The night before the anniversary celebration of the Duff Foundation, someone from Konoha Village arrived. However, it is a pity that the person who came was not the Konoha Village ninja that Tafu had hoped, but the negotiation team from the Renaritsuki family.

After receiving the news from the Holy Country, Orange Light immediately planned the bottom line of the negotiations, and sent the person in charge of the branch located in the Land of Fire near the Land of Waves. In this world of low transportation capacity, the biggest cost of trade is transportation, not the goods themselves.

Considering that you will need to face bandits and robbers by land, you need more people to follow the team, and you also need to arrange ninjas to accompany you. Even in what is called a time of peace, after the government and Konoha Village sweep the official roads back and forth, there is still a possibility that they will encounter small groups of robbers who are running around committing crimes. Coupled with the cost of people eating horses and chewing horses, as well as the loss of carriages and the cost of accompanying people, one or two things transported from Konoha Village to the Daimyo's Mansion had to be sold for at least three taels to make money.

If it is transported to the land of iron or other farther places, there is no guaranteed reserve price of ten taels, let alone making money, thank God if you can not lose money!

However, once it can form a cooperative relationship with the water transportation of the DAF consortium, a large part of the cost can be eliminated, and the extra money can be made while keeping the price unchanged.

Businessmen seek wealth, and big businessmen seek wealth, so Orange Light attaches great importance to this cooperation negotiation.

He can give advice on the operation of the Holy Kingdom in business, but it is not his specialty to sit at the table and negotiate specifically. What you are not good at, the Holy Kingdom will rarely take the initiative to interfere, and professional things should be done by professional people.

He, along with Duff, attended the consortium's anniversary celebration.

Since early in the morning, the city has been draped in red and green, and there are many large balloons with ribbons floating in the air. As a city controlled by a consortium, it is also a window for others to see. Whether a consortium is strong or not can be seen from the cities controlled by the consortium. There were already some flyers on the streets, and when Shengguo passed by, he took one and took a closer look to see that it was actually an invitation voucher and a consumption voucher.

In addition to enjoying some performances, you can also enjoy three free meals and some fun activities when you go to the main venues in the evening, and you can also pick up a small gift when you leave.

Holding such an anniversary celebration is simply difficult to achieve without spending tens of millions of taels as activity funds.

When we arrived at the main venue of the foundation, many people had already gathered there. These people are all managers and operators who are based in foreign countries, and they can only meet once or twice a year, and they are friends for many years, so it is inevitable that they have a lot to say.

As soon as the Holy Kingdom entered the venue, he immediately noticed that many eyes were watching him, and he walked to a corner and sat down. Some of the gazes quickly dissipated, but there were always two or three that stayed on him. There was a faint hostility hidden in these gazes, which surprised him at the sensitivity of these people.

After a while, an old acquaintance came over with a wine glass.

Shengguo stood up and greeted him, "Mr. Cardo, meet again. ”

Cardo wears glasses and has a sincere smile that makes it hard to feel bad. If you don't know the deepest thoughts of this guy, I'm afraid that the Holy Kingdom will be deceived by him.

"I didn't expect Mr. Duff to invite you here, I haven't seen you for a while since I left the Iron Country, and I really miss you a little!" After the two sat down separately, Cardo put the wine glass on the table, "Some time ago, the dojo talked about you, but they regret it very much now, saying that it would be better if they knew that they wouldn't let you go back in the first place." ”

The Holy Kingdom smiled, it was completely an opening statement, and it didn't have any practical significance.

After some nonsense, Cardo gradually turned his conversation in the direction he hoped for, and Duff hated.

"Holy Country, your first time in the Land of Waves?" , Shengguo nodded, and Cardo continued: "What do you think is missing in the current country of waves? ”

Cardo also has a certain understanding of the Holy Kingdom, and the seemingly ordinary words are purely to elicit his true purpose. He knew that the Holy Country might have guessed his inner thoughts, and he also wanted to work harder, after all, the Holy Kingdom represented not himself, but also the Konoha Village behind him. Regardless of whether or not the goal he and others have worked hard to achieve in the end, they will never be able to avoid the attitude of another mountain—the Fire Nation.

If the Holy Kingdom, which has close ties to the Fire Nation's leadership, can act as an intermediary and do not ask the Fire Nation to support the changes of the Wave Country, as long as they choose to ignore it, they can let their plan be carried out smoothly.

After years of persuasion, Cardo and the others have given up on the idea of making Duff a "councilor", which is a dead brain, and since the persuasion has not worked, they can only find a way to replace it. While this can be very dangerous, it can be very rewarding.

No one will be willing to work for others forever, the more capable, the more ambitious, and the more unwilling to be ordinary.

The silence of the Holy Kingdom did not make Cardo retreat, and he himself said directly, "Compared with the past, the profit of the consortium this year has not increased for five years, but has shown a downward trend. What we were doing five years ago, and what we are still doing now, the whole country of waves is like a pool of stagnant water, dead. ”

"This is not the country of waves that we want to see, the country of waves should be a country full of vitality."

"The seemingly splendid country of waves has actually developed to the limit, and there is no second way to go further than to change some of the things that are now stereotyped and outdated. Back then, we won the opportunity for development from the change, and now, new changes are waiting for us. ”

In fact, from the perspective of the Holy Kingdom, what Cardo said cannot be said to be wrong, and it is quite insightful, but he got one thing wrong. The country of waves does not have the strength to compete with other countries on the diplomatic battlefield, and this power cannot be created by so-called change, and it will take several generations or more to change the status quo.

It's like a defenseless little kid who suddenly wants to compete with a group of armed giants for the interests of the Eastern world, which is a foolish idea. The consequence of this is that there is no second way out except for being taught by giants to be human and dividing up the candy in the hands of children.

It's a pity that Cardo has always been blinded by beautiful fantasies.

His achievements don't stop there.