Almighty Coach

The "Father of Hormone" Bu Laiqie, who has a large list, is sitting in his office, looking at the company's latest quarterly financial statement.

The situation is not optimistic. In the new quarter, Bu Laiqie's company's loss has increased again.

In industrial production, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes. As long as any industrial product is produced in sufficient quantities, the production cost will be reduced. The same is true for medicines. A certain kind of medicine can produce one million pills and one hundred million pills. Its cost is completely different. Not to mention anything else, just talking about research and development costs, if it is evenly allocated to 1 million pills and 100 million pills, it will cause a 100-fold difference in price.

Large-scale production is always the business of those large pharmaceutical groups. The small pharmaceutical company of Bretcher is different from those large pharmaceutical groups. It is impossible for him to produce drugs on a large scale. If they all produce the same drugs, Bretcher The production cost of such a small company is much higher, and its products are not competitive in the market.

Therefore, Bretcher's pharmaceutical company mainly makes profits by producing some niche patented drugs. These niche drugs are not without profit, but the demand is relatively small. It is not worthwhile for a large company to set up a special production line for the small demand. . Moreover, drugs also have research and development costs. In many cases, the production of a drug requires the purchase of several patents. It is obviously not worth the candle for large pharmaceutical groups to invest their precious resources in this area.

This also gave a small and only company like Bu Laiqie room to survive. Moreover, Buletcher itself has some advantages, that is, he has a lot of patents in his hand, and Buletcher's pharmaceutical company specializes in producing medicines containing his patents, which also allows his company to save a lot of patent costs. .

In fact, these patents were all researched by Bretche in the 1990s. At that time, he was still a scientist specializing in the study of prohormones. At that time, he unethically used athletes to conduct human experiments, and then achieved very fruitful research. results, and successfully transformed these results into economic benefits.

But in the last ten years, Bu Laiqie has no research results. Because of the human experiment scandal that year, Bu Laiqie has been expelled from the scientific community. His reputation is really bad. Seeing him is like seeing a street mouse. Even the lowest-level researchers are unwilling to follow him. Blatche does research work.

No matter how powerful Bu Laiqie is, it is impossible for one person to support an entire laboratory. The so-called smart woman cannot cook without rice. Buiqie can only close his own laboratory, suspend research work, and turn to concentrate on elite pharmaceutical companies.

It has to be said that Bu Laiqie is really a talent. Relying on the savings of patent costs, the pharmaceutical company is also flourishing under the management of Bui Laiqie.

But in recent years, Bu Laiqie has encountered a problem.

The patent protection period for inventions in the United States is 20 years, and those patents of Bulaiqie were obtained in the 1990s when they were listed, and now the patent protection period has basically expired, which means that other pharmaceutical companies can ignore Bulaiqie. Cut the patent, producing the same products as him.

Originally, Bretche was unique in the market relying on patents, but now he has lost this advantage, a large number of competitors have appeared, and the price of products has dropped sharply. There is no advantage, and losses naturally occur.

For many years, Bu Laiqie has not conducted new research, and has been living on his laurels, so the company has not launched new products, which directly put Buiqie's company in trouble. This is really a patent for success and a patent for failure.

Of course, Bu Laiqie can not sit still, he will not stand by and watch his many years of business in vain, he wants to save himself. The best way to save oneself is obviously to come up with a new product, and in the pharmaceutical industry, there is no doubt that a lot of scientific research is behind the new product.

In fact, in recent years, Bretche has also been secretly funding many biological laboratories. Although he was expelled from the scientific community, it does not mean that all scientists will reject him thousands of miles away when he receives a large amount of sponsorship money. No matter how high a scientist's integrity is, he still has to eat, and no one has trouble with money.

Street rats are indeed shouted by everyone, but if a street rat shouts a few carats of diamonds, I believe people's first reaction is not to beat the rats away, but to lure the rats and take the diamonds.

It is a pity that none of the laboratories sponsored by Bu Laiqie can produce the research results he needs.

Scientific research is like this. It doesn’t mean that if you invest money in it, you will definitely get a return. There are countless things where you invest a lot of money and then get nothing.

When Bu Laiqie was on the verge of despair, a message from the Franklin Laboratory rekindled Buiqie's new hope.

A suspected new type of stimulant has appeared!

As the "father of pro-hormone", Bu Laiqie certainly knows what a new type of stimulant means. Back then, Blache became a multi-millionaire by virtue of his research on prohormones and their derivatives, and if a new type of stimulant really appeared, it might mean a fortune of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.

As a kind of medicine, stimulants are not mainly used by athletes, but by the biotechnology behind them, which may be some new synthesis technology, or some new extraction technology, and hundreds or thousands of Derivatives, even if only one of them can be used in medicine, will bring huge wealth.

Bu Laiqie had a hunch that if he could get that new type of stimulant, he might turn around. He could not only save his own pharmaceutical company, but also make a lot of money.

According to the Franklin Lab's intelligence, this new type of stimulant is said to be controlled by a Chinese coach.

So Bu Laiqie began to investigate Li Dai and his training center, but after several months, he exhausted all kinds of methods and spent a lot of time, but found nothing. The investigative firm he hired couldn't find any clues, and Franklin's lab couldn't find any clues from the athletes' specimens.

Bu Laiqie once thought that the Franklin laboratory and that coach Sebastian had an own goal, and there were no new types of stimulants at all. It may be just a case of an athlete rediscovering the competitive state of his youth.

But one athlete after another became stronger after Dai Li's training, and they also showed the world's top level, which shows that it is not an isolated case. Let Bulaiqie confirm that there is really that new type of doping. And he is even more convinced that this new type of stimulant is his only hope for a comeback.

...

Looking at the quarterly financial statement in his hand, looking at the loss figure, Bu Laiqie only felt that his heart was bleeding. If it continues to lose money like this, his company won't last long, and the crisis of bankruptcy is imminent.

"The Franklin laboratory has taken so much sponsorship money from me, but it can't even detect a new type of doping agent. It is so unreliable at a critical moment. And that coach Sebastian, I don't want to count on it. He Although he is now the head coach of the national team, I don't think he has the ability to get that new type of doping from athletes."

"It seems that at this time, I still have to rely on myself!" Bu Laiqie sighed, put down the report in his hand, and lowered his head to think.

"For athletes, they used doping, so they must be insiders, but they can only be regarded as the passive party, and the active one should be the doping provider, that is, the Chinese coach named Li Dai. That’s the person at the heart of the matter.”

"So instead of wasting time and experience on those athletes, it is better to contact that coach Li directly. Maybe I made things complicated before and spent time and money to investigate the company, so it is better to give the money to that coach Li directly. Wouldn't it be more direct!"

...

As soon as Li Dai entered the gate, the young lady at the reception desk stopped Li Dai.

"Boss, there is a Mr. Derrickson who called to make an appointment and wants to see you." The reception lady said.

"Derrickson?" Dai Li thought about it carefully, and then said, "I don't know this person. Is he an athlete? Want to come to our place for training?"

"According to the self-introduction of this Mr. Derrickson, he is not an athlete, but a representative of a pharmaceutical company." The reception lady replied.

"He's here to sell nutritional products again! Let's leave this kind of thing to Randy, he is the manager, let him do the product negotiation." Li Dai is obviously not interested in the representatives of the pharmaceutical company.

"I have already notified Mr. Blake, and Mr. Blake also talked with this Mr. Derrickson on the phone, but the other party asked to see you by name." The reception lady continued.

Dai Li nodded: "In this case, make an appointment for me."

...

There are only Dai Li and Derrickson in the reception room of the training center.

Derrickson pushed a check in front of Dai Li, and said at the same time, "Coach Li, please don't refuse in a hurry. Please read this check first. We are very sincere."

Dai Li glanced at the seven-digit number on the check, and instantly showed a surprised expression.

"This pharmaceutical company is really worth the money." Dai Li thought to himself.

"This number is beyond the reach of many people in their lifetime." Derrickson continued to persuade: "Coach Li, you only need to give me ten grams of the new type of stimulant you have mastered, and this check is yours. I After walking out of this gate, the transaction between us will never be disclosed, and you don't have to take any risks."

Dai Li sighed helplessly: "I've already explained to you that I don't have any illegal drugs here, and I have never used illegal drugs to athletes."

Derrickson ignored Dai Li's explanation, and said to himself: "It seems that Coach Li is not satisfied with the number on this check. Promise, even if it exceeds my authority, I will report it to my boss. In terms of price, we can negotiate."

"I really don't have the kind of things you want here. Let me repeat, I never use any illegal drugs." Dai Li explained again.

"Coach Li, my boss is really sincere. If you think it's inappropriate to directly negotiate the price, we can also discuss the issue of sharing. You give us that new type of stimulant, and we will conduct research. If the research results If the patent is converted into money income, we can give you a share. Coach Li, this is already the biggest concession we can make." Derrickson said sincerely.

"I'm a little skeptical right now. What I just said is not English. You don't seem to understand a word of what I said. You're just playing the piano against the cow." Dai Li felt that he couldn't communicate with Derrickson normally. I made plans to see off guests.

...

Derrickson walked out of Dai Li's training center with a very unhappy expression on his face. He took out his cell phone and dialed Bryce's number.

When the phone was connected, Bu Laiqie's voice sounded immediately: "How is the matter going?"

"He said no," Derrickson said.

"Why? Did you tell him all of our offers?" Blatche asked immediately.

"Yes, I said everything, including the things that could be discussed, but he refused them all." Derrickson replied.

"Isn't our quotation high enough? Isn't this guy too greedy? What does he want?" Bu Laiqie asked angrily.

"He didn't make an offer, he just refused," Derrickson said.

"Are you unwilling to even talk about it?" Bu Laiqie's voice became even more annoyed. He suppressed his emotions and asked in a low voice: "Then did you secretly record it?"

"According to your instructions, I recorded all the conversations. However, unlike our previous plan, Dai Li has always denied that he had given athletes doping. So there is no substantive content recorded in the recording. We did not There is no way to threaten him with the content of this recording." Derrickson continued: "Unless we edit the recording."

"That's useless. With the current technology, you only need to input the audio into the computer, and the computer will be able to recognize whether the audio has been edited after a second." Bu Laiqie sighed, and then said: "Forget it, you come back first Well, let me think of a way to compare."

Putting down the phone, Bu Laiqie sat alone on the boss chair in a daze.

In Bu Laiqie's view, the price he proposed is sincere enough,

If you want cash, Bu Laiqie offered a seven-figure dollar directly, and said that it was still negotiable.

If he wants long-term income, Bu Laiqie is also willing to give up the income share of the research results, which is a condition that the scientists involved in the research cannot get.

Bu Laiqie originally thought that with such a good condition, Dai Li would definitely agree to hand over the new type of stimulant to him, but Li Dai refused, and simply refused to admit that he had the new type of stimulant.

"I thought that the worst result would be that he would give a very high asking price, which was too high for me to bear, and I would use the recording to threaten him to reduce the price, but what I didn't expect was that he would not admit it directly. It directly closed the door of negotiation, which means that there is no need to talk at all. You are toasting and not eating fine wine, forcing me to use the second set of plans."

There was a cold gleam in Blaise's eyes.

The next second, Bu Laiqie stood up and walked to the wall.

There was an oil painting hanging on the wall, and Bu Laiqie reached out and took it down, revealing the safe behind it. Bu Laiqie pressed the password, and then pressed the fingerprint to unlock it. With a "click", the safe was opened.

Bu Laiqie fumbled in the safe and took out a small card with a phone number written on it.

Bu Laiqie took a deep breath, and then dialed the phone number above.

After a few beeps, the phone was connected.

"Hey, Leon, I'm Bretcher, and I'm still talking about what I told you last time. I need a few people, and I need someone who is proficient in interrogation."