(The new book "Back to the Ming Dynasty to Open a Factory" was released, asking for support)

In the newspaper office at midnight, quietly, occasionally someone can be heard snoring, and in the aisle between the desks, you can see several marching beds, and the reporters lie on the marching beds, sleeping in their clothes.

The competition among newspapers in Yongping for 50 years has been fierce, and the fiercely competitive market has led to the need for exclusive news in various newspapers, and reporters can no longer stay in the office and wait for news as in the past, they must do everything possible to find news.

Of course, in many cases, they spend the night in the newspaper office to avoid missing news leads.

Like every newspaper, there are also reporters on duty in the newspaper office of Jinling Daily, or reporters on duty in every department, and as soon as there is a news clue, they will immediately get up, pick up a camera and pen, take a notepad and ride a motorcycle to the scene, and the reporters on duty are often young people who have just graduated, and they have no money to buy a car, so they often ride the motorcycle provided by the newspaper.

In fact, I didn't sleep well on the night shift at the newspaper, especially when the phone always rang from time to time.

"What, a corpse was found by the Qinhuai River? Okay, we'll send someone over now. ”

"What happened to the robbery in Shimonoseki?"

All night, such news clues made Li Ming'an, who was lying in bed, unable to sleep at all, lying on the narrow marching bed, almost struggling with his eyes, he had been waiting, waiting for the section chief's call to call only those who called their names had the opportunity to go to the interview.

Oops, it's almost dawn, why don't you call me?

It was here that the shrill phone rang, and seconds later, he heard the section chief take the phone.

"Hey, yes, it's Jinling Daily, oh? Does Drum Tower Hospital have doctors testing new drugs? It works very well. Well, okay, if adopted, a bonus will be given......"

Listening to the words of the section chief, it is obviously a piece of news that is not very important, or even meaningless, and almost no one wants to follow this kind of news. This is nothing new. It's not newsworthy. At this moment, Li Ming'an heard his name.

"Li Ming'an, go to the Drum Tower Hospital and follow the news."

When the section chief said this, he deliberately adjusted again.

"By the way, can it be published, you don't give them permission to speak, we are a newspaper, not selling fake drugs, advertising...... That's paid, and unlike journalism, it's the bare minimum of work ethic. ”

All right!

It's finally time to open, and it's an opportunity for new journalists, and it's a rare opportunity.

"Maybe it's going to be published."

Sometimes, people are always full of hope for the future, and the future may surprise him at some point, when Li Ming'an came to the hospital, there were no other newspaper colleagues in the hospital, perhaps, in their opinion, this is not news, even Li Ming'an himself does not know what the news he is going to interview means.

When he came to the ward, in the doctor's office, he saw several doctors discussing there, as if discussing what kind of disease to try out for those patients.

“…… Chemically synthesized drugs must have certain risks, and in the case of uncertain doses, I do not advocate continuing the trial. ”

Different from the previous boldness, after knowing that this medicine was a chemical drug, Lin He became cautious.

"I agree with Dr. Lim, after all, there have been accidents in the past."

"But now, aren't all the patients who tried it before already cured, and we can't give up eating because of choking......"

While the doctors were discussing, Li Mingan asked the little nurse on the side.

"Hello, nurse, I'm a reporter from Jinling Daily, what are they talking about?"

"You're a journalist, huh? Are you here for an interview? I'm telling you, you've come to the right place, it's big news, you don't know ......."

The little nurse explained the cause and effect with some exaggeration, and then looked at him again and said.

"Many diseases that could not be treated in the past can be cured with this medicine, and I dare say that this invention will definitely win this year's "Royal Prize in Medicine". ”

I can get "the Royal Medical Prize"!

The Royal Award is the highest award in the world and is generally considered the most important award in all categories of awards. Many scientists and scholars dream of the "Royal Prize", which was originally divided into four awards: physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, and literature.

"Really?"

Li Mingan looked at the little nurse in surprise, and the little nurse with some freckles on his nose glanced at him, and then said.

"An invention that can treat many terminal diseases, and more than a dozen people have been saved in the past two days, what do you say?"

The little nurse's answer made Li Mingan look at her in surprise, he looked at the doctor's office on the side, and his eyes became fanatical, isn't this the big news he needs?

Just is this news reliable?

Could it be a false drug advertisement?

But then he thought, is it fake news, isn't it just to explore on your own? And if it's fake news, the doctors of Drum Tower Hospital are doing these things together regardless of the reputation of the hospital, which is big news in itself, and in any case, it is a big news that can make you famous in one fell swoop.

Well, that's the big news you've been dreaming of!

Excited, Li Mingan asked again.

"Miss, do you know that this medicine was provided by that medicine store?"

"It seems to be a company called "umbrella company", which is in the capital. ”

The nurse's answer made Li Mingan hurriedly ask.

"What about the people in their company? Still in the hospital? ”

The person has already left, in fact, when Li Mingan arrived at the hospital, Zhu Mingzhong had already taken the train back to Zhongdu, but before leaving Nanjing, he had reached an agreement with the hospital, and the hospital was responsible for the next drug trial, in fact, this is exactly what he needed, after all, for drug testing, he is a layman.

It's even a "small invention". Although Zhu Mingzhong didn't know what kind of sensation the drug sulfonamide would bring to Daming in the coming days, it was more important for him to continue to return to the topic and continue to engage in tape experiments.

A product, from conception to implementation, has one of the most basic premise: whether reality technology can meet the implementation of this idea, and Zhu Mingzhong's idea of cassette tapes obviously does not violate the technical level of this era.

"There are two reels on a cassette cassette that controls a magnetically coated plastic tape that passes between them and winds around them. To protect the reels and tapes, all parts are encapsulated in a hard plastic case. ”

Pointing to the drawings he drew by himself, Zhu Mingzhong explained his idea to Qian Le, Li Meihong and others, but it was not actually an idea, just a copy of the tape.

"The cassette is made of hard plastic, and the tape is also plastic, and I'm talking about the kind of film ......"

Picking up a plastic bag from the table, Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

"It's like a plastic film, not that thick plastic band. How, is it achievable? ”

"It's not difficult to achieve it, but it's ......"

Looking at the drawing, Qian Le frowned and asked.

"I don't know, why was it made?"

"Music!"

Zhu Mingzhong looked at them and replied.

"In the future, it will replace the record, and a cassette tape can record ten songs, and with it, we can even build a small tape recorder where people can listen to the songs at any time......"

"Anytime, anywhere?"

Looking at the boss in surprise, Qian Le and the others said confusedly.

"Is there a need for this?"

"If you don't do it, how do you know you don't have this need?"

Zhu Mingzhong asked rhetorically.

For the cassette recorder market, Zhu Mingzhong knows very well that it must replace the record. And the market for it must far outnumber that of records, and all that is needed now is to invent it and then promote it.

"But tapes don't record as well as records, and it seems unlikely that they can replace records."

"That's fine, we can improve the tape, and when the tape is only a tenth of the price of a record, trust me, even if there is a certain difference in sound quality, people will choose tape, especially when it can hold more songs."

"A tenth? Is this possible? ”

"How could it not be? Essentially, it's just a little piece of plastic, and in terms of cost, it's much cheaper than a record, and now, all we need is to build an engineering prototype, well, a cassette player, and my idea about this player is ......."

Zhu Mingzhong said while recalling the appearance of the cassette recorder at home when he was a child, which was actually the classic shape of two speakers on both sides and a cassette recorder in the middle.

After he drew these two products, he once again set his sights on them and asked with a smile.

"How? Can it be made? ”

Faced with these two "ideas" in front of them, although they are only ideas, they know that the most critical design has been completed, and the rest is that they are responsible for realizing the idea, first based on the existing technical conditions.

"No problem!"

Qian Le and the others couldn't wait to get busy, and the laboratory that had been quiet for a long time became active again.

When Li Meihong was about to go to work, she turned her head to look at Zhu Mingzhong and asked.

"Boss, is that friend of yours cured?"

The others looked at him.

"Well, thank you for your concern, his condition has improved a lot, and the medicine is indeed very effective."

Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

"I forgot to tell you before, but as we all know, because the patent rights of sulfonamides have expired, so it is impossible for us to make a profit from it, and the experiments we are conducting today are still based on our own specialty, after all, compared to others, I believe that this research can be difficult for us to bring rich returns...... Well, I guess, compared to drugs, that's what we're all about. ”