Chapter 283 New Products
While Zhao Minglei and Steven were formally signing the agreement at the Friendship Hotel, in Song Yuanchao's courtyard, Song Yuanchao, Lin Yan, and Lin Yuhang were sitting in the yard drinking tea and talking.
As early summer approaches, the weather in Yanjing is excellent. It is very pleasant to make a pot of tea in the yard in the afternoon, sit on a lounge chair under the grape trellis, and feel the breeze on your face.
Lin Yuhang arrived later. Just a moment after he entered the room, he saw Song Yuanchao sitting there leisurely, holding a book in his hand with tea beside him, looking relaxed and contented.
"I'm so thirsty..." Lin Yuhang came forward and drank the tea from Song Yuanchao's teapot. The good tea Song Yuanchao had just brewed was wasted like a cow chewing a peony. But Song Yuanchao didn't care at all. He looked at Lin Yuhang with a smile and asked him if it was enough after he finished drinking. If not, he would brew him another pot.
"Your tea tastes weird. I think jasmine tea tastes better." Lin Yuhang said this while smacking his lips. This made Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan laugh.
"Second brother, please sit down first. I'll go get you some jasmine tea. Wait." Lin Yan happily offered her seat. After a while, she brought over a large enamel teacup filled with jasmine tea. She then picked up the thermos beside her and poured water into it. The hot water poured down, and the fragrance of jasmine flowers wafted into his nose.
Holding the large teapot, Lin Yuhang blew on it a few times, waited for it to cool down a little, and took a sip. He then said with satisfaction: "This tastes better, fragrant!"
Lin Yuhang's words drew laughter from Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan again. The three chatted for a while. Song Yuanchao handed a cigarette to Lin Yuhang and lit it for him. Then he asked him the purpose of his visit today.
"Look at me, I almost forgot about the important matter." After slapping his forehead, Lin Yuhang remembered the important matter. He took the briefcase beside him, unzipped it and took out a thing from it: "The thing is out, I brought it here specially for you to see."
"It's out? That's not slow." Song Yuanchao was slightly stunned and then laughed, his eyes fell on what Lin Yuhang took out.
This is a white cardboard box with no markings on it. It looks no different from the medicine used for injections in the hospital.
He took it and opened it. Inside were six injection-like things neatly arranged. They were slightly larger than ordinary injections, but not much larger. The glass bottles were filled with an unknown liquid, which was light yellow in color.
Taking out a bottle and looking at it in the sunlight, Song Yuanchao took out a small piece of sand from the box without saying anything, and then scratched the concave part of the upper part of the glass bottle twice. Then he pinched the bottle at the bottom with one hand and used the other hand to break it hard, and the bottle mouth was directly broken off by Song Yuanchao.
After breaking it open, Song Yuanchao looked at the bottle again, as if looking at the edge of the bottle. Then, under the gaze of Lin Yuhang and Lin Yan, he directly picked up the bottle and poured it out.
"Aid Korea...!" Lin Yan was shocked. How could the injection medicine be poured directly into her mouth? She shouted hurriedly.
But she was too late. By the time she finished her words, Song Yuanchao had already poured all the medicine in the glass bottle into his mouth, and then smacked his lips as if he was savoring the taste of the medicine.
Seeing that Lin Yan looked a little nervous, Lin Yuhang pulled his sister and gave her a reassuring look.
Seeing her second brother's actions, Lin Yan's somewhat uneasy heart gradually calmed down. Her second brother would never harm Song Yuanchao, and Song Yuanchao was not a fool. He probably knew what his second brother had brought, otherwise he would not have drunk it directly.
But what exactly is this? Lin Yan was puzzled. Is it a new product from her second brother's factory? A drinkable medicine? If it is not an injection but a drinkable medicine, why is it made in this shape? What effect can such a small thing have?
"How is it?" Compared to the confused Lin Yan, Lin Yuhang couldn't wait to look at Song Yuanchao.
"This taste...is okay!" Song Yuanchao carefully savored the taste of the medicine, and after a moment he nodded slightly under Lin Yuhang's gaze.
"So this formula is okay?" Lin Yuhang asked.
"It's OK. The medicinal flavor is quite strong and you can feel it in one bite. It's also sweet enough so you can tell what the ingredients are after just one taste." Song Yuanchao commented, and then took out another one and cut it open with a sandpaper as before, and then handed it to Lin Yan, who still didn't understand.
"Yanzi, you should try one too."
Lin Yan was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously took it and, under Song Yuanchao's encouraging gaze, drank the liquid in the glass bottle.
When she drank it, it tasted slightly bitter at first, then sweet. The combination of the two flavors made Lin Yan stunned.
“How does it taste?”
"This taste... is weird." Lin Yan smacked her lips and said, "It tastes like ginseng and honey. Second brother, Yuan Chao, what on earth is this?"
"Hahaha!" Song Yuanchao and Lin Yuhang laughed at the same time. Lin Yuhang said with a smile, "You are right. It has the flavor of ginseng and honey. This is ginseng royal jelly, so of course it tastes like this. How is it? Is it delicious?"
"Ginseng royal jelly? No wonder. I can't say whether it tastes good or not, but at least it's not bad, and it has a strong medicinal taste." Lin Yan suddenly realized.
There is no doubt that this must be the new product of Factory 8. These days, Lin Yuhang almost eats and drinks in the factory and is rarely seen at home all day long. I heard that he is tinkering with something new, and it seems to be this ginseng royal jelly.
Looking at the smiling Song Yuanchao, Lin Yan immediately realized that the birth of this thing might be related to Song Yuanchao, otherwise Lin Yuhang would not have rushed over today on Sunday to show the product to Song Yuanchao .
"Let's use this formula. Have you calculated the output? What's the current cost per unit?" Song Yuanchao felt that the ginseng royal jelly made by Lin Yuhang and his team tasted good, at least not much different from what he remembered, and it had a strong medicinal flavor, which made people understand what the product was made of at a glance.
The Eighth Factory had previously turned around by packaging loquat paste and cough syrup, and finally recovered from its dying breath. However, although these two products allowed the Eighth Factory to survive, they could not really help the Eighth Factory escape from its predicament.
Compared with other factories, Factory Eight, which lacks foundation, has no advantages at all, and has no flagship products to show off. The products of Factory Eight have always been ordinary products. These products were acceptable in the planned economy era, but with the change of policies and the arrival of the market economy era, Factory Eight, which was carrying a heavy burden, could no longer bear the burden.
If Lin Yuhang had not served as the director and secretary of Factory No. 8, Factory No. 8 would probably not even be able to pay its salaries. In the next few years, Factory No. 8 would have to rely on loans or grants from higher authorities to survive, waiting for the day when the bank stops giving loans or higher authorities stop allocating funds, and the fate of Factory No. 8 would come to an end.
This is the problem faced by many state-owned enterprises after the reform and opening up. Some enterprises have changed themselves in this era of change and fought their way out to adapt to the new changes, but many enterprises have sunk and become the outcasts of the times.
Factory No. 8 was lucky because it welcomed a factory director like Lin Yuhang, and its original fate was changed because of Song Yuanchao.
Although the previous trick of warm cup packaging helped Factory 8 recover its vitality, Song Yuanchao knew very well that such a trick could only be used temporarily, but not forever.
Loquat paste, cough syrup, these ordinary products do not have too many technical requirements, there are many manufacturers across the country that can produce these products, and selling them in warm cup packaging is a crooked way. There is no problem in the short term, but once other manufacturers follow suit, coupled with the trend of social impact, this method will soon be stopped by superiors.
If Factory 8 intends to rely on this trick for the rest of its life, it is simply a dream. Moreover, Song Yuanchao never thought of letting Factory 8 continue to adopt this method from the beginning. So when Factory 8 was selling well, Song Yuanchao had a detailed talk with Lin Yuhang and told Lin Yuhang the problem directly. Lin Hang was not dazzled by the temporary achievements. He remained calm and agreed with Song Yuanchao's opinion after careful consideration.
This is also the reason why Factory 8 ended the sales model of loquat paste and cough syrup before other manufacturers officially launched similar products. Although many people in Factory 8 opposed this decision, Lin Yuhang still forced it to go forward under the prestige he had established in Factory 8.
Just as Song Yuanchao had expected, within just a few days after Factory Eight completed its last batch of products and sold them to the market, Factory Three followed suit and launched similar products to the market, filling the brief gap left by Factory Eight’s withdrawal from the market.
Then, less than a week later, Factory 1, Factory 2, and even Factory 4, Factory 5, Factory 6, and Factory 7, these sister factories, also launched similar products. For a time, the entire market was full of loquat paste and cough syrup with similar packaging. The factories fought fiercely for the market. The supply and marketing section chiefs of each factory showed their skills. In order to make their products surpass others, they almost had their brains turned into dogs. With the influx of large quantities of products, the market that was originally in short supply suddenly changed.
At present, the entire Yanjing market, including markets outside the province, is flooded with such products. As time goes by, many Chinese medicine factories across the country have also launched similar products. The products have been flooding the market, and the fierce competition has also led to a drop in product sales prices and reduced profits.
In addition, the sales of warm cup packaging exposed the loopholes in the medical expense reimbursement system. Some journalists and veteran comrades with a sense of social responsibility also noticed this and published criticisms of this phenomenon in newspapers, which attracted the attention of relevant departments.
All of this had nothing to do with Factory Eight, because Factory Eight had already escaped unscathed before this storm hit. When some news, especially the rumor that the higher authorities were preparing to stop this sales model, came out, some people within Factory Eight who had originally opposed Lin Yuhang's decision to end the previous sales model and were dissatisfied with it began to secretly rejoice.
Given the current market chaos, the profits of cup warming packaging products have been declining, and even if the eighth factory continues to produce, it will not be as profitable as before. Moreover, as the market is flooded with similar products, the supply and demand relationship between buyers and sellers has been reversed. Coupled with the source of these rumors, people admire Lin Yuhang's decisive decision.
