Nikolaus received his phone call from Abel stating things were currently set up. He gave Nikolaus the user account and password along with the Web address for the distributor to connect. It would take more time before they could use the XML interface to send orders, receive invoices, and check inventories, but this would get them going for now. They had a half-a-million-dollar line of credit, but that would change once the finance department got done.<\/p>\n
There could be little doubt that Abel was a loyal party member. He had bulldogged this through in just over a day. Nikolaus picked up a disposable cell phone and called Dimitri on the number he was given.<\/p>\n
\u201cHello.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour distributor has been set up. I have the password, username, and Web site address for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExcellent. Have someone email it to the contact we gave you. He will get right on placing an order. Are you ready to ship our custom products?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThose were all packaged yesterday. You do have only a half-a-million-dollar credit limit to start. Finance hasn\u2019t had time to do the credit processing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo problem. Inform him of that in the email. I must warn you that he will probably burn most of that entering an order for regular stuff, if not all of it. As I said, they have a large market for cheap generics, but simply couldn\u2019t get them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard one of our distributors had one of the territories and might issue a legal challenge. We are prepared to handle that on this end. They had not bothered to buy much of the generic stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood. Now that I think of it, things might go smoother if the first shipment and payment is for the generic stuff. We need to get customs used to seeing large orders that are a waste of their time to go though.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as we manage to get your custom products taken care of in the next month or so, things should work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad you are easy to do business with. This should be a very profitable undertaking for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope so. By the way, they don\u2019t handle blood products, do they?\u201d \u201cI can ask, why?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are getting quite a supply of whole blood, clotting agent, and plasma built up. If they are supplying some hospitals it would be nice if they could take some of those off our hands while they are still fresh.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will make a call now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nikolaus hung up the disposable phone, looked at the battery level, then tossed it in the trash. No sense keeping something like that around or recharging it,<\/i> he thought. Never know when this will all blow up.<\/i><\/p>\n
When he returned to his desk, he got back to work on his new mission in life, building a secured camp in China. Abel had provided him with additional information about the area where the existing gauze factory was. There was already a worker dormitory on site. The odd thing about building in China was that housing was so scarce you had to build a company town to set up a factory, at least if you weren\u2019t Chinese.<\/p>\n
There was a very large plot of land the generics company had an option on and it was about the right size for a smaller second secured facility. He already had his people approach their contacts in the Chinese government about building a facility on that plot to house the drugs for their plan. They were all too eager to give an approval and promise to keep what the site did confidential. The Lutton bombing had them wondering about having all of this stuff stored in one place as well.<\/p>\n
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