There was silence in the side hall. Looking at the thoughtful Gao Hongming, Ziying glanced at her lady with some worry.
Although she had only followed Qin Xiulian to the Gao family for more than a year, she knew very well that the young master of the Gao family was impatient. After all, Gao Hongming's reputation in Liantai County was known to everyone in the past. Being rejected like this would probably cost him face.
It's hard to hold on.
Sensing Ziying's worry, Qin Xiulian gave her a reassuring look.
After a while, Gao Hongming asked again: "Tell me about our business in Liantai."
Qin Xiulian looked at him with some surprise. In the past, this young master of the Gao family hated these things the most, but today he actually took the initiative to ask. Is this a big change?
"Our family has a total of sixteen shops in Liantai, including six rice shops, five drug shops, two cloth shops and three drug shops. Each shop has a shopkeeper, a cashier and three to six clerks."
"How profitable are these stores?"
"In previous years, these shops could make about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan a year. But since the Japanese invaded Shanxi, our business has been much worse than before. Last year we only made less than 30,000 yuan."
"That's it."
Gao Hongming stopped talking. At first glance, the profit of tens of thousands of dollars seemed to be a lot, but that was not how the accounts were calculated.
There are hundreds of servants, nurses, maids, and mothers in the Gao family compound. Just eating, drinking, and eating for these people is a big expense. Now that Gao Hongming has also formed a militia, the expenses are even more
Like running water, even though the Gao family has a huge business, it is a bit too much to bear.
He thought for a while and suddenly said: "Xiulian, do our drug stores sell Western medicines? I mean drugs such as sulfa, penicillin or morphine."
Qin Xiulian smiled bitterly when she heard this: "These things are very difficult to obtain, and they are hard-to-find medicines. Our drug store simply does not have the ability to obtain such urgently needed medicines.
Take sulfonamide as an example. The current price in the world is five yuan for three tablets, but even one yuan and one tablet are difficult to buy.
Not to mention something as life-saving as penicillin, a small bottle of penicillin sells for two large yellow croakers on the black market, and ordinary people cannot afford it."
"So expensive?" Gao Hongming couldn't help but exclaimed.
Although Gao Hongming knew that the price of penicillin was very high during World War II, he never expected it to be so high.
The so-called yellow croaker is what people in the Republic of China called gold bars. There are large yellow croakers and small yellow croakers. The difference between the two is that the large yellow croaker has twelve bars, and the small yellow croaker has one or two bars.
A small yellow croaker is worth about 30 ocean dollars, and a large yellow croaker is worth 300 ocean dollars.
Based on this price, a bottle of penicillin (penicillin) that only cost a few yuan in later generations was sold for 600 yuan. This is simply a money grab.
"Is it expensive?" Qin Xiulian said indifferently: "As long as it involves something that can save lives, no matter how expensive it is, someone will buy it."
"Well, that's true."
Gao Hongming understood this. If nothing else, just a few days before he traveled through time, a piece of news exploded across the Internet.
The price of one injection of lymphoma anti-cancer drug is 1.2 million, which attracted countless netizens to watch. You must know that such a price is obviously beyond the affordability of ordinary people.
But even so, it is still hard to find a needle. In comparison, the current price of a bottle of penicillin and two small yellow croakers is really not high.
He thought for a while and then said: "If I can get a batch of sulfa, can you sell it?"
"Can you get sulfa?"
Qin Xiulian looked at Gao Hongming in surprise, "Hong Ming, are you kidding?"
"Do you think I'm joking?"
Gao Hongming didn't waste any time and turned around and walked out the door.
A few minutes later, he came back with two boxes, one large and one small, and placed them on the table.
"Can you open it and see for yourself?"
Qin Xiulian, who was still a little confused, tore open the packaging of the box.
Ziying also raised her head to look at the box, and blurted out: "Oh... the box also has foreign writing written on it."
I opened the box and saw the glass bottles inside, and carefully read the instructions above for a while.
Qin Xiulian is not the kind of woman who is illiterate. She once studied in a missionary school in the provincial capital and is no stranger to English.
"Sulfonamide powder...is actually sulfonamide powder? And this box...oh my God...is actually penicillin?"
Qin Xiulian covered her mouth and couldn't help but exclaimed.
The maid Ziying quickly started counting.
"One, two, three...eighteen, nineteen, twenty..."
"Oh my god, there are a total of twenty-four bottles of penicillin and five hundred packets of sulfa powder... How much does this cost!"
It's just that Ziying couldn't figure out how much the two boxes of medicine were worth after calculating for a long time.
In the end, Qin Xiulian flicked her head, "I should... I ask you to read more books on weekdays, but you are always lazy. Now you can't even do such a simple thing."
"Miss...you hit me again. Besides, I'm not a bookkeeper, so how can I count these things?"
Qin Xiulian suddenly grabbed Gao Hongming's hand, her big eyes extremely bright, "Hong Ming... just give these things to me, I will definitely be able to sell them at the most suitable price."
Gao Hongming laughed and held her little hand with his backhand. He felt a warm and delicate feeling pass from the palm of his hand to his heart. He gently scratched her straight nose and said, "I have given it to you.
Of course, you have full authority to handle it. If you can handle it well, I can also get you more sulfa powder and penicillin."
"real……"
At this time, Qin Xiulian had already entered working mode, her expression became serious, "How much can you get?"
"Um……"
Gao Hongming pondered for a moment and pointed to the two cartons on the table: "Now we can only get 10 boxes of penicillin and 500 boxes of sulfa powder every month."
"10 boxes of penicillin and 500 boxes of sulfa powder?"
Qin Xiulian was so excited that she felt dizzy. She held Gao Hongming's arm firmly, "If it is true, the entire Liantai County... no... the gates of the entire 26 counties of Yanmen Road will be open to us."
Looking at Qin Xiulian, whose face was flushed with excitement, Gao Hongming smiled. No wonder his predecessor avoided her.
In addition to being disgusted with his father for marrying him a wife without permission, the dissatisfaction with this kind of strong woman is the most fundamental reason, right?
After all, given the current social climate, few men would like to accept a woman who is smarter and more capable than themselves, especially if this woman is his wife.
However, this concern was no problem at all for Gao Hongming, who came from a later generation.
"Of course, as long as you are willing, I am open to providing you with sulfa powder and penicillin, as much as you want."
Gao Hongming answered in an affirmative tone. In his mobile phone store, the price of each box of sulfonamide powder and penicillin was only six yuan. This was the confidence he dared to guarantee.