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Chapter 227 Technology is Productivity

The reason is simple. This active enzyme called SOD is currently extracted from bovine red blood cells, and the cost is relatively high.

But the most advanced technology and large-scale extraction is produced cheaply from corn.

In other words, it would be best to build a factory to extract this stuff in an area where corn is produced in large quantities.

However, due to the uneven mountains in Shangzhou area of ​​eastern Sichuan, it is difficult to have large areas of arable land. It is precisely because of corn and rice that the crops are spread across various broken corners of land.

Weidong’s family used to mainly grow these two crops, so he is quite familiar with them.

It’s just that the investment in building a large-scale extraction plant is relatively high.

It is said to cost hundreds of millions!

Even this cream and dew manufacturer is still conducting research and testing to see if the added SOD ingredient is really effective.

Guess the value of that drug that was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine after it was extracted in 1969.

Wei Dong skipped the confirmation and was sure in his heart that this was it.

Although he has never used it.

But I know that this factory later used the slogan "See DB Everyday" for 10 to 20 years, and this facial cleanser SOD honey became a household name across the country for its low price and good quality.

Even those sophisticated women in prefecture-level cities take pride in using imported goods, and often buy a lot of high-end skin care products from overseas or on behalf of others.

But the product seems to be quite popular.

At least decades of continued sales have proven that this thing is correct.

So Weidong was very sure that this thing was the best health product "True Core" he was looking for.

Of course, it is not easy to get this done.

Having Weidong bring Yu Xiaoqiu to Pingjing Frost and Dew Factory and showing off their own brand name actually worked.

The private entrepreneur who acquired and operated the Feiyan sanitary napkin factory is now doing very well in sanitary napkin advertising on the platform. People will definitely give him a warm welcome. There is no product conflict, and the two companies can even complement each other.

Rang Weidong was not stingy and recommended it as soon as they met: "Let's do a TV commercial. Look at the effect of our advertising. This year, the sanitary napkin factory must reach a daily output value of one million."

That’s more than 300 million yuan in output value a year!
The Frost and Dew Factory must have been amazed: "This thing of ours... you can sell it in large quantities, but it's only sold in the area around Pingjing. We can't deliver it far away."

It was only after Wei Dongchun arrived that he had an idea: "I came to Pingjing to attend an economic conference. My attitude is that there is no problem with the factory or the consumer. The biggest problem is actually the intermediate sales channel. Why don't you let us be the agent for the TV advertising and help you distribute it nationwide. You can get the goods in cash, and there will be absolutely no debt."

This factory is actually a welfare factory for the disabled now. It has a scale of several hundred people, and even with corresponding government subsidies, it has been hovering around the loss line for many years.

The person who is currently running for the position of factory director is like Bei Qiao Feng, the boss of Jibei Paper Mill. He wants to contract the factory. The ownership of the factory still belongs to the state, but he has to hand over a certain amount of profit every year.

His trump card is the SOD technology backed by scientific research experts. He immediately got excited after hearing this: "How do you say that?"

Rang Weidong was already very adept at this: "You buy the goods from me at a discount price. If I pay for the TV advertising on Zhuaner TV, then the sales rights are exclusive to me. No one else can sell them. After all, I pay for the advertising. If you pay for the advertising, then you can sell it to others, but you must ensure that I supply the goods first."

There was something fishy going on here. Sure enough, the other party took the initiative and asked, "How much is the TV advertising fee?"

Weidong counted on his fingers: "The sanitary napkin shoot cost 100,000, and the annual investment in the brick platform is 450,000, a total of 550,000. If we also need to do the packaging..."

After a little intimidation, the other party surrendered: "It's so expensive! How much can you guarantee to sell it to me?"

Now their product is expected to be priced at RMB 100 per bottle, a ml glass bottle, and it is indeed focusing on the line of People's Xiangxiang Ointment.

The idea is really similar to that of the X camera.

Let Weidong make a conservative estimate: "Let's start with annual sales of 5 million to 10 million, and strive to reach tens of millions and then hundreds of millions in the future."

He had been with two women before, and he saw that only Zhang Lanzhi was more particular. She had two or three bottles of oil and ointment, which were actually homemade using traditional methods. He also liked the shampoo and skin care products that others used at the Swan Hotel.

Dong Xueying is still at the stage of using soap and Pechoin perfume.

The factory manager was already overjoyed: "Great, great, more than one million bottles. We are just trying to cross this threshold now. We can definitely guarantee an output of two to three million bottles."

Let Weidong give another shot of prevention: "I have a large sales team, but the cost is still very high..."

Yu Xiaoqiu, who was sitting next to him, dared to interrupt: "And they also supported more than 200 Olympic athletes!"

The factory manager immediately asked, "Do you get a subsidy for this?"

Look at your level, but Weidong sighed: "There's nothing we can do. The money we're given has to be used in the factory and sales team."

Don't try to be pretentious when bargaining. With sales of hundreds of millions of bottles, even a fraction of a cent can translate into tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in gross profit.

The other party pondered for a moment and said, "We'll give you a 5.5% discount based on the department store's purchase price. However, sales in Pingjing must be our own. We have a lot of connections here, so you absolutely cannot sell in Pingjing... not even in Tianjin."

Wei Dong quickly calculated the price and found it was less than 2.5 yuan per stick. He was secretly delighted. "Okay, then sign the contract. As long as you can launch the SOD-added product, we can prepare for the commercial shoot in advance. Once the product is launched, we can get 500,000 yuan worth of goods first."

That’s one tenth of the goal!

No, 500,000 is the purchase price of goods at 2.5 yuan, and 200,000 pieces is equal to one-fifth of the annual minimum supply.

I was overjoyed and agreed to sort out the sales contract agreement immediately.

Yu Xiaoqiu also hurriedly followed the factory secretary and worked hard.

At this time, the experts were invited to arrive.

The image of a senior intellectual wearing a suit, shirt and tie, accompanied by a Hong Kong-style slicked-back guy wearing a trench coat.

The image of Chow Yun-fat, the God of Gamblers, made Weidong know at a glance that this person was not simple.

The expert is a professor at a university in Northeast China. He has just developed a process for extracting bovine red blood cells and has a small-scale laboratory workshop at the university.

It is almost the same scale as the hand-rubbing sanitary napkin machine that Jiangzhou gave to Weidong, and it is suitable for providing to skin care product factories.

Now, after hearing that Weidong decided to underwrite one million 100 ml bottles of skin care products every year, which prompted the Frost and Dew Factory to immediately agree to the cooperation, they were both happy and surprised.

Because this amount is definitely not enough for them.

In order to open up the application of this new thing in civilian products, they waived the usage fee for the Frost and Dew Factory.

It is a long-term approach of releasing water to raise fish.

The sudden increase in usage means that their workshops will also have to increase investment and production.

Wei Dong held back and didn't say anything, so he just used less of each bottle. Deep down, he still believed that this thing had more psychological significance.

Just pay attention to asking: "Is there any difference between finished products extracted from animals and those extracted from plants?"

The expert patiently explained: "There is no essential difference, because these are metalloenzymes extracted from the cytoplasm. At most, the difference in metal content will make the color of the finished powder slightly different, but the efficacy is the same."

Rang Weidong also introduced himself directly. "If you've been following the recent TV shows, you should know that I'm involved in construction in Jiangzhou and Shangzhou, Sichuan Province. In each place, I've built Feiyan brand sanitary napkin factories with a daily output value of 200,000 to 300,000 to 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. We're still looking for a new factory that's more suitable for the local area. SOD oral solution seems to be a suitable option. What are the fees and requirements?"

Experts were also caught off guard: "We were originally planning to raise funds and build a factory in the Northeast, as the Beida Granary has sufficient corn planting capacity."

Weidong shook his head. He really knew this. "In the Northeast, corn only crops once a year. It's a shame that such good land is occupied by this kind of industrial corn. In the impoverished areas of the southwest, the land is fragmented, but we can harvest three times a year, which gives the people more opportunities to earn money by growing crops."

Experts are concerned: "Building a biotechnology project on this scale using corn is very expensive. Do you have the resources? Or do you have the loans and bank support?"

Unexpectedly, it was the slicked-back man in the trench coat who answered, "Didn't you hear him say that? A daily output of 600,000 to 700,000 bags means a daily cash flow of 600,000 to 700,000. It's hard to find a partner in mainland China with such sufficient funds."

His accent is very strange, it is Mandarin, but with a hint of Hong Kong.

The key point is that he actually knew that the price of sanitary napkins was one yuan per pack. You know, before asking Weidong to introduce himself, they didn't know who this potential partner was.

So he immediately showed weakness: "That's cash flow, and the gross profit is very low. But our advantage is that we can always maintain a high sales cash flow, and this will also be of great help to the future sales of SOD enzyme after it is produced. But I really didn't expect this project to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Isn't the investment in your workshop not high?"

We can't let people feel like they are being taken advantage of and be ripped off unscrupulously at this time.

An expert explained, "Our research is focused on extracting and separating the enzyme from cow blood, purely for this single purpose. However, corn is widely considered the most rational bioengineering model in the world, and SOD enzyme is only a relatively small byproduct. In fact, with this multi-hundred-million-dollar investment, the main products are corn starch, sugar, corn sugar alcohol, corn oil, feed protein powder, glutamic acid for soy sauce production, polylactic acid for biodegradable tableware, and ethanol, the world's most environmentally friendly automotive fuel."

In short, it is a treasure, and the raw materials produced are widely used in biopharmaceuticals, chemical industry, food industry, and feed processing industry.

Wei Dong was stunned by what he said: "Slow down, slow down, can you please write down what you just mentioned?"

The high school graduate and 40-year-old security guard, who had never delved into science and technology, was shocked.

Is this a huge biological treasure trove?
The key point is that among the words just mentioned, there are some things that he seems to have seen successfully realized in the future.

At least ethanol gasoline, which was unheard of in the 1980s, became a reality forty years later.

Is this factory equivalent to opening an oil mine?
Moreover, biodegradable tableware is something that is one step further than disposable lunch boxes. It can be used to make cooked food, shock-proof partitions for home appliances, and camera packaging boards.

This guy is going to build a huge industrial empire, which will definitely have an extraordinary impact on Shangzhou's economy.

However, the uncontrollable expression of deep approval on his face was seen by the man with slicked-back hair in the windbreaker.

(End of this chapter)