With eye-popping efficiency, Shaw and the Duke of Newcastle finalised investments worth £200,000 in less than two hours.

In this era, money is very valuable, 200,000 pounds is not a lot in the 21st century, but in the 19th century it is a huge amount of money!

A mature skilled worker's weekly salary is only more than ten pounds a week, which is enough to support his family to live a relatively decent life in London.

The higher middle class, whose monthly income did not exceed 100 pounds, was because the pound was on the gold standard at that time, locked to gold, and the purchasing power was amazing, and the word inflation had never been heard of.

In this business, the Duke of Newcastle did not get the marketing rights of the whole of Europe, and Xiao Lotian was not stupid, so he would not put all his eggs in this basket.

The Duke got the exclusive agency of Chinese restaurants and fresh source spices in the British Isles, and originally he also wanted the agency rights of France, Xiao Lotian would definitely not agree, and finally after bargaining, the agency rights of the Gibraltar Territory and the Moroccan region opposite were also assigned to him.

In the cooperation, the duke is the head snake after all, and he is very familiar with the local situation, so he holds 51% of the shares and gets the daily management rights, while Xiao Lotian does not need to invest any money, and completely relies on secret recipes and talents to invest in the shares, accounting for 49% of the entire business.

Not only that, but the Duke also has to ensure that in the shortest possible time, the patent of Xianzhiyuan will be registered in the patent office to ensure the commercial interests of both parties.

The duke wanted a lot, and he even wanted Xiao Lotian to set up a production base in the United Kingdom, but this proposal was categorically rejected by Xiao Letian.

What are you kidding, this is Europe fed by wolves, and the civilization on the surface can't hide the greed in their hearts, if they put the spice production base here, it is estimated that they will not be able to keep any secrets in less than a month.

This production plant had to be placed in the Ryukyus, and it had to be produced under the strict protection of the army, and this thing did not take up space anyway, and it was enough for Britain to use one ship at a time.

At present, Xianzhiyuan can only use the simplest refining method of boiling, and when the funds for returning to China are in place, a chemical research team must be set up to study the method of extracting glutamate from grain.

Xiao Letian did not study chemical engineering, but he knows very well that chemical experiments are actually a lot of exploration and repetitive hard work.

If you want to say that creativity is also a matter of prejudging the direction, those chemists who study the principle are of course great gods, but ordinary chemists basically carry out repetitive experiments step by step, and gamble their luck in the experiment, in case there is a new harvest!

In this case, as long as someone can spend in the right direction, such as monosodium glutamate, Xiao Letian clearly told chemists that this substance is widely found in food and seafood, and that is enough.

As long as the direction is right, the rest is to repeat various chemical refining and separation methods, as long as you are willing to spend time and money, you will definitely be able to study the process of industrial refining of MSG.

This secret must be locked in the hands of the Chinese forever, of course, in the hands of Xiao Letian first, in the future, this is an inexhaustible gold mine, and the affiliated European high society has to pay a lot of money to buy fresh sources even for the sake of face.

Everyone has to socialize, they have to have a banquet, and other people's chefs use top Chinese imperial chefs, and the ingredients are added with oriental mysterious spices, and they are delicious to death.

But your banquet is dry and old-fashioned, and the food is indifferent...... There is no harm if there is no comparison! Once the human mind of comparison appears, the reason is rubbish.

Xiao Lotian and the Duke of Newcastle both understand this truth, and it is precisely because both sides understand this golden prospect that they will be noisy but not broken, noisy and efficient, and finally reach a cooperation intention in a short period of time.

At this time, the clock was already pointing to three o'clock in the afternoon, and even the most energetic people needed to rest, the Duke and his subordinates were sipping afternoon tea in the cabin, while the high-ranking officials of the Chinese clan were pacing on the deck and looking at the scenery, Xiao Lotian and Huang Evil Doctor were whispering in a corner of the bow of the ship, presumably talking about the follow-up progress of this business cooperation.

After a while, Wang Ju walked over, he glanced at Huang Evil Doctor and said lightly, "I have some things to discuss with the Führer, you can step down first......"

Huang Xie Doctor didn't dare to disobey, and quickly nodded and turned to leave, Wang Huaiyuan looked at Xiao Letian with dead eyes for a long time before he said, "Why do you defile yourself to such an extent?

Xiao Letian touched his nose in embarrassment, "What kind of words are these, how can I ever waver......"

"Okay! Don't hide it from me, if it weren't for your wavering heart, you would have played the role of a businessman in front of everyone?"

"Amazing, this matter has definitely become a joke among European politicians, the dignified Chinese head of state has just arrived in England and has not yet disembarked from the ship to talk about business with the Duke of Newcastle, how greedy is this?"

"Are you worried that Britain will not have a good time, so you deliberately put on such a posture to make them despise you and make them less hostile to you?"

Wang Ju is worthy of being the leader of the CIA, and his meticulous efforts to observe words and colors are too powerful, and Xiao Letian's face has changed in the end.

He grabbed Wang Ju's clothes and took them to a more secluded corner, and then whispered, "Silence, you have to be quiet, do you have to let everyone hear? What can I do, the British have already put a knife on my neck......

"I didn't take it lightly this time, I really didn't expect him to really have the courage to make such a decision at the last moment, I have nothing to say when his words are squeezed, and now it can be proved that Jae Chun must want to borrow the power of the British!"

"We have been targeted by the British, and they are hateful, not necessarily all of the British, of course, but at least Benjamin is!

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