Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 930 Strike the snake at its vital point, the Japanese devils are coming! (Bonus chapter for monthly votes)
As the saying goes, experience is the best teacher; knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in every battle.

Professor Tamagawa had the most contact with the Japanese, and had the deepest understanding of them, knowing their strengths and weaknesses perfectly.

Even someone like Otsuka Keisetsu, who has dedicated his life to studying Zhang Zhongjing's theories, would panic if a direct descendant from Zhang Zhongjing's birthplace questioned the correctness of his life's work.

He's almost eighty years old, and after a lifetime of studying Zhang Zhongjing, he feels he has reached a level of consummate expertise.

He has also become one of the most influential figures in Japanese Kampo medicine.

As it turns out, the things he said about being confident and proud were actually problematic, and that hit him right where it hurt.

Killing people is nothing more than that.

"I agree with this idea!" Fang Yan was the first to speak up.

Then Zhao Xiwu nodded and said:
“Once Otsuka Keisetsu panics, he will either prove himself or start arguing. In any case, he will fall into the negotiation rhythm we designed, and he will have no chance to do things his own way.”

"Hahaha, okay, I'll be the villain!" Professor Yue Meizhong laughed heartily.

He was someone who had lived through the war years and had no good feelings towards the Japanese. If he could increase the intensity of the attack now, he would definitely go all out and spare no effort.

Next, everyone went through the negotiation process again.

Professor Wang Yuchuan said:
"Fang Yan is their main target this time, and it is definitely one of the key points of their attack. So he should simply act as a young TCM doctor and try to appear innocent during the negotiations to induce the Japanese to underestimate him. At the right time, he can directly raise the demand for the return of the ancient books. This is the most appropriate approach."

"The probability of them directly refusing is very small. More likely, they will engage in a tug-of-war with us, bargaining and then throwing out some other bargaining chips. We cannot fall into their rhythm. Instead, we should adopt a humble yet unyielding stance and begin to guide Otsuka Keisetsu into a debate on the orthodoxy of traditional Chinese medicine. By questioning Otsuka Keisetsu's misunderstanding of Zhang Zhongjing's theories, we can undermine his academic authority. Furthermore, we can discuss the 'out-of-context' approach of Japanese Kampo medicine, dismantling the 'cultural grafting' nature of Japanese Kampo medicine from a historical perspective and pointing out its 'emphasis on prescriptions over syndrome differentiation' flaw, thus drawing them into our rhythm."

Fang Yan nodded and said:
"It could even compile the content of the debate on the 'orthodoxy of traditional Chinese medicine' during the meeting and publish it through academic journals and overseas Chinese media to weaken Japan's international discourse power in Kampo medicine."

"At that time, we will compile another book, 'The True Interpretation of Zhang Zhongjing's Theory,' to systematically refute their theoretical deviations."

"The ultimate goal of our meeting is to protect the secret recipes of dialects, safeguard the sovereignty of national cultural relics, and tear away the fig leaf of traditional Chinese medicine for the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine."

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.

At this moment, Zhao Xiwu asked Wang Yuchuan:
"So, Professor Tamagawa, what kind of conditions do you think they would offer to entice Fang Yan to reveal the secret recipe?"

Wang Yuchuan said:
“It’s easy to analyze. They only have a few chips in their hands right now, which are basically all out in the open. The first one is, of course, the proposal for China and Japan to “jointly conduct research on the integration of Chinese and Western medicine”, promising to share the biological analysis technology of Kyoto University as a premise, and demanding that we provide complete clinical data of the secret formula.”

"Another option is to outwardly agree to return some of the ancient Chinese books held by the Imperial Household Agency's Library and Mausoleum Department, such as the original copy of the Kangping edition of the Treatise on Febrile Diseases, but require it to be implemented in stages. The first phase would involve returning non-core ancient books in exchange for some of the secret formulas. This is a point we would likely agree to if we were unprepared."

"Third, they proposed 'reciprocal licensing,' meaning they would open up some of their patents on traditional Chinese medicine in exchange for joint ownership of the international patents on Chinese secret formulas, and promised a share of sales, taking advantage of our urgent need for foreign exchange."

"Fourth, we promise to provide substantial R&D funding or 'technical upgrade support for the production line of traditional Chinese medicine' in exchange for the verification of the secret formula's phased results."

He paused for a moment, then said:
"Based on my observation of their past negotiation practices, their strategy can be summarized in eight words: short-term concessions, long-term control."

"As long as we stick to our bottom line, they can't do anything about it."

The others nodded.

Fang Yan thought for a moment and said:

"To summarize, the Japanese side's possible enticing conditions all revolve around 'exchanging the virtual for the real,' which is what we call making empty promises, attempting to exchange short-term benefits such as channels, funds, and academic resources for long-term control of our core secret formula."

"The strategy is essentially to paint a so-called beautiful blueprint, and then use this concept to get us to reveal the real stuff."

"This is a business model they learned from the US. They tell a good story and then get people to open their wallets," Professor Wang Yuchuan nodded and said.
"That's right, the dialect summary is very good; they basically don't deviate from this framework."

"No matter how good their stories sound, they're all for one thing: to trick us into handing over the real stuff."

……

Time flew by, and Fang Yan and the others discussed for over an hour, finalizing everyone's tasks.

Play your role well in negotiations.

Just hold your ground.

After a while, Anton and Sophia returned and safely escorted Zeng Luquan home.

Next, Fang Yan called his master, Jiao Shude, who was also one of the people in charge today, but he had something to do and couldn't come.

When Fang Yan called him, he had just finished work and returned home not long ago.

Fang Yan spoke with him on the phone, briefly explaining the negotiation strategy for the evening. After hearing this, Jiao Shude said he would come to Fang Yan's house later to discuss it in detail.

Fang Yan then told him the detailed address before hanging up the phone.

Then Fang Yan also called the dean he was going to today. Although he was not one of the officially appointed people to oversee things, judging from the fact that the other party wanted to join the exchange with Western medicine, they also planned to start with Peking Union Medical College Hospital's Western medicine department if the negotiations on traditional Chinese medicine went wrong.

After all, Fang Yan works at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, so it's clear that the Japanese weren't unaware of any potential changes in the situation.

After Fang Yan spoke with the dean, he immediately came over from the villa area across the street.

They also brought two Western doctors from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, apparently because they were discussing strategies that day.

Their strategy is to sever ties with traditional Chinese medicine, avoid interfering with any negotiations in the dialect, only engage in exchanges with Western medicine practitioners, and ignore everything else.

If we can exchange ideas, then we will; if we can't, then we'll let it go.

I will definitely not hold you back or be a bad teammate.

Around 4:30 p.m., the phone rang at Fang Yan's home. It was a call from a leader from the Ministry of Health at the airport. The plane from the Japanese Socialist Party had just landed, and their reception team had already met the Japanese group at the airport. The Japanese Kampo medicine and Western medicine exchange group consisted of sixteen people in total, making it a rather large team.

And there's another important piece of information: they brought a large box of original copies of the Yongle Encyclopedia with them when they came.

It also indicates that most of the texts contained are lost manuscripts of traditional Chinese medicine.

After Fang Yan shared the news with everyone, Professor Wang Yuchuan said:

"The Yongle Encyclopedia brought this time is essentially a 'sugar-coated bullet,' using fragmented returns to cover up systematic plunder, and then packaging technological theft under the guise of academic exchange. In fact, it is to create the illusion of friendly medical exchanges between the two sides and weaken our vigilance against cultural plunder."

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(End of this chapter)