Chapter 49: The State Needs Your Stomach
Although Ivanov agreed to our offer of a price reduction, he made an additional request.
That is, both sides have a drink, and whoever falls first loses.
As long as someone in the Dragon Kingdom can drink Maozi, then Ivanov will agree to reduce the price.
All the people present were human spirits, and they all understood what kind of calculation he was playing.
Drinking is a small matter, but face is a big matter.
If he agreed to the conditions of the Dragon Kingdom directly during the negotiation, it seemed that he would be too soft, and he would definitely be poked in the back when he went back.
But if someone drinks down at the wine table and agrees to the other party's conditions, the face will not look so ugly.
Especially in Maozi China, it is believed that the more you can drink, the better you are.
In this way, others will not be able to find fault with themselves.
Of course, Ivanov is not a fool, and it would be better if the other party could not drink himself.
After all, you can make a lot of money for your company, and you can get a lot of money even if you share it.
Luo Yimin of the negotiation team glanced at Bai Ximing, who was sitting beside him.
Facing the team leader's gaze, Bai Ximing did not speak but smiled.
Luo Yimin instantly understood what he meant, so he directly agreed to Ivanov's additional conditions.
"Of course no problem, we are good brothers with a long history!"
Although Luo Yimin said it with words, the translator did not say the connotation when he translated.
So Ivanov laughed and stood up and said:
"That's nature!"
"Our friendship lasts forever!"
After speaking, he also gave Luo Yimin a bear hug.
At the end of the negotiations, both sides went back to their rooms to rest.
Entering the room, Luo Yimin asked Bai Ximing, who was drinking water:
"Xiaobai, do you have the confidence to drink them down this time?"
Bai Ximing grinned:
"Team leader, you know, I was born with a thousand cups of drunkenness."
Bai Ximing's physique is very special, and he is born with ultra-high alcohol deoxygenase, which can decompose the alcohol he drinks into his stomach in a short time.
This also created a situation where he was able to drink all the time at the wine table.
Once at a welcome dinner of the Air Force, Bai Ximing had a glorious record of drinking dozens of people.
Hearing this, Luo Yimin was also relieved, patted Bai Ximing's shoulder and said earnestly:
"Xiaobai, the motherland needs your stomach!"
As for Maozi's suite.
Ivanov opened a bottle of Red Star Erguotou and poured a few mouthfuls into his mouth.
As if he had been refueled, Ivanov's whole body became energetic:
"It's a big loss this time!"
Antonov, a member of the negotiating team on the side, was puzzled:
"What have we lost?"
"If the negotiation is completed, it is also those oligarchs who benefit, what does it have to do with us?"
"It's nice to have a drink in the evening."
Antonov was a standard hairy drunkard, so he didn't particularly care about negotiations, just about what good wine he could drink tonight.
After all, he is different from Ivanov, and it does not make much difference for him how the negotiations turn out, and he does not profit from them.
Ivanov poured himself another mouthful of the second pot and said with some concern:
"I always feel that the dragon kingdom is not simple, and this time their engine has suddenly made significant progress, which is proof of this."
"It's a pity that those old men in the Komsomol City don't pay attention to this matter, and their understanding of this country is still stuck thirty years ago!"
As Ivanov, who has a high status in the Great Mao country, he sees nature being farther and is not limited to this one thing.
Of course, he didn't have a good way to do it alone, so he could only pour another second pot.
"Ahh I miss the 90-degree vodka in my hometown! ”
For people with big hair, the degree of the second pot head in more than 50 degrees is still a bit low.
That evening, the hotel ballroom.
Ivanov came up and took the lead:
"Don't drink if you can't order it!"
"Real men don't drink those things!"
Luo Yiming naturally knew that this was a trick that the Maozi diplomatic corps had always used, not only against the people of the Dragon Kingdom, but also when they were in contact with the monkeys and Ah San in the south.
For Maozi, who has lived in the cold and frozen high latitudes for a long time, high wine is simply the same existence as the air, and it is a necessary existence for life.
These countries in the south rarely have the habit of drinking such a highly strong liquor, so it is easy to be drunk by Maozi.
For the arrogant Maozi, the performance at the wine table is their arrogant confidence, and this diplomatic criterion of drinking the other party down first has always been the first step for Maozi to establish a psychological advantage.
Of course, with Bai Ximing's trump card in hand, Luo Yimin didn't panic at all, and directly beckoned the waiter to serve spirits.
Soon, dozens of bottles of spirits were on the table.
The Dragon Kingdom naturally sent Bai Ximing into battle.
Bai Ximing, who is tall and thin with glasses, doesn't look particularly good at drinking.
Ivanov directly showed a disdainful gaze, expressing disdain for such a thin guy:
"If you fall down after a while, don't call Mom!"
Hearing the other party's provocation, Bai Ximing didn't say anything, but pushed his glasses and picked up a 1000ml bottle of spirits:
"I did it!"
Then he took a few big gulps, and a whole bottle of high spirits poured into his stomach.
After drinking, Bai Ximing wiped his mouth, glanced at the other party's hair, and smiled:
"If you don't have the guts, you can not follow!"
Bai Ximing said this sentence in Russian, and as a professional translator, he can speak six foreign languages.
Although Ivanov saw that the other party blew off a bottle of high wine at once, he did not coerce, as an old man, there was no cowardice in his dictionary.
also lifted a bottle of high wine, glanced at Bai Ximing, who had a provocative face, and began to pour it violently.
Finally endured the hot sensation of the esophagus and stomach, and drank the whole bottle of spirits.
I saw Bai Ximing open another bottle of spirits, smiled and said:
"I did it!"
After a while, another bottle of high spirits poured into his stomach, and Bai Ximing didn't look unusual at all except for a little blush.
Ivanov was also a little difficult to ride a tiger at this time, he really didn't expect that the scholar opposite who looked thin and like a woman could drink so much.
But in order not to embarrass his country, Ivanov opened a bottle of spirits and drank it.
It's just that when there was a little bit left in a bottle, Ivanov finally couldn't bear it anymore and fainted drunk.
Bai Ximing smiled and looked at the rest of the Maozi negotiation team:
"Shall we continue?"
This night, Bai Ximing alone drank down the seventeen members of the Maozi negotiation team.
Afterwards, even Ivanov himself said.
"I've never seen anyone drinking like this, it's like he's drinking water."
As for the negotiation of the introduction of the engine, because it was a complete failure at the wine table, the Maozi were embarrassed to offer a high price.
Instead, they gave a price that they themselves were embarrassed to admit.