Chapter 424: Industrial Refinement
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Qingzhou.
After intense disputes, Li Wei angrily signed a trade agreement for one thousand naval cannons.
According to the agreement, each cannon was priced at twenty thousand taels, totaling twenty million taels for all one thousand. This twenty million taels would be paid with three hundred large merchant ships, two hundred medium merchant ships, and twenty thousand slave craftsmen from shipyards. Qingzhou would assign personnel to select these ships and craftsmen.
After meeting with Li Wei last time, Xiao Ming had drafted this agreement. Li Wei immediately sent messengers to Lin’an with urgency, covering eight hundred li.
Then the Chu King sent word, instructing Li Wei to firmly negotiate but ultimately accept Xiao Ming’s terms. Naturally, Li Wei informed Xiao Ming of this bottom line.
Thus, the quarrel between the governor and Li Wei was merely a performance staged by Xiao Ming and Li Wei for the Chu King’s sake. After receiving the agreement, perhaps out of distrust, the Chu King specially sent the manor’s steward to oversee matters.
“Envoy Li, this time we have suffered losses. If not for the fact that we are all subjects of the Great Yu Empire, we wouldn’t have signed this agreement. After all, one thousand cannons will severely impact our own artillery production,” Pang Yukun was still acting the part.
Li Wei snorted coldly, “Large merchant ships cost thirty thousand taels each, medium ones ten thousand taels each. Qingzhou really knows how to bargain. Selling ships at these prices is a loss for us. Humph, we’re leaving.”