In the end, the representatives of the Economic Union set the currency exchange rate of both parties at the price of the Union dollar equal to one silver coin.
At this time, Horns also realized the shortcomings of the Mark currency.
The smallest denomination is gold coins, which is much more convenient for large-amount transactions, but it is easy for others to take advantage of it, especially the big-tailed wolf of the Merox Empire.
A few days later, on the same beach, the first words Birx spoke made Horns couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
"One hundred million marks is too expensive."
As long as you are willing to bargain, it means that the other party is willing to do business.
"It can't get any cheaper. The Pickering Island you are on is one of the largest overseas islands in the empire." Horns said firmly. As for whether it is the largest overseas island, Horns doesn't know. In short, the importance of the island should be explained first.
Blow it again and say it again.
Burks also used this to argue with Horns for more than an hour, and finally brought the price back to 40 million Marks. However, it also made Horns very painful, and the annual rent was nearly 6 billion Marks.
"The rent is paid every five years, starting from the signing of the contract in the first year. Thank you for the 200 million mark benefit." Horns said with a smile on his face.
This is definitely the best deal he's ever done.
"We need these materials." Burks was not polite and took out all the pharmaceutical materials they urgently needed now.
As time goes by, Blue Star may become a world of high martial arts like the Sino Continent. However, this time will be very long. Preliminary estimates are that it will take at least thousands of years. The overall strength of Blue Star is much lower than that of the Sino Continent. Naturally, it will be much weaker.
The scarce potion material Blue Star is not available at all.
After looking at the list, Horns realized that those were not the most scarce resources in the mainland and could be sold to them. He nodded and took out the list of what they needed.
The Maxim Empire's purchase list is very simple, including large steelmaking equipment and various high-precision machine tools. This is similar to the Merlox Empire, except that they only have one economic alliance, while Aslan also has the Bremen Federation.
Burks nodded and quickly made a decision to sell domestic ordinary precision machine tools to the Maxim Empire. They would not be polite. They only rely on technology to be slightly better than the Sino Continent. If the technology of the Sino Continent is allowed,
If technology improves, there will be no way for Blue Star to survive.
After so many years of development, the alien races in other worlds have long discovered the greedy nature of the human race in Xinuo Continent. The reason why they have not started a war with Hell and the Abyss is that on the one hand they are powerful, and on the other hand there is no one in these two worlds suitable for the human race.
resources and development value.
The two parties are mutually beneficial, but they also secretly restrain each other to prevent the other party from developing too fast, and at the same time, they have to hide their weaknesses.
Horns has sent a message back. Their plan is very simple. They will rent out Pickering Island and not give the Economic Alliance a chance to land on the mainland. The only opportunity for exchanges and trade between the two sides is the beach where they are now, and here soon.
It will be built into a large deep-water port.
As for the ocean, Foer's attitude is very simple. Don't make any plans on the mainland. As for the ocean resources, you can let them develop them.
This condition made Burks overjoyed. It was the biggest good news after the meeting in the past few days.
"Your Majesty, is it inappropriate for us to do this?" Horns asked subconsciously.
After seeing the giant guns of the Economic Alliance battleships, he also realized the importance of the navy. Without the navy to contain it, coastal cities would live under the enemy's battleships and giant guns.
"Of course it's inappropriate, but if we don't do this, how can we let those Blue Star people help us develop ocean resources." Foer smiled coldly.
"With the establishment of the Ministry of the Navy, and Xia Ya as the Minister of the Navy, fully committed to the development of the navy, I do not believe that a large empire cannot develop a navy beyond the economic alliance."
Foer's last words made all the ministers in the court breathe a sigh of relief and shouted loudly.
"Your Majesty, Holy Ming!"
This is to prepare the Economic Alliance to act as scalpers. When the Imperial Navy becomes stronger, it will swallow up everything they develop in the ocean. It also allows the Economic Alliance to send troops to the East God's Sect's waters from time to time to appear as pirates and consume the strength of the East God's Sect.
The Melox Empire and the Magic City are too far apart, so before a complete supply line has been established, even the Economic Alliance cannot conduct an expedition to attack these two countries.
The most important thing in a naval expedition is not the supplies, but the supply islands and routes along the way. The Sino Continent is a world of high martial arts, and who knows that there are no super-level sea beasts in the ocean.
Nowadays, the navies of various mainland countries have been operating in coastal waters and rarely conduct far-sea operations.
The Maxim Empire finally reached a business alliance with the Economic Union.
The original coastal town was renamed the Main City of Mutualism and the empire's first deep-water port was built. This was also the only city where the Economic Alliance could land in the Sinomaxim Empire.
There are heavy troops deployed around the main city of Mutongji. There are also two great mentors and more than fifty people at the mentor level. It is very difficult for the economic alliance to send strong men to leave the main city of Mutongji. As for the coastal cities, the economy is not allowed.
The Alliance is closer than fifty kilometers away, which is enough distance to be observed by the magic tower in the main coastal city.
The first deal between the Economic Alliance and the Maxim Empire was not the warship that Horns coveted, but a machine gun that could be put into the battlefield as soon as possible, and it was also a heavy machine gun.
The Maxim Empire purchased two thousand guns in one go, each worth fifty-three marks, which made Horns feel bad. However, after seeing the power of the heavy machine gun, he nodded with satisfaction.
The heavy machine gun that Burks sold to Horns originated from Blue Star in 1451, which was one hundred and fifty years ago. At that time, the Economic Union had not yet been established. It was the pillar power of the Economic Union and it was famous for its firearms design.
Division Perino developed a heavy machine gun by himself. This machine gun adopted a special structure with bullet plates feeding ammunition.
The gun uses a gas-guided automatic principle, a water-cooled barrel, and a cage-shaped flash suppressor at the muzzle. Although the gun feeds bullets, it is slightly different from other similar types. Its feeding mode is the same as that of other similar types.
The Hotchkiss light machine gun is similar. It has a huge ammunition box to carry the bullet plates. It uses a large-capacity bullet plate with 25 rounds per plate. The ammunition box can install 5 bullet plates at a time. When firing, it starts to extract from the bottom bullet plate.
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Different from the crooked handle, this machine gun has a reliable structural design and solid spring plate materials, so the failure rate is very low during use. In addition, the spring plate capacity is large, the shooter only needs to concentrate on aiming and shooting, and the ammunition hand can not panic.
He hurriedly put bullets into the ammunition box. In terms of sustained firepower, it was stronger than the Maxim machine gun. The latter needed to be replaced after firing a ammunition belt, which made Istadta famous.