What cannot be obtained on the battlefield cannot be obtained at the negotiation table. This is a very simple truth.
But Luo Hai's answer made several novice colleagues even more confused.
"It's impossible that they don't know this truth, but why are they still so determined? Why don't they retreat at all? Aren't they afraid that we will beat them again?"
"So, this is a routine." Luo Hai sneered: "Starting a fight if we can't reach an agreement on an issue? It's not such a child's play.
They just raised an issue that we would never agree to - they also knew that we would never agree to it. They first put on a firm appearance, and when necessary, left the meeting in anger to put pressure on us until the negotiations actually started. When it doesn't go forward, take the initiative to make concessions, bring up secondary issues, press again, make gestures again, and give in again, until we agree.
This process may be repeated several times, even dozens or dozens of times. Their true bottom line is hidden in these setbacks. It's a pity that the leader prohibits us from using technical means to eavesdrop. Otherwise, knowing their bottom line in advance, there would be no need for such long-winded negotiations. "
The novice colleagues looked at each other: "So, our coming here this time is completely meaningless? It is impossible to achieve results in this negotiation?"
"It's meaningful. What does it mean to be meaningless?" Luo Hai said immediately: "You ate five steamed buns before you were full. The first four steamed buns were meaningless? Without this time and again, how could the final agreement be reached?"
A colleague admired: "Team Leader Luo, you are so awesome."
"Learn more."
This concludes the day's negotiations. The next day, the second negotiation started again.
As expected, nothing has been achieved today. The final outcome still ended with the negotiator of the Basil Tisza civilization leaving the meeting angrily.
Returning to Xiatandi, at the regular meeting, Luo Hai discovered that not only his own group, but also other groups faced similar situations to his own.
After wasting time like this for half a month, this round of negotiations was officially over. Afterwards, Basiltisa Civilization held a grand farewell banquet, and issued a joint communiqué of the eight major civilizations at the banquet.
The communiqué stated that the eight major civilization parties held multiple rounds of talks in a friendly atmosphere, each of which frankly stated its position and exchanged views on a series of major issues. All parties agreed to maintain open communication and start negotiations on "comprehensive trade" issues again at the appropriate time.
After that, the negotiation team led by a government member of human civilization set out to return. After that, Basletisa and the other six civilizations jointly announced that in order to better fulfill the "United Civilizations"'s responsibility to maintain peace in the nebula, while strengthening exchanges and communication between civilizations and enhancing mutual trust, the seven-civilization coalition will join forces in seven days. , launching a joint military exercise at the edge of the galaxy.
The announcement specifically emphasized that this is a peaceful military exercise and a united military exercise. Everything is for peaceful purposes and does not target any civilization or force.
At the same time, human civilization also publicly announced that, also in seven days, human civilization would conduct a test of a new type of weapon in a specified area. In order to prevent accidental injuries and ensure safety, it is required that no unrelated aircraft are allowed to approach during the test.
Seven days passed in a blink of an eye. On this day, more than 30 high-precision full-band remote observation equipment, including the Deep Space 7 optical telescope and the Deep Space 7A large radio array telescope, were simultaneously aimed at the joint military exercise area of the seven major civilizations.
In addition, many spy satellites and detection ships sailed very close to conduct on-site detection.
In the Space Force Strategic Research Office, all the staff members looked angry after the relevant information was sent back.
the reason is simple. With all kinds of observation equipment of human civilization, this military exercise was seen clearly by humans almost from beginning to end. So people discovered that the script of this military exercise turned out to be an exercise in which three fleets with mediocre spaceships encircled and suppressed an elite fleet with outstanding spacecraft performance.
During the military exercise, the fleet with outstanding battleship performance clashed left and right, and even relied on its tyrannical performance to almost forcefully open a gap. However, although the performance of the three battleships was mediocre, the fleet had three times the number. With their exquisite cooperation, they finally relied on their numerical superiority to slowly squeeze the elite fleet's space for movement. In the end, they relied on the elite fleet's shortcomings of insufficient logistical supplies to defeat it in one fell swoop.
"The total number of troops of the seven major civilization coalitions is almost three times that of ours."
"Our logistics are far inferior to theirs."
"This is obviously a show for us!"
"Didn't we already know this?"
"These stupid aliens dare to scare us with their numbers!"
At the same time, military scientists, strategists, tactical analysts, senior generals, staff officers and others from the seven major civilizations gathered together at the military flagship of the Basiltisa civilization.
Regardless of physical structure, everyone expressed intense anger behind the space suit.
Through long-range observation equipment, short-range spy equipment, etc., the detection forces of the seven major civilizations clearly observed the entire process of this new weapon test by human civilization.
It was a test of an improved model of a new weapon called Nano Cloud that human civilization used to win the battle for Planet 16.
In this weapons test, the targets were about 300 warships with relatively backward performance. Carrying new weapons are 100 warships with relatively advanced performance.
During the weapons test, the three hundred warships tried to squeeze the space of advanced warships through cooperation and containment, relying on numerical superiority. But during this process, new nano-cloud weapons were released. Under the attack of nano-robots, the performance and combat power of these three hundred warships were once again weakened. The 100 warships relied on this to forcibly break through the siege, launched a counterattack, and finally won the victory in one fell swoop.
"Snapped!"
An officer from the Basilissa Civilization slapped his scaly palms hard on the table.
"This is humiliation, serious humiliation!"
"Human civilization is demonstrating against us!"
"Our total number of warships is almost three times theirs!"
"Hmph, it's great to have new weapons!"
"What a bastard human being!"
Military exercises and weapons tests have ended. Almost half a month later, the eight major civilizations issued another joint announcement.
The second round of negotiations began.
This time, it’s human civilization as the home court.
Seven large passenger spaceships set off from their respective civilization bases and arrived at the spacecraft specially used by human civilization to receive other civilizations.
This time, the human side was still received by the previous government member. Luo Hai is still one of them.
"On behalf of human civilization, I warmly welcome representatives of civilizations who are also members of the Iron Blood Nebula. This will definitely be a successful negotiation, a friendly negotiation..."
For these visitors, the human side also gave extremely high courtesy. After that, Luo Hai faced those very familiar faces with a smile on his face.
During the first round of negotiations, these people left the meeting angrily several times, forcing the negotiations to be temporarily suspended. During the negotiations, the two sides were at war with each other several times, as if they were enemies.
But now, everyone has an aura that represents friendship. Everyone used the standard handshake to express greetings to Luo Hai, just like old friends they hadn't seen for a long time.
But all the cordial and friendly atmosphere disappeared once again after the negotiations began.
"The use of Human Coins as the settlement currency cannot be changed! But as compensation, we are willing to open up the purchase rights for a batch of high-precision equipment. You can then use Human Coins to purchase them directly."
"Basil dollars must be used as the settlement currency! As a step back, we can tolerate the inclusion of human coins into the settlement currency. We just need to agree on the exchange ratio between the two currencies."
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"You have no sincerity in conducting this negotiation!"
"We have made enough concessions!"
Luo Hai slapped the table angrily and led a group of colleagues to leave the table angrily.
The second round of negotiations once again came to nothing.
However, in this second round of negotiations, compared to the first round of negotiations, the prices of both parties were unknowingly loosened.
If in the first round of negotiations, the conditions for human civilization are 10, and the conditions for Basiltisa civilization and several other civilizations are 1, and the difference between the two is 9, then in this round of negotiations, the conditions for human civilization will change. It became 9, and on the side of Basiltisa Civilization, it became 2. The difference between the two sides was only 7.
After this, the third round of negotiations began again at the edge of the galaxy. Then the fourth round, the fifth round...
In the fourth round, the two sides finally reached an agreement on some marginal issues. Although this does not have much practical significance, it is full of symbolic significance. At least, the negotiations finally made substantial progress.
In the subsequent rounds of negotiations, new issues continued to be agreed upon.
It was not until the seventeenth round that the most core issues were finally discussed and conditions acceptable to both parties were reached.
For example, in terms of settlement currency.
The two parties finally agreed to use human currency as the settlement currency, but the human side also made many concessions. For example, the purchasing power of human currency must be guaranteed. At the same time, an average of no less than 1 trillion human currency needs to be imported from the Basiltisa civilization every year. Supplies other than basic resources, etc.
After his "little brothers" finally completed the negotiations, Zhao Changxing, the "boss", could finally come forward.
In a neutral area on the edge of the Basil Tissa galaxy, civilization leaders such as Zhao Changxing, Basil, and Shalik finally gathered together and signed their names on the agreement in the standard way of their own civilization.
This scene was conveyed to every corner of the Loletisa galaxy through ubiquitous media, and also to the residences of other civilizations such as the Dark Moon Civilization, Moyun Litar Civilization, and Moto Civilization, as well as to those who had not joined the Iron-Blooded The civilization of the Nebula Civilization Federation.
"Finally, we can integrate the technology trees of many civilizations in a peaceful way."
Zhao Changxing sighed secretly in his heart.
