841 Life is the most important thing
Hugh smiled bitterly, "Susan is right, those were really just appetizers. We went to Jaipur and the tour guide explained a few words to us and started asking for tips and forcing us to buy local jewelry. β
"Jewels are!" Susan burst into foul language, "It's all fakes! I can buy it for a hundred stores with one brooch!"
Yang Meng laughed after hearing this, tsk, Susan has become a duchess, and her vision is also high!
Hugh continued: "There are also trains in Tianzhu, there are twenty-eight states, and the trains in each state are different, it is said that there are five kinds of train tickets, but in fact there are nine types, and even the same train can sell six different kinds of tickets!"
"Nine kinds of train tickets?" Yang Meng was shocked when he heard this: "Is there really a 'hanging ticket'?" I thought it was a joke!"
Hugh nodded: "It turned out that there were hanging tickets, but they have been canceled in the past few years, but they have 'ordinary tickets without seats', which is actually equivalent to hanging tickets, as well as second-class seats, second-class sleepers, three-layer sleepers, two-layer air-conditioned sleepers, first-class air-conditioned sleepers, first-class air-conditioned seats, executive air-conditioned seats, and express second-class seatsγγγγγγ β
Susan smiled wryly: "We made a first-class air conditioner, and then I went to the toilet, and Hugh was worried about my safety, and when we came back, there were three people sitting in our seats." Speaking of this, she pointed to the top of her head: "There is one more lying on the luggage rack, and our luggage has been thrown to the ground." β
"Is this Nima okay?" Yang Meng was dumbfounded.
Hugh smiled bitterly and said: "Why can't this work? I'll just say this, the railway in Tianzhu is the strangest I have ever seen, you said that you have seen a train that is a few minutes late, and a train that is two or three hours late at every turn? You said that it is just a matter of being late, have you ever seen a train that arrives at the station half an hour early? I have met it in Tianzhu!"
Susan said again: "By the way, Hugh, I can't help but mention fakes! There are all kinds of fakes in Tianzhu, and there are fakes like Tianzhu silk everywhere, as well as fake medicines. β
"Wait a minute?" Yang Meng interrupted Susan's words and said: "I know Tianzhu's copycat medicine, is the fake medicine you are talking about a generic drug over there?
Tianzhu is a country that sometimes cannot be explained by common sense.
It has a large population like the Han Kingdom, but the overall economic strength is very backward, and they simply cannot afford the expensive Western medicine, so they have come up with a jaw-dropping trick: directly refuse to recognize the patent rights of Western pharmaceutical giants. To put it bluntly, it is carved out of the same mold as some people in the current society, that is, 'I am poor and I am reasonable'. No matter what new drugs are invented in the Western world, in a short period of time, the Tianzhu people will imitate them and sell them cheaply.
Can the Western pharmaceutical giants forgive this matter? Definitely not, they first sued Tianzhu Pharmaceutical Company in Tianzhu, can this thing be useful if it is sued?
As soon as they saw that it was useless, they complained to their own country and asked their country to put pressure on Tianzhu: Tianzhu naturally refused to agree, and if they agreed, their country's medical system could not afford it, right?
Here's the funny thing: It stands to reason that if this weak country dares to disobey it, it will be economic sanctions, raising export tariffs, anti-dumping commodity embargoes, and so on. But none of this happened to Tianzhu.
After all, Tianzhu is a populous country, an important market for the West, and a representative of the pro-British and Americans, and an important strategic chess piece for them in Asia. Besides, the medical financial burden of Western countries is also very important, and they have always had opinions on their own pharmaceutical companies, and they also want to use this matter to reduce medical costs and balance finances, so after a long struggle, there is a funny result: that is, the West acquiesced in the existence of Tianzhu generic drugs, and also imported quite a lot of cheap drugs from Tianzhu to meet their own domestic needs.
Why are Western medicines expensive? Why are those big pharmaceutical companies so rich? It is because of patents! Only R&D enterprises can produce a drug within the 20-year patent period, so the price is calculated by themselves! However, Tianzhu does not care about this set, if you dare to come up with a new drug, I will dare to imitate it, and the cost is low.
Just like Gleevec in the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", the genuine Gleevec cost 23,500 yuan for a box when it was at its highest in the Han Kingdom!
"'Tianzhu has no counterfeit medicine'?" Susan sneered after hearing this: "Tianzhu medicine is also on the WHO watch list! Now two out of every ten medicinal materials in Tianzhu are counterfeit medicines! And the number is increasing, and the estimated output value is as high as 5 billion US dollars! It is specially sold to foreign tourists. β
Di Wei, who had been listening to the side, suddenly spoke: "Well, in fact, there are many Han people who go to Tianzhu and will bring medicines back to China, Tianzhu Customs also allows it, but you must be careful not to buy fake drugs, if the spot check finds that there are fake drugs in the drugs bought, this crime is big, I have a former colleague who does not be a doctor to do medicinal materials on behalf of the purchaser to run Tianzhu, but the year before last, because the medicine he brought back had fake drugs produced by Tianzhu, he was caught by Tianzhu Customs, and he is still in prison waiting for the verdict!"
"I bought counterfeit drugs from my country in their country and were still arrested by them and awaiting judgment?" Yang Meng's eyes widened.
Di Wei nodded: "That's right, it's so magical." Brother Pan, do you remember Chang Kun?"
Pan Peiyu nodded: "Remember, your classmate also interned in our hospital, but the hospital was full of smoke and miasma caused by the little nurse, and he was opened before the internship period expired." What are you mentioning him for?"
Di Wei said: "He is now doing the export business of medicinal materials in Tianzhu. Many Han medicinal materials are looking for him. β
"There are also medicinal materials to buy?" Yang Meng was stunned after hearing this, how can there be a generation gap between famous brands and milk powder, and there are also agents to buy medicinal materials?
Di Wei nodded: "Of course there is!"
Pan Peiyu added, "But Master, this is very risky, Tianzhu medicine is a generic drug, and it can no longer be marketed in China, and everything that cannot be marketed in China must be defined as counterfeit drugs." If you resell the dimentions, it is a crime. Not to mention Tianzhu medicine, it is the drug of the world's largest and most advanced pharmaceutical company, as long as it is not listed, it is illegal and counterfeit medicine. Purchasing Tianzhu medicine on behalf of you has to take a lot of legal risks, and if you are caught, you will definitely be sanctioned. β
Di Wei nodded: "Yes, Chang Kun said last time when he was chatting with me on the Internet that there were too many people who were arrested for wholesale Tianzhu medicine from him! There is a Hanbei agent-purchase who paid more than 3 million bail before he can come out, and there is also a southern agent-purchase who was directly sentenced to seven or eight years, and more of them are those who suddenly disappeared. It should have been arrested, and the state has never relaxed its control in this regard. Especially after "I Am Not the God of Medicine" became popular, more and more people went to Tianzhu to buy on behalf of others, and more people were arrested! However, it has greatly relieved the financial pressure of patients. It would be better if there was a commercial insurance, but not everyone in our country can accept commercial insurance. The gap between the rich and the poor is still a bit wide. β
Hugh heard this and said, "What's the use of having money? Health comes first! My father had money, and he had all kinds of insurance, but γγγγγγ β
He didn't finish his words, but the meaning was self-evident.
After a moment of silence at the scene, Yang Meng said: "I said Hugh, why is your trip like a big adventure? Why don't you bring bodyguards?"
Hugh shook his head: "To be honest with you, I don't want to be little Althani. β
"Little Alsani?, who?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.
"The son of the former Emir of Qatar and the younger brother of the current Emir. At the same time, he served as a deputy emir, and in popular language he could be called Prince Al-Thani the Younger, whose name was the same as that of the prophet in their religion. So we used to call him by his last name. Susan replied.
"What's wrong with him?" Yang Meng said curiously.
Viola, who had been silent on the side, said, "What could he do? He went to the University of the Stars and Stripes with a group of attendants, drivers, security contingents, janitors, personal trainers, mechanics, nurses. When I went to college, I barely stepped into school, singing and dancing every night, and called Hollywood celebrities brothers. As a result, they also got a master's degree. β
"Huh?" Yang Meng was stunned after hearing this: "You can get a master's degree without going to school?"
Viola nodded, " He began to want to go to UCLA and give Alessandro, the dean of the Academy of Social Sciences, a pair of golden camels, but UCLA still confiscated him, and he set his sights on the University of Southern California again, this time his mother personally went out and gave USC a fundraiser and successfully entered USC, and the school was not on, and he invited a high-achieving student with a doctorate degree from USC to write homework and attend classes for him, oh, in order to pass the exam, he also bribed the teacher and sent a gold watch to the teacher, anyway, he graduated and got a master's degree, and he was crazy to play by issuing fake invoices to cheat money in the country of stars and stripes. Called a disgrace to the royal family of the world. β
"Fake invoices?" Yang Meng was stunned.
Viola nodded, "His expenses in the Stars and Stripes are reimbursed by the Qatari government, but then his parents will know where his money is going. So he came up with a way to find a luxury car rental company and let the company frantically issue fake invoices to get back for reimbursement, anyway, his family was not short of money, and the staff turned a blind eye. For a $200 ticket, he dared to issue an invoice of $8,700. β
After hearing this, Yang Meng sighed: "Isn't this the same method as when I was a child and deceived my parents into collecting tuition and miscellaneous fees and holding more money?"
Hugh laughed and said, "Yang, did you have such an experience when you were a child?"
Yang Meng slapped the table and said with interest: "I'll tell youγγγγγγ β
As a result, he was interrupted before he could finish his words.