Long Xiao examined all the cancer patients and rewrote their prescriptions.
After arranging for someone to decoct the medicine, Long Xiao went to Luo Yan's room.
Seeing Long Xiao enter, Luo Yan, who was looking at his phone, quickly got up to greet him.
"Brother Long, you're here," Luo Yan said with a smile.
Long Xiao looked at Luo Yan's face. The dark red scars on Luo Yan's face had almost completely disappeared, and they were barely visible if one didn't look closely.
"Luo Yan, have you finished the 'Scar Removal Elixir' I gave you?" Long Xiao asked.
Luo Yan shook his head and said, "Not yet, I've only used a little more than half."
The prescriptions in the "Dragon's Treasury" medical text were all very effective, and Long Xiao had full confidence in the 'Scar Removal Elixir'.
"Luo Yan, do you still have the daily selfies I asked you to take?" Long Xiao asked.
Luo Yan nodded and said, "Yes, are you planning to use these photos for advertising?"
Long Xiao nodded. Luo Yan immediately transferred his recent selfies to Long Xiao.
Long Xiao opened his phone and carefully looked at the photos.
Luo Yan had taken over thirty photos in five days, with different angles each day, including close-ups of the scars.
These photos, if edited by professionals, would surely have a good advertising effect.
After looking at the photos, Long Xiao asked Luo Yan if he remembered where his home was. Luo Yan shook his head and said, "No, it's as if someone deleted all the memories related to my home from my mind."
Long Xiao grabbed Luo Yan's wrist and examined him.
The lotus flower inside Luo Yan's body was suppressed by Long Xiao's vital energy and stopped growing.
Long Xiao examined the lotus flower closely again, but he couldn't figure out how it had been planted inside Luo Yan.
Long Xiao transferred the photos to Lin Xuan, showed her the pictures, and then told her about Luo Yan's situation.
"Long Xiao, you're not just having her do advertising, you want to help her find her family, don't you?" Lin Xuan asked.
Long Xiao chuckled and said, "There's that intention too. My wife is so smart, nothing can be hidden from you."
Xiao Ming, standing nearby, eavesdropped on Long Xiao's phone call while pouting.
After Long Xiao finished his call, Xiao Ming asked, "Boss, if your wife finds out you lied to her, what will happen?"
Long Xiao was so scared that he quickly covered Xiao Ming's mouth and looked around before saying, "Xiao Ming, you mustn't talk nonsense."
Xiao Ming smiled and said, "I'm full now, so I won't talk nonsense."
"Did I starve you that day?" Long Xiao asked indignantly.
Xiao Ming rubbed his head and said, "I haven't gone hungry since I came to you, but I was worried about going hungry."
Long Xiao patted Xiao Ming on the shoulder and said, "I'm your boss, right? How could I let you starve? Don't worry, you don't eat much anyway, so you won't go hungry."
Long Xiao and Xiao Ming went to the front courtyard. Sun Sizhu had been working for a while and was now resting, sitting under a tree drinking tea.
Long Xiao went over, poured himself a cup, and chatted with Sun Sizhu for a bit.
Sun Sizhu had been at Xinglin Tang for almost a month, and Long Xiao still didn't know why he had come.
"Long Xiao, what are your thoughts on the Long family in the capital?" Sun Sizhu asked.
Long Xiao shook his head and said, "No particular thoughts. I was attacked once when I went to the capital; it was likely the work of the Long family."
Sun Sizhu and Long Xiao discussed a lot about the Long family. The Long family was a pillar of China, and almost the entire family worked tirelessly for the country and its people.
Among the five major families in the capital, each family, while appearing to be merely engaged in business, had official backing behind them.
After discussing the Long family for a while, Sun Sizhu finished his tea, put down the cup, and said, "I'm going back to work."
Watching Sun Sizhu walk into the consultation room, Long Xiao felt strange. Why was he talking to him about the Long family?
After having lunch at Xinglin Tang, Long Xiao received intelligence from Ye Xiao.
Xiao Han Group was a conglomerate controlled by the Zhao family with a 60% stake. The chairman was Zhao Tianxiao, the head of the Zhao family. The vice-chairman was Pei Han, rumored to be from the Pei family in the capital, but no evidence had been found.
Xiao Han Group fully cooperated with the island nation. Its pharmaceutical industry mainly collaborated with Jingkou Pharmaceuticals, while its other industries collaborated with Daiwa Overseas Development Company.
Xiao Han Group's pharmaceutical industry consisted of two drug factories, a health management institution, a medical equipment factory, and a hospital.
The two drug factories had five production lines. Their main products used to be traditional Chinese medicines, but now they had all been changed to Kampo medicine.
Their flagship product was 'Jingkou Weishu', and all three production lines at the second factory were working overtime to produce this stomach medicine.
'Jingkou Weishu' had good efficacy and was widely sold, available in large and small pharmacies in major Chinese cities.
To shut down these two drug factories, they first had to find violations. If the factories operated normally, the Pharmaceutical Administration would find it difficult to intervene.
After careful consideration of the data, Long Xiao felt that to make the factories violate or even break the law, he had to push them to the brink first; otherwise, they wouldn't make any mistakes.
The best way to push a drug factory to the brink was to create a similar drug and destroy its market, causing its products to become unsellable.
A cornered rabbit will bite, and cornered islanders would do anything.
Bao Family Pharmaceutical Factory and his own factory were both working at full capacity to produce 'Beauty Pills' and 'Scar Elixir'. Long Xiao began to ponder finding another factory with sufficient production capacity to produce a new stomach medicine.
Among the enterprises of the Three Dragons, One Tiger, and One God of Wealth, there were pharmaceutical factories. Luan Jiping and the Lu family also had pharmaceutical factories, but after much thought, Long Xiao found them unsuitable.
These factories not only lacked sufficient production capacity, but maintaining the secrecy of the formulas would also be difficult.
As Long Xiao was contemplating whose factory to use for the stomach medicine, Xue Meiqin walked over.
"Boss, my brother is here."
Long Xiao turned around and saw Xue Hu with Tian Zhendong, walking in with a smile.
"Young Master Xue is here."
Long Xiao rose to greet him and asked Xue Meiqin to make some fresh tea.
After Xue Hu sat down, he asked, "Long Xiao, did you invest in Bao Family Pharmaceutical Factory?"
Long Xiao nodded and told Xue Hu that he wanted to start his own company and give his wife something to do.
Xue Hu smiled and said, "Long Xiao, our Xue family has three pharmaceutical factories in Donghai. Why don't you invest in them too?"
The Xue family was one of the five major families in the capital. The scale of the Xue family's pharmaceutical factories far exceeded that of Bao Family Pharmaceutical Factory. Investing would not be a matter of a few hundred million.
Long Xiao said awkwardly, "Young Master Xue, I'd like to invest too, but I don't have enough money."
Xue Hu burst into laughter and said, "We'll figure out the money later. First, let's merge our Xue family's three pharmaceutical factories into your company. That way, your company will have sufficient strength to resist risks when it opens."
Long Xiao knew that the Xue family was helping him.
There was no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and Long Xiao understood this.
"Young Master Xue, I agree to invest. Let's discuss your Xue family's conditions."
Xue Hu shook his head and said, "Long Xiao, our Xue family really has no conditions. I've investigated all three of your pharmaceutical factories. A factory on the verge of bankruptcy has seen its output value increase dozens of times in your hands."
Long Xiao nodded and said, "It's no problem for the output value to increase several times or even dozens of times, but there are risks involved."
"What risks?" Xue Hu asked.
"An increase in output value by several times will steal other people's markets. An increase by dozens of times will lead to the bankruptcy of a number of pharmaceutical factories, and some people will not be willing and will cause trouble behind the scenes."
"Don't worry about that. Anyone who dares to move our Xue family's pharmaceutical factory in Donghai hasn't been born yet."