Struggle in the Steam Age

"Ah, I haven't drank it for a long time." After taking out a few pieces of candy from the space bag and stirring them well, Lawrence took a big sip, letting the mellow taste spread from the tip of his tongue to the root of his tongue. "This taste is indeed very good, and it is far better than the kind of milk tea I bought on the street in that world."

"It's inevitable." At this time, the little puppet also knelt on the table in a very ladylike manner, drinking the milk tea in its own cup in a more elegant posture than Lawrence. "Whether there is milk or tea leaves in the milk tea you bought before is a problem. Except for sugar, it is probably all flavor. How can it compare with my pure natural milk tea?"

After drinking the milk tea, it was getting late, and a tauren knocked on the door to inform them to have breakfast. So Nora put away the pile of things that had just been piled on the table into the astral plane, and the two of them went out for breakfast. In the temporary dining room, he also met those members of the mission who seemed a little dazed.

Although the quality of wine brewed by the tauren with honey, cassava and some wild fruits is indeed good, and the alcohol content is not as high as distilled wine. But because the atmosphere at the bonfire last night was really good, and the Tauren people were really enthusiastic enough. So some hangovers were almost inevitable this morning with everyone drinking quite a bit.

Fortunately, the tauren shaman has some special herbs that can solve this problem, and in order not to affect the daytime negotiations and work, all the members of the mission who drank alcohol yesterday except Lawrence drank this dark green like a Potion of lump mud. Judging from their wrinkled faces, the potion should not taste very good.

What followed was two days of small-scale individual contact work. Lawrence negotiated with representatives of the tauren tribe who were relatively close to here and had arrived in time, and reached some simple cooperation agreements. At the same time, a temporary training class was opened to cultivate the witch doctors and shamans of the tauren.

This time reflects the importance of Lawrence bringing doctors, veterinarians and agricultural technicians. For settlements of half-agricultural, half-fishing and hunting peoples like the tauren tribe, the knowledge these technicians have is very important to them, and can even be related to the life and death of a tribe.

At the same time, thanks to the help of these technicians, a large number of problems encountered by the tauren people were solved. In fact, many of the problems they encountered before have become less of a problem in the outside world, but because of their closed environment before, they do not know the changes outside, so they are still troubled by those simple problems.

On the other hand, they have indeed learned a lot in contact with human beings in history. It is a pity that a large part of the methods cannot be used after leaving foreign trade. For example, the medicines needed for malaria that are prevalent in this area are not available on the island, so even if you know how to treat it, you can't treat it according to those methods.

Three days later, the small classroom that Lawrence and the others had run stopped. This is not because they have finished teaching all the knowledge, but because all the tauren chiefs around have come together, and the official contact meeting between humans and tauren can finally be officially held.

The main goal of this meeting is for both parties to reach a comprehensive cooperation. After the previous mutual contact between the two parties, both humans and tauren have a certain understanding of each other. Therefore, both races eagerly hope to deepen cooperation with each other in order to promote the common development of both parties. In order to cooperate, both parties need to determine a lot of things in advance.

The good news is that both parties sincerely hope to cooperate with each other. Therefore, it seemed very smooth when reaching an agreement. Especially the tauren themselves belong to that kind of very honest race. When they say that the terms reach their bottom line, it will be true. They will not need to negotiate repeatedly like humans to find out where the other party's bottom line is.

Therefore, according to the different negotiating objects, Lawrence and his human delegation naturally adjusted their negotiation methods. The entire negotiation process quickly reduced to two sides taking turns asking their own questions and then saying yes or no. If you agree, record it, and if you disagree, you will re-propose your opinion in the next round.

At least 95% of the content of the discussion can be finally reached an agreement in two or three mutual compromises and concessions, and the remaining half is recorded and prepared for detailed negotiations or simply put some non-core disputes on hold for a while. We will talk about it after further cooperation.

Although everything went smoothly enough, the negotiations lasted for more than two days. When the last important issue was negotiated, everyone on both sides of the negotiating table breathed a sigh of relief. Human beings breathe a sigh of relief because although such negotiations are fast enough, the intensity is very high, and sometimes it takes a few minutes to decide on a matter. Therefore, during the previous negotiation process, everyone's nerves were tense, and now they can finally breathe a sigh of relief after the negotiation.

As for the tauren, they either fought against the goblins when they met, or it was enough to reach a verbal agreement after a simple negotiation with their compatriots. It is too complicated for them to look at the piles of very detailed planning documents one by one and ponder the contents.

"I swear that I have never seen such a complicated content to be discussed in my life for more than 70 years." After the negotiation, as the leader and representative of the group of tauren, the man with a pair of huge sickle-like horns, The tauren old shaman with white hair all over his body smiled and said to Lawrence, "Fortunately, the spirit of nature told me that all these contracts are fair, so I only need to analyze the superficial meaning of these words."

"Of course, the reason we want to negotiate is because we want to reach an agreement that can benefit both of us, instead of allowing one party to benefit and the other to suffer." Lawrence's words came from the heart. A retainer suggested to him a more favorable agreement, but Lawrence directly rejected it.

On the one hand, the three views created by his education in the previous life made it difficult for him to make a fraudulent agreement for innocent people. On the other hand, he subconsciously felt that since the tauren was on this island, they were his own people, and it was definitely a short-sighted thing to face their own people's cheating and abduction.

And now Lawrence feels very lucky, because he really did not expect that this group of tauren could contact the spirit of nature, and it was impossible to guess that although they could not understand the important content of these contracts, they could pass some kind of supernatural The power of testing the rationality of these contracts.

The mutually beneficial contract that Lawrence prepared before has paid off well. Even if this group of tauren were not able to fully understand the contract given by Lawrence before. But they now believe that Lawrence is a reliable human being, and are determined to reach a comprehensive cooperation with the group of humans represented by Lawrence.

"It's just that I have a worry now, that is how we can achieve mutual benefit." The tauren chief said a little worried. "Our tauren have too few commodities for sale, so I am a little worried that there will be various problems between the two sides due to the imbalance of trade in the future."

"You're right. It's definitely impossible to achieve a trade balance between our two sides simply relying on your current labor export and a small amount of timber export." Lawrence nodded and said, "But now we have found a new one from you. Once the product is developed, it will not only satisfy the trade balance between us, but also make you rich."