Anyway, Gu Kun didn't have any psychological burden. He was not gathering the wool of China, nor was he gathering the wool of society's attention.
What he is harvesting is the wool that Blackland Capital pays attention to. If he doesn't harvest it, he will get an advantage from the oligarchs. It is natural and reasonable. Why can't Yuriorov do what he wants?
Two days later, at the end of the final round of negotiations, Du Guowei gave Gu Kun an answer sheet that satisfied him:
"Boss, it's done. The details and technical requirements for modification have been clarified in the contract with the company they are dealing with privately. The final purchase price of this ship is as follows:
First of all, the whole ship was sold to us at the price of 1.7 million U.S. dollars, which is the price of processed goods. The one we designed last year was of worse quality, less equipped, and the power system was much worse. At that time, the whole ship was priced at 380
It was sold for US$10,000. Therefore, we now buy this semi-finished product, which is 90% complete, for only 45% of the price we paid for the final product last year!
However, we have to give Manager Cheryshev’s private modification company a modification fee of 700,000 U.S. dollars and a private account of 300,000 U.S. dollars. If you think this is okay, then confirm it.”
Gu Kun looked at the details of the negotiation memorandum and was very satisfied with the price reduction to this extent.
He has evaluated before that the salvage boat he wants to buy this time is better and more professional than the one from the Jiaotong University Design Institute in all aspects. Therefore, if he follows the public cooperation model like last year, it will cost at least 450 yuan.
million dollars.
Now one and two are added to make five, and it has become a public-private partnership. He directly cut off one-third of the price! From the psychological price of 4.5 million to 3 million! 2 million for public and 1 million for private!
As for why it ended up being 1.7 million plus 1 million, not 2 million plus 1 million, the 300,000 difference was due to Gu Kun drinking vodka these days.
For nearly a week, he drank no less than 20 liters of vodka. Every day after drinking, he went for a late-night winter swim in the Black Sea to vent his anger. He swam several kilometers every day from the end of October to the beginning of November.
He did this not only for the discount of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but also to get familiar with the connections in this circle.
Because he found that the Heklan people did prefer to make friends with people who drank heavily.
"If there is no problem, we can board the ship today and finally confirm the ship's condition. Do you want to inspect it in person?" Du Guowei saw that Gu Kun had already made up his mind and suggested that he go inspect the goods.
"Let's go and have a look." Gu Kun was in a good mood, so he took his bodyguard to the shipyard.
These days, he has been negotiating in the hotel. He has not yet gone to the shipyard to inspect the goods with his own eyes. Only Du Guowei has gone to see the ship on site before.
Gao Jianxiong stepped on the accelerator, and the journey of more than ten kilometers was quickly reached.
The reception staff at the Kherson Shipyard led the big investors onto the ship and gave them detailed technical parameter information.
"Boss, do you want to name our new ship?" Du Guowei asked with a smile.
"Yes, of course, let's call it Nightingale." Gu Kun chose the name casually.
On the outfitting berth in front of him was a slender ship with a length of 137 meters, a width of 205 meters, a depth of 12 meters, and a draft of 75 meters.
The maximum full load displacement is 1.32 million tons and the standard displacement is 9,400 tons. The empty ship has a dead weight of 7,200 tons and a maximum load capacity of 6,200 tons.
In terms of size and weight alone, it is a quarter larger than the boat from the Jiaotong University Design Institute.
Because the hull is more slender, the power system on the ship adopts a cascade configuration of gas turbines and steam turbines, which enhances the single-shaft output power, but reduces the number of propulsion shafts to two-shaft propulsion.
The output power of the gas-steam cascade on each shaft is roughly equivalent to Oceania's 2500, and the single-shaft power is 60,000 horsepower.
Therefore, such a 10,000-ton ship can actually drive to a maximum power of 120,000 horsepower and easily reach a maximum speed of 34 knots!
When the time comes, as long as Gu Kun has quick eyes and quick hands and detects his opponent in advance, the Indonesians and Vietnamese will definitely not be able to catch him. With this kind of ship, he can go deep into other countries' exclusive economic zones and work blatantly in the dark.
In addition, many of the depth measurement and seabed salvage equipment on the ship are also very advanced and represent the highest level of heritage in the previous era. However, some of them have not been installed yet and will take another few months. According to Gu Kun
Customized construction according to your needs.
Manager Cheryshev also used his authority to install military-precision radar and sonar on him, but these are difficult to explain clearly, as long as he has the money.
The shipyards in Blackland have been in a state of chaos in recent years. There is an excess of military products that are unsaleable and no one wants them. Are they still not allowed to recycle the waste?
Others want civilian products, but the civilian products are sold out. Should we still keep the ready-made inventory instead of removing the inventory, and instead make new ones specifically for others?
It's unreasonable.
Therefore, military radar and military sonar can also be used for scientific investigation and use waste heat.