Chapter Seventy-Four: Negotiations

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Dragonair's Gulfstream G200 slowly landed on the tarmac of Changi Airport, and he took the lead in getting out of the cabin and directly into the business car sent by the company to pick him up.

Liang Hao was still muttering behind him: "This kind of business plane is not very good, it is much smaller than a big plane, that is, it is more convenient." I thought there was a bed on it, so I could have a shot with the flight attendant on it! ”

Zhou You couldn't help but shake his head and smiled: "Can your head be taken back from the lower three roads, thinking about these nonsense things all day long." When my G550 comes back, I'll let you know what luxury is. At that time, I will arrange for you to have a star shoot in the sky. ”

Liang Hao immediately laughed, and Cai Zhongwei also hurriedly shouted: "And our ......"

"Grass, you're using my plane as a gun room, okay, everyone arranges it once, a million dollars at a time."

Cai Zhongwei pursed his lips and said: "What a black-hearted capitalist, it is not worth a million dollars if he sells it." ”

Zhou You laughed and said: "Don't worry, after the New Year, I guarantee that each of you will be able to make a lot of money." A million, just a small meaning. ”

After chatting with them all the way, the car arrived at the Hilton Hotel on Orchard North Road. At this time, at the beginning of the lanterns, Lin Wei was waiting in the hotel lobby anxiously, and saw the car parked at the door, and hurriedly greeted her.

"Boss, everyone is here, just waiting for you."

Zhou You nodded and asked, "Did the government send someone over?" ”

"There was a team led by the director of the External Liaison Office, and three people came. In addition, the International Law Department also sent two experts on the law of the sea, and in the afternoon, the three of us had a preliminary communication, and they were quite proficient in the use of the law, but they were not as good as the lawyers we hired from the United Kingdom. ”

Zhou You smiled: "They are not the main body of the negotiation, they just came to be a witness, it doesn't matter whether they are proficient or not." By the way, how is the establishment of the Marine Resources Research Association? ”

Since the ceremony was held at the Hilton only a week ago, there are almost no people in the hotel who do not know Zhou Yu. A lobby manager came up to say hello to Zhou You and took them directly to a waiting elevator entrance, where several people went in together and pressed the button on the third floor.

"The contradictions are still relatively big, and every day there are endless disputes over some trivial matters, and the progress is very slow, and in my opinion, it will take at least a week to solve all the problems."

Zhou You laughed and said, "Then Chakr must feel extremely painful!" ”

Zhou You knows Chuckel very well, he has a similar personality to Liang Hao, he is unwilling to use his brains more, and prefers to be an executor. It was really difficult for him to negotiate with experts and officials from various countries.

Lin Wei laughed and said, "If it weren't for the fact that there was no suitable person to replace him, I am afraid he would not have been able to endure the strike a long time ago." ”

In the Cantonese restaurant on the third floor, Zhou You was brought into a super large box, which has two large tables that can accommodate twenty people, enough to seat forty people.

There were more than a dozen negotiators brought back from Spain and more than a dozen negotiators from the British side, plus personnel sent by the Singapore government, and the two tables were full.

Zhou You looked at the situation and said to Liang Hao: "You can go and eat by yourself, don't join in the fun here." Declare the name of the company and record it in the account. ”

Liang Hao and the others were not used to this kind of occasion, so they were overjoyed when they heard the words, and they quickly slipped away without saying a word.

Seeing Zhou You appear, almost all of them stood up and welcomed the return of his master. Zhou You shook hands with the British representatives one by one and welcomed them.

Although the two sides are still fighting each other, at least for the sake of face, it is still necessary to maintain friendship. This is also the reason why Zhou You especially dislikes this kind of socialization.

Sitting on the left hand side of the tour is a deputy director of the British Maritime Authority, who is also the head of the delegation to the negotiations, and the deputy head of the delegation is a chairman of the British Heritage Council, both of whom are high-ranking British officials.

Chuckle didn't like it, but he was a traveling right-hand man, and he was an American, so he had to take on his responsibilities even if he didn't want to attend.

The whole dinner party was in a kind of hypocrisy spreading peace, and both sides were tempting and probing the bottom of it, intentionally or unintentionally.

Comparatively speaking, traveling around here still takes advantage. Because the negotiating team on his side is mainly Rhodes, the Spaniards of old Volando. They don't know much about the situation of the Royal Merchant, and will only negotiate terms with each other according to various legal terms.

But what about the British side? Their negotiation team is all government officials, and this matter is not their own business, so they have also found out a lot about Rhodes.

Even at the end of the dinner, the elder Volando proposed that in the course of negotiations in the future, organize a few more such reception dinners, and the two sides would sit together, and the British side would unconsciously leak some details.

But Zhou You would never think of buying the inside line, because he wanted to solve this matter at one time and leave no trouble. If his bribery of the inside line is exposed, the British government will definitely not let him go if it knows about it.

The next day, the negotiations were officially held in the garden base of Zhou You, because the first stage of negotiations Zhou You did not disclose any details about the Royal Merchant, so this also caused the British side to be unwilling to give up, and on this condition, forced Zhou You to reveal more information, which is also one of the reasons for the stalemate between the two sides.

Of course, Zhou You will not directly tell the British side the specific location, because if the other party knows the location, then the remaining treasure will not have a share of Zhou You.

However, it is not possible to remain deadlocked. This time, Zhou You gave a rough dimensional line, confirming that the Royal Merchant was not salvaged in British waters, and this dimensional line can only prove that this is the British offshore waters.

At the same time, Zhou You also signed an agreement directly with the other party, that is, until the negotiations are concluded, the British side cannot carry out any search operations.

And Zhou You also guarantees that the future Royal Merchant will definitely be near this dimensional line, and will not go too far.

The agreement between the two parties was notarized and finalized by a third-party lawyer, which is also a big step forward in the negotiation process.

Now that it had been determined that the Royal Merchant was no longer in the 12-nautical-mile sea, negotiations began on the exact division of the wealth, and the Voyagers insisted that the British should only pay 10% of the harvest as compensation for the environmental damage off the British coast.

Because of the existence of the law of the sea, the British side has no way to fight on this point. But as Zhou You thought at the beginning, they began to find the owner of the Royal Merchant, because if the heir of the ship owner was found, then Zhou You would not only have to compensate half of the harvest to the owner's heir, but also pay 10% of the harvest to the British side, which means that in the end, Zhou You's maximum of 4.50% of the harvest is his own.

For this, Zhou You was also prepared, he had already sent people to collect a lot of information about the Royal Merchant in England, and determined that the owner of the Royal Merchant at that time, that is, the British Chamber of Commerce, was a partnership company, and no one held a large share.

The composition of the British Chamber of Commerce at that time was similar to that of the East India Company, so it was not easy for them to find a representative successor.

Because of this disagreement, the two sides have started a new round of verbal warfare.

In fact, both sides know very well that if they keep fighting like this, no one side will back down, and no side can win, because everyone has no retreat, and retreating is a loss of hundreds of millions.

After a week of negotiations and a two-day break, Zhou You decided to throw out his bait, not wanting to be stuck in Singapore all the time and not wanting the Ranger to be stuck in Spain all the time.

At the beginning of the second week of negotiations, Zhou You first made a closing statement about the outcome of last week's negotiations, and just when everyone thought his words were over, Zhou You said: "Honorable Mr. Rabitz, Mr. Conn, and the members of the delegation. As we all know, negotiations on the Royal Merchant are currently in a very difficult situation. About a fortune worth half a billion dollars, both I and the British government want a bigger share. We've been arguing over this, but stalemate is inevitable. In such a situation, I hope to be able to introduce a new project to resolve the current impasse. I don't know what you think? ”

The head of the delegation, Rabitz, asked: "I don't know if Mr. Zhou has any new proposals, but I hope they will have a positive effect on our negotiations." ”

Zhou You handed Sanchez a stack of documents in front of him, he circled around the negotiation table, handed out one to everyone, and returned to Zhou You.

Zhou You reserved five minutes for everyone to roughly read the information, and then said: "Based on the detailed inferences we have made, I can confirm that we have found the British warship Victory, which sank in the English Channel in 1744, but since the Victory is a British warship, I have no salvage plan at this time." In today's circumstances, I am willing to incorporate the salvage of the Victory into the negotiations of the Royal Merchant, and only in this way can our negotiations be turned around. ”

At this time, the faces of all the British personnel changed, and the negotiation of the Royal Merchant was a very torturous confrontation, and as long as Zhou You refused to back down, the British side would definitely not back down. Because this is not only a claim for interests, but also a protection of reputation, Britain cannot afford to lose this face.

But if Zhou You can really guarantee the salvage of the Victory, and merge the harvest of the Victory into this negotiation, the differences can be resolved.

Rabitz carefully read the information in his hand, and then said: "Mr. Zhou, I don't have detailed information about the Victory here, so I suggest that the negotiations be suspended and resumed after we learn more information and get domestic authorization." ”

Zhou You stood up, shook his hand and said, "I hope to get good news from you as soon as possible." (To be continued.) )