Siheyuan: I have super connections

Jinling Pharmaceutical University, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Professor Feng Tao was reading quietly. At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside.

He looked up and saw a young man standing at the door holding something in his hand.

He frowned and said, "Go out, and if you dare to bring anything to me next time, you will fail all your grades this semester!"

Bai Jingxuan smiled. It seemed that Professor Feng had misunderstood and thought he was a student who came to give gifts.

He immediately explained: "Professor Feng, I am not a student of the school."

"Are you not a student? Then you shouldn't bring anything here. If you put your things outside, you can come in. When you leave, remember to take your things with you."

"Professor Feng has such character, I admire him very much. But this thing is not for you, but for my wife."

"Not even for my lover, we don't need these things."

"What if it's Baicao Hall's Bezoar Angong Wan?"

Bai Jingxuan knew that Professor Feng's wife had suffered a stroke, so he brought the appropriate Niuhuang Angong Pill.

Feng Tao frowned and said, "If the Bezoar Angong Pills from ten years ago were of some use, but now they can't take the medicine, it's a fake medicine!"

"You are right. Let me introduce myself. My name is Bai Jingxuan, and I am the owner of Baicao Hall!"

When Feng Tao heard this, he stood up excitedly.

He asked: "Is Baicao Hall now in charge of the Bai family again?"

"Yes, I just got all the shares of Baicao Hall. Then I invited all the old masters back and used the old processes to make medicines. These are the latest finished products. I brought them here just to let Professor Feng taste them. Check it out and see if it’s the same as before.”

"Quick, quick, hurry up and bring it over. I'll take a good look at it."

Feng Tao took a small box and opened it, revealing a pill.

He put the pill to his nose and smelled it, then said: "Yes, it has a musky smell. It seems that you are using the same ingredients as before. As for the efficacy, we have to observe it."

Feng Tao took the medicine and went to the bedroom. His wife had suffered a stroke for several years.

Feng Tao dissolved the pills in water and then carefully fed them.

After his wife drank the medicine, her complexion became better.

Feng Tao said with satisfaction: "Yes, your current pills are 90% similar even if they are not the same as before."

"Thank you."

The two returned to the living room. After sitting down, Feng Tao asked, "You came to me not just to try this medicine, right?"

"Yes, I would like to develop a long-term cooperation with your school."

"Cooperation? Please talk about it carefully."

"You also know that our traditional Chinese medicine is extensive and profound, and there are countless precious prescriptions scattered among the people. I would like to cooperate with your school to collect these prescriptions, then apply for patents, and then make them into medicines for sale. We will share the profits 50/50 !”

Feng Tao frowned and said, "Are you trying to steal something? You must know that some useful prescriptions are private collections of doctors and are not passed down to sons and daughters, let alone outsiders."

"That was before, but it's different now. Everyone cares about money. As long as the price is right, people will sell it."

"Oh, what you said makes sense."

"And more importantly, even if we don't take action, others will. Just sell it to our own people. What I'm afraid of is selling it to the Japanese. After they apply for a patent, they will turn around and make money from us!"

"What? There is such a thing?"

This is what really happened. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Japanese state sent many people to the country to collect some mature prescriptions and then register them as patents.

Once the patent is granted, they will use these prescriptions to make a fortune, while the original owner of the prescriptions will get no benefit at all.

Bai Jingxuan took out several reports, of course they were all reports from Japan.

He asked: "These are reports from the Japanese country. Can you understand the Japanese language?"

"Wait a moment, I'll find a translator."

Feng Tao had a phone installed at his home. He made a call and waited for more than 20 minutes before a middle-aged man came over.

"Old Zhang, you know Japanese, look what is written here?"

The translator took a few glances and said, "It says here that the Japanese came to our country to buy some prescriptions and were going to register a patent and then make them into medicines for sale. Professor Feng, what is a patent?"

Bai Jingxuan explained: "Patents are a kind of protection for inventors. As long as you register a patent, others cannot use this technology. Or if you want to use it, you must pay the person who registered the patent. As for how much, It’s him who has the final say.”

"What? Aren't people like these Japanese thieves?"

"Pretty much, haven't they always been shameless?"

The most famous patent squatter is, of course, Wanyan’s VCD technology.

VCD was obviously invented by our people, but because there was no registered patent, foreigners were the first to register it.

Then foreigners license this technology to countless companies, and these companies sell VCD machines at very low prices. Wanyan cannot sell at a reduced price because of the high initial research and development costs.

The final result was that Wan Yan, the inventor of the VCD machine, went bankrupt, while many companies that obtained the authorization survived.

When Bai Jingxuan mentioned this, Feng Tao said excitedly: "No, we can't let these little devils steal our precious property! These are the wisdom of our ancestors and are our most precious things!"

"I know, so we have to take action. My plan is that I will invest five million in our school in the first year, and you can use this fund to collect prescriptions from all over the country. Regardless of whether they are useful or not, collect them all first.

Of course, collection is only the first step, and then comes verification. To prove what diseases these prescriptions are effective for, a lot of money is needed. We will reimburse all of these, as much as you need.

The last step is to produce results and give us the verified prescriptions. We will register foreign patents. When we have domestic patent laws in the future, we will also register them. "

"Okay, that would be great if you can donate generously. In this case, I will go with you to see the principal, and we will discuss the process carefully."

"no problem."

Bai Jingxuan stayed with Professor Feng for more than half a month and had several rounds of talks with the school, and finally reached an agreement.

In the end, Bai Jingxuan needed to donate five million to the school every year, and Professor Feng and others would collect and verify the prescriptions.

After Bai Jingxuan got the prescription, he made it into a patent medicine and sold it. The school only got 30% of the profit.

This was not Bai Jingxuan's change of mind, but the school's initiative.

The school thought that Bai Jingxuan gave out five million every year, which was already a lot of money, so they were embarrassed to ask for more, so they took the initiative to give up 20%.

I have to say that people in this era are really Chunpu, and they are embarrassed to ask for the money delivered to their door.

What could Bai Jingxuan do, he could only accept it reluctantly.