"Their medicines are sold too cheaply. Now the living space of medicine stores is being squeezed, and everyone is very unhappy."
Gusu, old street.
The main cabinet of the medicine store, in the office on the second floor.
Liu Jingqi looked at the financial reports and documents in his hands, with a solemn look on his face, and fell into deep thought.
"President Liu, we can't continue like this. Taiji Pharmaceutical Factory and Wood House Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. have joined forces to exert pressure. Traditional Chinese medicine in the entire Jiangnan region cannot be sold at a high price. They still want good medicine. What do you mean... our collectors Pharmacists, they haven’t been able to get their wages paid for several months, and it’s impossible to survive just by relying on supplies from some drug stores.”
"President Liu, you know that if the collection of medicines stops, medicine shops will have thousands of mouths waiting for food, wages will not be paid, goods will not be collected, and medicines will be sold privately. Our medicine The business exists in name only!”
"Unless you come forward and ask Taiji Pharmaceutical Factory and Wood House Pharmaceutical to increase the price of medicines, then everything is easy to talk about! Our medicine store is willing to give profits to Mr. Xia and Mr. Mu! Even the colleagues of the medicine store can vote to make Mr. Xia the Vice president is fine!"
Liu Jingqi said with a black line: "Co-author, you are telling me to listen to me alone!"
Liu Jingqi, the president of the medicine shop, is a handsome and elegant person, but at the moment when he is looking at the report from the person on the cabinet, his face is frosty and cold and arrogant.
He has a pair of slender dark eyebrows, and there is no trace of worldliness in his whole body.
Medicine shops have been around since the time of the previous dynasty.
At first, it was jointly opened by the top ten drug dealers in Jiangnan area.
At the general counter, everyone bought shares and passed them on from generation to generation.
Later, when the country was in turmoil and the war continued, Jiangnan Medicine Company even specially funded the red team, so it has survived to this day.
However, among the top ten drug dealers at that time, there was not even one out of ten.
But the treasures they left behind are still passed down.
The medicine store has a main cabinet.
Just on Gusu Old Street.
As we all know, Chinese medicinal materials are the cheapest.
So how do people who rely on traditional Chinese medicine make money?
Of course those rare medicinal materials!
On the main cabinet of the medicine store, there are many fine materials, which are hundreds of years old.
Preserve precious medicinal materials, those that are hundreds or thousands of years old, in cabinets.
Even drug stores store rare medicines in the safes of many banks.
The Twelve Flowers of the Empire all store medicinal materials from Jiangnan Medicine Store.
And just the fine materials on their main cabinet are worth half a Suzhou!
But as time goes by.
Decades pass.
The fine materials on the main cabinet are slowly consumed and the quantity becomes less and less.
The number of herb collectors has slowly dropped from tens of thousands in the past to hundreds today.
Almost withered!
Therefore, rare medicines cannot be delivered.
There are medicines on the counter again.
Often making ends meet!
This results in fewer and fewer precious fine materials.
It is difficult for the medicine store to maintain itself. If the Suzhou government had not supported and provided financial assistance many times, it would have closed down long ago.
"I understand what you are saying. I am about to take time to meet Mr. Xia from the pharmaceutical factory. However, he has not had time recently, so I don't want to bother him."
Liu Jingqi spoke slowly: "Don't be anxious yet. There has to be a solution to the problem. Medicines are easy to negotiate. The main issue is the price."
"Hongda Pharmaceutical competed with them before. As the leader of the traditional Chinese medicine industry, our pharmaceutical company naturally supports it fully."
"Now that Western medicine has completely withdrawn from the Suzhou market and has appeared in the entire Jiangnan region, we should also increase the price..."
Liu Jingqi stood up and said, "Tomorrow, I will personally visit Mr. Xia of the pharmaceutical factory and talk to him about the drug price!"
"Please be patient and calm!"
Liu Jingqi was preparing to appease everyone.
Unexpectedly, the elders of the medicine store submitted a price list.
It is clearly stated above that there are almost dozens of medicinal materials that require a 50% price increase.
The elders looked at Liu Jingqi.
"President Liu, this is our request."
"We know that you can't make the decision. The medicine store is so big, you don't have the final say alone."
"So, you can take this price list and go to the person in charge of the pharmaceutical factory. If they agree to increase the price, President Liu, you will still be our president."
Liu Jingqi frowned.
The price increase on this price list is really outrageous!
"You guys are talking like a lion! How do you want me to talk to Mr. Xia!"
Everyone here is a veteran of the medicine business.
They all responded with indifference and sinister expressions.
It’s obviously an expression that means he won’t give in until he agrees!
And Liu Jingqi was also very helpless.
As the president, he also has to consider the survival of the entire medicine shop.
Price increases are appropriate, but you also have to consider whether anyone will accept your goods!
"Do you think Mr. Xia was taken advantage of?"
"Atractylodes 39 per pound, you dare to raise the price to 58?"
"There are also asters that cost 65 a pound. How dare you sell them for 85?!"
"You are darker than Anguo!"
Liu Jingqi was furious.
Strictly speaking, there are three major Chinese herbal medicine markets!
Yulin, Anguo, Bozhou.
Among them, Anguo's market is the largest, and its prices are the most representative of market prices. It is the largest distribution center for Chinese herbal medicines!
However, the distribution of Chinese herbal medicine in the empire depends on the place of origin.
For example, in East China, medicinal materials such as caladium, honeysuckle, Corydalis, and white peony root are often used.
These medicinal materials are purchased by Taiji Pharmaceutical Factory and Wood House Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. with the largest volume.
And it just so happens that these medicinal materials have the highest price increase on this price increase list!
"President Liu, it's not like you don't know that among the eight medicine shops in the empire, our Jiangnan medicine shop is the most difficult. Why? Do you know?"
"It's not just because our medicines are too cheap! After being monopolized by pharmaceutical companies, we thought we could raise prices and benefit everyone."
"Who knew they would still be so arbitrary!"
"The old people in the medicine store can hardly afford to pay their wages! As the president, don't you care at all?!"
Liu Jingqi gritted his teeth, feeling helpless.
"Elders, you also know that the eight medicine shops have joined forces to export all the good medicines of the empire to foreign countries! Let the people of the new country and the military country enjoy them! But they leave the residue for their own people and use inferior Chinese medicines. , and it’s extremely expensive!”
"These people are short-sighted and try to take advantage of both sides. Naturally, they make a lot of money."
"But this also allowed Western medicine to sneak into the loop and seize the market. Throughout modern times, Western medicine has captured most of the empire's traditional Chinese medicine industry. Isn't this a fact?"
"Now you also want to imitate those drug stores and export good medicines to foreigners, while your own people only sell bad medicines at high prices, don't you?"
Liu Jingqi understands the current situation better than most people.
Eight drug stores.
As long as the three families stick to their original intentions and use good medicine to their own people.
The remaining five companies are all exporting good medicine to soldiers and Europeans!
Now, Jiangnan Pharmacy wants to imitate those five pharmaceutical shops and wants to make a lot of money while sucking the blood of the common people of the empire.
If you ask Liu Jingqi to do this, he really can't do it!
