A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 115 Oil Tycoon (seeking confirmation)

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The synthesis of sulfonamide drugs is simple, but large-scale extraction and production are another matter. Fortunately, Huashier is rich and quickly recruited some professionals to handle the large-scale production.

Approval and promotion of a new drug is a big problem. Of course, this is for ordinary people, and it is not a problem at all for Hua Shier's current identity and background.

His father-in-law is an aristocrat on which the sun never sets, and is also the governor of the colonial Fiji Islands. He himself is not only a high-ranking officer of the Hong Kong Island Police Force, but also a knight honored by the Queen.

With such a background, those troublesome things for ordinary people are not a problem for Hua Shier at all, so he sent a telegram to Lao Mei in Fiji for help.

After Lao Mei received the telegram, she sent a telegram to her noble friends and some dignitaries and senior officials, and Hua Shier's matters related to drug patents were settled logically during the period when the sun never set.

The procedure in the middle is not mentioned, in short, as soon as sulfonamide came into the world, it quickly caused a sensation, quickly became popular all over the world, and at the same time brought amazing wealth to Hua Shier and the Mei family.

Such wealth will inevitably attract other people's covetousness. After a while, even Lao Mei, who is the governor of Fiji, felt the pressure from her ancestral home.

At the beginning, he didn't know what his cheap son-in-law was doing in building a pharmaceutical factory, but when he learned about the amazing profits and potential benefits of the pharmaceutical factory from others, even though Lao Mei was already the governor, he couldn't help but eat it. Surprised.

After Lao Mei simply communicated with Hua Twelve, he made the decision for his son-in-law and distributed [-]% of the profits of the London pharmaceutical factory to the royal family and those nobles and high-ranking officials with real power. The binding of interests also made the Mei family's position in the ancestral family more stable.

Of course, these are all things to say later, after Hua Shier was busy with the construction of the factory, he and Liu Yubai left for Sun Never Set, leaving only Zhuo Yifei, who knew English, here to handle the factory affairs for him.

The reason why he left so quickly was not because he was homesick, but because the air in London in this era was simply terrible. The rapid development of industry also brought serious air pollution, and most Londoners in this era used coal for their homes. Fuel also produces a lot of smoke and harmful gases.

These gases flooded the entire urban area of ​​London, making the city a famous fog city. Hua Shier and Liu Yubai practiced Daoist breathing techniques every day. They felt like vomiting in the past two days, so they left as soon as they were done. , to avoid poisoning.

As for the fat guy Zhuo Yifei, it wasn't because of Hua Shier's cruelty as a master, but mainly because the fat guy never left his cigars for the sake of style after he got rich, and it was uncertain who would poison whom if he stayed in London.

Letting him stay in London to take care of the pharmaceutical factory is definitely fighting fire with fire. Even if it doesn't have this effect, it can always add bricks to the name of Fog City.

Hua Shier plans to wait for the pharmaceutical factory to get on the track, and then transfer Zhuo Yifei back to him. After all, he is his apprentice and confidant. In the future, his career will inevitably be big, and he will need the help of close people to take care of everything. Those apprentices are the best candidates.

After leaving the Sun Never Set, Hua Twelve did not return to Hong Kong Island, but took Liu Yubai for a tour of Millikin. With his status as an aristocrat of the Never Set Sun, he was welcomed everywhere in the United States in 1907. The presence.

In fact, the United States at this time is nothing to look at, and the main purpose of Hua Twelve is for its own business territory.

In April 1906, two months before Hua Shier entered this world last year, a major earthquake that could be recorded in history occurred in San Francisco, which caused a sharp drop in land prices in San Francisco and nearby areas.

When Hua Twelve came to the United States to play, he formed his own business team and lawyer team in the United States, and bought a large amount of land in the Sacramento Valley east of San Francisco at the price of cabbage through lawyers.

Before he entered the mission world, he memorized the information by rote, and it was marked that there was the second largest oil field in California under this land.

After buying the land, Hua Shier asked the lawyer team to acquire an oil exploration company that was on the verge of bankruptcy, and then invested money to let the company conduct oil exploration on the land he bought according to the coordinates he wrote down.

For this reason, Hua Twelve almost emptied his pockets, and at this time, Sulfa had not yet started to make a profit. Fortunately, after he sent a telegram for help to Li Zhenna's wife on Hong Kong Island, he grew up smoothly and got a job from Mei's family. financial aid.

The butler of the Mei family's old house in London specially came by boat from Sunset to give him money, and stayed to help with some business matters.

Hua Shishi had to sigh, finding a good wife is really sweet.

The exploration company has the precise location provided by Huashier. When the drilling depth reached 8600 feet, black gold spewed out.

After evaluation, this oil field is worth more than [-] million U.S. dollars in this era.

Hua Twelve instantly became an oil tycoon in Millikin.

That night, champagne was opened to celebrate, and the good news was sent to Regina who was far away on Hong Kong Island by telegram. As a result, the silly girl happily pulled Xiao Nianci up and down at home. Stable, was sent to the hospital overnight.

Lao Mei, who got the news, sent telegrams to the United States to accuse Li Zhenna just after she was discharged from the hospital.

That means you see, my girl is married to you, and you are still married, I will give you a promotion, I will give you political resources and connections to help you open a pharmaceutical factory, and I will give you money to help you build an oil well. It's unreasonable to go to the hospital. Are you sorry for me?
Lao Mei sent out telegrams every day, repeating these words over and over again. Hua Twelve couldn't bear him, so he let go and agreed to give the Mei family [-]% of the shares in the newly discovered oil field.

Lao Mei sent another telegram just to praise him as a good son-in-law, and he didn't dote on him in vain. Hua Twelve felt a chill when he saw it.

Of course, Lao Mei also said that she is so old, how much can she eat and drink?Aren't these assets prepared for you young couple?

Hua Twelve generously said that you can spend as much as you want, and this is Li Zhenna's filial piety to you two elders.

Even with the financial support of the Mei family in the United States, Hua Twelve is still a bit stretched in terms of funds, and his acquisition goal of coming to the United States this time has not yet been achieved.

So he thought about it, and then used the oil field as a mortgage to ask the housekeeper to come forward with a loan of 500 million dollars from the bank. His goal was a very huge piece of land in northern Alaska.

1867年3月30日，米国以700万美元外加20万美元手续费的价格从北极熊手中买下了近170万平方公里的阿拉斯加，平均每英亩土块仅值两美分。

Through a team of lawyers, Hua Shier turned 300 square kilometers of land in northern Alaska into his private property at a price of US$16 million.

This is the famous North Slope of Alaska.

There are 13.3 billion tons of oil and 7280 billion cubic meters of natural gas here. Of course, these have not been discovered in this era, so they are all cheap.

However, Hua Twelve is not in a hurry to start construction on the land in Alaska. Anyway, the oil field and sulfa drugs near San Francisco are enough to bring him hundreds of millions of huge wealth, so this land is just occupied first.

After finishing the goal of the trip, Hua Shier left the old housekeeper to help him manage the oil field in the United States, and he took Liu Yubai back to Hong Kong Island by boat.

Returning home again after half a year, before embracing his pregnant wife and the taller Nian Ci, his smile froze on his face, because there was an unwelcome guest at home.

(End of this chapter)