Chapter 110: It's Too Big
In the final stage, Wu Chenyuan and his elite team burst out with a long-lost passion, translated a large number of foreign materials and quoted classics, and argued with Jielikang Company.
At one point, Frankie resorted to various sideways, including bribing members of the negotiating team and borrowing pressure from senior officials of the Ministry of Health, but Wu Chenyuan resisted him.
Yang Rui, who was watching coldly, couldn't help but admire him at this time. Thinking about it carefully, the pressure that Wu Chenyuan and others withstood was really not small, some of them were from the top, some were from colleagues, some were from negotiation opponents, and some were from partners like him.
Yang Rui's step-by-step pressure alone is not something that every negotiation team can endure. can't help it, there is inevitably the possibility of a shot or two scattered.
In this way, it was the strength of Wu Chenyuan's team that contributed to the final conclusion of the negotiation and safeguarded Yang Rui's interests, otherwise, it would be difficult to predict the outcome of direct negotiations between Yang Rui and Jielikang.
On the other hand, Wu Chenyuan is far from the official addiction of turmoil, and he has not gained much. To be precise, Wu Chenyuan is not negotiating for personal interests, but is really fulfilling his responsibilities.
It is not easy for officials to do this.
In contrast, the disadvantages of the businessmen of Frankie and others were exposed in the following negotiations, although their negotiating team was large, not many of them could insist on participating in the negotiations all day long, even fewer could maintain their energy for a long time, the level of professionalism of the interpreters was not to mention, and the persistence at the negotiating table was far from being comparable with that of the Chinese side.
To put it simply, when they sell festivals, they are not as cheap as the Chinese side, and when they want to build the archway, they are not as high as the Chinese side.
A week later.
Negotiations on an agreement are becoming clearer.
The members of Frankie's delegation invited Yang Rui to do the reproducibility of the real thing, and this time, they sent more equipment and directly set up the organ biochemical workshop of the Xibao Meat Factory.
The Xibao Meat Factory is also like a big enemy, and a whole 3-ton dried pig heart has been prepared.
If the rereality of the factory can be successful, the signing of the contract is a certainty.
In order to prepare for this factory practice, Jielikang purchased equipment worth 200,000 US dollars in advance and sent it directly from Tianjin Port to Xibao Town.
If the negotiations fail, the equipment will naturally have to be sent back. However, investing in advance is also an attitude, and reproducing the reality of the factory is not so much an investigation as a confirmation.
The UK headquarters of Zeneca also moved their chief technology officer from Tian*jin to the town of Seaburgh, a former professor at the University of Sheffield named Trapp, who, like many biology researchers, made it to the top of the academic world and chose a higher-paying company.
Many professors who do basic research will encounter a strict economic crisis in middle age, and their annual income is often the same as that of blue-collar workers who are 10 years younger than themselves.
In terms of net income, senior technical officials in pharmaceutical companies receive more than five times the salary of their schools, and it is not uncommon for them to receive ten times as much.
However, joining a pharmaceutical company usually means not continuing basic research, and it is not necessarily a happy decision for professors who have been doing similar projects for half their lives.
Before the 80s, most European and American researchers were content to live in poverty, just like Chinese researchers. However, the United States and Europe in the Reagan era slowly became utilitarian and monetized. The principle of social evaluation of successful people has also become whether they can make money, rather than social contributions.
It can be said that the vulgarization of social values that has taken place in China since the 80s is not unique to China, but worldwide.
In the 60s or 70s, if there was an international biological research conference, the old friends who attended the conference talked about their own realities and theories, and did not talk much about the conditions and salaries, but in the 80s, the situation was reversed, and the old friends were always talking about the conditions and salaries of the real rooms, and they seemed to prove success more than the realities and theories, or in other words, the importance of the conditions and salaries of the realities was slowly surpassing the value of pure theories.
The chief technology officer of Trapp still maintained the rigor of being a professor, and after seeing Yang Rui's preparation and design, and checking the equipment he had installed, he left the organ biochemistry workshop and let Yang Rui and his assistant operate it by themselves.
Nearly 100 pages of translated literature does not seem easy, and Trapp can be regarded as conscientious.
And what interested him more was obviously Yang Rui himself. A middle school student, being able to write academic articles, can not be said to be rare in the world, every country has a lot of precocious teenagers, but it is obviously very rare to be able to read the manual and help engineers install advanced equipment. Because it's more of a matter of experience.
Trapp asked a number of questions, and received relatively satisfactory but not really satisfactory answers.
Come to think of it, it is only at this time that Trapp can regain his professorial happiness.
He Haichuan and Ning Min from the Xibao Meat Factory also entered the organ biochemistry workshop to help Yang Rui operate a large number of large equipment. Of course, it is said that it is a large-scale, at most a few tens of liters of capacity, and the processing capacity of biopharmaceutical companies in the 80s is generally not high.
They listened to the conversation between Yang Rui and Trapp, basically listening to the book of heaven, and it was the same with the help of a translator.
The production line of Coenzyme Q10 designed by Yang Rui requires 10 workers, and now he has five, although it is only half of the total, it is barely enough.
This kind of operational efficiency is also valued by the British, who are impatient to manage a large number of workers, and the combination of ten workers and one off-duty cadre is very much in line with their expectations.
The Xibao Meat Factory is relatively indifferent, from the inside, they actually want to increase the number of workers, so that there will be more staffing. But on the other hand, they are responsible for the training of workers and the management of workers in pharmaceutical factories, and the more workers they have, the more pressure they have.
The original organ biochemical workshop of the Xibao Meat Joint Factory was a team of more than 20 people, and now 10 people are assigned to come out, but they don't have to bother with anything.
In this way, it is equivalent to the Xibao Meat Factory getting the shares of the pharmaceutical factory for nothing, and the management is quite happy.
As for the land and the factory, for a factory of the deputy department level, it is equivalent to no payment. In the huge Xibao Town, there is no factory of this scale, and the current land is all allocated, except for some bricks and tiles, they can have as many factories as they want.
However, the brand-new biopharmaceutical factory is quite new to the Xibao Meat Factory, and there are many people gathered outside the original biochemical pharmaceutical workshop, staring at the visit.
Two days later, the 3-ton dried pork heart was consumed.
Nearly 1 kilogram of coenzyme Q10 is also presented in front of everyone as large crystals.
"Did you weigh it?" asked Frankie, rubbing his hands.
"980 grams, close to a kilogram. Yang Rui took off the mask and took off the protective suit with the help of his assistant.
Frankie silently calculated, nodded again and again, and said, "The yield is really high, Mr. Trapp, Professor Trapp?"
Trapp looked down at the crystal, as if he hadn't heard anything Frankie say.
Frankie had to pat him gently.
Trapp gasped for "ah", dusted his shoulders with his hands, but turned his head to Yang Rui and asked, "Are you sure this is coenzyme Q10?"
"High purity crystallization, very certain. Yang Rui looked at Trapp suspiciously.
Trapp said "oh", slowly put on his gloves, and then picked up a coenzyme Q10 particle with tweezers, put it under a magnifying glass with his face, and looked at it over and over.
Yang Rui looked down at the tray, the crystalline particles of coenzyme Q10 were relatively uniform, the size was about the same as that of a diamond of twenty or thirty points, and the whole was orange-yellow with a slight luster.
"Should it be fine?" Yang Rui was puzzled by Trapp's movements.
The latter did not have time to explain, while observing the crystals, while drawing on the paper, after doing this, he actually dissolved the fine particles on the spot, and began to measure the content of coenzyme Q10 with a UV spectrophotometer.
Everyone had to wait patiently, after all, Trapp was the most authoritative guy at the moment.
With the help of the new instrument, the end result was quickly apparent.
The concentration of coenzyme Q10 was even higher than expected.
Seeing this answer, Wu Chenyuan first had the confidence to ask solemnly instead of Yang Ruiyi: "Mr. Trapp, our coenzyme Q10, there is no problem." ”
"No, no, just ......" With the help of a translator, Trapp thought for a long time and said: "It's ...... It's too big!"
"Too big?" Wu Chenyuan didn't understand at all.
Trapp looked at the tray on the table with shiny eyes, and said, "I've never seen it, I've never seen it, I've never seen such a beautiful Q10 crystal...... Too...... It's unbelievable, it's the new process, isn't it? It's worth it, it's worth it. ”
Frankie was happy and depressed at the same time: you say that, what are we going to talk about next?
Wu Chenyuan waited for the translator to say it again, and asked again, only then did he know what Trapp was talking about, and he glanced at Yang Rui in surprise and inexplicably, and lost no time in asking: "Mr. Trapp, please explain in detail, is there anything special about this crystal?"
"With the current process conditions, the coenzyme Q10 crystals we make should be closer to the powder, generally speaking, it is a yellow cemented powder, and it will not have such a beautiful luster, oh, the luster of this crystal, it is so wonderful, like a jewel......" Trapp chattered, tweezers sandwiched a coenzyme Q10 crystal, turning over and over.
Yang Rui listened to his explanation and realized that although he had only adopted advanced technology for a few years, this comprehensive technological transcendence improved not only the yield, but also the quality, and the improvement of all aspects.
Biotechnology in this era is developing too fast.
"When we have our own company in the future, we will have to use the technology of the late 80s to generate an overwhelming technological advantage. Yang Rui thought so, and felt a little proud in his heart, with the technology he mastered, if he was more powerful, he was afraid that he would be able to scare Trapp to death.
Only people in the industry know that advanced technology is rare.
Yang Rui thought of this and said: "I have done some processing to give the crystal nucleus time to grow, and when you sign the contract, you should be able to see the relevant technical instructions." ”
In a word, Trapp focused his attention on Frankie.
"Mr. French, let's move on. Wu Chenyuan stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please.
Frankie looked at Yang Rui with a wry smile and cocked his thumb.
Trapp ignored them, and when the negotiators left, he simply moved a stool and sat in front of the tray, sandwiching the coenzyme Q10 crystals one after another, and arranging them in order from largest to smallest.
A full 1 kilogram of coenzyme Q10 is enough to prove the tediousness of this work, but Trapp is happy to do it, and every time he finds a large crystal, it is like finding a big gem, and he puts it under a magnifying glass to look closely.