Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0406: Great Pressure
As soon as the plane landed, Nan Yi rushed to the third biopharmaceutical laboratory in Choa Chu Kang.
There was no reception, no red carpet or flowers, and no red scarf or wreath for him. Nan's was a family business, and they spent money wisely, emphasizing practicality and not pretentiousness.
When the time comes that he is not spending his own money but the money of shareholders, Nan Yi will also pay attention to idealism, celebrating festivals every day and commemorating this and that every now and then.
After entering the laboratory, Nan Yi said to the school beauty: "Talk to Zhiping and strengthen the security here."
"clear."
After verifying their identities, passing through two checkpoints and three access control gates, Nan Yi and the school beauty finally entered the outermost part of the laboratory - the leisure room.
The original intention of establishing the leisure room was to provide researchers with entertainment and relaxation, but in reality its utilization rate is not high. The researchers here are all experimental fanatics who only like to stay in the laboratory.
Being given enough money, whether it is experimental funding or personal treatment, allows them to conduct research without any worries, which is like heaven for them.
What a leisure room! It's totally unnecessary. It would be great if you could save the money and buy a few more test tubes.
As soon as he entered the lounge, Nan Yi saw a woman in a white coat pacing back and forth. He frowned, took two quick steps, came to the woman's side, and gently scolded: "Yan Qingning, why are you still here? Didn't you start your maternity leave last month?"
Yan Qingning, a PhD graduate from the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, was personally invited by Nan Yi and focuses on research in the field of membrane proteins.
Nan Yi doesn’t quite understand what membrane protein is.
The information he had read said that membrane proteins play a very important role in many life activities of organisms, such as cell proliferation and differentiation, energy conversion, signal transduction and material transport...
Nan Yi knew every word of these, but he had no idea what they meant when they were put together.
But in the information he read, there was a sentence that caught his attention and made him determined to spend money. That sentence was - about 60% of drug targets are membrane proteins.
Just this one sentence was enough to fool Nan Yi out of billions of dollars, and as long as he could be convinced, he would never ask for repayment.
"Boss Nan, why are you here? I've never seen you here before." Yan Qingning turned around, looked at Nan Yi and said with a smile: "Is it Professor Galen's research that attracted you here?"
"Yes, I have to come and evaluate whether it is worth my huge expense. Let me ask you, why are you still here? Didn't I give you maternity leave and didn't deduct your salary? Why don't you take three years off before coming back?"
Nan Yi is a sinister person. The Third Biopharmaceutical Laboratory implements high welfare standards. The annual leave starts from 45 days and can be up to three months. There is no limit on the time of paid sick leave. As long as you say you are sick, you don't have to come to work.
In fact, there is no need to go through the trouble of finding excuses for being sick. It is very casual here in the laboratory. If you are not in the mood to research today, you can go out and play. If you are not in the mood to research for a month, you can just play for a month and you will still get your salary.
Maternity leave starts from three years and goes up to eight years. Not only will your salary not be deducted, but you will also receive a considerable subsidy.
but……
"How dare I take a vacation? My research has reached a critical point and I can't rest for a single day. In fact, I'm considering whether to abort the child." Yan Qingning said.
Well, that's it. Nan Yi is not afraid to provide high welfare like charity. He is willing to let the researchers rest, but they are unwilling to rest.
There will be two groups working on the same research direction in the laboratory, and the funding will be allocated to the group with the fastest research progress. If a major breakthrough is achieved, the groups will be merged or one will be eliminated.
When recruiting people, they are carefully selected. If you just want to get by here, then just get by. Work here for a year or two, earn some salary, and then leave, and then face long-term unemployment.
The biopharmaceutical research circle is not that big, but as long as you spread the word outside that so-and-so is just trying to get by, I guarantee he won’t find a new employer.
Third, although the salary paid to researchers in biopharmaceuticals is not low, it is not so high that one year's work can earn them several years' worth of work. If one wants to earn a high income, everything depends on the results.
With achievements, your salary will be increased, and you can also get a share of the patent profits, gaining both fame and fortune.
After decades of hard study, everyone has some pursuits. There are still few people who just want to get by. Most of them are experimental maniacs, so they have to be forced to have a reasonable work and rest schedule.
"Don't, I'm afraid your husband will hunt me down." Nan Yi glanced at Yan Qingning's belly and said, "If you don't take a break now, you will have to take a break next month. If you really can't give up your research work, just wait until you have given birth and recovered before coming back.
This is an order, you must follow it, otherwise I will have security take back your access card and prevent you from entering the laboratory."
"Well, this is the only way." Yan Qingning said with a little dissatisfaction.
"You take your time walking, I'll go find Galen."
After saying goodbye to Yan Qingning, Nan Yi came to Galen's laboratory, where Galen was already waiting.
Nan Yi took a quick look and saw that only Garen's clothes looked clean. His hair was a mess, there was eye boogers in the corners of his eyes, his face was dry, and it looked like he hadn't been wet for a long time. He also had a sour smell on his body.
"Galen, how long has it been since you left this room?"
"Ten days... or eleven days, Whatever, I can't remember clearly." Valen scratched his head with the pen in his hand and said.
"Okay, give me the report and I'll take a look at it right now."
Valen handed the report to Nan Yi, and then stared at Nan Yi's face with anticipation.
Nan Yi opened the report and read it slowly. If he didn't understand something, he would ask in time. Valen would explain it to him in simple and easy-to-understand language.
This was probably the most patient Valen had ever been towards his subordinate He You in his life. Normally, if the other party didn't understand what he was saying, he would not bother to continue the conversation.
We are not on the same channel, what is there to talk about?
But this time it won’t work, the other party controls the funds, and he has to bow down to them.
While reading, he asked questions from time to time, and occasionally asked Galen to provide him with books to read. Just to understand the meaning of certain words in the report, Nan Yi had to find all the explanatory texts of the principles and read them again.
He arrived at the laboratory at ten o'clock, and by the time Nan Yi finished reading the report, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. Although the report had less than 20,000 words and there was no molecular formula in the report, all the words were words Nan Yi could recognize.
After closing the report, Nan Yi felt a pang of pain for his wallet, and then said to Galen in a strong voice, "Get ready to move. Your research will be separated from the Third Biopharmaceuticals and established as a separate laboratory."
"Boss, you invested?" Galen said in surprise, "Did you read the last page of the budget carefully? Are you sure there is no missing zero?"
"Garen, even if I miss a zero, I can't have misread the word billion." Nan Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Invest now, don't let my money go to waste, or I'll jump off the building with you."
“Hahaha, that’s great.”
Garen hugged Nan Yi excitedly, and smacked Nan Yi's face with his stinky mouth several times in a row.
"Damn, my face is going to rot!"
Smelling the stench from Garen's mouth, Nan Yi complained in his heart.
After leaving Galen, Nan Yi went to find Erlanger again and listened to his report on the laboratory.
When he left, his steps were very heavy.
A third biopharmaceutical company and a Fan Shengzhi Research Institute were like gluttons and a Pixiu, devouring Nan's funds in big gulps, but their anus was blocked and they couldn't pull out at all.
Shennong Nanliang has not yet achieved a balance between revenue and expenditure. Even if it makes a profit, it will repeatedly invest in expansion. There is no hope of seeing a return on investment in the next few years.
Memory transplantation has been invested in, and so has robots, not to mention chips. All three together require at least 300 to 400 million US dollars every year, and the investment will only grow as time goes by.
Nan Yi felt that his burden was heavy and the pressure was tremendous.
Without staying in Lijiaopo, Nan Yi flew to Paris that night, and then returned to Downton Abbey in Oxford by land, sea and then land again.
I had just caught up on a few hours of sleep when my grandson Wu Zaisheng came.
Nan Yi got up and went to the living room to entertain Wu Zaisheng. When he saw him, Wu Zaisheng started to fire machine guns at him. "Ah Hao, why are you sleeping till now? I came to see you yesterday and heard from your people that you went to York. What were you doing there?"
"Let's go there and see if there's any good business to do. A few days ago, Dongyue and I went to Juelu Street and looked around for a long time but still couldn't figure out what kind of business would be good, so we decided to go to other cities and have a look. I plan to go to Plymouth for some research some other day."
"Haven't decided what to do yet?" Wu Zaisheng asked.
"I haven't thought about it yet, but I have an idea. I will run a small business first, and then consider increasing investment after I get familiar with the situation here."
"What's this little business? Do you want my advice?"
"Of course. Tell me, if I want to do some business on Juelu Street, what do you think is suitable?"
"Service industries, Chinese restaurants and take-out shops are all fine. They both involve more contact with people, making it easier for you and Dongyue to quickly integrate into the local community." Wu Zaisheng said after thinking for a moment.
"Dongyue and I thought the same thing. We'll open a Chinese restaurant, not too big or too small, with about ten tables. But I don't want to work in the kitchen myself, so I'm thinking about where to find two chefs."
"It's not hard to find a chef. It's easy to find a Cantonese chef. Do you cook Cantonese food or something else?"
Nan Yi waved his hand and said, "I won't cook Cantonese cuisine. There are already more than 60 or 70 Cantonese restaurants on Juelu Street, regardless of whether they are authentic or not. The competition is too fierce. I plan to cook Sichuan cuisine, which has less competition."
"That's great. I happen to have a few stores that are newly unused. You can go take a look. If you like any of them, I can rent them to you at a lower price."
"You have a lot of stores on Juelu Street?"
More than half of the properties on Juelu Street belong to the Wu family. It is no exaggeration to say that the Wu family is the underground king of Chinatown.
"There are quite a few. Can I go with you to take a look this afternoon?"
"No, I need to sleep for a while. I came back overnight yesterday and didn't stay in York." Nan Yi waved his hands, yawned, rubbed his nose and said.
Nan Yi had actually slept enough, but he was just too lazy to deal with Wu Zaisheng today.
"Okay, then you sleep a little longer, I'll come see you tomorrow."
"Okay, I won't see you off. I'm really too sleepy."
After Wu Zaisheng left, Nan Yi washed his face and became full of energy.
Wu Jingyuan has already sent people to investigate his background. Two of the warning points set by Ghost have been triggered. Nan Yi needs to speed up the process of dealing with the Wu family. If Wu Jingyuan perseveres in investigating further, the doubts about Song Zihao's identity will be exposed one by one.
Even if there is no clear evidence, as long as there are enough doubts, it is enough to make Wu Jingyuan wary of Nan Yi.
If the people who attacked Fang Mengyin in Xiangkeng were sent by Wu Zhenkai, then it would not be a big problem if his concealed identity was exposed. The worst that could happen was that he could openly reveal himself as Nan Yi and become an ally of Wu Zaisheng.
The fear is that what happened in Xiangkeng was actually a self-torture trick played by Wu Zaisheng.
"What is Wu Zhenkai waiting for? He already knows that it was Liu Agui who hired the person, so why hasn't he taken action against Wu Zaisheng? Even if he doesn't target Wu Zaisheng directly, he should go after Liu Agui."
Nan Yi cooked a large pot of macaroni and another large pot of beef soup to please his own stomach and that of his bodyguards. He stayed in the manor until after two o'clock in the afternoon, long enough to satisfy the excuse he had just made to fool Wu Zaisheng, and then he went out to Boleyn Castle.
Unlike its previous old appearance, the renovated Boleyn Castle has become full of vitality. The branches and flower beds have been trimmed, the clutter has disappeared, and only neatness and charm remain.
The workers haven't left yet. They are repairing the road outside the castle. It is still paved with large stones in the same style as the original one. It has not been changed to concrete or asphalt road.
This is good, maintaining the original style.
In the small garden on the right side of the castle, Catherine was sitting on a swing chair drinking afternoon tea. A ray of sunlight hit her face, making her look peaceful and gentle.
Nan Yi walked over to Catherine with light steps, covered her eyes from the front, and asked childishly, "Guess who I am?"
Catherine sneered and said, "Adam, please knock me out next time. Otherwise, I don't know how to answer your stupid questions."
"Shakespeare once said: 'A foolish woman is more likely to be happy!'"
"Are you sure that the Duke of Shakespeare said this?" Catherine took Nan Yi's hand away and asked angrily, "What are you doing here today?"
