"Then I won't delay you. I will take care of the affairs at Hengsheng. You are busy with your work."

After reporting to Gu Kun on the final shipments in the stock market, Liang Jinsong stood up and prepared to leave.

Gu Kun politely asked the guest: "Hey, what's the rush? It's not a critical moment now. Just throw it away and leave it to your subordinates. It's rare to come to Lanfang. If I ask you to travel such a long way, just eat some durian and drink it."

Ordering coffee and then dismissing it is too unkind.

Stay and have fun for a few days. We have two major projects here recently that are about to lay foundation stones. It’s not too late to watch the ceremony and then leave.”

Liang Jinsong followed suit and agreed.

Gu Kun immediately ordered his subordinates to arrange a separate manor villa for the guests to stay.

Anyway, the land price in Sarawak is too cheap. Even if Gu Kun builds hundreds of farmhouse villas on the freehold plantation land he bought, no one will talk nonsense.

In the next two days, while the other guests were relaxing from the fatigue of traveling, Gu Kun also did some calculations for himself.

The operation of completely selling off Hong Kong real estate stocks in the first seven months of this year has nominally brought Gu Kun a capital return of 15 to 6 billion. (The stocks sold last year only paid off all leverage and other financing, which were costs.

part, not much left)

However, not all of this money remains in Gu Kun's own hands. The money he has spent during this period has opened a lot of new holes.

For example, for plantations, mining, and cross-sea bridges in Malaysia... after the second half of 1997, the full payment was not made at that time, but was paid in stages according to the progress of the project.

As mentioned before, the original purchase of these hundreds of nearly a thousand square kilometers of freehold plantation land cost a total of three to four billion ringgit. Even though the ringgit against the U.S. dollar had dropped by 20 to 30% from the exchange rate in 1996, then

After conversion, it still costs 7.8 billion US dollars.

To engage in a plantation economy, it was not enough to just have land. Gu Kun also built roads, pulled water and electricity, and engaged in water conservancy. Even if the land he bought had a certain degree of development and basic infrastructure, it would still cost hundreds of millions if he did not start from scratch.

Coupled with the need for such a large amount of high-end varieties of durian, coffee, cocoa tree seeds, transplantation and replanting, all the costs added up, Gu Kun's high-end luxury plantation economy in Sarawak has a cumulative cost of 2.5 to 3 billion US dollars.

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In addition, he spent about 1 billion US dollars on copper mining rights, more than 1 billion cross-sea railways and highway bridges, water diversion projects...

All projects in Sarawak require a total investment of more than US$6 billion, which will definitely be paid off by the end of 2000 at the latest.

After such a calculation, Gu Kun's cash flow of 15 billion US dollars came in, and all of a sudden he was left with only 9 billion US dollars.

At the beginning of the year, the world's largest luxury yacht was purchased in Germany for RMB 1 billion, and the investment in the world's most luxurious yacht decoration factory in Lanfang in cooperation with Lüssen Shipyard started from RMB 1 billion. This brings us to another US$2 billion.

The royal castle in Germany costs RMB 300 million, the luxury cars, planes and other luxuries all add up to RMB 200 to RMB 300 million. When investing in top French and Italian luxury brands, cash injections are used to make up for the equity difference of several hundred million, adding up to a total of 1 billion - this is still based on

Liang Jinsong operated better and saved Gu Kun as much money as possible. He exchanged the shares of luxury goods companies obtained from financial stocks in Hong Kong stocks for shares, thus minimizing Gu Kun's cash expenditure. Otherwise, just buying luxury goods companies would have cost him again.

Spend billions.

The balance of 9 billion is only 6 billion.

Now, the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel is about to officially lay its foundation. As the world's first seven-star hotel and the world's most luxurious hotel, the main construction cost of this project may not be expensive, but the decoration will definitely be extremely expensive. Gu Kun

Spending hundreds of millions of dollars first is necessary.

The Lanfang Tower, the world's tallest building, has also begun excavation and preparation work for its foundation. The building has not yet been raised, but funds starting from 2 billion yuan are waiting for Gu Kun.

During the more than half a year of self-cultivation, the designers of Jiaotong University and Tongji Construction Institute hired by Gu Kun were not idle. Those people were frequently charged tens of millions of dollars in design fees each time, which made them excited.

He was equally excited, working overtime day and night without fear of sudden death from overwork, and frantically rushing to the design progress. Those projects that were a bit of a miracle started obviously faster than Gu Kun initially expected.

Sure enough, I still can’t believe the work speed of the designers hired by the people of Dubai in history. Those uncles hired by the people of Dubai took two or three years to complete the designs. If they were replaced by Chinese designers who were willing to work overtime if they had money, the efficiency gap would be huge.

Fly up.

Counting other sudden investments and unexpected additional expenses, and not considering the subsequent sell-off of Internet stocks that currently have a market value of nearly 40 billion U.S. dollars, Gu Kun's previous 15 billion U.S. dollars were obtained solely from real estate stocks.

It would be good to have 3 billion in cash left.

"Money is really wasted. I got 15 billion from selling stocks in half a year, but 12 billion has already been spent. At least the arrangements are clear. If I were not a reborn person, I would have to work hard to make ends meet. I finally understand people like Wang Wanda.

It claims to have hundreds of billions of assets, but it still needs hundreds of billions of additional liabilities to operate. If I hadn't been crazy about making money due to the financial crisis and the oil field expectations, I would have continued to operate with debt."

After settling the accounts, Gu Kun couldn't help complaining about how useless the money was.

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Three days later, it will be the groundbreaking ceremony of the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel.

After Gu Kun personally inspected the durian/coffee plantation in Sarawak, he also personally returned to the main island of Lanfang to preside over relevant ceremonies.

For ordinary hotel projects, it is now not Gu Kun's turn to cut the ribbon or give a speech in person, but this seven-star sailing hotel is extremely important, and Gu Kun has to do it himself.

Because the biggest selling point of this kind of hotel is the positioning gimmick of "the world's most upscale", bragging is far more important than actual work. There must be continuous media exposure and praise throughout the entire process from the start of construction to the opening.

Publicity is the primary productive force, but hard work is not.

For this groundbreaking ceremony, Gu Kun invited many friends from Hollywood, as well as friends from the French and Italian luxury goods industries, and treated everyone to food, drinks and fun.

Celebrities in the luxury world, including John Rupert, Francesco Pinault, Giorgio Armani, Galeazzo, and McQueen, all of whom were acquainted with Gu Kun, were invited. There was also his old lover Pablo, who had broken up.

As well as Pablo's father, Richard Hilton, and several other core members of the Hilton family.

The Hilton family doesn't feel any embarrassment. They are in this business anyway, and they will definitely give each other business credit if they have the opportunity to appear on the scene.

Face is not valuable, only exposure is. Richard’s expression showed no embarrassment at all about Gu Kun dumping his daughter after playing with him for more than two years.

I won’t go into detail about those celebrities in Hollywood. Anyway, there are celebrities who have had some cooperation with Gu Kun, whether it is Roland Emmerich or Tom Hanks. As long as the current schedule is vacant, Gu Kun

Everyone is invited.

He even invited the most popular Leonardo DiCaprio at the moment, and it didn't cost much - "Titanic" at the end of last year was an epoch-making masterpiece that claimed to dominate the global box office charts for ten years. As the leading actor, Decca

Bio is now very red and purple.

But who knows that Gu Kun is also the world's top superstar, top aristocrat and celebrity? There are so many Hollywood stars who come to him to lose weight. It's normal for Li Zizi to come to support him when he is just starting out and wants to show that he is not too flashy.

As for the Asian guests, they already felt a little weak after seeing the list of supporters from Hollywood and the luxury industry.

While the chirping of birds and the fragrance of flowers seep in, mosquitoes and flies inevitably run in.

Therefore, there are also some spies who come uninvited or have secret missions, and they also come to explore the way - especially those potential competitors who want to steal the wonders, and they all want to find out what Gu Kun's wonders will cause.
Chapter completed!