As soon as penicillin came out, it instantly shocked the entire medical community. It was previously considered a terminal illness in the entire medical community, but now it seems that as long as penicillin is a drug, he can save his life.

However, this situation is useful for people who have never been exposed to any antibodies and who are not allergic to penicillin.

With the birth of penicillin, its price was raised to the point that ordinary people could not touch it in the first time, and the price of a tall 60 pounds was constantly rotating in the sky over Europe and the United States. And those people in the upper class don't seem to think how expensive this life-saving drug is, and they don't even care if they need it or not, they grab some first.

It's just that since then, it has created the embarrassment that penicillin was once out of stock.

The proceeds from penicillin and arms were sent back to China as soon as possible, and Minister of Finance Li Yihe, who received the funds, seemed to be relieved. At least when receiving this batch of funds, the emperor once told him personally that a certain amount of funds would be injected into the Ministry of Finance every month in the future, and from now on, there will be no crisis of disconnection of funds in the Ministry of Finance.

After the New Year, the financial crisis has just been resolved. But at this time, Wang Lin was not happy at all, because the army in Korea and the Russian army in the Far East seemed to have been prepared and planned to start a war in the near future.

At the beginning of the war, the total strength of the army was about 375,000 and 1,140 guns, of which 250,000 could be used to fight outside the islands. 37% of the artillery is mountain artillery, which is suitable for the terrain characteristics of the northeast battlefield. 147 machine guns.

At this time, the Japanese side had already transported hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Korea and other places, and Tsar Nicholas II did not seem to be outdone, facing only about 44 million people with a total population, he dared to make an axe in front of Russia, which has a population of 140 million, Nicholas II seemed to be very angry, not only scolding the monkey in the palace for being too arrogant, but also stepping up the mobilization of troops to the Far East.

Tsarist Russia, with a population of 140 million, had a standing army of about 1.05 million troops and 3.75 million reservists in 1904 because Russia's strategic focus was no longer on the Far East. Among them, 90 percent of the troops are deployed in the western region, and in the Far East there are only more than 98,000 regular army troops, 148 guns, and 8 machine guns, and on the eve of the war, the Russian Navy has more than 200 warships, of which the Pacific Fleet has more than 60 combat ships and more than 192,000 tons.

However, for the Russians, it seems that they still have a certain advantage in front of the army, and the lack of people does not mean anything, and the most tragic thing is that there are many people and they are not useful.

Although Wang Lin had made a lot of preparations for this incident before, when this incident was really going to happen, Wang Lin was still a little uneasy, after all, it would be a tragic battle, and the dead soldiers on both sides were all counted in tens of thousands. In particular, the crimes of the Russian [***] team in the northeast region are the most worrying issue for Wang Lin.

At present, Wang Lin does not actually control the northeast region, and it seems that it is not very safe to issue a retreat order, not to mention that the retreat order was issued at this time, isn't it a clear telling Russia and Russia, you wait first, and when I have withdrawn the people, you will come to my house to fight, and then I will not care.

At this time, in Wang Lin's office, the entire high-ranking officials of the Ministry of National Defense, the commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force, and Li Ping, minister of the interior, all gathered together, and although everyone knew the purpose of Wang Lin asking them to come here, they did not know what Wang Lin's intentions were.

"Ben and Russia now look angry, as if they have not hesitated to fight for the interests of the Far East, and judging from their current formations, the battlefield is very likely to be in the northeast of our country. Tell us what you think. Wang Lin asked a little tangled.

If we follow Wang Lin's own opinion, that is, regardless of the Russian side, they will fight as much as they want, and when they are almost done, we will go up and beat them twice so that they can remember their surnames for a long time. Originally, the arrangement for this matter was also relatively smooth.

But when I came to the present, I felt that this matter seemed to be a little inappropriate, if nothing else, the northeasterners are also Chinese, and they also belong to the descendants of China. It is said that the Russian side has placed the battlefield in the northeast region, and many civilians will inevitably die in the war.

As the emperor of the country, Wang Lin must not tolerate this happening, whether it is land or people, Wang Lin wants it, and he cannot lose it. Allowing other countries to wage war within their own borders, Wang Lin thought that he could not afford it, and he did not dare to bear it.

Therefore, Wang Lin did not hesitate to overturn his previous arrangement, but also formulated a new set of plans.

"Beat, there's nothing to say, as long as they dare to enter our country, we will beat his turtle son until they all remember their surnames." As the army commander-in-chief, Tang Fenghu was originally an extremely short-tempered and desperate person to fight, and he had already heard the people below mention the situation in Russia, but Wang Lin did not ask his opinion, and he also had the habit of absolutely obeying Wang Lin's orders, so when Wang Lin asked them at this time, Tang Fenghu stood up and shouted for them as soon as possible.

"If we really want to fight, our navy can also accept this fact, the six Chinese ships newly incorporated into the navy fleet, the officers and men are almost trained at present, and it is time for them to fight a vicious battle to temper themselves." Admiral Chen Yu nodded.

The navy did not have the largest number of ships, but the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy was indeed the strongest, although at this time there were still only two fleets, one Pacific Fleet and one Indian Ocean Fleet. And in terms of numbers, it seems that there is no big change, and each fleet has only added three warships after several years of development.

In this world, in addition to Germany, which already has two Chinese warships, the Chinese warships ordered by Britain and France are still moored in the dock on Hainan Island. However, the two fleets of the Imperial Chinese Navy each had six Chinese ships in each fleet. Just imagine, just a fleet with three Chinese ships can annihilate the British Far East Fleet, and when a fleet with six Chinese ships sails to the battlefield together, can this fleet, which Russia cannot take a hand in the Far East, stop the iron hooves of the Chinese Imperial Fleet?

After analyzing the situation, Chenyu was a little bold and arrogant to say that whether to fight or not to fight was just a sentence.

"Your Majesty, I have never been very clear about the affairs of the army, but in today's situation, I think that as the prime minister of the Ministry of the Interior, I should also know something about the situation of the army, at least in case of a real fight, I need to have a bottom in my heart, otherwise I will not be able to explain it to the people." Looking at the high-level military personnel who look like I dare to fight if you dare to come, it looks like Wang Lin at the beginning, and it really responds to Wang Lin's original words, all of them here are a group of young Zhuang factions, and they are all the kind of characters who are not afraid of heaven and earth.

It's just that if there is a real fight, he, the prime minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, also needs to give an explanation to the people. Because in the hearts of the people, the political axe and the army are basically one family, and the army has gone to war, but you, the prime minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, don't know what the situation is? How many people will believe this?

Therefore, Li Ping took advantage of the fact that everyone is here today, and at the same time took this opportunity to touch the confidence of the military, as the saying goes, only when there is a tough army behind them, diplomats can sit at the negotiating table strongly, and this sentence is also feasible when applied to political axe personnel. (Don't think about this, I just want to say that this sentence can make the political axe confidently tell the people that we can do it.) Wang Lin slowly looked at Lieutenant General Yang Yuquan, the chief of the Air Force, as if asking for his opinion.

Yang Yuquan saw the emperor's gaze looking at him, and he was a little flattered and whispered again and again: "Your Majesty, in fact, it doesn't matter whether you fight or not, anyway, our air force will not be useful." ”

Yang Yuquan's words made Wang Lin's old face blush, as if he felt a little sorry for his brothers in the Air Force. The Air Force has not been established for a short time, and it is not much different from the Navy, but the Navy has now experienced several baptisms of battle. And what about the Air Force? Although these are very useful, they have never been on the battlefield for a few years, and this makes the air force brothers somewhat unwilling to endure the loneliness of listening to people firing guns.

"Lao Yang, don't complain here, who in our room doesn't know about your Air Force? You are all the emperor's baby bumps, and it is still a period of secrecy, after you go back, you will talk to the air force brothers, let them endure for a few more years, now there are planes in the United States, although it is somewhat similar to the appearance of our previous planes, but I think it will not be long before your air force will be put to use. Tang Fenghu quipped. But he also said a fact.

"Your Majesty, I think we must fight this battle, and we must win it, otherwise it will be difficult to determine the status of the empire in the world." Seeing that everyone was provoking each other sentence by sentence, and did not take Wang Lin, the emperor in his eyes, Defense Minister Tang San hurriedly opened his mouth to say what he meant.

Wang Lin didn't feel anything excessive about the performance of several people, and these people were the first to follow Wang Lin out to work hard, Wang Lin was quite casual about them, but after Wang Lin became the emperor, no one called him a teacher or principal anymore, which made Wang Lin a little depressed.

"Not only will it make the international status of the empire uncertain, but it will also affect the speed of our development in the future." Wang Lin sighed secretly.

(To be continued)