1855 United States Tycoon

This afternoon, a small steamer arrived at a pier near Hangzhou. Several horse-drawn carriages were already waiting here. As soon as the boat docked, a few students who looked like students got on the boat and took out some tin barrels and some long wooden boxes from inside.

Several students laboriously carried the tin barrels and wooden boxes onto the carriage. Whether they were tin barrels or wooden boxes, they all made heavy noises when they were placed on the carriage.

"Be lighter, be careful." The leader shouted, "Did you not see the caution sign on it? Xu Bai, Wang Bing, can't you see which side is the front? The front is facing up!"

"Mr. Chen, we know." Several students responded.

After a while, these tin barrels and wooden boxes were put on the carriage, and then the carriage driver gently shook the whip, and the carriage drove in the direction of West Lake.

Chen Jianping was sitting on the first carriage, holding a wooden box next to him with one hand to help him keep his balance.

Probably because of the confidentiality discipline, although the students could see that they were very excited, they all resisted saying a word in the car, but some people couldn’t help stroking the strips with a smile. Shaped wooden box.

At this time, several carriages reached a slope, and the handlebars swung the whip vigorously, and the muscles of the horse pulling the carriage bulged up piece by piece. However, the carriage couldn't get up.

"Gentlemen, the slope is too steep and the car is too heavy. I really can't get up. Or..." the handlebar of the lead car said hesitantly. He knows that generally speaking, these students are very delicate, and I am afraid they will be quite dissatisfied if they get out of the car. However, these students were actually willing to move things just now, but they are not the same as ordinary students.

But these students are really different. When the handlebar saw the Mr. Chen stand up, he shouted: "Everyone get down and help push the car up." So the students got out of the car one after another. Jumped down, everyone worked together, and after a while, they all pushed up several cars.

After this slope, Chen Jianping got on the car again. He drove the car with handlebars, but started talking with him:

"Mr. Chen, are you all from Salvation Medical College?"

"Yes." Chen Jianping replied. Because these cars have to go directly to the medical school, this problem is simply the reason why the handlebars are used to start the topic.

"Mr. Chen, your students are not ordinary." The handlebar said, "Ordinary foreign students, who wants to do such hard work?"

After hearing this, Chen Jianping couldn't help but feel a move. He suddenly remembered some things about confidentiality that he had learned when he was training in United States. One of them was not to appear too different. The performance of these students now seems a bit different. This is not a good thing.

At that time, the tempers of foreign students were generally not good. Since the Qing court abolished the imperial examination in 1905, students who studied foreign books have had the opportunity to make their mark. Nowadays, after attending a western school, they seem to have gained fame and become masters. Become a master, naturally you are a "worker". The hardworking man governs others, and the hardworking man governs others. So there is no reason why the master moves things by himself and the master pushes the cart himself.

"Our school is slightly different from those schools. These students are going to study in the United States in the future." Chen Jianping explained, "The rules in the United States school are that all kinds of hard work must be done by the students. Therefore, Students who are going to go abroad to the United States should get used to them while they are in China, and learn to do something at any rate, so as not to get United States and be scorned by foreigners."

"Ah, that's it. In this way, going to a foreign country to study is quite a crime." The handlebar style felt that I had more material to brag about when drinking in the future, so I became more and more interested. "The things you are moving are so heavy? What are they all?"

"Most of them are all kinds of medicines, and some are medical devices. Many of these things are made of glass and are very expensive. Therefore, we dare not let people who do not know how to carry them. But really..." Chen Jianping also took advantage of this opportunity to explain those doubts.

"Medical equipment?" The term handlebar style has never been heard. However, compared with other languages, Chinese has an obvious advantage, that is, Chinese words are often composed of meaningful morphemes. Whenever something new appears, you only need to recombine these morphemes to change. Out the corresponding words. And it's quite easy to understand. For example, "electric light" is equivalent to light with electricity. In contrast, English is more troublesome.

Because of this characteristic of Chinese, although he doesn't know anything about "medical equipment" and the handlebar style, he can guess a little with this word. So he came up with another sentence: "I heard that a foreigner doctor can treat people with a broken stomach, heal them, and sew them with thread, and then the patient will be alive and kicking again. Does it rely on these devices?"

"It's necessary to use these, but it's not all based on these." Chen Jianping replied, "It still depends on the doctor's own ability, as well as various drugs."

"Well, also, it's like driving a car. Without a whip, you can't make it. But just with a whip, you don't have to drive well." The handlebar shook the whip and said. It can't cure the root cause, and I don't know if it's true."

After hearing this, Chen Jianping smiled, but although he did not agree with this statement, like most Western medicine at that time, in his opinion, Chinese medicine is closer to being a witch doctor. As for treating the root cause of Chinese medicine, it is even more a joke. But he does not intend to argue with a drove over this issue here.

...

However, what Chen Jianping didn't expect was that Dr. McMillan, the director of the Salvation Hospital, was now studying the deceptions of the witch doctors in his heart."Zhou, thank you very much for helping me organize so many things." McMillan said to Zhou Shuren while putting the information in his hands into the classified information bag.

"Doctor McMillan, it's just a matter of effort, but I don't understand why you are so interested in these things that have no scientific basis and are almost nonsense?"

"No, no, Zhou, these things are not just nonsense. Although there may be many mistakes in using their guiding theories, they have a history of practice for thousands of years, even if they are alchemy without theory for thousands of years. To the present, the things that can be passed down from generation to generation of attempts must have very valuable things, but before, we did not use science to explain them. This is like our white species. In ancient times, people believed that the sun was revolving around the earth because the sun rose in the east and set in the west. Now we know that this statement is wrong, but the calendar calculated based on it is not wrong because of this. Zhou, you I know that in the Middle Ages, European doctors often did all kinds of stupid things, but some of the drugs they discovered are still used by us. Also, we also learned a lot from the natives of South America and the Pacific. The use of very useful medicines, such as quinine. Even the witchcraft of the indigenous people who have no civilization at all contains such treasures. Then, in the traditional medicine of China with a history of thousands of years of civilization, it must be There are more treasures." Doctor McMillan replied very seriously.

Although Zhou Shuren's views on Chinese medicine are quite bad, he even has many bad views on China's traditional culture. However, for China, for China's history, although China is now in turmoil, but for these, for China, he is still full of love. Sometimes, although he himself would curse all kinds of problems in China's traditional culture, but this is only the deep love and the ardent responsibility. So when he heard that a foreigner could recognize the value of China's things without prejudice, Zhou Shuren's heart was actually quite moved.

But this view of McMillan is not his own. To be precise, this view comes from Scrooge. And the information he collected now was actually designated by Scrooge.

After World War I started, tens of millions of people would die on the battlefield in the world. However, Scrooge knew that war was not the most efficient way to harvest life during this period. Scrooge knew that starting in 1918, There will be an epic flu pandemic-the Spanish flu pandemic. In this epic flu pandemic, 25-40 million people will die in the entire world. This will be the most deadly and the most widespread plague epidemic in human history. If any company can introduce effective therapeutic drugs during this epidemic, the benefits that can be obtained are simply unimaginable. For Scrooge, this is naturally an opportunity that cannot be missed.

However, the Spanish flu strains were not preserved in later generations, so no one knows which antiviral drugs can fight this disease. Scrooge didn't know either. All he knew was that he didn't even have a drug that could really be used to deal with the virus.

In Scrooge's research institution, antibiotics have entered the final stage of research, but Scrooge knows that antibiotics are used to deal with bacteria, and these things cannot deal with viruses. And antiviral drugs, even in later generations, people know much less about them than antibiotics. Scrooge was not a doctor or pharmacist in his life, and naturally he didn't know much about it. Basically, he only knows one or two of these, one is Vajra Alkylamine Hydrochloride. Unfortunately, he only knows one name, the specific structure, production method, and scope of application. He is not very clear about it. But after hard work, the big laboratory got this thing out. Then they discovered that this thing does have an anti-virus function, but it can only work on a small part of the virus. It is estimated to be of little use in dealing with the Spanish flu.

In this case, Scrooge suddenly remembered a stock he had bought called "Xiangxue Pharmaceutical". Although this stock did not make Scrooge's money, he understood through it. Arriving at this company’s flagship product-Xiangxue Anti-virus Oral Liquid, this is a broad-spectrum anti-virus based on the White Tiger soup of Chinese medicine and Qingwen Baidu Drink developed after the establishment of the Chitu Country and led by the government. drug. It has a good effect on most influenza viruses. So collecting these prescriptions and improving them, and finally part of the task of creating MacDonald's version of the "anti-viral oral solution" fell on McMillan.

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