"I heard that Chinese people have brought a magical drug that can make people immune to smallpox, which is a terrible disease. People's faces are covered with pockmarks and they can easily die. If smallpox can be avoided for life, wouldn't they be afraid again? There are many newborns in our London City every year, and they cannot live until they are three years old."

"But each serving of the drug costs 10 pounds, which is too expensive. I've seen their samples, and one serving is just a little bit like a finger, which is simply comparable to the silver itself!"

"I don't know if the merchants from China are willing to lower the price. If they are willing to lower the price, we may consider buying this batch of goods. Even we need this medicine ourselves, so we can go to a place where smallpox is rampant and do not have to worry about the safety of our lives."

Businessmen in London City smelled the business opportunities at the first time and talked about the smallpox vaccine they seemed to be magical during banquets or private meetings.

Because Li Jinde and others placed smallpox vaccine samples in the most conspicuous places in the tea shops, porcelain shops, silk shops and other stores, the mysterious smallpox vaccine quickly spread in London at its high prices, and some merchants quickly came to see if this thing contained suitable business opportunities. Some merchants even thought that if millions of people in the whole of Britain were vaccinated, then this market would be a potential market of tens of millions of pounds, not to mention that the new population needed to be vaccinated every year, which could make profits from it for a long time.

"This iron needle is going to pierce into the human skin, and then inject the medicine from the glass tube into the human body?" The merchants in London found Li Jinde and asked him about the expensive vaccine.

Li Jinde specially found a doctor on board to demonstrate the injection process of smallpox vaccine for these potential customers. The process of punctured the syringe into the skin made them feel creepy and feared from the bottom of their hearts about this injection method. This fear is an inherent prevention of danger.

In just over ten days, dozens of British merchants found Li Jinde and asked him in detail about the use and safety of the vaccine.

When they knew that this magical drug needed to be injected with needles and could be killed, they began to hesitate whether to buy a large amount of vaccines. After all, people are shortsighted and usually only after they are truly sick will they seek medical treatment. If a person does not suffer from smallpox, he may believe that he will not suffer from it in the future. There is no need to risk his life to get vaccinated now.

"If the vaccine can really avoid diseases throughout life, it may be profitable to inject this drug at risk of life. But if it is useful now, the most important thing is that if someone among the first batch of people who used this drug dies, then everyone will be in danger and no one is willing to inject it again. And this drug has a shelf life, right? It will take some time to ship from China. If no one receives the injection, all of this valuable goods will be destroyed in our hands." Among the merchants who arrived, nine out of ten expressed their concerns about the possibility of death, and one person felt that the price of 10 pounds per serving was too expensive, and only nobles and merchants could afford it.

These British merchants weighed the gains and losses in their minds, and eventually thought that the price was expensive and the risk was high, so they did not dare to buy the vaccine.

Ordinary London citizens and farmers cannot afford a £10 per vaccine, and rumors begin to rumor that they may die because of this, making the vaccine that was originally interested in was unsalable.

When Li Jinde saw the British merchants who came to ask, he had to sigh: "This kind of thing that is slightly risky but beneficial to the people is the most beneficial to the government to force the people to vaccinate, but if the other king is lobbying the other party to force the people to get vaccinated, the price will not be as expensive as the legal one. We have to find a way to bribe their king. When they truly understand the benefits of this drug, they may be asked to sell it to them at a high price."

"There is no way to do this. Even the people in our fleet are unwilling to be vaccinated. If the military leader had not set off before he thought that the smallpox in the West was raging, he forced everyone in our fleet to be vaccinated, and maybe there were still people who had not received the smallpox." A Chinese businessman said.

"Beijing has just begun to use vaccines to replace traditional acne vaccination... Westerners' skills in this regard are not as good as those in our East, and there is no way to vaccinate acne. No wonder the harm of smallpox here is even more serious, and no wonder the military leader asked us to bring vaccines to sell..." Li Jinde sighed.

Just as Li Jinde and his party sighed, a short middle-aged British merchant found Li Jinde, wearing the gorgeous costumes of British nobles.

"You can call me Sir Henry, I am the governor of the Levant Company. The Levant Company is like the East India Company, but we monopolize the trade between Britain and the Ottoman Empire. Since my father's generation, we have exported a lot of woolen to the Ottoman Empire every year." The short merchant raised his legs and said proudly, "I am also a director of the East India Company. Originally, the Levant Company was in a downturn, so I planned to increase my investment in the East India Company and become the governor of the East India Company. However, the East India Company was acquired by you Chinese, and the East's business has been completely monopolized by you, and it is useless to become the Governor of the East."

"Your name is Sir Henry, right? What is your purpose for visiting this time?" Li Jinde saw this man look proud and seemed to be one of the top merchants in Britain.

After detailed discussions with Sir Greenville, he already knew that the most powerful people in Britain were still the gentry nobles. As long as the king reorganized the proposal meeting, the gentry nobles would still occupy the most seats - although many gentry nobles began to have capitalist colors due to the enclosure movement.

Secondly, the merchant class with the most seats in the parliament were the merchant class. Many merchants even bribed the royal family and ministers and had the aristocratic status of jazz. The top British merchants were East India Company, Levant Company, Russian Company, Virginia Company and other merchants with monopoly privileges. They made huge profits in foreign trade through monopoly privileges, and then penetrated into the political field because of their economic strength.

"I heard you have a magical drug that can prevent smallpox from now on, so I want to come and see what the magical drug is about in the London business circle." Merchant Henry said.
Chapter completed!