Under Mr. Chi’s annoyed glare, Chi Yun’er rubbed her nose and explained her plan with a smile.
In her experience from all those years living in the hospital’s family housing, a hundred vials of Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Oral Liquid were enough to meet any household’s actual needs, with a bit left over to give to friends and family.
A case holds thirty boxes, with ten vials per box. This left each employee with a surplus of twenty boxes at their disposal. Typically, they acted extravagantly, handing out the summer relief supplies to friends and family the moment they got them. Though it risked making them look like easy marks, it did wonders for their reputation.
The hospital administration found this method to be economical and effective, and nobody was willing to be the one to rock the boat.
This had trapped the distribution of summer relief supplies in a terrible, vicious cycle!
So, she planned to trade the surplus twenty boxes per person with a manufacturer in the south. Twenty boxes from one person wasn’t much, but with over 2,700 employees, the total was substantial. She was confident that once people understood her plan, almost no one would turn down a more abundant and varied selection of summer relief items.
That amounted to over 540,000 vials of Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Oral Liquid. Each vial cost less than three fen to produce, but its retail price was as high as six fen.
Chi Yun’er promised to cover the shipping costs and even offered a concession of one fen per vial.
Her attitude was so sincere that the other party felt they couldn’t negotiate. They agreed to provide their factory’s own products at cost plus a small service fee, and would even cover the shipping to the Capital City!
After all, this wasn’t an ordinary transaction, but an exchange between two entities’ employee benefits programs. One couldn’t be too fussy about gains and losses.
The total value of the hospital’s summer relief fund had effectively more than doubled.
But this was only the beginning. When this shipment of goods reached the Capital City, Chi Yun’er had no intention of distributing all of it to the employees. Instead, she would set aside one or two of each item per person and use the rest to conduct another "fair" trade—bartering with local manufacturers!
Southern products fetched a very different price in the Capital City.
Rarity determines value. Many southern products were unavailable up north, not only due to the great distance but, more importantly, because southern goods were in high demand and had no shortage of buyers. Their order books were full for a year, so news of these items hadn’t even reached the Capital City yet.
This time, what the General Hospital had to offer wasn’t the Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Oral Liquid that people only thought of in an emergency, but sought-after rare goods from the south.

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