Chapter 1794 — In Grave Peril, Part One
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Watching the silver come pouring in day after day, Divine Physician Kang's mouth stretched so wide it nearly reached his ears: "Hahaha, Zhaoming, you've done well this time, truly splendid! That the hidden You family would give our Kang family such powerful support — that is all thanks to you!"
"Thank you for your praise, Grandfather!" Kang Jingming was just as surprised that the hidden You family should be so generous. In truth, how was this the You family's generosity? The Xuandan Sect had simply been delighted by that pill formula and told the You family not to stint the Kang family — and only then had the You family handed the Kang family so many benefits!
And compared with that pill formula, these prescriptions were utterly insignificant; otherwise the hidden You family could never have been so open-handed.
"Zhaoming, rest assured, the position of head of the Kang family will one day pass into your hands. Of everyone in the Kang family, you are the one on the best terms with the hidden You family. You must cherish this friendship and carry it forward in the years to come, so that even though our Kang family is no cultivation clan, with the You family's support we may endure without decline!" Divine Physician Kang said. "We are no cultivation clan; our chief aim is wealth, so that so-called Cultivators Association — better left unjoined!"
"I understand!" Kang Jingming was overjoyed. "By the way, Grandfather, Young Master You says he will give us several more miracle prescriptions in the next few days, chiefly for stubborn ailments like arthritis and stomach ulcers. Once they reach the market, I'm sure they'll set off a sensation and a buying frenzy!"
"Haha, excellent! This time our Kang family has completely crushed Guan Xuewen's pharmaceutical company!" Divine Physician Kang said smugly. "By the way, how has Guan Xuewen's company been faring lately?"
"Heh heh, utterly unsellable — plenty of pharmacies want to return their stock. Meanwhile our Kang family's Golden Wound Salve and All-Pain Relief can't keep up with demand!" Kang Jingming said.
"Mmm... For now, thanks to our connections with the You family, we've leased production lines from some other pharmaceutical companies, but that is no long-term solution. Our products are selling so explosively now that we ought to build more lines of our own; otherwise we are bound to hit a supply gap. And leasing other people's lines makes it hard to keep our formulas secret — if a formula leaked, we would lose everything!" Divine Physician Kang took the long view; he was not dazzled by the flourishing scene before his eyes.
"Grandfather, I thought of that long ago. I have a fine countermeasure!" Kang Jingming said.
"Oh? What countermeasure?" Divine Physician Kang was slightly taken aback.
"Hasn't Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals just built all those production lines? At the rate they're bleeding money now, they can't hold out a year at most before going bankrupt, and then those lines will have to be sold off cheap — and we can sit back and reap the harvest!" Kang Jingming said. "Of course, we needn't simply wait. We can start by acquiring a few small pharmaceutical plants!"
"Well said!" Divine Physician Kang nodded. "They've built so many production lines, expanding so blindly — they'll be staring in dismay when the time comes. Our costs are so low that we hold a completely overwhelming advantage! Do as you say!"
"Grandfather, small pharmaceutical plants are rather a nuisance to manage, aren't they? One here, one there. If that were workable, would Fatty Lai not have put his own money into building centralized production lines instead?" Kang Jinglong cut in.