The Duke of Newcastle's promise stunned everyone present, of course only to these Chinese guests, and none of the British present were surprised.

These welcoming officials, who accompanied the duke, stared at these Chinese with a faint contempt, and a strong sense of pride appeared in their hearts.

"Chinese who have never seen the world really think that twenty or thirty thousand pounds is a big deal? Spices have been expensive goods in Europe since ancient times, and spices in India and Southeast Asia were more expensive than gold for a while, and at that time I didn't see European aristocrats eat less?"

"The secret recipe-level spice of Xianzhiyuan should exceed the price of gold by ten or even a hundred times, this is reasonable! How can this Oriental head of state be different from the rumors, he is a petty family, and he dares to doubt the purchasing power of my British Empire!"

The British are slandering in the belly, and the Chinese present have mixed tastes, human history has always been the Yang Yang Tianchao to take money to smash other people's faces, when has it been smashed, this face is a little hot.

Even more shocking was the Yellow Evil Doctor, he was the leader of the secret research and development team, he knew the cost of this bottle of fresh source too well, the kelp fished out of the Mediterranean Sea did not cost money, and the coal of the coal stove was the cost.

There are also poppy husks, which are originally a common traditional Chinese medicine, which are all by-products of the opium industry, and one or two silver buys a sack.

If you have to talk about the cost, the porcelain vase in the Chenghua period should be the most expensive cost, but it is not a boutique in the official kiln, and it can be exchanged in a very ordinary antique shop in the Qing Dynasty, and it is a hundred taels of silver.

Doctor Huang swallowed his spit and said in his heart that the head of state is really a god and a man, and it is nothing more than turning stones into gold!

Robbing money, this is robbing money, this is pit this group of foreign devils to death, but it's really enjoyable, it's too enjoyable!

Since the official diplomatic activities will only begin early tomorrow morning, the Duke of Newcastle at this moment is only a guide to welcome in advance, and the two sides will not talk about state affairs today.

If you don't talk about state affairs, let's talk about private affairs, the duke and Xiao Letian nodded to the people around them, and the clerks of both sides willingly put down their pens, and from now on, the time for private negotiations will not be recorded.

Xiao Lotian cut a piece of beef and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, and when the beef was eaten, he said with a hint of enlightenment as if he had just thought about everything, "Since the duke has such confidence, we might as well talk about it with a lot of eyes, and there is no harm in trying it!"

"Since I want to open a high-end restaurant and sell my family's secret recipe, the area, location, decoration, personnel training, etiquette, etc. of the restaurant cannot be ambiguous......

"May I ask what kind of conditions can the Duke come up with?"

"That's right, I agree with the Führer's opinion, I will solve the problem of the land for the restaurant, the land property rights in the most prosperous areas of the major cities in Britain are concentrated in the hands of our aristocratic circle, and I also have a lot of real estate in my hands......"

"How about Downing Street? It's next to the Prime Minister's House, I have a piece of land, and I have no problem running a restaurant......

This is the heritage, the heritage of the British nobles, Xiao Lotian couldn't help but sigh lightly, and sighed with emotion in his heart, "Grandma, this is the family wealth that has been slowly saved by hundreds of years and dozens of generations of dukes!

"How about you and I half of the start-up capital, I use the land and decoration to buy shares, you use the secret recipe and the Chinese imperial kitchen to buy shares, and I am not greedy for half of your shares in European marketing rights?"

"What?, European marketing rights!" Xiao Letian sneered at the time, "The Duke has such a big appetite, such a profitable business, you want the marketing rights of the whole of Europe? Absolutely not, I can only give you shares in the British Isles......"

In business cooperation, the most taboo is that the partner is dominant, and Xiao Lotian controls the source of the secret recipe and the oriental chef, which is the throat lock hand that pinchs this business.

And the most effective way to control the partners is to divide and divide not to put all the eggs in one basket, and the Duke of Newcastle alone wants the spice marketing rights of the whole of Europe, which is too big.

Hearing Xiao Letian's refusal, the duke was not angry, after all, it was a hundred years of mercantilism, and the aristocrats of Europe did not have as much official authority as the nobles of the Qing Dynasty.

Don't be angry when you hear the refusal, it's normal to have to bargain so much to do business in the duke's heart!

In the restaurant, everyone was dazzled, Xiao Lotian and the Duke of Newcastle calculated the cooperation between the pounds and the two, and the spittle of the bargain flew sideways.

Zaichun looked stupid, he knew how big the gap was between him and his master, not to mention anything else, he rushed to this kind of careful calculation in business, this kind of door is clear, it is enough for him to learn for a lifetime.

And Zaichun knows very well that if the same thing is done by the Confucian students in China, it will definitely be a gentleman who is ashamed of his words, but in the end he will become a wronged boss and still don't know it.

What surprised Jaechun even more was that the more-for-tat the business negotiations, the more interested the two sides became, and there were several times when Xiao Lotian rejected the duke's conditions with righteous and stern resignation, and the angry Duke of Newcastle's face was red, thinking that the duke would shoot the case and scolded angrily.

But he never expected that at the last moment, the Duke would still be able to hold back his temper and then find a balance acceptable to both parties.

Gradually, Jaechun had a hint of enlightenment, and he seemed to understand what was wrong with the court before.

Europeans are businessmen, and businessmen focus on profit and execution, rather than vain face. But the Qing Kingdom was different, the nobles and officials paid more attention to face, and they relied on face and authority to rule the country.

In the hearts of Qing officials, bargaining was shameful, and more importantly, if a stinky businessman dared to refuse the conditions of the court and officials, that is, he would be rebellious and would have to be beheaded.

This set of domestic merchants worked, but when the powerful British merchants came to the Qing Dynasty under the protection of their home country, the old way did not work.

The group of businessmen does not pay attention to feelings or face, they pay attention to interests and the ability to execute.

The European merchants who had crossed the ocean to China did not have the luxury of starting a war with the Qing Dynasty at first, they wanted an opportunity to bargain.

In their minds, I offer you a full counteroffer, and it doesn't matter if the two sides quarrel at the negotiation table, they can always come up with a balance point in the end, and as long as they find that balance point, they can naturally cooperate for a long time.

However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not play cards according to commercial routines at all, but suppressed it with the official authority of the feudal bureaucrats in the medieval world.

This attitude of refusal to negotiate is unacceptable to the Europeans, without negotiation there will be no bargaining, there will be no mutual compromise, and in the end there will be no equilibrium of cooperation.

When all means of peace are ineffective, war becomes the last option.