Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

After leaving Ying Country, Carl was not in a hurry to leave Europe. In fact, he still had other tasks assigned to him by Sun Tong.

There are nearly 25,000 islands in the entire Nantai region. Excluding those that are not suitable for human habitation, the remaining islands are basically scattered in the hands of seven or eight countries, among which Yingguo and Gaul have the largest number.

Originally, Sun Tong was considering letting Carl go to Gaul after the deal between Huayou Company and Ying Country was completed to see if he could buy some islands from Gaul.

Especially those islands close to Australia in the hands of Gaul.

Although these islands have low colonial value and a non-favorable geographical location, and cannot create much benefit in the hands of Gaul, these islands are of great help to Sun Tong in controlling the Nantai region.

Under normal circumstances, if Sun Tong wanted to buy such a large colony from Gaul, he would have to spend a lot of money.

But isn’t the current situation in Gaul abnormal?

In the last war, not only was the wealth accumulated by the Ying Kingdom over the years completely consumed, but the situation in Gaul was not much better either.

Especially since the end of the 'S1' season, the Gallic government has been doing 'big projects', and the money spent is even more mysterious. At this time, Sun Tong stepped forward to give money to Gaul. Unless the Gallic government is crazy, it will not refuse such a deal.

As expected, when Karl arrived in Gaul, he and his group received a warm welcome from the Gaul government.

Regarding Huayou Company's proposal to purchase Gaul's colony in Nantai, although the Gaolu government did not agree immediately out of modesty, when Carl saw the expressions on the faces of the other government officials, he immediately knew that there was something to talk about.

In fact, the day after Carl and his team arrived in Gaul, the government sent a special team to discuss this matter with Carl.

At this time, the news about the breakdown of negotiations between Huayou Company and the Ying government had already spread from Ying country. When people learned that the Ying government planned to sell those broken places for 10 billion pounds, all governments were astonished by the Ying government's generosity.

What are you thinking? You dare to ask for 10 billion pounds. You don't treat money as money. Does your government have a net income of 10 billion pounds a year?

"Mr. Karl, please rest assured that we Gauls are not those greedy people. We only make money that we know. The list you gave records a total of 765 islands, and nearly half of them are uninhabitable. I have received instructions from the Prime Minister that the Gaul government can give these islands to you for free, so what we have to discuss next is the transaction price of the remaining half of the islands."

With the example of Yingguo, Gaul will naturally learn a lesson. After all, it is just a trade of a bunch of free occupied islands, which is a no-cost business for them. So as long as the price offered by Huayou Company is not too excessive, they will try their best to make this deal happen.

"Thank you for your hospitality, Mr. Alphonse. I think I have sensed your sincerity. Now let's talk about the value of these islands."

"I wonder what price Mr. Karl is willing to offer for these islands?"

Alphonse was also panicking. He was unwilling to take on the task of negotiation at first, but since he had no one above him, the task of negotiation finally fell on him.

Ever since the negotiations began, he has been acting very cautiously, fearing that he might scare people away.

It is precisely for this reason that he acts so pretentious in front of Karl. After all, how much he earns is the country's business. He has to consider his political career, right?

"Six hundred million dollars, I wonder if you can accept this price?"

For the first quotation, Carl naturally tried to make it as low as possible.

In this transaction with Gaul, although the colonies he wanted to buy were not as many as those from the Ying Kingdom, there were islands such as Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, so the reserve price offered by Sun Tong was still very high.

Not to mention the value of the islands being traded, the area of ​​sea involved in this transaction alone is enough to make Sun Tong offer a high price for Gaul.

"make a deal!"

"what??"

When he heard the word "deal", Carl thought he had heard it wrong.

Shouldn't the next step be bargaining between the two parties? Why did Alphonse and the people in his negotiation team agree to the deal so hastily?

In fact, this was also a misunderstanding that Sun Tong and Karl each fell into.

The reason why Sun Tong offered such a high price for these islands was because he subconsciously thought of future generations and subconsciously believed that these islands were of great value, so he offered an extremely high price.

As for Carl, he is not a time traveler, so he naturally would not consider things in the future. The reason why he felt that the price he offered was not high was because he was influenced by the Yingguo people.

Although the area of ​​the colony he traded with the Gauls this time was not as large as that of the Ying country, it was not small either, especially the sea area included in it, which was terrifyingly vast. If such a large colony was replaced by the Ying countrymen, it is estimated that the price would be one billion US dollars, so Carl subconsciously regarded the group of Gauls opposite as the Ying countrymen.

As for why the Gallic negotiation team agreed to the deal so hastily, it was because the Gallic government had set the floor price for the deal long ago. In their view, they would have made a fortune if the islands could be sold for 25 billion francs, and billion francs is only million U.S. dollars.

Now that Carl had raised the price to 600 million right from the start, Alphonse had to agree to avoid unnecessary complications.

As I said, the group of people sent by the Gallic government to negotiate this time are all a bunch of unlucky guys. For them, it is already good enough if they can avoid making mistakes in this negotiation. Now there is an opportunity in front of them that can not only enable them to complete the task assigned by the top leaders but also allow them to make meritorious deeds. No one is willing to complain.

Six hundred million US dollars, the government has already made a lot of money from the blast furnace at this price. If they really raise the price recklessly, and Carl is scared away, then every one of them will be in trouble!