Chapter 1436 Negotiations between the two parties
With rapid communication between the two places, their negotiations continued.
They in the Great Zhou wanted the bones of the dead, but many times they didn't need to ask for it actively.
They just need to hold on to the mithril and the negotiators from the Saint Laurent Empire will naturally replace it with something of similar value in order to reduce the expenditure on mithril.
Under this premise, Zhou Xu, who had once done business with Saint Laurent I, naturally knew what other resources were on this list, namely, the bones of the undead and the unchanging stones!
There is no need to say much about the value of the undead bones. If the other party takes out the Immortal Stone, Zhou Xu will obviously be able to accept it.
After all, the characteristics of the stone that does not change are destined to make it an important "stabilizer" in various subsequent research and development and manufacturing.
The facts were indeed as they expected. In the second round of negotiations, the negotiators from the Saint Laurent Empire began to bring out the undead bones and the immutable stones.
Kong Daqian showed disdain for the undead bones throughout the whole process.
"Your words sound good, but the role of the undead bones is too limited. Apart from being used as a magical tool for the Skeleton Mage, they have basically no other use. One batch is more than enough. What use can more undead bones have for our Great Zhou?"
Having said this, Kong Daqian paused.
"You don't know this, do you?"
“…”
After several rounds of arguing, Kong Daqian seemed to have lost his patience and came clean.
These words were said too directly and too clearly, so that the negotiators from the Saint Laurent Empire sitting opposite them could only use dry laughs to hide their embarrassment.
What is the situation with the undead bones? Don’t they know it?
Although they cannot develop sophisticated equipment, at least they can add some mithril to improve the quality of excellent equipment.
But the demand for undead bones is really too low.
This directly led to the accumulation of a large amount of undead bones within their Saint Laurent Empire, but there was nowhere to use them.
Kong Daqian saw the other party's reaction.
His behavior just now was certainly intended to prevent the other party from seeing through his true intentions, but it was also a test of the Saint Laurent Empire.
Test whether the other party has discovered that if the mantra of "Resurrection of Skeleton Soldiers" is used on a dead mantra mage, an undead mage can be obtained.
To be honest, as the Undead Mage Corps of their Great Zhou remained hidden throughout the entire process, it was actually very difficult for the Saint Roland Empire to discover this.
Because only Balem on the opposite side possessed this mantra, and during the battle, Balem would definitely give priority to converting the combat power into the Vajra Realm.
According to the ability of Balem, a wizard who had entered the holy realm, by the time he had completed the transformation of all the Vajra Realm combat power, the souls of the other dead would have basically dissipated, and there would be no chance of discovery at all.
In the course of their subsequent research, they may come up with such a conjecture.
But what can I do?
To verify this guess, they had to kill a Truth Mage on the spot and then transform him into an undead to confirm it? This was outrageous.
Of course, out of caution, it's always a good idea to give it a try.
Judging from the other party’s current reaction, the Saint Laurent Empire probably hasn’t discovered this yet, which makes Kong Daqian become even calmer.
Maintaining an attitude of disdain for the undead bones, seeing that the other party refused to give in on the mithril, Kong Daqian changed his mind and decided not to change the stone.
In fact, if it were not for the long-term development of their Great Zhou Undead Army, the priority of these three rare resources should indeed be Mithril, Immortal Stone and Undead Bone, respectively.
If Kong Daqian fails in this negotiation and gets more mithril and immutable stone, it will be the same profit for Da Zhou, the only difference is the focus.
During the constant tug-of-war, the weight of mithril was reduced to 50 kilograms by the Saint Laurent Empire's negotiators, which was directly cut in half compared to the 100 kilograms originally proposed by Kong Daqian.
The output of immutable stone is large, and it is relatively not that rare, but it has many uses and is consumed a lot. The Saint Laurent Empire is obviously unwilling to give too much.
"Master Kong, we can give you more in other resources as compensation."
As the Saint Laurent Empire's negotiators spoke, they turned the topic to common resources such as copper, iron, and coal.
These resources themselves are also hard currency between countries. No one will have too much, but conversely, at this stage, no one is short of them.
Compared with special rare resources such as Mithril and Everstone, it pales in comparison.
Kong Daqian glanced at the number given by the other party.
Since they couldn't reach an agreement on rare resources, the other party was very generous in providing these common resources, which left him no room for fault.
Kong Daqian made an estimate in his mind.
Having talked about this point, it's almost time to wrap it up. Otherwise, if we continue talking, I'm afraid the talks will fail.
Thinking of this, Kong Daqian seemed to be convinced by the other party and sighed in frustration.
Then he pointed at the list handed over by the other party with his fingertips.
"On this basis, add five high-level undead bones, twenty mid-level undead bones, and three hundred low-level undead bones."
As soon as these words were spoken, the negotiators from the Saint Laurent Empire knew that the deal was done, and a smile of victory appeared on their faces.
Although the other party wanted a lot of undead bones, they did have a lot in stock, and their uses were limited, so it was not unacceptable.
Mainly because of this situation, he didn't want to fail in the deal, so he agreed very straightforwardly.
"Deal! I'll write a report and have someone deliver the agreed resources over."
Hearing this, Kong Daqian also forced a smile.
"When the time comes, we will also hand over the promised military equipment!"
While talking and after a simple handshake, Kong Daqian signed the agreement without staying in the embassy for long.
After walking out of the embassy, he turned around and got into the carriage of their Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was not until this moment that the sad and defeated expression on his face completely relaxed.
"Let's go back."
The carriage sped all the way. Kong Daqian returned to the office, turned around and wrote a report, briefly reporting the matter to Zhou Xu.
The inventory was cleared and the resources were obtained. Zhou Xu was undoubtedly satisfied with this result.
Here, it is worth mentioning that although the Great Zhou sells three-bow crossbows and city defense crossbows, they do not sell the matching crossbow arrows.
Because their three-bow crossbows and city defense crossbows are equipped with enchanted crossbow arrows, the metal arrowheads are cast with a special alloy mixed in.
When we take these arrows apart and melt them, we can recycle a lot of special alloys.
The Saint Laurent Empire doesn't care about this situation.
For them, the bed crossbow is time-consuming and laborious to make, but the crossbow arrows are simple to make.
As long as the bed crossbow business can be negotiated, it will save them a lot of trouble.
(End of this chapter)
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