Seeing off Cui Yongnian, Wang Kunjun and the others went directly to the small conference room. After everyone sat down, Zhao Dawei took the lead in speaking: "Fifth brother, seventh brother, brother thinks that the scale of our cooperation with Cui Yuanwai this time will not be small, do you want to recruit the old fourteen back, after all, he is stronger than me in business." ”

"I don't think it's appropriate," Zhang Weixin shook his head and said, "First, this Cui Yuanwai is a veteran of the shopping mall, and we may not have a short time to negotiate with him, and the business of the 'Xiaoyao Building' is so prosperous, it is impossible for the old fourteen to have enough time to participate in the negotiation." Second, since the opening of the two 'Jingbaoxuan', it has been a year now, and you have always been in Zhangluo, and you are most familiar with the relevant situation. ”

"Yes," Xie Tian interjected, "Brother and Seventh Brother thought the same, so I sent a telegram to invite you back Tenth Brother, instead of calling Old Fourteen." ”

"Not bad" Wang Kunjun expressed his support for the two brothers' statements, "The seventh and the thirteenth are right, the tenth, you don't have to shirk anymore." You are the head of the luxury goods section of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and the glass business itself is your business, and you have no shirk in negotiating with Cui Yuanwai. ”

Seeing that the brothers, especially Wang and Zhang, unanimously asked that they should be responsible for this matter, Zhao Dawei no longer said that Fan Wucheng should come back to preside over the negotiations, but instead carefully studied and discussed with everyone how to cooperate with Cui Yongnian, and decided on a "joint operation by both parties" or "giving the Cui family the general agent in Shandong", and the charter of one of the two was selected. Subsequently, Wang Kunjun informed Li Junwu and Xu Shaoan of the charter. Li and Xu are not as good as Wang Kunjun in terms of business, they basically don't know anything, and naturally they don't have any opinions on this charter.

With the negotiation policy, the rest depends on the presence of Zhao and Xie. The two of them didn't dare to slack off, and immediately left the small conference room to find a place to discuss specific negotiation strategies, but they were stopped by Zhang Weixin: "Two brothers go slowly, brother, I still have something to say." ”

Zhao and Xie Wenyan had to sit down again, waiting to hear what Zhang Weixin had to say. Seeing Zhang Weixin ponder for a moment, he said, "Fifth brother, two brothers, do you think there is anything special about Jia Run'an, the entourage outside Cui Yuanwai today?" ”

Hearing Zhang Weixin's question, Wang Kunjun was also aroused by the doubts in his heart, and asked: "Why, Lao Qi, you also see that there is something abnormal about that Jia Run'an?" ”

"Not bad," Zhang Weixin replied, "When you were talking to Cui Yuanwai just now, I took a closer look at that Jia Run'an, and I felt that something was wrong with him at that time. At first, I was a little unsure, but after carefully pondering his expression, I understood. This Jia Run'an should have something to say, but he didn't dare to say it or it was inconvenient to say it. To put it in an idiom, it is 'want to speak and stop'. ”

Xie Tian obviously had the same perception as Zhang Weixin, and he couldn't help nodding and said: "That's right, that's right, it's the 'want to stop talking' that Seventh Brother said, and I also feel this way." Before you came back, when I was talking to their master and servant, I also had an exchange with this Jia Run'an. At first, it was normal, but when I talked to Cui Yuanwai about glass products, his attitude changed slightly, and he seemed to be a little excited. It's just that at that time, my attention was on Cui Yuanwai, and I didn't pay much attention to the small fluctuations in his entourage's expression.

After Brother Ten came back from Youzhou City, I began to pay attention to this Jia Run'an, only to find that he seemed to have some understanding of the nature of glasswork. Because, when the tenth brother told Cui Yuanwai how precious, how valuable, and how difficult to imitate this glass product, I could clearly see a trace of disdain and disapproval on Jia Run'an's face. It seems to him that everything we say is fooling people. Moreover, from then on, his impulse to speak seemed to have become more and more obvious, but due to the occasion at that time, he was inconvenient to speak, so he did not say what he wanted to say until he left our house. ”

"Yes, yes, yes," Wang Kunjun also nodded frequently, "Lao Qi's use of this word is very appropriate, and what he shows is this feeling of 'wanting to speak and stopping', so I think there is something different about his performance from ordinary followers." Think about it, if a person has ideas and ideological struggles in his heart, and he is not a person who is relatively deep in the city, it will naturally make his expression and demeanor change, making others feel more abnormal when they see it. ”,

Speaking of this, Wang Kunjun's heart suddenly moved, and said: "If it is really like what Lao Thirteen said, this Jia Run'an knows something about glass products and has the urge to communicate with us, then will he be a ......?"

Although Wang Kunjun's next words were not spoken, the other three had already guessed what he was going to say, and they all nodded in agreement. Zhang Weixin asked probely: "According to the fifth brother's opinion, should we let the old twenty-eight or the Zhiwei brothers also participate in the negotiations with Cui Yuanwai, so as to probe the other party." ”

"Okay" Wang Kunjun nodded and said, "Old Thirteen, you go and find the old twenty-eighth and the Zhiwei brothers, and let's discuss this matter together." ”

Xie Tian agreed to go, and after a short time, he pulled Liang Ziyue and Zheng Zhiwei over. The six of them summed up again in the small conference room, and decided that Liang Ziyue would directly participate in the negotiations, and Zheng Zhiwei would be responsible for the collection of peripheral information. After that, the crowd dispersed to prepare for the next day's negotiations.

For five days in a row, Zhao, Xie, and Liang have been dealing with Cui Dayuanwai and Jia's shopkeeper, while Zheng Zhiwei is trying his best to get close to the other guys brought by Cui Yongnian to understand the situation of Jia Run'an from the side.

After six days of negotiations from morning to night, the two sides finally reached an agreement on cooperation. At the same time that Zhao and Xie handed over the final text of the cooperation agreement drawn up by the two parties to the committee, Liang and Zheng also handed over an assessment report on Jia Run'an.

According to the cooperation agreement, the two parties will cooperate closely in the glass business, in the form of a combination of joint operation and regional distributorship, but with independent accounting.

The former method is similar to the cooperation method of "Jingbaoxuan" in Youzhou, where "Qingyuan" is responsible for providing goods and dispatching relevant personnel such as accounts, and the Cui family is responsible for providing stores, shopkeepers, and associates. The net profit of the store is distributed between the two sides according to the proportion of 37, with the Shandong Cui family accounting for 3 and the "Qingyuan" brothers accounting for 7. Unlike "Jingbaoxuan" in Youzhou, before "Qingyuan" sent out the first batch of goods, the Cui family needed to pay a deposit not less than the value of the goods. This deposit will be kept in "Qingyuan" until the two parties terminate the cooperative relationship and settle all the payments, and then it will be returned to the Cui family.

The latter method was mainly aimed at overseas trade, using the existing maritime trade routes with the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo to sell glass products to these two countries. Among them, "Qingyuan" is only responsible for providing products to the Cui family, and is not involved in its business in these two countries. Different from the previous method, this method requires the Cui family to pay money with one hand and take the goods with the other, and there is no credit on the "Qingyuan" side.

Compared with the cooperation agreement, the committee seems to be more concerned about the assessment report submitted by Liang Ziyue and Zheng Zhiwei, because it is related to whether Jia Run'an is really a time-traveler as Wang Kunjun and others have speculated. Liang and Zheng's report commented on this speculation as "very likely", and Liang and Zheng both said that based on their observations, temptations and investigations in the past few days, they believed that the probability that this Jia Run'an was a traverser exceeded 90 percent, and now they only had to carry out a zuihou for him, similar to the kind of test that Zhao Min'an had done at the beginning. It's just that because Jia Run'an acts with Cui Yongnian every time, Liang Ziyue has no chance to be alone with him, so the final test has not been completed.

Now, the business cooperation negotiations between the two sides are nearing the end, and Jia Runan will soon go back to Shandong with Cui Yongnian to get the deposit and payment (the crossing team's quotation for the first batch of goods is 120,000 yuan, which Cui Yongnian Jihua ordered, and the goods used for overseas trade are basically this amount, and he did not bring so much money with him, and he needs to go back to Shandong to withdraw the money), and it will take nearly a month to go back. In addition, it is already the beginning of November, and the New Year is not far away, so I wonder if Cui Yongnian will wait until the New Year to come back. In that way, the time interval in the middle is too long, and the road in this era is not very smooth, in case Jia Run'an has something wrong during this time, then the crossing team will regret it too late.

Everyone thought about it, but Zuihou or Zheng Zhiwei came up with an idea, and he proposed: "Everyone see if this will work." Now that the cooperation negotiations between us and Cui Yuanwai have ended and an agreement has been reached, then we will set up a banquet in the 'Tianfu Building' in the name of this, and invite Cui Yuanwai and all the people he brought. When the time comes, you can find a reason to arrange Cui Yongnian and his entourage and companions, including the main Jia Run'an, in different private rooms. Then, I tried to make a time difference, and quietly took that Jia Run'an to another private room alone, and I or Brother Liang conducted the final test on him. As for what to do with him after passing the test, it will be up to the committee to decide. ”,

Zheng Zhiwei's suggestion was endorsed by everyone present, and Wang Kunjun also said that the committee has decided to follow the precedent and admit Jia Run'an to join the team after he passed the test and was confirmed to be a traverser.

Early the next morning, Zhao Dawei went to the inn where Cui Yongnian stayed according to Zheng Zhiwei's suggestion, and invited Cui Yongnian and everyone he brought to the "Tianfu Building" for a banquet that night. Cui Yongnian happily accepted the invitation, and even said that Zhao Yuanwai was too polite. Where did he think that the fundamental purpose of Zhao Dawei to invite him to a banquet was actually to dig his foot.

That night, Cui Yongnian and others arrived at the "Tianfu Tower" on time. Zhao Dawei greeted them on the third floor, and according to the previous Jihua, in the name of different identities and many people, they were let into two private rooms. Among them, Cui Yongnian was allowed to enter the Tianzi No. 1 private room, others were let into the Tianzi No. 2 private room, and Jia Runan was also among the people who were allowed to enter the No. 2 private room.

As soon as Jia Run'an sat down in his seat, Liang Ziyue entered the private room and came to him, and whispered: "Shopkeeper Jia, my fifth brother invites you to go to the No. 1 private room." ”

Jia Run'an was stunned for a moment and asked, "The grandfathers are sitting in the No. 1 private room, it's not suitable for the villain to go, right?" ”

Liang Ziyue said: "My brother said that Shopkeeper Jia has been busy with Cui Yuan in the past few days, and it has been very hard. The two sides were able to negotiate a business, and the shopkeeper Jia contributed a lot, so it was natural for the chairman to take a seat. ”

said, without waiting for Jia Run'an to be polite again, he stretched out his hand and pulled him up and walked out. At this point, Jia Runan couldn't refuse, so he had to follow Liang Ziyue out of the No. 2 private room in the envious eyes of his partners.

However, what made Jia Runan feel strange was that after Liang Ziyue pulled him out of the No. 2 private room, he did not enter the No. 1 private room, but entered the No. 3 private room in the other direction.

After entering the private room, Liang Ziyue asked Jia Runan to sit down and wait for a while, then turned his head and walked out of the private room. After a while, Liang Ziyue came back with a stack of paper and a charcoal strip in his hand, followed by a person Jia Runan didn't know. However, from the way he was dressed, Jia Runan still judged that this person should be a companion of this Liang Yuanwai, and he was also an outsider.

So, Jia Run'an hurriedly got up and saluted the two of them, and said, "Outside Liang Yuan, didn't you say that you want the villain to accompany the chairman, why did you bring the villain here?" What about my family? ”

Liang Ziyue waved his hand, motioned for Jia Run'an to sit down, and said unhurriedly: "Shopkeeper Jia, don't worry, Cui Yuan is accompanied by my brother in the No. 1 private room." ”

Then, he pointed to the person who came in with him and said, "Let me introduce you to Shopkeeper Jia, this is So-and-so's brother, named Zheng Zhiwei." A certain family brought Shopkeeper Jia here, because they wanted to ask Shopkeeper Jia for help. ”

"I don't know what Liang Yuanwai wants the villain to help?" Jia Runan asked puzzled.

"It's very simple," Liang Ziyue put the paper and charcoal strip in his hand in front of Jia Run'an, "I just want to ask Shopkeeper Jia to look at these pages and answer the questions above." ”

Jia Run'an took the pages with some suspicion, and after glancing at the first page, his face first froze, and then he showed an expression that was really like this, picked up the charcoal strip and began to write on the paper.

When Jia Run'an wrote the word "Ben" under the Mercedes-Benz sedan drawn on the first piece of paper, Liang Ziyue and Zheng Zhiwei were already 100% sure that the Jia Run'an shopkeeper in front of them was a traverser. So, Liang Ziyue continued to stay in the room and waited for Jia Runan to finish the test questions, while Zheng Zhiwei walked out of the No. 3 private room and went to the No. 1 private room, and quietly passed the news to Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin.

Wang and Zhang were very happy when they heard about it, and motioned Zheng Zhiwei to return to the No. 3 private room immediately, and learn about the situation before and after Jia Run'an's crossing with Liang Ziyue. If there is no big difference between what he said about the situation after crossing and what Zheng Zhiwei learned from the side, he will be officially invited to join the team.

After Zheng Zhiwei left, Wang and Zhang continued to push and change cups with Cui Yongnian, waiting for Zheng Zhiwei to bring him good news. While he began to ponder, how should he explain to Cui Yongnian when the time comes, his move to dig up his wall.

After about a cup of tea, Zheng Zhiwei came to the No. 1 private room again, but this time his face was much more ugly than when he left just now. Because things didn't go as smoothly as he expected them to be, what he was about to tell Wang and Zhang was not the good news that the team's strength had expanded again, but the bad news that Jia Run'an refused to join, at least immediately.

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