Chapter 96: Chapter 91 The Show is About to Begin
After finalizing the rental price for the factory, Xu Yun followed Yang Hongzhi back to the committee building and signed a factory lease agreement.
Both parties agreed in the contract that Huadun Biotech will rent the factory numbered P652 in the High-tech Zone at a price of 91 Yuan per square meter per month.
The factory covers a total area of 2,407 square meters, with a usable area of 1,777 square meters, a rental period of six months, and a total site rent of 1,314,222 Yuan.
Besides this.
Xu Yun also signed a dormitory lease contract with Yang Hongzhi, renting 25 four-person rooms to accommodate workers.
The rent is 300 Yuan per room per month, with utilities calculated separately. After the contract takes effect, Xu Yun still needs to transfer a deposit of 100,000 Yuan for utilities into the committee’s account.
It is worth mentioning that these two contracts are just letters of intent and have no legal effect.
After all, Huadun Biotech’s official seal hasn’t been approved yet, and the legal representative cannot perform their duties.
Under normal circumstances, Yang Hongzhi... or rather the High-tech Zone, would definitely not sign such contracts, as there’s always a risk of the other party exploiting those documents in a fraudulent way.
But with USTC backing Xu Yun, it’s another story altogether.
According to the contract agreement.
As long as Huadun Biotech gets their seal within fifteen working days and transfers the funds, the contract will automatically become effective.
During this period, Xu Yun can recruit workers under relevant titles but cannot start work or move in early.
At this point, the issue of the factory site selection is relatively settled.
What remains are the customization of the production line and the recruitment of front-line workers and staff for various positions, which Xu Yun does not plan to handle personally.
He intends to hand over the customization of the production line to the New Creation Fund, as they are the lead investor in Huadun Biotech after all, and it’s work they ought to do.
Although this kind of arrangement very likely—or even certainly—entails procurement personnel skimming profits.
However, this is all too common and can be said to be an unspoken rule in the industry.
Unless the procurement process severely affects the production line’s quality or the embezzlement is beyond excessive, Xu Yun will not pursue the matter too closely.
After all, this is not his company’s procurement department; at most, it’s a one-time deal, and after this collaboration, they’ll never see each other again.
If the production line can be set up quickly, spending a bit more money is not a big deal.
Currently, the typical kickbacks for purchasing large equipment are between 3% and 5%. Assuming the full set of the production line costs 800,000 Yuan, what gets siphoned off is just about 30,000 to 40,000 Yuan.
If the production line can start a day earlier, what it earns back is far more than just 30,000 to 40,000 Yuan.
Apart from the customization of the production line, the remaining staff issues are even simpler, which can be handled by Gu Qunqing.
Of course.
Here, it refers to Gu Qunqing joining as COO.
And to ensure Gu Qunqing joins smoothly, Xu Yun must first complete one task, which is...
The pest control live broadcast in the East District!
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Three days later.
USTC Life Science Building, Dean’s Office.
At ten o’clock in the morning, Xu Yun knocked on the office door on time:
"Professor, I’m here."
A moment later, Tian Liangwei’s voice came from inside:
"Come in directly, there’s no one else in the room."
Xu Yun took advantage of the moment and pushed the door open.
Tian Liangwei was still sitting behind his office desk, but compared to a few days ago, he looked much more serious today.
Xu Yun walked straight up to him and placed a small suitcase on the chair next to him:
"Professor, the goods are all here, the password is 4396, would you like to check?"
Tian Liangwei glanced at him and said grumpily:
"Check my ass! Stop pretending like some shady deal, alright? How much... I mean, how many gel baits are in here?"
Hearing this, Xu Yun chuckled and opened the suitcase proactively, taking out some tubes of gel baits wrapped with ice packs:
"Twenty 500ml syringes, totaling 23.4 kilograms, the dosage is nearly 34 times that of Building 14.
Oh, man, with those ice packs the whole thing weighs dozens of kilos, almost exhausted me."
Tian Liangwei casually picked up a syringe and examined it:
"34 times... how many did we eliminate back then?"
Xu Yun thought for a moment and reported a figure:
"Theoretically, about 120,000 or so.
At the time, we collected a total of 57 sacks of cockroach corpses from Building 14, with each sack accommodating about 1,500 American cockroaches without compression.
The number of cockroach corpses inside the building was about in the realm of 90,000.
As for the cockroach corpses outside, there were probably a little over 10,000. Adding those that were devoured or digested, the total cockroach deaths that night were approximately 120,000.
"34 times 12 equals 408..."
Tian Liangwei quickly did a mental calculation, paused for a few seconds, and said:
"According to the Insect Research Institute’s model analysis, the total number of cockroaches in USTC is estimated to be around 3 to 3.5 million, mainly distributed in the Central District and East District,
so the number of cockroaches present in the East District should be about 1.3 million.
However, considering that cockroach pheromones can spread over 500 meters and there are also some residential areas around the East District, the actual number of cockroaches appearing during the extermination may be more.
Hmm... from this perspective, the dosage should be fine."
Xu Yun lightly nodded in agreement:
"Theoretically, it should be sufficient. The lab still has several kilograms of the finished product, and if any unforeseen situation arises, we can always increase the gel bait dosage via drones at any time."
"There’s still some in the lab?"
Tian Liangwei’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, he asked:
"No one took it out, right?"
Xu Yun shook his head and explained:
"No, they didn’t. This time, only Qiu Sheng and I were involved in the preparation, and the finished product was also stored in a secure password box, so safety is relatively ensured."
Only then did Tian Liangwei relax, taking off his glasses and gently rubbing the bridge of his nose:
"That’s good, that’s good... You’ve been busy in the lab and outside these past few days, probably unaware that some people have already started getting anxious, even inquiring at the Intellectual Property Office."
Xu Yun was suddenly taken aback:
"Goodness, the Intellectual Property Office?"
Tian Liangwei nodded, sighing deeply:
"More accurately, it should be the Patent Review Cooperation Center.
Although the samples ultimately did not leak out, a few foreign companies should already know we are applying for a patent, public relations eventually serves its purpose during times like these.
So there have been continuous contacts with students from Class 2 of Applied Physics in recent days, and even a few have been coaxed or confused enough to secretly approach Chang Licheng seeking gel baits, but they were all persuaded otherwise."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yun’s expression gradually turned solemn.
The entire Applied Physics program has nearly a hundred people, coming from all over the country, each with different personalities and family backgrounds. Some have a monthly living expense of four or five thousand, while others barely have seven or eight hundred.
Therefore, it’s only too normal for someone to succumb to the monetary temptation from Senxia Pharmaceutical.
Of course.
Ke Da wouldn’t punish those students either, after all, who can say for certain whether they weren’t misled or tricked?
Like Wang Zhaomin before, coming under the pretext of self-use, asking you to help get some gel baits with ’labor fees’ as an excuse, most people would hardly think it’s about corporate espionage.
Subsequently, Xu Yun pondered for a moment and said to Tian Liangwei:
"Professor, since that’s the case... when should we start preparing for the extermination live broadcast?"
Tian Liangwei, hearing this, took out a document from the drawer titled "USTC East District Cockroach Extermination General Execution Norm and Live Broadcast Preparation Plan":
"The patent application hasn’t been approved yet, but as long as each step of the extermination is strictly regulated, there’s no need to worry that the gel bait will leak out, so after school discussions, it’s decided that the extermination will happen..."
"In two days!"
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