The silk weaving industry is the pillar industry of Jiangnan, because of its high profits, the people of Jiangnan can live a basic life of food and clothing. It is also because of its high profits that large households and farmers in the south of the Yangtze River will abandon rice and grow mulberry one after another. After research, among the 61 counties in the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, 40 counties have mulberry fields that exceed the area of rice fields, and almost every household is raising silkworms and reeling silk.

Not to mention the more than a million weavers who were completely detached from the land and made a living from the silk weaving industry.

It is not an exaggeration to say that 'the silkworm baby is safe in Jiangnan, and the silkworm baby is in danger in Jiangnan'. In the past few years, the market has not been good, and even the county lord has been in a hurry, pulling down his face and begging Jiangnan Group to collect the silk, which is the best proof.

At present, Jiangnan Group has finally opened up overseas trade, and the sales of silk are not worried, and the silk societies, silk houses, silkworm farmers, and weavers in various counties are gearing up and expanding production vigorously, wanting to make up for the losses of previous years.

Who knew that there was an outbreak of silkworm disease......

Looking at the silkworm babies who were fine yesterday, they died in large numbers overnight. The silkworm farmers wept silently, feeling that the sky was about to fall.

The big families of the Kaisi Society are also anxious. As mentioned before, silkworm farmers first borrow money from the silk society to raise silkworms, and after the silk is reeled, they will repay it with raw silk and interest. In order to encourage silkworm farmers to expand their production and to earn interest margins, many large households have borrowed money from Jiangnan Bank and then lent them to silkworm farmers.

If the loss is too great, and they can't even repay the loan, the land and house they mortgaged will be taken away by the bank, so the silk society in the six counties affected by the disaster has asked the Jiangnan Bank for some relief, hoping to give some time.

In fact, even if they don't ask for help, Jiangnan Bank itself can find the problem. Zhao Gongzi summed up the experience of the banking industry for 400 years, and the internal control system formulated for Jiangnan Bank can be described as quite perfect. In addition, Jiang Xueying personally served as the president, and the implementation and supervision of the system were naturally effective.

Jiangnan Bank has a vice president in charge of risk control and a credit department responsible for pre-loan investigation, loan review and post-loan inspection in each branch. In particular, the credit department will send specialists to visit borrowers regularly to check their loan usage and business conditions.

According to the contract, the borrower must cooperate with the inspection and respond truthfully. This is the price they pay for getting a low-interest loan, and if they resist the inspection or cheat, they will be sent to the blacklist of Jiangnan Bank, and they will never think about lending another penny.

So soon, the credit commissioners in the six counties all reported the risk, and then triggered the early warning mechanism of Jiangnan Bank, which was immediately reflected to Jiang Xueying. After research and judgment with Liu Zhengqi and others, Jiang Xueying came to the conclusion that there may be a large-scale outbreak of silkworm disease? On the one hand, the following can be extended interest-free according to the actual situation? At the same time, he hurriedly reported to Zhao Hao and asked him to come and get an idea.

Is Jiangnan Bank the first warning? Instead of Jiangnan Textile or the development company in those six counties giving the first warning, Zhao Hao felt very speechless. Directly on the clock at the Gangnam Technical Institute...... Oh no? During the class, he severely criticized the corrupt style of the executives who were careless and reported good news but not bad news.

However, he also has his own responsibility, he pulled half of the executives of the group and various companies to come to Jiangnan Technical Institute to take classes out of production? The remaining half is barely able to keep the company running on a day-to-day basis, so how can it take care of so much?

So Zhao Gongzi launched self-criticism again, and said that he would personally take charge of the matter.

Then he came to Ma Yilong......

However, Ma Yilong's answer could not satisfy Zhao Gongzi.

"These two silkworm diseases? One is leukayaria. Is there a record in "Shennong's Hundred Herbs"? It is a common silkworm disease. It can be prevented and controlled by sulfur fumigation. Ma Yilong said solemnly: "But there is no cure?" There is often a resurgence. And there are not many silkworm farmers who can master this technique, and if they are not careful, they will smoke all the silkworm babies to death. ”

"What's even more troublesome is another disease, the old man has never seen it before, and he can't find anything after checking the classics." Ma Yilong sighed and said, "This god is too tricky, sending down so many plagues to spoil the living creatures in the world. "He is angry and has this reason, he is worried.

"It's not related to God, it's caused by germs." Zhao Hao shook his head and smiled.

"Germs, what's that?" Because of too little contact with Zhao Gongzi, Ma Yilong still knows nothing about the microcosm.

"I can't say a word or two." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "Why don't we go to Jiangnan Hospital tomorrow." ”

"That's a place to treat people, and you can still treat silkworms?" Ma Yilong asked puzzled.

"In fact, from a scientific point of view, the similarities between humans and silkworms far outweigh the differences." Zhao Hao said with a pass: "You'll know when you go." ”

"Okay......" Ma Yilong had no choice but to respond, he was very precious every day and didn't want to waste it.

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Early the next morning, Zhao Gongzi took a boat to pick up Ma Yilong. Kunshan Agricultural College is built on the waterfront, with a wharf connected to the rest of the city.

Ma Yilong finally changed out of his old peasant-like dress and got on Zhao Gongzi's boat accompanied by his son Ma Zhenbo.

The ship left Kunshan City and came to the Loujiang River, which had been expanded.

As part of the flood control of Hairui Taihu Lake, the Loujiang River widening project is divided into four sections, which are responsible for Wu Kaisi, Changkaisi, Kunkaisi and Taikaisi.

Because the Loujiang River not only has the effect of discharging floodwater from Taihu Lake, but also the most important transportation channel between the four counties, the four county magistrates and the development company have made great efforts to complete the demolition and relocation of residential shops along the coast on schedule, and the project will be completed by the end of March.

Today, the Loujiang River has been widened from less than 10 zhang wide to a full 30 zhang, and water sources such as Yangcheng Lake and Qingqiupu have been introduced to ensure that there is plenty of water during the dry season.

Although the traffic on the Loujiang River is getting busier, the phenomenon of ship jams no longer exists.

This made Ma Yilong sigh with emotion: "In the past, when the old man was the prefect, he wanted to do something, but the counties passed the buck, and it was difficult to make the trip. Now the counties in Jiangnan are working together, such a huge project was completed in an instant, and Jiangnan Group is really high. ”

"Hey, we're just doing some business, how can we have that much ability? It's all Haigong who is vigorous and resolute, and Cai Gong is well-led. Zhao Hao smiled modestly.

"Huh." Ma Yilong smiled faintly, although he didn't believe his nonsense, he didn't argue.

He has worked in both the court and the locality, so he naturally knows that the power is not in how high your officials are, but how many people are willing to listen to you, and how much power you can mobilize for my use. Judging by his standard, the power of the Jiangnan Group has long surpassed that of the governor of Jiangnan, let alone a prefect......

Of course, he knows where Zhao Hao's scruples are, but Jiangnan Group is like an elephant in the house, if you want to be unnoticeable, is it possible?

Anyway, Ma Yilong felt hanging. Especially the Gao Ge Lao who is now in power, he is an iron-fisted prime minister who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, how long can he tolerate the expansion of Jiangnan Group?

Ma Yilong only hopes that day will come later......

While talking, the two took a boat out of the Loujiang River, passed through the increasingly prosperous Luhe Town, and came to the Jiangnan Hospital on the bank of the Xiaolai River.

Wan Mizhai's eldest son, Wan Bangzhong, director of the laboratory of Jiangnan Hospital, and Pang Xian, the eldest disciple of Li Shizhen and director of the laboratory of Jiangnan Medical College, took several students and waited for Zhao Gongzi's arrival at the dock.

If you change places and learn that Zhao Gongzi is coming to inspect, you will definitely have to put down the work at hand and welcome each other. But the big three of Jiangnan Hospital won't waste time patting him...... Originally, Li Shizhen could still greet him. However, with Dean Li's current status, he already has sufficient funds and connections to produce the "Compendium of Materia Medica", so he naturally doesn't bother to do superficial articles.

Speaking of which, this is also Zhao Gongzi's own doing. When Jiangnan Hospital was established, he asked them not to be powerful, and he made trouble. Otherwise, this dignitary invited them to see a doctor, and the lady invited them to go for a follow-up, and the normal work of the hospital would be delayed.

So over time, the three miracle doctors became more and more popular one by one, and even he, the founder of the group and the founder of scientific medicine, was too lazy to welcome the arrival.

"This is a good thing...... "What else can Zhao Hao say?" He could only sneer at Wan and Pang, who were accused: "Focus on climbing the peak of medicine, the merit is in the present and the benefit is in the future." ”

"Childe is really understanding." Wan Bangzhong smiled apologetically: "That's the case, since Childe introduced the microscope to us,

My father and the two uncles Li are crazy, and now as long as they are not in the clinic, they must soak in the laboratory, and it is a waste of time to even eat and sleep. ”

Ma Yilong was confused when he heard it, what is this 'microscope'? How could the three world-famous miracle doctors be obsessed with this? What does this have to do with silkworm disease?

With full of questions, he and Zhao Hao came to Jiangnan Medical College, which is separated from Jiangnan Hospital by a wall.

The School of Medicine covers an area of 50 acres, with a beautiful campus, gardens, teaching buildings with pink walls and glass windows, laboratory buildings and school buildings.

Wan Bangzhong told Zhao Hao that the hospital and the medical school have laboratory buildings, not to squeeze the group's funds, but to have different roles.

The former is mainly used for medical research, while the latter focuses on teaching and research. In addition, some experiments that are not suitable for doing in crowded hospitals, such as human anatomy and animal experiments, are placed in the laboratory building of the medical school.

The reason why they all have to build a building is not for the sake of grandeur, but because the climate in Jiangnan is humid, and the higher the floor, the better the experimental environment......

Looking at his nervous face, Zhao Hao couldn't help but smile secretly, this is the difference between those who have been an official and those who have not. Look at Mr. Meng He, the cost of the agricultural college is three times that of the medical school, and he doesn't blink.

On the first floor of the laboratory building, everyone changed into a hooded lab coat made of white cotton, put on shoe covers, rubber gloves, masks and goggles.

Ma Yilong still wears these things for the first time, naturally he is not used to it, and he feels like Dai Xiao. But his attitude towards science is very humble, which is diametrically opposed to his attitude towards Zhao Hao, so he still silently dressed up neatly and followed up to the second floor.

He found that their destination was separated by a wall panel, and it was not connected to the rest of the laboratory, and the wooden door sign read 'Germ Laboratory' in five black Song characters.

Ma Yilong suddenly remembered that Zhao Hao had mentioned that silkworm disease was caused by germs. Can the heart be answered here?