20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2981 Shi Shenggui's Chinese Medicine Dream

Luo Yi.

In the vast expanse of white snow, Zhao Changan, surrounded by Shi Shenggui, Xiao Chengdong and a group of people, inspected Taihang Pharmaceutical Factory No. 1 and Nanometer Luoyi Vehicle Shock Absorber Factory respectively.

Although the environment of the two factories is good, the employees have real and enthusiastic smiles on their faces, the assembly lines and machinery maintenance materials are neat and remarkable, and Shi Shenggui and Xiao Chengdong are full of confidence in the data they report and their outlook for the future.

However, the fact that the assembly line stopped production on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month is the most intuitive illustration of the problem.

As a comparison with the manufacturing enterprises wholly owned by Nano-Tech, Vehicle Plant 1 still implements the eight-hour work system and has not stopped production even though sales are sluggish.

The three-wheeled motorcycle factory of the second factory operates in three shifts just like the foreign trade factory of the third factory.

In order to allow the workers to earn more, Yuan Yizhou transferred employees from Factory 1 to work in some of Factory 2's non-medium and high-tech work positions.

In Danjiang, Taihang Pharmaceutical Factory No. 2, which had money in hand, was originally at the end of clinical trials. However, due to lack of money and connections, its new Shuanghuanglian oral liquid was approved for marketing.

A large number of advertisements were put on radio and television stations, and a small window was used to promote the entire Nano series on the web page. Currently, sales of the new Shuanghuanglian low-bitter flavor have begun to increase, halting the semi-shutdown trend that had lasted for several years and starting a three-shift operation.

Moreover, the folk recipe for blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing plaster that Wen Ye provided them was also undergoing intensive experimental data collection and medicinal property improvement.

The biggest problem at present is that the content of aconitine is too high. The content needs to be adjusted down so that the efficacy does not drop so drastically, or other Chinese medicinal materials with similar medicinal properties and low toxicity need to be found as substitutes.

Although Pharmaceutical Factory No. 2 will definitely lose money in this lunar year's accounting, it is apparently moving in a good direction.

Therefore, to see how a company’s operations are going, we should not look at what the person in charge of the company says, but rather look at the actual situation of the company.

Whether the company is working overtime to produce, the product yield rate, the comprehensive cost, the sales and collection data of the sales department, and the orders to be delivered in the next stage are more practical things.

Of course, Zhao Changan could also understand the difficulties of the two factories. Xu Mei's previous reforms at the shock absorber factory had affected the interests of many purchasing salesmen and Party A-related leaders. External business has been in a shrinking trend. If the vehicle factory had not placed an order of more than 8 million, the shock absorber factory would have had a more difficult time this year.

Taihang Pharmaceutical Factory No. 1 was also hit hard by the Kou Yingxian incident, including the contract acquisition of the 10,000-acre herbal garden in cooperation with the enterprise. Last year, Taihang Biological suffered a loss of 10 million yuan, and this year's loss exceeded 30 million yuan.

It also put out 60 million yuan to purchase herbs in the harvest period. If it weren't for the 30 million yuan provided by Nano and a 100 million yuan bank loan, it would probably not be able to pay this year's salaries.

In terms of product positioning, Shi Shenggui has always insisted on making traditional Chinese medicine granules and oral liquids.

Just like Xiao Chaihu Granules, Ganmao Qingre Granules, and Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid, a typical example is that Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid was too bitter, and the technicians suggested adding sugar, but he rejected it outright. The Ganmao Qing Granules R&D staff suggested adding the Western medicine ingredient acetaminophen adamantane, but he pointed at his nose and scolded them. Although Shi Shenggui is less than 50 years old this year, his employees call him an old stubborn and silicified fossil behind his back.

Zhao Changan's attitude towards this is to let it go. The predecessor of Taihang Pharmaceutical is Taihang Biology, and the predecessor of Taihang Biology is Luoyi Taihang Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory.

The predecessor of the Chinese medicine factory was the century-old Luoyi Chinese medicine shop Baijitang. Shi Shenggui’s ancestors had been practicing medicine and selling medicine for a hundred years, accumulating a large industry and many Chinese medicine prescriptions.

Shi Shenggui joined a traditional Chinese medicine factory right after he graduated. He started as an apprentice and by the time of the factory restructuring, he was already the deputy director in charge of quality. However, although he was the deputy director, he had no say in the positioning of the pharmaceutical factory's products.

After Kou Yingxian restructured the Chinese medicine factory, he promoted Shi Shenggui to be the factory director. This marked the beginning of his ambition to realize his goal. He did not introduce any advanced foreign pharmaceutical equipment and production technology, but instead began a process of de-mechanizing and electronicizing the pharmaceutical factory in a return to its original simplicity.

The herbs are selected, soaked, cut, fried, roasted, steamed, dried, baked, calcined, fermented, and purified through a series of processes and methods, trying to restore the entire process of ancient medicine making.

At the same time, we recruited a number of veteran traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical masters who were previously unknown and ignored to serve as technical instructors for the company.

Taihang Bio has developed very well in recent years and has become a banner of the central region's traditional Chinese medicine industry. The scale of its factory and corporate profitability have grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years, which is why it was able to successfully list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Then Shi Shenggui began to expand the scale of the enterprise, built a large number of high-standard workshops for traditional pharmaceutical production, stockpiled a large number of precious Chinese herbal medicines, and built a large number of storage warehouses for various needs, processing a large amount of Chinese herbal raw materials that required years and years of precipitation.

It also promoted the 'pharmaceutical factory + farmers' 10,000-acre Chinese herbal medicine planting base project. For this project, Taihang Biological invested more than 100 million yuan in interest-free loans to encourage farmers to open herbal gardens, provide herbal seeds and plants, and provide comprehensive technical support.

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All these actions made Taihang Bio a company with a high debt ratio and high future repayment funds and acquisition funds. Kou Yingxian was interested in larger agricultural vehicles that could generate faster money, and he misappropriated a large amount of funds from the pharmaceutical factory to invest in the construction of an agricultural vehicle factory. In addition, in the past two years, pure Chinese medicine powders and oral liquids have been severely impacted by Western medicine and domestic companies that are more adept at adapting and using advertising effects. There were also a large number of uncollected debts, which made Taihang Bio financially difficult and turned its profit into loss.

That is why the average salary of employees in pharmaceutical factories is only 1300 yuan, which is left behind by the inconspicuous vehicle shock absorber factory.

In Kou Yingxian's heart, the vehicle shock absorber factory is his own enterprise and his own child, while Taihang Biological is becoming more and more like an ATM, and Taihang Biological has been providing blood transfusions to the shock absorber factory.

This is also why after Kou Yingxian's downfall, there was no major turmoil or backlash in the pharmaceutical factory, especially after Zhao Changan decided to maintain Shi Shenggui's position as factory director and let him be fully responsible for the pharmaceutical factory. Shi Shenggui immediately made drastic adjustments and optimizations to the enterprise and eliminated Kou Yingxian's connections and influence.

A very important reason here is that the employees in the pharmaceutical factory have long been dissatisfied with Kou Yingxian. You must know that the real technology and backbone of the pharmaceutical factory now almost all come from the original collective enterprise Luoyi Taihang Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory.

Since Shi Shenggui had been so diligent and responsible before, Kou Yingxian had been able to tolerate him.

Then Zhao Changan would be able to accommodate him, and he also wanted to see if giving Shi Shenggui this platform and opportunity could help him to create an extraordinary path in pure Chinese medicine.