Zaichun vaguely felt that this time the master was using a practical model to teach him some truths that can only be understood but not expressed.

Xiao Letian and Duke Newcastle were facing each other several times, and the Duke of England was almost about to be shattered by Xiao Letian's attitude.

The Duke of Newcastle is a top British nobleman. At the ceremony of the king, he could stand beside the king and help him hold the gloves and scepters. Such a big figure with status and status is backed by the top British national strength. You can imagine how authoritative this person is.

If you have to make a horizontal comparison, the Duke of Newcastle is no less than Prince Gong and Prince Chun. If you rank powerful figures around the world, then the Duke of Newcastle will definitely be able to defeat Prince Gong, the Japanese devils with the strong national strength of the British Empire.

If Xiao Letian considers the problem according to the inertial thinking of the Chinese officialdom, and does not give the duke face, and bargain with all his weight, then the duke should have been furious and then used his own power to suppress Xiao Letian.

How can an equal negotiation be conducted if power is not equal? ​​Even if negotiations are made, we will never tolerate opponents' refusal.

But something that made people surprised the scenes. The Duke not only did not get angry, but instead brought it back again and again on the verge of anger. He could not continue several negotiations, but in the end he could still find a new point of appeal and continue to argue.

In a daze, Zaichun recalled his wrong views on the two Opium Wars before. At that time, his thoughts were basically instilled by his masters and courtiers.

In the Qing Dynasty at that time, the explanation of the two Opium Wars was nothing more than the British's strong ships and cannons, while the British's greedy, shameless and unreasonable.

At that time, Zai Chun also thought so. Everyone had a very simple value, that is, I had the right to not play with you!

This idea is very simple and very simple, and it was the common attitude of officials and intellectuals at that time. In their eyes, how could there be such an unreasonable thing in the world?

My Qing Dynasty is rich in resources and I don’t want to open customs to do business with you British. This is our power? Why are you going to be beaten just because I don’t want to play with you? A war is going to break out. What about you British?

Besides, isn’t Guangzhou’s Thirteen Tour open? You want tea, silk, porcelain, pig bristles, rhubarbs... We don’t want to sell these goods to you, why do we have to force us to open all the coastal cities?

Our own Qing Dynasty, our own home, isn’t it natural for anyone to come in?

This principle is really impeccable, but can this seemingly reasonable truth really work? Today Zaichun finally had serious doubts about his previous views.

Recalling some historical allusions that the master once told, coupled with this sudden commercial negotiation, Zaichun's heart seemed to have a shell suddenly shattered, and with a bang, something that was incomprehensible surged out.

"So...it turns out that business is so natural and natural! We thought it was wrong before, but we really thought it was wrong..."

Zaichun suddenly realized that he finally understood the biggest mistakes made by various dynasties since ancient times. So many emperors and generals thought that business behavior was controllable, succumbed to power, and could not escape the palms of these big men.

The policy of suppressing commerce, as well as the last ranking of the four civil servants, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, all gave the emperors and ministers an illusion that business is completely controllable.

Wrong! A big mistake. Today Zaichun realized that business is a natural thing and cannot be controlled by the iron cage of power.

The more suppressed power is, the ultimate reason it will only lead to abnormal business behavior and will not disappear.

The Qing Dynasty closed its customs itself, leaving behind a small hole of thirteen lines. This means that the Qing Dynasty's power can control the ocean trade between Europe and China?

This is really a big deal! The commercial exchanges between Europe and the Qing Dynasty have never stopped. Even in the war era, European ships could still obtain Chinese goods.

Ships of porcelain, satin, tea, bristles, medicinal materials... a large amount of Chinese goods were pulled back by European merchants, but while China exported countless goods, it only purchased a small amount of European goods.

Only glass, clocks, and a few Western luxury goods can earn money from the Qing Dynasty, but compared with the huge amount of Chinese goods exports, this is a huge deficit.

The whole of Europe was obsessed with Eastern goods, but the East had no interest in European industrial products, which caused a serious outflow of precious metals.

A large part of the gold and silver plundered from Africa and North America flowed into the Chinese people, which made Europe a foolish wife who made wedding dresses.

In this natural commercial behavior, the two sides are inequality, and the huge deficit is suppressed by European countries. However, China's goods cannot be cut off because there is no replacement production base.

The Qing Dynasty could not see this situation, nor could they understand it, so they were immersed in the halo of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire and were contented.

The conflicts accumulate deeper and deeper, but the Qing Dynasty closed the negotiation window for resolving the conflict. When the deficit cancer is so big that it has affected Britain's national security, and when any door to peaceful resolution is locked, what can we do without war?

Zaichun finally realized today. He now realized that there were two wars for opium dumping. In fact, the core root was that the East and the West did not conduct major negotiations such as today's master and duke.

This is the case with problems and contradictions. If you face them face them, don’t evade or suppress them, talk openly and quarrel and fight, you will naturally develop a balance point and a point that everyone can accept in conflicts and confrontations.

Didn’t Xiao Letian always say “The so-called negotiations and treaties are the most perfect form, that is, both sides curse and feel unhappy when they are unhappy, but they are willing to carry out the execution after returning to the ground… Only such a cooperative relationship can last forever!”

Europeans understand this truth, but Xiao Letian understand it too. Unfortunately, the Qing Dynasty did not understand it, and those corrupt scholars did not understand it!

"Ok, my dear Yuan, you are such a master of negotiations. I really admire you so much. Just follow the conditions just now. I hope our cooperation can continue for a hundred years and a thousand years. Cheers!"

After an entire hour of verbal confrontation, the Duke and Xiao Letian finally reached a final agreement. The two sides raised their wine glasses and clinked together, and a food business empire spanning Europe and Asia kicked off.

At the same time, Zai Chun also realized that he repeatedly chewed this sentence in his heart, "What makes sense may not work, but what makes sense may definitely make sense... but that reason is not necessarily what you want!"
Chapter completed!