"Mr. Li, we haven't seen each other for a long time. Since you left London, there has been no news."

"Haha, Sir Henry, how is your Levant company and vaccine business?"

"Apart from the time when the Livante company was cheated by your fleet, everything is fine. Every year, it will still buy smallpox vaccines and quinine from your Western companies. After the Second Mediterranean War, the Ottoman Empire was forced to resume trade with our England, and our Livante company was resurrected and engaged in trade with the Livante region again. To describe it in your idiom, it means that wealth is abundant."

"Good guy, I didn't expect your business to be so good."

"I heard that Mr. Li, you are doing a chemical business recently and have a good life. The sugar in your Oriental Jingcheng looks very clean."

In a teahouse in the capital, two people were drinking tea and talking, and one of them added white sugar to the black tea.

The person who added white sugar to the black tea was a member of the English embassy, ​​Sir Henry, the governor of the Levant Company, and the other was Li Jinde, the founder of the Imperial Chemical Group.

The two met because of the vaccine business.

However, more than ten years ago, Li Jinde was inconvenient to stay in London City due to family reasons, and he was not in charge of a Western company, so he chose to return to his hometown to open his own factory.

For more than ten years, Li Jinde never met Sir Henry again.

At this World Expo, Sir Henry followed their Queen Sophia to the Eastern Capital and met Li Jinde in the Crystal Palace. The two of them sighed and gathered together to reminisce about the past.

These businessmen also pay great attention to the establishment of relationships. After all, one more relationship means one more way of retreat, and maybe they can use these built relationships at any time.

"When it comes to chemical business, I am planning to set up a Western branch company to sell the soaps, artificial dyes and rubber products produced to the West. Although the envoys from various countries have more or less bought the chemical products produced by our factory at the World Expo, it is difficult for me to determine whether they will actively introduce the products of our factory to people around me after returning to their respective kingdoms. You should know that product quality is one aspect, and it also requires appropriate channels to sell it." Li Jinde said.

His meaning is already very obvious. He has products that may be unique in the world. Sir Henry has channels in England, Levante or other markets. If Li Jinde wants to quickly occupy the local market, he also needs to find local merchants to cooperate.

Chu Yun has helped all Chinese merchants open routes to every corner of the world. The safety of merchant ships is no longer a problem. With the development of navigation and shipbuilding, it is not difficult to establish a private multinational company!

"What is the prospect of these commodities?" Sir Henry made a fortune from his vaccine business with Li Jinde and still trusted Li Jinde very much. At this time, Li Jinde encouraged him to trade chemical products across the country and immediately became very interested.

"To measure it in your units in England, this is a market worth tens of millions of pounds, which may be worth hundreds of millions of pounds in the future. If you help me develop channels in the United Kingdom, Continental and West Asia, I provide goods and give you the profits in the channel, we can occupy this market." Li Jinde said with extraordinary confidence.

He was not aimless. He had seen the government set up many chemical factories in Tianjin Wei before, so he decided to make a big bet, betting that the chemical industry would have bright prospects.

In fact, he also got the reward he wanted. Just the order of tens of thousands of inflatable rubber tires in the automobile manufacturing factory was enough to make his rubber factory very profitable.

Local orders can allow the Imperial Chemical Group he created to flourish. Of course, capital is profit-seeking, and money cannot be made. Since you can make money overseas, why not make two shares of money together?

"Values ​​of hundreds of millions of pounds? You shouldn't be kidding?" Sir Henry's annual trade volume only fluctuates between 200,000 and 400,000 pounds. Suddenly, he heard Li Jinde say that as long as he helps him develop the overseas chemical market, he can even make millions or tens of millions of pounds in the future. He was surprised.

"Smallopsis vaccine and quinine are essentially only a small part of the chemical industry, which is called chemical pharmaceuticals here. And just these two drugs bring you every year? Then you can imagine the profits of the chemical industry." Li Jinde said.

"Hiss..." Sir Henry took a sip of air conditioning.

Indeed, just smallpox vaccine, quinine, and smallpox prevention, Livante, which is "not doing its job" every year, makes tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pounds profits.

The drug is so profitable!

And chemical methods pharmaceuticals are only part of the chemical industry!

Sir Henry suddenly couldn't imagine how many broad markets the chemical industry had.

He could not imagine that chemical fertilizers, acids, alkalis, inorganic salts, synthetic rubbers, synthetic fibers, synthetic resins and plastics, pesticides, dyes, coatings, photosensitive materials, rubber products and other materials will be closely related to the chemical industry. If you take it out, you will be a sub-industry worth millions of pounds.

"My factory is mainly in Tianjin Wei, but there are factories in Beijing. When you have time, you can go to the factory with me. I will introduce you to the main products. When you know their function, I think you will see the market behind it and will not doubt my statement." Li Jinde said.

"Without any further, why don't we go and check it out now?" Sir Henry was obviously moved, and he would not miss any opportunity to make money.

The two of them quickly put aside the tea drinking matter and went to the chemical factory set up by Li Jinde in the capital.

Li Jinde produced soaps and some perfume-based perfumes, sachets, and rubber products that he valued the most.

Sir Henry was even more surprised by the scenes he saw in the chemical factory than seeing various exhibitions at Crystal Palace.

The exhibitions at Crystal Palace are finished products, and people cannot imagine how to produce these industrial products.

However, Sir Henry had the honor to take a quick glance with his opportunity to cooperate with Li Jinde.

The chemical factory has various machines, steam engines and wire circuits, which are full of steel texture and the sweat of workers.

"This is an artificial dye, which is used to dye silk more vivid than natural dyes. Rubber gloves, raincoats, rain boots, tents, waterproofing first-class. Needless to mention soaps, perfumes. There is also detergents and soda ash..." Li Jinde gave a detailed introduction to Sir Henry in addition to inflatable rubber tires.
Chapter completed!