The difference between cloud and mud

Xiao Fengtai didn't know that Jiang Tong contacted him for another matter.A nonchalant affair.

Two days ago, at the invitation of Zhang Yuan, he had lunch with her.

Before meeting Zhang Yuan herself, Jiang Tong had already heard a lot of rumors about her - three and a half years after she received a Ph.D. Several outstanding overseas mergers and acquisitions in recent years... However, with these achievements alone, Zhang Yuan is just one of the second-generation successors of several private enterprises with a little success.What really established her position in the industry was the coercion of the founder of Yongping—two years ago, Mr. Zhang was hospitalized for heart bypass surgery. Completely kicked out of the group.

Jiang Tong and Lu Wei broke up unhappy, thinking that there should be no intersection with Yongping.However, Zhang Yuan skipped Lu Wei and wrote him an email directly asking for a meeting, which made him have to sell the "Eldest Princess" to save face.

Jiang Tong took Li Qianqian to this "Hongmen Banquet". The little girl was so nervous that she gnawed her nails all the way: "President Jiang, I'm afraid. I heard that Zhang Yuan has a very bad temper. Don't order any soup for a while, so that she won't lose her temper." We are all together.

Jiang Tong was angry and funny: "I'm here, at worst, you run first, and I will block you."

Facts have proved that Li Qianqian is really worrying too much.The two walked into the box and found that not only the dishes were ordered, but Zhang Yuan himself was already sitting firmly in the host seat.Compared with the edited photos circulated on the Internet, the eldest princess has a yellow complexion and a slightly fat body. She is not a top-notch beauty, but her brows are wide and wide, and when she smiles, her eyebrows are curved, which makes people feel natural and friendly.

"Is Mr. Jiang going all the way here?" She greeted with a cheerful smile, while struggling to stand up on the table, showing her swollen belly - she turned out to be a pregnant woman.

Jiang Tong was surprised, but didn't show it on his face, and strode forward to shake hands with Zhang Yuan.The two sides chatted affectionately and finally sat down.Zhang Yuan still maintains the style of being kind to the big sister next door, and pretends to pour tea for Jiang Tong: "I came early and I have nothing to do, so I ordered a few dishes first, what else do you want to add? Try this tea, my friend just gave it to me last week. The Mingqian Longjing here is not expensive, so just drink it fresh."

She gestured to hold the teapot, Jiang Tong's eyes blurred, it turned out that Zhang Yuan was wearing several big diamond rings stacked on his fingers, refracting the light with her movements.The diamonds are finely cut, and the sparkles are bright and cold, so bright that they are dazzling.

How could Jiang Tong dare to ask Zhang Yuan to pour tea, but fortunately Li Qianqian was quick-witted, and before Zhang Yuan could make a move, she quickly grabbed the teapot and filled it up for the three of them.However, Zhang Yuan picked up the teacup again: "I will replace the wine with tea, toast Mr. Jiang."

Yongping paid a lot of money to poach most of Huaqing's R&D team, and sent Lu Wei to recruit but failed. Jiang Tong couldn't figure out the purpose of Zhang Yuan's invitation, and agreed that the meal must be a good meal.However, half of the meal was over, and Zhang Yuan just continued to pick up food for the two of them, talking about irrelevant industry knowledge and life anecdotes.In all fairness, Zhang Yuan was so eloquent with witty words to mobilize the atmosphere that she suddenly changed the topic to serious business, and neither Jiang Tong nor Li Qianqian could react.

"There's an old saying that 'everything goes to the Three Treasures Hall', this time I'm looking for President Jiang for dinner, on the one hand, I want to make friends with you, and on the other hand, I also want to chat with you about business." Zhang Yuansheng put a bowl of chicken soup in front of Jiang Tong, Smiling all over his face: "Mr. Jiang, China's pharmaceutical research and development is progressing rapidly. I think that if Yongping cooperates with Huaqing, it should be able to do something interesting."

Jiang Tong had already prepared for this release in his heart, and he was not flustered: "To be honest, most of btk27's main research and development team is now in Yongping, and Lu Wei is also a capable person. At this stage, if you cooperate with Huaqing with great fanfare, in my opinion, it is not a good idea." Too good value."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yuan waved his hand indifferently: "btk27 is too pediatric—I mean cd30."

Lu Wei's disdainful look towards CD30 was still in front of his eyes, Jiang Tong was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Yuan continued to talk.

"Not only cd30, Yongping hopes to invest in Huaqing, and cooperate deeply in the development of subsequent pipeline products. Needless to say, financial investment, we can also support Huaqing in terms of clinical research and development resources. After the product is launched, our sales team can assist in entering the hospital. Promote."

Jiang Tong remained expressionless: "Thank you Mr. Zhang for your kindness, but I don't think there is a free lunch in the world."

Zhang Yuan smiled openly: "Lu Wei has already touched the nail for me. Based on my understanding of Mr. Jiang, even if you directly buy the rights and interests of the CD30 Chinese market at a high price, you will not sell it to Yongping."

"Cd30 only has animal experiment data at this stage. My personal confidence in the molecule is one thing, and the objective probability of failure is another. There are tens of millions of emerging biotechnology companies in China, or the same sentence-we are not necessarily eternal. The most economical and cost-effective option."

"You can't make good medicine just thinking about cost-effectiveness." Zhang Yuan retorted lightly: "Mr. Jiang, I am also a scientist, and research and development should be idealistic."

"I have read each of your papers, and I also know that the mechanism of CD30 is still controversial in the academic circles-it is a good thing for Yongping, otherwise Huaqing would not be at the current valuation level."

Seemingly endless roundabout confrontation, Jiang Tong felt irritated: "Since Mr. Zhang is honest with each other, then I will say it openly. I don't trust Yongping."

"Whether Yongping can provide an environment for new drug research and development is not mentioned for the time being. The scene where your company failed to acquire and poach most of Huaqing's R&D team is still vivid. Our laboratory background is timid and dare not seek skin from tigers."

He was ready to completely offend Zhang Yuan, but the bottom line of the other party was far lower than he imagined: "If you don't fight, you don't know each other. Without that acquisition, Yongping would not be able to discover the true value of Huaqing."

"It's no secret that Yongping urgently needs new products to expand its R&D pipeline. We put forward the Huaqing acquisition offer. At the beginning, we really aimed at btk27, which can be launched immediately. They all performed brilliantly, and it was only then that we realized that we almost missed the baby cd30."

Zhang Yuan smiled slightly: "Money, resources, and control over the R&D team are not a problem. If Mr. Jiang is willing to talk about it, we will show you Yongping's sincerity."

For a moment, Jiang Tong's heart was moved.

Zhang Yuan was able to host a banquet in person, which showed that the price she offered for CD30 was definitely not low, and her sincerity in investing in Huaqing was clear at a glance.For a small pharmaceutical company that started from scratch, every step of the way, from project approval to clinical trials to approval, is full of difficulties, not to mention how to promote sales after the product is launched.With the progress of btk, Jiang Tong has been meeting with the dealer team and other domestic pharmaceutical companies to explore the idea of ​​commercialization of the product, and the feedback is not optimistic.

And if Yongping joins in, things will be quite different...

Moreover, judging from Zhang Yuan's tone, Lu Wei's right to speak within the group is not as strong as he claims...

He picked up his teacup and took a sip, lowering his eyelashes to hide his inner turmoil.Zhang Yuan didn't urge her, but just maintained a friendly and elegant smile, gently fiddled with the dessert in the bowl with a spoon, and a few diamonds in his hand shone with her movements, dazzling.

"Thank you Mr. Zhang for your kind invitation." Jiang Tong finally said: "I'm sorry, Huaqing has no plan to cooperate in the development of pipelines at this stage."

Li Qianqian, who huddled in the corner of the table the whole time, was quietly relieved.

Zhang Yuan's perfectly balanced smile finally cast a shadow: "Mr. Jiang, I don't need to say more about the difficulty of commercial promotion of breakthrough therapy in China. Yongping's investment in Huaqing, I believe it will be a win-win cooperation."

Jiang Tong's expression gradually became firm: "One of Huaqing's drugs is in the first phase of clinical trials, and the other is still in the animal experiment stage. My main focus at this stage is still in clinical trials. If we see good results in the clinical trials, we will consider commercialization." ——This is also the way to be responsible to Yong Peng.”

In all fairness, Jiang Tong has no ill feeling towards Zhang Yuan himself.Yongping's second-in-command, second only to the founder, received him personally with a big belly.Zhang Yuanyan laughed at Yanyan and sat with Jiang Tong and Li Qianqian for a while, and waited until the secretary knocked on the door to urge him to get up and bid farewell to the two.

"Mr. Jiang will meet later." Before leaving, she shook hands with Jiang Tong and said goodbye: "We will keep in touch."

The door of the box was gently closed, Jiang Tong and Li Qianqian looked at each other, and waited until the sound of footsteps gradually faded away.Li Qianqian sighed, threw herself forward, and collapsed directly on the table.

"Scared to death!" She said weakly: "Halfway through the meal, I almost thought that the boss was going to be recruited to Yongping."

Jiang Tong teased her: "What's wrong with going to Yongping, if you don't want to do it, just sell the shares and you'll have the down payment for buying a house."

Li Qianqian opened her almond-shaped eyes and glared at Jiang Tong: "The boss underestimates my revolutionary enthusiasm too much! When the company goes public, I will stand behind you and ring the bell."

"Let's not talk about anything else." Jiang Tong rang the bell and called the waiter: "I'll add some dishes, do you want them?"

"I want a big bowl of tomato stewed noodles!" Li Qianqian said happily, "I was so nervous that I didn't eat much, I'm starving to death!"

When Jiang Tong and Li Qianqian checked the menu, Zhang Yuan was sitting in the car looking through the itinerary organized by the secretary.

"The video with the UK in the afternoon will start an hour later." She dropped her phone on the car seat and let out a weary sigh: "I'm not feeling well. Make an appointment with Dr. Su."

The secretary cautiously leaned over from the front seat: "Mr. Zhang, the due date is approaching, why not soon..."

Zhang Yuan ignored him directly: "Has Lu Wei's report been handed in yet?"

"It's handed in." A document was quickly handed over to her: "Mr. Lu expects that the enrollment of patients for the first phase of btk27 clinical trials will be completed next week."

Zhang Yuan sneered: "It's too slow."

"Have all the people under Lu Wei talked about it?"

"Mr. Yang has talked with them. Fang Bo and Zheng Bo still have some emotions. Mr. Yang hopes that you can have another meeting with him next week to meet the key R&D members."

"Look at my schedule." Zhang Yuan nodded: "How is the chief scientist interview arrangement?"

"The headhunter recommended some candidates. After the human resources have checked the resumes, Mr. Yang will meet with you first, and then arrange to meet with you." The secretary added: "If you can arrange it, Mr. Yang welcomes you to interview with him."

Zhang Yuan waved his hand: "Forget it, I can trust him."

"By the way." She straightened her back as if she suddenly remembered something, and looked into the secretary's eyes from the rearview mirror: "I'll emphasize it again. Today's lunch, and the conversation with Zheng Bo and the others, be careful not to give way Wei heard the wind."

She had a pair of deep and long eyebrows, dark pupils, and a gentle smile. When she was not smiling, the corners of her mouth drooped, and her nasolabial folds were faintly visible, giving her a serious and harsh look.The secretary's back was sweating from her stare, and he wanted to swear that the secrecy work was not ambiguous.

On the contrary, Zhang Yuan was amused by his nervous appearance: "I don't worry about your work, but I just ask you to pay attention to your email and phone calls, and be careful when sailing for ten thousand years."

"Lu Wei's ability is mediocre, and he acts like a lowly man. Even if he can't make a big wave, if he can't be killed by one blow, he will inevitably get dirty."

She stroked the uneven lines of the diamond earrings on her earlobe, and looked at the street scene passing by outside the window, showing a cold smile.