African Nationhood

Chapter 85 The handle
  On August 1881, 8, he once again set foot on American soil.

For Shi Jintang, the past two years have been like a dream.

He left empty-handed. When I came back, I had already laid a foundation and owned nearly one million square kilometers of land.

However, the number of people under his command is actually less than 5 (black indigenous people and miners in gold mines are not included). The absurdity of worldly affairs is particularly obvious to him.

The main task from now on is to seize the time to immigrate. Not having your own fleet is really a waste of time.

This matter has always been on his mind.

But raising an ocean-going ship is not cheap, and he lacks sailors and captains to operate the ship.

That's why this matter has been dragged out.

Now he has some spare money, and he also owns 40% of the shares of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals.

According to the current profit situation of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, it should be possible to lend part of the money.

If you tinker with it and go public, you should be able to get more money.

I wonder if Johnson & Johnson’s “artificial salicylic acid” has been developed?

If it is developed, it can increase the valuation of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals.

"Artificial salicylic acid" may not be familiar to you, but if it were called "aspirin", you would be familiar with it.

Since this drug was developed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals in Germany in 1897, it has become one of the three classic drugs in mankind.

It has strong parapyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, is widely used and has also led to the development of more drugs of the same type.

Once Johnson & Johnson develops this drug, it will be able to ensure sustained high revenue for at least several decades.

The valuation can also continue to rise, which is more operational for him.

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals was related to his subsequent development, so after Shi Jintang got off the ferry, he directly boarded the train to Springfield, Illinois.

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Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Company is located in a 5-story building on the edge of Springfield's business district.

This building was built before Shi Jintang went to college, and it is now five years old.

The Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical signboard shone brightly in the sunlight. Shi Jintang stared at it for a while and suddenly laughed.

"Boss, why are you laughing suddenly?"

Shi Jintang looked at Trudeau, who looked confused. He pointed at the big sign and said, "I got this name. This one belongs to someone else."

"What do you mean? I don't quite understand."

There was no way to explain this matter. Shi Jintang shook his head, "It's nothing. This is a secret and I can't share it with you."

"Well, let's talk about it when you want to."

"Come on, let's go in."

Shi Jintang took the lead and stepped into the door of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals. The security guard at the door smiled immediately when he saw Shi Jintang.

"Hi Henry, long time no see, where have you been?"

Shi Jintang waved his hand to the white security guard, "Well, long time no see. Let's talk later."

After entering the building and going up to the third floor, the blond beauty at the front desk was busy, and Shi Jintang walked straight over.

The blonde beauty didn't see Shi Jintang clearly because she was sorting the documents on the table.

She lowered her head and shouted: "Sir, who are you looking for? I can inform you. Please don't barge in."

"Merry it's me, Henry."

The blonde beauty then raised her head, and after seeing clearly that it was Shi Jintang, a look of surprise appeared on her face.

"Henry, is it really you? Long time no see. Are you back?"

Shi Jintang laughed, "Well, I'm back temporarily. Is Smith here?"

"He is here, in the office. I will inform you..."

Shi Jintang had already walked away, and Mai Rui could only shrug his shoulders, "It's really not my fault. Who told him to be Henry?"

Dr. Smith's office is in the middle of the third floor, and his general manager's office is very spacious.

When Shi Jintang arrived at the door and pushed it open, he found that the office door was closed and the blinds were tightened.

Listen carefully, the voice inside is definitely adultery.

Dr. Smith is so playful that he even dares to mess around in the office. Shi Jintang immediately broke out in a bad mood, "Bang, bang, open the door, open the door quickly!"

The rough shout made everyone in the office tense immediately.

"Dang Cang, Dang Cang~~" were heard several times in a row, followed by the sound of objects falling.

The smile on Shi Jintang's face became even stronger, "Open the door, if you don't open the door, I will break it down!"

As the sound of tidying up clothes approached, Dr. Smith's questioning voice was heard coming through the door before the door was opened.

"Who is it? Didn't I say...Henry, God, Henry, why are you here?"

Looking at Dr. Smith who was disheveled, Shi Jintang looked at him calmly and asked, "Why, I can't come?"

Dr. Smith finally reacted. He panicked and pulled Shi Jintang directly into the office.

There was a young blonde standing next to the desk in the room. Her face was panicked, her lipstick was stained, and her hair was messy...

Shi Jintang also knew this woman. She was an accountant in the finance department. He remembered that this woman had a husband and a happy family.

Unexpectedly, these two people actually got together.

"Haha, Henry, this is not what you think. We, we are discussing work."

Shi Jintang didn't care about such things, but he caught Dr. Smith after breaking through today.

"It's okay, I understand. Mrs. Cameron, can you please go out first? We have something to talk about."

He deliberately emphasized the word "ma'am" so that the shame on the blonde's face could no longer be concealed.

"Yes, Mr. Shi."

The blonde went out and sat down on the sofa chair in Shi Jintang's office after checking to make sure there was no trace of dirt.

"Would you like one?"

"Ah."

Shi Jintang took out two cigarettes from the cigarette case, lit them first and handed them to Dr. Smith, and then lit another one himself.

After both of them smoked and were silent for a while, Shi Jintang quietly said, "How is the research and development of artificial salicylic acid going?"

“That one has been successfully developed and is undergoing human trials.

If there is no problem, it will be put into the market in half a year. "

Half a year? It was too long. He couldn't wait any longer.

"Announce it as soon as possible, and then strive to go public."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I want to collect some money from the market and use it."

The capitalists during this period are absolutely synonymous with madness.

They mixed sulfuric acid with vinegar, earth with pepper, and alum with bread.

The most common food additive is nitrite, which causes food poisoning and other complications to hundreds or thousands of people every year.

But people don't care. Most people care more about filling their stomachs.

Take the most common sausage as an example. If you cut it open, you will definitely find dead mice, cockroaches and maggot corpses inside.

As for invisible mold, there are countless.

So much so that in 1906, President Roosevelt, after reading an investigation report on the food industry, directly took out his mouth and forced him to vomit the sausage he had eaten for lunch.

In 1848, a candy merchant from Bradford Borough, England, planned to mix slaked lime into candy, but he couldn't tell the difference between lime and arsenic.

In the end, more than 200 people were poisoned and more than 20 people died.

Capitalists in this era absolutely achieve equality between rich and poor and everyone is equal when facing customers.

No matter who you are, as long as you can bring me profits, you will do it even if you kill me.

A conscientious entrepreneur like Dr. Smith is really an anomaly, but Shi Jintang does not want to be responsible for the lives of Americans.

Moreover, in this era, there was no government organization such as the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, so this was a carnival era of "freedom without prohibition".

His words are now orders. If Dr. Smith doesn't obey, he will face the consequences of ruining his family.

He had no choice but to obey.

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