Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After getting drunk once, Woking learned his lesson and decided to quit drinking! He would quit drinking until the end of this negotiation! Before that, he planned to not drink at all!

This made Xiao Wang, who knew about this situation at the time, speechless.

[Do you have any misunderstanding about quitting drinking? ]

Of course, despite the complaints, Xiao Wang still encouraged the other party with a smile. Anyway, it didn't matter whether Woking drank or not.

"Sir Woking, it's time to set off. The carriage is waiting downstairs."

The negotiation location is not far from the diplomatic hall. It only takes about ten minutes to get on the carriage. It will arrive after turning two corners.

After getting off the carriage and walking into a large building, Woking couldn't help asking a question when he saw the hall full of people coming and going.

"Comrade Xiao Wang, where is this?"

"This is the National Education Office."

After briefly stating the location, Xiao Wang obviously didn't mean to explain further.

The main reason is that it is difficult to explain this matter to foreigners.

As he was talking, Xiao Wang, holding his work permit, led Wo Jin into the office area without any obstruction, and then pushed open the door of the reception room.

"Please take a rest here first, I will go to inform our minister."

After Xiao Wang left, about ten minutes later, a middle-aged man wearing a black Mao suit and combing his hair meticulously walked in with a smile.

Looking at this unfamiliar yet vaguely familiar face, Wo Jin unconsciously became a little nervous.

On the other hand, the other party was much more comfortable and directly extended his hand to Wo Jin.

"Hello, I am Kong Daqian, the main person in charge of this project. We met at the banquet before."

When Wo Jin mentioned the previous banquet, he felt more embarrassed, but he did not stand there stupidly this time, and shook hands with Kong Daqian very neatly.

Because life has indeed been better in recent years, Kong Daqian has become younger and younger, and he can't see the old state of the old farmer at the beginning.

In their Great Zhou, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is under the Propaganda Department, and now diplomatic trade is an extension of diplomacy. As a result, this matter has come to the head of Kong Daqian, the Minister of the National Religion Propaganda Department.

But at the same time, we have to admit that Kong Daqian's talent of "being eloquent" is indeed useful in this field, and it is a case of more work for the capable.

The current situation is that Wo Jin will talk to Kong Daqian first. It would be best if they can reach an agreement directly. If they cannot reach an agreement and Kong Daqian cannot make the decision, then he will ask Zhou Xu for instructions and talk after getting Zhou Xu's reply.

At this time, some people may find it strange. Then Zhou Xu can talk to Wo Jin directly?

For this question, the answer is no, or it is inappropriate.

Just like after the arrival of their Great Zhou reinforcements, the person who usually discusses and communicates with them is Barley Tonglu, not Otto Tonglu.

From the perspective of identity, the person who is equal to Zhou Xu should be Otto Tonglu, the king of Tonglu Castle, not his youngest son.

At the same time, according to Zhou Xu's status, if he bargained with Woking for some diplomatic and trade matters, this move itself would also damage his image, and his ministers tried their best to stop him.

After a simple handshake, Kong Daqian sat down opposite Woking.

"Then let's get started now."

Kong Daqian said as he flipped the document in front of him.

"First, let me confirm that you want to trade gunpowder from our Great Zhou, right?"

"Yes." Woking nodded and straightened his body unconsciously.

"Is it pure gunpowder, or explosive bombs after production?"

Kong Daqian asked the question again.

Facing this question, Woking hesitated.

They, Tonglubao, traded gunpowder with the Great Zhou, which must be with the intention of research.

If it was just research, then pure gunpowder would be enough.

But if they want to quickly obtain gunpowder weapons, they need to choose explosive bombs, instead of buying gunpowder and then researching and processing it into weapons themselves.

They are in the mood, but the greenskins on the other side may not wait for them.

From the perspective of Copperforge, they definitely want to end the war with the greenskins as soon as possible. After all, the longer the war drags on, the greater the risk they have to bear.

And the best way to quickly improve combat effectiveness is to directly obtain ready-made gunpowder weapons from Da Zhou.

As for the research, it can be done slowly later.

In a breath, Woking has sorted out the ideas in his mind clearly.

"If possible, it is best to have both gunpowder and explosive bombs."

"It is not easy to make gunpowder itself and collect raw materials..."

At this time, Kong Daqian raised the value of gunpowder as soon as he opened his mouth, so as to facilitate subsequent negotiations.

In fact, the manufacturing cost of gunpowder is indeed not low, the raw materials are not available everywhere, and the transportation cost is even higher.

Of course, Woking, who is not clear about these at present, is willing to pay a considerable price for it, even if he only looks at the performance of Da Zhou's explosive bombs on the battlefield, and his uncle Bale has already told him the bottom before he set off.

If there is no unified standard for transactions between two countries, their respective currencies will definitely be useless, and gold and silver will not work well either.

Currency and gold and silver essentially represent purchasing power, but there is no unified standard between countries today, so where does the purchasing power come from?

Therefore, transactions like this often choose the most primitive way, which is barter!

When it came to the bidding stage, Wojin was also quite straightforward, and he said directly at the beginning...

"We can trade with our Copperforge heavy crossbows. You may not know that our heavy crossbowmen in Copperforge are the strongest in the entire coalition. Many forces in the coalition are jealous of our heavy crossbow equipment."

Speaking of the latter, Wojin did not forget to add some gold to their heavy crossbows.

Just as Shi Lei and Bale had judged before, as long as he didn't fight against his eldest brother Baron, Wojin himself was definitely a smart and capable person.

But what Wojin and others didn't know was that Shi Lei had already mentioned the dwarf's heavy crossbow in his previous report.

According to Shi Lei's close observation, to be honest, the dwarf's heavy crossbow is indeed more powerful than their Great Zhou's heavy crossbow, and the range is also longer.

However, according to Shi Lei's observations, the fundamental reason here is most likely due to the strength of the dwarves.

To give an inappropriate example, if you are strong enough to hold a city defense crossbow and operate it alone, then the power and range will definitely be able to blow up the dwarf's individual heavy crossbow. To put it bluntly, it is a question of equipment specifications.

The dwarves of Copperforge relied on the physical advantages of their race and equipped their crossbowmen with heavier individual crossbows.