Chapter 11: The Age of Darkness
Because these Elgeat crocodile warriors are rare high-quality amphibious warriors, there is no reason not to trick them into joining the gang, so these fierce neighbors have become the heart of Commander Cao's heart now, and the top priority is to entrap them.
"Boss, many things are easier said than done, and you have seen the results of our first negotiation. Even if I'm a little in a hurry, but if you look at the injuries on my face, you should understand, these guys may not be so easy to deal with, they are just a group of people in the mountains and wilderness, with a set of peasant cunning style. "Pi Jiaotou is still a little reluctant, he is also a bit stingy, especially after the other party gave him such a huge humiliation, it is almost impossible to make him comment calmly. Everyone knows the mind of the head of the leather sect, and he just thinks that if he really gets along with those crocodile people, he can't find a place to put his old face. When those crocodile people came, they must have to practice, right? The one in charge of training them must be the head of the leather sect, right? As an instructor, he was beaten by a group of students, which is really difficult to convince the public.
"You don't have to worry about this problem, let alone any of you to help, I am enough alone, just Lao Tzu's three-inch tongue can be worth a million armor soldiers! As long as I want to, I can say that they will bow down in minutes!" Commander Cao patted his chest, with an undisguised look of confidence and a bright look. Captain Cao has already determined the plan, that is, to solve the problem by persuasion, rather than through the previous violent means, which is commonly called "Huairou".
These Elgat crocodile warriors are an alternative in this wasteland, there are many bandits and robbers who only fall into the grass to eat, but these cold-blooded crocodile warriors do not have the problem of food shortage, they can't replenish the fish themselves, they are completely self-sufficient, and the rich resources they occupy are enough for them to protect their harvest in drought and flood. Because of their great strength, even hungry bandits and bandits would never dare to hit their heads with ideas.
It is also foreseeable from these places. They were not interested in Captain Cao's idea of eating and drinking spicy food. Put the two of them right, and go to top the aura of a robber bandit on their heads, unless these crocodile warriors have eaten too much. Therefore, if Captain Cao wants to convince them with just one mouth, it is still very difficult. The head of the Pi sect even took out the words of Old Man Ao to evaluate that these indigenous tribes have not known how many centuries of self-sufficiency have passed, which has allowed them to form a unique tribal culture. How easy is it to change these traditions of theirs, that is, to subvert the world they now know and are familiar with? This is why Old Man Ao has always been jealous of them.
Captain Cao is a typical representative of optimism. Their needs in life may be nothing short of. But after thinking about it, if there is no problem of food and clothing, then there will always be other needs! Commander Cao didn't believe that such a large group of brave and warlike Beamon men would not have the slightest idea of making meritorious contributions, looking at Lebang These guys who came out of a small place like Cleveland in pursuit of honor, this is the normal performance of Beamon men. They don't see this latent need in themselves now, which only shows that the long-term comfortable life has made them bury this need deep in their bones. What they lacked was just someone who could tap into this potential demand for them, and Captain Cao considered himself to be this reclamation person.
To tell the truth, the method used by Commander Cao is not at all clever in the eyes of Kuban and others. After making up the mind. What Captain Cao did was to wander around their territory every day when he had nothing to do, take a large group of brothers, carry good cigarettes and wine, and tell stories in front of them when he has nothing to do. The stories told are the same, all about heroes and honor. This way of buying people's hearts can only be described as clichés in Kuban's view.
But at the same time, you can't deny it. These are either from the bard's jokes or from the passages made up by the head of Cao, which are particularly inflammatory. Captain Cao's eloquence is obvious to all, if he wants to. You can definitely set a table and talk about a one-man talk show for a few days and nights. In the spitting stars and the ups and downs of the tone of the head of Cao, the tall and plump images seem to have walked out of the picture scroll of history and mythology, and are active in front of everyone. In less than a few days, the crocodile warriors had become accustomed to the existence of the kind old man with a shiny water slippery back.
Kuban could completely see that those cold-blooded crocodile warriors were all moved by Commander Cao's jokes, and they listened to them one by one. Captain Cao's mind is not ordinarily bad, he appears at a specific time, in a specific place, with a specific group of people every day, and then does this kind of cookie-cutter thing. Whether it is the tobacco and alcohol of the plundering group, or the talk show of Captain Cao, it has been deeply imprinted into the bones of these crocodile warriors. In the first two or three days, it was only those crocodile warriors who listened to Captain Cao's one-man talk show, and a few days later, Cuban found that these crocodile warriors had completely let down their guard against the smiling tiger of Commander Cao, and they were all dragging their families with their mouths, holding their daughters-in-law in their hands, holding the old people in the family, and carrying half-grown boys on their shoulders to participate in Captain Cao's personal show. Even if Captain Cao was only a few minutes late, these crocodile people couldn't find a sense of direction like lost souls, as if life had lost its backbone.
In the end, without the head of the regiment Cao speaking in person, the elder of the crocodile tribe took the initiative to come to the mud snail secluded land and had a pleasant conversation with the old man Ao, saying that they would take the initiative to deepen cultural exchanges with their neighbors in the future. At this turn, such a steady person as Mr. Ledeao didn't close his mouth for a few days.
Old man Ao also specially analyzed the key to the success of Captain Cao's Huairou methods, first of all, these Beamon remnants broke away from the arms of the mother of the Beamon Empire many centuries ago and became orphans that no one cared about. What they have lost is definitely not their brothers and sisters of all races and that big family, including the history of their ancestors and the once glorious race and culture, all of which have been lost. No one is not interested in the stories of their ancestors, not even the isolated natives, who need this knowledge even more than the ordinary civilians of the Bimon Empire today.
Second, their current life of poverty and happiness is only to meet their minimum living security. When Captain Cao appeared in front of them brandishing a sugar-coated cannon of capitalism, their resistance was so low that it was terrifying. The performance of that crocodile man elder Gustav made even Old Man Ao couldn't help but snicker. Old man Ao politely gave him a bulging cigar, and Gustav's performance was to carefully light it, without taking a few puffs, at most it was just to relieve the addiction, and immediately flicked off the fire of the cigarette butt, and carefully put the remaining half in a handkerchief and put it in his arms. From his performance of thrift and thrift, he knows that the life of poverty is not their fundamental pursuit, they are just used to it. Old Man Ao was even guessing that if his ashtray was opened and shown to Elder Gustav, he might take back all the cigarette butts that could still be recovered as treasures......
Captain Cao's entry point is extremely precise. It struck them on this weak point, and it took almost no effort to impress them. Captain Cao's kick at the door was also very simple, he just put on a show and pulled Kuban to talk about the pricing of tobacco and alcohol products in the human world in front of Gustav, which made Elder Gustav's hands clench. Elder Gustav calculated the accounts, and now in order to cope with his daily addiction to smoking, he has to spend a few gold coins! This is simply an astronomical amount for Elder Gustav, who has never seen much real money in his life! Knowing these "inside stories," Elder Gustav has no choice but to be prepared for danger in times of peace, if this benevolent and generous Cao Dashan man will one day stop this act of gratuitous sharing. Where should he go from here? Under Elder Gustav's orders, the crocodiles of their entire tribe were respectful when they saw the people of the raiding group, and even the doglegs of Barkley could enjoy the courtesy of elders in front of them.
Naturally, Mr. Ao struck while the iron was hot and proposed some watchover agreements between neighbors. The content of the agreement is simple. That is, since everyone has come together for thousands of miles, then we should establish friendly and close ties with each other, and when the other party needs something, the other party should do what it can to help the other party. For example, this Elekgett crocodile tribe lacks supplies for a high quality of life. It is completely possible to let the idle young and middle-aged laborers in the tribe help the raiding group to build infrastructure or something, so as to get paid by the raiding group. Old Man Ao's move was simply filled in Elder Gustav's heart, and the remuneration in the third-party labor agreement provided by Old Man Ao was originally reduced and handed over to Elder Gustav. The purpose is to give Elder Gustav a bargaining space, who knows that Elder Gustav has almost no experience in negotiation, just took a cursory glance, immediately pressed his handprint on it, and hurriedly handed it back to Old Man Ao.
The whole signing process was completed without even taking half a cup of tea. Old man Ao was sure that Gustav had not read the content of this labor agreement carefully at all, he definitely only looked at the conversion relationship between working hours and remuneration, and made a decision on behalf of all the clansmen without hesitation and accepted the offer. Perhaps in his opinion, this offer far exceeded his expectations, after all, both Cao Tuan and Kuban were talking about the market price of export sales, which was far from the actual cost of tobacco and alcohol products. Elder Gustav's simple energy made Old Man Ao curse himself for several days, he said that because he had spent too much time with the little bastard of Captain Cao, his heart had darkened a lot, and now he actually covered these simple natives of the exiled domain, which is the degradation of human nature and the annihilation of conscience!
But if you really talk about black hearts, Old Man Ao is not ranked in the plundering group. In the past few days, Kuban, who has been shopping for goods on a large scale, has the most feelings, and he has to communicate with his old enemy Pat Riley, which is the most difficult thing he has ever done in his life. Riley's slashing is embedded in his genes and grows stronger as his chromosomes mature. I don't know what the two are talking about, and they are fighting again.
"Wait, I have to discuss this discount you applied for, I have to discuss it with all the managers in our department, I can't be the master alone. Riley didn't bother to compete with Cuban, but changed to a more cunning way, pretending to ask a few stewards of the logistics department for a long time, and even flirted with the little secretary who almost labeled Mrs. Riley every day, and then said: " Okay, Kuban boss, after a long period of cooperation, you have proven yourself to be a trustworthy partner, plus everyone agrees that you look like a good guy, and the amount of purchases is also large, to give you the best price, this Liuliangye we count you 29 gold coins, 99 silver coins, 99.5 copper coins per piece. ”
Since Riley learned the concept of decimal point from his boss, Riley has always liked to accurately measure the data to eight decimal places after the decimal point in order to show his high professional quality. His heavy expression was as if a piece of flesh had been dug out of his body, and everyone felt pity for him.
"Dude, the original price is thirty gold coins, you are only missing half a copper plate!****** what kind of friendship discount is this!?" Kuban looked almost crazy, his lips were about to dry and cracked, but in exchange for such a reply, you can imagine how high the resentment in his heart was.
"Half a copper plate is already a lot of money! You save half a copper plate here, and you save another half copper plate in other places, and then you have a copper plate! You know? You take a copper plate to the 'One Copper Plate Shopping Store' that we run at a small cost in the mud snail and you can buy other goods!" Riley is worthy of being Riley, and even if the price of half a copper plate is less, he does not forget to attract investment for the local business channels in the mud snail and the hidden land.
"I'm here to spend! I'm not here to find the financial manager!" said Cuban, who was on the verge of crying, feeling so helpless for the first time. There are many people in the raiding group who ask Mr. Riley to be their financial manager, but Cuban is respectful of Riley, and if there is no intersection, that is the ideal state...... (To be continued.) )