After all, Liu Runsheng is a native of Taiping Mansion, and his ancestors are rich. Even though he is a little down now, his old relationship is still a bit. In addition, the two things such as pens and watches are indeed novel and valuable, so his running is very effective.

Facts have also proved that with him as a local, or as an agent, his work efficiency is high. Just as Li Zhigao took a nap, Liu Runsheng brought back three major customers and said he wanted to have an interview with Li Zhigao, the real boss.

When a big customer came to the door, Li Zhigao naturally did not dare to neglect. He immediately put on his outfit in the tuxedo suit and took a small mirror to look at it. Then he picked up the diamond-inlaid civilization stick, held his head and chest up, and came to the living room with a cool and cool look.

As soon as I entered the living room, I found two middle-aged people who had never seen before, sitting inside, one was fat and the other was thin, all wearing brocade silk clothes, drinking tea and chatting.

Although Li Zhigao had no experience in discussing business with others, when he looked at others unscrupulously, the fat and thin middle-aged man, after seeing Li Zhigao's outfit, was slightly stunned and his movements paused. Obviously, he was flashed by the outfit, and the scene suddenly became cold. But soon, due to Liu Runsheng's initiative, they suddenly realized, and quickly stood up and bowed to him. With the help of Liu Runsheng, they began to introduce each other.

After some introduction, Li Zhigao realized that the fat man was named Zhu Zenggui. He was 35 years old this year and was the young owner of Baoshengxing. His family mainly deals with jewelry, gold, silver and bronze ware. Another thin man was Chen Jingtang, who was 36 years old this year and was the owner of Jing Baozhai. His family specialized in antiques, calligraphy, paintings and other objects.

Of course, that is just their ancestral family business. In fact, these two companies have a wide range of businesses. Not only do they operate their own traditional businesses, they also also conduct wholesale foreign goods. Foreign goods such as matches, cigarettes, glass mirrors, etc. are all selling, and buying and selling foreign goods. They are already one of the main businesses that their family currently has. Before, Liu Runsheng's purchase channels for serving as a peddler were basically from his two companies.

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

As for why they don’t do their old business well and have to operate in multiple ways, it is because in this semi-colonial era when the country’s natural economy was severely impacted by foreign industrial products, if they only rely on their old business, they generally cannot survive. They follow the trend and live a more prosperous life. In this way, these places are indeed a good place for watches and pens.

After the introduction, Li Zhigao asked Liu Runsheng: "Aren't they three big customers? Why are there only two people?"

Just as Liu Runsheng was about to reply, he heard a clattering sound of leather shoes behind him. Then he saw a white male man from thirty to forty years old, a very thin figure, a tall nose, about 1.75 meters tall, wearing a gray suit, and a short hat on his head.

After the white man, or foreigner, came in quickly, he was stunned when he found Li Zhigao. Then he walked to Li Zhigao's heels with a few steps, gave Li Zhigao a hat-taking ceremony, and then said in poor Chinese: "Hello, I guess you are Mr. Li. Let me introduce myself. My name is Marvin, Marvin Thompson, and I am the boss of Defu Foreign Company."

"Hello, Mr. Thompson." Li Zhigao also gave a hat-taking ceremony, and then took the initiative to stretch out his right hand, "I am Li Zhigao, I'm very happy to see you here."

Hearing the other party say this, and seeing Li Zhigao reach out his hand, Ma Wen was stunned for a moment, then quickly reached out and shook his hand with him, his tone became much more intimate, and simply said in English: "Oh, God, it seems that I met a real gentleman here. You don't know that after the people here heard my name, they all called me Mr. Ma. Only you, I call me Mr. Thompson, haha. But you can call me Marvin directly, or call me Mr. Ma like others. They are used to it, and don't have to be so disgusting. Well, I think we will get along happily."

"Of course, my dear Ma Wen, I think it will." Li Zhigao smiled, then gently pulled his hand back, and still said in Chinese, "But we still speak in Chinese to avoid trouble. After all, you are here to discuss business with me."

"Oh?" Marvin looked at the people around him and nodded, "Okay, just like you said, follow the local customs."

Next, the foreigner named Marvin Thompson started to speak again.

After this remark, Li Zhigao realized that he was an American businessman. After graduating from college, he came to China to do business. At first, he was in Shanghai, and later he went here to do it, mainly in the business of matches, glass, soap, kerosene lamps and kerosene imported daily necessities such as US. Similarly, he was also one of Liu Runsheng's previous purchasers. As for why he came late, there was another reason.

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

Chen Jingtang and Zhu Zenggui were also very curious about Li Zhigao's motorcycle, but they were both reserved, so they all went into the house first. Only Marvin was American, curious and recognized what it was, so he circled around the motorcycle and touched left and right. If he hadn't been a foreigner, Liu Runsheng would have spoken out to stop it.

Indeed, motorcycles may be rare in China at this time and are almost impossible to see, but in the West, especially in the United States during this period, it is no longer a rare thing. It’s just that when you see motorcycles in China, and they look so cool and advanced, it naturally aroused Marvin’s curiosity.

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

Li Zhigao was also helpless about this. He was not a technical emperor, so he could just use it in meetings. Besides, even if he knew the parameters, he couldn't say it. After all, the era was different, so he hurriedly said that it was him and he didn't know much.

Then, Ma Wen asked where to buy the motorcycle and how much it cost. Li Zhigao quickly said that it was a private customization and it was not sold on the market. Then he began to change the topic: "For motorcycle matters, let's talk about it later. Let's talk about other things now, such as watches and pens. I guess this is the real purpose of your visit?"

Seeing that Li Zhigao didn't want to say much, Ma Wen stopped asking questions and began to cheer up again and bargain.

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

Finally, after some discussion, the price was set, and the ten watches were eaten by Zhu Zenggui and Chen Jingtang, and the total price was 25,000 oceans. As for the pen, they were all wrapped up by Ma Wen. Each pen was 35 oceans, and two hundred were 7,000 oceans. Similarly, he also wanted the monopoly of such pens.

All things add up to 32,000 oceans in total, and basically the price exceeded the original expectations.

However, due to the huge number and Li Zhigao's demands are urgent, in the end, under Li Zhigao's initiative to say that jewelry and jade could be replaced, the 32,000 oceans were converted into gold and jade jewelry for settlement.

At this time, the price of gold and silver was thirty oceans and one small yellow croaker, that is, one or two taels of gold for thirty oceans. So the amount that was finally settled for Li Zhigao was 500 taels of gold and jade jewelry priced at 15,000 tons of oceans, plus two thousand eagle oceans.

Among jade jewelry, Li Zhigao specifically instructed that mutton fat jade and jade should be the main one, because he remembered that these two kinds of jade were the most valuable. As for the specific things, there were a variety of things, and there was no need to pay attention to them, such as jade bracelets, jade rings, snuff bottles, jade beads, jade bowls, jade plates and jade cups, dozens of them.

Li Zhigao didn't know about jade. He only knew that among the jades in later generations, it seemed that the two most expensive ones were mutton fat and jade. Although he didn't know about jewelry, he felt that the jewelry and jadeware of this era must be good. Besides, apart from the value of jade jewelry itself, if you take it back, you still have an antique identity, so it's not bad.

Looking at the 50 golden bars in front of him, commonly known as big yellow croaker, and a bunch of unfamous jade jewelry, Li Zhigao finally suppressed his little heart that was beating wildly, and nodded indifferently, completing the transaction.

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

In terms of settlement methods, they originally planned to settle mainly in gold. After all, nowadays, transactions of over 10,000 oceans are rarely settled directly by oceans. In that case, tens of thousands of taels of silver have to be pulled by carriages. If it is inconvenient, it is also eye-catching.

In fact, at this time, merchants used silver notes in bills or certificates of deposit and checks in foreign banks for large settlements. In short, financial payments are now very convenient, but Li Zhigao insisted on precious metals, which was a troublesome thing.

In this era, one tael is about 37.8 grams, five hundred taels of gold, which is about 18,900 grams, 18.9 kilograms, and fifty big gold bars weighing ten taels were put into the box and picked up, which was very convenient.

Of course, it is not all for gold and jewelry. After all, there are still two thousand eagle-yangs. That was left by Li Zhigao to Liu Runsheng and asked him to arrange for him to buy a house and buy a property here. You must know that he will always have a place to go here in the future.

The business was completed and the goods were paid off. Li Zhigao and Zhu Zenggui, Chen Jingtang and Ma Wen, the big customers, began to sit in the living room to have tea and chat, conduct further business negotiations, or further surveys with each other. What they said was that this cooperation was a pleasant time, and they would come to them next time there was goods, and they also said that they had to do a medicinal business.

"What? Are you studying in the United States? Or is a doctor and a drug inventor?" While chatting, Marvin was immediately surprised when he heard that Li Zhigao was studying abroad in the United States. "What a coincidence, I graduated from the University of Virginia. Which school did you graduate from?"

"This is, haha, it's not convenient to disclose it." Li Zhigao called out and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter. As long as you know, I do have special medicine in my hand."

"Okay." Seeing that the other party was unwilling to say more about his origin, Ma Wen shrugged, "But if you are saying it is true, you have special medicines for treating meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, plague and wound inflammation, then you don't have to look for us at all. Just go to a hospital and try a seriously ill patient, and everything will be clear."

"You said it right." Li Zhigao smiled, "Facts are better than words. No matter how much you say, they are not as good as facts. However, I am really busy in normal times and cannot be busy all day long. I am not always here, so this is all about this."

Then, Li Zhigao pointed to a pile of paper wrapped in different colors on the table: "Look, I have prepared enough amounts for all the medicines, and taught this girl Liu Yinshui in detail. You just need to bring her and try it with a symptomatic patient who is willing to try. If it works, you will know immediately."

It turned out that when Liu Runsheng went out to do business, Li Zhigao was not idle either. He directed Liu Jinshui and Liu Yinshui to start sorting the sulfonamide antibiotics he brought, some penicillin, streptomycin and other drugs, wrapped them into small packets in different colors of paper, and taught Liu Jinshui over and over again to memorize the diseases and detailed usages of different paper-pack drugs.

He did this just to find an agent to get these medicines and find a patient for clinical verification. After all, he could not stay here all day recently.

Those medicines were basically processed by him twice, and they were also made of powders of brown sugar, such as powders of sulfonamide tablets and powders of amoxicillin dispersed tablets. With the technology of this era, you can't even analyze the ingredients.

As for why I taught the method of taking medicine to Liu Yinshui, this is because he only knows how to write simplified characters and does not know traditional characters, so he cannot write it in the way of writing instructions. As for English, I am really embarrassed. A few simple conversations are still successful. It is really difficult for him to write the detailed usage in English.

Therefore, in the end, I simply let the two little girls memorize the usage by rote. Among them, Liu Jinshui is fine, but the little girl named Liu Yinshui is not very literate, but her memory is amazing. Basically, she will remember it clearly and clearly, and she will never make any mistakes again, which makes Li Zhigao look at her with admiration, so in the end, she simply let Liu Yinshui be the one who uses medicine to explain.

Seeing that Ma Wen and others were still skeptical, Liu Runsheng, who was settled the accounts while quitting, immediately jumped out and said, telling him about his mother's condition, what the doctor he had asked before, how Li Zhigao treated him, and how he could see immediate results. He also personally took the three of them to see his mother, and asked her mother to express her feelings.

After this, especially looking at Liu Runsheng's choked expression, whether it was Chen Jingtang, Zhu Zenggui or Ma Wen, his expressions changed. He was no longer the skepticism he had in the past, but became solemn.

Obviously, they all realized the meaning and the business opportunities contained in it.

Finally, Ma Wen just nodded solemnly and said that he would go to the hospital to find the patient and try it. However, Zhu Zenggui and Chen Jingtang both stood up and bowed, promising to go to various Shantang pharmacies in person to find the patient to try the effect of the medicine.

Seeing their statements, Li Zhigao nodded with satisfaction and showed a faint smile.
Chapter completed!