One day in early October, a China National Airbus A320 flight that took off from Beijing and landed directly in Lanfang landed at Lanfang International Airport as scheduled.

The plane was bustling with passengers and almost completely full.

As a result, several slightly wealthy but not-so-rich passengers who originally planned to pay a little less for an upgrade after boarding the plane while there were vacancies in the first-class cabin were a little unhappy.

As we all know, in the early years, it was relatively more expensive to buy first-class cabins when pre-booking tickets on the ground. And if the plane is about to take off and the first-class cabins are not sold out, it would be a waste to be idle at this time.

Flight attendants can help upgrade economy class passengers at a discount. (Later, some airlines have upgraded their services, and the discounts are more flexible, and you can also redeem them with mileage points. If you fly often and have endless mileage points, you can also redeem them.

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A man named Yang, whose name cannot be revealed, is sitting in a suit by the window in the first-class cabin. Seeing that the seats next to him are all fully occupied, he feels a little emotional in his heart.

He is the CNOOC executive who had some business dealings with Gu Kun three years ago, that is, in the spring of 1998. Considering that he does not want to be named, let's call him Mr. Yang.

The purpose of his visit this time was to participate in the official opening ceremony of Lanfang Oilfield's commercial oil sales. By the way, he also shouldered the mission of some brother units to help lobby for other matters.

Of course, just like all other corporate executives or leaders of government agencies and institutions who have business dealings with Gu Kun, he has also been promoted in the past three years due to the outstanding performance of the projects he collaborated with Gu Kun.

Three years ago, he was just a person in charge of the overseas business department of CNOOC. Now that Lanfang Oilfield has finally produced oil and begun commercial sales, Mr. Yang has become the vice president of CNOOC.

Some people may think that such a promotion is too fast?

After all, it only took five or six years for other people who benefited from cooperation with Gu Kun to get promoted so much.

For example, President Xu of Jiaotong University was only the dean of Haiyuan back then, and he became the vice president not long after Gu Kun entered the school, and he has just become the president now.

Other Gu Kun collaborators from the COSCO department have also climbed up to the first level in five or six years. Whether it is He Lan who initially connected with Gu Kun or Mr. Ye from COSCO.

Mr. Yang of Huahai Oil has risen rapidly in just three years. Isn’t it too exaggerated in the eyes of ordinary people?

But in fact, if you carefully analyze the achievements he has made, you will know that this is not an exaggeration.

After all, in 2001, Hua Hai Oil had few successful overseas cooperation projects. Although the company name "Hua Hai Oil" contained the word "sea", it did not refer to overseas, but to offshore oil. Its original business was mainly

It conducts business in the offshore waters of China, especially the shallow waters near Tianjin.

Therefore, the current scale of CNOOC is far less than one-fifth of China National Petroleum Corporation or China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, which is just over 10% of the market value share. Any overseas project is a very precious achievement. Five billion barrels in the past

There is already a lot of room for imagination in terms of reserves.

In addition, Lanfang has no local currency and borrows RMB as its currency. Therefore, when Huahai Oil purchases oil from Lanfang, it should pay a proportion of the settlement amount to Lanfang, which is undoubtedly in RMB.

This is the first batch of crude oil in the world to be settled in RMB, which is an extra bonus because it has helped the internationalization of RMB. With such achievements, Mr. Yang was promoted from the overseas business department to the head office as a deputy in three years.

It seems logical.

And to make a digression, Lanzhou's use of RMB to sell oil could only be accomplished based on Lanzhou's situation and the international relations environment at that time.

Because the idiots in Oceania are very ruthless about selling oil without using US dollars in international trade. The reason why Lanzhou is exempted is that, on the one hand, Lanzhou does not have its own central bank and local currency, and uses RMB, so with

It is not easy for Oceania to control the RMB used in transactions between other RMB countries -

And there is precedent for this kind of exemption. For example, after the establishment of the Eurozone, many European countries have adopted the euro. And although the vast majority of European countries do not have oil resources and need to import oil, there are also some countries in the Eurozone that have a small amount of oil.

Petroleum.

For example, Hungary, which joined the EU in 2004, and Romania, which joined the EU in 2007, typically switched to the euro after joining. Then, a small amount of exported oil sold by Hungary and Romania to Germany was also settled in euros.

Even if Oceania insists on being an international troublemaker, "international crude oil trade is settled in US dollars", it can only control "transactions between two foreign countries with different local currencies", but cannot control "transactions between two foreign countries with the same local currency".

"Transaction". As long as the currency of the selling country and the buying country are the same, people can save trouble and don't need to bother to calculate the US dollar.

Oceania does not dare to be so overbearing as to obstruct even such a small matter, otherwise it will definitely cause public outrage around the world.

On the other hand, Oceania did not dare to influence Gu Kun's foreign exchange settlement decisions, which is also related to the current situation in Southeast Asia.

After all, Gu Kun took advantage of the situation in 1998 when Wall Street cable dogs aroused extreme hostility among more than 500 million people in Southeast Asia. Three years later, Oceania's strategic focus is now on Afghanistan and even Iraq in the future. In the Middle East

Before the problem was completely resolved, they had no intention of "returning to the Asia-Pacific" and having a "frontier presence" in Southeast Asia. Gu Kun took advantage of the vacuum period to create established facts, and then he led his cooperative allies to work together to reap benefits.

Gu Kun gave such great goodwill to surrender and indirectly helped the internationalization of the RMB.

Huahai Oil provides high price subsidies when buying oil to ensure that "if the international oil price rises, I will also increase it for you. If the international oil price falls, I will give you a protective floor price, or delay the observation for a few months to ensure that the international oil price is long-term."

Preferential policies such as "Reduce your purchase price only when the price goes down" are more than reasonable.

When people carry people in sedan chairs, it is for the convenience of others and their own convenience. As long as Gu Kun firmly believes in being an old friend of the Chinese people, he will not lose money in terms of gas.

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Mr. Yang's "fairy and chicken and dog" past will stop here and will not be repeated.

In a word, he only achieved his current status and achievements by following Gu Kun. This further strengthened his determination to continue to cooperate with Gu Kun more actively in his future career.

At the Lanfang Petroleum Company's sales opening ceremony the day after tomorrow, I will give you as much face as you can.

When his thoughts were wandering, the male secretary beside him reminded him: "Mr. Yang? We are about to land. The ground temperature is very hot. Why don't you just wear your shirt first? I will get your coat for you."

As a senior executive of a central enterprise, you still need to be very careful about your public image, so all the secretaries Mr. Yang uses are men to prevent others from gossiping.

After listening to his subordinates' suggestions, Mr. Yang came back to his senses. He looked at the terminal building and the shuttle bus outside the runway, and said with emotion:

"I really didn't expect that Lanfang is becoming more and more like China in terms of culture and festive atmosphere. People who don't know it think they are taking a domestic flight. When they get off the plane, there are still huge crowds of people, just like during the National Day Golden Week."

Of course he has visited Lanfang every year in recent years, but even last year or the year before last, he could feel that the festival atmosphere in Lanfang was different from that in China.

On the one hand, the traditional cultural atmosphere of celebrating the Spring Festival in Lanzhou is stronger, and adjustments must be made to adapt to the tropical climate.

On the other hand, it is obvious that the Lanzhou side will not celebrate China's "National Day". After all, the Lanzhou side ended its "protection" at the same time as Brunei on January 1, 1984. The National Day is naturally different from that of the northern country.

In previous years, even if Mr. Yang came during the National Day, he just felt that there were more domestic tourists from China than usual, while the life of the Lanfang people was as usual, with no preparations for the celebration at all.

This year is the first year that China has implemented Golden Week, and Gu Kun decided to set the opening date of Lanfang Petroleum Company's oil sales at this juncture, which led to the unusual celebration and excitement this year.

Mr. Yang could even deduce in his heart: With this oil field improving the quality of life of tens of thousands of people in Lanfang, I am afraid that Lanfang will create a new festival out of thin air during the National Day Golden Week, such as "Oil Field Festival".

Maybe this Oilfield Festival can be more festive than the National Day. After all, the fact that Lanfang was completely freed from the protection of foreign colonial dogs was not much to celebrate for the people. In 1984, the Brittany people were completely freed from the protection of foreign colonial dogs.

After the withdrawal, the quality of life of the fishermen and farmers did not improve immediately. How can it be compared to the current oil fields selling oil, which has welfare benefits all over the country.

Mr. Yang’s secretary’s surname is Liu, so let’s call him Xiao Liu.

After hearing the leader's emotion, Xiao Liu quickly echoed: "Who says it's not the case? Gu Kun chose this day to sell oil for the first time. He probably wanted to please us. To be precise, he wanted to please China in terms of international relations.

I have also seen the causes and consequences of the design exploration and development progress of the Technology Department and Engineering Department. We were supposed to rush to work, and we could sell oil in the second quarter of the first half of the year. It was Gu Kun himself who asked for an increase in benefits and did not allow us to work overtime, which made our people slow down.

I worked slowly and put it off until now.

I think he just wants to create a tourism festival in Lanzhou to coincide with our National Day holiday in the future, so as to attract more tourists from us - after all, there are only three golden weeks in China, and they agree with us during the New Year.

In the Chinese cultural circle, May Day is unified all over the world. There is only one National Day period left. The tourism growth performance and shopping growth performance in previous years are not as good as those during the Spring Festival and May Day.

Now that Gu Kun is doing this, he will fully squeeze out the National Day holiday in the future. Hey, not to mention that Gu Kun is also blessed and good people are rewarded. His original intention is to choose a holiday that caters to us to please us. Who can

I saw the news this morning, and it said that Oceania had officially announced the use of force against Afghanistan during the day yesterday, that is, in the early hours of this morning, and the oil price had already started to move.

If the Oceanians can end the war as quickly as the Gulf War, the oil price will not continue to rise, and it may fall back after a short period of time. But I read many analyses, and the Oceanians underestimate Afghanistan, the "graveyard of the empire".

Although Afghanistan and Iraq are not far away, their geographical environment is very different. Can the flat two-river valley plain of Iraq be compared with a country of thousands of mountains like Afghanistan? If Oceania falls into a quagmire in the Middle East, can oil prices continue to rise all year round?

.Gu Kunyi

By delaying the sale, you get a much higher starting price in vain. When people mention Lanfang Oilfield in the future, it will always be opened at a high price of fifty or sixty US dollars a barrel. It doesn’t matter if you make more money from this batch of oil initially. The key is

What a blessing, and the fame sounds good."

"Come on, I know everything." Mr. Yang listened for a while, got up and got off the plane, and told his secretary to shut up.

Of course, he didn't scold him, because he knew that the secretary was doing a "helping job", and he was afraid that Mr. Yang didn't know what congratulations and selling points he could exchange with Gu Kun's business. As a secretary, he had to
Chapter completed!