Baldwin took off from Atlanta, made two connections, and spent a day and a night to reach Beijing.

"Gibson, how's it going? Has anything changed in the last 24 hours?" Baldwin didn't bother to talk about, and asked about the situation here.

He and Gibson were college classmates, but Baldwin entered the headquarters, rose to the top, and was already a senior director, Gibson wandered around the world's branches, became a technical talent, and the rank was still a senior chief engineer, although they both brought a senior, but in fact it was three levels worse.

However, Baldwin and Gibson have always had a good relationship, and Coca-Cola also took into account Baldwin and Gibson's relationship before sending them to China.

In this regard, Coca-Cola still attaches great importance to the Chinese market.

This is also natural, in a country with a population of 1 billion, if everyone drinks Coca-Cola, what a big market it is, and Coca-Cola will not give up until the last moment.

Moreover, unlike many Chinese themselves, Coca-Cola is very confident that China's development will eventually reach the point where everyone can afford to drink Coca-Cola.

Of course, they don't think China can go as far as it goes, but it doesn't take too many years to reach the level of the Philippines or Malaysia, and most countries, as long as they maintain political stability, can almost reach that level.

India, another populous country that is often used as a comparison, can be used as a reference, although it has not yet reached the level where everyone drinks coke, but even if only one-tenth or two-tenths of the population does, it is a large market that is not inferior to South America.

For a giant multinational company like Coca-Cola, their analysis of the international situation is never decided by patting their heads, and most of the time, Coca-Cola's board of directors will refer to the analysis of various think tanks, in addition to this, they will also use the connections of politicians to understand the actual situation.

The decision to return to China, for example, was made by the president of Coca-Cola after President Carter returned to his former home for a private dinner. Carter was an Atlantan, and Coca-Cola was based in Atlanta, which allowed Coca-Cola's political influence to reach its peak in the late '70s.

However, it is already 1984.

Baldwin carefully and carefully understood the situation, and greeted Sherwood and the others who came to pick him up, and then calmly got into the car.

After closing the car door, Baldwin couldn't wait to spit out strings of foul words.

"That's what he used to do. Gibson shrugged at the stunned Sherwood and said, "He was like that when he was in college." ”

Because the priest did not want to hear foul language. Baldwin took off his suit and explained to Sherwood with a smile on his face: "I went to a Catholic school, primary and secondary schools are Catholic schools, you have to be careful of the priest, it's really ......"

"The university is Saint Louis University. Gibson added. Saint Louis University is the second-oldest Jesuit university in the United States, just look at its prefix "holy."

Sherwood couldn't help laughing, "It's all Catholic schools. ”

"That's right. Although I was tired of Catholic schools and priests, I decided to go to a Catholic university. Baldwin asked, "Do you know why?"

"Why?"

"Because priests always have all kinds of requirements and rules, but without them, our lives will become chaotic. Baldwin looked at the two of them and said, "It's like the current China area, the current Coca-Cola China area, it's rotten." ”

Gibson and Sherwood both laughed and were speechless.

Baldwin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Of course, it is not your fault that the Chinese want to do scientific research, but you are delaying too late." Nowadays, even if we do targeted scientific research, we lack time, and most importantly, we don't even know where the Chinese research has come. ”

Sherwood glanced at Gibson and said, "Actually, we do. ”

"You know?"

"Yes, through the relationship of Jielikang, we entered Yang Rui's laboratory tour. ”

"Yang Rui is giving you a tour?" Baldwin sat up, this was a new situation.

His repeated questioning was not tiresome, in fact, Gibson and Sherwood quietly relaxed.

This time, Gibson said: "The relationship between Jielikang and Yang Rui is better than we imagined, and there is some gossip that Yang Rui may hold some shares of Jielikang Coenzyme Q10 factory." Therefore, there is a high dividend ......"

"This is not gossip, Yang Rui has completely changed the market ecology of coenzyme Q10, and now, Jielikang has defeated Japanese factories in this market, so it is not surprising that Yang Rui has some shares. Baldwin, who was obviously more informed than Gibson and Sherwood, paused and added: "In the first half of this year, Jaezeneca increased its shipments of CoQ10 by more than 400%, and made a profit of more than $300 million...... If Yang Rui signs an agreement that is not too bad, he will receive at least $3 million in dividends. ”

"Enough independence to complete the experiment. Gibson got the key at once.

"So, it's no longer feasible to oppress Yang Rui through official channels?" Sherwood also followed.

Baldwin let out a dissatisfied "En" and said: "Yang Rui is Chinese, how can we oppress him through official channels, the headquarters hopes that we will separate this matter from politics, not the other way around...... Tell us about what you learned after visiting the lab. ”

"His experiments went very well, the design was logical, and I wrote a report when I came back, and so far, no one has found any academic flaws. ”

"What about progress?" was Baldwin's primary concern.

Gibson said heavily: "Their initial plan is a four-week period of observation and analysis, and then write the first paper, and the next plan will continue to four months, followed by a one-year long-term plan, whether there is a longer period is uncertain." I don't think we'll be able to stop their initial plans. ”

Baldwin asked noncommittally, "It's the second week, so they'll be able to write their first paper in two weeks?"

"Yes. Gibson looked bitter and asked instead, "Is there a way we can delay the publication of his paper?"

Sending a paper, from sending it to the journal to organizing the review and giving a conclusion, even if it does not need to be revised, it will take as little as a few weeks, or as long as a few months.

During this time, it has given powerful people room to operate.

Periodicals are also cannibalistic, such as the famous Nature Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Macmillan Publishing, which in turn is part of Georg von Hotzbrink.

However, although not absolutely independent, the price point at which periodicals interfere with it is quite high, and they face enormous moral and legal risks.

In contrast, it makes more sense to publish two papers with opposing views in the same issue of the journal, even if it cannot be published in the same issue of the journal, and it is the same to publish targeted articles in other influential journals.

There are many such examples, and the more issues that are of public interest, the more different views are disturbed. For example, is the ozone hole really caused by Freon? Can biodiesel really change the benefits of the environment? Is oil really the product of ancient organic matter? Is it true that humans are emitting too much carbide from global warming?

Either way, however, it means a huge amount of money and political resources.

Baldwin shook his head silently and said, "It is impossible for targeted papers to be made in such a short period of time, Yang Rui has published many papers in many journals, and he is no longer a newcomer." ”

Having prestige, for a scientific researcher, is like holding a flag, whether it is a magazine or a company organization, according to his prestige, analysis of countermeasures.

Coca-Cola's strong relationship with the government does not mean that they can control the academic community.

If it was a little fresh meat, he might be bullied and good now, but Yang Rui pickled himself through one paper after another, maybe not to the extent of old salted meat, but it was almost marinated.

"Did you organize a welcome party for me?" Baldwin cut off the two most straightforward solutions, but talked about unrelated matters.

Gibson smiled and said, "Of course I'm ready, I've got eighteen-year-old whiskey, let's have a drink." ”

"Hopefully you've got more than one bottle ready. I've got a list here, and they probably like aged whiskey as well. Baldwin handed Gibson a note and said, "I want a safe line to contact headquarters." ”

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