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Chapter 430 Antimalarial Drugs
"He didn't let him go?" Yang Dongsheng didn't expect that just announcing the details of the case in advance would cause such a big change.

But it’s not surprising when you think about it carefully. Old Cucumber promised not to call the police, but suddenly, the robbers found out that his name was known to all of Hong Kong overnight, so it’s not crazy.

This change was not a good thing for Yang Dongsheng. The old cucumber lost his eldest son, and the guy who lied to others with his Stanford education experience suddenly became the only heir of the old cucumber.

We have to add some trouble to them, at least until before the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, so that the second son of the old cucumber can't integrate the old cucumber's power and deal with them wholeheartedly!
"I heard that this matter was exposed because someone broke the news to the Hong Kong media?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"Yeah! I don't know who is so well-informed. Even the Hong Kong police don't know. All of a sudden, the major media in Hong Kong received detailed information. Not only did they tell the robber's name, but also the process of kidnapping and extortion. It's very clear." Yang Huai said quite proudly.

"I didn't expect that guy who dropped out of Stanford to be so ruthless, even his own brother can do it."

"Brother, you mean that old guy's second son killed his eldest son?"

"When the police didn't even know about it, they were able to expose the matter so thoroughly. They must have done it themselves! And think about it, that old guy only has two sons. If his eldest son dies, who will benefit the most?"

"It must be his second son! I'll send a message right away to expose this guy's true face. Fortunately, we rejected him at the time!" Yang Huai hung up the phone.

This trick is an overt conspiracy, and even elementary school students know that "whoever benefits the most will be the most suspected".Not to mention outsiders like them, if something happened to the eldest son, even Old Cucumber would suspect that he had fallen in love with his second son.

But people cannot be resurrected after death, and now the second son is his only heir, as long as that old cucumber is not selfless and ready to donate all his wealth to the SAR government, he will not pursue this matter any more.

Yang Dongsheng just wanted to make it impossible for him to fool the past like this. Old Cucumber wanted to pass the family property to his second son?Let's get rid of everyone's strange eyes first, this is killing a brother and seizing property!
Moreover, although the eldest son of the old cucumber passed away, he still left his wife and daughter. Even if the old cucumber can pass on the property to the second son, his second son will have two lifelong enemies.

After taking the school exam, Yang Dongsheng took Manager Zhao with him from Guazhou to the north.

Both Lunan and Bohai cities will further deepen reforms, involving many factories and mines, but Yang Dongsheng's focus this time is Dachengshan City, Hebei Province.

Dachengshan is famous all over the country, not only because of a major earthquake that shocked the whole country, but also because of the steel industry here.

There is a ranking on the Internet about the world's steel production - China is undisputedly ranked first, No. 2 is Hebei Province where Dachengshan is located, No. 3 is Dachengshan itself, and No. 4 is Dachengshan's concealed production.

The actual steel production of Mount Ayutthaya is said to be one of the top ten unsolved mysteries in the world.

Yang Dongsheng's exchange of mines for factories and land for factories will naturally not lose Dachengshan's share.

Similar to Guazhou, Dachengshan has coal and iron.

However, the original conditions of Dachengshan are much better than those of Guazhou. They have the second largest iron mine in the country, and they also have more reserves of coking coal than Guazhou, with more complete varieties.

Richard Williams did a good job and got a lot of mines.

Leaving Manager Zhao to hand over to Richard Williams, Yang Dongsheng went to Huajing, took a look at Yang Richu, and then continued north to Madu.

As soon as he got off the plane, Yang Dongsheng received a warmer welcome than last time.

Yang Dongsheng got off the plane and looked around the field before he understood what was going on—the fields were full of green crops, and the local government was overjoyed.

Madu, Hedong, and Hexi are the three most food-deficient cities in Mongolia. Every year, they borrow food from their brother cities. For this, they are often ridiculed by their brothers and criticized by the province.

But this year is different. Judging from the current situation, Madu's grain production this year can not only be self-sufficient, but it may even be shipped out.

When the leaders of Madu City were happy, they poured Yang Dongsheng's wine vigorously. Yang Dongsheng also hoped to take this opportunity to expand his territory in Madu City.

Fortunately, Manager Jiang said the next day that the leader of Madu also drank too much at the wine table, so he fully agreed to Yang Dongsheng's request.

"How about the batch of college students who were assigned?" Yang Dongsheng asked, rubbing his bewildered forehead.

"It's almost a third of the time!" Manager Jiang said cautiously.

"Don't be merciful, even if there is no last one left, it's none of your business, just train them for me!"

He rushed back to Guazhou from Madu, and as soon as he got home, Yang Dongsheng received a call from James Whistler.

"The biggest difficulty now is that malaria is breaking out here-in fact, malaria breaks out here every summer. The problem is that the French say that there is a shortage of medicines for treating malaria and limit the number of medicines sold every day. In fact, they just want to earn more money. profit of..."

"Malaria medicine is in short supply, what kind of medicine are you buying?" Yang Dongsheng was taken aback.

After James Whistler said it several times, Yang Dongsheng guessed that what they bought turned out to be artemisinin.

"Wait a minute, why did you buy artemisinin from the French?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"West Africa used to be a French colony. Although the French West African colony disintegrated in the 60s, the French still have a strong influence here. Until now, people here still speak French and use various francs..." Seeing that Yang Dongsheng didn't understand, James Whistler quickly explained.

"I mean artemisinin is made in China, why did you buy it from the French?"

"Is artemisinin produced in China?" This time it was James Whistler's turn to be dazed.

In later generations of China, we all know that artemisinin is an antimalarial drug developed by Chinese scientists based on traditional prescriptions.But in the 90s, foreigners basically didn't know the relationship between this drug and the Chinese people-many people in this era didn't know it themselves.

At present, artemisinin drugs in the world are mainly monopolized by two companies, one is Switzerland's Ciba-Geigy, which later became Novartis, and the other is France's Sanofi-Sindela Fort.

Even Indian companies that make generic drugs are more famous than Chinese ones.

In fact, they all purchase artemisinin raw materials from China, and then press them into tablets or oral liquids, and the profit margin can be maintained at more than 50% all year round.

In the season of malaria outbreak, the profit can be even higher through hunger marketing.

However, China has taken almost all the steps from planting, picking, refining, and separating toxic substances, but we can only get one-tenth, or even a few tenths, of the income of the French and Swiss.

(End of this chapter)