Chapter 402 Negotiation
After breakfast, Cui Jian drove out of the villa. The place he was going to was an Orthodox church. Most Orthodox believers are in Eastern Europe, and many criminal gangs in Europe are from Eastern Europe. Some people asked, where do so many criminal gangs and white gangs come from? Why don't we see them normally?
This kind of thing should be viewed from a small perspective. For example, there are girls in KTV who accompany guests to drink for love. Is there anyone behind the girls? The answer is almost certain, these people want to get a share of the money the girls make. In an area, go to a few more KTVs and find more girls who spread love, and you will find that the girls in this area can move around and are in a unified management network. The area is commonly known as the territory. In order to protect the interests of your own territory, or to seize the interests of other people's territory, it is impossible to use legal weapons. Most territory disputes can be resolved through negotiations, but the basis of the negotiation needs to be backed by hard power.

This forces the region to recruit violent thugs. Imagine, you don't have thugs, I have thugs, how can your girl love and dedicate herself? So how many thugs should be recruited? It's better to have a standard. Who sets this standard? Naturally, the person who has more power.

Some people joked that behind every princess stands a criminal gang. This statement is not quite accurate. To be more precise, it should be the White Gang. Most professional criminal gangs have several characteristics. First, they are wholesalers, not retailers, whether it is weapons, flour, women or other things. Second, they only focus on a certain business. Although flour merchants will buy weapons, they will not engage in arms trading. Weapons dealers will buy flour, but they will not participate in flour trading. Third, they almost always have desperate thugs.

Cui Jian wanted to meet the boss of a criminal gang in Berlin. It was called a den, but it was actually a base. It was very clean and there was almost no evidence of crime. Weapons, flour and other goods were not stored in the base.

Cui Jian can be considered as a person who grew up in the United States. He is a non-believer, but not an atheist. It's just that the Seven Killers know that their hands are full of blood and are not accepted by the gods in the world. They know their final destination. Therefore, they don't pay much attention to God or Satan in their daily lives. Cui Jian goes to church very few times, and almost every time he goes, he kills people.

Cui Jian changed into a set of Nordic style clothes: down jacket and jeans. The so-called Nordic style is to wear what is comfortable for yourself, regardless of what others think. Many Nordic women's daily clothes are not very refined, and they rarely wear heavy makeup.

The car stopped at the parking lot next to the church. Cui Jian got out of the car and looked around. The environment here was quite quiet. Walking forward along the stone road, to the bottom of the church steps, a burly man in bodyguard uniform reached out to stop Cui Jian. He didn't say anything, waiting for Cui Jian to speak first.

Cui Jian took out a business card from his jacket pocket and handed it over. The big man took the card, looked at it, walked aside, and whispered something on his collar intercom. Cui Jian wanted to tell him that he didn't know many foreign languages, and there was no way he would learn an Eastern European language.

The big man came back, raised his hands, motioning Cui Jian to raise his hands, then searched Cui Jian, took out his cell phone, cigar, and lighter, and returned them to Cui Jian after checking, making a gesture of invitation.

Cui Jian went up the steps, and two strong men pushed open the heavy church door. In the deep church, a large candle flickered at the end, and a woman was sitting there.

Cui Jian took a deep breath and walked towards the woman. The woman stood up, made a gesture of invitation, and led the way. Through the corridor, he arrived at the side of the church. There were a dozen young men training in the open-air playground on the side. The instructor yelled into the ear of a young man. The young man was shirtless, looking forward, and answered the instructor's questions loudly.

Suddenly, the young man roared, pulled out the dagger from his pants, and rushed towards the straw man more than ten meters away like crazy, stabbing the straw man with the dagger as if to vent his anger. The instructor seemed very satisfied and praised him.

"Pritz." The English spoken by the woman who led the way was not very standard, but the smart Cui Jian still understood that it meant please.

Cui Jian entered a stone-walled room. A very beautiful and sexy blonde was sitting behind a desk. She was about thirty-five years old, at the peak of her life. The beauty tilted her head slightly and looked Cui Jian up and down, with a very aggressive look in her eyes.

Look at you! I've killed a dozen of your kind.

Cui Jian was upset, but he also knew that there were always some criminal gangs that would not negotiate business with you right away, but would rather compete with you for momentum. There were many desperate criminals in these criminal gangs, and they did not necessarily put profit first. If you angered them, they would not only not do business with you, but they might also make you unable to return home.

Duanmu doesn't like to do business with Eastern European gangs. Their credit is very bad. On the surface, they speak in a high-sounding manner, as if they can die for you immediately. In addition, Eastern European gangs have another characteristic. They are not good at actively looking for business. Most of them sit on certain resources and wait for customers to come to discuss business.

Duanmu couldn't come in person, he might be taken hostage, or he might be killed. These gangs have smart people, but they lack foresight. The members rely on muscle instead of brains. Relatively speaking, Cui Jian has no value, kidnapping Cui Jian or killing Cui Jian will not change the Special Service Knights' investment in this operation.

"Nadezhda." The woman walked out of the desk and motioned Cui Jian to sit on a rattan chair nearby: "You can call me Nadezhda."

Unlike the common tea table and sofa arrangement, the reception area here has two rattan chairs facing the same direction, with a small tea table in the middle, on which boiled water is placed. The host and the guest face the same direction, looking at the holy image carved on the wall. In this way, the host and the guest can see the holy image at all times, and can also feel the gaze of the holy image. As for the psychological effect, Cui Jian didn't know, because it had no effect on him.

Of course, an important reason for facing the portrait is that the Orthodox Church emphasizes the worship of icons.

"My name is Luo Da." Cui Jian said, "Has someone contacted you?"

“Of course.” Ri Da poured tea and pushed the cup in front of Cui Jian with his fingers: “But he didn’t say anything specific.”

Cui Jian said: "We need to send a few people to Vanuatu in a short time."

Rida asked, "How many people?"

Cui Jian replied: "Four people."

Rida asked: "Are there any people with disabilities?"

Cui Jian asked cautiously: "Why do you ask this question?"

Rida replied calmly: "Because it requires special care."

Cui Jian nodded, thinking that what Ri Da said made sense: "There is an old man whose legs and feet are not very convenient."

"Any requests?" asked Rida.

Cui Jiandao: "As soon as possible, steadily and safely."

Rida flipped open the tablet, clicked on the world map, zoomed in, and said, "My suggestion is to take a ship to Argentina, and then take a plane to Vanuatu. We have been operating this route for a long time, and it is definitely safe. Let me ask, when do you plan to leave?"

Cui Jian replied: "The sooner the better, it would be best if we could leave within three days."

Rida zoomed in on the map: "We can arrange a ship in Rotterdam, but you will need to find your own way from here to Rotterdam."

Cui Jian asked, "How do you know that the people we want to leave are here?" Rida said calmly, "It's obvious. Besides, our ship can only wait for you for 12 hours at most."

Cui Jian took out his phone and looked at the map. It takes 7-8 hours to drive from Berlin to Rotterdam. The other party set the time at 12 hours, which revealed that they had bad intentions. Ri Da wanted to control Cui Jian's itinerary.

Cui Jian: "Excuse me, can I make a phone call?"

Ri Da extended his hand and gestured for permission.

Cui Jian walked out the door, took out his cell phone, found a place where no one was around to contact Duanmu, and repeated what Ri Da had said. Ri Da, who was sitting quietly in the room making tea, was wearing earplugs, and could hear Cui Jian's clear voice through the earplugs. Ri Da was somewhat dissatisfied, because from the level of detail Cui Jian described, it could be seen that Cui Jian was a lackey without any decision-making power.

The next thing to discuss was time and remuneration. Rida offered 200 million US dollars, to be paid first. Cui Jian offered 50 US dollars, 10 in advance, and 10 after each person arrived at the destination. Rida was not angry, and the two sides negotiated for 5 minutes. Cui Jian had no negotiation skills, he just bit the price. Finally, Cui Jian contacted Duanmu, 100 million US dollars, 50 in advance, and 50 after the four people arrived at the destination.

预付款10万将在确定时间时打进日达指定账户，预付款40万将在上船前打进指定账户。崔建必须提前24小时确定时间，比如今天8点说明天8点走，船只将在鹿特丹等到明天下午8点。

After the discussion, Cui Jian and Rida had nothing to talk about. Rida didn't want to waste time on the henchmen, so he asked the woman who led the way to send Cui Jian out.

Cui Jian drove to the supermarket to buy food, and bought an electric frying pan by the way. At noon, he returned to the villa to eat instant noodles. He explained the situation to Duanmu, and Duanmu affirmed Cui Jian's opinion: "Yes, they want to intercept. But this is a good thing."

Gui Yi asked in confusion: "Why?"

Duanmu said: "They will focus on our way to Rotterdam. Cui Jian mentioned earlier that they use verbal abuse and pain to stimulate the anger of their subordinates, and let their subordinates exert the power of anger on the scarecrow. This method is very effective and can train desperate people. But it also shows that they are willing to give too little to their subordinates. Outsiders can easily recruit internal traitors by offering a price of tens of thousands of dollars."

Duanmu further explained: "Gui Yi, your monthly salary is 3,000 US dollars. Will you practice hard every day for this job?"

Gui Yi: “Of course not.”

Duanmu: "On the other hand, if your monthly salary is $30,000, will you study hard and work hard to keep this job?"

Gui Yi nodded: "Of course."

Duanmu said: "Does the company dislike employees who take the initiative to learn and work hard? No, they can only pay three thousand dollars. In this case, mental management is needed, which is common PUA. For example, they belittle college students and employees over 35 years old. They may even unite tacitly and convey information through the media and the Internet. They say that programmers over 35 years old are at the end of their rope and college students are everywhere."

Duanmu: "Whenever the economy is bad, there are a lot of such remarks. Because of the bad economy, there will be layoffs and salary cuts. Who will be laid off? Of course, the people with higher incomes in the company, that is, employees over 35 years old. The target of salary cuts is university interns. Gradually, people in these two groups will tacitly accept their position in the workplace, so they accept low salaries and work harder for it."

Duanmu: "There is no loyalty or sense of belonging in such companies. You can buy insider information with just a little money, not to mention the Eastern Europeans who have corruption in their blood. The news known by the Rida criminal group will soon be known to outsiders. So the criminals have two choices. One: attack the villa like a fortress. Two: ambush the convoy on the road that can be followed for 8 hours."

Duanmu said: "The cleverness of this plan is that we don't actively spread the news, but through information dug up from a third party. In comparison, the intelligence is more credible."

Gui Yi asked, "Isn't that a bit of boasting?"

Cui Jian explained: "That's not the case. Duanmu's brain is not capable of coming up with such a good plan. This was arranged by his boss."

Duanmu glared at Cui Jian: "Do you have any misunderstanding about me?"

Cui Jian reviewed all the plans Duanmu had made in his projects. Although they all sounded reliable, the chances of being attacked were still terribly high, so he answered seriously, "No."

Duanmu was heartbroken. It turned out that even the people around him didn't understand him. He could only blame himself for being too outstanding.

Duanmu then asked about the details of the conversation between Cui Jian and Rida, and said, "If it was me who went there, I would most likely be detained. We in the Knights have dealt with the Rida criminal group many times, and my most direct impression of them is that they have no spirit of contract. It's just that they have a lot of desperadoes and can get a lot of weapons. Every time we trade with them, we have to be very careful."

Cui Jian asked: "Should we follow him to Rotterdam?"

Duanmu replied: "Yes, because that is the best opportunity. Don't worry, I have a thorough plan."

Cui Jian was worried and asked, "Who made the plan?"

Duanmu rolled his eyes and replied, "Duolan." The old butler.

Cui Jian didn't believe it: "Duanmu, you have some plans to intrigue people, but the general plan is actually fine. For example, this matter was arranged very well, hiring red ants to deter mercenaries, and secretly crossing Chencang. But..."

Duanmu interrupted, "No buts. The Knights will protect us on both wings, and our two vehicles are bulletproof. I will also change the route temporarily. I have already thought of all the things that might happen on the road, so you just have to trust me."

Cui Jian looked at Gui Yi, and Gui Yi nodded: "I believe it." As a worker, you have a clear positioning. As long as the salary is high, whatever the boss says is the truth.

In this case, Cui Jian had nothing to say: "Okay."

(End of this chapter)