Chapter 100: I don't mind wearing foreign cloth
Chen Jingfang smiled. This foreigner was not greedy. This price was almost the salary of an elite comprador among the Chinese.
It is not even as much as the income from contributions by well-known writers.
"Will you sell this foreign company?"
"It's like this. We still have a batch of goods. At the beginning, the Japanese dumped cloth below cost in Tianjin in order to strike at the national industry. David and I thought it was cheap, so we hoarded 100,000 yuan. But the remaining two cotton mills in Tianjin, including the one in which Mr. Chen holds a stake , simply don't buy, and the Japanese are still increasing their dumping efforts. Now we have to get rid of this batch of goods before we can switch jobs. Now the Japanese have not let go of the remaining two cotton mills in Tianjin, and the cloth price is still very low, but we have found a seller, and he wants 60,000 yuan for the goods. If you want this empty shell foreign company, you only need to buy the remaining 40,000 yuan of goods."
"Why are you buying an empty shell? I have several trading companies that you can use at will. If you buy this, you still have to buy 40,000 worth of goods."
Chen Jingfang really didn't understand what this guy was doing.
"My Uncle Chen, the Sichuan Army also needs clothes. Although we wear homespun uniforms, we don't mind having two sets of foreign cloth uniforms."
In any era, no matter whether it was made in China or abroad, hand-woven cloth was called local cloth, and machine-woven cloth was called foreign cloth.
Chen Jingfang laughed out loud, and even the foreigner and Peng Huaan laughed brightly.
Looking at Zhou Xiaoshan's gesture, Chen Jingfang followed him to the warehouse door. Zhang Zhenhe opened his arms, signaling others not to follow.
From a distance, I watched the two of them whispering in the corner.
"Uncle Chen, you and I hit it off right away. What do you think of our Baizhan Military Glass, which was launched in Chongqing?"
"It's beautiful. She fooled most of the people in Chongqing and used newspapers to spread her fame. If a product has no reputation, no matter how good it is, it won't sell for a high price."
Seeing the thumbs up given by Zhou Xiaoshan, Chen Jingfang chuckled. Suddenly, he felt that this boy was not only like a close junior, but also like a long-time friend.
"I have another project, and I also want to use the Del Foreign Exchange shell and follow the original idea to do it again. Do you want to get involved?"
Chen Jingfang was stunned and laughed very heartily.
"You are giving money to your older brother. If your Aunt Gao knew, she would laugh to death. I am involved in this trend."
"You're so sure I'll succeed without even asking what the project is?"
"What project?"
Zhou Xiaoshan was almost angry to death when he saw Chen Jingfang asking perfunctorily, "You trust yourself so much that you don't even ask about the project?"
And pretended to be very serious.
Who knew that he didn't think so at all. He was thinking that if he could come up with some more domestic products and cheat those bastards who were obsessed with foreign things, he would feel good even if he lost 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. After all, it was a time of chaos and war, and he and his son both had their own abilities, so money was nothing.
If we have the ability to fool the whole country, we can be said to have left our names in history.
Anyway, I'm going to hide in Sichuan soon, and you can't find me. Besides , David is an American and has the protection of the embassy or consulate.
Zhou Xiaoshan's things were placed on the accompanying truck, and he went over to take them.
Handed it to Chen Jingfang.
"Penicillin, antibiotics, what is this?"
Different fields have different worlds. I couldn’t understand many things of Chen Jingfang, and even the clinical cases that followed were not clear to me. Anyway, I knew it was a kind of medicine.
"Hey, last time I was with a German, I saw a doctor in Chengdu using mold to treat an inflamed patient. The German, Hans, thought it was witchcraft and argued with the doctor. The doctor took out an ancient book and said that the medical method had existed since the Tang Dynasty. He asked me to explain it to Hans."
Zhou Xiaoshan was helpless and could only call upon the omnipotent German Hans.
Anyway, I have made up stories more than once or twice and I am very familiar with them. I said that I translated the meanings of ancient medical books to foreigners. After the German listened, he suddenly remembered a paper he had read before.
The British are also experimenting with similar methods.
So he started working on himself, set up a laboratory, and devoted himself to extracting penicillin, which he named penicillin.
Chen Jingfang listened to him with eyes wide open, as if he was listening to a fantasy.
He also understood that Yongzhou Hospital had cured more than 100 patients with bacterial infections with penicillin, with only one case unable to use the drug due to an allergic reaction in a skin test.
Even a disgusting disease like syphilis can be cured with medicine.
The arrogant attitude of the foreign pharmaceutical companies in Tianjin almost pissed Chen Jingfang off to death.
"How's that German Hans?"
"heart attack."
"What a pity. Was he also the one who taught you glass technology?"
Seeing Zhou Xiaoshan nod, Chen Jingfang felt that this bastard was extremely blessed. It was true that good deeds would be rewarded.
Such good things can happen.
"Now that we have acquired Del Foreign Trade, what are you going to do?"
"First, we registered one to two companies in the U.S. to control the Chinese company of Del Foreign Trade. Then, we customized equipment in the U.S. under the names of these two companies, and mass-produced penicillin in Yongzhou. We also registered patents and conducted clinical trials in the U.S. However, the Sino-Japanese war was imminent, and we could not wait for such a long U.S. drug clinical procedure. So we used the excuse that this drug was invented by the Swedes, and that a U.S. company bought the patent and technology and was preparing to put it into large-scale production. We advertised it in China as the latest drug under development in Europe, which had passed domestic clinical tests. It was just expensive."
The method of converting exports to domestic sales sounds too new in this era.
Chen Jingfang's eyebrows began to flutter.
“How much are you going to sell it for?”
"Two small yellow croakers and one injection."
"Oh my god, you are boiling the oil of the sick."
This was not just one person cursing, Zhou Xiaoshan shrugged indifferently.
"We have to do this in a short time. The 66th Division is in Yongzhou and needs to be prepared for war. We urgently need seamless steel pipes, TNT and various military supplies, steelmaking furnaces, steel rolling mills, chemical plants, and even an engine production plant. It would be best if we could produce guns and ammunition on a small scale and support other Sichuan Army units. These equipment are worth hundreds of millions. Once the Sino-Japanese War breaks out, money will not be as useful to us as it is now. The equipment we exchange for can continuously produce medicines, and how many soldiers' lives can be saved by then."
They were all experienced businessmen, so Chen Jingfang understood what he meant immediately and nodded vigorously.
"A few hundred million, I'm afraid the domestic market capacity is far from that big. You have to try to sell to Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States! It's impossible to do it in two or three years!"
"Do your best! Make sure more ammunition and weapons are delivered to the anti-Japanese armed forces, so that fewer people will die in the future of the Chinese nation!"
According to Mr. Chiang Bai-ri's prediction, Wuhan and Guangzhou would be lost, the country's largest arms industry bases, Shanghai, Taiyuan, Wuhan, and Nanjing would be lost, and the three largest arsenals of the National Government would also be lost.
