When Li Zhigao once again wore a leather coat and drove his all-terrain vehicle to Taiping Mansion, the city gate police immediately let him go, and there was no longer the slightest hesitation.

came all the way to Liu Runsheng's house, and before he got close, he saw a group of people come out to greet him, in addition to Liu Runsheng's family at the head, there were three conspicuous foreigners, or Western whites.

Among the three foreigners, Marven has known each other for a long time, and it is nothing, but the other two are an old man and a young man, a man and a woman, and they seem to know that they are all clergy in the church.

As soon as the car stopped, it was still Marven who first gave Li Zhigao an American-style hug the most enthusiastically, and then deviated from the topic again and began to ask about Li Zhigao's all-terrain vehicle.

Next, everyone entered the room under the guidance of Liu Runsheng, and then began to sit down and introduce each other, of course, everyone else basically knows, and the introduction here is mainly to introduce the two foreigners wearing clergy clothes to Li Zhigao.

Through the introduction, Li Zhigao learned that the two foreigners, one old and one young, were both members of a local mission organization called Shengai Church, although Shengai Church is also a church organization, but to be precise, it is actually a church medical organization, its headquarters is in the United States, it belongs to Protestant Christianity in faith, advocates believing in God in the soul, believes in science in reality, and treats diseases and saves people through the dual methods of soul and science, which is not the same thing as Catholicism.

To put it bluntly, the Church of Saint-Love is just one of the many branches of Christianity, and it is a small branch, which cannot be compared with organizations such as the Chinese Anglican Church.

The old foreigner's name is Edward, 52 years old, American, is a doctor, pastor and branch president of the local Saint-Love Church, and the woman's name is Emily, 21 years old, is Edford's adopted daughter, and is also an American, currently working as a nurse, nun and Edford's assistant in the Saint-Love Church.

As for the purpose of these two people, it is very simple, it is for the medicine in Li Zhi's hand!

It turned out that after Li Zhigao left the drug and asked Liu Yinshui to help him as a humanoid instruction manual, the locals did not make much progress, after all, local Chinese medicine and pharmacies always have some xenophobic thoughts, and their acceptance of this drug is not high, or they simply reject it without even experimenting, but Marven's side is quite smooth and soon opened up the market.

In fact, in this era, foreigners in China are basically living in groups, such as Marvin, as an American, then he must know a local American. So when he was commissioned to test the new drug, he simply introduced him to the local Shengai Church, a Christian organization that already opened a church and hospital in the Taiping Mansion.

Coincidentally, when Marven rushed to say that he was testing the new drug, there were exactly twelve seriously ill patients in the Holy Love Church, four of whom were pneumonia, and the others were all plague!

At this time, it was the era of the global plague pandemic, and in the Russian Far East, as well as in the northern part of the Northeast, large-scale epidemics of plague had already begun, and in the southeast of China, although not so obvious, there were actually sporadic outbreaks of plague, but for various reasons it was not so serious, or the epidemic was not so strong.

Pneumonia is fine, but diseases like plague are not accepted by ordinary hospitals, but the Holy Love Church is not a small church, but the moral quality of the clergy is very good, so they have accepted these patients one after another.

Reception is received, but in terms of treatment, they can only be carried out conservative treatment. Specifically, it is nothing more than strict isolation, and then keep the ward hygienic, let the patient take a regular bath to keep it clean, usually give him light salt water, sugar water, eat porridge porridge, eat some aspirin, etc.

It should be said that the Holy Love Church has indeed done a good job in epidemic prevention and treatment, at least the understanding of health caused diseases is in place, but after all, there is no specific medicine for the symptoms, and the effect of aspirin in treating plague and pneumonia is not very good, so the recovery rate of patients is very low, that is, it is stronger than their own resistance, and the people of the Holy Love Church are also doing their best to obey the destiny of God.

But with sulfonamides special drugs, it is different, not to mention that compound xinazole is a specially configured compound drug, the effect is stronger than that of general sulfonamides, so the effect is also immediate, not only pneumonia patients are quickly relieved, even those who suffer from plague are also effective, and they are basically in a state of recovery.

At this moment, Father Edfu was immediately alarmed, so he immediately took his assistant to find Marven, and then came here together, just to ask for more medicine.

"What's going on, Marven, do you believe it now?" Li Zhigao smiled and said to Ma Wen.

"Believe, believe." Marven nodded hurriedly, "This is really just like what you said, it's a miracle medicine!" ”

"As for the medicine, I brought a lot of it with me this time." Li Zhigao turned his head to Edford and said, "However, I also spent money to buy the goods, and it was a trial before, and it is not okay to let me lose money for nothing." ”

"I understand, Mr. Li, we didn't intend to ask for your medicine for nothing." Edford drew a cross on his chest, and then smiled and said, "You can make a price for the medicine wrapped in yellow paper, I believe that patients will not be stingy with medicine money." ”

"That's right, then I'll say it." Li Zhigao smiled, "A pack of medicine, a tael of gold!" ”

"How much?" Hearing this price, Edfu didn't react, but Marven immediately exclaimed, "You're not wrong, you want a tael of gold for a pack of medicine?" ”

"That's right." Li Zhigao spread his hands, "That's the price, I'm still a friendship price, I really didn't make much." Please, this drug is a new drug that has just been developed, and the cost is very expensive, and my purchase price is very high. ”

"Where is this medicine made? So expensive? Marven frowned.

"Well, you know, trade secrets." Li Zhigao smiled.

"Could it be that this is your mysterious Chinese medicine?" Marven guessed on his own.

"Hehe, almost." Li Zhigao smiled.

"Mr. Lee." At this time, Edfu spoke, "One or two gold and a pack of medicine are too expensive, can't the price be negotiable?" We also use it to save people, we don't earn a penny, the medicine money is paid for by the patients themselves, and many patients are also your compatriots, so it doesn't seem good, right? ”

"The price is not negotiable." Li Zhigao simply shook his head, "I'm really sorry for this." ”

The old man is amazing, he actually uses his compatriots to play the emotional card, but who doesn't know that most of the people who can go to the church hospital for treatment these years are foreigners or rich people related to foreigners, and the real poor people can't go to the church hospital at all, and they don't even have the money to go to the Chinese medicine hall to get medicine and ask a doctor, they are all resisting at home.

And, what about compatriots? Li Zhigao bets that if he lowers the price, the first to benefit will definitely not be those poor compatriots, but definitely those rich and powerful foreigners and high-ranking officials.

Li Zhigao has long thought that China is now the weakest time, too much sympathy is useless, what is really needed is an epoch-making change, which requires the accumulation of funds in the short term before it can carry out reform.

A pack of medicine only has the amount of a box of cotrimoxazole, that is, the dose of a course of treatment, and the price is as cheap as death in modern society, and he actually wants a tael of gold here...... It's a bit ruthless, but who makes this drug unique at the moment?

Therefore, no matter from a commercial point of view or from other aspects, Li Zhigao will not sell at a lower price.

"Really can't be discussed?" Edford frowned.

"I can't." Li Zhigao shook his head.

"Why are you so black-hearted!" Suddenly, the young blonde nun couldn't help but burst out, and said in strange Chinese, "It's obviously a good medicine to cure diseases and save people, but you have to spend so much money, most people can't afford it at all, you are like this, you are simply killing people, you know!" ”

"Hehe, this beautiful lady seems to be angry." Li Zhigao continued to smile, "I understand your anger, and personally, I also hope that the special medicine can be very cheap." However, I am also helpless, I have my difficulties. ”

"What's the difficulty, it's obvious that you want to make huge profits!"

"You can't say that." Li Zhigao said with a smile, "The investment in the research and development of a new drug is quite large, and the institution that develops the new drug, although the general direction is for a better future of mankind and to fight diseases, but if there is no continuous financial support, it can only die halfway." Therefore, at the beginning, most of the new drugs are expensive, and only by continuously investing money and improving manufacturing methods can we gradually carry out industrial production, thereby reducing the price of drugs and ultimately benefiting ordinary people. In other words, in the initial stage, if you sell it directly at a cheap price, you will not be able to recover your investment, and you will not be able to continue research, which is actually the real hindrance to the development of medicine. Let's not talk about it, let's just say that aspirin, wasn't it also more expensive than gold at the beginning? My medicine is much more effective than aspirin, and it is not too much to say that it is epoch-making, so why can't I ask for this price? ”

"You, you ......" The little girl is a nun, not an unreasonable shrew, so after being refuted by Li Zhigao, she instantly lost her words.

"Mr. Li, you may be right." Edford sighed, "But after all, the price is too high for many people to accept." ”

"Hehe, Mr. Edford." Li Zhigao smiled again, "Actually, you know very well that when a new medicine comes out, no matter whether it is cheap or expensive, the first to get benefits is only those who are rich." And disease is rich and poor, and rich people are also the most afraid of death, so this price is definitely not high, after all, compared with their own lives, is a tael of gold more expensive? ”

"Indeed, compared to life, a tael of gold is not expensive." Edford nodded, not wanting to argue about it, apparently he knew it was useless.

"Of course, Mr. Edford need not be so discouraged." Li Zhigao smiled, "Although I can't make the decision to reduce the price of medicine on a large scale, I can start a medical cooperation plan with your Holy Love Church, and if this cooperation is carried out well, I can provide you with special drugs for free on a regular basis." ”

"Medical cooperation?" Edford asked quietly, "I don't know what you mean by medical cooperation?" ”

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