"Honorable Grand Duke Mikhail, on behalf of all the Bulgarian people, I welcome you!" Metev said politely

"Thank you! It's a pleasure to see you again, Marquis Metelf! Mikhail said with a smile

(Mikhail's full name: Mikhail Alexandrovich, the younger brother of Nicholas II, who passed on the throne to him after the February Revolution, was rejected by him, so the Romanov dynasty perished, and the refusal to take the throne still did not escape the catastrophe, and was wiped by the ****** the following year.) ）

"Marquis Sasonov, long time no see!" Metev continued to greet

He knew that the matter of negotiation was still Sasonov, and the purpose of Grand Duke Mikhail's visit was only to communicate between the royal family, and he would not participate in the negotiations.

"Indeed, we haven't seen each other for almost three years, old friend, and now that you are a marquis, congratulations to you, Mr. Metev!" Sasonov said personically

However, there was still a little jealousy in his eyes, and if nothing else, he also had a share of the credit.

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Mikhail's surprise visit surprised Ferdinand. Ferdinand didn't have a very good impression of him, and they didn't have much contact with each other.

As a rebel who broke the rules, Mikhail was not very good in the royal family, and Ferdinand remembered that Xenia had turned against him over his marriage.

Breaking the tradition of not intermarrying between nobles and nobles, this is nothing, the social atmosphere at that time has opened up a lot, and Russia has allowed nobles to intermarry.

It's a pity to take a woman who has been divorced twice and has an inappropriate private life, or is pregnant unmarried, and it is not sure who the child is, so she got married in this case.

Xenia advised him to calm down, at least to make sure that the child was his own, and it was better to keep it outside, which was related to the face of the Romanov family.

Ferdinand didn't know what the process was, he only knew that the last angry Queen Xenia blew away, and then Xenia did not attend their wedding, and the two sides broke off contact from then on.

But there is no responsibility, Ferdinand still knows.

After the outbreak of the February Revolution, the royalists supported him as the new Tsar, and Nicholas II agreed to inherit the throne and assume full responsibility.

directly caused the royalist party to fall apart, after all, such a second-class emperor has no future with him!

Despite his reluctance, Ferdinand held a welcome banquet for him, and Queen Xenia said that she was not available, and she was going to hold a personal banquet, which was very clear and slapped in the face.

Well, the problem between their siblings, Ferdinand is not easy to meddle in.

However, since Mikhail got married, high-level aristocratic banquets usually do not have the figure of their husband and wife, and it is estimated that they are used to being ignored.

Ferdinand really didn't understand, what Nicholas II sent him out for, even if he wanted to take the harem route, the Russian royal family was not without people, at least he had to send a good relationship over.

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"Mr. Sasonov, shall we begin?" Metyev asked with a smile

"Of course, Mr. Metyev, what does your country want, can you put forward the conditions?" Sasonov asked

"It's a pity that this question, I can't answer you, in fact Bulgaria has a very limited territorial interest in the Russian Empire and there is nothing of particular interest to us!" Mejev said righteously

Seeing Metyev talking nonsense with his eyes open, Sasonov's heart didn't bother to complain, if he was really not interested, would he still need to be at the negotiating table now?

Even Sasonov doubted that there was no particular place to be interested, does that mean that you dare to be interested in all places?

Thinking about it, he will definitely not say it directly, everyone is a peer, and he knows that people are difficult to dismantle.

"Well, how about we intend to sell the regions of Western Ukraine for 20 billion leva?" Sasonov pretended to be calm

"Mr. Sasonov, are you sure you're not kidding? Western Ukraine is not worth so much money, and besides, you have mortgaged Ukraine to the bank, do you want to sell two of them? Metev asked, feigning surprise

"Of course not, Mr. Metyev, you are underestimating the Ukrainian region, you must know that there are many mineral resources in this region...... "Sasonov explained

"There are a lot of mineral resources, but there is no economic value for mining, what can we do with Western Ukraine now?

Farming? Do you think that Europe's largest food exporter will be short of food? Metev interrupted

This is not Metyev's nonsense, Western Ukraine includes Bukovina and parts of Carpathia-Ruthenia, as well as Lviv, Przemyśl, Koroya, Stannisslaviv.

Not all of these areas were in the hands of the Russians, Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary both controlled some of them, and in fact the Russians controlled an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers.

All Metyev didn't bother to ask, the specific scope of Western Ukraine, no matter how much it is increased, it will not increase too much.

In any case, the transaction price of the land this time is definitely not as high as the unit price of the last time, and there is no strategic value, how can it be possible to ask Bulgaria for a high price?

At most, it is calculated according to the current land transaction price of the international taxi field, and the land in the Ukrainian region is indeed very valuable according to the prevailing price, the problem is that there are owners!

Europe is private ownership of land, and now is an era of peace, and you can't touch the land that has an owner, so this value is naturally greatly reduced.

"It's a big deal, let's add the Georgian region, and that's all right, right?" Sasonov pretended to be angry

"That's good, we don't bother to talk about it, just 10,000 leva per square kilometer, as long as the land bordering us, how about counting?" Metyev thought for a moment and said

"No way, Mr. Metyev, you're robbing! You must know the current price of land in your country, the price of a hectare of land is worth tens of thousands of leva! Sasonov retorted

"The account can't be calculated like this, the land in our country with a price of tens of thousands of leva is all good land that has been developed.

And this land transaction, we are not picky, whether it is a desert or a wasteland, it is a price!

As for your fertile land and minerals, they all already have owners, and even if we buy them, can we drive them away?

If you can drive out all the owners of the land, then we can calculate it directly according to the area of cultivated land, what do you think? Metyev asked rhetorically

"This is impossible, private property is sacrosanct!

But the price you gave is too low, or 100,000 leva per square kilometer, so that everyone can accept it? Sasonov said righteously

"Impossible, no one in the world dares to take over such a sky-high price, why don't you ask Austria-Hungary and see if they will accept your terms?" Metev retorted

Do you need to ask this question again? Of course not, if it is a choice, tens of thousands of square kilometers of land transactions, it is estimated that Austria-Hungary will happily accept it.

But now such a bundled package of land transactions, as long as the Austro-Hungarian government does not have a brain into the water, it will not touch it.

The national question in their country was troublesome enough, and with the addition of some Slavs, the situation in Austria-Hungary, which had been so difficult to stabilize, would soon be turbulent again.

The most important thing is that they have no money, as the loser in the world war, the Austro-Hungarian government is also heavily indebted, if it were not for the fact that Britain and France needed them to balance Bulgaria and the Russian Empire, it is estimated that they are not much better than Germany and Italy now.

"How about 90,000 leva per square kilometer?" Sasonov thought for a moment and said

"If the land is left to our choice, 90,000 leva per square kilometer can still be considered!" Mejev replied without hesitation

"This is impossible, if you are left to your country's choice, it will not be 90,000 leva that can be bought!" Sasonov refused without hesitation

"Mr. Sasonov, you can calculate the price of land transactions within the Russian Empire now, and the land in your country now, the land in the field is less than five thousand leva per hectare.

If the cultivated land area of your country is divided by the land area, which accounts for less than one-thirtieth of the country's land area, then the average square kilometer of cultivated land is worth more than 16,000 leva, which is actually much higher.

Then we calculate the mineral resources, your country's mineral resources are really rich, but there is not much mining value, divide your total mineral value by the land area, the average price of mineral resources per square kilometer is about 1000 leva ~ 1500 leva.

If you calculate your grassland and forest resources, the average value per square kilometer is less than 500 leva.

After this calculation, then we give an estimate of 10,000 leva per square kilometer of land, which is very reasonable, which is the result of a comprehensive assessment based on our actual situation! Metyev said calmly

Sasonov was dumbfounded, why didn't he know about these materials, how to judge the authenticity of the information, and how did Bulgaria get it?

Apparently he did not know that it was Metyev who had stolen the concept, and these prices were now within the Russian Empire.

During the war years, these immovable properties could not be effectively developed, and naturally they were worthless, and this average figure was naturally much lower than the actual value.

Otherwise, how is it possible that, according to Bulgarian valuations, the entire Russian Empire is worth less than three hundred billion leva?

If it were so cheap, if you sell London now, you will be able to buy half of the Russian Empire, and in the next three or five years, London alone will be worth the same value as the Russian Empire.

"Mr. Metyev, the accounts can't be calculated like this, you also ignore human resources, factories, urban municipal projects, and all these factors are converted, and the final conclusion is accurate!" Sasonnov said

"Alright then, that's all for today's meeting, and after you have carefully calculated, we can continue the pleasant negotiations!" Metev immediately terminated the negotiations

Anyway, it's enough to fool the Russians into it, and it depends on the Russians themselves whether they suffer losses or take advantage in the end.

In order to achieve the ultimate goal, the issue of price is actually the best negotiable!

"Okay, there are a lot of things to accept today, let's calm down, think quietly, and talk about it tomorrow!" Sasonov said with a sigh of relief

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