"An export license for the EU?"
Hearing Academician Pan say that, Xu Yun instinctively froze for a few seconds.
After all, he had just spent almost two years in the Two Bombs, One Satellite scenario, and some of his memories of the real world had grown a little hazy.
But he quickly recalled the situation Academician Pan had mentioned.
At the time, several foreign companies led by Advion had set up a public-opinion trap involving allegations that Xu Yun had abused cats and had an abortion, all in an attempt to take down Yi Ge Lang Mie.
But Xu Yun and the University of Science and Technology of China had eventually turned the tables with a slew of hard evidence. One particularly powerful piece of evidence was a recording of an online meeting that Gareth Thure of Valeni Pesticide Company had handed over to the Rabbits.
The recording showed the executives of several foreign companies and captured them discussing how they would target Xu Yun and manipulate public opinion, among other things.
After the press conference, the recording had a huge impact on the stock prices of those companies. To put an end to the scandal as quickly as possible, they fired the attendees and jointly offered Huadun Biotech some compensation.
That compensation included a promise to safely bring Lu Xiao—the current head of Huadun Biotech's MR project—back to China. It also included the rights to export Yi Ge Lang Mie to the EU.
One had to understand—
Though Huaxia had become the world's largest pesticide producer, with exports accounting for over 70% of its output,
the pesticides in question were mainly glyphosate, a non-selective herbicide that made up as much as 54% of the total.
For most domestically produced chemical drugs, especially technically demanding neurotoxic insecticides, exporting to the