Just half a month later, the following news was published in the newspapers in the Tianshui Empire:
For the sake of the general public, the Tianshui Empire and the Minghui Empire have temporarily suspended the war, and introduced the 'Du'e Jindan' from the Minghui Empire to serve the people. The two parties have reached a specific agreement as follows:
1. The Minghui Empire provides the Tianshui Empire with sufficient supplies of the Elixir of Elimination, and ensures that the quality is consistent, with a penalty of 10,000 yuan for any fake products, and the quality is supervised by the Tianshui Empire.
2. The Minghui Empire guarantees that the amount of elixirs provided by the Minghui Empire is sufficient. The number of elixirs sold by the Tianshui Empire is no less than 40% of the number of elixirs sold by the Minghui Empire.
3. Minghui Empire guarantees that the CIF price of Du'e Jindan is 82% off the current market price of Shengsheng Zaoxingdan; as the technology matures and the cost of medicinal materials decreases, the price of Du'e Jindan will continue to fall. The minimum promised is the current Shengsheng Zaoxingdan.
The market price of Good Fortune Pill is 30% off or even lower.
4. Minghui Empire will purchase relevant medicinal materials at 105% of the market price, especially the ‘fruits of the Serpent Vine’, at a purchase price of 107%.
What Tianshui Empire needs to do is:
1. Provide a green channel for the transportation of elixirs and medicinal materials to the Minghui Empire, and ensure the legality and safety of transactions.
2. Reduce taxes and ensure reasonable prices for elixirs.
3. Establish corresponding departments to specifically supervise the market, quality, price, etc. of Du'e Jindan, and supervise the Minghui Empire's acquisition of medicinal materials.
4. Ensure the safety of Minghui Empire’s relevant trading personnel, but Minghui Empire’s corresponding personnel must abide by local laws.
There are some other details, which have been published in newspapers.
Since the Blue Star Group developed and expanded the existence of newspapers, newspapers have rapidly spread across the starry sky and become an important means for various empires to control their countries.
With the publication of the newspaper, the first batch of Dane Dan has been sold on some provincial capital planets.
While the people of the Tianshui Empire were making a noise, in the Tianshui Empire's palace, the emperor was convening senior think tank officials to discuss this matter. It had been discussed for many days, but some issues were still not discussed thoroughly, or there were still many questions.
So we need to continue thinking.
Or to be more specific, we are all old rivals. Although I don’t know what your direct plan is, I know your core: good intentions!
Despite the superficial appearance and the fact that the signed agreement says it is for the sake of past and future friendship and common development between the two countries, even ordinary people will not believe these official words.
Today, representatives of the Minghui Empire, Huang Fei and related personnel finally arrived at the capital of the Tianshui Empire. The emperor invited Huang Fei and others to come over and 'have a seat'.
Because Huang Fei and others came as businessmen rather than as formal diplomats, the interview was not conducted strictly in accordance with diplomatic etiquette. It was more like a private meeting or meeting.
The meeting place was in an imperial garden of the Tianshui Imperial Palace. The officials around him had changed into casual clothes, but they were all present.
The emperor came out to greet him briefly, said that he would leave the matter to the young people, and then left. The actual hosting of the meeting was handed over to Prince Jiang Tian.
Jiang Tian had a bit of a venom in his mouth. After the emperor left, he opened his mouth and asked: "I heard that the eldest princess of your country is selecting a prince-in-law. I wonder where the 'eldest prince' ranks?"
When Huang Fei heard this, he had only one thought in his mind: I want to beat this bastard to death!
What does the eldest princess choose a consort, what does ranking mean, what the hell are you implying. Of course there is no problem with the words 'elder prince', but when combined with the context and looking at the other person's expression, Huang Fei feels that this
The words were full of sarcasm:
You are a prince, but you want to rise to power by marrying your cousin?
To be honest, there are too many incest marriages within the royal family, but this matter...it cannot be said! At least in the current environment, everyone is still taboo about this.
But before Huang Fei could speak, Xu You spoke: "Does 'Your Highness' care about our national affairs?"
You are just a prince, not an emperor, so what are you thinking!
Jiang Tian felt a little uncomfortable at Xu You's response. Embarrassment flashed across his face. He laughed a few times before laughing: "Just asking, asking. Well, actually, I'm inviting a few people over today. On the one hand,
I want to deepen the communication between the two parties. On the other hand, I also have a few small questions that I would like to ask for advice."
Xu You stopped talking. Only Huang Fei was qualified to speak in this kind of formal conversation.
Huang Fei, however, was very arrogant and tapped his chin, "The reason why we sold the Golden Elixir of Du'e this time was because of the relationship between the two countries, and we hope that the two countries will have eternal peace. If your Highness has any questions, please feel free to ask."
Just ask, if you can answer...it depends on my mood.
The prince has long been familiar with these simple speech traps. After thinking for a moment, he spoke: "First of all, thank you for selling such an excellent elixir to us. But this matter may be done better, such as both parties
cooperation through formal diplomatic relations.”
This time, Xu You spoke again: "Reporting to Your Highness, we have also demonstrated this matter. We believe that diplomacy is protracted and not flexible enough. It will eventually lead to a significant increase in costs.
Although the Elixir of Elimination is good, it is only a god-level elixir. The precious diplomatic resources of both sides should be used in more critical places."
The prince wanted to ask: Why do you want to sell such excellent elixirs to us? Xu You said: They are just some elixirs for transforming gods. Prince, you are too narrow-minded and are worried about them. But for the fundamental problem, Xu You
Avoid answering.
The prince was unwilling to give in, but he seemed to be aware of his shortcomings, and it was inconvenient to say something about the prince's identity, so he turned and nodded slightly to the plainclothes officials next to him.
I saw the Prime Minister of the Tianshui Empire step forward and said, "Xu You, I have a little question. In fact, you can do it secretly. It is enough to exchange the pills for the fruits of the Serpent Vine. You can definitely earn
More benefits.”
Xu You smiled faintly: "We did think so at the beginning. But considering the friendship between the two countries, we are still not prepared to do so. No matter how many interests there are, they are not as important as the friendship between the two countries."
Next to him, the crown prince of the Tianshui Empire turned dark: Friendship between the two countries? We recently had a ten-year war in the Juutoni constellation. The Tianshui Empire retreated almost hundreds of light years from the Juutoni constellation, and both sides suffered countless casualties.
Hundreds of light years away, those small empires would have been destroyed three or four times.
Do you have any misunderstanding about the word 'friendship'?
Although everyone knows that this kind of diplomatic vocabulary is nonsense, you still have to make a draft.
Fortunately, the draft came as soon as it came. I heard Xu You continue: "In fact, small-scale transactions cannot promote the progress of the two countries at all. If we want to promote the real progress of the two countries, we must have large-scale transactions, starting from the private sector."
Establish basic connections at all levels.
We have always wanted to do this in the past, but we have never found a suitable entry point. Until we came up with the Du'e Jindan.
The Golden Pill of Du'e is very good, not only is it necessary for practice, but among its three main medicines, the fruit of the Serpentine Vine is only produced in the Tianshui Empire. In this way, the Golden Pill of Du'e is a good communication medium."
"Oh, you don't have anything to ask for?" Zuo Xiang continued to ask.
"Yes!" Xu You said simply, "It's impossible for us to say that we want nothing else. In fact, all we want is wealth. If the Du'e Jindan can be sold on a large scale, the profits will increase.
It will be very considerable, and these profits are...extremely important to us!!!"
Xu You said the last four words almost word for word.
Everyone in the Tianshui Empire immediately 'understood' - Huang Fei needs money to seize the throne, which requires a lot of wealth. Also, this kind of competition is first and foremost a competition for money. If you don't have money, who will mess with you?
The Prime Minister Zuo, the Prince and others looked at each other, and everyone nodded slowly: This reason should be correct, but I don't know if there is a deeper reason, but at least this reason is very credible.
Prime Minister Zuo continued to ask: "You have made a profit, won't our Tianshui Empire have to lose?"
"How is that possible?" Xu You spoke forcefully and simply, "After the Tianshui Empire has the Golden Elixir of Crossing the Era, its overall practice will go to a higher level. Maybe in just a hundred years, it will be significantly better than the surrounding countries.
And we sell the elixirs to your country, and your country can resell the elixirs to other countries."
This time, a real smile finally appeared on Prince Jiang Tian's face. Also, although I don't know what the Minghui Empire is planning, it is at least certain that this matter will also be of great benefit to the Tianshui Empire.
And even if there is a problem, as Xu You said, just how much trouble can be caused by some pills in the divine transformation stage.
Since the risks can be tolerated and the benefits are visible, the atmosphere at the scene will naturally reach its peak.
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The discussion here in the palace is becoming more and more harmonious, but it is a different situation in the Tianshui Empire.
After the Tianshui Empire delivered the first batch of snake vine fruit, a large amount of Du'e Jindan began to pour into the Tianshui Empire's market.
Minghui Empire really kept its word. After obtaining a large number of snake vine fruits, in less than a month, the price of Du'e Golden Pill dropped from 82% off to 76% off, and the price is still there.
Gradually go lower.
Because the Golden Pill of Du'e is a bit special, as long as it is dissolved in the spiritual spring, and as long as the dilution standards are mastered, even practitioners in the Qi refining stage can use it. For a time, the sales of Golden Pill of Du'e were in short supply. The price of direct sales in stores is very low.
But resale prices vary.
With the price reduction of the 'life-saving' elixir, the entire Tianshui Empire's cultivation system was stimulated.
A large number of monks in the transformation stage began to consolidate their foundation, which inevitably required more elixirs - not just the Golden Elixir. The sales of other elixirs began to increase, and the prices also rose slightly. In this kind of competition, the market gradually became more and more popular.
Yu Pingping.
But whenever the market stabilizes, the price of Du'e Jindan will drop; thus, the newly stabilized market will be stimulated again.
While the Du'e Golden Pill was selling well, other problems also arose. The first was that traditional god-level life-saving elixirs such as the Shengsheng Good Fortune Pill were basically slow to sell, and countless merchants suffered heavy losses.
However, they did not get sympathy. Instead, they were accused of being black-hearted businessmen: Who made the price of your elixirs so high? The common people are all aware of the problem of inflated elixir prices, but they just couldn't do anything about it in the past.
Now that we see these people being unlucky, you can imagine how the people will react.
Sympathy? It doesn’t exist. It would be nice if you don’t add insult to injury.
As a result, these people whose interests were harmed were ignored by society, and the Tianshui Empire ignored the first warning before the trade war broke out. And every time these people said that the Ejindan was a trap
, on the contrary, you will be sprayed with disgusting comments - you are not looking down on other people's good deeds.
This situation lasted for less than a month, and a new situation emerged; merchants in the Tianshui Empire began to hoard the fruits of the Serpent Vine and tried to increase the selling price, but the price of the Du'e Golden Pill increased by 10% the next day.
For a time, a large number of basic practitioners in the Tianshui Empire were complaining. They were not complaining about the price increase of the Du Ejin Pill, but they were resentful that the merchants in the Tianshui Empire were taking advantage of their money.
During this period of time, only the Du'e Golden Pill has been reducing in price, while the prices of the rest of the pills have increased across the board! People have a strong balance in their minds, and everyone can see the situation clearly.
Faced with the surging public sentiment at the grassroots level, the Tianshui Empire had to use administrative orders to suppress the price of medicinal materials. The price of Du'e Jindan immediately dropped. The market was temporarily stable.
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"There is a problem!" In the Tianshui Empire Palace, the Zuo Xiang was reporting to the Emperor, "Your Majesty, this is the situation I am investigating.
The Minghui Empire increased the purchase price of all medicinal materials by about 5%, but they only purchased a small amount. They said that the profit of Du'e Jindan was not high, so they could only do this.
However, this approach disrupted the market. Our elixir manufacturers here had to increase their purchase prices, and the cost of elixirs increased. However, due to the turbulent public sentiment, the elixir prices did not dare to be raised casually. The situation began to get a little out of control.
"
The emperor took the report with a solemn expression and read it bit by bit.