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Chapter 126 The Love History of the Black Flag Army and France(1/2)

When Wang Yi received the letter of distressed help from Hu Xueyan, he said that although he was a little surprised, it was not surprising. At this time, Li Yuzhen and Nie Xiong were sitting opposite him, and Wang Yixiao said, "What do you think about this?"

Li Yuzhen thought for a while before saying, "It's not easy to deal with!"

Nie Xiong nodded and agreed with his mentor's opinion. He looks very similar to his name, 1.9 meters tall, described as tough and masculine. However, he is cautious and cautious in his work. The most important thing is that he has a vicious investment vision and a very tough personality. In fact, Wang Yi also likes Ding Xiaotian very much, even if he has to accumulate experience for a few more years, he will be a good material in the future.

"It's not difficult to save them. It's not a problem for my Dashang Bank to take out this money, but the storm is too mixed. I personally have a reservation." Li Yuzhen began to tell her point of view.

Nie Xiong obviously had the same view: "The teacher is right. Besides, Hu Xueyan's silk shop was not very friendly to us at the beginning. Anton's textile group went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to collect silk, but they didn't even sell them." Nie Xiong was very dissatisfied with this matter. "Since you want to save the country and grab the pricing power of raw silk, it's up to you. But you even cut off your own business. If the Northeast silk source had not gradually developed, we would have cut off our supply."

Wang Yi held the teacup and Shen Yazhi helped him rub his shoulders behind him. The girl was very disciplined on weekdays. When Wang Yi talked about things, he would not interfere with the decision-making issues of Da Shang.

Nie Xiong continued: "Anyway, Fukang will always go bankrupt. Since that's the case, it's better to wait until they go bankrupt and help them take over the mess. It's considered to be the end of kindness."

Wang Yi smiled. Nie Xiong was right to do this. He was responsible for Da Shang, so the life and death of others were naturally not within his consideration.

"Your words are right." Then he put down his teacup, stood up, walked to the bed and looked out for a while, and said, "Hu Xueyan, we still have to save it, but we can't save it so directly!"

Ding Xiaotian received Nie Xiong's reply, and there were not many things written on it. To sum it up, it was four points. First, using Qingyutang as collateral, loaned 2 million taels of silver, with a three-year limit. Even if Fukang's problem was alleviated, the Hu family could repay the entire loan. But from then on, all the prescriptions of Qingyutang were also entitled to use. Second, the entire Hu family's real estate in Shanghai was sold. Because the Sino-French War broke out, the land price was calculated at a 30% discount, totaling one million taels. Third, 5,000 bags of Hu family's raw silk were purchased at a price of 50 taels per pack, totaling 2.5 million taels, which was 30 taels cheaper than the current market price. Fourth, Qichang will help the Hu family conduct ocean-going trade in raw silk, and the freight rate will be three times.

The four items must be accepted together. If you are willing, you are willing. If you are unwilling, you are unwilling. Wang Yi gave him very harsh conditions. Ding Xiaotian smiled bitterly after reading it. Isn’t this just taking advantage of the situation? But think about it, this must be done, otherwise it is likely that he offended Li Hongzhang.

When Hu Xueyan received the reply from the Dashang Headquarters, his face turned pale and said to himself, Wang Yi was too bullying! But thinking about the current situation of Fukang collapse, it was quite interesting for others to do so, at least he did not let the Hu family go bankrupt directly.

After thinking for a long time, Hu Xueyan agreed with a tough bullet.

Sheng Xuanhuai was reading a book in the study, and the servant suddenly knocked on the door and said, "Master, important matter."

"Enter!"

"Report to the master, Hu Xueyan came to the door to ask the big merchant for help from the news that was sent back in Shanghai."

"What's the result?" Sheng Xuanhuai stood up suddenly, his eyes as cold as lightning, and his evil aura was imposing.

"The Da Shang agreed to Hu Xueyan's request, but the conditions were very harsh."

“What conditions?”

The servant told the conditions again. After hearing Sheng Xuanhuai, he breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that Hu Xueyan would not die, but even so, he would lose at least four to five million yuan. Da Shang was really cruel to take action, but Sheng Xuanhuai was reluctant to let Hu Xueyan escape from the ascension. In fact, before dealing with Hu Xueyan, he wanted to send a telegram to Da Shang and ask for help, but when he thought that he could not order the other party, he gave up. Unexpectedly, Hu Xueyan finally found Da Shang. Although he suffered heavy losses by Da Shang, he left a breath of vitality.

"Oh, forget it!" Sheng Xuanhuai waved his hand and sent the servant out. Then he wrote a letter and asked someone to hand it over to Li Hongzhang.

When Li Hongzhang learned the news, he sighed. Although it was a pity in his heart, it was not unacceptable. After all, Da Shang's sword was too ruthless, although it only bleed and did not kill people. Li Hongzhang did not want to offend Da Shang. These people were just a group of bandits, and they did everything in a hurry. He threw bombs outside Xizhimen and almost blew up the Sorghum Bridge. That place was the royal wharf. Who knew that they were still on purpose or still on the side, and Cixi himself dared not say anything. Since Da Shang robbed Hu Xueyan's wealth, Li Hongzhang felt that he should look at it honestly and just pretend that the matter had not happened.

Hu Xueyan exchanged nearly half of his net worth for 5.5 million yuan in cash, which instantly solved the crisis of Fukang's bankruptcy. After that, with Qichang Kaiyun Hu's raw silk to trade in the UK, including the Steamship Merchants Corporation, several other ships that originally blocked the export of Hu's raw silk. Seeing this, they finally released the blockade. There was not much raw silk that was actually transported by Qichang Foreign Company. Hu Xueyan actually made more than two million taels of silver in the remaining nine thousand bags of raw silk. So the real loss was only 3.5 million taels. In addition, after the outbreak of the Sino-French War, Shanghai Real Estate did plummet. Hu Xueyan then realized that Wang Yi didn't actually make much money. After all, it was only one hundred thousand taels, and there were all the proven recipes from Qingyutang.

For this matter, Zuo Zongtang wrote a letter to Wang Yi to express his gratitude. Hu Xueyan was the same. Later, he went to the Northeast to invest in reciprocity, and then helped the textile group raise supplies such as raw silk and cotton in the south, and then carried out ready-made clothing sales for Dashang in the south. It was said that it opened a new trade route for Dashang.

Hu Xueyan has learned his lesson since then and has never done such monopoly trade that seems to be very profitable but actually has great risks. In fact, he is also afraid that he is not only controlling his own money, but also many wealthy families in it that can make the entire Qing Dynasty tremble with one stomp. Once these people suffer losses, the Hu family will definitely be destroyed.

Although Wang Yi saved the Hu family, he was unable to stop the financial crisis that spread from Shanghai to the entire Qing Dynasty. Too many money shops went bankrupt and too many merchants were implicated. The tea silk trade, which could have brought a large amount of income to the Qing Dynasty, suddenly became a failure, which caught many people off guard.

Wang Yi did not pay much attention to Hu Xueyan. After Qingyutang's proven prescription was sent to Dashang, he was directly handed over to the School of Pharmaceuticals by Wang Yi for research on active ingredients. The side effects of traditional Chinese medicine are actually very large, and some unnecessary ingredients can be removed if they can be removed. Otherwise, the patient's liver and kidney function is really unbearable, and it is not uncommon for patients to suffer from liver and kidney failure. This matter is a dedicated person, and Wang Yi does not have to worry about it. However, the issue of antibiotics has recently received great attention from the international community. Many countries hope that Dashang will disclose the prescription, but Wang Yi sternly rejected it. Antibiotics represented by penicillin are one of the core secrets of Dashang Pharmaceuticals. How could Wang Yi make it public?

However, a new chain of interests emerged, that is, the underground smuggling of penicillin. However, under the severe crackdown of the Northeast Autonomous Government, it finally disappeared. However, this triggered an international dispute that Wang Yi did not expect.

Yang Qiuxing, the Prime Minister of the Northeast Autonomous Region, was talking to Wang Yi in his office. This man was a genius and was eloquent. His mouth was comparable to a woman. In order to accomplish something, he never gave up. Even Wang Yi was a little afraid of him, but he also supported him very much in order to provide a stable source of wealth for the autonomous region. Da Shang donated all the railway shares to the autonomous region government, but the operating rights were still carried out in the hands of Da Shang, and two-thirds of the profits belonged to the autonomous region. In addition, Da Shang also sent shares related to electricity and communications. The result of the exchange was that the likin was cancelled and changed to normal tax revenue. Originally, the Northeast Customs was controlled by the British Hurd, but Wang Yi sent a notice to British Ambassador Bashali that the Northeast Autonomous Region would revoke the control of the customs.

Because Bashali was unwilling to provoke big merchants in the Far East, he finally agreed after several rounds of negotiations and also stopped selling opium to the Northeast.

However, just as Yang Qiuxing put down the phone today, his confidential secretary brought the news, saying that Britain and the United States demanded official trade negotiations on the export of antibiotics. After reading the news, Yang Qiuxing probably understood that the two countries did not dare to provoke their teacher Wang Yi, so they wanted to open their own way.

In principle, Dashang did not export all types of antibiotics. Only Wang Yi's foreign allies had inventory, but the stock was very small. After a course of treatment, it was similar to using gold of the same weight. But even so, no matter how much the price, it was impossible to buy it, because Dashang could not produce so many sources of goods. However, the name of antibiotics is now becoming more and more popular. At first, it was nonsense in Western countries. But when Charlie Fama really treated a relative of pneumonia with intravenous penicillin sodium infusion, the whole of Britain was shocked. Later, an amazing thing happened in the United States. Jack Spyro's relative had encephalitis and later he used penicillin to cure it.

After these two cases and major newspapers reported, Da Shang's antibiotics were finally known to the world. Although it is a good thing to be famous, it is a pity that Da Shang has no blessing to survive. If it were a terminal illness in the past, it is possible to cure it, but because there is no medicine in his hands, he could only end up waiting for death. The poor may be okay, but the rich and the powerful will definitely not tolerate it. If Wang Yi had not had the strong military power in his hands, the first antibiotic war would have started in the Northeast.

"Sir, British Ambassador Bashali, and American Ambassador John Yang are waiting to meet you in Yingkou. Are you calling them?" the confidential secretary suggested.

When Yang Qiuxing heard this, he frowned and said, "If I talk about antibiotics and ask them to go to my teacher, I will not have the time to talk to them about this." He thought about it later and called.

"Hey, hello, sir, two ambassadors. I am Yang Qiuxing, Prime Minister of Northeast Autonomous Region. Welcome the two."

"Oh, Hello, Mr. Prime Minister, I'm very happy to meet you. The prosperity of the Northeast shocked and envied us. We also hope that the Northeast can be more prosperous under your leadership." John Yang said very politely.

"Thank you, I will do my best. By the way, I wonder what happened to you two from the capital to our northeast?"

"I recently heard that Guidi can produce a magical drug that has good efficacy for various bacteremias. Her Majesty the Queen of our country and the President of Citiland hope to import more of these drugs from Guidi, and I hope that the Prime Minister can make some convenience." Bashali said with a smile.

Yang Qiuxing smiled and said, "I have heard of the drugs mentioned by the two ambassadors. However, they are products of Dashang Pharmaceuticals. According to the laws of the autonomous region, even I cannot ask a company to export their products. We will not over-point the market. On this point, I hope the two ambassadors will forgive me. Of course, as our traditional friends, I will make a match for my teacher, Mr. Wang Yi. If the two can convince him, I think there will be no problems with the export of antibiotics."

Bashali and John Yang looked at each other, but were helpless, and finally said, "Then I'll trouble you, Your Excellency Prime Minister."

After receiving Yang Qiuxing's call, Wang Yi smiled and said, "Why did you make a problem for me if you're fine?"

"Sir, you are the evil one who complains first. If Da Shang hadn't produced antibiotics, how could this be a problem?"

This made Wang Yi choke and finally said, "Okay, I'll see them."

In fact, when Wang Yi answered Yang Qiuxing's call, there was a new trouble in front of him. A girl stood opposite him. He had seen this girl several times before, named Zhao Lan, the sister of Zhao Ziguang, deputy commander of the Air Force, and Xu Xiao's girlfriend without a name.

However, when Xu Xiao passed away due to a shipwreck, the girl with a cute appearance seemed to be in great grief. Later, she even had to take over Xu Xiao's unfinished career and continue to develop hybrid rice. Zhao Ziguang was helpless about this. His sister is now in high school in Dashang. Although she is not in the same class as Shen Yatou and Qianjia, she is also a famous talented girl in the same grade. She has a bright future and is something that everyone knows. But now she has to abandon some for Xu Xiao and devote herself to something that looks great but is really boring to do. This made Zhao Ziguang very dissatisfied, so the brother and sister started a big fight about it.

Of course, Wang Yi would complain about this. What's wrong with your brother and sister making trouble in front of me? But he also knew what Zhao Ziguang meant, which was understandable, but he did not agree.

"Are you sure you want to transplant other people's dreams to yourself? I don't know what's more cruel in the world than killing your own dreams."

The girl was stunned by Wang Yi's statement. In fact, she respected Wang Yi very much. She had her own dream, but...

"That's not someone else, he is Xu Xiao." The girl's eyes were very stubborn.

When Wang Yi heard this, he felt a little moved.

"You can start a war for him, why can't I take over his dream?"

"Xu Xiao's Heavenly Spirit will not like you doing this. In fact, it is enough for you to have this heart." Wang Yi sighed very much. Such a girl is rare in the world.

The girl suddenly started crying and said, "If I don't miss him, no one in this world will miss him. I want to inherit his dream, otherwise I am afraid that I will forget him one day, how pitiful he is?"

Zhao Ziguang, who had been silent on the side, sighed, Chen Yazhi and Qianjia walked past, comforted the girl, and shed tears with her.

Wang Yi thought for a while and said, "I don't object to your dream of inheriting Xu Xiao, but..."

"What?" asked the girl with red eyes with her head raised.

"But you have to finish high school. Now you are in high school for one year, and it's only two or three years before you graduate from high school. There will be a college entrance examination after that. At that time, you can choose your dream and apply for related majors."

The girl thought about it and nodded. "Thank you, Chairman, I will work hard."

Wang Yi looked at Zhao Ziguang and said, "Don't force your sister anymore. She has her own life, and you can't decide everything. When she thinks it's right, let her try it. If everything goes well, it's naturally the best. If you encounter setbacks, it's actually enough to have you, a shelter. In life, how can you tell the difference between right and wrong? It's useless to think too much."

Zhao Ziguang pondered for a moment, and although his face was not very good, he still nodded.

After answering the brother and sister correctly, Wang Yi finally met British ambassador Bashali and US minister John Yang a day later. In fact, it is not only these two countries that want antibiotics, but France, Russia, and Japan, even if they want, they do not have the same face to come. The two sides are hostile and are still in war.

Both Baxiali and John Yang met Wang Yi for the first time. Although they had heard of Wang Yi for a long time, the Qing people in front of them still shocked them very much.

"Hello, Mr. Bashali." "Hello, Mr. John."

"Hello, Mr. Chairman"

The two sides shook hands very friendly, and then Wang Yicai said: "I have heard about your purpose. This is the general manager of our Dashang Pharmaceuticals, Kyle Watson. You can ask him for advice on the situation."

Kyle Watson is a German. He graduated from Pharmacy. Later, Wang Yi invited him to Dashang and studied economics and trade-related courses by himself. He then took up the position of general manager of Dashang Pharmaceutical. Unexpectedly, he has now become one of the most popular figures in the world. Even German Emperor William I and Prime Minister Bismarck hoped that he could return to China to preside over the German drug chemical factory. However, he was still rejected by Kyle Watson because he was not a German, but a big merchant.

"Our factory can only produce 10,000 antibiotic injections per month. We can't meet these drugs alone, so we don't want to export them, but we are really powerless to do it, and we are not able to catch it." Watson brought the old-fashioned Germans and did not have too many expressions when speaking.

Bashali doesn't like Germans, and John Yang doesn't like it now.

"Mr. General Manager, we don't ask for much, two thousand units a month, this is OK, right?" Baxiali said helplessly.

"Are I not clear about what I said? We don't have enough of ourselves, and we don't have the energy to do it."

Bashali felt that he could not communicate with the Germans at all, so he turned his face and said to Wang Yi: "Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the production technology of penicillin can be exported to our country?"

"What do you think?" Wang Yi smiled.

Baxiali also felt that he was a little difficult, but under the pressure of the domestic powerful people, he had to bite the bullet and said: "Mr. Chairman, as long as you are willing to release the technology export of penicillin, our country is willing to exchange it with any technology."

Wang Yi smiled even more thoughtfully this time and said, "I can't think of any technology to introduce from your country."

Baxiali remembered at this time that Dashang Industrial Laboratory is the holy mountain in the current world scientific research field. People do not need any technology from their own country at all. Maybe it might have been a few years ago, but when Dashang's heavy industry and light industry foundations gradually accumulate, all Wang Yisuo had to do was wait.

Everything will be there.

However, Wang Yi was not afraid to give these two people face. The Americans were still the most powerful country in the world after all. It was completely unnecessary to offend them for an antibiotic.

"I think so. By the end of the year, our Dashang Pharmaceutical will have a penicillin production of 50,000 per month. By then, I promise to give two people a share of 5,000 per month."

Bashali nodded, and John Yang had to agree.

"But I have a requirement that these drugs can only be sold in pharmacies that our Dashang specialize in, and your country must ensure that our patents are not infringed. Once we find that someone imitates our drugs, you have not stepped in time to stop them. I'm sorry, from now on, Dashang will no longer sell any drugs to you. I hope you can forgive me."

Bashali and John Yang were both very friendly and said, "Yes!"

It was said that Britain was reciprocating its favor. Later, in 1884, they took the initiative to invite the Northeast Autonomous Region to attend the Berlin Conference. This was an unexpected invitation. Wang Yi happily accepted the proposal to divide the African continent.

After agreeing to the penicillin export requirements of Britain and the United States, Wang Yi also agreed to Germany's request, which was 5,000 per month, and according to the common requirements of the three countries. From now on, for every ten thousand increase in the antibiotic production capacity of Dashang Pharmaceutical, the supply of each country increased by 1,000. The price of drugs was discussed together, of course, based on the price of Dashang. It would not be too outrageous, but after these antibiotics were transported back to various countries, they still triggered a strong backlash from the local people. Because the price was too high, the poor could not afford it. Antibiotics were named as a special drug for aristocratic for a long time.

Wang Yi didn't care about this. As long as you pay, you have no conscience, it has nothing to do with him. However, compared with Britain, Germany and the United States, the powerful and powerful in other countries also have people who are afraid of death, but their strength is not as strong as that of the big merchants and they cannot be forced. So he started to smuggle penicillin from the Northeast Autonomous Region again, and even a blatant robbery occurred.

Yang Qiuxing was not ruthless about this and finally suppressed this unhealthy trend again.

In 1883, the French imperialist leader Ru Feili finally became the French Prime Minister again. The previous war between France and the Northeast officially ignited the enthusiasm of the French people. Their national policy was to expand the colony, mainly Vietnam, and then to expand to the entire Qing Dynasty. Because he was dissatisfied with the delayed policy of Baohai, the French ambassador to China, Ru Feili replaced the minister who had been jealous of the Qing Dynasty. Later, De Ligu was sent, but he did not work for a long time and left. From then on, France did not leave an ambassador in the Qing Dynasty, only Xie Manliang, the counselor, was temporarily responsible for the daily affairs of the embassy.

Speaking of the French's enthusiasm for foreign aggression is so high, there is actually a reason.
To be continued...
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