Chapter 13: The Almost Forgotten Gold of Medicine

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In the summer of the first year of the Xingtang Dynasty (1930), when the Tang Empire was in urgent need of population, the largest warlord melee broke out in modern times on the Central Plains of the East. The Nationalist Army, the Northwest Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Gui Army, and the Northeast Army, millions of troops attacked each other on the land of the Central Plains, lasting for a long time, on a huge scale, affecting tens of millions of innocent people, with unprecedented destructive power and direct economic losses of 13 billion US dollars.

For a time, the wolf smoke roared and the blood flowed like a river on the land of the Central Plains, like a hell on earth.

Factories, schools, shops, and houses were plundered back and forth by warlords and stragglers like bandits, merchants fled with money, workers were laid off, schools were closed, teachers were unemployed, students were transferred, and poor people were forced to flee to avoid disaster.

The Tang Imperial government quickly seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deliver a portion of the grain purchased cheaply from the United States, South America and Australia to Chinese mainland in the form of humanitarian relief, setting up relief points throughout the country, and tens of thousands of refugees gathered around the relief points every day.

"Come to our Tang Empire! As long as you are strong and willing to endure hardships, as long as you have a skill, as long as you have gone to school and can read and write, you can work in the Tang Empire. There, there is a good salary, and the money you earn in a month is enough for you to earn in a year now. As long as you are willing to work and contribute to the Tang Empire, then the government will give you a western-style house to live in, give you a car, and arrange more jobs for you. ”

"Where is the Tang Empire, haven't you heard of it?"

A young and strong man suddenly asked. At this time, a staff member explained to them.

"The most beautiful place in Shijie in the Tang Empire, there is no war, no oppression, I promise that you will fall in love with it if you go."

"We're all scared, let's be practical, how many oceans will you work for a month?"

"What do you do, what are you capable of?"

"I've been a blacksmith for twenty years!"

"Can you weld?"

"It burned in the foreigner factory for three years!"

"Be a welder, with a monthly salary of thirty yuan!"

"Tangyuan? Give twenty rice balls a month? It's not enough for me to eat! ”

"Tang Yuan is the currency of the Tang Empire, not Tangyuan! One Tang Yuan is equal to one dollar, which is equivalent to five pieces of the ocean. If you do, come and sign up! ”

Wow, these dumplings are so expensive!

"What else is there to say, I'll sign up!"

A welder has a monthly salary of 150 yuan, and the crowd suddenly exploded, which is the money that domestic welders can only earn in seven or eight months.

"I've soldered too! Can you go? ”

"Yes! As many as you want! Go to Shed 3 to sign up! ”

"I've been a bricklayer, do you want to?"

"Yes! The monthly salary of a bricklayer is 20 Tang Yuan! Go to Shed 7 and sign up! ”

"I'm a teacher, do you want it?"

"I'm a doctor, do you want it?"

"I'm a blast furnace worker, do you want it?"

……

"Yes, yes, yes! Both! There's a notice over there that says we need people and jobs that are right for you! ”

"Remember, after you sign up, we have to take the exam, don't pass it!"

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During most of the Central Plains War, the Tang Empire recruited ordinary workers, Jishu workers, scholars, teachers, doctors and other talents from all walks of life on a large scale in various ways throughout China, and more than 1.5 million people signed up, of which the number of people who passed the assessment reached 800,000, but this time only the top 500,000 people who met the requirements were selected, and the other 300,000 people could only be eliminated.

The reason why the upper limit of 500,000 people was set was mainly because the Tang Empire could only accommodate 500,000 people for the time being, because many residential and urban supporting facilities had not yet been built, and they had to be done step by step.

The extra 300,000 people were assigned to the next large-scale migration operation, and they were given the right to go to the Tang Republic of China first. However, it will basically wait until a year later, and it is clear that they may not be willing to wait until they are hungry and cold.

When they learned the specific location of the Tang Empire and the preferential treatment of the Tang Empire, many of them no longer played their cards according to common sense, and they chose to go bankrupt to raise funds to go to the Tang Republic of China's regular immigration route, and spend a small amount of money to smuggle to the Tang Empire.

Since the Tang Empire was in a period of ruin, the energy of government agencies was attracted to national construction, and many policies and regulations were not implemented and implemented for the time being, leaving many loopholes and making it possible to smuggle a large number of people.

In the first five years after the completion of the construction of the Tang Empire and on the right track, hundreds of thousands of Chinese smuggled into the Tang Empire, which once had a great impact on the social security of the Tang Empire. However, these smuggled people were just looking for a job to make ends meet, and the Tang Empire quickly resettled them out of humanitarian and nation-building needs, so that they could contribute to the nation-building of the Tang Empire like everyone else.

Fortunately, the Tang Empire is located in the tropics, and these people who smuggled over do not have to worry about being frozen. And Zhang Meng is carrying out a large-scale national strategic material stockpile, with sufficient food and medical medicines, so they don't have to worry about starvation and illness.

Although the large granary ordered by Zhang Meng to be built is vacuum-enclosed, and is equipped with air conditioning and dehumidifiers for preservation, which can theoretically be stored for more than 20 years, Zhang Meng is still not at ease.

According to his jihua, every three to five years, the grain inside is taken out for consumption, sold, and then replaced with fresh grain and stored again.

Every year, tens of millions of tons of grain enter the granary of the Tang Empire to store and replace the original old grain, and the population and industry of the Tang Empire simply cannot consume such a huge amount of grain, and it is not cost-effective to buy it at a low price and then sell it at a low price, and the huge freight is spent in vain.

It happened that Zhang Meng acquired and built a large number of farms and pastures in Australia, and the farms produced grain to supply the Tang Empire, and the pastures raised various livestock to provide fresh meat for the Tang Empire. These farms and ranches require a large number of people, and Zhang Meng can't trust the local Australians, so they can be used to resettle smugglers on a large scale.

At the same time, Zhang Meng discovered a method of preserving grain in disguise. In general, all kinds of livestock in the pasture have a long growth time and survival time, and they can raise livestock on a large scale with cheaply purchased grain, so that they can continue to breed on a large scale and convert grain into meat, which can improve the physical quality of the people of the Tang Empire, and can easily realize the strategic reserve of grain, after all, meat is also considered food.

As a result, the Tang Empire built thousands of large and medium-sized pastures in Australia to raise livestock on a large scale. Every year, only part of the livestock is slaughtered to supply the meat market demand of the Tang Empire, and most of the other livestock continue to be retained and continue to breed and expand the scale, and when the Shijie War breaks out, it will be a million profits.

Of course, there is also a very important danger, which is more dangerous and more dangerous and more costly than Zhang Meng's fear that the grain will deteriorate in the granary.

This is the natural enemy of livestock, the plague.

Although in Zhang Meng's strategic reserves, the reserves of medicines, alcohol, and medical devices occupy a huge share, the efficacy of medicines in this era is still very low, especially in the face of the plague, there are almost no good ways.

It was precisely because the officials of the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture raised this serious problem that Zhang Meng remembered the most important thing that had not yet been done, that is, the large-scale industrial production of spectral antibiotics, known as the gold of medicine - penicillin.

In the summer of 1928, when Fleming was on vacation, he forgot about the bacteria growing in the petri dish in the laboratory. When he returned to the lab three weeks later, he noticed a clump of green-green mold growing in a dish of Staphylococcus aureus that had been accidentally exposed to air. When looking at the dish with a microscope, Fleming noticed that the staphylococcal colonies surrounding the mold had been dissolved. This means that some kind of secretion of the mold inhibits staphylococcus.

Subsequent identification showed that the mold was Penicillium punctata, so Fleming called the bacteriostatic substance it secreted penicillin. Unfortunately, Fleming was never able to find a way to extract high-purity penicillin, so he cultivated penicillium strains from generation to generation, and in 1939 gave the strains to the British pathologist Flory and biochemist Chin who were preparing to systematically study penicillin, and it was not until 1942 that they found a way to produce it industrially.

Zhang Meng's early penicillin industrial production method was inspired by the Peruvian Maya's anti-plague recipe, a large amount of penicillin mold on the Bohotian melon from Peru and corn grown in the red soil of the holy mountain from Mexico as a petri dish, which can extract a large number of penicillin crystals required by industry, and realize the industrial production of penicillin.

After Zhang Meng thought of it, he immediately sent someone to St. Mary's University, where Fleming was, to buy all the research materials on penicillin in Fleming's hand, and to take away the only penicillin strain in Shijie.

At the same time, Zhang Meng also sent people to Peru and Mexico to bring seeds and experience from Boholtian melons and red soil corn to a large farm established in Australia for planting.

Although the pharmaceutical research and development is also entrusted to the Department of Biomedicine of Datang National Laboratory, the pharmaceutical production is not under the jurisdiction of Datang Heavy Industry, but belongs to Datang Third Heavy Industry.

At this time, Zhang Meng had successively established Datang Heavy Industry (hereinafter referred to as Datang Heavy Industry), Datang Second Heavy Industry, Datang Third Heavy Industry and Datang Fourth Heavy Industry, which were respectively responsible for the production, mechanical processing and manufacturing of steel, cement and other means of production, industrial production of biomedicine, petrochemical industry and other fields. In the future, the fifth, sixth, seventh and even more heavy industry groups will be built to be responsible for new industrial fields such as electronic technology and aerospace science and technology.

Fleming learned that Zhang Meng intended to carry out large-scale industrial production of penicillin, out of fanaticism for biological bacteriology, he offered to join Zhang Meng to establish the biochemical medicine research laboratory of Datang Second Heavy Industry, which Zhang Meng naturally welcomed, and through Fleming's help, more than 20 scientists in the fields of biology, chemistry and medicine were poached from St. Mary's University and several other famous British universities.

After Fleming and his entourage arrived at the Department of Biomedicine of the Tang Imperial National Laboratory, they immediately plunged into the intense process of refining and developing penicillin crystals. Due to the abundance of funds and the maximum satisfaction of all the necessary equipment, Fleming and others quickly completed the preparation of penicillin in the laboratory.

Within half a year, Fleming et al. used petri dishes made of melons and laterite corn to prepare a large number of penicillin crystals in the laboratory, and completed the relevant theoretical research on industrial production.

A year later, the pharmaceutical factory under Datang No. 2 Heavy Industry realized the industrial preparation and production of penicillin crystals, marking the first time that mankind has entered the era of antibiotic drug treatment.

Subsequently, Datang No.2 Heavy Industry began to register commercial patents worldwide and conduct clinical trials in well-known hospitals in Shijie countries to obtain relevant medical data.

But this did not limit the large-scale production of penicillin, because Zhang Meng knew that it would definitely pass the clinical Shiyan, so Datang Second Heavy Industry has been producing on a large scale, and at the same time, the strategic material reserve of the Datang Empire has also clearly begun to hoard penicillin drugs on a large scale.

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