The development of modern physics and chemistry is only one or two hundred years, and it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that the vigorous development of these two disciplines was really ushered in, and at this time physics and chemistry were staggered and horizontal, especially in physics, chemical reagents and drugs were used in many physical experiments, which also caused most physicists to be chemists, so it created the phenomenon of physics and chemistry not separating.

It was not until the mid-to-late nineteenth century that the discipline of modern chemistry developed further due to the industrial revolution, and many chemists groped their way forward when doing experiments, and in these processes, some of them found nothing, some came to the products they wanted, and even a small mistake could get unexpected results.

The most famous of these chemical experiments was the production of smokeless gunpowder, and it is said that the Swiss chemist Schönbay accidentally knocked over a bottle full of nitric acid and sulfuric acid during his experiments, and the solution flowed on the table, and he did not find a rag for a while, so he quickly went out and brought his wife's cotton apron to wipe the table, and the apron was soaked in the solution.

Afraid that his wife would blame him when she saw it, he went to the kitchen to dry his apron, but when he approached the stove, he heard only a "plop" sound, and the apron was burned clean, without a single smoke or ash, and he was astonished.

Afterwards, Schönbay carefully recalled the incident, and was immediately overjoyed, realizing that he had synthesized a new compound that could be used to make explosives, for which he repeated the experiment several times, and confirmed that the results were correct, so he named it Cotton wool, which later generations called nitrocellulose.

Although Xie Yunpeng studied physics, he also had good attainments in chemistry, and when he heard Sun Wei's inquiry, he explained: "My uncle is right, chemists are more concerned about their chemical properties when synthesizing new chemicals, and as for medical matters, they can't be determined, just like nitroglycerin, which was developed as a dynamite, but it has a good relieving effect on angina, of course, most chemicals cannot be used in the medical field." ”

"If even the chemist doesn't know what the drug does, how do you know what it does?" Xie Xu asked puzzled.

"I know that the effect of that medicine is also a coincidence, let's not delve into the specific situation, as long as you know that this medicine can bring us a lot of profits." Sun Wei was so annoyed by everyone's pursuit of the bottom line that he stopped making up the story and made a conclusion directly.

"It must have been that you took this medicine by mistake when you were fooling around with a woman to know what it did, and now you know that you are embarrassed to speak?" Xie Xiaoshu saw that Sun Wei didn't want to talk deeply, but this also happened to find the best excuse for Sun Wei, who was unwilling to make up stories.

"Uncle, the medicine you said really has such a big effect, it can't be your psychological effect, there are many psychological suggestive factors in this kind of thing, I heard the psychologist's report in this regard when I was studying in the UK." Xie Yunpeng is obviously not the first brother in this regard, except for the initial embarrassment, he gradually let go.

"At the beginning, I thought so, so in order to verify whether it was my psychological effect on the ghost, I found other people to try it, and among these people were those with impotence and premature ejaculation, and the result also had the same effect, so I learned the synthesis method from the chemist, and prepared to produce it in large quantities by myself, but before I could give birth, I was injured and hospitalized." Sun Wei automatically accepted the explanation given by Xie Xiaoshu.

"This is a great invention, I think the world will be shocked by it, uncle, you should apply for a patent in advance of the European countries before that chemist applies for a patent, so that even if anyone else knows the method of synthesis, they will not be able to make it privately." As a normal man, Xie Yunpeng naturally knew the value of this medicine, and after undergoing a Western education, he quickly thought of applying for a patent.

Sun Wei, who Xie Yunpeng can think of, can naturally think of it, but although the patent application does not need to write the detailed process of drug synthesis, it must write the chemical structure of the drug, which is also a kind of leakage.

In today's society, although European and American countries attach importance to patented technology, but it is not as foolproof as later generations of Chinese people imagined, just like the film technology that has just emerged, most of the patents of this technology are in the hands of Edison Film Patent Company, and others need to pay a patent fee to these film companies if they want to shoot movies.

However, with the continuous expansion of film profits, more and more directors and producers are not willing to be exploited by Edison's film patent company, and have started to find a new way out.

At this time, Elder Film Company, a small studio that had been making films in Hollywood before Edison established the film patent company, provided information about Hollywood, and this film studio, which was originally in New Jersey in the eastern United States, rented a factory in Hollywood at a low price, and quickly made the first Hollywood film "Her Indian Hero".

The film expanded the popularity of Hollywood, and those filmmakers who wanted to find their way out, attracted by Hollywood's superior natural location and developed transportation conditions, came to Hollywood to establish a business, and Hollywood in California was very far away from New Jersey, Edison did not have so many subordinates in California, and even if he sent people, the news often had already leaked, so that Hollywood studios could hide in nearby Mexico in time.

At this time, Edison's nemesis Carl Remu also built in Hollywood and created Universal as the new film king, on the contrary, Edison's film patent company, which was the catalyst of Hollywood, was declared illegal by a U.S. court and went bankrupt after only ten years.

It is true that the spirit of contract is valued in the white society, but it is not as strict as the imagination of later generations, and even a country can violate the spirit of contract in the face of huge interests, not to mention the kind of businessmen who pursue profits, and the most important thing is that the inventor of Sun Wei's drug is still a Chinese who is not accepted by the white society, and its interests are even more difficult to protect.

"Don't worry about patents, the most important thing to do now is to keep it secret, so before the production of this drug, I will open a Chinese medicine pharmacy, and I also have a few good Chinese medicine formulas in my hands, and then we will mix this drug in it and sell it as traditional Chinese medicine, so as to reduce the risk of leakage." Sun Wei was unwilling to entangle with Xie Yunpeng on patent issues, so he immediately changed the topic.

"That's fine, and it won't make the chemist you're talking about suspicious." Xie Xu thought of another question.

Sun Wei learned the general situation of the Xie family from Xie Xiaoshu's mouth when he saw Xie Xu's father and son, this family that regards itself as a descendant of Xie An is also a scholarly family in Pudong, and the ancestors have produced one or two grades in the Ming and Qing dynasties, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Xie family began to decline gradually, and the highest official position is only in the north as the prefect from the fourth grade.

Xie Xiaoshu's maiden family is just a side branch of the Xie family, there are two brothers and a sister on it, the elder sister is the oldest, and the children are not a few years old with Xie Xiaoshu.

The four brothers and sisters of the Xie family have been in love since childhood, and Xie Xiaoshu is naturally cared for as the youngest daughter in the family, but Xie Xiaoshu was unlucky after leaving home, and her husband died at a young age.

The current society is not as dark as the future generations imagined, and it is very common for a childless widow like Xie Xiaoshu to remarry, only the kind of parents who are unscrupulous for fame and fortune will force their daughters to observe festivals for their husbands, so Xie Xiaoshu's remarriage is not unacceptable.

However, Xie Xiaoshu's husband's family also has quite a lot of property in Shanghai, and since her husband died of illness, he not only left her a valuable theater, but also left her a lot of money.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty promulgated a "Great Qing Statute" after entering the customs, this law is not equivalent to the constitution or other normative laws of later generations, and the reason why it is called its statute is because there are many regulations attached to the text of this law, which are also an important part of this law.

The precedents in the "Laws of the Great Qing Dynasty" are the precedents approved by the emperor and the normative orders and regulations issued by the emperor according to the handling of certain specific cases, also known as regulations, which are regarded as supplements to the law, and like the law, they are also the basis for hearing cases, convictions and sentencing.

However, the difference is that the codification of laws is more prudent and has considerable stability, while the regulations are subject to changes at any time, making them a more flexible form of law.

In this law, the number of regulations is much larger than the law, and it is precisely because of the complexity and flexibility of the precedents, which often contradicts the legal texts and contradicts each other, and at the same time in judicial practice, the legal utility of the precedents is greater than the law, usually there are precedents without the law, there are new precedents without the old precedents, and when the laws and precedents are not expressly written, they are used to attach, in fact, they are still use cases, and the result is that the laws are more and more empty, and the precedents are more and more complicated, so the precedents have become the legal tools of the Qing rulers to implement judicial arbitrariness and prey on the people.

There are many trial methods for Xie Xiaoshu's inheritance case, but as long as Xie Xiaoshu does not remarry, those in her husband's family will take advantage at most, but as long as she remarries, her husband's family has a way to snatch the inheritance back from her, which is the last thing she wants to see, and it is also the reason why she would rather find a concubine than remarry.