Save the Bachelor of Heaven

Seeing that Xiang Nan was almost famous, he slowly started selling these medicines, and the prices were not cheap. These medicines were sold in pills.

Even the cheapest Baitongjie costs a penny per pill. As for Kangbidi, Zhengqiwan, and Anleshu, the prices are as high as two or three coins. Even so, demand still exceeds supply.

After all, these miracle medicines are rare and have been proven to be real and effective. You must know that at that time, even the imperial doctors had limited medical skills.

It stands to reason that the princes of the Qing Dynasty were cared for by imperial physicians and should receive the best medical care. But not many princes of the Qing Dynasty lived long. Qianlong alone lost four elder brothers and five princesses,

It can be seen that the medical skills of Tai Hospital are really unreliable. In comparison, it is not as effective as Kang Bide, Zhengqi Wan, Anleshu, Baitongjie and other drugs.

For colds, coughs, headaches and fever, just take a few tablets and it will be effective. And take it with water and just swallow it, which is much better than drinking bitter Chinese medicine soup.

That's why these medicines are so popular, and rich people want to hoard them for food. It is precisely because of this that the Third Fortune Factory has made a lot of money.

Xiang Nan used half of the money for production and half for the production of new drugs.

Xiang Nan is already preparing to produce penicillin.

Because he now has basically all the conditions needed to produce penicillin.

The production of penicillin requires a series of material conditions such as bacterial strains, culture media, production solutions, extraction agents, centrifuges, etc. It also needs to go through a series of processes such as fermentation, filtration, extraction, crystallization, etc., which is originally relatively difficult.

After all, just manufacturing these precision instruments requires a lot of effort. What's more, the production of penicillin is more complicated than the production of perfume, soap, sulfa and the like.

Therefore, workers alone need to be literate and understand certain operating skills. Otherwise, what is produced will not be life-saving medicine, but a murderous weapon.

Fortunately, Xiang Nan has always paid close attention to education and opened schools in the countryside over the years.

You must know that since ancient times, the imperial power has not gone to the countryside, but now it has opened schools in the countryside, with free tuition and book fees, thus giving many children who could not afford to go to school a chance to change their destiny.

Although there are no accurate statistics on today's literacy rate, it is true that today's younger generation is more literate than before.

As a result, the new generation of workers has become more qualified. Quality workers obey management and learn quickly, so they are much better than illiterate people.

After the reform and opening up, China quickly became the world's factory because Chinese workers have a high literacy rate, high quality, good management, and are willing to endure hardships.

In other countries, if workers are illiterate and cannot understand rules, regulations, operating procedures, and quality requirements, they are not qualified to be the world's factory.

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At the beginning of 2021, in addition to the production of medicines and alkalis, there was another biggest harvest, which was chemical fertilizer - ammonium chloride.

That's good stuff. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are the elements most needed by plants, especially nitrogen, which is a component of proteins, nucleic acids, and chlorophyll in plants.

In general, nitrogen deficiency in plants often manifests as slow growth, short plants, thin and small leaves, and leaf color that is chlorotic and yellow. When there is severe nitrogen deficiency in the late growth period, the ears will be short and the grains will not be full.

The land in my country is generally deficient in nitrogen, especially in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, Northwest Plateau, and Mongolia-Singapore region. It can be said that all grain-producing areas are included.

Therefore, now that ammonium chloride is available, it is really helpful for food production.

After the second creation plant was successfully produced, Xiang Nan applied ammonium chloride to the test field. Winter wheat, spring corn, peanuts, soybeans, etc. were planted in the experimental fields.

In summer, in the experimental fields where ammonium chloride was applied, the crops grew stronger than those without ammonium chloride, and the leaves turned green and black.

After the final harvest, when weighed, the yield per mu of winter wheat reached an astonishing 500 jins, that of spring corn reached 1,000 jins, that of peanuts reached 600 jins per mu, and that of soybeans reached 500 jins...

This kind of output greatly surprised the farmers in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and they wrote a special note to report this good fortune.

You must know that usually two hundred kilograms of winter wheat per acre is considered a high yield, corn is only four to five hundred kilograms, and peanuts and soybeans can produce two hundred kilograms, which is considered unusual.

But now after using the fertilizers given by Xiang Nan, the yield per mu has generally more than doubled, which is really amazing and certainly worthy of praise.

"Your Majesty is really the reincarnation of Yao and Shun, and the reincarnation of Shen Nong. The yield of the fertile fields that you enlightened has doubled. The ministers are really overjoyed and prostrate themselves.

I have an emperor in the Qing Dynasty, which is really a blessing from heaven. We, the people of the Qing Dynasty, share the kindness and weep with gratitude. Long live the Emperor! "Da Sinong danced and said.

"Okay, a good harvest is a good thing, I already know it." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said, very satisfied with the effect of ammonium chloride.

If the grain output per acre can be doubled, then half more people can be fed, and the people's lives will be easier.

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Xiang Nan then rewarded ammonium chloride to the princes, nobles and high officials in the court.

Although these people are officials, they are actually big landowners, and their families have accumulated a lot of fertile land.

For example, during the Yongzheng period, Cao Xueqin's house was inspected and it was found that their family of 100 people occupied an area of ​​19 hectares; during the Qianlong period, the corrupt official Heshen annexed more than 8,000 hectares of land. During the Daoguang period, Borjijit Qi Shan has as many as 25,000 hectares of fertile land...

Of course, Xiang Nan taught them that the name was not "ammonium chloride" but "Tianji Fertilizer" and taught them how to use it.

Ammonium chloride is a powerful fertilizer and will burn seedlings if applied too much. Moreover, crops such as potatoes, tobacco seedlings, sugar cane, and potatoes are not suitable for ammonium chloride application. Otherwise, not only will it not work, it will even affect output.

If he didn't teach these people these methods, they would definitely suffer. But good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. If they apply the wrong fertilizer, burn the seedlings, and reduce grain production, it will directly affect the reputation of ammonium chloride.

Sure enough, in the coming year, the yield of all the fields fertilized by princes, nobles, and court officials nearly doubled. And such news could not be concealed, and it soon spread to the whole world.

Therefore, the name "Tianji Fei" is so popular that everyone praises it. Subsequently, the imperial court began to sell Tianji fertilizer to the outside world, and the price was not low.

A ten kilogram bag of Tianji Fertilizer is equivalent to ten kilograms of copper coins. Even so, the supply is still in short supply, making Xiang Nan want to build more factories.

However, in order to prevent the leakage of production secrets, the new factory address must be carefully considered, and the confidentiality measures must be more stringent.

You know, with the introduction of new things such as machine guns, howitzers, soda-lime glass, alkali noodles, and sulfonamides, many people have focused on these transactions.

Not only domestic businessmen, but also foreign businessmen abroad are coveting it. Thanks to the fact that the factories built by Xiang Nan were relatively remote and were always under military control and extremely tightly guarded, secrets were not leaked.

But once production begins, secrets are likely to be leaked. With the industrial scale of foreign countries, if the secrets were revealed, they would probably surpass them quickly, so Xiang Nan had to keep it secret as much as possible.