Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1789
"Mr. Li, we haven't seen each other for a long time. You haven't heard from me since you left London."

"Haha, Sir Henry, how is your Levant and vaccine business?"

"Everything is fine, except that the Levant company was cheated by your fleet. Every year, you still buy smallpox vaccine and quinine medicine from your western company. After the Second Mediterranean War, the Ottoman Empire was forced to fight with us in England. Resume trade, our Levant company is revived, and we are engaged in trade with the Levant region again. To use your idiom to describe it, it means a lot of money."

"Good guy, I didn't expect your business to do so well."

"To each other, I heard that Mr. Li, you are doing a chemical business recently, and you are doing well. The sugar in your Dongfang capital looks very clean."

In a teahouse in the capital, two people were drinking tea and talking, one of them added white sugar to the black tea.

The one who added white sugar to the black tea was a member of the English envoy, Sir Henry, the governor of the Levant Company, and the other was Li Jinde, the founder of the Imperial Chemical Group.

The two met through the vaccine business.

However, more than ten years ago, Li Jinde chose to return to his hometown to start his own factory because of his family's inconvenient residence in London and his lack of management in Western companies.

After more than ten years, Li Jinde never saw Sir Henry again.

This time at the World Expo, Sir Henry followed their Queen Sophia to the Oriental capital, met Li Jinde in the Crystal Palace, and the two got together to reminisce about the old days while sighing the passing of time.

These businessmen also pay great attention to the establishment of relationships. After all, one more relationship means one more way out, and these established relationships may be used at any time.

"Speaking of the chemical business, I am planning to set up a branch company in the West to sell the soap, artificial dyes and rubber products produced in the West. Although the diplomatic missions of various countries more or less bought the chemical products produced by our factory at the World Expo , but it is difficult for me to be sure whether they will take the initiative to introduce the products of our factory to the people around them after they return to their respective kingdoms. You should know that the quality of the products is one aspect, and there must be suitable channels to sell them.” Li Jinde Said.

His meaning is already obvious. He has a product that may be unique in the world, and Sir Henry has channels in England, the Levant, or other markets. If Li Jinde wants to quickly occupy the local market, he still needs to find a local businessman cooperating.

Chu Yun has already helped all Chinese merchants to open up routes to all corners of the world. The safety of merchant ships is no longer a problem. With the development of the navigation and shipbuilding industries, it is not difficult to establish a non-governmental multinational company!
"What's the prospect of these commodities?" Sir Henry made a fortune from the vaccine business with Li Jinde, and still trusted Li Jinde. At this time, Li Jinde encouraged him to trade chemical products between countries, and immediately became very interested.

"Measured by your English unit, this is a market worth tens of millions of pounds, and it may be worth hundreds of millions of pounds in the future. You help me develop channels in the United Kingdom, Europe, and West Asia. I will provide goods and give you the value of the channels. profit, we can occupy this market." Li Jinde said with great confidence.

He was not aimless. He saw that the government had set up many chemical factories in Tianjin Wei before, so he decided to make a big gamble, thinking that the chemical industry would have a bright future.

In fact, he also got what he wanted. Just the order of tens of thousands of pneumatic rubber tires from the car factory is enough to make his rubber factory a lot of money.

Local orders can make the Imperial Chemical Group he created flourish.Of course, capital is profit-seeking, and money can never be earned. Since overseas can also make money, why not earn both money together?

"Worth hundreds of millions of pounds? Are you joking?" Sir Henry's annual trade volume only fluctuates between 20 and 40 pounds. He suddenly heard Li Jinde say that as long as he helps him develop overseas chemical markets, he can even earn money in the future. The profits of millions and tens of millions of pounds can't help but be surprised.

"Smallpox vaccine and quinine drug are essentially only a small part of the chemical industry, which is called chemical pharmaceuticals here. But just these two drugs, how much benefit do you bring each year? Then the profits of the chemical industry You can imagine it." Li Jinde said.

"Hiss..." Sir Henry took a light breath.

Indeed, just the smallpox vaccine, quinine medicine, and a smallpox prevention, his "non-business" Levant company makes tens of thousands or even 10,000+ pounds of profit from it every year.

Drugs are so lucrative!
The chemical method of pharmaceuticals is only a part of the chemical industry!

Sir Henry suddenly had difficulty imagining how vast a market there was for the chemical industry.

He couldn't imagine that chemical fertilizers, acids, alkalis, inorganic salts, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibers, synthetic resins and plastics, pesticides, dyes, paints, photosensitive materials, rubber products and other materials are closely related to the chemical industry. Sterling industry segments.

"My factory is mainly in Tianjin Wei, but there are also factories in the capital. When you are free, you can go to the factory with me, and I will introduce the main products to you. When you know their functions, I think you will see The market behind it will not doubt my statement." Li Jinde said.

"It's not too late, why don't we go and check it now?" Sir Henry was obviously tempted, and he would not let go of any opportunity to make money.

The two of them quickly put aside the matter of drinking tea and went to the chemical factory set up by Li Jinde in the capital.

Li Jinde's chemical factory in Beijing produces soap and some fragrance-based perfumes, sachets, and rubber products that he values ​​most.

Sir Henry was more surprised by the scenes he saw in the chemical plant than by the various exhibits in the Crystal Palace.

The exhibits in the Crystal Palace are finished products, and no one can imagine how to produce these industrial products.

However, Sir Henry was fortunate enough to have a glimpse of it by virtue of the opportunity of cooperating with Li Jinde.

There are various machines in the chemical factory, as well as steam engines and wire circuits, full of steel texture and sweat of workers.

"This is an artificial dye, which is used to dye silk more vividly than natural dyes. Rubber gloves, raincoats, rain boots, and tents are all waterproof. Needless to say, soap and perfume. There are also detergents, soda ash..." Li Jinde except In addition to pneumatic rubber tires, other products will be introduced in detail to Sir Henry individually.

As for why rubber tires are ignored, it is because Europe does not yet have the capacity to produce cars and bicycles, which is useless at all...

(End of this chapter)