Ning Yongzhi was feeling unsettled. He truly lacked pills; otherwise, as the person in charge of a branch office, he would not have gone to such lengths to play the pity card.
"Very good! I don't know what you people were thinking. The medicinal materials you, Shi Caiqing, and Li Jishen sent over were simply too numerous. I don't know how other people refine pills, but surely you have some idea of how many pills these medicinal materials can make, don't you?"
Chen Mo really wanted to complain. They had sent over so much without having even the slightest damn clue? But he really could not say that aloud, so he simply left out the swear word.
"Hahaha, Chen Gongfeng, yes, you're right," Ning Yongzhi said helplessly. He could naturally imagine what Chen Mo would think when faced with medicinal materials piled up like a mountain. If it were him, he would definitely not have anything nice to say either. If possible, he might even throw up both hands and say, screw this, I quit!
Over the past few years, the Special Affairs Administration had been very proactive in collecting medicinal materials and had many channels for doing so. However, there was only one pill refiner, which had resulted in medicinal materials piling up within the Special Affairs Administration without diminishing in the slightest. In fact, the stockpile was still steadily growing.
Moreover, commissioning other pill refiners to refine pills not only required calling in favors, but also cost a great deal of medicinal materials. Losses also had to be calculated. Once everything was tallied up, they found it simply was not worth it.
To be honest, the medicinal materials sent to Chen Mo this time were not particularly numerous in relative terms. They did not even amount to one-tenth