"You Oriental people's actions in the Mediterranean have caused our Levant Company to be very bad!" An British businessman found the clubhouse of the Western Company and was furious as soon as he came in.

"What happened?"

The Chinese merchants in the guild went out of their offices and met the arrival of Sir Henry, the governor of the Levant Company.

"Isn't this Sir Henry? Long time no see, how are you doing recently?" Huang Xiushan happened to recognize Sir Henry, who had purchased 10,000 smallpox vaccines from Li Jinde in the guild.

The governor of this Levant Company has also helped Li Jinde very much, and helped Li Jinde eat all the inventory he brought before the vaccine expired. After Li Jinde returned to China, Huang Xiushan had to replace Li Jinde to contact these British merchants. With Sir Greenville's influence, Li Jinde had helped Western companies gain a foothold in Britain and established a circle of communication with London merchants and nobles, so his successor was not so difficult to contact these people again.

"Hmph, it's not good at all!" Sir Henry was still furious, "Our Levant Company has suffered heavy losses because of your actions!"

"What's going on? Please come here to discuss in detail." Huang Xiushan was puzzled, so he took Sir Henry to the special reception room of the guild hall.

It is completely decorated in Chinese style, with landscape paintings hanging on the walls, as well as special coffee tables and tea tables.

"Last year, your fleet and the Royal Navy destroyed the Ottoman Empire's coastal towns in North Africa and West Asia, angering the Ottoman Emperor. Now the Ottoman Emperor was furious and drove all the ambassadors and employees of our Levant Company stationed in the Ottoman Empire back and sealed our local business stations. This year, our Levant Company could not go to the Ottoman Empire to trade woolen velvet, and lost a profit of tens of thousands of pounds! Not only that, the woolen collected from suppliers according to previous market conditions suddenly disappeared, and now it is all piled up in the warehouse. If the market cannot be found, it will be sold at a low price, so the loss is even greater!"

Sir Henry complained. The Livante company he led was mainly engaged in business between Britain and the Ottoman Empire. Now that the huge market of the Ottoman Empire was closed to them, the wool business would be transferred to other countries. Without the Ottoman Empire market, where else could the Livante company trade?

"As far as I know, our flag was hung when the Royal Navy joined the war. Britain did not declare war on the Ottoman Empire. Why did they still cause trouble for you?" Huang Xiushan asked.

"It's so naive. The Royal Navy is covering the bell. The spies of the Ottoman Emperor spread throughout the Mediterranean. How could he not know that the Royal Navy participated in the joint fleet? Now, it's good to lose 100,000 pounds a year and 1 million pounds a year. Our Levant Company is over. It's better to form a colonial company to North America!" Sir Henry looked depressed.

Such a large Levante company had a trade of more than 100,000 pounds with the Ottoman Empire every year. A large group of people wanted to support it. Suddenly, Sir Henry was annoyed by the employees of Levante.

"We are sorry for what happened in the Mediterranean. But we can't blame this for us. After all, the Ottoman Empire offended us, and the Royal Fleet also gained a lot of benefits from the attack on the Ottoman Empire. If the Mughal Emperor was really angry because of this incident, you Lifante Company might as well try to find new markets or channels to temporarily avoid this crisis." Huang Xiushan said.

This matter is related to the Fourth Fleet, and the Western company Huang Xiushan is in charge of really has nothing to do with this matter.

"For a moment, let us find new markets for Levant, which is too difficult for us... By the way, your ship just brought a batch of new vaccines?" Sir Henry complained and proposed to buy smallpox vaccines.

"Our cargo ships have indeed brought another 20,000 vaccines," said Huang Xiushan.

When Sir Henry heard Huang Xiushan's words, his eyes shone: "Our Lifante Company is counting on this batch of vaccines to save lives. If this year's trade stagnates, our Lifante Company's capital chain is in danger of breaking, and now only the vaccine business can temporarily bring us funds."

It turned out that he bought the vaccine... Huang Xiushan had a clear idea.

It is a fact that Sir Henry said that the Levant market was closed by the Ottoman emperor, but the vaccine business is also a very important industry.

As the most technical drug of this era, smallpox vaccine injected with syringes is expensive and its profits are also huge. Western companies are the only suppliers selling smallpox vaccines in Europe.

Sir Henry got a lot of income from the smallpox vaccine trade last time. Of course, in order to open up markets and sales channels in Britain, Sir Henry also spent a lot. Except for Sir Henry, no one knows how much he earned and how much he spent last time taking 10,000 vaccines.

"Last time I bought two batches of vaccines from you. The first batch was 1,000, a total of 7,000 pounds, and the second batch was 9,000, a total of 45,000 pounds. I hope that this time I can still sell it to us on the principle of large quantity from low quantity. I will take 20,000 pounds. How about the price for 80,000 pounds?" Sir Henry lowered the price to 4 pounds per serving.

"Sir Henry, although as a supplier, we don't know how much you sell this batch of vaccines in the market, but I have heard of it a little. The price you sell to nobles is not less than 20 pounds, and even to the poor is not less than 10 pounds. Now you buy from us at a price of 4 pounds and then sell it in exchange for 150% to 400%, which is too profitable." Huang Xiushan said.

When Sir Henry saw that Huang Xiushan knew about his sales, the other party knew about the huge profits of the smallpox vaccine, he smiled helplessly: "Do you know how difficult it is to open this market? I spent two years of hard work and used £50,000 to open up all links and eliminate the fear of ordinary people and nobles for this drug that looks like witchcraft. If I hadn't had rich connections, the market here would not have been opened at all. So it should be reasonable for me to ask for a lower channel price?"

Huang Xiushan turned to discuss with several directors of Western companies: "We are happy to be a drug channel dealer in Britain, but we have spent a lot of technical talents to develop this vaccine and have traveled thousands of miles to help the people of Britain get rid of the suffering of smallpox, so we insist that the unit price of smallpox vaccine should not be less than 7 pounds per serving."
Chapter completed!