As John expected, Jim? Mr. Thomson only gave it a moment of deliberation and agreed.

At the beginning, Mr. Thomson was not happy about giving shares to the British Medical Association and the Scalpel Club, and in the end, John reluctantly agreed with his shares. But in the years that followed, Thomson was surprised to find that with the strong support of the physicians' association and club members, the promotion and popularization of several drugs far exceeded his expectations!

The colonies of the British Empire are simply too large.

With colonies on all continents, large populations, and a staggering demand for several powerful drugs, the support of the Medical Association and many London physicians, and the fact that T&H is a major shareholder of the British and supported by the British government, there was no resistance to the Heinz pharmaceutical company.

During this time, T&H has been expanding!

So at the beginning of last year, T&H's production capacity has tripled compared to the beginning, and all the profits have been invested in expansion. Then last year's huge profits, this year it was harvest season......

"The total amount of dividends that belong to you is sixty-seven thousand pounds!"

When talking about the dividend figure, Thomson's face was full of pride: "It's almost 300,000 US dollars, I believe this is also a lot of money for Mr. Huntelaar, right?" ”

"Hehe, of course!"

John, who was in a happy mood, nodded again and again, naturally extremely satisfied.

Based on the proportion of shares held by T&H, T&H's dividend to shareholders today reached millions of dollars, which is definitely a very good result. You must know that the Heinz pharmaceutical company on the other side of the sea made a profit of just over $1 million last year. This speaks volumes about the strength of the British. If you add the United States and France Pharmaceutical Company and the New York Heinz Pharmaceutical Company, the Huntelaar family's earnings in the pharmaceutical field last year exceeded one million dollars!

Of course, this refers to dividends, which are the case of leaving enough cash for each company.

If you take into account the growth of the total capital of each company and the expansion of the scale of production, the wealth of the Huntelaar family will increase by more than three million dollars, and this figure alone is enough to make John one of the richest people in New York!

"Sure enough, monopoly is the strongest voice of this era!"

After thinking about this. John couldn't help but sigh.

In the capitalist world at the end of the 19th century, the Americans took monopoly to the extreme. It took Carnegie Steel a decade to reduce the cost of steel production from $50 to less than $12, thanks to the economies of scale brought about by mergers and acquisitions. The path of Heinz Pharmaceutical is somewhat similar, Britain, France, Germany and the United States are now the world's four largest economies, although the four companies are completely independent, but the effects of each other are superimposed - together make drugs such as aspirin and sulfonamides more and more famous, while different countries avoid the blow of trade protection.

Perhaps, this is one of the reasons for the rapid rise of the Americans.

Whether it's in the last life or in this life. John didn't really know much about so-called economics, but he had heard of Morgan, he had heard of Rockefeller, and he had heard of Carnegie, but he knew very little about the rich and wealthy of his time on the European continent. On the contrary, European scientists in this era were more famous, especially medical scientists, who could be said to casually dump the Americans. But because of two world wars. A large number of people fled to the North American continent, which was of the same language but was safe......

Well, that's a long way off.

Negotiated dividends and investment in football clubs. John enjoyed a "nice" lunch, accompanied by Thomson, and returned to the hotel at about four o'clock in the afternoon. And half an hour after he returned, Anna? Huntelaar walked into their room with an excited face.

"Hehe, it seems that today's harvest is not small!"

Looking at his wife's smile, John's heart moved, and he said with a smile.

"Hee-hee. Of course! ”

Anna looked up proudly and said proudly, "I bought four paintings at auction today, one of them is a work by Mr. Constable, and the other is a work by Mr. Turner!" ”

"Oh? What an unexpected surprise! ”

After listening to Anna's words, John's eyes couldn't help but light up.

Turner and Constance are both famous painters in British history. Although John does not remember as deeply as Van Gogh and others, he has heard of it. In John's opinion, only painters who have an impression of themselves are right, and it is not wrong to buy their works!

Let alone......

Anna blinked her big eyes and said with a grin: "Although the price is more expensive than the French painting, it only costs less than a thousand pounds!" ”

"Value! It's worth it! ”

Without any hesitation, John nodded vigorously.

Western works of art seem to be the same pattern, the painter is worthless or has ups and downs when he is alive, but the value of his work rises rapidly after the painter dies. Both British painters are long gone, and it is only natural that the prices of their paintings have skyrocketed, but even so the four paintings did not exceed a thousand pounds, which is if it were collected for decades......

This business is definitely done!

Since the last time he came to Europe, he bought a few famous paintings in France, John has been interested in this kind of lucrative investment method, and decided to collect some every time he comes to Europe in the future. And Anna is also a lover of oil painting, and the education she received since childhood also made her understand much better than John. So before leaving New York this time, John specially prepared a special fund of 10,000 pounds for her to buy all kinds of paintings, and London was just the first sale.

"Also, I bought some porcelain at the auction today."

Anna was thrilled to receive her husband's compliment, but she hesitated for a moment and then continued: "It is said that it is porcelain from the ancient country of the East, or is it offered to the royal family!" I think...... You'll probably like these things, so I bought them for over three hundred pounds! ”

When she said this, Anna's expression was faintly uneasy.

John basically didn't drink what she said before she was ten years old, but after the two got married in New York, Anna occasionally knew something from old Huntelaar. The old man likes this granddaughter-in-law very much, and when people get old, they will inevitably talk about some things in the past, and slowly Anna will understand a little. But she usually doesn't mention it, after all, John's mother Elizabeth died in that ancient country, and she was afraid of touching her husband's painful past......

After listening to Anna's words, John's face instantly sank.

"John, you...... Dislike? ”

Seeing John's expression change, Anna pouted and asked with some uneasiness.

"No, no, I like oriental things."

Taking a deep breath, John let a smile barely slip into his face as he shook Anna's hand. His ancestor's things, how can he not like it? It's just that he also knows that the royal porcelain that Westerners can get is most likely the war a few decades ago!

The thought that these things were probably stolen from China by the British and French forces made John feel extremely uncomfortable.

Thinking of this, John's eyes narrowed slightly: "Anna, I like the cultural relics of the ancient oriental country very much, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can buy them all, don't care how much it costs, understand?" ”

"Huh? Oh...... Good. ”

Seeing that John's expression was still not good-looking, Anna didn't dare to say anything, and nodded a little aggrieved.

John, of course, also saw Anna's grievance, and just wanted to open his mouth to appease his wife, but there was a sudden knock on the door of their room. Patting Anna's little hand gently, John walked over and opened the door: "Mr. Ehrlich? Is there anything looking for me? ”

"Yes, it's important!"

At the door of John's room, Ehrlich said with a solemn face: "Just as you were out today, I just got bad news from Hamburg, Germany, which seems to have a serious cholera epidemic ......" (To be continued. )