On February 10, 1907, Baima Industrial Zone.

This winter, it was rare to snow in the Sichuan Basin.

Wen Desi stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the office, looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, and said thoughtfully: "This year's New Year's Eve is February 12th, today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and there are two days left to be New Year's Eve. Haha, it has been a year since I arrived in this time and space..."

Every festival is full of missing relatives. As the Spring Festival is approaching, even if Wen Desi is a person with extremely strong will, he will inevitably feel homesickness and involuntarily longing for his relatives and friends at home.

"Dingling...Dingling...Dingling..."

At this time, a crisp sound of electric rings interrupted his thoughts. Wen Desi was not the kind of indecisive child. He immediately put aside his longing for relatives and friends in another time and space, and switched his thinking mode to work again.

He sat back to his desk and pressed the telephone button.

"Mr. Wen, the annual summary of each department last year has been summarized. Do you want to send it to you?" Gu Xiaolu's voice came from the phone.

"Okay, send it..."

A few minutes later, Gu Xiaolu walked in with a stack of file folders.

"Mr. Wen, the habits of this era are completely different from those of us at that time. The annual settlement of domestic merchants is based on the lunar calendar time. The Spring Festival is the end of the year, which makes it difficult for us to make statements and is too unaccustomed to them." As soon as Gu Xiaolu came in, she complained angrily.

In this era, all walks of life calculate the time according to the lunar calendar, and Gu Xiaolu and others from the 23rd century are quite unaccustomed to it. For example, this year-end report is summarized from December to early January every year, but now it has to be dragged until before the Spring Festival according to the habits at this time.

Wen Desi smiled and comforted, "Haha, just get used to it. This lunar calendar has been used for more than a thousand years in our country, and everyone has lived like this. How long has the Gregorian calendar been used?"

"But our financial software, statistical software and various management software are calculated according to the Gregorian calendar. If we want to use the lunar calendar, all software must be modified. Modifying the software is a trivial matter. The most important thing is that the time of the lunar calendar is not standard, and sometimes there are leap months. This leap month is different every time..." Gu Xiaolu retorted without concession.

"Well, what you said makes sense..." Mr. Wen thought about it carefully, and agreed with Gu Xiaolu's opinion and said: "As the name suggests, the lunar calendar is mainly formulated for agricultural production. After entering the industrial era, there are indeed many inconveniences. This is better. After the Spring Festival this year, we will notify all departments and our relevant partners that the future account settlement time will be based on the Gregorian calendar..."

Although Mr. Wen is a Greater Chinese, he has to admit that in industrial society, our traditional calendar is indeed not as good as the Gregorian calendar.

"Are you ready for the holiday?" Wen Desi asked after the information.

"It's ready, Mr. Wen. The Spring Festival holiday is set for seven days, from the 13th to the 19th, the official holiday will begin tomorrow, and the company will return to the company to report on the 20th. The Spring Festival duty and overtime staff have also been arranged. The employees' New Year gifts and red envelopes will be distributed this afternoon, and the Spring Festival dinner will be scheduled tonight. At 2 pm today, you need to attend the gift distribution ceremony of the company's outstanding employees, advanced workers, workers, and middle-level and above personnel. You must also attend the 6 pm meal..." Gu Xiaolu reported quickly.

"Okay, I understand, you can arrange it..." Wen Desi, as the general boss, must be unable to avoid this kind of year-end social engagement.

Then, Mr. Wen began to look at the reports in his hand.

Although paperless office has been achieved in the 21st century, and various reports have been electronically employed. However, this era is not possible. Some senior management and many middle-level personnel of the company are still natives of this time and space, and many of these reports are for them to see. For these people, electronic reports are really too sci-fi, and it is not easy to explain the origin of the optical brain, let alone not so many optical brains for them to use.

Therefore, President Wen had to compromise with reality and re-use the outdated "paper-made" office. President Wen's secretary team has expanded by more than ten times. The job that Gu Xiaolu could do alone now needs more than a dozen people to do. Oh, the current stall is much larger than before time traveling is also a reason.

Judging from the reports, Xingke's revenue last year was amazing.

The ballpoint pen alone brought US$31.27 million in net profit to General Wen, of which the hardworking and kind American people contributed US$18.45 million to General Wen, 9.88 million in Europeans, and the remaining US$2.94 million was contributed by the vast majority of Asian, African and Latin American people.

"The Japanese are so poor. They actually spent less than 210,000 US dollars. They are not as good as Turkey. There are more people in the Qing Dynasty. I am so embarrassed to call the great powers..." After looking at the market data of various countries, Mr. Wen curled his lips disdainfully. Apart from the European and American powers, the best selling ballpoint pens are China, Türkiye and India, and Japan is really nothing.

The second major profit is the lighter. Xingke Company swept away a net profit of US$17.25 million from this small thing. A lighter of US$30 per unit should be considered a luxury item, but it sold more than 650,000 units last year, which made Mr. Wen sigh that there are so many rich people in this world.

Next is the "Rose Brand" cigarettes, which earned 3.22 million US dollars of net profit for Wen Zong. This figure is nothing compared to several European and American tobacco giants, but it has only been less than half a year since the brand was launched. It is also a very good result to grab this market from a group of giants.

British American Tobacco, Empire Tobacco, Renos, Altria and other bigwigs were attracted by the new invention of "filter". They originally wanted to buy out, but Barnazar, who was in charge of Zen Star Company, certainly would not agree. He only agreed to the patent authorization. This bigwig was originally planning to do some small moves, but after learning about the details of Zen Star Company, they still gave up those methods.

The capitalists in this era are not as gentle as their later counterparts. Their moral integrity is basically lost, they are extremely fierce and have a very ugly appearance. They are already considered conscience to inventors or competitors who have no strength, threats, blockades, and price acquisitions. Such as kidnapping, hiring murders, and shooting guns are common, and it is not uncommon to put bombs at competitors' homes.

Mr. Wen and others were prepared for this. Before the Zen Star Company was established, Barnazar brought 200 biochemical soldiers to the formation, and then recruited more than 2,000 gunmen and veterans in Europe and the United States to form a security company called "Hei Shui". Well, the name of this company is indeed Mr. Wen's bad taste, but the weapons of these security guards are quite excellent, and they have to be trained every day, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than the regular army of many countries. So far, "Hei Shui" has 3,000 "security guards", all of whom are elite armed to the teeth, including 600 biochemical soldiers as backbone non-commissioned officers and middle and lower-level officers.

On the other hand, Zenzhe hired a huge group of lawyers, and the court struggles were absolutely not afraid. In addition, Banazar used bribery, political donations, drug control and other means to control many American politicians, including the governor, the senator and other senior officials.

With sufficient funds, reliable manpower, and technology that exceeds hundreds of years, Banazar turned Zen Star Company into a terrifying, thorny monster with sharp claws within half a year. Although it seems to be a bit lacking in background than those long-standing giants, this strength is enough to make giants face it and dare not use those methods that cannot be used to the top.

The big zombies knew very well that if they fought against opponents like Zen Star, it would be hard to say who would win. Even if they won, they would win. It was not a life-and-death conflict. Only fools would do such things, otherwise they would not know who would be cheaper. Since Zen Star Company has the qualification to become a big zombie, everyone is the same. Since they are the same, they can sit down and negotiate.

After a month of disputes, all parties reached a consensus that Zending Star Company authorized the filter patent to several peers and sent personnel to provide guidance. During the patent protection period, every time they bought a filter cigarette, they paid Zending Star Company a 5% patent fee.

"Galaxy Electrical Appliances Company" is also quite powerful. They made a net profit of US$2.88 million with two products, namely household vacuum cleaners and tungsten incandescent lamps.

Let me mention here that after the tungsten incandescent lamp was launched, it aroused the dissatisfaction of Mr. Edison. This genius with integrity wanted to occupy this patent, so he did some things such as bribery, threats, kidnapping, gun shooting, etc., so Comrade Banazar became angry and Edison was in a tragedy.

On November 11, 1906, a gas explosion occurred in a laboratory of General Electric. Mr. Edison, who was working in the laboratory, was injured. On the way to the hospital, he unfortunately suffered a car accident and was attacked by unidentified armed personnel. He was eventually shot 32 times and died...

After this, everyone who should know it knew that Zen Star Company is definitely not a character who can be mercilessly assigned. If you want to take a bite, think about whether your teeth are good. Then, Banazar reached an understanding with another major shareholder of General Electric through patent authorization, and the two companies settled from then on.

In fact, Mr. Morgan and Zen Star have worked together many times before. Weigang's steel smelting equipment and many other equipment were bought from Morgan's company. Although Edison was killed by someone who scored 32 likes, which made him unhappy, Barnazar was not a soft persimmon, and his 3,000 elite players were not a decoration. If you really want to pinch it, even if Morgan can win, the loss will not be small. Edison is not Morgan's son, why should he avenge him? Besides, Zen Star can also bring a lot of profits, and fools will not cooperate. What's more, Zen Star also said that if there is a new patent in the future, you can continue to cooperate with Mr. Morgan.

This is how the capitalist tycoons of this era are. You must show enough strength to be qualified to cooperate with them. In fact, as long as they are regarded as the same type, it is also a very pleasant thing to cooperate with these tycoons. As long as you have muscles and can bring a lot of benefits, the tycoons will also cooperate very well. What is the annoying thing to fight and kill? How good is it to make a fortune together!

The "Red Bull Beverage Company" that was born 60 years in advance also earned US$1.18 million in the world market with its main "Red Bull" energy drinks and more than a dozen juice drinks and tea drinks launched at the same time, mainly the novel packaging method of cans.

Among all the products, the main product of MSG is a bit inconspicuous, because now the European and American market, which has the largest oil and water, does not buy this condiment. Although it is also advertised, the profit in European and American countries was only US$130,000 last year. This is mainly caused by Western eating habits and cooking methods. Few buy MSG in families and restaurants. What surprised the biggest customers were various canning factories and meat products factories.

However, in the Chinese and Japanese markets, MSG is very popular, and the people of both countries are very enthusiastic about this novel condiment. Wen Desi named his MSG factory "Tianchu" without blushing, and the brand is called "Fu Shu". Anyway, Mr. Wu Yunchu is still a pink and tender pintai now, and pintai has no human rights. "Fu Shu" MSG has two packaging, one is a 100-gram glass bottle for household use, at $0.5 per bottle; the other is a 1 kilogram tin can, at $3.5 per can, which is mainly supplied to large customers such as canned factories, meat processing factories.

Of course, the price of MSG is relatively high now, and those who can afford it are basically middle-income families. The markets of the two countries provide about US$200,000 in profits for General Wen. But even with the support of the East Asian market, the total profits of more than US$350,000 in the world are only more than US$350,000 in profits, which is really shabby compared to other projects.

However, the purpose of Mr. Wen to do MSG is to cultivate chemical talents and complete the industrial chain of deep processing of sugar, not to make much money.

By the time of the Spring Festival in 1907, the various industries of Wen Zong had obtained a total of US$56.15 million in net profits. Together with the sales of artificial gems and artificial diamonds, the total amount was US$75.57 million. It can be said to be rich.

However, Wen Zong's expenses were also very large. It cost nearly US$24 million to build factories, mines, research institutions, and various machinery, automobiles, ships and supplies. It cost $3.3 million to buy land in Sichuan. It cost 2 million to buy weapons, 200,000 to form a militia, nearly 1.7 million to build a factory and the construction of surrounding roads. The cost of pre-training and studying abroad for more than 1,000 international students was 1 million. Various public relations, hiring lawyers, advertising, etc. at home and abroad also cost 1.88 million US dollars, 750,000 yuan to acquire factories in the United States, 2.6 million US dollars to form a Blackwater Company, and 3 million US dollars to buy land in the United States and Mexico. In addition, other expenses, a total of US$41.57 million was spent last year, with 34 million left.
Chapter completed!