Chapter 678 — Press Conference
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Yet at this very moment of tension, Lai Changshan, president of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals, called an emergency press conference!
Ever since its founding, Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals had been a focus of media and public attention! Though the company's product, "Guan Daifu Trauma Medicine," had yet to officially reach the market, the name of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals already rang loud and clear!
For no other reason than this: news of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals' dazzling showing at the Yanjing Yu family's auction, though it first circulated only among the great houses and the wealthy merchants, was soon picked up by the omnipresent news media, which ran report after report on the company!
Among them were no few tales of hearsay, wondrous beyond belief -- talk of how Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals had mastered the art of raising the dead and growing flesh upon bare bones, and the like... all of it, of course, derived from the Longevity and Detoxification Pill.
But Fat Lai did not step forward to refute the rumors, for such reports were a muddle of truth and falsehood, the stuff of gossip; with the media stirring them up, he was spared even the cost of advertising, and the name of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals was hyped into prominence!
And so, when Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals called an emergency press conference, every major media outlet in Songshan City, the moment the news reached them, dispatched reporters racing to the venue.
Though the media's attention was fixed on the mass fainting of First High's students, the press conference of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals mattered a great deal as well; those outlets that had failed to seize the initiative on the fainting incident now trained all their attention on this press conference, hoping to lay hands on some first-hand material there.
The conference was held in the new tower Fat Lai had built; this would serve as the corporate headquarters of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals, and the construction and trading companies on the floors below had been contributed free of charge by Fat Lai as well, merged into Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals.
The construction company would henceforth be charged solely with building the pharmaceutical company's factories, while the trading company would be charged solely with selling the medicines produced.
What he gave away in that single stroke was Fat Lai's entire fortune. Fat Lai's wife was rather reluctant to part with it, but Fat Lai would not consider a woman's opinion at all; in his view, his wife had long hair and short wits!
This was nothing yet! Once he had attached himself firmly to Wei Zhao, what could he possibly lack? Wei Zhao's medical skill was superb beyond description; to say he could bring the dead back to life would hardly be an exaggeration. As his underling, could Fat Lai fail to reap the benefits?
Gazing at the packed press seats, Fat Lai felt a satisfaction such as he had never known. In the days when he ran his own companies, he would likely have had to spend a few favors just to get a handful of reporters to attend a press conference -- and even then the number would have been no more than a third of this.
Now he had to invest nothing at all; he merely put out a single word, and the reporters came flocking like grass before the wind. There was no help for it -- the products of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals were not yet on the market, but the name was already made!
"My thanks to all you friends of the press for attending this press conference of Guan Daifu Pharmaceuticals. I am Lai Changshan." Fat Lai walked up onto the stage beaming and announced: "The main subject of this press conference is the mass fainting of First High's students! If any of you came for our company's new products, I'm afraid you will be disappointed!"