"Look at this shareholding ratio, Inspector Johnson, are you still able to accept it?"
What Zhang Jianglin meant by this was that Johnson would not have to contribute a cent and would just get a 10% stake.
For the agency fee of 50,000 dollars, it was equivalent to giving 5,000 dollars to Inspector Johnson.
This is already a considerable amount of money!
Johnson was somewhat surprised that Shimazaki Yokado could afford the agency fee of 500,000 francs.
Johnson was certainly satisfied with Zhang Jianglin's proposal to give him 10% of the shares.
However, he still felt a little unwilling that he only owned 10% of the shares in such a big business.
So Johnson thought about it and decided to sell everything he had and put all his wealth into this business so that he could own more shares.
"Mr. Shimazaki, Manager Zhang, I only own 10% of this huge business. I absolutely cannot accept this!"
"Well, I'll try to scrape it together. Five hundred thousand francs. I'll pay fifty thousand francs for the agency fee, but I want a thirty percent stake."
Seeing that the Frenchman was indeed greedy, Zhang Jianglin was willing to invest the equivalent of five thousand dollars in order to acquire 30% of the shares.
So after much persuasion, both sides finally gave in. Johnson invested 50,000 francs and took over 25% of the shares.
There is no way to change this, because the channel to contact the French Reite Pharmaceutical Factory is in the hands of Inspector Johnson!
However, from this moment on, Zhang Jianglin already had the idea of kicking Johnson out later.
The two sides discussed this big deal at Johnson's home and signed the contract on the spot.
Johnson then sent a telegram to his family in France.
Let them go to the Reiter Pharmaceutical Factory, take the Swiss bank transfer of 500,000 francs, and negotiate directly with the Chinese agent.
The entire agency negotiation process went very smoothly, and Zhang Jianglin and others remitted US dollars.
In order to maintain the value of his money, the boss of the Reiter Pharmaceutical Factory immediately agreed to give half of its sulfa production to Shimazaki Yokado.
So they negotiated for the agency rights and paid an additional 300,000 francs for the goods. Then the first batch of more than 10,000 sulfa drugs began to be shipped to Shanghai.
By passing through the Suez Canal, the cargo ship loaded with this batch of sulfa drugs can reach Shanghai in as little as 30 days.
In order to get some sulfa drugs to his hometown father as soon as possible, Zhang Jianglin bought some at a high price on the black market in the French Concession.
Hundreds of small yellow croaker sulfa drugs were transported to Yanshan's hometown in advance.
As long as the wounded soldiers back home can survive a month with these hundreds of doses of sulfa drugs, large quantities of sulfa drugs will be delivered soon.
Zhang Jianglin did not have the perspective of future generations, so he naturally did not know that Europe would be in chaos soon.
Shen Yutang saw that Zhang Jianglin had temporarily opened up a channel to obtain sulfamethoxazole from France, but she did not rest on her laurels.
She knew that Germany would completely occupy France in the future, and the French Concession in Shanghai would eventually be occupied by the Japanese.
It would be best if we could buy the French pharmaceutical factory, Silvio, and package it as a whole to build a factory in China to produce sulfonamides.
But what if this pharmaceutical factory is eventually destroyed by war?
That depends on whether the Germans will give face to the Japanese merchant "Shimazaki Yokado" from their ally.
In order to be on the safe side, Shen Yutang planned to find another American.
Only if we can negotiate a deal with an American pharmaceutical factory next time can we truly rest assured!
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