"Sir, you don't look good, are you tired?"

As soon as he arrived home in the evening, Mr. Butler saw that John's face was not quite right, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked with concern.

"Well, I'm a little tired."

There was nothing to hide in front of his own family, John nodded with a wry smile.

The last two months have been a bit too hard for him, and in the process of preparing for his first clinical study, John has a bit of a perfectionist tendency, and the energy and time spent are a little beyond his expectations, which is strange if he is not tired.

Today, Thomas independently completed an appendectomy under his escort, which was like a needle, poking a small hole in the breath that John had been puffing up, and the whole person relaxed......

Hans put the boiled water that had been prepared in front of him, looked at John's tired appearance, frowned, and said, "Sir, do you need me to prepare water for you?" Take a shower and get a good night's sleep, it's very relieving. ”

"Okay, thanks."

John put himself still on the couch and nodded.

When Hans was about to prepare the bath water, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Sir, I had a few letters from you yesterday, but I forgot to see that you came back too late, do you want to read them now?" ”

"Okay."

After a slight hesitation, John gave up on looking at it tomorrow. Anyway, it would take Hans at least ten minutes to prepare the bath water, and by then reading the letter would prevent him from falling asleep while waiting.

In a few moments, Hans brought John a stack of letters and placed them on the coffee table in front of him.

"So much?"

John couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw at least four or five letters on the table.

"Three of them were sent from New York."

Shrugging his shoulders, Hans smiled slightly, "One each for Mr. Stone and Miss Stone, one for Mr. Zola, and one for Mr. Brister." ”

"Joshua is writing from you, too?"

Bar clicked his mouth. John asked in surprise.

In general, John is sure to receive three letters a month from New York, one from his grandfather, one from Emma, and one from Steve. The old man's letter is easy to understand, and Emma is even more impressed, and as for Steve's words, it has become a habit to write a letter a month urging for new toy designs.

But Joshua's letter. It's been a rarity lately.

When John first left New York, Joshua's letters were still quite diligent, and he would write a letter of greeting every month or two, but as time went by, the frequency became slower and slower, and now he basically only writes when he has something to do, and he is definitely too lazy to write when he has nothing to do.

"Could it be that there is something going on with the Flying Pigeon Company?"

Thinking of a possibility, John hurriedly opened Joshua's letter and looked at it, and was immediately happy.

I've been so busy lately that John has almost forgotten that it's August. It's time for Joshua's annual report to the major shareholders!

The content of this letter is basically a table of statistics.

Looking at the lines and lines of Joshua's pen, the tiredness that was still full of his body just now seemed to disappear in an instant, and John only felt that his whole body was unusually comfortable.

1885 was definitely the year of the explosion of the Flying Pigeon Company!

At the end of last year, the expansion of the main factory in New York was completed, and the construction of a second factory on the West Coast was finally completed, and the two bicycle factories in the United States can now produce 5,000 bicycles and 1,200 tricycles a month. Supply to the entire American market. The continental United States is of course the most important, but it is not enough to absorb such a huge amount. However, if you add those countries in South America, it will be about the same. In this era, Argentina and other South American countries should not be underestimated, and the economic level is basically on the same level as the United States, and thousands of bicycles are sold every month.

The price of bicycles and tricycles has continued to decrease a lot this year.

The reason is easy to understand, the real rich have long been bought, and the remaining potential customers are those who are large in the middle class. And if you want to attract them to buy a bike, the best choice is to lower the price appropriately. Under the advice of Mr. Stone and Old Huntelaar, Joshua lowered the price of the bicycle by a fifth in one fell swoop, but the price of the tricycle remained basically the same!

Sure enough, the price reduction has caused sales that have begun to stagnate a little to skyrocket again.

Not all of the more than 7,000 tricycles sold out in the first half of the year. It's the appearance of six or seven hundred left, and Joshua is now considering whether to reduce the price to drive sales, but all 30,000 bikes are the same as last year, basically as soon as they leave the factory, they will be picked up, and there is no such thing as stock!

Sales are still hot!

Due to the expansion of the factory scale and the advancement of production technology, the production cost of bicycles continued to decrease, so although the price was reduced a lot, the profit of a single bicycle was not lost much. In the first half of 1885, the two factories generated more than $1,300,000 in revenue for the company, and nearly $400,000 after all the costs were removed!

In other words, John earned more than 100,000 yuan from these two factories alone in the first half of this year!

Of course, this money must not be directly distributed to shareholders, after all, it is necessary to leave enough liquidity and reserves, but even so, because the output can basically meet the current demand, Joshua and they have no plans to continue to expand the factory for the time being, so the profit in the first half of the year John can get almost seventy or eighty thousand dividends, and the whole year will be more than 150,000 US dollars!

"The money to build the building must be enough!"

Seeing this number, after a brief distraction, the first thing that came to John's mind was the building in Manhattan, New York. If you add the joint venture factory in the UK and Germany, the dividends in the first half of this year will be enough for him to build the entire hospital......

Thinking of this, John threw Joshua's letter on the table and eagerly flipped through Steve's boy's letter. Although the main purpose of this kid's letter is to get a draft of the new toy, he always tells John about the progress of his building.

A few words will always make John extra satisfied!

The last time I wrote Steve, he said that the hospital was fully operational, and John was naturally eager to know the latest news!

But......

"Damn, why didn't this kid mention the building this time?"

After reading the whole letter, he didn't see what he cared about, John slapped the table in anger, and couldn't help but grit his teeth and curse!

From beginning to end, it's all about the toy factory!

Almost exactly the same as Joshua's letter, Steve also reported the results of the first half of the year to the shareholders this time, but compared to the huge capital income scale of the flying pigeon company, the number of Lego toy factories is obviously much shabby, but anyone who knows how to read Steve's report, I am afraid will be surprised to find that the toy factory that John started on a whim has now developed to a point that must not be underestimated!

After a year of development, Lego toys have gradually begun to occupy the high-end toy market in North America, and many of them have even been trafficked across the ocean to Europe. And with the elder Huntelaar bringing Steve another batch of John's carefully crafted new designs, the rapid expansion of the Lego toy company in the first half of this year was fueled - sales in six months skyrocketed by 100 percent compared to last year, and the profit was still nearly $30,000 after removing the investment in expanded reproduction!

John's forty percent stake once again brought him a handsome return.

After a triumphant boast in the letter, Steve was filled with requests urging John to design new toys, and stating that if at least 20 new toys could be made in the second half of this year, he would hit his goal of $100,000 in profits next year......

"Let him exchange photos of the construction site for design drawings!"

After a little spin in his head, John immediately came up with a good idea.

Toy drawings couldn't be easier, there are hundreds or thousands of them in my memory, and it takes a day for John to pick out the good things that are suitable for the industrial level of this era. However, as a shareholder of the toy factory, John never thought of threatening Steve with them, and now that he thinks about it, since Steve is in a hurry to ask for drawings, he should simply let him change the photos of the construction site, and at the same time make the kid more concerned about the construction of the building......

"Smack!"

Leaving Steve's letter on the table, John proceeded to read Emma's letter.

Emma's letters, as always, bore John, discussing what the little girl thought was "academic problems", chattering about trivial matters of life, and finally caring about John's health and studies......

Every time he read a letter, John felt like he was wasting a statement.

But Emma values the quality of John's reply very much, and as long as she is a little perfunctory, she will write countless complaints in the next letter, so that John can only cheer up and deal with it, at least each reply will take at least half a day......

"Sir, you can come and take a shower."

Just as John reluctantly left Emma's letter on the table and was about to open the fourth letter, Mr. Butler's voice floated from afar.

"Okay, I'll be right over!"

John replied in a loud voice, hesitated slightly, and quickly tore open the envelope in his hand.

This last letter has nothing to do with New York, but comes from Mr. Brister in Berlin. One of the partners of the pigeon company and Lego company is now quite close to John, often writing letters or phone calls to talk about something, so it was not surprising to receive his letter.

As he opened and looked at the letter, John wondered if he should take the time to make a visit, but as his gaze swept over the letter, his face soon changed, and his brow furrowed deeply...... (To be continued......)