Speaking of Xu Zhuang, Gu Quan, and Cheng Yao, there was another business genius in Shanghai, Huang Gan.
Huang Qian had never been welcomed at home since he was young. His mother was a servant girl in his father's house. One night, his father drank too much and had sex with his mother. After that, he was born.
In ancient times, it was extremely difficult for a little servant girl to rise to the top. Fortunately, Huang Qian's father did not dislike this servant girl. Although he did not give her a status, he doted on the mother and son.
However, there were many women in the harem, so the Yin Qi was naturally thick.
The Eldest Mistress was unwilling to accept that the property that should have been inherited by her son was snatched away by a servant girl's son. Although this servant girl eventually became the master's side room, she could not tolerate it.
Just like that, she always secretly wanted to frame this poor mother and son.
There was such a phenomenon in the world. The more a person suffered from a young age and had an ambitious heart and mind, the more promising he would be when he grew up. On the contrary, if he was pampered from a young age and his parents obeyed him for fear that he would suffer a little, he could easily get whatever he wanted from his parents. If he did not have any self-discipline and survival ability, he would be completely defeated by society when he grew up.
If they were lucky and knew how to improve, they might survive. If they were unlucky, they would die sooner or later!
Huang Gan was the former.
Eldest Madam was not good to him and his mother, so he had studied hard since he was young. His father saw that he was smart, so he would give him pointers from time to time.
Speaking of the Huang family, his ancestors were imperial physicians in the palace, so they naturally inherited top-notch medical skills.
When it came to Huang Qian's generation, the two sons of the First Mistress were spoiled since young. When they were young, they ate, drank, gambled, and smoked all kinds of drugs. Other than these, they did not know anything else.
On the other hand, Huang Gan was the exact opposite. Not only was he very smart, he was also very knowledgeable about medicinal ingredients.
As time passed, Lady Wang realized that this was not going to work. Her first two sons were considered crippled, so after thinking about it, she still felt that she should create another generation.
Hence, she fed Old Master medicine every day and worked hard with Old Master at night.
Finally, one day, he had morning sickness. Ten months later, he gave birth to a little one. At this time, he thought to himself that when his little son grew up, he would definitely surpass Huang Qian.
However, things did not go according to her wishes. A year and a half after her youngest son was born, which was when Huang Qian was fifteen years old, the old master passed away due to illness.
This was her misfortune and Huang Gan's misfortune.
A few months later, Lady Wang found an excuse to kick Huang Qian and his mother out of the house.
It was quite sad at first, but fortunately, the mother and son had been learning from Old Master for ten years and had also learned medicine.
Gradually, Huang Gan relied on his intelligence and wisdom to make his pharmacy business flourish.
When he was an adult, his mother passed away due to illness. At this time, he already had a pharmaceutical company.
As time went by, his business grew bigger and bigger, and he entered more than a hundred industries.
Amusement parks, film companies, day and night banks, exchanges, financial companies, tobacco, alcohol, candy, and other commodities were no less than the largest modern international corporations.
On the other hand, the First Madam's family was declining day by day.
After the death of the First Madam, the two eldest sons of the family lived on nothing. In the end, they smoked and ruined the family and became beggars.
The youngest one was farming in the countryside. He even married a family and had a daughter. His life was tight.
However, the good times did not last long. This little wife was not used to living a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. She was kidnapped by a lazy man from the same village and never came back.
Not long after, his youngest son also fell ill. He had no choice but to sell his current house and land. He took his daughter, who was less than a year old, to his half-brother Huang Qian in Shanghai.
When she reached the place, she was not far from death. Before she died, she found Huang Gan and entrusted her daughter to him.
Huang Qian had taken her in out of kindness. Because the child was especially cute and sensible, he had treated her as his own daughter.
Now that they were talking about the Gu family and Huang Qian, the Gu family used to have a lot of glory. Because of his son's disappointment, his brother and the two sons of the Huang family's eldest lady had the same problem. They were both sitting idle and the company soon reached a point where it could not make ends meet.
At this time, Huang Gan wanted to take over the traditional Chinese and Western medicine pharmacy, so he sent someone to contact one of the shareholders, Xu Zhuang.
Now, Xu Zhuang and Cheng had almost lost all the company's money because of Chairman Gu's biological brother. In addition, Chairman Gu was old and sick, so they both wanted to work separately.
After Huang Qian's persuasion, Xu Zhuang and Director Cheng worked together to persuade Chairman Gu to sell the company as soon as possible.
Chairman Gu thought about it and decided to give up the shares of Chinese and Western Pharmacy in order to avoid any future troubles. Then, he signed it with Xu, Cheng, and the other directors.
In the end, he gave the entire Chinese and Western Pharmacy to Huang Qian, the owner of the Chinese and French Pharmacy. By the time Chairman Gu's brother found out, it was already too late to change.
However, he didn't give up. He felt that the pharmacy had sold for a lot of money, so he coaxed and deceived him. In the end, he even extorted and extorted money. It wasn't until three years later that he forced his brother to die that he took over all his assets. Then, he just sat there and ate everything.
Meanwhile, the Xu and Cheng families had opened pharmaceutical factories and tobacco and alcohol factories respectively, and had business dealings with the Huang family.
Moreover, the two families even arranged for their grandchildren to be betrothed to each other. The reason for this was that the Xu family's business was in a crisis and was about to go bankrupt and fall into debt. Fortunately, the Huang family reached out and helped, and the Xu family turned the crisis around.
After that, they agreed to let the children of the two families get married when they grew up. The one from the Xu family was the current Xu Qingfeng, who was about the same age as Huang Yifei from the Huang family.
However, the world was unpredictable. The Huang family's business was too big, and they did not have any capable backers.
Because of his daily income, his company was targeted by the Qing Gang in Shanghai. The leader was Huang Tian, who had the same surname as him, followed by Zhang Di and Du Mingyong. At this moment, Huang Qian was the richest in Shanghai.
Huang Qian did not only know how to make money. While he opened more than a hundred different shops, he also occasionally gave porridge to beggars and poor people. His Chinese and French Hospital also often gave medicine to the poor.
However, once a local gangster organization from the Republic of China had their eyes on you, it would be a matter of minutes for them to kill you.
Huang Tian and Du Mingyong had helped Jiang to kill the members of the working class. In the end, Jiang had brought them to the National Party to serve as state officials. Therefore, the entertainment venues in Shanghai had finally become their property.
In 1921, Huang Qian finally passed away.
Two months later, Huang, Zhang, and Du divided up his properties. Huang Qian's wives and concubines were worried that the remaining money would be divided up by Huang, Zhang, and Du, so they sold the rest of the Huang family's valuables and left Shanghai. Huang Yifei was nowhere to be found.
Xu Qingfeng's current family not only sold Chinese and Western medicine, but also opened a hospital and a pharmaceutical factory. Most of the medicine produced was pills developed by Huang Qian, as well as some other tonics.
The reason why his family would produce Huang's pills was also because of profit. At first, he wanted to continue his old business and only open a hospital to save people. However, his income was really meager. In the end, he opened a pharmaceutical factory to make medicine and treat people. Only then did his business improve.
However, he couldn't just make a single medicine, so he worked with Huang Gan to make a branch of his pharmaceutical factory.
Speaking of pills, it had to start from the last few years of the late Qing Dynasty. When Puyi was in power, Japanese medicine dumped a large number of goods in China, attacking the national industry and commerce of China, plundering the money of the people, and creating a monopoly situation.
At that time, Huang Qian was burning with anxiety and called a meeting with the shareholders to discuss countermeasures.
In the end, they finally thought of a countermeasure. In the name of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, they sent a message to the whole country, calling for an anti-Japanese patriotic movement to boycott Japanese goods. At this time, the business world all over the country responded one after another.
However, the "Danren" pills produced in Japan were still entrenched in the urban and rural areas of China, and the people who bought them were still happy. Huang Qian was indignant about the Japanese pills.
However, there was always a way out. By chance, Huang Qian obtained an ancient prescription of Zhuge Junjun Powder. Therefore, he combined the two prescriptions together by referring to the Seventy-Two Illness Recipes passed down from his ancestors.
After repeated research and development, a new prescription was finally developed. It was made into another small pill that surpassed the Japanese "Dan Ren" and was named "Human Pill".
After the medicine was released, Huang Qian spent a lot of money to promote it. Wherever there was an advertisement for the Japanese elixir, there was an eye-catching advertisement for the human elixir.
In the end, they overtook the Japanese medicine, causing the Japanese medicine to be boycotted by the whole country. In the end, not a single pill could be sold.
The Japanese side saw that the Human Pill posed a very serious threat to their Dan Ren, so they filed a complaint accusing the Human Pill of being a "counterfeit" of his Dan Ren. They also asked the Chinese government to order them to stop selling it and compensate Japan for the economic losses.
For this reason, Huang Qian was not afraid at all. He even specially hired a famous Shanghai lawyer to fight a lawsuit against the Japanese merchants in China until the Supreme Court of Beiping.
However, this lawsuit also took them many years. It was not until 1926 that the final ruling was made. It was determined that the two drugs "Human Pill" and "Dan Ren" were unrelated drugs and could be sold on the market at the same time.
This was a war without smoke. Although it took many years, it also made the reputation of the Human Pill great. Therefore, Huang Qian not only let his own pharmaceutical factory produce it, but also let the pharmaceutical factories linked to his company produce it and sell it to the whole country.
The Xu family was naturally a part of this production team.
While Xu Qingfeng was still reminiscing, the daughter of the housekeeper, Uncle Liu, Liu Ruo, came over with a pot of tonic.
Seeing that he had woken up, he immediately said happily," Young Master, how are you feeling now? Are you feeling unwell anywhere…" She suddenly stopped halfway, feeling that she was asking nonsense.
Xu Qingfeng didn't mind and replied softly,""I don't feel uncomfortable now. I just want to relieve myself. Can you help me get a chamber pot?”
Liu Ruo was stunned for a moment but quickly reacted. She quickly helped him get the chamber pot under the bed and then helped him hold it.
Xu Qingfeng's face turned red with embarrassment. He wanted to do it himself.
Seeing his expression, Liu Ruo also reacted. At this time, he was no longer unconscious. If she continued, it would be inevitable that it would be awkward.
Not long after, just as he was done, the butler called the doctor over and gave him a simple examination. After confirming that he was fine and could be discharged at any time, he was relieved.
Three days later.
Xu Qingfeng followed his parents and siblings back to their home in Nanjing. Although he was unfamiliar with his relatives at this time, seeing their enthusiasm and concern for him made his heart warm.
When he arrived at his current home, it was a small western-style house. When he saw Nanjing on the road, he almost thought that he was in the 70s and 80s.
The houses and scenery here were completely modern.
After asking, he learned that the reason why Nanjing City was like this was that after the National Government decided to set the capital in Nanjing, they began to imitate a large number of western cities. The last question was that Jiang Zhongzheng ordered people to invite experts from abroad to design it.
Just as he sat down at home, Xu Qingfeng suddenly jumped up and asked,"Dad, Mom, can I go to our family's pharmaceutical factory to take a look?”
The family looked at each other and Xu Bo asked curiously,""Didn't you always hate going to the pharmaceutical factory? Why do you want to go there now? Besides, you just came back from the hospital. You should rest more!”
The others also advised him to return to his room.
However, he was very insistent." Just because I hated it in the past doesn't mean I hate it now. After smelling the disinfectant in the hospital for so long, I just want to see what my own pharmaceutical factory looks like!”
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