The promise of the Duke of Newcastle shocked everyone present, of course only for these Chinese guests. None of the British present felt the surprise...

These welcome officials who accompanied the Duke, instead stared at the Chinese with a faint contemptuous look, and a strong sense of pride appeared in their hearts.

"The Chinese who have never seen the world really think that 20,000 to 30,000 pounds are a big deal? Spices have been expensive in Europe since ancient times. Spices in India and Southeast Asia were once more expensive than gold for a while. At that time, did European nobles eat less?"

"Spices of the secret recipe level of Fresh Source should be more than ten times or even hundreds of times the price of gold, which is reasonable! Why is this Dongfangyuan different from the rumored one? It's so petty that he dares to doubt the purchasing power of my British Empire!"

The British were complaining in their hearts, while the Chinese were present were mixed feelings. In human history, the great Celestial Empire had always used money to smash others in the face. When was it hit, its face became a little hot.

What was even more shocking was Huang Xieyi. He was the leader of the secret research team. He knew the cost of this bottle of fresh source. The kelp retrieved from the Mediterranean is not expensive, and burning some coal in the coal stove is the cost.

There are also poppy shells, which are commonly found in traditional Chinese medicines, and they are all by-products extracted from the opium industry. Buy a sack for one tael of silver.

If you have to talk about the cost, the porcelain bottles from the Chenghua period should be the most expensive, but they are not the finest products in the official kilns. They can be exchanged in very ordinary antique shops in the Qing Dynasty, and they cost 100 taels of silver.

Doctor Huang Xie swallowed his saliva and said that Yuan is a god, and it is just like this if he turns stones into gold!

Grab money, this is grabbing money, this is cheating these foreigners to death, but it is really satisfying, too satisfying!

Since formal diplomatic activities only began tomorrow morning, the Duke of Newcastle is just a guide who welcomes in advance, and today both sides will not discuss state affairs.

If you don’t talk about state affairs, just talk about private affairs. The Duke and Xiao Letian nodded to the people around you. The clerks of both sides would want to let go of the steel. From now on, the time for private negotiations will not be recorded.

Xiao Letian cut a piece of beef and chewed it slowly. After the beef was eaten, he said with a hint of enlightenment as if he had just thought about everything. "Since the Duke has such confidence, we might as well talk about it with a clear and clear conversation. There is no harm in trying it!"

"Since you want to open a high-end restaurant and sell my family's secret recipes, the area, location, decoration, personnel training, etiquette, etc. of the restaurant cannot be vague..."

"What conditions can the Duke come up with?"

"Yes, I agree with Yuan. I will solve the problem of land use in restaurants. The land property rights in the most prosperous areas of the major cities in the UK are concentrated in the hands of our noble circles, and I also have a lot of real estate..."

"How is Tangning Street? I have a piece of land next to the Prime Minister's Mansion, so there is no problem with running a restaurant..."

This is the foundation, the foundation of the British nobles. Xiao Letian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "Grandma, these are the family assets slowly accumulated by hundreds of years and dozens of generations of dukes! So amazing. You can't get this kind of land without a certain identity. These are all passed down by our ancestors!"

"You and I both have half of the start-up capital. I use land and decoration to invest. You use secret recipes to invest with China Imperial Chef. How about I want half of your European marketing rights?"

"What? European marketing rights!" Xiao Letian sneered at that time. "The Duke has such a big appetite. Such a business that is stable and profitable, do you want the marketing rights of the whole Europe? Absolutely not. I can only give you shares in the British Isles..."

In business cooperation, the most taboo thing is that partners dominate, and Xiao Letian controls the source of secret recipes and Oriental chefs, which is the throat locking hand that holds the business.

The most effective way to control partners is to divide and divide them and not put all the eggs into a basket. The Duke of Newcastle alone wants the right to market spices throughout Europe, which is too big of an appetite.

The Duke was not angry when he heard Xiao Letian's rejection. After all, it was influenced by hundreds of years of mercantilism, and the European nobles were not as powerful as the Qing nobles.

I was not angry when I heard the rejection. It was normal for me to bargain in the Duke's mind to do business!

In the restaurant, everyone was stunned and confused. Xiao Letian and the Duke of Newcastle were making a big difference in cooperation, and the bargaining spits were flying.

Zai Chun was stunned. Only then did he realize how big the gap between him and his master was. Not to mention anything else, he would be so careful in business. He was clear about all the skills, which would be enough for him to learn for the rest of his life.

And Zaichun knew very well that if the same thing was done by the Confucian scholars in China, it would be a gentleman who was ashamed of his words and profit, but he would not know that he would become a sucker in the end.

What surprised Zaichun even more was that the more tit-for-tat the business negotiations were, the more the two sides were excited. On several occasions, Xiao Letian refused the duke's conditions righteously. The Duke of Newcastle was so angry that his face turned red, and he thought the duke would slap the table and angrily cursed.

But he never expected that at the last moment, the duke could hold back his temper and then find a balance point that both sides could accept.

Gradually, Zaichun had a little clarity of enlightenment, and he seemed to understand what the court had wrong before.

Europeans are all businessmen, and merchants focus on interests and execution, rather than false face. However, the Qing Dynasty was different. Nobles and officials valued face more. They relied on face and authority to rule the country.

In the hearts of Qing officials, bargaining is shameful. What’s more important is that the stinky businessmen dare to reject the conditions of the court and officials, which means they are traitors and they will have to be executed.

This trick is still working against domestic businessmen, but when the powerful British businessmen came to the Qing Dynasty after they were protected by their mother country, the old tricks didn't work.

The businessmen group does not pay attention to feelings or face. They focus on interests and execution ability.

The European businessmen who came to China across the ocean did not expect to go to war with the Qing Dynasty at the beginning. All they wanted was an opportunity to bargain.

In their minds, I offer you a quotation on the Qing Dynasty. It doesn’t matter if the two sides argue at the negotiating table. In the end, they can always make a balance point. As long as they find that balance point, they will naturally be able to cooperate for a long time.

However, the Qing Dynasty did not play according to commercial routines at all, but instead suppressed the feudal bureaucrats in the Middle Ages to suppress them.

This attitude of refusing negotiations is unacceptable to Europeans. Without negotiations, there will be no bargaining, there will be no mutual compromise, and in the end there will be no balance point of cooperation.

When all means of peace are ineffective, war becomes the last and only choice.
Chapter completed!