Jose showed his shrewdness as a businessman at this time.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Jiang Wan: "If Mr. Jiang's suggestion can be implemented and achieves obvious results, this transaction cannot be considered. Do we need to sign an agreement?"
Jiang Wan looked at the other party for a long time, then shook his head and smiled: "Don't you think it's possible for us to sign any agreement, Mr. Jose? As a Ming Dynasty, credibility is the foundation of our business. Words spoken are more important than words written in black and white."
More effective!"
Jose smiled even more proudly. He was very sure that the young man in front of him, or the person behind him, would never sign such an agreement with him. No matter what they wanted to do with these muskets, at least there was something
It is certain that this is definitely not an official purchase, and they will not leave the clue in their own hands.
"The most important thing is that I don't think you have the ability to violate the agreement, so as long as you agree to this deal, I have no worries about your breach of contract!"
Jiang Wan grinned: "How about, as long as you nod, you can now know my suggestion and whether it is feasible or not!"
"Okay!" Jose pondered for a moment and nodded slowly: "If your suggestion is invalid, this agreement will naturally be invalidated. If it is really because of your suggestion that this artillery trade was promoted, I, Haojing'ao, will produce
From now on in the Ming Dynasty, your short fire blunderbuss will be your exclusive business!"
"The eunuch in charge of the East Factory, the eunuch in charge of etiquette, Bingbi, Wei Zhongxian, Eunuch Wei!"
Jiang Wan looked at him and mouthed a string of titles: "As long as you can visit him and express your sincerity, this artillery trade will not be a problem at all!"
"Wei Zhongxian, Eunuch Wei!" Jose looked a little embarrassed: "I know that he is a very powerful figure in the Ming Dynasty, but he is not responsible for this trade. Even if I want to visit him, otherwise
He said there is no way, even if there is a way, what reason should I use to visit him?"
When Jiang Wan saw the other party like this, he immediately became amused. Knowing Wei Zhongxian's name, she still pretended that there was no reason to visit the other party. This clearly meant that she had thought about it, but in the end, she couldn't even get in front of Wei Zhongxian.
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Wei Zhongxian's identity, the biggest official presiding over the trade talks this time is just a minister of the Ministry of Etiquette, and there is not even a single official with an official title on the Folangji people. To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of Folangji people.
People's grassroots.
A bunch of barbarians want to meet the top figures of the Ming Dynasty. Are you kidding me? Is the word "Fo Langji" really worth it?
The Ming Dynasty may be full of shortcomings, such as party strife, dictatorship, and corruption, and there are many unsatisfactory things that need to be eliminated, but there is one thing that even if people talk about it hundreds of years later, they can still give a thumbs up.
The people of the Ming Dynasty never discriminated against, and they treated all non-Ming people equally - they were all barbarians, so there was no need to differentiate between them.
The Folangji may have slightly better artillery than the Ming Dynasty, but so what, they are still barbarians. The court treated each other with the standard of one servant and two lieutenants, which is already a great deal of face to them. As for anything else,
, don’t think about it.
It's no use even thinking about it.
"It is not difficult to visit Wei Zhongxian, Eunuch Wei. What is difficult is how you express your sincerity. Eunuch Wei is not short of money, and he does not like your three melons and two dates. Therefore, the main thing you have to consider is,
It should be sincerity, not anything else!”
"Believe me, after you deal with Wei Zhongxian and Eunuch Wei, you will have settled this deal, and then you can happily go back to Haojing'ao with your money!"
Jose and Catherine looked at each other, and Catherine understood.
"Is this Mr. Jiang's suggestion, or is this suggestion really useful, but we can't use it, so what should we do?"
"Are you saying that you can't see Eunuch Wei Zhongxian, or that you don't know how to express your sincerity?"
"Both!" Catherine hesitated for a moment and said directly, while Jose on the opposite side lowered his eyes and looked at his wine glass, as if a flower suddenly grew out of his wine glass.
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If this old guy is not nice to say, let this girl Catherine do it all. He is really a shameless guy.
"Let me confirm first that the agreement between us has been reached, right? Mr. Jose?"
Jiang Wan was not going to let the other person go. He would only continue talking if he got the other person's approval. Otherwise, he had been busy for a long time just for the meal in front of him.
"Yes, on behalf of the Victor Chamber of Commerce, I have reached an oral agreement with Mr. Jiang Wan!"
Jose raised his head and said with some reluctance: "If the preconditions for this verbal agreement and the artillery trade with Daming are successfully completed with the help of Mr. Jiang Wan, Mr. Jiang Wan can send specific personnel to our chamber of commerce to implement the agreement.
specific matters!”
"Thank you Victor Chamber of Commerce, thank you Mr. Jose!"
Jiang Wan nodded with satisfaction: "It is not difficult to meet Eunuch Wei. Perhaps I can arrange this matter and ensure that you meet. As for the sincerity you need to express, I think it is not just a reduction in the amount of your quotation.
Rather, we should cancel all the unreliable additional conditions. Those conditions will not do any good except angering Eunuch Wei..."
"We can consider this!"
"What are you thinking about? You are just a private chamber of commerce. Even if you have the official background of your kingdom, you are not the official representative of the kingdom after all. Let the envoys of your kingdom worry about this kind of thing. Businessmen should concentrate on making money.
That’s your duty!”
"You have to take a long-term view when doing business. The size of our Ming Dynasty is far beyond what you can imagine. There are only thirty Folang machine guns. I really don't know where to put them. The first transaction will make less money.
What does it matter? The important thing is that there will be many such transactions every year, and the flow will continue, making such large transactions the norm for you and Daming. Think about it, the money you made at that time was just this.
Hundreds of thousands taels?"
Jose and Catherine opened their mouths slightly. They were a little stunned by Jiang Wan's words. They have been struggling with the price of the artillery, or whether they want to get more from Daming.
It's unrealistically cheap, but they have always ignored this.
For them, thirty artillery pieces was a huge amount of trade, and the money involved was also huge. Even if their artillery workshop in Hao Jing'ao started working at full capacity, it would probably take them two years to deliver all the goods.
However, if the sale of these thirty artillery pieces is not a one-time deal, but may be the first one. If that is the case, then what will their hard-working merchants do in business and open more artillery workshops?
Find more skilled technicians and craftsmen from the local area and devote themselves wholeheartedly to producing artillery for the Ming Dynasty. This will earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year.
This is more profitable than being a pirate at sea. As for the colonies, those Spanish colonies overseas, even a province, may not be able to make so much profit in a year.
This kind of transaction has always been placed in front of them, and even under their own deliberate efforts, it was delayed for more than half a year.
When he thought that he had made almost one or two hundred thousand taels less in the past six months, Jose suddenly felt as if his heart was bleeding.