20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3651 Zhao Chang'an's Disappointment
"However, no matter what you say, it doesn't change the fact that you want to use a child to achieve your goals."

Ye Zi's words were somewhat cold, completely different from the reserved joy and happiness she had shown when she answered the phone earlier.

"I don't quite understand your logic. Are you planning to wait until this child turns eighteen and comes of age before he can openly appear in your house, dare to say he is Ye Bai's son, and take him out to meet people? Ye Bai, times have changed. This is no longer the era of the underworld. Maybe it's still the same kind of dog-eat-dog world abroad, but you can't see the changes in the rules in China. What should be a normal thing has been turned into something like hiding and running around."

Zhao Chang'an said so much in one breath, but after he finished, he realized that what he said was a bit harsh, so he prepared to say a few nice words to soften the blow.

However, the person on the other end of the phone angrily said, "Zhao Chang'an, you've disappointed me so much, no matter what you do—"

Ye Zi hung up the phone without saying the last two words, but Zhao Chang'an knew that what she wanted to say was 'excuses'.

Zhao Chang'an was somewhat disappointed in Ye Zi. He knew what Ye Henian and the others were worried about. Back then, Ye Bai castrated Ye Jingtian, causing the lineage of Ye Hechou to end. Although Ye Jingtian killed Ye Bai, after learning that Ye Bai had descendants, they had to worry about retaliation from Ye Jingtian and even Ye Hechou.

However, Wen Ye's judgment on Ye Jingtian was that he disdained to do such a thing, which meant that Ye Jingtian would not do it. As for Ye Hechou, Zhao Chang'an didn't know him well enough to say, but it was highly unlikely that he would do it either.

Moreover, when he wanted to retaliate, it wasn't so easy for his reach to extend into the country. Besides, he also needed to consider the truly relentless counter-retaliation from Ye Henian.

Ye Heqiu had one son and two daughters: his son Ye Jingtian, his eldest daughter Ye Ziyu, and his youngest daughter Ye Yuanyuan, who was only eight years old this year. After Ye Jingtian was crippled, Ye Heqiu, who was nearly fifty years old at the time, married a younger woman and had another child.

As a father, Zhao Chang'an didn't believe that he really had no scruples at all, knowing that Europe was much more chaotic than China.

The two branches of the Ye family in Europe can be said to be the best-preserved branches of traditional Chinese medicine both domestically and internationally, far surpassing those long-established Chinese medicine brands in China and Hong Kong and Taiwan that have been passed down for hundreds of years.

Just like Yunnan Baiyao, after obtaining the prescription, they lay idle for fifty or sixty years, living off the land and enjoying a very comfortable life. It wasn't until a few years later that they started investing in some research and development.

Moreover, this phenomenon is very common. Many time-honored Chinese medicine shops are still relying on old prescriptions and living a life of ease.

However, although the fire destroyed several boxes of medical books, the Ye family's three branches in Europe were able to draw heavily on and incorporate ancient medical books and prescriptions from both China and abroad, especially from East and Southeast Asia, in their subsequent reproduction and supplementation. They spent more than fifty years researching and experimenting, and finally developed their own unique approach.

Just like in Zhao Chang'an's previous life, Shancheng Pharmaceutical Factory unintentionally obtained a rheumatism plaster formula left by Wen Ye's grandfather from Wen Ye's grandmother without spending a penny. It relied on this formula to support a pharmaceutical factory and become a listed company, with its products selling well for decades.

The hundreds or even thousands of employees have very good salaries, bonuses and benefits, while Wenye is a homeless drifter.

This formula has now been given to Danjiang Pharmaceutical Factory because the ingredients contain toxins such as rhododendron (Rhododendron molle, Rhododendron simsii) and arbutin. It's still being improved, and even the people at Danjiang Pharmaceutical Factory are unaware of this. Yet, this plaster alone has been able to revive the company and make it thrive. It's worth noting that Wenye's grandfather was just an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor from the mountains. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners like him, including Qu Huanzhang, the founder of Yunnan Baiyao, were among the thousands of folk doctors in China back then.

Many veteran Chinese medicine practitioners have their own unique formulas, but due to the passage of time, most of these formulas and processing methods have been lost, which is a regret for Chinese medicine.

As a result, twenty years later, many truly valuable Chinese medicine formulas were swindled and stolen by the Japanese, while a large number of Chinese medicine "miracle drugs" that simply added Western medicine to random herbal ointments emerged in China.

Ye Zi thought Zhao Chang'an was shameless for using a child as a pretext, but she didn't understand that Zhao Chang'an was never doing this entirely for himself, but rather hoping to seize this opportunity to truly revitalize traditional Chinese medicine in China.

When Zhao Chang'an returned to the hotel, he saw Ye Ziyu looking at him curiously. He sat down and said to her with a smile, "If you trust me, then I will extend an invitation to you and Ye Yiyi to visit Shancheng this March. It would be best if you did so under the name of Ye's Chinese Medicine Workshop. I also hope that there are decision-makers in your team who can visit the pharmaceutical factory and Chinese medicine planting base under One Nano."

“Yi Yi and I are definitely fine, but it’s hard to say to my dad. He’s worried that Ye Henian and his group will use Yi Yi and me to force Jing Tian to show up. Now, traditional Chinese medicine in Europe has become just a health supplement. Before, deer antler, wolfberry and hibiscus meat were still somewhat useful, but since sildenafil came along, this market has shrunk significantly.”

Ye Ziyu, having drunk a little alcohol, felt her head spinning slightly, but she still had a basic understanding: "Many of the family's medicinal herb plantations have been replaced with plants that can be used to purify Western medicines. Moreover, I did some research back in China, and the Chinese medicine market is very small. If we choose to go back to China to do business, there are so many opportunities here now. It seems like using resources to do Chinese medicine is a very poor choice. Take Ye Zi's family, for example. The total amount of money they invested in China was less than two hundred million US dollars, and now their total assets should be no less than five billion. That's only in seven or eight years, and it has increased three or four times. How could there be such a large profit in Chinese medicine?"

Back then, during the conflict between Ye Bai and Ye Jingtian, although Ye Bai castrated Ye Jingtian, he was also seriously injured and was detained by Ye Hechou and his men.

In order to redeem Ye Bai, Ye Henian not only offered a huge sum of money, but also promised to leave Europe and exile Ye Bai to North Africa to compete with the Lu family for the local gray market.

Afterwards, Ye Henian spent several years in Singapore and Hong Kong with his wife and daughter before finally choosing to return to China to invest.

After leaving Ye Henian, Ye Hesong and Ye Hemei managed the pharmacy terribly over the past few years, and many of their investments ended in huge losses.

Ultimately, on Ye Henian's advice, they drastically scaled back their European operations, using them only to maintain basic pharmacies. They also hired professional managers to oversee the business, while they returned to China to establish the Ye Group.

Currently, Ye Henian holds 40% of the shares, Ye Hesong holds 30%, Ye Jingtian holds 10%, Ye Hemei holds 5%, and Ye Pingbai holds 15%.

Ye's Network, with Ye's Group holding 40% of the shares, Ye Zi 20%, Ye Ying 20%, and Ye Jingtian 20%, was given to Wan Qiao as divorce compensation.

"I can't say much more, but what I just said stands."

Cooperation with the Ye family is not the only option for Zhao Chang'an and Yi Nanmi. What Ye Zi doesn't understand is that Zhao Chang'an and Wen Ye's decision to extend an olive branch to the Ye family is an act of repaying evil with kindness.