Traveling through the Republic of China, I married a dead person

After a quick exchange of ideas with Su Bai and learning how much money Su Bai had brought with him to Shanghai, Shopkeeper Wan took a gold bar from Su Bai and returned to Mr. Xu, stuffing it into his hand: "This is a deposit."

Mr. Xu accepted it happily.

But when Manager Wan put forward his conditions, Mr. Xu immediately handed the gold bar back.

Shopkeeper Wan said that a deposit of a gold bar was left with Mr. Xu, and he wanted to ask Mr. Xu to take out some things as a guarantee, so that both parties could offset each other.

He wanted the empty bottles in Mr. Xu's warehouse.

"Mr. Liu, your calculations are too precise, aren't they?" Mr. Xu told Manager Wan that one dollar could only buy 200 of these small bottles, and a bottle of 1000 would cost 5 dollars.

150 bottles, these bottles alone are worth 700 to 800 dollars.

The current market price of a gold bar is up to 330 dollars.

"Mr. Liu doesn't want to buy the factory, but wants to buy these bottles at a low price, right?" At this point, Mr. Xu became a little angry.

Su Bai walked forward and took out three more gold bars, together with the one that Mr. Xu stuffed back into Manager Wan's hand, giving a total of four to Mr. Xu.

"I'll take your empty bottles and give you a set of filling machines. Isn't that a good deal?"

After being stunned for a moment, Mr. Xu answered repeatedly that it was not a loss.

"Okay, it's three months. If I can't raise enough money to buy the factory, these four gold bars will be yours."

"Three months?" Mr. Xu agreed after hesitating for a moment.

Afterwards, Manager Wan told Su Bai that actually three gold bars would be enough. Although Mr. Xu kept saying that those bottles and canning machines were worth about three gold bars, and the benefit he could get from keeping the factory for Su Bai for three months was actually just one gold bar, Manager Wan believed that if Su Bai failed to buy the factory in the end, all four gold bars would be his profit.

Compared with the entire factory, the empty bottles and a set of filling machines in the warehouse taken away by Su Bai did not affect his ability to sell the factory for 5 yuan.

"The young lady is not a shrewd businessman." Shopkeeper Wan concluded Su Bai with a smile.

However, he added that those who achieve great things do not care about trivial matters. This incident shows the young lady's magnanimity and domineering nature. She will definitely achieve great things in the pharmaceutical industry in the future.

Su Bai agreed with Manager Wan's evaluation of him, but what Manager Wan didn't know was that what he wanted now was time and output.

With this batch of penicillin bottles and filling machines, the packaging of penicillin produced later basically conforms to modern packaging methods.

When Su Bai visited Fahua Pharmaceutical, she had already written down the names of all the equipment, experimental facilities and supplies in the factory. Next, Manager Wan took her to major medical and chemical supply stores in Shanghai to purchase what she urgently needed.

Not all the equipment in Fahua Pharmaceutical is urgently needed by Su Bai. She only needs to replace a small part of it and replenish some consumables with large quantities.

Despite this, it took me a full week to get everything I needed in Shanghai.

Moreover, several facilities are only on display in the business and will have to be imported if needed.

Importing is not easy in this era. It may take at least a month to receive the goods after placing an order, or even longer.

Shopkeeper Wan reminded Su Bai that it was not easy to transport these things back to Longxing from Shanghai. He was not sure whether there were any banned or controlled items here.

There is no big problem with the equipment and facilities, no one can figure out what they are used for.

But it is hard to say whether Su Bai purchased a large amount of raw materials and chemicals this time.

He wanted to take the list and ask someone to check first to confirm that these things would not be seized during transportation.

A day later, Manager Wan, through someone else, found the relevant government officials to look over the drugs on the list, and marked out several banned and controlled items.

This made Su Bai worried. If this continued, it would be better to do as Xu Tianyi said and move his pharmaceutical base to Shanghai.

However, the conditions are not yet in place.

Shopkeeper Wan advised Su Bai not to worry and that he would try to find a way to transport these controlled drugs back.

How could Su Bai not be anxious? He had been away from Longxing for too long and was afraid that something might happen there.

Once Kong Li finds out that I am not in the Kong Mansion, it is hard to say how he will treat me when I return, but Gao Hu will definitely be held accountable.

Moreover, from Manager Wan's expression, Su Bai knew that he was not sure about the matter.

That very night, when Su Bai was so worried that she even lost her appetite, Xu Tianyi mentioned someone to her: Zhou Beiwang.

He remembered that Zhou Beiwang had a friend in the military department of the National Government in Nanjing who was in charge of military supplies and was responsible for distributing military supplies to various places. If he could get help from this person and obtain a military pass, everything would be solved.

"Can...it be possible?" Su Bai didn't quite believe it.

"I think it can work." Xu Tianyi said that he would go back to Linhua to find Zhou Beiwang tomorrow and ask him to write a letter. He would take the letter to Nanjing to find this friend.

"I've met him. He may not know me, but he must have an impression of me. Plus with the letter from Captain Zhou, this thing can definitely be done!"

According to Xu Tianyi, this person has a very good relationship with Zhou Beiwang.

I couldn't send a telegram to Zhou Beiwang about this matter, so I could only go back and talk to him in person.

Su Bai had no other choice. It would take another three days for Xu Tianyi to go back and forth.

Kong Dai was right. This time I came to Shanghai for ten days or half a month.

I hope nothing happens at the Confucius Mansion, Su Bai began to pray non-stop.

So what if he was upset? During the days of waiting for Xu Tianyi, Su Bai took the other three people to wander around the city and bought some women's products that could not be bought in Longxing, such as lipstick, perfume, stockings, tooth powder, etc.

"Madam, can we buy some from here and sell it in Longxing?" Excited, Zi Yan gave Su Bai another idea.

Su Bai looked back at her and said, "You really have a talent for business."

"I think it's okay!" Zi Yan went on to say that although there were not many wealthy families in Longxing City, there were quite a few in Linhua and Tianlong counties, and the ladies of these wealthy families must like these things.

She even imagined that we could sell these things to Jinan.

Those fashionable-looking women in Jinan are extremely unfashionable compared to the women in Shanghai. Zi Yan has noticed that most of them wear cotton socks. Even if some of them wear silk stockings, they must have been bought from Shanghai.

Su Bai was moved by Zi Yan's suggestion. Unlike Zi Yan, she did not want to make a profit from this, but wanted to cover up the fact that she earned her income from pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Shopkeeper Wan is an expert in this area and can help you contact the source of goods and market prices.

This matter was mainly assigned to Zi Yan. Su Bai stayed in the hotel most of the time, looking down from the upstairs window, hoping that Xu Tianyi would suddenly appear in his sight.

Four days later, Xu Tianyi finally came back.