Chapter 845

Objectively speaking, Japan, as a developed country, indeed has high achievements in many fields.

However, in terms of medicine, except for Western medicine, the rest is almost entirely copied from Chinese Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Among them, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, Ota Pharmaceutical, and Da Peng Pharmaceutical are all paradigms. They not only look for prescriptions in Traditional Chinese Medicine classics but even go everywhere to "touch porcelain" (fake/imitate) Traditional Chinese Medicine.

For example, Da Peng Pharmaceutical once launched a so-called Traditional Chinese Medicine weight-loss powder, and the name they gave this powder was actually the ancient Chinese divine doctor, Bian Que.

From this, it can be seen that Japanese pharmaceutical companies have no real attainments in Hanfang medicine, and what they rely on is almost entirely plagiarism and copying.

This is also the fundamental reason why Ye Chen disdained their R&D department.

With so many magical prescriptions in the "Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra," where would he need Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's R&D department?

After being ridiculed by Ye Chen, Kobayashi Shinchuan also felt his cheeks burning.

Kobayashi Shinchuan knew better than anyone what the situation of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical was.

It was indeed as Ye Chen said: almost all of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's prescriptions originated from ancient Chinese medical classics.

So he felt flushed at this time, but didn't know how to refute Ye Chen's words.

Ye Chen looked at Kobayashi Shinchuan and said coldly: "R&D personnel like you who only know how to copy have no value to me. So I announce that starting now, the Kobayashi Pharmaceutical R&D department is dissolved on the spot. Everyone is fired—not a single one left!"

"What?!"

The people of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical at the scene were almost speechless with shock.

Isn't this Ye Chen being too ruthless?

You have to know that there are more than 100 people in the R&D department of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. Behind these 100-plus people are 100-plus families.

Japan's social environment is originally one where only one person in a family goes out to work, and most of them are husbands going out to work, while wives stay at home to raise children.

This situation leads to a particularly high requirement for job stability in Japanese families.

Generally speaking, most Japanese can work in one job for decades until retirement.

So for the Japanese, what they fear most is unemployment.

Kobayashi Shinchuan was also scared.

Although his income hadn't been low before, his pressure wasn't small at all.

Tokyo's housing prices were originally the highest in Asia. A few years ago, when Kobayashi Pharmaceutical was flourishing, he bought a large apartment in the city center with a mortgage. Every month, just paying back the bank loan was over 200,000 RMB.

Besides that, he also had two sons and a daughter who was just born not long ago.

Plus his wife, a family of five, all relied on his income alone.

Originally, his income at Kobayashi Pharmaceutical was very high, about 700,000 to 800,000 RMB a month, so his life before was very comfortable, and his wife and children also lived a high-society life, with very luxurious daily consumption.

However, if he suddenly became unemployed, his family would immediately fall into a huge financial deficit. There would be a gap of about 500,000 RMB a month. If he couldn't find a job with more than 500,000 RMB, the family would soon be unable to bear the burden.

Kobayashi Shinchuan, who was nervous, hurriedly begged with tears: "Mr. Ye, I am a high-end talent in the field of biopharmaceuticals. If you fire me, it will definitely be a huge loss for you. I beg you, please keep me. I will definitely work hard for you!"

Ye Chen said with a blank expression: "You know how to beg me now? I'm sorry, it's already too late. You must handle your resignation procedures within today. Otherwise, the company will directly terminate your labor relationship."

After finishing, Ye Chen looked at Chen Zekai: "Drive him out for me."

Chen Zekai nodded, immediately stepped forward, grabbed Kobayashi Shinchuan by the collar like catching a chicken, and dragged him out.

At this moment, the others in the conference room finally realized the urgency of the situation.

Ye Chen had already obtained Ichiro Kobayashi's share transfer. He was now the new boss of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, so he held the power of life and death over everyone present.

If you provoke him, you really will be driven out of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical!

Thus, everyone immediately stood honestly in place like quails, not daring to move, let alone speak.

Ye Chen added: "To tell you the truth, for the entire Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, I only need to keep the production link. Other links such as R&D, promotion, and sales can all be cut off!"

As soon as this was said, everyone was so scared that they didn't even dare to breathe.

Ye Chen continued: "The efficacy of Nine Mysteries Stomach Powder relies on word-of-mouth. The real word-of-mouth of efficacy is more effective than any kind of advertisement, so there is no need to leave a special promotion department;"

"The sales department is the same. Nine Mysteries Stomach Powder is now in short supply, and distributors take the initiative to come to the door to ask for goods, so there is no need for a special sales department to be responsible for sales in various regions."

"Therefore, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's promotion and sales departments are also dissolved on the spot. All employees and leaders—not a single one left!"

There was an uproar at the scene!

There were only a few big departments, and now, except for the production department, all of them were to be cut off. This would cause thousands of people to lose their jobs!

Three-quarters of these Kobayashi Pharmaceutical executives at the scene would lose their jobs!

Moreover, the global economic situation wasn't very good now, and the mid-life crisis was very serious. News of middle-aged people being laid off and eventually jumping off buildings due to unbearable pressure had appeared all over the world. This shows how much pressure middle-aged people are under now.

And these Kobayashi Pharmaceutical executives at the scene were mostly between 35 and 55 years old, belonging to a typical middle-aged group. Suddenly losing their jobs was no different from the sky collapsing for them!

The entire scene was filled with wailing.

Most Japanese, like Americans, are typical hedonists in their consumption concepts. They don't like to save money but spend it immediately after earning it. They are very keen on buying luxury houses, luxury cars, vacation villas, and even yachts.

And their wives not only don't earn money but also spend money very lavishly, which further increases the daily expenses of the family.

Studies have shown that Japanese women also have a very large per capita demand for luxury goods. 90% of Japanese women will have at least one luxury bag like Chanel, LV, or Gucci, not to mention other luxury goods.

Such families live very comfortably when there are no accidents, but once the family's income collapses, they will immediately fall to the verge of bankruptcy.

Many wealthy middle-class people became negative asset holders immediately after the economic crisis. Not only did they go bankrupt, but they even became homeless. The reason is that they spend money lavishly but don't save at all, leading to poor risk-resistance ability.

Most of these Kobayashi Pharmaceutical executives were also in such a situation.

So Ye Chen announcing their unemployment now was almost equivalent to announcing the financial bankruptcy of their families.

Ye Chen had no sympathy for these wailing middle-aged people. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical would be his enterprise in the future. He would never support Japanese employees who were idle or had no value. Therefore, these people must be fired, and fired as soon as possible!