On March 15, 1677, after attending a large-scale meeting organized by the North Yazihu District Administration, Qi Wangping, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Republic of East China on the east coast of China, took a special car to Liushuying Township, Ping'an County, dozens of kilometers away, where the Northern Pharmaceutical Factory was located.

The original reason why this township was called Willow Camp was because of the large number of willow trees that were densely planted in the area in order to provide willow bark, a key raw material for the northern pharmaceutical factories that had deliberately relocated here. In that era when the North Pharmaceutical Factory was created, except for some scattered herbal medicine distribution business (all of which were originally small-scale workshop-type industries, which were integrated into the new North Pharmaceutical Factory by the Ministry of Health), aspirin, a heat-clearing and antipyretic drug, was almost the biggest source of profit for the factory, and it also became the symbol of the North Pharmaceutical Factory.

Many people say that if it were not for the supply of raw materials (willow bark) that restricts the production of medicines, it is believed that the profits in this are even higher, enough to exceed the sales of a mess of drugs including ferrous sulfate, cod liver oil, aloe vera oil, senna, foxglove, ipec, iodine wine, opium wine, etc.

Of course, with the continuous investment in the medical and pharmaceutical industry for many years, the results began to emerge slowly. Especially after the colonization tentacles of the East Coast people are getting deeper and deeper, the output of best-selling drugs including cinchona cream, wind oil essence, cool oil, activation oil, safflower oil, carminative oil, and 108 medicinal wine is also getting higher and higher, which brings rolling money to the northern pharmaceutical factories, so that they have more funds to invest in the research and development and production of new drugs, and continue to work hard for the well-being of the people on the east coast - of course, the Ministry of Health will not forget this hen that lays golden eggs, as a state-owned enterprise, The profits generated by the operation are naturally to be withdrawn by the shareholders (the Ministry of Health is its sole shareholder), so in this way, the disease control publicity funds in many parts of the country have been settled, which makes the officials of the Ministry of Health happy, and at the same time constantly sigh that the pharmaceutical industry is really a profiteering industry.

When Qi Wangping and others arrived in Liushuying Township, the scale of the willow forest here was already very large, and it seemed to be one after another, endless, which made people wonder how many aspirin drugs this northern pharmaceutical factory was going to make! At four o'clock in the afternoon of March 15, with a sharp whistle, the La Plata Star train carrying Qi Wangping slowly drove into the Willow Camp railway station and finally stopped in the platform.

"Chairman Qi, this year happens to be the second revision of the "Song Medical Examination" and the "Ming Medical Examination", so there are many medical practitioners who are holding meetings here, and everyone is eager to meet you." As soon as Qi Wangping got out of the car, the director of the Northern Pharmaceutical Factory walked over with a brisk walk and said in a loud voice.

"Oh? Is the compilation team of these two medical masterpieces also here? Then I'll have to see you, let's lead the way, Director Shou. Qi Wangping had read the secretary's report before he came, and knew that the director of this pharmaceutical factory was the son of the late retired army major Shou Daoshi. That "fake Taoist" Qi Wangping also had the impression that he had spent half his life begging for the country's crusade to the east and the west, and when he was old, he lived in seclusion in Tacheng County, New Huaxia Island, and it is said that he has returned to his old profession and is engaged in alchemy. Now it seems that his alchemy has not achieved much after all, because he has died of illness two years ago, and only the old junior Anda Fifteen people attended his funeral.

This son of his, who is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, has been smart since he was a child, so he was sent to the mainland by Shou Taoist and entrusted to the care of his comrades. And he himself is also very competitive, since he was a child with Shou Taoist learned a few hands of medical skills, he is very interested in the science of medicine - yes, in the East Coast, this is a discipline defined as science - very interested, so he was later admitted to the Capital Medical School directly under the Ministry of Health, after graduation, directly entered the northern pharmaceutical factory to work, and actually participated in the research and development of tropical drugs such as wind oil essence and cool oil, and made a lot of contributions, so after the old traverser factory director retired due to lack of energy, he was really promoted two levels in a row, and became the director of the northern pharmaceutical factory. Even the second generation who coveted this position was disappointed, and it was powerful.

The members of the compilation team of the "Song Medical Nationality Examination" and the "Ming Medical Nationality Examination" are almost all from Langzhong in Chinese mainland, because they are the only ones who are proficient in Chinese medicine theory and the characteristics of some drugs, so they are selected to verify various Chinese medicine prescriptions, and the useful ones are compiled into medical canons, and the useless ones are discarded or left for later review.

Now that many years have passed, the people on the east coast have collected many prescriptions from Chinese mainland, and some of the original doubtful prescriptions have made new discoveries or explanations, so this time the Ministry of Health has gathered these people again, concentrated in the northern pharmaceutical factory in Liushuying, dispensed various drugs nearby, and then conducted experiments.

It is worth mentioning that this time the Ministry of Health is compiling a programmatic book called the East Coast Pharmacopoeia, which is intended to include a variety of drugs that have been handed down from ancient times (provided that they have been proven to be effective) or newly invented. If nothing else, the drugs and prescriptions in the new edition of the "Song Medical Book Examination" and the "Ming Medical Book Examination" are all included, so the compilation work this time is also very strict, and each prescription must be repeatedly tested to find different patients to verify to ensure that it is effective before it will be included.

Qi Wangping did not disturb the work of the doctors too much, but expressed his gratitude to them for their hard work, and then held a discussion with the medical personnel at all levels in the region, county, and township who accompanied him, and listened to the work report of the medical system.

"The sanitation construction in the North Duck Lake area, like other places, is uniformly deployed by the Ministry of Health, but there are differences. Taking into account the backward culture of the masses and the fact that once the virus invades from the outside world, it is extremely difficult to prevent it, so it took advantage of the lack of patients in the hospital in winter to dispatch local medical and health personnel and organize 10 medical roving teams, each with 3 doctors, 1 pharmacist, 8 students and security guards, to provide medical services in some places with relatively humid climate and poor environmental conditions. We have also thought of a number of measures for tuberculosis, which is the focus of prevention, first of all, to stipulate an annual winter outdoor activity week to guide the improvement of people's lifestyles and prevent tuberculosis; There are also special measures for the prevention of syphilis, the most important of which is the establishment of the principle of health diagnosis of ** prostitution (it is not legal on the east coast, but the government often turns a blind eye), that is, once it is found that they have flower willow disease - especially syphilis - they will be taken into custody and placed in a 'special women's sanatorium' for labor treatment. "After the successful completion of the construction of the railway hospital (located in Ping'an County), the health situation of the railway has improved rapidly, and we have spent a year conducting a hearing survey of the train drivers and crew members on the Northern Railway, as well as a survey of the air in the working environment. Moreover, in order to prevent train accidents, Ping An Railway Hospital also organized a special emergency railway ambulance team to provide emergency assistance to the drivers and passengers. ”

"In the future, our main focus will be on helping to complete the recruitment of medical staff at Ping An Memorial Hospital. We have fully recognized the necessity of this work, and have raised a special fund to recruit graduates of the Capital Medical School to ensure that the memorial hospital can be operated as soon as it is completed. The Deputy Commissioner of Health continued.

The Ping An Memorial Hospital he just mentioned is currently under civil construction, and the Ministry of Health has applied for a special fund - which is also the east wind of this large-scale domestic infrastructure - and the North Pharmaceutical Factory, the North Yazihu District Administration and the Ping'an County Government jointly invested 200,000 yuan to build the hospital (the East Coast Company is said to also donate 30,000 yuan, which will arrive next month).

This large-scale hospital was established to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landing of the traverser, so it is called the "Memorial Hospital", which can be called the face project of the traverser, so it has raised a huge amount of more than 200,000 yuan for civil construction, equipment and drug procurement, personnel recruitment and training, which is also a rare large-scale deal.

The hospital occupies a vast area, and the square in front of the hospital can accommodate hundreds of horse-drawn carriages. The paved roads in the courtyard are flat and extend in all directions. The main building and the side buildings are built in traditional Chinese style, and many new technologies including reinforced concrete are used, both in terms of design and technology, which reflect the highest level of the East Coast today - Ping An Memorial Hospital was designed by Sun Dapeng, a famous architect on the East Coast, the president of the Capital Architectural Design Institute, and the second generation of wearers.

The main building of Ping An Memorial Hospital has four floors, plus a basement for a total of five floors. The first floor is composed of general internal medicine outpatient clinics (in fact, there are not a few internal diseases on the east coast at present, but the types of diseases are strictly divided), nurses' rooms, doctors' rooms, laboratories, pharmacies, general affairs offices, security rooms, accounting rooms and shops; The second floor is the location of the Department of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, which is similar to the first floor, but with more dean's room and conference room; The third floor is the Infectious Disease Special Zone, which is set up as the first two floors, but with more pathology and bacteriological rooms; The fourth floor is cluttered, mainly consisting of dental clinics and treatment rooms, libraries, auditoriums, classrooms, binding rooms, spa baths, steam rooms, massage rooms, gypsum bandage rooms, injection making rooms, restaurants, etc.; The basement includes a data room, a medicine and cold room (using an ether refrigerator, the cost is not low), an incubator manufacturing room, a patient bathroom, a barber, a duty room, a sundries warehouse and other departments.

The side building has three floors, plus a basement floor, which is mostly a nurse's dormitory, a mailroom, a reception room, a ventilation room, a burning and disinfection room, a warehouse, an ordinary bathroom, an infusion room, and a mechanical room (with some equipment including the original electrocardiogram). In addition, there are several small outbuildings, mainly a boiler room, a telegraph room, a fireman room, an anatomy room, a specimen room, a water supply tank, a gas room (to fuel the gas lamps), an animal room, etc.

From the above settings, it can be seen that it is worthy of a hospital that costs more than 200,000 huge funds, and Ping An Memorial Hospital is at least the first in the country in terms of scale, not only higher than the other two local hospitals in Ping'an County - namely Ping'an County People's Hospital and Ping'an Railway Hospital - a lot higher, even the hospitals in the capital and Qingdao County are also inferior, worthy of being an industrial town and a metropolis in the north!

In addition, we can also see that after more than 40 years of development, the medical industry on the East Coast has really improved a lot. The disastrous medical systems and coverage systems of the Old Continent, Europe and China, are almost completely incomparable to those of the East Coast, let alone the huge differences in ideas and understandings. From this point of view, there is really no exaggeration in the self-proclaimed beacon of civilization in the East Coast Republic of China, and the gap between the Old Continent and them is too great.

It is believed that after several decades of development, with the growing national strength of the East Coast and the continuous development of population, economy and society, other new hospitals with Ping An Memorial Hospital as the benchmark will surely develop like mushrooms after a rain in the country, benefiting the people of the whole country.

"The cost of the hospital is huge, so there is a lot of criticism in other parts of the country, so after a year of operation, the Ministry of Health will no longer fund it, and everything will have to be taken care of by the hospital itself, which means that it will be responsible for its own profits and losses. Of course, in order to ensure that the hospital survives the difficult period at the beginning, the Ministry of Finance will allow Ping An Memorial Hospital to issue a 100,000 yuan bond with an annual interest rate of 5% on the Qingdao financial market. Qi Wangping still knows a lot about Ping An Memorial Hospital (in fact, most of the living travelers know it very well), so he made a few comments: "Of course, you don't have to worry too much, Ping An County has a large population, almost 90,000 people, and many factories and mines, developed commerce, and the general income level of the people is high, and they can still afford to consume the medical services of the Memorial Hospital, so as long as they can recruit qualified medical staff, I think the profit prospects of Ping An Memorial Hospital are very considerable, and there is no need to worry too much." ”

"In addition, from your introduction, I also found that the medical industry in my country has made great progress. Once upon a time, we did not have any medicines, we did not have a regular hospital, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, plague, cholera, dysentery, syphilis and other diseases were rampant throughout the country, and the child mortality rate was so high that at its worst, one third of the children did not survive the age of three. At that time, we were faced with such a difficult situation, it is terrifying to think about. Qi Wangping summed it up with emotion at this time, and only heard him say: "So I am very emotional and even moved now, our career has come to this point, which is really what we didn't expect at the beginning." Therefore, I would like to ask you to continue to work hard in the future, as always, to continue the work that we have created. We want to create more inventions, produce more goods, and provide better medical services for the people. ”