Chapter 345 Here Comes the Money Robbers

While Mr. Yip is still hesitating.

Zhang Cuiying followed her husband's lead and said to Zhang Shouchun and Jin Yuqing: "Madam Shouchun, Madam Yuqing, Madam Huairu, you three are all from the capital. Do you have any Manchu friends? I have a good friend, Hongwei, who is a member of the Bordered Yellow Banner."

"She is a very good actress, and now her children are also acting."

Zhang Shouchun and Yuqing looked at each other in surprise and said, "What a coincidence! I am from the Bordered Yellow Banner, and Yuqing is from the Plain Yellow Banner. Only Huairu in our family is not Manchu. Madam Li, what is the surname of the Hongwei you are talking about? My surname is Yehenara."

"What? Zhenghuang? Yehenara?" It was Li Hanxiang's turn to be surprised. He grew up in Beijing, and the principal of the art school he attended was Xu Beihong. Generally speaking, the bordered yellow, the pure yellow, and the pure white all belong to the upper three banners, and the pure yellow generally belongs to the descendants of the Qing royal family.

"Madam Shouchun is a descendant of the nobility! Which royal family is Madam Yuqing from?"

"Oh, she's from the Qing Palace." Shouchun said casually, "Hey, the Qing Dynasty has been destroyed for many years, and Puyi is imprisoned. How can there be any royal relatives and nobles? Fortunately, our new China does not discriminate against people like us. Now we are just ordinary citizens."

“Yes, yes!”

"But Mrs. Li, I really hope you can help introduce me to someone someday. It's not easy to meet fellow Manchus in Hong Kong."

"Okay, Sister Hongwei's surname seems to be that, and her children are all very good and sensible. Her remarried husband is also Manchu, with the surname Er, and he is from Tianjin."

“Oh, that’s great.”

Mr. Yifu saw that the women were chatting happily, and after thinking for a while, he finally agreed, "Haha, it seems that if I don't agree, it would be too unkind, Hanxiang, then you can make a new book and hand it in, and calculate how much money you need?"

"Mr. Wang, what do you think?"

"Haha, OK." Wang Deming glanced at Li Hanxiang, then looked at the three Shouchun girls, and said with a smile, "Well, each of you three will get 100 million US dollars, and you can talk to Director Li yourself when the time comes. As for contracts and accounting, let Jerry and Mike Feng come forward."

Li Hanxiang was so happy that his face was beaming with joy, and he raised his glass: "Mr. Wang, three ladies, I will definitely take good pictures, and I promise I won't lose money!"

Wang Deming joked with him: "Haha, Director Li, at this moment, shouldn't you be patting your chest and shouting that you're going to make a lot of money?"

"Hehe. Even the big directors in Hollywood don't dare to make the final decision."

He then explained that the black-and-white movie "Dragon Seed" shot in Hollywood in 44 cost 300 million US dollars, and the current "Beijing 55 Days", which tells the story of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, cost 1300 million US dollars.
Although all the leading actors were foreigners, the costumes and makeup were really good, and the acting was lifelike, especially the anti-Japanese film "Dragon Seed". The leading actress was Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn, who really showed the rural Chinese spirit in the film, such as planting rice in paddy fields, plowing with buffaloes, washing clothes by the river, and eating with bowls and chopsticks.

Finally, Li Hanxiang sighed, we are making traditional Chinese films, so we can't let the foreigners surpass us in culture, right?
Wang Deming was so scared that he raised his hand to interrupt him: "Director Li, we have a deal, we will only invest a certain amount of money, and we will not increase the budget any more!"

Well, is this a pre-emptive move for me? Are you going to burn money first, and if the money is all gone, will you continue to throw more money in?

Just be thankful that your last name is Li and not Chen, and that you can’t sing, otherwise I would never invest a penny in you even if I kill you!
This was a successful family dinner. Everyone was smiling, especially after Wang Deming threw out a check for three million dollars.
It’s not that Wang Deming didn’t care about money. Three million US dollars at that time was enough to buy a few more buildings similar to the Gloucester Building in Central, but soon someone came forward to give money to his door.

Half a month later, before Shouchun and her friends could go to the film set to relax, several hospitals and pharmaceutical companies from the United States rushed to Hong Kong.

Mayo Clinic, also known as Mayo Medical Center, was established in Shanghai not long after Wang Deming traveled through time in his previous life. A heart surgery costs 120 million US dollars, and a general outpatient registration costs 568 US dollars. Mayo is the most famous hospital in the United States. 16 departments are ranked in the top three in the United States. Diabetes, endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynecology, nephrology, and geriatrics are ranked first. In this era, it has an annual income of several hundred million US dollars.

Massachusetts General Hospital was not far behind, being the first to introduce X-rays into the medical field. Similarly, the Shanghai Jiahui International Hospital, which was previously invested by Massachusetts, was also located in Shanghai.

Also coming with them were two large American pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Merck.

This group of people was very aggressive and they locked up Stephen Zhou on the first day. He quickly asked Wang Deming for help.

At this time, Wang Deming was hanging lanterns and writing couplets at home, preparing for the Spring Festival.

After listening to Stephen Zhou's report, he was surprised and said, "What? You're here to buy the patent? And you're only offering 50 US dollars? You're expecting nothing? Now Coenzyme Q10 costs 100 US dollars per gram, and 10 US dollars per kilogram. I can earn it all back in one year."

Stephen Zhou said anxiously: "Boss, but they said that if we don't sell the patent to them, then our coenzyme Q10 will not be able to pass the US FDA, which means we will not be able to obtain sales permission in the United States."

"Then the coenzyme Q10 we produced will just be wasted!"

Stephen Zhou glanced at the couplet at this time, and did not forget to flatter: “Boss, your calligraphy is really magnificent!”

"Okay, let's get down to business." Wang Deming put down the brush in his hand and wiped his hands with a wet towel. "Sister Tao, make Stephen a cup of coffee."

"Sit down, is the other party so arrogant?"

Stephen put the coffee to his lips and dipped it in it, then put it down immediately with a bitter face. "Boss, they can't even be described as arrogant. At first, they wanted to directly spend money to acquire our pharmaceutical company. Later, after the representatives of Pfizer and Merck cursed at each other for a while and called their American headquarters, they said they wanted to buy our patents."

"And that's all they gave us! They said it was because of our mature industrial production. Otherwise, it would be a maximum of 5 US dollars."

"Tsk tsk." Wang Deming drank his tea slowly, his lips curled up, "It's a really good idea. What about the people from Mayo Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital? Didn't they both excitedly ask us to supply at least 100 kilograms a year?"

Stephen spread his hands and said, "I don't know what the representatives of Pfizer and Merck said to them. Anyway, these two hospitals are now silent about asking us to supply them, and they don't mention low-interest loans."

"Okay. It seems that I have to take care of this matter." Wang Deming shook his head helplessly. "Stephen, go find someone to calculate first. If we expand production and the output reaches 10 tons, how much investment will we need? Multiply it five times when calculating."

"Then help me arrange a meeting with these families from America. Where do they live?"

“The Peninsula Hotel.”

"Then let's meet there."

"Good boss."

　Can anyone guess who this Hong Wei is?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)