18. Transactions (XIII)
Kolchak stepped forward as the young merchant turned. Make a fist with your right hand and strike the position of the heart.
The male orc with a solemn military salute loudly announced his name:
"The Royal Navy of His Majesty the Tsar of the United Principality of All Rus' Principalities, Second Lieutenant Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak. ”
The baron's face on the side changed suddenly, and he almost taught this hard-headed naval fool a lesson, and he repeatedly persuaded so many people along the way, and he ended up telling Niu all about it.
This is not the principality itself, and the party that wants others is also here. At this time, what kind of martial dignity is not helpful to the negotiation of iron-making technology, why does this dead brain just not understand?!
Li Lin put on an interested look and looked at the man who was as strong and tall as the reef in front of him. Weathered by the storms of the sea, its physique is stronger than that of the ordinary bear orcs, who are usually very strong. The scars and slightly misshapen bones on his arms speak silently of the man's unusual experiences on the battlefield and in the Far North, or simply on ships in the Arctic Sea.
Tsar's Majesty's Naval ...... In front of the great armies of Albion and Charlemagne, those sampans were a joke.
His Majesty the Tsar and Ivan set out from the sea on an expedition to Albion. It took a whole generation of time and countless national funds to build a huge In that era of coming and going, the Red Imperial Navy, with the red Andre flag and even the dazzling red paint on the exterior walls of the battleships, used to be the most feared nightmare of mankind.
However, with the long-term deviation of shipbuilding technology, coupled with the management chaos caused by rampant nepotism and prevalence. The Red Fleet had long since decayed, and Ivan's hard work was now only a pile of bones and scum, at best a second-rate navy for coastal defense, and occasionally made a cameo appearance as a pirate, plundering the coastline cities of Lapland in order to pay the salaries of the sailors who could not open the pot at home, so as to maintain the formal existence of the duchy's navy.
Judging from the rather stylish second lieutenant in front of him, it seems that the Duchy Navy is not completely rotten at home, and his own army is still groping and learning about the sea.
Despite that shared infantile disease. Second Lieutenant Kolchak was indeed a talent.
"I have read your book The Ice of the Kara Sea and the North Sea, and it is an honor for me to meet a nautical expert and polar expedition like you. ”
The boy stretched out his hand sincerely, and his smile was as if he had carefully read the book that was also highly respected by the human nations, rather than reading Stasi's report.
"Welcome, naval warriors of Ross. Welcome to Agen Toraton. ”
The corners of Kolchak's mouth twitched. In the end, it was for the honor and glory of the navy that he bent slightly, and his hands were firmly clasped together. The lieutenant felt that the merchant's hand was a little hard, and the girl's silky skin was slightly cold, and soon the question of this unique touch was put out of the way by the lieutenant. The guests and hosts sat down in a pleasant atmosphere, and after a few idle polite words between the baron and Li Lin, they went straight to the topic of negotiation.
"Mr. President, the repeating crossbows produced by your company have superior performance. ”
"Thank you for your compliment, you have been falsely praised"
"Although the performance is superior. But the price in the market is really ......"
"Your Excellency, my company's products have the performance to match the price. Compared with the iron repeaters on the market, our steel crossbows have the best indicators in terms of weight, power, rate of fire, range, and accuracy. So you should be able to imagine how costly it would be to reproduce such a cutting-edge, high-quality product. In fact, we have been trying to compress our profit margins to the maximum and sell to the market at low prices. ”
Lie.
At any time, Li Lin and his subordinates would never do anything to suffer their own losses and serve others, especially when they positioned themselves as capitalists and exploiters.
Set such an expensive selling price. The aim is to make the human army temporarily ignore this early and immature product, which has as many advantages as it has its disadvantages. The sales target is limited to two groups: nobles who like hunting, mercenaries who often face death, robbers, and killers. During the sales process, the seller often gave discounts to mercenaries who traveled back and forth between Lapland and the Rus' borders. Naturally, the orcs who had suffered would chase after them with the bread that had already been spilled on the ground. Then there is the sale of repeaters to the orcs, and then it is Lapland's turn to be irritated, and then the fear of equipment disadvantage will spread to other human nations......
What a wonderful waltz, what a wonderful time. What a beautiful arms race and a non-stop skirmish -- any arms dealer would look forward to such a good thing as a peasant who longs for the spring rains, and the grandfathers of the council trembled with excitement.
Yuri Orlov can think of the sound of cash registers when he hears the sound of AK47 shooting, and the old grandfathers can see the scene of the treasury being filled with precious metal from Li Lin's plan, and by the way, they can also think of the human slaughter of orcs. The magnificent scene of orcs also killing humans is really a higher realm.
"1,500 little eju is too expensive. Mr. President. Even our country is difficult to afford this price. Kolchak spread his hands, like an old farmer who had no money to pay rent: "Why don't you sell us the steelmaking technology, and we will give you a price that will definitely not suffer a loss, what do you think?"
Li Lin shook his head, only a fool would hand over the things at the bottom of his box. Normal people would never do that, and asking such a question really makes people worry about the business and political intelligence of this second lieutenant.
But they came to Agen to procrastinate this time, originally to negotiate the purchase of steelmaking, and a refusal would inevitably lead to a stalemate in the negotiations, and the initiative was still in the hands of the other party.
"Your Excellency, my company's steelmaking is extremely demanding for the on-site environment. ”
The excuse has been prepared for a long time, and of course it is also a fact.
"Even if I am willing to sell the technology to your country, the training of personnel, the location of the steelmaking furnace, and the construction will take a lot of time, money, manpower and material resources. Judging by the results, it is not much cheaper than buying a batch of ready-made repeaters. ”
"But ......"
"Don't worry. ”
The arms dealer smiled understandingly, like a harmless rabbit.
"Our company has full sincerity to cooperate with the principality, and we have long prepared a usable plan for your country in this case. ”
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