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Chapter 1243 Butterfly Wings (Third update, please subscribe)

When most people are still sleeping soundly, a rising sun jumps out from the distant horizon.

As the sun rises, many people in this city always get up and go jogging. Exercise has long become a habit of life for many Nanyang people and has become a part of people's lives.

The same is true for Zhang Zheyuan. He gets up at 5:30 every day and then runs along the park.

Day after day, year after year.

An hour later, I bought some breakfast at a roadside restaurant, packed it up and took it home, had breakfast with my wife and children, and then sent the children to the school bus stop.

It was exactly 7:30, at which time he would drive to his workplace.

Twenty-five minutes later, we arrived at the Daming Palace on time, passed the inspection at the entrance, and then took the internal vehicle to enter the Daming Palace. We arrived at the office at around 8:10.

Then start the day's work.

"Director, this is the official letter I just received,"

As the director of the official residence office, Zhang Zheyuan had just arrived at the office when employees handed him stacks of documents. At the beginning of the year, the former director Yu Xiangdong came to Dongning to take office, and he was promoted from deputy director to director. Although he was the new office director, he was also from the old official residence and had worked in the official residence for eight years, so he knew the affairs of the official residence like the back of his hand.

After receiving the official letter, Zhang Zheyuan began to review it.

The Director of the Official Residence Office is a very critical position. There is no position like Prime Minister or Secretary of State in Nanyang. Basically, each ministry is responsible for its own affairs, and the Director of the Office needs to assist you in doing a lot of work.

This is actually the biggest feature of the Nanyang political system - there is only one head and no deputy. This also ensures the stability of Nanyang and avoids the "deputy's ambition".

As for the Director of the General Office, he is just an assistant. In fact, he is not only an assistant, but also a staff member. Many times, he needs to give you advice.

Zhang Zheyuan's job is to assist you in your work, organize the reports from various departments, and prioritize them.

In fact, only important matters can be sent to the official residence, because Nanyang implements the system of department heads being responsible for affairs, which also determines that they have direct decision-making power over specific affairs. Reports to the official residence are either summaries or important matters. The former is routine, while the latter requires urgent handling.

Twenty minutes after Zhang Zheyuan arrived at the office, you also entered the office. As usual, you would spend about 15 minutes looking through the "Intelligence Briefing" provided by the Secret Intelligence Service before starting to deal with specific matters.

Therefore, Zhang Zheyuan needs to manage his time well!

After waiting for 15 minutes, Zhang Zheyuan walked into the office with a stack of documents. While putting the documents in the file basket on the desk, he said:

"Sir, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just reported that the White House has communicated with our ambassador to the United States, and President Kennedy hopes to visit Southeast Asia in the next few days."

In the next few days?

The sudden visit made Li Yian raise his eyebrows slightly and said:

"Oh? Kennedy is finally coming, right? And he's coming so urgently?"

While speaking, Li Yian even took a look at the desk calendar and found that it was already mid-September.

Although the current US presidents do not have the habit of visiting foreign countries immediately after taking office, after Kennedy took office, he visited many Western European countries including Britain, France, West Germany, and Austria. In comparison, only Vice President Johnson came to Asia and visited Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Saigon.

In Li Yian's opinion, this is definitely a sign of not considering Nanyang as an ally!

When Eisenhower was elected president, he visited Southeast Asia. But Kennedy, a rich young man, only thought of Southeast Asia now.

"It's interesting that he comes here at this time..."

Seeing your amused expression, Zhang Zheyuan said:

"Sir, Kennedy is visiting Southeast Asia now, and he must be seeking our help. After all, this "Berlin Crisis" has demonstrated Russia's aggressiveness, and they need us to contain the Russians in Asia."

As an assistant, he also needs to provide some analysis.

"That's about it..."

Is Kennedy going to visit Southeast Asia?
After receiving this news, Li Yi couldn't help but fall into deep thought. What exactly did Kennedy want to get from Nanyang?
This is the most important!
Obviously, Kennedy's visit was related to the Berlin crisis, and he must have wanted to give the Russians some answers.

Coming to Nanyang...then Nanyang must have what he needs?
What does he need?
Although I am a little curious, there is only one reason - the Soviet Union!
Only the threat from the Soviet Union would make that young man "condescend" to come to Southeast Asia. Otherwise, it is estimated that the guy would not come to see me until he had a brainwave.

"I don't know why, but I think that guy has something against me!"

On the way to Jianmin Pharmaceutical, Li Yian said to Lautley that although Jianmin Pharmaceutical was the company's industry, it had long been separated from the company. Now Jianmin Pharmaceutical was in charge of Lautley, and in fact, it was for the children.

Li Yian never favors one over another when it comes to his children. Each of them has his own corresponding industry. In fact, this is also for the future of Nanyang. After all, the current "company" is really a behemoth, and a proper split is beneficial to Nanyang.
There is no lush grass under a dense forest, and no beautiful seedlings between large plots of land. The existence of the company has both advantages and disadvantages for Nanyang, but the existence of the company cannot affect Nanyang's innovation and the development of unicorn enterprises.

Appropriate splitting will only benefit the business development of Nanyang and will not cause any harm. Of course, in the future, large companies such as Borneo and Xingye will continue to play the role of "windbreak".

After taking a look at the man next to her, Lautre said:

"He's definitely not going to like it."

"Oh? Why is that?"

"Because he is a second-generation rich man, and you are a first-generation entrepreneur!"

The simple and straightforward answer made Li Yian stunned, and then he understood:
"That guy is jealous of me!"

Ok!

Let him be jealous. It would seem that we are too narrow-minded to argue with a guy with such a wild imagination.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the company. After entering Lautley's office, the company manager Zhu Huayun immediately showed off the new drug that the company was testing to Li Yian as if presenting a treasure.

"According to the trials, this drug is currently the best drug for lowering cholesterol and blood lipid levels. In our trials, we successfully used it to reduce the cholesterol of nine patients by 9%."

Then, Zhu Huayun emphasized:

"Sir, the company's marketing department believes that the future market for this drug will reach 10 to 15 billion US dollars!"

Is $10 billion a lot?
Think about it from another perspective – it’s equivalent to 1% of Nanyang’s GDP!

In fact, Nanyang’s early development benefited greatly from the streptomycin produced by Jianmin Pharmaceutical. Relying on this only drug that can cure tuberculosis, it not only saved millions of lives but also reaped huge returns.

At that time, streptomycin was even called the "gold mine of Southeast Asia".

"Oh! Such a big market!"

Li Yian's surprise made Lautre's mouth curl up and a smile appeared on her pretty face. The reason why she invited him to the company today was to show him this new drug.

To put it bluntly, it’s just to show off, to tell him - look, I manage the company pretty well.

Li Yian, who didn't understand what he was thinking, took the report and started reading it. Finally, he asked:
“Is this drug safe?”

"We have conducted sufficient drug trials in overseas laboratories. Although it occasionally has a side effect - muscle pain, this side effect is acceptable."

When Zhu Huayun mentioned overseas laboratories, Li Yian's eyebrows raised slightly. The drug safety of Nanyang Pharmaceutical Company has been highly praised by various countries for many years. The fundamental reason is that each of its new drugs will undergo sufficient human trials. Those laboratories are scattered in Cambodia, South Korea, Japan, and of course India.

It is safe to say that every year there are tens of thousands of “drug testers” helping pharmaceutical companies in Southeast Asia conduct trials and collect data for them.

"Sir, this is a very effective lipid-lowering drug. It is also the only drug that can effectively prevent and treat coronary heart disease. In the United States, tens of millions of people are threatened by coronary heart disease every year. According to the analysis of the marketing department..."

Zhu Huayun introduced the marketing department's analysis one by one, and in the end it was condensed into three words - there is a future for making money!
Just like streptomycin back then.

However, with the expiration of streptomycin, the good times of high profits also came to an end. But now, the emergence of this drug has given Zhu Huayun another opportunity.

Pharmaceutical companies develop drugs in order to make money.

Li Yian did not refute this. He closed the report and smiled at Zhu Huayun.

"Manager Zhu, since the test is sufficient, let's submit it to the official for review. If it passes the review, I think this medicine will definitely save a lot of people."

After taking a look at the newspaper on the table, what flashed through Li Yian's mind was not the money, but how many lives it would save!

While it saves people, how many things will be changed?
After all, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease caused by high cholesterol claim a large number of lives every year, including celebrities, experts and scholars, businessmen and politicians.

Perhaps, this drug will save their lives. Then, what kind of changes will they bring to the world?

Just like streptomycin, its effects have saved many lives, like Lin Huiyin, who should have died of tuberculosis but is still alive and well.

Perhaps, this is the wings of a butterfly!
A bottle of seemingly insignificant medicine will bring changes to the world in the future that, to some extent, will exceed one's imagination and may even lead the world in an unknown direction.

For a moment, Li Yian even looked forward to this unknown world.

(End of this chapter)