When Professor Chai saw the white old man taking pictures of the production line, he was very aware of the enemy spies and immediately realized that something was wrong and was about to speak up to remind him.
But he saw Lin Sanqi smiling at the foreigners taking photos and not trying to stop them, so he resisted the urge to stop her.
The secretaries next to them, Bai Ruli and Li Yujie, had received relevant training, so they were a little anxious:
"Commissioner Lin, those foreigners are filming our production line. Do you want me to grab the camera?"
Lin Sanqi said casually:
"Just take pictures, where are all the secrets? What's the point of just taking pictures of the outer shell? The key technologies that control the production line, such as programmable logic controllers, distributed control systems, PID control algorithms, etc., can't be copied by the other party."
While Professor Witte was busy taking photos and exploring the technology, Lin Sanqi quietly whispered to Professor Anthony and Professor Theodore:
"Professors, Old Man Witt is here to pick peaches. I know you're not convinced, so please cooperate with me and let him bleed."
When Professor Theodore heard this, he showed surprise on his face:
"Yes, Fake Witt, he simply paid 10 million US dollars and wanted to take away our achievements. It's too cheap for him. Lin, don't worry, Witt has a lot of money.
Not only does he receive a lot of red envelopes, he's also a shareholder in several European pharmaceutical companies and owns a world-class laboratory. So, this guy's personal assets are worth at least several hundred million pounds."
Lin Sanqi sighed in his heart, there were hundreds of millions of pounds in the 1960s. It seems that being an ordinary doctor really has no "money prospects".
Professor Anthony did not object to Lin Sanqi's plan to kill people, and asked curiously:
"How are we going to cooperate with you later?"
Lin Sanqi said, "The total amount of diamonds I sold you is 20 million US dollars. After deducting the 5 million US dollars red envelope fee, you still have to give me 15 million. In a moment, you will..."
Professor Anthony and Professor Theodore nodded repeatedly when they heard this:
"Okay, I'll do as you say and make that vampire Witt pay the price."
Lin Sanqi thought, you two are not Bethune, you have clearly "invented" the anti-tuberculosis drugs, and the relevant papers have been published in the official media. As a result, these two guys came here to take advantage of you. To put it bluntly, you are just trying to take advantage of the situation.
So there is no difference between Professor Witte and Anthony's team. Westerners have bandit logic in their bones.
In the county government office
Lin Sanqi personally took three cans of iced Coke out of the refrigerator and placed them in front of the three white professors:
"Well, now you believe my sincerity, right? I even brought out our country's latest pharmaceutical production line and had tens of thousands of people working simultaneously, just to produce the Epyridamole tablets as soon as possible."
The three white professors all nodded, they were convinced of this.
It is definitely not some shitty capital that takes out a few slides and then gives sales speeches everywhere, then disappears after cheating investors' money. Oh no, see you on Monday.
Lin Sanqi continued to deceive:
"For me now, the equipment and the factory site are not a problem. The problem is that there is not enough follow-up funding. According to my estimate, it would cost at least hundreds of millions of dollars to build a pharmaceutical factory covering only 5 square kilometers.
The banks in Hong Kong were not optimistic about my investment in the mainland, and coupled with the tense relationship between the two places, I was unable to obtain a loan from a Hong Kong bank.
The mainland government does want to invest in my pharmaceutical factory, but you also know that if the pharmaceutical factory is tainted with red capital, it will probably have an adverse impact on the entry of ethoxypyridamole tablets into the European and American markets.
So I…”
Before Lin Sanqi finished speaking, Professor Theodore slammed the table:
"Lin, we are close allies and partners in making money together. If you make money, we make money. Similarly, if you lose money, we lose money. So for the sake of our common cause, we have decided to sponsor you."
Lin Sanqi blushed and said embarrassedly:
"How can I be so embarrassed? The three of you have already donated $20 million to the Epyridamole tablets project. How can I ask you for more money to build a pharmaceutical factory?"
Lin Sanqi pronounces the word "sponsorship" with a particularly strong emphasis.
Professor Witte is an old fox, so how could he not understand the implicit meaning of Lin Sanqi's words?
He is not short of money. Although 10 or 20 million US dollars is a lot, it is not unaffordable for him as a "medical capitalist" this time.
But there are some things he needs to understand clearly. What rich people fear most is being slaughtered like pigs.
"Lin, if we continue with the current process, how long will it take you to mass-produce the ethylpyridamole tablets needed for clinical practice?"
Lin Sanqi was troubled and said:
"In about a year, I can build several factories and start production immediately. However, due to limited conditions, the amount of drugs produced is also limited, and it may not be able to supply the entire market by then."
Theodore was anxious: "Lin, the United States is the most powerful country in the world and has the largest market. You should supply us first."
Professor Witte calmly asked:
"Lin, if you have sufficient funds, let me give you an example. When will you be able to produce enough drugs to supply both North America and Europe?"
Lin Sanqi pretended to estimate:
"If I have sufficient funds, I can purchase a large amount of building materials and start construction at the same time. I can also purchase a drug production line and build a new raw material factory at the same time, and I can reach mass production in as fast as three months."
Seeing that Professor Witte was grumbling but refusing to pay, Theodore became anxious. He took out a checkbook from his briefcase and started writing.
Then he tore off the check and threw it on Lin Sanqi's desk.
"Lin, here's $15 million. Consider it a sponsorship from our team. Start production as soon as possible. According to our estimates, the annual market for tuberculosis drugs needed clinically in the United States alone is at least $5 billion.
$5 billion! Don't forget, this is a monopoly drug. According to international practice, the gross profit margin for monopoly drugs is over 60%. Even after deducting company expenses, the net profit is still over $1 billion.
"We're wasting time for tens of millions of dollars. To use the Chinese saying, this is like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons. If our team's funds were not limited, I really want to give you hundreds of millions of dollars and let you build a pharmaceutical factory within a month."
Professor Anthony also blinked his eyes and sighed:
"Yes, Lin, take this money. Once the medicine is produced, you must give preferential treatment to our American market."
Professor Witte could no longer sit still. The US market made $1 billion a year, but Europe was not poor either. Even if it couldn't make $1 billion, it would still have $700 million or $800 million.
When Professor Witte thought about how much money he would lose in a year due to project funding issues, he finally couldn't sit still anymore. He quickly took out his briefcase and started filling in the numbers.
Lin Sanqi, Professor Anthony, and Professor Theodore looked at each other and tried hard to hold back their laughter.
Professor Witte filled in the numbers, put the cap on the pen, and then handed it to Lin Sanqi:
"Lin, here's 5 million pounds, which is about 1,500 yuan when converted to US dollars. It's my personal sponsorship of you. But my requirement is that you must start supplying within 3 months, and we need the same amount for Europe as for the US."
Lin Sanqi really wanted to hold the check and kiss it. After all his deception, plus the $10 million that Professor Witte had paid before, he now had a total of $40 million in his hands.
Forty million dollars in the 1960s might not be enough to build a modern pharmaceutical factory in Europe.
But 40 million US dollars can easily build dozens of modern pharmaceutical factories in China. Lin Sanqi just got a pharmaceutical factory for nothing.
Lin Sanqi stood up and sincerely extended his hand to the sponsor:
"Professor Witte, thank you for your generous support. Rest assured, all your investment today will yield rich returns tomorrow."
Professor Witte waved his hand and said seriously:
"Now we can sign the formal contract. Lin, you will be responsible for producing all the medicines and selling them to us at a uniform price. What's your proposed price?"
Anthony and Theodore were also very concerned about the price and their expressions became serious.
Lin Sanqi had already planned this, and now he spoke:
"You only need to take one pyridoxine tablet a day. Generally, a course of treatment is six months, so a patient needs about 180 tablets.
Based on the per capita annual income of $3,280 in the United States in 1961, if I were to treat a case of tuberculosis, and a course of treatment consists of 180 pills, would it be reasonable to charge $1,000 at the factory price?
As for how much you, as distributors, want to sell a course of treatment for, that's your business, I won't interfere. Whether you sell it for 2,000 or 20,000, that's what you deserve."
What Lin Sanqi didn't know was that in Europe and the United States, medical expenses do not have to be paid out of personal pocket.
For example, the United States emphasizes medical insurance, so Anthony's team needs to deal with insurance companies to allow pyridoxine tablets to be included in the medical insurance payment scope.
Most European countries take the social welfare route, where the state bears the medical expenses incurred by public hospitals and patients only have to pay a small amount.
So as long as ethiophanate-methyl tablets can be included in medical insurance, according to the nature of European and American countries, it is impossible to cure a terminal illness without paying several times your annual income.
Professor Witte, Professor Anthony, and Professor Theodore looked at each other, then burst into laughter.
Get rich. (End of this chapter)
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