Chapter 14 The emperor is helpless Penicillin succeeds

"Li Zicheng and their trip to Annan, I think I have to inform Emperor Chongzhen." As soon as Zhang Zhimu's words came out, everyone, including Chen Yufeng, was stunned.

Zhang Zhimu smiled and said: "I don't think the matter of Li Zicheng coming to the kiln gang can be kept secret. Gonggong Li has always wanted to confirm this matter, but I don't think he can confirm it. Otherwise, Gonggong Li would not have made such a fuss, and he would have fought to the death against Li Zicheng. I really can't confirm it, with his loyalty to Emperor Chongzhen, he will also inform Emperor Chongzhen of this matter. We might as well simply tell Emperor Chongzhen about this result. ”

"Emperor Chongzhen hates Li Zicheng so much that he wants to eat him, and we are tantamount to letting Li Zicheng go to Annan. In the emperor's opinion, this still leaves a hidden danger, and I don't think the emperor will agree. Li Yan said while thinking.

"Huh!" Ouyang He smiled and said, "We are not asking for the emperor's opinion, we are informing him." Emperor Chongzhen will agree very much in desperation. We can also list several reasons for the emperor, one is that Li Zicheng still has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, which cannot be eliminated at once, and in addition, Li Zicheng can suppress the forces that resist the Ming Dynasty there when he arrives in Annan, and then completely eliminate the threat of thieves in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Hmm!" Chen Yufeng said, "It seems that Emperor Chongzhen has no choice but to be a favor!" ”

"Mr. Zhang, in this way, Annan's matter is equivalent to Li Zicheng doing it for us. We're going to equip them with about 300,000 people. Not to mention the weapons, even the costumes must be completely renewed. At least one set of summer shorts, short-sleeved tops, and winter trousers, where the climate is completely different from our northern. ”

"Yes! Li Zicheng They were going to go on the expedition for us, they were going to the south, and they also needed mosquito nets and raincoats that everyone had. In short, in addition to weapons, we will prepare them according to what our army has prepared. Including towels, washbasins, and kettles, all have to be the same. They are our brothers on this expedition. Zhang Zhimu said.

"There is another very important matter," Ouyang He said, "General Li Jing came back and said that it is difficult for our horses in the north to adapt to the south, and the army cannot do without horses. We need to buy some horses in the south that are adapted to the humid heat of the south. ”

"This matter, didn't that Yan Boju have herbs for horses to eat in the south?" Chen Yufeng asked.

"Huh! The south you are talking about is the south around the Yangtze River. Further south, Mr. Yan's methods can only withstand for a while. After a long time, it won't work. Ouyang He said, "There are many peculiarities in fighting in the southern jungle. I wonder if I should also ask Li Jing and them to talk to Li Zicheng's generals, so that they can suffer less losses. ”

"When Li Zicheng goes back and finishes the reorganization, I think it's okay to let Li Jing send someone over." Chen Yufeng said.

"There is another matter, you see, whether you will also give Li Zicheng a radio station to keep in touch with us." Li Zhi thought of a very important question.

"I don't think so. We can't let them know too much about the radio! Li Yan said.

Chen Yufeng said: "Actually, it is not a secret to Li Zicheng and others that our army is equipped with a radio station. We give them a radio station with a special password. The pros still outweigh the cons. That way we can stay in touch and influence them all the time. ”

"We still have more than a year to prepare. At that time, if we had enough big ships, I very much hoped that Li Zicheng and the others would march along the coastline. In that case, our navy can support them. "Also, it's better for them to march all the way down the Mekong River." We can also take advantage of our naval warships. Not only can it provide fire support, but it is also very accommodating to provide sustenance. ”

"Food, Li Zicheng, they must solve it on the spot. The rest is easy. Otherwise, transporting hundreds of thousands of people to eat will also exhaust us. Li Yan said, "This requires them to march not too fast." Also, where did they go to fight? ”

As for where Li Zicheng and they fought, Zhang Zhimu couldn't say, but from the bottom of his heart, Zhang Zhimu hoped that Li Zicheng could take down both the Indochina Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula. In that case, a military port could be built at the tip of the Malay Peninsula to control the Strait of Malacca. To the south, it can approach the Indian Ocean.

Ouyang He said: "Li Zicheng and the others will go over first. Let's take back the place that was originally in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Mr. Ouyang is right, Annan uses our Chinese characters, and it is relatively easy to govern." "But after stabilization, we have to open an outlet to the sea to the south." In the future, if possible, we will also build the railroad to the seaside over there. ”

"I've seen the map that Shi Tao and the others have drawn, and it's far, far away." Ouyang He said.

"Yes, very far." "However, this goal must be achieved, that is, if we cannot achieve it, our future generations must also achieve it." On the land across the sea, there is a large amount of fierce fire oil. In the future, we will need a lot of fire oil to support our development. ”

Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He, Li Yan, and Li Zhi didn't understand what Mr. Zhang said, but they all believed what Zhang Zhimu said. Because there are many things that they didn't understand at the time, and they all came true later.

After eating, Zhang Zhimu immediately wrote a letter to Emperor Chongzhen, and Li Zhi took it and translated it into a secret letter. Then Li Zhi made an appointment with Gonggong Li to hand over the secret letter to him, and told him that this was an urgent letter, and you should send it to the emperor immediately.

Father-in-law Li never dared to be vague about such a thing, but when Father-in-law Li sent a letter to the emperor, he also sent a letter of his own.

Gonggong Li was eighty percent sure of the person who came to Yaogang, and he was sure that Li Zicheng would be sure that he was not 100 percent sure, and he didn't dare to do it, and he didn't dare to report to the emperor. But the anxious Gonggong Li never had a chance to get close to this Li Zicheng. There was no way, Gonggong Li still decided to report his suspicions to the emperor, no matter how the emperor would treat him. If you can get the emperor's approval, you will kill this Li Zicheng if you fight to the death. Just as he was making up his mind, Li Zhi invited him and gave him a secret letter. Gonggong Li gritted his teeth, no matter what you kiln gang people say, I want to report the news of suspicion that Li Zicheng came to kiln gang to the emperor.

A few days later, when Gonggong Li received a letter from Emperor Chongzhen, Gonggong Li almost didn't drop his jaw in shock. Emperor Chongzhen strictly ordered him not to take care of this matter anymore and let him stay away from this person.

Emperor Chongzhen received Zhang Zhimu's secret confidence, because it showed that his relationship with the kiln people was not ordinary. But this time, seeing Zhang Zhimu's opinion that Li Zicheng and their Dashun army should be sent to Annam, Emperor Chongzhen angrily threw the letter to the ground. But Emperor Chongzhen, who had turned around a few times, still picked up the letter helplessly. He understood that the kiln people didn't want to fight anymore. If Li Zicheng can be invited away like this, Li Zicheng and hundreds of thousands of others will not have to fight to the death. This can be regarded as a soldier who surrenders without a fight, and the Ming Dynasty is no longer able to manage the affairs of Annam, and it is not bad for Li Zicheng and them to go to Annam to destroy those unconvinced Annamite people. Besides, if you don't inform yourself of what the kiln people decide now, you can't do anything about it, so it's better to be a favor and reply to agree with the kiln people's approach. However, Zhang Zhimu's letter also mentioned Zuo Liangyu's matter. This made Emperor Chongzhen hesitate. This Zuo Liangyu made Emperor Chongzhen hate it so much that it was not polite to give benefits, but when the court was in trouble, they asked them to send troops, and they made all kinds of excuses, in short, they would never be able to transfer Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses. Zuo Liangyu has not moved because he has a heavy army, and he is afraid of forcing him back. However, Zhang Zhimu's letter said that one of the obstacles to their march into Jiangnan was Zuo Liangyu, and they wanted to deal with Zuo Liangyu. Of course, Emperor Chongzhen wants to teach Zuo Liangyu a lesson, but he doesn't want the Yaogang family to be dominant. That Zuo Liangyu can still restrain this Zhang Zhimu after all. So about Zuo Liangyu, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't want to be destroyed yet. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen replied in a letter that General Zuo Liangyu's army was the official army of the imperial court after all, and it was better not to have a conflict. It is necessary to try to persuade General Zuo Liangyu to obey the command of the imperial court.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw Gonggong Li's letter again, he smiled bitterly, this Gonggong Li was still suspicious that the person who came to Yaogang was Li Zicheng, and he didn't know that people had already talked about such a big thing. So when he replied to the letter, of course, he stopped Gonggong Li from taking care of this matter anymore.

These days, Li Zicheng is happily shopping everywhere. Song Xiance and Ouyang He were very busy, because there were too many things to consider when it came to hundreds of thousands of people.

In the past few days, Zhang Zhimu has not been idle. Zhang Zhimu invited Zhang Bingchen over and said that he could use death row prisoners for experiments.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Bingchen said: "No need." We just gave penicillin to a patient. It worked very well, even better than we thought! It's just that you just got happy, and we didn't bother you. ”

"Hmmm! Tell me, what's going on? Hearing such good news, Zhang Zhimu was of course happy.

"That's right, the other day. A patient was sent from out of town, his leg was broken, the infection was very serious, and the swelling was very high. We quickly administered him sulfonamides. However, this patient had severe allergies and his face was swollen and frightening. But without antibiotics, his leg injury could kill him. "We followed his family and told him that we had a new drug, but it had never been tested by anyone, and asked them if they would like to try it." If you are willing to try, we will waive all the cost of treatment. If something goes wrong, we will compensate you for it. At that time, the man who does not try new medicine will die. The family discussed with the patient and agreed to the trial. As you said, we did a skin test on the patient, and we injected penicillin into his buttocks. When this medicine is injected, the patient is very painful. But he could hold back. A bag came out of the butt after the injection. However, we put a warm compress on it, and after a while, the bag was gone. We were all with the injection that night. At dawn, the patient's leg swelling disappeared a lot, which was really amazing. He was then injected with penicillin, and now the patient's leg swelling has disappeared. The wound is also healing. ”

"Penicillin sodium injection is very painful. You have to develop penicillin potassium as soon as possible, and that would be better. Zhang Zhimu had personal experience of these when he was a child, "Also, when you inject, the direction of the needle edge should follow the texture of the muscle, and the medicine should be slower when pushing, so that the pain can be reduced." ”

"Okay!" Zhang Bingchen said, "However, the method you mentioned can still be used to conduct human experiments on death row prisoners. If this had been done in the first place, our penicillin would have been available a long time ago. There is also the question of using metering. ”

"Bingchen! The success of your penicillin is more important than sulfonamides. This is another big step forward for us humans in the fight against disease. Moreover, the extraction of penicillin shows that our technical means have also reached a certain height. Zhang Zhimu said, "There is another phenomenon I want to tell you. Those of us who suffer from tuberculosis are actually a tuberculosis bacterial infection. And this tuberculosis bacterium is buried in the soil and is quickly killed. This indicates that some antimicrobials secreted by fungi in the soil are working. You can screen out some bacteria that can secrete such antibiotics from the soil bacteria, and extract those that are less toxic for us human use. But it's a big project, and there are probably tens of thousands of bacteria in the soil. The workload will be very large. But with a goal, you can organize more people to do it. ”

"Okay! With the foundation of penicillin, we have the experience of extracting antibiotics, and it is better than before. Zhang Bingchen said, "Besides, no matter how difficult it is, you have to do it." No matter how difficult it is compared to the lives saved, it is worth it. ”

"Get the penicillin test done as soon as possible, and then we can save a lot of lives." Zhang Zhimu said, "It is necessary to build a factory for production as soon as possible." It is such a medicine that can feed our people in the kiln. ”

"Okay," Zhang Bingchen said, "We still have a lot to do, and we need to build a special factory for rubber tubes and glass bottles for syringe drips." Because they need to be produced in a sterile environment. And no batch costs are too high. ”

"Don't worry, I will ask Li Yunhe to arrange these things for you as soon as possible." Zhang Zhimu said, "If these things are done one day earlier, many people will be saved one day earlier." ”

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