The Sixteenth Scene: Emerald Reversal

  "Uh...hello, I want to open a pharmaceutical factory and came to do some procedures. Here is also an introduction letter, would you please take a look?" Roger handed over the application form and the introduction letter from Chen Fengqi with a polite face to the staff in front of him.

  The staff did not immediately respond to Roger, but waited for a long time before reluctantly moving his eyes away from the book in his hand, glared at Roger with an unpleasant expression, and pretended to be talking to himself, saying: "In this era, it's really fashionable to be whatever you want. A broken pharmacy is also called a pharmaceutical factory, the boss is just the boss, but he has to pretend to be a manager. First put your watch here, then go pay the fee, after finishing the procedures here, go to the tax bureau to prepay the annual tax, register, and that's it for now. The rest of the procedures can only be done after the audit, you come back in half a month to check on the news."

  The staff member took Roger's materials while speaking, glanced at them absent-mindedly, and suddenly changed his expression several times. When he looked up again, his originally poker face had completely transformed into a flattering and nauseating expression, with cold sweat dripping profusely.

  "Master... Master is actually Brother Chen's brother! I said, who would have thought that someone could be so bold and open a pharmaceutical factory?! That group of country bumpkins only know how to set up some broken-down medicine shop, making small changes here and there. Who knew this foreign-style factory was so powerful? It's all thanks to your wisdom, Master! Please wait here, I'll take care of the formalities right away!"

  "Settled immediately? Isn't there still a half-month audit to go through? And what about prepaid taxes and the like?" Roger sneered, tossing a bag of silver dollars onto the table. "These are the prepaid taxes, all freshly minted eagle dollars, take a good look."

  "Alright, alright! They're all genuine, top quality!" The staff member didn't dare to actually check, and after taking the bag, he nodded and bowed, saying, "Sir, you can just wait here, we have newspapers and tea. I'll take care of all the procedures for you right away. The audit is only for those country bumpkins, it's to prevent cheating, but someone like you, a noble person, naturally doesn't need it!"

  The man handed over a stack of newspapers and a pot of tea water, then ran out quickly.

  Since someone was willing to run errands for him, Roger naturally enjoyed the leisure and drank tea while reading the newspaper.

  Thanks to Chen Fengqi's majestic letter of introduction, the procedures that would have taken over a month to complete were all settled by the staff within an hour. After respectfully handing over the completed procedures to Roger, the man also handed over a bag at the same time.

  "This is..."

  "This is a token of our goodwill as small employees, wishing your pharmaceutical factory a grand opening and great success. This small gift is not enough to express our respect."

  Roger nodded, he had just handed over 50 bucks, and in the blink of an eye, he got back at least 200 bucks, this business is great!

  "If that's your intention, then I won't be polite and decline. I'll just take it without hesitation." After saying this, Roger tossed the two money bags in his hand, let out a cold laugh, and turned to leave the Civil Affairs Bureau.

  ……

  The company has been established, and the land has also been acquired. The next step is to recruit workers and repair the road. According to Roger's plan, he intends to build a factory near Zhangjiacun Village. However, the road leading to Zhangjiacun Village is a dirt path that has been trodden by people over time, and it has become bumpy and impassable for cars after years of use. When it rains, it becomes completely inaccessible. Therefore, repairing the road is essential. Additionally, there are many forests and slopes around Zhangjiacun Village, so the land needs to be leveled before building houses.

  Rogers is completely unfamiliar with civil engineering, and if he does it himself, God knows what kind of trouble will arise. So, professional things are naturally left to those professionals. In the past half month in Haikou, he didn't do nothing, he had already inquired about several construction contractors, went straight to their door, slapped a deposit, and revealed Chen Feng's introduction letter, and the team was formed.

  However, repairing bridges and paving roads has always been a costly affair, whether in ancient times, modern times or contemporary times. Although there was Tan Ni's sponsorship, if you want to repair the road to a higher standard and get it done all at once, I'm afraid it would still be a bit short-handed.

  Because Roger didn't plan to build only one pharmaceutical factory, when he became stronger in the future, he would definitely establish some other factories. So an ordinary road was not enough for him. He specially asked Tan Ni to import a batch of asphalt and prepare to build a wide asphalt road all at once. In the future, after making money, the railway will also be built.

  For this reason, Roger felt it was necessary to make more money, whether in this Republic of China world or the original world.

  After handing over all road repair matters to the contractor and becoming a absentee owner, Roger came to the US Consulate again and found Tan Ni.

  "Hey, my friend, what brings you here this time? Have all the factory matters been settled?"

  "Natural, but I'm not here for that today. I need someone reliable to get something done. Do you have any recommendations?"

  "What's the matter? If it's something too professional, I'm afraid the people here can't handle it."

  "It's nothing big deal, just selling medicine, the only thing that's a bit troublesome is the location of the sale - Myanmar."

  "Myanmar!? Why would you want to go to a place like that? All I can think of is jungle and venomous snakes, if you're short on money, there are many rich people in the US who would be willing to pay top dollar for your medicine."

  "America? No, no, there's nothing I need there. All they have is dollars and industrial goods, both of which are worthless to me. What I want is jade, emeralds, that kind of thing - the more valuable the better. I need to exchange some medicine for a batch of emeralds."

  "What? You want to do jade business?" Tan Ni asked strangely, after all, he had lived in China for so long and knew something about the Chinese people's affection for jade. If done well, it was indeed a profitable business, but compared to that magical money-making medicine, it could only be classified as just making money.

  "Alright then, all you need to do is find someone to sell the medicine to the local landlord over there and exchange it for a piece of raw jadeite, then hand it over to me."

  "This shouldn't be a problem, I think I can find some decent candidates."

  That's right, Roger is going to do the jade business, but the jade he gets will not be sold in this Republic of China. It won't make much profit here, so he plans to take it back to modern times for sale. A backpack full of high-quality nephrite rough stones would be enough for him to buy up all the land around the time-space cave in modern times. Although the land prices in Hainan are expensive, that's only true for urban areas and coastal regions; the price of remote mountains and wilderness can't be much higher. At the same time, due to the increasingly scarce source of high-quality nephrite rough stones, the price of jade has always been very high. Doing this business a few times would be enough for him to establish a decent company in modern times as well.

  Of course, the antique business is not impossible, but he also knows that the antique business relies to a large extent on hype and luck, and there's no way to do it for long. What if you accidentally stumble upon two genuine pieces? It's better with raw jadeite, as long as it's cut open and proven to be good stuff, the price won't be low.

  After getting the money in modern times, just take some modern products that won't have a big impact and sell them, and the money for road construction and factory building will come out. Of course, Roger is not prepared to sell penicillin in those so-called civilized worlds before the pharmaceutical factory is settled, lest it attract the attention of certain big sharks.

  This is also the benefit of building a factory in Hainan, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The big sharks with too much power can't reach here, as long as Deng Benying and his gang are fooled, there won't be any danger for a short time.