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Volume 4: Walking in the Solar System Chapter 21: Life and Death (1)

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    There is no normal person who is not afraid of death. What they fear most is sudden death, and what they most look forward to is immortality.  Human beings are also contradictory creatures. Although they envy beauty, they often go to the opposite direction, which is why "sorrow is greater than death."  The study of self-destructive tendencies has always been an important topic in sociology.

    The truly powerful forces on earth will definitely involve two industries: military industry and medical care. One kills people and the other saves people.  The luxury goods and hobby goods industries are somewhere in between, fully embodying people's wandering between perfectionism and self-destruction.

    Military industry, medical care, luxury goods, hobbies and energy are the five industries with the highest profit margins on our planet. Power and IT are where large companies gather. Large companies with core technologies have amazing profits.  Human biology determines that people are easily tired and do not have enough strength. Laziness is a very common phenomenon in human groups, and diligence is only due to the pressure of the environment and individual paranoia.  Energy is a necessity in modern human life. Power and machinery make human hands and feet stronger and easier, and IT makes people's spiritual communication more convenient.

    The slogan ¡°Higher, Faster, Stronger¡± comes from the deep desire of the human soul. It is very simple and yet very complex.

    Li Zhuang¡¯s research on sociology and philosophy is very in-depth. This is the basis for his ability to control Weizhou. The dense intelligent management network is only an auxiliary.  He can live like a robot, but it's just a case. Everyone has his own ideas, and the smarter the person, the more ideas he has.

    United Technologies¡¯ joint meeting and expert decision-making model is the only solution to the management of super large companies, but it is not perfect.  Even with Li Zhuang's sophisticated framework arrangement, Zhou Qisen's excellent business management capabilities, and Zhang Kai's efficient administrative and personnel operations, it is still impossible to be perfect. This is especially true in the medical field, a professional field with a strong humanistic tendency.

    The expert decision-making model has flaws. In fact, any decision-making model has flaws. Groups compete to see whose management system is closer to perfection, and who can better understand people's hearts and human nature, rather than relying on violence to suppress human nature and propaganda and deception.  to gain short-term explosive power by improving people's hearts and improving social wealth accumulation.  Any management system that cannot form a relatively perfect cycle is unsuccessful, even if there are excuses for different cultural systems.

    Medical care is a very special industry, and practitioners in this industry often wander between morality and interests.  It is difficult for doctors who only want to make money to reach the peak of their skills.  The "parental mentality of doctors" applies to most top talents in all cultural systems, with a few exceptions due to biological variation and political tendencies.

    Li Zhuang has studied thinking science and neuroscience before, but has never considered medical issues. He has little control over medical research institutes and medical health groups. It is his management principle to intervene as little as possible if he does not understand.  The Medical Research Institute is the main technical support and R&D management counterpart unit of the Medical and Health Group. The medical and health research and development results of the Biotechnology Research Institute and the Genetic Engineering Research Institute are also transformed by the Medical and Health Group.

    "Dr. Hoffman, please introduce to me the recent research progress." Li Zhuang walked into the small meeting and saw that Hoffman and Han Shumei were still silent, so he broke the deadlock.

    Hoffman is a typical research-oriented and R&D management talent who is not good at administrative management. The administrative affairs of the Institute of Medicine are mainly handled by the General Affairs Department of the Institute of Medicine in cooperation with Han Shumei and Zeng Tiecheng.

    "Okay, let me tell you, Dr. Han, please bring the confidential documents from the archives." Hoffman came back from his contemplation and said to Han Shumei.

    Han Shumei responded and left on her own, while Li Zhuang waited in the conference room for Hoffman to open the publicly available electronic research catalog and introduce it to him.

    "Our current research actually involves three systems, traditional medicine, modern medicine and traditional and modern integrated medicine. Systems medicine involving genetic engineering is all at the Institute of Genetic Engineering, but the Institute of Medicine also has similar R&D institutions  , responsible for improving and transforming their research results. After all, there are differences between the two fields, and systems medicine is our future direction."

    The door of the conference room was opened by Arthur, and a gurgling sound came. Hoffman knew that it was a service robot bringing tea. He paused the introduction, picked up a thick cigar and started puffing.

    Li Zhuang was surprised by his casualness, but knew that Hoffman had never smoked before.  This sixty-two-year-old man is tall and thin. He pays great attention to maintaining his health. He only drinks high-quality red wine and never smokes cigarettes, which are harmful but useless, let alone highly toxic cigars.  Smoking this thing is very particular. Smoking like Hoffman will definitely lead to a short life.

    "Boss, this is not an ordinary cigar, it is an electronic cigar developed by us." Hoffman saw Li Zhuang staring at the thing in his hand and hurriedly explained. He also took out a large box from the storage cabinet next to him and handed it over.  Li Zhuang has no academic qualifications. In Weisen Technology, which is accustomed to calling academic qualifications rather than positions, he can only be called "boss" in a commercial way. Although heNot like.

    Li Zhuang took it and took a look. There were dozens of them inside. He had quit smoking a long time ago and had smoked for many years. Although there were very few, he was very familiar with the products on the market.  The big box contains mainstream flue-cured cigarettes, mixed cigarettes and cigar brands. There are 30 cigarettes, and the workmanship is very exquisite. You can tell that they are of high quality at first glance.  He picked an electronic cigarette marked Soft China 329, picked up the cartridge and loaded it, turned on the electronic switch, and took a puff after a while. The taste was very pure, almost the same as the traditional 329.  Soft China was the cigarette he smoked most often in the past. Because he smoked less, he was very sensitive and could distinguish its specific flavor more clearly than an old smoker.

    Hoffmann pulled a promotional material from the shelf to him. This was a detailed introduction to Soft China 329 e-cigarette.  As in the traditional style of United Technologies, there are very detailed data descriptions, even more detailed than the instructions from big pharmaceutical companies.  There are standards for the materials and electronic devices used, and harmful substances are controlled to the limit.  The description of the cartridge is more detailed, the human trials lasted for a full five years, and the promotional materials contain ten pages of pharmacological data and analysis.

    This kind of cigarette cartridge does not contain nicotine and is made by purifying and mixing the juices of various plants. Li Zhuang can¡¯t understand it, but he knows that it contains lung-clearing ingredients, which is exactly the opposite of traditional cigarettes.

    There are hundreds of e-cigarette brands on the market. This kind of thing was invented in China, but the best technology is not in China, but in Japan.  In recent years, many Japanese companies have launched similar products, but no organization has ever been able to make them taste exactly like real cigarettes, so veteran smokers don¡¯t have many choices.  The e-cigarette developed by the Institute of Medical Sciences not only refreshes the mind, clears the lungs and relieves tension, but also has a self-inhibitory function. If you smoke it for ten times in a row, you will have adverse reactions, which prevents people from becoming addicted to this kind of thing.

    While Li Zhuang was watching, the door was opened again. Han Shumei walked in with a stack of documents. She couldn't help but feel happy when she saw Li Zhuang studying e-cigarettes. She put the documents on the table, took out one of them and handed it to him.

    "These are top-secret research plans of the Institute of Smoking Cessation and Drug Rehabilitation. They are not included in the ERP system. The director personally printed them and sent them for archiving."

    Li Zhuang took it and took a look, and the things involved in it were shocking.  The smoke released when tobacco is burned contains nearly 3,900 known chemicals, most of which are harmful to the human body, including carbon monoxide, nicotine and other alkaloids, amines, nitriles, alcohols, phenols, alkanes, aldehydes,  Nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heterocyclic compounds, hydroxyl compounds, heavy metal elements, organic pesticides, etc. are in a wide range. They have a variety of biological effects and cause various harms to the human body.

    The main component of tobacco is nicotine, which strongly stimulates the central nervous system of the brain, but also suppresses people's anger.  Among the many diseases caused by cigarettes, the most common ones are lung disease and sexual impotence.

    With the help of the Genetic Engineering Research Institute and the Biotechnology Research Institute, the Smoking Cessation Laboratory has conducted very in-depth research on tobacco, and has conducted a series of studies on pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, toxicology and neural action mechanisms.

    There are three types of smoking cessation products developed this time: a new type of pure natural e-cigarette, which has been proven harmless by five years of human trials and actually has some benefits; gene blocking smoking cessation tablets, which inhibit the effects of nicotine and complex compounds on the body's nervous system and adrenal glands.  Stimulation; Smoking Smoking Balance Liquid makes the side effects after stopping smoking very light, so that old smokers will not be intolerable.  These three products are used together to take into account both the physical and psychological needs of smoking cessation.

    The research in the detoxification laboratory almost made Li Zhuang jump. The therapeutic research on seventeen common dupins such as hly and mafei has been completed. Human trials are in progress. The most important ones such as hly, mafei, bingdu, etc. have been completed.  Preliminary human trials have been completed and the results are very satisfactory.

    In order to help addicts get rid of psychological dependence, alternatives without toxic side effects have been developed, and a hallucinogen with extremely mild side effects has even been developed to reduce mood swings when people are irritable.

    Related to alcohol are anti-alcohol tablets, anti-hangover tablets and balancing fluids. Li Zhuang unexpectedly saw Gubaev¡¯s name on the names of the participants.  As far as he knows, the Russian researchers in the company are not very addicted to alcohol, and Gubaev does not drink much. Researchers need to keep a clear mind.

    This was a big deal. Li Zhuang picked up the phone and called Andreev, "Alexander, it's me. What's going on with Gubaev? He participated in a human experiment on alcohol abstinence. The nuclear fusion engine is in a hurry. Don't force him."  "

    Andreev¡¯s defensive voice came from over there. Li Zhuang said a few words and hung up the phone.  He looked at it for about ten minutes, then raised his head and asked Hoffman: "Are these products officially launched?"

    Hoffman proudly replied: "Our joint meeting of the Medical Research Institute passed with a high vote, and the smoking cessation combination has been launched on the market and is in the early stage of publicity. The drug treatment laboratory is cooperating with a research institute in Citigroup for human trials."

    Li Zhuang was shocked and knew why Xia Yuande was angry.?There is something wrong with the thinking of these people, and the joint meeting of the Institute of Medicine needs to be reformed.

    Footsteps came from the corridor. Although the sound insulation was good, the footsteps were too heavy. After a few words of greeting outside, Xia Yuande knocked on the door and came in.

    "Hoffman, you have done a good job. Dozens of people in the business department are missing, including people from the medical and health group." The handsome old man who came in had a red face, was panting, veins popped out on his forehead, and he couldn't care less about being polite.

    Both Hoffman and Han Shumei had a hint of embarrassment on their faces. They were not stupid, but they just considered it from different angles.  The ideas of the joint meeting members are different from those of the business department. The company is too big and the management of the headquarters is relatively lagging behind.

    Li Zhuang made a decisive decision, "The products of the Institute for Smoking Smoking and Detoxification will be suspended for now. From now on, this area will be directly managed by the headquarters. A high-level joint meeting will be held tomorrow. You all can come and participate."

    "Let's go to the Overseas Investigation Bureau headquarters. Arthur, contact Director Jackson and tell him that I have something urgent to see him." Li Zhuang said goodbye to Hoffman and Han Shumei, and hurried out with Xia Yuande.

    "It seems that we need to find experts who are familiar with the medical field to take control of the Medical Research Institute and the Medical Health Group, and decouple the Medical Health Group from the Medical Research Institute, otherwise the trouble will be even greater in the future." Li Zhuang was sitting in the car thinking, feeling that the Medical Research Institute is  The thing I stabbed is not that big.

    Don¡¯t think that tobacco and dupin are simple things. Behind them are the government, giant companies and desperadoes. They are extremely powerful.  Han Desheng has said before that those drug traffickers have everything, and the casualties of their old troops have always been heavy. This is still the pursuit of national forces.

    The electronic cigarettes on the market are not of high quality. Most of the cartridges are nicotine, with the tar and complex compounds generated by combustion removed.  The revolutionary plan, faced with a huge market of billions of gold coupons and an interest chain of tens of millions of people, will be wiped out if you don't pay attention.  Hoffman and the others should be lucky to have a security and intelligence system of nearly 150,000 people standing behind them. Otherwise, terrorists might reach the door of the Medical Research Institute. This excuse is the most versatile.

    Why are there no big companies involved in smoking cessation products?  This is a very sensitive area where vested interests are powerful.  If you don't give them time to change their main business, they will only take risks.  In business, being half a step ahead is a star, and being one step ahead is a public enemy.

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