After all, Liu Runsheng is a native of Taiping Mansion, and his ancestors have been generous, even if he is a little depressed now, but the old relationship is still a little, plus the two things of the pen and the watch are indeed novel and valuable, so his run is also very effective.

Facts have also proved that with him, a local, as an errand runner, or as an agent, the efficiency of work is high, just after Li Zhigao took a nap, Liu Runsheng brought three major customers back, saying that he wanted to personally interview Li Zhigao, the real owner.

When a big customer came to the door, Li Zhigao naturally didn't dare to slack off, and immediately put on his tuxedo suit, took a look in a small mirror, and then picked up the diamond-encrusted civilization stick, held his head high, and came to the living room with a very windy style.

As soon as I entered the living room, I found that there were two middle-aged people sitting inside, one fat and one thin, both wearing brocade silk clothes, drinking tea and chatting there.

Although Li Zhigao has no experience in talking to people about business, he looked at others unscrupulously, the fat and thin two rich middle-aged people, after seeing Li Zhigao dressed up, he was also slightly stunned, and his movements paused, obviously flashed by this dress, and the scene became cold. But soon, due to Liu Runsheng's initiative to say hello, they also suddenly realized, and hurriedly stood up and bowed their hands, and with Liu Runsheng's help, they began to introduce each other.

After some introduction, Li Zhigao learned that this fat man's name is Zhu Zenggui, who is Chinese New Year's Eve five today, and is the young owner of Baosheng Bank, and his family is mainly engaged in jewelry, gold, silver and bronze; Another thin man is called Chen Jingtang, who is six years old Chinese New Year's Eve this year, is the proprietor of Jing Bao Zhai, and his family specializes in antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

Of course, that was only their ancestral business, but in fact they had a wide range of businesses, not only running their own traditional businesses, but also wholesale foreign goods. Foreign goods such as matches, cigarettes, glass mirrors, etc., are all being sold, and buying and selling foreign goods has become one of their family's main businesses.

To put it bluntly, these two are actually similar to import and export trading companies.

As for why they don't do their old jobs well, they have to diversify their business, because in this semi-colonial era when the country's natural economy was violently impacted by foreign industrial products, if they only eat their old books, they generally can't survive, and they are also keeping up with the trend in order to live more and more nourishing, so it seems that these places are indeed good places for watches and pens.

After this introduction, Li Zhigao asked Liu Runsheng: "Aren't they three big customers?" How are there only two people. ”

Liu Runsheng was just about to speak back, when he heard the sound of leather shoes clattering behind him, and then he saw a man surnamed white from about 30 to 40 years old, very thin, with a very high nose, about 1.75 meters tall, wearing a gray suit and a low top hat on his head.

After the white man, or the foreigner hurriedly came in, he was also stunned after finding Li Zhigao, and then suddenly walked to Li Zhigao in a few steps, and took off his hat to Li Zhigao, and then said in broken Chinese: "Hello, presumably you are Mr. Li, introduce yourself, my name is Marven, Marvin Thompson, I am the owner of Defu Foreign Company." ”

"Hello, Mr. Thompson." Li Zhigao also took off his hat, and then took the initiative to stretch out his right hand, "I am Li Zhigao, it's a pleasure to see you here." ”

Hearing what the other party said, and seeing Li Zhigao take the initiative to stretch out his hand, that Marven was stunned, and then quickly stretched out his hand to shake his hand, and his tone was much more affectionate, and he simply said in English: "Oh, God, it seems that I met a real gentleman here." You don't know, after listening to my self-registration, people here call me Mr. Ma, only you call me Mr. Thompson, haha. However, you can call me Marven directly, or you can call me Mr. Ma like everyone else, you can get used to it, you don't have to see each other so much, um, and I think we will definitely get along. ”

"Of course, dear Marven, I think I will." Li Zhigao smiled, then gently withdrew his hand, still in Chinese, "However, let's still speak in Chinese, so as not to trouble, after all, you are here to talk to me about business." ”

"Oh?" Marven looked at the people around him and nodded, "Okay, like you said, follow the locals." ”

Then the foreigner named Marvin Thompson spoke again.

After these remarks, Li Zhigao learned that he was an American businessman who came to China to do business after graduating from university. At first, he was in Shanghai, and later he came here to do business, mainly dealing in matches, glass, soap, kerosene lamps and kerosene and other supplies imported from the United States.

In fact, Marven didn't come late, he came with Chen Jingtang and Zhu Zenggui, originally he did come for the pen and watch, but when he arrived at the door, he was attracted by another thing, and that thing was Li Zhigao's motorcycle still parked at the door.

Li Zhigao's motorcycle, Chen Jingtang and Zhu Zenggui were also very curious, but they were more reserved, so they all went into the house, only Marven was an American, curious and heavy, and also recognized what it was, so they circled around the motorcycle, and touched left and right, if he wasn't a foreigner, Liu Runsheng probably would have stopped it a long time ago.

Indeed, motorcycles may be very rare in China at this time, and they are almost unseen, but in the West, especially in the United States during this period, it is no longer a rare thing, but when I saw motorcycles in China, and they looked so advanced, it naturally aroused Marven's curiosity.

It is precisely because of this curiosity that after Marven came over, he didn't talk about pens and watches, but asked about motorcycles first, and he asked very professionally, such as how many cylinders of the engine, how many strokes, how much horsepower, etc.

In this regard, Li Zhigao is also a little helpless, he is not a technical emperor, he can use it in meetings, and even if he knows those parameters, he can't say it, after all, the times are there, so he hurriedly said that he didn't know very well.

Then, Marven asked where he bought the motorcycle and how much it cost, Li Zhigao hurriedly said that it was a private customization, and it was not sold on the market, and then began to change the topic: "The matter of motorcycles, let's talk about it later, let's talk about something else, such as watches and pens, presumably this is the real purpose of your visit, right?" ”

Seeing that Li Zhigao didn't want to say more, Marven stopped asking, and began to regain his spirits and bargain.

However, in this regard, Li Zhigao didn't say much, he sat on the side and the old god was drinking tea and pressing the formation, and the specific bargaining was handed over to Liu Runsheng, and only occasionally when he talked about the detailed data parameters, he asked Li Zhigao to say a few words.

In the end, after some discussion, the price was set, and the ten watches were eaten by Zhu Zenggui and Chen Jingtang, with a total price of 25,000 oceans. As for the fountain pens, they were all wrapped by Marven, and each fountain pen was priced at thirty-five oceans, and two hundred were seven thousand oceans, and he also wanted the monopoly of this fountain pen.

Everything added up, a total of 32,000 oceans, and basically, the price exceeded the original expectations.

However, due to the huge amount and Li Zhigao's urgency, in the end, Li Zhigao took the initiative to say that he could use jewelry and jade instead, and the 32,000 oceans were all converted into gold and jade jewelry for settlement.

At this time, the price of gold and silver was 30 oceans and a small yellow croaker, that is, 30 oceans and a tael of gold, so the final amount for Li Zhigao was 500 taels of gold and jade jewelry worth 15,000 oceans, plus 2,000 eagles.

Among the jade jewelry, Li Zhigao specially instructed that it should be mainly mutton fat jade and jadeite, because he remembered that these two kinds of jade were the most valuable, and as for the specific things, there were all kinds of things, nothing to pay attention to, what jade bracelets, jade wrenches, snuff bottles, jade beads, jade bowls, jade plates, jade cups, dozens of kinds.

For jade, Li Zhigao doesn't understand, he only knows that in the jade of later generations, it seems that mutton fat jade and jadeite are the two most expensive, but although he doesn't understand jewelry, he thinks that the jewelry and jade of this era must be good, and in addition to the value of jade jewelry itself, if you take it back, you still have an antique identity, it's not far off.

Looking at the fifty taels of gold bars in front of him, commonly known as the big yellow croaker, and a bunch of indistinguishable jade jewelry, Li Zhigao finally suppressed his fluttering little heart, nodded indifferently, and completed the transaction.

As for why the money was given so quickly, it was because before coming, Chen Jingtang, Zhu Zenggui and Ma Wen had already reached a preliminary price intention with Liu Runsheng, just waiting for Li Zhigao to make a decision in the end.

In terms of settlement methods, they originally planned to settle mainly in gold, after all, in these years, the transactions of the people generally over the oceans are rarely settled directly by the oceans, and if they are really like that, tens of thousands of taels of silver have to be pulled by a carriage, which is inconvenient not to mention, and it is also eye-catching.

In fact, at this time, businessmen used silver bills in the ticket number or deposit receipts and checks in foreigners' banks in large-amount settlements, in short, today's financial payment has been very convenient, but Li Zhigao insisted on precious metals, which is a troublesome matter.

In this era, one tael is equal to about 37.8 grams, five hundred taels of gold, that is, about 18,900 grams, 18.9 kilograms, fifty large gold bars weighing ten taels, put them in the box and take them away, which is very convenient.

Of course, not all of them were replaced with gold and jewelry, after all, there were still two thousand eagles, which were left by Li Zhigao to Liu Runsheng and asked him to arrange for him to help buy a house here.

After the business was completed, the money and goods were paid, Li Zhigao and Zhu Zenggui, Chen Jingtang and Ma Wen, these big customers, began to sit in the living room to drink tea and chat, conduct further business negotiations, or further find out each other, what they said was nothing more than that this cooperation was pleasant, and they would look for them next time they had goods, and said that they still had a medicinal material business to do.

"What? Are you studying in the U.S.? Or a doctor and a drug inventor? When he heard that Li Zhigao was actually studying in the United States, Marven was immediately surprised again, "What a coincidence, I graduated from the University of Virginia, which school did you graduate from?" ”

"Well, haha, it's not convenient to reveal." Li Zhigao snorted, and then said, "Actually, it doesn't matter, you just need to know that I do have a special medicine in my hand." ”

"Okay." Seeing that the other party was reluctant to say more about his origins, Marven shrugged his shoulders, "However, if what you said is true, you have special medicines for meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, plague, and wound inflammation, then you don't need to look for us at all, just go to a random hospital and find a seriously ill patient to try, and everything will be clear." ”

"You're right." Li Zhigao smiled, "Facts speak louder than words, no matter how much you say, it is not as good as facts." It's just that I'm usually very busy, and I can't run around for this all day, and I'm not always here, so this is the only way to go. ”

Then, Li Zhigao pointed to a pile of paper bags wrapped in different colors on the table: "Look, I have prepared enough amounts of all the medicines, and I have taught this Liu Yinshui girl how to use them in detail, as long as you take her and find a symptomatic patient who is willing to try it, you will know immediately if it will work when the time comes." ”

It turned out that when Liu Runsheng went out to run business, Li Zhigao was not idle, he instructed Liu Jinshui and Liu Yinshui, and began to classify the sulfonamide antibiotics he brought and some penicillin, streptomycin and other drugs, wrap them in small packets with different colors of paper, and teach Liu Jinshui over and over again to memorize the symptoms and detailed usage of different paper-wrapped drugs.

He did this because he wanted to find an agent to get these drugs and find a patient number for clinical verification, after all, he couldn't stay here all this recently.

Those medicines are basically processed by him, and the powders mixed with brown sugar and other things, such as the powder of sulfonamide tablets and the powder of amoxicillin dispersible tablets, etc., with the technology of this era, don't even think about analyzing the ingredients.

As for why he taught Liu Yinshui the method of medication, this is because he can only write simplified characters, not traditional characters, so he can't write it in the way of writing instructions, as for English, I'm really embarrassed, a few simple dialogues are still complete, and it is really difficult for him to write detailed usage in English.

So in the end, I simply let the two little girls memorize the usage, among which Liu Jinshui is fine, but the little girl named Liu Yinshui doesn't look at her young age, and she doesn't know much, but her memory is surprisingly high.

Seeing that Marven and the others were still suspicious, Liu Runsheng, who was settling accounts on the side, quit, immediately jumped out and said the truth, telling his wife's condition, what the doctor he had asked before, and how Li Zhigao treated him, and how to get immediate results, and personally pulled the three of them to see his wife, and personally asked his wife to tell her feelings.

After such a while, especially looking at Liu Runsheng's choked demeanor, whether it was Chen Jingtang, Zhu Zenggui or Marven, their expressions changed, and they were no longer suspicious of the previous generals, but became dignified.

Clearly, they are aware of the implications and the business opportunities involved.

In the end, Marven just nodded solemnly, saying that he would go to the hospital to find a patient number to try, but Zhu Zenggui and Chen Jingtang both stood up and bowed, promising to personally go to various Shantang pharmacies to find patients to try the efficacy of the medicine.

Seeing their statement, Li Zhigao nodded with satisfaction and showed a faint smile.

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