"Yes, Joey, I'd like to hear what you think about drugs." Mr. Merck smiled and repeated his question.

"Dear Mr. Merck, your question is very large, and I will try to answer your question as best I can. Before I talk about drugs, I want to talk about the doctor profession related to drugs. Now that he knew that Mr. Merck and his teacher, Professor Koch, were good friends, Joey knew that he couldn't avoid this question and answer, and since he couldn't avoid it, he faced it bravely.

"Medical techniques and norms in Germany are now imported from England, and like in England, there is a class division among doctors in Germany. The physicians, who claimed to be of the gentleman's class, were the first rank; In the second tier are surgeons; There are also the vast number of pharmacists in the third rank. ”

"All three classes have their own characteristics, and the physicians claim to be the leaders of all the doctors, who treat patients with their heads rather than their hands, and who often say that they show the charm of learning, and do not rely on the mastery of medical skills. To put it simply, it is a class that only talks but does not do.... Oh, and you can't say no, when doing leech bloodletting therapy, they will still take the leech out of the glass jar and put it on the patient's arm. Joey said with a smile.

In contrast to the first estate, the other ranks were neither proficient in Latin nor Greek, nor had they received titles of nobility, such as the second estate, surgeons, who were required to care for patients by their own manual labor and perform surgical procedures to deal with their injuries. As for the pharmacists of the third estate, in the eyes of the first two classes, they were considered mere assistants to doctors, with no power to practice medicine and prescribe at all. ”

"But it seems to me that the physicians of the first rank, who are only focused on serving the aristocracy and the rich, cannot even prescribe medicine without communicating in Latin or Greek, which ordinary people do not understand or understand. I don't like these people at all who don't have any clinical experience in medicine, they're just a bunch of freaks who can't speak properly. ”

"Pharmacists are different from them at all, all pharmacists have rich clinical practice experience, unlike physicians who value classical theories and despise manual labor, pharmacists are a group of medical pioneers who attach importance to clinical practice with manual labor as the core."

"In my opinion, pharmacists are by no means third-class physician assistants, people who should be forgotten, they should be respected as general practitioners in the German medical community, they are the only medical instructors that the German middle class and working class can trust." Joey gave his own conclusions about the pharmacist industry.

Joey didn't notice the look of surprise on Mr. Merck's face, and continued to talk to himself.

"In the same way, the development of medicine is closely related to the development of pharmacists. If the physicians who spoke only Latin or Greek were to follow the method, then the medicines of Europe would have remained in search of the bark of grass roots or leeches to feed on the blood of ancient Greek texts. ”

"Pharmacists, oh no, general practitioners, start from clinical practice, not stick to a specific medical, surgical or pharmacy, but comprehensively grasp and control all medical knowledge, and are even willing to use the help of chemistry, biology and physics to solve patients' pain at multiple levels. It can be said that with the clinical practice of general practitioners, medicine has undergone earth-shaking changes and has become something that can truly cure diseases and save people. ”

"Therefore, if German medicine wants to have real development, it must be based on universal medical care, based on the development of Germany's own general practitioners, if it is still like the British to divide the class of doctors, medicine only focuses on the medical treatment of the aristocracy and the rich, and ignores the medical care of the people, then the German pharmaceutical industry will not have any development."

"After all, all drug prescription rights are in the hands of doctors, and doctors without clinical practice will never understand what drugs should be prescribed to patients, only the stronger the doctor's clinical practice ability, the stronger the drug research and development ability." Joey waved his hand vigorously.

"Thank you, thank you Joey. Thank you for your fair assessment of the German pharmacist class. The corners of Mr. Merck's eyes moistened.

"Mr. Merck's ancestors were pharmacists engaged in pharmacy business, and many people in his family were pharmacists, and Joey, your evaluation makes Mr. Merck feel empathetic." Old Mr. Engolhorn looked at Joey, who was a little surprised, and explained.

"Joey, I have one last question, do you agree that drugs can be obtained chemically, biologically, or even physically?" Mr. Merck asked.

"Yes, dear Mr. Merck, I fully agree with this point of view, and I am a living example! When I was suffering from diphtheria, my mother brought me a lot of aristocratic physicians to treat me, and it turned out that it was the biotechnology of Professor Koch and Dr. Behring that saved me, not the incomprehensible Latin prescriptions of the physicians. ”

"I firmly believe that pharmaceutical methods from chemistry, biology and physics will be the most correct way to develop access to drugs in the future." Joey said firmly.

After looking at Mr. Merck's satisfied smile, Mr. Ernst Werner Siemens asked Joey his own question, "Joey, what do you think of the development of electricity in Germany, I am very interested in the idea that you proposed an optoelectronic empire yesterday. ”

"Dear Mr. Siemens, the idea of the optoelectronic empire I mentioned yesterday is actually a bit one-sided. I only focused on the innovation of German power technology, but I ignored the basis of electricity demand, and without a long-term and effective power demand, the innovation of German power is only a flash of the day. Joy replied respectfully to Mr. Siemens.

As a successful businessman, Ernst Werner Siemens understands that technological innovation comes from real needs.

Innovation without demand is either a Jobsian great man or a madman separated by a thin line.

"Joey, can you tell us about your latest idea?" Mr. Siemens asked.

"Dear Mr. Siemens, my new idea is that Germany's power development must rely on Germany's industrialization and urbanization, not just one or two power technology innovations. Mr. Siemens, please imagine the concept of the power grid, which is not a single individual but a large-scale power system, relying on the network system of electricity production and consumption composed of power generation, transmission, transformation, distribution and consumption links based on energy, industry, transportation and cities in Germany. ”

"Wouldn't it be safer and more efficient than the existing steam plants if we could turn these God-given resources into power for metallurgy, chemicals, cement and manufacturing plants, with its abundant coal and abundant rivers, and the conditions for the development of thermal power and hydropower?"

Joy took a breath and continued, "Another cornerstone of electricity development is urbanization, in the scattered villages in the countryside, people can still rely on the stars and moonlight in the sky, but in a city, the tall buildings obscure the starlight, if we can use electric lights to dispel the darkness, use trams to transport people, use telephones instead of loud shouts, and use electricity to solve the darkness and loneliness in a city, you say, can the city do without electricity?" ”

"Promoting industrialization and urbanization in Germany solves the problem of Germany's electricity demand, and if it solves demand, innovation is just around the corner. I believe that from now on, all production and life in Germany will be inseparable from electricity. Joey gave a new take of his own.

"Do you have any specific suggestions?" Mr. Karl Heinrich Siemens asked.

"Dear Mr. Carl Heinrich Siemens, my suggestion is to go against Edison across the ocean, who has gone far enough in the field of direct current and has set up a lot of patent barriers. If we continue along the road paved by Edison, then we will encounter either traps or obstacles, so we will have to take a different path and go to the field of alternating current. Joey thought for a moment and continued, "Of course, studying alternating current doesn't mean we're going to give up direct current, and one day we'll need direct current for ultra-high voltage power transmission. ”

"Ultra-high voltage transmission?" Karl Heinrich Siemens asked.

"Yes, it is in ultra-long-distance transmission, increase the voltage of transmission, reduce the heating of wires in the transmission process, in this regard, DC has more advantages." Joey affirmed.

"Well, Carl, Joey's theory makes sense from Joule's law." Ernst Werner Siemens nodded, "Joey, please continue." ”

"Innovative products and technologies are important in this world, but I think it is more important to create a system!" Joey threw out a new point of view that shocked the Siemens brothers.

"We need to not only invent power technology and equipment, but also create a grid system that works according to the German way of thinking. If a country can run a power grid system according to the idea of German alternating current, then it means that the country will automatically isolate all Edison's DC products from entering, as long as the power grid system and standards belonging to Germany are set in a country, it means that the country's power products will be German. ”

"So the key now is that we have to spend a lot of money to promote alternating current, encourage alternating current, and set standards for alternating current, and we must let the Ministry of Economy, which my father represents, promote this as soon as possible." Joey looked at the Siemens brothers with happy faces, and finally emphasized. "Of course, before doing this, Germany must have strong standards for electrical products and a power grid system."

The Siemens brothers looked at each other, and Ernst Werner Siemens smiled and nodded, "Sir Grusen is right, we are worth the trip. ”

Friedrich Engelhorn smiled at Mr. Merck and the Siemens brothers and said, "You're all done, now it's my turn to ask." Joey, I also had a lot of friends from the chemistry community yesterday who attended the salon of Her Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and they all said that you attach great importance to chemistry, and I want to know why? ”

"Because Germany is scarce of land, we are surrounded by strong neighbors in all directions, and Germany needs to be saved with chemical compounds, and Germany is short of natural organic matter due to the scarcity of land." Joey replied.

"Joey, do you believe that all natural organic matter can be chemically synthesized?" Engolhorn continued to ask, impassively.

"Yes, I believe that behind all organic matter in nature there is a chemical formula." Joey nodded, "Dear Mr. Engolhorn, I believe that in the future chemical synthetics will fill human life. ”

"In the near future, the quality of our agricultural output will be based on chemical fertilizers and pesticides; The taste of our food will also depend on chemical food additives; Our health and longevity will depend on chemically synthesized drugs; Our warm clothing also needs chemical synthetic fibers and synthetic dyes; The high-rise buildings we live in cities are also inseparable from the cement, steel and glass produced by chemical methods; In the future, I believe that people will also be inseparable from chemical compounds in their means of transportation. ”

"In the future, whoever owns chemistry will have a golden age!" Joey affirmed.

"Joey, where do you think the development of chemistry in Germany is headed?" Engelhorn asked.

"Dear Monsieur Engelhorn, my personal opinion is that the future development of German chemistry will not only be to study the nature of nature, but more importantly to create new substances, to create new molecules, new catalysts, and new compounds with special reactivity. I believe that chemistry will reveal more secrets of biology and create more wonderful materials to meet the needs of the German people and the functioning of the economy through environmentally friendly food production and energy development. Joy respectfully and gracefully expressed his views on the development of chemistry.

Mr. Engelhorn smiled at his companion, and after making eye contact, Mr. Engolhorn joined the Siemens brothers and Mr. Merck in greeting Joey for the beautiful mazurka solo they had brought them.