Nan Yi chuckled, patted his butt, and walked into the villa barefoot.

He went to the bathroom to wash up, then went to the bedroom to put on clothes. Nan Yi went down to the underground study and turned on the computer to check today's emails.

Guo Min from G2B sent an email saying that the poppy plantation has been approved by the Aristide government and the company will establish a plantation in the Port-de-Paix area of ​​Haiti.

In the 1990s, influenza has entered a period of high incidence. Influenza outbreaks occur from time to time in every corner of the world, and cold medicines have reached a bottleneck. It is not feasible to innovate and develop new drugs that suppress existing cold medicines.

After market analysis, Guo Min set his sights on cough syrup.

The most important ingredient in cough syrup is codeine, which needs to be extracted from poppy husks. A pharmaceutical company that needs poppy cannot go to the Golden Triangle to import it. Applying for legal cultivation is the only way to do it, and Haiti is quite chaotic.

A country that changes presidents faster than clothes is a good choice.

Nanyi thought for a moment and replied to Guo Min's email - developing two versions, one for the Asian, European and North American markets. The taste should be difficult to eat and greasy, so that the user feels like he is there when taking it.

The correct understanding of taking medicine; the version for Africa and South America is based on market development, and the taste can be adjusted to the best.

The second email was sent by Erlanger to the Intelligence Committee and copied to him. It was about the situation of DAA, a specific drug for hepatitis C. In the email, Erlanger stated that no "reduced-effect hepatitis C drug" had been developed within three years.

The possibility of a "miracle drug" is not even predictable.

This means that there is no difference between developing this kind of drug and other drugs. It is the same as starting from scratch. Whether it can be successfully developed depends on God.

Nanyi knew very well that the Third Biopharmaceutical Research Institute was very resistant to the secondary research and development of DAA, especially Erlanger, the leader, who was very critical. If it weren't for the resistance, the evaluation report would have been released long ago.

Sighing slightly, Nanyi replied to the email and let the Intelligence and Strategy Committee make its own decision.

A group with only one voice can easily fall into doom. If there are too many voices, the same thing cannot be avoided, and different people will have different ideas. In addition to one's own interests, people engaged in drug research will naturally also have certain emotional pursuits. There is no certain

Who can persist in a boring research life without such feelings?

"It seems necessary to establish a biopharmaceutical research institute with strong R&D capabilities in addition to the Third Biopharmaceutical Research Institute." Nan Yi stroked his chin and thought, "It is not easy to control the research institute in the mainland.

Become a base for writing papers..."

The matter was not urgent, so Nan Yi put aside his thoughts for the time being, finished processing a few other emails, and walked to the living room on the first floor.

As soon as he walked back to the living room, he saw a ball of black flying towards his face. There was no way to avoid it. Nan Yi subconsciously turned his head, and with a pop, a ball of mud exploded on his cheek, covering his hair, eyes, ears,

No one on the neck was spared.

A loud laugh rang out, and then a series of hurried footsteps left the living room.

Wiping the corner of his eyes, Nan Yi saw a white flower crossing the gate of the villa and running straight towards the lake.

"Young lady, you are quite vindictive."

Cursing secretly, Nan Yi went to the bathroom to clean up, then wandered around the room, found a pump, fiddled with it a few times, transformed it into a water gun, mixed some pen ink into the water to act as bullets, and hurried out with the gun in his hand.

revenge.

…

While Nan Yi was shooting ink randomly with a water gun, Scarlett was entertaining Hilson Morgan of the Morgan family and Nicholas Oppenheimer, nicknamed Nick, of the Oppenheimer family at Scarlett Manor.

Needless to say about the Morgan family, the cooperation between the Nan family and Morgan has been relatively in-depth. The Oppenheimer family is relatively unknown, but it is also a very powerful family.

Oppenheimer is a traditional Jewish surname. In 1880, Ernst Oppenheimer was born in a lower-class Jewish family in Germany. He had an older brother, Bernard, who was fourteen years older than him.

The two brothers' father, Edward, was a small businessman selling cigars, and his monthly income was only enough to maintain the basic expenses of a family of four.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a seductive story attracted many people from the lower classes of Europe to South Africa.

It is said that a shepherd child in South Africa picked up a beautiful stone on the roadside. Later, the child used the stone to exchange for a caravan, 10 cows and 500 fat sheep. This stone became the Star of South Africa weighing 83.5 carats.

, its price will continue to rise in the days to come.

This legendary story inspired people's fantasy of getting rich from diamonds, and Ernst was one of them.

Ernst Oppenheimer followed his brother to London when he was 16 years old and was employed by a diamond distribution company, engaged in sorting diamonds. He could get a salary of 1 pound per week.

Soon, Ernst's unique talents began to emerge. He seemed to have a talent for distinguishing which rough diamonds could be processed into first-class diamonds.

In an era when there were no machine appraisals, such vision was a treasure in the jewelry industry, and his talent was valued by his boss. At the age of 22, Ernst was selected as a company representative and sent to Kimberley, South Africa, specifically responsible for providing services to the company.

Buy loose diamonds.

In 1906, Ernst, who had been in South Africa for four years, returned to London and married his brother Bernard's sister-in-law, Mary, the 19-year-old daughter of Pollack, the chairman of the London Stock Exchange.

Mary was beautiful and talented. For her husband's career, she resolutely gave up her studies at Cambridge and came to South Africa with Ernst.

Soon, they had two lovely sons, Harry and Frank. With his unique background of being born in Germany and raised in England, Ernst's diamond trade in South Africa was very successful.

Later, the Anglo-German colonial power in South Africa was reversed, and Ernst's risk was rewarded hundreds of times.

Relying on his friendship with the Germans, he not only kept his business in Kimberley, he was even elected as the mayor of Kimberley in 1912 and served three consecutive terms, eventually representing Kimberley in the South African Parliament.

However, politics was not his forte and he never successfully entered the South African cabinet.

Taking advantage of his position as mayor of Kimberley, Ernst began to build his own business empire in 1917. He took advantage of the convenience of being mayor to get acquainted with members of the J.P. Morgan family, who were famous in the financial industry at the time, and successfully persuaded them to invest.

With 1 million pounds, they jointly established the "South Africa Anglo American Group" to engage in gold mining business.

Then, Ernst, who had gained a foothold in gold mining, focused on diamonds. The outbreak of World War I brought huge opportunities to Ernst.

The German diamond mining restricted area was occupied by the South African army and could not start construction. Ernst took his shares of Anglo American to negotiate with the Germans to buy the diamond mine. The Germans did not know whether the South African army would withdraw, so they

A rich mine was sold to Ernst, who was well connected, at a very low price.

At this point, the Oppenheimer family owned the first diamond mine, the Oppenheimer Unified Diamond Mine.

The war ended soon. In order to achieve a monopoly, De Beers, which controlled the main diamond mines at the time, had to come to Ernst to negotiate terms. Ernst agreed to form an alliance with De Beers, but only if he got De Beers.

shares and join the board of directors.

In desperation, De Beers or the Rothschild family behind it agreed.

In 1926, Ernst pledged all his possessions as collateral to merge with the De Beers Diamond Company through an equity s

After World War II, the U.S. economy experienced unprecedented prosperity, and diamonds became a luxury product that people rushed to buy. The large accumulation of diamonds brought Ernst a fortune of US$1.4 billion.

Soon, Ernst began to serve as the chairman of De Beers and became a prominent figure in the South African diamond industry. At the same time, Ernst, already the diamond king and the largest gold producer in South Africa, also expanded his business to copper mines, coal mines, and platinum mines.

Mines, Explosives and Agriculture.

At the age of 52, he had become one of the most financially and powerful industrialists in South Africa.

During World War I, Ernst's ship was sunk by a German submarine. He was rescued by the British army. This incident was connected with the purchase of German diamond mines and was recorded in his wartime heroic deeds book.

After World War I, King George V personally awarded Ernst a knighthood, and he became one of the few Jews with a knighthood. This status brought him into the upper class of South Africa, and he met with the then South African President Jan Smyth.

There is a close relationship.

Although he was Jewish, he regarded South Africa as his homeland and spent a lot of money to support Smythe's anti-apartheid policy.

Ernst died in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1957. Although he was born a Jew, he converted to Christianity as an adult and was finally buried in St. George's Church.

After Ernst's death, his entire inheritance was given to his son Harry Oppenheimer, including assets of US$180 million and a diamond kingdom accounting for 80% of the world's diamond production. At this point, Harry became a new generation of diamond kings.

Harry Oppenheimer was born in Kimberley in 1908 and studied at Oxford University. His unique family and educational background made him silent, low-key, and well-educated throughout his life. Compared with his brother Frank, who died young due to a drowning accident when he was a boy, Harry is undoubtedly

is lucky.

Harry was a soldier when he was young. When South Africa declared war on Germany in 1939, Harry's army encountered Rommel's army in the desert of North Africa. Fortunately, he not only walked out of the desert alive, but also met a young and beautiful man in 1943.

Lieutenant Brigette married.

During Harry's 25 years as chairman of Anglo American, the diamond kingdom of the Oppenheimer family entered its heyday. Anglo American almost dominated South Africa's diamond, gold and platinum industries and even the entire business world. Anglo American Gold and Anglo American Platinum were respectively

The world's largest gold and platinum producer.

In 1973, the output value of the Oppenheimer family accounted for 10% of South Africa's GDP, and its exports accounted for 30% of South Africa's total exports, making it a country within a country.

Like his father, Harry is also well versed in the strategy of "taking advantage of scarcity".

Ernst once said: "Common sense teaches us that the only way to increase the value of diamonds is to make them scarce, which is to reduce production."

In fact, the price of diamonds in the world has always been controlled by the Oppenheimer family. No one dared to bargain. At one time, the father and son even ordered the closure of all diamond mines owned by the company, causing the world's diamond output to fall between 1930 and 1933.

The annual production dropped from 22 million carats to less than 14,000 carats.

The business strategy of controlling production allowed De Beers' diamond reserves to soar. By 1937, the inventory had reached 40 million carats, enough to sell for 20 years.

When the Oppenheimer family's diamond kingdom was at its peak, the kingdom controlled more than 90% of the world's diamond output. Every five weeks, Harry would convene a meeting with important distributors, and after the meeting, he would send a box of top-quality diamonds

The diamonds are distributed to the dealers, and each distributor disperses after receiving the diamonds, waiting for the next call.

However, the diamond kingdom's influence on the South African economy began to unsettle Africans, and many even began to criticize Oppenheimer's family business for exploiting blacks and actually supporting the apartheid system.

Harry was filled with emotion about this. As a member of Parliament, he had spared no effort to support the anti-apartheid struggle, and his family had also provided more education and employment opportunities for black people.

Harry and Bridget had a son and a daughter. Their daughter Mary was beautiful and dignified. She loved all kinds of famous horses, but lacked talent in business. Her extremely luxurious wedding scene shocked the entire Johannesburg. In order to see this grand scene that had never been seen in a century, the crowd gathered.

There were even riots and dozens of people were injured.

However, this vigorous marriage disappeared after a few years.

Mary fell in love with her horse trainer. Despite the strong opposition of her family, Mary and the horse trainer quietly held a wedding in Swaziland, Africa, but this time the wedding (second marriage) also failed to give her

Bring long-lasting happiness.

Soon, people witnessed Mary's third wedding.

Compared with his sister Mary's emotional ups and downs, Nicholas's upbringing was relatively low-key. Following family tradition, he went to high school at the famous Harrow School in England. After graduation, he chose to study at Christ Church College, the most prestigious college in Oxford University.
To be continued...