Chapter 627 Huge Shadow
What Yang Rui thought of was the West Jet Factory in Xibao Town.
The Xijie Factory is built in the factory of Xibao Meat Connection Factory. It uses current advanced equipment and its staff are also domestic employees, including Tian Shichang of Ruixue Group. They have been dealing with Yang Rui since the beginning of the factory construction and have a certain degree of awareness of Yang Rui.
In addition, the Yang family is also a local snake in Hexi County, Xibao Town, Jilikang, National Medical Foreign Trade, Xibao Meat Converged Factory and Yang Rui. It was originally unbreakable, but if Yang Rui could convince National Medical Foreign Trade, Xibao Meat Converged Factory was easy to fight for... Then Jilikang's control over Xijie factory will become less than nothing.
Just like in the era when the mainland was building development zones, county-level governments killed foreign and Hong Kong businessmen, it was too simple for the Yang family to cheat a company in Xi County. Even if the Hedong Provincial Government came down, it might not be able to stir up this mess.
If it was Yang Rui in high school, he would not be able to convince the foreign trade of the Chinese medicine. But now, Yang Rui has met many powerful people through Jing Cuncheng. He has money and connections around him, so he has a great chance to persuade the foreign trade of the Chinese medicine.
Of course, it is not easy for the foreign trade of China Medical University to sell Coenzyme Q10 in the international market, but Yang Rui believes that as long as the factory price is low enough and the profit is high enough, there will definitely be shameless and lifeless medical brokers who undertake such business. Afghanistan's radish and African blood diamonds can be sold. The moral integrity of medical brokers in the international market will not be much better than drug dealers.
However, this is a trick with great lethality. Once implemented, it will cost a lot of money to reconcile. It can be said that as long as Yang Rui uses this trick, the first thing will be to lose.
"I have to find a way to determine the situation of Jielikang first." Yang Rui murmured to himself.
"How do you want to confirm?" Jing Yulan continued to help him expand his thinking.
Yang Rui thought, "It's definitely not possible to make a phone call. It's best to communicate face to face to find Frankie."
"Frankie, that fat British?" Jing Yulan has a very impressed with this. In China in 1984, it was rare to meet a fat man full of seats.
Yang Rui nodded: "Frankie...is still a good person in general, but if I call him, I'm afraid it won't work. I can't go to the UK..."
"If Franky is in the UK, maybe she can ask the people from the embassy for help." Jing Yulan asked for an idea and said, "Uncle Guo Wei and Guo work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He must know the people from the embassy. Even if he doesn't know him, he can find an international student in the UK."
Guo Wei was Jing Cuncheng's roommate at Delin Farm back then. They all shared the foreign exchange coupons given by Yang Rui back then. Therefore, he was also a Deling faction with a close relationship with Yang Rui. He helped Yang Rui several times earlier.
And this time, it is obviously correct to ask Guo Wei for help.
Thinking of this, Yang Rui was already excited. He couldn't help but pick up Jing Yulan and walked around, and smiled and said, "Good idea."
Jing Yulan was extremely shy, but fortunately, Yang Rui only hugged her and put her down, which made people very angry.
"Don't look like this anymore." Jing Yulan warned in a low voice, but the tone was slight and it was impossible to hear clearly.
Yang Rui asked with the ability to follow the conversation at the junior high school student level: "Who is not allowed?"
Jing Yulan was indeed embarrassed and turned around and ignored Yang Rui.
Yang Rui sighed and pretended to say, "Ignore me, I will go out to find Uncle Guo first. I don't know if I will leave my food for me at noon."
Jing Yulan remembered his depressed look just now, and felt soft and said, "I have no class today. I cook for lunch. If you are willing to eat, come back."
"I want to eat radish beef brisket and clear the fire." Yang Rui immediately demanded to improve his temper.
Jing Yulan's face turned dark: "Boil radish in water to clear the fire."
"Beef does not cause heat, radish clears the heat, two pounds plus three pounds, at least one pound of fire." Yang Rui was making trouble while wearing shoes.
Jing Yulan couldn't help laughing: "I'll go to the market to see it later. If there is no beef, I can't do anything."
"There is a card in the first drawer under the coffee table, which says the beef man, and the address and phone number are at the back. The phone number is from the small shop in front of his shop. You leave a message saying you want two kilograms of beef brisket. If you say my name, he will know. Before the market closes the stall, he will leave two kilograms of beef brisket for you." Yang Rui talked about this topic, as serious as talking about the problem of Jielikang.
Jing Yulan was stunned when she heard this: "You have such a good relationship with selling beef?"
"It's so hard to buy cattle now. On weekends and holidays, you go to queue at 5 a.m., and there are at least ten people lying in front of the beef and mutton shop." Yang Rui shook his head and said, "I gave me a cigarette, and then they promised to keep the meat secretly for me."
Jing Yulan said in disbelief: "Did you give a cigarette to the beef shop clerk?"
This was in 1984. A cigarette was a ritual exchange, and a box of cigarettes could do things - just a day ago, Wang Yong used a box of cigarettes to help Yang Rui buy back three paintings by Wu Changshuo, the ambassador of the Republic of China, which was equivalent to buying back three special products.
As for a cigarette, there are too many things that can be done. If it is in the countryside, it will be enough to add it when recruiting workers.
Yang Rui was very proud: "The cigar smoker also needs a cigar brother to serve him. I will give him a cigarette. He not only leaves me the beef, but also the best part. Come on, I'll go back first. Remember to call."
The door slammed, leaving Jing Yulan in the room with a mess: She had never heard of such a thing in the past 27 years.
Yang Rui went out and did not call a bike anymore. He rode his bicycle and stepped on it all the way. He sweated heavily before he calmed down and went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find Guo Wei.
Found Frank in the UK and asked him a question. Almost all international students can do such a job. However, Guo Wei still found a relatively older international student representative through his subordinates, reminded him a few words on the phone, and then said to Yang Rui: "There will be an echo the day after tomorrow."
"Keep it as confidential as possible. If there is any news, please ask me to come and say it." Yang Rui was naturally cautious. Jielikan's attitude was related to his dividends, and the amount of the dividends determined his next action.
Yang Rui couldn't pay much attention to this.
Any laboratory director attaches great importance to the capital pipeline.
In the next two days, Yang Rui spent the next two days worrying about beef brisket, beef tenderloin, beef tendon, oxtail and beef tripe.
On the third day, Guo Wei called Yang Rui and said, "There is news."
Yang Rui was doing an experiment. Without saying a word, he handed over the work in his hand to Su Xiankai, and turned around and left.
If it is other problems, he will give priority to completing the experiment, but for the current laboratories, the funding issue is more important than the experiment itself. If the funding pipeline is cut off and even the experimental consumables cannot be afforded, how can we talk about experiments?
Guo Wei quietly corrected the documents in the office. When he saw Yang Rui coming in, he immediately put down the pen in his hand, closed the door, and said, "It has been confirmed."
Yang Rui was stunned and said silently: "I didn't expect to receive bad news."
"Your friend Frankie also asked someone to tell me that the mastermind behind the scenes is not Jelikan." Guo Wei knew about some of the situation, and his words were heavy.
Yang Rui laughed: "I'm still behind the scenes..."
Guo Wei didn't laugh.
"It's very serious?" Yang Rui was stunned: "Okay, it's appropriate to be the mastermind behind the scenes. Who is it?"
"DuPont, do you know?" Guo Wei paused and said, "According to Frank, DuPont asked Jelikon to suspend paying you dividends in order to gain an advantage in the next lawsuit. Well, according to Frank, DuPont will sue you in the United States soon."
"DuPont, of course I know..." Yang Rui's face was extremely bad, and he thought to himself: Finally, he is here.
DuPont gives people the impression that it is mostly a chemical group, which is indeed the largest chemical group in the world. But in addition, as a huge consortium, DuPont is also one of the top six giants in the in vitro diagnostic agent market. The scale of this market is as large as US$1.2 billion, and the scale of in vitro diagnosis of infectious diseases that PCR is most likely to affect is US$100 million.
100 million US dollars is enough for a consortium to launch a shameless offensive.
Historically, Sister was harassed by DuPont about half a year after launching the PCR instrument, and another half a year later, lawsuits suddenly broke out. This is because PCR technology first played a role in the field of virus testing.
Just like when Yang Rui gave a speech, he chose AIDS as a breakthrough point, claiming that PCR can replicate the HIV virus that cannot be replicated at present. The characteristics of PCR have allowed researchers to focus on virus testing first.
Before PCR technology, direct testing of viruses was greatly restricted. If you want to test whether a person is infected by the virus - either test the infected person's antibodies or try to cultivate samples.
Suppose you suspect that someone is infected by influenza or avian influenza, or that a pig is infected with swine fever, you must choose one of two methods to verify. If you choose to test the infected person's antibodies, someone may have to be infected for a long time before they can produce antibodies. If it is avian influenza or swine fever, it will obviously incur a lot of costs.
Then, using the second method, the culture sample is tested. Unfortunately, it will take several days to cultivate the sample - if it can be carried out.
PCR is different. PCR does not require cultivation because it can directly and continuously double the virus. The purpose of culturing samples is to hope that the virus will proliferate by itself, and then test a large number of viruses. PCR directly doubles the DNA or RNA of the virus, which is simple and easy to do, saving time. With the PCR device, the entire process is still automated, saving researchers a lot of time. There is no doubt how important this is in the outbreak stage.
DuPont first saw the prospects of PCR technology, or DuPont first felt the revolutionary power of PCR. For their own interests, they took up the weapons of the law without hesitation - the weapons themselves have no emotions.
Yang Rui can even find DuPont’s lawsuit against Sister from the literature in his mind, because this is a classic case, an example of small companies protecting their own interests and defeating large companies.
The small company mentioned here is the Sister Company, which is publicly listed on the US Stock Exchange with a market value of over 100 million US dollars. Compared with the giant DuPont, it is of course a small company.
Even so, Sister spent a lot of money in the lawsuit.
The reason for DuPont’s suing was that they believed that the original inventor of PCR technology should be a professor at MIT and Nobel Prize winner Horana. As early as 1971, he published a paper on the principles of PCR technology. DuPont therefore provided two papers by this man and a testimony of the Nobel Prize winner in the 1970s.
As a confrontation, Sister provided testimony from two Nobel Prize winners, which in history is also part of a classic case, both parties use academic authority as weapons to prove their arguments. After all, neither lawyer nor judge understands academic knowledge and can only refer to the views of academic authority.
The appearance fee for Nobel Prize winners is very expensive.
Defense lawyers are also expensive to argue.
If Yang Rui gets the dividend from Jielikan, he can afford to pay the appearance fee and hire a lawyer.
However, DuPont obviously wants to be a little easier.
For a moment, Yang Rui felt like he was at the end of his life.
"Is the problem serious? Is there anything I can help?" Guo Wei asked solemnly.
"It's very serious. I don't know where to start." Yang Rui was quite confused.
"Let me tell me." Guo Wei pulled Yang Rui and sat on the sofa, and then made him hot tea.
Yang Rui thought about it, and did not say too specific content, but only expressed his own guesses, saying: "DuPont may want my PCR technology. They cut off the dividends given to me by Jielikang, exhausted my funds, and filed a lawsuit... The cost of lawsuits in the United States is very high. If I don't have money, lawyers will not help me sue. This kind of professional patent litigation is difficult to win without lawyers, without a good lawyer and a lawyer team. In the end, if they sue successfully, I may have to lose the patent for PCR..."
"But PCR was invented by you."
"Yes, but to prove it in court, a lawyer must give me a certificate. An excellent lawyer team does this kind of thing." Yang Rui's preparations have been done very well. He believes that as long as there is a good lawyer team, he can easily win the lawsuit, but if there is no lawyer team, it will be too difficult to win. DuPont doesn't even have to sue, constantly apply for various prohibitions and various legal documents. Yang Rui or the cheap lawyer hired by Yang Rui will be exhausted.
In the end, DuPont didn't have to wait for the court's verdict to drag Yang Rui to death. Large pharmaceutical companies, or any large multinational companies, do a lot of this kind of thing.
Guo Wei thought calmly and said for a while: "After all the time, he just lacks money."
“Lack of a lot of money.”
"If you think it's worth it, then find a way to find money first. If it really doesn't work, please ask Peking University or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for help."
"We are talking about the US dollar. Where can Peking University and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have money to help me?" Yang Rui smiled bitterly, but slowly got an idea, "It's not completely impossible."
"Where did you say?"
"It's not Peking University or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Yang Rui waved his hand and said to himself: "No matter whether DuPont is the mastermind behind the scenes or what Jelikan has, it will not affect my original plan. I'd better find money first, well... Maybe, DuPont is the mastermind behind the scenes, which is better than Jelikan."
Guo Wei asked: "Why?"
"It's hard to say now. I want to try it." Yang Rui turned around and stopped again, saying, "Uncle Guo, today's news is very important. You have to keep it confidential for me and not reveal it at all."
"good."
"You can't reveal it at all. Frank is a friend. Before DuPont initiated a lawsuit, he probably made some confidentiality preparations. At least he won't let the country know. If you help me keep it confidential, I will have more room to move." Yang Rui explained repeatedly.
Guo Wei became serious: "I keep my mouth shut. In addition, I will also remind students from the UK. Don't worry, if he dares to speak out, he will not think about taking public funds."
"Thank you, Uncle Guo." Yang Rui held Guo Wei's hand tightly like an underground party and hurried away.
Chapter completed!