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Chapter 1350: Chapter 1202: Bizarre ’Stalemate’ (Subscribe please!)
Rich disease.
A moniker for "modern civilization diseases."
They are afflictions that people get when they have money, live well, and no longer worry about food and drink, which due to sedentary lifestyles, reduced physical activity, and excessive nutrition, lead to constipation, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and more.
Such diseases are rare in impoverished societies and among the poor.
However, these individuals.
Have been increasing year by year.
Relatively speaking,
Their money is easier to earn.
"Fantastic, I also think this is a good project. So, now, the patients in these hospitals..." Ding Kang sighed in relief upon hearing this, it signified that he could finally stop sitting on this unproductive nest egg.
"Let them go, they’re not worth much," Kong Kuang nodded as he spoke.
"Okay."
After that,
Ding Kang urgently called for a meeting.
He instructed his subordinates to inform—or rather, spread rumors to—the patients still in the hospital. The hospital also employed shills to induce consumption, so quickly, all the hospital’s patients had left.
The hospital closed its doors.
And then,
Took an extended holiday.
Once they had dealt with the hospital’s current assets and established a new team, they would call them back. This type of hospital was easy to handle, as they already had beds and equipment, which could be sold to those dealing with infertility, male specialists, and the like.
They were quite easy to sell off.
...
Shanghai Stock Market.
Tang Qing looked at the business situation of the Myanmar Pharmaceutical Group.
He was quite pleased.
Firstly,
He was satisfied that it had cured many patients, relieving people who suffered from ailments and restoring their health, preventing families from experiencing the plight of "a sudden illness negating ten years of saving."
Secondly,
The Myanmar Pharmaceutical Group had also made a considerable amount of money.
This month,
Excluding local patients, the Myanmar Pharmaceutical Group had treated nearly five hundred thousand patients from around the world, most of whom were seriously ill, with each person’s medical expenses averaging around 30,000 RMB.
The total revenue exceeded 15 billion Asia Dollars.
To be honest,
It wasn’t really all that much.
At this rate,
It would only be about 180 billion Asia Dollars a year, but that was the most simple of calculations, for it didn’t take into account the potential increase in volume in the future nor the sales of other original drugs from the Group.
What’s more,
Tang Qing planned to incrementally increase the ’donations’ obtained by the Myanmar Medical Foundation year by year, as more and more dollars and other national currencies were earned, the transferred assets naturally had to grow.
Taking it all into account,
By the end of this year, including domestic business, the Myanmar Pharmaceutical Group’s sales would be between 150 to 180 billion. Next year, it might exceed 300 billion Asia Dollars.
When the efficacy of Transcription Fluid became recognized by various countries and popularized,
This number would stabilize between 8 thousand and 10 thousand billion Asia Dollars, with an after-tax net profit of around 150 billion Asia Dollars, primarily because the scope had expanded, and costs had risen.
However,
Whether the profits were large or small,
Tang Qing didn’t care too much, and this was just one of the companies under the Myanmar Bank Group. Another company of similar scale, the Myanmar Environmental Technology Company, was not earning any less than the Pharmaceutical Group.
In the future,
Enterprises of such scale belonging to the Myanmar Group
Would not be fewer than ten.
Healthcare.
Environmental Protection.
What percentage did these two cover of the sector classification of society?
Not to mention the distant future, after a few more years, Zhiya Technology in Huaxia would also begin its explosive growth, currently the world’s largest 4G plan provider, and in the future, it would cover virtually all aspects of the communication field.
Energy.
Military Industry.
Manufacturing.
Finance.
Aerospace.
...
One by one, businesses of the Myanmar Group
Will be sculpted into giants in their respective fields, and this is just the entities of the Myanmar Group. ERV, the Grain Industry Alliance, the Mining Industry Alliance, the Global Emerging Consortium Plan... one by one, these ’off-the-books’ Jumbos were still in the process of development.
Making money,
Tang Qing felt it didn’t matter how much.
What he wanted now
Was power,
The power to influence the global economy.
Regarding the interest groups that "Transcription Fluid" had offended,
Tang Qing didn’t care.
Those multinational behemoths were, in his eyes, merely "small" companies. If they dared to play dirty tricks, he could show them who truly invented underhanded tactics.
These people.
Now many were too scared to make a move.
However,
Transcription Fluid wasn’t omnipotent.
There were many diseases it couldn’t cure, such as obesity. According to the functionality of Transcription Fluid, for rule-abiding cells, fat accumulation was a normal metabolic activity.
Uncurable.
Hyperlipidemia was the same.
It regarded this as a normal gene expression. The thick fat within blood vessels wouldn’t dissolve due to Transcription Fluid. Therefore, Myanmar Pharmaceutical Group still had a long road ahead in terms of disease treatment.
As for those unscrupulous merchants who turned to treat people’s "rich diseases,"
he could only watch.
In this respect,
Tang Qing actually wished people would pay attention to their diet and exercise more, rather than fostering such unhealthy lifestyles. Once efficient weight-loss drugs were developed, who would want to exercise?
Sitting alone could slim you down.
Why bother moving at all?
Gluttony wouldn’t be feared, so why bother limiting what we eat? This kind of "behavioral regression" triggered by technological progress left Tang Qing unsure of how to feel. He could only try his best.
When everything became indiscriminate,
Tang Qing didn’t think it was a good thing. For example, Transcription Fluid was also highly effective against AIDS, able to cure it like cancer in roughly a month. But if everyone stopped fearing it, who would practice restraint?
Once this mindset took hold,
After becoming fearless,
Where would morality end up?
With that,
if everyone no longer feared contracting diseases through promiscuity, would decent homes continually degrade? Would the debauched become more outrageous? Would people grow increasingly willful? Did technological progress truly bring about social progress?
Perhaps it was a regression?
This world.
Should there exist some things worthy of awe?
Perhaps.
Whether it’s good or bad,
Only time can prove it.
...
September 2.
Sunday.
The onset of autumn.
The weather turned cooler.
Registration completed, Tang Qing was set to officially start classes tomorrow. Today, he took the time to visit Qingyuan Technology, held a morning meeting, and listened to their work report, which, frankly, was quite dull.
But.
The significance of listening to reports
was not just in understanding the content, but also in showing an attitude, an acknowledgment of their work. If one is unwilling to even patiently listen for a short time, what would those who had worked so hard think?
They were human too,
not tools,
and needed recognition, which extended beyond money—it was respect for their labor.
Therefore,
Tang Qing wasn’t so old-fashioned.
Previously during his willful phase, he thought a few words in a meeting were enough—state the critical data, and everyone could continue with their work. Later, Tang Qing slowly understood the importance of listening to reports
and became less averse to it.
However,
they couldn’t be too long.
This time, he nearly finalized all the tasks for Qingyuan Technology’s second half of the year. He wouldn’t be back for months, so he listened very carefully. Overall, the development of Qingyuan Technology wasn’t bad.
Currently,
the only smartphone on the market was still "Epoch." ERV had been expected to launch its own smartphone by the end of August, which many in the industry looked forward to, but they incredibly made it to September without a peep.
Tang Qing found it amusing.
Previously,
he planned to let ERV outclass others after they launched their smartphones.
However,
they were eagerly waiting for ERV to make a move to avoid being embarrassed, leading to a deadlock, hoping ERV would quickly release their product, enabling them to reference and adjust theirs.
This resulted in,
the industry giants who had already designed and manufactured their smartphone prototypes, collectively falling silent.
Seeing such a strange situation,
Tang Qing laughed.
All right.
You all just keep waiting.
I’ll sell my "Epoch." If those communication giants really can’t wait and come out to compete with me for the market, I’ll then unleash ERV to bite.
