-- On the side of Peking, the princes and nobles who initially expressed their intention of marrying the short-haired were six families, and one English mansion was uncertain, with a total of seven girls. On the side of Qiong Haijun, there are nine young men who are willing to participate in blind date activities and are willing to come to Beijing for this purpose.

Several of them originally came specifically for the "Ming Dynasty Sister Lin", but now their minds have changed. Because after Hu Wen met with all the women, she went back and told them: The average level of girls this time is very high, even according to modern standards, it is generally above 90. That Miss Li is indeed extremely talented, but among all the girls, she is not the best.

"You can be regarded as earning it this time, if you change our original society, at most you can only look at others from a distance, and you can't even think about holding hands!"

Zhu Yueyue and Su Duxue's slightly sour comments made a group of older men all excited, they are not short of money or power in this era, and their requirements for future wives are nothing more than appearance and character. And these girls are generally not more than sixteen years old, and their personalities and temperaments can be slowly adjusted in the future, then only appearance is the most important thing - good looks, everything is fine!

Hu Wen was originally worried that there were more wolves and less meat, and it would not look good if there were nine people, if they could only match seven pairs, but it turned out that she was completely overly concerned - when the two sides first mentioned this matter, they Qiong Navy had not yet opened a copy of Liaodong. When Xiao Lang became famous in the battle at Lushunkou, and the iron facts proved that even the Jiannu Tartars were vulnerable in front of the Qiong Navy, their Qiong Navy's market in the minds of the Ming Dynasty nobles was very different from before - most of the Ming Dynasty nobles were born in the military, although the Ming Dynasty has long been a practice of emphasizing literature over military force, but it is precisely these noble families who know best in their hearts: in this era that no longer looks good, what does a strong force represent, and how long it can bring benefits to the family.

So almost at the same time that the news of Liaodong reached Jingshi. There are new wealthy families who hurriedly expressed their desire to join this marriage. But at this time, it was the original few companies that began to put obstacles in the way of it - the fewer competitors the better. When the blind date group actually arrived in Beijing, I heard that there were two more suitors than originally planned, and without waiting for the Qiong Navy to express any thoughts, this side had already started a private competition for the two extra places.

Just two days ago, this place became one - Hu Wen did not refuse the request of the Chengguo Mansion on the spot, and the latter immediately announced strongly that they would also join the marriage. Even if Wang Chen didn't like the little widow in the end. The Zhu family will definitely arrange another niece to take over. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there are still four powerful national mansions, one of the two Xu families is too far away from Nanjing, and the other Dingguo mansion is just a big funeral this year, which is really difficult to discuss. The rest of the British Mansion already had a niece involved, and I was thinking about whether to add another daughter to it, and the Chengguo Mansion of the old relationship came over and said that these two old Guogong Mansions worked together to take up a place.

So the remaining quota really became a fragrant bun, and Hu Wen found out that she was under the watchful eye of the major giants in Beijing. Their short hair is the little fresh meat - of course, she is still optimistic about this, anyway, no matter what decision the other party finally makes, which one wins, just notify her, and she will come to visit.

Hu Wen was busy visiting wealthy families with a group of female comrades, and the male comrades of the delegation were not idle, they were also busy for the team - a new round of business and trade cooperation negotiations with the Ming Dynasty.

Thanks to Professor Li's enlightenment, everyone has now basically agreed with the committee's judgment: the relationship between Qiong Haijun and the Ming Dynasty cannot be completely determined through a treaty alone. In the future, the two sides will deepen their understanding of each other. Various interests are intertwined, and economic exchanges are becoming more and more numerous. All kinds of treaties have been negotiated and signed. It is hoped that the people of the Ming Dynasty will be the first to sign an unequal treaty, and they will honestly abide by it all the time - this is the patent of the protagonists of obscene novels, and there is no such talent in the short hair.

So I can only move forward step by step, Qian Qianyi's Zhao'an clause can be regarded as laying the foundation for political cooperation between the two sides, and neither side wants to change it in this regard. But Julie's ancillary economic terms now seem a bit "out of place" – even though it's only been a year and a half since the recruitment. It hasn't been in two years. But the Ming Dynasty has finally reacted and is unwilling to blindly act as an economic wrongdoer.

And since Qiong Haijun still wants to benefit from the Ming market, he has to share some benefits to the Ming court. Therefore, the two sides will make some minor amendments and adjustments to this part of the article in an attitude of "friendly consultation", but the specific adjustment will be by a certain amount. It depends on the strength of both sides, the bottom line, and the level of negotiators.

Originally, according to the position of the Ming Dynasty, they should have had a very strong advantage in this kind of negotiation, after all, the market itself was on the mainland, and the Ming court had almost unlimited huge power in this land. However, the naivety and carelessness of Ming officials in such negotiations almost completely neutralized their innate advantage. In fact, in the eyes of those Ming officials, they did not think that this was a negotiation of equal status between the two sides. In their opinion, this is nothing more than a request from the imperial court to some of the vassal forces below, but the other party has some capital and dares to bargain, and the imperial court cannot take it like ordinary subordinates, and must pay some price - but that's all. At the end of the day, this is something that is internal to the Ming Empire.

The nominal person in charge of negotiations on Qiongjun's side is Guo Yi, but it is Lin Hanlong who really handles the specific practice. He immediately discovered this after he came into contact with several high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty such as Zhou Yanru once or twice. I have to say that bureaucrats throughout the ages are almost the same, Lin Hanlong used to be a small contractor foreman, and he had dealt with such bureaucrats many times when he took over projects from government departments, and he was very familiar with their thinking routines. Then Lin Hanlong quite pragmatically suggested that the delegation adjust its negotiation strategy accordingly, no longer as a negotiation opponent, but as a contractor for the project, to provide services for the Ming court.

It is meaningless to be stubborn, and the Ming Empire's rigid position on the name and righteousness has long been recorded in the history books: it is said that when Li Zicheng hit the city of Beijing, he only asked Chongzhen to make him a vassal king, and then he was willing to go back to Xi'an, but the Ming Empire still refused. As for the Later Jin side, there were many correspondence with the Ming Dynasty, but they were unable to even do the most basic communication just to dispute a title issue - with these lessons in mind, Lin Hanlong didn't want to fall out with the Ming Dynasty over a mere issue of reputation. As a generation that has grown up in the course of reform and opening up, they know too well what they should adhere to and what they can be treated flexibly. In their time, even national policy was playing the trick of "turning the left to the right", and this kind of business negotiation - yes, it was only business negotiation and not politics. They were fighting for commercial interests, not political status, which they did not count on the gifts of the Ming Dynasty at all, and had to rely on themselves to snatch them.

So after convincing Guo Yi and others, Lin Hanlong soon returned from negotiator to his old job - a contractor service provider. During this time, he, Guo Yi and Chen Tao wore a wrinkled suit that was not very crisp every day - no way, the dress brought from modern society could not be worn every day. And the local other, no matter how good the tailor's craftsmanship, in this era can really not find a suitable heavy woolen fabric, as long as a day without a soothing iron, it will immediately wrinkle - also a bulging briefcase in the hand. If it weren't for the high-end carriages in and out, followed by a team of guards and soldiers, they would really be no different from the small managers of leather bag companies when they first opened up to the outside world.

The location where they went in and out also fully reflected the Ming Empire's carelessness in this negotiation - it was in the private residence of Qian Qianyi and the old mansion of Qian Qianyi, to be precise, in the study of the old mansion of the Ministry of Rites. However, their main negotiation opponent is Zhou Yanru - the last time he negotiated with Shorthair, no one cared about the DPRK and China, and as a result, he was taken advantage of by Qian Qianyi, who was white: in just two years, he went from white to recovering to entering the cabinet, although this is also related to the fame he had accumulated before, but this gorgeous triple jump is still definitely a new record in the Ming officialdom.

So this time, Zhou Da Shoufu will not hand over this matter to others anyway, and he will definitely handle it himself. And the reason why Qian Qianyi insisted on placing the negotiation venue in his own house is easy to understand - Zhou Yanru discussed with Shorthair to revise the contract, in case of a complete overthrow of his original treaty, wouldn't it turn his old money into a sinner in the court? Today's Qian Qianyi is also a bit politically minded, although this possibility is not large, it cannot be guarded against, so even if he is bored enough to sit next to him and drink tea every day, he must join the negotiation throughout the process.

Of course, Qiongjun's side has no intention of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge at all, and the cooperation with Lao Qian has always been very pleasant, so since Lao Qian has doubts, they also invited Lord Qian to participate in the whole process. In addition to these two, since it is mainly related to financial affairs, Yang Yihe, the newly appointed secretary of the household department, will inevitably be invited to talk. But after a day of talking, Yang Yihe found that he was not up to the job -- he was originally a Caoyun Shangshu, and he had just taken over the household department, and he was not familiar with the situation at all. Moreover, the household department of the Ming Dynasty, as the department that most directly faced the financial dilemma of the Ming Dynasty, was really an out-and-out mess, and Yang Yihe regretted it when he took over.

Although he didn't care on the surface, the real participants knew that this negotiation was very important, and Yang Yihe didn't dare to hold on, after repeated weighing, he decided to communicate with Zhou Yanru, and invited the original household secretary Bi Ziyan back, and the person who knew the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty best came to communicate with Shorthair face-to-face. (To be continued.) )