Crossing the spy war, my code name is God of Wealth

Chapter 241 The eldest son disturbs the situation

Negotiation is actually very boring.

Chen Yang listened to his subordinates speaking professional terms that he couldn't understand while trying to act very professionally.

Even if he didn't say a word, he had to show an expression that I could understand, which really made it difficult for him.

The local experts exchanged sharp words with each other over the purity of the iron ore, the distribution of mine resources, the difficulty of mining, the difficulty of engineering production, etc.

The two translators were very busy. They had to translate Japanese into English for each other, and at the same time translate the other party's opinions into Japanese to give feedback to the experts.

On the contrary, Chen Yang was much more relaxed. Although he didn't understand the professional terms, he still understood the general content of the argument.

To put it bluntly, this kind of negotiation is similar to bargaining in the market.

I said that your iron ore does not meet the quality standards, and he countered that the purity of the ore is very high and is many times higher than the existing ore in Japan.

I told them that the resources here are not as many as reported, and they analyzed their advantages from another perspective.

After listening for a long time, Chen Yang finally understood the true meaning of negotiation.

That is, if the facts are in your favor, talk about the facts; if the facts are not in your favor, talk about the rules.

When the facts and rules are not in your favor, muddy the waters...

This is not a negotiation at all, it's clearly the ruffians playing dirty.

The two sides argued back and forth for more than three hours, and finally, they reached a consensus on their bottom line.

The Japanese side was willing to contract the iron ore development rights from the British Empire at an annual fee of 100,000 yen, equivalent to 10,000 pounds sterling.

The British side only provided the venue and did not take care of anything else. The Japanese side was not allowed to form armed forces in the territory, which would pose a threat to the management of the British Empire.

Of course, this is just the contract on paper. It is not so cheap to contract an iron ore mine with a storage volume of over 100 million pounds for 10,000 pounds a year.

The real contract was the private negotiation between Chen Yang and Lehman.

Regarding the rights of the British Empire fleet and merchant ships to sail in China's territorial waters and inland rivers.

Seeing that both parties had stopped arguing and acquiesced to the current negotiation results, Sir Lehman stood up with a smile and prepared for the next negotiation with Chen Yang.

Just at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the meeting room door.

Two familiar figures appeared at the door.

"Hello, Sir Lehman," Chen Yang frowned for no reason when he saw the figure.

He knew those two people. One of them was the lawyer he had met at Hongqiao Airport before and who accompanied Sir Lehman to China.

His name seems to be Simon.

The other one was an old acquaintance, the secretary of the eldest son of the Kong family, Shen Zhenbai.

Sir Lehman glanced at the other party and said calmly: "Mr. Simon, didn't you say that you had other things to do and refused to be our attorney?"

"What are you doing here at this time?"

Simon said seriously: "Sir Lehman, I do have another mission and have to give up my cooperation with you."

“I am here today to propose a cooperation agreement to you as the representative lawyer of the United Steel Group (UDF).”

"We and the Seven Star Company represented by Mr. Shen will build a large steel mill in Yunnan Province."

"At present, we are in urgent need of a batch of iron ore with extremely high content."

"So, I am willing to pay three times more than Japan in exchange for the iron ore development rights in your hands."

Chen Yang was slightly stunned. This man was not the representative lawyer of Sir Lehman. How did he become the lawyer of American Steel at this time? He also wanted to make steel in Yunnan Province. Please, where did the steel raw materials come from in that damn place?

If you told me that you were making steel in Baotou, I might actually believe it.

Chen Yang subconsciously glanced at Sir Lehman, thinking secretly in his heart, this lawyer suddenly made such a fuss, could it be that Sir Lehman asked him to act and deliberately wanted to raise the price?

That's not possible. Everyone knows that the apparent negotiation price is just a formality. After all, the bottom price still depends on the negotiation between Sir Lehman and Chen Yang.

Moreover, Chen Yang has already given clear instructions that the right to exercise the British fleet and trading company will be exchanged for the right to develop iron ore.

This is what is truly valuable. As for the small details in the contract, they are just for others to see.

Thinking of this, Chen Yang couldn't help but look at them with interest, wanting to see what kind of plane they were working on...

Sir Lehman looked at him coldly and said calmly: "Mr. Simon, you seem to have violated your professional code of conduct as a lawyer."

"In theory, you cannot disclose the contents of my negotiation to a third party."

Simon waved his hands and said, "Sir Lehman, you misunderstood. We already knew the price given by the Japanese representative last Thursday."

"I haven't come to you because I've been waiting for the U.S. Steel headquarters to issue me the authorization document."

"I have now obtained full authorization from the United States Steel Corporation, so I took the liberty of coming to your door."

“We are sincere.”

Chen Yang couldn't bear to listen any longer.

"Mr. Simon, are you doing business in a way that is a little unruly?"

"Mr. Chen, please don't misunderstand me. We are competing in a legitimate business. I am not breaking the rules."

"As far as I know, you haven't officially signed the contract yet, which means that the deal between you hasn't been completed yet."

"In that case, can we consider it as fair competition?"

You want to compete with me fairly? What kind of place is this? How dare you say such a thing?

By the way, is the head on your head just to make you look taller?

"Mr. Chen, I assure you, I definitely didn't invite this guy to mess with you." Sir Lehman didn't even pay attention to Simon, but hurriedly explained to Chen Yang.

"I can see that this guy seems to have some problems with his brain." Chen Yang said with a sneer.

Sir Lehman breathed a sigh of relief and suggested, "Just in case, let's sign the mining development contract first."

"You can't sign it, Sir Lehman. Please wait a moment. I can offer you 500,000 pounds and only require eight years to develop the mine," Simon became anxious before Chen Yang could say anything.

However, Lehman turned a deaf ear and signed the agreement directly.

Please, he now very much doubts whether Simon has brought this brain with him.

Do you think it is reasonable to pay tens of thousands of pounds a year for an iron ore with a reserve of over 100 million tons? If Lehman was so easy to fool, how could he have served as a senior official in the asset management department for 20 years...

If the businesses in China did not need the right to navigate freely in Chinese waters to prevent their supplies from being seized by the Japanese on some pretext, why would they sign such an unreasonable contract?

Simon thought that offering a price five times higher than the Japanese reserve price would definitely satisfy Lehman. What was he thinking?

Frankly speaking, 100 million tons of iron ore would not be too much to cost even 5 million pounds.

"Come here, arrest these two people and interrogate them thoroughly to find out where they got the information from." Chen Yang said in Japanese.

Simon and Shen Zhenbai didn't understand Japanese, but they understood what it meant the next moment. A bunch of people rushed in and tied them up without saying anything...