"Your Majesty, this, this is not...a reasonable price." After hearing Tang Mo's words, the dwarf envoy was so frightened that his face turned pale.
"Generally, as an arms dealer, oh, a seller of advanced weapons, I think I would only choose to go solo when I want to change the strategic balance of a region or the entire world and prepare to provoke regional disputes. We are selling powerful weapons that can change the rules of war." Tang Mo went around in a big circle and said some truths that dwarves couldn't understand if they didn't think carefully.
The dwarf envoy quickly figured out the twists and turns. What Tang Mo meant was that he was not prepared to let the dwarves obtain aircraft technology alone, thereby breaking the balance of power on the eastern continent.
Holy shit! Brother, haven’t you been doing this before? You even supported some countries and then destroyed many kingdoms! Do you remember it yourself? ah?
After complaining in his heart, the dwarf's special envoy had to admit that what Tang Mo said was indeed something he must consider.
If the aircraft technology is mastered by the Ice Kingdom itself, then the Ice Kingdom can indeed establish a powerful air force and then seek greater benefits southward.
But in this process, the surrounding countries, especially the elves, and even the humans further south, will fiercely oppose it.
However, in order to allow his motherland to gain enough advantages in the future, the dwarf envoy is still prepared to work hard.
"Why is the Tang Kingdom an exception?" By some strange coincidence, the dwarf envoy asked a childish but realistic question.
Tang Mo said indifferently: "The Kingdom of Tang Dynasty is a player, and I am the referee... Since I am both a player and a referee, I must have the privilege of fouling, right?"
"Your Majesty! Then our purchase of this technology will be useless, right?" The special envoy of the Ice Empire sighed. He really didn't expect that Tang Mo would admit his cheating so frankly.
But he also knew that there was nothing he could do to stop Tang Mo from doing this, because as Tang Mo said, he himself was the referee and the maker of the rules of the game.
Therefore, he told the truth, without any intention of hiding their Ice Empire's desire to purchase aircraft technology and continue to expand.
"No, if you don't buy it, then other countries will gain an advantage over you." Tang Mo waved his hand, smiled and explained to the acquaintances in front of him: "The reason is very simple, just like when you bought the airship, this is Yangmou, I’m not worried about you guessing my thoughts at all.”
Tang Mo pointed at his head: "Look, I told you clearly that I can sell the aircraft technology, and I am prepared to sell it to everyone, but you still have no way to refuse, you still have to deal with me obediently. "
He took hold of the dwarves in front of him and was sure that they would not refuse this deal, so he seemed a little confident: "If one country doesn't buy it, I will raise the price, 200 million, 300 million, 500 million..."
"You are really a businessman, Your Majesty. No matter whether you have become a king or not, you are still a businessman." The dwarf envoy said helplessly: "Then, as long as we pay the money, we can buy you. Is the Tang Kingdom currently equipped with aircraft?"
"Of course not. You just want to buy aircraft technology, not the most advanced aircraft technology." Tang Mo shook his head matter-of-factly.
"What? Your Majesty, I don't understand what you mean." The dwarf wanted to get up anxiously.
"What you have obtained is the first-generation aircraft technology, and that's it." Tang Mo looked like you should have known it for a long time: "Otherwise, do you think I'm crazy? I'll take out the experimental data on materials, and then Manufacturing processing equipment, and then designing aircraft for you so that you have aviation technology comparable to Datang Group, just for 100 million?"
"But, Your Majesty! You already have more advanced technology. Don't you think it's a bit excessive to sell the backward technology for a sky-high price of 100 million?"
"Of course it's not too much. Technology is just a layer of window paper! Mr. Special Envoy! Once you get the technology, you can naturally develop it yourself. If you develop fast enough, you can at least gain technological advantages over the surrounding countries." Tang Mo said He nodded, as if he had tried his best to compromise on this matter.
"But we didn't get the most advanced technology after all!" the dwarf envoy emphasized with some dissatisfaction.
Tang Mo spread his hands and said nonchalantly, "You can also choose not to buy it."
The dwarf envoy reluctantly asked, "What's the use of outdated technology if we get it?"
"That would have many uses. You can have enough aircraft for reconnaissance, calibrate the firing parameters of the artillery in the air...drop bombs, use fewer aircraft to defend the enemy's airships, and let them quickly eliminate these Plant outdated equipment." Tang Mo answered his question almost immediately.
Then he continued: "Of course, the most important thing is that you will train pilots who can fly airplanes as quickly as possible... Soon you will find that no matter how many pilots you have, there will never be too many. ... If you train earlier, you can get a pilot earlier!"
After finishing speaking, he spread his arms and looked very considerate of his customers: "Believe me, we can produce any number of airplanes, but we can't train so many pilots at once... Oh, speaking of this, we provide High-quality pilot training service, the training fee for a pilot only costs 1,500 gold coins!”
"You really know how to joke." Hearing the price, the dwarf envoy almost burst into tears.
He knew that Tang Mo's price was not random. After all, Tang Guo did have a first-mover advantage in terms of pilot training. Moreover, he is familiar with Datang Group's charging standards. The more expensive the charges, the better the results. This is reputation and is one of the cornerstones of Datang Group's rise.
"I'm not kidding. The pilots have a food standard that is twenty times higher than that of the army. The elimination rate is also very high. Each one is carefully selected. They also have to actually control the aircraft in my school... and learn tactics. Learn operations, learn theory, learn simple fault repairs..." Tang Mo counted while even he felt that he had set the charging standard a bit low.
But he soon thought about it again, because he decided to set a low standard for pilots, and he must make twice as much money back through ground crew training and aircraft production worker training programs!
In addition, after the training program is upgraded, he will increase the pilot training fees tenfold and a hundredfold, but it cannot be so cheap anymore...
"This will make your Tang Kingdom once again unparalleled, Your Majesty! If you want countries to soften their attitudes towards the Tang Kingdom, you should show a certain degree of sincerity when trading aircraft technology..." The dwarf envoy He changed his direction and emphasized.
"I think it's just the opposite, Mr. Special Envoy! I think if countries want Tang to show their technology, they should also show their sincerity." Tang Mo, in turn, returned the other party's original words.
"We can pay the price you asked...but we hope to obtain more advanced technology!" Seeing that the bargaining was about to fail, the dwarf envoy came up with the idea of asking Tang Mo to come up with more technology.
However, Tang Mo had already grasped the other party's thoughts and emphasized without hesitation: "Aircraft technology is very complicated. If I use the existing aircraft technology, it means that I have used all the aircraft technology I have for so many years." The results of technological research and development, do you think this can be exchanged for some materials and hundreds of millions of gold coins?"
"That's countless supplies and hundreds of millions of gold coins! Your Majesty! Ten years ago, it would have been difficult for a kingdom to come up with 10,000 gold coins!" The dwarf envoy reminded Tang Mo.
"Look, how much has the gold coin depreciated? In less than ten years, the purchasing power of hundreds of millions of gold coins has only reached this point." Tang Mo pretended to complain.
After finishing speaking, he deliberately reminded the dwarf envoy: "Speaking of this, I heard that the currency reform of the Susus Empire failed?"
Without Tang Mo's support, the economic situation of the Susas Empire was actually not very good. Their emperor seemed to be more radical and hoped to get rid of the influence of Tang Dynasty banknotes immediately, so a series of troubles occurred.
If it weren't for the huge advantage of Beiling, he might collapse even faster. As a result, after his series of tricks, the people of the Susas Empire became more dependent on Tang Dynasty banknotes.
"Your information is as good as ever." The dwarf envoy sighed awkwardly: "They can't afford 100 million gold coins to trade aircraft technology."
"It doesn't matter. I can collect some banknotes. I can also collect copper, iron, zinc, nickel and other metals. Oil, gasoline... are all fine." Tang Mo offered the conditions generously: "But this time , don’t want any real estate.”
"Okay, as you wish." The dwarf envoy nodded. If his empire were to come up with 100 million gold coins in one go, it would indeed be impossible.
It was reasonable for Tang Mo to want some of the banknotes. He wanted to maintain the purchasing power of the banknotes he issued, so he naturally had to prove the value of the banknotes.
It's just that to take out so many minerals in one go, and to have the ore in stock, this will be a huge expense that all countries have to come up with. Even taking out so much metal ore and food in one go will have a certain impact on the development of their own country.
"Don't be so frustrated! Mr. Special Envoy, I guarantee you that if Cyric's special envoy was here, he would be much more comfortable paying for it than you." Tang Mo said with a sneer: "So, at least in terms of vision, I hope that There are still people like Rick...it's just that their brains are often forgotten at home."
