Siheyuan: I am Jia Dongxu's cousin

"Honey, who's that over there..." Lou Xiao'e asked curiously as she looked at Qi Yu who was cursing behind Zhang Weiguo.

"It's okay. A book fan got a little upset."

"Book fan?" Lou Xiao'e was a little confused after hearing Zhang Weiguo's explanation.

Just as Lou Xiao'e was about to continue asking questions, Hong Kong Governor Trench and his wife Margaret Stephanie Huddleston walked down from the second floor hand in hand.

Seeing that everyone was looking at Trench, Lou Xiao'e had to suppress her curiosity and looked at the Trench couple along with everyone else in the hall.

"First of all, thank you all for coming to tonight's charity gala. I believe your good deeds will be remembered by those who have been helped!"

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Dai Linzhi talked for a long time, and Zhang Weiguo felt extremely bored. He could only play with Lou Xiao'e's little hand to pass the time.

Finally, after Trench finished his speech, the charity auction officially began.

A young woman who looked to be about 35 years old walked up to the auction platform that had been set up in advance.

“Our first auction was a diamond necklace donated by Lady Margaret.”

"Ten thousand Hong Kong dollars!"

"One Thousand Eleven"

As people raised their hands one after another, the necklace was finally bought by a man named The Sun Never Sets for 18,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Next, the auctioneer auctioned off some more items, mostly jewelry donated by the wives of various wealthy men. Zhang Weiguo symbolically auctioned off two items.

After all, if he came to this so-called charity gala and didn't take pictures of anything, I wonder what tomorrow's newspapers would say about Zhang Weiguo.

Although the "Flower Garden" is now the largest newspaper in Hong Kong Island, Hu Xian's "Sing Tao Daily" and Jin Yong's "Ming Pao" are eager to find some trouble with Zhang Weiguo.

Just when Zhang Weiguo was wondering what the good stuff Lin Liang was talking about was, a bronze statue brought up by the auctioneer caught Zhang Weiguo's attention.

"The item we are auctioning next is a bronze statue of a tiger head, donated by Mr. John C. Dezun of Hutchison Whampoa."

Zhang Weiguo looked at the bronze statue of a tiger head in front of the auctioneer's table, took a closer look, and after confirming that it was a tiger head from the Old Summer Palace, he called out the price:

"5 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"6 million Hong Kong dollars!"

Apparently, other Chinese people also recognized the tiger head and placed bids for it.

"8 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"9 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"10 million!"

Looking at the Zhang family members competing with him, Zhang Weiguo became a little impatient. How dare you, a black-hearted businessman who resells drugs, compete with me?

Zhang Weiguo shouted directly: "20 Hong Kong dollars!"

As Zhang Weiguo shouted out 20 Hong Kong dollars, many people in the British Empire turned their eyes to Zhang Weiguo.

They didn't quite understand Zhang Weiguo's actions. It was just a bronze sculpture with a bit of history. Could it really be worth 20 Hong Kong dollars?

"20.3!" shouted Zhang Yulin, the third son of the Zhang family.

"25 million!"

After hearing Zhang Weiguo's offer, Zhang Yulin did not speak again this time, but looked at Zhang Weiguo with a cold gaze.

Zhang Weiguo responded with an expression that said "you bite me".

After the tiger head was bought by Zhang Weiguo, he did not bid for the following items.

"The next item we are going to auction is one of the highlights of this auction, the license of Hong Kong Island Television."

After hearing the auctioneer's words, Zhang Weiguo finally understood what the good stuff Lin Liang was talking about was.

It seems that Lin Liang knew that Xinhua News Agency would definitely not be able to get this license, so he wanted Zhang Weiguo to take the photo!

"100 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"300 million Hong Kong dollars!"

The tycoons who had been waiting for a long time began to speak.

Finally, with Zhang Weiguo's words, the TV station's license was won by Zhang Weiguo for "800 million Hong Kong dollars".

"Congratulations, Mr. Zhang. Now your flower-growing newspaper will become even more powerful." When Pao Yue-Kong saw Zhang Weiguo getting the license, he congratulated him.

"Thank you, charter boat king."

The auctioneer then read out the finale of the evening, "1000 acres of land in Kowloon."

Many of the tycoons present probably came for this piece of land.

However, Zhang Weiguo was not interested in it. After all, it was a time when the land prices in Hong Kong Island were soaring, and it was not cost-effective to get the land now. It would be better to wait until the economic crisis in 1973. At that time, Zhang Weiguo only needed to get a large piece of land at a very small price.

Finally, the 1000-acre land was bought by the Zhang brothers for 2000 million Hong Kong dollars.

Finally, when Zhang Weiguo went to pay, Zhang Yulin still looked at Zhang Weiguo viciously.

In fact, what Zhang Weiguo didn’t know was that if the Zhang family hadn’t been hindered by the power in Zhang Weiguo’s hands, they would have sent people to assassinate him long ago.

Originally, the Zhang family's main business was to obtain a large amount of cash flow by monopolizing the medical industry in Hong Kong.

But as Zhang Weiguo's flower-growing pharmaceutical company opened up the market with "The Emperor's Secret" and then imported large quantities of medicines from Europe and the United States, the Zhang family's original profit of 300 to 500 Hong Kong dollars per bottle of medicine was reduced by Zhang Weiguo to only 10 to 20 Hong Kong dollars per bottle.

Even so, many people still prefer to buy medicine at the pharmacies under Zhang Weiguo's Zhonghua Pharmaceutical.

There is no other reason. Hong Kong Island has long been fed up with the Zhang family's high drug prices. In the past, the Zhang family's pharmacy was the only one in Hong Kong Island that had drugs, and there was no choice but to go to the pharmacy controlled by the Zhang brothers to buy them.

Now there are pharmaceutical companies like Zhonghua Pharmaceutical that offer low prices and guaranteed efficacy. Hong Kong citizens will choose Zhonghua Pharmaceutical even if they have to vote with their feet.

What's more, the price of drugs produced by Zhonghua Pharmaceutical is lower than that of Zhang's.

Moreover, the Zhang family’s medicine was imported from Europe and the United States with real money, and the cost itself was not low.

However, Zhonghua Pharmaceutical has exchanged patents with many European and American pharmaceutical companies by relying on "The Emperor's Secret", so the cost of Zhonghua Pharmaceutical's drugs is much lower than that of the Zhang family.

Moreover, in early 68, Zhang Weiguo signed in and obtained the prescription and manufacturing process of recombinant human insulin and chlorpheniramine (chlorpheniramine maleate tablets).

You should know that one of these two drugs can effectively treat diabetes, and the other has the advantages of strong anti-allergic effect, small dosage and few side effects.

According to the proportion of diabetics in Europe and the United States, Zhang Weiguo can be said to have made a lot of money. He also used this drug to exchange many patents with famous pharmaceutical companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer in the United States.

After all, the profit of insulin is too huge. If Zhang Weiguo wants to eat the whole market alone, he lacks the strength. It would be better for him to exchange patents with Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to maximize the profits directly.

Before leaving, Bao Yugang came to Zhang Weiguo and reminded him, "Mr. Zhang, please pay attention to the Zhang brothers. They may be trying to harm you recently."

Bao Yugang left after he finished speaking, without giving Zhang Weiguo a chance to ask further questions.

The son-in-law following behind Pao Yue-kong couldn't help but ask, "Dad, do we really need to offend the Zhang brothers for this Zhang Weiguo?"

"So what if they offended us? Do they dare to attack our Bao family?"

The basis for Pao Yue-Kong's confidence is not just his title as the shipping king, but also the many workers at the docks who depend on him and his family for their livelihood.

To put it in an exaggerated way, the number of people in all the Hong Kong gangs added together may not be as large as the number of people who make a living under Pao Yue-kong.

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After hearing what Pao Yue-Kong said, the son-in-law knew that he was asking for trouble, so he said no more and quickly followed Pao Yue-Kong's pace.

In fact, Zhang Weiguo, who revealed the news to Pao Yue-Kong, also had his own little thoughts.

First, he was very optimistic about Zhang Weiguo's future. Others did not know, but Pao Yue-kong, as a shipping tycoon, knew that the Flower Planting Group needed a lot of ships every month. According to his estimate, Zhang Weiguo's Flower Planting Group's monthly profit was definitely much higher than the current estimate of him in the newspapers.

Secondly, Pao Yue-kong also looked down upon the Zhang brothers' practice of exploiting Hong Kong citizens. Moreover, he, Pao Yue-kong, was not afraid that the Zhang brothers would know that it was he who informed them.

Finally, he wanted to befriend Zhang Weiguo, and he also believed that the Zhang family's actions would not succeed.