Li Bingquan finally understood that this pharmaceutical factory was hopeless and the problem lay with themselves, but they had no sense of self-rescue at all.

In fact, he is wrong to think so. There are still some employees who have a sense of self-rescue.

Look, the 20 most experienced masters have gone to "support" the Qingfeng branch, and their monthly salary is now 65 yuan.

Commissioner Han suddenly thought of something: "Your Qingfeng branch factory is doing so well, with orders already booked for months into the future. Could you please let them hand over the extra orders to Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory?"

Li Bingquan's eyes also lit up.

Manager Bao was in a dilemma:

"Commissioner Han, this, this should be difficult. Everyone knows that the Qingfeng branch is an affiliated enterprise. To put it bluntly, it's not state-owned. They are called sister units, but the distinction is very clear. Besides, 666 Weitai has a secret recipe, and the Qingfeng branch will definitely not hand it over."

Nonsense, who would be willing to hand it over? Teaching the apprentice to starve the master to death?

If the Qingfeng branch is also a state-owned factory, then they can be forced to hand it over by administrative order, without any room for negotiation.

But it is clearly a private factory. Besides, Chen Xia is a troublemaker, how could he surrender easily?

Li Bingquan suddenly said, "Then what do you think about contracting the Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory to Chen Xia?"

Everyone present was shocked, including Commissioner Han. Last year he was still in the process of economic restructuring, but this year he was going to contract a state-owned factory. This was too big a step.

"Li Suji, I think this is inappropriate. How can we allow an individual to contract out our state-owned factory?"

Han Dingze's attitude was very clear. This was definitely not acceptable. Was the local pharmaceutical factory capitalist or socialist?

While a group of people were worried in the office, Chen Xia was in a good mood because he received a letter from Hong Kong saying that the pharmaceutical factory's affairs were about to be settled.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong's real economy was still very strong, including clothing and light industry, as well as several pharmaceutical factories.

Chen Shuqin had her eyes on a medium-sized pharmaceutical factory called Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals, whose main products were antibiotics such as amoxicillin.

Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals originally had a good life. In addition to the local market in Hong Kong, it also exported to some small countries in Southeast Asia.

However, as more and more similar pharmaceutical companies are produced in various countries, Ogilvy has had a hard time, and its exports were zero last year.

The local market in Hong Kong is too small. After all, it is just a city and cannot support a medium-sized pharmaceutical factory.

In a capitalist region, there is no money to be made, and the factory cannot operate with all employees. The British Hong Kong government will not give you a subsidy of 20 yuan a month, so the factory has been half-dead.

In addition, the boss of Australia and America Pharmaceuticals suffered heavy losses due to the collapse of the real estate and stock markets, so he thought about selling the pharmaceutical factory to recoup some of his losses.

In fact, in history, Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals had been unable to find a buyer and had been struggling for several years. Later, with the opening of the mainland market, their products were sold in large quantities to the mainland, and they even established new pharmaceutical factories in the mainland.

Think about the domestic medical environment in the 1980s and 1990s. How could the traditional Chinese medicines produced by pharmaceutical factories like Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory compete with antibiotics like amoxicillin?

Therefore, Ogilvy's antibiotics sales in the mainland skyrocketed and made a lot of money. In this life, thanks to the participation of Chen Xia and Chen Shuqin, they were able to get the upper hand in advance.

Chen Xia might not be confident about other pharmaceutical companies, but he is absolutely confident about Ogilvy.

Because his space hospital and pharmacy also have "Amoxicillin" produced by Ogilvy, and the product quality is far better than domestically produced Amoxicillin. This shows that Ogilvy's strength has been tested by time and is trustworthy.

And there is another benefit to acquiring Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals.

They are manufacturers specializing in the production of antibiotics with rich experience, so the various antibiotics from later generations in Chen Xia's space will have their place in use.

When the patent applications are submitted one by one, and Ogilvy produces them one by one, wow, just relying on these antibiotics, Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals will be able to become a giant pharmaceutical company.

To put it bluntly, Western medicines all have something in common. It wouldn't be a big problem for pharmaceutical factories that can produce antibiotics to allocate some technical personnel to specifically produce omeprazole. Now that the patents are in place and the production process is clear, the manufacturer has also been found.

Chen Xia was so happy about this news that he danced with joy, even happier than Dongfang Bubai when he got the "Sunflower Manual". He didn't even have time to write a letter, but immediately sent a telegram to Hong Kong with the same meaning:

At all costs, take over Australia and America Pharmaceuticals as soon as possible.

After sending the letter, Chen Xia became more and more worried and decided to go to Hong Kong in person to take a look. This was a good opportunity.

The economic situation in Hong Kong was very bad at that time. With Mrs. Thatcher falling in front of the Great Hall, the property market in Hong Kong was hit hard. Many people sold their properties and fled abroad.

During this period, Hong Kong's real estate prices fell by as much as 70%, and those who had previously been paying off their mortgages were practically devastated.

That's why Chen Xia asked Chen Shuqin to buy up as many shops and houses in prime locations as possible to reserve. They would be the best financial products whether for future speculation or personal use.

While there are people like Chen Xia who are detecting leaks, there are also many people who are losing money, like Wei Yunhai, the general manager of Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals.

Because Australia and America Pharmaceuticals is a family business and is not listed, he almost drained the company's working capital to speculate in real estate and stocks.

Like other people, he made a lot of money in the beginning. Later, when the Sino-British negotiations began, the real estate and stock markets both fell. He did not give up and continued to add to his positions. In the end, he was trapped in this bear market that lasted for more than 4 years.

In addition, Australia and America Pharmaceuticals had lost all its overseas markets, and the losses in the stock and real estate markets made him lose his ability to predict. He felt that Hong Kong was finished and there was no hope for the pharmaceutical factory, so he decided to sell the factory and immigrate with his family.

At first, he had a good idea. Not to mention that the pharmaceutical factory was well-equipped and had a full complement of technical personnel, the factory land in Tsuen Wan alone was worth a lot of money, so selling it would not be a problem.

But who would take over during an economic crisis? Even those with real potential looked down upon pharmaceutical factories. Tsuen Wan wasn’t exactly a central area at the time, and the land in the industrial zone was of limited value.

At this time, Hong Kong's economy had begun to hollow out, and a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises were going bankrupt. Those with ability and vision closed their factories in Hong Kong and went to Shenzhen to build factories.

As a result, Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals, which had been listed for sale for a long time, had no one interested in it.

It was not until Chen Shuqin heard the news and contacted Wei Yunhai that she found that Ogilvy Pharmaceuticals met Chen Xia's requirements in terms of scale and products, so she wrote a letter to the mainland.

Chen Shuqin was still waiting for a reply from the mainland, but Wei Yunhai couldn't wait any longer, so he called every few days to urge negotiations.

This is a big taboo in business negotiations. No seller would be so impatient; it would give him a chance to bargain. But he couldn't bear it any longer, because he had to pay back the monthly mortgages for many of the buildings and shops he had purchased, and now he had no money.

If his assets are seized by the bank, he will lose both his money and his life, and will also be put on the bank's blacklist.