Chapter 497: Murder Doesn't See Blood
In fact, China's average life expectancy has soared to 69 years, not only ranking first in the world, but also far behind other countries in the world, even the Western powers, which claim to be a civilized world, have an average life expectancy of just over 50 years, not to mention those colonies and semi-colonies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Although antibiotics are also exported from China, they are too expensive in the Western market because of their limited quantities and high prices, and the poor, who make up the majority of the population, simply cannot afford to use them, and the average life expectancy has naturally been pulled down.
In other words, Li Hui is indeed shameless enough, and has always only let biochemical technicians who have absolutely no possibility of leaking secrets conduct relevant research, and then only build a pharmaceutical factory that only uses biochemical soldiers for production, and the insufficient part is directly produced by the system, anyway, the production cost of antibiotics has been reduced with technological progress to I don't know how many times before, even if it meets the needs of the national population, it actually doesn't cost much precious metals (I can't help but complain, in fact, the ex-factory price of many commonly used drugs is only a few tenths of the retail price, Even a few hundredths of the price, if you can get the medicine directly from the manufacturer, it is unimaginably low. Therefore, there is absolutely no possibility of leaking secrets, and even if the West tries its best, it will be difficult to succeed in stealing secrets, so it can only study it on its own.
And Li Hui's image as a chemist has greatly misled Western countries, making them think that antibiotics are chemically synthesized, so countless people, financial and financial resources have been invested in the chemical synthesis drug route, which is not without a future, but it is certainly far more difficult to produce great results than the microbial route......
Because there are only a few categories of chemical synthetic drugs with remarkable antibacterial effects, Li Hui has long developed them, and once he finds that a Western pharmaceutical company has successfully developed them, he will immediately disclose the technology of this drug to the public before it is put on the market (China does not protect Western patents, and the West naturally cannot protect Chinese patents, so he can only do so). Then don't count on the profits of the new drug period, the massive amount of money invested before is completely in vain, even if it is a world-class pharmaceutical leading company, such a blow is enough to make it painful. And Li Hui didn't do it once or twice, he did it every time! It has almost turned the research and development of new drugs into a synonym for stable losses and no profits......
At this time, there were still sharp-sighted politicians in the West, such as Chamberlain Sr. and Roosevelt Sr., who tried to solve the embarrassing situation of dwindling investment in this key area by allowing state-owned enterprises to conduct new drug research and development, and then transferring the results to private capital. Li Hui really has no good way to do this, after all, as long as the government's support is enough, state-owned enterprises can ignore profits and lose money, but their trick did not achieve much effect in the end, because the efficiency of state-owned enterprises is low, not to mention that it is still a capitalist state-owned enterprise, in a mercenary environment, everything looks at money, and the low efficiency is simply unbearable to witness, plus the opposition of both countries has taken advantage of this to accuse the ruling party of wasting taxpayers' money and trying to drag it back. Naturally, it is more difficult to produce consequences......
The old Chamberlain, who has never turned his face with China, and even the Germans, have directly imported technology from China, but Li Hui has not refused, and the price is not ridiculously high strictly (but it is definitely not low, because Li Hui also includes the possible benefits of the second transfer.) But Britain and Germany were completely unacceptable, and the matter had to be settled in the end. It turned out that Li Hui's payment method was more harsh, not only did he not accept installment payments, but also only sold in gold and silver (so as not to prematurely expose the truth that antibiotics are not chemical synthesis), but all drugs were packaged and sold together, which is an exaggeration, you know, the purchasing power of gold in the world has increased by as much as four or five times compared with the end of the 19th century, and the price of silver has skyrocketed dozens of times!
Even the British government, which accounts for more than half of the West's gold reserves, cannot afford such a large expenditure (in fact, it is not absolutely impossible, but in doing so, the British government's gold reserves will be greatly reduced, and then the pound exchange rate will plummet and the capital will flee frantically, which in turn will cause the British economy to suffer heavy losses far beyond those gold). In particular, the introduction of synthetic ammonia technology from China has already spent a lot of gold, and there is really not so much gold and silver to be smashed into the pharmaceutical field. And although medicine is also very important, in the short term, the strategic significance cannot be compared with synthetic ammonia, and it is understandable that the British government will make such a trade-off.
The British can't afford it, the Germans can't afford it, and as for the United States, which has long been an enemy of China, it can't be bought even if they have money, not to mention that they don't have that much money......
As a result, Li Hui relied on this trick to make the West's pharmaceutical technology level lag behind China for a long time, which directly led to the premature death of a large number of poor Westerners. According to estimates by foreign intelligence services, if China's new drugs were shared with the West as soon as possible, the population of the West would now be at least 100 million more. In other words, Li Hui's trick is equivalent to the elimination of 100 million Western people in disguise, which is much more than the Western population eliminated by the two world wars combined.
Considering that the population reduction in the two "quasi-world wars" is by no means a small number, how can the population of the West grow so fast in the past ten years?
In 1911, China's population had surpassed the 700 million mark, more than Europe and the Americas (not counting the areas west of the Rocky Mountains) combined, accounting for more than one-third of the world's population, unprecedented even in China's 5,000-year history. What is even more rare is that because China's territory is now extremely vast, and the grain production is so large that it is impossible to eat at all, so such a large population has not led to the collapse of the country and caused turmoil like the population peaks in history, but has produced various positive effects as a "producer". In particular, in the past few years, China's education has also developed rapidly, which has promoted the continuous improvement of the cultural quality of Chinese population.