Three days later, Gu Kun finally took Gao Jianxiong on the road back to China.
All transaction details regarding the purchase and refitting of the ship have been negotiated.
Du Guowei was temporarily left in Heklan by Gu Kun, who also left some extra budget for him to spend a lot of time and alcohol - he finally convinced Gu Kun to stay at the Kherson Shipyard as a "supervisor", responsible for timely communication here.
requirements, and by the way, accidents that may occur during the installation of equipment will be handled on site.
Gu Kun felt that his proposal was reasonable, so he kept him until he could escort him back to China on the ship.
Counting the days, this trip to Blackland was delayed by at least ten days longer than the original plan.
Who told me to buy an abandoned aircraft carrier and open a theme park and museum? These things are all extra.
Gu Kun's reason for asking for leave from the school was to coordinate the port construction project with COSCO East China Company. He came to the Netherlands and Blackland as private goods. Now that he is back, he has to make up for his lessons.
Spend a few thousand dollars more and find a teacher for private tutoring, hoping to keep up with the progress.
As for the two ships Gu Kun bought, they had to sail all the way back from the Bosporus Strait and Suez Canal, with a total voyage of 7,000 nautical miles.
His "Nightingale" "research vessel" can maintain an economical cruising speed of 16 knots, and it will take a month to return home. The abandoned "Kharkov" can only cruise at 12 knots, and it will take more than 40 days.
In addition to the time required for disassembling and assembling equipment, Gu Kun estimates that it would be good if the "Nightingale" can return to China in two months, which should be around January and a half next year.
The Spring Festival of 1995 was at the end of January, so the final exams in the university had just ended by then, so there would be no delay at all.
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On November 20, Gu Kun, who had been traveling abroad for more than 20 days, finally returned to Hujiang and the Jiaotong University campus in Xuhui.
With the school, of course, some explanations were needed, and everything was covered up, so everything went smoothly.
However, Gu Kun is very motivated. He is not satisfied just because the teacher lets him go. He has higher requirements for himself.
The courses he missed in more than 20 days required redoubled efforts to make up for them. So for more than a month, he concentrated on studying every day, almost did not participate in campus club activities, and did not go out with other classmates except in the dormitory.
Play around.
Friendships between classmates are limited to those in class, mysterious and low-key.
Occasionally, some female classmates were curious and wanted to know what big business he had done, and he vaguely explained it in a few words. Over time, everyone got used to his diligence and low profile, and they would not bother him.
After a month and a half of personal training and meals, the calendar quietly turned to 1995.
As the end of the semester approaches, Gu Kun is about to take the final exam of his first semester at Jiaotong University.
He had almost caught up with the progress of all his courses. He thought he could get an above-average score, so he decided to relax a little during the New Year's Day holiday.
New Year's Day in 1995 was originally a Sunday, so the national holiday was postponed to an extra day.
Before the holiday, a group of roommates in the dormitory agreed to go for a walk in the city center.
This way of celebrating the festival seems a bit unsophisticated to Gu Kun, but when you are reborn, you have to follow the local customs.
People today still like to visit shopping malls. Even if they don’t buy anything, looking at the high-rise buildings and the prosperous and good things in the shopping malls is a pastime in itself.
Early that morning, Gu Kun asked Gao Jianxiong to drive to pick him up. In order to keep a low profile, he did not drive the stretched Lincoln, but drove a new off-road vehicle he recently bought. It is similar to the SUVs of later generations and is suitable for six or seven people.
Go out and play.
Since his classmates all know that he has a little money, it would be too hypocritical to keep secret about taking a taxi or taking a bus.
After getting in the car, Gu Kun let others decide where to go. He didn't care anyway.
"Yaoguang, you local, where are you going when you say something?" Huang Han, the head of the dormitory, looked at Gu Kun without saying anything and just gave him orders casually.
Zhou Yaoguang thought for a while and said calmly: "Why don't you go to the new department store east of People's Square? You haven't paid attention to the relevant policy news, right? It's been one year since the abolition of foreign exchange certificates, and it was just yesterday.
Officially abolished.
Therefore, several Youyi stores in the city officially closed yesterday. Those stores will be renovated when the time comes. However, there are many good products in Youyi stores that originally required foreign exchange coupons. Anything that is not sold out will be sold out.
It has been moved to the new commercial building in the east of People’s Square. There are many good imported goods that can now be bought with RMB.”
Huang Han looked at Gu Kun's expression carefully and saw that Gu Kun had no objection, so he decided: "Okay, let's go there for a stroll."
China's abolition of foreign exchange certificates was carried out simultaneously with the end of the dual-track RMB exchange rate system. Both were announced on January 1, 1994.
However, when it was announced, it only said that "new foreign exchange coupons will no longer be issued", but there is still a lot of stock on the market, so foreigners must be given a time lag to spend all the foreign exchange coupons they have accumulated.
Historically, the time gap for spending money given by the State Council was exactly one year. All foreign exchange coupons issued before 1994 can continue to be circulated and used until December 31, 1994. Those that have not been spent all by this day will be considered invalid.
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Today is the New Year's Day of 1995, so today is the first day that the last batch of "Friendship Stores" on the land of China are completely closed. Those good things in the Friendship Stores that were originally under the foreign exchange control period, all that have not been sold out, have flowed in.
State-owned RMB department store.
Gu Kun was also happy to witness this era, so he inspected several high-end shopping places with the mentality of a leader inspecting.
Several roommates saw some things that they couldn't buy openly even if they had money, so they reluctantly took action.
Because Gu Kun has been living abroad all year round, he can buy it anywhere he wants, so he is naturally not in a hurry to make a move.
The group of people walked around for a while, and Zhou Yaoguang looked at Gu Kun but didn't take any action once, and just tried to help him in various ways.
"Brother Kun, haven't you been talking to me about imported laptops before, saying how good and epoch-making the new system Microsoft is going to release this year is. I also paid attention to "Computer World" and heard about Win95, which is
It’s officially on sale today.
People in Oceania are known for their efficiency. We have agreed to sell it at 95%, and it will officially go on sale on New Year’s Day. I heard that simultaneous reservations may also be accepted in China. Anyway, I am free today, why don’t I look around to see if there is any place selling it?”
Gu Kun laughed dumbly: "It's not that fast, but you reminded me that I had thought about buying a batch of computers before."
What he was talking about was donating a batch of computers for teaching and scientific research to Jiaotong University. Before that, he had only been thinking about it in his mind, waiting for computers with the Win95 system to appear, so he never announced it publicly.
Now Zhou Yaoguang's proposal, although not nutritious, also brought back Gu Kun's forgotten thoughts.
It happened that boys also like electronic products, so I went shopping with Gu Kun.
A group of people wandered around for a while and finally found a store selling computers.
In this regard, we have to admit that Hujiang in 1995 was much worse than the special zone in the south. In the special zone in 1995, Huaqiangbei was extremely prosperous, and a group of elementary school graduates were working there to install computers.
It is said that after Xiao Ma graduated in July last year, he also installed computers and hung out in Huaqiangbei, earning 50 yuan for the installation fee of a computer. It was considered a high salary at the time. But later I saw that people without academic qualifications could also grab this job.
, so he couldn’t bear to be angry and switched to writing software.
Here in Hujiang, although the latest computers are also available for sale, there are really not many choices, just two big brands.
"Do you have a new computer with win95 operating system?" Gu Kun asked as soon as he entered the door.
"Huh? Sir, can you speak Chinese?" The clerk at the computer store was actually a little confused.
After the two sides chatted for a while, the other party decided to go his own way and recommended several models to him: "Sir, I don't understand the English models you mentioned. They are probably imported models.
Well, we have some here, and they are mainly sold to foreign businessmen for office use.
I advise you to buy a domestic brand, this one is Lenovo, it supports Chinese display, and the fonts are all Chinese, which is very conscientious. It is only a few hundred yuan more expensive than the original one, and it can display Chinese! If you buy those original machines,
You only have English letters displayed."
Gu Kun raised his hand to stop him: "We all have no problem with English, so we can leave without me."
When the clerk saw that the rebate was gone, the boss was unwilling to give in, but when he saw that Gu Kun was very temperamental, he did not dare to offend him.
In the end, Gu Kun wrote down the letters "windows95" and the other party answered them letter by letter. Only then did he understand what Gu Kun wanted to buy and showed him the price list.
In terms of price, Gu Kun is not worried about being fake. There is definitely a premium for buying a computer these days, and it is definitely much more expensive than an assembled machine, but at least the price is clearly marked, and it is not a matter of judgment.
He calculated that 30 units would be just under 500,000 yuan. If you install some necessary software, it would be almost enough.
"I buy 30 units, can you help me deliver them to Jiaotong University?"
When I heard that 30 units were required, the other person was so frightened that he immediately asked the store manager to come out and serve tea and cigarettes.
"This little comrade wants 30 units?"
"Just tell me if there is something in stock or not, whether it will be delivered or not. I am in urgent need, so I came here to see it. Otherwise, I would have someone bring the goods from Lijiapo from the special zone, and there would be no problem with normal customs clearance."
"Yes, yes, don't worry, I will take good care of you."
An hour later, a small truck drove steadily into the Jiaotong University campus. The driver of the truck seemed to have been cared for and drove very slowly.
Even though the compartment was padded with thick shock-absorbing foam, we never exceeded the speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour along the way, for fear of damaging something.
In addition to 30 desktop computers, Gu Kun also bought himself an IBM thinkpad-t200, which is also the latest model that has just been launched simultaneously. It is IBM's first high-end notebook equipped with Windows 95 system.
It has been almost a year since I came to this world, and I finally live a life where I can work with my computer and rely on it. I really miss it when I think about it.