As the downfall of the Republic of China, there was a Taoist priest named Uncle Jiu

Chapter 14 The second transaction!

"A thousand... two... two hundred oceans?"

Gu Guqiang's face was full of surprises. To be honest, he was going to let Gu Zhou bargain. Eight hundred oceans was the bottom line. Unexpectedly, Gu Zhou added two hundred oceans, which exceeded expectations.

Gu Zhou said with a smile: "Second Lord, the clan considers me, and I can't let the clan suffer."

At this moment, Gu Guqiang's affection for Gu Zhou has reached its peak.

Although he is a disciple of a wealthy family, he does not have the habit of being rich or benevolent. He always considers others. Who would not like such a person?

After walking around the mansion, Gu Zhou was quite satisfied. It had been completely vacant for five years, and the clan had sent people to clean it for the first three years. Later, it seemed that there was little hope of selling it, so they didn’t send people to clean it anymore. Dust, a lot of furniture, and the concierge have traces of insect bites, but the whole is still relatively complete. It only needs some repairs, which is much more convenient than building a new house.

Gu Zhou immediately made the final decision, but he didn't have a thousand oceans in his hands now, so he decided to go to the county to make a second sale.

This time, Gu Zhou's team grew a lot, and Gu Tian recruited ten more guards for him, all of them are martial arts practitioners who are proficient in fists and feet, and two or three people can't get close to them.

For matters related to the safety of his surroundings, Gu Zhou will never ignore them, nor will he treat them badly. No one pays ten yuan a month, and the treatment is very generous.

All the way to Daxiang County in a safe and sound way, I went straight to Desheng Commercial Bank. I thought it was a transaction with the shopkeeper, but I didn't expect to see Cai Chun.

"Oh, Mr. Gu, I've been waiting so long. If you don't come, I'm planning to go to Qingshan Town to find you."

Cai Chun has a handsome figure, and he looks like a ball when he runs in small steps. When he smiles, his eyes are narrowed, and he looks very happy.

Gu Zhou was surprised: "Didn't Mr. Cai go back to Guangzhou? It's only been a few days, and he's back again?"

Cai Chun took Gu Zhou to the back hall and said, "Mr. Gu, you don't know how popular that watch is. It was sold out in just one day. There are too many rich people in Guangzhou. They are all urging me to buy goods, no, I can only make another trip."

He patted Rourou's chest, full of confidence: "Mr. Gu, how many fast watches are you going to sell this time? I'm talking wildly, I'll take as much as you sell!"

"Proud!"

Gu Zhou gave a thumbs up, took off the backpack, and said with a smile: "Mr. Cai, let's see for yourself, the 100 yuan watch."

Cai Chun was a little disappointed: "It's only 100 yuan, Mr. Gu, you say I'm proud, but I'm not proud enough. Putting a 100-yuan watch in Guangzhou City won't even float the water."

Gu Zhou sat down leisurely, took a sip of tea, felt the aroma of the tea filled his mouth and nose, and couldn't help but admire: "Mr. Cai, your tea is good."

Cai Chun sat down next to Gu Zhou, gently touching a watch, automatic winding, calendar, tourbillon, waterproof, with luminous, metal strap.

This kind of watch was extremely sensational when it appeared in Guangzhou. The top watches of this era have become silly black and thick in front of the surface of more than a dozen pieces in modern times. The watch master was dumbfounded when he saw it.

"Mr. Gu, don't fool me. Let me tell you the number. Next time I trade, for a 1000-yuan watch, I will increase the price by 50 yuan for each watch!"

Gu Zhou smiled and said: "Mr. Cai, after all, we are only trading for the second time, so we have to be cautious. After all, the trust in the transaction is gradually built up."

"That's a good word."

Cai Chun agreed, stood up and said, "I'll ask someone to prepare money..."

Gu Zhou raised his hand to interrupt him: "Don't worry, this time besides the watch, I want Mr. Cai to see other things, you will definitely be interested."

"Oh? Please!"

Gu Zhou immediately called Gu Tian and Daniu in, each carrying a bag.

A backpack is filled with aluminum alloy jewelry. You know, aluminum was once more expensive than gold. 40 years ago, Napoleon’s nephew, Napoleon III, ordered officials to make an aluminum crown for himself in order to show his wealth and dignity. .

He put on the aluminum crown and accepted the worship of all the officials with dignity, which became a sensational news.

When Napoleon III held a grand banquet, he had a set of special tableware made of aluminum, while others could only use gold and silver tableware.

It is enough to prove that in this era, aluminum is a precious metal, known as "silver gold", which is more precious than gold.

Of course, the appearance of the "electrolysis" aluminum production method more than 20 years ago has greatly reduced the production cost of "aluminum".Batches and batches of aluminum products were mass-produced, and their prices plummeted.

However, jewelry made of aluminum alloy can still continue its glory. As long as the price is not much more expensive than silver, there is a high probability that it will be popular.

Gu Zhou took out an aluminum alloy ring worth more than 20 yuan. It looked silvery, and it was extremely dazzling in the sun. Its exquisite shape made the gold and silver jewelry of this era eclipse.

"This is?"

Cai Chun put the ring in the palm of his hand and looked at it carefully.

Gu Zhou opened the backpack, the aluminum alloy bracelets, bracelets, earrings, earrings, necklaces, rings, all kinds of jewelry in it dazzled Cai Chun, all kinds of exquisite and novel designs compared to this era were shocking.

"It's a whole new kind of metal jewelry that's as light as aluminum, as hard as steel and stronger than gold."

Cai Chun was a little moved. From his point of view, the materials of these accessories were definitely something he had never seen before, and with the refreshing design of these videos, those rich ladies and wives were absolutely thrilled when they saw it.

"This thing! It might sell better than a watch!"

Cai Chun thought.

"What price is Mr. Gu going to sell?"

Gu Zhou said lightly: "I don't care what price you Desheng Trading Company sells, I will sell the price of silver jewelry."

"it is good!"

The two of them sealed another deal with a few words, looked at each other and smiled, both felt that their smiles were treacherous.

Gu Zhou knew that the price of this aluminum alloy jewelry was outrageously low.

Cai Chun is sure that this jewelry can be sold at a German firm for a price no less than that of a golden horse.

Both thought they had made a fortune.

"Mr. Gu, what good things are in this bag?"

Cai Chun is looking forward to it, Gu Zhou can always come up with good things.

Gu Zhou took out the penicillin, shook it at him, whetted his appetite, and then said mysteriously: "This kind of medicine is the only one in the world, and it is only available here."

Cai Chun was in a hurry: "Mr. Gu, I'm getting old, but I can't stand your constant teasing. Tell me quickly, what is the effect of the medicine?".

Chapter 15 The Panacea Penicillin

"Does Mr. Cai know how soldiers usually die on the battlefield?"

Gu Zhou asked a question that made Cai Chun inexplicable. He thought about it for a while: "On the battlefield, few people die directly, and the most deadly thing is still bacterial infection. drug."

"Mr. Cai is very knowledgeable!"

Gu Zhou thought he needed to explain it himself, but he didn't expect Cai Chun to know about it.

Cai Chun caressed his beard and said complacently: "To tell you the truth, I also studied in the West when I was young. I know a thing or two about many things in the West."

Gu Zhou waved penicillin: "This thing is called penicillin, and it has a strong sterilization effect. With this thing, the death rate of soldiers on the battlefield can be reduced by at least 50.00% or more."

"impossible!"

Cai Chun objected reflexively. What he had learned and seen told him that there was no such magic medicine in the world.

Gu Zhou smiled faintly: "Mr. Cai, don't be too quick to deny it. Penicillin is a kind of panacea under certain circumstances, such as syphilis, gonorrhea, bacteremia..."

Gu Zhou mentioned more than a dozen diseases in a row. After the appearance of penicillin, scarlet disease, suppurative pharyngitis, diphtheria, syphilis, gonorrhea, all kinds of tuberculosis, sepsis, and typhoid fever, which were once incurable diseases, can all be recorded. Gone are the days when a small wound could kill someone.

It is not an exaggeration for Gu Zhou to say that penicillin is the panacea of ​​this era, because people in this era have never used penicillin and have no drug resistance, because penicillin is widely used, and many diseases can be cured by a single injection of penicillin .

Gu Zhou once played the game "Civilization 5", and one of the technologies in the technology tree is "Penicillin".

Compare it with its peers, what are the front-end and rear-end technologies.

Important technologies at the same level: plastics, electronics, radar and nuclear theory

Front-level important technologies: refrigeration technology, radio, internal combustion engine and flight

Post-important technologies: computers, nuclear fission, ecology, and rockets

Technology, which one is not famous?Penicillin is so popular.

Cai Chun laughed, with a look of 'you're kidding me': "If I didn't know that Mr. Gu is not a person who likes to joke, I would have thought that Mr. Gu and I were joking."

"It's normal for Mr. Cai not to believe it."

Cai Chun's reaction was within Gu Zhou's expectation, and he was not angry: "Mr. Cai also knows that I am not a person who likes to joke. If that is the case, why would I tell you a story about the Arabian Nights?"

Cai Chun frowned and did not speak.

"Mr. Cai can take these penicillins back for experimentation. This is a detailed instruction manual. With the ability of the German firm, it should not be difficult to test whether the effect of penicillin is true or not."

Gu Zhou was persuasive and persuasive in a clear way:

"With Mr. Cai's knowledge, you should understand how precious this medicine is if what I said is true."

He lowered his voice, as if a demon was instigating humans to degenerate.

"It will be ten times more expensive than gold of the same weight, more than a hundred times more!"

Historically, in 1943, a ton of penicillin was priced at US$8.3 million. According to the price of the same period, it could buy 675 tons of gold. That is to say, one ton of penicillin was equal to more than 600 tons of gold, and one ton of penicillin could buy 5000 main battle tanks or 4000 B-17s. Bombers, this is equivalent to the size of the armaments of a military power.

So as long as you have 100 catties of penicillin, you are sitting on 4200 million US dollars. At that time, an aircraft carrier in the United States was only worth 800 million US dollars, which was equivalent to being able to drive back 5 aircraft carriers, and the remaining money can be used to fill up the gas.

And Gu Zhou bought a bucket of penicillin, 35 kilograms, for a price of over a thousand.

Although veterinary penicillin, the effect is much stronger than that of 1943.

Cai Chun looked at Gu Zhou struggling, and told him rationally that there was no such magic medicine in the world, but Gu Zhou told him that if its authenticity was verified, its benefits would be inconceivable.

"Mr. Cai, isn't what I said clear enough?"

Gu Zhou said leisurely: "A certain sage in the West said that if capital has a profit of 20.00%, it will be active; if it has a profit of 50.00%, it will take risks; for a profit of [-]%, it will dare to trample on all human laws ; with a profit of [-] percent, it dares to commit any crime, even risking being hanged."

"If everything I said is true, no, it doesn't need to be true. It only needs to be [-]% true, and the profit will be far greater than [-]%. More importantly, the cost and risk of the experiment are very low, so why not do it Woolen cloth?"

Cai Chun let out a long sigh, and looked deeply at Gu Zhou: "Mr. Gu, I understand what you said, but I'm just afraid that the profits will be too big for Desheng Commercial Bank to bear."

"German Trading Company is just a middleman, what are you afraid of?" Gu Zhou asked back.

"Mr. Gu, you are very courageous."

"Award."

Knowing that Cai Chun was persuaded by him, Gu Zhou changed the topic: "Mr. Cai, I want you to help me buy some weapons."

Cai Chun was very straightforward: "This is easy to handle. Whether it is made in Hanyang, or the United States, Germany, the sun never sets, or Dongying weapons and equipment, I can help you buy them."

"German weaponry."

"How many?"

"Standard equipment for a battalion."

"How many!"

Cai Chun was startled, and his eyes widened: "Are you going to fight?"

At this moment, Cai Chun was really frightened, his mind was spinning wildly, guessing Gu Zhou's origin, suspecting that he was a revolutionary party.

Now that the domestic revolutionary parties are making a lot of noise, Cai Chun certainly knows how courageous these revolutionary parties are.

Gu Zhou seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Mr. Cai, don't worry, I'm not a revolutionary party, I just want to get some weapons and equipment to protect myself."

Cai Chun complained in his heart, he needs a battalion's standard equipment to protect himself?Are you protecting yourself, or hitting someone else?

"In addition to pistols, rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and cannons, you also hired a few training consultants for me."

Gu Zhou continued.

"Yes, but if you think about it clearly, the price of weapons and equipment for a battalion of 500 people, the training consultants of the German Army is not low."

Cai Chun didn't believe Gu Zhou's nonsense about protecting himself, but Deshang Firm was only in business, and they couldn't control what customers did with them, and the arms business of the great powers accounted for a large proportion of the dialogue and trade. You can buy and sell arms in an open manner, and the imperial court dare not control them.

Chapter 16 Hell on Earth

Seeing Cai Chun's appearance, Gu Zhou didn't believe himself, and sighed in his heart, in this day and age, no one believes the truth?

He was in bad business, and after a long time, someone with a heart would surely discover that such good things as watches, aluminum alloy jewelry and even penicillin came from Gu Zhou. At that time, temptation and prying would inevitably follow.

Now he is planning to set up a German weapon battalion in Qingshan Town, maybe in the future it will be expanded into a German weapon regiment, a German weapon master, depending on the situation.

In the final calculation, the watch totaled 4 yuan.

A large package of aluminum alloy jewelry is twenty-five thousand oceans.

A total of 5000 oceans was exchanged for 250 taels of gold.

The 120 five catties of gold was of course carried by Gu Zhou himself. The fifteen thousand oceans weighed more than 1000 catties and were packed in three large boxes. Fortunately, Gu Zhou had prepared a carriage.

"Fifteen thousand oceans! I've never seen so much money in my life!"

Gu Tian's face was full of red, and he scanned the left and right vigilantly. Ergou turned into a hunting dog. Anyone who tried to get close to the carriage would be severely reprimanded by him.