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Chapter 1142: Salon Beyond the Times (Fourth update, please subscribe)

When the world changes, most people are either ignorant or slow to realize it.

Only when people look back at history will they discover that the world was changed at that time.

Sometimes, even if you stand on the shoulders of giants and are familiar with the development of history, even though Li Yian is a special case monster, he cannot grasp everything. After all, it is impossible for people to grasp everything in detail.

It's another weekend, and another group of young students, including graduate students, doctors, and professors.

They gathered there as they had in the past, just like in all salon gatherings, where they chatted about physics, chemistry, computers, and all kinds of things, even medicine and pharmacy.

This is just chatting, there is no level.

In the past two hours, they talked a lot and got some inspiration. Now, it was the end of the party. Some of them were smoking silently, while others were writing scattered and incoherent inspirations, waiting to go back and do special research.

In fact, every chat with them is very hard. Li Yian always does his homework in advance, such as getting some books from the system mall in advance, and then selectively giving them some enlightenment, inspiration and helping them improve.

In fact, compared to this, it would be easier to just throw the books in the system mall into the King's Laboratory. Just like in the past few years, Li Yian has always continuously provided companies with goods in the mall.

Those goods are of various types, ranging from snacks to clothing, from home appliances to cars. Although these wide varieties of goods are all civilian supplies, they have greatly promoted the development of industrial consumer goods technology in Nanyang.

Nanyang's industrial sector benefited greatly from this, not only gaining markets but also acquiring new technologies and achieving further development.

To put it bluntly, Nanyang's industrial sector has been developing on the path of innovation and imitation, which is also the reason why Nanyang's economy maintains rapid development - the industrial consumer goods in the mall are products that are several years ahead of the times.

But on the other hand, Li Yian does not want Nanyang to continue on the "copycat" path, so now the King's Laboratory is conducting more practical research, such as lasers, lithium batteries and the like.

At this salon, Li Yian gave more appropriate tips or inspiration to help these young scholars achieve breakthroughs in certain fields. Although such breakthroughs were inspired by him, they were essentially independent innovations and pioneering research.

Therefore, compared to the King's Laboratory, Li Yian actually likes this kind of salon gathering. Although the effect is slower, it has a greater role in promoting the level of science and technology in Nanyang, and its importance will become more and more apparent as time goes by.

After all, one day, Nanyang will lose that crutches. And this virtuous cycle of scientific innovation is the most in line with the development needs of Nanyang. Now Li Yian's role is to step on the accelerator and speed up the development.

"I heard from the professor that there are currently some babies with abnormal hands and feet being born in various parts of West Germany. They have no hands and no feet, just like dolphins."

Zhao Shaoliang, a doctor of medicine, said.

Feng Jingyuan, a chemistry graduate student, also said:

"I've heard of what you said. It doesn't mean that there are no hands and feet. It means that the hands and feet are very small. It should be... short feet deformity!"

Li Yian, who was sitting on the sofa and sucking on a cigar, immediately thought of the famous incident "The Thalidomide Incident" and asked almost subconsciously.

"Is there any in Nanyang?"

"Nanyang?"

Zhao Shaoliang shook his head and said:
"I haven't heard of it yet, but it's very common in West Germany and some other countries. Could this sudden increase in cases be a chemical leak?"

"impossible!"

Feng Jingyuan said directly.

"A chemical leak could have caused this, but it was distributed throughout West Germany and even in Western European countries such as France and the United Kingdom. A chemical leak could not have happened everywhere at the same time. How could it have happened in so many countries, and it must have been the same substance?"

After taking a puff of his cigar, Li Yian said:
"Jingyuan is right. If chemical leaks don't happen in multiple places and countries at the same time, after ruling out this possibility, there is only one possibility. It may be related to something that people use widely, food. But what kind of food would be scattered in various countries at the same time? This is also questionable. Could it be medicine?"

Li Yian's question aroused Zhao Shaoliang's interest, and he asked:
"Sir, are you referring to the side effects of some medication?"

"Who knows? All medicines are toxic. Currently, countries do not conduct sufficient drug trials, and toxicity tests are not perfect. No one knows what side effects some drugs will bring."

Smoking a cigar, Li Yian shrugged helplessly.

This era was wild and unrestrained, with lax supervision of drugs and food. In Nanyang, out of caution, Li Yian borrowed the mechanism of later generations and established a food and drug regulatory agency to try to ensure the safety of drugs and food from the source. In fact, he was more concerned about the latter. Food safety has always been the top priority in Nanyang. After all, Nanyang did not have special farms to produce special food to supply the Daming Palace.

Therefore, you should take food supervision seriously, as it concerns yourself.

But what about medication?
"Thalidomide" was a sedative hypnotic developed in Germany in the 1950s. Pharmaceutical companies claimed that the drug could treat morning sickness, nausea and other pregnancy reactions, and had no side effects. It was a boon for pregnant women at the time. Canada, Africa, Latin America, Japan, Australia and other countries purchased "Thalidomide" in large quantities. While it effectively prevented morning sickness in early pregnancy, it also hindered the blood supply to the fetus, resulting in the birth of a large number of "seal deformed babies."

This led to the famous "Thalidomide" incident, and in just a few years, tens of thousands of "deformed seal babies" were born.

Thinking of this, Li Yian naturally thought of the women in his family. They didn’t use these medicines, right?
Despite the fear, he secretly had a glimmer of hope in his heart: maybe not!
But there is no guarantee, which is why we should pay attention to food and drug safety - you can never guarantee that you will not become a victim!
Taking the opportunity to smoke a cigar and adjust his mood, Li Yian reminded: "We can build an analysis model to find clues along the time when these babies were born, and keep looking for the earliest batch to determine the drugs that were launched during that period. At the same time, we can compare them with the drugs taken by their parents to find the same drugs. If there is a common drug that can match the new drug on the market, then it is very likely to be this drug. Of course, this is just speculation, and then we will conduct experiments in this regard."

In fact, this is the simplest clue analysis. After hearing what you said, Zhao Shaoliang immediately became interested and said.

"Okay, I'll study it when I get back."

However, Li Yian did not stop there, but reminded:

"The research can be further deepened. If it is caused by a drug, then what is the cause of its teratogenicity? Perhaps, by studying it, we can find other applications of this drug."

Why did Li Yian say that?
Because of thalidomide, also known as thalidomide.

It is a typical example of "one side is the devil, the other side is the angel". Although the "Thalidomide incident" made this drug notorious, doctors soon discovered other uses for it by studying its teratogenicity. They first found that thalidomide had a therapeutic effect on the autoimmune symptoms of leprosy patients, and then found that thalidomide had a certain effect in anti-cancer - it was even the first anti-cancer drug in human history. It also has a therapeutic effect on systemic lupus erythematosus and multiple myeloma.

That's the angelic side of it.

What does the angelic side mean?
Money, as long as this drug does not harm the people of Southeast Asia, Li Yian does not mind making this money. When "Thalidomide" was notorious, he purchased this drug at a low price, repackaged it, and put it into the anti-cancer market.

This also benefits mankind!
Of course, the price is definitely negotiable.

After the salon ended that day, Li Yian specifically asked the doctor. After learning that "Thalidomide" was not available in Southeast Asia, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Okay, as long as it has nothing to do with Nanyang people!
After hanging up the phone, Li Yian looked at...

On this day, on a train heading south, unlike the bustling crowds on ordinary trains, there were not many passengers on this train, and the carriage could even be described as empty.

The once bustling Guangzhou-Nine Train was like this many years ago - there were few passengers. Children could even run and play in the empty carriages.

The few passengers in the carriage were looking out the window with joy, wishing that the train would immediately enter Hong Kong and Kowloon. Most of them had husbands in Hong Kong Island, and they had gone through so much trouble to get permission to bring their children to Hong Kong Island to reunite with their husbands.

There were very few guests who were all family members present. Of course, there were exceptions. In one carriage, a young man in his thirties wearing glasses was pointing out the window and talking to a child beside him.

"Look, in a little while, we should pass Baoan, and then cross the bridge and we will reach the boundary of Hong Kong and Kowloon."

The child asked somewhat puzzled.

"Dad, why are we going there?"

"It is for better work. Hong Kong Island is our Chinese territory, but now it is occupied by the British. We are there to do a better job and take back our land in the future."

As Cheng Anjie spoke, his sharp eyes would occasionally glance towards the other end of the carriage, where a family was sitting. The family spoke with northern accents and had been careful not to speak since they got on the train. They didn't even move. Only the woman would occasionally go to pour them a cup of water. Although their children would lick their lips when they saw him eating, the children didn't dare to speak. Their malnourished appearance was heartbreaking to look at.

Finally, the train entered the security guard station. After the train entered the station, in addition to the police, the border guards at the station also boarded the train. The border guards began to check the documents. When the police checked the family, Cheng Anjie was particularly vigilant and observed them. When he saw them take out their blue passports, he was stunned, with a puzzled look on his face, and said to himself:
"Foreigner?"

The man wearing glasses looked a little nervous as he handed his and his family's passports to the border guards.

"Nanyang people?"

The border guard frowned and muttered:

"Why are there so many people from Southeast Asia going there every day?"

Despite this, after comparing the photos, he nodded and returned the passports to them.

A few minutes later, the train started again.

About half an hour later, when the train was about to enter the railway bridge, the conductor and the border guards at the door jumped directly off the slow-moving train. At this time, the train was moving very slowly.

Almost at the moment of passing the railway bridge, the man with glasses sat back in his seat as if he had breathed a sigh of relief.

A few hours later, the train finally pulled into the Hong Kong-Kowloon Railway Station. When the passengers on the train walked out of the station and happily reunited with their families who came to greet them, another family just stood outside the station, their expressions were somewhat dazed, and they looked completely at a loss. Unlike the others, Cheng Anjie, who was with his wife and children, was obviously familiar with the route. He greeted his wife and held the children while walking towards the tram station.

At this time, they didn't know that this was the last Guangzhou-9 passenger train, and from then on, the passenger trains would stop running.

Looking at the sparse passengers, a reporter standing outside the station picked up his camera and took a few photos, including that of the confused family.

(End of this chapter)