Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1609: Double the value
Huang Boxi was sincere in entertaining his guests and he had a pretty good income, so the ingredients he prepared were naturally of the quality for entertaining guests during the Spring Festival. Bian Mu was also an excellent cook, and while they were chatting and laughing, Bian Mu had already prepared five exquisite stir-fries with a combination of vegetarian and Chinese food.

Huang Boxi's wife had already made more than 60 dumplings in advance, with beef, carrots and leeks as the stuffing, a standard local ingredient.

Bian Mu first cooked 30 dumplings and divided them into two plates. The three of them ate quite happily.

The good wine of "Zuixiang Weng" is more than 37 degrees and is sold out from time to time. People always give gifts to Huang Boxi. The last thing his family lacks is high-quality liquor. Huang Boxi's wife used the wine warmer at home to heat up more than half a catty of wine, and repeatedly reminded her to drink less.

The wine was so rich that Bian Mu even started sweating after drinking it.

"Mr. Huang! I didn't say it clearly just now, how did I fall into the trap of 'Mei'eryu'?" Bian Mu asked with a smile.

"Haha... Does Tao Wenjie have a sharp eye?" Without answering directly, Huang Boxi suddenly mentioned Tao Wenjie.

"That's right! Among her peers, she is quite amazing! She always behaves in a way that doesn't match her age." Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"In recent years, during the holidays, she always comes to my house with generous gifts. At first, I ignored her, but later, I couldn't stand her thick skin anymore, and slowly I got tired of her. It has been said since ancient times that you shouldn't give gifts to people with a smiling face! Tell me, what does she want?" Huang Boxi said with a smile.

"Maybe they want to learn the Huang family's secret medicine-making techniques!" Bian Mu replied with a smile.

"That's the truth. Luo Jiaming also came to my house every year to wish me a happy new year. But last year, it just stopped. Why?"

"Mr. Luo seems to be interested in changing his career and is not as concerned about the affairs of 'Yiyoukang' as before." As he spoke, Bian Mu briefly recounted what he saw and heard when he visited Luo Jiaming in the mountains.

"No wonder... I knew it... every time Lei Xueming's friends come back to Lijin, they will definitely come to my house with generous gifts. Why is that?" Huang Boxi asked with a smile.

"This...some of the pharmaceutical secrets mastered by the Huang family are unique in the world, irreplaceable, and absolutely scarce resources! Indispensable! So..." Putting down the chopsticks in his hand, Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"Hey! That's it! You're in a similar situation to me now. Whether it's Western medicine or Chinese patent medicine, the technology at Meieryu has basically reached its peak. They have to seek technological breakthroughs at all costs. Before visiting you, they asked me out several times, but I ignored them. Later, the guy named Bao asked someone to intercede for me, and I went to the hotel to have a meal with them. Do you understand?"

"I didn't reveal anything during the meal! How can you say that I was tricked by them?"

"Sometimes, the so-called top technological breakthroughs are actually just a layer of window paper that can be broken with a poke! After all, it's a big company. You think it's nothing and just say a few words, you're awesome! It doesn't matter if you have a high level. But they are different. A few words from them can be very useful! You guys chatted a little at the banquet, how do I, an old man, know everything?" Having said this, Huang Boxi asked with a smile, putting away the wine glasses in front of him.

"Could it be... that one of your people is in the negotiation team named Bao?" Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"Bullshit! Those people have high academic qualifications, all of them are PhDs. One of them is Lei Xueming's junior. In the past two years, the technical group is very powerful. They graduated from the same school and directly recognized each other as brothers. They would inform each other of big and small things. By the way, Lei Xueming privately set up a small technical circle, which can be regarded as a studio! At that time, you may not have noticed that the man who had been eating silently had some scars on his face, but his eyes were quite bright. He recorded what you talked about and forwarded it to me as soon as he had time." "Wow! People in these two years..." Hearing this, Bian Mu was a little speechless.

"You are a little too confident! Who is the best at the rat poisoning technique you mentioned?" Huang Boxi asked.

"I also learned from old books. Some of the specific technical details were just my own guesses. Of course, the 'Digital Medicine' system played a very important role. Modeling, trial and error, and reversal...it really saved me a lot of effort." Bian Mu told the truth.

"Really? It seems that the 'Digital Medicine' concept you created is indeed quite good! The master of drug rat preparation technology is Situ Jianqing, and Liang Xiangyin is probably even better than you in this area!"

"Really? Uncle Liang never mentioned a word about it!"

"Him?! An old hand! Didn't we both misjudge him when we were at the market in town? He has deep plans, but... don't worry, he's not a bad person, and he doesn't have any bad intentions towards you. But you still have to be more cautious in what you say and do in the future. Words can cause trouble, so be careful not to let them scheme against you."

"Junior has learned a lesson!"

Seeing that the two were chatting enthusiastically, Huang Boxi's wife smiled at Bian Mu and went back to the living room to watch TV. Naturally, she was not interested in the things in their circle that they were talking about.

"You hang out with Teacher Duan all day, so you must be quite familiar with CPU!" Huang Boxi suddenly changed the subject and mentioned the CPU, the heart of the computer.

"Not really, but I know a little bit."

"Then tell me, what is the current technical dilemma of CPU?"

"This...there has not been any new breakthroughs in raw materials. Materials science has been stuck in some bottlenecks, right? I haven't heard of any new, more efficient and streamlined ideas in the core architecture. It has always been about adding cores and threads. Another thing is...small things like heat dissipation have always been solved by improving the fan. There is actually nothing new inside the CPU. I have always been skeptical about how far AI technology and quantum technology have developed. It's incredible that such a small heat dissipation technology is still so primitive. Another thing is that the circuit operation has always been at a relatively primitive level. Anyway, it's not as advanced as I imagined. Maybe civilian-grade CPUs are like this. We can't get access to more advanced CPUs?! Maybe they have developed to the level of aliens?!" Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"Bullshit! Those guys made hundreds of billions of dollars in fortune. If they really had some high-tech stuff and just dropped some of it into the ordinary civilian market, the CPU wouldn't be sold at such a high price like squeezing toothpaste. There hasn't been any qualitative breakthrough, at least that's the reality of the business world we're dealing with at this level." Huang Boxi laughed and joked.

"Of course! So... what you mean is that the current state of Western medicine R&D technology is a bit like CPU R&D?"

Hearing this, Huang Boxi nodded slightly and said nothing.

"At present, the advanced technology of Western medicine can only improve the relevant technical indicators bit by bit like squeezing toothpaste. In the short term, many drugs are no longer able to make that kind of qualitative leap?! Their R&D costs are measured in decades, and billions of R&D funds are thrown out at once. Do you mean... they have to turn their attention to traditional Chinese medicine? In this case... our status will be..."

With a slight smile, Huang Boxi nodded gently.