Chapter 344 — Thank You, Brother-in-Law
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"It's like this, Grandpa Guan. I'll give you an account number, and you can transfer two hundred thousand into it for me." Wei Zhao passed on the account number Tang Zhi had sent him.
"Mm, all right. I'll have Xinxin transfer it through online banking in a bit." Guan Xuewen noted down the number and, without asking what Wei Zhao needed it for, agreed straight away.
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Grandpa Guan. As for the pharmaceutical company, I'll come over and we can talk it over properly once I have some free time in the next few days. I don't know the first thing about operations, so I'll still have to impose on you." Wei Zhao felt a little embarrassed — all he had provided was a prescription, and yet he could sit back and take a share of the profits.
"As for operations, if you won't step forward yourself, you'd best find a spokesman. I'm an old man — I can handle the social side of things for you, but when it comes to actual sales, you young people are better suited to it!" Guan Xuewen gave a wry smile. "To be honest with you, I'm an old pedant, and when it comes to running a business, I might even be worse than you!"
"Is that so..." Only after hearing Guan Xuewen's advice did Wei Zhao realize this. Before, he had simply thought that with Guan Xuewen's reputation to borrow and his own prescriptions to offer, he could get a pharmaceutical company up and running. But now, hearing Guan Xuewen's words, he saw that it was not as simple as he had imagined: with a name and with proven efficacy, one still had to know how to run the business.
"Indeed. My youngest son would actually be a fitting candidate — he's Xinxin's father — but I don't want him mixed up in any of this." Guan Xuewen suggested, "If you won't manage it yourself, then you must find someone trustworthy to keep an eye on things for you. As for marketing, you can bring in a professional manager."
"Grandpa Guan, isn't Guan Xin a shareholder in the company? She could keep an eye on things for me." Wei Zhao suddenly recalled that Guan Xin was also a shareholder, and his thoughts turned to her.
"Heh, even if Xinxin is a shareholder, she represents me. You'll still need a representative of your own on that side." Guan Xuewen smiled. "By the way, if you have time, come over and prepare a trial batch of the medicines you plan to put on the market, so I can send them for testing and get the approval documents."
"No problem — this weekend, then." Wei Zhao thought it over. Accompanying Kang Xiaofeng to his second granduncle's birthday banquet shouldn't take long, and afterward he could drop by Guan Xuewen's place to have a look.
He still had some of the healing salve on hand — the last batch he had prepared was not yet used up. As for the painkiller Yang Huaijun used, Guan Xuewen already had the formula, and would likely have prepared a trial batch by now.
For starters, they would launch just these two medicines. Too many, and the remarkable qualities of each would fail to stand out. Only once these two made a splash would they gradually roll out the other new products, which would draw even more attention.
Guan Xin took the account number her grandfather handed her and glanced at the account name — Tang Zhi. Her heart sank a little, and she felt a faint twinge of envy, but she still transferred the two hundred thousand as Wei Zhao had asked.
Mother Tang's bank card had been opened under Tang Zhi's name; originally it was where Tang Zhi kept her New Year's money and pocket money. After Tang Jucheng was injured, Tang Zhi contributed all the New Year's money she had saved up over the years, and Mother Tang could not be bothered to open a new account, so she simply used Tang Zhi's card as the family's savings card.
"Beep-beep..." A text message alert sounded. This card had originally been linked to Tang Jucheng's phone.
Tang Jucheng took out his phone and glanced at the message, and was somewhat startled: "Two hundred thousand came in?"