Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 269: 2 Million Silver

"Xiao Han, you can't be partial! When the new bride is brought into the house, the matchmaker throws her over the wall." Situ Longtou walked over and said with a sad face.

"Ha ha!"

"That's not possible. We can't just throw the matchmaker aside after marrying a new bride. You should smoke too." Hou Xiaoge fired a cigarette enthusiastically.

"Mr. David, I heard what you just said.

I didn't expect that the refreshing cigarette you gave Peter was just an ordinary one. Can you give me a better one? I can buy it with money." The head of the Morgan family came over and asked expectantly.

"Mr. Morgan, we Chinese are hospitable. You are a guest today. It would be too polite to pay for a cigarette." Hou Xiaoge opened the box, took out the last cigarette and handed it to the other party.

The people from the other big families had never smoked a wake-up cigarette, so they naturally didn't understand. They also wanted one out of curiosity, but Hou Xiaoge showed the empty box and shrugged.

"I'm sorry, gentlemen. These cigarettes are so rare and precious. The last few have been given away." Hou Xiaoge bowed slightly and apologized.

"Old Morgan, is this cigarette some good stuff? When you saw us coming, you quickly hid it in your pocket.

Take it out and show it to everyone. I have smoked the best cigarettes in the world, how about trying this one too? "The patriarch of the Rockefeller family laughed and teased the other party.

"Hmph! Small families are not worthy of tasting such good things." Old Morgan covered his pocket with a vigilant look.

"Bah! Morgan failed to rise even a few years before our family was founded. There is no successor to Morgan, and it will decline sooner or later. Rockefeller will defeat Morgan soon." The two men started fighting and even started wrestling.

Hou Xiaoge stood aside and watched the two old men fighting, feeling very excited.

However, what Rockefeller said was indeed true. At the beginning of the century, the Morgan family was abandoned by John Bull and Judas Financial Group and had already shown signs of decline.

The Rockefellers may be God's chosen ones. Three generations of the family produced top business talents like Hu Xueyan and Shen Wansan, who led the family to travel around the world.

According to history, the fourth generation of the Rockefeller family will be even more powerful in the future and lead the entire family to become the king of America.

After several families pulled the two old men apart, they looked at President Xiao Luo and Situ Longtou together. The two of them quickly put away their cigarettes and looked at everyone with vigilance.

“Don’t worry, everyone will have a share in this high-level auction.

But I prepared a lot today and the results were pretty good.

I'll have someone send a box to each of you later, everyone can try it, this cigarette is good for your health." Hou Xiaoge smiled and warmed up the audience after eating melon on the side.

"Okay!" The big family just wanted to show their face, and several people nodded with satisfaction.

Soon, several temporary waiters came to these tycoons and family heads carrying a dozen boxes.

At first, no one was willing to smoke directly, as someone had to test the poison. But after seeing Xiao Luo, Morgan, and Situ Longtou open the box and smoke directly, they all put their minds at ease.

"hiss!"

“My mind seems to be flying!”

"It's so cool!"

"Is this the normal one? What about the advanced one?"

All of a sudden, a large group of smokers around the grass began to comment and sigh, it was so lively, even the security guards and family members around were desperately sniffing the secondhand smoke.

The next thing is of course to ask for shopping. It's all about money. Compared with health and comfort, these are nothing. They have no shortage of money.

However, due to time constraints, Hou Xiaoge did not mention this matter. Business was more important.

However, with cigarettes as a ladder, the attitudes of these chaebols became much more sincere and kind.

Hou Xiaoge exclaimed in his heart, the wisdom of our ancestors is amazing! Cigarettes build bridges, what a great job.

Apart from the official personnel, there are only twelve families who are qualified to participate in the auction.

Each of these families is a world-class giant. Any one of them is rich enough to rival a country and can even control the life and death of a country.

Hou Xiaoge also shed blood today in order to reap the wealth of these people. On the spiritual field on the top of the mountain, there were three top-quality apples that had not yet transformed into spiritual fruits on each seat.

Then each seat had a box of ordinary wake-up cigarettes and a high-end wake-up cigarette in a crystal tube as thick as a finger.

I have seen that the first thing the wealthy and powerful people who have experienced the world over the years do when they sit down is to pack up their cigarettes.

As for the apples, although they had a nice fragrance, everyone was polite and didn't eat them right away.

"Everyone, we are all outside on the grass now, please don't light that high-end wake-up cigarette.

Otherwise, the consequences will be very serious, and I can’t guarantee that everyone can keep the cigarettes.” Hou Xiaoge reminded in advance.

Among these, only Situ Longtou has smoked the high-end wake-up cigarette. Others don’t know. I just feel that the ordinary ones are so good, and the high-end ones must be more precious. I plan to go home and enjoy them.

Hearing Hou Xiaoge say this, they all became curious.

Situ Longtou proudly told President Xiao Luo about his smoking experience some time ago. Everyone was stunned when they heard it, and their hands unconsciously touched the crystal tube.

"These apples are very good. We cultivated them carefully. They are very rare. You can take them back and taste them when the time comes." Hou Xiaoge said, pointing to the red apples.

As soon as Hou Xiaoge finished speaking, the patriarchs of several families picked up the apples and started to eat them.

"good to eat!"

"Good!"

"I have bad teeth, waiter, give me a knife to cut it!"

Soon, there was a sound of people eating fruit, which confused the guards on guard in the distance.

After eating and drinking, the highlight comes next.

Hou Xiaoge has not sold the domestic patent for allicin. He will go back and cooperate with the government to get the unwashed profits. Of course, it can also be regarded as giving back to the country.

As for overseas patents, Hou Xiaoge did not keep them and cashed in all of them.

At the beginning it was still an auction, but as the sale went on, many people started arguing, and finally it was President Ronaldinho who came up with the idea of setting up a new company.

Let's sell them all together now. After the war is over, whoever has the ability in a certain area can build a factory there and get more shares.

However, Hou Xiaoge was not suppressed. Based on the comprehensive bids from various regions, he received a huge sum of 65 million US dollars.

This amount of money may not sound like much in later generations, as it is less than 100 million.

But this is 65 million US dollars in the 1940s! It may be more intuitive if it is converted into domestic dollars or silver.

One US dollar is equivalent to 3.7 oceans, 65 million US dollars is equivalent to 240 million oceans, and 200 million taels of silver.

Although the silver and dollars in 1943 were not as strong as those in the late Qing Dynasty, 200 million taels was still an astronomical figure, and it was no exaggeration to say that it was rich enough to rival a country.

Hou Xiaoge was very satisfied with the price, after all, it was free. Of course, these big families and financial groups were also very satisfied.

After all, it only cost 65 million US dollars to get a mature product that can be mass-produced, and it will be a monopoly sale for the next 25 years.

Even if the patent is lifted after 25 years, they can still rely on mature technology and equipment to lower prices and continue to squeeze out profits from this formula until a better drug emerges.

But obviously not. Even in Hou Xiaoge's previous life, allicin medicine was still selling well.