Li Hongzhang was shocked and wondered: "Your Majesty, are they falsely reporting so many profits?" ”

"Hehe, of course, you Li Shaoquan is notoriously difficult to do business, people know that you will sit on the ground and pay back, of course you have to ask for a price, when I proposed these twenty or so warships, I have already estimated the price of the entire fleet, in my estimate, these battleships together, it is worth about two million pounds, even so, they will still have a profit of more than 600,000 yuan......"

Guo Ye said with a smile, although Guo Ye didn't know the specific price of warships, and the transactions of warships carried out by various countries, especially ironclad ships, were very few, and there was basically no reference, but in the late Qing Dynasty, Beiyang was preparing to build the Beiyang Fleet, and purchased two ships in Dingyuan Zhenyuan, both of which were giant ships of 7,000 tons, and the price of the Dingyuan ship at that time was only 370,000 pounds, according to this calculation, the price of three heavy cruisers was only about 1.1 million pounds, three medium-sized cruisers, The price is around half a million pounds, plus twelve small ships, and the total value is at the level of two million pounds. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the Beiyang Fleet ordered the battleships of the Germans, it also had huge profits, bullying the Chinese did not know how to do it, but did not earn less money from the Chinese, at least forty percent of the profits were still there, and now the British sold these battleships, wanting to eat a fat man in one breath and earn back all the money for the purchase of heavy machine guns, where is it so easy? Lao Tzu is not fooled!

When Li Hongzhang heard this, his face darkened, wiped it, and was almost cheated by the British Yankees who said the dog! Lao Tzu is not finished with them!

"Your Majesty, don't worry, now I have the bottom in my heart, I will definitely not let the British succeed, damn bastards, they want to deceive me, they are waiting for me!"

Li Hongzhang gritted his teeth with hatred and was furious!

"Quan Shuai, don't be so angry, things are not so simple, of course, two million pounds want to take these warships, I have to say, we still have a certain degree of difficulty, I can give them an extra hundred thousand pounds, but I must give them three additional conditions!"

Guo Ye said.

Li Hongzhang hurriedly asked, "Which three additional conditions?" ”

Guo Ye replied: "First, the British Empire must be responsible for the modification of these warships in the future, the current technology of ironclad ships is indeed not very mature, and it will definitely be modified in the future, and this must be agreed to by the British; Second, the drawings for their construction of cruisers must be submitted to me for review, and without my approval, we will not receive these warships in the future; Third, we want to send naval students and shipbuilding students to the UK, they must make arrangements for us, we need to learn the naval skills and tactics of the British and their shipbuilding technology, our shipbuilding technology is too backward, without the emergence of a large number of new shipbuilding talents, it is difficult for us to catch up with and surpass the British in a short period of time, if we want to reach the level of the British, we need at least twenty or thirty years! ”

Twenty or thirty years!

Li Hongzhang was shocked, now there is such a big gap between China and the United Kingdom!

"Your Majesty, twenty or thirty years, does it really take such a long time? I don't even know if I'll live for twenty or thirty years! ”

Guo Ye sighed and replied: "Quan Shuai, we have been thrown away by England since the end of the Ming Dynasty, and now more than two hundred years have passed, the gap is getting bigger and bigger, and we have paid a huge price for closing the country, it is not so simple, we can catch up, we are now poor and white, without any industrial base......

Li Hongzhang said fiercely: "Your Majesty, rest assured, with you, in twenty or thirty years, we will definitely catch up, and when the time comes, we will concentrate the strength of China's 40,000,000 people and dominate the world, and there will be absolutely no problem!" ”

"Okay, Quan Shuai, the most important thing now is to complete this arms sale, in the future, there are still a lot of unknowns waiting for us to learn!"

Li Hongzhang got Guo Ye's guidance, and his confidence was naturally enough, so he left the room and returned to the conference room.

By this time the night had fallen, and eight huge candles were lit in the room, and they were burning brightly, and the room was brightened!

"Mr. Fillet, I am sorry to inform you that your offer of £2,700,000 is still unacceptable to me, and I hope you will be able to make me an honest and workable offer......

Li Hongzhang sneered.

Fetley's face changed, and he said coldly: "Lord Li, are you mistaken, I have cut the offer for you by one percent, a full 300,000 pounds!" What more do you want? ”

"Not good!"

Li Hongzhang said fiercely, "The offer you gave is not within our range of bearing, we will not accept it!" ”

"And what kind of price do you really want?"

Fetley airway.

Li Hongzhang replied lightly: "At a fixed price, I will also give you a 1.9 million pound to complete this purchase!" Otherwise, don't talk about it! ”

"You're dreaming!"

"You see, you're ordering battleships, armored ships!" Not a cart of Chinese cabbage! I'd rather let these ships rot in the water than sell them to you! ”

Li Hongzhang sneered: "Yes, you bought an armored ship made of steel, not a golden ship made of gold!" Three million pounds, you can tell! This price can at least guarantee you three times the profit, insatiable, as for you! ”

"What else do you want to talk about? You don't have the sincerity of his negotiation at all! ”

Fetley shouted.

"Of course we have sincerity, but our sincerity cannot be a reason for you to deceive us, Mr. Fitley, I will give you another chance, give me a suitable offer, I said, ironclad ships are not only you who can produce!"

Fetley looked indignant, this guy is too cunning, he clung to this point and kept threatening himself!

"Okay, eighty percent, twenty percent off, two million pounds sterling, this is already the limit of what we can accept!"

Fetley replied.

Li Hongzhang stood up and replied: "Mr. Fitley, at this point, our negotiations are over, I am not willing to negotiate with an insincere minister, I still have business, the American minister Montello is still waiting for me, presumably he is full of interest in my arms purchase plan......

Saying this, Li Hongzhang walked outside.

"Stop! Two million pounds, the last offer, I will definitely not lower my price again! Absolutely not! Or, you get out there now! ”

Fetley roared with a grim face.

Two hundred and two hundred thousand pounds, which is close to the reference price given by Guo Ye, after all, what Guo Ye gave is the reference price, which is higher and lower, which is normal.

"Yes, but I still have three conditions!"

"You're the hell there's ...... to be done"

(To be continued.) )