New Ming Empire mixed in America

"Hail, sir, Texas sent a telegram, asking us to sell them some medicines, and they can pay the bill with cotton."

Liu Youcai reported a relatively important piece of news to Li Mingqi.

Now the Xin Ming Empire's cotton is entirely supplied by the Confederacy represented by Texas. Ever since the Northern Confederacy's "Anaconda Plan" was launched, the South's cotton has been lost.

Now that the coastline is almost controlled by the Northern Federation's navy, the cotton that was originally intended to be sold to the British for support can only be turned to the Xinming Empire for help.

Although the Xinming Empire kept prices low, the Southern Alliance also obtained a lot of loans from the Xinming Empire by mortgaging cotton and various minerals.

This is also the reason why they can still fight vigorously with the Northern Federation.

And it also successively defeated the Northern Federation's multiple combat plans to cut off Texas, the logistics base, from its connections with other states.

And with the help of "patriots" disguised as members of the Umbrella Youth League, Texas also learned about the evil plan of the Northern Federation.

This plan pointed out that the Northern Federation wanted to conduct a battle plan that would make the Confederacy completely barren.

In other words, the Northern Federation wanted to implement the so-called no rear support tactics in the Southern Confederacy.

They were prepared to rob all the way and burn down all the manors and cities they passed in the Confederacy.

And some evidence was also given, that is, the "March to the Ocean Plan" submitted to the War Department by General Sherman of the Northern Confederacy many times.

Although this plan has not yet been approved, someone in the Army Department has already begun to consider it.

The representative was Grant, the commander of the Union Army of Tennessee, who strongly advocated the battle plan of his fellow countryman Sherman.

Although Grant's combat operations on the Mississippi River suffered repeated setbacks during this period, he still did not give up his plan to cut off the supplies of the Confederate Army.

Therefore, this information is very important to the Confederacy.

If it really lost control of the Mississippi River, the Confederacy would really be on the verge of failure.

Therefore, during this period, the amount of weapons and equipment purchased by the Southern Alliance from the Xinming Empire increased significantly.

Including a batch of imitations of old-fashioned coastal defense guns with their own British characteristics were also sold to the Southern Alliance by Li Mingqi.

The important thing is to keep the war between the North and the South going for a few more years.

"Drugs? Aren't there a lot of drugs waiting for large-scale trials right now? Just sell them to them."

Li Mingqi was very curious that Liu Youcai would ask him for advice on such a trivial matter.

The drug research conducted by Xinming Imperial Hospital has always been carried out. At the beginning, it only provided the drugs to be verified to the white workers on the construction site.

But all white workers need are some routine daily medications, such as cold medicine.

Later, Li Mingqi turned his attention to the North and the South, which were fighting each other, especially the Southern Alliance, which was relatively close to him.

So now the Southern Army has become the material library for the Xinming Empire to verify drugs.

Li Mingqi prohibits the circulation of drugs within the Xinming Empire that have not been verified on a large scale in humans.

Therefore, the Xinming Empire's drug procurement for the Southern Army has always been to provide whatever drugs need to be verified.

(Don’t blame me for always mentioning the Medical Research Institute of the Xinming Empire in passing, because this thing is really sensitive!)

"Long live my Lord, the Confederacy has specially added penicillin to the list of drugs this time, and wants to buy some for the injured and inflamed officers."

Liu Youcai revealed his purpose of coming to Li Mingqi personally.

Because penicillin can only be provided in large quantities by Li Mingqi now, and the Xinming Empire still has a long way to go before it can produce it independently on a large scale. Gu

The information provided by Li Mingqi seems simple, but it is really difficult to mass-produce it. (I can’t post the picture, so just read the single chapter, and skip if you don’t like it)

Let’s not talk about the difficult sterile environment, let’s just talk about a toxin called ‘patulin’ that appears when purifying penicillin using indigenous methods.

Patulin, like penicillin, is produced by fungi that live on the surface of fruits, and they have similar properties.

Don't tell me that penicillin is antibacterial, patulin is even more antibacterial than it is.

Not to mention that penicillin is soluble in water, because patulin is also soluble in water.

But the biggest difference between the two is that penicillin is an antibiotic, while patulin is a toxin.

And it is so toxic and stubborn that even scientific researchers in the 21st century have given up research on its medicinal value, let alone now.

Who can guarantee the probability that shoddy penicillin contains patulin?

As the saying goes, toxins that don't know the dosage are just hooligans. Whether this kind of crude penicillin can save people depends on how much patulin is mixed with it.

However, the actual ratio between the two is difficult to measure using traditional methods. Whether the penicillin produced using local methods is a life-saving medicine or a life-stimulating talisman depends entirely on God's will.

(The next time you come up, you will complain that I did not use local methods to mass-produce penicillin, and your head will be knocked crooked!)

On September 5, 1944, China successfully developed penicillin. How could the Xinming Empire rely on Taobao to develop it in three years?

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Li Mingqi frowned when he heard it was penicillin.

When he used Bai Gong to test the dosage of penicillin, Li Mingqi knew that the matter could not be kept secret for long, but Li Mingqi never considered the sale plan.

"How much do they want?" Li Mingqi finally asked.

Now that the Xinming Empire still relies on the Southern Alliance to hoard large quantities of cotton, it would obviously be inappropriate to refuse directly.

"They don't need much, they just want to give it to some important people, such as one of their generals named Jackson Wall."

Liu Youcai told the reason why the Confederacy needed penicillin.

Li Mingqi studied for a while before he understood who the Jackson Wall Liu Youcai was talking about. He should be referring to Thomas Jackson, who was also known as Stone Wall.

After thinking for a while, Li Mingqi said: "Tell them that penicillin is not a panacea, so if you want to make those people recover, it is more reliable to send them to the hospital of the Xinming Empire for treatment."

Li Mingqi is not a bad person, and he cannot be a virgin just because he is a celebrity.

The decision to treat Thomas Jackson was first because it would allow the Confederacy to resist for a few more years, and secondly, it was because he wanted to bring the power of the New Ming Empire to the Confederacy through the other party's eyes and mouth.

Now the Xinming Empire is making all-out preparations for a war with Daiying, and will next move into the Pacific to prepare for a large number of immigrants.

Therefore, there is no time to participate in the war between the two sides, and at the same time, I do not want anyone on the north and south sides to be jealous of the wealth of the Xinming Empire and have some inappropriate ideas to cause trouble for Li Mingqi.

Therefore, relying on the words of these officers who came to recuperate, especially Thomas Jackson, brought back the impression that the New Ming Empire was invincible.

Of course, what these Confederate officers saw and heard had to be carefully planned, but the Jinyiwei were very good at this kind of thing.

If that doesn't work, put their sanatorium next to the Umbrella School and the Foxconn factory.

Let them feel how the white people living in the Xinming Empire lived.

When I think of Foxconn, I have to praise Mexico and the Southern Alliance for their strong sponsorship of the New Ming Empire's disposal of old weapons after renovation.

Not only did they train skilled workers for the Xinming Empire, but they also allowed the Xinming Empire to exchange these scraps for a lot of mineral resources.