"Also, I plan to move the headquarters of Baozhi Company to Haicheng. Do you have any suitable office buildings?" Ye Tian asked.
"Yes, yes," Chen Wansan quickly replied. "I built the Central Tower, and it's quite suitable."
"Alright, I'll have Ziyi come find you later," Ye Tian said.
"Yes, I'll be waiting!"
After Ye Tian gave some instructions, Chen Wansan said, "Mr. Ye, there's a charity auction this afternoon in Haicheng, hosted by Han Liguo, the richest man in Haicheng. I received an invitation, so I'm staying in Haicheng today."
"Okay, you go ahead and attend," Ye Tian replied.
"Yes."
Chen Wansan and his men began to inventory the items Ye Tian had asked him to resell, taking photos and recording them.
Lin Ziyi remarked, "Han Liguo is hosting a charity gala, and he didn't even invite us."
In terms of assets, Ye Tian and Lin Ziyi were considered the richest in Haicheng; Han Liguo had to step aside.
"We're not familiar with each other, so it's normal that we weren't invited," Ye Tian said.
"But I heard that Han Liguo wants to establish a Haicheng Business Alliance, which clearly aims to exclude us," Lin Ziyi added.
"Such an alliance is useless; no need to worry about it. Ziyi, I'm going to check on the medicinal field. You go to work first," Ye Tian said.
He went to the medicinal field and discovered that the planted herbs had undergone more widespread mutations. The mutations varied among different medicinal plants, with some developing beneficial medicinal properties and others becoming toxic.
Faced with this situation, he had to cultivate medicinal herbs with different functions. For example, with Panax notoginseng, some could quickly stop bleeding, some could enhance immunity, and others could slow down aging.
Ye Tian selected three of the most stably mutated plants from these mother plants for propagation, aiming to stabilize the medicinal effects of Panax notoginseng.
Offspring of the mother plants generally possessed stable medicinal properties. If cultivated in the same environment, the probability of further mutation would be extremely low.
There were a large number of medicinal herbs in the field, some mutated and some not. Therefore, Ye Tian had to spend time selecting mother plants.
The plants that had been irrigated with the spiritual water for a sufficient period, and had not mutated, could essentially be excluded for their value.
Today, Ye Tian focused on selecting mother plants for ginseng. He intended to taste every single ginseng plant to study its medicinal properties. After tasting multiple times, he could already determine the type of mutation a ginseng had undergone by the shape and color of its leaves, as well as its scent.
After tasting over a hundred ginseng plants, he found that all the ginseng had undergone four main types of mutations. One type was highly toxic with few beneficial components, which he excluded. The second mutation increased three beneficial medicinal properties; the third mutation increased four beneficial medicinal properties; and the fourth mutation also increased three beneficial medicinal properties.
Considering the overall results, he chose ginseng with the third and fourth types of mutations. Both types of ginseng had unique efficacy and could be used to produce different medicines.
Ultimately, he selected two hundred ginseng plants with the highest medicinal content as mother plants and handed them over to Luo Gensheng, instructing him to pull out all the remaining ginseng and cultivate only these two types in the future, naming them Ginseng No. 1 and Ginseng No. 2.
He stipulated that Ginseng No. 1 should be planted on ten mu, and Ginseng No. 2 should also be planted on ten mu. However, to cultivate more offspring, the ginseng needed to produce seeds before seedlings could be grown, which would take at least until next year.
Ye Tian was not in a hurry. He categorized all the other mutated ginseng and packed them into different boxes. The three types of mutated ginseng weighed approximately over two thousand catties.
This quantity of ginseng was enough for him to research and develop new medicines and health supplements.
After a day of hard work, it was already evening when he returned home. However, his work was not finished. He took a few catties of ginseng and called Zhu Hongyan to go to the laboratory together for research. He intended to use these over two thousand catties of ginseng to develop a high-end health-preserving oral liquid.
As soon as the idea struck him, he wanted to immediately test its efficacy.
Zhu Hongyan arrived at the laboratory almost at the same time as Ye Tian, bringing two assistants with her. She was very excited and asked, "Mr. Ye, are we researching a new drug again today?"
"We have a general direction, but we still need to consider the specifics," Ye Tian replied.