Chapter 680 Causes and Consequences

At this moment.

Inside the office.

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Looking at the small plastic bag in John's hand in front of him, Chen Shengshen couldn't help but have a question mark in his heart:

"Mr. John, what is this?"

The thin blue tablet looks like a certain type of medicine.

But let alone Chen Shengshen's impression that there is no medicine that looks like this at all. Even if it is really a certain kind of medicine, what does it have to do with China and the politicians across the sea?

This question also appeared on the faces of Li Jingjun and Xiao Yang, and it was obvious that the two bosses were also a little confused.

However, a hint of greed quietly appeared on the face of John opposite them, staring at the small pill in his palm as if he were looking at a naked beauty:

"Professor Chen, this is a good thing. Its production technology comes from China, and its name is..."

"Sildenafil Citrate."

"Citron. Sildenafil acid?"

Chen Shengshen repeated the word a little awkwardly, and the confusion in his tone became more intense:

"Mr. John, what does this sildenafil drug have to do with our return to China?"

Say it.

Chen Shengshen suddenly realized something in his mind, and he sat up straighter in an instant:

"Mr. John, are you saying that using this sildenafil drug in China has given us the right to return to the country?"

"bingo!"

John couldn't help but lick the corner of his mouth with the tip of his tongue and corrected:

"To be precise, I exchanged my agency rights for the next ten years for my promise to allow Chinese students to return to China."

"Of course, the requirement to return to China is voluntary. The other side of the sea will not assist China in forcing any scholar to return to the mainland."

Chen Shengshen:

"?!!"

Even though Chen Shengshen had a superior IQ, he couldn't help but fall into some kind of downtime at this time.

How many little blue pills can be used to exchange for the qualifications of a Chinese scholar to return to the country?

When did the politicians across the sea become so easy to talk to?

To know.

This kind of commitment cannot be made by one person or a few people. This kind of resolution must involve at least some core groups, so that those groups can choose to relent.

Is the little blue pill really that attractive?

At this moment.

Looking at Chen Shengshen, whose face was full of intense confusion, John Crump also had a trace of emotion on his face.

be honest.

When they received the little blue pill earlier, no one, including John Troupe himself, took this strange-looking drug to heart.

after all

But it's just a so-called new medicine sent by the Chinese.

Although it claims to have some local donkey essence added to it, this gimmick won't attract many people's attention.

Although the country across the sea has little history, such "earthwork" is not uncommon on this side of the American continent.

For example, countries like Mexico and Peru have some so-called earthworks.

So at first, John Crump just had a coping mentality and handed about half of the little blue pills to the MIT medical laboratory for clinical research.

What I didn't expect was that

On the night when the trial began, John Crump was picked up alive from the bed by Shamshad Heaton, the director of the MIT Medical Laboratory.

John and Shamshad Heaton can be considered friends who have known each other for more than 30 years. Shamshad Heaton is older than him and just turned 72 this year.

Everyone knows that people at the age of 72 have reached the middle and later stages of life in a sense.

Most of them usually water the flowers and make tea, and in winter they lie on wicker chairs and read books. To put it bluntly, they are in the period of recuperation, and many young people's affairs are no longer relevant to them.

For example, bungee jumping, skydiving, and eight and a half.

Shamshad Heaton's physical condition is worse than that of an ordinary 72-year-old man. The reason why he still works at MIT is mainly for the salary of re-employment.

But on the night when he was picked up from the bed by Shamshad Heaton, John Crump saw a scene that he will never forget:

His friend slapped him awake first, then quickly took off his pants, holding a certain part of his body like a snail in childhood, and excitedly shouted to John:

"Hey, John, look what this is! God, I'm hard again!!!!"

John, who was still a little sleepy at the time, subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch a few, but fortunately he woke up in time.

Then John learned about the cause and effect from Shamshad Heaton, and finally learned a shocking news:

The medicine that gave Shamshad Sidon a second spring was, surprisingly, those small pills sent by China!

Later, John personally tried the pills himself, and the final result was naturally extremely gratifying.

These days, PCR and LC-MS technologies are in the early stages of development, and the deciphering technology is not yet mature. In addition, John has not cooperated with China once or twice, so he immediately contacted his contacts in China to learn about the situation.

In the end, the contact person told John a piece of news that almost made him burst into tears:

Huaxia is willing to authorize John and his family to produce the small pills and the agency rights for the next ten years. The rabbits will only take 20% of the profits during this period, and John can distribute the rest of the profits on his own. John can take 10% or 50%, but he must ensure that Chinese students who are willing to return to China can return to the mainland smoothly.

At the same time, the contact person also gave John 200 new drug samples, so that he could use them as evidence to convince those who need to be convinced.

In the end, under the almost invincible power of the blue pill, John really experienced a favorable situation.

Then there was today's conversation, and John's confidence in guaranteeing that Chen Xingshen and others could return to China smoothly.

While John and Chen Xingshen were explaining the cause and effect.

On the other side of the ocean tens of thousands of kilometers away.

Li Jue and Lao Guo were also looking at Xu Yun in front of them with some confusion:

"Xiao Xu, it's strange, how can you guarantee that the politicians across the sea will agree to our conditions?"

"No matter how important the issue of the lower body is, it won't make them change their political stance directly, right?"

Looking at Li Jue with a question mark on his face, Xu Yun, who had just returned to the base from Lop Nur not long ago, smiled:

"Director, you think this is simple - for those old white pigs, ahem, white politicians, the [stance] of the lower body is much more important than the position shouted out."

"Besides, what we did this time is not too contrary to the so-called political correctness, and it's just a piece of cake for them."

"If we change the question - for example, ask them to state internationally that logistics is not orthodox, then it is estimated that there is no possibility."

"So in the final analysis, this matter is that we found a suitable operation opportunity. They think we are idiots, and we think they have been kicked in the head by a donkey. It's that simple."

At the end.

Xu Yun spread his hands in a very Western way towards Li Jue and shrugged his shoulders twice.

Not long ago.

After deciding to publish the paper as a rally call, a new problem also appeared in front of everyone:

After the paper is published, there will definitely be many Chinese scholars who want to return to China, so how should they go about the process of returning to China?

The process here does not refer to the personnel arrangements after returning to China, but how to escape from under the noses of the other side of the sea.

After all,

the other side of the sea has always been very strict with these talents, and some of them have surveillance outside their residences.

It is basically an impossible "fairy tale" to want them to return to China by ship according to the standard process, and the customs officers on the other side of the sea are still waving goodbye enthusiastically at the port.

At that time, Lao Guo and others thought of many ways, but they were eventually rejected one after another.

Some of those plans were too idealistic, and some were too violent, and there were thick barriers to implementation.

Just when the discussion was stuck, Xu Yun, who had just finished checking the synthesis of paclitaxel, proposed an idea:

Why can't we make a deal?

Because the return of talents is different from other equipment blockades, and the political color is not particularly distinct. It is a situation that is calm on the surface but turbulent undercurrents.

Even if the other side of the sea put Qian Wushi under house arrest, the reason was just that he leaked secrets - the authenticity of this excuse is not discussed, at least the other side of the sea would never dare to say [he wanted to return to China so we stopped him].

This approach is very shameless, but it also leaves some room for operation.

If the two sides can reach a certain exchange of interests, maybe the other side of the sea will really let those international students come back.

Because there were previous transaction records with Britain, France and Germany, the supervisor did not lose his composure after Xu Yun proposed this idea - they were already used to it.

And the transaction item Xu Yun took out was

Sildenafil citrate, also known as Viagra, which many students in later generations like to eat.

The drug used for sex, this drug name is basically synchronized with the length of human civilization history.

Its demand can be said to run through ancient and modern times and across regions.

For example, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, the first pharmaceutical monograph in my country, Shennong's Herbal Classic, recorded many drugs that improve the function of the penis.

By the time of the Compendium of Materia Medica, there were 193 drugs listed to improve and correct the dysfunction of the penis, and 78 prescriptions were attached, regulating everything from the kidney to the heart to the blood.

The earliest existing room books, Miscellaneous Treatment Prescriptions and Health Prescriptions, unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan, also have a type of prescription called "internal addition".

In the West, saltwater fish began to be eaten in the Roman period, and India in South Asia also spread the idea of ​​using certain animals and plants to make aphrodisiac products since the agricultural civilization.

It is said that hundreds of animals have this function, but due to different cultures, different ethnic groups prefer different species - everything else is easy to say, but mummy powder is really a bit outrageous

But unfortunately.

A variety of aphrodisiac drugs have appeared one after another, but there has never been an ideal one until.

"Viagra" came out.

The earliest appearance of Viagra was actually the study of cardiovascular disease. At that time, scientists discovered that the signaling molecule that regulates blood pressure and blood flow in the cardiovascular system is nitric oxide, so they began to develop cardiovascular drugs from this perspective.

In 1991.

They put the developed drug into the trial stage, but the drug did not achieve the expected effect, but at the same time, a completely unexpected phenomenon occurred.

That is, they found that the patients who received this drug had an "erection" phenomenon, and the subsequent experiments showed that the drug was effective in eliminating male sexual dysfunction.

So the researchers immediately changed their direction and devoted themselves to developing the drug into a drug specifically for treating impotence.

When Viagra was successfully developed, the three scientists involved in the project won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

In the future that Xu Yun traveled to.

Since Viagra was launched globally, it has treated more than 66 million men. 5.3 tablets of "Viagra" are taken every second in the world. Xu Yun's good friends Pei Tugou, Golden Jasmine, and Tianrui Shuofu have all gained new life with this small pill.

Therefore, after thinking for a while, Xu Yun used this small blue pill as a trading commodity.

The ingredients of Viagra are not a secret for a doctoral student in biomedicine like Xu Yun. It is still easy to produce it now that Liu Youcheng and his laboratory have made a technological breakthrough.

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After a while.

Li Jue looked at Xu Yun again and continued to ask:

"Xiao Xu, I heard that we will lose a lot of money in this transaction?"

This time, Xu Yun was silent for a long time:

"Well, everything has its gains and losses - it is worth losing the money to bring Mr. Yang, ahem, Mr. Yang back to China."

"Not to mention that with the current international situation, we cannot trade with the other side of the sea for a long time, so even if this doesn't happen, we can't get this money in the short term."

"So instead of caring about the amount of loss, it is better to focus on those scholars who return to China."

Tell the truth.

No one in this era knows the value of sildenafil citrate better than Xu Yun. This thing is a big plate worth billions of US dollars in 2023 when he traveled to China.

But

In front of the return of Mr. Yang, Chen Xingshen and others, this part of the market seems less important.

Now Xu Yun has planted a lot of scientific and technological seeds in China. After these talents return to China, they will have an immeasurable impact on the scientific education of the Republic. Apart from other things, if Li Jingjun's genetic research can be developed, it will not be comparable to sildenafil citrate.

Not to mention that as Xu Yun said before, the current international situation is here. Even if there is no such thing, the rabbits cannot do pharmaceutical business with the other side of the sea for a long time.

So instead of feeling sorry for the money, it is better to find a spokesperson like John on the other side of the sea, and the annual dividend can at least be 20%.

More importantly.

After Xu Yun talked with the writer in the extra chapter, he didn't have to worry about these returning scholars encountering the loss of talents in the future. What else is there to worry about in this case?

Of course, try your best to pull people back.

Note:

I was going to write another one about international influence, but because it was too sensitive, I changed it a bit (I just wanted to write about Nanbu Yoichiro and then persecute cough cough again and again, and tease Suzuki Atsuto once, but it's a pity.)