Chapter 450 — Self-Recommendation
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Wei Zhao and Guan Xuewen were both stunned. They hadn't expected Fatty Lai to actually have some real skill—he wasn't just a crybaby, but a talent.
"Then the sales of the painkiller..." Wei Zhao had little experience in business, so he continued to ask humbly.
"As long as our wound medicine scores a hit right out of the gate, the painkiller won't be a problem!" Fatty Lai said. "Once our first product hits the market and is accepted by consumers, the second product will basically need no promotion at all! Of course, holding a live launch event is also an option."
"I see!" Wei Zhao nodded, taking it in. "Then what about the auction I was planning earlier—should we still hold it? I was preparing to put a few Life-Extending Detox Pills up for auction, but..."
Here Wei Zhao hesitated. He wasn't close to Fatty Lai, so naturally he couldn't make the refining of the Life-Extending Detox Pills sound too easy—if he made it sound like making candy, then the fact that he'd swindled him out of a whole building for half a pill would surely make Fatty Lai feel he'd been robbed blind! Even though it had been Fatty Lai's own idea to offer it... Wei Zhao didn't want Fatty Lai cursing him behind his back.
So he went on, "But the Life-Extending Detox Pills are extremely difficult to refine. Many of the ingredients are nearly extinct, so the number is limited, and they can't possibly be mass-produced and sold. If we auction them, won't it seem like they have nothing to do with the pharmaceutical company's products?"
"Of course not! That's a gimmick!" Fatty Lai waved his hand repeatedly upon hearing this, thinking to himself that the Life-Extending Detox Pills really were a treasure—how wise he'd been to claw half a pill out of that dog crap! He guessed Wei Zhao didn't have many of these pills left in his hands either; they were priceless treasures indeed!
"I thought it was a gimmick too, at first—but the way you tell it, the gimmick doesn't seem to serve any purpose at all?" Wei Zhao asked.
"How do you figure it serves no purpose?" Fatty Lai waved a hand. "We can announce the Longevity Detox Pill to the public as a limited-edition made from rare medicinal ingredients—because the success rate of refining it is very low and the raw materials are scarce... Hmm, we might as well say the expert who supplied us with the formula gave us an out-of-production batch of ingredients! Rarity lends value, after all. By the time this Longevity Detox Pill earns a good reputation and shows real curative effects, our wound medicine will rise right along with it!"
Wei Zhao nodded, thinking Fatty Lai's idea was a sound one. "Do you know where we could hire a professional manager to run the company?"
"Well..." At Wei Zhao's words, a flicker of excited anticipation darted through Fatty Lai's eyes, and his face flushed slightly. "What do you think of me?"
"You?" Wei Zhao was taken aback for a moment before he understood what Fatty Lai meant. "You're saying you want to be the professional manager?"
"That's right. What do you think of me? I've been knocking around the business world for over ten years now—you could say I'm fairly experienced!" Fatty Lai said, thumping his chest.
"But your trading company and your real estate company..." Wei Zhao looked at Fatty Lai in puzzlement.
"The trading company will handle pharmaceutical sales from now on, and the real estate company will build our branch offices from here on out!" Fatty Lai said with a wave of his hand. "I founded both of those companies myself—what I say goes!"