Merchant and doctor

Chapter 2226 Where is the Soul of Traditional Chinese Medicine?

The amount of information that high school students are exposed to every day far exceeds the imagination of teachers and parents. The huge flow of information constantly impacts the children's IQ threshold, and unconsciously, the apparent IQ of today's high school students is significantly higher than that of the same period in history.

As a result, high school students naturally have a higher demand for in-school mathematics education, and this is especially true for high school boys.

Every now and then, students would come to Teacher Xiao An to ask for help with all sorts of brain-teasing problems. Occasionally, Teacher Xiao An would also get stuck. The first thing she would do was ask Bian Mu for help. Whenever time allowed, Bian Mu would not only provide very accurate answers, but would also often provide extremely detailed solutions.

For Teacher Xiao An, those extremely detailed problem-solving processes are definitely "golden resources." Normally, even if she consults various high-end AI intelligent robots online, she may not be able to obtain such detailed problem-solving logic. Gradually, without realizing it, Bian Mu has become an indispensable "soul" level close friend in Teacher Xiao An's teaching career.

Gradually, Teacher Xiao An developed a certain dependence on Bian Mu.

If Bian Mu were to become just a fleeting passerby in Teacher Xiao An's life, she would find it hard to accept for a while.

Naturally, Teacher Xiao An took the initiative to act as a "mediator" between Bian Mu and her parents. And it has to be said that although the "poisoning ointment" project has had its share of minor setbacks, it has not yet capsized, and Bian Mu has indeed made a lot of money from it.

Though she didn't say anything, Bian Mu was always grateful to Teacher Xiao An.

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"Yu Ji Private Kitchen," Bian Mu is treating everyone to a sincere meal for Teacher Xiao An.

The beautiful female chef wasn't on duty today, but the other chefs at the stalls, who were quite familiar with Bian Mu, greeted him warmly.

Bian Mu specially ordered some river and lake delicacies. Teacher Xiao An said that she also couldn't get used to seafood and couldn't stand the fishy smell in her bones.

"You don't seem to care much?! Those people are professional pharmaceutical researchers, I heard they have their own studios, they're quite professional." While enjoying the food, Teacher Xiao An reminded her again with a hint of unease.

“I believe they are quite professional, but… in terms of traditional Chinese medicine preparation, let’s take a step up and see how professional they really are.” Bian Mu asked casually.

"This... how would I know! What do you mean!" Although she spends all her time at school, Teacher Xiao An is still quite ignorant about business.

“Times have changed. The elimination of those who are not professional will become extremely cruel. Your father has always felt this deeply. Let me put it this way, in the field of traditional Chinese medicine preparation, if I can score 73 points, how many points do you think those drug researchers could score even if they were all bundled together?” Bian Mu smiled and gave a hint.

"This... how would I know! You'd have to ask my dad!" "The people you met were just a part of them. Maybe your father intentionally let you meet them, to hear a bit more. Otherwise, there's nothing to talk about if you asked me out. Your father must have met quite a few drug researchers like that, but... he's always had some doubts. He knows better than anyone what the upper limit of those drug researchers' skills is, but he knows almost nothing about how amateur I am, or what level of professionalism I can achieve in the future. So... you understand!" Sometimes, it's better to leave things unsaid than to reveal everything.

Upon hearing this, Teacher Xiao An's face immediately showed a somewhat surprised expression.

"You mean...you guys are more professional here?!"

With a slight smile, Bian Mu nodded gently.

"No way! Didn't you dedicate all your main job to the Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic?!" Teacher Xiao An asked in confusion.

"These are two different things! Times have changed, and the line between professional and amateur has become more blurred. However, the standards for judging absolute professionalism are much stricter, even harsher! Your father has some experience in this area, but perhaps because he doesn't go out much, he hasn't been able to fully understand it. Currently, the market for traditional Chinese medicine is extremely competitive, and the only way to succeed in the future is through highly effective traditional Chinese medicine. On the surface, I'm an amateur, and there are very few of us. We can't even build a decent team. For Western medicine, this might be a fatal flaw. However, the preparation and formulation of traditional Chinese medicine, especially highly effective traditional Chinese medicine, are completely different. Blindly building a so-called R&D team actually has a very low return on investment. There's no other reason than that the difficulty of achieving a qualitative breakthrough in technology is too great! They, on the other hand, have gone down the wrong path from the very beginning..."

"I don't understand... Most professionals can't beat an amateur like you?! Who would believe that?!" Teacher Xiao An retorted casually, quite unconvinced.

"Actually, the underlying logic here is quite simple. The pharmaceutical researchers that your father frequently met with all fell into a common misconception..." At this point, Bian Mu gathered some river delicacies on the table, put them in his bowl, and tasted a few bites. Mmm... so fresh!
"Stop beating around the bush, I don't know anything about this, just tell me the conclusion!"

"Their overall approach has always been imitating the existing model of Western medicine research and development, don't you think? Studios, laboratories, project initiation, research plan formulation... even the tone of their speech, you might as well think back carefully, what is the qualitative difference between their usual way of speaking, their tone, their manner of speaking... and that of senior engineers who specialize in Western medicine research?!" Grasping the key point, Bian Mu gave a few timely reminders.

The Anders doted on their precious daughter, treating her like a pampered young lady. They believed that influencing the Anders indirectly through her would be more effective, ruthless, and thorough.

Doing this was somewhat like using Teacher Xiao An as a pawn, but... Bian Mu couldn't think of any better way.

So what if you feel guilty? As long as your initial intentions were good, you shouldn't overthink things. As long as the future outcome is good for everyone, that's all that matters.

"That's really true... Traditional Chinese medicine research and development! No matter what, it should have that kind of atmosphere of traditional Chinese medicine... Honestly, how come we've never thought of that... Even if I'm an outsider, I grew up in a pharmaceutical factory. If we followed their way of thinking and went down that path blindly... would the things they developed after spending so much manpower and resources still have the soul of traditional Chinese medicine?! Now that you mention it, you're really more professional than them... My dad, he... really..." After all, being a math major, her thought process is quite different from the average person. In just a few words, Teacher Xiao An had already realized some very core things.

Teacher Xiao An is actually quite remarkable.

"All they do all day is try to raise funds, poach talent, find secret formulas, and refine and improve them... You're right, the soul of traditional Chinese medicine has been diluted a lot. This approach of combining traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine may lead to a dead end in the future..." Bian Mu stopped there, trusting in Xiao An's understanding. He would stop after a few words, as saying too much might backfire and cause problems.