PFC Chapter 146: Transaction, Support
Chapter 146: Transaction, Support
Chinese medicinal herbs grow extremely slowly and have low yields. Take Panax notoginseng for example. It takes three to five years to harvest from one acre of land. During this period, C cannot encounter natural disasters, otherwise everything will be in vain.
In this chaotic era, people had to plant and harvest crops today. Most people did not dare to grow crops for such a long time. If something went wrong, the whole family would be in trouble.
Therefore, most medicinal herbs are collected from the wild, but there are not so many of them in the wild.
So it’s not that Chinese medicine these days doesn’t have the ability to treat gunshot wounds, but most of them are monopolized by the state, and without the medicine, a young woman can’t do anything!
For a red wound medicine like the one prepared by Hou Xiaoge, you only need to take it back and grind it into powder or boil it into a decoction before use. A pound of it can be sold for at least five dollars on the market.
If the finished product is ground into powder, it will be even more expensive. One pound can be sold for seven dollars. This is still in the normal market. It is easy to sell several times more in the black market.
Hou Xiaoge just waved his hand and gave away 20 stones, which was more than 10,000 yuan! Not to mention the 200 stones of medicinal materials at half price, how much money could be made from it, Liu Naichao was tempted just thinking about it.
"Okay, thank you Mr. Zhou for your generous donation. I would like to thank you on behalf of the soldiers at the front." Liu Naichao stood up and bowed with a smile on his face.
"I wonder if Mr. Zhou has any other supplies to trade? We want them all.
Also, how often can this medicinal material be traded? " After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, Liu Naichao spoke.
"What does the mainland lack now? To put it bluntly, we can make money by importing scrap metal from the United States. But now the roads are blocked and it is difficult to transport it in!
Subsequently, some bulk commodities became difficult to transport in and had to be shipped by plane, but the cost was very high.
However, we still grow Chinese medicinal herbs in some places in Southeast Asia and Africa. Let's do this! We will trade once every two months, 200 shi each time, and send 20 shi to the government until the end of the Anti-Japanese War.
I won't make any money, I'll just consider it as supporting the war of resistance. But I don't want legal tender, I only want silver, raw jade and gold.
Of course, I also like to collect some rare meteorites. If there are any, I will give them a high price discount. "Hou Xiaoge said, tapping his fingers on the table and thinking for a moment.
When Liu Naichao heard that he could trade once every two months, his eyes turned green. This was too comfortable! In this way, he could earn tens of thousands of dollars every two months.
When I heard that this prodigal son Hou Xiaoge actually wanted raw jade and meteorites, I became even more excited.
Who is he? He is official! Qin Province has a large number of jade mines, and jade raw stones are readily available. There are also meteorites, which are directly scanned from some collectors and museums.
Who would dare not give it to the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics when it asks for it? Not giving it means not supporting the war of resistance. A piece of stone cannot lay eggs if it remains.
"Well! If there is nothing else, I won't keep Director Liu here. The goods are in the warehouse. I'll let Master Han contact you then." Hou Xiaoge said as he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"Okay! Then Mr. Zhou, you should have a good rest. I won't disturb you any more." Liu Naichao stood up like a servile boy, bowed slightly, and walked out.
Watching the government officials leave the reception room like lackeys, Hou Xiaoge didn't even stand up. At this moment, he just felt like eating a popsicle in June, feeling numb and comfortable.
"Having money makes you a boss, it's so cool!" Hou Xiaoge stretched and said to Wen Jun beside him.
"Haha! The leader is mighty." Wen Jun said with a bright smile.
"Naughty!"
Hou Xiaoge smiled and pointed at Wen Jun who was flattering him.
"Giggle!"
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"Alas! Although having money makes you a master, you still need power. As the saying goes, a real man cannot live without power, and a little man cannot live without money.
If I hadn't been an overseas Chinese, I don't know what tricks this spy chief would have used to deal with us!
So, it is not enough to have money, you also need power. Only when you have both money and power can both hands be equally strong.
Several hall masters, the Yanhuang Alliance has a long way to go! This leader's great cause still needs your support. "Hou Xiaoge said earnestly to the hall masters of the Internal Affairs Hall, Wang Defa and Wen Jun, who came in.
"Haha! Leader, do you still want to build a country? It would be possible if you had to give birth to a dozen years later, but it's too late now!" Wang Defa teased with a smile.
"Late? Who can know what will happen in the future!" Hou Xiaoge muttered to himself, with his hands behind his back, looking towards the southeast.
"Alliance leader, Director Sun from the Qin Army's Chang'an Office is here. Do you want to see him?" Cui Wenying from the information hall outside the door sent someone in to report.
"I'm leaving now. You guys handle it yourselves! Otherwise, if we meet the National Government and the Qin Army but not the Red Army, misunderstandings are bound to occur." Hou Xiaoge hesitated for a moment, waved his hand, and walked into the back hall.
After Hou Xiaoge went in, someone from the Qin Army Office came in. After some introductions, Hou Xiaoge understood the identity of the person in the back hall. It turned out that this person was Sun Weiting, the younger brother of the Qin Army's Commander-in-Chief Sun. (This is just a fabrication. Don't look up the information or take it personally!)
When Sun Weiting heard that the Yanhuang League supported the Qin army with 5,000 dan of grain, Hongshang Powder gave them 3 dan, and meat 100 dan, he burst into tears.
In the hall, people kept complaining about the grievances of the Qin army. Ever since the two leaders Feng and Yang had offended Lord Chang severely, the Qin army had become like a stepmother, and in many cases were even worse than the Sichuan army.
As a native of Qin Province in his previous life, Hou Xiaoge deeply felt the same way about this matter. The Qin army fought from the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China, and they fought almost the entire time. Unfortunately, they were unlucky and ended up becoming cannon fodder in the hands of the Kuomintang.
The blood deep in his soul was playing tricks on him. Hou Xiaoge felt deeply that Qin Jun was having a hard time, so he wrote a note and asked Wen Jun to get out.
From now on, the Yanhuang Alliance can provide the Qin army with 1,000 shi of fine grains and 200 shi of eggs for free every two months, and finally provide 50 shi of red medicine for half the price.
The Qin army certainly cannot use up so much braised medicine, so they can sell it to friendly forces to make money.
Of course, there are conditions, that is, I hope that the Qin army will support the development of the Yanhuang League. Qin Province is the base of the Qin army after all, and the influence of the Qin army is still huge.
As long as the Qin army supports the Yanhuang Alliance, the greater the support, the more military supplies the Yanhuang Alliance will receive.
Sun Weiting naturally agreed to this condition. Although the Yanhuang League was a gang organization, it was a group of businessmen in disguise.
After Sun Weiting left, Hou Xiaoge walked out from the back hall.
"Alliance leader, as a Qin person, I have to thank you. Alas! I didn't expect that my mighty Qin army has been in such a difficult situation." Wang Defa bowed deeply to Hou Xiaoge.
Wang Defa was from Chang'an County, a native Qin people. He was almost in tears when hearing what Sun Weiting said just now.
"I would also like to thank the leader on behalf of the people of Pucheng." Li Bing also bowed deeply.
"Okay, okay, four of the eight hall masters in the alliance are from Qin Province, and there are at least several hundred disciples in the gang.
If so many of you bowed to me, I wouldn't be able to bear it. It would shorten my life.
Besides, now that we are in Qin Province, we are half Qin people, we are all family, so what's wrong with supporting us?" Hou Xiaoge waved his hand nonchalantly.
"Ha ha!"
After Hou Xiaoge finished speaking, laughter suddenly broke out in the conference hall.