Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 152 Lou Shouxing teaches his son, Big Brother is still greedy (Subscribe)
"Dad, have you really decided to go back to the north in person?" Lou Sichang was a little confused about his father's decision.

Ever since his father came here, all his stress has disappeared and everything seems to be back to normal.

In addition to the changes in the servants, even Uncle Zhong's call of "Young Master" often lingered in his ears, making him feel very close and nostalgic.

Now, except that my father often urges me to get married like my mother does, everything else is much better than before my father was around.

Relying on being an agent for electric cars in the north and participating in other industries after Lou Shouxing came, their family is now considered a wealthy family in Hong Kong.

Living in a magnificent villa, with servants taking care of you at home and luxury cars picking you up when you go out, everything seems so perfect!

But now his father was going back to the north, which made him feel a little at a loss.

If my father never comes back, then everything will go back to the situation before he came, or even become more complicated than before, because there will be a second wife in the family now.

Even if his father came back, the relationship between John Bull, as the sovereign state of Hong Kong, and the North was well known to the world. If the authorities knew that his father still had contact with the North, wouldn't their family have difficulty taking a single step in Hong Kong?
So he was very opposed to his father going to the north.

"Of course I have to go there myself." Lou Shouxing straightened his clothes, glanced at his son and said, "The prospect of that drug is very obvious, and the market is very broad. We must at least get the agency rights for one region."

Lou Shouxing looked at his son with a reluctant face and sighed inwardly.

He had come to realize that his son was capable of maintaining the status quo, but was not up to the task of starting his own business or developing a family.

Because he was too weak in character and seemed to be hesitant in doing things, it was no wonder that when he came here, his family was almost at the end of its rope.

"This time, not only our family, but also the Huo family, the Dong family, and other families with some connections in the north will go."

"Although our current business has enabled our family to live a comfortable life here, it is obviously not enough."

"The market for electric vehicles is limited. Even though they are selling well now, the market will cool down in a year or two."

“We have just started to get involved in other industries and are still in the initial stage of investment. Moreover, many families have been deeply involved in these industries for a long time before this.

"Compared to them, our family doesn't have much advantage in these industries. The reason I want to get involved is just to be able to fit into their circle."

After all, he is my only son. Even though he has shortcomings of one kind or another, I can't just throw him away.

Lou Shouxing patiently explained to his son the purpose and motivation of his business activities after coming here, hoping that he could learn something from it.

"Sichang, remember, as a businessman, the most important thing for us is not these industries and making money, but integrating into and maintaining this circle."

"As long as this circle still exists, even if our family falls into poverty in the future, we may have a chance to make a comeback by relying on the connections in this circle."

"So Dad, what does this have to do with this trip back to the north?" Lou Sichang still didn't quite understand.

The reason why he went to the north to attend the Canton Fair was because his family had run out of options at the time, and he had no choice but to go to the north to look for other business opportunities.

But now he is very satisfied with their family's situation and feels that there is no need to take risks.

"Stupid!" Seeing that his son still didn't understand, Lou Shouxing scolded him with a stern face.

Hearing his father's scolding, Lou Sichang couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and then said disappointedly: "Dad, I disappoint you."

"There is still hope!" Although his son will not become a business tycoon, his willingness to listen to advice and his cautious character are more than enough to protect the family.

Since the son can only inherit the business, then let him, as a father, build a big family business for him to inherit.

Thinking of this, he looked forward to this trip to the north even more.

"After all, that place is our root. Even though it is still under the rule of John Bull, we will take it back sooner or later."

"So we must never give up our relationship with the North, and we must do our best to help the North within our capabilities, even if we suffer a little loss sometimes. Only in this way can our family develop better in the future."

"Got it, Dad!"

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As "Shenbao" continues to be popular and other countries are unable to imitate it, the batch of drugs we produced previously has increased several times in price on the black market. In some places, it is even used as a bargaining chip.

After all, this drug cannot be imitated now, and most people need it. In some countries with limited foreign exchange reserves, is there a better bargaining chip than this?

After learning of this situation, the higher-ups immediately decided to build a super-large pharmaceutical factory in the southwest region where it would be easier to keep secrets, specifically to produce this drug. Moreover, the formula of this drug was directly classified as a state secret.

Even Big Brother, although he is also coveting the profits from this drug, he just took away the technology of the "Jinggangshan" car from us not long ago. If he seeks the formula of this drug now, not only us, but also other allied countries will have opinions about Big Brother.

Taking this situation into consideration, although Big Brother was jealous of us making small profits, he accepted the situation calmly when he learned that we supplied them with goods at a 20% discount compared to other regions.

"Yang Ning is famous! Completely famous!"

After Dean Guo learned about the popularity of Shenbao abroad, he excitedly ran to Yang Ning and shouted excitedly as soon as he came in. "What's the fire? Where is it on fire?"

When Yang Fengyu and Tian Jianming heard President Guo's shout, they also rushed over.

"It's not a fire. I mean the medicine developed by Yang Ning and his wife Comrade Hu Yinghong has become popular abroad."

Hearing that there was no fire, Yang Fengyu and Tian Jianming breathed a sigh of relief, and then both looked at Dean Guo with blaming eyes.

You can't change the words. You know, if there is a fire here, it will be a big deal.

Your shout made our entire data processing center nervous.

Dean Guo also realized that he had caused the two to misunderstand him, and smiled at them awkwardly.

"I was just excited. It's my fault. I'll drink tea instead of wine to apologize to you."

After Dean Guo and his companions sat down, Zhao Yang poured them a cup of tea and then left.

Dean Guo picked up the teacup, raised it in a formal manner and showed it to Yang Ning and the other two, then took a big sip.

"Are you sure you're apologizing and not taking advantage of my tea?"

Yang Ning looked at Dean Guo and said thoughtfully.

"Hey! You can see all this." Dean Guo was not embarrassed after being exposed by Yang Ning.

After putting down the teacup, he whispered mysteriously to the three people: "Do you know how much foreign exchange that medicine has transferred to us during this period?"

"How many?"

Zhao Yang had already told Yang Ning and Hu Yinghong about converting drugs into foreign exchange, so after hearing what Dean Guo said, Yang Fengyu and Tian Jianming were not surprised at all, but just a little curious.

How much foreign exchange can Yang Ning earn from the medicine he specially developed that would make him research it without any shame?

"Hehe~" Dean Guo smiled proudly: "How much? If I tell you, it will definitely scare you!"

"Right now, only one workshop at Sijiucheng Pharmaceutical Factory is producing it. If there are more, we can't keep it secret."

"All the drugs produced during this period were taken away by Big Brother, which fully offset about 3% of our annual repayment amount."

"That's it. We still don't have any goods. When the factory in the southwest is built, the share we pay to Big Brother alone will be more than 30% of the annual repayment we need to make."

"It's not that much." When Yang Fengyu heard that it was only 30%, he thought that it was not that much and that President Guo was making a fuss out of nothing.

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand!" After all, Tian Jianming used to be an instructor and had some culture.

Seeing Yang Fengyu making a fuss, I looked at him with disdain.

"Not much yet?" Tian Jianming asked Yang Fengyu, "Do you know how much money we need to pay back to Big Brother every year?"

"How much?" Yang Fengyu looked at the looks of the others and realized that he had made a fool of himself, so he looked at Tian Jianming and asked.

"Eight hundred million. That's about eight hundred million in supplies that we need to pay back to Big Brother every year."

"Thirty percent is 2.4 million, almost million US dollars in foreign exchange."

"Wow! So many!" Even though Yang Fengyu had tried his best to think as much as possible, he was still stunned by the number.

That's a lot of money. Based on our current population of 600 million, we have to pay back 800 million every year. That means on average each of us has to contribute 1.33 yuan in supplies every year to repay our big brother.

On average, these supplies are enough for one person to survive for ten days. After all, at this time, our rural population accounts for the vast majority, and the cost of living in rural areas is much lower than in cities.

"That's not right. Big Brother doesn't need that much of this medicine. Could it be that they have taken over the sales of the entire Alliance?"

Yang Ning calculated and soon found something wrong. With Big Brother's current population, they simply could not use so many medicines, unless they planned to monopolize the sales to other countries except ours.

After hearing Yang Ning's words, Dean Guo nodded helplessly: "There is no other way. Without Big Brother's consent, products from other countries cannot enter these countries at all."

"They can get this drug at a 20% discount. The more they sell, the more money they make. How could Big Brother miss out on such a huge profit?"

"Damn it!" Yang Fengyu cursed fiercely, and it was unclear whether he was cursing his own poverty and weakness, or cursing Big Brother's greed. In short, his expression was very complicated.

"It's already good. At least we kept the recipe. It's not like last time when our pots were taken away directly."

Yang Ning was not surprised at all when he heard what Dean Guo said, and smiled to comfort him.

(End of this chapter)