Chapter 2396 Negotiation
Three days later, Donghai Neptune met Bai Chen.
However, in the past three days, he almost forgot about his business.
Stay in the most luxurious hotel, enjoy food and services, and you can visit many places, or even experience things that ordinary people cannot experience, such as spaceship production lines or TV production lines.
"Master, please sit down."
Bai Chen and Donghai Neptune sat opposite each other. Unlike when they met Ah Hao last time, they invited him to his house. This time they met at the Tower of Sky.
From the glass wall, Neptune can see almost the entire Sky City. This is a steel jungle, but it is not as cold as steel. Every corner is full of greenness and vitality.
Whether it is the grandeur of the day or the bright lights and wine under the night, every corner of the place makes people linger.
Tokai Neptune thought he was a relatively self-supportive person, but after living here for a few days, he suddenly realized that it was not that he was self-supportive, but because his past life was too boring.
Sometimes, he even found that his life was not as good as that of ordinary residents of Sky City.
At least ordinary residents have weekends, but he has to be busy all year round.
At the same time, he also discovered that the goods he brought were not much.
Chixue is considered a relatively intimate goods in Sky City. As for seafood, Sky City is not short of them.
Moreover, he didn't have to worry about the price. There was no need for any negotiation on the amount of goods he brought, and any private supermarket in Sky City could eat these goods.
Of course, there is no advantage in price. This trip can be said that there is almost nothing to make except earning a little hard work.
This is completely different from the initial expectations of Tokai Neptune. The original chaotic city was extremely short of supplies due to chaos. Therefore, when Tokai Neptune came before, the negotiations with all ethnic groups were all based on the ground.
But now, he found that in Sky City, any medium and large businessman earned more than him.
This is undoubtedly a huge blow to Tokai Neptune.
As one of the kings of the sea clan, the sea clan has always been famous for its endless wealth.
But now he found that his wealth was only obtained through being a "cool laborer".
And he was fascinated by the dazzling projects of Sky City.
He could even imagine what kind of wealth he would gain if he brought something into the sea clan.
King Donghai looked at the human boy in front of him and kept looking at Bai Chen.
It was this human boy who destroyed the once chaotic city without even leaving any trace.
It was also him who personally created such a sky city. The sky city today is enough to bear the word "magnificence".
"The king is still used to living in Sky City these days?"
King Donghai was a little distracted. It was a habit? It was not just a habit... King Donghai felt that he could not adapt to life leaving Sky City.
"I like the life of Sky City very much. I am serious, and I am definitely not complimenting." Donghai Wang looked at Bai Chen seriously: "So I want to introduce some ideas and technology of Sky City."
King Donghai looked at Bai Chen, and the last sentence was what he really wanted to express.
To introduce ideas and technologies, it is absolutely impossible to do without the support of Sky City. Even if Donghai Neptune wants to paint a cat, she can only draw a skin, but her inner self is more than a thousand times different from Sky City.
King Tokai is not without ambitions, on the contrary, he is a very ambitious person.
The success of Sky City also allowed him to see his own hope.
"Master Lord, what do you think?"
"I'm afraid it's hard for me to answer the king immediately, because some things need to be kept confidential by Sky City, which is to ensure the commercial advantages of Sky City."
"I can understand this, but I hope both sides can deepen their cooperation."
"What specific aspects of cooperation is it?" Bai Chen asked.
"I know you signed a Sky Alliance agreement with twenty-one surrounding cities and also provided technical support to them."
"Does the king want to join the Sky Alliance?" Bai Chen looked at Donghai in surprise. If this is the case, Bai Chen would be very welcome.
However, he also knew that this was impossible. The territory and territorial waters of King Kong were more than ten times larger than all the city-states of the Sky Alliance. How could King Kong join the Sky Alliance and be dominated by the Sky City seat.
"No, I want to be an equal identity with the Sky Alliance as the object of the alliance, not just the Sky City family."
“As the lord of Sky City, I welcome any kind of friendly alliance.”
Bai Chen’s answer is very official. In fact, if you look into this sentence in depth, you will say nothing.
"But I still need to understand what the king wants."
"If we talk about influence alone, the Sky Alliance city-states combined are not as good as the East China Sea territorial waters, but the Sky Alliance city-states have technological advantages, which is incomparable to the East China Sea territorial waters."
"I hope to introduce all the advanced technologies and concepts of Sky City, build factories, airports, and even the entire Sky City model. In return, I will also let my territory and territorial waters come to the Sky Alliance City State for commercial trade and investment. At the same time, I hope that I can get the same treatment as those of Sky Alliance City State."
"This... I'm afraid I can't agree to the king's request." Bai Chen said as a difficult thing.
"What? Does the city lord think that my East China Sea territorial sea country is not qualified to join your Sky Alliance City-Constitutional Alliance?" The East China Sea King immediately showed his anger. He expressed so sincerely that the other party refused.
In the view of Tokai Neptune, the other party not only rejects his friendship, but also refuses his gifts.
Bai Chen shook his head: "Of course not. If the king wants to build a city-state like Sky City or a similar city-state, it is very simple. Sky Alliance city-state can provide any support, but we cannot take out the technology."
"I can pay for it." said Tokai Neptune.
"King, do you know that there is a place called the Patent Office in our Sky Alliance city-state?"
"This...what is this?" Donghai asked in confusion.
"Here, all the advanced technologies and owners of the Sky Alliance city-state are stored and recorded. All merchants who want to use these technologies in the Sky Alliance city-state must first negotiate with the technology owner, purchase or borrow technology, such as this TV, the technology owner is me, and then a businessman wants to borrow technology, and after negotiation with me, he adopts a long-term sharing situation. For example, a TV can sell nine-day crystals, and the profit is five-day crystals, and the profit must be paid to me for the patent fee of two-day crystals."
"What if it's a one-time buyout?"
"This is a sky-high price. At least the few patents listed for sale are bought out of more than 10 billion Tianjing."
"What do you mean?"
"If the king is sincere, I can provide two cooperation plans for your reference."
"Tell me."
"The first type is to join the Sky Alliance and become a part of it, so the East China Sea territorial waters will have the same preferential policies as other alliances."
"This is impossible. The East China Sea territorial sea countries are much stronger than the Sky Alliance city-state."
"Don't be too busy refusing. First of all, the city-state of the Sky Alliance is not small at all, and we are still in the early stages. With our own development, I believe that more and more city-states are willing to join the Sky Alliance. Secondly, our wealth is our wealth. We may not be as good as the East China Sea territorial waters, but it won't take long to accumulate our wealth to an amazing level. To be honest, our wealth is a peaceful plunder, which no one can stop, including the East China Sea territorial waters, will be the target of our plunder."
King Donghai frowned, feeling a little dissatisfied and uneasy.
But he could not refute it because Bai Chen was telling the truth, but everyone knew this kind of thing very well, but it was not said it.
"Of course, what we plunder is your resources and what we output is our technology. Technology requires a head, not money and resources. So we have endless wealth, and your resources are limited. If you cannot catch up with us or get close to us, then your East China Sea territorial waters will be plundered endlessly by us."
King Donghai fell into silence. If it was true as Bai Chen said, one day, the East China Sea territorial waters would definitely go to war with the Sky Alliance. On that day, whether the East China Sea territorial waters could still defeat the Sky Alliance is two different things.
"What about the second cooperation plan besides joining the Sky Alliance?"
"That is, we provide technology and jobs, you provide manpower and land, and then invest and build. You don't have your own industry, and this cooperation plan has advantages and disadvantages."
"There doesn't seem to be anything worth considering in this cooperation plan, right?" Donghai Neptune said with a frown.
"It's true that there is no, because technology is controlled by us, and you have always been on the weak side of cooperation and cannot take the initiative. Once cooperation changes, you will usher in disastrous unrest."
"That means that the East China Sea territorial waters can only choose to join the Sky Alliance?"
"This is the best cooperation plan. You rent technology, then develop more advanced technology yourself, and then lend it to others. This will put yourself at the same height as Sky City, instead of being treated as marionettes by us. Moreover, Sky Alliance is not a political alliance, it is a cooperation between business and technology. For example, if we are attacked, you don't have to worry about being implicated. Similarly, if you are attacked or attacked by others, we will not ask about it."
"What are the benefits for you to join the Sky Alliance for our East China Sea territorial countries?"
"You can treat this alliance as a commercial plunder. The first one to join must be the one who makes the most profits. When our alliance opens, you must ensure the security of investment in the East China Sea territorial waters. Then our merchants will enter the East China Sea territorial waters to help you build, and you will also pay some of your wealth."
"That means, we are the ones who suffer?" Donghai Neptune's face looked even more ugly.
"No, you can think about it. It's like a shop opening. You always have to invest before opening it? We have earned this part of the wealth, but once you gain a foothold, you start to make money with us. You transform from a self-helper into a plunderer. Think about how big the northern continent is, how big your sea tribe's territorial waters are? How huge and amazing wealth is there?" Bai Chen paused and said, "Don't just look in front of you, just like me, in the eyes of people you don't know, I'm just a child, so similar to the sky city now, but do you really think I'm a child?"
King Donghai suddenly figured it out, yes, this human child is so similar to Sky City.
Outsiders always think that Sky City is just a child, just like when they first came to Sky City, they still regarded it as the chaotic city of the past.
However, with continuous in-depth understanding, we can truly realize that Sky City is not a child, but a terrifying devouring monster.
Everything will be swallowed by Sky City!
The East China Sea territorial sea countries actually have only two choices, either flow with them or destroy Sky City now.
However, destroying Sky City is obviously not a good choice. After all, the Sea Clan has a natural enemy in the northern continent, the Mountain Clan.
If the sea tribe shows hostility to Sky City, it will inevitably be counterattacked by the Shanling tribe, and at that time it will promote the alliance between the Shanling tribe and Sky City.
Instead of sitting there waiting to die, it is better to turn yourself into a kind of monster and devour everything else with it. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!