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After reading the materials Wu Hongan gave her, Su Lizhen put them down and said, "Mr. Wu, based on your understanding of the mainland, are these materials enough to send Wang Kangnian to prison?"

"Mrs. Xian, these materials are enough to get Wang Kangnian executed."

"Then continue. Wang Kangnian dared to use inferior methods in medicine. He has killed so many people. He deserves to be put to death."

Wu Hongan hesitated for a moment and said, "Mrs. Xian, Ma Weishan has made another request."

"any request?"

"He said that if he reported Wang Kangnian, he would definitely lose his job at Dakang Pharmacy, and once his reputation of reporting his boss spread, it would be difficult for him to find another job."

"He wants a job?"

"Yes."

Su Lizhen hesitated for a moment, "Promise him that I will help him find a new job. I will leave Shanghai and return to Hong Kong soon. You ask Su Jin to finalize it with him as soon as possible. There must be a result before I leave."

"Okay, I'll call Su Jin right away."

After Wu Hongan left, Su Lizhen left the room and sat down in the cafe.

The previous tea party was quite successful, as it not only provided scarce western medicines but also needed export goods. For western medicine stores and export traders, Su Lizhen was the God of Wealth and timely rain. After a brief communication at the meeting, there was an endless stream of merchants coming to her to discuss business.

She was only responsible for the preliminary negotiations for the pharmaceutical business, and let the merchants contact Jinji Trading Company for details. Zhao Lian had already completed the order in Singapore and was rushing back to Hong Kong to handle some affairs before heading to Shanghai.

She would discuss the export and some import business in the name of Jinzhao Group. The exports were mainly agricultural products, and the imports were mainly textile-related products. It was not difficult, and she reached an export intention of RMB 1000 billion and an import intention of RMB 620 billion.

Most of the amounts were just indications and no contracts had been signed. She was unsure about some things, and a few words were not clear, and it was not convenient to communicate through secret lines. She could only put it aside for now and deal with it after returning to Hong Kong.

Su Lizhen had been sitting for a while when some merchants came to visit her and she dealt with them one by one.

A little later, Yan Guangjun from Zhiye New Drug arrived. After a detailed discussion, Su Lizhen decided that Zhiye New Drug would be the sole agent of Jinji Commercial Bank's X-ray machines in the mainland. Jinji Commercial Bank not only supplied Zhiye New Drug with goods at a fair price, but also offered a preferential treatment that 30% of the payment could be settled in RMB.

As a mutually beneficial exchange, Zhiye New Drug needs to undertake most of the after-sales work, and Jinji Trading Company only cooperates. In addition, it asks for a job for Ma Weishan, and Yan Guangjun readily agrees.

Yan Guangjun is an old man in the pharmacy and has a debt dispute with Wang Kangnian. He pays much attention to Dakang Pharmacy. He knows too well how big the market prospects of X-ray machines are. Let alone providing a job to someone in the industry, he would agree even if it means placing a few people to collect empty salaries.

After meeting Yan Guangjun, Su Lizhen met a few more people, most of whom were chefs from various restaurants.

She guessed that Cai Jinman must have been instructed by his master to look for a chef, so she took it very seriously. Through the neighborhood committee and Shen Xianqi's connections, she spread the recruitment information to the ears of most restaurant chefs. Chefs who were interested in developing in Hong Kong would probably come to apply.

Her interview process was very simple. She only asked about the chef's work experience, how many family members were going to Hong Kong with him, and the family members' names. After confirming that the other party was indeed interested in going to Hong Kong, she would tell him that she would take care of the formalities in Hong Kong and let the chef go to Hong Kong on his own.

As for whether the chef is real or fake and how good his skills are, there is no need to spend energy to identify them now. It will not be too late to assess the chef after he arrives in Hong Kong. If there is someone who is not qualified, the Xian family will teach him a lesson.

Once hired, the Xian family will reimburse the chef's travel expenses and pay for settling-in expenses.

In Guangzhou, Hong Yingdong held a negotiation with Chen Qiushu of Lingnan Petroleum. An unknown Hong Kong company will supply gasoline and diesel to Lingnan Petroleum on a long-term basis. The delivery location will be Shekou. The payment will be settled in one lump sum and the payment currency combination is to be determined.

Today, he visited Guangdong Trading Company to discuss the special supply of river sand.

Before he set out for the mainland, Wang Xiamin handed him a letter from Xian Yaowen, the general content of which was that the sea sand business that the two had previously discussed had come to be launched, and asked Hong Yingdong to discuss the supply of river sand when he went to the mainland.

It was when the mainland was short of foreign exchange that the deal was settled.

In Shiqi, Lu Yansu's business negotiations went quite smoothly. Since he was invited by force, the Southern Trading Company kept a low profile, and the business negotiations did not take much time. Instead, he spent more time in the countryside visiting vegetable gardens, ponds, chicken coops, pig pens and handicraft workshops.

Before the large-scale use of pesticides and fertilizers, agricultural products from the mainland would be very competitive internationally, and it would not be difficult to open up small-scale trade markets below 10,000 tons. Moreover, they could be planted, raised, and caught in specific ways according to demand, such as lion-head geese and meat dogs, pumpkin flowers, snakes, and voles.

If it is a restaurant specializing in fragrant meat, the quality of the ingredients does not need to be particularly high, but it must be stable. Regular customers cannot eat one flavor today and another flavor tomorrow, relying on luck. This eliminates the possibility of buying stray dogs from dog beaters, and a meat dog farm is needed to be responsible for the supply.

There are 13 meat restaurants in Kowloon Walled City and about 40 dog meat restaurants scattered across the New Territories. The former serves most of the meat-eating crowd in Hong Kong, while the latter has a narrower coverage, and their combined demand for dog meat is less than one-tenth of that of the former.

Hong Kong consumes approximately 40,000 to 50,000 meat dogs a year. If we tap into the market potential, it would not be a problem to increase consumption by 20,000 to 30,000 dogs a year.

As the saying goes, buy high and sell high. In the name of ensuring quality and epidemic prevention and testing, the supply of meat dogs is monopolized to prevent illegal slaughter in meat restaurants. Only Zhaiying Slaughterhouse holds a legal slaughter license, and after the slaughter is stamped with a qualified inspection seal, the meat dogs can enter the market for sale.

The number of animals slaughtered on that day is determined by the number of orders provided by each meat restaurant the day before. More animals will never be slaughtered than the order quantity provided by each meat restaurant the day before, but temporary orders can be made. The slaughterhouse will arrange butchers to be on duty to provide slaughtering services to customers at any time, while ensuring the freshness of the ingredients, so that diners can eat happily, safely and with peace of mind.

In addition, the slaughterhouse will handle its relationship with the Hong Kong government well to avoid the Cats and Dogs Ordinance.

With such comprehensive and thoughtful services, the planned profit of only tens or even hundreds of thousands of yuan a year cannot be said to be excessive.

There is no way. Zhongfeng Company is an enterprise with a sense of social responsibility. It belongs to the world and to the society, not to the Xian family. It can be non-profitable, but it must serve the citizens of Hong Kong well.

Two hundred thousand is not a lot, but meat dogs are just one of the sub-products that can be made.

After 1945, a considerable number of mainlanders who poured into Hong Kong were farmers. Farming was the only skill they had to make a living, so they chose the New Territories and continued to rely on the land for their livelihood.

In September 1946, the Hong Kong government established the Vegetable Marketing Organization, which was under the jurisdiction of the Fish Marketing Organization.

The Vegetable Marketing Organization stipulates that farmers can only sell vegetables through this monopoly central wholesale market, while at the same time encouraging farmers to form local cooperatives to serve as the legal counterparts of the Vegetable Marketing Organization.

Under this system, only vegetables sent from cooperatives can enter the wholesale market. Previously, the vegetable selling mechanism in Hong Kong was quite fragmented, with different market vendors, or small local vegetable wholesalers, buying vegetables from local farmers and then selling them to retailers, which then flowed into the market.

Simply put, the Hong Kong government has intervened in the first two of the three links of "suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers", changing the scattered situation in the past. The starting point disclosed to the outside world is to support agriculture and ensure the supply of food for citizens, but the deeper starting point is nothing more than to facilitate tax collection.

The Vegetable Marketing Organization is aware of the growing costs and wholesalers' purchasing and wholesale prices, and is also involved in the management of wholesale markets. It has a clear understanding of the business and how much tax to collect.

Of course, farmers are never good kids. If you don't chop off a few heads to scare them, don't expect there won't be troublemakers. In fact, many farmers in the New Territories will sell their own vegetables in the market or on the streets of the city. There are also wild vegetable vendors who secretly collect vegetables from the countryside for sale.

The terrain in Hong Kong's rural areas is steep and there is little land suitable for farming. Last year, only 13.5% of the land was farmland, most of which were rice fields. The output of vegetables and livestock was not high and was insufficient to meet the growing demand. Food supply mainly comes from the mainland.

However, the change of government in the Mainland prompted the Hong Kong government to reduce its reliance on imports from the Mainland. In order to meet food demand, accommodate refugees and ensure food security, the Hong Kong government began to "actively" support agriculture.

Well, this time it’s for real.

To this end, Zhongfeng Company will set up a subsidiary organization, "Cen Peipei Agricultural Assistance Association", to help poor farmers from the mainland who come to Hong Kong to become self-reliant, so that they can live an independent and dignified life while their livelihoods are also guaranteed.

The goal of the Agricultural Aid Association is to promote the positive mental attitude of "helping others to help themselves". To this end, the association provides training, agricultural supplies and interest-free loans to farmers in need so that the recipients can become self-reliant.

In terms of specific plans, the ASA will purchase land in Tai Mo Shan and operate it under the name of "Chen Pei Pei Experimental and Extension Farm" to demonstrate efficient and profitable farming and animal husbandry methods, while also working to improve livestock breeds and train farmers.

The reason for choosing Tai Mo Shan was that Xian Yuzhen discovered an unattended orange tree on the high hill of Tai Mo Shan while hunting. Most people now believe that the high hills in Hong Kong are too steep and the climate is too humid to be suitable for growing citrus trees. However, the orange tree on the mountain can still grow, which provides the basis for creating a gimmick.

It is true that the purpose of the Agricultural Assistance Association is to help farmers, but this is also a statement for external publicity. Charity is just a byproduct, and the purpose is to gild Cen Peipei's image. The deeper purpose is for Zhongfeng Company to carry out business layout.

There is no future for agriculture in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government is currently vigorously supporting agriculture only because it is forced by the current situation. It is worried about being controlled by others and has to move towards self-sufficiency. This kind of progress is like riding a donkey and watching the script. It can change direction at any time. (End of this chapter)