Military Drug Procurement

After seeing off the Jiang family after dinner, Chen Zhenhua heard Zhou's father talk about the closure of Sanhua Pharmaceutical Factory.

At first, she was not optimistic about her two children. Although she knew that her son had raised money to build a factory by selling all his more than ten freehand paintings of medicinal herbs after asking his prisoner Chen Hongyu to write inscriptions on them, and managed to scrape together 50,000 yuan, she never said a word to her parents.

Everyone knows who his parents' son is. Zhou Huaiyue is stubborn and hard-nosed. He didn't say anything because he didn't want to hear his parents' objections.

Therefore, Chen Zhenhua did not care or ask, thinking that at worst they would lose all their money, and they would give up and stay in Beijing. Who would have thought that the two children would not only build a pharmaceutical factory, but also actually make and sell the medicine, with a sales volume of 300,000 packs a month. As a mother, she was shocked and proud.

Now, after hearing what Zhou Chuzhuo said, Chen Zhenhua could no longer sit still.

If things cannot be done, it is the child's problem. But if things are done and yet they are bullied, it is the Chen family's problem.

"Tell me, which factory?"

Seeing that Zhou Huaiyue didn't say anything, Shen Roujiao said, "It's still the factory that got the approval number last time."

"They approved it, so did you." They are both stomach medicines, both powders, and only one can be approved within a year. There is nothing wrong with that. Zhou Huaiyue asked Uncle Hong for help and the problem was solved smoothly. From then on, they each did their own thing and sold their own medicines. With such a big market, it would not be banned.

Shen Roujiao recounted what happened at the Yunnan-Dian meeting. Chen Zhenhua frowned and said in confusion, "Weikangning powder is from a national pharmaceutical company. This shouldn't be the case."

She said it shouldn't happen. It's not that Sanhua Weitai was deliberately targeted and suppressed, but the big boss behind the national pharmaceutical company, the actual controller is the third son of the Xiao family, nicknamed "Third Brother Xiao".

The Xiao family is very powerful in the capital. There are three brothers in the family: the eldest holds an important position in the court, the second manages a mine in the northeast, and the third controls a large pharmaceutical factory.

When Zhou Huaiyue's grandmother Chen Boyou was alive, the Xiao family intended to match Chen Zhenhua with Xiao Sange's marriage, but Chen Boyou had already seen through the officialdom and did not want his only daughter to be depressed and waste her life in a family full of open and covert struggles.

The daughter he raised has her own hobbies and is an independent and confident individual. She no longer needs to rely on or cling to anyone, nor does she need to bow down to the so-called rich and powerful.

So, even though Xiao Sange expressed his love for Chen Zhenhua, grandma did not agree.

Love is the most useless thing in a big family. Later, Chen Zhenhua and Zhou Chuzhuo fell in love with each other and formed a family.

Even during the most difficult time for the Zhou family, Chen Zhenhua never spoke to the third brother Xiao. Later, she sold those pharmacies to save her son. The Xiao family played a role in Zhou Chuzhuo's first batch of rehabilitation.

Given this relationship, normal competition is inevitable, but deliberate embarrassment or banning is not going to happen. How could Xiao Lao San, who does such a big thing, make things difficult for a child?

"I'll take care of this. Just make your own medicine and manage your own factory."

Before Chen Zhenhua could figure out how to deal with the situation, something happened to Zhou Huaiyue and Shen Roujiao.

The next day, New Year's Eve, Zhou Huaiyue wanted to take Shen Roujiao and Lingxi to visit the Forbidden City. The last time they came to Beijing, they were either busy with the approval of the pharmaceutical factory or angry, and they didn't go anywhere.

Everything was good this time, especially under Jiang Qianqian's stimulation, Shen Roujiao's excitement came up again.

Zhou Huaiyue finally figured it out. When there was no third party involved, Shen Roujiao would avoid and hide whenever possible, and would never mention anything on her mind. But whenever an outsider got involved, she would immediately go into battle mode, drinking tea, acting, and saying sweet words that would confuse anyone who listened.

Inconsistent and inexplicable.

If it were before, Zhou Huaiyue would have been angry with her. Now, he just went with the flow, taking one step at a time, and waited for the flowers to bloom.

The three of them packed up and just walked out of the alley, Wang's mother chased them out and asked them to go home, saying that Zhou's father received an important call and could not delay.

When I got back, I found out that the call was from Lu Qinglan. He was in a meeting in Beijing and asked Zhou Huaiyue and Shen Roujiao to take the information about the pharmaceutical factory and Sanhua Weitai to a certain military region more than three hours away from Beijing, and they must arrive before two o'clock in the afternoon. He didn't say anything else.

There was no need to say more about the word "military area". The two of them immediately packed up the necessary materials. Zhou Chuzhuo contacted He Xue's father, who was a ballet dancer. He Guozhou worked in a military compound and had a car that could drive into the military area.

He immediately arranged for a driver to pick up Zhou Huaiyue and Shen Roujiao at the entrance of the alley. By the time they got in the car, it was already ten o'clock.

They arrived at the gate of the military district at one o'clock, and waited for more than half an hour for approval. When the car arrived at the bottom of the office building and entered the lobby, they were dumbfounded.

The hall was full of people. Looking around, they saw two familiar faces, the heads of the big factory who had confronted them at the last meeting.

After looking at each other, all four of them were shocked. The two from the big factory were surprised, but also showed contempt and disgust.

"Which pharmaceutical company are you from? Are you registered?"

There was a desk at the front, and two military officers in military uniforms were sitting behind it, waving at them. Shen Roujiao and Zhou Huaiyue hurried forward. The military officer frowned and asked in confusion, "It must be the person in charge of the pharmaceutical factory who signs in. Where is your factory director?"

"Hello, we are the factory directors." Shen Roujiao pushed Zhou Huaiyue forward a step, after all, he looked more mature.

"Oh, then you are the youngest factory managers here. Sign in here." A sign-in sheet was pushed in front of the two of them, and Zhou Huaiyue handed the pen to Shen Roujiao and asked her to write.

The form number was 20. The names of pharmaceutical companies were listed in front of them, such as the National Pharmaceutical Company, Guangzhou Great Wall Pharmaceutical Factory, Dandong Xinghua Pharmaceutical Factory, etc. When Shen Roujiao wrote down the name of the factory: Yunnan Sanhua Pharmaceutical Factory, someone beside her said, "Yunnan, Sanhua? I've never heard of it."

As soon as he finished speaking, several people gathered around him, looking at the young man in front of them with suspicion, and curiously asked, "What kind of medicine does your factory produce?"

Shen Roujiao closed her pen, handed the sign-in form to the officer with both hands, and then turned around and said simply, "Stomach medicine."

The officer took the form and said to them, "Wait, starting at 2 o'clock, you will go to the factory you are called according to your number."

After thanking them, Shen Roujiao and Zhou Huaiyue went to a corner with few people to discuss something. The people around them followed them and continued to ask, "Nothing else?"

"No more. Our factory is new and we currently only have stomach medicine." Shen Roujiao wanted to get rid of him quickly, her tone a little impatient.

Based on the information currently available, Shen Roujiao has roughly guessed that this should be the annual military drug procurement site. Logically, their privately owned small pharmaceutical factory is not qualified to participate.

If it weren't for Lu Qinglan, they wouldn't have been able to have such a good thing.

Military drug procurement is actually government procurement. Although the unit price is low and the profit is thin, the volume is large and stable, there is no arrears, and it can ensure sufficient cash flow for pharmaceutical companies.

She was anxious to discuss the unit price with Zhou Huaiyue. She wanted to know what price she could get so that she could get the order and guarantee basic profit. She couldn't lose money.

"You may be young, but you have a big temper." The man glanced at Shen Roujiao, with the corners of his mouth turned down, looking at her with disdain.

"I'm sorry. I'm a little anxious. This is my first time seeing such a big scene. I'm nervous."

To be honest, Shen Roujiao, who had managed to get her company listed in the previous life, had never participated in government procurement. She had only heard about it from her girlfriends who made school uniforms. It was very difficult to deal with anyway, with a complicated network of relationships involved, not to mention the money and power transactions.

"Call me uncle and I can teach you some of my experience." The man became more and more demanding and started to breathe heavily.

"No need." Zhou Huaiyue refused coldly.

When the man was about to say something else, the person next to him whispered something to him. He turned around and walked across the hall to the two factory managers, glancing over as he spoke.

It was definitely not a good thing, but Shen Roujiao couldn't care less at the moment. Zhou Huaiyue pulled her to the parking yard, but he was still worried, so they got into the car again.

"Have you noticed those dozen or so pharmaceutical factories in front?" he asked briefly.

"It seems that the common medicines on the market are products of these pharmaceutical companies."

"Yes, when we were doing the pricing for Sanhua Weitai, we studied the types, products, and pharmaceutical factories of stomach medicines on the market. When you signed in, I counted them. There are two companies on the list that produce Western medicines, and three that produce Chinese medicines. Among them, Xinghua's stomach medicine is in the form of pills, and the powders are from us and Guoyi Pharmaceutical." Zhou Huaiyue's expression was focused, his mind spinning rapidly.

"That is to say, we are competing with two companies, one for pills and one for powders. The pills are dry rice balls, each weighing 30 grams and selling for 40 cents; Weikangning is a powder, each weighing 20 grams and selling for 35 cents. Their medicine is higher in weight and price than ours. But their factory is large and can reduce costs to the lowest, so we have a chance no matter how much we quote."

"Our cost price is 8 cents per bag, and 1.2 cents is our bottom line. If we exceed this line, we might as well not do it."

"clear."

The two of them fell into thought, and time passed by minute by minute. After more than ten minutes, Shen Roujiao said, "Then we'll give two prices, and they must not exceed twenty cents. Seventeen cents and thirty cents."

Zhou Huaiyue actually laughed, "I want to say 18 cents and 15 cents."

"I know. Most people will use eight or six, followed by nine and five. Very few will use seven or three. Even a cent cheaper is an advantage." Shen Roujiao was a little proud, with a sly gleam in her eyes.

What she said made sense. Zhou Huaiyue was convinced. He raised the corners of his lips and said ambiguously, "Little fox."

"Hmph, you have to be tactful when doing business, otherwise how can you make money?" That arrogant and coquettish girl was both cute and pretty, not annoying at all. Zhou Huaiyue liked to watch her, especially liked her.

The two discussed countermeasures based on the problems that might be encountered on the spot before getting out of the car and returning to the lobby.

At three o'clock, the fourth drug factory was called in. The pace was very slow, and it was getting dark outside. At six o'clock, the seventeenth drug factory was called in.

Shen Roujiao was very hungry. The two of them rushed here in the morning and didn't even have time to eat lunch. As a result, they had to wait until this time. Zhou Huaiyue felt sorry for her, so he found the driver, took out more than ten yuan, and asked him to help buy some food.

The driver was also very enthusiastic and drove away with the money in his pocket.

After the car left, the numbers were called quickly and they were called within half an hour.

Shen Roujiao and Zhou Huaiyue walked into the spacious conference room with documents.

There was a very long negotiation table covered with a red velvet tablecloth. Opposite it sat five soldiers in military uniforms. When the two of them sat down at the table, they looked up and found that the person in the middle opposite them was actually him!