Chapter 328: "Gold Mine"
The second window, below is the flat wasteland of Danji, there is no irradiation of yang rice, and the light of the morning of Maozhou still reflects the luster of a piece of sand and stone.
In a cloudless sky, far away, several transport airships were moving in different directions, but without exception, they all had one direction. As if breaking through the dark dawn, Ye Qiancheng felt that he had entered a wonderful world, with many different types of airships, armed helicopters patrolling far away, and warplanes that swept like lightning, all of which formed the air world in this wasteland.
The endless take-off and landing of transport airships on Lake Aki is already amazing, and it feels the busyness of Lake Aki.
But now that he saw the scene outside the window, Ye Qiancheng knew that compared to the headquarters of the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce, Aki Lake was just a small thing. The entire sky is composed of all kinds of airships, except for the transport airship Ye Qiancheng is familiar with, like many airships, he has seen it for the first time. It is simply impossible to know what it does.
The various airships gathered in the sky, at least one or two hundred, were black and oppressive, casting huge black shadows below.
Before it got close to Qingyuan City, the Hercules transport airship hovered in the sky. Ye Qiancheng didn't ask why, but looked out the window, from time to time a small airship would appear, this kind of airship was only more than ten meters long, the pod was very simple, and only one person could drive it.
At the beginning of the net, Ye Qiancheng and they didn't understand what this little airship did, but soon they understood.
I only saw a small airship, and in front of a transport airship, a turn, and then an alarm sounded, and the red and blue light flashed on the airship, flying forward. And this transport airship was launched at the same time, following the small airship.
Towing airships, when the number of airships increased to hundreds, resulting in a new type of airship, as its name suggests, is responsible for towing and eliminating airships waiting to enter the port, so as not to overload the airships and lead to possible collisions. It is precisely this kind of measure that avoids the embarrassment of the airship field in Qingyuan City and improves the throughput of the airship.
Nowadays, the largest area in the entire Qingyuan City is the airship field, which has almost the entire urban area of Qingyuan City, and can provide 160 airship berths at the same time. All trade starts here, so the busyness here is a landscape of Qingyuan City, and in the air, you can always see people working like ants, as well as cars.
In just ten minutes, even though I watched a small piece of the sky from the window, it still surprised the entire negotiation team.
"The bustling and busy here, even if it is ten Aki Lake, there is no way to compare
Ye Qiancheng sighed, Aki Lake, which had always made him proud, was nothing compared to here. From the direction where these airships appeared, it turned out to be in all directions, if you didn't guess wrong, the object of trade of the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce could definitely not be just the Lanxi Plateau, and there were many places that the Lanxi Plateau did not know.
Getting this conclusion made Ye Qiancheng a little frustrated, in the negotiation, whoever is strong will naturally have enough chips. Looking at the other party now, they may not necessarily rely on the market of Lanxi Plateau. What's more, the prosperity of the Lanxi Plateau is also based on the trade of the other party.
In the midst of many thoughts, a towing airship finally appeared in front of the Hercules transport airship, and after a simple call, began to tow this behemoth forward.
It is still twenty kilometers away from Qingyuan City, and from the sky, you can still see Qingyuan City like a black line on the horizon. However, when entering the fifteen kilometers away from Qingyuan City, the first thing that came into view was the endless cultivated land below, with machinery working on it, and patches of green crops.
The agriculture of the Lanxi Plateau is still in primitive arable land, and a small amount of mechanical assistance makes the agricultural output not very ideal.
Ye Qiancheng also doesn't remember how many years he hasn't seen the city. Aki Lake cannot be called a city, because its tallest building is only a seven-story Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce office building, and other than that, it is all one- and two-story earthen houses. When it comes to rainy days and muddy streets, no one wants to travel anymore.
When a high-rise building appeared in Qingyuan City. Ye Qiancheng even had the urge to cry.
When the Hercules transport airship arrived at the airship field, it was again under the command of the towing airship, and slowly descended. Its particularity, a berth has been specially set aside in the airship field, which is its exclusive use, so that it can be lifted off or landed in an emergency.
When the Hercules transport airship stopped, naturally a waiter came over and led Ye Qiancheng and eleven people to leave.
Two passenger helicopters stopped next to the Hercules transport airship, and a well-dressed officer led the five people to stand in front of the hatch of the Hercules transport airship. Ye Qiancheng, who came out now, saluted a military salute and said with a smile: "Luo Chengjie, on the order of the Ministry of Commerce, come to greet you!" ”
Ye Qiancheng returned a military salute a little awkwardly, and said, "Thank you, Ye Qiancheng, the leader of the Bu group here, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”
Luo Chengjie made a state of invitation and said: "This is not a place to talk, everyone, please board the plane, the Ministry of Commerce has prepared various accommodations."
Ye Qiancheng nodded, and the two passenger helicopters were separated, and in the huge motive sound, there was a "buzzing" sound, and they soon took off on the airship field and flew towards the urban area of Qingyuan City.
Looking at the busy scene below, Da's mechanized water loading and unloading, and you can't see the airships lined up at the end. All this is far from being compared to Lanxi Pinsun: Han, let alone the helicopter that he is sitting on now. Pressing the heart out of the four originals. This is not possible. As a negotiator, Ye Qiancheng has certainly taken a police helicopter, but he never thought of his identity. I would have enjoyed this kind of treatment.
The sky above Qingyuan City is not empty. There are a large number of urban transport airships, which are responsible for the delivery of some important supplies.
On the streets below, it was admittedly early morning, but the traffic still filled the streets. From the helicopter, you can also see a large number of people waiting to see the bus on the bus platform. The streets are crowded with pedestrians and shops opening everywhere. Ye Qiancheng, who saw this scene, made a mistake, as if he had returned to the city before the end of the world.
The place where Ye Qiancheng and them rested was a villa, with a large number of rooms, which was just used to arrange them.
Getting off the helicopter, Luo Chengjie saluted again and said, "You have come from afar, so take a rest here first." ”
"When will your president receive us?"
One of the members couldn't help but ask, he didn't want to be hung here, waiting for a week or two. The situation in the alliance is not optimistic, so they can't passively wait here. In other words, you can afford to wait for the Lord, but you can't afford to wait for your own alliance?
Hearing the other party's words, Luo Chengjie was stunned, his face tightened, but he laughed and said, "If you are here to see the president, I suggest that you go outside and buy a house as an office, maybe you can see it." "Is this going to be so good? What did they think they had?
Ye Qiancheng heard the other party's dissatisfaction, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, we are too anxious." ”
After Luo Chengjie left, Ye Qiancheng glared at the member who almost got into trouble with dissatisfaction, and said, "Do you know that the president will be in their hearts? What does it mean? If you don't know, take a good look at the colorful coins in your pocket, and the county face will tell you. After speaking, he hurriedly entered the villa, no longer paying attention to the stunned other party.
Ye Qiancheng was received on the third day.
Of course, it could not be Zhou Yuanqiang who met them, but Bai Zuoyou, the minister of the Ministry of Commerce, an old guy who didn't know anything. But anyone knows that there are people who can be in all these long positions. Will it be an easy role? At least Bai Zuo's experience tells everyone that he once started from scratch and made hundreds of millions of dollars. More salt has been eaten than many people have ever eaten.
In the conference room of the Ministry of Commerce, Ye Qiancheng and his group of eleven people sat inside, and only Bai Zuowei and two assistants represented the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce.
"Alright, guys, we understand your intentions."
Bai Zuoyou opened his old and dizzy eyes and leaned back softly in his chair, as if this was not a negotiation, but a meeting that did not matter, and he had only walked through a scene. "I just want to know, if you want us to export meat to the Lanxi Plateau, what can you give us to the Chamber of Commerce? The preciousness of this meat is understood by everyone, and no one can refuse its temptation. What's more, it seems that the situation on your Lanxi Plateau is a little bad. ”
Ye Qiancheng still wanted to unfold his three-inch golden tongue, but the other party's eyes seemed to be old and dizzy, but no matter how he looked at it, he was full of shrewdness, as if he had checked everything. From the very beginning, the negotiations entered into a situation that was not favorable to their side.
"The cooperation between the alliance and the chamber of commerce is not a day or two, counting it, as of today, it is exactly two years and six and a half months. During this period of time, the two sides can say that the cooperation is very pleasant. Meat is precious, but it's also a commodity. With the purpose of your association, isn't it just right to use it to make greater profits? It is believed that putting meat into the vast market of Lanxi Plateau will definitely create more value for the Chamber of Commerce.
I don't think there's anything to be paid for this kind of mutually beneficial thing. ”
Every time Ye Qiancheng turned the situation around, Bai Zuojie just smiled coldly and said, "I don't know that the Lanxi Plateau will have such a great value?" ”
Ye Qiancheng was stunned, he opened his mouth and slowly closed it.
What is the value of Lanxi Plateau? No one really can say anything about this. The things that the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce needs when they trade, the first is crystallization, the second is all kinds of raw materials, the third is the colorful coins, and the rest cannot be used as trading items or currency at all.
The crystallization is completely taken from zombies, and in order to get the crystal, everyone on the Lanxi Plateau is very crazy. A large number of crystals were obtained, and the zombies were quickly eliminated, but a large number of casualties were also unbearable on the Lanxi Plateau. As for all kinds of raw materials, the Lanxi Plateau used to be a clean place, and the raw materials were not sufficient, and they were rarely used for trading.
As for the colorful coins, it's even more ridiculous, isn't this colorful coin the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce itself? If you want colorful coins, you have to exchange them with crystals, and you will go back to the first crystallization problem.
In the final analysis, what the Lanxi Plateau can really get out of is just crystallization. But the number of crystals is not something you can take, you have to use your life to get it. And the number of crystals, in more than two years of scraping, has long fallen into the hands of the other party. The daily output is averaged into everyone's hands, and there is not even a pitiful one.
There are no crystals. There are no raw materials, which means that it is impossible for the Lanxi Plateau to afford meat, and there are no conditions to afford to enjoy it.
I haven't thought about this problem before, and I always think that the other party is trading and buying it with colorful coins. But now that I think about it, how ridiculous it is. Even not the old two, the entire Creek Plateau of colorful coins output. Already by the crystallization point exchange, the force "led to the store employees.
And who has the most employees is the store under the control of the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce.
Ye Qiancheng suddenly appeared, there was no need to negotiate at all, and it was impossible for Lanxi Plateau to come up with anything decent.
"We really don't have that much value!"
Like a defeated rooster, Ye Qiancheng said in a low voice, he knew this attitude. For the negotiation work, it is fatal.
But what, the alliance that seems to be extremely powerful is just a dough that can be kneaded in the eyes of the other party. There is a huge gap in strength, unless the alliance can go to war to get what it needs.
Thinking of the war, Ye Qiancheng couldn't help but shudder.
The Alliance has 500,000 soldiers, but the Alliance is too far away from here, and there are thousands of mountains in between. There are also a large number of zombies, how can they go on an expedition here? Do not forget that the alliance does not have air transport capabilities.
Thinking about it from another angle, with the strong strength of the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce and the huge airship, will it be difficult for them to arm a military force? Just like in World War I and World War, the United States did not have the strongest military strength, but its military potential was the strongest, and they could even build a well-equipped army overnight, because they had a strong industrial force to support it.
Whether it is economic or military strength, there is no comparison between the Lanxi Plateau and the other party.
Obviously, the eleven members of the negotiation team all thought of the gap between the two sides, and they all pulled their heads. There is no doubt that this will be a failed negotiation.
Their expressions all fell into Bai Zuoyou's eyes, he smiled, and said, "Don't be frustrated, negotiate, always ask for a price, and pay back on the ground." Since we agree with you to negotiate, we will naturally give you a condition that you can afford according to your situation. ”
Ye Qiancheng's spirit was shocked and said, "So, what are your conditions?" ”
Bai Zuoyou took a sip of the tea in the cup and said, "In fact, in our eyes, the Lanxi Plateau is like a gold mine that has not been mined, with countless gold waiting to see the light of day. But your alliance is now like a layer of dirt that hides the light of gold, and although it prevents the light of gold, it does not stop people's greed
This very figurative remark made Ye Qiancheng unable to figure out for a while that the Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce was looking at the point on the Lanxi Plateau at the bottom, and what he hoped to gain.
Seeing that they still didn't quite understand, Bai Zuo smiled and said: "Let's put it this way, our Chamber of Commerce has a lot of import and export settlements, and it takes a lot of goods to meet the market, and a lot of goods need to be manufactured in a large number of factories and a lot of work. The characteristics of the last days are that the population is sparse, and it is impossible to support such a large industrial machine as the Chamber of Commerce, so that the exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce has stagnated
As soon as it came to this, Ye Qiancheng and the others finally understood that the gold that the other party was referring to was actually the population in the alliance.
"You're saying that your condition is population?"
Ye Qiancheng couldn't believe it, under the seemingly mild atmosphere, what was revealed was a big mouth of devouring blood. What the population represents, is the foundation of the survival of every eschatological force, the more populous it means, the stronger the strength of the force. The more than 3 million people on the Lanxi Plateau have always been the pride of the alliance and believe that it is the foundation of the alliance's survival. But now this Yuanqiang Chamber of Commerce actually said that it would exchange the export rights of meat for population?
"Are you going to be whimsical? It's simply not possible
Without Ye Qiancheng to speak, a member of the negotiation team had already stood up, slapped the table and roared: "You are simply wolf ambitions, and you want to point to the Lanxi Plateau. Let me tell you, the 500,000 soldiers in our alliance will never agree, so die before you know it. ”
Bai Zuo estimated that what he had just proposed was just a trivial matter. He said: "In our opinion, the population of your Lanxi Plateau is still in primitive labor, which is a huge waste, and it completely does not squander our human potential. What you do will only lead humanity to destruction, how can we destroy the zombies, how can we recover the land under the sky? ”
Ye Qiancheng became calm, things were completely out of his mind now, and he said, "This seems to be an internal matter of our Lanxi Plateau Alliance, right?" ”
Bai Zuoyou stood up and said with a smile: "Everyone, you don't need to be nervous, I think you should take a good look at our Chamber of Commerce, and then we will discuss the feasibility of this matter, and then I think that the attitudes of each should be improved." ”
He turned to his assistant and said, "Send someone to send our distinguished guests to the wasteland military base, I think maybe they will change their minds." ”
The assistant answered, pushed the door and left. Bai Zuo also smiled, didn't say anything, walked out of the conference room, and left, leaving only Ye Qiancheng and the others who looked confused and didn't know what tricks the other party was playing.