Volume 5: The Age of Storms Chapter 0727: Mountains have no constant position, water has no constant shape
Towards evening, Nan Yi received several videotapes sent from Los Angeles.
He took the videotapes to his bedroom, locked the door, turned the TV volume down to the lowest setting, and watched several videotapes at a fast forward speed of ×6.
Several videotapes came out of the San Fernando Valley, and each film had product placement for G2B's flagship product Viagra. After several years of tossing and turning, the money-making weapon Viagra was finally ready to be launched on the market.
Think about it, making medicine is not easy. Billions of dollars are invested in research and development. After successful research and development, there is a long clinical and registration period. Even if everything goes well, it takes at least five years for a drug to go from project initiation to market launch. This is the treatment for God's illegitimate child. Under normal circumstances, it takes fifteen to twenty years, or even longer.
Nan Yi knows that there are several biopharmaceutical companies that have invested too much in research and development, and have not produced any results in more than 20 years, which has directly dragged the companies into bankruptcy.
When it comes to listing, there are still a lot of troubles to face. First of all, drugs are strictly controlled in most countries. It is not like selling beverages where you can sell them anywhere you want. G2B is a new pharmaceutical company. It has never had any best-selling drugs and has no popularity. If it wants to enter the large chain pharmacies, it has to give up a large portion of its profits, otherwise people will not even pay attention to it.
Through inducement, I was finally able to meet with the person in charge of a large pharmacy chain. Sorry, we can't sign a contract directly yet. We need to discuss other conditions, such as publicity efforts, limited warehouse space, and the pharmacy will not import a batch of unsaleable products.
Fortunately, the Nan family has never believed in such sayings as "Good wine needs no bush" or "Gold and silver cups are not as good as the reputation of the people". There is no such thing as reputation. Practical products that are of high quality to rich people and cheap to poor people will often be successful.
Regarding publicity, G2B has been working on plans for a long time and has thoroughly studied the advertising laws of various countries, including to what extent advertisements can be shot, whether they can cross the line, what penalties will be imposed for violations, whether it is worth the violation, etc. The publicity team composed of advertising copywriters, planners, and lawyers has already figured it out clearly, and the funds to pay for fines have been allocated.
First it was the San Fernando Valley, then Tokyo Is a Little Hot and Hong Kong No. 3, and then as the distribution of the products progresses, the TV commercials will be broadcast on TV stations around the world.
In five years at the shortest and seven or eight years at the longest, the situation of having a monopoly will disappear, and G2B will then face competition. But before that, it will still have to worry about counterfeit and shoddy products.
Nan Yi was thinking about having a headache, and Guo Min really had a headache. Viagra is a prescription drug, and you need a doctor's prescription to buy it. If you want to let doctors know about this drug and ask them to prescribe it, doesn't it require public relations?
From lunch to afternoon tea, dinner, and the bar, Guo Min worked non-stop, even across the city. It was already one o'clock in the morning when he finally returned to his residence, dragging his tired body and drowsy head.
And he is just a microcosm of G2B's business team of hundreds of people.
"Pioneering is always the most tiring. Don't worry, you are all my brothers. Work hard and you will see the rewards next year. Huge rewards. Welcome to join the 500,000 Club."
Nan Yi muttered something, put the videotape away and put it on the DVD rack, then took out a videotape of "Demon Altar Fighter" from the shelf, put it into the VCR and started watching.
As soon as the theme song was finished, there was an uproar in the Third Biopharmaceutical Research Institute in Lijiaopo. The patent for the second new drug "developed" by the institute - Atorvastatin [Lipitor] - had been approved by the Lijiaopo Patent Agency. Together with a series of patents that had been approved intermittently before, there were also patents for intermediates, preparation methods, crystals, amorphous products, some combinations, etc., totaling 378 items.
Atorvastatin is a definite outlier in drug research. The finished product had been developed by the end of 1984, but its development was based on other people's patents, so it was necessary to reversely derive its own set of research and development and self-supplied processes, which required bypassing other people's patents.
It took nearly four years to complete this step. The next step is clinical trials and registration operations, which will take three to four years at the shortest, and five to six years at the longest, before atorvastatin can start the market launch process.
Biopharmaceuticals are not something that ordinary people can afford. Although it is obviously a cheat, it still takes ten years and costs 150 million US dollars. If Nan Yi was obsessed with biopharmaceuticals, he would have jumped into the sea by now.
No, he should be five or six years old now, which is the right age to watch cartoons.
"Sir, dinner is ready."
Just when the cartoon was about to play its biggest move, there was a knock on the bedroom door.
"I see."
Nan Yi pressed the pause button, walked out of the bedroom, came to the door of Liu Zhou's guest room, and called the two out.
"Brother Liu, Sister Zhou, why didn't you leave your room this afternoon?"
"I was a little tired, so I took a nap in the room. I didn't expect it would be this late." Zhou Lilin said.
"Oh, dinner is ready, let's go downstairs and eat."
"good."
The three of them quickly arrived at the dining room. The dinner on the table did not surprise Zhou Lilin, but she was a little surprised.
"Nan Yi, why is it Western food? I thought it was Indian food."
"I am OK with eating Indian food occasionally, but I can't stand eating it often, so the cook usually makes Western food. You can try it. My cook is OK at making Western food."
Nan Yi took the decanter and poured red wine for Liu Zhou and Zhou respectively, then sat back in his seat, put some potatoes and green beans from the big bowl in the middle of the dining table into his own bowl, and forked a piece of lamb chops from the bowl.
"Have you thought about your trip for tomorrow?"
"I've decided. We plan to go around downtown Mumbai tomorrow and see the Gateway of India and Marine Drive. I saw a tourist brochure recommending the Dharavi slum. Is it fun there?"
"It's not fun. It's just a densely populated, dirty, messy residential area. If you don't want to make things difficult for yourself, you can go to the south of the city for a good walk, but forget about the north."
“The south is richer?”
"Yes, rich people basically live in the south. The streets are cleaner and the public security is better. Moreover, the essence of Mumbai is basically in the south." Nan Yi thought that Zhou Lilin would become the big sister of the electrical industry in the future, so he said with evil humor: "Oh, there are also interesting places in the north. You can go to the edge of the residential area to see how their electricians steal electricity."
"Stealing electricity? Stealing electricity from electric poles?" Zhou Lilin asked.
"Yes, they pull electricity privately without paying the electricity bill. The electrician's skills are all on the teeth, which is a rare sight."
"Look, if you have enough time, you can go and have a look. Nan Yi, Lao Liu and I are going to have dinner outside tomorrow. Do you have any good recommendations?"
“Indian food?”
"Of course, when you go to India, you have to eat Indian food. You can't eat Chinese food."
"I've been to Leopold Bar, Mocambo Coffee, and Mondega Coffee House. The customers are mostly foreigners. The waiters can speak English, so communication is not a problem. The food tastes good, too. I haven't been to the others. If you want to try them, you'd better choose a higher-end one. Don't go to the roadside stalls in the north of the city."
"No, absolutely not. We've been attacked in Pakistan, and I heard that the sanitary conditions in India are even worse." Zhou Lilin said firmly.
"Ha, Indians' stomachs are different from ours. They can handle it, but we can't."
"Nan Yi, the lamb chops taste good. Are Indian lambs so delicious?" said Liu Zhi after tasting the lamb chops.
"It's not Indian lamb, it's American lamb. It's very expensive. If it weren't for treating you, I would have saved it for when I feel hungry someday."
"How much?"
"Two sheep and one Xiali TJ730."
"What kind of sheep is this? It's made of gold." Zhou Lilin complained while picking up the lamb chops.
"It's not made of gold. The meat on the sheep is almost made of gold. It is said that training a pilot costs an equal amount of gold. This sheep is not that exaggerated, but raising a sheep costs more than half a pound of gold."
"Nan Yi, you are exaggerating. The price of gold in China is over 100 yuan per gram now. How can this sheep eat 30,000 yuan?"
"Sister Zhou, you are talking about the domestic price of gold jewelry. I am talking about the international gold price. The current international gold price is less than $15 per gram. The cost of raising this sheep is $4,000."
No matter who asks Nan Yi, the cost of raising these sheep will not be less than 4,000 US dollars. This is a unified statement in SGF.
If anyone asks what these sheep are fed with, the answer is definitely high-end mountain products such as truffles and high-end red wine. They listen to classical music and get massages whenever they have time. They also receive psychological counseling every three days, and a priest is invited to purify them when they are slaughtered. This fully demonstrates sheep moralism, and every sheep leaves the world without pain.
As for luxury goods, they ensure the taste and then make up some stories, like a nouveau riche wanted to buy a sheep for 1 million US dollars, but SGF refused to sell it to him because he was not a member. The quality of the product is immediately raised.
Of course, the rich are not fools, and these stories are not made up for them. They are meant for those rich people who have money but whose tastes have not kept up and who are eager to get into the upper circle.
SGF has begun to follow the path of a high-end club. It no longer actively recruits new members, but instead adopts an application system, with a maximum of ten new members added each year. Membership requires strict screening.
Simply put, SGF will bundle the interests of previous members and work together to create a high-end social platform.
Making up stories not only improves the status of SGF, but also improves the status of its members. The more awesome SGF is, the higher the status of its members will naturally be.
For example, among the members of SGF, there are some celebrities and singers who are neither up nor down. Through the SGF platform, they may be able to improve their own value, and those who improve their value will become high-quality members of SGF. Those who cannot improve will be expelled from the membership, kicked out of the circle, and replaced by new members.
In three to five years, SGF can truly become a high-end social platform that will attract the newly rich.
SGF, Dabifan, Xinsheng Plastic Surgery, a beauty product line that has not yet been formed, a luxury group that has not yet been established, in a few years, all of these will be connected together to extract the word "socialite", and then the market will sink to create a "fake socialite" industry chain, opening up an upward channel for ordinary women and fulfilling the dreams of countless women.
"I'm 58 years old, earning 3,500 yuan a month. I want to find a husband who is tall and handsome, owns a house and a car, and earns 100,000 yuan a month. Is this too much to ask?"
"It's not too much, not at all. Women should be nicer to themselves. Dear, borrow 300,000 from Nanguo Bank, go to Xinsheng Plastic Surgery, use Nan's cosmetics, wear Nan's luxury goods, and go to Dabifan to improve your taste. One day, you will become a member of SGF, become rich and beautiful, and reach the peak of your life. Little fairy, believe in yourself, you can do it, yeah!"
Just as Nan Yi's thoughts were wandering further and further away, Zhou Lilin pulled him back.
"The cost is $4,000. How much do you want to sell this sheep for?"
"I'm not sure. This is a product of a company that specializes in selling high-end food ingredients. I have a bee farm in Changbai Mountain and sell all the linden honey I produce to this company. I am considered their supplier. This sheep was given to me by them."
Given the power of the Liu and Zhou families, if they really wanted to investigate Nan Yi thoroughly, they would not be able to hide the domestic industries at all, so there was no need to hide them. They would just talk about it when the time came, and would not mention it if it had not been mentioned. They would never talk about the foreign industries, and would never admit it even if the evidence was thrown in front of them.
"You can't make much money selling honey, right?"
"It's OK. I earn foreign exchange. At the end of the year, there aren't many things I need to worry about, and I can get 50,000 to 60,000 yuan."
When Zhou Lilin heard that it was only 50,000 or 60,000 yuan a year, she immediately lost interest in asking more. Although Zhou Lilin didn't have much money, it was not difficult for her to make money. It just depended on whether she was willing to do so. She was very picky and didn't care about this little money at all.
For example, when she saw the convoy and Peacock Villa before, she was only shocked by the scale. After all, this was unimaginable in China. But she was not surprised at the value behind it. Millions of dollars could not scare her.
"Nan Yi, do you have time tomorrow? Lao Liu and I are unfamiliar with the place, how about you come with us?"
"Tomorrow is fine. I won't be able to accompany you the day after tomorrow. I've already made an appointment to go on a business trip to another city for three or four days. I'll let my secretary accompany you. He's Korean-American and can speak Chinese. I'll also let my butler come with you. He's a local, so many things will be more convenient with him around."
"Okay, it would be best if there are locals following us, so we don't have to grope our way blindly. Hmm, this potato is delicious, sticky, fragrant, and a little sweet. Nan Yi, where are these potatoes from?"
"Sister Li, you haven't eaten it in China? Aren't these potatoes from China? The official name is Marco potatoes. Some places in Hubei Province use them as a staple food, either cooked on a kang or steamed into a cake."
"I've never eaten it. It's only this big. It can't grow bigger?" Zhou Lilin said, pointing at the potato on the fork.
"The largest they can grow is the size of a native egg, and their yield is not as high as Soviet-style potatoes. The large red-skinned potatoes commonly seen on the market were introduced by the Soviet Union, and they have a high yield, so farmers like to grow them. Not many people are willing to grow Marco."
"Nan Yi, that's good. You know a lot about farmers' affairs."
Nan Yi waved his hands and said proudly, "Of course. I worked as a farmer in the countryside in China, and then I worked in a foreign farm for several years abroad. I know everything about farm work, not only about the soil, but also about chickens, ducks and geese. I know a lot about them. As long as I touch a chicken's butt, I can tell whether it is going to lay eggs, what time it will lay eggs, and how big the eggs will be. I can tell everything clearly."
"Hahaha, who are you fooling? Everyone can touch eggs. When I was a child, my brother tricked me into touching eggs. Who knew that the hen was already hatching chicks? When she saw me approaching, she pecked at my hand until it bled."
"Brother Dian is so bad that he even cheated on his own sister." Nan Yi said with a smile.
"Yeah, it's really bad."
Nan Yi could feel the goodwill that Liu and Zhou were showing towards making friends, and he was not opposed to establishing some connection with them, but it would only be a casual acquaintance, and nothing too in-depth. Whether he admitted it or not, a label had already been put on his forehead.
On the second day, Nan Yi accompanied Liu Zhou and the others on a tour around Mumbai. On the third day, Liu Zhou and the others were accompanied by Han Zhenhe and Diwaman. The two also said goodbye to Nan Yi. They would use the people and the car first, but they would not stay in Peacock Villa in the future. They planned to stay wherever they went.
After Liu and Zhou left, Nan Yi felt relieved. He no longer needed to be distracted and could focus on dealing with things in India.
Not long after Liu Zhou left, Pu Lan called.
"Plan, has Jackie done anything recently?"
"Boss, Jackie has been quite quiet lately. He hasn't behaved unusually and hasn't returned to Ganges Village."
"Where's Fatia?"
"I live in seclusion and rarely see people."
"What does the insider say?"
Puran bribed an unpopular Dalit servant in Tividi Manor, which was considered a trap planted in Tividi Manor. The condition was that the insider would be responsible for keeping an eye on Fatia within the permitted scope, and Puran would send the insider abroad afterwards.
The lower castes in India, especially the Dalits, are full of yearning for foreign countries because there is no caste system outside India and they have the right to struggle.
"Nothing unusual."
"Well, have you investigated Deepak's mother's family?"
"Boss, I called you to report the results of the investigation. There is nothing special about his mother's family. It is just an ordinary Brahmin family, rich but without much power. However, Deepak's grandfather once helped Vajpayee and established a friendship with him."
"hiss……"
Nan Yi's teeth felt sour.
It's really like a mouse pulling a wooden wedge, with the big head behind. I didn't expect that there would be such a character involved behind Deepak.
Nan Yi originally planned that if Deepak didn't have any big background, he would bet on both sides, and subjectively tended to bet on Jacky's side. Jacky's advantage was too obvious, so he just had to sit on the mountain and watch the fight, and when the situation became clear, he would talk to Jacky about compensation.
But now it seems that Nan Yi has no choice. He can only bet on Deepak. He can't afford to offend Vajpayee in India. If he offends him, his India strategy will be in vain.
Vajpayee also had a disciple. Both the master and the disciple were big names in India. When the master left, the disciple took over. The year when Nan Yi traveled through time, Vajpayee's disciple was a hotshot, a real and powerful leading actor.
Nan Yi pondered for a long time and said, "Pran, I will meet Deepak as soon as possible. Before I meet him, you must absolutely ensure his safety even if you are exposed."
"GOT!"
Nan Yi must change his strategy. He can no longer covet the property of the Tiwidi family unless Deepak gives it to him voluntarily. However, he can still be a neighbor of Deepak and deepen the friendship. He can still set his sights on other lands in Ganges Village.
"Mountains have no fixed position, water has no fixed shape, those who can adapt win." Nan Yi first chanted, and then sang: "I am a small fence-sitter. I will lean towards the direction of the wind. I am a white-eyed wolf. If you need milk, I will call you mother. Fuck, it's ugly."
Shaking his head and looking at his watch, Nan Yi put on his gun bag and walked towards the parking lot.
The car first went to Sonu's house to pick up Sonu and Priyanka, and then, under Sonu's instructions, went to Mumbai Mayor Prabhu Vaze's house to pick him up, and finally drove to the house of United Cement Chairman Neeraj Akuri.
At the door of Niraj's house, after some introductions, Nan Yi and the other four left Priyanka and boarded the luxury RV prepared by Niraj.
There was no one else in the car except the driver.
Nan Yi's pocket was very quiet and did not make any vibrations.
"Adam, can you play Flash?"
After the four people sat in the car, Sonu asked Nan Yi.
"I know the rules, but I haven't played them."
Sonu called Nan Yi last night and told him in advance that both Pabu and Niraj were Flash enthusiasts and they would inevitably have to play with it during the trip. Nan Yi had already done some intensive study on how to play Flash.
Indian Flash, which can be translated into three cards, is like a combination of Zhajinhua and Soha.
Before the game starts, all players need to bet a minimum amount. This amount of money is placed in the center of the table, which is the ante. The dealer gives all players a card at a time until each person has three cards.
During the card dealing process, each player can judge whether to increase the chips based on the cards in his hand. Before betting, everyone can look at his own cards and put them face down on the table if he gives up.
Three cards with the same number are the largest, which is the "leopard" in Poker. Among them, three A's are the largest, and three 2's are the smallest among the leopards. Straight is the second largest card sequence, among which A23 is the largest, QKA is the second, and 234 is the smallest, without comparing suits.
According to the size of the cards, the order is: Leopard > Straight Flush > Straight > Pair > Scattered Cards, there is no such thing as a flush.
"It's enough to know the rules. You'll get the hang of it after playing a couple of rounds. Let's play something smaller, with a minimum of one thousand rupees and a maximum of ten thousand rupees. What do you think?" Niraj said.
As soon as Niraj finished speaking, Nan Yi immediately apologized and said, "I'm sorry, the stakes are too high. It's beyond the scope of entertainment. I never gamble."
"Mr. Adam, is 10,000 rupees a gamble for you? Not really, right?"
Niraji had just called Nan Yi "Adam", and now he added the title of "Sir", as if he was offended by Nan Yi and felt unhappy.
Nan Yi smiled and said, "Ten thousand rupees is really nothing to me. If I want to be happy, I can spend money for fun. I can spend 100 million or 1 billion. I have money and I can afford it.
But I won’t push my money onto the table. I’m not afraid of losing, I’m afraid of winning. As I win more and more times, I will regard luck as one of my abilities. In the future, when I make investments, I may take good luck into account as a favorable factor.
Niraj, the investment that I need to decide on is at least hundreds of millions of dollars. If there is a loss, I will be sad. "
"Hahaha!" Niraj clapped his hands and said, "Excellent, excellent. Adam, your statement is very interesting and makes sense. So, how much is not considered gambling?"
"Ten rupees is the minimum and one hundred rupees is the maximum. Niraj, there is not much difference between one hundred rupees and ten thousand rupees for you, right? As long as you win, you are happy. The number is not important."
"Adam is right. Just be happy if you win and don't worry about the numbers. Pabu, what do you think?" Sonu said.
Pabu raised his hands and shook them, saying, "I don't care. I don't have so many rupees with me."
"Then it's settled. Let's start. I'll be the banker first. Do you have any objections?" Niraji took out a deck of cards, removed the big and small ghosts, and shuffled them quickly.
The other three naturally had no objections and were already reaching into their pockets to take out money.
Nan Yi took out the five thousand rupees in exact coins that he had counted in advance from his pocket and placed them on the table. He put a ten-rupee note in the middle of the table and then waited quietly for Niraj to deal the cards.
Niraj shuffled the cards, dealt one to each person, put down the cards he had not dealt, and said, "Adam, are you sure about the stock?"
"I don't understand the technical issues. I can only say that the person in charge of the operation this time has a brilliant record in the U.S. stock market. It's not that I underestimate mad cow disease, but compared to the U.S. stock market, it's really not good enough." Nan Yi lifted up his card and took a look. It was a red K of hearts. "Pass."
"Twenty rupees." Sonu put a rupee in the middle of the table. "Niraj, you can trust Adam's ability. He will definitely give you a satisfactory answer."
"I'll follow." Pabu looked at the cards and also placed a rupee in the middle of the table. "I'm more concerned about how to deal with it later."
"How about we discuss the details after we return from Bandhavgarh? I'll have the person in charge of the operation come out and explain it to the three of you. After listening to it, you will all know everything clearly."
"Can."
"no problem."
"OK, the cards are good, I'll talk to you too, Adam," said Niraj.
"My cards are not bad either. You can wait for the second one. I'll follow."
All four players followed suit, so Niraj dealt a second card to each of them. Flash did not reveal his cards, and the second round continued with speaking in order.
Nan Yi looked at his hole card, which was a J of diamonds, giving him a chance of a straight, so he put twenty rupees in the middle of the table.
After Sonu looked at the cards, he immediately laughed happily and said, "Haha, my cards are pretty good. Sorry everyone, I'm going to raise the price. One hundred rupees, capping it directly."
"Sonu, don't think you can scare me away like this, I'll follow you." Pabhu followed with an expressionless face.
Niraj sighed and said, "Well, it's a bit reluctant, but the money is not much, so I will go with you."
"Old gamblers, each one of them is a drama queen."
Nan Yi murmured to himself. In his opinion, Niraji’s cards were the best at the moment.
Swish, swish, swish, Niraji dealt the third card.
Nan Yi picked up the card and took a look. It was a spade...
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