Chapter 57: Cooperation
When Christian finished the assessment, the Sea Serpent King Betsy spat out a piece of cold ice from her mouth, and the ice flakes automatically flew into Christian's hand.
Bedman explained to the puzzled, "This is a pass to the Sea Serpent Valley, a special ice chip containing Bessie's scent, allowing the holder to walk freely in the Sea Serpent Valley and take a sea serpent with them. But you have to hurry up, and the ice will dissipate in 24 hours. ”
Hearing this, Mu En and the others quickly went to the sea valley under Bellamy's lead, and with the help of Bellamy, the landlord, they communicated with the sea snakes, and Mu En and the others were lucky to learn that a grandmaster sea snake had just hatched a sea snake egg.
Under the influence of Bessie's ice chips, Christian smoothly obtained the hatchlings of the Grandmaster Sea Serpent and named it "Haizi".
Next, in order to let Mu En have a clear understanding of the future cooperation between the two cities, Bellamy took Mu En and others to visit Aishara City for a day, so that Mu En learned about the civilization and customs of the Fish-Man Clan.
Bellamy introduces Min and the others to a new friend, Betty, Bedman's youngest daughter and sister.
Betty is a real mermaid, although she is still only a third-level fish-man primary sacrifice, but the nine-year-old little guy is extremely beautiful, her beautiful fishtail is densely covered with delicate and soft pale golden scales, like a beautiful dress.
This eccentric little guy saw Mu En for the first time, and after walking around with Mu En and the others for a day, he was full of affection for Mu En, a graceful and elegant human nobleman, and threatened to marry Mu En in the future, which made everyone cry and laugh.
Even Mu Eun's girlfriend faced this clever and cute little mermaid. Hearing the other party's declaration of war, he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted. Just petting each other's heads dotingly.
From the perspective of the entire Fish-Man Empire, the city of Aishara belongs to the frontier location of the sea world. If it weren't for the prestigious Sea Serpent Knight here, I'm afraid the entire Fishman Empire would have forgotten about this remote fish-man city.
Except for some ordinary products of the Sea Serpent Knight and the Fishmen, there are no other specialties here, caravans from other cities of the Fishmen rarely come here, and the situation of the seemingly golden and splendid City of Azhara is actually not very good, and the only products that can be regarded as specialties are the materials on the dead sea snakes.
For sea snakes, death meant the end of a qiē, and they did not respect corpses as much as other intelligent races.
Of course, this situation is for the entire Fish-Man Empire, and for the 6 countries of Tyrande Big 6. The city of Aishara is still a magical underwater city, and it is here that Muen sees many strange specialties:
"Dinghai Pearl", which is a mid-range specialty of the underwater world, snake skin, eyeballs, snake gall and other precious materials on the sea snake, a variety of never-before-seen underwater ornamental fish, a deep-sea magic boat that can sneak underwater, a variety of rare magic ores, crystals and even magic crystals in the 6 worlds.
The underwater world is completely different from the terrestrial world: there are many ordinary things in the terrestrial world, but there are no them here, and many ordinary things in the underworld are very precious in the terrestrial world.
I also heard that some nobles or countries have made a lot of profits by cooperating with the underwater world, but because of the barrier of the endless sea and sea power, the connection between the underwater world and the 6 world is not close.
There are also many city-states in the vast underwater world that have risen by relying on their contacts with the 6 worlds, and even the city of Aishara was connected to the 6 places thousands of years ago, when the city of Aishara was rich for a while. But no human has ever been here in the city of Azhara for thousands of years.
Cooperation, such a concept is placed in front of Mun and Bedman, for which they start a negotiation around how to fight and defend their best interests in cooperation.
Business negotiations. This is a war without the smoke of gunpowder, and it is more fierce than the real battle.
The biggest main benefit of this deal is to sell the unique seabed property of the Fish-People in Big 6. In the city of Ishara, the fish people are in short supply, but the big 6 is very ordinary food and other materials.
The two sides argue fiercely over who is the subject of the transaction, but both sides know that it is impossible to eat alone without making the other unprofitable. However, if the scope of the transaction is simply divided, it may be unfavorable to the long-term cooperation between the two parties due to the imbalance of interests in the future or the inability to deal with other circumstances in the future. In the end, the two decided to jointly fund the establishment of 'Ai Xin Trade Bank', with a start-up capital of up to 10 million gold coins and 100,000 colored shells, which is responsible for the transaction of materials between the two cities, and the two cities extract 45% of the profits of the trade bank every year, and the remaining 1o% of the profits are used as special funds for trade exhibitions.
The establishment of a trading house would also allow the two cities to concentrate their efforts on monopolizing trade in their respective areas and fighting against other third parties.
The profits generated by trade inevitably arise from the fact that taxation is an important problem for both sides. Whether it is the loosely organized Fishman Empire or the Great 6 Kingdoms such as the Deep Blue Kingdom on the Big 6, the lord has the right to tax some transactions in the territory, and the lord can divide the transaction categories and tax rates of each category by himself.
In the end, the two sides agreed that the tax of the 'Ai Xin Trading Company' would be taxed separately in the territory of the area under the jurisdiction of the two sides in the future, and the lowest special tax rate of 1o would be adopted.
Essara City radiates the millions of scattered fish-people and fish-people tribes around it, and the ground food provided by Mu'en must be sold here, and many magical ores and crystals unique to the undersea city will also inevitably set off a frenzy in the Twelve Northeast Kingdoms, how much profit can these transactions generate
Speaking of which, Mu En actually made a bigger profit in this transaction, because once these fish-man specialties provided by Aishara City were listed in his New World City, they would definitely greatly increase the popularity of 'New World City', and it was definitely not limited to Deep Blue and even the Twelve Northeast Kingdoms.
After the main cooperation content was negotiated, Mu En and Bedman began to negotiate a deeper level of cooperation, which is free swinging, and how much benefit they can fight for depends on their respective skills.
After a day of thinking, Mu En put one of his ideas into this negotiation: "In order to realize our deal, I am going to find an uninhabited island in the sea near the city of Aishara and build a sea city. ”
Bedman nodded: "This is really necessary, our two cities can't directly establish a transnational teleportation array, we can only transit through guò like this." However, we Fish-People are not good at building cities, and this city will eventually belong to your territory, so I am afraid that the establishment of the city can only rely on Mu En yourself, and I will not be able to provide any help. ”
Mu En had expected this guy to say this, he had seen his cunning in the previous negotiations, but his purpose was not here, he said: "Of course, I am responsible for building the city, but the stability of this city involves the ultimate interests of both of us, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist the invasion of those pirate kings with my own strength, so I hope that the Marquis of Bedman can provide strength to jointly defend this city." ”
The Fish-Man Empire of the underwater world will not establish a transnational teleportation array with the countries of the 6 places, this is the legal law of the Fish-Man Empire, because there have been many related bad events in the interaction with the 6 worlds. Muen can only build one island city nearby, and Tong Guò can set up teleportation arrays in his two cities to transit.
Bedman weighed it for a moment in his heart, it was not in his interests, he couldn't work for others for nothing, shook his head and excused: "It's not that I don't want to help you, but our Fishman Empire has always been neutral, and it is impossible for me to directly intervene in the battle between you and the pirate forces." ”
Mu En was a little disappointed, but still fought hard, "I heard that many of your Sea Serpent Knights are hired by other forces. I guess I'll have no problem hiring, right?"
Baedman nodded and smiled: "Of course this is no problem, I can explain the past to anyone." ”
Mu En secretly scolded the guy who couldn't afford to be early in his heart, but he had to thank the other party again and again for his reasoning, and then again, he was able to use gold coins to solve this matter, and Mu En also felt very good.
Bedman also made his request to Muen: "The 'Beast Spirit Pill' is extremely important to Azhara City, but I don't think many of the raw materials are products of the seabed, and your city is close to the forest, I wonder if you can buy some raw materials for the 'Beast Spirit Pill' for me?"
Mu En nodded and said, "This is no problem, I can also use my friends to buy it for you, but I want to get 15% of the Beast Spirit Pill." ”
Baedman's face immediately changed, and he said, "No way! 15% is too much." ”
In the end, the two sides bargained, and Mun offered Bedman at the original price of the acquisition, and Bedman offered 8% of the Beast Spirit Pill to Muen.
In the end, Mu En made another request of his own: "I hope to be able to send ten professionals from my subordinates every year to participate in the assessment of the Sea Serpent King Betsy. ”
This is nothing to Bedman, the sea snake that is born every year in Sea Serpent Valley is much more than the number of senior professionals added in Aishara City every year, and this is just an assessment, it may not be able to get all the sea snake demon pets, but it is impossible for Baedman to watch Caibei slip away from under his eyes: "Of course there is no problem with the assessment, the number can be increased to fifty." However, each examiner must pay 100,000 gold coins, and another 500,000 gold coins will be paid if the assessment is successful. ”
Don't look at the corpse that Mu En bought from the underground black market is only 200,000 gold coins, the dead corpse and the living tamable demon pet are not at the same price level at all, if you buy a live fifth-level demon pet on the black market, I am afraid the price is more than one or two million, and the price of Bedman is still an internal friendship price.
Relying on this Mu En, you can slowly build up a team of high-end professionals of your own and make up for the gap in your power.
These are only part of the cooperation between the two sides, and Bedman does not treat Mun as a good boy, and Mun also knows that Berderman is not a pure internationalist man, and that there is only interest in the eyes of both sides at the negotiating table.
In the end, the two sides signed a cooperation agreement on a one-meter-long animal skin scroll, the "Twin Cities Agreement", which contained a variety of complex contents, and the details of the contents of the agreement were also intriguing. Whether it is Mu En and Bedman under the constraints of this agreement, I am afraid that they will not be able to find a place to exploit loopholes. (To be continued......)
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