Zaichun faintly felt that this time the master was using the mode of a real battle to teach himself some truths that could only be understood but not spoken.

The-for-tat confrontation between Xiao Lotian and the Duke of Newcastle was on the verge of rupture several times, and the Duke of England was almost furious by Xiao Letian's attitude.

The Duke of Newcastle is a British nobleman, and the king can stand beside the king to help hold the glove scepter during the ceremony.

If you have to make a horizontal comparison, the status of the Duke of Newcastle is no less than that of Prince Gong and Prince Alcohol, and if it is placed in the global ranking of powerful people, then with the strong national strength of the British Empire, the Duke of Newcastle is absolutely capable of overpowering Prince Gong's devil six.

If the problem is considered according to the inertial thinking of Chinese officialdom, Xiao Lotian does not give the duke face so much, and bargains between catties and baht, then the duke should have been furious a long time ago, and then used his power to suppress Xiao Letian.

How can it be possible to negotiate on an equal footing if there is an unequal amount of power? Even if negotiations are made, we will absolutely not tolerate repeated rejections by our opponents.

But something happened that made people fall through the glasses, and instead of being angry, the duke was pulled back on the edge of anger again and again, and several negotiations could not be negotiated, but in the end he was able to find a new point of appeal and continue to start arguing.

In a trance, Jaechun recalled his previous erroneous views on the two Opium Wars, when he was still a child, and his thoughts were basically instilled by his masters and courtiers.

In the Qing Dynasty at that time, the explanation for the two Opium Wars was nothing more than that the British were strong and strong, and the British were greedy and shameless and unreasonable.

At that time, Jae-chun also thought so, everyone has a very simple value, that is, I have the right not to play with you!

This idea was very simple, and it was the common attitude of officials and intellectuals at that time.

I am very rich and rich, and I am not willing to open the customs to do business with you British, this is our right? Why should I be beaten just because I don't want to play with you? If war breaks out, what about you British?

Besides, aren't the thirteen lines of Guangzhou open, you want tea, silk, porcelain, pig bristles, rhubarb...... It's not that we won't sell these goods to you, so why do you have to force us to open up all the coastal cities?

Isn't it a matter of course that our own Great Qing Kingdom, our own home, who we want to let in and who we don't want to come in?

This truth is really unassailable, but can this seemingly reasonable truth really work? Today, Jae-chun finally had serious doubts about his previous viewpoint.

Recalling some historical allusions that the master had told, coupled with this sudden business negotiation, Jae Chun seemed to have a shell in his heart that suddenly shattered, and something incomprehensible poured out.

"Original...... It turns out that business is such a natural thing! We used to think wrong, really wrong......

Jaechun had an epiphany, he finally understood the biggest mistake made by various dynasties since ancient times, so many emperors and generals thought that business behavior could be controlled, it was subservient to power, and it was impossible to escape the palm of these big people.

The policy of suppressing commerce, as well as the ranking of the four people at the bottom of the four people, gave the emperors and ministers the illusion that commerce was completely controllable.

Wrong! Completely wrong, today Jae-chun realized that business is a natural thing, and it is not at all something that the iron cage of power can control.

The more power is suppressed, the more perverted business behavior can only be made in the end, and it will not disappear.

The Great Qing State closed its own customs, leaving a small opening of thirteen lines, which means that the power of the Great Qing State was able to control the ocean trade between Europe and China?

Commercial exchanges between Europe and the Qing Dynasty never ceased at all, and even during the war years, Europeans could get Chinese goods by sea.

Boatloads of porcelain, silk, tea, bristles, medicinal herbs...... Huge quantities of Chinese goods were pulled back by European merchants, and China only purchased a small amount of European goods while exporting countless goods.

Only glass, clocks, and a few other Western luxury goods could earn the silver of the Qing Dynasty, but compared to the huge export of Chinese goods, this is a huge deficit.

The obsession of the whole of Europe with the goods of the East, which in turn had no interest in the industrial goods of Europe, caused a serious outflow of precious metals.

A large part of the gold and silver plundered from Africa and North America flowed into the Chinese people, which made Europe suddenly become a foolish daughter-in-law for wedding dresses.

In this natural business practice, the two sides are unequal, and the huge deficit weighs on the European countries. However, China's goods cannot be cut off yet, because there is no alternative production base.

This situation was not visible to the Qing Kingdom, and they could not understand it, so they were immersed in the aura of the Heavenly Empire.

When the cancer of the deficit is so big that it has affected Britain's national security, when the door to any peaceful settlement is locked, what can we do without fighting?

Jae-chun finally had an epiphany today, and he now understands that there are two wars for opium dumping, and in fact, the core root cause is that the East and the West have not carried out such a big negotiation as today's master and duke.

Problems and contradictions are like this, if you face him squarely, do not evade or suppress, talk openly and honestly, quarrel and fight, and in conflicts and confrontations, you will naturally grind out a balance point, a point that everyone can accept.

Didn't Xiao Letian always say, "The so-called negotiation, the so-called treaty, the most perfect form, is that both sides scold their mothers and feel unhappy, but they are willing to implement it when they turn back...... Only such a cooperative relationship can last forever!"

Europeans understand this truth, and Xiao Letian also understands it, but it's a pity that the Qing Kingdom doesn't understand it, and those rotten Confucians don't understand!

"OK, dear Führer, you are really a master of negotiation, I really admire you so much, just do it according to the conditions just now, I hope our cooperation can continue for a hundred years and thousands of years, cheers!"

After an hour of arguing, the Duke and Xiao Lotian finally reached a final agreement, and the two sides raised their wine glasses and touched each other, and a gastronomic business empire across Europe and Asia began.

At the same time, Jae-chun also had an epiphany, and he repeatedly chewed this sentence in his heart, "What makes sense may not necessarily work, but what works definitely makes sense...... It's just that that isn't necessarily what you want!"

"It's like sailing against the current, people are always making progress in adversity, and compromise and dispute are the river that flows against the current...... If you want the ship of Daqing to continue to move forward, you can't help but understand this truth!"