Chapter 680: Black-Hearted Merchant
Liu Zhan was very depressed, for the first time in his life, he encountered a time when he had money and couldn't buy anything.
However, this is also in his expectation, after all, it has not been a year or two since the trade war between the United States and the Celestial Empire, after these years of trade wars, both sides have suffered huge losses, and in the end, no one has taken advantage of it.
The trade war was actually to stop the Celestial Empire's 2025 manufacturing plan, because if the Celestial Empire once it realizes its strategic plan, it will further enhance its national strength and become a world superpower, whether it is in terms of economy or industrial manufacturing capacity, it will comprehensively crush the Celestial Empire.
At that time, even the only high-tech manufacturing industry in the United States will be replaced by the Celestial Empire, and it can only be reduced to a second-rate country from now on.
This is something that the United States will never allow to happen, so, in order to stop the Celestial Empire's 2025 plan, the United States must isolate the Celestial Empire economically.
Obviously, the best way to isolate the Celestial Empire economically is to prevent everyone from doing business with you, as long as you don't do business with you, you won't have any money to make, and if you don't make money, you won't be able to play anything.
However, the Celestial Empire has long joined the WTO TO, and everyone has been trading for many years, and the Celestial Empire is still having a good time with its European friends, and everyone likes to do business with the Celestial Empire.
At this time, Mi Guo tried his best to kick the Celestial Empire out of the TO and didn't take you to play.
However, no matter what method the rice country used, no matter how difficult it was for the Celestial Empire, it failed to succeed.
In the end, in desperation, the United States had to come up with a solution, that is, to abolish the TO, and then make a new trade agreement, that is, the later TPP agreement, the full name is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, this agreement is actually an upgraded version of TO, the United States wants to encircle the small partners of the Pacific Rim through the TPP, and then isolate the Celestial Empire, although this plan is full of various challenges, but, with the efforts of the elites and think tanks of the United States, it will finally succeed.
However, just when the TPP was about to land, the most funny president in the history of the United States came to power, and as soon as he took office, he abolished the TPP and gave the Celestial Empire a gift package.
Of course, Tianchao was very happy, thinking that Mr. Shirakawa was with us, and then we warmly invited Mr. Shirakawa to come to Sichuan to eat spicy fragrant pot.
However, the good times did not last long, when Mr. Shirakawa knew the dilemma faced by the United States, he realized how stupid and ignorant he was to blindly abolish the TPP at the beginning, but at this time he could no longer regret it.
Therefore, Mr. Shirakawa had to use the trade war to deliberately destroy the rules of TO, completely mess up TO, and then when the friends can't stand it, someone will inevitably want to come up with a new solution, and at that time, there are only two options, one is to redraft a WTO agreement, but not to play with the Celestial Empire, and the other is to retain the current TO, but the Celestial Empire must be kicked out.
In order to achieve this goal, Mr. Shirakawa can be said to be one after another, and he tried his best to fight a trade war with the Celestial Empire, even his own little friends did not let go, but the war came and went, but his own economy also collapsed.
However, due to the pragmatic Belt and Road strategy, the Celestial Empire has built the world and maintained peace in line with the principle of mutual benefit and win-win, and has received strong support from many countries along the Belt and Road.
However, just when the economy of the Celestial Empire was about to surpass that of the United States, a sudden biochemical disaster swept through the Celestial Empire, causing the economy of the Celestial Empire to suffer a heavy blow and virtually saving the dying and struggling United States.
Although the Celestial Empire is now in an unprecedented disaster, the United States still has not lifted the trade war with the Celestial Empire, not only putting some high-tech products on the embargoed list and not selling them to the Celestial Empire, but even falling into the trap to prevent other countries from importing goods and materials to the Celestial Empire, in an attempt to completely strangle the Celestial Empire.
And the high-tech product of the capsule robot is among the embargoes of the United States.
Liu Zhan was depressed, and just as he was about to return disappointed, a well-informed Mexican shopkeeper took the initiative to find him.
"Mr. Liu, I heard that you want a capsule robot, right?" The businessman named Saxon looked at Liu Zhan with a smile and asked.
Liu Zhan looked him up and down, with a big figure and three thick, pure white skin, and light yellow body hair everywhere on his body, which was very Scottish or Northern Irish.
"yes, what's wrong?" Liu Zhan nodded and admitted.
"Hey, Lao Tie, I have a way to get it for you, but it's just the price..."Saxon said, laughing hehehe, and when he laughed, the two golden front teeth glittered in the daylight, very dazzling.
"How much do you want?" Liu Zhan asked.
"Ten times the price, how's that?" As soon as Saxon's words came out, Liu Zhan was really taken aback.
This guy really dares to ask for it, as soon as he opens his mouth, he opens his mouth widely, and he asks for ten times the price?
"I'm just using it for myself, not for anything else, and I don't have any intention of stealing your technology." Liu Zhan said to the Saxon boss.
"Hehe, we don't care about these, when the time comes, you will directly provide it to the ± of the Celestial Empire, and we won't ask, as long as you give the full price, you can do whatever you want." Saxon said with a smile, lit a cigar, and put it to his mouth.
"Would you like one?" Saxon asked as he bit his cigar and handed the cigar box to Liu Zhan.
Liu Zhan hesitated for a moment, reached out and took a cigarette from the box, and also held it in his mouth.
The Saxon shopkeeper lit a cigarette for Liu Zhan, and then the two talked again.
Obviously, Liu Zhan wants it, and if he doesn't want it, he won't want the Saxon boss's cigarettes.
The Saxon boss was naturally very happy and more enthusiastic when he saw that Liu Zhan intended to buy it, he invited Liu Zhan to a café, ordered two cups of coffee, and some high-calorie desserts, and invited Liu Zhan to lunch.
However, when talking about the price, Liu Zhan did not lose his mind, although the currency in reality can also be exchanged through the virtual reality exchange system, but it all requires points.
Especially now, a little point can only be exchanged for 10,000 meters, which is already very expensive, and he doesn't want to waste Ji Ran's precious points casually, so he can't accept the too high price.
"I can only accept twice the price at most, and I don't want any more." Liu Zhan said frankly to the Saxon boss.
"Oh, no, no, brother, this is absolutely not good, you must know that these goods are strictly controlled by the United States, twice the price, we have to bear the risk, or else, give you nine times the price, okay? It's already cheap, hey, I said, you know what? Some people can't buy it if they want to, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Saxon boss continued.
(End of chapter)