Chapter 847: The Wheel of History
Railway investment and aid construction, multinational business cooperation plan, settlement area concept, new ambassador plan...
The Cecilians obviously attached great importance to this exchange with the Duchy of Holy Dragon, and prepared enough plans and plans for this.
It was even more than that which made Sir Goloche feel uncomfortable.
The dragon descendant realized one thing - although the Holy Dragon Principality had always believed that it was paying attention to the changes in the situation on the mainland and that it was just not opening the country's door, rather than completely self-enclosure, the dragon descendants were still too closed and slow in the face of this rapidly rising new empire.
If the things that Gowen Cecil were placed in front of the members of the MPs and elders in the Principality, most of the people would be confused and confused.
Fortunately, Grand Duke Baloger has always been well prepared. At least in this mission led by Sir Golos, everyone made up a lot of "homework" in advance. They had conducted basic understanding and investigations on the new things that emerged from Cecil, and were not ignorant of the things that Gauven had brought out.
The documents were assigned to everyone, and Sir Golos quickly browsed some of them. After gaining a general understanding of their content, he looked up and said, "This seems to require a serious discussion - I hope you understand that there are many things in it that are more sensitive."
"Of course," Gao Wen nodded with a smile, "Today is just an early meeting, mainly for exchanging some ideas, and all these business plans are just Cecil's opinions. Compared with them, it is more important to establish a stable diplomatic relationship between the Duchy of the Holy Dragon and the Cecil Empire."
Sir Golos smiled at the sound of this: "This is exactly what I think."
...
The closed-door meeting lasted almost the whole day, from morning to afternoon, during which Sir Golos and several dragon delegates accepted the invitation to have lunch with Govin in the Palace of Cecil. When the meeting finally ended, the giant sun had gradually sunken near the horizon.
After ending this almost full day of negotiations friendly, even Gao Wen felt a little tired.
"We need an internal discussion after we go back," Sir Goloss stood up with a smile on his face. "Many of the business plans you proposed seem to me very... meaningful, but we can't answer now - we will try to discuss a preliminary result before meeting tomorrow."
"It's understandable," Gao Wen was not surprised by today's results. He was able to successfully convey those business plans and future diplomatic outlooks, and he had achieved his goal today. "So, I hope you can have a good rest tonight and let us look forward to tomorrow's meeting."
The dragon descendants left and took a lot of business plans that Emperor Cecil gave them.
Gao Wen sat back on his high-back chair and rubbed his eyebrows in the afterglow of the setting sun that gradually appeared.
The window on one side of the room was open, and a breeze blew into the room from outside the window, hovering around Gao Wen for two circles, then amber precipitated out of the air, and stood next to Gao Wen with a smile.
"I saw those dragon descendants leaving-I thought you would drive until night!" The elf shame said with a smile, "After all, you seem to have prepared a lot of materials..."
Gao Wen raised his eyelids and glanced at the half-elves: "Spring is getting warmer, the cold north wind turns to the east wind, you can come in through the window again, right?"
Amber immediately picked up his arm, but raised his neck with honor, "It's really good to say that I haven't walked over there all winter. When I jumped off the windowsill just now, I missed the touch..."
Gao Wen: "…"
If he hadn't been worried about the misunderstanding in front of foreign envoys, he would have put mouse clips on every windowsill of the Palace of Cecil yesterday!!
It seemed that she would be happy to see Gao Wen's helpless expression. Amber played the trick of jumping through the window over and over again. She felt satisfied after leaping dead in front of Gao Wen again. Then she stopped and changed the topic: "So, what progress has happened in this meeting today? How much consensus do you think we will reach between us and the Duchy of Holy Dragon?"
Gao Wen smiled, tapped his fingers gently on the armrest of the seat, and said casually: "If Mr. Goldwin was here, he would write this: the two sides had effective consultations, and the meeting was fully exchanged, and finally the conversation ended in a friendly atmosphere."
Amber nodded in a clear understanding: "Oh, that's when there is no consensus... it sounds like there is no progress."
After all, she has been in the Government Affairs Department for a long time, and now she is quite familiar with these "professional terms".
"It cannot be said that there is no progress," Gauwen shook his head. "At least we have had sufficient exchange of opinions - I believe that those business plans and new technologies and new commodities have fully aroused their interest, and the letter of the Grand Duke of Balogel also showed the willingness of the Holy Dragon Principal to open the gates and establish diplomatic relations with Cecil, but on the other hand, the dragon descendants were also cautious. They were not dazzled by the various new things, and even in front of the railway system, Sir Golos was very calm."
"How is it, the 'Busy and Advanced New World' is not as effective as the Dragonborn as the Tifeng people? Although they came out of the mountains, they looked at the human world with pride and reserve," Amber raised his eyebrows, "This time I made the decision - you owe me hardware pounds."
"Accurately judging the psychological tendencies and possible actions of your target is the basic ability of you, the Minister of Information..."
Amber simply reached out to her hand: "Hardware pound."
Gao Wen slapped Amber's paw off: "I didn't say I won't give it to you."
"That's fine, I remember, hardware pound," Amber with satisfaction retracted his hand, and then suddenly turned his eyes, "By the way, I'll tell you something else-I've talked to her over Maggie, and she'll meet Sir Golosh."
Hearing Amber's words, Gao Wen was slightly silent for a second before whispering: "Actually, I don't like to regard family affection as a card, and I don't want to turn the relationship between Maggie and Sir Golosh into a link of this diplomatic activity..."
"Of course I know, but sometimes the card is not in your hands - it is on the table from the beginning," Amber curled her lips. "Your arrangement is already very humane, and that Mr. Jazz should feel this. And to be honest, after talking to Maggie, I could feel her ambivalent mentality - she was not resistant to her father, she was just resistant to her former living environment. She would be quite happy if she could meet Sir Golos outside the Duchy of the Holy Dragon."
"That's good," Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly shook his head. "Actually, I was really shocked when I learned about the relationship between Maggie and the 'Dragon Ambassador' from Victoria's message... None of us expected that Maggie, who is usually very low-key, would have such an identity..."
"Anyway, I just feel that those dragon descendants do everything... How do you say that word, 'hard core'," Amber whispered the "sacred sarcasm of Emperor Gowen Cecil" in his mind, and said with a slightly weird look, "Jumped off the Dragon Leap Cliff and glided all the way to the north just to 'run away from home', and also rolled from the top of the mountain all the way to the foot of the mountain with a wooden barrel...
"Ah, I also investigated the information. It is said that Ms. Asharena, who traveled in the human world in the Dragonborn Mission, ran away from home. Moreover, her journey to the southern border was even more amazing than Maggie's journey to the northern border: Ms. Asharena sold herself to the bandits, fooled the bandits to "transport" her to the southern border, and then resold the bandits to the lord of Carol at that time, in exchange for money to buy a long sword and became a mercenary for five years...Anton was stunned when he collected all the information."
Gao Wen looked at Amber in amazement: "...you have even investigated this?"
"My monthly salary is not for nothing," Amber spreads her hands. "I have also investigated something even more amazing. Ms. Asharena was actually under Byron's mercenary..."
Gao Wen: "…"
He looked Amber up and down. Although he had seen the other party's intelligence ability more than once, he still couldn't help but feel a little amazed at his intelligence director.
Some investigations are not necessary to do so in-depth - he wanted to remind Amber in this way.
But this matter sounds so interesting.
He leaned over and said, "Tell me in detail..."
...
After returning to the autumn palace, Sir Golosh recruited several consultants in the mission - naturally, including the Dragon Seal Witch Asharena.
In a spacious room with a completely different style from the north, the glory of the magic crystal stone lamp dispelled the dimness, and the cool night wind blew out of the window, and the red-haired Asarena slowly walked around the four corners of the room. As she walked by, the invisible magic power surrounded it into a barrier, and the "Dragon Seal Rune" flashed in the air.
"The 'confidential' of this room has been completed," she returned to Sir Golos and several other consultants and nodded slightly.
The dragon descendants believed in the sincerity and enthusiasm of the Cecils for this "diplomatic activity", but they also believed that the human race for so many years must rely on not only sincerity and enthusiasm - when you go out, the necessary caution will never be redundant.
"The Cecils brought out a lot of interesting things," Sir Golosch sat on a leather-wrapped chair and looked at the consultants who also sat down. "I want to hear what you think about these things."
"These things are of no doubt," said a middle-aged man with short brown hair, after pondering slightly. "This is true for us, and even more so for the Cecils - they must seek certain benefits when dealing with us, but as long as this interest is within a reasonable range, we can consider accepting it. After all, whether it is magic technology or alchemy potion, it is good things, and commercial flow... in the long run, it is also a step that the principality must take after opening its doors."
"Since His Majesty Baloger has decided to open the door to the human world, it means he is ready to conduct these communications. I think you should have no objection to this," Asharena said, looking around her compatriots, "But I want to remind you that when trading, humans often do not expose all their expected profit targets. When you deal with a human, he says that he wants to earn a copper coin from you, then you must be prepared to have all the copper coin in your pocket."
Sir Golos frowned slightly: "You mean, what the Cecilians want to make from us in these business plans is not just money?"
"This is obvious—there are shadows of long-term planning behind these investment plans," Asharena shrugged. "They pay and work out their skills to open a factory on our land, which means they are ready to earn back ten factories. I have dealt with the 'merchants' of humanity. Sir Golosh - magic technology and investment companies are new things, and humanity is not. But then again, who will deal with a country that is always shrouded in the wind and snow and mountains without the driving force of interests? So we only need to judge one thing: Are these plans of the Cecils worth to the dragonborn?
“As for my personal opinion… I have a lot of uneasiness with all the projects involving resource development and engineering construction.”
Sir Golos and Ashalina had not met for the first day. He heard the meaning of the other person's words, touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "What do you mean..."
"The 'relationship' that the Cecils wanted to establish was beyond our expectations when we set out. We were just here to discuss establishing diplomacy and opening up conventional commercial channels, and they wanted obviously more - this part is not something that cannot be discussed, but I think it is necessary for us to report these details to Grand Duke Balogel first. Sir Golos, believe me, Grand Duke Balogel will be relieved by our timely reporting."
Sir Golos frowned slightly, but soon his brows stretched out.
Chapter completed!