A doctor who travels through two eras

Hearing Lin Sanqi's concerns, Fu Guoding didn't care:
"Mr. Xiaolin, you are worrying too much. Medicines are different from other commodities. Medicines are based on their efficacy. If you observe carefully, which of Tongrentang Angong Niuhuang Pills and Pien Tze Huang, which are in short supply in the market, is advertised in the media?
The key is efficacy. If your medicine works, patients will spread the word. Once it becomes a legend, patients will flock to it. So as long as Mr. Xiaolin makes good medicine, I believe there will be no worries about sales.”

Mr. Mao seemed to be thinking about something:
"Boss Xiaolin, if you really want to set up a factory, there is actually another place you can consider."

Lin Sanqi chuckled and said, "Old man, you are not talking about Hong Kong, are you?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of several people in the office lit up.

Director Song clapped his hands and said, "Yes, that's great. Xiangjiang is right next to Huadu. It takes one hour by high-speed rail and just over two hours by car. It's like being in the same city. It takes me more than an hour to drive from get off work in the city during the evening rush hour."

Mr. Mao laughed and further explained:

"Hong Kong is different from the mainland. Its medicines are in line with international standards. They do not ban the sale of natural medicinal materials such as musk and bezoar. As long as you can provide proof of legal breeding, it will be fine.

Many domestic pharmaceutical companies have already set up pharmaceutical factories in Hong Kong.

As far as I know, Peking Tong Ren Tang, Jinling Tong Ren Tang, Guang Yu Yuan, Darentang, Pian Zai Huang, Hu Qing Yu Tang, Jiu Zhi Tang, Tasly, Guang Sheng Yuan and so on all have their own factories in Hong Kong.

Not only do pharmaceutical companies from the mainland set up factories in Hong Kong, but Japan and South Korea also set up Chinese medicine factories in Hong Kong, such as this Japanese Jiuxin Pill. "

The old man took out a small medicine box from the drawer beside him.

"This is a gift from an old friend of mine. Look at the ingredient list: musk, toad venom, bezoar, bear gall, iris, pearl, ginseng, and borneol.

Among them, musk, bezoar and bear bile can be used freely in Hong Kong without so many restrictions.

Therefore, if Lingnantang wants to make its own medicine, Hong Kong is a good choice. Musk can be imported from abroad or from relevant breeding bases in China, so the source of raw materials is easy to solve.

The most important point is that Hong Kong is part of our country after all. The country has given Hong Kong many preferential policies, and the trade tariffs between the two places will not be too high, which will be conducive to the export of medicines from Hong Kong to the mainland. "

Lin Sanqi had long had the idea of ​​setting up a factory in Hong Kong, but the idea was only vague before. Now, after hearing what Chairman Mao said, his idea became more firm.

Mr. Mao then added:
"But there are risks in setting up a factory in Hong Kong. The biggest risk is the high land prices. Not only are residential buildings expensive in Hong Kong, but industrial land is also expensive."

Hong Kong has a typical urban economic model, with the service industry accounting for 93.4%, the secondary industry accounting for 6.5%, and if we look specifically to manufacturing, the proportion is less than 1%.

So in fact, Hong Kong's industrial hollowing out is very serious. Industrial development is not encouraged, and there are no preferential policies for industrial enterprises, such as giving you land discounts.

They just like to speculate in real estate and play with finance.

Fortunately, Lin Sanqi was not a man short of money. What he lacked was the opportunity and reputation to keep the drugs from 60 to 23 years old. So he had to go to Hong Kong and set up a factory.

The next day, Shenzhen Bay Port

Lin Sanqi was sitting in the company's Alpha business car, looking at the long line of cars in front of him with a bit of surprise.

"Hey, today is not a holiday, why are there so many cars passing through? It will take a long time to queue up, right?"

Lin Tianhua, who was sitting nearby, laughed and said, "Qizi, is this your first time in Hong Kong?"

Lin Sanqi nodded awkwardly: "Yes, it's my first time there."

There was no way. Before the Dragon Boat Festival this year, the Lin family was still one of the poorest in Shilou Village. Not to mention crossing the border to travel to Hong Kong, the Lin family had never been to other cities in the country.

Traveling is a luxury for ordinary people.

Millionaires per capita can only appear in TikTok, and not everyone in the urban village is a real estate tycoon.

Hearing Lin Sanqi's sincere answer, Lin Tianhua felt a little confused.

I wondered what kind of opportunity this nephew had encountered? How could he have gone from being a poor scholar with nothing to having a small amount of "capital" to open a factory in Hong Kong in just a few months?
Of course, a veteran in the workplace like him remained calm on the surface:

"Then let me tell you about the situation in Hong Kong. Look at this long convoy. And look at the license plates. Aren't most of them Hong Kong license plates? There are very few mainland license plates."

Lin Sanqi glanced around a few more times and said, "Yes."

Lin Tianhua smiled slightly:
“This is the latest trend in recent years.

In the past, our impression was that we mainlanders would go to Hong Kong, whether for shopping or tourism, with a pilgrimage-like mood, looking up to them.

But in recent years, the situation has been completely reversed. Hong Kong people have flocked to the mainland in large numbers, mainly because prices in the mainland are cheaper.

Oh, this price refers to things related to ordinary people, such as catering, entertainment, clothing, daily necessities in supermarkets, etc. "

When it comes to shopping, Yin Lianyi gets excited:

“You still have to go to Hong Kong to buy international brands because they have the latest styles, which are launched globally at the same time, and the prices are cheaper than in the mainland. But if you want to buy ordinary casual clothes or home clothes, people in Hong Kong now go to Shenzhen to buy them.

When we came back, we went to the Sam's Supermarket in Shenzhen. It was amazing. The whole supermarket was almost full of Hong Kong people. They wanted to buy everything, paper towels, seasonings, snacks, and they pushed carts of things back."

Lin Sanqi was somewhat puzzled:
"Hong Kong's commercial logistics are much more developed than ours. Why would they come to the mainland to shop at supermarkets? Isn't there a ParknShop supermarket in Hong Kong? It was opened by Li Huanggua and is very famous in Hong Kong movies."

Yin Lianyi rolled her eyes at her boss:
"How stupid! Things are so expensive in Hong Kong. A box of tissues might cost 100 wen in Hong Kong, but only 50 or 60 wen in the mainland. Other things are generally more than one-third cheaper in the mainland than in Hong Kong.

There are no supermarkets this big in Hong Kong. The land there is expensive, and supermarkets are small and exquisite, just like the convenience stores in our community. So now, it is the turn of Hong Kong people to come to the mainland, just like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

Several people in the car chuckled.

This time when Lin Sanqi came to Hong Kong, in addition to the driver, General Manager Lin Tianhua, Financial Manager Yin Lianyi, and Sales Manager Meng Peng all came together.

Meng Peng is Lin Tianhua's direct subordinate. At that time, Lin Tianhua poached all of Mercedes-Benz's most elite sales team in South China and gave them an annual salary that was several times higher, which was definitely the ceiling in the sales industry.

But this sales team is also worth the money.

Although there is no shortage of markets for Lingnan Tang's precious Chinese medicinal materials and food ingredients, it is not something that an ordinary sales team can do to make Lingnan Tang's reputation known to everyone in the medical circle and wealthy circles of Dongguan Province in a short period of time and to establish a brand positioning of "Lingnan Tang's products must be high-quality."

To put it bluntly, the most important thing for high-end sales channels is connections.

If you don’t even know the top billionaires, let alone have access to them, how can you sell your products to them?
Do you run to the company's headquarters and tell the front desk to please make an appointment with your chairman, saying that you are here to sell ginseng? Believe it or not, you won't even be able to enter the company's door and will be immediately chased away by the security guards.

It just so happens that the Mercedes-Benz sales team has resources with wealthy people. Even if they are top-level wealthy people, the staff of Meng Peng’s team are not at all afraid when they go out to contact them. This is their foundation.

After hearing what Yin Lianyi said, Lin Tianhua also talked about his own concerns.

"Yes, Xiao Qi, although there are fewer restrictions on setting up factories in Hong Kong, why are other small and medium-sized domestic pharmaceutical companies, except for a few leading pharmaceutical companies, unable to set up factories in Hong Kong? It is because the threshold for setting up factories in Hong Kong is too high.

I have also asked friends in Hong Kong in advance. For example, the industrial land on Anju Street in Fanling, with a total area of ​​9 square feet, was auctioned for HK$6 million last year. If you convert it, it is only or acres of land, and the price is very scary. "

Lin Sanqi was mentally prepared. He knew that land in Hong Kong was expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so outrageously expensive.
"Oh my god, Uncle Ten, if we want to build a factory on this thirteen acres of land, it can only be considered a 'small and micro enterprise' at best in our inland areas, right?"

Yin Lianyi burst out laughing: "The office building our company rents occupies two acres of land."

After passing the customs, the car drove on the Shenzhen Bay Highway Bridge, and under the bridge was the vast sea level. Lin Sanqi had looked up information and knew that in 1960, if you wanted to go to Hong Kong, you basically had to sneak across.

If you want to smuggle by boat, the most common route is to go through Dapeng Bay in the east. The distance between the mainland and the Hong Kong River is about 10 kilometers, so you can only take a boat.

But you have to pay the smugglers to take the boat, at least 300 yuan per person. People are so poor that they have to flee to Hong Kong, how can they have 300 yuan? If there are four or five people in a family, it will cost more than yuan.

Not everyone is as rich as a middleman named Lin, who treats blacksmiths like dirt.

What to do if you have no money? You can only swim across. The most common route to swim across is Houhai Bay, which was later renamed Shenzhen Bay.

Lin Sanqi looked left and right at the sea scenery outside the window in the car, and was amazed. He thought that the sea here was not narrow either, the shortest was 4 kilometers, what kind of person could swim across? No wonder the death rate was so high.

Seeing Lin Sanqi looking around, Lin Tianhua asked curiously:
"Xiao Qi, what are you looking at? Just across the sea is Yuen Long in Hong Kong. We'll be there soon."

"Uncle Shi, I was thinking about how scary it was for stowaways to swim across the Deep Bay. Those who swam such a long distance were very lucky to make it to shore."

Lin Tianhua laughed and pointed to both sides of the bridge and said:

"Back then, the smugglers either set out from the mangroves in the east or from Shekou in the west, not from the cross-sea bridge under our feet. But it was good enough if half of them could reach the shore.

We used to joke that there are not only countless bodies under Shenzhen Bay, but also countless gold bars. It is said that the people who sneaked in back then all had gold bars on them, but they all sank to the bottom of the sea. Whoever touches the bodies will get rich.

In Dongguan Province, almost every family had relatives who fled to Hong Kong. Most of the many fellow villagers from Shilou Village in Hong Kong swam over there back then.

Therefore, the people of Dongguan are not averse to smuggling. Instead, they think it is very normal and that young people who have no food to eat should go out and try their luck.

The speaker may not have intended it, but the listener took it to heart. At this time, Lin Sanqi remembered the two places, Mangrove and Shekou, and was also silently evaluating in his mind whether he could swim across the Hong Kong River if he went there in 1960.
Suddenly Lin Sanqi felt that he was really stupid.

With your own golden finger, why should you swim over? You can just buy a speedboat and install 6 engines. Isn't this the legendary "big plane"? The maximum speed can reach 120 kilometers per hour.

If a large aircraft like this was flown out, not only would the Hong Kong police in 1960 not be able to detect it, but even if they did, they would not be able to catch up unless they used a helicopter.

Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi relaxed. How could a time traveler die from holding his urine?
After Alpha drove off the Shenzhen Bay Bridge and officially entered Hong Kong, Lin Sanqi felt as if he had suddenly come from a big city to a big countryside.

Looking at the vast expanses of farmland and open space in front of him, Lin Sanqi asked curiously:

"Uncle Shi, didn't you say that there isn't enough land in Hong Kong to build a building? Aren't these all empty lots?"

Lin Tianhua explained patiently:
"The situation in Hong Kong is different from that in the mainland. The land in Hong Kong is privately owned, so the farmland you see is basically privately owned. The government cannot just requisition it or do whatever it wants with it."

Meng Peng, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and spoke:

"Boss, I heard a rumor that a lot of land in the New Territories is actually in the hands of large real estate developers. They deliberately do not develop the New Territories in order to push up the land and housing prices in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.

There are also some banana capitalists who are deliberately sabotaging, and a few years ago they were planning to build a crematorium and cemetery on the south bank of the Shenzhen River, deliberately embarrassing the mainland, with very sinister intentions. "

The Shenzhen River is a small river only about ten meters wide. The south bank is the New Territories, and the north bank is the SZ city center, with tall buildings and bustling traffic.

If the crematorium is really built by the river, it will have a huge negative impact on Shenzhen’s city image and residents’ lives. The intention is nothing short of malicious.

Lin Tianhua nodded in agreement:
"It's just like when we watched Hong Kong movies back then, the protagonists often had a line: Hong Kong is not the Governor's Hong Kong, nor is it your Hong Kong, but the Hong Kong of a few big families. Even after the handover, they were unwilling to lose their voice."

Lin Sanqi got angry when he heard this:
"Isn't this too much? Shouldn't our country completely eliminate this kind of pest lurking in Hong Kong and drive it out of the country?"

Yin Lianyi is also a young person and was also very angry when she heard this:
"No wonder Hong Kong is getting worse and worse. Even Hong Kong people are going to Shenzhen to consume. It seems that they are being bullied by local capitalists in Hong Kong. There was no other way before. Where could a small city go? Now there is a choice, it's different."

Lin Sanqi looked at the farmland outside the window and thought, this is indeed a city kidnapped by capital.

If there weren't so many restrictions in the mainland, Lin Sanqi would never have thought of investing in Hong Kong.

Now the city’s status as a financial center and logistics center has been shaken. The decline of the once dazzling Oriental Pearl Tower is inevitable, and perhaps it is what some unscrupulous capitalists want to see.

The car drove off the main road and turned left to Yuen Long.

Along the way, Lin Sanqi felt particularly familiar with the place names, such as Lai Chi-keung, the tiger of Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, the territory of pheasants, and Tin Shui Wai Village where Ann Hui filmed "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai".

Lin Tianhua didn't know that his cousin's mind was wandering again, and he continued to introduce:

"Hong Kong's main industrial areas were originally in Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Kowloon West, Sham Shui Po, Lai Chi Kok, as well as Kwun Tong and Kowloon City in Kowloon East. This shows how prosperous Hong Kong's economy was at the time. Even the richest man started out by making plastic flowers.

Later, as the industry declined rapidly, there are only three industrial villages left, located in Yuen Long, Tai Po and Tseung Kwan O. Listen to the name, industrial village, not industrial zone, which shows that the place is very small.

A direct consequence of the small industrial zone is that the industrial land quota is quite tight and the price is several times higher than that of mainland investment. With such high land prices, no foreign investor is willing to set up a factory in Hong Kong.

Tseung Kwan O Industrial Village is now taking the high-tech route, and all factories settled there are not allowed to cause pollution. Pharmaceutical factories like ours are excluded, so the only two places available to us are Yuen Long and Tai Po.

The reason why I chose Yuen Long is that there is a famous pharmaceutical company in Yuen Long, Aome Pharmaceuticals. With a peer company already settled in, it should be easier to get approval if we want to build a factory in Yuen Long.”

"Australia Pharmaceuticals!"

Lin Sanqi had actually heard of this factory. The amoxicillin capsules they produced were of the best quality among similar products. They had relatively high sales in the mainland and were also quite effective.

Even many patients shook their heads when they saw that it was ordinary amoxicillin produced in mainland China, and specifically asked for the amoxicillin in the blue box.

"By the way, Uncle Ten, Australia and America Pharmaceuticals is considered a well-known pharmaceutical company after all. How big is their factory?"

Lin Sanqi thought about the several pharmaceutical factories under the Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group, which together occupied several thousand acres of land. The old factory alone occupied 600 acres.

So an international-level pharmaceutical company like Australia America Pharmaceuticals must have an area of ​​at least a thousand acres, right?

Lin Tianhua laughed out loud: "How big it is, you will know it when you see it yourself."

Yuen Long Industrial Estate.

Lin Sanqi and his group drove around the entire industrial village and then circled around Aome Pharmaceuticals. Lin Sanqi found that the Aome Pharmaceuticals factory could only be described as mini.

Yin Lianyi handed the iPad to the disappointed Lin Sanqi:
"Look, there are only a few drugs produced by Aome Pharmaceuticals now, and they are not exclusive patented drugs. They mainly deal in medical beauty and health products. It seems that they have also transformed."

Lin Sanqi swiped across the screen and looked at it. The main products were still the same old three, amoxicillin and some cough suppressants and expectorants. There was no ambition at all.

"It seems that it is really difficult to run a pharmaceutical factory in Hong Kong. With everyone involved in finance and real estate speculation, what will happen to the employment and income of ordinary Hong Kong citizens?"

Yin Lianyi burst out laughing again:
"Boss Lin, are you still worried about the income of Hong Kong people? Their monthly salary for a security guard is tens of thousands. Just imagine how much a security guard in Shenzhen makes in a month?"

Lin Sanqi touched his face and said, "You make me sound like a black-hearted capitalist."

Lin Tianhua still had to flatter his nephew boss secretly:
"Xiao Yin, our Lingnan Hall's income is also good. This year is not over yet. If you add the year-end bonus, your Finance Department's average income will exceed one million. If nothing unexpected happens to our Sales Department, the top sales revenue will be over five million."

Lin Sanqi raised his chin: "How is it, my boss is not bad, right?" (End of this chapter)