Chapter 213: Chapter 213: Anti-counterfeiting Code
That day, as usual, Qi Yue was at the dicine factory, confirming a series of matters, when the gatekeeper reported that the person in charge of the Shen Family sought an audience.
Qi Yue took a mont to react.
“The person in charge of the Shen Family?”
She subconsciously glanced at Shen Zikuang, and it was only later that she realized, she had recently been shocked by the big news from Shen Zifang.
“What is he doing here?”
Shen Zikuang pursed his lips.
“He, probably wants to make ands.”
Qi Yue raised an eyebrow.
“Why do you say that? Did he look for you?”
“Hmm.”
It turned out that Shen Zifang had visited Shen Zikuang where he lived, not only to apologize but also to reveal the whereabouts of his birth parents.
Qi Yue was greatly surprised when she heard this.
“Then what was his deal before? If it was all an act, then this Shen Zifang is quite complicated!”
Shen Zikuang also nodded.
“He indeed has his clever monts, otherwise, Shen Wanzhen would not have valued him so much.”
“Clever? I think cunning is more like it.” Qi Yue snorted coldly and instructed soone to invite Shen Zifang into the drawing room.
Today, Shen Zifang was dressed in a grey changshan embroidered with golden patterns, with a matching belt inlaid with gold around his waist, looking calm and steady, very different from usual.
The mont this fellow entered, he greeted everyone present.
First was Qi Yue, then Qu Wei, Mrs. Zhang; he didn’t miss a single person.
Even Shen Zikuang, he continually addressed respectfully as “big brother.”
With a humble expression and a gentle deanor, you couldn’t tell that he was the sa person who had previously vociferously demanded to drive Shen Zifang out of the Shen Family.
Qi Yue wondered if he had changed his inner core, and after skirting around the subject with a few questions, she confird that he was still the sa Shen Zifang, not a soul from another world, and only then did she feel reassured.
He then expressed his apologies for the shortage of ten thousand taels of silver from the last compensation, and instructed the people accompanying him to bring up a big chest.
He claid it was ten thousand taels, but from Qi Yue’s perspective, the chest contained no less than thirty thousand taels of silver.
“Miss Qi, my Shen Family had many past offenses, all due to my lack of control over the household. I assure you, such incidents will not happen again! Please, Miss Qi, allow the Shen Family’s drugstores to sell all of Qi’s Pharmaceuticals’ prepared dicines.”
Hearing Shen Zifang both shifting bla and making sincere overtures, Qi Yue felt sowhat conflicted.
As the saying goes, even if soone’s a murderer, if they admit their wrongs and reform, you still grant them a suspended death sentence.
After all, the series of incidents weren’t solely Shen Zifang’s doing, and his main target had been Shen Zikuang.
Besides, it didn’t matter who sold the dicines, as long as the profits were the sa.
Regarding the Shen Family, although Shen Zikuang had gone independent, the Shen Family’s foundations were still intact. With drugstores in the surrounding Eighteen Provinces Prefecture and throughout Beiyuan, why would she refuse such a good business partner? Was she insane?
After so thought, Qi Yue decided to pass the buck to Shen Zikuang.
“You are now the general manager for Qi’s Pharmaceuticals in Dongjiang; you handle this matter.”
Mainly because she was considering that Shen Zifang had inford him of his birth parents’ whereabouts, letting Shen Zikuang agree to cooperate would also be repaying that favor.
Sure enough, in Shen Zikuang’s eyes looking towards her, there was an indescribable gratitude and excitent.
“Thank you, Miss Qi. I will give this careful consideration and co up with a cooperative proposal.”
“Good,” Qi Yue nodded.
She still trusted Shen Zikuang’s abilities and character.
However, she did not accept the silver that Shen Zifang had brought, telling him to take it back.
After all, she had already said that those missing ten thousand taels of compensation could be considered dical fees given to Shen Wanzhen; how could she take them back?
After this incident, Qi Yue suddenly had an idea and planned to add an anti-counterfeiting code to the dicine bottles.
Although the Ma Family’s pharmaceutical factory was sealed off, after restructuring, it might just pop up again.
Qi Yue felt that, with the Ma Family’s capabilities, they wouldn’t have the ability to manufacture pharmaceuticals independently in the short term.
By then, who knows if they would start entertaining the idea of producing knock-off drugs again.
Even if the new bottles of dicine were labeled with the four big characters of “Qi Pharmaceutical” and its logo, these things were still easy to imitate, so she planned to create an anti-counterfeit code that did not belong to this era.
To others, such a thing was inconceivable, but for her, it was quite straightforward.
A few days ago, she had already placed an order for so handheld laser printers on the shopping network. All she needed was to load a type of photo-curable ink, input the desired pattern or barcode into the printer, and start the laser scanning to leave a mark on the dicine bottle that was difficult to remove, let alone copy.
At this point, she no longer needed to worry about so people suspecting her items of being strange.
After all, she aid to create an image of omnipotence among the public.
Therefore, after sleeping for a while in her space, when she erged, she had with her two handheld printers and several cans of ink.
Qu Wei was naturally the first person to notice these peculiar items.
“Yueyue, what are these things in your hand? You didn’t make them yourself, did you?”
“Yes, I made them.”
“What are they for?”
Seeing him asking endlessly, Qi Yue simply turned on the printer and left a red cross pattern surrounded by a ring of flowers on his white clothes.
The red symbolized blood and life, the cross represented dical skill, and the complexity of the patterns was to make the design more intricate and difficult to imitate.
Overall, it looked quite nice.
Sure enough, after seeing it, Qu Wei was both amazed and excited.
“Yueyue, how did you create this? It seems like it can’t be wiped off.”
Qi Yue tugged at the corner of her mouth.
Forget wiping, even washing or scraping wouldn’t remove the pattern.
Moreover, the printer wasn’t fussy about materials; whether it was a dicine box made of wood, a ceramic bottle, or the oil paper used to wrap dicines, it could be used on all of them!
The two of them went straight to the pharmaceutical factory and taught a designated person how to use the printers, while Shen Zikuang was put in charge of managing the printers and ink.
Shen Zikuang realized that this device added another layer of security to the authenticity of dicines and thus treated it with utmost importance, planning to lock it away in a cabinet.
“Miss Qi, I have an idea. This thing is so magical that I’m afraid soone might covet it. How about we concentrate the printing process? Every ti the finished product is about to leave the storage, we perform a final inspection. We can print at that ti and store the device imdiately after use. What do you think?”
Qi Yue agreed imdiately.
“You can make these decisions in the future. After the free clinic ends, I will leave Dongjiang, and I will leave these matters to you. Moreover, I entrust Mother Zhang to your care, you must teach her well, as I will have an important use for her later.”
“Don’t worry, Miss; I will not let you down!”
During a day of free ti before the grand opening of the pharmacy, Qi Yue drafted a set of regulations for the pharmaceutical industry, intending to hand them over to He Zhijing.
The Ma Family’s counterfeit dicine incident had served as a wake-up call to her.
Previously in Beiyuan, there were no ready-made dicines; people would typically see a doctor, get a prescription, pick up herbs, and all the herbs were clearly identifiable.
But with the introduction of ready-made dicines, a problem arose.
It was not possible to disclose the dicinal formulas, and manufacturing techniques were closely guarded secrets. So how to ensure that people like Ma Renfeng wouldn’t sell counterfeit dicines?
This required the establishnt of a committee-like body to supervise and impose restrictions on unscrupulous rchants who were only out to make money.
Unless they could, like Qi Pharmaceutical, have complete equipnt and well-trained pharmaceutical workers.
Every new drug brought to market had to pass through the committee’s inspection to determine its basic effectiveness before being released. Otherwise, it would be harming the public.
As the pioneer in vigorously promoting ready-made dicines in this world, Qi Yue was determined to see this through.
She planned to ask He Zhijing to establish a pharmaceutical committee on behalf of the Dongjiang Comrce Departnt, selecting a number of doctors with good dical skills and high moral character to serve as mbers and supervise the managent of Dongjiang Pharmaceutical.
Dongjiang was renowned as a hub of dical expertise and the place where most Imperial Physicians were produced. Although their dical skills couldn’t compare to hers, they were still capable of verifying whether a dicine was up to standard.
After finalizing the regulations, it was still early in the day, so Qi Yue took the docunts and went to the Ministry of Comrce to find He Zhijing.
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