Several people were walking slowly in the workshop, chatting happily as they walked. This is what others saw.
In fact, what these people talked about were all topics that violated the law.
Professor Anthony sighed and said:
"These four aspects combined have already eaten up 40% of our profits. In addition, we also have the cost of purchasing goods, the cost of company operations, and tax costs.
Lin, calculate how much is left in our pockets?"
Professor Witte then interrupted:
“In fact, there are special expenses, such as during elections, we have to donate to many candidates.
These politicians are very greedy. They may not remember your donation, but they will remember it clearly if you don’t donate.
For example, I have a pharmaceutical factory in Glamorgan County, Wales. We have to pay for the election of the county's chief executive and the election of the council members.
In addition, there are various charitable donations, which are all expenses incurred by the company.”
Lin Sanqi was a little puzzled at this time:
"Charitable donations are entirely voluntary. You can choose not to donate, or just donate a few thousand yuan as a token of appreciation. But this can't be considered a long-term, regular expense, right?"
Professor Witte smiled bitterly at this time:
"Lin, you don't understand our country at all. These charitable organizations are often founded by bigwigs, and they are actually their private coffers.
All expenses of these bigwigs and their families are paid for by charitable organizations, including daily expenses, and even as small as a tube of toothpaste is paid for by charitable funds.
The biggest advantage of doing this is that it can avoid taxes, and it is not illegal.
After all, these private charities are managed in a closed manner, and their accounts and income and expenditure are not public, so it is difficult for outsiders to detect them. Even if they do find out, it will not be exposed because that is how the bigwigs operate.
Lin Sanqi let out a long sigh, thinking that fortunately his Lingnan Hall in another time and space had no plans to invest abroad.
Although taxes are lower abroad, company operating costs are not low at all, and hidden expenses even exceed taxes.
"Professor Witte, Professor Anthony, I feel much more at ease when you say this. It seems that our China is still the best. I just need to focus on giving birth and not worry about anything else."
Professor Witte also laughed and said:
"Yes, we earn our money through hard work. But as long as we produce a large quantity of anti-tuberculosis drugs, our profits will be considerable. Lin, you must manage production well."
A few people were still chatting when Shen Guoming, who was busy outside, came over:
"Xiao Qi, the opening ceremony is ready."
Lin Sanqi made a gesture of invitation:
"Professors, let's go cut the ribbon. Our era has begun."
"Haha, let's go. I can't wait."
The opening ceremony was held at the gate of the pharmaceutical factory. More than 3,000 people from Bao'an County stood there in uniform.
Professor Witte, Professor Anthony, and Mr. Lin Kushen, Chairman of Hong Kong Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Company, stood on the stage as partners, and Lin Sanqi was the representative of the Chinese side.
The four of them picked up a pair of scissors and cut the red ribbon. At that moment, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks rang out at the scene.
Several lion dance teams specially invited from Dongguang Province began to perform in the traditional way.
Looking at the lively scene, Professor Witte asked Lin Sanqi beside him with some confusion:
"Lin, didn't you say your production line is semi-automatic? Why do you have so many workers in your pharmaceutical factory? The labor costs are not a small amount."
Lin Sanqi smiled and replied:
"Professor, you don't think my pharmaceutical factory only produces anti-tuberculosis drugs, do you? My goal is to build Bao'an County into the largest and most powerful pharmaceutical production park in the country, and even the world.
So these 3,000 people will all be the backbone of our pharmaceutical factory in the future. In the future, let alone 3,000 people, we may even have 300,000 workers and engineers.”
Professor Witte and Professor Anthony were both a little surprised at the ambition of the young man in front of them.
Professor Anthony wanted to remind his partner, Lin Sanqi, a few words:
"Lin, drug production is important, but more importantly, we must have our own patented drugs. The drug competition in Europe and the United States is very fierce, so traditional medicine is definitely not a highly profitable industry.
But the cost of developing new drugs is enormous. You might invest hundreds of millions of dollars and not even see a splash. Even people like me and Witte can't afford it, so I think you'd better think twice."
Lin Sanqi thought, I don’t have a R&D team either.
The Professor Chai and others he funded were mainly used to cover up his tracks. He couldn't always say that he got the inspiration from the secret recipe, right?
But he has a golden finger for time travel, and the huge database of the School of Pharmacy of Huadu Medical University, so why does he need a bicycle?
There is absolutely no need to develop it yourself, just copy the homework.
The problem now is that there are too many assignments to copy. After the anti-tuberculosis drug is successful, which drug to copy as the second one requires him to think carefully.
After the groundbreaking ceremony, all industrial workers entered the workshop and started producing medicines.
The process is to transport the raw materials from the raw material factory to the workshop, press them into tablets after going through multiple processes, and finally pack them into glass bottles and seal them.
The mainland Sha Tau Kok factory ends at this stage.
The finished medicines come out of the major workshops, are loaded onto large trucks, and are "smuggled" through underground passages to the Lingnan Tang Pharmaceutical Factory in Sha Tau Kok, Hong Kong.
Paste the wrapping paper written entirely in English here, put in the instruction manual, put on the paper box, and then pack it into the box.
The pharmaceutical factory's large trucks are waiting at the factory, shipping goods directly from Sha Tau Kok to the Kowloon Wharf Terminal in the city center of Hong Kong.
At the dock, the pharmaceutical sales companies founded by Professor Witte and Professor Anthony rented a warehouse respectively. After the drugs were confirmed to be in storage, Lin Sanqi's work was completed.
As for which country and region the two foreign pharmaceutical companies will ship the anti-tuberculosis drugs to, that is not Lin Sanqi's business.
It should also be noted that whether it is Xiangjiang Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Company, Witt Pharmaceutical Company, or Anthony Pharmaceutical Company, these three companies have three shareholders.
However, the shareholding ratio does not exceed 5%, which makes it considered a small shareholder.
Lin Sanqi had no choice. He had no roots in Hong Kong. If any evildoers took a fancy to his pharmaceutical company, he would have no ability to resist, at least officially.
Now that there are Americans and American hawks as shareholders, Hong Kong's local capital will have to think twice before getting involved. Are the Americans and American hawks easy to mess with?
At night, in a suite of a five-star hotel in Hong Kong.
Lin Sanqi, Professor Witte, and Professor Anthony opened their champagne glasses and clinked them gently.
Professor Anthony was very excited and talked a lot: "Come on, come on, congratulations on the official opening of our business."
Professor Witte held a bottle of medicine, his eyes sparkling as if he was looking at a peerless beauty:
"This bottle of medicine contains 30 pills, one pill a day, costs $1,700, and can cure humanity's number one infectious disease in six months. It's truly amazing."
Hearing this, Lin Sanqi, who had been smiling just now, became unhappy again.
He sold this bottle of medicine for only $170, one-tenth of the retail price. The cost was no more than $1.5, and he made a profit of $168.5 with tears.
The foreigners are really profiteers!
"Professors, today you've tracked the entire process of the drug, from production to packaging and then to the dock. I'm in control of the entire supply chain. Can you rest assured?"
"Don't worry, don't worry, hehe."
"So, professors, shouldn't we discuss the order issue? I've built such a large pharmaceutical factory, and now I'm really running out of funds. I still owe so much labor and raw material prices.
So I think we should negotiate the order as soon as possible. You trust me and transfer the funds to me. Professors, rest assured, I have the government's credibility behind me. I would never do something shameful like taking money and not shipping the goods.
Professor Witte didn't know much about it, but Professor Anthony had spent half a year in Beijing, so he naturally knew Lin Sanqi's power.
Can a person who can own a private jet in this conservative country be a simple person?
The three parties are now a community of interests and have common demands. No one can do without the other, and it is impossible for one to cheat the other.
Professor Anthony then spoke first:
"Lin, payment first, delivery later, this model is fine. I understand your difficulties. We are willing to advance part of the funds, but our requirement is that the product be shipped as soon as possible, put into clinical use as soon as possible, and generate benefits as soon as possible.
"Our team has already discussed this. The first batch will require 500,000 doses of the drug, or 90 million pyridoxine tablets. You'll need to produce the rest as quickly as possible. For the US market alone, the total annual volume will likely exceed 10 million."
In the 1960s, the incidence of tuberculosis in the United States was about 2,000 per 100,000 people.
That is to say, with a population of more than 200 million in the United States, the number of tuberculosis patients reaches more than 5 million.
And this number is only the confirmed data.
If we add undiagnosed or latent tuberculosis, and considering that the United States is a country of immigrants with a very mobile population, the number of infectious diseases will firmly rank first in the world.
I'm afraid this number has exceeded 10 million.
The agency area obtained by Anthony's team is the entire North America and South America.
These two continents also have large regional populations like Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, with a total population exceeding 500 million, and it is certain that there are tens of millions of tuberculosis patients.
The key is that there are a lot of new patients every year. It can be said that there is a constant flow of patients and money.
Therefore, Professor Anthony's initial request for only 500,000 doses of anti-tuberculosis drugs was definitely just a test. (End of this chapter)
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