For the matter of Su Ying's two sons, Sun Wei quickly left it behind, the rectification of the fishing houses in various districts and the production of pharmaceutical factories have occupied most of his time, and he also has to spend a lot of time with his wife, family and women in the house, and the hidden dangers that only occurred after ten or even twenty years naturally become insignificant.

In the early days of Shanghai Tang, there were two concessions, the British Concession and the French Concession, but at that time, the management of these two concessions belonged to Shanghai Dao, and the security of the concession was also represented by the Shanghai County Yamen, so at this time, the concession could not become a country within a country, and could only be regarded as apartheid.

If the situation in Shanghai had been developed in such a stable and orderly manner, the pattern of racial segregation between the British Concession and the French Concession would have continued, and the Manchu government would have always held the management of these two concessions.

In order to protect themselves, the foreigners in the British Concession and the French Concession united to establish a new concession and a public concession, and in this joint concession, an independent municipal organization, the Shanghai Ministry of Industry Bureau, was established, and then the Ministry of Industry Bureau came forward to establish a universal merchant group and police force to protect the safety of the concession.

After the public concession had the right to manage, there was a reason to collect taxes from the residents of the concession, and with the reason to collect taxes, new interest relations arose, and with interest relations, there were naturally new contradictions, so after the new pattern in the concession was stabilized, there was a gap between the British and the French, and the contradictions between each other's interests became more and more acute.

In the nineteenth century, British Prime Minister Palmerston once said that there are no eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests, and when the contradictions between British and French interests reach irreconcilable level, it is when their union is broken, so only nine years later, the French Concession announced its withdrawal from the joint self-establishment of the Board of Directors, and the Shanghai Concession resumed the era of the British Concession and the French Concession.

In fact, in the era when the British Concession and the French Concession were coexisted, there was a place in Shanghai that was not a lease that was better than a concession, that is, the later American Concession, four years after the establishment of the British Concession, the acting consul of the United States asked Su Songtai Dao Lin Gui to draw the Hongkou area as the American Concession, and the following year the American Episcopal Bishop Wen Huilian and the acting Shanghai Daoist Wu Jianzhang orally agreed that the Hongkou area on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek would be the American Concession, and the French Concession had not yet been established at this time.

At this time, the American Concession was only a verbal agreement, not a real Concession, so the American Concession was not incorporated when the British and French Concessions were merged and when the rebellion against the Little Knife Society was revolted.

However, this illegal situation was maintained until the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, when the American consul Xiward and Huang Fang of Susong Taidao agreed on the concession four to, from the point on the other side of the moat river along the Suzhou Creek to the Huangpu River, along Yangshupu to the north, and then to the other side of the moat The starting point is the U.S. concession, so the existence of the U.S. concession was truly legalized, and at this time the Anglo-French joint public concession had been dissolved last year.

Although the Shanghai Tang Concession made a qualitative leap during the Xiaodaohui uprising, the American Concession in Hongkou was still a very remote place, and the legal American Concession was completely unable to form an armed force to maintain law and order in the Concession, so the American Consul Heward handed over the security of the American Concession to the British Concession that year, and negotiated with the British Concession Ministry of Industry to merge the American Concession into the British Concession and established a new public concession.

Although the new public concession was a union of the British Concession and the American Concession, it was still not comparable in population and economy with the French Concession, which was close to the city of Shanghai, and this was also an important reason why the French Concession insisted on withdrawing from the union in those years.

Huang Jinrong entered the French Concession as a patrol when the French Concession was the most prosperous time for the public concession, and then he relied on this advantage to pass through the aboveground and underground forces of the French Concession, but the French Concession was geographically located in the sandwich between the Shanghai city and the public concession, and this position happened to be the main factor restricting the external expansion of the French Concession, and the public concession at this time was expanding to the north and west.

When Sun Wei entered the public concession as a patrol, it was when the French Concession was stagnant and the public concession was expanding wildly.

Although Sun Wei took advantage of the momentum in the public concession, the division of the police department in the management of the public concession restricted Sun Wei's development outside the central district, and this inter-regional restriction also made him have to be overwhelmed by Huang Jinrong regardless of his above-ground and underground forces, but the appointment of him by the Public Concession Police Department as the deputy inspector general of the China Capture Unit became an opportunity for him to expand his power again.

Although Sun Wei in his previous life was just an obscure poor student who didn't know any tricks of deceit, but after crossing over, Sun Wei was involuntarily influenced by his predecessor in this regard, and he adhered to the strategy of one hand with a stick and one hand with a radish when rectifying the fishing in various districts, but in two months, he obeyed the training of Huayu in the west, north and east districts, and even Lu Liankui, who was protected by Huang Jinrong, did not have the prestige of the past.

For a competitor like Lu Liankui, who is a huge threat to himself, Sun Wei originally planned to find an opportunity to get rid of it at the first time, but he quickly dispelled this idea, because once Lu Liankui was cleaned up, it would indicate that his relationship with Huang Jinrong would immediately break down, and what would follow would be revenge from Huang Jinrong, either explicitly or covertly.

Although Sun Wei has become the nominal supreme ruler of the Huayu, due to the rush of time, there are still some Huayu in the three fishing houses in the west, north, and east that are not under his full control, especially the inspectors, tanmu, and second-class inspectors in these Huayu.

Under the banner of the deputy inspector general of the police department's Hua Arrest Unit, Sun Wei is naturally handy in dealing with those uncontrolled Hua arrests, but once he moves the nail of Lu Liankui, the golden honor placed in the patrol room of the public concession, those who are not willing to be arrested are very likely to gather around Lu Liankui.

Although this kind of individual force is not to be feared, once they are united, it will be a large force, and even if Sun Wei suppresses these people, there will be new forces rising during this period, and if there are people like him who have great luck to take advantage of the situation, this will be a very big threat to him.

Lu Liankui also knew that he couldn't let Sun Wei be so laissez-faire in the other three districts to wantonly exclude dissidents, and he also understood the truth of cold lips and teeth, but Huang Jinrong had been bought by Sun Wei's promise in the sale of Cuiyunxuan's miracle medicine, and without Huang Jinrong's support, he couldn't make much waves.

Sun Wei's initial forecast for the annual output of the pharmaceutical factory was 10 million tablets, so that the pharmaceutical factory would produce nearly 30,000 tablets a day, of which 20 percent would be sold in Shanghai according to the contract with Deutsch-Hua Bank, and Sun Wei's promise to Huang Jinrong was that he could own 20 percent of the production, that is, 1,000 tablets a day.

Sun Wei set the retail price of Cuiyunxuan's magic medicine in Shanghai at one yuan per tablet, and the wholesale price for Huang Jinrong was six yuan per tablet, so even if Huang Jinrong honestly sold according to Sun Wei's price, he would also get a profit of four hundred taels per day, which was the income of a Chinese arrester in the patrol room for four and a half years, and the salary of the new army of the imperial court for eight years.

The Chinese are undoubtedly one of the fastest learning nations, and the mass production was completed in only half a month after the pharmaceutical factory was put into production, although it was only one-third of the planned output due to machinery and factory buildings, it could also produce more than 9,000 tablets per day, and then it could be put on the market after being tablet packed.

Of the more than 1,900 tablets produced by the pharmaceutical factory every day, only more than 1,800 tablets could be sold in Shanghai, and the remaining 7,200 tablets were collected by the supervisors placed by the Deutsche Hua Bank in the finished product workshop of the pharmaceutical factory, and then a certain amount was accumulated and carried to Germany by cargo ships sent from Shanghai to Germany, and finally distributed to the nobles of European countries.

For Cuiyunxuan's miracle medicine, Sun Wei did not directly set up a pharmacy for retail, but only set up a sales office outside the pharmaceutical factory, and then sold it wholesale to pharmacies in Shanghai Huajie and Concession at a retail price of eight yuan per tablet according to a certain proportion.

Pharmacies in this era are not yet an absolute profiteering industry, but this kind of industry related to people's livelihood is still the favorite of the powerful and wealthy businessmen, whether it is Shanghai Daotai Yamen, or Shanghai County Yamen, or even Zhu Baosan, a giant in Shanghai's financial circles, have more or less participated in the operation of pharmacies, among which Zhu Baosan is a shareholder of Huaying Pharmacy, the second Chinese in Shanghai to operate Western medicine.

In order to increase his influence in Shanghai, Sun Wei used Cuiyunxuan's magic medicine as a bargaining chip to improve his right to speak, not any pharmacy in Shanghai can obtain the right to sell drugs, among them, in addition to Huang Jinrong's sales, Shanghai Daodaotai's shareholding pharmacies get 20% of sales, Songjiang Prefecture Governor and Shanghai County Commander each get 10% of sales, the two directors of the Public Concession Ministry of Industry Bureau each get 10% of sales, and the last percent of sales are obtained by Zhu Baosan's Huaying Pharmacy. Other powerful Chinese pharmacies share the remaining last percent of sales.

Sun Wei claimed that the wholesale price of Cuiyunxuan's magic medicine was eight yuan of silver, and the retail price was one yuan, but in fact, only the other powerful Chinese pharmacies shared the sales of the medicine from him for eight yuan of silver, and the others all took the medicine at the wholesale price of six yuan of silver, which gave these powerful people a big face.

When Sun Wei distributed the sales of the drugs, he signed a sales agreement with the pharmacy that had obtained the sales license, which stipulated that the price of the drugs sold by the pharmacy was one yuan per tablet, and the licensed pharmacy should not sell at a price higher or lower than this price, otherwise the drug sales license would be revoked.

Cuiyunxuan magic medicine is undoubtedly a seller's market at the beginning of sales, and the relationship between supply and demand is naturally greater than supply, if the licensed pharmacies really follow this agreement to sell, it is undoubtedly to give profits to the middlemen who resell drugs, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction among those pharmacies that have obtained sales licenses.

In fact, Sun Wei did not fully follow the intention of the agreement from beginning to end, and he asked the pharmacy that had obtained the sales license to sign such an agreement just to transfer the dissatisfaction of the buyers after the sale of the drugs in the early stage of the sale was speculated, and at the same time, in order to prevent the drugs from being unsalable after mass production and causing the sellers to maliciously reduce prices, so this agreement was only implemented when the retail price was reduced to less than one yuan, and the market decided what price to rise.

After nearly two months of scattered sales, Cuiyunxuan Divine Medicine has achieved a good reputation, so after the drug was sold in large quantities, it was favored by many middle-class and above-class men, and then its price was raised from the guide price of one yuan to more than ten yuan, and even reached twenty yuan per tablet at the highest time, which made the pharmacies that obtained drug sales make a lot of money.

In view of the popularity of Cuiyunxuan's miracle medicine, Sun Wei's allocation quota for drugs naturally could not meet everyone's needs, so those pharmacies that did not get the allocation quota or thought that their assigned sales were low quickly set their sights on Deutsch-Hua Bank, which had the vast majority of sales.

The expected selling price of the Deutsch-Hua Bank in Europe is 20 gold marks, which translates into about 8 silver dollars, and if they sell them in Shanghai at this price, it is believed that pharmacies that are in dire need of medicines will definitely rush to them, and Deutsch-Hua Bank will save a lot of money on transportation.

However, after seeing Sun Wei's tough attitude in the cooperation negotiations, the bank's senior John von Fleischer quickly gave up this tempting idea, after all, he knew very well that the current drug speculation was only temporary, and the price would definitely drop when more drugs were on the market, and Deutsch-Hua Bank must not violate the signed contract because of this short-term interest, so he did not hesitate to refuse those pharmacies that wanted to buy drugs at a high price.

At a time when the whole of Shanghai was crazy about Cuiyunxuan's miracle medicine, Sun Wei was meeting a Chinese man in his forties dressed in a suit at a café on Xue Huali Road in the French Concession.

"Sun wants to open a bank in the public concession, but he lacks a professional who can do the affairs of the prime minister, I wonder if Mr. Jiang can succumb to the president of the bank?" Sun Wei said to the middle-aged man while stirring the coffee in the cup with a spoon.

The middle-aged man was still puzzled before, but after hearing Sun Wei's request, he quickly turned into shock, and then asked suspiciously: "Inspector Sun, the contemptible person is just a small manager of the Bank of Credit Reserve, and he has no outstanding ability in business. ”

"Your daughter, Jiang Xue!" Sun Wei replied loudly. (To be continued.) )