Chapter 1818: The auction with the highest threshold

Nakamura Junpei, who was pinned with high hopes, was also having a hard time.

After temporarily settling down in Jin Ling, he had been collecting environmental samples in Jin Ling for the past two days; air, soil, floating dust, and water sources had all become objects of his research.

He even got some of Jin Ling's river water, lake water, tap water, and even mountain spring water, taking turns to conduct various studies in the villa.

However, the more he studied, the more he felt that Jin Ling's environment not only had nothing outstanding but was overall not as good as Washington's.

Others in his team felt the same way.

Jin Ling, although it was the capital of six dynasties, really didn't have a very good environment.

Although air pollution wasn't that serious, it wasn't much better, and it was a typical river valley landform, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side. Nestled inside, the air naturally wouldn't be very good.

Besides that, the pace of urbanization was fast and the population was large, which would inevitably reduce vegetation and green space, and the environmental carrying pressure was also very large.

Looking at the United States, although the population was over 300 million, the land area was about the same as China's. Compared with China, it could be considered typical of a vast land with a sparse population. With a smaller population density, the environmental carrying pressure naturally was much smaller.

Moreover, an old-fashioned imperialist country like the United States started moving heavy polluting enterprises abroad decades ago, making other people's homes full of smog while keeping their own homes with green mountains and clear waters.

Precisely because Jin Ling's environment was inferior to Washington's in all aspects, Nakamura Junpei couldn't understand why Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical could produce epoch-making drugs like the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill here.

Just when Nakamura Junpei was trapped in confusion and unable to extricate himself, he received a call from Rogers.

Once the call was connected, Rogers asked him: "Nakamura, do you have any progress in your research in Jin Ling?"

Nakamura Junpei hurriedly said: "Mr. Rogers, we don't have any clear progress for the time being. Please give us a little more time!"

Rogers blurted out: "Time is tight now; you must find a way to speed up the progress!"

Nakamura Junpei said somewhat powerlessly: "Mr. Rogers, we analyzed Jin Ling's environmental situation these past two days and didn't find anything special. We have already ordered a batch of raw materials from local medicinal material suppliers and will start trial production these two days to see if there will be any breakthroughs."

As he spoke, Nakamura Junpei added: "I plan to go near Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical tomorrow to take a look and try to extract some environmental samples back for analysis."

"Good." Rogers instructed: "You must speed up. I will help you arrange a business jet in advance. Once you have samples, have someone bring them back to Washington immediately!"

Meanwhile.

After Ye Chen confirmed the details of the Rejuvenation Pill auction with Chen Zekai and Song Wanting, he had Chen Zekai drive him back to Tang Chen Yi Pin.

On the way back, Wei Liang called Ye Chen and reported respectfully: "Master Ye, I'm reporting to you that these past two days, many foreigners have wanted to meet with me."

Ye Chen asked him with a smile: "What kind of people are they?"

Wei Liang explained: "Some are representatives sent by various countries and major pharmaceutical companies who want to talk to us about drug introduction or drug agency cooperation. There are also agents for top rich people who want to buy some drugs privately. Most of them have cancer patients in their families, and their budgets are very sufficient. Looking at their attitude, it seems they are letting us name the price."

As he spoke, Wei Liang added: "Currently, there are nearly a hundred countries that want to introduce the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill, and there are more than thirty representatives sent to Jin Ling."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and said: "Reject all those who want to talk to you about introduction or agency. As for those rich people who want to buy medicine privately, tell them we are not opening this door for now."

Wei Liang added: "By the way, Master Ye, Smith from the United States also called, saying that the FDA wants to purchase another batch of Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pills at the previous price, or it's fine if the price goes up a bit. Do you think we should give it to them?"

Ye Chen sneered: "The FDA wants to purchase Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pills; I'm afraid their reverse engineering has hit a bottleneck."

As he spoke, Ye Chen instructed: "Wei Liang, from now on, except for the batch of Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pills given to domestic patients for free, seal up all the rest. Don't sell them for any amount of money, not even one pill."

Wei Liang immediately said: "Alright, Master Ye, then I will reply to them one by one."

Ye Chen said "Hmm" and asked him again: "By the way, Wei Liang, did the Wanlong Palace people find anything unusual near Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical?"

"Yes!" Wei Liang said hurriedly: "These past two days, they have successively locked onto several suspicious targets and have secretly been watching them. They said that according to their observations, those suspicious targets should all be well-trained agents. They are waiting for the right time to directly catch them and secretly send them to Hong Wu."

"Good." Ye Chen instructed: "You need to be careful recently. It's best to live at Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical and don't go anywhere for the time being."

Wei Liang said hurriedly: "Alright, Master Ye!"

Early the next morning.

Nakamura Junpei dressed himself as a morning runner and ran all the way from his residence to Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical.

And just on his way to Nine Mysteries Pharmaceutical, Song Wanting released the news that Jiqing Hall would hold an auction in twenty days in Jin Ling, and at the same time, she published the information of the collections that would be auctioned at the auction.

Besides some celebrity calligraphy and paintings and antique porcelain, there was also an item called "Rejuvenation Pill".

Jiqing Hall didn't give too much explanation about the "Rejuvenation Pill", only introducing it as a divine medicine with an ancient Chinese formula, with excellent efficacy.

Once this news was released, it didn't cause any waves in Jin Ling or domestically.

Because domestic citizens were long used to all kinds of pills.

For example, the Angong Niuhuang Pill, which had been hyped for a long time, sold for hundreds of thousands per pill;

For another example, the Nine Mysteries Rejuvenation Pill, which had recently become viral globally, was even more priceless.

The public thought that this Rejuvenation Pill might just be some kind of pill left over from many years ago, and its collection value might be greater than its medicinal value.

However, the very few who knew the value of the Rejuvenation Pill were not very shocked by this news either.

For example, Qin Gang, Wang Zhenggang, and even Li Tailai, who had auctioned a Rejuvenation Pill, all knew that this medicine was made by Master Ye Chen, and they also knew that even Hong Wu had eaten a Rejuvenation Pill. Now that Master Ye was taking out one or two Rejuvenation Pills to hold an auction, it wasn't big news to them.

However, this news was like a thunderclap in the upper-class society of Europe and America thousands of miles away, making everyone wild with joy!

For these days, they had been hearing others talk about the miraculous effects of the Rejuvenation Pill, and many people were inquiring about the news of the Rejuvenation Pill everywhere.

Among them was the Chinese-American tycoon Fei Jianzhong.

Fei Jianzhong had sent a team to inquire about the news of the Rejuvenation Pill in Yanjing many days ago, but had gained nothing.

Now that the news of the Rejuvenation Pill auction suddenly came from Jin Ling, Fei Jianzhong didn't hesitate at all and immediately had his private jet prepared, intending to fly to Jin Ling at the first opportunity.

And at this time, Jiqing Hall released another news that shocked the whole world.

Jiqing Hall required that everyone who wanted to participate in this auction must cooperate with asset verification. Only buyers whose assets were confirmed to exceed 10 billion RMB were eligible to register.

Moreover, registration didn't mean one would pass the review!

Because Jiqing Hall said that they would finally screen the top two hundred people with the most funds from the qualified registrants.

Only these two hundred people were eligible to come to Jin Ling to participate in this auction!

Auctions in this form had existed globally for hundreds or thousands of years, and everyone was long used to them, but everyone was hearing for the first time about an auction with such high requirements for participants!

Except for the few who knew the value of the Rejuvenation Pill, everyone else thought Jiqing Hall must be crazy, thinking that Jiqing Hall must be deliberately creating such an outrageous gimmick for malicious hype.

Seeing the internet scolding Jiqing Hall, Ye Chen felt relieved instead.

What he wanted was this cognitive difference.

Let ordinary people treat Jiqing Hall as a joke, and let the truly rich people treat Jiqing Hall as their father.

It was precisely this cognitive difference that, while netizens were madly scolding Jiqing Hall, the registration platform for Jiqing Hall had only been online for two hours, and the number of registrants had already exceeded five hundred! ===== CHAPTER 1819 =====