Eight hundred and fortieth chapters crazy bargaining
Awkward!
After Li Qi's words, Richard felt extremely embarrassed. They Xixia had really done a lot of despicable things like killing people and stealing goods on the Silk Road. Of course, most of these "activities" had political significance.
, one is to prevent the Western countries from communicating with the Song Dynasty and weaken the influence of the Song Dynasty, and the other is to expand to the west. For a period of time, they achieved good results and expanded a large area in the west.
The territory also successfully cut off the connection between the Song Dynasty and the western countries.
But you just need to be aware of this kind of thing. Saying it will only make the atmosphere more embarrassing. However, Li Qi has always been merciless when speaking, especially when doing business. As long as he can get enough benefits from it, no matter how ugly it is,
If so, he dared to say it.
"The economy makes me laugh." Richard forced out a smile and said, "I admit that this kind of thing does happen in our country, but then again, this kind of thing happens in every country. Is it expensive?
Is there not a single thief or robber in the country?"
Li Qi laughed and said: "Of course, the prince is right. This kind of thing is of course inevitable, but at least you have to try your best to prevent this kind of thing from happening. If we merchants go to your Xixia ten times a year, the result will be
Clean Liu was robbed nine times and was frightened once. You can't blame God for this. If Xixia wants to develop its economy, then the most basic life safety must be guaranteed. Otherwise, even if I, the Song Dynasty,
No matter how hard you try, it will all be in vain.”
Richard raised his hand and said happily: "Don't worry, we will naturally make adjustments to this. But I still say that this kind of thing is inevitable. If everything is to be blamed on us,
That would be too unfair to us."
md. If you dare not rob me, that is charity to me. How shameless. Li Qi put away his smile, waved his hand and said: "I don't care whether it is fair or not, but if you can't provide protection for this, then I will
I can tell you with certainty that this negotiation is over and we can now enter the entertainment phase."
Entertainment? Zhao Huan laughed secretly, how can we entertain in this situation?
In Richard's eyes, Li Qi has always been a very talkative person, but today Li Qi gives him a domineering feeling. After all, he is still a prince, so you should give him some face.
. However, compared to the huge profits, this request is nothing. He has already agreed in his heart. But he said: "What about you?"
This guy really wants to save face. Li Qi shrugged and said, "Of course I will give you the same guarantee."
Richard then nodded and said, "Okay, I agree to your request."
"very good."
Li Qi smiled slightly and said, "Then we can talk about the price of salt."
Richard smiled and said: "I don't think there is any need to talk about the price of salt anymore. It's only three tons per husk. There is no other salt in the world that is so cheap."
Li Qi wowed and said: "So expensive? I remember that during the reign of Emperor Yingzong, he only had two sticks and one dendrobium. Don't bully me because I don't know how to do business!"
When Richard heard what Li Qi said, no matter how well-educated he was, he still had the urge to swear. Your Emperor Yingzong has been dead for almost a hundred years. And your currency in the Song Dynasty has been depreciating. Why don't you say it?
Your rice has increased nearly three times, but our salt has only increased by 50%, and you still say it is expensive? He was shocked: "Economic Minister, is this still expensive? Even if you don't count the taxes, your salt still costs 60%."
Guan, our salt is not even half as much as yours."
Li Qi waved his hand and said: "Your salt is not only sold to the northwest, we also have to sell it to many places, and the prices are different in each place. Take our Jiangnan now, for example, everything is cheap there now. You
If you put three pieces of salt there and you have to be beaten to death, you are cheating people."
Richard drew his head back and said, "Is it true?"
Zhao Huan said: "If you don't believe me, you can go to Jiangnan and have a look."
Richard was half convinced and asked: "Then how much do you think it will be reduced?"
"Always money."
Li Qi raised a finger and said.
Richard immediately shook his head and said: "Submit a consistent number? So much? No, no."
Li Qi shook his head and said: "Of course not, how can this be done?"
Before Richard could relax, Li Qi then said: "What I said is that the price of each dendrobium is the same."
Silly!
Everyone present was dumbfounded.
If Richard just had the urge to swear, now he not only wants to swear, but also wants to beat people up. Huoran stood up and said: "You are simply robbing. Money? You guys sell it?"
Give it to me!"
Fortunately, he was standing far away, otherwise he would have spit on his face. Li Qi laughed and said, "My lord, don't be excited, don't be excited."
Richard couldn't hold back the anger in his heart and said: "How can I not be excited by you? You are too cruel."
In fact, not to mention Li Chaer and others, even Zhao Huan and the officials from the Song Dynasty looked at Li Qi in shock. They had seen people haggling, but they had never haggled so harshly. There was really no way for people to survive.
ah.
Li Qidao: "You can't say that. Why do you want to sell salt to me, Song Dynasty? Don't you just want to exchange currency from us?"
Richard was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything.
Li Qi smiled and said: "If it were a year ago, I would have thought that this salt was just picked up."
Richard hummed: "It's good that you know."
Li Qi changed the topic and said: "But it's different now. Now our Song Dynasty is in short supply of currency, and the value of currency is also soaring. In Jiangnan, money can buy several times the goods a year ago. To be honest, I have always
It’s all too expensive.”
Richard said angrily: "Let alone whether this is true or not, even if it is true, we in Xixia are not like this. If money is always available, then we Xixia people will have no profit at all, and we will have to pay compensation.
That’s not how buying and selling works.”
Li Qi squinted his eyes outwards and waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, how much do you want to say? Don't tell me Sanguan, I just want to go to the latrine."
Richard pondered for a long time and said: "Okay. Just two sentences of eight hundred words."
"You might as well say Sanguan." Li Qi snorted and said very generously: "Okay, fine, I'll take a step back and I'll do it for five hundred cents."
How could Richard be willing? He imitated Li Qi's tone and said, "Then you might as well say it consistently."
Li Qi immediately nodded and said: "Then let's be consistent."
After Zhao Huan and others heard this, the corners of their mouths twitched and they tried hard to hold back their smiles.
Richard was stunned for a moment, almost laughing out of anger, and said: "Okay, six hundred coins for two times, we can't lower it any more."
Li Qidao: "Always eight hundred articles, no more."
Richard said: "This price is absolutely impossible."
Li Qidao: "There is nothing impossible in the world. Your Majesty, don't even think about it. Without me, Song Dynasty, how much salt could you sell? If you sell more, you will make a profit, and we, Song Dynasty, don't have a better population than you."
How many times more, the quantity required is so huge, you can’t take your retail price and sell it as the wholesale price.”
The retail price? Richard said: "I know this. It is precisely because of this that I am willing to reduce it by four hundred cents."
Li Qidao: "Only four hundred cents? I gave you an increase of eight hundred cents."
Is that an increase? You want the price to be consistent from the beginning. Is that price the price of salt? Your price is the price of salt water. Richard simply stopped arguing with Li Qi. He was also afraid that in the end, he would be beaten by Li Qi again.
Qi was tricked into going in. He tilted his head and said, "Two pieces of six hundred coins, that's the price."
"It's always been eight hundred, I don't want any more." Li Qi snorted.
Negotiations appear to have reached an impasse again.
Zhao Huan glanced at the two of them and suddenly said: "Since we can't discuss it for the time being, I think it's better to put the salt price aside and let's talk about the horse business first." He doesn't care how much the salt price is.
He was willing to accept it, and he paid more attention to the war horses, which was what the Song Dynasty lacked the most.
Li Qi waved his hand and said calmly: "Your Highness, there is no need to talk about this horse. We are giving money to them! Just get fifty or sixty thousand horses every year. There is no need to talk about it."
Zhao Huan spewed out a mouthful of tea after hearing this, and thought to himself, how dare you say that in this horse business, Xixia only sold 30,000 horses to us at most in a year, and there were still uneven numbers, between 50,000 and 60,000 horses.
You are considered a pig!
Richard felt like he was going crazy and said: "Economic envoy, are you kidding me? With fifty or sixty thousand horses, I, Xixia, could just be your pasture."
"What a great idea, I can do this."
Li Qi's eyes lit up and he said: "My lord, if you go into business, then I, Li Qi, would really not dare to be involved in the business world. Let's do this. You can rent the ranch to us directly. It is convenient, simple and saves a lot of trouble."
Richard said coldly: "I hope the economy will stop you from treating me like a three-year-old child. Do you think this will work?"
"It works!"
Richard was too lazy to talk to Li Qi and said: "Your Highness, the Economic Envoy, I will tell you the truth. We have been on many campaigns in Xixia recently, and the loss of horses is relatively large. Let alone 50,000 horses. Even if it is 10,000 horses, we can't hide it."
If I can’t get it out, I can only sell you five thousand horses per year at most?”
"Five thousand horses?"
Li Qi chuckled and said: "My lord, please don't forget that we have no limit on your salt, but you sell five thousand pieces to us every year? This is not the price to send a beggar, right? I don't feel it at all.
I have no idea of your sincerity. We know how many horses your Xixia produces every year. Don’t use these words to deceive us. Since we want to talk about business, we have to show some sincerity. Or we should just talk about romance, so as not to worry about it.
It hurts our friendship. Horse trading is also your most important business in Xixia, and you are not only my client in the Song Dynasty. You can give us your share of other countries. Only in this way will we feel your country's sincerity.
"
This guy is really greedy. If I, Xixia, sell you 50,000 horses every year, within three years, you will have a strong cavalry army. By then, we will be even more passive. Richard frowned, his face...
Very ugly.
However, Li Qi's forcefulness made Zhao Huan feel that it was a bit too much. He felt his face was a little hot, and seeing that the atmosphere was extremely dull, he stood up to smooth things over and said: "Okay, okay, this negotiation is not a one-time negotiation."
If we can talk about it in two days, if we can't talk about it today, we can continue talking about it tomorrow."
Richard was so stunned by Li Qi's anger that he needed some time to digest, and quickly said: "Your Highness's words make sense. I think that's it."
Li Qi still seemed a little dissatisfied and said disappointedly: "Since His Highness has said so, Li Qi can only be respectful and obey orders."
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