What does the snow look like? Sprinkling salt can be simulated in the air. If the catkins rise because of the wind.

As the Spring Festival approaches, heavy snow falls again. The snow shines on the harvest year, maybe it's this snow. Who knows? For most Chinese, the Spring Festival is truly worth living, so they are busy, if not physically, at least psychologically. I've been busy for a year, isn't it just for this day? No, there is still half a month before the New Year, and everyone has begun to prepare for the New Year. Everyone walked the streets and alleys to buy New Year's goods. The streets are colorful, all kinds of people have them, all kinds of goods are complete, and there are a lot of dazzling colors, and people are afraid that they have to choose what they want to buy!

In order to receive relatives and friends to visit the New Year, they will clean the inside and outside of the house, and will paste a Spring Festival couplet on the door to pray for good luck. Couplets are written on red paper in black or gold, what "wealth is extensive", "step by step", "wealth is full", anyway, are some auspicious words. Pray for happiness and good health in the coming year. Paste the red Spring Festival couplets, hang the red lanterns, every house is brightly lit, and every family dresses up the house extraordinarily neatly. They put their New Year's goods all over the ground. How to paste the bought New Year's paintings, then each has its own style and preferences. Some are sticking upside down, some are sticking upside down, and some are sticking crookedly, each with its own merits.

All in all, in a word. Before the Spring Festival, there are always some decent things. Whether poor or rich, there will always be the most sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve meal of the year at the end. Every family is equipped with firecrackers, put on new clothes, ready to welcome the New Year, before the Spring Festival, when people go out, if they meet a good friend, they always do not forget to say: "Go to the street!" "People slaughter pigs and sheep, and are busy preparing for the Spring Festival.

The Imperial Palace is still inhabited by Chinese, and of course it is not exempt from vulgarity. The eunuchs and palace ladies are busy cleaning, and they are also pasting Spring Festival couplets and hanging lanterns like the people. It's just that this year is different that there are fewer eunuchs and palace maids, and this job is naturally heavier. But no matter how heavy it is, it's the minions, and it has nothing to do with the master. The Spring Festival is good, and everyone's face is full of smiles. Since the tenth day of the lunar month, different opera troupes have entered the palace to sing operas, and the Empress Dowager Cixi even allowed the courtiers to watch the opera together. The opera on the stage continued, and the audience enjoyed themselves.

However, there is always an exception. At this time, the imperial study was bleak. At this time, there was only a pot of carbon fire in the imperial study, and the temperature was so insignificant in the large imperial study. And the kettle on the charcoal fire still stubbornly spits water vapor, adding even a trace of heat to the cold imperial study. That's it, compared to the Cining Palace, which is as warm as spring and full of people, the imperial study in the same palace is as strict as another world.

Guangxu stared at the rising water vapor intently, his brows furrowed.

Since Rong Yonglan, the United States, Britain, Germany, and France purchased equipment, the news that Qing Guo would develop its first drug spread all over the world. At that time, only the rest of the world, with the exception of Germany, which had seen the drug, scoffed at it. In a country where there is no technology to speak of, developing new drugs is tantamount to a dream. Even the old lady in the palace was quite disgusted by Guangxu's thankless work, and said: "It is better to repair the garden for the mourning family than to waste the silver." Although she has never figured out where Guangxu's money came from.

But Guangxu was unmoved. If the development fails, it will be nothing more than a ridicule, and no country will look at it anyway, and it will not be worse than this; However, once it is successfully developed, China's international image and international status will be greatly changed. According to Lin Lianhui's words, this drug is internationally advanced. In this way, if China does not continue, it will have an additional condition for trading with other countries. In Guangxu's view, whether it is now or in the future, China always thinks that it is inferior to foreign countries, but Guangxu has always believed that China has always had something to be proud of in its 5,000 years. For example, the current Yunnan Baiyao. Therefore, Guangxu intentionally or unintentionally publicized the miraculous curative effect of Yunnan Baiyao in military academies to ministers of various countries, coupled with the confirmation of the rigorous Germans, Guangxu let the "Business Times" publicize and report, and at the same time made Yunnan Baiyao to the ministers of various countries in China. For a time, Yunnan Baiyao was in the limelight, and at the same time, the security of the pharmaceutical factory was ranked at the top.

The wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. More than three months have passed, millions of dollars have been spent to buy back all kinds of equipment, despite Li Hongzhang's opposition to forcibly recall Lin Lianhui and other top medical students studying abroad, regardless of Cixi's opinions, to convene the top doctors of the Tai Hospital, to use nearly half of the medicinal materials of the Tai Hospital, and to spend more than 100,000 US dollars on research and development costs, it took more than three months, and still no way to find a way for Yunnan Baiyao to be mass-produced. Now it is still a local pharmaceutical, with low output, long time, and naturally high cost. The initial ridicule became a reality, and countries also tested the efficacy of the drug in addition to the ridicule. The effect was satisfactory, so the ministers of various countries entered the palace one after another to ask Guangxu if he intended to sell the Yunnan Baiyao formula. Recently, news came back from the Sihai Hotel that in view of Guangxu's resolute refusal to sell the Yunnan Baiyao formula, various countries are ready to jointly put pressure on the Qing State. However, the participating countries have not been able to share the benefits of the formulation, so the agreement has not yet been implemented. Guangxu was depressed, if the countries reached an agreement at this moment, how should Guangxu deal with it? At this time, there was no one who could even counsel.

It's not that I don't work hard, but I also think of a lot of ways. But the mass production of Yunnan Baiyao is like the moon in the water and the flower in the mirror, which is out of reach. Even Lin Lianhui and others have shown some desperation, and no matter how they develop, they can't refine the effective ingredients. A month ago, Guangxu finally made a decision to completely abandon the western method of refining pharmaceuticals, and fully adopt the original pharmaceutical method, the difference is: drying is replaced by drying, cutting, grinding and other things done by workers are replaced by machines. This is the last hope, and the future generations will be able to produce in large quantities, perhaps as a result of the development of science and technology.

At this time, Guangxu's expression was difficult to see, everyone could see that Guangxu was in a very bad mood, and he had recently been angry in the court, and afterwards Guangxu himself felt that this fire was a little inexplicable.

The water in the "Gollum, Gollum, Gollum" kettle boiled, and a large amount of water vapor made a noisy sound when the lid of the kettle opened, pulling Guangxu back to reality. Guangxu sighed deeply, reached out and took the kettle to refill his teacup.

"Your Majesty, the water in the cup is cold, let the slave maid change a new cup of tea for you." As he spoke, Liu Mei picked up the teacup.

"Put it down, it's a lot of silver for another cup. Let's make do with it. Guangxu took the teacup and poured some hot water: "Cold weather, cold room, only such a small pot of carbon fire." Do you really have no complaints after following me like this? ”

"How can there be no complaints, of course there are, and they are still big." Kou Liancai wanted to open this oppressive atmosphere: "Why didn't the emperor order the Beiyang sailors to pick up the underwear of the old thing in Meiji." This kind of thing can make the minions have a stomach. ”

Guangxu laughed dumbly, but this laughter was indeed so desolate in Kou Liancai's ears.

"You can't even develop a medicine with a formula, so what do you want to build a ship, and what do you want to fight." Guangxu's confidence was shaken between the words.

"Poof" Kou Liancai knelt down: "Your Majesty, the slave only doesn't understand this medicinal material." But the slave knew that it was this foreigner who couldn't make a new drug in a few years. It's just a few setbacks, but it only needs to be done again to be successful. Your Majesty, you are the backbone of everyone, you can't mess around. ”

"The backbone?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, even Lord Tang has said in private that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is the only hope." Kou Liancai's words carried a slight pleading voice: "Your Majesty, everyone is looking at you." If you mess up first, what will happen to the minions? ”

yes, there's still a vote of people staring at it. This is a vote of people who are determined to revitalize the country, and I can only show confidence at any time. Guangxu, who had figured it out, laughed: "Get up, it's hypocrisy." Go and change a cup of tea for me, I can't stand drinking cold tea in this winter. We are not short of this cup of tea. ”

"Good!"

As soon as the play on stage ended, the audience was full of praise.

"The performance is good, and the mourning family likes it too." Cixi's words are tantamount to affirming this performance: "There are rewards." ”

Sun Yuwen, who was sitting on the side, hurriedly said, "Lafayette, this is the New Year." You can appreciate more, and let the people also enjoy themselves in heaven. ”

"Hahaha. That's right, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Cixi waved her hand lightly, and the more than three hundred taels of silver went out.

After finishing speaking, Cixi took a sip of tea, and said lightly: "Laishan, if you have anything to say, don't always hide it." Let that little bit of your mind go home. ”

"How can the slave hide this little bit of thought from the wise queen mother." Sun Minwen laughed with him: "Isn't the emperor developing some new medicine over there?" I heard that it cost millions of taels and it didn't work, and the emperor didn't agree to sell the formula. A few days ago, the American minister sent someone to ask me to help ask the Queen Mother. They are willing to bid 5 million taels of cash to buy the formula of this new medicine, I don't know what the Queen Mother wants? ”

"What prescription is so valuable?"

"I heard that this medicine is called Yunnan Baiyao, and it is still the name given by the emperor." Sun Yuwen continued: "Next year will be the 60th birthday of the Queen Mother, but the garden for birthday celebrations is always repaired intermittently because of lack of money. If you have these 5 million taels of silver, this birthday garden will be successfully completed. This is also a piece of filial piety for the minions. ”

"This medicine is the emperor's thing, but I don't know what the emperor means?"

Sun Yuwen is such a perceptive person. Cixi said so, but in fact, her heart was moved. As soon as Sun Yuwen heard it, he knew that there was a door to this matter: "The slave Ming'er went to ask the emperor what he meant, thinking that the emperor has always been filial to the queen mother, so he will not object with the emperor's filial piety." Sun Yuwen smiled with a smile on his face, and he really laughed heartily in his heart, in addition to the one gold bar that had already arrived, there were two more in this matter. Not to mention the entry and exit in the garden.

Sing a song, and come again.

At the time when Cixi was watching the drama and tea, there was still wind and snow outside the capital. On the road leading from Fengtai Daying to Zhonghua Pharmaceutical Factory, a horse-drawn carriage galloped away.

"Huh-" At the gate of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory, the carriage has not yet stopped. Lin Lianhui jumped out of the carriage and ran in quickly: "Jin Dating, are the materials and samples ready?" ”

"Lord Lin, it's all together. What is the result of the Fengtai camp? ”

"Bring all your stuff and get in the car. Fast. ”

In the imperial study, Guangxu watched the eunuchs and palace maids move in two sets of hot pots, and just smiled faintly. The emperor is the emperor, the necessary majesty must still be there, it doesn't matter if you go out, you can't always eat in the same pot with the eunuchs and maids in the palace.

When the meal was set, Guangxu spoke: "I always said that I would invite you to eat the pot outside, but it didn't work out." Let's eat in the palace today. "Sit down and eat. However, after only a few bites, Guangxu always felt wrong. Looking up and seeing Kou Liancai and Liu Mei talking and laughing at the table, Guangxu knew why he felt wrong. It's not that the soup is bad, it's not that the dishes are wrong. It's because hot pot should be eaten by a group of people, and he eats it alone. Thinking back to the future generations, or a family or a few friends, eating around the table and chatting. Guangxu smiled knowingly, it seems that the emperor has no chance. Kou Liancai and Liu Mei also stopped, and stood up a little bewildered.

"What's wrong, is there something wrong? I remembered that there was still some beer from the German minister, so I went to get some bottles. Eating hot pot without alcohol, no wonder I feel that something is wrong. By the way, Hao Yide and Leng Jun were called to eat together. Go for it. ”

"Thank you for your grace." Hao Yide and Leng Jun thanked him as soon as they entered the door.

"No courtesy, sit down and eat together, everyone has worked hard for most of the year. Come, I salute you, I also respect myself, and I will continue to work hard in the coming year. ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but laugh. The emperor is afraid that he is the first in history to say that the New Year's wish is to "continue to work hard".

"The slave (Weichen) pays tribute to the emperor, and I hope that the emperor's wish will come true next year."

"It's all done."

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