But today we are here to negotiate and redeem the captives, so we cannot waste too much time on this issue.
At worst, he would mix poison into the Lake bug juice and send it out to see if the Blue Star people dare to eat and drink it!
Lan Qi temporarily put the problem behind him and said seriously: "Your Excellency Su Yu, let's get down to business.
We have a total of famous soldiers in your hands, what price do you need us to pay before you are willing to let them go?"
In the past few months, the Blue Stars have captured a total of 18,000 Skrull troops.
The nature of the Skrull army is actually different from that of the Blue Star army.
The Blue Star Army basically consists of young people joining the army on their own initiative, and then being promoted to senior officers through their abilities and experience in the army. It is completely out of touch with the lives of ordinary people. Officers do not understand the lives of ordinary people, and ordinary people do not know what senior officers are.
name.
But it's completely different on Skrull.
The senior officers in the Skrull army are all high-level experts of level five or above.
These high-level powerhouses have a great reputation and influence on Skrull itself. Many of them are well-known bosses. They have deep connections with the people and the people know them.
Because of this, they must ransom the soldiers and officers captured by the enemy, otherwise it will easily intensify domestic dissatisfaction.
Su Yu knew this very well, so he looked at Lan Qi and Cole opposite and said calmly: "Speaking of the ransom, why don't we calculate it according to the price of the [Mercenary Camp]?"
"[Mercenary Camp]?" Lan Qi and Cole looked at each other.
"That's right." Su Yu nodded and said, "According to the price at the [Mercenary Camp], the redemption price for a level 4 strongman is 0.5 tons of gold, and the redemption price for a level 5 strongman is 5 tons of gold.
By analogy, a sixth-level strong person is worth 50 tons of gold, and a seventh-level strong person is worth 500 tons of gold. What do you think?"
"..." Lan Qi and Cole took a deep breath at the same time, looking a little shocked.
How dare Su Yu set such a high ransom price? Are you crazy about money?
At present, the total number of Skrull's troops captured by Blue Star is 1, including 1 seventh-level legendary warrior, 16 sixth-level sacred warriors, and 132 fifth-level warriors.
If calculated this way, they would have to pay at least 2,800 tons of gold! Equivalent to one-fifth of their government's total inventory!
Moreover, these gold can be quickly converted into Blue Star's combat power, which they absolutely cannot accept.
"Your Excellency Su Yu, that's not how the ransom is calculated." Lan Qi shook his head with a dark face and said:
"According to our average ransom price on Skrull, the ransom for a fifth-level strongman is about 50 million Sun coins, which is a little more than 0.2 tons of gold. We cannot accept the price of 5 tons you set."
"0.2 tons?" Su Yu crossed his arms and sneered: "0.2 tons is too little! Is it worthy of us providing delicious food and drink to the prisoners? And the situation is completely different now."
Su Yu paused for a moment before continuing: "Now your planet and our planet are in a life-and-death battle, which is completely different from your original ransom model.
Think about it for yourself, if I let you redeem it at the price of 0.2 tons of gold for each fifth-level powerhouse, I can only get about 100 tons of gold in the end.
With these 100 tons of gold, we can only exchange for 20 level 5 mercenaries, and the improvement in strength is very limited.
And if you redeem these captives, you will get 1 seventh-level legendary strongman, 16 sixth-level saints, 132 fifth-level strongmen, and an elite force of 100,000 people!
Calculating it this way, didn’t we lose money? Why should we do this business? Everyone in the live broadcast room, are you right?”
After hearing Su Yu's words, the live broadcast room immediately started a dense screen-swiping mode:
"Yes, it's such a loss to change it like this."
"I would rather kill these prisoners than take advantage of the Skrulls in vain!"
"Only a fool would be willing to change!"
"I think the idea of 'a fifth-level strong man in exchange for 5 tons of gold' that Mr. Ke just mentioned is feasible."
"I also think it is feasible. In this way, both sides can improve their strength at the same time, and no one will take advantage of the other."
Su Yu also translated these barrages into Skrull language and showed them to Lan Qi and Cole on the opposite side, letting them know about Blue Star's turbulent public opinion.
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Lan Qi was also sullen now, feeling that things were a bit tricky.
Indeed, their ransoming of prisoners now is different from that on Skrull.
If you think about it from another person's perspective, even if he were Su Yu, he wouldn't be able to sell a level 5 prisoner for 0.2 tons of gold, because this would undoubtedly be an attempt to capitalize on the enemy!
But the prices Su Yu gave were too high, so high that they exceeded the bottom line given by His Majesty the Emperor.
So Lan Qi continued: "Your Excellency Su Yu, our Skrull planet basically pays this price for redeeming prisoners. If you don't believe it, you can ask your 'friend' on the Scrooge planet."
After hearing Lan Qi's words, Su Yu smiled.
He took out a lounge chair from his necklace and lay down on it, as if he was ready for a long negotiation.
Not only that, he also took out a bottle of orange juice and took a sip slowly, and then said: "Let me tell you again, the situation now is different from before. Now we are in a life and death battle, and we will not do this at our own expense."
People’s affairs.”
"Let's do this." Lan Qi thought for a while and made a compromise: "How about I double the ransom amount and exchange 0.4 tons of gold for a level 5 strongman?"
Su Yu immediately shook his head: "It still doesn't work, we will still suffer too much.
But now that you have shown sincerity, I must also show sincerity in equal measure. How about this, I will reduce the ransom price by 10%, and exchange 4.5 tons of gold for a level 5 strongman, so you can always accept it, right?"
"I raised the ransom price by 100%, and you lowered the price by 10%. This is so insincere!"
"Aren't you talking nonsense? If you increase the price by 100%, you will only increase the price by 0.2 tons of gold. If I lower the price by 10%, you will decrease the gold by 0.5 tons. Who is so insincere?"
"But you are like a lion with your mouth wide open! Is it natural for you to surrender a lot, right?"
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In this way, Su Yu and Lan Qi started a fierce bargaining.
Fortunately, both parties are willing to reach a deal, and they will try their best to restrain their emotions to prevent the negotiation from breaking down, and try to achieve results as much as possible.
The negotiations lasted for more than two hours in total.
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During these two hours, the two sides not only used lip service to negotiate, but also found a lot of "off-site assistance."
Lanci called His Majesty the Emperor four times in a row to inform him of the current status of the negotiations and to ask for His Majesty's views.
Su Yu also changed his negotiation strategy based on some reasonable suggestions on the barrage.
Speaker Hu Jing, Political Commissar Zhang and other senior officials of the coalition government are watching the live broadcast, and will also edit some special barrages to remind Su Yu.
After two hours of negotiation and mutual compromise, at around 2 p.m., the two sides finally reached an agreement and worked out a result acceptable to both parties.
Lan Qi reported the results to the emperor.
After obtaining the agreement, the two parties formally signed a ransom agreement at the spring of Mount Fuji.