"What an idiot! Dixie actually asked for 10 million dollars in gold! That's 33,000 pounds of gold! 300 quintals of gold! ”

"That's my son!"

"It's your stupid son's self-righteousness and impulsiveness, and we need to pay a ransom of 10 million!"

"That's not a ransom! It is the acquisition money, and the other party has also agreed to sell the hero pharmaceutical company, as long as you know the production methods of those new drugs, I believe that France and Germany need these stimulants to improve the combat effectiveness of their armies, and then it will not be tens of millions, but hundreds of millions, billions of profits! ”

"Don't you think that the other party will tell us how to make the drug after they get the money?"

"Anyway, my son is here for Boston, and we all have to be responsible for that!"

In the conference room of First National Bank of Boston, Adams, Lawrence, and several other core members of the local extended family gathered to "discuss" the "accident" of the acquisition contract of Hero Pharmaceutical.

"Boom!"

"Be quiet, quarrels will not be fruitful."

An old man armed with a cane struck the ground with his cane, interrupting the argument.

He looked at the other old men, who were the heads of the various families, and the other old men also nodded to each other, indicating that he could continue.

"Is there any good news over there in Italy?"

"No, the best guy on the dogleg side didn't get any useful news, not long after the war ended, and without a strong Texas accent, it was a question of whether he could find someone in Texas to ask for directions."

"Have the Hancocks read the contract?"

"The Smith family did sign the acquisition contract we set, and in the contract, our First National Bank of Boston would pay 10 million dollars worth of gold to buy Hero Pharma and all the patents in the company's name, amoxicillin, analgin, and some black market "painkiller" patents are all in the name of Hero Pharma. ”

The old man with the cane looked at the information about the Smith family in his hand again, focusing on the information about Tom Smith, the "chemical superman" of the Smith family.

"I think the other party is just a nouveau riche with little background, if he can contact the Europeans, how can he still only make a small fuss in the painkiller market, the European army is far more marketable than the American addicts. What do you say? ”

"Chris's impulsive actions have caused the anger of another young man, this Smith imp is not a fool, he dealt with the fools around Chris, but he didn't hurt Chris in the slightest."

"I didn't tear up the ticket, I just talked about it, but I wasn't very satisfied with Chris's small actions."

"Three hundred quintals of gold, don't we have tens of thousands of quintals of gold at the First National Bank of Boston? A little bit of gold to test his bottom line is not bad. ”

"Let's take the ship, after Vanderbilt withdrew from shipping, we have developed a good shipping industry, bought a lot of ships, such a large amount of gold, I don't want to take Vanderbilt's railroad, the barbarian who made his fortune by boxing."

"Three hundred and fifty quintals, give him fifty quintals more, I think this kid's potential is more than just this medicine. In the future, it is not bad to find a way to buy a little bit of the shares of the hero company, and it is also okay to exchange shares. ”

"I'm against it! This kind of Texas farmer should go back to his cotton field and go to the cotton field with to thresh cotton, and still want to make an inch? ”

"Then forget it, three hundred quintals is three hundred quintals."

The next morning, the paddle steamer of the Boston Shipping Company sailed for Houston carrying 300 quintals of gold and a large amount of Turkish opium.

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"Woo~"

The Boston Shipping Company's paddle steamer slowly sailed into Houston's Smith Harbor.

The Boston consortium was greeted by John and a thousand armed men of the Hero Company.

A middle-aged man in his thirties got off the boat, and before he could get off the boat, Chris Adams, who was standing in the harbor, recognized the middle-aged man.

"Cousin! I am here. ”

The man was Chris Adams' cousin, Liam Lawrence.

As if he hadn't seen his cousin, Liam walked towards John.

"Mr. John Muller, there is the three hundred quintals of gold that your company has asked for, and I would like you to count them."

"No, the credibility of the Bostonians is still trustworthy, give, this is what you need."

John took out his hand and waved his hand, and several Hero Company employees walked up with their papers.

Liam also had several of his staff take the documents and bring them to the ship.

As for the details of legal issues, it is always not what they need to care about, and every company has a professional legal affairs department.

Three hundred quintals of gold was not a small amount, and the employees of the Hero Company began to carry it.

John and Liam sat at makeshift tables and chairs by the harbor, waiting for the deal to end.

Gold can be moved much faster than patents and contracts can be reconciled.

It can't be helped, after all, gold is just gold, and there are no winding text traps.

After about two hours, the legal documents were finally checked.

A thin man with glasses slowly walked up to Liam and whispered something in a low voice, but Liam only nodded slightly and told him to go back to the ship and wait.

"Mr. John Muller, Hero Pharma and its patents are officially attributed to our First National Bank of Boston, so how can you give us the manufacturing methods of aspirin, amoxicillin, penicillin, etc. in your patents?"

"Papa~"

John slapped his face twice, and the two strong men of the Hero Company walked to the back of John's chair and used their hands and torso to prop up John who was leaning back to prevent John from falling backwards.

John put his hands on the pillow, and his legs crossed arrogantly across the table between John and Liam.

"We, Hero Company, only agreed to sell Hero Pharmaceutical Company and all related patents, when did we agree to hand over to you the production method of the drug in the patent?"

"Mr. John Mueller! No kidding! ”

"Do you think I'm joking? By the way, let me tell you a little secret, our company recently established Heroine Pharmaceutical Company, and also applied for amodonlin. Patents for astracyrin, cyanomycin and other drugs, we will be competitors in the future, hahaha~"

John laughed awkwardly like a robot, and to be honest, it was like the sound of wood being sawn off by a saw.

Even Liam, who was in his thirties, couldn't hold back his anger and slammed his hands on this makeshift table!

"Are you going to go to all-out war with our Boston consortium?!?!"

"Listen to me!"

John didn't answer directly, but raised his right hand and shouted, commanding a thousand neat Hero Company armed men behind him.

"Raise your gun!"

A thousand armed men of the Hero Company raised their rifles in the air in unison, pointing straight at the Gulf of Mexico.

"Shoot!"

A thousand armed men fired at the same time, saying that a thousand people were shooting, but the sound was not as noisy as Liam imagined, and if it weren't for the deafening gunshots, Liam thought it might have been just two or three people shooting.

"Put away the gun!"

The neat movements of a thousand people, and even the timing of the rubbing of the clothes when doing the movements are so synchronized, that Liam, who is more than ten meters away, can hear the neat "swish" sound of the clothes rubbing.

Cold sweat instantly soaked Liam's entire body, and Liam remembered that there were a thousand armed men standing by the port, maintaining the security of this transaction.

The 1,000 men stood at the side of the harbor with guns on their shoulders for two hours without making a sound, so that Liam ignored the silent armed men.

John slowly sat back down in his normal seat, his eyes like a viper on his prey, staring at the angry and panicked Liam across the table.

"Do you think I'm joking?"