The two sides are arguing.

Xuan Yuemeng smiled slightly, and did not speak, Li Hongzhang held Xuan Yuemeng in his arms, an old man and a young man, as if he was watching a monkey.

In the end, the two reached an agreement to jointly fund 50% each! Or five million taels.

Timothy Lee quit and insisted on 20 million taels!

Then it became Timothy Lee who quarreled with a lot of foreigners!

Xuan Yuemeng waved her hand, "Since you have all said that you are all right, 20 million taels of Chinese official silver, you are definitely not willing to take it out, 5 million taels is too little, and my partner Mr. Timothy Li will definitely not accept it, and I don't want to spoil the relationship with you international bigwigs, so let's take a step back!" If you add 5 million taels to 20 million taels, it will be 25 million taels, and if you divide it by two, it will be 12.5 million taels. Refreshing enough, right? Sincere, isn't it? Twelve million taels! ”

Crash!

The foreigners blew up again, discussed with each other, and debated with Xuan Yuemeng, and it became a situation of besieging Timothy Lee, 12 million taels!

Xuan Yuemeng cut off eight million taels at once! Timothy Lee couldn't accept it!

Foreigners can't accept it either!

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "Do you have this strength?" Or do you not have the strength? It's said that our Klinsmann foreign firm continues to contract, everything is fine, everything is fine, you have to come to teach, and then you can't come up with the money, hum, in the business field, you still have to speak with strength! ”

Hurd said coldly: "Mr. Yuemeng, you don't want to sell well if you get cheap, how much money did you pay?" Why do you make so much money for nothing? ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "Ah, Mr. Hurd, there is a problem with what you said, I never thought of making money for nothing, right?" With so many of you here today, let me ask, is there one of you who was invited by our Klinsmann Foreign Company or the Beiyang Yamen? You're stuck here by yourself and won't leave, right? ”

Xuan Yuemeng's words blocked Hurd's mouth.

Anyway, Hurd had learned Xuan Yuemeng's mouth many times, and knew that he couldn't talk about him, so he simply didn't speak.

It was still the two people who were in charge, Date Jongseong and McMarfoy.

Xuan Yuemeng smiled slightly, "I still have a way, I really can't listen to you anymore, no matter how noisy you are, I will fall asleep." ”

Hirofumi Ito: "Yue Meng-san, please speak." ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "Roll the dice, right?" ”

Everyone sweated profusely, but they immediately understood.

Xuan Yuemeng said with a smile: "Everyone is a smart person, and so many people are people with status, let's roll the dice to decide, 12 million taels, exactly two six-point dice, how much is the number of throws, less, we Klinsmann Foreign Company admit bad luck, more, our Klinsmann Foreign Company will be stained with everyone's joy, how about it?" ”

This is indeed a fair approach.

Timothy Lee was so angry, he felt very unfair, "Mr. Yuemeng, in this case, it is very unfair to us Klinsmann & Co." They only paid 12 million taels at most? At least, only two million taels are needed? It's so unfair! I can't accept it! ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "Alas, I said something in a hurry, because I didn't think about it enough, in this way, it's really not fair enough, my partner even thinks that 12 million taels of Chinese official silver is less, how can he accept 2 million taels, don't count, everyone didn't say anything just now." ”

Zhilin said loudly: "No, no! Young Master Meng, everyone heard what you just said, I think this is a good idea, you have to talk about credit, how can you go back on your word, you are the youngest talent in the Qing Dynasty, isn't it just a credit? ”

Timothy Lee said angrily: "It's not about not trusting, it's because Mr. Yuemeng didn't understand just now, who would throw their silver into the water for nothing?" ”

Zhilin sneered: "Mr. Timothy Li, but Young Master Meng's words have already been spoken?" We all heard it. ”

Hurd also came out to speak, "Yes, we all heard it, and I also think that the method proposed by Mr. Yue Meng is very fair!" In my opinion, let's do it, in this case, you still have a chance to get 12 million taels of Chinese official silver? Mr. Timothy Lee, you don't want people to be weak enough to swallow elephants, this is a Chinese proverb, right? Do you know that now that China does not pay 12 million taels of silver in taxes a year, how much more do you want to earn? ”

Timothy Li was almost mad, and yelled at Young Master Meng loudly, "Mr. Yuemeng, if you say something, just say that you just said something wrong, I really don't know what you think?" How can you offer such a low price? If the total number of dice they rolled was only two points, wouldn't they want to sell such a good mine for two million taels of Chinese official silver? In that case, we will die! ”

Young Master Meng hurriedly pretended to cry, "Big brothers, I was wrong just now, I was wrong, I didn't count just now, at least three dice, this is fair, in this way, you can still have the opportunity to buy the mine and power plant at one time at a low price of three million taels of Chinese official silver?" ”

Everyone was anxious when they heard this, and they quarreled too much around Young Master Meng and Timo Li, so that Young Master Meng must keep his credit.

Young Master Meng had a bitter face and looked at Timothy Li, "Mr. Timothy Li, I'm sorry, I made a slip of the tongue just now, what do you think you should do now?" ”

Timothy Li was so anxious that he cried, "Mr. Yuemeng, it's not the first time you've made a slip of the tongue!" The first time you made a slip of the tongue, you lost eight million taels at once! Eight million taels! Even if it's 12 million taels of Chinese official silver, I can't accept it, this is simply too little, and now it suddenly becomes that they are likely to buy it for 2 million taels? No, I will never agree to this price! ”

McMarfoy was also anxious, "Just do what Young Master Meng said!" We agreed, if the Japanese didn't dare to buy it, we Xingtai Xing foreign company family bought it! ”

After listening to Hirofumi Ito's translation of McMarfoy's words, Date Sojo was also anxious, "Who said we wouldn't agree?" We also have strength in the Great Japanese Empire! We're going to get involved in the dice roll! ”

That's it, from the beginning of rushing to say the price, and now it's time to rush to do this business with Young Master Meng, Young Master Meng is bitter-forced to face, looking at Timothy Li and apologizing: "Mr. Timothy Li, I'm sorry, it's all my mistake of the tongue, now you see, what to do?" ”

Timothy Lee wept and stamped his feet, "Mr. Yuemeng, alas! You know, it's a few million taels less all of a sudden! What is the equivalent of six million taels? You're really ...... I don't even know what to say. ”

When the crowd saw Timothy Lee beating his chest and crying, their desire to buy it became even stronger, and they turned to comfort Timothy Lee.

It seems that they bought Young Master Meng's mine and power plant, as if they took a big advantage.

Young Master Meng also cried, "Mr. Timothy Lee, I'm really sorry, I was wrong." ”

Timothy Lee cried for a while and sighed, "Mr. Yuemeng, don't cry, forget it, forget it, just promise them." ”

When everyone saw that Timothy Lee was too relieved, they were overjoyed.

The next problem was that both the Japanese and the British wanted to eat the mine, and the two sides were arguing over the shareholding.

McMarford: "We have to be more than 50 percent equity!" ”

Date Sojo objected through Hirobumi Ito, "No, we have to have more than 50 percent of the shares. ”

Just now, everyone was arguing with Timothy Lee, but now it has become their own quarrel.

Young Master Meng smiled: "This question is not simple? Don't you each take a dice? How much you voted out is how much you are, with the number you voted, remove twelve, isn't it the proportion of equity that should be accounted for? It's all luck, isn't that fair? ”

Hearing what Young Master Meng said, everyone suddenly became enlightened, and they all felt that Young Master Meng was smart, and it seemed that any problem could be solved when it came to Young Master Meng.

Date Sojo, Ito Hirobumi and Hurd, McMarof, Wittoma and others discussed for a long time, and everyone agreed to do so, and the Japanese and the British each rolled a dice, and each family contributed as much as they rolled, and the shares were determined according to the amount of money they paid.

In this way, everyone felt that it was fair, and it also resolved the disagreement between the British and the Japanese about the proportion of shares.

If unfortunately, the dice roll is relatively large, and the party will not be too disappointed if it thinks that it can account for more of the shares!

After the two discussed, Ito Hirofumi said to Xuan Yuemeng: "Yuemengsan, we have discussed!" ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled and nodded, "Did you bring a silver ticket?" This is not a joke, so many people with status are present. The two of you, each with six million taels? ”

They didn't have so much cash, and they only prepared 5 million taels today, and the 5 million taels were only collected by contacting several merchants, and the Japanese even borrowed loans from many foreign banks, so they barely managed to get together 5 million taels.

Neither of them can take it out.

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "There's no way, I also want to help you, you don't have this strength yourself, right?" I'm sorry, but this mine and power plant will be contracted by our Klinsmann & Co., Mr. Li Zhongtang, what do you say? ”

Li Hongzhang also stood up and nodded, "Yes, gentlemen foreigners, I saw it with my own eyes this time, Klinsmann Foreign Bank is sincere, your own capital is insufficient, I think it's better to forget it!" ”

McMarford was angry and said loudly: "No, we can borrow money on the spot!" ”

Date Sojo also nodded, "We can also borrow money on the spot, and I can use the credibility of our Japanese government as collateral!" ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled: "You Japan is a small country, I'm afraid your reputation is not worth a million taels of Chinese official silver, right?" Let's wait until you borrow it! Hey. ”

Ito Hirofumi translated Xuan Yuemeng's words to Date Sojo After hearing about it, Date Sojo and Yanagihara Maemitsu and other high-ranking officials of the Japanese mission almost didn't go crazy, and immediately borrowed money from foreign businessmen, and the foreign businessmen present today are all very powerful, and many foreign banks have done their business in Japan and Korea, and they are not afraid that they will not pay it back, the Japanese are all scraping together, and they actually borrowed millions of taels of usury on the spot!

It's much easier for McMarfoy of Xingtai Xing to borrow a million!

The two families gathered the money and began to roll the dice.

The dice are inspected by everyone on the spot, there are no magnets, they are all expensive dice made of ivory!

Date Sojo and McMarfoy were holding two bowls upside down, one of which was a small dice.

The two of them were sweating profusely shaking the dice, and their mouths were chanting words in the language of their respective countries!

"A little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! A little ......"

"A little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! Little by little! A little! A little ......"

Timothy Lee clenched his fists and shouted! "Six o'clock! Six! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! Two sixes! (To be continued.) )