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Chapter 1145 Sky-high Vaccine
"Shopkeeper Li, you are back. When we checked the warehouse, we found that this pile of things hadn't been sold yet. I don't know what to do with them?" Several Chinese businessmen asked Li Jinde after Li Jinde returned to London.

A bunch of things they said were [-] smallpox vaccines brought by the fleet, but this kind of thing has not yet appeared in the West, and there is a very small probability of death.At the same time, it is necessary that the people who have been vaccinated have not been infected with smallpox for several years, so that they can prove to the other party that the vaccine is really effective.

Li Jinde thought that there were still [-] copies of the smallpox vaccine that had not been sold, so he didn't have much clue for a while.How to make the other party believe in this new thing, in case it is labeled as "Oriental Conspiracy Theory", it may affect normal trade by then...

"I don't think we can sell this kind of thing with common sense. It's better to do the opposite and mark it as an expensive commodity. The higher the price, the better, at least £10 a piece. Just let them beg us to buy it Vaccines, we have to consider whether to sell them." Li Jinde said after thinking for a while.

"Will the price of 10 pounds be too expensive? Wouldn't it be 10 pounds for [-] vaccines? If it is too expensive, wouldn't the vaccines we bring be rotten in the warehouse?" Several directors were concerned about Li Jinde's high price strategy I'm a little worried.

"Scarcity is the most precious thing. I would rather have this batch of vaccines rot in the warehouse than create an atmosphere of rarity for others. We put a batch of samples in a conspicuous place and erected a wooden sign If there are merchants from the City of London who come to buy porcelain and silk, they ask what it is, and then tell them. And must make it clear that one person in a hundred thousand may die, and if they don't want to take risks If you can’t afford it, then don’t buy it. We’ll be blamed if something happens after the vaccine is used. What do you think?” Li Jinde said.

"Having said that...if we can't sell even one of the vaccines given to us by the government, how can we explain to the military leader when we go back?" Some people are still worried about this.

"If there is any problem, I will take full responsibility. If it can't be sold, I will lobby their king. How about taking a little risk to avoid smallpox for life? We merchants need to take greater risks to make a living. 10 The risk of one person dying is already very small," Li Jinde said.

The directors of several western companies saw that Li Jinde took the initiative to stand up to carry the package, and they couldn't help but feel a little dwarfed, so they said: "Master Li, you are the person in charge of our western trading company here, and the high price strategy was decided by our board of directors. We will bear the risk together. If the price of the vaccine can be pushed up to 10 pounds a piece, the vaccine may become the signature commodity of our Western trading company like silk and porcelain in the future."

They calculated in their minds that if the smallpox vaccine could be advertised at a sky-high price of 10 pounds, then 10 copies of the vaccine would cost 10 pounds, and one or two first-class sailing battleships could be built.Even if you only export [-] copies a year, that's a steady income of £[-].The most important thing is that the vaccine is so small that it doesn't take up much space in the cabin, just like gold and silver.

In addition to building large-scale construction on the land leased to them by Charles I, the Western Trading Company also took over several houses in the City of London as shops to sell the goods brought in to ordinary Londoners.If there are big merchants from the city of London coming to negotiate a deal, lead them directly to the warehouse to pick up the goods.Warehouses in the City of London are leased from merchants in London.

"The plaque is crooked, lift it up to the upper right corner."

A Chinese businessman directs the workers standing on the wooden ladder to hang the plaque of the shop.The plaque bears the three Chinese characters of "Tea Shop", and a string of English and Latin words are attached below.

In addition to the tea shop, there are also porcelain shops and silk shops opened.

"It's a pity that there is no lion dance master to follow, and we can't get firecrackers here, otherwise we must have a lively celebration. I have opened such a shop, and this is the most deserted one." Huaxia businessman in charge of managing the tea shop said with emotion.

Without lion dances and firecrackers, he always felt that something was missing, but it didn't mean that the opening of the store didn't cause a sensation.In fact, there were hundreds of British citizens watching outside the shop.

Communication is a problem due to the lack of employees who are proficient in both Chinese and English.But the price tag can solve this problem.

The Chinese tea in the tea shop is divided into different specifications such as bulk, packaged and boxed, and the price is differentiated according to the variety.There are famous teas for nobles, and cheap teas for commoners.

Boxed smallpox vaccine samples were placed in the most conspicuous places in the porcelain, tea and silk shops.This particular product has no name, but its function is indicated on the price tag-it can prevent smallpox for life.

Londoners who came to watch the opening of the store felt a little fresh about the unfamiliar Chinese-style store, and their curiosity drove some of them to enter the store to check the tea.Tea is not common to them, let alone distinguish between different varieties of tea.However, this does not reduce the enthusiasm of Londoners for tea. They can simply judge the quality of tea by the price on the price tag—generally speaking, the higher the price, the better the quality of the tea.

"This tea is worth ten pounds a piece?" The customers who went to the shop noticed the boxed smallpox vaccine in a conspicuous place.

"It's not tea, don't you see the words on the wooden sign? Let me see, I can avoid...what to avoid in my life?" Literate London citizens saw the proper nouns, and they couldn't match smallpox for a while. .

"It's smallpox, you can avoid smallpox for life...!" The more educated nobles or the children of wealthy businessmen understood that it seemed to be a medicine related to the treatment of smallpox.

"Can smallpox be cured? Just eat what's in it?!" Many people exclaimed.

At this time, smallpox, like the Black Death, was raging in many places in Europe. The fatality rate of severe smallpox exceeded one quarter, and the fatality rate of light smallpox was more than one thousandth.If there is a specific medicine that can be cured, it will be good news for them, which means that they don't have to risk death to walk back from the gate of hell.

Interested citizens of the city of London asked the keeper of the tea shop about smallpox.

"This is not a cure for smallpox, but a miraculous drug to prevent smallpox. As long as you take this drug, you don't have to worry about getting smallpox in your life. Even in towns and villages where smallpox broke out, you can come and go freely." The shopkeeper of the tea shop Had to introduce them to the smallpox vaccine.He is just a tea seller.

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