"Princess Caroline invites everyone to her winery in Bordeaux and have a Christmas Eve dinner together."

Gu Ao looked at his cell phone for a while, then hung up the phone and reposted it to the female friends around him.

The "brick" in his hand weighs more than two pounds and is very compact.

Americans had 1g of mobile phones last year, and they gradually set up networks from big cities. The French are also relatively avant-garde and advanced in this regard, only one year behind Americans, and began to introduce them at the beginning of this year.

Because of the small territory and the construction progress is fast, in just one year, the urban areas of the five core cities of Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes and Bordeaux have been covered by signals.

It can be said that the French are the second-tier major powers in the world to introduce mobile phones with Japan. In contrast, when Gu Ao was in Xiangjiang, he had no use to use his mobile phone. He could only arrange servants to take care of the house in each residence, and then rely on the on-board mobile phone to ensure that he can be found by his partners at any time.

However, France is not a vassal of the Americans like Japan, so while actively introducing the French, they also retained a certain degree of autonomy.

Mainly, French communications giant Alcatel reached a certain distribution negotiation with Motorola, which is roughly "for market to technology". While allowing Motorola to quickly expand the French market, it authorized certain technologies to Alcatel for use together. Local production can be localized if Alcatel authorized to produce locally.

There is nothing to elaborate on the specific details.

The reason why Gu Ao is so clear about the details here is simply because when he was studying for a doctorate at Kissinger, the senior Patrick, who was a classmate, was the major shareholder of Alcatel. Gu Ao, who has a wide range of friends, has connections everywhere, and is not surprising that he is well-informed.

(This senior Patrick won't have any role. Here I just mentioned that Gu Ao has connections in this area. This supporting role was not designed by me, because in history, there was indeed a certain Alcatel executive/major shareholder family among the graduate students Kissinger taught at the Wallace Diplomacy School.)

...

The girls around him naturally had no objection to Gu Ao's invitation.

"You have the final say, you decide." Mina agreed without caring, and her thoughts soon drifted to the point that other women should pay attention to.

"But if you ask me to have dinner with the Monaco royal family, I won't wear anything that is related to the ragged brand like 'Hermes'! It's a terrible loss."

Hermes became "that kind of rag" when he got to Mina's mouth. If an outsider who didn't know the truth would definitely misunderstand that Mina was a rich girl.

However, people in the circle know what kind of brand this insists on. It is too servile to customize in the Monaco royal family. The previous generation had the customized model of Princess Carey, and this generation had the customized model of Princess Caroline.

Many of the Hermes that Gu Aoyuan gave Ye Wan and Xiao Sui were customized by the Monaco royal family.

When you wear this kind of thing outside to party with others, you will naturally be very proud. But when you come back to eat, drink and party with the people from the Monaco royal family, you will get a little bit.

Gu Ao is so merciful and can understand his thoughts, so he said openly: "It depends on you. As long as you can report whatever you want, I will give it to you."

"Don't worry about you, a big man! You, a big man, knows what kind of women's clothes and jewelry are." Mina smiled proudly, "I will wear my own clothes and bring some antique jewelry from the Romanov dynasty era, without the brand."

Gu Ao smiled and hugged Mina in his arms and asked, "Where did you come from the ancient goods from the Romanov dynasty? I remember when I was in the Diplomacy Academy, you told me that your Lucian bloodline is not a great nobleman."

"I have been doing liquor business in the past two years, and they can't pay off their debts? In places like Afghanistan, how many goods do you think can be settled with serious foreign exchange? Do the Lucians have so much foreign exchange? They want more goods but cannot get foreign exchange, so they get things from various channels, or over-consuming on the front line, and the materials that have disappeared on the accounts will appear.

As for my family’s bloodline, please, the situation was not good a few years ago. Who dared to tell the truth about their overseas relations? Did you dare to say what your grandfather and uncle in Wanwan did? Don’t you dare. Even if you are like this, my family must say that my grandmother is a poor Lucia.

Even during the Republic of China, those Bailu who were wandering over were "real princesses, daughters of the Duke and Marquis's family." They were afraid of being humiliated and desperately said that they were civilians. On the contrary, the daughters of real civilians, especially those who do things that are slutty, lied to be the princesses and the duke's lady in order to sell them at a good price in Shili Western Farms or Ice City. These things are unbelievable."

When Mina answered this question, her expression flashed with a hint of hard work, but she was more proud of herself for being able to control such a big place and a slight sadness for the past. She couldn't help but lit a thin lady cigarette, as if she was thinking about the difficulties of hard mediation.

"Sometimes I also think that unless the Lucians' prohibition is revoked, there are very few merchants who can steal my sales. They say that some things that Lucians use to pay off their debts are hot. If you change someone to hold them in your hands, how can you cash them in?

At this time, my sister's advantage of being a business counselor in Iraq came out. She had just received the super-expendable goods in the Middle East, and immediately had a big customer who could eat no matter how much supplies you have. Try changing someone. The channels on either side are not smooth enough, and the intermediate materials to pay off the debt cannot be released in your hands, and the capital chain is broken in minutes."

When Mina said the last sentence, she had a little bit of a manly manner.

Gu Ao felt sad when he saw it.

Such a soft and cute girl, so hardworking and progressing, and since the age of the Diplomacy Academy... In the end, she had to mediate such a hard business in person.

"I don't care about you enough. If I work hard in the future, don't protect my relationship personally. Are we still short of money?" Gu Ao couldn't help but hold Mina in his arms with heartache and pampering, caring and comforting. It was purely spiritual and without any physiological needs.

"You guys talk, I'll pack up the things I need to go to the banquet first." Xiao Sui was also a little embarrassed, and at the same time she felt a sense of frustration that she was crushed at the career level. She quickly made excuses to walk away, and she was too lazy to listen to the corners of the wall.

Even though she and Mina have become accustomed to each other's existence, they must be comparative when it comes to their respective careers.

Gu Ao gave Xiao Sui an apologetic look and watched her go to the next door, without saying he could keep her.

Mina calmed down for a moment, drank the Picardy champagne at hand, and quickly returned to her posture in front of the people. Zhan Yan smiled: "The hardest time has passed, so how could I stop now. I just complained about the pain.

I know the best about the Lucian liquor business, and it will not last long. At most two years, maybe it will not last for two winters. Ge Qiao is not a ruthless person. If Afghanistan drags on and the situation is corrupt, he might admit defeat and not fight. The Lucian vodka ban will sooner or later relax.

Our path has been paved, so we are busy every winter to maintain customer relationships and transfer channels. I have calculated and earned 1.8 billion US dollars of foreign exchange for the country, so that the national team can earn 300 million to 40 million net profits. I personally have 50 million US dollars of net profits, so I will stop."

Mina's account has been calculated two years later, that is, by the end of 1987 and the winter of 1988, if the situation goes well, she can still make so much money.

Of course, the profit this winter is not counted in the "50 to 60 million US dollars". A considerable part of her has already put her money in order to ensure that after the New Year's Day holiday, the money can be used to buy consumer goods companies such as Kentucky fried chicken or Californian aromatic chicken.

Peterson's Blackstone Investment Fund has already done all the steps of cutting prices and finding spare tire dogs to bite dogs. Of course, Peterson will charge a 5 percentage point acquisition agency commission, or "financial service fee". That is, if Mina ends up spending 20 million US dollars to buy Kentucky, Peterson will have to receive a commission of 1 million.

These are all small businesses, and Peterson didn't expect to make much money. It was entirely due to Gu Ao's face, and he sold half and gave away multiple favors. By the way, he proved the operational level and strength of Blackstone Fund to Mina, a "new customer".

After all, just over a year ago, Peterson and Schwartzman had managed a Texas Instruments case of more than one billion US dollars for Gu Ao. The principal was dozens of times larger than buying a Texas fried chicken. If you get a financial service commission by percentage, you will have to be that kind of big project.

It's a bit far-reaching. This is something that only needs to be faced after the New Year, and Gu Ao doesn't want to think too much for the time being.

So he brought back this goalless chat topic and stopped and said, "Since you have thought about it, I won't interfere with you. I just say, I don't need you to compromise yourself for the money. Of course, if you want to do something by yourself, I will always support you."

When Mina heard this, she pecked Gu Ao's lips with tears in her eyes: "It's because my husband loves me the most. If you don't say that, you have to be happy on Christmas. I decided to go to the banquet. When I went to the banquet, I lied that I had one-quarter of the noble blood of the Romanov dynasty, so I didn't lose the price in front of Princess Caroline."

"You little goblin who is unyielding!"

...

In the past two days before the Christmas Eve dinner, Gu Ao and Mina reminisce about the past two days in Nantes, made some social preparations outside the board, and spent it safely.

Mina made herself very decent, completely satisfying the elegance of the noble ladies' gatherings, and also helped Xiao Sui improve her taste.

Early in the morning of the 24th, Gu Ao had his own extended luxury car, carrying a group of people upstream along the Loire River, and slowly watched the scenery. Then he turned on the highway, drove for more than an hour, and arrived in Bordeaux.

Gu Ao's current identity naturally needs to have his own mansion and luxury cars in France and Monaco, so there is no need to elaborate on this. Anyway, it is similar to the Mercedes-Benz system he drove in Xiangjiang. These expenses under the level of millions of dollars are a waste of writing in detail.

When we arrived in Bordeaux, it was less than noon, and it was a few minutes short of about 11 o'clock, so we could catch up with the castle bought by the Monacos for lunch.

Bordeaux is the urban area with the most ancient castles in France. Note that it is the castle, rather than the "winery" that is often mentioned in later generations in the rebirth of the text.

A winery is a winery, and a castle is a castle. Although many real estate properties around the castle will bring wineries, it is easier to buy wineries by spending money. If you can be considered a castle, you have to trace it back to it. It was inherited or bought from a certain count.

Ancient nouveau riche who had no titles built a winery that looked like a castle, and there was no right to be a castle.

The castle of the Monaco royal family in Bordeaux is naturally a serious castle. Although the history is not the oldest, it has been passed down from the industry established by the Grimalti family as a marriage-built period of the Grand Duke of Lombardy more than 600 years ago. It is located in the far suburb of the northeast of Bordeaux, on the banks of the Dore River, and there is no name.

At the same time, because this castle is not the fundamental base of the Monaco royal family, there is no armory of the Grimalti family. Outside the castle, there are large wineries and vineyards that once served as vassals (in modern times, of course, the land property rights were re-confirmed through purchase and sale, and no longer rely on feudal vassals)

Looking at this posture, Xiao Sui was already a little nervous.

Gu Ao and Mina reactivated some unused skills through years of education in the diplomatic system to ensure that they did not be rude.
Chapter completed!