The fire at Li Lai Pharmaceutical was different from the robbery of the Wing Lung Bank vault in Hong Kong.
To be honest, Hong Kong is just a small country, and Wing Lung Bank is just a small bank in China. This matter has caused a lot of hype in Hong Kong, and it is no different internationally.
But the United States is different. As one of the two superpowers in the world, and in the Cold War era, anything that happens here is a major international event that will attract strong attention and questioning from security departments.
While the entire United States was in an uproar and arguing over the cause of the fire, only a very small number of senior executives at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals knew that Chen Xia was probably involved in the fire.
But they will not tell the authorities about this suspicion.
The first is that although Chen Xia had a motive for committing the crime, there is no evidence to prove that he did it.
Secondly, isn’t Pfizer afraid that a major fire will happen in its own company and burn it to ashes?
Who is Lilai Pharmaceutical?
They are competitors. Pfizer’s executives have wanted to burn them to death countless times. How could they possibly provide them with clues?
So Chen Xia is safe and will not arouse anyone's suspicion. At the same time, he has unknowingly intimidated his "partners" so that they dare not do anything weird.
An unexpected gain.
The camera returns to the fire scene of "Li Lai Pharmaceutical". After Paulk's rage, he finally calmed down.
"Swift, have we tallied our losses?"
"Chairman, our losses this time are enormous. Our headquarters and factories are completely destroyed, with direct losses exceeding $800 million. Furthermore, all our warehouses have burned down, and all the raw materials and products inside are gone. This represents a total loss of $1.3 billion."
"Fuck, how come the warehouse losses are so huge?"
Many people were whispering, appearing very surprised.
President Swift explained:
"In order to cope with the current crazy rise in raw material prices, we just happened to purchase a lot of raw materials. The reserve of peptides alone is as high as $1 billion, and..."
Paulk touched his chest and asked, "And what?"
"The insurance company can compensate for the destruction of the headquarters and factory, but this batch of raw materials is not covered by the insurance, so we have to bear this loss ourselves."
This was in 1987, when the value of the US dollar was still very high. The loss of $1.3 billion was enough to seriously damage Lilai Pharmaceuticals, and now everyone is heartbroken.
Paulk felt like he was about to faint, his hands, which were supported by his crutches, were bruised and blue. "What other bad news?"
Swift took a deep breath:
"The biggest loss was at the research center. All the equipment and materials in all our labs were burned. Even the safes in each lab were completely destroyed. They contained years of our company's confidential information. Now it's impossible to reproduce it, so we have to start all over again."
There was a big question in everyone’s mind: Damn it, would such a huge safe be burned and melted?
Is this caused by the Samadhi True Fire?
Paulk and Swift were numb. There were so many strange things about this fire. Was it strange that those safes were lost?
Is it weird???
"Everything burned? No data left? All the data on those biological drug experiments we were conducting, oh yeah, and the reverse engineering of the nebulized inhaled hormone drug, are gone?"
Swift lowered his head:
"Yes, Chairman, everything is gone. All our years of accumulated knowledge are gone, and the drug plans we originally planned to imitate are gone. Except for the patents we currently hold, everything else is gone."
Not only that, the stock price of "Lilai Pharmaceuticals" has fallen to the bottom price, now only $1 per share, and it is almost delisted.
But how could Chairman Paul, who was able to build one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the American capital circle, be defeated so easily?
The old man is strong, and the more adverse the situation, the more he wants to restore his glory.
"It's okay, it's okay. Once the insurance company's compensation arrives, we'll rebuild the factory right away. We have the most insulin patents, and the insulin we produce accounts for almost half of the market. As long as the insulin patents are there, we'll be able to make back the money, and Lilai Pharmaceutical will be able to make a comeback."
As soon as the old man said this, many company executives who had already backed out and were preparing to look for other jobs suddenly had their eyes brightened.
Yes, Lilai Pharmaceutical's flagship product is biological preparations, among which the insulin injections produced by their company account for three-fifths of the US market.
In the United States, the incidence of diabetes is very high, the market for related drugs is very huge, and the profits are even more astonishing.
As long as Lilai Pharmaceutical resumes production and has the patent in hand, no one else can snatch this market away unless other competitors can invent more effective insulin injections in just one or two years.
But is this possible?
Chairman Paulk and President Swift are very confident.
Because they have all the best researchers in the world, they are currently invincible in the field of insulin needles or diabetes drugs.
The key is to research a new drug while circumventing the patents, which is impossible to do without 10 years.
However, it only takes Lilai Pharmaceutical one or two years to rebuild the factory and resume production, so they believe they still have plenty of time and are still very confident in regaining the market.
But they never dreamed that there were still reborn people in this world...
Chen Xia will not give them this opportunity.
Minglu Villa, by the West Lake.
Chen Xiazheng and Zheng Haisheng were looking through the documents together.
"Brother-in-law, this mission is quite heavy. There are six insulin needles and eight diabetes medications. Put all other work aside for now. The focus is on reverse engineering these medications."
No one would have thought that there was a real giant crocodile hidden next to the beautiful West Lake.
There are now a total of 20 staff members in the "Minglu Laboratory". The first batch of researchers Wang Yiqun, Wu Chunbo, Yang Zhenhua, Guo Wei, and Feng Xiangyang have all resigned to focus on drug reverse engineering.
The laboratory adopts a closed management system, which is different from the past. In the past, everyone worked part-time and was very satisfied with earning 200 yuan a month.
However, as the laboratory researched more and more drugs, its importance became increasingly greater, so all 20 researchers resigned from their original units and worked full-time at Minglu.
In order to keep it secret, Chen Xia also deployed 20 retired scouts to guard the villa 24 hours a day.
All researchers are prohibited from going out or communicating with the outside world until the drug reversal is completed, unless the experiment is over.
Such stringent requirements result in a monthly income of up to 10,000 yuan.
With 10,000 yuan a month, is it still important for these tech geeks to go out and have fun?
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