The journey starts from the Titanic

"This can't work. You have taken it well. It's just that the formula is the secret of our Qu family, and it must not fall into the hands of outsiders." Qu Huanzhang gritted his teeth.Although the temptation of the millionaire is still quite big.

"Haha. Mr. Qu is not too busy to refuse, it is not too late to listen to me. Of course, we are very interested in your formula, but please rest assured, we are definitely not treacherous people, let alone seek to steal Mr. Qu's prescription is unscrupulous. Now the society is in turmoil and wars are endless, and the poor soldiers are killed and injured. If they can be cured by the Baiyao invented by Mr. Xiangqu, many people will survive.

We just want to save more people.If you are worried about us trying to steal your formula, then that's good.Our Meihua company invested 50 yuan to build a pharmaceutical factory and others. Mr. Qu, you use Baiyao formula to invest in the company, each holding half of the shares.You are responsible for the confidentiality of the factory’s production and recipes. We don’t interfere, only sales.The two parties work together and cooperate with each other.how about it?"Long Wu moved with affection, and dawned with benefit, and proposed a cooperation plan that Qu Huanzhang could hardly refuse. Except for one formula, Qu Huanzhang was all at a disadvantage and was unable to promote Yunnan Baiyao.

This is what Qu Huanzhang is doing, and it is also the most difficult thing currently.Lack of money!

"I have to think about it." Qu Huanzhang's heart just flinched again. He could keep his formula secret and get a new factory, which seemed worth a try.Is it just that what the other party said is true?

Seeing Qu Huanzhang hesitating, the person interrupted again at the right time: "In Yunnan, there are not many people who have heard of Meihua Company, but you can ask outside. Meihua Company also invests in the pharmaceutical industry, and everyone knows that. The isatis root is produced by us at the Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Factory in Guangzhou, and our reputation is well-known.

Last year alone, our Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Factory donated millions of medicines to the society for the treatment of influenza.Meihua Company has also sponsored 100,000 yuan of medicine for the church in Kunming to prevent the epidemic, which is obvious to all.

I am here this time, in addition to discussing the cooperation with you, I will also place an order with you.Whether the cooperation is successful or not, we are ready to purchase a batch of Baiyao.This is a promissory note, please keep it!"Long Wu handed the prepared check to Qu Huanzhang who was still in a daze.

Qu Huanzhang opened it and found that 300,000 yuan was enough for him to work for more than ten years.Last year, after he corrected the bottled baiyao in paper bags, his sales increased a lot, and he could make more than 10,000 yuan in one year.

The order of 300,000 yuan is enough for Qu Huanzhang's workshop to produce for one year.Should I take this order or not?Qu Huanzhang thought for a while and accepted the order.

When he got home, he discussed with his wife about cooperating with Meihua Company.

"300,000 yuan! We have developed in a few years." His wife said excitedly."I see, maybe people just think our baiyao is good, they want to cooperate, and there is no conspiracy like you said.

A company as big as Meihua has always been fair in doing business. The business of the nails, foreign fire water, and the isatis root used in our family is bigger than that of foreign firms?Can you lie to us for this?"Qu Huanzhang said to his wife.

"What's better than a foreign company? Meihua is a foreign company, but the boss is Chinese, and most of its workers are Chinese." Qu Huanzhang retorted.

"How do you know so clearly?"

"That Mr. Long Wu told me. He said, Meihua Company is only a small part of the pharmaceutical business. People open banks and ship companies in big cities such as Nanyang and Guangzhou, and they are doing big business." Qu Huan Zhang said pompously.He got a lot of information about Meihua Company from Longwu and gained a lot of knowledge.

"If it weren't for Meihua Company, my cold last year would be gone." Qu Huanzhang's wife persuaded, "Anyway, I think this matter is worth a try. However, you'd better talk to your sister and brother-in-law."

Yunnan Baiyao was prepared by Qu Huanzhang and his wife, so his wife has a lot of say in this matter.Qu Huanzhang had to pay attention to his wife's opinion.

Since his parents passed away one after another when he was very young, he could only depend on his third sister who was a few years older than him. Later, he learned medical skills from his sister Weng Yuan Enling (sister's father-in-law). Big.

The next day, Qu Huanzhang found the Yuan family.Old man Yuan had a beard, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and said: "Business in troubled times is hard to do. You must find a strong shelter, otherwise you will be guilty of crimes. Your family is weak now, it is not easy to compete with the powerful, if that If Meihua is credible, let them be!"

Father Yuan is Qu Huanzhang's most respected person, as well as his master and father. Now that the old man has spoken out, Qu Huanzhang has made up his mind.

A few days later, he resumed Long Wu and agreed to cooperate with Meihua, but he wanted his third brother-in-law Yuan Huai to serve as the vice president of sales.

Long Wu asked Yuan Huai about Yuan Huai's situation and knew that Yuan Huai was a small well-known medicinal material dealer in Kunming who had a good deal of business, so he agreed to Qu Huanzhang's request and promoted Yuan Huai directly to the sales manager. Hua Company only sent a financial supervisor, so the company's affairs were mostly handled by Qu and Yuan.This convinced Qu Huanzhang of the sincerity of Meihua Company.

After the cooperation, the new company went directly to a resounding name, called Yunnan Baiyao Company, headquartered in Kunming.Later, in order to expand its business in Nanyang, Yunnan Baiyao Company expanded its factory to Medan, which was a few years later.

When the news reached Situ Nan, he smiled crookedly.Also, only he can understand the weight of the four characters of Yunnan Baiyao, in the eyes of others, it is just a relatively effective medicine.

Well, it seems the same.I think that in the future, the western medicines that Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Factory will successively introduce from the giant company in the United States are mostly unique special-effect medicines at that time. It is not as bad as Yunnan Baiyao.

Although there is no formula for Yunnan Baiyao, as long as the company is under the control of Meihua, it is not too difficult to get that formula, but it is not necessary.

Not only that, Situ Nan also secretly ordered the Yunnan Baiyao formula to be kept secret, especially to prevent Japanese commercial espionage.

This incident also reminded Situ Nan that although Yunnan and Yunnan-Guizhou provinces are poor, the pharmaceutical industry and non-ferrous metal resources are abundant, and they are also worth investing.The only problem is that the local political arena is turbulent, the society is unstable, and the transportation is not good. Therefore, many times Meihua’s investment in Yunnan has to pass through French Annan. This caused the investment industry in French Annan to increase day by day and gradually intervened in Vietnam. The rice trade has accidentally stepped into Annan's coal industry, accounting for less than half of the Hongji coal mine.

His eyes returned to Guangzhou.

After getting the approval of Situ Nan, Yang Limin went to raise funds for Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical.As he said, many Guangzhou businessmen are interested in Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical, and they have raised millions of funds in less than a month.

Situ Nan was secretly speechless, sighing that there are so many styles in Guangzhou.

The composition of the new shareholders is a bit complicated and varied. Some are well-versed in business, such as the Wu Youcai family in Xiguan; there are compradors from foreign firms, such as the Chen Bolian family in Nanhai; and there are even stray doors, such as the Huo Zhiting family who runs a casino.

Situ Nan smiled, but he didn't expect Yang Limin, a serious-looking doctor studying in the United States, to know so many people from the Three Realms.

After investigating, it turns out that these people have an identity, and they are members of the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce.The Chamber of Commerce has gathered the rich in Guangzhou, and it is not difficult to raise millions of funds.

A few years later, the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government only shook the houses of those businessmen, and then flicked with anger, the Northern Expedition, and as a result, it took more than half of China in one hit.

It can be seen that the fat of the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce!Compared with the more well-known Jiangsu and Zhejiang Consortium, the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce also has a great relationship with the South China Consortium, and Meihua has established a close cooperative relationship with the Nanyang Consortium of the South China Consortium. Therefore, it seems that Meihua has to cooperate with Guangzhou. The businessman came closer.

Chapter 70 Xiguan Merchants

After the expansion of Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company, Meihua Company is still the major shareholder, accounting for 51% of the shares. Yang Limin also took the opportunity to buy shares, increasing the shares from the original 15% to 20%, and the remaining 29% were owned by the Wu Youcai family. , Chen Bolian family, Huo Zhiting family and other new shareholders carve up.

Situ Nan didn't know what those people were thinking about buying shares in Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical, but he instructed Meihua to firmly control the Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company.

Under Situ Nan’s instructions, Meihua later converted the 1 million creditor's rights lent by Meihua Bank to Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company into shares, and raised the shares of Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Company to 70% again.

"This Chen Bolian is very interesting!" Situ Nan said to Lin Yimin.During this time, Situ Nan refocused his energy on Guangzhou, and found a lot of interesting things.Meihua has its own independent intelligence system, which collects a lot of data on the rich and politicians in Guangzhou.Regarding Chen Bolian, this is the record:

Chen Bolian, born in 1884, was born in Xiqiao, Nanhai, Guangdong.The grandson of Chen Qiyuan, an industrialist, is now a wealthy local businessman in Guangzhou, operating tea silk, coal, transportation, insurance and banking and other industries.

Chen graduated from the Imperial College in Hong Kong in the early years, and returned to Guangzhou to inherit his ancestral business after graduation and run Guangzhou Changzhan Silk Village.Soon, he became the comprador of the Guangzhou branch of HSBC.

Chen initiated the founding of Guangdong Insurance Company in 1908.Participated in the organization of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce and became the head of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce in August this year.

Chen Zeng attended the Panama World Expo as the associate director of the Guangdong Export Association and was the head of the industrial delegation to the United States.Therefore, Chen not only has a British-funded background, but also has a good deal of American capital, and he also has a certain trade relationship with Meihua Company.

Chen has great influence in the business, political and military circles of Guangzhou, and is one of the few people who can influence the situation in Guangdong.

"In that case, this Chen Bolian is really a man in Guangzhou? Swordsman, I think he is better than our Meihua company!" Situ Nan said with a smile.

"Chen is quite strong, but he is far from us. Guangzhou has been a prosperous business since ancient times, and people here have liked doing business for thousands of years.

Now the situation is turbulent, and the Beiyang Army, the Revolutionary Party, the Guangxi and Yunnan warlords are coming to Guangzhou like a horse.

This Guangzhou business is nothing more than holding a group to protect itself. It wants to do business with peace of mind. It is unrealistic to say that there are other ambitions.

The head of the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce is not only Chen Bolian. As far as I know, the republican system is usually adopted. To say that Chen is so great, it is the result of the Chamber of Commerce."

Lin Yimin analyzed.

As a member of a merchant in Xiguan, he knew Guangzhou better than Situ Nan.

He couldn't help but remember that in the year of Xinhai, his family's shop was looted by bandits. Soon after his father died, his family line began to fall apart. Therefore, he understood the practices of the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce, but did not have a good impression of the so-called revolutionary army. They think that those people are more hypocritical and worse, and they obviously do bad things in the name of being pretty.

Lu Rongting’s Gui army is now ruling Guangzhou. Lu Rongting was born as a bandit. One can imagine what the soldiers he brought are like. The whole city is dwarfed by this group of people, and the atmosphere is worse than before.Thinking of this, Lin Yimin frowned.

"Yeah. The businessmen in Guangzhou are indeed different from other places. They have awakened business consciousness and possess good strength. It's a bit like Venice or Hamburg hundreds of years ago. Merchants ruled the city. In order to protect their own interests, they bravely resisted. Situ Nan nodded, applauded.

I added another sentence in my heart, "Unfortunately, this is China, which emphasizes unification, and the status of merchants has always been suppressed. It is not as good as the Dutch merchants in the Netherlands."

Speaking of Chen Bolian, Situ Nan had some impressions, and he seemed to be a historical villain.If Situ Nan remembered correctly, a few years later, during the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce Incident, Chen Borian confronted a hodgepodge formed by farmers, student army, Guangdong army, public security team, etc. armed with Marx, Engels, Lening and the Three People's Principles. Finally fled to Hong Kong in embarrassment.

Not only was the family property that he worked so painfully confiscated, but he also ate cats to death, nailed to the pillar of shame in history, and spurned by others.