Chapter 1799: You

The so-called 'I don't give a shit' is actually a piece of profanity in American English, roughly meaning: I don't give a damn, or: I don't give a damn about you.

The reason Ye Chen chose an American profanity was to simply and crudely express his attitude to Shi Misi: In front of the Jiu Xuan Zai Zao Pill, you still want to talk about your rules?

You! Are! Not! Worthy!

When Shi Misi heard this sentence, he immediately understood Ye Chen's attitude completely.

The Jiu Xuan Zai Zao Pill was placed here; although it was a miracle drug for saving lives, in front of rules, it was a nuclear weapon that would kill gods if gods blocked it and Buddhas if Buddhas blocked it.

Coupled with its scarce production, it was even more sought after by everyone.

Under these circumstances, everything was purely a seller's market, and the seller was the boss.

Thus, he could only say with an apologetic face, "I'm sorry, Mr. Ye, my wording was inappropriate just now..."

After finishing, he hurriedly expressed his attitude: "Please rest assured, we are willing to pay you for the medicine, but I don't know how you specifically price this drug?"

Ye Chen laughed, "Since you are the head of the FDA, you should know that the R&D costs of many miracle drugs are very high, so their prices are also very expensive..."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen deliberately changed the subject and laughed, "By the way, I heard that your FDA approved a miracle drug a while ago, and one injection costs over 2 million U. S. dollars? Is that true?"

"Yes..." Shi Misi wiped cold sweat and stammered, "That drug is from Novartis, a miracle drug for treating spinal muscular atrophy in children."

Ye Chen nodded and laughed, "Then the price of our super miracle drug that can treat terminal cancer certainly can't be too low, right?"

Shi Misi hurriedly said, "Mr. Ye, the reason Novartis's drug is so expensive is because it can be cured with one injection... The Jiu Xuan Zai Zao Pill, after all, is a drug that needs to be taken long-term. If the price is set too high, I'm afraid no one can afford it..."

Ye Chen laughed, "Don't be afraid, we certainly can't sell one box of medicine for over 2 million U. S. dollars. That's nonsense, isn't it?"

Shi Misi breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really afraid that Ye Chen would open his mouth like a lion.

At this moment, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "If it were really 2 million U. S. dollars a box, then apart from top-tier billionaires with assets of billions of U. S. dollars, I'm afraid no one could afford it. After all, one box has seven pills, and one pill is 300,000 U. S. dollars. If a patient had to spend 100 million U. S. dollars just on medicine in a year, it would be better to just die..."

Ye Chen said at this time, "I think, let's just make this drug one million U. S. dollars a box. This price is quite appropriate."

Hearing this, Shi Misi collapsed and blurted out, "One million U. S. dollars a box, and 52 boxes a year... that is to say, the annual treatment cost is 52 million U. S. dollars. This... this is too expensive..."

Ye Chen spread his hands and said, "There's no way. Our R&D costs are very high, production costs are very high, and the output is very small. We might not exceed 100,000 boxes a year. If we sell them for one million a box, the annual sales will only be 1 billion U. S. dollars. Is that high? A monoclonal antibody drug from your Western pharmaceutical companies has annual sales of over 10 billion U. S. dollars. Did I say anything about you?"

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "You have to understand that our traditional Eastern medicine relies on various rare treasures, unlike your chemical agents. Once you develop a molecular formula, you can put it on a production line and mass-produce it like plastic sheets."

Ye Chen really couldn't mass-produce the Jiu Xuan Zai Zao Pill, at least he was far from having that ability now.

After all, this medicine truly relied on the Blood-Dispersing Heart-Saving Pill, and he couldn't possibly do nothing all day long and just stay at home refining pills.

Therefore, even if he had the heart to save the world, he simply didn't have the ability to save everyone.

Precisely because of this, the output of this drug was bound to be very small.

The reason he made this drug wasn't to make money, but to help Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical knock on the doors of various countries' markets.

Hearing this, Shi Misi immediately inferred: "The reason Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical cannot mass-produce this drug must be because their own production process level is insufficient, leading to an inability to break through the output!"

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said, "General Manager Wei, Mr. Ye, I wonder if you two are interested in selling the patent for this drug to an American pharmaceutical company?"

Hearing this, Ye Chen narrowed his eyes and looked at Shi Misi.

In his view, the tail of this old fox was finally going to be exposed.

Thus, he said decisively, "Impossible, we will never sell this patent!"

Shi Misi hurriedly said, "What if an American company could pay a huge buyout fee? For example, 10 billion U. S. dollars or even more?"

Ye Chen still shook his head, "Don't talk about 10 billion; even if it were 100 billion or 1 trillion U. S. dollars, we wouldn't sell."

The reason Ye Chen wasn't willing to sell was mainly because it couldn't be sold at all.

He could give the formula to anyone at any time, but no one could produce it.

If the other party couldn't produce it, how could they be willing to pay a buyout fee?

This wasn't like fooling Kobayashi Pharmaceutical back then. Anyway, Ichiro Kobayashi came to snatch the medicine, and if he gave him a fake one that killed his father, he could only swallow his pride.

If this were sold, it would be a patent transaction on the level of 100 billion U. S. dollars. At that time, the whole world would probably be shocked. If the other party got the patent and found out they were being fooled, this would definitely become an international scandal.

Shi Misi still thought that Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical wasn't willing to sell the patent purely out of self-admiration, so he hurriedly persuaded, "Mr. Ye, when penicillin was discovered, it was also a revolutionary progress in the medical field. But you might not know that because preparing penicillin was extremely difficult back then, the production capacity of penicillin couldn't be increased. The small amount of bacterial strains that several large laboratories spent their heart and blood cultivating wasn't enough to treat one person, so it couldn't serve all of humanity."

Speaking of this, Shi Misi paused slightly and added, "However, in the following years, through the efforts of various pharmaceutical experts, chemical experts, and biological experts, the production process of penicillin was constantly optimized, and it achieved the transition from very low output to step-by-step development to overcapacity, thereby benefiting all of humanity."

"Forgive me for being blunt, but I think Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical is like the team that discovered penicillin back then. Although you discovered this drug, you have no way to mass-produce it."

"However, our American industrial, pharmaceutical, and chemical foundations are the best in the world! If you could let us conduct R&D based on this formula, perhaps in a few years, we could achieve large-scale mass production!"

"When the time comes, we will join hands to benefit all of humanity. Isn't that a very great thing?"

Ye Chen was amused by him and laughed, "Mr. Shi Misi, I find that you are really something, with unique insight and foresight! No wonder someone like you can be the head of the FDA! Just this realm is quite remarkable!"

Shi Misi still thought Ye Chen was really moved by him, so he laughed and said, "Mr. Ye is too polite. I can't be considered to have foresight; I just want to benefit all of humanity as much as possible."

Ye Chen nodded solemnly and said, "Mr. Shi Misi, a drug that treats cancer, no matter how much it benefits, can only benefit tens of millions of people..."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen changed the subject and said seriously, "However, since your American scientific research foundation is so powerful, why don't you study how to cheaply and massively synthesize oil? If you could reduce the manufacturing cost of each barrel of oil to one dollar and produce 500, 600, 700, or 800 billion barrels a year, then you wouldn't just solve the global energy crisis, the Middle East wouldn't always be bullied by you sending troops for various reasons. Wouldn't that truly benefit the more than 7 billion people in the world?"

Hearing this, Shi Misi felt awkward all over.

He found that he clearly knew Ye Chen was talking nonsense, clearly knew he was mocking him and ridiculing him, but he couldn't refute him.

Because no matter how he refuted, it seemed like he was slapping his own face.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Damn, you're really vicious. You're indeed a good material for operations... I pride myself on being silver-tongued, yet I've been mocked by you until I'm speechless..." ===== CHAPTER 1800 =====