Chapter 1399 Cheap Storm
It's been half a month, and in the newspapers of the Tianshui Empire, this news was published:
For the consideration of the general public, the Tianshui Empire and the Minghui Empire have temporarily ceased fighting, and the Minghui Empire has introduced the "Walking Golden Elixir" to serve the people. The specific agreement reached by the two parties is as follows:
1. The Minghui Empire will provide the Tianshui Empire with sufficient crossing elixir, and guarantee that the quality will be consistent. A fake one will be fined 10,000 yuan, and the quality will be supervised by the Tianshui Empire.
2. The Minghui Empire guarantees that the number of crossing golden pills provided is sufficient, and the number of pills sold by the Tianshui Empire is no less than 40% of the number of pills sold by the Minghui Empire.
3. Minghui Empire guarantees that the CIF price of Duer Jindan is 12% off the current market price of Shengsheng Huadan; as the technology matures and the cost of medicinal materials decreases, the price of Duerjindan will continue to decline, and the minimum promise is the current Shengsheng Huadan. Thirty percent off the market price of Good Fortune Pill or even lower.
4. Minghui Empire will purchase relevant medicinal materials at 105% of the market price, especially the "Fruit of the Serpent Vine", and the purchase price is 107%.
What Tianshui Empire needs to do is:
1. Provide Minghui Empire with a green channel for the transportation of elixir and medicinal materials, and ensure the legality and safety of the transaction.
2. Reduce and exempt taxes to ensure that the price of elixir is reasonable.
3. Establish a corresponding department to supervise the market, quality, and price of Duer Jindan, and supervise the acquisition of medicinal materials by Minghui Empire.
4. To ensure the safety of Minghui Empire-related trading personnel, but the corresponding personnel of Minghui Empire must abide by local laws.
There are other details, which are published in the newspapers.
Since the Blue Star Group developed and expanded the existence of newspapers, newspapers have spread rapidly in this starry sky, becoming an important means for various empires to control the country.
With the publication of the newspaper, the first batch of Duerjindan has been sold on some provincial capital planets.
When the people of the Tianshui Empire were in a commotion, in the palace of the Tianshui Empire, the emperor was summoning senior officials to discuss this matter. It has been discussed for many days, but there are still some issues that have not been thoroughly discussed, or there are still many questions, so we need to continue to think about it.
Or to be more specific, everyone is an old opponent. Although I don't know what your direct plan is, I know your core: uneasy, kindhearted!
Regardless of the appearance and the signing of the agreement, it is said that it is for the past and future friendship between the two countries and for common development, but even ordinary people will not believe these official words.
Today, the representatives of the Minghui Empire, Huang Fei and related personnel finally arrived at the imperial capital of the Tianshui Empire, and the emperor invited Huang Fei and others to come and 'take a seat'.
Because Huang Fei and the others came as businessmen rather than as diplomatic identities, this interview did not strictly follow 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 surrounding officials all changed into casual clothes, but they all showed up.
The emperor came forward to greet him briefly, said that he would leave the matter to the young man, and left by himself. The actual presiding of the work at the venue was handed over to Prince Jiang Tian.
Jiang Tian's mouth was a bit poisonous, and when the emperor left, he opened his mouth and asked, "I heard that the eldest princess of your country is selecting a son-in-law. I don't know where the 'Eldest Prince' ranks?"
When Huang Fei heard this, there was only one thought in his mind: I want to kill this bastard!
What is the eldest princess choosing a son-in-law, what is the ranking, and what the hell are you implying. There is also the word "Eldest Prince", of course there is no problem, but after connecting the context and looking at the other party's expression, Huang Fei felt that these words were full of strong sarcasm:
You are a prince, but you want to rise to power by marrying your cousin?
To be honest, there are too many inbreeding marriages in the royal family, but this matter... can't be said! At least in the current environment, everyone is still quite taboo about this.
But before Huang Fei could speak, Xu You said, "Does 'His Highness' care about our state affairs?"
You're just a prince, not an emperor yet, so what the hell are you doing!
Jiang Tian felt a little uncomfortable with Xu You's response, embarrassment flashed across his face, and he laughed a few times before laughing: "Just ask, ask. Well, actually, I invite a few of you to come over today. On the one hand, it is Let’s deepen the communication between the two sides, and on the other hand, there are a few minor issues that I would like to ask for advice.”
Xu You stopped talking. Only Huang Fei was qualified to speak in such a formal conversation.
Huang Fei, on the other hand, was rather arrogant, and tapped his chin, "The reason why I sold the Golden Pill this time is because of the relationship between the two countries. I hope the two countries will live in peace forever. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, Your Highness."
Feel free to ask, whether you can answer...it depends on my mood.
The prince has long been familiar with these simple discourse traps. After thinking for a while, he spoke: "First of all, thank you for selling such an excellent medicine to us. But this matter may be better, for example, the two sides cooperate through formal diplomatic relations."
This time, Xu You spoke again: "Reporting to Your Highness, we have also made an argument on this matter. We believe that the diplomatic aspect is protracted and not flexible enough. It will eventually lead to a sharp increase in costs.
Although the Fermenting Golden Pill 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 did you sell such an excellent medicine to us? Xu You said: "It's just some pills that transform the gods. Prince, you are too narrow-minded. You are thinking about all of this; but Xu You avoided answering the fundamental question."
The prince was not reconciled, but he seemed to know his shortcomings, and it was inconvenient to say something about his identity, so he turned his head and nodded slightly to the plainclothes officials next to him.
I saw the left minister of the Tianshui Empire stepping forward, "Xu You, I have a small question. In fact, you can do it secretly, as long as you exchange the elixir for the fruit of the snake vine, it is enough for you to earn More benefits."
Xu You smiled faintly: "In the beginning, we did consider it this way. But considering the friendship between the two countries, we are still not prepared to do so. No matter how many benefits there are, it is not as important as the friendship between the two countries."
Next to him, the prince of the Tianshui Empire turned black: friendship between the two countries? We recently broke out a ten-year war at the Tongue Star, the Tianshui Empire almost retreated hundreds of light years from the Tongue Star, and there were countless casualties on both sides.
Hundreds of light years away, those small empires would have been wiped out three or four times.
Do you have any misunderstanding about the word 'friendship'?
Although everyone knows that this kind of diplomatic vocabulary is talking nonsense with open eyes, but you should always make a draft.
Fortunately, the draft will come as soon as it is said. I heard Xu You continue to say: "Actually, such 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 conduct large-scale transactions and establish basic connections at the non-governmental level.
We have always wanted to do this in the past, but have not found a suitable entry point. Until there is Duer Jindan.
The crossing golden elixir is very good, not only is it necessary for practice, but the fruit of the snake vine among the three main medicines is only produced by the Tianshui Empire. In this way, Duer Jindan is a good communication medium. "
"Oh, you don't have anything to ask for?" Prime Minister Zuo continued to ask.
"Yes!" Xu You said very simply, "It's impossible for us to say that we don't want anything else. In fact, what we want is nothing more than wealth. If Du'er Jindan can be sold on a large scale, the profit It will be huge, and these profits are...extremely important to us!!!”
Xu You said the last four words almost word for word.
Everyone in Tianshui Empire immediately 'understood' - this Huang Fei needs money to grab the throne, which requires a lot of wealth. That's right, this kind of competition is first and foremost a competition for money, and if you don't have money, who will mess with you?
Zuo Xiang, 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 one, but at least this reason is very credible.
Zuo Xiang continued to ask: "If you make money, won't our Tianshui Empire have to lose it?"
"How could it be!" Xu You said forcefully and simply, "After the Tianshui Empire has the Transcendence Golden Pill, the overall cultivation is not going to a higher level. Maybe after only a hundred years, it will obviously surpass the surrounding countries.
And we sell the elixir to your country, and your country can resell the elixir to other countries. "
This time, Prince Jiang Tian finally had a real smile on his face. Also, although I don't know what the Minghui Empire is planning, at least I can be sure that this matter is also of great benefit to the Tianshui Empire.
And even if there is a problem, as Xu You said, it is just how big a storm can be caused by some pills in the transformation stage.
Since the risks can be tolerated and the benefits can be seen, the atmosphere on the scene has naturally reached its peak.
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The discussion here in the palace became more and more harmonious, but it was a different situation in the Tianshui Empire.
After the Tianshui Empire delivered the first batch of snake vine fruits, a large number of Duer Jindan began to flood into the market of the Tianshui Empire.
The Minghui Empire really did what it said. After obtaining a large number of snake vine fruits, in less than a month, the price of the Duer Jindan dropped from 12% off to 76% off, and the price is still Gradually go down.
Because the Du'er Jindan is a bit special, as long as it is melted in the spiritual spring, as long as the dilution standard is mastered, even practitioners in the Qi refining period can use it. For a while, the sales of Duerjindan were in short supply. Store direct prices are low, but resale prices vary.
With the price reduction of the 'life-saving' elixir, the practice system of the entire Tianshui Empire was activated.
A large number of cultivators in the stage of transforming spirits began to consolidate their foundations, and this will inevitably require more elixirs—not just the golden elixirs. The sales of the rest of the pills began to increase, and the prices also rose slightly. In this competition, the market gradually stabilized.
But whenever the market stabilizes, Duerjindan will lower its price a wave; so the market that has just stabilized is stimulated again.
While Duerjindan was selling well, other problems arose. First of all, the traditional life-saving elixir such as Shengsheng Haohua Pill has basically begun to be unsalable, and I don’t know how many merchants have lost money.
However, they didn't get sympathy, instead they were accused of being black-hearted businessmen: who made your pills so expensive. The problem of the inflated price of pills is well known to the common people, but there was nothing to do in the past.
Now seeing that these people are unlucky, one can imagine how the public will react.
pity? nonexistent. It would be nice not to add insult to injury.
As a result, these people whose interests were damaged were ignored by the society, and the Tianshui Empire also ignored the first warning before the outbreak of the trade war. And whenever these people say that Du'er Jindan is a trap, they will be sprayed with blood instead-you are not looking good at others.
This situation lasted for less than a month, and another new situation appeared; the merchants of the Tianshui Empire began to hoard the fruits of the dragon snake vine, and tried to increase the price, but the price of Duer Jindan increased by 10% the next day.
For a while, a large number of basic practitioners in Tianshui Empire complained. They didn't resent Duer Jindan's price increase, but resented the merchants of the Tianshui Empire for stealing money.
For a period of time, only Du'er Golden Pill has been reduced in price, and the prices of the rest of the pills have been fully increased! The people have steelyards in their hearts, and everyone can see the situation "clearly".
Facing the surging grassroots, the Tianshui Empire had no choice but to use administrative orders to suppress the prices of medicinal materials. The price of Duerjindan dropped immediately. The market has stabilized for the time being.
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"There is a problem!" In the Tianshui Imperial Palace, Prime Minister Zuo was reporting to the Emperor, "Your Majesty, this is what 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'er Jindan was not high, and that was the only way to go.
But this approach has disrupted the market. The elixir manufacturers on our side have to increase the purchase price, and the cost of elixir has increased. But because of the turbulent public opinion, the price of the pills did not dare to raise the price casually. Things are starting to get a little out of hand. "
The Great Emperor took the report with a solemn expression, and read it bit by bit.