Back at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Yunfeng walked into Jardine Matheson with some bags of white noodles and a smile.

"Mr. Shandy." Ann Moore, an assistant to the foreign bank, greeted him with a smile.

"Isn't Manager Centel here?" Li Yunfeng asked.

"He's in the office, I'll take you up." Ann Moore said.

"Hello, my best buddy." Sentel happily stood up and hugged each other.

Li Yunfeng frowned without a trace, pulled a chair and sat down.

"Man, tell me your purpose." After sending Amore away, Sentel said with a smile.

"I've brought you something good, don't look at it as a little bit, I spent five hundred oceans." Li Yunfeng took out a bag of white noodles with a net weight of 500 grams from his handbag and gently placed it on the desk.

Such a pack of white noodles, it took five hundred oceans, Sentel did not deny this, I heard the other party say before, white noodles are much more enjoyable than smoke, he has long been yearning, at this time the thing is in hand, he hurriedly asked: "How to use this?" ”

"Just put it in a cigarette." Li Yunfeng said.

Sentel took out a cigarette without a filter, added some white flour to it, lit it with a match, and took a puff gently, and suddenly felt full of energy, indescribable beauty, so that he couldn't help but sink into it.

"How?" Li Yunfeng asked curiously.

"Good thing, smoke can't compare to it." Sentel sighed.

"This thing is not easy to make, the production is very limited, the price is very expensive, one gram costs almost a piece of ocean, I didn't buy much, this pack will be given to you." Li Yunfeng said with a sigh.

"Mr. Shandy, do you have any watches there?" Centel changed the subject.

"No, the factory that produced watches was burned to ashes by a fire." Li Yunfeng said nonsense.

"Mr. Shandy, can you sell me some of this white noodles?" Centel lamented the huge profits from reselling the watches, and when he learned that the watch factory had been burned, he turned his attention to the white flour.

"This thing is called immortal powder by some people, which means that after sucking it, it is like a fairy, I spent 200,000 oceans to get 200 kilograms of white flour through relationships, and I am ready to sell it to those high-ranking officials and nobles." Li Yunfeng said.

"Mr. Shangdi, I won't let you suffer, 210,000 oceans, how about buying your 200 kilograms of white noodles?" After thinking about it, Centel decided to buy all the white noodles in the other party's hand, and the good things would not be sold.

"This, this, forget it, wait for next time, if I get more, I'll give you some more, this pack of fairy powder, you take it to test the water first, if it's really easy to sell, it's not too late to come to me again." Li Yunfeng pretended to hesitate and said.

"Okay then." Sentel said regretfully.

Leaving Jardine Matheson, Li Yunfeng went to Fengtai and Baoli respectively, and gave a pack of 500 grams of white noodles, that is, Shenxian San, to Mark Wen and Hendry respectively.

Three days later, the rich and powerful foreigners gathered together.

"Hey, Consul Nick, I've got something good, would you like one?" Sentel asked with a smile.

"Isn't it Wangbaolu cigarettes? Haven't I smoked? Nick said disapprehantly.

"With the addition of fairy powder in it, it feels wonderful to smoke it." Sentel whispered.

"Okay, give me one?" Nick said.

At the same time, Mark Win, the manager of Fengtai Foreign Company, and Hengdeli, the manager of Baoli Foreign Company, were also selling cigarettes with Shenxian San to their friends, and it didn't take long for the whole dance party to be full of smoke.

In just a few days, white noodles have become a sought after thing by foreigners, and one after another foreigners have become addicted, and if they don't take a few mouthfuls every day, they feel both energetic and unenergetic, and they are uncomfortable all over their bodies.

"Mr. Shangdi, can you sell some immortals and give them to me." Sentel asked impatiently.

"Mr. Shangdi, I'm going to buy some fairy powder too." Mark Wyn said hurriedly.

"Mr. Shandy, you can't favor one over the other." Hendry said.

"The number of immortal san is limited, I only have two hundred kilograms, and I have to leave fifty kilograms to dredge up the relationship, and I will sell you a maximum of one hundred and fifty kilograms." Li Yunfeng looked reluctant, gritted his teeth and said.

"Mr. Shangdi, let's do it, for every catty of immortals, I will bid six hundred oceans." Sentel said.

"Mr. Shangdi, I am also willing to use this price to buy immortal powder from you." Mark Wyn chimed in.

"Mr. Shangdi, six hundred oceans a catty, I will buy as much as you have." Hendry said.

"Okay, I'll sell one hundred and fifty kilograms of immortals to you, and you decide how to divide it." Li Yunfeng said that one gram of white flour costs 1.2 oceans, and an ocean weighs about 37 grams, and white flour is three or four times more expensive than gold.

"Everyone is not short of money, in order not to hurt the peace, fifty kilograms per person, how about it?" Sentel suggested.

"I agree." Mackwin nodded.

"I'm okay with that." Hengdry chimed in.

Li Yunfeng knew in his heart that if he continued to insist, the price of Shenxian San could be doubled, and in line with the idea of making small profits and quick sales and quickly occupying the market, he did not propose the highest price.

The money and goods were cleared, and the three foreigners happily left the Li Industrial Group.

"Get all these oceans into the vault." Li Yunfeng said.

"Yes, boss!" Pan Hongfei, director of the Finance Department, nodded and called his subordinates to carry the ocean.

"There are 3,200 people in the security department, one director, ten captains, and the rest are team members, and the wages of the security department alone cost more than 32,000 oceans every month, and the expenses of the other departments are not small."

"Counting the food expenses, it will take up eighty or ninety thousand oceans every month, and as the intelligence department continues to expand, more and more money is needed every month, it's time to start the furnace to make steel, for the sake of safety, first refine some inferior steel."

After thinking about it, Li Yunfeng found several commercial houses and purchased some coal and iron ore respectively, in the spirit of caution, he did not purchase largely, but just bought some of the same, planning to determine who would supply the raw materials depending on the quality of the raw materials.

A few days later, batches of iron ore and coal were sent to the base by people from several commercial houses.

After settling the final payment and sending away the people from various commercial banks, Li Yunfeng used instruments to test the quality of coal and iron ore, and finally decided to purchase iron ore from Wang's and Zhou's firms, and coal from Sihai and Xu's firms.

After studying the steel of the current era, he secretly pondered how to make inferior steel for a while, and quietly wrote a steelmaking process.

Truckloads of coal were sent to the Li Industrial Base by people from Sihai Commercial Bank and Xu's Commercial Bank.

Batch after batch of iron ore was sent to the base by people from Wang's and Zhou's firms.

Zhang Dahai, director of the factory affairs department, transferred 30 employees to be responsible for thermal power generation, and the remaining hundreds of employees were all transferred to the steelmaking plant, and it took them a few days to finally smelt a furnace of qualified inferior steel.

"Not bad!" After testing the steel smelted, Li Yunfeng nodded with satisfaction, the quality of the steel looks very poor, but it is relative to the modern age of 2035, and in the late Qing Dynasty, it can be regarded as a rare good steel in the world.

"Boss, are you looking for me?" Zhao Zhengang, director of the Foreign Affairs Department, hurriedly ran over.

"The steel has been refined, this is the test data of the steel, from now on, your people in the foreign affairs department are responsible for selling the steel smelted, and the more steel you sell, the more bonuses you will receive every month." Li Yunfeng said.