Lao Angong Niuhuang Wan costs hundreds of thousands of yuan per pill at auction, but Lingnantang Chinese Medicine Clinic only sells it for 50,000 yuan per pill, with a limited supply of 50 pills per day.
As soon as the doors open in the morning, they are sold out immediately.
Because each person is limited to buying two pills, scalpers or subordinates of wealthy people all line up in groups to buy them. It's very crazy.
According to the on-site investigation report conducted by Lin Sanqi's staff:
Just the Angong Niuhuang Wan alone can easily sell even 500 pills a day to millions of wealthy people and hundreds of millions of middle-class people across the country.
Therefore, Lin Sanqi had long planned to expand the production of several secret medicines.
Good medicine requires good medicinal materials. The reason why Lingnantang’s traditional Chinese medicine can achieve miraculous therapeutic effects is closely related to the authentic traditional Chinese medicinal materials.
This is also an exclusive advantage that competitors do not have. Lin Sanqi wants to take this opportunity to expand the purchase of Chinese medicinal materials.
Lin Sanqi put down his wine glass and explained to everyone present:
"The four secret prescriptions I have now require a total of 56 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials, which is a very large amount.
In addition, I have some secret medicines that I want to put into production, which requires more Chinese medicinal herbs. So my idea is that you can grow the herbs for me in your area.
I will select some medicinal herbs suitable for cultivation in your Shaanxi Province from 56 kinds of medicinal herbs. I will purchase as much as you plant.
In addition, our family has opened a Lingnan Tang Chinese Medicine Clinic in Hong Kong (in fact, there is also a Lingnan Tang Chinese Medicine Hospital in another time and space, which is larger in scale and has more usage).
My family's traditional Chinese medicine clinic uses a large amount of Chinese medicinal materials, and insists on using harmless and pollution-free herbs. The unique geographical conditions of your Shaanxi Province just meet all of these requirements.
So I decided to sort out the list after I go back. Then I will ask you to help me grow the medicinal herbs, and then I will purchase them at designated locations. This is a mutually beneficial thing for both of us. Director Sheng, what do you think? "
Director Sheng immediately realized how much profit was involved and became excited in an instant:
"Minister Lin, how much do you think you'll need to purchase from us for Chinese medicinal herbs?
Lin Sanqi stretched out five fingers, thought for a moment, retracted four, and turned them into one, then said:
"My current estimate is that it should be no less than 10 million US dollars per year.
Of course, this figure is just an estimate, and it should be no less than a certain amount by then. If you don't want US dollars, you can also exchange them for food or medicine, whichever is fine."
Ten million dollars?
Wow, all the cadres from Shaanxi Province’s health system in the cafeteria were excited.
Historically, if Lin Sanqi had not intervened, the national treasury's foreign exchange reserves would have been only 40 million US dollars, which would have been almost exhausted.
From this we can see how precious 10 million US dollars is. If this money is traded on the black market, it can be exchanged for up to hundreds of millions of RMB. On average, every citizen in Shaanxi Province can get 5 RMB.
Director Sheng suddenly put down his chopsticks and held Lin Sanqi's hand tightly.
"Minister Lin, thank you so much. Thank you for taking care of the people in the old revolutionary base areas of Shaanxi Province. Don't worry, we will complete the tasks you assign to us on time and with guaranteed quality and quantity, and we will definitely hand in a satisfactory answer."
If the health system can generate 10 million US dollars in foreign exchange, it will be a great political achievement, and Director Sheng can be promoted.
Lin Sanqi's hand felt a little painful from being held, so he quickly squeezed it, then let go and ran away.
"Director Sheng, don't be too happy. I want to go and inspect the quality of the Chinese herbal medicines you grow. I want to see it with my own eyes."
Director Sheng is very confident about this. Today's state-owned farms are all real and will never engage in fraud.
"Minister Lin, don't worry. We will arrange whichever drug farm you want to inspect right away."
Lin Sanqi reminded again at this time:
"Also, does the ownership of your drug-growing farm belong to the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Health? It's best to file this lawsuit first to avoid disputes between your sister units later."
When Director Sheng heard this, he narrowed his eyes.
This is the case between departments.
Previously, drug-growing farms did not produce economic benefits and had a large number of workers that needed to be resettled, so they became a ball, kicked back and forth between the health system and the agricultural system, with both sides hoping that the other side would take over.
But if these drug farms can produce 10 million US dollars a year, they will be very popular, even lucrative, and that would be a different story.
It can be imagined that there must be endless lawsuits between these two departments, and no one is willing to give in.
Director Sheng glanced at County Magistrate Fang, and suddenly his eyes turned unfriendly:
"Old Fang, everyone heard what Minister Lin said today. You, the Lintong County Magistrate, are the only one who is not from the health system. You are from the agricultural system. I'm telling you, you can't leak any information.
As long as you help us keep this secret, I will go back and report to my superiors now to have all the drug-growing farms in the province assigned to the health department. Then you, Old Fang, will have done a great deed, and I will not forget you.
How about I allocate one thousand penicillins to your Lintong County every year?"
County Chief Fang's eyes turned around and around before he spoke:
"Director Sheng, although I'm a local official now, I've been in the agricultural system for over a decade and have deep ties to it. If you're asking me to betray my old boss now, and this gets out...
Tsk tsk tsk, I feel really embarrassed, this is asking me to betray my brothers... So, you have to increase the dosage, give me 2,000."
Lin Sanqi almost spit out a mouthful of Xifeng wine.
Director Sheng's mouth twitched, but he knew that if he wanted to make County Chief Fang shut up so that he could send an information messenger to finalize the ownership of the drug-growing farm, he had to satisfy the other party.
If a cadre does not fight for the interests of the system he belongs to, he will really be driven out of office and his reputation will be easily ruined.
This is true for Director Sheng and County Magistrate Fang.
Including Lin Sanqi, he was also trying his best to safeguard the interests of the health system, or to safeguard the interests of the army, depending on what his identity was at the time.
After explaining the conditions, Director Sheng no longer wanted to stay, so he stood up and said to the health system cadres next to him:
"You are accompanying Minister Lin today. Wherever Minister Lin wants to go, you must be a good host. Minister Lin is our most distinguished guest in Shaanxi Province. If anyone causes trouble, I will punish him."
"Minister Lin, I'll go back to Xi'an to report on my work. Please keep this matter confidential today. Give us in the Shaanxi Provincial Health System a chance. Don't worry, we are all from the health system and will definitely not let you suffer any loss."
After the wild boar banquet, Lin Sanqi came out of the Lintong County canteen.
The accompanying Director of the Health Department's Office, Yu Ming, asked in a somewhat flattering tone:
"Minister Lin, where do you want to go this afternoon? We'll go with you."
Lin Sanqi looked at his watch and replied:
"Please help me send it to Shaanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I'm going to visit a senior brother."
Director Yu smiled and said, "Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, I'm familiar with it. I'll take you there now."
Coming back from Lintong County, we passed through Zhongshan Gate in the east of the city, headed west along Dongxin Street, and stopped at the gate of a large mansion at Xihuamen.
Before Lin Sanqi got out of the car, Director Yu had already gotten out and enthusiastically helped open the door.
Although Lin Sanqi is only in his twenties and Director Yu is already in his fifties, one is at the ministerial level and the other is at the division level, and the level difference between them is huge.
"Minister Lin, this is our Shaanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine."
Lin Sanqi chuckled twice: "Oh, so this should be the house of a wealthy family, right?"
Director Yu clapped his hands gently and said:
"Minister Lin really has good vision. The site of the Chinese Medicine Hospital was formerly the residence of Yan Xiangwen, the governor of Shaanxi Province during the Republic of China. It was nationalized after liberation.
Because the house was so large, part of it was converted into a school, part of it became government office space, and another part was used to build the first traditional Chinese medicine hospital in Shaanxi Province.
The hospital currently has 60 employees. When we first established the hospital, we recruited renowned TCM practitioners from across the province. So, while we may not be as skilled as the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, we are definitely a leader in the second tier."
The Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine originally had more than 200 employees. Later, the Changping branch was opened. After Lin Sanqi recalled all the doctors who had studied abroad, the number must have expanded to more than 400.
But this expansion cannot be replicated. It is definitely going against the trend when the whole country is clearing out the urban population and major units are required to lay off one-third of their employees.
Lin Sanqi felt very friendly when he saw the Chinese medicine hospital, so he smiled and waved:
"Let's go in and take a look. I have a senior brother who works here, so it's a good opportunity to visit him."
Yu Ming didn't know Lin Sanqi's background, so he asked curiously:
"Minister Lin seems to have studied Western medicine and invented anti-tuberculosis drugs. How could he have a senior brother who studied Traditional Chinese Medicine?" (End of this chapter)
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