"So, leave them alone for a few days and don't rush to make an offer."
Yuan Congqian saw very clearly the profit-seeking nature of these businessmen.
Words related to the nature of business and the way of business, such as waiting for a good price to rise, rare goods at a premium, and hoarding, all have derogatory meanings.
Wait a few more days, when the profits of the Western Pharmacy become more and more lucrative, they will come like mad dogs. By then, it will not be others who send invitations to Yuan Congqian, but Yuan Congqian who will choose the right blood-sucking object and let him set the price.
Qiu Fengshu nodded.
She didn't seem to understand much, but she knew that it was enough for Yuan Congqian to understand this.
Yuan Congqian slapped his head and said, "Oh, right, today is the day that Chen Zhijun invited me to taste his new product. Let's go to Chen's house for breakfast. It is said that he bought a prescription for cola from the doctor in the Chinese medicine bureau."
"Wherever my husband goes, I will go."
"Mrs. Qiu, you are no longer Shao Changqiu, nor my bodyguard..."
"My dear little sir! My dear little sir!"
A man dressed in precious Shu brocade saw the gate of Yuan's mansion open and rushed over, shouting.
Qiu Fengshu immediately pointed his sword sheath at him and said coldly, "Don't get too close."
Yuan Congqian was startled by the sudden loud voice and almost released Chengying in his direction. He took a look and saw that the man was wearing gold and jade, brocade and silk, and looked like a god, but there was no ribbon or official seal around his waist.
Judging from his physique, he should be a wealthy businessman who does not do much business.
"Young Master, I was deceived by that bastard Zhao Minliangjian! He deceived me, so I went to you to buy it back from the pawnshop. I started to regret it on the way back that day!"
He cried and shouted, and took out a large stack of Colombian gold notes and wanted to give them to Yuan Congqian.
Qiu Fengshu did not receive Yuan Congqian's instructions. Seeing that he still dared to move forward, he drew his sword decisively and stood in front of the rich man. Yuan Congqian recalled for a long time before he remembered that he was a pawnshop owner who came to him to redeem all his shares.
As for the shopkeeper Zhao Minliang, Yuan Congqian had long forgotten about him.
He never took those who sold Yuan’s shares seriously.
Seeing that Yuan Congqian was indifferent, the rich man gritted his teeth and continued to increase his bet.
"Young Master, I was blind that day, so I thought of redeeming it! If you are dissatisfied with me, I will ask the government to change the pawnshop's facade to Yuan's, just to..."
"Hey, stop, stop, stop."
Yuan Congqian stopped him immediately, a little puzzled: "When we settled the accounts, most of you said that once you leave, the money and goods are settled and you have nothing to do with the Yuan family anymore. Now you come back to regret your debts, is that your business principle?"
"Young Master, I was really...
"The Yuan family was wiped out by pirates. Don't you all hate me for defrauding you of the premium redemption price? What do you mean, if I had come to you a few hours later that day, you wouldn't have paid even one-tenth of the price?"
Yuan Congqian had no idea who Zhao Minliang was.
All I know is that there were indeed rumors circulating in the capital that the Yuan family was in poverty.
The cunning Yuan Congqian took advantage of the fact that his subordinates were unaware that the Yuan family had been exterminated and asked them to redeem the Yuan family's share at a premium. After they went back and heard the news, they slapped their thighs and thought that the price they paid was too high.
Only then did the rich man realize what a wrong decision he had made that day.
If he had chosen to support Yuan Congqian and his Western medicine pharmacy like the owner of Yunque Pavilion, would he now also have the highest and most powerful signboard of "Yuan's business" in the capital?
"Young Master! At the beginning, we said that we were running a store, and Yuan's would not interfere with the management, but would only distribute dividends regularly. Isn't that Yuan's? I took the wrong medicine and lost my mind. Even the Western pharmacy..."
"The money and goods have been paid. From now on, do not have anything to do with the Yuan family anymore."
Yuan Congqian didn't even look at him and pulled Qiu Fengshu towards the Chen residence.
"Little Master, don't go!"
The rich man was panicked when he saw Yuan Congqian leaving without even looking back.
He fell to his knees and prostrated himself on the ground.
"What do I have to do to get you to accept the pawnshop? How about 80%? How about 90%? The operation of the pawnshop will be entirely yours. I just want to work like a slave for the Yuan family! I can do anything!"
Yuan Congqian said coldly: "Next time you dare to spy on the Yuan Mansion, I will hand you over to the Military Affairs Department."
He opened Yuan's post box, took out the letters and invitations inside, and threw them into the air. Under the sword light, they all turned into confetti.
When dignitaries select merchants to run their stores, they also choose capable people.
At that time, with Yunque Pavilion's shopkeeper taking the lead, many shopkeepers saw that the Western Pharmacy had a promising future, but some shopkeepers were unwilling to invest in it. How could they want to take back what they had lost without any strategic vision and continue to rely on the help of their in-laws?
Yuan Congqian was afraid that he would bring disaster upon himself and implicate himself.
Chapter 95: Canned Coke Puffed Food
Now that the situation has reversed, not only are merchants crying out to give money to the Yuan family, but the Longmen Chen family, who were the first to invest in Yuan’s Western Medicine Store, have also become enthusiastic.
The number of pack animals at the gate of Chen's residence is enough to run a Hundred-Stove Derby.
Yuan Congqian looked at the Chen Mansion filled with animal carts and thought it looked like a barn.
When Wei Yanwu officially took office as Jingzhao Yin, he would persuade Wei Yanwu to abolish the practice of pack animals. It was already 1053, and this kind of animal that would excrete anywhere was actually walking openly on the street. God knows whether he was walking or playing a landmine simulator?
Chen Zhijun personally welcomed Yuan Congqian into the mansion.
He noticed that Yuan Congqian would look down from time to time, with a helpless look on his face.
"When we came to the capital to build the mansion, we only thought of building a parking garage. After all, no one in our family likes to ride in a pack animal cart. We all drive Benz cars. The pack animals that have come can only be temporarily left at the door..."
This is the difference between the Chen family and the real wealthy families in the capital.
In order to travel on weekdays, the wealthy families would prepare pack animals and build animal farms in their mansions to keep the pack animals. When a distinguished guest came in a pack animal cart, the pack animals would be temporarily handed over to the animal farm. It would be inappropriate to leave them on the street.
In order to isolate the smell, Chen Zhijun invited Yuan Congqian to a room with pepper walls.
He started talking first, with a sullen look on his face.
"We have never treated the Ursus people with any impolite attitude, and even gave them a generous offer for the storage of Western medicines, but they actually repay us like this!"
"Lord Nicholas doesn't seem like the type to do stupid things."
"Of course it's not him, but the person from Chernobyl who is in contact with the International Commercial Bank."
Chen Zhijun complained: "The remittance of Western medicine has already been delivered to the Usas through the Commercial Bank, but there is no news from the agreed industrial platform construction team. I sent someone to ask, and they actually said there is still a month!"
The administrative efficiency of Ursus was terrible. It was agreed that the construction team and medicines would be in place together, but Kal'tsit was about to be known as a miracle doctor in the outer city before Ursus gave an exact date.
He was the person in charge of the connection between the Western Pharmacy and Ursus. Ursus's poor performance brought shame to the Chen family. At least Chen Zhijun's eyes were black, and he could only bite the bullet and tell Yuan Congqian the truth.
"Nothing is too late. After all, the industrial platform is ours for free."
"This is something we agreed with Chernobyl before the drugs were sold. They also promised to directly use the construction team and heavy factory in Chernobyl to help us. One month, this is obviously the time it takes to find people from within."
Chen Zhijun didn't need to guess, he knew that the Ursus administration was rotten, and they were definitely delegating people from lower and lower places. Maybe the team was tricked into coming here, saying that the Yan people would provide them with food and wine.
"Actually, I'm ready to wait for half a year."
Yuan Congqian comforted him.
"Taking into account the infighting within God's kingdom, the interference and obstruction of Lord Nicholas by different factions, and the transmission of messages across two countries, it only took a month. Zhijun, think about it again, is this slow or fast?"
To be honest, a month was a bit of a surprise. He had never expected the administrative speed of those old bears in the Ursus Empire, but who knew that they would perform beyond their expectations this time.
It only took one month to put the construction team in place. Isn’t that touching?
"Can't Chernobog send people directly?"
Chen Zhijun was used to Lei Luo's strict and efficient work in the Western Pharmacy, but he still felt a little resentful.
"Without the chemical platform, the construction of the beverage factory will be delayed again. Now we can only produce a small amount in the workshop that Miss Nastie helped to build at the Western Pharmacy. How much time has been wasted."
"Then it's not a business relationship between Yan Country and Ursus, but a separate business relationship between Chernobog and the Western Pharmacy. Lord Nicholas doesn't want to be Chernobog's mouthpiece, and he may even be happy to see Chernobog's inefficiency."
"It's another trick of damaging our interests while making us feel important!"
Chen Zhijun is really about to become famous.
He thinks that social etiquette and business dealings should be very simple. If I am good to you, you should be good to me.
Even though he had worked with his family elders in the International Commercial Bank for some time before he passed the military examination and went to Beijing, he still found it hard to imagine that such a small matter had to be delegated through layers of authority.
"Well, after all, Lord Nicholas is only a sixth-level civil servant. Can he influence who will be sent out of the city? Let's talk about these drinks first. At least these are things we can be sure of."
Yuan Congqian pointed to the food on the table.
Coke, puffed foods, canned fruit and canned animal meat.
There is no chance that these three flagship products of the Western pharmacy will have trouble selling.
The living standard of ordinary people in Terra is very low, and the resource acquisition of mobile cities is extremely limited. The transportation cost makes it impossible for many types of food to appear. The most luxurious thing is canned fruit and animal meat.
"The production land in a mobile city is limited. There are still people starving, and even the problem of ordinary people having enough food cannot be solved. Local officials would only build large orchards and ranches if they want to move their heads and bodies."
Chen Zhijun opened a can of fruit produced on a trial basis, revealing the green flesh inside.
"Fortunately, our Chen family has some experience in orchard cultivation. Among the several large families we have contacted in the past few days, there are also those who are good at raising meat beasts, jumping beasts, and horned beasts. These are the products of the canning industry in Da Yan. I promised them to help sell them to Ursus."
This is not just a problem for Yan State alone.
Due to frequent natural disasters, seeds cannot be planted in the land polluted by Originium, and the food production in Terra has always been very low. However, if you want to make Yan Country rich and let the people have enough food, it is definitely not enough to just grow wheat and rice.
In order to make money from the Ursus people, Chen Zhijun had to use the grain land, which was not enough to feed the people of the world, to make puffed foods, orchards, and pastures.
"It tastes good...wait, what is this Coke?"
Yuan Congqian put down the can, opened the Coke, and immediately smelled the scent of Chinese medicine.
It doesn't smell like Coca-Cola, and tastes even worse, more like Pepsi.
"The original production site of Coca-Cola is in Columbia, which is too far away from Dayan. Even if we want to buy samples to crack the formula, we can't buy them. But Coca-Cola is an important part of the food industry after all. I will ask the Imperial Hospital to find a solution."
Chen Zhijun coughed to ease the embarrassment: "Fortunately, there are capable people in the Imperial Hospital. After I drank Coke all day, they actually used traditional medicinal materials to make a sugar water that tastes very similar to Coke, but the taste is still hard to cover up."
"This is also good. It can help people remember the taste of our Coke."
Yuan Congqian knocked on the table, "We said that we want Yan Country to serve as a safe rear canteen for Ursus, so that the Ursus people can eat Coke, instant noodles, and canned food during the march. We must give a satisfactory answer."
It is not easy to buy Colombian Coke in Ursus. In the empire with a strong atmosphere of war, spending money to buy Coke is obviously a bit too special. These desserts and drinks that make the bears feel happy, let the Yan people who are born to cook help them.
As for what would happen if Ursus gave up its food and light industry and could only import supplementary food from Yan Country...
Being a war maniac in this land has its price, doesn't it?
Chapter 96: Draft Plan for Character Simplification
Kelsey received a gift.
The gifts included Chen's Cola, canned wild berries, canned pickled meat, and puffed potato cubes. Other Western pharmacy officials also received them, and there were more goods on display on the shelves.
Even if there are only four kinds of goods, the sight of the shelves filled with goods is still enough to give primary school students a bit of a shock.
"Click." Kal'tsit opened the package of puffed potato cubes expressionlessly, picked up a hollow puffed potato, and put it into her mouth like a robot.
She chewed the food carefully and commented, "Satisfying the desire for food is indeed the only way for a civilization to pursue a more perfect political system. The ancient sages of Yan said that when the granaries are full, people will know etiquette. This is probably the reason."
"You started? You can do this even for a snack?"
Nasti, who came to collect feedback on the taste of snacks, was speechless.
"I'm just trying to make sure that the pharmacy is on the path it needs to take."
"Is this something you should be concerned about? Besides, Kal'tsit, you've been getting too worked up lately. I saw you seeing patients when I was off work, and you were still seeing patients when I was on duty."
“Our lives are full of misery, and even lack meaning. However, once we move forward, when we look back, we will see the journey under our feet. I believe this.”
Nasti took a deep breath and said, "My life is very meaningful. I don't need our Doctor Kal'tsit to treat me. Now, you'd better tell me your taste feedback so that I can adjust the formula."
"I'm not good at tasting food, but I can judge it from a medical perspective."
"Hmm? Thank you so much then."
Nastie raised her eyebrows, thinking that Kal'tsit's attitude was a little too nice, not like this old cat.
She is now enjoying food engineering. After all, the Wrights are not in a hurry to start research on aircraft and let little Christen come out decades earlier, and the Sarkaz banshee with a longer lifespan is even less anxious.
While studying Columbia's food engineering textbook, he and Kal'tsit manually made the equipment in the textbook and actually produced qualified supplementary food for Nasty, but they were unable to mass-produce it.
"I wonder if the Right Prime Minister of the Western Pharmacy is in the office?"
A voice came into the consultation room of the Western pharmacy.
"Come in." Kal'tsit put away the snacks and took out the stethoscope.
The person who came was not a patient, but an official from the Shangshutai. He was wearing a dazzling array of jade pendants, full of nobility, but the black official robe he wore did not match the pendants.
He took out a thick copybook and said with a smile:
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