Chapter 233 The magic medicine must be bought with gold
In the eighth year of Chongzhen, June 22nd.
Harbor City.
Shen Jixian, male, 29 years old, is the direct heir to the Shen family, the largest maritime merchant in Zhejiang. He participated in the management of the family business at the age of 17 or 18. In just ten years, he became the only person in the Zhejiang maritime merchant circle.
The Shen family fleet, ranked fifth and sixth, quickly jumped to first place and established an absolute leading advantage.
Last year, it became a strategic partner of Xujiazhuang, helping Xujiazhuang transport 680,000 tons of coal, 430,000 tons of iron ore, 320,000 cubic meters of Liaodong wood, and countless other materials. It became a cooperation partner that Xujiazhuang could not leave - and these shipping cooperation with Xujiazhuang
, it was all negotiated and responsible for by Shen Jixian.
At the age of twenty-three, he was admitted as a scholar, and at the age of twenty-six, he was admitted as a scholar.
If he hadn't had no interest in being an official, Shen Jixian would have passed the Jinshi examination and become an official in the Ming Dynasty.
He has a handsome appearance, handsome features, and a dignified appearance, which has attracted countless hearts.
He is definitely a leader among young people, the top young elite.
But a successful person like him in the business world, an absolute winner in life, appeared in Harbor City today with a lonely and gloomy expression, accompanied by a group of entourage, looking tired and exhausted.
Even though he wanted to stop and take a rest, Shen Jixian had to restrain this thought and continued towards White Castle, hoping to see Master Xu today and ask him to help solve the dilemma.
What the hell is going on?
Why does Sim Jixian come to Harbor City?
What was the dilemma he was talking about? Why didn't he choose to take command from behind and had to come over in person?
Because Shen Jixian is the elected representative of Zhejiang Maritime Group, he has a very high status in Zhejiang Maritime Group.
The next person who summed up the three factors for the success of Xujiazhuang's overseas colonization was Shen Jixian. He found the secret of Xujiazhuang's successful overseas colonization, and then immediately followed suit. Then he encountered the biggest failure and setback in his life. Not only did the Shen family's interests
Suffering heavy losses, Zhejiang Maritime Group also suffered a big blow.
If it cannot be remedied in time, after this crisis, Zhejiang Maritime Group is likely to fail. Since then, it will be surpassed and replaced by Guangdong Maritime, Fujian Maritime or Jiangnan Maritime, and will continue to weaken and decline, and even become history.
So Shen Jixian personally came to remedy the situation this time.
I want to see the owner of the village, Mr. Xu, and make a request to buy the magic medicine, so that the remaining immigrants in southern Taiwan can get rid of the epidemic, recover as soon as possible, continue to complete the pioneering work, and recover some of the losses.
That's right.
Shen Jixian admitted that he had overestimated some issues and thought that by hiring dozens of famous doctors and miracle doctors with superb medical skills and bringing a large amount of Chinese herbal medicines, the miasma on the island of Taiwan would not be a problem, and the malaria in Southeast Asia would not be a problem.
It can be cultivated on a large scale and not too many people will die.
As a result, more than half of those famous doctors and miracle doctors whose medical skills claimed to cure everything died from the disease. They could not even cure themselves, let alone save others.
I was deceived by these miracle doctors and almost lost everything.
Now only Xujiazhuang's magical medicine can turn the situation around and avoid a complete loss.
…
soon.
Inside the White Castle, after the briefing.
Shen Jixian was lucky and soon met the owner of the village, Xu Yuanxu, and sat down face to face in the living room.
We exchanged few words.
Shen Jixian got straight to the point and pleaded with his hands: "Master owner of the village, for the sake of those eight thousand innocent and pitiful people, please sell us some magic medicine!"
"You, Zhejiang Maritime Group, want to buy the magic medicine?"
Xu Yuan glanced at him and asked thoughtfully, some information related to Zhejiang Maritime Group popped up in his mind.
Mysterious. First of all, this businessman interest group is very low-key and mysterious, but its history can be traced back to before the Yuan and Song Dynasties. It has a history of at least hundreds of years. Moreover, this interest group not only still exists, but is also quite active. Although its development has been ups and downs, it has always been
There is no weakness, but very strong vitality and profound foundation.
The period of greatest power was during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Not only did it have the ability to influence the political situation of the court, allowing the court's maritime ban policy to persist, but it also forced some Zhejiang maritime merchants who had suffered losses to collude with Japanese pirates, or become pirates.
Japanese pirates madly attacked and destroyed the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, causing a Japanese pirate trouble that lasted for decades. It can be said that this big chaos was caused by the Zhejiang Maritime Group.
Therefore, just thinking about the Japanese pirate rebellion makes it difficult for people to have a favorable impression of Zhejiang maritime merchants. Even if there are good and bad among them and cannot be killed with a stick, where are their destructive power, influence and potential energy?
, must not be taken lightly.
"Yes, Mr. Village Owner, I don't know what to do, what conditions should be put forward, before you agree to sell the magic medicine to us?" Shen Jixian asked.
"There is no problem selling the magic medicine to you."
Xu Yuan's words made Shen Jixian look happy, but he heard Xu Yuan say: "But in exchange for gold, as long as you can bring the gold, amoxicillin, artemisinin, vitamins and other life-saving gods
All the medicines will be sold to you, there is no limit on the quantity you can buy."
"gold?"
Shen Jixian was stunned for a moment and asked: "Master, does it have to be exchanged for gold? Can't it be exchanged for silver and copper coins?"
"cannot."
Xu Yuan shook his head: "I exchanged these magical medicines for gold. As long as the people who sell the medicines to me don't charge other coins for the gold, if I don't charge the gold and use it to pay the medicine sellers, I will soon be
I no longer have gold on hand, and I won’t be able to buy the magic medicine in the future. In order to allow me to buy the magic medicine, and then allow more people to use the magic medicine, I can only collect gold."
This explanation made Shen Jixian feel impeccable. After thinking about it, he had to ask: "If you use gold to buy medicine, how much magic medicine can you buy for one or two gold?"
"Don't worry, it's not expensive."
Xu Yuan said: "If it is amoxicillin capsules, a box of 48 pills can cure four people's severe colds, and the price is only one tael of gold; the same is true for artemisinin, a box of 48 pills can completely cure the cold."
The price of malaria for four people is only one tael of gold... Anyway, the pricing standard is roughly the same, as long as you spend one tael of gold, you can exchange for four lives."
"But gold is expensive now. It costs 40 taels of silver to exchange for 1 tael of gold. Doesn't it mean that it costs as much as 10 taels to cure a patient? This... is too expensive." Shen Jixian frowned and said, the epidemic has great consequences.
The characteristic of large-scale infection is that if tens of thousands of immigrants are infected with a tropical disease, wouldn’t it cost hundreds of thousands of taels to cure them all?
Who can bear the cost of such treatment?
"Ten taels of silver to save a life, isn't that expensive?"
Xu Yuan asked him back: "It's really a matter of life and death. Let alone ten taels of silver, even if you sell your house and land, you still have to cure the disease! It's really not expensive, not to mention that after the immigrants successfully opened up the manor, one year later
Can’t it still bring the value of ten taels of silver? As long as we do a good job in sanitation, reduce the number of plagues, and isolate and treat a patient as soon as possible, it is entirely possible to greatly reduce the number of infections and nip the pandemic in the bud.
It can be said that you have no knowledge about hygiene at all, and you have paid a lot of tuition fees in vain."
At the end, Xu Yuan said to him: "It is impossible to lower the price of the magic medicine. If you are willing to buy it, buy it. If you can't afford it, forget it. In addition, I will give him a few books on how to pay attention to hygiene in daily life. Then in Harbor City
Buy some mosquito nets, mosquito coils, toilet water and other products, and the probability of a major epidemic outbreak can be reduced by more than 90%. The remaining 10% can be solved with magic medicine. Anyway, it is up to you whether to buy it or not. I have time and money, so I won’t spend more time with you.
Already."
Xu Yuan stood up and was about to leave.
"Sir, owner of the village, we can buy the magic medicine. We can pay in gold!"
Shen Jixian stopped him and gritted his teeth and said, because according to Zhuang Zhu, if you don't buy the magic medicine, even if you can reduce the probability of a plague outbreak by 90%, one of the ten major epidemics has not been controlled.
As for living, wouldn’t it mean that all the investment has been wasted?
purchase!
You must buy this miracle medicine. It is absolutely impossible not to buy it.
Coupled with correct measures to deal with the epidemic and develop good hygiene habits, only in this way can we gain a firm foothold and achieve a long-term stay.
As for gold, Zhejiang Maritime Group does have a large amount of gold in its hands, some of which may have been buried in cellars for decades or hundreds of years. Now it finally has the opportunity to rebuild the sky and reflect its value.
One hundred thousand taels.
On behalf of the Zhejiang Maritime Group, Shen Jixian placed the first batch of orders for the miracle medicine, which was a full one hundred thousand taels. The weight of one tael of gold was 37.5 grams, multiplied by one hundred thousand. Xu Yuan got this deal
375 kilograms of gold - the purity is generally around 80%, which is only equivalent to 300 kilograms of pure gold, but it is still very impressive.
And this is just the beginning.
…
So June 23rd.
The latest issue of "Oriental Times" focused on the news on the front page [There is a magic medicine for overseas colonization, and the magic medicine needs to be bought with gold], which introduced in detail the transaction between Zhejiang Maritime Group and Xujiazhuang.
, and how to correctly respond to major epidemics in tropical areas.
But no matter what, miracle medicine is absolutely indispensable, otherwise we will not be able to bear the catastrophic consequences of being attacked by the epidemic.
Therefore, after reading this article, many people who are full of fantasy and longing for Nanyang couldn't help but curse and were very unhappy:
"I already have nothing, where can I find the gold to buy the magic medicine?"
"Can't I buy it with silver? Where can I exchange it for gold now?"
"If you want to develop in Nanyang, I'm afraid you will have to be slaughtered by Xujiazhuang."
"Forget it, don't go to Nanyang. Let's find a place to pan for gold first. At least you have to get three to five taels of gold in hand."
"We are collecting gold. We are collecting gold in large quantities. Now one tael of gold can be exchanged for fifty silver dollars. If you have gold in hand, you can exchange it with me!"
So starting from this day.
In the Ming Dynasty, the trend of colonizing Southeast Asia temporarily cooled down, but soon there was a wave of gold rush and gold speculation. Countless people were extremely thirsty for gold, and tried every means to collect gold, and even exchanged gold from foreign merchants.
, and as more and more wealth legends came from Nanyang, this wave of gold collection became more and more crazy, but in the end, most of the gold flowed to Xujiazhuang and into the hands of Xu Yuan, so the gold reserves in his hands were lost.
Increasing at an extremely rapid rate. This chapter has been completed!