Chapter 780: Duoji has no money

"Okay." Tsuruta and Dorje responded at the same time.

Immediately, they each wrote a number on the paper, then folded it and handed it to Li Feng.

Li Feng took the lead in opening the paper Duoji gave him and said: "The Tibetan envoy has two hundred and fifty thousand taels of gold."

This number made Tsuruta's face look a little gloomy.

Seeing this, Duoji sneered and thought: "We will definitely win."

Li Feng opened the note from Tsuruta with an expressionless face and said: "Messenger Fuso, bid 250,000 taels."

"What? You also bid 250,000 taels?" Duoji was a little surprised.

Tsuruta said with a gloomy face: "If I knew that you also offered 250,000 taels, I would pay 20,000 taels more."

"Hmph, if so, do you think Fusang still has a chance?" Duoji snorted coldly.

The Goguryeo envoy said: "Lantian Hou, the prices on both sides are now the same. What can you do to solve it?"

Li Feng pondered for a moment and said: "Two ways, one is to bid again, and the second is to see how many bullets you need.

The Tubo envoy and the Fusang envoy, two hundred and fifty thousand taels of gold are just money to buy a musket, but it is useless to buy the musket alone. It is just a fire stick. Only when it is equipped with bullets can the musket become a murderous weapon."

"I will pay 50,000 taels of gold to buy bullets." Tsuruta stretched out his left hand and spread his fingers toward Dorje.

Duoji looked at Tsuruta's arrogance angrily and said in a deep voice: "We don't want bullets, only muskets. Marquis Lantian, since the price offered by the Fuso envoy and I is the same, then we can each pay half and divide the thousand muskets equally."

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"Good idea." The Goguryeo envoy said.

Envoy Xue Yantuo also said: "It is indeed a good idea, Marquis Lantian, you don't have to worry about it. We can all get muskets and have enough money to buy bullets, so why not do it."

Li Feng nodded and said: "That makes sense. Even if I agree, I have to ask others if they agree."

His eyes looked at Tsuruta, and everyone immediately looked at Tsuruta.

Tsuruta said: "No, the price of muskets has increased so much now just to be able to buy them all at once.

Now you want to share it equally, but I firmly disagree. You are willing to form a joint venture. Even if it is a joint venture, as long as the price is higher than 50,000 taels of gold, then I will give you the musket."

Li Feng looked at Duoji and the others, shrugged, and said: "Messengers, as long as you bid fifty thousand and one tael of gold, then all these thousand muskets will be handed over to you."

Duoji and others suddenly looked extremely ugly. How could they have any money? The 250,000 yuan had already been used up by them all. Now they only had the money they needed to live.

Hetian stood up, cupped his hands to Li Feng and said, "Thank you very much, Marquis Lantian, for reminding me. I will raise money now."

Li Feng nodded and said at the same time: "It is okay to raise money, but you are not allowed to send people to disturb those Tang businessmen, that is, the Tubo businessmen and ordinary people who were driven out of Tubo by Lu Dongzan."

"That was Lu Dongzan's private decision, not my decision by Tubo Zampu." Dorje said in a deep voice.

His face was very gloomy, and Li Feng was cutting off his last resort.

Li Feng said: "I don't care about this. I only know that Lu Dongzan was still your prime minister and an envoy of a country at that time. Now he wants to kill me, so you have to sever ties with him. I don't care about this.

However, now they are Tang people and Tang merchants, and they are no longer Tubo people and Tubo merchants.

If you don't want to cause a war because of a few common people, you'd better not try it."

Duoji looked at Li Feng's very serious expression and knew that Li Feng was not joking.

"Don't worry, I won't do it. I know there is a Datang Bank in Datang that can provide loans. Give me a day and I will..."

"Wait, why are you still wasting time? Tubo envoy, you can borrow money, and I, Fusang, can also borrow money. Since we agreed to bid today, we will bid today.

Now that our prices are the same, I would like to ask you if you can add more money?" Tsuruta interrupted Dorje directly.

He did this for two reasons. One was that he really didn't want to waste time, and the other was that he didn't want to waste money.

The original price of a musket was one hundred taels of gold, but now it has become two hundred and fifty taels of gold. The price is too high. Even if Fuso was rich, he would not spend it like this.

Therefore, he could not let Duoji delay any longer and raise the price again.

Li Feng nodded and said: "We really can't delay the time any longer, otherwise the envoys from Persia and Dashi have not arrived, how can we let them participate again?

I treat them as abstentions now, and now that they want to participate, I will not let them participate again."

"In this case, I would like to ask Marquis Lantian, since the price between me and Fusang is the same, why can he buy muskets but we can't?" Duoji said unconvinced.

Li Feng smiled and said: "Messenger from Tubo, are you sure you only want to buy muskets and not bullets?"

"I will only buy muskets this time, and I will buy bullets later," Duoji said.

"Okay, I promise to sell you all the muskets, but I want to remind you that muskets are scarce and bullets are also scarce.

When I bought the musket this time, I also sold the bullets. But now that the musket is sold, the bullets are not, so these bullets can only be used for firearm practice.

If you want bullets but I don’t have any, then I will not bear this responsibility," Li Feng said.

He was clearing the relationship, and at the same time he had no intention of selling the bullet to Dorje.

Li Feng's words immediately aroused Duoji's dissatisfaction. He wanted to say something, but suddenly realized that it was useless. Li Feng gave himself a chance, but he really couldn't come up with the money.

"Envoy from Tibet, let's forget about this matter," said envoy Gao Changguo, "Since we can no longer afford the money to buy bullets, I don't want the muskets either."

"What the envoy of Gaochang Kingdom said makes sense, and I don't want it anymore."

"I don't want it either."

"I don't want it either."

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For a time, Dorje's alliance collapsed. Except for Xue Yantuo, Goguryeo and other big countries close to the Tang Dynasty, they still stood with Tubo.

"You, you... how could you be so treacherous and break your promise?" Dorje roared angrily.

The envoy from Gaochangguo said unhappily: "Emissary from Tibet, I don't like to hear what you are saying. I have already spent all the money I can, and now we really have no money to buy bullets.

What, do you want me to spend 10,000 taels of gold to buy a musket and return to Gaochang State to serve as a fire stick messenger?"

"That's right, I am a small country. I can provide ten thousand taels of gold. This is almost a waste of national capital for us." Another envoy said.
Chapter completed!