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Chapter 109 Arrival in New York

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New York is the largest metropolis and largest commercial port in the United States. It is not only the financial center of the United States, but also one of the financial centers in the world.

New York is located at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York, near the Atlantic Ocean

It consists of five districts: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Richmond, with an area of ​​8,288 square kilometers, a population of more than 7 million in the city, and a population of 18 million in the suburbs.

New York is also the headquarters of the United Nations, and the headquarters building is located on the banks of the East River in Manhattan Island.

When Liu Xiaohai and her eldest sister walked out of the Kennedy International Airport in New York, Zhang Qibin, general manager of Tianxiong's American branch, had been waiting outside the airport for a long time. Although it was their first real meeting with Liu Xiaohai, they had held two video conferences, so they also knew what Liu Xiaohai looked like. When they saw him come out, they immediately surrounded him enthusiastically.

After Liu Xiaohai exchanged greetings with them, he followed Zhang Qibin to an extended Lincoln RV with his eldest sister. The car was originally the property of the American branch of Wanshi Group, and now it is of course from the American branch of Tianxi. Several other people got on a Cadillac and drove to the branch behind the Lincoln car.

Zhang Qibin is 43 years old this year. He was originally the general manager of the American branch of Wanshi Group. After Wanshi Group was acquired by Tianxi Group, Tianxi Branch and Wanshi Branch merged. Liu Xiaohai still appointed Zhang Qibin as the general manager of the branch. First, he has been operating health products in the United States for many years and is more familiar with the market. In addition, he is also to stabilize the hearts of more than 200 employees who originally worked for Wanshi Group. Dozens of people from Tianxi Branch were included in the newly merged branch and managed by Zhang Qibin. The branch's office address was also changed to the building of Wanshi Branch, located in the center of Manhattan District, New York.

Manhattan Island is the core of New York, with the smallest area of ​​five districts, only 5791 square kilometers.

But this small island with narrow east and south long north is the financial center of the United States. More than one-third of the 500 largest companies in the United States have their headquarters in Manhattan

Six of the 7 major banks and the headquarters of major monopoly organizations have set up central bases here

Here we also concentrate the essence of the world's finance, securities, futures and insurance industries.

Wall Street, located in the southern part of Manhattan Island, is a symbol of the wealth and economic strength of the United States, and is also synonymous with the base of the United States' monopoly capital and financial oligarchs.

This narrow street, which is only 540 meters long, has more than 2,900 financial and foreign trade institutions on both sides of the narrow street, lined by the two sides.

The famous New York Stock Exchange and the US Stock Exchange are located here, which is truly a real treasure. Now every inch of land is worth every inch of land. The most prosperous island in the United States is said to be in 1626 AD. Peter, the then governor of the Netherlands, bought the entire Manhattan Island from the local Indians with a pile of colorful glass worth only $24, and completed a famous transaction in history.

It was already evening when Liu Xiaohai arrived in the United States. The other employees in the company had already got off work, so they didn't go to the company and went directly to the hotel.

Zhang Qibin was in a famous hotel in the core area of ​​Manhattan. The Pennsylvania Hotel has booked a two-bedroom business suite for Liu Xiaohai and his eldest sister. This was set according to Liu Xiaohai's requirements. He didn't want to attract attention and thought it would be enough to live. If he stayed in a presidential suite worth tens of thousands of dollars a day, the money would not matter, but he was afraid of attracting others' attention.

This made the employees of the American branch admire the young boss who was worth hundreds of billions of yuan. In the past, Wan Shihao often came to the United States to spend money on food and accommodation in the name of inspection, and went to the most expensive places, and the expenses were paid by the American branch. Although the money can be said to be their own, it is related to the performance of the American branch. Besides, the company's budget hospitality costs were almost used by Wan Shihao. What to use to entertain other guests has made Zhang Qibin and others very worried.

Although the boss's thrift is worthy of admiration, Zhang Qibin dared not find a hotel to deal with. The Pennsylvania Hotel can be said to be one of the most famous hotels in the world, with extremely convenient transportation. The hotel is only one block away from Macy's, the world's largest department store, and across the street from the Empire State Building.

Entering the spacious lobby, you will feel at home. It has 1,700 rooms, the scale is at the forefront of Manhattan, and the security measures are very tight. You must bring a key to enter the elevator.

Liu Xiaohai and senior management of the American branch had a meal in the hotel, and then asked everyone to go back, leaving only Zhang Qibin back to his room and listened to him to introduce the US FDA's request for re-examination of the weight loss capsules.

When talking about this issue, Zhang Qibin was both angry and helpless. In the past, the US FDA was not very strict about the examination of Chinese medicine preparations and health products, because in their eyes, people who use these medicines are basically Chinese and some Asians living in the United States, and they are processed or refined with natural medicines. They are generally just to check whether the products contain drugs on the list of Chinese herbal medicines that are prohibited from being sold in the United States.

TianXiáng, Yàn weight loss capsules undoubtedly meet the requirements of the US FDA, but I didn’t expect that the US FDA used the indicators to stop selling, although they did not exceed the regulations, but they did not include them within the scope of the previous regulations. If this is the case, most Chinese medicine products should not be sold in the US market.

What's even more ridiculous is that some of the other two products of TianXing were not included in the specified scope and were not banned. However, of course, this reason cannot be used to defend, otherwise it would be even more loss to ban sales in the US market together.

After listening to Zhang Qibin's report and complaining, Liu Xiaohai asked: Do you think there are other reasons for this?

Zhang Qibin patted the sofa and said: Of course, it is definitely some American pharmaceutical and health products companies that saw the threat of TianxiuYan weight loss capsules to them and put pressure on the government. I can see from the faces of the FDA officials. Unfortunately, since the United States passed the Bio-Counter-Terrorism Act, the rights of the US FDA have been infinitely expanded. Even if it bans us from selling TianxiuYan weight loss capsules in the United States for no reason, we can only do it.

Liu Xiaohai nodded and asked: Then how do you think we should deal with it? Is there a way to solve it?

Zhang Qibin said: These American pharmaceutical and health products companies rely on monopoly on their patents, sell hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and they are all huge profits. They are the most important source of economic income in the United States. Many American politicians rely on them to help the election, so I think it is difficult to wait for the US FDA appraisal results, unless we set up factories in the United States to produce daily weight loss capsules, join American pharmaceutical clubs, and become part of them. But... This is also very difficult. Besides, building a factory is not a matter of one or two days.

Liu Xiaohai recalled a classic case of his grandfather Long Hanhai. In 2021, Chinese cars, which were integrated by Long Hanhai, began to show their strengths in the global automobile market and were welcomed by people with excellent performance quality and moderate prices. At that time, automakers such as the United States and Japan felt pressured, which also forced the government to conduct various investigations on cars from China and use various means to prevent Chinese cars from entering the US and Japan markets.

Long Hanhai announced his withdrawal from the United States in a rage. In 2022, Longshi launched a new engine, using renewable environmentally friendly fuels, and equipped with a solar power circulation system on new cars. The energy consumption was reduced to the extreme, allowing users to spend only 20% of the fuel each year. The original gas and diesel engines were eliminated. Automobile manufacturers from various countries cooperated with Longshi to adopt the new power system launched by Longshi. Energy organizations from various countries also began to cooperate with Longshi to introduce new environmentally friendly fuels developed by Longshi. Finally, the US government led by the president and personally went to the newly built Hanhai Villa to negotiate with Longshi, giving the most preferential policies, requiring American companies to use Longshi's new technology.

After repeated requests from the United States, Long Hanhai agreed to the United States' request. When the Japanese Prime Minister saw that the United States had successfully explained Long Hanhai, he came to China to ask Long Hanhai for forgiveness. Long Hanhai asked the Japanese Prime Minister to return home immediately to demolish the Jingguo Shrine. The little Japan refused to agree, so Long Hanhai bombed the little Japanese Prime Minister. Then, because no one wanted to produce tractors, the Japanese automaker had to declare bankruptcy.

Liu Xiaohai thought that with the effect of the Tianxie Yiàn weight loss capsule he developed, he could use the method he used back then. As long as the effect is good, are you still afraid that American fat people will not be willing to eat it?

Now that the global information circulation is well developed, I am not afraid that American fat people don’t know about this product, so I simply add to the fire and said: The US FDA stipulates when will our daily weight loss capsules be stopped?

Zhang Qibin said: Since the products have been delivered to all shopping malls and pharmacies across the United States, it is a bit difficult to inform them. Besides, some shopping malls and pharmacies deliver goods through other dealers, and our company is not sure how many stores are selling, so I asked the US FDA to give a week, and they agreed. I think it would be better to sell more in this week.

Liu Xiaohai asked: How many days will it be?

Zhang Qibin said: There are three days left, and I guess I can sell another 1 million boxes. At that time, there may be about 8 million boxes to be returned. How to deal with this batch of goods? Will it be shipped back to China for sale?

Liu Xiaohaidao: No, tomorrow you will notify all dealers, shopping malls and pharmacies immediately and give away all the 9 million boxes of weight loss capsules that have not been sold.

Zhang Qibin was shocked and asked: Is it a gift to consumers?

Liu Xiaohai smiled and said: Of course, he can't sell it to the dealer, nor can he let it eat it himself.

Zhang Qibin said: But... this is worth more than 100 million US dollars Ah, and it will be sold in a few days after being shipped back to China. Is it that cheap American?

Liu Xiaohaidao: Just treat it as an advertisement and tell the merchant that each person will be given a limited amount of five boxes, and it will be given to people who really need to lose weight. The incurred costs will be borne by our company.

Zhang Qibin said in confusion: I don’t know when I can continue to sell these weight loss capsules in the United States. There is no need to use this method to advertise now, right?

Liu Xiaohai smiled and said: Don't worry, it won't be given for free. As long as Americans know that our weather is good, even if you can't buy it in the United States, can't you come to China to buy it? It can also promote China's tourism industry.

Although Zhang Qibin knew that the effect of Tianxiu Yin weight loss capsules is much better than their original Shimei weight loss tea, otherwise Wanshi Group would not be eaten by Tianxiu, but Liu Xiaohai's idea still made him feel adventurous. Will Americans really go to China to buy a few boxes of weight loss capsules? This is too exaggerated.

Seeing that Zhang Qibin was still confused, he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped. He knew that he was also considering the interests of the company and said with a smile: Don't worry, I started my business by giving away gifts.

Seeing that Liu Xiaohai had already decided, Zhang Qibin nodded and said: Okay, I'll go back and make a plan for this matter immediately. Mr. Liu, you have been on the plane for a day and are tired, so let's take a break early.

Liu Xiaohai said: OK, you can make plans and arrange them directly. There is only three days. You have to do it quickly, so you don’t have to show it to me first.

Zhang Qibin said: When will you come to the company tomorrow? I will pick you up.

Liu Xiaohai said: No need to answer, I may not be able to come in the morning. You can handle this matter first and don’t waste time on me. Besides, the company is just next to the Pennsylvania hotel. I can find it myself. I’m the first time I came to the United States and I want to go out for a casual walk in the morning.

Zhang Qibin said: Why don’t I send someone to pick you up…

Liu Xiaohai smiled and waved his hand: No need...no need...Don't worry, I can't lose it.

Zhang Qibin was still worried, afraid that Liu Xiaohai would be lost, so he was very responsible. He hurriedly took a piece of white paper and drew a walking route from the Pennsylvania Hotel to the branch, explaining in detail how to walk. In fact, the building where the branch is located is not far from the hotel, and it takes less than ten minutes to walk. In addition, Zhang Qibin also introduced the nearby scenic spots and things to pay attention to, and then stood up to say goodbye.