The Super Rich: Start from when the family business is about to go bankrupt!

Chapter 601 WPG Musk Gets the Data! Cloudfire Vine Produces Results? A Few Shortcomings, Aren't There?
An Wuyang did not specify how much vitality restoration factor could be extracted from Morinda officinalis, because An Wuyang wanted to maintain an absolute monopoly on vitality restoration factor.

Some of the energy recovery factor can be released, but the vitality recovery factor cannot.

Musk coughed twice to cover his embarrassment, then added, "I've gotten some of the information you asked for earlier."

"From Koreia?" An Wuyang asked immediately.

“Yes,” Musk replied affirmatively.

"From what we've seen so far, Corea has indeed discovered some unique phenolic substances, and I'll try my best to get you samples," Musk added.

“Give me a secure email address for the relevant data, and I’ll send it to you,” Musk instructed.

“Okay,” An Wuyang agreed.

Musk was very efficient; he quickly sent over the relevant information.

After receiving these messages, An Wuyang contacted An Huchun.

"Dad, are you busy?" An Wuyang asked.

Anhuchun denied it, "Nothing's wrong right now. What do you want?"

"Musk has brought over some relevant information. Do you want to study it first?" An Wuyang asked.

“Of course!” Anjuchun answered affirmatively, then sighed with a hint of amazement, “He actually managed to get his hands on the information from Koreia!”

"Dad, you're underestimating others too much!" An Wuyang complained.

"I sent you your email address and password using a VPN. You can log in and check it yourself," An Wuyang added.

Anhuchun responded, then added, "I have good news for you: the research on the Cloud Fire Vine has yielded results!"

"Professor Xiong has made progress?" An Wuyang asked in surprise.

Anjuchun answered affirmatively, "Yes."

"After all, Professor Xiong's team has conducted research on related projects for more than eighteen years, so it's not surprising that they have achieved results now," An Huchun added.

“Let me first look at the information you sent with Engineer Fu and Engineer Mo. You can ask Professor Xiong about the Cloud Fire Vine yourself,” An Huchun added.

An Huchun didn't want to discuss professional issues with An Wuyang, because An Huchun was afraid that he would swear if he got impatient!
“Okay,” An Wuyang agreed.

An Wuyang was secretly curious: why hadn't Professor Xiong Yuanji's Yunhuoteng group reported their achievements?

After all, we've achieved results, so it's a good thing no matter what!
An Wuyang took the initiative to send a message to Xiong Yuanji through the Xiaobaige app.

The penetration rate of the Xiaobaige app within the Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group system is increasing, and it is even more widespread in the R&D center. All discussions and exchanges in the R&D field are required to be conducted on the Xiaobaige app, and the use of external communication software is prohibited.

An Wuyang: Professor Xiong, has your Cloud Fire Vine group made any progress?

Professor Xiong Yuanji did not reply to the message immediately, and An Wuyang was not in a hurry. He got up, washed up, and prepared to have breakfast.

An Wuyang's breakfast was still a sandwich, a glass of milk, and two eggs.

After An Wuyang finished breakfast, Professor Xiong Yuanji finally replied to the message on the Xiaobaige app.

Xiong Yuanji: Mr. An, there are some problems with our research results.

'An Wuyang: What's the problem?'

Xiong Yuanji: The cost is too high, and the results are not ideal.

'Peace and safety: Tell me the specifics.'

Xiong Yuanji stopped typing and instead used the voice call function of the Xiaobaige app to contact An Wuyang, because typing was too troublesome and he wanted to communicate by voice.

An Wuyang put on her Bluetooth headset before answering the call.

Xiong Yuanji's voice came through, "President An, can you hear me?"

“I heard it very clearly,” An Wuyang replied.

"So what are the specifics?" An Wuyang asked again.

Xiong Yuanji explained that it was a cost issue!
This time, the result developed by Professor Xiong Yuanji's Yunhuoteng team is a gout relief drug, which cannot cure gout and has a particularly high formulation cost.

The medication to relieve gout has been made into an oral liquid, with a volume similar to that of Liang Huanxi, a full 120 ml.

Each bottle of gout relief oral liquid requires 30 grams of Siberian fire vine extract and 1 gram of vitality restoration factor.

Yes!

1 gram of vitality restoration factor!
It's not just 1 milligram, but a full 1 gram of vitality restoration factor.

Two people only need 2 grams of vitality restoration factor to achieve this.

As for the heart-saving pills that have been all the rage these past few days, each pill only requires 1 milligram of vitality-restoring factor.

This is equivalent to taking a thousand nitroglycerin pills to consume 1 gram of vitality recovery factor.

Currently, the price of the Vitality Restoration Factor supplied by Wugengtian to the joint venture is 100,000 Xia Guoyuan per gram.

This means that the cost of the vitality restoration factor alone for each bottle of gout relief oral liquid is 100,000 yuan.

As for the price of 30 grams of Cloud Fire Vine.
Because only the six-year version was used, Wugengtian quoted CLC Group 10 yuan per gram, so the cost here is another 300 yuan.

Even without considering other auxiliary materials, human resource costs, packaging costs, and marketing costs, the cost of just the Vitality Restoration Factor and Siberian Cloud Fire Vine alone reaches 100,300 yuan.

However, the gout relief oral liquid produced at such high costs can only relieve gout symptoms, not cure it.

However, oral solutions for gout relief also have their advantages!
First of all, it is very effective for gout. Even for acute gout attacks, it can take effect quickly after taking the gout relief oral liquid.

Under normal circumstances, if overeating triggers a gout attack, traditional treatments such as etoricoxib will take at least half an hour to take effect, and the effects are not very long-lasting.

If the situation is more serious, it's not impossible for it to take an hour to take effect.

However, the effects of gout relief oral liquid can take effect within minutes. According to the current research and test data of the Yunhuoteng team, the effects of gout relief oral liquid are indeed that good.

In addition, the oral solution for gout relief has no allergic reactions and will not increase the burden on the kidneys or the heart, so there is no need to worry about other side effects.

Another advantage of this gout relief oral liquid is its excellent taste; it has no strange flavor and tastes just like pure water when no additives are used to adjust the flavor.

However, even when all these benefits are combined, they don't seem to outweigh the cost issue.

After all, the cost is indeed too high!
The cost of the Vitality Restoration Factor and Cloud Fire Vine alone reached 100,300 yuan. If other costs are added, the total cost would be approximately 100,400 Xia Guoyuan.

Given these costs, what would be a suitable selling price?
Should we refer to the pricing of Two Joys?
Should we refer to the pricing of nitroglycerin tablets?
The profit margin for nitroglycerin pills is higher because each pill has a factory price of 5,000 yuan, but only 1 milligram of the corresponding vitality recovery factor is consumed. The factory price of nitroglycerin pills is actually based on the price of Liang Huanxi (a brand name).

Because Nova Pharmaceuticals offers the most favorable price, a product made from one gram of Vitality Restoration Factor can ultimately be sold for 250,000.

The product contains 2 grams of vitality restoration factor and 2 milligrams of energy restoration factor. The final overseas ex-factory price is approximately 500,000 Chinese yuan.

As for the price of the energy restoration factor.
The monopoly on energy recovery factors has now been broken, and their price should decrease in the future, as their value will not be comparable to that of vitality recovery factors.

"Mr. An, do you think the oral solution for gout relief has commercial value?" Xiong Yuanji asked.

To be honest, Xiong Yuanji himself felt that the gout relief oral liquid had no commercial value.

After all, compared to nitroglycerin, oral gout relief solution should be more attractive than nitroglycerin pills, right?

Heart-saving pills are life-saving, while oral liquid for gout relief only relieves pain.

Why promote gout relief oral liquid when you could easily make money with nitroglycerin pills?

An Wuyang answered affirmatively, "It has commercial value."

"Hmm?" Xiong Yuanji hesitated. "This... Mr. An... it can't cure gout."

"What about the lasting effects?" An Wuyang asked again.

Xiong Yuanji responded, "It is similar to lupus relief medication. When gout attacks, using the gout relief oral liquid can solve the current problem."

"As long as you maintain good lifestyle habits, avoid eating too much animal offal, seafood, and beer, and drink plenty of water, you can control the gout problem," Xiong Yuanji added.

Although the effects of the two are similar, the cost difference is huge!

Because each lupus patient only needs 20 mg of the vitality recovery factor, while the gout relief oral solution requires fifty times that amount.

An Wuyang began to ponder silently.
High costs are not a problem!
The inability to cure gout is not a problem!

"Are there any other similar effective drugs on the market?" An Wuyang asked.

Xiong Yuanji denied it, saying, "No."

"Currently, there isn't a very good treatment for gout. Neither etoricoxib nor diclofenac sodium is as effective as our oral solution for relieving gout," Xiong Yuanji added.

"Have you tried using fifteen-year-old Cloudfire Vine?" An Wuyang asked again.

Xiong Yuanji showed no displeasure at An Wuyang's low-level question, after all, An Wuyang was their boss!

"Of course!" Xiong Yuanji replied affirmatively.

"But in reality, there isn't much difference in the results," Xiong Yuanji added.

"According to our research, the mechanism by which the oral liquid for gout relief works is the therapeutic effect produced by the combination of flavonoids contained in *Cynanchum paniculatum* and polysaccharide compounds such as vitality recovery factor," Xiong Yuanji explained simply.

"Once the concentrations of vitality restoration factors and flavonoids reach a certain level, they can produce an effect. Even if more flavonoids and vitality restoration factors are added, there is no qualitative change," Xiong Yuanji added.

Xiong Yuanji meant that even if fifteen-year-old Siberian fire vines contained more flavonoids, it wouldn't actually be of much use.

This also means that even if the vitality recovery factor used in gout relief oral liquid is doubled, the corresponding effect will not increase exponentially.

An Wuyang frowned slightly.

"Is the production process complicated?" An Wuyang asked again.

Xiong Yuanji denied this, saying, "The production process is extremely simple. Any undergraduate chemistry student could mix it by hand in a laboratory setting, provided they have the raw materials."

"The most important thing about oral solutions for gout relief is the raw materials," Xiong Yuanji pointed out.

“We also discovered a problem in our research,” Xiong Yuanji suddenly said, revealing a new situation.

"What's the problem?" An Wuyang asked.

"Our research has shown that there are indeed differences between Siberian fire vine and Changbai Mountain fire vine; the flavonoids extracted from them are different," Xiong Yuanji added.

Knowing that An Wuyang was unaware of this knowledge, Xiong Yuanji continued, "Flavones are a collective term for a class of substances, encompassing more than four thousand compounds."

"The flavonoids contained in the cloud fire vine are flavonols, and there are about a thousand kinds of this type of substance in plants in nature," Xiong Yuanji added.

“When we were researching oral solutions for gout relief, we discovered that the flavonoids contained in Siberian vine are indeed not the same as those extracted from artificially cultivated vine in the Changbai Mountain area,” Xiong Yuanji continued.

"These slight differences have resulted in the Yunhuo Teng (a type of vine) cultivated in the Changbai Mountain area being far less effective than the wild Yunhuo Teng in Siberia," Xiong Yuanji continued.

Xiong Yuanji meant that the supplier of Yunhuoteng could not be changed, and the Siberian Yunhuoteng controlled by CLC Group had indeed become the exclusive supplier.

But it’s not a big problem!

CLC Group is currently unaware of this matter.

"Who knows about this?" An Wuyang asked.

Xiong Yuanji immediately responded, "Besides me, only core personnel know. Everyone has signed a confidentiality agreement, so it's impossible for us to leak this information."

"That's good!" An Wuyang replied with a smile.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it gets exposed!
CLC Group cannot threaten Wu Gengtian, because if CLC Group were to threaten Wu Gengtian, Wu Gengtian would not mind having someone else replace CLC Group.

Furthermore, given Anna's connections, the CLC Group wouldn't do anything foolish.

"Take some time to make one hundred doses of gout relief oral liquid, and then continue to study how to optimize and improve it," An Wuyang instructed.

“Okay,” Xiong Yuanji readily agreed.

After An Wuyang and Xiong Yuanji finished their conversation, he dialed An Huchun's number again. As he waited for the call to be connected, An Huchun's voice came through first.

"Have you finished your conversation with Professor Xiong?" An Huchun asked.

An Wuyang answered affirmatively, "Yes."

“Their research findings may not be able to be converted into commercial value, so they probably didn’t report this to you,” An Huchun said, making an excuse for the other party.

An Wuyang responded, "Actually, it has commercial value."

"Oh? Tell me how you plan to operate this product?" Anhuchun asked curiously.

How can a drug that is expensive, has a narrow range of effects, and cannot cure patients have commercial value?

After Wugengtian was taken over by An Wuyang, it underwent tremendous changes. An Huchun was very glad that he had stepped down early to take charge of research and development. He was now very curious to know how An Wuyang was going to operate such a disadvantageous product.

(End of this chapter)