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"Jishengtang" is the largest Chinese medicine store in Wujiang City.

Every day, some herb dealers from all over the city, and even from neighboring cities, would rush to line up before the door opened, trying to sell the herbs in their hands for a good price as soon as possible.

After all, there are too many people who come here to sell herbal medicines, the sooner they are sold, the cheaper the price will be, otherwise they will collect more of a certain medicinal material, and the price will be lowered later.

It can be said that in Jishengtang, as long as you have money, you can buy any kind of medicinal herb.

At 6 o'clock this morning, Yaonong lined up in a long line.

However, it was originally scheduled to open the scales at 7 o'clock to collect the medicinal materials, but it was delayed until nearly noon, when "Jishengtang" opened the store to collect the medicinal materials.

The two old masters who were in charge of testing the medicine sat leisurely on the reclining chairs, directing the boys under them to collect the herbs.

Based on their decades of work experience, the first time they open the door and see the crowd, they will know whether there is any valuable thing in the goods received that day.

If it was that kind of rare herbal medicine, once someone revealed it, they would have been surrounded by three layers of people.

Today, as usual, the drug dealers outside, perhaps because they got up early, sat listlessly in the open space, waiting to open the door.

"Ah Fu, collect the medicinal materials for my snacks today! Our boss is not satisfied with the medicinal materials you bought last time. He told me, if you collect some cheap things to make up the bill, don't hang around here It's gone." An old master, biting the stem of his cigarette pipe, reminded him while leaning on the recliner.

The young man who was reminded, with a helpless face, pointed to the person who came to sell the herbal medicine below and said: "Master Zhang, look, there is nothing to collect from the following medicinal materials. They are all common medicinal materials that are worthless. How many tons are piled up in the warehouse."

Master Zhang didn't even lift his eyelids, and said with a sneer, "I don't care."

The little guy had no choice but to go to the front of the crowd and shouted loudly: "Today we only accept precious herbs. Those who have goods come first, and those who are out of stock don't come to join in the fun."

The crowd in the open space in front of the door, who were excited just because of the opening of the door, suddenly became dumbfounded!
"Where are there so many precious herbs?"

"If you don't accept ordinary herbs, tell me in advance! What should we do if we transport them all the way?"

"The shipping fee is small. The problem is that these herbs can't be stored in our hands, and we can't store them for a few days when we take them home!"

A group of drug farmers immediately began to complain.

Indeed, many of them are old drug farmers who have been selling herbal medicines for decades, and the pharmacies they have dealt with have always received whatever herbs they send.It's just that the price is a little unreasonable.

But like "Jishengtang", this is the first time they have encountered the practice of others delivering herbs to their door but not accepting them.

After all, herbal medicine should be fresh.It’s okay to put it in the herbal medicine field and let it continue to grow, but if it is picked, it must either be dried immediately, or it must be stored well to prevent the medicinal properties from dissipating.

Ordinary drug farmers don’t have suitable storage conditions at all, so drugstores also take this into consideration. They always accept as much as they want, and they really don’t want to accept it. Keep the price down a little. Anyway, I won’t suffer if I accept it. , all as a convenience to you.

These dozens of gauges were destroyed by the "Jishengtang" in this way!
Hearing the complaints from the herb growers, the boy's face immediately became elongated: "What are you yelling about? I'll listen to whoever yells again? Let me remember you, you have to pay attention to your herbs in the future, and don't even think about one of them." Send it to our shop!"

"It's still the same sentence, if you have valuable herbs, please don't join in the fun! I can't afford that effort with you!"

The little guy's words became more and more serious, and the drug farmers sighed.

In the crowd, there was a young man who was calmly watching the scene with his arms folded. Only then did he ask Yao Nong beside him:

"Uncle, why is this shop so big?"

It was Xu Qing.

The drug farmer was in his early sixties, his skin was dark and wrinkled after prolonged exposure to the sun, and his expression was helpless:
"Hey, there is no way. The business of Jishengtang is getting bigger and bigger. At the beginning, he charged high prices for herbs, which crowded out other small shops. If we grow herbs, if we don't sell them, we have to go to the neighboring city. Let’s sell it. But the neighboring city has also opened a branch store, which is more ruthless than ours, or a few old guys in the neighboring city would not send the medicinal materials here to sell.”

"This is not the first time he has encountered such a thing from time to time. It sounds like he wants to get good goods, but it sounds like a scam!"

Xu Qing was puzzled and said, "Why did you deceive people?"

"Look, if he doesn't accept our herbs today, our herbs will be rotten in his hands, and we won't be able to sell them for a penny. In the end, we have to admit that we are unlucky, and we have to sell them to them even if they can't even take care of the cost price. And they have a monopoly In the herbal medicine market here, we can’t tell us about these ordinary herbs, and the boss who makes the medicine tells us that we can’t receive herbs recently, and we’re making money at both ends, isn’t that a scam!” The old farmer became more and more angry. .

Xu Qing immediately understood that despite the antique and old-fashioned decoration of this store, the way of doing business is very novel and very modern.

"Uncle, who is the owner of this pharmacy? Such a powerful method?" Xu Qing was curious.

Yao Nong glanced at Xu Qing, and asked in surprise, "Aren't you from our place?"

Xu Qing quickly shook his head: "I just came here to work, and I'm not familiar with the place."

"No wonder you don't even know the boss of Jishengtang." Yao Nong said with a smug mouth, "He is Qian Jisheng, a well-known big boss in the city!"

As soon as Xu Qing heard that the name was a little familiar, after pondering for a while, he suddenly remembered who it was: "Uncle, is this Qian Jisheng one of the shareholders of the Lu Corporation?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's him!" Yao Nong confirmed, "You see, the medicinal materials he often collects are actually used to provide to the Lu Group. He used today's underhanded method to collect them at a low price. It is said that the price of our medicinal materials can be increased dozens of times before being sold to the Lu Group at a high price."

After Xu Qing finished listening, he remained silent.

In the past few days, he has a very clear understanding of the industrial structure of the Lu Group.

Lu Group's main industry is cosmetics, and Lu Changsheng did rely on it to make a fortune. However, in the later stage of operation, Lu Changsheng discovered that the pressure of competition in the cosmetics industry is too great, and the recognition of old brands is too high. He wants to break through the solidified market. The situation is very difficult.

Therefore, Lu Changsheng once specially developed another industry line, that is, health care products.

Compared with cosmetics, health care products have obvious effects and quick results. As long as your products are good enough, consumers will not care about the brand effect at all, and you can easily develop a certain market.

Sure enough, during the initial period of the group's development, the health care product market developed by Lu Changsheng was quite stable in terms of efficiency and profit, and even once fed back the Lu's Group's cosmetics industry line.

But later, with the great success of the Yunzhimi series of lotions, Lu Changsheng had no time to take care of the health care product market that was used to stabilize the situation at the beginning, and concentrate on developing the cosmetics industry line.

However, the health care products industry line has never been cut off. Relying on the old customers left in the past, it has become a very stable and profitable profit point for the Lu Group.

However, following Lu Changsheng's car accident and Song Chuhai taking over Lu's Group, this health care product line, which has been growing steadily for several years, has experienced a decline in profits. The monthly decline is quite large, so that it is now in a state of complete loss.

Prior to this, Lu Yun had conducted a market survey in private, and found that the market share of this health care product of the Lu Group was the same as before, and even increased to a certain extent.

The reason for the serious decline in profits is entirely because the procurement department doubled the purchase price of raw materials, resulting in a too much increase in cost and a loss at the original price.

Originally, Lu Yun planned to continue the investigation, trying to figure out why the price of purchasing raw materials for health care products increased so much, but was suddenly pushed out of the board of directors by Song Chuhai and others, and lost the conditions and qualifications for investigation.

Now, Xu Qing has figured out this problem for her.

It turns out that the problem lies here!
This Qian Jisheng is one of the eleven directors, Director Qian, who manages the purchasing department.

Presumably this time, taking advantage of Song Chuhai's plan to snatch Lu's Group, he reached a certain deal with Song, so he could use his power to privately increase the purchase price of health care raw materials several times.

Of course, those medicinal materials used to make health care products are naturally all shipped from this "Jishengtang" opened by him!

Judging by today's posture, even if Lu Yun had the opportunity to track down this step at that time, he would definitely return in vain.

After all, people do only accept expensive medicinal materials, and they do not accept ordinary medicinal materials used to make health care products. Rare things are more expensive, and the market determines the price. What's wrong?

Thinking of this, Xu Qing suddenly had an idea.