As the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Scrooge has not been satisfied with the progress of the Chinese and even Asian markets. Compared with Europe and the Americas, the market for drugs in Asia, at least Western drugs, is quite small. And in Scrooge's opinion, this is definitely abnormal. Because the demand for medicine is similar to the demand for food, it is a very rigid demand, and even if Asia is poor, the market is not so small. The reason for this is also the dominance of Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine.

This position has now been shaken in Japan, or even largely gone, but in China, it is still very solid. In order to open up the Chinese pharmaceutical market, it is necessary to make the concept of Western medicine widely accepted. And relying on conventional means of cultural infiltration, the effect is certainly very limited. The reason why the strong culture can quickly penetrate into the weak culture is because of the pressure brought by this "strong".

Western medicine quickly became mainstream in Japan, and the Meiji Restoration was indispensable. In the Meiji Restoration, both the shogunate and the fallen shogunate had to be supported by foreign forces, so they had to accept foreign cultures. In this way, the role of "strong" is obvious.

In China, if all the people at the top agree with Western medicine and Western medicine, then Western medicine and Western medicine can quickly spread their influence in China. This is the tradition of China for thousands of years. Therefore, Scrooge felt that political investment was definitely one of the means.

"In today's China, the legitimacy of the Manchu government has been widely questioned. Our medical sector is on the side of the revolutionaries, and even if the revolution is frustrated, we will be evaluated as 'conscientious' in China because we are tied to them. And you know, medicine is the profession that requires the most conscience. As you know, there are two types of procurement in the world, general procurement and expert procurement. The former is a daily necessities and the like, and the person who buys it does not need any professional knowledge. The other is expert procurement, such as our procurement of production machinery or something, and the purchasers we send are experts in these aspects. Very knowledgeable about what to source. However, medicine is a special thing, theoretically the patient and his family members need to understand the drug very much, and need professional knowledge, but in fact this is really not possible, so in the medical business, trust is very important. If we can make more people feel that our doctors, and even our businesses, are 'good people', then we can get more benefits." ”

"It's just that, Scrooge, have you thought about it, the process may be very slow, and it won't have any good results for a long time in between. Even if it is effective in the future, many of the results will be effortlessly shared by the British. I don't think that's your style. Dorothea pouted, "I don't think you're one who can watch people hitchhike you." ”

"I do have other considerations." Scrooge smiled and said, "First, we are developing a lot of new drugs for future wars. However, as you know, the development of drugs requires repeated clinical trials. Nowadays, Salvation Hospital is a very high-end hospital in the United States, and the current environment in the United States no longer allows us to use Americans for drug experiments as we did before. ”

"You didn't block the road yourself." Dorothea interrupted him unceremoniously.

"Isn't that to raise the bar for entry into this industry?" Scrooge laughed and defended himself, a few years ago, a pharmaceutical company suddenly launched a tranquilizer with very few side effects, and it made a lot of money at once. And after Scrooge learned about it, he determined that this thing was actually the so-called stability in later generations. Later, of course, Scrooge relied on the economic power in his hands to incorporate this small business. However, this also reminded him that if that company is not an American company, but a European company, then maybe, he really has nothing to do with him, but can only watch a competitor grow.

In order to ensure that such a thing did not happen again, Scrooge deliberately allowed an industrial spy of a European pharmaceutical company to obtain information about a certain "drug under development" of MacDonald. However, the drug has a huge side effect, and some of the key data on the information they obtained has been concealed or even modified. As a result, three months later, the drug caused serious problems in Europe. More than 5,000 people across Europe have suffered organ failure from taking the drug, and half of them have died within two months.

Scrooge's media certainly did not let go of this turmoil, and they quickly proposed that the state must carry out stricter supervision of drug safety, especially the development of new drugs. As a result, new regulations were quickly formulated, and the requirements for animal experiments and clinical trials for the research and development of new drugs, as well as the observation time and inspection content, have increased significantly, according to the new regulations, any new drug, even if it does not consider the cost of development itself, just consider the money required to meet this requirement, which is close to an astronomical amount. Moreover, the United States also stipulates that foreign drugs that do not meet this standard are not allowed to be imported.

With the Yankees taking the lead, and the big pharmaceutical companies in other countries are not fools, they naturally immediately understood the true intention of such a bill, so European countries quickly passed similar bills.

However, although this bill has raised the bar for the drug industry a lot, it has also brought some side effects, that is, the dangers of new drugs have been overhyped, so that the asking price of volunteers willing to participate in clinical trials of new drugs has increased a lot. This naturally increases the cost, and the number of required test samples also rises significantly, which naturally leads to further costs. Every rise in costs meant a drop in profits, and it also made Scrooge feel like his heart was being cut by a knife.

"There is no requirement in the bill that clinical testing must be conducted in the United States." "So, wouldn't it be nice to talk about these things and move them to China?" And it's not only good, it's even necessary. Because the British have already done this in India. If we don't find a similar solution, we will suffer a lot from the competition with the British. ”

"In China? Will this save money? You have to consider the rising cost of transportation or something. Dorothea frowned, thinking slowly.

"Of course it's cheap, because in the U.S., we have to give money to volunteers, whereas in China, they have to give us money." Scrooge smiled and said, "Dorothea, you don't think we still have to give money to those Chinese, do you?" ”

Clearly, Scrooge intended to sell drugs that had only passed animal testing to Chinese in China as drugs that had been licensed for use. This will not only save the money for the volunteers, but also earn another money for medicine.

"Most of the Chinese who are willing to come to our hospital for treatment are actually not good at all with their traditional medical skills. Such a person, even if our drugs poison him, it is not a big deal. First, the family itself is already psychologically prepared for the death of the patient, and second, a group of Chinese, in terms of their national situation, what dare they do? Besides, their own medicine admits that it is a medicine that is poisonous. It's normal to be poisoned. So experimenting with some new drugs on their side is not easy to go wrong. It is also possible to avoid a whole bunch of subsequent compensation. This saves a lot of money. Scrooge replied happily that in his opinion, anyway, the Chinese who are willing to see Western medicine in this era are basically people who are not saved in the eyes of Chinese medicine, even if they die, they can't blame him, so he feels that he has a complete conscience, and even he feels that he has given those people some hope of survival, and from this point of view, he is even meritorious.

"If you put it this way, we can also try some drugs on people who don't need to use a certain class of drugs at all, as well as experiment with mixing the most dangerous drugs together. It's just that, according to the regulations, we have to sign an agreement with the 'volunteers', explain to them the risks of using these drugs, and get their signatures to approve it. Dorothea said.

"Is this the problem?" Scrooge asked, "Does the bill say what language should be used in our instructions and agreements?" Moreover, as far as our agreement is concerned, even if a Chinese can understand the text on it, can he understand the provisions there? Besides, is it true that the federal government will go to China and check if we have explained the situation to the 'volunteers' one by one, and if the signatures are not written by them? ”

"Ah, I forgot about that." Dorothea was completely relieved. Because the provisions of those agreements are extremely complex, they are almost full of all kinds of exemption clause traps. Not to mention the Chinese, even Americans can see and understand, or most of them can't understand. Otherwise, how do insurance companies make money? Moreover, Scrooge can completely let his subordinates forge the signatures of these people and do it directly in the United States, which is more cost-effective, and the federal government will not ask for trouble on this kind of issue anyway.

"What drugs are you going to send to China to complete the experiment?" Dorothea asked.

"Mainly all kinds of anti-infective drugs, as well as some anti-flu drugs." Scrooge didn't need to hide it from Dorothea on this issue.

Anti-infective drugs are naturally the focus, because in the future world war, there will certainly be no less wounded soldiers. As for anti-influenza drugs......

"Oh, and according to our research, southern China could be one of the sources of influenza, at least flu specimens over the years have confirmed it to us. Therefore, it is most appropriate to experiment with this class of drugs in China. As if to see Dorothea's question, Scrooge explained.