When Ke Wenyu heard this, he immediately showed a solemn expression, his body straightened as he sat upright, as if he was listening attentively.
Xiang Chen also solemnly said: "We can sell void ships to Xing Palace, but Xing Palace is not allowed to impose any product restrictions on our Tianqin, and I hope the tariff can be reduced to ten percent."
The tariffs between different countries in Hongmeng Tianwu Continent are generally above 25%.
Tariffs exist to protect local goods and to make money for the court.
For example, if you sell a magic mirror with 10,000 taels of Hongmeng Amethyst locally, and go to the Star Palace to sell it, Star Palace will charge you 2,500 taels of Hongmeng Amethyst. After adding tariffs, the price will also increase by 25%.
The selling price in Xinggong will be as high as more than 12,500 yuan.
If the other party also produces the same magical mirror locally, then the local products have no tariffs, are cheaper, and are more competitive, and will naturally not be able to compete with the other party in the sales market, unless the brand effect is greatly hyped.
"This -" Ke Wenyu showed some hesitation. A 10% tariff is too low. If the tariff is low, Xinggong will make less. The other party's products are likely to impact on his own local products and replace them.
Ke Wenyu said: "I can unilaterally agree to the tariffs and product restrictions, but in the end we need the final decision from our palace master."
He decided to stabilize Xiang Chen first. If the negotiation failed in the end, the blame would have to be passed on to the palace master.
Xiang Chen added: "If you copy our products and use our technology, you must pay us patent royalties!"
Ke Wenyu asked curiously: "What is patent royalty?"
Xiang Chen explained: "Take the void ship as an example. If you buy it back and then research and forge the void ship yourself, it will be equivalent to using our technology. You must pay the technology patent fee, which will occupy your own sales."
Twenty-five percent of the void ship."
"That is to say, every time you sell a void ship produced by yourself, you must pay us 25% of the profit!"
"This -" Ke Wenyu's face changed slightly. In his mind, he planned to steal their technology. The agreement was that if they secretly learned the technology and produced their own void ships and sold them, they would have to pay Xiang Chen and the others.
This condition is more stringent than the previous two. Ke Wenyu was silent for a moment and said: "I dare not agree to this condition. I have to ask our palace master for instructions."
Xiang Chen nodded slightly: "Don't worry, we have plenty of time, and we haven't produced a civilian void ship yet."
After hosting a banquet for Ke Wenyu, Ke Wenyu immediately sent someone to contact Xinggong.
Star Palace, in the study.
A woman is sitting lazily on a rocking chair, holding a romance novel in one hand, and constantly taking the sweets next to her with her other hand and putting it into her mouth.
The woman was wearing a lavender dress, not causing any dust. Her bun and slender hair on the temples set off her peerless appearance, and she had an aunt's smile that did not suit her temperament.
Suddenly, a maid's voice came from outside the study: "Palace Master, there is a message from Ke Wenyu who is going to the mainland."
The Lord of the Star Palace, Zhuang Yuyan, who was lazily reading a novel, suddenly frowned slightly on her supposedly gentle eyebrows, and immediately seemed cold and distant.
She hurriedly put this bloody romance novel into the bookshelf and hid it. She also put the sweets in the storage space. She looked serious. There was no wave in her indifferent eyes, as deep as the starry sky, and her graceful face could not be seen.
His icy temperament, showing no trace of emotion, revealed his indifference and his indifference to strangers.
"Come in."
The maid outside came in and presented a letter with both hands.
Zhuang Yuyan opened her spiritual mind to read, her eyebrows gradually furrowed, and then she fell into deep thought. After a while, she said: "Go and invite the eight elders to the main hall for a meeting."
"yes!"
In the main hall of Star Palace, the eight elders of Star Palace soon gathered together. Each of these eight elders was at least at the peak of the Hunyuan of Heaven and Earth.
Zhuang Yuyan didn't waste any time and explained clearly the void ship and the other party's trade conditions.
The eight elders were surprised and happy when they heard the powerful effect of the void ship, but after hearing Xiang Chen's conditions, they all cursed Xiang Chen as a corrupt man.
The Great Elder said solemnly: "The tariff of ten percent is too low. Fifteen to twenty percent is still barely considered."
The second elder also said: "Product restrictions must also be carefully considered. I heard that many strange and weird products in Tianlang City have had a huge impact on the Tianfeng Dynasty and accumulated huge economic strength for them. Only then are they qualified to cultivate so many
People rebelled.”
The third elder said: "The most important thing is the patent fees. Isn't this stealing money? If I can imitate and forge, then I am stealing the technology based on my strength. Why should I give them money?"
Everyone started discussing it.
Finally, Zhuang Yuyan said: "I think he can agree to all these conditions, but he can't give them so much. The tariff can be reduced to 15%. With the void ship, this foreign trade income is a complete surprise."
"As for product restrictions, I don't see the need to restrict their products. They are nothing more than civilian and military items that we would rather they sell."
"It's just that we have to sell the goods they trade over, and we can still make money from it."
"In terms of patent fees, if we really develop a void ship, we don't care about those patent fees. In the future, we will upgrade and iterate ourselves, and we can use this as an excuse to get rid of their patent fees, saying that it was developed by our bank, and then eliminate theirs
Void ship."
"Void ship technology is very important to us. The starry sky is too vast and not as dense as the resources on the mainland."
"But regarding the patent fee, we can let Ke Wenyu negotiate with him. Twenty-five percent is too high. It would be best to negotiate for 15%."
The eight elders also began to discuss, and finally agreed with the palace lord's decision.
After the message here was conveyed to Ke Wenyu, Ke Wenyu approached Xiang Chen again and wanted to negotiate.
But Xiang Chen left the diplomatic matters to Murong Tianhua, letting Murong Tianhua argue with him.
The two sides continued to negotiate and exchange, and finally settled on the outline of the cooperation. The tariff was set at 15%, and there were no restrictions on the control of goods that did not endanger the safety of the Star Palace. The patent fee was set at 20%, including void ship technology but not
Limited to void ships.
As long as Xinggong develops and imitates Tianqin's products for sale, it will have to pay so much patent fees.
Xingong's idea is to use Sirius City's technology.
But what Xiang Chen is interested in is their capital base.
After the cooperation agreement was reached, Xiang Chen immediately summoned a person, Mo Ziyang.
"Old Mo, we have also signed a cooperation agreement with Xinggong. Next we have to dig a big hole for them. I want to arrange for you to dig this hole."