1928: The rise of giant merchants

November 15, the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928).

French Concession, Sino-French Pharmacy.

Ye's Pharmaceutical Company, which had been silent for more than half a month, finally released a wave of new products through the Sino-French Pharmacy.

This new health product is called "Artificial Blood". As early as half a month ago, Lin Yuan followed Ye Luo's instructions and asked well-known newspapers such as Shen Shen to report on "Sick Man of East Asia", "Anemia", "Women are weak and sickly" and other related content are warmed up.

Liangyou Pictorial, as the most important newspaper owned by Ye's Group, devotes two large pages to introducing and assisting in the sale of artificial blood. The bundling method is similar to the original car coupons. As long as you purchase Liangyou Pictorial, you can get it at the Sino-French Pharmacy. Discounts.

In addition to these media reports, Ye Luo also specially invited socialites Tang Ying, Lu Xiaoman and Feng Chengcheng, who made big news recently due to hospitalization for anemia, to speak for him.

Three top beauties appeared and gave their own testimony. Behind the scenes, there was also the promotion of capital power and the momentum of gangs. In less than half a day, long queues formed in various branches of the Sino-French Pharmacy. Men, women, old and young, all wanted to see this legendary energy. The miracle cure for the "sick man of Asia".

The sales of Longhurendan successfully opened up the medical and health care products market in Shanghai and surrounding cities. In order to prevent a large number of shoddy and inferior health care products from entering the market and harming people, Ye Luo specially made Xiang Songmao and the Minister of Health in Shanghai have a meal. , directly monopolizing the health care product market.

Needless to say, traditional Chinese medicine pharmacies. If the case of abolition of traditional Chinese medicine is not settled for a day, they will be in a state of distress and will not be able to enter the market.

Other western medicine pharmacies want to take a piece of the pie from Ye Luo, and various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes will teach them how to behave.

As for pharmacies and hospitals run by foreigners, the fate of Suzuki Hospital is a lesson learned from the past. After learning that health products were dominated by Ye's family, even foreign companies avoided them because they did not want to compete with Ye Luo in Shanghai!

Huang Chujiu also translated artificial tap blood into "Borod blood medicine", Borod is the translation of the English "blood", in order to attract those Chinese who worship foreigners. It must be said that he is indeed very successful in opportunism and business. There is something unique about it.

The only difference between him and Xiang Songmao is that Xiang Songmao agrees with Ye Luo. In the pharmaceutical industry, we should not just pursue small profits for the moment, but also consider the long-term development of the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, attracting talents, high-tech equipment, and new technologies is the top priority. The most important thing is that the Ye's Pharmaceutical Company in his hands also did the same.

But Huang Chujiu fell into the eyes of money and only thought about how to make a fortune. He engaged in various bundled promotions and discounts, all for profit.

While artificial tap blood was selling like hotcakes, another new drink launched by Ye's Investment Company began to be quietly served in Ye's World and various dance halls owned by Ye's.

In order to eliminate the bad influence caused by the poor translation of tadpole chewing wax, Ye Luo asked Lin Ruxian to buy back all the tadpole chewing wax in the world before, and spent money to eliminate various potential effects. When the time was right, he launched the glass ceremoniously A new drink with Coca-Cola on the bottle!

The cost of this trick was not low, and it cost Lin Rushian 300,000 yuan. Naturally, she trusted Ye Luo very much, but it was hard to imagine that this small bottle of soda could really change the world?

The results of Coca-Cola's launch can only be described as tepid.

It does taste good, but the price is not cheap. A small bottle costs a dime, which basically insulates it from middle- and lower-class customers.

But what makes Lin Ruxian happy is that everyone who has tasted Coca-Cola is full of praise for this novel drink. She has also given up coffee and stocked up on Coca-Cola at home.

Unless Coca-Cola's selling price drops, it will always be difficult to expand its market, and the core of the selling price problem lies in the cost of glass bottles.

The glass bottles produced by the Japanese Baoshan Glass Company cannot be copied by other Chinese companies. The company has a monopoly on the glass bottle business, and the other party is Ye Luo, who does not get along well with the Japanese. Naturally, its voice has become louder. In the Japanese Concession and Japan Under the secret instructions of the Consulate General, Ye Luo was given extremely high prices, forcing him to be unable to do business comfortably.

But generally speaking, the launch of the two major products, coupled with the election of Paramount's "New Dance Queen" and the hype of Ruan Lingyu's divine work "Goddess", it was only in mid-November that Yip's Investment Company brought the public to All kinds of surprises and enjoyment.

And Ye Luo's rivals were having a hard time.

Huo Tianhong and Zhang Wanlin have been restless for the past two days, and they can't help but call people to inquire about the pile of textiles every few minutes.

All the goods on the Nissin were seized by the French Consul General. Who said that the ownership of the goods belonged to Fan's transportation, and it was his wife's property.

When Song Ziwen made a phone call, he was not so nice to Huo Tianhong and the other two, and ordered them to resolve the problem before the end of the month, so that this batch of cigarettes could be successfully transported to Suzhou City.

The most interesting thing about this matter is that until now, Huo Tianhong and Zhang Wanlin, two cousin brothers, still don’t know that there is their cargo on the Nissin!

Huo Tianhong bought the best quality cigarettes from Edward, then contacted Song Ziwen through Tang Fulu. After making various promises, he wanted to use these cigarettes to hook up with Kong Xiangxi.

Zhang Wanlin didn't have so many ideas in his stomach. He was very simple. The last batch of goods sold very well, giving him a near-monopoly on the cigarette business in Shanghai, so he bought more, just wanting to be the same as the last time. Just like making a fortune in silence, one day he will amaze Ye Luo.

Song Ziwen got to know Edward from Huo Tianhong's movements, and also learned from Edward the funny behavior of the three brothers buying cigarettes separately. Edward was just worried about how to handle the three people's goods separately. Song Ziwen asked Tang Fulu to take the initiative to find Zhang Wanlin to receive the goods. This is the current scene.

Both of their goods were on the Nissin, and both were provided to Song Ziwen, but Huo Tianhong and Zhang Wanlin did not know each other.

Now that something happened to the Nissin, Huo Tianhong and Zhang Wanlin were eager to negotiate with Fan Erdi immediately, but there was also Ye Luo in the middle.

From their perspective, Ye Luo and Fan Erdi did not know about it and were "tricked" by Song Ziwen. Now that Fan Erdi was withholding goods, if Huo Tianhong came directly to the door, he was worried that the matter would be exposed to Ye Luo immediately. In this way, they Didn't you just see through your own underwear at a glance?

It turns out that Huo Tianhong borrowed money from Ye's joint venture bank just to buy cigarettes!

These things seem to be responsible, but in fact there is a mismatch in intelligence between them, and there is an information gap.

Only Ye Luo actually has the omniscient perspective of God, and he also concealed this, making others mistakenly think that he didn't know anything, and only thought that Song Ziwen wanted to use his own hands to smuggle smoke.

Lu Yusheng watched the two brothers frowning all day long. He was both amused and curious. Something must have happened to them, but because he didn't know where their misfortune was, he could only secretly enjoy it.

The failure of Paramount caused the collapse of Lu Yusheng's persona as a shrewd businessman who had been in business for many years. His network of contacts collapsed, his credibility declined, he lost money, and was even ridiculed by Zhang Wanlin.

Now, his comeback capital lies in Jiang Anlun, who has just left Shanghai.

There are not only a large number of his people on the ship, but also Ye Chen and others arranged by him. Even if Edward wants to play any tricks, he is confident that he will do it!

Lu Yusheng laughed in his heart, but he didn't know that Jiang Anlun was already filled with many young men from other forces.

The people in the security headquarters thought they were the oriole, but they didn't know that there were people from Ma Yongzhen acting as hunters behind!

call out--

The tip of the pen paused.

The causes, consequences, and possibilities of everything are stated on paper.

Ye Luo blew lightly, picked up the paper, and handed it to Xiao Aqiao and Lin Ruxian in front of him: "Please help me take a look. Is there anything missing?"