The three of them had dinner and returned to Luo Li's office together.
Rory had finished eating earlier than them and was sitting at his desk with a cigar in his mouth, contemplating the negotiations.
"Master Rory."
After Lin En and others came back, they bowed and sat around Luo Li.
"Let's get down to business." After Carmine's stimulation, Rory now maintained a serious expression, "Do you have any good ideas about negotiations?"
"I don't know much about the negotiation situation. Can you briefly explain the current situation?" Lynn asked Rory to reveal the secret in a legitimate name.
Because the three people in front of him would become the main executors of the plan, Rory did not hide anything in front of them: "My father means to negotiate for peace first. Our bottom line is to obtain the ownership of the new mine.
Pay them eight thousand gold in six months for a total of ten years, which is one hundred and sixty thousand gold.”
One hundred and sixty thousand gold!
It’s really not a small amount of money!
Lynn now holds five thousand gold, which is enough to buy a mansion in the urban area of Tswold City, a place where land is very valuable, plus a car, and send Matt to a noble school.
If he could have 160,000 gold, he would be considered a respectable person even if he went to the royal capital of Laizein, and he could just lie down and squander it as he pleased in this life.
No wonder Carmine would shamelessly compete with Paramount for minerals.
What Carmine gave to Paramount Company was only a small portion of the profits, which shows that the actual total value of the new mine may not be less than 400,000 gold!
"If Paramount doesn't accept this condition and wants to get more benefits, we have to use force to force them to agree." Rory rapped his knuckles on the desk, "The key is here. Don't use force.
They will not compromise, but they have taken the conflict to a new level by using force, and we are not sure what outrageous things Paramount will do."
On the one hand, I feel shameless and want to seize the mineral veins discovered by others, but on the other hand, I am afraid that if I do this, the other party will do something outrageous.
Quite ridiculous.
To paraphrase a sentence that Linn heard on Earth, it is:
If you reason with him, he will act like a rogue with you. If you act like a rogue with him, he will try to reason with you.
How can there be such a good thing in the world!
"If they don't agree, we will threaten him to report the mineral vein to the government. Then he will have to spend money to obtain a mining license and pay taxes. Everyone will make less." Robert racked his brains while eating.
I came up with this idea.
Luo Li was expressionless: "Do you know why my father gave the final price of eight thousand gold for six months? Because after estimation, if the mine is reported to the government and the money is made openly, the income that Paramount Company can get in six months is about
It’s seven thousand gold. The terms we gave are better than breaking up, just to avoid that Paramount Company can’t beat us and choose to report it in anger.”
"Then we can just use this method to blackmail them." Robert slapped his thigh and became even more smug.
Lin En reminded: "Master Luo Li means that we can use this method to threaten them, and they can also use this method to threaten us. If it comes to that, we will be the ones who lose the most."
The price given by Carmine was eight thousand gold. Paramount Company reported to the government that the profit after excluding a series of expenses was estimated to be seven thousand gold.
In other words, if you don't compromise with Carmine and break up with Carmine, Paramount will make less than a thousand gold every six months.
The Carmine Mining Field is different.
They keep a big head for themselves, earning about 12,000 gold every six months.
If they break up, even if they can get a share of the profits, it will not be much different from Paramount Company. In this case, in a lose-lose situation, they will earn five thousand less gold every six months.
Although they both lost, they must have lost more miserably, which is why they used this method to blackmail. In fact, they will become more passive.
"Then... why are they threatening us in this way?" Robert not only failed to solve the problem, but also raised a new question.
Rory rubbed his temples: "This is what we need to discuss too."
"Does Mr. Carmine have any countermeasures?" Lin En wanted to know first.
"My father is determined to get the new mineral vein, so he has already arranged for some powerful people in advance. After he really breaks up with us, as long as we pay enough reward money, those powerful people will work secretly to let the government hand over the mining rights of the new mineral vein to us.
"Luo Li said, "It's just that these powerful people are greedy, and my father doesn't want to take this path."
"How much money do these powerful people want as a reward?" Lin En was curious about how much money would put Carmine in such a difficult position in front of a 'gold mine' worth 400,000 gold.
Rory clenched his fists: "They want my father to establish a company for the new mine after he succeeds, occupy no less than one-third of the shares, and then make a steady stream of money."
one third……
Another profit of hundreds of thousands of gold.
Nothing better than the peace negotiations with Paramount.
And if you really cooperate with them, you won't make much money, and you'll have to quarrel with Paramount and bear business risks.
It’s not surprising that Carmine didn’t choose this path directly.
"Didn't Mr. Carmine come up with any new ideas?" Linn asked again.
Rory adjusted his breathing and unclenched his fists: "Of course my father would not sit still and wait for death. He thought of two additional countermeasures. One of them is for us to destroy the machinery and facilities they built near the new mine. The other is to bribe them.
The company's surveyors let their surveyors give wrong estimates, lowering the value of the new veins in Paramount's mind, so that they believed that the price of eight thousand gold every six months was attractive enough, and they could make a profit without losing money."
"How's the latter going?"
"It went quite smoothly. This is one of the biggest reasons for our successful negotiation." Rory admired his father very much. "What we have to do is add insurance to my father's plan to ensure that it will be a complete success. In case something goes wrong.
Even if there is an accident, we can perfectly resolve it with our rich emergency plans."
It's pretty good to be able to make these three attempts without being unreasonable.
As long as Paramount Company changes the person responsible for the matter, Linn will feel that there is basically no possibility of reversing the matter under a combination of carrot and stick.
But Winston is a person full of mystery and uncertainty.
Even Lin En couldn't figure out what countermeasures he had, and he dared to go to the meeting alone knowing that Carmine had bad intentions.
Will things really go in the direction Carmine ordered?
He probably wouldn't be so happy with it.
Rory leaned forward: "I think my father's layout is already very comprehensive. We want to make further improvements only in terms of force. I have already mentioned the problems we face in this aspect at the beginning."
——Using force will definitely work, but it will also cause greater trouble.
How to avoid trouble?
Lin En really thought about it first and tried to show that he had worked hard in Luo, so as to avoid the leakage of information later. He doubted himself: "What if our force is mainly based on intimidation? This way we can achieve both
purpose without causing substantial harm."
"Winston is a man who is brave and resourceful and will not be fooled by such tricks. If we want to do it, we can only do it for real. I hope that everyone will focus the next discussion on whether we really hurt him.
How can we prevent him from becoming angry and causing us to lose everything?"
Todd crossed his arms across his chest: "Then show more cruelty. Let Winston believe that if he dares to fight to the death, his end will be a thousand times worse than now."
"More cruel? You mean..."
Todd raised his hand with missing fingers to Rory: "Chop off one of his fingers. When he sees the blood, he will know whether we are joking or serious."
Robert agreed with Todd's words and immediately echoed: "Don't look at Winston's usual fearless appearance, but he has never encountered anyone who really dared to attack him. I can assure you that if we really
Chop off one of his fingers and he will immediately become incontinent. He will kneel down and promise you that he will never fight against the Carmine mining site again."
Rory puffed out the smoke: "This is a good idea. To make money, the competition is to see who is more ruthless... but it is not foolproof."
"Then be more ruthless." Todd believed in fighting violence with violence, and would crush the opponent to death first.
"I can do this." Robert stepped forward to show off.
With Carmine's current two-handed plan, the probability that it will actually be Rory's turn to come forward is extremely low and close to zero.
Even if it comes to the point where he needs to take matters into his own hands, Robert is still confident that he can use his own methods to scare away the courage of a stupid young man who lives in a greenhouse and advocates improving the treatment of workers.
"Lynn, what do you think?" Rory looked at Linn.
Lin En said perfunctorily: "I think it's pretty good."
He didn't care what plan Rory laid out.
Anyway, he can't implement it 100%.
"If we decide to do this, we have to be more prepared." Everyone under his command suggested doing this. Rory thought about it again and again and accepted this method. Even if it doesn't work in the end, he can defeat his opponent Wen Si.
It was worth it to torture him half to death, "Robert, tidy up a room as quickly as possible and transform it into a gloomy interrogation room."
"Interrogation room?" Robert was stunned.
"The kind where torture instruments are displayed on several walls, filled with the smell of blood, and preferably paired with one or two corpses that died tragically." Rory described, imagining, "I really want to see Wen
What does it look like for Stan to be frightened out of his wits, even to the point of being frightened crazy?"
Robert glanced at Todd and Lynn: "I understand, I'll do it right away."
"Will Winston really be frightened by such a battle?" Lynn suspected that Rory's understanding of Winston was still very superficial.
"Where did he get such courage? Isn't it because he is able to show confidence now that he relies on the support of his family? When he has no one around him and is manipulated by us, it will be easy to be scared crazy." Luo Li
Subconsciously, he was making assumptions about Winston based on his own situation.
Lin En saw this and raised his eyebrows: "I'm looking forward to it."