Chapter 54: Etiquette is more important than affection!
Jia Lei finally spit out and agreed to Wu Shaman's conditions after eating the elephant's flesh and bear's paws, but he still had a request.
"One mammoth is not enough, you must give me more than two, so that I can barely lose money. Jia Lei thought about it for a while and said.
He plans to keep one end for his own collection and sell the other end to make money.
"You're going too far, a mammoth weighs five or six tons, and we'll be able to trade it for the same weight of food. A tribal elder said.
"Wow! Are you really stupid? These meat pies, which have been frozen for tens of thousands of years, can definitely not be eaten by more than a ton on the body of an elephant? And most of them are bones that cannot be eaten? I have seen that there are only twenty or thirty of them left that are relatively well preserved, and what a waste it would be if you ate them all? These things are worth more than eating them. Jia Lei said.
"We know it's worth selling it better than eating it, but it's too heavy for us to ship. The tribal leader said.
"It doesn't matter, are you afraid that you won't be able to transport it if you have money? Jia Lei thought for a while and said.
"Isn't it too little for you to take only 30 percent? I'll add another 10 percent to you. The tribal leader said.
"Did you misunderstand something? I'm talking about 70 percent and 30 percent. Jia Lei said.
"You're going too far, these mammoths belong to us in the first place, and we've worked so hard to dig them up. Why are you seventy-percent?" the tribal elder asked.
Wu Shaman has been silent since the beginning, she is leaving a way back for herself, in case the elder angers Jia Lei, she can still be a peacemaker!
"Because I spend more effort and money than you, it costs a lot of money to get the mammoth out of the mountains, and this kind of thing can only be sold for a lot of money if it is shipped abroad. Do you know? The freight rate of a sea freighter starts at at least $1 million, and if I want to transport grain here, I have to charter a separate ship, and the freight cost is $100 per ton of grain, and I have to buy at least 10,000 tons of grain in order not to spend the freight in vain! Can you afford this money?" Jia Lei came up with all kinds of data to reason with them.
"It's a million dollars for shipping, it's too expensive!" exclaimed Ushaman.
"Grain is a thing that depends on quantity, and in country M you can buy two kilograms of wheat for one dollar! $500 a ton! All grain is sold by the ton when it is exported. Jia Lei said.
"How do you know so well, you must not be lying to us?" asked the chief.
"Hey! What am I lying to you? I just bought 5,000 tons of rice before I came to the Soviet Union, and I know very well about the international price of food and the cost of freight. If you also want food, I can just ask the company over there to buy it, and the cargo ship I ordered is now about to arrive at the port of country M. Jia Lei said.
Originally, Jia Lei planned to lose a lot of money because of these grains used to give love after the disaster, but if he could get the Wuyou tribe to help him pay the freight, Jia Lei would save a million US dollars.
"But our tribe only has 1,000 people, and we only need 100 tons of food to eat, so we don't need that much. Usamon spoke at this point.
"If you can't use it, you have to buy it! The price of the goods that you can't buy is lower than the freight, otherwise you will lose money by spending so much freight." But where are you going to buy grain if you don't pay the freight? Now all countries except M are short of food! Think about the refugees in Ethiopia!" Jia Lei said with a blank slush.
"We buy it, if we don't buy food, we'll starve to death!" said the chief, at last.
At the beginning of the nineties, the United Nations was still in a state of food crisis - because of the shortage of pesticides and fertilizers and low seed production!
Hunger in Africa starved countless people to death – there was a popular saying at the time.
"Are you from Ethiopia? haven't you eaten in eight lifetimes?" there are different versions of this phrase in various countries around the world, as well as the most famous photo!
A vulture is standing by a child who is about to starve to death!
In the early 90s, hybrid rice had not yet been fully promoted! Huaxia was still a big importer of grain!
Therefore, the Chinese people feel that the world owes the father of hybrid rice a Nobel Prize - hybrid rice has solved the food crisis in one fell swoop after the global promotion.
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"All the ivory we dig in our tribe is here, and the mammoths will have to dig for a while, but we can't wait! The port will be frozen in August, and we must get the grain to the port before then, or we will have to walk a thousand kilometers. The leader took Jia Lei to his own treasury and said.
"Oh my God! so many tusks!" As soon as Jia Lei entered the warehouse, he was fascinated by the more than twenty tusks on the ground, and he squatted down to check them one by one.
"How are you going to sell these mammoth ivory?" Jia Lei looked up and asked.
"Ten thousand...... Not 20,000 dollars a piece!" the leader had just suffered a big loss, and now he has doubled the price.
"Is it too much for you to sit on the ground?" Jia Lei asked speechlessly, he could hear that the price had risen at all.
"We don't have you too much, we only need a hundred tons of grain and you will charge us a million dollars for freight!" said the chief, unreserved
"Hey...... You misunderstood, right? The freight was collected by the shipowner, and I didn't earn a dime!" Jia Lei hurriedly explained to himself.
"But you made seventy percent of the money from the sale of mammoths, and it would cost at least a million dollars, right?" asked the chief.
"If you don't like me making too much, you can sell it yourself!" Jia Lei spread his hands and said, he didn't want to do "good things" and be misunderstood.
"Where are we going to find such a rich buyer!" the leader rolled his eyes and said, if they could find a rich seller, they wouldn't have to let Jia Lei make seventy percent.
"You know, but you'd better hurry, since the port will be frozen in August, we must get the mammoths out before August. Jia Lei said.
"We can dig it up, but we can't get it out!" said the chief.
"Leave this little thing to me, I have a way!" Jia Lei said.
"Thank you so much, if you help us bring us food, you will save the lives of everyone in our tribe. I'm here to give you a little gift on behalf of the tribe!" said Ushaman.
Now that the negotiations were over, there was no need for any more saber-rattling, and the leader reluctantly pulled out a wooden box encrusted with gems under the gaze of the Usman.
"Although our tribe is not very rich, it has been passed down for hundreds of years, and our ancestors visited many places when they were nomadic in the vast land of Siberia, and you also know that there are many gems and minerals in Siberia, which our ancestors collected, and some of the polished ones have been inlaid into ornaments! These are some rough stones, you can pick two of them!" said the Ushaman affectionately.
Everyone thought that their nomadic tribe was poor, but in fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, the merchants of Huaxia knew how to exchange silk tea and nomadism for precious stones and gold.
The Wuyou tribe has been hiding in this poor and remote mountain without changing places because the Wuyou tribe has discovered a gold mine nearby!
"How embarrassing is this!" Jia Lei pushed off his hand, but reached into the box and looked at it.
"Go and call my brother-in-law and let him pick one too. That's what I gave to my relatives at that time!" Usaman instructed a girl, and the maid immediately went to Professor Wang.
"These people all look similar, I don't know what they are?" Jia Lei said worriedly, holding up two gems of different sizes and colors.
"It's up to your eyesight!" said Ushaman with a smile, and although she was going to give a gift to her juniors, she didn't plan to give away the most expensive gems.
"What is the most expensive gem you have here?" Jia Lei asked, looking at the box.
"Emerald!" said the chief, turning the emerald ring in his hand, which is now extinct, but it was still readily available in Siberia hundreds of years ago.
"Whoa!" Jia Lei was so frightened that he dropped all the gems in his hand back into the box.
"Emerald, this thing is so expensive, will you give it to me for nothing? You are so short of money, if you sell it, you can buy thousands of tons of grain......" Jia Lei asked in disbelief.
"Selling the gems left by our ancestors is only done by the sons of the ruined family, and we are industrious and brave people of the Wuyou tribe who will never do such a thing that makes other tribes laugh! This is the dignity that belongs to the tribe - the dignity that belongs to the great Sasar family!" said the tribal leader with a solemn face, and Ushaman nodded solemnly.
"In other words, such an expensive thing can only be given away, not sold, right?" Jia Lei asked.
"Yes, we may give things to our dearest friends and most honored guests! but we must not sell them for money!" said the chief. You have to find the latest chapters by yourself to read books?