Chapter 587: An Agreement Reached (10th Update!) )
[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 587: Reaching an Agreement (Tenth Update!) Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! )
On the whole, except for the previous condition, Li Lanqing's conditions are not harsh. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Henry thought twice, and finally decided to sign a contract with Li Lanqing, agreeing to become the first agent in the United States, and at the same time Henry hoped that the Morgan Group could become the only agent in the United States.
However, Li Lanqing did not agree, because the market in the United States is too large, and it can be said that the United States will be the largest market for Li Lanqing's penicillin drugs in the next few years. As for other countries, most of them are about to be shrouded in war, even if the demand for penicillin drugs is large, there may not be money to repay, or the United States is the best, there is a market and has not been affected by the war, how can such a treasure be controlled by the Morgan Group alone?
However, as the first consortium to cooperate with him, Li Lanqing still gave them a great favor, agreeing that there are only two agents in the United States, one is the Morgan Group, and the other is the US government or the Rockefeller family, and there will never be a third agent.
In fact, as for how to sell penicillin, Ma Zheng also took great pains and thought twice. He is very aware of the epoch-making significance of penicillin, in this era penicillin is equal to the miracle drug, it is like the 21st century suddenly a company has developed a drug that can effectively treat cancer and leukemia, this drug can be completely independent of the market, and there is no need to consider the price, you only need to produce the product, and a large number of people will find you with money.
However, Ma Zheng also knows that there is no reason in this world at all, if you don't have enough strength, this is equivalent to a three-year-old child walking in the bandit group with a gold brick, so how to sell the medicine while protecting himself has become something that Ma Zheng has to consider.
Therefore, Ma Zheng thought of agents, agents are equal to partners, but also equal to interests, and more importantly, Ma Zheng wants to kidnap governments and major consortia through penicillin's windfall profits to his chariot.
Sure enough, this method is still very feasible, and with the Morgan family taking the lead, other countries can't sit still. In addition, the Rockefeller family and the DuPont family in the United States, the Louis family in France, and the John family in Britain all sent telegrams hoping to cooperate with the Huaxia Company.
In the end, in addition to the Morgan family, Li Lanqing also selected the US government, the British government, the French government, the German government, the Soviet government, the Italian government, and the national government as agents.
Li Lanqing negotiated with each of these countries one by one, and among these countries, Li Lanqing attached the most importance to the US Government and the Soviet Government. However, during the negotiations with the US Government, there was a huge difference between the two sides, and there was only one condition for Li Lanqing of the US Government. That is, the U.S. government must stop trading with Japan in strategic goods, including steel and oil, and rubber.
However, it was rejected by the U.S. government, and although the temptation of penicillin was not small, the U.S. government still felt that a deal with Japan was the most important thing compared to a new drug, because it was related to the national policy of the United States and the huge economic interests of the American capitalists.
You must know that in just one year, the value of the planes sold by the United States to Japan is as high as $2.484 million, and in the first eight months of this year, the value of the planes sold by the United States to Japan has increased to $17 million, and the total amount of transactions between the United States and Japan has exceeded $100 million.
Since the US Government rejected Wu Liande's conditions, Wu Liande did not insist on it, and the next day he had the representatives of the US Government sent away without the slightest delay. Since the U.S. government was unwilling, Li Lanqing brought the Rockefeller family in, anyway, it would be completely okay for one country to have two agents.
Moreover, the impact of giant crocodiles like the Morgan family and the Rockefeller family on the US government is definitely not something that ordinary people can imagine, and as long as they see the profits of penicillin, they are not afraid that the US government will not compromise.
The Morgan family wants to be wooed, and the Rockefeller family is also to be wooed, but there is another family in the United States that cannot be offended, and that is the DuPont family. After Morgan and the Rockefeller family, Irene, president of the DuPont consortium, also rushed to San Francisco, hoping to cooperate with Huaxia Company.
As the No. 1 arms group in the United States, the DuPont family has considerable influence in the US military circles, and such a big family is really not easy to offend, otherwise it will cause endless trouble. However, the DuPont family is an important importer of Japanese arms imports, so cooperating with such a company is expressly forbidden by Ma Zheng, so this matter has become a big problem to test Li Lanqing and others.
Fortunately, Li Lanqing has signed cooperation agreements with the Morgan family and the Rockefeller family, so with these two families as backers, he is not afraid of the DuPont family. Therefore, accompanied by Wu Liande, Li Lanqing personally met with Irene at the mansion.
Li Lanqing put forward the prerequisite for cooperation between the two sides, that is, the DuPont family must give up exporting weapons and equipment to Japan, otherwise there is no possibility of cooperation between the two sides. And Irene was also shocked by Li Lanqing, the president of DuPont agreed without even thinking about it. Subsequently, Li Lanqing also gave the agency in Mexico to the DuPont family as promised.
Although the market in Mexico is not very large, Li Lanqing believes that the profits will definitely not be less in a year. Moreover, the DuPont family is not only an arms company, but also the largest mining company in the United States, and Li Lanqing still hopes to cooperate with them in arms and industrial and mining businesses, rather than penicillin.
In fact, the reason why the DuPont family agreed to Li Lanqing's conditions so happily was, on the one hand, of course, tempted by the windfall profits of penicillin drugs, and on the other hand, it was not because the domestic situation forced the DuPont consortium to withdraw as soon as possible. You must know that the vast majority of people in the United States do not have a good impression of the brutal Japanese government and soldiers, and the voices opposing the arms business of the United States and the Japanese government as accomplices in the invasion of China are getting louder and louder, and large-scale anti-war demonstrations break out in cities almost every period of time.
As the largest arms dealer in the United States and the most important supplier of imported weapons to Japan, the DuPont family is the first to bear the brunt, and the pressure can be imagined.
More importantly, because although the firepower of American weapons is strong, but the consumption of ammunition is too serious, so the Japanese military still tends to import German goods or produce them themselves, so although the DuPont family is the most important arms supplier in Japan, the annual sales are not very high, except for the transaction between the two sides a few years ago smokeless gunpowder, in fact, the transaction volume is not very high.
Not to mention the profits, and under such great pressure, Irene has long wanted to withdraw, but some people within the family have been opposing, and now they are using this as an excuse to withdraw.
Not to mention the Dupont family, Ma Zheng still values the Soviet Union the most. As the only military power close to the Suicha region, Ma Zheng most hoped that he could cooperate with the Soviets, after all, the geopolitical relationship was too close.
On the one hand, Li Lanqing had a good impression of the Soviet Union's support for China's large amount of military aid, and on the other hand, because Yan'an had greeted him, the negotiations were relatively smooth.
Unlike other countries, Ma Zhengde hopes to cooperate with the Soviet Union in an all-round way, that is, in addition to the penicillin project, the two sides can also cooperate in other aspects, such as the oil industry and the military industry.
Moreover, considering that the Soviet Union's domestic economy is now in a stage of rapid development and there is an extreme shortage of funds, Wu Liande allowed the Soviet Union to use oil, automobiles, and fighter planes to offset the payment for goods, and the two sides could trade in the Outer Mongolia region, which was convenient and fast. (To be continued.) )