London, Docks.

11-year-old Zhou Chunxi was wearing a floral skirt and was led down the gangway by Zhou Hexuan. Suddenly, she broke free and ran forward, shouting with joy, "Mom! ”

"Baby," Vivien Leigh put her arms around her daughter, her eyes moistened with excitement, and touched the top of her daughter's head, "they've grown so tall that Mom almost didn't recognize them." ”

Ernis still looks like a handsome middle-aged man, but a handful of white hair appeared on his sideburns, and he smiled: "I only know my mother, don't you know my grandfather?" ”

"Grandpa." Zhou Chunxi threw himself into Annis's arms again.

Zhou Hexuan walked over quickly, and Vivien Li tilted her head and smiled at him. The two quickly hugged each other, and Vivien Leigh offered to give a hot kiss, and there were many couples around them who were doing this.

Years of war, which has separated countless relatives and friends, now is the time to enjoy a reunion.

Everyone got into the car, and Zhou Chunxi snuggled in his mother's arms. Ernis described the basic situation in Britain: "The government economy is terrible, and it owes not only the foreign debt of the United States, but also the national debt of its own citizens. The new Prime Minister, Attlee, is phasing out wartime controls, and many military-related industries are intended to be sold to private individuals. If you are interested, you can go and buy a few military factories, or even tank factories if you want to. ”

"What am I buying that thing for?" Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

"If you buy a tank factory, you can't use it to produce tanks. But the equipment and workers are there, ready to switch to the production of cars, and I have plans to buy a few factories. ”

Selling state-owned factories to private individuals was a last resort in the early days of Attlee's administration, and he had to ease the financial pressures as a way to relieve his finances. When the British government relented, it immediately launched a series of socialist reforms, nationalizing nearly 3,000 companies, factories and mines in six years, and gradually implementing a national welfare policy.

The Second World War directly changed the thinking pattern of the British people, the social atmosphere collectively turned to the left, and the socialist ideology became more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The British people, strongly demand socialism!

Let's start with the example of how the British government twice evacuated the urban population to the countryside in the face of the German bombing. The urban upper class came to the backward countryside and found that Britain was still so poor; Women and children in urban slums are sent to live with middle- and upper-class landlords in the countryside, and their ignorance of ordinary daily necessities has shocked rural homeowners who own telephones and cars.

The war brought together the different classes of Britain who had not been in touch with each other, and it was a journey of Britain's "great discovery of poverty", during which the tragic conditions of the lower working class and the peasant class were exposed, and some of the middle and upper classes were aroused to hope for social reform.

In the words of former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: "I never knew such a thing existed, and I am ashamed of my ignorance of the situation of my fellow citizens." In my lifetime, I will do my best to help them live a clean and healthy life. ”

Of course, this is only a change in moral values, but more powerful is a change in the political status quo.

In order to tap the potential of the war and continuously improve social welfare, it became common for workers to participate in enterprise management during wartime. After tasting the taste of rights, where is the working class willing to let go? They are desperate for socialist reforms, which are in line with Labour's governing philosophy.

Therefore, just after the end of World War II, the British people could not wait for Churchill to get out.

Socialist reforms in Britain lasted for twenty or thirty years, until Margaret Thatcher came to power and the capitalists finally began to fight back. By then, Britain's state-owned enterprises had been privatized, social welfare was declining, and Thatcher had turned socialist Britain back into capitalist Britain.

In the eyes of the British during and after the war, socialism meant that everyone was entitled to fairly good housing, good health care, equal opportunities and a decent life.

As a result, Britain's middle and lower classes frantically gave Attlee votes. When Attlee won the election and Churchill stepped down, the whole world was dumbfounded, including the media in Britain, who felt like they were dreaming.

The British press described it this way at the time: "An empty taxi pulled up and Attlee walked out. —it's like juggling.

The most embarrassing thing was Churchill, who was representing Britain at the Potsdam Conference, and the meeting was open and the prime minister was changed, and by the time it was closed, it had become Attlee taking a photo with Stalin and Truman.

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The medicine factory was bombed twice during the war, and Onys's house in the city of London was also bombed, but fortunately their country house was still intact.

As soon as he returned to the villa, Ernis threw out a large pile of reports.

Zhou Hexuan flipped through the key contents casually and found that the "Royal Pharmaceutical Company" had become a behemoth with sulfonamides and penicillin. The two series of drugs of sulfonamide and penicillin alone have been derived from more than 10 varieties, and in the past five years, seven pharmaceutical companies have been acquired and merged, and there are more than 60 kinds of drugs.

To add insult to injury, there are several radiopharmaceuticals.

Since Marie Curie's discovery of radium, radioactive elements have been like a panacea, capable of curing all diseases.

Got a headache? It's okay, I have "thorium" in this headache water, and I promise to solve your headache. Got a stomachache? It's okay, my pill contains "radium", and it won't hurt if you take a few more tablets.

Even cosmetics for women and toys for children are branded with radioactive elements.

In the early 30s, the United States had eaten radioactive potions, but the U.S. government only limited the amount of radioactive elements. The radioactive material really makes people smell and change color, and we have to wait until two atomic bombs explode in Japan.

Zhou Hexuan sweated wildly and said: "Don't produce these radioactive drugs." ”

"Why? These medicines are very popular. Ernis wondered.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Radioactive substances are harmful to the human body, and long-term consumption will eat dead people. ”

"You're thinking too much." Ernis laughed.

Zhou Hexuan also no longer explained, anyway, the atomic bomb was about to be dropped on Japan, and it would not be too late to withdraw it when the time came - the radioactive content of these drugs was very low.

"The preparations for the IPO of the pharmaceutical company are ready, but I would like to change the shareholding," Annis said. ”

"Yes, you are managing the pharmaceutical factory, so you should take more shares." Zhou Hexuan said.

Ernis shook his head and said, "I don't need to. I mean, give Rebecca some equity and be overseen by Vivian until she becomes an adult. When I die one day, my 15% stake will be transferred to Rebecca. ”

"No problem." Zhou Hexuan doesn't care, anyway, Xiao Chunxi is his daughter. Even if Annis wants to give Vivien Leigh equity, Zhou Hexuan will not object, after all, the business of the pharmaceutical factory is made big by Annis.

After thinking about it, Zhou Hexuan asked again: "What about the king?" ”

"The king didn't value money, he preferred art, wine and cigarettes," said Ernis with a smile. ”

Half a month later, the Royal Pharmaceutical Company was listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Zhou Hexuan holds 35% of the shares, Ernis holds 12% of the shares, George VI holds 8% of the shares, and Zhou Chunxi holds 10% of the shares (held by Vivien Leigh), with the remaining 35% of the shares used for public offerings and employee incentives.