Chapter 145 Research
In the leader's office, several pairs of cold eyes slowly swept across the faces of Zhao Shuping and others, and looked at the aluminum lunch box.

The leader had short hair, a square face, black-framed glasses, and a frown on his face. He stared at the still excited faces of Zhao Shuping and the others and asked coldly, "What is this?"

"Leader He, Leader Wang, this is the antifreeze cream developed by our Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine!" Zhao Shuping introduced quickly: "We have used it on the comrades who helped us, and the effect is very good!"

Leader He's brows relaxed slightly, but he still frowned. He confirmed again with doubt: "Is it really effective?"

Before Zhao Shuping could answer, Old Man Yu popped up from the side, curled his lips, and directly retorted with disdain: "Can the effectiveness of one or two people represent the effectiveness of the whole interview?"

"Do you, the Chinese Medicine Association, know how difficult it is for us to deliver supplies to the front line?"

"We don't have air superiority, and our transport teams are constantly bombed by the U.S. imperialists!"

"Yu, stop talking nonsense here!" Zhao Shuping's beard stood up in anger, pointing at his nose and cursing: "I have been practicing medicine for decades, and the people behind me, can you joke about the safety of the soldiers' lives?"

"Last fall, we finally solved the problem of winter clothing for the soldiers! But can we shoot with gloves on?"

"Don't the soldiers who got frostbite last year need treatment?"

"Stop arguing!" Leader He knocked on the table with a serious look on his face, narrowed his eyes, glanced at Zhao Shuping, and said in a deep voice: "This is the Ministry of Health, not a vegetable market for you to quarrel!"

"Besides, do you know how much pressure our Ministry of Health is under right now?"

"The United States, led by the United States, has directly launched a large number of germ bombs and poison gas bombs on the Korean battlefield and our Northeast region!"

Leader Wang, who had a thin face, stood up and scolded, "This concerns the safety of the lives of our people!"

"Leaders have been lying awake all night asking our Ministry of Health to come up with practical solutions!"

"We will go to the State Council to report tonight!"

Then he just chased them away, waving his hands as if to shoo away a few flies, and said impatiently: "I know your Chinese Medicine Association also hopes to make greater contributions."

"But we must be self-aware. If it is really effective, the military supply department will definitely not ignore it. It needs to be studied in detail and carefully."

"Okay, go back and arrange for a few more prevention and immunization courses for the students in the Continuing Education School. We will assign you tasks later!"

"Me!" Old man Zhao Shuping's mood went from high to low in just two minutes. Veins popped out of his forehead due to anger, and the faces of the others turned visibly gray.
The young soldier who was serving tea and water saw that Old Man Zhao was breathing rapidly and breathing heavily through his nostrils, so he quickly stepped forward and politely advised him to leave: "Chief Zhao, why don't you go to the meeting room next door and wait for a while?"

"We'll report separately later?"

"Leaders are now really busy studying how to deal with the US imperialists' germ warfare."

Zhao Shuping joined the Ministry of Health years ago and served as the head of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department. At that time, the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department was under the jurisdiction of the Medical Administration Department, which in turn was under the jurisdiction of the Public Health Department.
To explain in more detail, the Medical Administration Department is responsible for regulating medical applications and technologies, and managing medical quality, etc.
The Department of Public Health, as the name suggests, is responsible for prevention and immunization.
Zhao Shuping watched as Leaders He and Wang continued to point and discuss in a low voice without even raising their heads. Old Yu glanced at the group of Chinese medicine doctors with contempt and disdain. Zhao Shuping took the aluminum lunch box from the table with trembling hands. It fell on the table again when he didn't hold it firmly the first time. But the leaders had no other reaction except to glance at them coldly.
If you insist that there is, it is also impatient.
The young soldier beside him quickly took the lunch box in his hands, and politely extended his hand again, saying, "Chief Zhao, come here, I'll help you."

Then he directly helped Zhao Shuping out of the leader's office and indeed took him to a dark office with the lights off and no stove.

The little soldier thoughtfully turned on the light and then politely left, leaving only the Chinese Medicine Association and others who had come to report the good news with great enthusiasm.
Zhao Shuping sat on the bench in the conference room, slowly stopped trembling, and slowly swept his eyes across the faces of Zhao Bingnan and others who followed him.

Just like the walls of this crude conference room, everyone's faces were yellow and black. They no longer had the vigor and vitality, and their rosy complexion was gone.

"Cough, cough!" Zhao Shuping took out his handkerchief and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm. He took a long breath and said slowly, "Bingnan, Yumin, Demao, you guys go back first. I'll wait here for the leaders to finish their research."

"You are not administrative cadres of the Ministry of Health. You don't need to continue waiting here."

"No one has eaten dinner yet. I am an old man and I am used to not eating dinner. It doesn't matter. You should go home early to eat and rest."

Zhao Bingnan and the others looked at each other with gloomy faces, and then looked around the five connected back rooms that had no ceiling, mottled walls, and no window paper.

There was not even a stove, and the room was even colder. He smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Shuping, I think there is no need to wait any longer."

"Even if you wait, there will be no results! On the contrary, you will freeze yourself!"

"Especially since you are so old, why don't we discuss a solution together after we return."

"No need for that!" Zhao Shuping raised his hand to stop the others from trying to persuade him, and said firmly, "As an old man, I must wait for the result!"

Pointing to the aluminum lunch box, he said, "Deming is so young, but he always thinks about the development of Chinese medicine and prepares such a good antifreeze cream for the soldiers on the Korean battlefield."

“Can’t we old men even get the Ministry of Health to conduct a trial?”

Zhao Shuping then tapped his cane with one hand, thinking of the past, and his voice became even deeper, "Bingnan, Yumin, you know about the petition in 29. Back then, teachers Kong Bohua, Xiao Longyou, and Shi Jinmo led the group of colleagues from all over the country to go to Nanjing."

"Teacher Kong Bohua responded tit for tat. He asked the other party to find 12 patients, and first selected 6 to be treated by Western medicine; the remaining 6 to be treated by traditional Chinese medicine. If they could not be cured, then we would talk about banning traditional Chinese medicine! In the end, our traditional Chinese medicine won a great victory, and patients with high fever, asthma, etc. recovered with just a few doses of medicine."

"Then several teachers returned to Peking and founded the Peking National Medical College, and have been working hard to train Chinese medicine doctors. Now it's our turn."

Everyone was silent and stopped trying to dissuade others. They all found a long bench to sit down and waited for a long time.

I don't know how much time has passed, but Zhao Shuping and the others have already fallen asleep, either leaning against the table or resting their chins on one hand.
"Ah! Chief Zhao, you haven't left yet!"

Zhao Shuping and others were awakened by the young soldier's exclamation. They shuddered and immediately asked anxiously, "Little comrade, has the leader finished his research?"

(End of this chapter)