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Chapter 1437 Expanded Vaccine Business
"You Easterners' actions in the Mediterranean have brought disaster to our Levant Company!" A British businessman found the clubhouse of the Western Company, and was furious as soon as he entered.

"what happened?"

The Chinese merchants in the guild hall went out from their offices and met the person who came, Sir Henry, the governor of the Levant Company.

"Isn't this Sir Henry? Long time no see, how are you doing?" Huang Xiushan happened to be in the guild hall and recognized Sir Henry who had bought 10000 copies of smallpox vaccine from Li Jinde.

The governor of the Levant company also helped Li Jinde a lot, helping Li Jinde eat all the stocks he brought before the vaccine expired.After Li Jinde returned to China, Huang Xiushan had to replace Li Jinde to contact these British businessmen.With the influence of Lord Greenville, Li Jinde has helped Western companies gain a firm foothold in Britain and established a circle of communication with London merchants and nobles, so his successor will not have so much difficulty in contacting these people again.

"Hmph, it's not good at all!" Sir Henry was still furious, "Our Levant company has suffered heavy losses because of your actions!"

"What's going on here? Please come here to discuss in detail." Huang Xiushan was very puzzled, so he took Sir Henry to the special reception room of the guild hall.

The interior is completely decorated in Chinese style, with landscape paintings hanging on the walls, as well as special coffee tables and tea tables.

"Last year, your fleet and the Royal Navy wreaked havoc on the coastal towns of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa and West Asia, which angered the Ottoman Emperor. Now the Ottoman Emperor was furious and sent our Levant company stationed in the Ottoman Empire. All the employees rushed back and seized our local business station. This year, our Levant company was unable to go to the Ottoman Empire for woolen trade, and lost tens of thousands of pounds in profits! Not only that, but Ping collected from suppliers according to the market in previous years Suddenly there is no market for the wool, and now they are all piled up in the warehouse, if there is no market, they will be sold at a low price, so the loss will be even greater!"

Sir Henry complained bitterly.The Levant Company he led was mainly engaged in the business between Britain and the Ottoman Empire. Now that the huge market of the Ottoman Empire was closed to them, the woolen business would be transferred to other countries.Without the market of the Ottoman Empire, where else could Levant trade?
"As far as I know, the Royal Navy flew our flag when it joined the war, and Britain didn't declare war on the Ottoman Empire, so why do they bother you?" Huang Xiushan asked.

"It's so naive. The Royal Navy is deceiving. The Ottoman Emperor's spies are all over the Mediterranean. How could he not know that the Royal Navy is involved in the joint fleet. Now it's good, losing 10 pounds a year, and losing 100 million pounds in ten years , our Levant Company is finished, why not set up a colonial company to North America!" Sir Henry looked depressed.

The huge Levant company, which trades with the Ottoman Empire for 10,000+ pounds every year, has a large group of people to support, and suddenly lost the market. Sir Henry has been annoyed to death by the employees of the Levant company.

"We are sorry for what happened in the Mediterranean. But we can't blame us for this incident. After all, the Ottoman Empire offended us, and the Royal Fleet also gained a lot of benefits from the action against the Ottoman Empire. If the Mughal The Emperor of the Empire was really furious because of this matter, you Levant Company might as well try to find new markets or channels to avoid this crisis temporarily." Huang Xiushan said.

This matter is related to the Fourth Fleet, and the Western company that Huang Xiushan is in charge of really has nothing to do with this matter.

"It's too difficult for us Levant to find a new market all of a sudden...By the way, did your ship bring a batch of new vaccines?" Sir Henry complained, and raised another question The thing about buying the smallpox vaccine.

"Our cargo ship did bring another [-] vaccines," Huang Xiushan said.

Sir Henry's eyes lit up when he heard Huang Xiushan's words: "Our Levant company is counting on this batch of vaccines to save lives. If the trade of Levant is stagnated this year, our capital chain of Levant company is in danger of breaking. Only the vaccine business can temporarily bring us funds.”

It turned out that they bought the vaccine... Huang Xiushan had a good idea.

It is true that Sir Henry said that the Levant market was closed by the Ottoman emperor, but the vaccine business is also a very important industry.

As the most technical medicine of this era, the smallpox vaccine injected with a syringe is expensive and its profits are huge.Western companies are the only suppliers of the smallpox vaccine in Europe.

Sir Henry got a lot of income from the smallpox vaccine trade last time. Of course, in order to open up the market and sales channels in Britain, Sir Henry also spent a lot.Except for Sir Henry, no one knows how much he earned and how much he spent last time he ate 10000 vaccines.

"Last time I bought two batches of vaccines from you. The first batch was 1000 for a total of 7000 pounds, and the second batch was 9000 for a total of 45000 pounds. I hope this time I can still sell to the Us, I eat 2 doses of vaccine, what about the price of 8 pounds?" Sir Henry lowered the price to 4 pounds per dose.

"Sir Henry, although as a supplier, we don't know exactly how much you sell this batch of vaccines in the market, but I have also heard a little bit that you sell it to nobles for no less than 20 pounds, even if you sell it to the poor. It’s less than 10 pounds. Now you buy it from us for 4 pounds, and then sell it to get a profit of 150% to 400%, which is too huge.” Huang Xiushan said.

Seeing that Huang Xiushan knew about his sales and that the other party knew about the huge profits of the smallpox vaccine, Sir Henry smiled helplessly: "Do you know how difficult it is to open up this market? I spent two years of hard work and spent 50000 pounds to open up various markets." link, and dispel the fear of ordinary people and nobles about this drug that looks like witchcraft. If I hadn't had money and contacts, the market here would not have been opened at all. So I ask for a lower channel price. Is it reasonable?"

Huang Xiushan and the directors of several western companies turned their heads to discuss: "We are very happy that you can be our drug distributor in Britain, but we have spent a lot of technical personnel to develop this vaccine, and we have not traveled thousands of miles to the ocean. To help the people of Britain get rid of smallpox, so we insist that the unit price of smallpox vaccine should not be less than 7 pounds."

(End of this chapter)