Chapter 176 : Chapter 176
Chapter 176: Bring Me Your Family’s Money to Spend
The next morning.
Linyuan City.
Inside the commercial building Zhang Group had just rented.
In the CEO’s Office, Zhang Zhiwei stood before the desk, casually flipping through some market research materials submitted by his subordinates.
Beside him stood the person who was now the public-facing Legal Representative and manager of Zhang Pharmaceutical Company in Linyuan City.
His name was Wei Hongliang. He was in his forties and was an old veteran of Zhang Group.
Zhang Zhiwei had chosen him for two reasons. First, he was trustworthy.
Second, this man was also a Seventh Grade Martial Artist and had a certain degree of self-protection ability.
If someone truly targeted Zhang Pharmaceutical Company with force, he would be able to respond to some extent.
Wei Hongliang stood respectfully beside Zhang Zhiwei, and the two were talking.
Someone knocked on the door outside.
“Come in!”
The one who pushed the door open and entered was Wei Hongliang’s assistant.
The assistant respectfully said to Zhang Zhiwei, “Young Master, someone from the Lu Family has arrived. They are outside and said they wish to pay you a visit!”
Wei Hongliang immediately looked toward Zhang Zhiwei.
“Young Master...”
The Lu Family had come directly for Zhang Zhiwei. This meant they had been watching Zhang Zhiwei all along and knew he was here!
They had probably also thoroughly investigated their Pharmaceutical Factory.
Zhang Zhiwei raised his hand and interrupted him, then said indifferently, “Let them in.”
“Understood!”
The assistant withdrew, and Zhang Zhiwei also sat down behind the desk.
Very soon, the assistant brought in a middle-aged man in formal attire. The middle-aged man chuckled and said to Zhang Zhiwei, “Haha, this must be the Young Master Heir of Zhang Group!”
“Hello! I am the General Manager of Lu Pharmaceuticals. My name is Zhou Xiaopeng.”
As this general manager spoke, he stepped forward and placed a business card on the desk.
Zhang Zhiwei asked directly, “Do you need something?”
The corners of Zhou Xiaopeng’s mouth twitched twice. He glanced awkwardly at Wei Hongliang at the side.
He had not expected Zhang Zhiwei to not even offer him a chair.
He gave a dry chuckle and stopped beating around the bush.
“Young Master Zhang, we are in the same industry, so I will speak frankly.”
“Our Lu Family has developed in Linyuan City for several decades! We are famous for spiritual medicines.”
“High-Grade Spiritual Liquid is our main market.”
“Your company’s Spiritual Liquid is indeed of decent quality, but you came all the way from Ironhand City to Linyuan City just like this.”
“You did not even send a greeting. That seems to break the rules a little...”
After Zhang Zhiwei listened to him, he frowned slightly and asked in confusion, “Oh?”
“There are rules here?”
The corner of Zhou Xiaopeng’s mouth curled up.
He had guessed that Zhang Zhiwei would play dumb.
The rules he spoke of were naturally not rules written in the open, but rules between families.
A family from Ironhand City had suddenly parachuted into another city and directly stolen another family’s business.
This was plainly a provocation.
“Young Master Zhang, there is no need to pressure me. I am only passing along a message on behalf of our Lu Family.”
“We have deep roots in Linyuan City, and we know very well that your pharmaceutical company is only a shell.”
“You have no formal channel for producing High-Grade Spiritual Liquid.”
“Our Lu Family only wishes to ask Young Master Zhang whether this Spiritual Liquid came through some illegal channel.”
The Lu Family had indeed investigated Zhang Pharmaceutical Company.
In the end, they found that Zhang Pharmaceutical Factory here had simply acquired an existing Pharmaceutical Factory.
There were not even many workers yet. It had only just begun processing ordinary spiritual medicines such as hemostatic and recovery medicines.
There was no process for manufacturing High-Grade Spiritual Liquid at all.
The Lu Family had not found out more, so they could only try to threaten Zhang Group a little.
“Where our Spiritual Liquid comes from is something we should have no need to report to the Lu Family.”
“If your family believes our procedures are noncompliant, then you may try to pursue judicial channels.”
Zhang Zhiwei spoke very bluntly.
Zhou Xiaopeng hurriedly raised his hand.
“Young Master Zhang, please do not misunderstand.”
“I am a businessman. What I am discussing is business. I do not wish to know the source of the Spiritual Liquid.”
“However, we have been in the Spiritual Liquid business for so many years, and we are also a local operator.”
“Zhang Group’s Spiritual Liquid is indeed of good quality. Selling it for five hundred thousand is truly too much of a pity.”
“If our two families keep competing and start a price war, that will not be good for either of us!”
“But on the contrary, if we cooperate, we are confident we can double your price!”
After Zhou Xiaopeng finished speaking, he even made a hand-flipping gesture and smiled brilliantly.
Zhang Zhiwei suddenly let out a sneer.
“Heh. A price war? Are you even qualified?”
Zhou Xiaopeng’s smile instantly froze on his face.
It was very obvious that Zhang Zhiwei had no intention of giving the Lu Family a chance to cooperate.
Wei Hongliang also gave a faint snort from the side.
It was as if he was afraid Zhou Xiaopeng would not hear it.
He also found it funny in his heart.
The Lu Family had truly gone mad thinking about money.
A price war?
With the current momentum, as long as Zhang Group’s Spiritual Liquid had not sold out, Lu Spiritual Liquid would not even be able to make a sale!
Anyone who spent six hundred and fifty thousand to buy an inferior product would be a pure idiot.
Even if Zhang Spiritual Liquid sold out, as long as more stock arrived in a few days, no one would be willing to buy Lu Spiritual Liquid.
Unless Lu Spiritual Liquid dropped to four hundred thousand, some people might consider it when Zhang Spiritual Liquid was out of stock.
Zhang Spiritual Liquid had no procedural problems and no market problems.
There was only enormous profit.
Under such circumstances, the Lu Family coming to propose cooperation was equivalent to knocking on the door of a wealthy man and discussing whether he could take out his money for them to spend.
“Young Master Zhang certainly speaks with great confidence!”
“Then I will take my leave! Let us see the truth in the marketplace.”
Manager Zhou gritted his teeth as he finished speaking, snorted coldly, turned around, and left.
Zhang Zhiwei had already torn all pretense of cordiality. Saying more would be meaningless.
After the news was sent back to the Lu Family, everyone in the Lu Family cursed, “He does not know what is good for him!”
“Bastard! He is trying to force us onto a dead end!”
The Lu Family’s second brother gritted his teeth as he spoke.
They had never imagined that the Lu Family’s excellent situation would actually be stirred into its current state by a brat who had appeared out of nowhere.
High-Grade Spiritual Liquid was the Lu Family’s main industry!
If they wanted to sell it now, they could only lower the price.
Moreover, with their reputation so terrible at present, they had to sell it during the period when Zhang Group had no stock.
The price had to be lower than five hundred thousand!
However, even if they sold it at five hundred thousand per bottle, their profit would still be cut in half.
But once they chose to lower the price, the Lu Family would be equivalent to admitting that their Spiritual Liquid was inferior to Zhang Group’s Spiritual Liquid.
External evaluation and personally admitting defeat were two different concepts. After that, the Lu Family could forget about ever standing up again in the Spiritual Liquid market.
Just then, the people sent to Ironhand City to investigate Zhang Group in detail also returned.
According to their investigation, Zhang Group had never produced any High-Grade Spiritual Liquid in Ironhand City either!
They had not even been involved in Spiritual Liquid.
All along, they had worked in Abyss plant development, herb cultivation and planting, and the production of some commonly used spiritual medicines.
And the plant density of the Ironhand City Abyss was far inferior to the Verdant Abyss.
Therefore, although Zhang Group’s pharmaceutical scale in Ironhand City was considered fairly large, compared to the Lu Family, it was only a child.
“It seems we did indeed find the wrong target.”
“Zhang Group is nothing more than that Li Mu’s shield!”
“The true culprit is still Li Mu!”
Second Brother Lu said in a low voice.
Lu Dinghan, the eldest of the Lu Family, narrowed his eyes slightly.
“He alone can actually possess such terrifying High-Grade Spiritual Liquid production capacity!”
A blazing flame of greed had already ignited in his heart!
Nearly twenty thousand bottles in total!
And they said there would be another batch soon?
If the Lu Family could possess such a method, the profits contained within it would be astronomical!
The Lu Family would instantly rise to become a super family!
Previously, they had thought this was Zhang Group’s method. But if this had been produced by Li Mu alone...
Then as long as they took Li Mu...
The difficulty would instead be lower, because Zhang Group had a Profound Rank expert guarding it.
No matter how strong Li Mu was, he was only a Ninth Grade Martial Artist.
Could he withstand a Profound Rank Fourth Grade expert?
From beginning to end, the Lu Family had never extended its reach into the high-level ranks of the Abyss-Suppressing Army.
Therefore, at most, they only knew that Li Mu had led Tiger Roar Camp to perform meritorious service at the border of Divine Elephant Nation.
They had no idea at all that Li Mu had personally killed more than one Profound Rank expert.
“Second Brother, make a trip to East Medicine Valley and notify the Old Master. Have him invite the Mute Guard to take action.”
Lu Dinghan spoke.
Upon hearing the words “Mute Guard,” every member of the Lu Family present felt their spirits lift.
East Medicine Valley was a large area the Lu Family had purchased on the eastern mountain of Linyuan City.
The Lu Family’s Old Master personally held command there, carrying out herb cultivation and Secret-Art Pharmaceutical Production.
It was the true lifeline of the Lu Family.
The one responsible for guarding the Old Master’s safety there was none other than the Lu Family’s current strongest combat force, the Mute Guard.
Moreover, after being transformed through the Lu Family’s unique medicinal Secret Art, the Mute Guard’s strength was said to surpass others of the same rank. Over the years, no one knew how many petty villains who had tried to spy on the Lu Family’s secrets had been killed by him!
If they invited him to personally take action, this matter was settled!