When they woke up the next morning, the nine little guys didn't go anywhere after breakfast. They went back to their own yard to discuss things.
At noon, they came out for a quick meal and turned around to go back.
In the evening, Xiao Bei came back with a book in her arms. She set up a carriage and negotiated with her brother. In the end, she left in a daze.
The next day, the result was the same.
On the next day, Xiao Bei ran to Zhang Xiaobao as soon as she came in. She opened her arms and hugged Zhang Xiaobao's neck. She said coquettishly, "Brother! You must be very busy with domestic affairs recently. You must be very tired, right? "
"It's okay," Zhang Xiaobao said as he leaned close to his sister's face.
"Don't lie, we all know. Brother, how about this, you rest first. It's just a small problem of children playing Monopoly outside. It's not worth your trouble. Sister will do it with you, right?" Xiao Bei continued to hug her brother's neck.
"Yes, yes, it's the same whether I talk to your sister or not." Zhang Xiaobao stood up and hugged Xiao Bei and spun two rounds on the ground.
Xiao Bei giggled for a while. After landing, she looked at Wang Juan. "Then, is it the same if we talk to my sister?"
"It's the same. You talk, I'll go rest," Zhang Xiaobao said to his sister with a smile.
"Goodbye, brother." Seeing her brother go to another room, Xiao Bei waved her hand and turned to Wang Juan. "Sister, let's start the negotiation now, okay?"
Wang Juan nodded and pursed her lips into a smile. "Alright! Let's talk. Last time, your brother said that he allowed you to get intelligence and military maps at the price of 5,000 strings of coins per 10,000 square kilometers. However, you must gather 85% of the foreign children in this 10,000 square kilometers. For every percentage point less, you have to pay an additional 1,000 strings of coins.
At the same time, you will also be given 26% of the shares of other domestic Monopoly games. However, you need to taste the real foreign food and develop a series of food that domestic children are willing to accept. At least 50% of the children will like it. For every percentage point less, your shares will also be reduced by one percentage point.
Everything else remained the same. Your older brother directly agreed to all of your requests. He didn't make any changes based on your requests. Instead, he added our side's conditions.
You have to understand that if it were anyone else negotiating with your brother like this, your brother would definitely not make such a concession. Allowing your conditions is a loss to his own interests. Now, tell me, what do you want to talk to me about? "
Wang Juan made things very clear. Xiao Bei represented the nine of them and made one request after another in exchange for more benefits in the negotiations. Zhang Xiaobao did not directly discuss Xiao Bei and the others' conditions. Instead, he came up with new conditions.
It was impossible for the same thing to happen in a real negotiation. The other party's conditions would definitely be the most beneficial to the other party. A very important part of the negotiation process was to suppress the other party's conditions, even if they did not understand the effect of the conditions on the mutual benefits of the two parties.
Wang Juan kept looking at how Zhang Xiaobao nodded no matter what conditions Xiao Bei put forward. Then, he put forward his own additional conditions, weakening the benefits of Xiao Bei and the others again.
When it came to spoiling and training his younger brothers and sisters, he showed his level. Not everyone could use additional conditions to make up for the loss of benefits caused by the main conditions.
Wang Juan also knew that Zhang Xiaobao did not take the negotiations proposed by his younger brothers and sisters seriously at all. Every time they negotiated, he would deal with them as they came.
And all of this was not to say that his younger brothers and sisters were weak. If it were someone not in the top ranking list of billionaires negotiating with Xiao Bei and the others, they would definitely be tricked by Xiao Bei and the others and suffer a big loss. Don't think that children are easy to fool. You have to see how they were raised first.
The people who followed Xiao Bei and the others, except for Li Yilong, were all elites from the inner courtyard. There were people who specialized in conspiracies, people who played open schemes, people who knew economics, people who understood politics, people who planned battles, and people who were familiar with human nature.
Xiao Bei and the others learned by themselves. Occasionally, they would pull someone from the inner courtyard to have a discussion with them. After so many years, if they could not learn anything, how low would their IQ be?
Wang Juan could say with certainty that the people assigned to her younger brothers and sisters were better than the people who followed her and Xiao Bao, especially the two fast shooters who guarded the two guards. Now, there were four of them. She and Xiao Bao did not have a single one by their side. They were all given to their younger brothers and sisters.
Therefore, Wang Juan felt that at her younger siblings' current age, she could not be too indulgent and flattering. She should suppress them when she needed to. It just so happened that they came looking for her, and as expected, they were casually suppressed by their older brother, Xiao Bao. That kind of understatement and unrestrained additional conditions that he proposed were the most hurtful. She believed that her younger siblings would work harder in the future and not be arrogant and complacent.
Now that Xiao Bao was sent away, she had to complete this task. She was also casually nodding and agreeing to her younger brothers and sisters' conditions. She also gave additional conditions. Otherwise, if she was weaker, Xiao Bei and the others would feel that they were more capable. It would be easy for them to suffer more losses.
Xiao Bei did not know why she was constantly suppressed by her older brother's negotiation techniques. She and the other eight siblings did not understand their older brother and sister's painstaking efforts. They wanted them to have confidence, but not be arrogant. They just wanted to have a little advantage in the negotiation.
However, it had been three days. She was very serious in the negotiation, but her older brother dealt with it like it was a game. What was the problem?
Xiao Bei thought. She looked up and saw her older sister's smiling eyes. She twisted her body and smiled embarrassedly. "Okay, sister, yes, we are afraid of brother. We finally know why the merchants of Tang Empire are so honest. We thought and thought until our heads hurt. In the end, brother casually said something. When I went back and thought about it with them, I found that I was at a disadvantage again. In the end, we felt that we made a mistake, a big mistake. Yes, a mistake. "
"So?" Wang Juan asked with a smile.
"So we decided to change the negotiation rules. According to Xiao Yuan, instead of stopping the boiling water, it is better to take drastic measures. We found the wrong opponent to negotiate with previously. It is the biggest joke in the world to play economic games with brother. We are using our shortcomings to attack his strengths. To sum it up, we are … stupid!"
Xiao Bei was very calm. Since her older brother had promised not to participate in the negotiation, he would not go back on his words. Even if her older brother heard what she said in the room next door, he would not come out to the negotiating position again. It was just like how her older brother disdained to use administrative means to solve economic schemes.
In the past few days, the nine of them went to visit. Most of the merchants said that they were afraid of their older brother, not because of his position, but because of the confidence that her older brother had when dealing with them. If he did not use administrative means, they would not be her older brother's opponent. That administrative order that could be used at any time was like a loaded bullet that had not been fired.
It was like swimming on their own. They were not afraid of how deep the water was, but they were afraid of not being able to find the bottom. Administrative orders were the simplest method and could easily solve any economic scheme. However, if her older brother did not use them, no one could guess how many methods her older brother had and how profound his way of doing things was.
Indeed, the unknown was the scariest.
Wang Juan looked at the changing expression on Xiao Bei's face. She seemed to think of her sister's concerns and admiration for her older brother, so she said, "Did you guys adjust the negotiation strategy and use a trick to lure the enemy to change the leader? It looks like you guys are treating me as a pushover. Tell me, what is the content of your negotiation today? "
Xiao Bei shrunk her neck and stuck out her tongue. Her eyes kept rolling as she shook her head. "No, I just feel that Sister is better than Brother. Brother is not giving in at all."
"Be careful that your older brother won't cook for you guys tomorrow. Alright, let's see if I can give in today's conditions." Wang Juan touched and pinched Xiao Bei's face as she spoke.
Xiao Bei sat up straight, looked at the folder she had brought, and said, "Alright, regarding the conditions raised by Brother yesterday, we have the following ideas. For every 10,000 square kilometers of map provided by the intelligence department and the military department, we should not pay 5,000 strings of coins. This is because everyone knows that it is impossible to use military maps in a child's Monopoly game. Military maps are top secret.
"We ask that you treat some of our partners according to the actual situation. We have protected your military confidentiality system, but your fees are too high. Furthermore, when we release the game locally, we will definitely obtain new local intelligence, more detailed and specific information. Children are not tight-lipped.
"Therefore, in exchange for the exact information we can obtain, we will reduce the cost of all map modifications. "At the same time, due to the geographical constraints of the objective traffic situation, where can we find 85% of the children? "If you insist, I need you to fully equip the early stages of transportation infrastructure.
"As for the second point, we believe that the 26% shares we can obtain is too little. In other words, we lack the understanding between partners to let 50% of the children like to eat foreign food.
"Because after continuous trials, we believe that more adults will like to eat the foreign food that we have researched. Therefore, we ask that you increase the shares given to us in other Monopoly games. Otherwise, we will ask that the adults in the country are not allowed to eat the foreign food that we have researched after trying it."
After Xiao Bei finished speaking, he looked at his sister without blinking. They had discussed for a long time last night before coming up with targeted conditions, and they were very convincing.
Now that Brother was not participating in the negotiations, he wanted to see how his sister would respond. Perhaps he could gain a huge advantage.
Wang Juan still smiled and nodded. "Alright, we accept all of your requests."
Xiao Bei immediately sighed when he heard this. He knew that it was over. His sister's tone was too similar to his brother's. In the past few days, he had already known that when his brother agreed to his conditions without hesitation, the additional conditions he mentioned would cause him to lose a lot of benefits.
His sister definitely knows how to. Ha, you businessmen have been deceived. The Demoness Cuckoo in your eyes is not only good at fighting.
Just as Xiao Bei was worried, after Wang Juan agreed to the conditions, she said to Xiao Bei, "We fully support your pursuit of benefits. Similarly, we also have our own interests."
"Say it, I am mentally prepared." Xiao Bei lowered his head dejectedly.
Under normal circumstances, when an adult saw Xiao Bei like this, they would be soft-hearted and give in. However, Wang Juan knew that now was not the time to be soft-hearted. Her younger brother and sister negotiating with her and Xiao Bao was a child acting coquettishly and showing off to adults. If it was too easy for them to gain recognition in terms of knowledge, they would very likely put their thoughts on other aspects in the future.
Taking a deep breath, Wang Juan glanced at Zhang Xiaobao, who had half of his head peeking out from another room. She said to Xiao Bei, "According to the advantages you mentioned, we require you to summarize a piece of useful information from the foreign children every day.
At the same time, we no longer require you to recruit 85% of the children, but you need at least 20% of the children to be convinced by you within half a year to acknowledge our Tang Empire. You also need to convince 10% of the parents to change their hostile views towards our Tang Empire.
As for the second point you raised, under the condition that we agree, the share distribution will be calculated according to the proportion of the adults who specially order the foreign dishes in each restaurant. You can send financial supervisors to calculate, and then distribute according to the net profit ratio of the foreign dishes sold. You can have 50% of the shares. "
"I knew it would be like this. Anyway, there is still a lot of time before we can really sell the Monopoly toy to the foreign world. We are not afraid. We have already prepared for a long and difficult negotiation process.
I will remember it. When I go back, I will discuss with them. I can't put all my thoughts on the negotiation and delay other things. It is not worth it. I am going back now. Brother, where are you? I am leaving now. "
Xiao Bei found that things were not different from what he had guessed. He let out a long breath and admitted this fact. He yawned and prepared to go back to his courtyard.
Zhang Xiaobao came out from the room next door and carried Xiao Bei downstairs. Wang Juan followed to send him off.
At the back door of the first floor, Zhang Xiaobao said to his sister, "I heard that the prefectural school will hold a table tennis competition for all children between the ages of 7 and 13. If you have time, go and take a look and support the sports development of Tang Empire."
"Then, will we come back for dinner tomorrow?" Xiao Bei was very afraid of eating outside. If the food was not delicious, he had to pretend that he liked to eat.
"It is not easy to be a public figure!" Xiao Bei sighed like an adult.
Zhang Xiaobao kissed his sister's face and patted Xiao Bei's head. "Tomorrow, I will ask someone to send food over. Take it as supporting the sports development of Tang Empire. Out of the eight dishes, you can choose any four dishes. Two meat dishes, two vegetables, and one soup."
"Okay, I'm leaving now." Xiao Bei skipped away.
Wang Juan looked at Xiao Bei's departing figure and turned to Zhang Xiaobao. "It is not easy for the younger brothers and sisters. As public figures, they are invited to participate in all kinds of activities almost every day. Unlike us, others know that we have to think about the war and domestic affairs, so they do not dare to invite us.
The children of aristocratic families seem to be very happy, but they are actually busier than ordinary children. After a few days, it is up to them. If they feel tired, they can tell others not to invite them in the future. Otherwise, they will be like celebrities and have to appear in all kinds of situations. "
Zhang Xiaobao nodded. Suddenly, he felt that something was wrong. After thinking about it, he coughed and said to Wang Juan, "What era are you talking about public figures? What era are they? "
Wang Juan was stunned. Then, she rolled her eyes at Zhang Xiaobao. "Why do you have such a strong resentment for that era? Yes, public figures must be able to perform the specific actions that his or her identity in front of the public represents to society. The social role you embody is to promote purity, so you cannot perform any actions that are pure.
You want to create an artistic image for the public, so you feel that you cannot reveal your erotic nature. You want to let the public know what honesty and justice are, so you cannot be corrupt or take bribes.
Are you planning to criticize them? Criticize the public figure of that time for not being in line with his or her specific actions and promoting social concepts? But you have to know that existence is reasonable. Under the circumstances of a special social period, there are bound to be some special social behaviors that survive in the soil. "
Zhang Xiaobao shook his head, looking as if he had been wronged. "I didn't say anything. I was just asking. Knowledge, knowledge. I ask as I learn. What makes you think you can judge me? But I agree with a part of what you just said. "
"Do you agree that it is reasonable for public figures to perform under certain circumstances when they do not perform as they wish?" Wang Juan asked.
"No, I agree with what you said before. For example, if there is a prostitute in a brothel, she must ensure that she has not been groomed by a man. Otherwise, she will immediately be removed from the list of prostitutes. I actually admire the women from more than a hundred years ago. When they debuted, they took off their clothes. That was their public image. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
But I am very disgusted by the fact that they spent tens of thousands of dollars to invite women from other countries who sell their bodies. They just have to talk about art. This is clearly a kind of blasphemy to their identity as a prostitute. "
Zhang Xiaobao continued to criticize as he explained.
"Watch your mouth. Be careful of offending people. What if you meet someone like Wang Bei who is unrepentant and insists on making trouble for our family? Actually, what you just said is related to the education of the local officials. Back then, it was not like now. If the officials did something immoral, they would be pointed at and scolded on the street and blushed. The officials back then were successful in their cultivation.
Okay, let's not talk about the things back then, okay? Let's talk about Xiaobei and the others. I was serious about what I said just now. I have really decided to use Xiaobei and the others' game of Monopoly to attack the national spirit of the other countries. "
He was already used to Zhang Xiaobao's cynical personality, so he changed the topic and talked about the national spirit of the other countries.
Zhang Xiaobao pondered for a moment and said, "I know. I also support it and have been doing it. Just like the long-term strategy that the United States used against China, they used all kinds of methods to destroy the history, culture, and beliefs of the Chinese people. The simplest method is economic.
Yes, the United States was very successful. Some people were attracted by the beautiful foreign economy. They did not think about how long China had been established. They only saw the wealth of the United States and the various domestic problems at that time.
But in fact, the United States was also a failure. The Americans seemed to be unable to understand our nation. We scold and love at the same time. When we have nothing to do, we scold to our heart's content. But when faced with a life and death situation, we will stand up and use our lives to support our nation.
I used to think about it, and later I felt that this was the survival of the Chinese people. All the ancient civilizations had disappeared, so why did China still exist? It is because this nation is very different. Their nobility makes the world blush with shame, and their despicable level embarrasses themselves. It is a contradictory combination. It is also because of its uniqueness that its civilization and spirit have been passed down. "
"Then what you mean is that now we also want to see what situation the people of Tang are in now?" Wang Juan asked.
"No, I want to see if we can help the other ancient countries to perish in advance and then be reborn. The reborn countries do not even have their own civilization spirit. I will help them to reorient themselves, such as learning our Chinese civilization and becoming a part of us," Zhang Xiaobao said with a smile.
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