Inoue Kamesaburo bowed deeply to Wang Yiting and thanked him for his contribution to the Kanto earthquake.

"Wang Sang, the Japanese people will never forget your great kindness."

Wang Yiting was very happy to hear this: "Mr. Inoue, you are polite."

As the president of the Demon City Chamber of Commerce, he was naturally familiar with the Qin family. He saw Qin Di quietly watching calligraphy and paintings from afar, so he walked over and shouted, "Nephew, you are here too! Are you interested in calligraphy and painting?"

Qin Di smiled slightly: "Gourmet to my uncle. Although I can't draw, I like to appreciate paintings."

Wang Yiting smiled and said, "Since you like it, then buy a few pictures back! The Qin family has made a fortune in the past two years, why not subsidize these painters at sea?"

Qin Di smiled and said, "Okay. Then I will buy a few more."

The reason why these painters held painting exhibitions was to exchange and gather to become famous, and the more important reason was to sell paintings. Painters also had to make a living. If the paintings could not be sold, they would have to drink the northwest wind.

The calligraphy and paintings of these days are very cheap. A three-foot-long painting costs 40 or 50 yuan, and a two or three hundred yuan expensive. But after a hundred years, each fine work will be worth millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions!

Qin Di thought about it: "It is a waste to put money in the bank. Why not buy a few more paintings? The question is how to save it after buying it?"

Although he has a storage belt with two silos inside, one is larger and can hold dozens of cubic meters, and the other is smaller, only five or six cubic meters, it is not safe to put calligraphy and paintings inside. Maybe the storage space will be filled with medicines and guns in the future. What if the calligraphy and paintings are crushed?

Moreover, in the next decades, China's continent will be in turmoil and there will be almost no peace. It is not safe to write and paint anywhere, even if it escapes the threat of war.

Wang Yiting saw him silent and smiled and said, "Nephew, I know that the Qin family has bought a lot of real estate, from the Bund to the Main Road, Erma Road, and even the buildings opposite my house have been bought by your family. However, although the investment property can appreciate in value, it may not be as good as calligraphy and painting."

Qin Di laughed and said, "You are right. I want to collect hundreds of paintings. Can you please be someone?"

Wang Yiting was surprised: "Hundreds of paintings? Are you good paintings like cabbage?"

"Haha, it's not limited to these works that have been posted. Zhang Daqian and Liu Haisu, who doesn't have many collections?"

Wang Yiting stared at him and smiled and said, "Okay, okay! If you really want to collect the paintings, you will be considered a helping everyone."

Afterwards, he introduced each painter to Qin Di.

Everyone soon learned that Qin Di was a big buyer, stupid, and there was a lot of money, so come quickly!

Some people thought Qin Di was so stupid, so they used some ordinary paintings to fool him.

Wang Yiting didn't say anything, just watched from the side with a smile.

However, unexpectedly, Qin Di's eyes were like a torch, and he could see the value of calligraphy and painting at a glance. He just carefully selected some of them and put those ordinary paintings aside.

When Wang Yiting saw this, he couldn't help but nodded secretly and thought to himself: "It's not simple. At a young age, he has a high appreciation ability. Obviously, it's not a pamper."

After Qin Di collected the paintings on the scene, he asked Wang Yiting for help and recommended a broker who operates calligraphy and painting.

This person's name is "Wu Heng". He is in his forties. He was originally a poor painter. Later, he changed his career to become a calligraphy and painting businessman.

Qin Di asked Wu Heng to take his place to visit Zhang Daqian, Liu Haisu, Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, Feng Zikai, and even went to the north to find Qi Baishi, Chen Shizeng and others, and swept away their fine paintings. He also agreed with these painters to ask them to keep the good paintings, and he would scan them again every three years.

Qin Di spent 500,000 yuan to buy a thousand paintings in a few months. To him, it was just a drizzle, but it caused a lot of sensation in the calligraphy and painting world.

Some people couldn't sell paintings, so they rumored that the Qin family had a kid and bought a bunch of bad paintings with my mother's hard-earned money!

Those real great painters praised him when they mentioned him: "Mr. Qin has a pair of keen eyes and bought our masterpieces. The price he offered was fair, and we are willing to sell it to him."

Qin Di put all his calligraphy and paintings in the small space on the right side of the storage belt. He planned to use this space specifically for calligraphy and painting collections, and would not put anything else.

In addition to the works of these contemporary painters, he also secretly purchased some ancient paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties. As long as there are any ones available in Shangjing and Modu, they can collect them as much as possible. For example, the works of Wang Qian, Lu Zhi, Xiang Shengmo, Gong Xian, Zhou Chen, Sun Zhaolin, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Zheng Banqiao, Tang Yin, Jin Nong and others were also swept away by him.

He even received some old calligraphy and paintings in the Qing Dynasty, including hundreds of calligraphy and paintings in "Shiqu Baoji". Because the Qing Dynasty had just been driven out by Feng Yuxiang, the ancient paintings he had collected for many years were spread to the streets. If these paintings were waiting a hundred years later, each of them could be auctioned for tens of millions.

Time flies, and before we know it, it was 1926.

At this time, around the world, the penicillin produced by Qinjia Pharmaceutical Factory is still far ahead of the list. One is priced at US$80, but it is still in short supply.

Cathay Pharmaceutical is under pressure to produce 20,000 units per month, half of which sell domestically and half export, and its profit exceeds one million US dollars! This is an amazing number!

There are many pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Britain and Germany who have invested a lot of money to find Penicillium with high yields. However, two years have passed, and the world is still looking for moldy cantaloupes, but no strains are suitable for industrial production.

Therefore, these pharmaceutical companies had to send people to the Magic City to seek cooperation and patent authorization. Some people also wanted to take the opportunity to steal the strains.

Unfortunately, the security measures of Qinjia Pharmaceutical Factory are very good. Every staff member is carefully selected and needs to take a shower and change clothes when entering and leaving the factory. After four or five inspections from the inside out, it is not easy for outsiders to steal the strain.

In the spring of that year, the heads of more than a dozen famous pharmaceutical companies in Europe and the United States came to the Magic City, and even officials from embassy from various countries were dispatched. These people used both soft and hard work, spread rumors and public criticism, and even let the concession police officers come up and force the Qin family to produce high-yield strains.

There were many comments from well-known figures in the newspaper, saying that penicillin is a magical drug to fight bacteria and should belong to all mankind. Since Ms. Zhu Wan won the supreme honor of the Nobel Prize, she should give high-yield penicillium free of charge to save more patients.

Under pressure, Qin Di personally took action and invited a group of lawyers who combined Chinese and Western countries to negotiate with these pharmaceutical companies.

The patent system has a long history. As early as 1624, the UK had patent law; the US patent system began in 1790, and by 1926 it had been more than a hundred years.

Logically speaking, these pharmaceutical companies are purely in trouble and are bound by the patent system and do not have the upper hand in negotiations.

But Qin Di faced a group of hooligans in suits, who could be unreasonable by relying on strong ships and powerful cannons.

In this year, Japan bombarded Dagukou and wanted to trample on China's sovereignty! British warships bombarded Wanxian for three hours, killing more than 5,000 Chinese! The British "Asia" ship sank the Chinese merchant ship "Shendian" and drowned 450 people!

So, this group of foreigners are a group of gangsters and robbers! In history, the conflict between various human races has never stopped. The so-called fairness and justice have to wait for a long time!
Chapter completed!