Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1265 - 963: The Pediatrician Who Went into Business_2

Chapter 1265: Chapter 963: The Pediatrician Who Went into Business_2

"Why are you here?" Yang Ping was quite curious. As a pediatrician, it seemed unlikely he could afford such a VIP ward. Could it be another case like Little Five, whose in-laws were local landlords?

Niu Zhixuan said with a smile, "I indulged a bit too much a few days ago and ended up with acute pancreatitis. I came here for treatment because I heard the medical technology is top-notch and the hospital environment is great."

"Are you okay now?" Yang Ping asked with concern, remembering his good old friend.

"No serious harm, it was edematous type. I’ve been under conservative treatment for several days, and now the doctors say I can drink rice porridge," Niu Zhixuan touched his belly.

Yang Ping said, "Do you want me to say hello to the head of the department here for you, to take special care of you?"

Niu Zhixuan was overjoyed, "That would be the best. They’re letting me out due to the ward being in high demand, but if you could say a word for me to stay a few more days, that would be great, Old Yang. I’ve heard that you’re now a big-shot professor here, a chief expert? It hasn’t been long since we last met, and you’ve already been promoted to professor. I heard you’re even eligible to be evaluated as an Academician, impressive!" Niu Zhixuan was full of admiration.

"You’re doing pretty well yourself, where did you make your fortune? Acute pancreatitis and you’re staying in VIP?" Yang Ping was a bit curious.

"Shall we chat for a while?" Niu Zhixuan suggested.

Yang Ping immediately agreed, and the two went to a meeting room in the VIP Surgery Department. The meeting room here was nice and had good privacy, which made it ideal for undisturbed chats.

It had been a long time since they had last seen each other. Niu Zhixuan began to recount his story. Not long after Yang Ping left his job, he too resigned from the hospital to start his own business, starting with live streaming and now having established a company mainly selling children’s health products like "Smart Drugs," "Height Boost Fun," "Scholar’s Formula Milk Powder," and "Vision Capsules," among others.

Yang Ping already knew about this guy’s situation from what Little Five had told him. It seems he made a fortune livestreaming sales, and now he’s already worth over a hundred million. It hadn’t taken long for his net worth to exceed a hundred million through business.

Yang Ping wasn’t interested in how much money he made, but he was very curious about his bizarre array of products. "What’s the mechanism behind your ’Smart Drugs’ and other so-called high-tech products? Why haven’t I seen any related research results in papers?" he asked.

Every high-tech product should have a theoretical basis for support. Niu Zhixuan had mentioned "Black Technology," which Yang Ping, who regularly reads countless papers, had never heard of.

Niu Zhixuan was quite frank: "We’re all old colleagues here, we know each other’s backgrounds, and I’ve never hidden the nature of my business. This stuff is just about harvesting the ’stupidity tax.’ One is willing to hit, another willing to be hit. In the end, there’s market demand. Anyway, overdosing on these products won’t do any harm—they’re just ordinary nutritional supplements. Then we wrap them up in a bundle of mysterious theories and push them with overwhelming marketing strategies. We sell a wave and make a wave of money."

"That works?" Yang Ping was quite surprised.

Niu Zhixuan was momentarily stunned, then calmly smiled: "Why not? Isn’t that what everyone does? We’re still one of the more conscientious businesses. Conglomerates like ours with a conscience are hard to find these days. Although our products are useless, they’re completely harmless. To achieve this, we established a professional R&D team, all members are Master Researchers, with their main task being to ensure our products are harmless to the human body. Do other companies do that? To give you an example, the main ingredient in our height boost product is actually starch, but our starch is different; we strictly select the highest quality suppliers. Plus, we have our own testing institutions to ensure raw materials are safe and pollution-free. Tell me, aren’t we conscientious? We sell at such high prices; we have to do something substantial to feel good about it."

"But isn’t this basically a fake product?" Yang Ping asked.

Niu Zhixuan chuckled: "What’s the difference between true and false with this stuff? There were never any real ones to begin with, so where does the distinction between true and false come in? Believe it and it’s real, doubt it and it’s false. In medicine, isn’t there a concept of a placebo? Our products are like placebos. Although they don’t have an actual effect, they build false confidence and hope, relieve customers’ anxiety, and serve as placebos. Don’t laugh, but we’ve conducted extensive statistics according to principles of statistics. Families who use our products have a significantly higher happiness index and lower anxiety index than those who don’t. Think about it: Both kids are short, but one believes they can still grow to be one meter ninety, that being short is just temporary, while the other thinks that’s as tall as they’ll ever be. Who lives happier?"

Mr. Niu’s theories were one after another; it seemed he might actually be a conscientious businessman.

It seemed to make sense. Yang Ping thought it over carefully, and it seemed logically sound.

"You’ve got quite a broad operation going on. How many employees do you have now?"

"Not many, just over two hundred on social insurance, with our own factory and warehouses. The main R&D team is huge, employees with Doctorates account for 40%, Masters and Bachelors 60%."

"Such a large R&D team?"

"Yes, the market competition is fierce. We must utilize our strengths and avoid price wars with others. We need to create new theories, develop new products, and bring out the new to replace the old. For example, we recently launched a health product that can block spinal curvature. The response has been very good; it’s now in high demand. A treatment course costs over thirty thousand, and after several courses, it’s only a little over a hundred thousand, which is still cheaper than surgery."

Damn, my research is currently on minimally invasive surgery, and you’ve already moved ahead, controlling spinal curvature with just medication.

"This medicine of yours?" Yang Ping was very skeptical.

"I won’t lie in front of an expert. This product is useless. You know about spinal curvature; once found, some cases might become very severe, while others remain mild. Our product is based on the principle of probability. We only give it to those who have just been diagnosed. Naturally, those whose condition would have developed mildly will think it’s thanks to our health products. As for those who end up with a severe condition, they would still need surgery. There will always be some fish that slip through the net, isn’t that so?" Niu Zhixuan said proudly, very frankly without a hint of deceit.

"What other products do you have?"

"We’re planning to extend our product line to pre-birth, like the red and blue milk powder we’re about to launch with great momentum."

"What’s this red and blue milk powder?"

"Ah, it’s just two types of milk powder, one in blue packaging, the other in pink. Let me tell you, by consuming the blue-packaged milk powder before pregnancy, you can have a son, and the pink-packaged one for a daughter."

"That’s a bit much for pregnant women."

"It’s just ordinary milk powder, rest assured. Moreover, the quality is definitely much better than the ordinary milk powder on the market. We’ve put a lot of thought into product quality. The raw material costs are very high. The milk powder is all imported from New Zealand and packaged for sale domestically. We absolutely do not add anything inappropriate. We have a conscience. To ensure absolute safety and avoid unnecessary disputes, the milk powder is not for women to consume, but for the men. I’ll send you a few cans to try; rest assured, the quality is definitely better than ordinary milk powder. Think about it, how much does a can of ordinary milk powder cost? Ours has to sell for thousands, maybe tens of thousands. It’s a huge profit, but our costs are also high. The product is really sent from the conscience. Moreover, our own testing team strictly guards the quality. My family members are all consuming it now," Niu Zhixuan said with full confidence.

"Our products can withstand any inspection, any agency can come to check at any time," Niu Zhixuan insisted, thumping his chest.

"We also have the Scholar’s Gold Premium Milk Powder, a can for over six thousand. The factory is set up overseas, and the brand is registered abroad too. Basically, I run a factory abroad, producing products for export to China."

"Do people buy it?"

"There’s more demand than we can supply upon its release. Currently, the overseas factory’s production capacity and milk source can’t keep up. We don’t want to substitute lower quality for higher, so we haven’t expanded production capacity."

Yang Ping’s eyes widened. As a top figure in the healthcare industry, he truly learned a solid lesson from this old friend today and saw something eye-opening.

"I’ve got more to do, let’s get together sometime when I’m free, and I’ll treat you to a meal," Yang Ping said as he stood up to leave.

"Let’s find a time, and I’ll treat you and Little Five to a meal! With your status and class now, how could I let you treat," Niu Zhixuan said politely.

When Yang Ping left, he made sure to greet the head of the surgery department, letting his old friend stay as long as he liked and arranging for a south-facing suite in the ward.

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