Holding this more than one-foot-tall pure gold statue, Johnson couldn't let it go.
Just from the generosity of Shimazaki Jiro, he could tell that Shimazaki Yokado was indeed a Japanese company with considerable strength.
Moreover, the person who came wanted to cooperate with him right away, and also wanted to take over the French sulfa drug factory as the general agent in China in one go.
It seemed that they had already conducted a thorough investigation of themselves before coming.
I also know the source of his sulfamethoxazole purchases from France last time.
Seeing that the other party understood him so well and came with sincerity, Johnson felt that there was no need to hide anything from them anymore.
So I decided to have a good talk with them about the sulfa drug deal.
If the conditions offered by the other party can achieve a win-win situation, then it is not impossible to cooperate with this big Japanese businessman.
"This sulfa drug, I'm very interested in it!"
"But at the Ruite Pharmaceutical Factory in my hometown, their agents are required to pay the agency fee and the order payment first before they can obtain the agent qualification."
"I asked about it last time I went back. The agency fee is 500,000 francs, not including the order payment. Mr. Shimazaki, Manager Zhang, do you think you can afford this agency fee?"
Johnson seemed a little depressed when he mentioned the huge figure of 500,000 francs.
This huge amount of agency fees is beyond his current financial means.
Johnson also knew that there was a huge profit in shipping sulfanilamide from France to Shanghai.
However, without the 500,000 francs agency fee, the Reiter Pharmaceutical Factory would not supply him with retail products for a long time.
Zhang Jianglin had thought that the French pharmaceutical company would cost a lot to become the general agent in China, but it turned out to be only 500,000 francs!?
According to him, the French franc has depreciated significantly recently, and Germany's covetous eyes on the French franc have also accelerated the depreciation of the franc.
At this time, 500,000 francs was equivalent to 10,000 US dollars or 50,000 ocean dollars.
Even the French franc, which has depreciated significantly today, is still much more valuable than the French franc today.
Inspector Johnson couldn't even come up with the 50,000 taels of silver as an agency fee, so he deserved that they got the Chinese general agent of sulfamethoxazole.
Jiro Shimazaki now seems to be the big boss of "Shimazaki Yokado", but his business experience is far inferior to Zhang Jianglin.
And he is still in the stage of learning to make food from his master Zhang Jianglin.
Shimazaki Jiro himself had no clear idea of the amount of 500,000 francs.
When he heard that the agency fee was 500,000, his face turned a little ugly.
He felt that the total capital of their "Shimazaki Yokado" was only over one million yen, and if he took out half of it as agency fees, it would be a bit too expensive.
Only Zhang Jianglin was secretly happy at this moment, feeling that this deal was much cheaper than he had imagined before coming here.
Perhaps as the war between Germany and France intensifies, the franc will depreciate even faster.
At that time, let alone buying the agency rights of this Reit Pharmaceutical Factory.
I'm afraid it will be entirely possible to buy this pharmaceutical factory by then.
Suppressing the ecstasy in his heart, Zhang Jianglin tried to maintain a calm expression and calmly began to bargain with Inspector Johnson.
"Inspector Johnson, the agency fee of 500,000 francs is indeed a bit high, but we at Shimazaki Yokado can still afford it if we grit our teeth."
"But if Shimazaki Yokado is to bear the full agency fee, we must at least hold 90% of the shares in this business!"
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