Chapter 116: You have to be able to reciprocate in a deal.

'How is little brother Zhou Ming? Did you meet the President in the Mir Palace today? How did your conversation go? How big a deal did he agree to do with us? Did he deliberately give us any difficult questions?'

As soon as Zhou Ming returned to his hotel room, he was immediately bombarded with questions. It turned out that Tong Gang and Li Cheng had been waiting here since Zhou Ming left, not taking a single step, because they were worried about the deal with the Murin Palace.

This time, before Ming could say anything, Peng stood up and said to Ming's rescue, 'Chairman Tong, Chairman Li, please calm down. Ming has only just returned and hasn't even had time to drink. It's a bit inhumane to interrogate him like this. How about I suggest that Ming sits down and rests for a while, have a cup of tea, and we talk slowly?'

Li Cheng and Tong Gang were both shrewd individuals. They understood that nothing could be done now that it had happened. No matter how anxious they were, it was useless. But when faced with such a lucrative deal, how could anyone not be tempted? Even if they were tycoons in the business world of Gangcheng, with billions of assets in their hands, as businessmen, they were naturally unable to refuse to make money, let alone profiteering.

You have to know that someone will do business with a 10% profit, capital will be tempted by a 50% profit, people will be crazy about a 100% profit, and someone will still do it even if it means being hanged at the gallows for a 300% profit.

This is the lure of profit. The more wealth there is, the more difficult it is to grow. As long as a person finds the right project, it is easy to turn 10,000 into 20,000, 20,000 into 40,000, and even 1 million into 2 million. But if someone can turn 10 billion into 20 billion a year, that person will shock the world.

Their current deal with the Murin Palace may not yet be up to scratch in terms of numbers, but his interests are growing exponentially, so how can Li Cheng and Tong Gang not be impatient?

'Chairman Tong, Chairman Li, don't worry, I already spoke with the President at the Murin Palace today.'

Zhou Ming said this first, then walked over to the sofa in the living room and sat down. Su Han poured him a cup of tea and brought it over. Zhou Ming took a sip before giving a general account of his conversation with Nikolaevich: 'That's it. The president agreed to my request. We will pay 2.3 billion new rubles for 100 million US dollars, of which 1.2 billion will be paid in new oil fields in Siberia.'

After hearing Zhou Ming's account, Li Cheng and Tong Gang were stunned. Even Du Peng and Su Han looked very strange, feeling a bit at a loss for words.

'Little brother Zhou Ming, is it really that simple? You just had a brief conversation with the president, and he agreed to the terms?' Li Cheng asked Zhou Ming, his tone of voice full of disbelief.

Zhou Ming nodded and said, 'Of course. That's how things turned out. Isn't this the result we hoped for the most?'

'This is indeed our most desired result, but the process was so smooth that it made people think they were watching a fairy tale, not a conversation with a national leader,' said Tong Gang.

It is said that when things go unusually well, there is usually something fishy going on. But in fact, in many cases, things going too well is not a good thing. For example, Zhou Ming is now facing Mr. Maita and Nikolaevich. One of them is an American financial warfare expert who has moved the wealth of a superpower without bloodshed, and the other is the supreme leader who has inherited the mantle of the superpower. These two people must be very smart, the kind of people who can sell people and still make them happily help them count money.

Now, faced with such a matter of mutual interest, they are both surprisingly agreeable, and the whole process has been incredibly smooth. This makes people suspicious.

If Zhou Ming had originally had a considerable degree of contact with them and had been following up and handling this matter all along, then their willingness to do so would be understandable. However, now Zhou Ming clearly had a conflict with Meta's Dota plan, and Mr. Meta had dealt with Zhou Ming's Clev Market. Nikolaevich still stood on Mr. Meta's side in this matter and caused Zhou Ming a lot of trouble.

Now, after just one conversation between Zhou Ming and Mr. Meta, Mr. Meta not only gave Zhou Ming half of the profits from the Dota Project, but also helped Zhou Ming convince President Nikolavich of Northern Russia. This cannot help but make people think twice. When did the opposing sides change so quickly?

Even Su Han took Zhou Ming's hand and looked at him with concern, as if her big eyes were saying, 'This can't be a conspiracy, can it?'

'This is going too smoothly, there must be something behind it, how could I not see it?' Zhou Ming gave a wry smile, 'But Chairman Tong and Chairman Li, have you ever thought about this: do we have a chance to question?'

These words made Li Cheng and Tong Gang both silent. Su Han tightly gripped Zhou Ming's hand, and Du Peng also lost his previous relaxed appearance: 'So Zhou Ming, you have long since seen that there is a problem inside, and guessed that Meta and that Northern Russian president would dig a pit for us to jump into, but you have no way to do anything about it.'

Zhou Ming didn't say anything, and at this time, Tong Gang thought for a moment and said, 'If that's really the case, it'll be troublesome. It's just that our 100 million US dollars is not a big deal, but the key is that we will also lose the trust of other Northern Russian businessmen as a result. In that case, we might as well give up on this deal ourselves.'

'If we really want to get more than half of the benefits of the Dota Project, giving up is absolutely out of the question!'

Zhou Ming said decisively, 'Because we can imagine that if we give up the first time, what if Mr. Meta does the same thing a second time? Do we just keep giving up? Giving up is like a snowball effect, once you start, you can't stop. And eventually, when giving up becomes a habit, we forget what it's like to succeed to the end.'

These words touched everyone. Tong Gang and Li Cheng need not say, what accompanied them all the way to success was persistence. Then there was Su Han, if she had given up when she was bullied at the 760 factory instead of persevering, she would not be where she is today, and Zhou Ming would have probably looked down on her. Du Peng has watched Zhou Ming come this far, and there have been many times when he has persevered, including himself. Finally, there is Kalelina. If she had been less persistent, I'm afraid she would have died in Krisco right away, and would never have had the chance to go abroad, let alone meet Zhou Ming.

This simple truth is understood by many people. In fact, many people have the opportunity to succeed, it's just that most people lack that little bit of perseverance.

Zhou Ming continued, 'But then again, if Mr. Meta doesn't dig any pits for me at all, but instead sincerely wants to cooperate with me and selflessly give me ten trillion benefits, I would feel really bad about it.'

Hearing Zhou Ming say this, Tong Gang and Li Cheng immediately looked up again. Zhou Ming concluded, 'As long as he dares to dig a pit, I will find a way to fill it in!'

Zhou Ming's words were full of confidence, as if nothing was beneath him.

At this moment, downstairs at Hotel No. 1, the Lincoln Town Car carrying Meta was still parked here and had not moved. Meta looked blankly out the window at the hotel entrance and muttered to himself, 'This Zhou Ming agreed so easily today, could it be that he is also up to something?'

If Tong Gang and Li Cheng were here to hear these words from Maita, they would be unable to stop laughing. It turns out that while they were upstairs in the room, speculating about what kind of pit Maita was going to dig for them, Maita was also in the car, worrying about what Zhou Ming would be scheming against him.

But that was normal. After all, a scheme is only interesting if there is give and take. If Zhou Ming were simply being schemed by Maita all day long, then he would have no value for Maita to scheme him. This may sound like a paradox, but it is the truth.

Maita was deep in thought when his phone rang, pulling him back to reality. Maita answered the phone, and it was President Nikolavich of Northern Russia calling.

'Is it all right with you, Mr. Maita, today? Has it all gone a bit too smoothly? That Chinese Zhou Ming is also a clever man, isn't he suspicious at all? Could there be some problem that we haven't noticed?' Nikolajevich asked, his tone full of concern.

From his tone, Maita understood that the President of Northern Russia was probably feeling the same way he had just now, very uneasy about Zhou Ming's performance today, and afraid that Zhou Ming might have some sort of trick up his sleeve.

Strangely enough, although Maita himself had been very uneasy just now, seeing Nikolayevich like this now had the opposite effect, calming him down.

'Mr Nikolayevich, I'm sorry to say that I think your apology is unnecessary,'

Mata said very calmly: 'Of course I don't mean to say that he hasn't noticed or anything, that would be deceiving myself. I think that with the wisdom of this young Mr. Zhou Ming, he will definitely notice, but he still has to do this for the simple reason that today he has no choice but to accept, unless he gives up on this deal himself, but as we all understand, this is simply impossible.'

'But is he also thinking of other ways? After all, you, Mr. Mata, also recognise his wisdom,' said Nikolic.

'That's very likely, but I don't think it matters, because his money will always go to us. As long as that premise remains unchanged, no matter what he does, it will be useless.'

Maita paused for a moment before concluding, 'Then we just need to terminate the deal with him after we receive his money. Or if you are compassionate, Mr. Nikolic, you can pay him the agreed 2.3 billion rubles, but in old rubles.'

Nikolaevich let out a sigh of relief and said with a smile, 'I believe in Mr. Maita. Mr. Maita is the best financial warfare expert in the United States. He has already cornered Zhou Ming. In this way, that Zhou Ming will have to give us 100 million US dollars for free. I just don't know if he will want to jump into the Krško River after he understands it in the future.'

'I don't want him to jump so soon, because I'm still waiting to give him a hand!' Maita said happily.