684 Fame and fortune
Since the "science" of Australians is equated with God, then the cooperation between the church and Australians is God's mission, and from this, the scale of the orphanage will be expanded, and it is at this time that the priests and university professors of St. Paul's Cathedral officially began to participate in the cause of the orphanage.
Apparently the network of priests is much wider than that of Notre Dame, and at the end of this month, a group of children from Annam and Siam were sent to Mama Ingres's orphanage, and later, the children came from a wider range of sources, from Japan in the east to Malacca and Aceh in the west, and children of all colors and nationalities were sent to Macau.
In short, the Australians have to give silver, and the priests not only do not lose money when they do this, but also have a little surplus, so in the following days, the scale of the Macau orphanage has developed considerably, and the number of dynamic resident children has exceeded 500, and it has to be said that a lot of credit for this is due to the participation of St. Paul's Cathedral and St. Paul's University.
A technological achievement has given the Christian Church development opportunities in many places in Nanyang, and the development of things to this level is beyond the expectations of all the traversers, of course, they are also very happy to see it, after all, the family needs labor, but also needs children, and these future people are of course the more the merrier......
The Pride set sail early on the morning of the fifth day, and after unloading the industrial equipment and all the supplies needed by the brothers, the ship was loaded with all kinds of goods needed by the family, as well as twenty-eight five-year-old children, the result of the cooperation between Notre-Dame and the Inland Church in the last two months, and of course the total number was more than that, and sixteen new orphans under the age of five were still in the orphanage.
Now Mama Angel is very busy, because just half a month ago in Lianzhou, she sent two nuns to bring a jar of penicillin there to extinguish a plague---- the situation was very urgent at that time, the Liang family went to the courtyard of the brother to report that there was a plague in Lianzhou City, and now there are people dying every day, and some families are out of business, after the Liang family came to describe the symptoms to Dai Xiaoshan, Dai Xiaoshan immediately asked Ingres Mama to send a nun with penicillin to Lianzhou to extinguish the plague, As a result, the Christian church there received 155 orphans from the plague, but these children are currently recuperating and will not be able to come to Macao on the Leung family's trading ship until a month at the earliest.
This incident reminded the brothers, and also made the people in the Red Mansion suddenly wake up, everyone realized that after we have the means to eliminate most of the plagues of this era, it is so important to our cause of adopting orphans.
So in the later days, the Notre Dame Church system, the St. Paul's Church system, and the Ao family, the Zhong family, the Qiao family, and the Liang family all obtained a different number of "miracle medicines", and the usual pattern was: an outbreak of plague somewhere - a very common thing in this era, if there is a church in this place, the medicine will be handed over to Ingres, and she will be responsible for sending people to the epidemic area, which is naturally very beneficial, and the local Christian church can extinguish the plague, so it has won the gratitude and favor of the locals, naturally, Orphans and widows born after the plague were also handed over to the church for relief, so the orphanages in Macau continued to receive orphans - including many widows and unemployed poor people.
If there were no churches in the area where the plague broke out, but the four Chinese merchants had social connections there, the medicines would be handed over to the four families, who would come forward to fight the plague and take in orphans and widows to help the victims, and most of these orphans and widows would eventually gather in orphanages in Macau.
This human trafficking system works very efficiently, and there is little social resistance, after all, in the face of the plague, both the government and the common people are afraid to avoid it, people are naturally convenient for things that can extinguish the plague, and the local people are more supportive of taking away the orphans and widows caused by the plague, because these are "ominous people", and it is best to stay away from themselves.
Of course, it costs money to do these things, but fortunately, there are Australians who are the general backstage, and the magic medicine has a reputation, and it can be sold at a high price, in addition to saving people, the church and the four Chinese businessmen will sell these drugs to local dignitaries, after all, this group of people is most afraid of death, and they value their lives more than anything else, and they can be sold at a high price.
Similarly, as the supplier of "Australian miracle medicine", Dai Xiaoshan's monthly medicine business is very prosperous, but the scale of the pharmaceutical workshop in this house is too small, the output is limited, and only about four to five catties of dry medicine powder can be produced every month, Dai Xiaoshan divided these medicinal powders into about 1,500 parts, half of which was handed over to Ingres's grandmother to save people, and most of them were sold to four Chinese businessmen, one sold for eight taels of silver.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the brother has five or six thousand taels of silver in his account every month, and after removing about 10 percent of the financial costs such as material labor and equipment depreciation, he can get a net income of 5,000 taels of silver every month.
In terms of financial accounting, Xia Xiaoou will also take about 20% of it into the public fund pool of the mutual fund, in addition, the penicillin given to the church will also be converted into silver, which will be counted as a "tax" for Wuzhou Pharmaceutical.
After removing these costs, the remaining income belongs to the profits of Wuzhou Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
The brother expects that by the end of the year, it is estimated that he will be able to obtain a net profit of 30,000 taels of silver. As a result, ninety-three shareholders can receive a year-end dividend of about three hundred taels of silver.
Obviously, by next year, even if the production does not increase, the dividends received by everyone will be doubled, and this is only the performance of this small penicillin workshop in Macau!
In the eyes of this brother, the sale of penicillin is already a huge profit, however, the penicillin sold to the four Chinese businessmen is the real profiteering in the hands of others, and the brother later learned that when these four companies sell penicillin to the homes of high-ranking officials and nobles in the mainland, the price will not be less than thirty taels of silver a piece!
And money can't buy it!
Because these medicinal powders do have a good effect on various plague and infectious diseases, the four Chinese merchants not only gained a good reputation in the local area, but also made friends with a large group of gentry and nobles, and truly achieved fame and fortune.
In short, because of the help of penicillin and many later "Australian miracle medicines", these forces that cooperated with Australians benefited a lot, especially the church in Macau and the four Chinese businessmen.
In the ensuing period, the orphanages of the Catholic Church system in various parts of the Nanyang were more or less related to the Australians because of the "Australian miracle drug" factor, and these orphanages gained a good reputation in the local area because of the improvement of the level of treatment of sick children, so the situation in those places also improved, and the scale of many orphanages was also expanded again and again, which caused a series of chain reactions.
The most immediate consequence was that, in the years that followed, although the Bamboo Garden and Sunflower schools on Mornington Island were able to obtain a large number of orphans from various sources, one of them came from a more special source---- orphans in the endemic areas.
Later, the bamboo garden and sunflower received an average of two to three hundred new births per month, and at the peak of five hundred, a considerable number of these children came from areas where the plague had occurred, and it is clear that penicillin and the various antibiotics that doctors subsequently opened in the cave were decisive factors in all this.
Therefore, it makes sense that some historians in later generations called the orphans and widows obtained by the Australian Federation in that era as "penicillin immigrants".