There are many glue shops, and the entire Dong'a city is filled with the fishy smell of glue.
It is very different from the high-rise buildings of later generations. Today's Dong'a City is almost a layout of small wooden buildings with shops in front and workshops behind. Various kinds of donkey glue are displayed at the door of every house on the street.
Accompanied by Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi), Mingyan strolled along the two-mile long street.
"Isn't this health center mine too?"
"Yes, there are also Renhetang and Herbal Essence Hall over there...Uncle Mingyan, your medicine shop occupies a small half of the street."
"Then I have to go in and take a closer look..." Mingyan strolled into the health hall, but she didn't see the busy doctors and clerks in the general drug store. There wasn't even a decent drug store cabinet. She only saw a group of people filling piles of papers.
In front of the account book, I was fiddling with the abacus and writing and drawing records.
Mingyan looked confused.
What kind of magical operation is this? Has the drug store changed its accounting room?
"Second Master, what's going on? Where is our health center? Where is our pharmacy?"
"This is it. This is the main store. Renhetang and Herbal Essence Hall are just the main store here. They are responsible for the overall dispatch. From raw materials to drug processing to distribution in each branch, it is a one-stop service. All are controlled and dispatched from here.
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Mingyan flipped through the information on the case and her eyes widened again, "I have forty branches in Beijing...so many. Why do we have more than two hundred branches in Anguo County? Is there no reason?"
"Because Anguo is the capital of medicine, and our main battlefield will be fought there."
"Fighting with whom?"
"With the people from the Peony Society...According to reliable information, the Peony Society's Grand Health Hall, Daren Hetang and Herbal Essence Hall...have more than 120 stores in Anguo County, and 890 stores across the country.
Come here...and their medicines are sold at low prices, without making a single copper penny..."
"What do they want to do? Do they want to disrupt the entire pharmaceutical market? If they control the entire pharmaceutical market, why don't the people just listen to them?"
"What did you just say..." This sentence woke up the dreamer. Previously, he thought that this was just the need for medicinal materials and medicines in Yangzhou, because "Peony Society" transports a large amount of medicinal materials and medicines to Yangzhou every month. If it is true,
As Ming Yan said, the Peony Society "hangs the pot to help the world" to control the people, then this is really too insidious.
In this case, it is really too dangerous!
Thinking of this, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) trembled all over. The medical knowledge of later generations made him understand the truth: whoever controls medicines and hospitals controls health.
If the "Peony Society" were allowed to control the circulation of drugs... the consequences would be truly unimaginable!
Most of the medicines of "Peony Society" are shipped to Yangzhou... Every month, more than 500,000 kilograms of donkey-hide gelatin, more than 300,000 kilograms of ginseng, eucommia, saffron... and other precious medicinal materials arrive in Yangzhou, but they all mysteriously disappear.
Where did these medicinal materials go?
Who would be so generous?
Do you eat these precious Chinese medicinal materials?
Three batches of "detailed work" and twelve of the best "scouts" have been sent out, but there is still no news yet.
There has been no news about Senior Brother Chen Jinnan who has successfully "lurked" into the "Peony Club".
No news came back from the snipers deployed in Dong'a.
The whole situation suddenly fell into mystery and weirdness.
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) fell into deep thought.
At this moment, Zhu Gui, the magistrate of Dong'e County, walked in from the door, a short, fat, middle-aged black man.
As soon as he entered the door, he hunched his back and shrank his chest. He looked like he was meeting his boss and came straight towards Mingyan.
"As soon as the county heard that Boss Yan from the Yangsheng Hall was coming, I couldn't sit still in the county office and immediately rushed over to visit... You are the big tax payers in this county."
"It's a great honor for the county magistrate to come here. It seems that you are a relative of Qian. Have you received the tea I ordered the shopkeeper here to send a few days ago?"
"Boss Yan, you're very polite. I've received it, the number is correct."
"It is a custom to pay tribute to the county magistrate every month. It is a good habit to keep. Walking with every county magistrate is the dream of us businessmen."
"Boss Yan is doing his job, so the county can rest assured. But he has to go for a walk with every county magistrate... Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?"
"It's not an exaggeration, this is what our real backstage boss said."
The big boss behind Mingyan is Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi).
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) indeed said this. It originated from the classic saying of the Rothschild family, the largest and most awesome "invisible richest man" in later generations, "We want to take a walk with every king."
"A boss as big as you...is there a bigger boss than you? If you have time, you can recommend me and get to know each other..."
"If there is a chance, there will definitely be a chance."
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At this time, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) was looking at the silver eighteen-petal peony embroidered on the sleeves of Zhu Zhixian's official robe with "careless" eyes.
This must not be a coincidence.
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) looks calm on the surface, but his heart is turbulent.
"The Peony Society is so powerful that it actually made Magistrate Zhu a member... The best investment in the world is that investors invest in officials... In the Qing Dynasty, many businessmen with long-term vision invested in officials who had just taken office. As for the wealthy ladies,
The story of robbing Zhuang Yuanlang has become a good story... The power of an official can bring profits tens of thousands of times... If it is a king, it is even more incredible... occupy medical resources and then invest in officials...
This Peony Club is really ambitious..."
Baoyu was not only shocked, but also pleasantly surprised.
My dear, I finally connected the missing thread.
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) quickly read his "Official Information Cheat Sheet".
Zhu Gui was a member of the Han Dynasty in Hubei. He was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Shunzhi. He served as county magistrate in Yangzhou for three years... He moved through six or seven counties, and his official reputation was neither good nor bad. A year ago, he was transferred to Dong'er County as magistrate.
This "resume" is very ordinary and nothing special.
If the only special thing is that I spent some time in Yangzhou...
Baoyu flipped through his "cheat sheet" and suddenly discovered that Chen Wendao, the magistrate of Anguo, also served as an official in Yangzhou...
There are also several cities and counties with important medical resources, and the "leaders" have all served as officials in Yangzhou.
To sum up, "Peony Club" has really worked hard for the "medical cause".
From the private sector to the government, everyone has made "heavy bets" and spared no effort in spending money.
"This is my best breakthrough... I don't know that Peony Society will not invest in me Baoyu, who is one of the largest blue chip stocks..."
"The cool breeze is trustworthy, the autumn moon is boundless, and I feel like the days are like years..."
Finding "clues" from thousands of threads, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) felt so happy...
