Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0404 Shocking News
Time was spent on the preliminary preparations for Bolin Investment Holdings. During this period, Wu Zaisheng would come over from time to time. This grandson no longer stayed at home, but became active in making friends with various people in London.
Nan Yi would take time to invite Catherine out to see the opera, and take a walk along the Thames. He would also rush to New York to see his son and pay his taxes, and then fly to Beijing to see Liu Zhen, and secretly check into a room with Sophie Marceau.
He also heard news in the mainland that the identity card system has begun to be implemented, but it will be piloted in Beijing first. This has nothing to do with him, so he should continue to rely on the border pass and passport to prove his identity.
The clock was spinning like a top, and another page of the calendar on the wall was torn off, and the time had entered April.
I called Men Saner and borrowed some money from him to fill the hole made last time because of Sayuri Hagiwara.
He could only borrow the money for now. The operation of olive oil futures still needed time to prepare, and the olives were not yet mature. Besides, Nan Yi did not have much private money, so he had to save the money to make money.
When the investment pays off, part of Men Saner's money can be directly converted into investment capital and the profit can be returned to him. This will live up to the friendship between the two.
April 6th, the sixth day of March.
Nan Yi and Ueto Masami strolled around Juelu Street for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what business to start.
In front of Wu Zaisheng, the two played the role of a young couple who had just arrived in London to settle down. Since they were going to settle down, they naturally could not just sit back and enjoy all the money they had. No matter how big or small the business was, they had to find some business to do first.
"Zihao, what kind of business do you think we should do?" After walking along half of Juelu Street, Ueto Masami asked.
"Chinese restaurants, take-out shops, laundries, and Chinese medicine shops, it seems these are all we can do." Nan Yi was also scratching his head. He was so used to doing big business that he had forgotten how to run small business.
"Isn't the business a little small? Wu Zaisheng can see your ostentation. If you don't show your strength, you won't be taken seriously by the Wu family."
“It doesn’t matter if the business is small. We are new here. If we start a big business right away, we will be looked down upon by others. It would be foolish of us to do so.
Don't make profits from other industries and don't invest in things you are not familiar with. We should start with small business and consider expanding business after we become familiar with London. This is in line with the thinking logic of a shrewd businessman.
Besides, we just need to take the initiative to find opportunities. We don’t have to rush to invest. We can still be justified if we make decisions after careful planning.”
As soon as Nan Yi finished speaking, the school beauty walked up to him with a phone in her hand, "Nansheng, this is President Guo Min from Lijiapo calling."
Hearing Guo Min's name, Nan Yi was stunned, wondering what Guo Min could want from him.
Guo Min is the president of the Third Biopharmaceutical Company. Although he majored in biopharmaceuticals, he is not good at biopharmaceutical research. He was recruited in advance by Nan's company to prepare for the Third Biopharmaceutical Company to develop external business in the future.
His current job is more about serving the researchers in the laboratory and solving their worries; Third Biopharma also has a vice president, Erlanger, who is responsible for the company's research work.
"President Guo, what's the matter?"
"Mr. Nan, there is work to report in the laboratory." Guo Min said on the phone.
"Wait a minute, I'll call back in twenty minutes."
After Nan Yi finished speaking, he hung up the phone and hurried back to the car with Ueto Masami.
I have work to report in the laboratory, which certainly cannot be finished in a few minutes. The standby time of the mobile phone is too short and I may be forced to terminate the call at any time. It is better to call back directly with a satellite phone.
Back in the car, Nan Yi ordered the driver to drive, found a quiet place, and then called back.
The person who answered the phone was no longer Guo Min, but Erlanger, "Boss, Galen made an unexpected discovery in his research."
Erlanger was very excited when he spoke, which made Nan Yi a little excited as well.
Drug research relies on spending money, and experiments are continuous, repeated, and each repetition requires a huge investment of money, and no one knows when there will be results.
The second is luck. If luck comes, the first experiment may produce a very good result. A major discovery can bring the company tens of billions of dollars in returns.
Of course, this possibility is no higher than the chance of winning a lottery ticket that "plays on probability rather than statistics", and it falls into the category of luck.
Generally speaking, you have to spend hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions of dollars before you can see hope.
Nan Yi didn't quite believe that he had such great luck, but he was full of hope. He suppressed his excitement and asked calmly, "What did you find?"
"Valen touched the memory code of the hippocampus..."
"Wait, Erlanger, I'm not a biology student, so I don't know much about the brain. Can you explain what the hippocampus is first?"
"Boss, let me briefly explain to you that the hippocampus is the part of the brain responsible for processing and storing short-term memories, as well as processing spatial information."
"It's like a hard drive, responsible for storing our short-term memories?"
"Well, although it's not quite accurate, you can understand it this way. If we can unlock the memory code of the hippocampus, then memory backup and transplantation will become possible, and we can transplant one person's memory into another's brain.
If we transplant the memory of a scholar into a carrier, and then implant this carrier into another person's brain, that person can instantly master a lot of knowledge, whether it is language or other professional knowledge. "
"Short-term memory, or permanent memory?"
"It's hard to say now. Everything is just conjecture and speculation. We still have a long way to go."
"How long?"
"A few years, a few decades, maybe..."
Erlanger didn't finish his words, but Nan Yi already knew what he wanted to say: it may not succeed, so you'd better be prepared to pay a lot of money.
Nan Yi paused and said, "Ask Valen to give me a formal written report, as detailed and simple as possible, with a budget attached."
"OK."
"That's it for now."
Nan Yi hung up the phone with trembling hands. Memory transplantation, what an attractive topic. If he had not heard of "brain-computer interface", he would have directly rejected this unrealistic thing like science fiction.
But he knew about brain-computer interface and had read articles about it. He knew that if this thing was successfully researched, it could achieve some seemingly sci-fi functions.
For example, mind control. In the previous life, in 2014, a human exoskeleton that could be controlled by mind was realized, although it was still very rudimentary.
But that has also proved that brain-computer interface is not a fantasy and it is indeed possible to achieve.
If memory transplantation is truly successfully researched, then immortality will become possible in a certain sense. Nan Yi can then mass-produce the "system" and allow frustrated people to experience the feeling of owning a system, just like what is described in novels.
"Ding, you opened the beginner gift pack and mastered 180 languages."
"Ding, you opened the upgrade gift pack and mastered the memories of the top ten pianists in the world..."
"Ding, you opened the super gift package, your Southland Bank account will increase by 10 million every day."
"Hehehe, it's his own bank anyway. He can just ask someone to adjust the number in his account upwards every day. He can only look at it but not spend it. Adjusting it by 10 trillion or 100 trillion is just a matter of adding a few more zeros..."
Nan Yi's thoughts were wandering further and further away, and his imagination was getting bigger and bigger. After a long time, he finally pulled himself back to reality from his fantasy.
"Damn it, you don't even need to do the math to know how much money this research will cost. But we have to invest as much money as possible. If we don't invest money in researching something like this, what's the point of researching it?"
