In three days, it only took three days for Cuiyunxuan, a little-known small brothel in Shanghai, to become the most popular brothel in the entire Shanghai Beach.

"Gu Yecheng sent a telegram, and he has already found out the identity of Wang Dingye, he is the brother-in-law of Yang Zhongxi, the prefect of Jiangning, and is responsible for Yang Zhongxi's business affairs." In the private room on the second floor of Cuiyunxuan, Xie Xiaoshu found the crowd of people who were watching the prostitutes in line condescendingly, and then handed a telegram to him and said.

"Xiaoshu, do you think we should collect some money from the surrounding shops, this person can bring them a lot of business." Sun Wei took the telegram and said to Xie Xiaoshu while reading it.

"Instead of thinking about how to collect profits from the shops outside, you might as well consider renting the shops around our Cuiyunxuan together to get through with Cuiyunxuan, and then digging up some famous girls from other places, the profits here are much greater than collecting profits outside." Although Xie Xiaoshu knew that what Sun Wei said was just a joke, her later words were indeed true plans.

"Don't think about it, our Cuiyunxuan's current market is only temporary, and Cuiyunxuan's business will definitely drop after the drugs are mass-produced and listed, and the new store rented at that time will be smashed in their hands." Sun Wei put the finished telegram on the seat, and then waved his hand to Xie Xiaoshu and said.

"Then we won't buy this medicine, just use it as our Cuiyunxuan's unique secret recipe only in Cuiyunxuan, so that it won't affect Cuiyunxuan's business." Xie Xiaoshu may have had such a plan a long time ago, and there was no hesitation when answering.

"You woman really has long hair and short knowledge, how can Cuiyunxuan's business be compared to the medicine business, it's like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons." Sun Wei refused.

"How can this be picking up watermelons and losing sesame seeds, our Cuiyunxuan now has a turnover of more than two thousand taels of silver a day, and at least half of the profit will be left after removing the cost, if we expand Cuiyunxuan's business by three to four times, then this business alone will have at least a hundred taels of silver a year." The more Xie Xiaoshu spoke, the happier she became, as if she had seen piles of silver already in front of her.

"Is a million taels of silver a lot?" Sun Wei asked.

"Isn't a million taels of silver a lot?" Xie Xiaoshu asked rhetorically.

"Uh, I'm really defeated by you!" Sun Wei was indeed made a little laughing and crying by Xie Xiaoshu, and then he asked Xie Xiaoshu: "Do you know what price I am going to set for our medicine?" ”

"Yun Peng told me before that although the synthesis of this drug is troublesome, the price of raw materials is not too expensive, and the pricing when it comes to mass production will definitely not be expensive, and we don't make much money at Cuiyunxuan." Xie Xiaoshu replied.

"Indeed, as you said, the materials for this medicine can be bought in foreign foreign companies, and the price is not too expensive, I have calculated before, if you remove the artificial Chen Ben, the cost of one person is about one copper yuan, and I am ready to price it as one or two silver." Sun Wei stretched out a finger and said.

"What, a tael of silver!" Xie Xiaoshu looked at Sun Wei in disbelief, obviously shocked by Sun Wei's pricing.

"Yes, just a tael of silver!" Sun Wei confirmed.

"However, how can anyone buy it if it's so expensive, and whose money do we earn if no one buys it?" Xie Xiaoshu said a little worriedly.

"Is a tael of silver expensive, it's not expensive at all! Who do you think we are going to sell this medicine to, those who pull rickshaws or polish people's shoes, they are not! Sun Wei began to brainwash Xie Xiaoshu with the attitude of a successful master in his previous life: "The people who can buy our medicine are the elites of the business world and the big classes and compradors of foreign banks, these people have tens of thousands, or even tens of millions of incomes every year, and one or two pieces of silver can bring them the dignity of a man, do you say it's too much?" ”

"But its cost ......," Xie Xiaoshu was a little reluctant to continue arguing.

"Don't mention the cost, what we buy is not the cost, it's the technology!"

Sun Wei actually understands Xie Xiaoshu's current thinking very well, this kind of thinking is the thinking of the Chinese people before the reform and opening up in the previous life, paying attention to seeking truth from facts, and paying attention to the rationality of costs and incomes, but since the vigorous movement of "one billion people and nine hundred million businessmen, and one hundred million are waiting", almost all the ideas have changed, and what Sun Wei wants to do is to change Xie Xiaoshu's thinking similar to that of the Chinese people before the reform and opening up in the previous life.

Subsequently, Sun Wei continued: "At present, only we know how to produce this drug, which in American parlance represents a monopoly. We have directly monopolized the market of this drug and formed a seller's market, so that the price of this drug can be set by us at will. In this situation where there is no choice at all, as long as the price we set is within the buyer's ability to buy, they can only choose our price. ”

"But this kind of medicine is gone, and if you want to take it, you need to buy it again, just for the pleasure of spending such a high price, I'm afraid that those rich people don't want to buy more, so we can't sell much medicine." Xie Xiaoshu said a little worriedly.

"You're thinking too much about this, do you know how much money we're going to get on the black market?" Sun Wei asked.

"Black market? Aren't all our medicines used in Cuiyunxuan, is there someone who is unruly and smuggled to the black market? Xie Xiaoshu asked in surprise.

"It's true that someone doesn't follow the rules, but this person is none other than me." Sun Wei pointed to his nose and said.

"Didn't you tell you not to leak this medicine to the black market, why did you secretly sell it to the black market?" Xie Xiaoshu asked puzzled.

"I just want to see the price of this drug, and see how high the price of our drug can be at the top." Sun Wei explained.

"What is the price of the black market right now, and has it met your expectations?" Xie Xiaoshu asked.

"I originally thought that since we were going to position the price of the drug at one or two silver, then the price of the black market now would be higher than the price in the future, so it rose tenfold, and let our people sell it in small batches for ten taels of silver for one person, who knew that in less than half a day, this medicine was raised to nearly one hundred taels of silver, and it was still priceless." Sun Wei said.

"How so?" Xie Xiaoshu felt very incredible.

"Our ancestor Zhuangzi once said, Zi is not a fish, you know the joy of fish, you are not a man, naturally you will not understand that men care about this aspect, especially those men who are a little powerless, the only thing they want now is to be able to raise their eyebrows, even if they spend more money, it doesn't matter." Sun Wei said.

"It's crazy, but if you follow this market, the price of a tael of silver will not be so expensive. However, when will our drug be mass-produced? Xie Xiaoshu was finally persuaded by Sun Wei, and then she thought of the problem of drug production, so she asked.

"Although there are a lot of equipment for the manufacture of Western medicine abroad, but if you want to industrialize the production of our medicine, you also need to customize some equipment separately, yesterday I have asked John of Lihe Foreign Company to help place an order with the pharmaceutical equipment factory in Germany, and the separately customized equipment is expected to take half a month to build, and then it will take a month to ship them to Shanghai, and we will be able to build the factory for the production of drugs in this month and a half." Sun Wei introduced.

"So where is our factory built, or is it built in Pudong like the orphanage?" Xie Xiaoshu asked when she heard this.

"Not in Pudong, but in our concession. If the factory is built in Pudong, there will be a lot of trouble, I don't believe in the ethics of those officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is more convenient to build it in the concession, at least the concession Ministry of Industry Bureau still needs a little face embellishment in the management of the concession, even if we are jealous, our business does not dare to openly make trouble, when it is sold, I will give the directors of the Ministry of Industry Bureau a share of the profits, which is much safer than in Pudong. Sun Wei explained.

"Also, after all, the concession is our territory, and you can get through the upper echelons of the concession, which is indeed much more ethical than those officials in the imperial court who eat people and don't spit out bones, otherwise there would not be so many people who would rather endure the high land price of the concession and build the factory on lease." Xie Xiaoshu also nodded in agreement.

"Hey, I don't blame Sage Kong for saying that the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger, in fact, those corrupt officials are much more powerful than the tiger." Sun Wei sighed.

"If you don't talk about this, it will only add trouble to outsiders." Xie Xiaoshu paused the topic, then pointed to the telegram that Sun Wei put on the table and asked, "How are you going to deal with this matter of Wang Dingye?" ”

Gu Yecheng said in the telegram that Wang Dingye's sister was the most trusted concubine of Yang Zhongxi, the prefect of Jiangning, and was directly responsible for taking care of all Yang Zhongxi's business abroad, and Zheng Xiaoxu, who inscribed Sun Wei in order to make an exception, was Yang Zhongxi's friend, so the relationship had Sun Wei's plaque.

"This Wang Dingye probably saw my power in the public concession from the fact that he found the bill of exchange so quickly, which made him rise to the heart of friendship, he wanted to use my strength to do business in Shanghai, after all, only in Shanghai can we really grasp the market. Since he wants to borrow, let him borrow it, after all, we also need official relationships. Sun Wei said.