In addition to providing samples, Zhu Beiguo also paid a list, and in order to facilitate the other party's valuation, he also wrote down the quantity and unit of measurement, which was written in accordance with the practice of this era, which Xue Laixiang helped a lot, and also made Zhu Beiguo's valuation of his own goods more accurate.

However, Zhu Beiguo did not indicate the price, and he believed that he did not understand the real market price of this world, so it was better not to write it.

In any case, these things from the old world, both qualitatively and in terms of rarity, are enough to be regarded as strange goods in the new world, and we do not write a specific price, but let the other party bid, so that in the end both parties can reach a psychological price that both parties are satisfied with.

Therefore, Zhu Beiguo did not consult Xue Laixiang on the price issue, let alone Zheng Fu, because he did not want to expose his ignorance of the world.

However, in the process of sample handling, packing and unpacking, Zhu Beiguo already roughly knew that these goods were indeed very valuable in the eyes of the people of the world through the shocked eyes of Ha Zheng and his excited demeanor, and it was enough to understand this......

The four chests were quickly carefully carried into the royal palace by the soldiers of the Sulu Kingdom.

Unsurprisingly, "Australian goods" caused a commotion in the royal palace.

One of them, a round vanity mirror about the size of a basin, made the people in the hall exclaim, and other large and small mirrors were also coveted, not only the mirror, but also other exquisite objects.

At this moment, the Prime Minister's wife, the king's aunt, the princesses, and the concubines of His Majesty the King, almost fell out on the spot in order to compete for these glass mirrors and those crystal clear ornaments and glasses!

If it weren't for the fact that His Majesty had decisively confiscated all the glassworks and temporarily handed them over to the King's aunt for safekeeping, his harem might have been tormented like this forever.

The dazzling array of Australian goods made the monarchs and ministers of Sulu realize that the interests were huge, so the king and the prime minister immediately summoned Zheng Fu and Haruban and asked them to estimate the price of these Australian goods first, and then go to the dock to negotiate with the Australians, at least to find out how much the other party is willing to let go of these goods.

Ha Zheng and the two were ordered to return to the dock, waving the red flag, and after a while, the Pride whistled in response, and after another half an hour, the Pride docked.

Zhu Beiguo received Haluban and Zheng Fu on the deck, and the latter gave Zhu Beiguo a total price according to the list - including wine and sugar, all Australian goods, Sulu was willing to pay 200,000 taels of silver to buy.

In addition, after Zheng Fu muttered to Xue Laixiang for a while, Xue Laixiang revealed to Zhu Beiguo the bottom line of the Sulu side: if the compensation is talked about 300,000 taels, the Sulu side will be able to reach all trade agreements immediately.

Zhu Beiguo nodded when he heard this, and said that this price can be regarded as a basis for negotiation, but this is the first stage, and there is still a lot to be discussed between the two sides later.

Then he quietly told Xue Laixiang that this also includes compensation for you.

Then, the conversation shifted to the current Australian goods.

For Australian goods, since the other party repaid the money on the spot, Zhu Beiguo also unceremoniously sat on the ground and raised the price, he told Captain Haluban that these Australian goods could not be sold for 400,000 yuan, but Haluban said to Zhu Beiguo through Zheng Fu's translation that he was just a talker and did not dare to call the shots, and suggested that the two sides could negotiate directly at the dock.

This was actually the instruction of Prime Minister Suhabi, who wanted to meet these mysterious Australians.

Zhu Beiguo had already discussed the plan with Gu Jin and them, and immediately proposed to hold a meeting on the Pride or the dock square, Zheng Fu immediately nodded, and ran back to the palace to resume his life......

Then there was another bargaining in the palace.

The Prime Minister was very interested in the glassware and sugar in the Australian goods, and he told the king that if His Majesty was willing to give him the right to trade in the Australian goods, he would be willing to pay the three hundred thousand taels of silver to the Australians in addition to paying taxes to the treasury according to the law and paying the king's treasury the money according to the regulations.

These included five thousand taels of silver and one thousand taels of gold that were given to Australians from public funds the day before yesterday.

His Majesty the King sneered in his heart, but on his face he showed a very ambitious greed for money, saying that my uncle couldn't let me be a junior? I still want to practice the palace concubine, this all needs silver!

Seeing that His Majesty the King politely rejected the Prime Minister's suggestion, Prime Minister Suharbi brought his wife out, so, finally, with the intervention of his aunt, the two began to bargain naked in the hall, and the final result was:

The Prime Minister is responsible for paying all the compensation to the Australian and Xue Laixiang, considering that this value is a bit large, in order to compensate for the Prime Minister's loss, eighty percent of the amount of Australian goods is handed over to the Prime Minister's Mansion for trade, and the king only gets two percent, however, the king this time is a business without capital, unlike the Prime Minister, who has to pay the silver first.

Although the king knew that in fact, the silver was not all out of the prime minister's own hands, after all, he had many subordinates, and he could get together the three or four hundred thousand taels of silver with a little looting, but after all, it was also bleeding, so under pressure, His Majesty the king could only nod and agree......

Later that day, Zheng Fu sent two written replies from the Kingdom of Sulu to the Australian Commonwealth to the captain's office of the Pride.

Li Sanduo and Zhu Beiguohe received him.

However, this meeting was a bit unusual, because Zheng Fu was the only one who came.

Therefore, both sides have any greetings and politeness, and they go straight to the point and get to the point immediately.

Zheng Fu knew that this trip was of great significance, and whether the two sides would make peace or war in the future, and whether they could reach a final agreement depended on this trip.

However, Zhu Beiguo frowned and told Zheng Fu that if the negotiations between the two sides are successful, you Zheng Fu can still save your life, and if you don't succeed, you will be used as a scapegoat for foreign countries and brought to justice.

Zheng Fu responded that he knew this, that Captain Haluban was a person from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he had the grace of his master to escort him, so naturally he didn't have to let him take this risk, but he was just a lowly slave interpreter, and because he was the shopkeeper in the king's shop, so outsiders more or less regarded himself as the king's side, but he was actually a slave, and people said that if he gave up, he would give up, and no matter how he struggled, it would be useless, but he was resigned to fate......

Zhu Beiguo listened to Zheng Fu's own statement, but he agreed a little, but did not say anything more.

This Zheng Fu is a clever person, the so-called drum does not need a heavy hammer, and it is enough to say it to this extent.

The talks quickly got to the point, and Zheng Fu told the other party straight to the point that the king and the prime minister were willing to do business with the Australian Commonwealth, and that all the trading ships arriving in the Australian Commonwealth would be given preferential tax treatment.

——In the future, all Australian federal ships arriving at the port of Hollowo will be taxed once according to the most favorable tax rate of 5% of the turnover of both parties, and there will be no other regulatory fees and pumps, and there will be no boarding and anti-smuggling inspection.

In addition, with regard to the samples of Australian goods sent last time, Sulu hopes to purchase all the samples listed in the list, and attach the unit price.

As for the compensation of the Xue family, Sulu is willing to pay it, but it will take time for the release of the Han slaves, of course, including the return of the three ships of the Xue family, and the prime minister has sent a message to the open sea to return to Hong Kong within a few days.

After Zheng Fu finished saying the most important words, he handed over the two paper scrolls to Zhu Beiguo, and told the two people present that one of them was a contract between Sulu and the Australian Federation, mainly about compensation and trade agreements for the Xue family, and the other was a reply to this batch of Australian goods trade, which was the price and delivery method proposed by the Sulu side.