Chapter 52: Monopoly

Song Jun?

The unfamiliar name made Zhang Changrong confused, and the person who picked him up should be surnamed Sun, not Song.

Looking at Zhang Changrong's puzzled expression, Song Jun straightened the folds on his sleeves and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang may not know mere here, but the insider and Mrs. Zhang are very familiar, and not long ago they were talking about the situation of my family's Dandan." Song's small shop in Shencheng is also often taken care of by Secretary Zhang, and Song has always wanted to thank Mr. Zhang in person, but unfortunately there has been no suitable opportunity. โ€

People rely on clothing, and Buddha relies on gold.

Dressed in a Tang costume, Song Jun seems to have a bookish Confucian temperament, and his smooth movements of rolling up his sleeves also have a kind of line beauty, making him look very elegant and gentlemanly.

But for Zhang Changrong, Song Jun's tone was calm and the words he said with a smile on his face were no less than the echoes of hell, which frightened him to sit on the ground and scream wildly.

"What do you want to do? Don't come here, I'm also the secretary of Huangjiang District, you dare to ......"

Flutter โ€“

Song Jun was caught off guard and kicked Zhang Changrong to swallow all the words in his stomach.

"Secretary Zhang, what did you just say, say it again. I didn't hear clearly. โ€

The stomach was as sore as if someone had poured sulfuric acid, and the lower abdomen was also in a hot and scorching pain, which made Zhang Changrong seriously doubt whether his intestines were broken by the kick just now.

But the pain also made him completely realize that in this unknown place in a foreign country, he was no longer the secretary of Huangjiang who once called for wind and rain, but an unknown salted fish to be slaughtered.

Plop โ€“

Zhang Changrong's knees weakened, and he knelt on the ground with snot and tears, and wailed.

"Boss Song. I'm sorry, it's all a misunderstanding. โ€

"Please, don't kill me, please. โ€

"I can give you money, my son and my wife are coming, I'll ask them to give you all the money. โ€

"Please don't remember the villain's mistakes and let me go, I will definitely be a cow and a horse to repay you." โ€

How did you become the secretary of Huangjiang District?

Seeing Zhang Changrong kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, Song Jun's face showed undisguised disdain, disgust and hatred. With a per capita annual income of 1,500 yuan, this guy in front of him can collect 500,000 US dollars and go directly abroad, so I don't know how many people's flesh and bone marrow he has sucked.

"Mr. Zhang. Do you mean your $500,000?"

Well!

How did he know?

"I advise you to think about your current situation, as for your son and wife, they should be the same as you now. โ€

Zhang Changrong, who was in tears, couldn't help but be stunned.

When he understood something, a huge shadow and fear suddenly permeated his whole body.

"Who the hell are you? What did you do to Katsura and Kelly? โ€

"It's so touching to have such a great relationship between husband and wife and fatherly love. Secretary Zhang, you can rest assured, I will let you go to reunite with your wife and children. โ€

"What are you going to do? Don't kill me, please don't kill me. โ€

"Kill you, it's not too cheap to kill you. After a while, there is a mine in Zambia that needs miners, food and shelter, and I will send you there to be with your family. โ€

Mine?

Miner!

Realizing something, Zhang Changrong's face became extremely ugly, and his dignity was like an egg that had been completely torn apart.

"You bastard. You bastard who kills a thousand knives, I am the secretary of Huangjiang District, and if you dare to sell me as a miner, you will not be able to kill you. โ€

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Zhuge City, Shenzhuang.

Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun had heartfelt smiles on their faces, without him, Jiuding Group said not long ago that the second phase of the project would be postponed indefinitely, and Shen Jiannan finalized the new project plan and plan in a few words, and promised that the funds could be in place for expansion before the year.

The expected investment of 8 million US dollars will build the entire Sangzhuang town into a model town of a modern agricultural group. With such a large investment scale, you don't need to think about it to be able to calculate what kind of economic growth it can bring to Muye and Zhuge City.

"Since ancient times, in fact, the operation of the economy is inseparable from four words, clothing, food, housing and transportation. Therefore, any country will absolutely control the interests involved in these four words in the hands of the government, such as grain, salt, cotton, and so on. โ€

"In our country, for example, it is precisely because of collective control that there seems to be no profit in this regard, in order to prevent price fluctuations and cause great damage to society. โ€

"I think that in addition to the development of agriculture, Zhuge City can also vigorously develop the medicinal materials market. โ€

Finally, Shen Jiannan mentioned his purpose.

Qian Kun was stunned, revealing an expression that he didn't know whether to say or not. Kang Dingyuan also smiled wryly, revealing a self-deprecating expression.

"Mr. Shen didn't know. Zhuge City is located in the Central Plains, the transportation is inconvenient, there are no mining resources and water resources, and the ancestors have been mainly growing food for generations. In order to reform the economy, as early as five years ago, the city thought of many ways to achieve economic growth. At that time, Mayor Qian was in the Ministry of Agriculture, and went to eastern Guangdong and Hong Kong for an inspection, and later introduced a variety of cash crops. โ€

"Including peppers in Shudi, planting mulberry trees to raise silkworms, and cultivating and planting Chinese medicinal materials. โ€

"It was ok at first. But now, farmers can't grow any more than peppers. Especially for medicinal materials, the price has fallen again and again, and even the cost cannot be taken care of, and it is impossible to grow it at all. โ€

"What do you think of the profits of the pharmaceutical industry?"

Again, an extremely jumpy topic.

Qian Kun took a sip of tea, and was a little afraid to take this question, so he had to kick the ball to Kang Dingyuan, otherwise, if he didn't say it right, he wouldn't be able to hang it on his face.

Kangding is far away.

Subordinates are the ones who stand on tiptoe for the leader.

After thinking about it carefully, he still didn't understand what Shen Jiannan's purpose was, so he had to tell him what he had roughly understood.

"The pharmaceutical industry is very poorly profitable. In terms of several traditional Chinese medicine companies in our city, the largest Zhongjing Pharmaceutical has an annual profit of about 1 million, and the small Xixia Pharmaceutical and Wanzhong Pharmaceutical have an annual profit of about 500,000. Compared with other companies with technological content, there is a big gap. โ€

"It is precisely because of the recession of the enterprise that the herbs grown by farmers cannot be sold at a price. โ€

"What about the Western Pharmaceutical Factory?"

"It's so-so. Kangyuan Pharmaceutical Industry Group is the largest western pharmaceutical company in the city, but it was in a state of loss last year. โ€

"The road of growing medicinal herbs will not work. โ€

Can't get through?

Shen Jiannan smiled noncommittally.

"I have a friend in Ukraine who used to be a thug and drunk every day, but in just one year, he is now the fourth largest arms dealer in Africa, with a net profit of millions of dollars a month. โ€

"Do you know how he did it?"

Suddenly jumping from the development of agricultural planting to munitions, Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun couldn't keep up with Shen Jiannan's thinking jump frequency at all, and the two of them stared at each other with big eyes in confusion.

They knew that what Shen Jiannan was going to say must have something to do with the issues discussed before, but they couldn't imagine that this unrelated industry would have any connection.

"His approach is simple. The Kalashniko rifle, that is, the AK series rifles, was sold on the market for ten dollars each, but this guy, who transported the Kalashniko to Africa, sold it to some local warlords and countries for twenty dollars per ton. โ€

Qian Kun and Kang Dingyuan were dumbfounded.

The price of scrap iron in China is 1,200 yuan a ton, and the finished rifles are sold for 20 dollars a ton, and they have to be transported over.

"Do you think this guy will lose money?"

"That's right. On the sale of weapons, he lost a lot of money. But in just half a year, the weapons on the African market have changed from American, French, and German weapons to almost all Kalashniko rifles, and in just half a year, he sold 60 million AK series weapons. โ€

"The more he sells, the more he loses?"

And so it is. But instead of losing money, he made a lot of money. โ€

"How is this possible?"

Shen Jiannan's dark eyes flashed, looking at Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun's unbelievable appearances, he didn't know what it was like in his heart.

"The reason is actually very simple, Kalashniko is very durable, although the shooting accuracy is not as good as the American rifle, and the quality is not as good as the German weapon, but it has a great advantage, that is, it can play its performance in any environment. โ€

"It is for this reason that this friend of mine quickly sold Kalashniko to any corner of Africa at the price of ten rounds per ton of Kalashniko, and even a five-year-old child could afford to buy his Kalashniko. โ€

"But what is a gun? It is a weapon, and in addition to killing people, it can also hunt. But without bullets, it's not even as useful as a burning stick. โ€

"Think about it, if all of Africa were Kalashniko, how many bullets would be needed per day?"

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"According to the statistics of a number of arms experts and weapons manufacturing companies in the United States, in modern warfare, an average of 20,000 rounds of ammunition per 1,000 rounds can kill a person. And the Angolan war, which killed 8 million people in 20 years, how many bullets did it take?"

"Even if you make a penny for a bullet, how much do these bullets make?"

Isn't this a monopoly?

Qian Kun and Kang Ding couldn't help but glance at each other, both incomprehensible and a chill that pierced the back of the head from the tail vertebrae.

The word monopoly is not unfamiliar to them.

As early as 100 years ago, Western capitalism entered China, and the oppression and exploitation brought about by it were extremely destructive.

One of the most important purposes of collectivism is to prevent the exploitation and oppression of capital brought about by monopolies.

But they never imagined that monopolizing a market could still operate in this way.

It is unimaginable to kill people with bullets and then monopolize the market to make huge profits.

But what does this have to do with herbs?

Whoaโ€”

Shen Jiannan was not in a hurry to say more, and took the teapot to help the two of them add tea and let them digest the information. After the two of them had almost digested it, he continued: "Bullets are consumables, and their price seems to be very inconspicuous, and the profits are very meager, but if they are monopolized, their profits are even more profitable than selling countless fighters. โ€

"Why is this happening?"

"Consumables, necessities. That's why my friend was able to succeed. Weapons without bullets are scrap metal, and those warlords and tribes have cheap weapons and can only buy bullets from him. โ€

Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun couldn't say a word, they somewhat understood what Shen Jiannan said and what he said before, but they couldn't grasp the point for a while.

It's not that the two aren't smart enough.

There is a sentence that the real elites in China are all in officialdom, but they are two different systems, and they have the limitations of the times, it is difficult for them to see so far and clearly like Shen Jiannan, who stands outside the chessboard.

"At the end of the day, the economy is for people, and wealth is created by life. โ€

"Do you think that if you monopolize the medical system, the path of growing medicinal herbs is okay?"

Poofโ€”

Qian Kun was choked by Shen Jiannan's words, and the tea in his mouth was sprayed on the table.

In the early 90s, traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine competed with each other in the Chinese medicine market, each with its own merits, and did not want to be like that later, any store would go bankrupt, but only the more pharmacies opened, a monopoly group was formed long ago.

As a contemporary, Qian Kun didn't dare to think that some people actually had the idea of monopolizing the pharmaceutical system.

Kang Dingyuan is also deeply speechless, monopolizing the medical system, this is not a fool's dream, modern medicine represents advanced, traditional medicine represents backwardness, and backward things are destined to be eliminated.

Just like the hottest brain platinum sold on the market now, it is a variety of high-tech chemical elements, which can directly supplement the substances needed by the human body.

Using traditional medicine to monopolize the pharmaceutical market is simply whimsical.

"Mr. Shen. This...... It's simply impossible. The demand for traditional medicine is very small, and the economic value is broad, and it really does not have much development prospects. โ€

"Why is the demand low?"

Shen Jiannan's words made Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun stunned.

If you fall behind, you will be eliminated, how simple the truth is, do you still need to say it?

"Do you think that modern medicine must represent the advanced?"

This is not nonsense.

Otherwise, why is there less and less traditional medicine?

The price is cheap, the effect is fast, and it can also cure diseases, not what is advanced.

Shen Jiannan's eyebrows and nose are empty, and he can't see what Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun are thinking.

"I'll give you an example, compared to horseback riding, are modern people more skilled or ancient people more skilled?"

"This ......"

"Here's another example. In terms of kung fu and archery, the level of modern people is profound, or is the level of people in the past higher?"

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"That's right. With the development and progress of modern science and technology, many things are not the same as in the past, but this does not mean that everything is more advantageous than in the past. โ€

"The thousands of years of Chinese medical system is not something that the West can surpass in just a few hundred years. โ€

"Capital determines price, and price determines demand. โ€

"You know, in most countries around the world, the poor are not eligible for medical care. For example, in the United States, if an American gets sick without insurance and needs to go to the hospital, then he can wait to die. โ€

"As far as I know, only India, the poor, have the option to survive when they get sick. โ€

"One thing they have in common is that they have had their own health care system. Other countries, on the other hand, have been completely destroyed by the so-called modern medical system. โ€

"If you kill the panda, you can only exchange it for a national treasure. โ€

"When there is no supply in the market, it is a monopoly. Like the example I gave earlier, my friend wiped out all the competitors with cheapness, and now, he has a monopoly on sixty percent of the supply of bullets in the market. โ€

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"That's right. In Africa, the price of a box of ordinary penicillin is ten dollars. โ€

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"Think about it. What will happen if the traditional medicine in China is completely cut off?"

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"When the time comes, a box of penicillin will be sold for 100 yuan, and if you get sick, will you buy it or not?"

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"I can tell both of you for sure. With the current development of the medical market, in another 20 years at most, a common cold to the hospital may cost a family a few days of income. On the streets, you can see restaurants closing down, tech products being phased out, but pharmacies will only increase. โ€

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How is this possible?

Shen Jiannan's words were like a thunderbolt, hitting Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun's hearts. They didn't want to believe what Shen Jiannan said, but with the example of Kurishenko selling AK, instinct made them feel that it was really possible.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip, suppressing the shock and doubts in his heart, Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun glanced at each other, and said tentatively: "What does Mr. Shen mean......"

"Demand and supply are never static. So economically, there has never been a buyer's market, and there has never been a seller's market. โ€

But in fact, it is not. โ€

"For example, at present, Huaxia is the world's largest iron ore demander, but the price can only be decided by major mines. โ€

"Why?"

"Because the four major mines have a monopoly on iron ore, Huaxia has no choice at all. โ€

"When the supply side is so big that the demand side has no choice, when there is only one choice in the market, no matter how expensive it is, it can only be accepted, and this premise is to eliminate all competitors first. โ€

"It's like that friend of mine sells AKs. โ€

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"I want to invest in a traditional medicine university in Zhuge City, with this as the core to radiate to the surrounding areas, and gradually send Chinese traditional medicine talents to all over the world. โ€

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Soon, under Lu Shu's farewell, Kang Dingyuan and Qian Kun left in deep thought.

Shen Jiannan leaned on the sofa alone and closed his eyes, sketching the blueprint of Jiuding inheritance in his heart.

Although he was very unhappy with the plundering of capital by the Jews, he had to admit that the Jews did have a strong means of operation in the field of capital.

Just a Rockefeller, relying on an education fund packaged by charity, has invisibly integrated the family into all walks of life around the world, which is indeed breathtaking.

The most powerful thing is still the kind of means that take advantage of people's greed, turn profits into butcher knives, and use the pandas themselves to kill pandas.

It is both a conspiracy and a conspiracy.

Involuntarily, Shen Jiannan thought of the famous poem that was deliberately deleted and distorted by some people: fighting with the sky, fighting with the earth, fighting with people, and having endless fun. To solve the worries of the family, the people, and the country, the people must take responsibility.