The gazes of the three men were filled with coldness.
Maybe soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time naturally carried a kind of killing intent.
Qin Siyang felt that when Chu Xiao'ang and the others looked at him, it pierced through his chest like a sharp blade.
Even though the three of them didn't answer his words, from their expressions, Qin Siyang already got the answer.
His guess was correct.
The Titan Foxtail inner-leaf fragment that Chu Xiao'ang had taken from him was indeed used to save Chief of General Staff Zheng Mubian.
But at the same time, Qin Siyang also noticed a problem.
When he said that sentence, Zheng Cong didn't look at Chu Xiao'ang. He looked at him.
This meant he had absolute trust in the Chu father and son, knowing they would never tell outsiders about his father's illness.
Their relationship wasn't simple.
To the side, Zhao Sifang and Gu Yunpeng stared in surprise, not knowing what was happening.
Zhao Longfei was startled at first, but he quickly understood what was going on. His expression stayed calm, and in his heart he was even more certain that investing this opportunity in Qin Siyang had been the right decision.
Zheng Cong's originally softened attitude cooled again, "Thank you for your concern, Vice President Qin. My father has always been fine."
Qin Siyang didn't expose Zheng Cong's cover-up. He only smiled faintly.
But the caution in Zheng Cong's eyes as he looked at Qin Siyang never disappeared.
"Alright, Commander Chu is a busy man, and I also have things to handle. Let's keep it short and talk directly about the trade."
Zhao Longfei took out a dark blue storage box, placed it on the table, and pushed it toward Chu Xiao'ang.
"Commander Chu, check the goods."
Chu Xiao'ang glanced at the storage box and frowned, "Principal Zhao, your medicine only has a single first-rank storage box?"
"This is one tenth of the total."
"No wonder," Only then did Chu Xiao'ang pick up the storage box and open it to inspect.
After about two minutes, Chu Xiao'ang nodded, "All the medicines you mentioned can be found in here. This box of medicine has no issues. I just don't know if the other nine boxes are also full and complete."
Zhao Longfei laughed, "Commander Chu, you're really funny. If you want to lower the price, this isn't the way to find excuses."
"Even though everyone says my Zhao family does black market business, we've never done anything untrustworthy. Besides, if we didn't have enough goods, would I dare contact commanders from all the corps?"
"Trick you all at once, and how is my Zhao family supposed to survive after this deal?"
Chu Xiao'ang said, "I was only voicing a minor concern. With such a large transaction, I have to be cautious. I hope Principal Zhao won't take it personally."
"I understand. Each dose of medicine is a human life. It's normal for Commander Chu to take it seriously. But I also hope you won't treat me, Zhao Longfei, like some clueless rookie."
Chu Xiao'ang didn't reply. He pushed the storage box back to Zhao Longfei.
"For these medicines, I'm willing to offer one thousand gold coins, plus some divine remains. How does Principal Zhao feel about this price?"
Zhao Longfei nodded, "As for the gold coins, as long as we aren't losing money, that's fine. Let's talk about the divine remains."
"Alright. A thousand tons of grey-tier materials, a hundred tons of brown-tier materials, or one ton of red-tier materials. Choose one of these three. I'll take your people to the warehouse so you can pick the materials yourself."
Qin Siyang asked in confusion, "What do grey-tier, brown-tier, and red-tier materials mean?"
Zhao Longfei explained, "When you went to the Sequence Ability User Administration to claim the mission to hunt the Corrosion Black Centipede, you must have seen a bunch of mission plaques in the hall, right?"
"Uh, yeah."
"The grey plaques are all cheap divine remains that the bureau needs temporarily."
"The brown plaques are long-term needs for rarer remains."
"The red plaques are extremely rare materials like Crimson Crystals and Titan Foxtail."
"In short, the Administration's material missions are a rip-off, so hardly anyone takes them. But their color-tier classification is widely accepted. So during big trades, if there's no special requirement, we use the mission plaque colors to classify materials."
"Oh, got it."
Hearing this, Qin Siyang also remembered.
He had indeed seen those plaques in the mission hall, but since he owned plenty of materials on red plaques, he hadn't cared about the colors at all.
Using colors to classify material value was simple and avoided arguments.
Chu Xiao'ang added, "The red-tier materials Principal Zhao mentioned earlier are top-tier, and technically far beyond the value of normal red-tier materials. What we can offer are standard red-tier materials, like the remains of the Thunder Snow Wolf you once submitted."
"Thank you for the clarification, Commander Chu. I understand."
Zhao Longfei continued, "Of Commander Chu's options, I want to choose the thousand tons of grey-tier materials. Any issue with that?"
"No issue. Since I offered it, I can agree to it. As long as your Zhao family's black market can absorb it."
"In the past maybe not. But now that the black market and the Chamber are combined, we need low-cost materials to expand the market."
Chu Xiao'ang nodded, then looked at Zhao Longfei, "If Principal Zhao has no other issues, shall we happily conclude the trade?"
Zhao Longfei couldn't help laughing, "Commander Chu is really humorous today. You've made me laugh several times already."
It seemed Chu Xiao'ang had expected it and wasn't impatient, "What else does Principal Zhao want to say?"
"Commander Chu, let's not beat around the bush. Money and materials are just the basics for our Zhao family to break even. We didn't mobilize the black market and all our connections to gather these medicines just to do charity for the military."
"We chose to sell these medicines to the military instead of the United Government or the Church because we have our own demands. I believe Commander Chu understands."
Chu Baxing and Zheng Cong straightened up slightly, knowing the real core of the negotiation was coming.
Chu Xiao'ang's gaze also became serious.
Such a massive amount of medicine was rare, and the supplier was the Zhao brothers. It definitely couldn't be obtained with just money and materials.
Chu Xiao'ang gestured with his hand, "Then please let Principal Zhao state the Zhao family's demands."
Zhao Longfei patted Qin Siyang's back, "Originally, the demands should be ours. But now, we plan to let Little Qin state his."
"Qin Siyang?", Chu Xiao'ang frowned, "Principal Zhao, you're not joking, right? Letting Qin Siyang represent the Zhao family to state conditions?"
"Commander Chu, you misunderstand."
"He isn't representing the Zhao family to state conditions."
"He is replacing the Zhao family to state conditions."
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