Chapter 367 Killing chickens with a knife

"When I say high cost, I mean ...... Lao Cao, they are helping me make a horizontal steam boiler on Baisha Island,"

As if seeing through Lin Xiao's thoughts, Yu Jifan squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "No way, if you want to increase production, you need a lot of distilled water......"

"Oh......"

Lin Xiao's heart moved, and he said thoughtfully, "...... them Isn't it just tinkering with a steam engine? ”

"Yes, my boiler is much simpler in comparison,"

Yu Jifan said slowly, "Look, the next step is the seventh step, you need a few small bowls that have been boiled in boiling water for a short time......"

Saying that, Yu Jifan lined up a few clean small bowls on the table, carefully poured the culture liquid washed out of the large bowls into these small bowls one by one, and explained while pouring: "One serving per bowl, about 100CC, and then numbered and labeled......"

"The last step is hard!"

Seeing that Lin Xiao didn't squeak, Yu Jifan smiled again, "In your boo, dip a cotton swab in a little and drop it in the center of these small bowls, and then wait patiently, and it will take another week to ......."

"This ...... It's done? ”

Poor Lin Xiao couldn't understand it anymore, and said in disbelief, "These bowls ...... Both? ”

"You want to be beautiful,"

Yu Jifan rolled his eyes, "After a week, I have to come and observe...... If you see that there is no Penicillium in the center of a bowl, only the surrounding ring is there, then it is considered to be done, and if you suck out this ring of Penicillium, it is penicillin......

After listening to this long list of words, Lin Xiao looked puzzled: "What if it is...... Is there no penicillium in the bowl, or is it all penicillium? ”

"Then it's useless, you have to throw it."

"This ......"

Lin Xiao looked at the bowls, his face darkened.

With so much effort, if this bowl doesn't work, wouldn't it be in vain?

"So...... What is made in this way is natural penicillin, and the yield is too low,"

Yu Jifan shook his head and smiled bitterly, "However, if the room is big enough, there are enough crockpots, and then melons or corn are used instead of steamed buns, the monthly output is okay...... If the refining is repeated, the concentration of penicillin can be further increased, but the cost is high. ”

"Okay...... The room and the crockpot were fine,"

Lin Xiao took a breath of light breath and said with a wry smile, "You go to Li Hanzhi and make room for you immediately, and you can solve it yourself." ”

"Okay, but this is only a trial production, not the best place to produce it,"

Yu Jifan smiled faintly and said, "When Lao Zhou and Lao Cao's equipment is ready, it will be mass-produced on Baisha Island......

"White Sands Island?"

Lin Xiao didn't understand, isn't Hong Kong bigger than Baisha Island?

"It's too hot here,"

Yu Jifan said with a wicked smile, "That cave on Baisha Island, you have to vacate half of it for me to make a fungus room." ”

"This ......"

Lin Xiao looked at Yu Jifan with a faint gaze, and finally understood why he had taken great pains to demonstrate to him.

But the cave was full of munitions to allow indigenous workers to enter?

"What else?"

Yu Jifan spread his hands and said with a wry smile, "In the eight steps just now, what I got was only a strain, and if you want to obtain a truly practical medicine that can be stored for a long time, you must use freeze-drying to extract penicillin crystals, which requires the use of a freezer dismantled from Lu Feng's ship......"

"Need electricity?"

"Yes,"

Yu Jifan straightened his face and said with his fingers crossed, "Not only that, if you want to extract and isolate penicillin crystals in large quantities and make them into powder injections, you need to train personnel, go to the laboratory, and ferment room...... They also need Lao Cao's help to make a few distillation pots and extractors, as well as the small bottles produced by Lao Zhou, and the wax seals with corks and so on......"

“……”

Lin Xiao touched his nose and didn't dare to answer.

It seems that wanting to do something from scratch is far from being as easy as imagined.

"This is still the one I only found now that I have rubber, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it,"

Yu Jifan sighed, looked at Lin Xiao and said, "In short, if you want to get the finished product that meets the standards, there are still a lot of process barriers to be solved, and it will take a few months to complete all of them, so you decide, do you want to do it or not?" ”

"Of course you have to do it,"

Lin Xiao's eyes flashed, "If you have any requirements, you just have to mention, but I don't understand the technical things, if there are any difficulties, you can find Lao Zhou and Lao Cao more, I can only help you solve the financial and material resources......"

"Well, with your words, it's done,"

Yu Jifan nodded with a smile and said, "To be honest, Baisha Island is not suitable, and it will ...... in the future."

"I understand, I understand,"

Lin Xiao nodded and muttered, "If you want to run a real pharmaceutical factory, I think you should go to Hunan...... Not only is there abundant manpower and a suitable climate, there is a big karst cave in Loudi, and it is also close to the graphite mine, you see......"

In fact, there is another sentence that Lin Xiao did not say, at present, only Hunan is really in his own hands, not only can he get the full support of Zhu Yujia, but also has the highest degree of security in terms of technical confidentiality.

"Okay, you decide the address,"

Yu Jifan breathed a sigh of relief, "As long as you can move a generator over to solve the basic power needs, you can start the operation." ”

"Then please, Lao Yu, on behalf of the tens of thousands of soldiers in front, thank you!"

Lin Xiao stretched out his hands and said with a smile, "With this life-saving medicine, our Chinese's medical level will take the lead in jumping to a new level......

"Haha, okay,"

Yu Jifan held Lin Xiao's hand and laughed, "However, this medicine can't be called penicillin anymore, let's give it our own name?" ”

"Well, yes, yes,"

Lin Xiao squinted his eyes and said excitedly, "Didn't you demonstrate the Eight Steps of the Heavenly Dragon just now, I think ...... It's called Tianlongsan, how about it? ”

"Celestial Dragon...... Haha, okay, that's it. ”

"Thank you Lao Yu, but you can't be left behind in this training class for medical staff."

"This is natural, your little follower is very smart, I will accept her as an apprentice, declare in advance, before I finish my studies, I will not let her go back......"

……

Early in the morning of 23 May, Lin Xiao boarded the flagship "Qinzhou" moored in Shek Pai Wan Harbor.

Although the heavy rain stopped last night, the sky was still gloomy, and the wind and waves on the sea were still very strong.

Typhoon season begins in May and continues until the end of November in the western Pacific.

In this season, the ocean current driven by the southeast monsoon is generally in the northeast direction, and most of the merchant ships in Southeast Asia take advantage of this current to sail to Chinese mainland in the gap between typhoons and start their journey to fortune.

Due to the very limited opening of the sea ban at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of these ocean-going merchant ships could only sail to a few treaty ports such as Macao, Guangzhou, and Quanzhou in southern Fujian, bringing the most prosperous scene of the year to these cities.

On Lin Xiao's trip, the fleet was not large, except for the four captured thousand-ton pirate ships, only the flagship "Qinzhou", and the "Longsheng", which was mainly used to transport army soldiers and baggage supplies.

In Qinzhou Tiger Port and Annan Haiphong Port, a sister ship of the "Qinzhou" was launched not long ago, but the outfitting had just been completed, and the training of sailors and sailors had not yet been completed, so Lin Xiao did not let them accompany them.

Don't use an elephant to crack a nut!

In Lin Xiao's opinion, to deal with the little big man, as long as Zheng Chenggong helps, the few boats at hand are enough.

(End of chapter)