What, you would have offered such conditions? ”

When negotiations began, Marbond offered his own terms.

Faced with the conditions offered by Ma Bond, Prince Mustafa was stunned all at once.

The reason is very simple, Ma Bond's price is too high, not to mention that he is just an heir and cannot agree, even his reigning father cannot agree.

Therefore, for the price offered by Ma Bond, Mustafa refused very resolutely.

Of course, Ma Bond didn't expect to be able to get the other party to nod and agree, and the negotiation was like a deal, nothing more than a sky-high price to pay back.

However, Ma Bond has forgotten that his approach has a strong oriental mindset. This is something that Prince Mustafa has never experienced, so it is not surprising to scare him.

Soon, Ma Bond woke up to this.

Therefore, he immediately corrected the mistake.

"Alright then, Your Highness the Prince. Since this price is not appropriate, I would like to hear the price you have offered. Ma Bond quietly gave this right to Mustafa, and he really wanted to hear what kind of terms the Ottomans could offer in order to obtain weapons and supplies and borrow money.

Tens of millions of gold cheni are not a small number, which is basically equivalent to a year and a half of Ottoman revenue.

Since you want to get such a large amount of money, you can't think of it at that kind of brain-dead price.

Not to mention that the Ottomans still need the empire here, selling them 30,000 weapons and complete sets of armor, which is also a lot of money.

At the same time, they also need a large number of food supplies.

In order to obtain this, the Ottomans must pay something of equal value.

If you want an empty glove white wolf, that's simply not possible.

And the empire isn't so stupid, is it.

In this regard, Ma Bond also has a bottom line.

Don't look at him wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to meddle in Arab affairs, but the problem is that the price offered by the Ottomans is too low. It is impossible for him to be cheaper than the Ottomans.

Anyway, there will be opportunities in the future, and the big deal is that after the Serbian rebels stir up the entire Ottoman Empire, he can also take action, right?

If that time comes, the benefits to the empire will be even greater.

It's just that at that time, a lot of things can get a lot more troublesome.

First of all, if you sit idly by and let the Ottoman Empire destabilize. Then they will not be able to support Portugal and France in the Mediterranean, and put pressure on the fleets of the allied forces of the vassal states.

This is not good for Portugal and France.

After all. Portugal and France did not have a plug-in like the Song Empire, and they had a hard time dealing with the alliance of church vassal states. If the Ottomans had not put pressure on them on the other side of the vassal coalition, the allied forces of the vassal states would have been able to deal with Portugal with all their might.

So, Ma Bond had to think about the problem that might arise and avoid letting it happen.

In other words, it was beneficial for the empire to ensure the stability of the Ottoman Empire during this period.

Because the Ottoman Empire was stable, it was possible for the coalition of church vassal states to be unable to deal with Portugal and France with all their might. At the same time, the war in Europe can continue.

Moreover, the Ottomans were also able to be drawn into the vortex of war in Europe, so that they could not be distracted from other things.

In this way, it gives a long period of stable development.

But. The current Serbian uprising in the Ottoman Empire also gave the empire a chance.

If he didn't seize this opportunity, Ma Bond would be very unwilling.

You know, the empire has long been peeking into the future oil-rich areas of the Middle East desert.

And these regions. It happened to be under the control of the Ottoman Empire.

If, through this negotiation, the Ottomans continue to help, they will be able to control those areas. In the future, His Royal Highness Zhao Hongyu raised the 'administrative level'. Then oil can be extracted in these places.

And this oil will be turned into a large amount of cash to support the rapid development of the empire.

At that time, it may only take a few decades for the empire to move directly from the era of such semi-cold weapons into the modern information society.

Previously, Ma Bond's offer was very high, and he waited until the Ottomans suppressed the uprising to be able to obtain some land in the northern part of the Ottoman Empire.

In other words, if the Ottomans wanted to get what they needed, they had to give the Song Empire a piece of territory.

However, among the conditions offered by Ma Bond, those territories were very important to the Ottoman Empire. Those were all grain-rich areas, so how could it be given to the Song Empire.

It's simply not possible.

You know, the Ottoman Empire was huge, but a large part of it was desert.

None of those areas can produce grain.

Especially when the people of this era did not know what kind of wealth was hidden in the desert, food was particularly important.

As long as the Ottomans were not brain-dead, it would have been absolutely impossible to give such an important place to the empire.

After all, in this era, grain and iron are national strategic goods.

This is especially true in areas where these supplies are abundant.

"We will expand the concession here in Cairo and extend the period of your use."

Prince Mustafa offered conditions on his side.

However, after hearing this, Ma Bond showed a mocking look on his face.

"Your Royal Highness, you're not kidding. You know how much you've borrowed and how much of the weapons and armor you'll need from us. ”

Do you think that such a price code may make some progress in the negotiations between us?

To be honest, Prince Mustafa also knew that the price he had just offered was not suitable.

However, he is also for his own country, isn't he?

Therefore, it is best to achieve the purpose of this trip on the premise of not harming the interests of the country as much as possible.

From this point of view, Prince Mustafa is not too wasteful either.

As the minutes ticked by, the negotiations progressed hard and slowly.

Ma Bond was not in a hurry to say what he really wanted, because he knew very well that if he said what he wanted too quickly. Then he no longer holds the initiative.

Therefore, he had to quarrel with Prince Mustafa.

Those desert areas were not important to the Ottomans at this time.

If Mabond had offered it, there was a nine-in-a-nine chance that the Ottomans would have agreed.

The problem is that the Ottomans were not brain-dead or idiots.

The Song Empire wanted desert areas for no reason, and the reason for this was likely to cause the Ottomans to be wary and cause some unforeseen trouble.

At the age of the year, Ma Bond was patient and kept arguing with Prince Mustafa.

I just want to wait until I prescribe the real conditions. Mustafa's side will not be too careful.

I have to say that Ma Bond is really careful.

At the same time, it can be seen that he is a cautious person.

After more than three hours of negotiations, Ma Bond saw that the time was almost up, and finally said to Prince Mustafa: "Your Royal Highness, we have been discussing for a long time, but I think there are too many differences between our two sides on some issues. If this continues, we will not be able to reach a consensus at all. In that case, let's take a step back. Give us a desert area near Persia. “

Desert areas near Persia?

Prince Mustafa's eyes lit up.

Compared to the northern part of the grain, there is nothing in the desert area, which seems to be a good choice.

Besides, the land that these people have asked for is not large. Then it's not bad to exchange these deserts for tens of millions of gold chenis, as well as 30,000 weapons and armor.

"If it's a desert area, I don't think it's a big problem. But we're in a big desert area near Persia, so I don't know where you want it? ”

Prince Mustafa pretended to groan for a while. He replied with a look of embarrassment on his face.

It's so fake!

Ma Bond watched Prince Mustafa's reaction, sneered in his heart, and then secretly complained.

I obviously heard the conditions offered by Lao Tzu. You're dying of laughter.

But he still pretends to be so embarrassed, is it really a fool to be Lao Tzu?

In the eyes of you Ottomans, those deserts are simply dispensable, and now you can exchange those dispensable deserts for tens of millions of gold coins, as well as sophisticated weapons and armor and food supplies, and you will wake up laughing when you think about it.

However, even if Ma Bond complained in his heart, he still had to accompany Prince Mustafa to act.

In fact, it's not just Prince Mustafa who is acting, but also Ma Bond.

In the end, in the midst of some false intentions, Mustafa and Mabang reached a unanimous agreement.

The Ottoman Empire handed over a small desert area near the Persian border, that is, the border with Iraq, to the Song Empire after the Song Empire fulfilled the above conditions.

Later, it was considered the territory of the Song Empire.

It can be said that the Song Empire had another enclave outside the American continent.

Moreover, under this enclave, there is also a terrifying wealth.

The desert region chosen by Mabond is the Kuwait region, which will occupy 25% of the world's oil reserves in the future.

It can be said that the wealth contained in the desert of this region is really staggering.

But, in this day and age, no one will know this.

Today, the desert is not a valuable thing for the Ottomans who control the desert region.

Still, Prince Mustafa was a little curious.

He didn't understand or know why Ma Bond would choose such a worthless desert after the final negotiations.

Therefore, when the two sides signed the agreement, Mustafa asked.

In this regard, Ma Bond has already thought of an excuse.

"Your Royal Highness, this place we have chosen can be used to build a port. It's all desert and worthless, but it allows our fleet to arrive here from the east and have a place to rest."

But even such an excuse is full of loopholes.

Fortunately, Prince Mustafa really didn't see any value in the desert, so he didn't bother to delve into it.

Could it be that the people of the Song Empire can still turn stones into gold in a world of yellow sand?

Anyway, Prince Mustafa did not believe that such a thing would happen.

Moreover, the worthless desert can be exchanged for what the Ottomans need. It seems that this negotiation was quite successful.

It can even be said that the Ottoman Empire did not give anything at all.

Hehe, when I go back, my father will be very happy.

After all, I did a great job on this mission, didn't I?

Well, maybe the people of the Song Empire can reach such an agreement with themselves. It's all because of the result of his own persistence, so he is definitely a hero.

Prince Mustafa was smug in his heart.

He thinks that the people of the Song Empire are idiots and fools.

And he himself, is a hero.

But the poor prince had no idea what kind of land he had surrendered.

Of course, even if it is not given to the Song Empire, the place in the future will not be the land of the Ottoman Empire.

Now that the main business had been done, Mustafa glanced sideways at his sister, Princess Nikita, who had been sitting in the corner, very quietly, and thought of the second thing he had to accomplish on his trip...... (To be continued......)