Li Zheng opened the door and opened the door. This is a small storefront. The first thing that catches the eye is a low rectangular table, followed by a tatami mat. A thin old Japanese man leaned against the table and saw Li Zheng and his group. Came in with a polite smile on his face.
"Please change it into Japanese currency." Li Zheng took out ten US dollars with Benjamin Franklin's picture on it. In order to prevent risks, this kind of private exchange agency only accepts international mainstream currencies. In the 1980s, neither the Chinese currency nor the Hong Kong currency was among the mainstream currencies.
The old Japanese man glanced at the young man with a slightly surprised look, "The current exchange rate between the US dollar and the Japanese yen is about 100:2100. For a thousand dollars, I can give you 20,000 yen."
Li Zheng nodded, the private exchange is not more profitable than the official one, and 1,000 yen is only 42 dollars, which is not expensive.
Seeing Li Zheng's agreement, the old man smiled and handed a stack of Japanese yen to Li Zheng's hand. He glanced at the bags carried by the Chinese scholars behind Li Zheng, and said, "You want to buy small electrical appliances, right? It's not really needed. Go to Ginza, where the rent is expensive, and the price of things goes up. Let me tell you, go out from here, keep going east, and then turn at the third traffic light, there is a market dedicated to selling electricity, the price is not cheap Less."
Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, barely understanding what the old man said, "Thank you, old man." He politely thanked him.
The old man waved his hand, "You're welcome, it's something the locals know."
Li Zheng helped the old man to close the door and turned around to face a group of Chinese scholars.
The faces of the Chinese scholars were a bit ugly. The colleagues who had just understood Japanese translated the old man's words for them, which made these old professors' good mood to buy their favorite electrical appliances swept away.
In the 1980s, the salary of an ordinary university professor was only 50 to 60 yuan a month, which is equivalent to 700 to 900 yen. In addition to the foreign exchange allocated by the state per capita this time, they also privately dragged a lot of connections to the family. Convert your savings into Japanese Yen. The small appliances they are carrying now are often the savings of a family for several years.
Now someone tells them it's expensive. Naturally, the mood of these professors is not much better, but due to the lofty academics and scruples of the country's face, they can't make any move to return these things.
Li Zheng touched his nose, and he seemed to have accidentally spoiled the interest of all the seniors.
Because of the presence of Li Zheng, Professor Meng and his party quickly adjusted their emotions. Chen Anbang looked at Li Zheng with a bit of embarrassment, "Little comrade, I don't have that much money to exchange your Japanese currency."
Li Zhengdan's phoenix eyes were curved into a beautiful arc. He pointed to the watch in Chen Anbang's hand, "Just exchange this with me." There are three small characters "Five Stars", and the big four characters "Made in China" are written in the center of the dial.
In 1955, the first Chinese-made watch, the "Five Star" watch, was born in Tianjin, China. In 1957, the five-star brand was officially renamed "Wuyi Brand".
In the watch world of later generations, the price of Wuyi brand watches has broken through six figures, and the five-star brand watches with only a short lifespan of two years are even more invaluable in the market. Naturally, Li Zheng didn't want this watch to collect it and sell it for money, but he had some feelings when he saw the words 'Made in China' and wanted to keep it by his side as a souvenir.
Chen Anbang opened his mouth. This watch was about 30 years old, and it was given to him by his father. If it weren't for his real hardship, he would have changed to a Shanghai brand like his colleagues.
"Little comrade, it's not worth a lot of money. Otherwise, I'll give you an IOU..." Having said this, Chen Anbang couldn't say it anymore.
"Forget it, don't buy it. I'll let her read the book by herself, no need for a tape recorder." Chen Anbang waved his hand as if he didn't care.
"The first watches made in Huaguo, to me, are worth a lot more than this wad of yen. If it doesn't mean anything to you, I beg you to exchange it for me. Just keep it by your side. Just think about it." Li Zheng's voice was not high, but it was hard to hide his shock when he heard it in the hearts of a group of Chinese scholars.
Professor Meng gave Li Zheng a deep look, "Xiao Chen, you can change with him. Comrade Xiao is a conscientious person."
Although Chen Anbang was still a little embarrassed, looking at Li Zheng's serious expression, he finally took off his watch with a wry smile, "If you come to Huaguo in the future, you can come to Huaqing University to find me, and I will return the money to you."
Li Zheng took the watch and put it directly on his wrist: "You are welcome to redeem your watch at any time."
After the exchange of foreign exchange, Li Zheng did not go to the home appliance market with the Huaguo scholars. People-to-people communication should be done step by step. Too much attentiveness is not beautiful.
"Cuckoo..." Li Zheng's stomach couldn't help the sound, and he rubbed his stomach.
Eel rice ah eel rice~
The next day, Li Zheng and his party of six arrived at the entrance of the conference venue in a hotel car.
Xu Ming took everyone through the hall with familiarity and came to a gate with "Asian Biopharmaceutical Conference Venue" written in both Japanese and English.
"Go in, we should be in the first and second rows." Xu Mingsheng said with a smile.
Li Zheng followed the crowd through most of the venue, his eyes swept across the seats that were already seated, and suddenly met with a startled gaze, Li Zheng smiled politely at Professor Meng, and Professor Meng opened his mouth to watch Li Zheng pass by them Take a seat, go to the front two rows and take a seat.
"Old He, look, that little comrade is the one we met yesterday, isn't it?" Professor Meng hurriedly smashed Professor He's hand.
When Professor He stood up, he saw Li Zheng sitting down.
"Hey? Really! It's the guy from Haidong Province that I met yesterday!" Professor He said with certainty.
A group of Chinese scholars looked at each other in dismay, Chen Anbang said softly: "That's the location of Hong Kong University."
Xiangjiang... An unspeakable silence spread around the crowd. This term has always had a different status in the hearts of Chinese people.
After a long time, Professor Meng said, "Director Deng said, Xiangjiang will definitely return!"
"Yes, yes, Xiangjiang will definitely return!"
"That little comrade, you don't forget your motherland when you live in Xiangjiang. With such a person here, why not come back to Xiangjiang!"
On the other side, Xu Mingsheng looked at the conference procedure and chuckled, "It's Richard from the University of London. He nominated Nobel the year before last, but I didn't expect the conference to invite him as a guest."
Both belong to the higher education institutions under the rule of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Xu Mingsheng and Richard have dealt with each other many times.
"The first academic report was made by the University of London Medical Laboratory he brought over. It's stressful."
The first academic report was made by the University of London Medical Laboratory, and the final finale was made by Richard himself. Others, including the host, the University of Tokyo, will draw lots to determine the order.
The luck of Hong Kong University is not bad, and the eighth place belongs to the front of the middle.
Just at the beginning of the academic report of the University of London Medical Laboratory, the faces of Xu Mingsheng and the three changed. The University of London's presentation at the conference was "A clear model of the RESE virus".
"How could this happen! Old Xutou, what should I do?" Rao Shi was calm as usual, but in the face of this situation, Professor Zhao still seemed a little flustered.
Xu Mingsheng's face almost dripped ink. The Asian Biopharmaceutical Conference, as you can tell from the name, is a conference for academic exchanges of many universities and research institutions in Asia.
The academic report is the most important part of it.
As one of the top institutions of higher learning in Asia, Hong Kong University needs to make two reports at the meeting, an academic report and a responsibility report.
The responsibility report is to express their sense of social responsibility on behalf of the Asian biological community by several Asian institutions of higher learning. The Hong Kong University is calling for attention to special diseases such as "freezing blood".
This academic report cannot be so casual, it represents the academic level of a school, and even affects the school's global ranking in the coming year. Therefore, Hong Kong University chose the SCI paper, "Conjecture on the shape of RESE virus", which was just published in "Virus" in July this year.
But now that the University of London has even made a clear model of the RESE virus, they will guess again, aren't they punching themselves in the face
"Are there any spares?" Xu Mingsheng's voice was very low.
Professor Zhao and Professor Wang looked at each other and smiled bitterly at the same time. This year, the biopharmaceuticals of Hong Kong University have produced this global research result. If they take out the previous two years, they really can't afford to lose this person.
There was silence in the seats of Hong Kong University.
The report from the University of London received a warm applause. Zhang Yuejun and Yang Ning lowered their heads with two quails. Xu Mingsheng's eyes swept over Li Zheng, who was frowning. He suddenly remembered something, and a flash of joy flashed in his eyes.
"Li Zheng, have you finished writing your thesis?"
Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that Xu Mingsheng was talking about the thesis on "freezing blood" drugs. His face showed a hint of confusion, "The first draft is finished..."
Xu Mingsheng didn't wait for Li Zheng to finish his words, he slapped his thigh hard, "It's you, you have to stand the scene for me!"
Li Zheng was dumbfounded, he really let him come on stage...
"It's just the first draft, I'm afraid it's not rigorous enough."
Xu Mingsheng waved his hand, "A new drug is enough to overwhelm all schools, but this drug patent..." He gritted his teeth, "Each school is half an hour, and there are still three and a half hours. Xiao Zhang, you go to the Japanese patent right now. The Bureau has registered the patent!"
After Xu Mingsheng finished speaking, he turned to Li Zheng with a trace of apology on his face.
"Li Zheng, this thesis is yours, I..." Xu Mingsheng carefully considered the words, if it wasn't really impossible, he wouldn't say it.
Li Zheng chuckled lightly, "Teacher, I didn't intend to use this new medicine to gain benefits. I have to thank you, teacher, for giving me the opportunity."
Regarding the new drug for "freezing blood", Li Zheng had his own ideas, but Xu Mingsheng's decision gave Li Zheng a better platform.
Didn't he once say that the appeal of Hong Kong University was not convincing enough, then a new drug, a new drug that donated its patent proceeds to special drug research, would be convincing enough.