"Well, I know the difficulties that General Li mentioned, so we don't plan to let General Li make this trip in vain. As long as you can get the Pope's suit back completely, we will pay the corresponding reward." Luca said happily. said.
"Then I don't know what kind of reward Mr. Luca is prepared to pay."
"I wonder what General Li is interested in? Crystal cores or gold?"
"Haha, I'm not fighting for myself, so neither the crystal core nor the gold is what I want." Li Yuanhong said lightly.
"Oh? Then what kind of reward does General Li plan to accept?"
"I heard before that there are antiques lost by China in the Pope's treasury. If these antiques are exchanged, I think I don't mind taking a risk."
"This...then how does General Li plan to exchange it? You can't just exchange all the antiques for a set of Pope's clothes!"
"Of course not. Any exchange must be based on equality, and I won't open my mouth like a lion. In this way, one piece of clothing can be exchanged for ten pieces of antiques from our country." Li Yuanhong said.
"No problem!" Luca agreed without any hesitation. In their pope's treasury, there were hundreds and nearly a thousand pieces of Chinese antiques. Taking out dozens of them was nothing at all.
"But the antiques you exchange must be approved by me. As long as there is a problem with one item, our transaction will fall through." Li Yuanhong said with a serious face this time. The reason why Li Yuanhong said this was mainly because Li Yuanhong was afraid that the other party's less valuable cultural relics would be used as evidence. You must know that any object from the Qing Dynasty can be considered an antique, but most of the cultural relics from the Qing Dynasty cannot be considered as national treasures. Two words.
"Well... okay, I'll try my best to communicate with His Majesty the Pope." This time Luca didn't agree, but spoke in an official tone.
Li Yuanhong smiled slightly and said: "I believe the Pope will definitely agree. After all, no matter how valuable foreign cultural relics are, they are not as meaningful as this set of Pope's clothes. Mr. Luca, don't you think so?"
"What General Li said is, when will General Li plan to take back the Pope's clothes?" Luca asked, indicating that he had acquiesced in Li Yuanhong's words.
"That group of zombies is under our surveillance, but they have now merged with a group of about 200,000 zombies, so it is more troublesome. In this way, you go back and communicate with the Pope, and I will also speed up preparations. Once your side With a clear reply, I will start to deal with those zombies."
The main reason why Li Yuanhong said this was that if Li Yuanhong said that he had taken the Pope's clothes now, his bargaining chips would be reduced invisibly, so Li Yuanhong would not do anything to lower his chips.
"Okay, I'll go back and report to His Majesty the Pope." Luca agreed immediately.
Li Yuanhong thought that Luka would stand up and say goodbye when he got here, but he didn't know that Luka was sitting there without moving.
"Mr. Luca, is there anything else?"
"Oh, that's it. On the way here, I saw many survivors. They are now plagued by hunger. I wonder if your country can lend a helping hand to help these poor people of God."
"Oh, this is what you are talking about. In fact, I also talked about this with the Italian Foreign Minister just now. However, there are nearly 100,000 refugees here. It is not an easy task to provide supplies for so many people. !" Li Yuanhong sighed helplessly.
In fact, Luka also heard the discussion between the Foreign Minister and Li Yuanhong. The whole process can be said to have been passed by without going into depth at all. After all, it is not a small amount to provide daily necessities for nearly 100,000 people, and Li Yuanhong did not want to do this without any compensation. Under the circumstances, raising a group of idlers.
"Does General Li have any plans to sell supplies?" In Luka's view, the reason why Li Yuanhong is in such trouble is that it is not easy to transport supplies. You know, it is the end of the world, and transportation has almost been cut off. It would be a thousand difficulties to transport supplies once. There are many obstacles, but Luka doesn't know that Li Yuanhong has the secret trump card of the teleportation array. Tens of thousands of tons of materials can be teleported from China to Europe in just a few seconds.
"As long as there is a suitable price, it is not impossible to sell supplies." Li Yuanhong never refuses anything that can make money.
"But I advise you, it's best not to provide simple rescue, otherwise when those people outside get used to your rescue, and when you no longer rescue, they will become irrational lunatics." Li Yuanhong gave the other party a suggestion.
"Oh? I wonder if General Li has any good suggestions?"
"In China, we never believe in getting something for nothing. Only when the other party has put in corresponding labor, will the corresponding reward be given. Only this kind of rescue will last long. Now that the city has just been taken back, I think people need to clean up and renovate the place. It's a lot. You can exchange the reward for food, which may be better." Li Yuanhong has managed a city, and he is very clear about the consequences of bad people who let refugees go, considering that the other party is his business partner. On the Internet, Li Yuanhong gave a suggestion.
"Okay, I will remember General Li's words." Luka thanked him very sincerely.
Next, Luca discussed with Li Yuanhong the establishment of long-term contacts between the Vatican and China. However, due to various unrealistic requirements of the Holy See in the past, especially the request to intervene in the religious affairs of China, the two countries have been unable to reach an agreement. Opinion.
Although Luka proposed the intention to establish diplomatic relations this time, many things were not accomplished overnight, and they were just mentioned and passed over. Li Yuanhong himself was too lazy to talk about this kind of thing, so he would just ask the No. 2 leader to send someone over.
Luca then left. Luca had gained a lot from this trip. It is estimated that the Pope would be satisfied with such results.
After that, Li Yuanhong repaired for another two days. On the third day, he finally received the reply from the Pope brought by Luca. The Pope basically agreed to Li Yuanhong’s request, and also specially approved a church restoration plan. This plan is to recruit those The survivors will repair the church that has been abandoned for many years and even has grass growing in some places. Those who work will be paid with food, and the houses around the church will also become the homes of these workers to ensure that these The safety of those who contribute to the church.
Of course, the church does not have that much food now, so the source of food is to buy it from Li Yuanhong.
"How much food do you plan to ask for?" Li Yuanhong asked.
"We plan to hire about five hundred people and spend a year repairing the church. In this way, you can sell us food for six hundred people for a month." Luca said.
"Oh? Why don't you hire a thousand or more people at a time? You must know that there are more than one or two thousand idle people in Rome now."
"We also want to hire more people, but this will not only make the management more troublesome during the repair, you know, in the cathedral, any tile is worth a lot of money. Of course, there are many people at this time. If anything is lost, it will be an undue loss to the Holy See.
In addition, the food supply for five hundred people per month is already a large amount. I am afraid that if there are more than one person, General Li's material supply will also have problems. "
"Hahaha, it turns out I'm afraid that I don't have enough supplies here! Don't worry, Mr. Luca, we have enough supplies here. It shouldn't be a problem to supply food for at least 10,000 to 20,000 people for a year."
Luka didn't expect that Li Yuanhong had so many supplies, but he didn't see any in the military camp.
"If Luca wants it, whether it's canned food for easy storage or rice noodles, we can provide it." Li Yuanhong added.
"Great, let's do this. How about you give us 10,000 boxes of cans and ten tons of white flour first?"
"No problem, but what does Mr. Luca plan to pay with?"
"Crystal core, is that okay?" Luca asked.
"No problem!" Li Yuanhong replied with a smile. This is another deal. Although the first batch is not very large, Li Yuanhong believes that this is just the beginning. The next step is to discuss the price. When Luca heard Li Yuanhong’s quotation, he was simply shocked. The price was simply too cheap. In Luca’s view, this price was a huge loss. Could it be that Li Yuanhong was reselling it privately? military rations, thereby lining their own pockets, otherwise the price would not be 10% cheaper than the official price in their camp. However, it would be a bastard not to take advantage of an advantage, and Luca would not push the advantage out, so he set the price in one fell swoop without even engaging in a bargaining process.
When Luka thought he had taken advantage of it, Li Yuanhong thought to himself: "These idiots, my price is twice as high as that in China. I didn't expect them to agree immediately!"
After both parties are satisfied that the first agreement has been reached, then comes the key issue.
"General Li, I wonder when you will start attacking those zombies? If possible, I hope I can visit them on site by then."
"It's not urgent. We are ready. Since you are here today, we can launch an attack on the zombies tomorrow."
"Okay, then I will be here on time tomorrow morning!" Luca did not stay here for long. After saying that, he stood up and left. He wanted to go back and inform His Majesty the Pope of the results of today's food transaction. This is a major political achievement.
Luca arrived early the next morning, with a convoy behind him. However, this convoy was not for participating in the war, but for pulling food. In fact, ten tons of white flour could be loaded on a large truck. Unfortunately, after the apocalypse, it is difficult to find such big trucks, and some civilian vehicles can only be used to haul goods, so there are only a few of them. In this way, the convoy looks rather impressive.
However, when the convoy arrived at Li Yuanhong's military camp, it was directly blocked by the army, and Luca was directly picked up by Li Yuanhong in an armored vehicle. As for the food, there were many large trucks in Li Yuanhong's transport convoy. Just call any truck and transport it all. After leaving, as for the cars Luca brought, they became the escorts of the big trucks, which was very nondescript.