Area A, Anhui Province.
Kang Shuaifu was in a bad mood today. Although he had just taken a bath and there was a sumptuous breakfast in front of him, he had no appetite at all.
Picking up a piece of cloned steak, Kang Shuaifu disgustedly tossed it into the trash can.
With 7D printing technology being quite mature, meat can naturally be easily printed as well. Aside from the possibility of meat being poisoned by Ouyang Feng and then detoxified and canned, permanent residents of Anqu can certainly enjoy fresh 7D-printed meat if they wish.
However, someone like Kang Shuaifu, with assets worth tens of billions, naturally wouldn't eat 7D-printed food that can be produced in a minute, which is all show and no substance. He always eats naturally grown fruits and vegetables, and his meat comes from cloned animals.
Because cloned animals cannot reproduce naturally, their primary purpose in being produced is to provide food for the wealthy who can afford to buy them.
It's not much cheaper than cloning a person. The price of a cloned cow is about 15 million Sun Coins. Of course, cloning a person also requires a certain amount of maintenance expenses, while a cloned cow is basically cloned, slaughtered, and eaten on the spot.
Moreover, for someone of Kang Shuaifu's caliber, the cloned beef must be the freshest. A cloned calf can only be eaten twice before it's no longer needed.
Although Lai Haoren's water purification pills have not been officially granted a patent license and cannot be sold on the market, the thousands of water purification pills he sells every day from his personal shop have already made him very famous.
The most terrifying thing is not Lai Haoren's water purification pills. After all, one pill can only purify one bottle of water, and the degree of purification is limited. Compared to the tens of tons of water that Natural Water Company sells every day, it is nothing.
However, this water purification pill seems to differ from the company's previous products, such as the "One-Stop Solution" pills, which would spontaneously explode if not used within 24 hours, making it impossible to research and crack them in time. As for the invisible coating, since it is colorless and incorruptible, cracking it is virtually impossible.
However, the intelligent assistant easily analyzed the ingredients and molecular structure of this water purification pill. Although it involves some technical expertise, it is not complicated to crack.
The key point is that Lai Haoren is not a permanent resident of An District, so even if someone counterfeits his patented products, they will not be punished.
“My dear master.”
Although Kang Shuaifu's intelligent assistant sensed that its owner was in a very bad mood, its duty reminded it that it needed to report important information in a timely manner, so it could only speak gently.
"explain!"
Kang Shuaifu was indeed in a bad mood.
"Master, the water purification pills you asked me to keep an eye on have just started being sold by a shop called 'Vanguard'. The product is also called water purification pills, and it's advertised as '100% replica'."
Just as I expected!
Kang Shuaifu was furious: "How was the result?!"
"There is no difference in terms of ingredients and molecular structure, but judging from consumer reactions, the effect seems to be less."
Although he had expected it, Kang Shuaifu still found it hard to accept when he actually heard the news, especially so quickly.
“Um…” the smart assistant spoke again.
"what else?!"
“Just now, another shop called ‘Follower Bug’ started selling water purification pills, with more product at the same price. They’re twice the size of the previous two, and the price is still only 100 coins per pill.”
Upon hearing this, Kang Shuaifu waved his hand impatiently, signaling the intelligent assistant to stop reporting.
One Lai Haoren is not scary, and one shop selling water purification pills is not a big deal. However, if the water purification pills are easy to replicate and have a high success rate of counterfeiting, then in the face of huge profits, more and more individual shops will start manufacturing and selling water purification pills.
Does this mean sales should also be restricted?
Completely losing his appetite for breakfast, Kang Shuaifu walked out of the restaurant and into the backyard.
Standing in the backyard, you can see the vast lake not far away. The lake is covered by a transparent glass dome to prevent excessive evaporation and pollution from acid rain and dust.
This freshwater lake, covering an area of over 9,000 square kilometers, may not be the only freshwater lake in the world, but it is definitely the largest in area, has the largest water storage capacity, and the cleanest water quality.
The owner of this lake is Kang Shuaifu, and it has been the Kang family's private lake for more than 1,500 years.
Most importantly, this is not a stagnant pool. Although the Kang family has relied on the water from this lake for over a thousand years, selling at least several tons of water every day, the lake's water level has hardly dropped.
Compared to Lin Sen, who works even harder to grow plants, Kang Shuaifu has truly always relied on nature for his livelihood.
The natural water sold by the Kang family was not expensive from the beginning, nor was it adulterated with substances from the start.
At first, the Kang family was just a porter of nature, doing some simple purification of natural water and then bottling it, charging one or two Sunshine Coins per bottle.
But starting with Kang Shuaifu's father, the Kang family was no longer content with selling cheap water. Coupled with the further depletion of global water resources, the water grading became even more pronounced.
What's added to natural water are only some harmless suspended particles, but they're enough to affect water quality. It was through this method that the Kang family, originally just ordinary wealthy merchants, rose to become one of the world's richest families in just a few decades.
Looking at the vast lake before him, Kang Shuaifu was naturally unwilling to implement purchase restrictions. Because purchase restrictions would mean a decrease in income. However, without restrictions, large quantities of Class V water, after being purified with water purification pills, would become Class IV, Class III, or even Class II water, which would also affect the sales volume and price of natural water.
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