Chapter 11 Penicillin
November 30, 1914
GZ City, a private courtyard, in a small courtyard with a cool breeze, several people are sitting under a large banyan tree with a well-developed canopy and lush branches to talk about things.
"Mr. Liu, I think you should know very well. This medical accident has made it difficult for you to continue to stay in Guangzhou Hospital, or even any hospital in the whole of Guangdong, although the cause of the accident is not yours. ”
Sitting on a small bamboo chair, Jian San pinched the small teapot in his hand and took a sip beautifully. Liu Shusheng on the opposite side had just come back from the hospital, wearing a tie suit, with a depressed face, and he hadn't even changed his clothes before he met this visitor.
There were a few salutes in the courtyard, and a very young and knowledgeable woman, wearing a small cheongsam, stood next to him, looking like she was waiting for Liu Shusheng to come back and move.
Without this uninvited guest, maybe they have called a rickshaw and are ready to go out!
Liu Shusheng is an internist at a well-known Guangzhou Hospital in Guangzhou. Ten minutes earlier, he had just received a letter of dismissal from the hospital that he had anticipated.
Liu Shusheng lowered his head and sighed, the person in front of him, who claimed to be the Qinghe Village Security Corps in the Qinghe Village Industrial Zone, actually invited himself to preside over the establishment of Longteng Hospital when he was the most depressed, young people, it seems that they don't know the difficulty of establishing a Western medicine system hospital, not to mention where Qinghe Village is? There is also the so-called industrial zone, when Guangxi has established an industrial zone, why I don't know anything.
"Mr. Jian, there is nothing wrong with our family's tree life, and it is not that the medical skills are not perfect, that patient was originally a dead horse as a live horse doctor. He graduated from ......"
"Enough!" Liu Shusheng raised his hand to stop his wife from explaining for himself, he didn't need to explain, the death of the patient from a famous family is the biggest fact, even if it is a hospital opened by Chinese, he can be dismissed as a punishment, which is already the best result after the president's efforts.
"Born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine, he studied at Shanghai Medical College, and the following year because of his high medical talent, he was recommended to study at Oxford Medical School in the United Kingdom, majoring in the Department of Cell and Biology, and also majoring in clinical medicine. At the beginning of 1914, he returned to China after completing his studies and worked in Guangzhou Hospital. ”
Jian San said this string of information with a smile, but there was a bit of respect in his tone, yes, at this time, if he can be admitted to Oxford Medical School, or study cell and biology, such a talent will actually return to China, and Liu Shusheng is worthy of admiration for this.
"Mr. Ma, your message is very accurate." Liu Shusheng smiled bitterly, as if he was a little surprised, "I am not good at learning and art, and when I returned to China, I originally wanted to use Western medicine to treat my parents and fellow villagers, but I didn't expect such a big leak." Why, you still insist on hiring me to preside over the construction of a Western medicine hospital. You know, that's going to be a huge investment. ”
Listening to his frank words, Jian San was even more respectful, "Our head of the regiment said: the hospital can be established step by step. Western medicine can be recruited from Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong slowly, there is no microscope to buy, no operating room to build, no blood bank, our boss can take the lead in donating blood...... And it's a letter from our boss." After speaking, Jian San took out a letter and handed it to Liu Shusheng.
Tearing open the envelope casually, containing two thin pieces of paper inside, Liu Shusheng read while looking at it: "Brother Shusheng, see the letter, forgive the younger brother for his rash and abrupt move, what happened to Mr. has been known to the younger brother, and after thinking about it in every way, he finally wrote a letter to Brother Ren, hoping to solve the concerns of Brother Ren.
I, Chen Shao, an overseas wanderer, have been discriminated against by outsiders, returned to my hometown, built a factory, in order to revitalize my Chinese industry and strengthen the strength of my country, and have no other intentions.
The younger brother also has great ambitions in his heart, which is to spill his blood for my Chinese sons and daughters, but the world of dialects, the great powers, China has been weak for a long time, and it is really impossible to compete with it, and now there is only inspiration for the development of science and industry. At the same time, I hope that the younger brother will come to the younger brother to talk in detail, and the younger brother is willing to meet openly and honestly.
Regards, Chen Shao,
In addition, the words are ugly and the text is poor, please forgive me."
"...... like this" Liu Shusheng was a little moved, with an inquiring tone, "Mr. Jian, although I know that the militia is also a reputable and more formal military organization, although I work as a doctor in a hospital, my research direction is in the field of cells and biomedicine, and what I am best at is not hospital coordination and management. I have just received a letter from a bacteriology supervisor in the UK, inviting me to join a bacteriology lab in the UK. ”
"But you don't want to leave China, you still have the hope of showing off what you have learned, right?" Like most of the students who returned to China during this period, Liu Shusheng is indeed a good bird and difficult to live, but he always holds hope, which led to the later stabilization of the situation and the return of a large number of talents. What is a Bacteria? Bring in hundreds of Chinese at random, and one knows that it is a good thing.
And even being a doctor, I have encountered this mess of bad luck, this year's patients, will not be reasonable with you to stay in the UK, this year only money and power are reasonable, "Don't worry!" Cells are the most basic building blocks of the human body, right? Although I have never stayed abroad, I still studied in Shanghai for a few years. In short, the future work will not make Mr. Liu feel like playing the piano to the cow. This time I went to Qinghe Village, and you will have unexpected surprises. "If you don't do this, Mr. Jian, I will go to Qinghe Village with you first, and when I see Head Chen, I will say whether I agree or not." No problem at all, will you go now, if you do, I'll arrange the car."" Then you're in trouble, sir."
Liu Shusheng's wife next to him seemed to be very worried about this Qinghe village in Huashi County, which she had never heard of. Although he is not a scientific person, he was born in the West since he was a child, has a master's degree in linguistics, and is proficient in English, German, French and Russian Chinese, otherwise he would not be worthy of Liu Shusheng. But when I go to Qinghe Village, what can I do?" Tree, do you really want to check it out?" yes, let's go check it out first."
Jian San, who was sitting on the bamboo chair, smiled and said, "Madame, let's go and have a look too, I can assure you that I will definitely not let you down."
A group of 3 people went out of the courtyard gate, and when they walked to the door, there was already a car waiting there. It seems that the third of the three has been prepared for a long time.
After a few hours of bumps, it didn't take long to get on the cement road after passing Huashi County, and the car was much more stable at this time.
Liu Shusheng and his wife, sitting in the car, looked out the window at the patches of golden rice and the trucks and pedestrians coming and going, giving the couple the illusion that they were not on the land of China. When the country roads are all cement roads, and when are the trucks running around on the land of China. Along the way, they passed several sentry posts, and the soldiers standing guard also made them feel incredible, standing like a bell and sitting like a clock, full of strong confidence in their words and deeds. The more the car goes inside, the highway slowly becomes denser, when the car walks into Qinghe Village, the street lamps on the side of the road, and the neat houses, the standardized streets, there are a sapling on both sides of the street, I believe that in a few years, these saplings will grow up, it is a boulevard.
The car stopped at the door of the Longteng Building, and when they got off the car, Liu Shusheng and his wife saw a young man in a Mao suit walking towards him with a smile on his face, and said while stretching out his right hand: "I think this is Liu Shusheng's brother, Chen Shao of the Lower Longteng Group, added as the head of the Qinghe Village Security Corps, and the younger brother has been waiting for a long time again."
Liu Shusheng also politely stretched out his right hand, the two shook hands, and then pointed to his wife next to him and said, "It's Liu Shusheng, this is an insider." So are Mr. Liu and Mrs. Liu going to talk in detail, or are they going to walk around?"
The couple looked at each other, and Liu Shusheng said, "Let's go around."
Chen Shao took Liu Shusheng and his wife to the direction of the factory, and Jian San also followed. A group of 4 people did not speak all the way. Chen Shao is not in a hurry, since he has come here, he is not afraid that they will reject him. And Liu Shusheng and his wife are still in shock, and they haven't digested what they saw and heard along the way.
The group slowly passed by Qinghe Village Primary School, Technical School, Reserve Barracks, Seed Base, Livestock Farm, Pig Factory, Chicken Farm, and slowly entered the factory area. Listening to the passers-by constantly greeting the young man next to him, Liu Shusheng was full of emotion in his heart: he didn't expect that in China, except for Shanghai, he would see such a huge industrial cluster in this small mountain village, and it seems that he really needs to stay, maybe this is the future of the Chinese people.
Seeing the couple looking around, Chen Shao said to Liu Shusheng's wife next to him: "I heard that the lady is a master of linguistics, proficient in four Chinese, I don't know if I can come to Qinghe Village as a teacher, although I do not have a perfect learning mechanism here, but I promise you that in less than two years, middle schools, colleges and universities will be established here one after another, and this will also be a place for you to show your ambitions in the future." I believe Mr. Chen's words, but it also depends on whether my husband stays or not." In fact, in Mrs. Liu Shusheng's heart, she has already agreed, but this also depends on her husband's meaning.
Hearing Mrs. Liu's words, Chen Shao said again: "Presumably the two of you haven't eaten yet, let's go back first, let me do my best to invite the two of you to taste our food here." Well, that's what you want." When it comes to eating, the husband and wife also feel a little hungry.
The group returned to the Longteng Building, and at the back of the building was a large canteen. The three of them had something to do, and the remaining three people ate and chatted.
"Mr. Liu, as a genius, I understand you and know that you must have suffered a lot abroad. Maybe they also say that Chinese are not naturally good at Western medicine, and only those pots and jars of Chinese medicine, right? Chen Shao asked with a smile, Orientals, especially specific to Chinese, are comprehensively and industry-wide discriminated against by Westerners.
"How do you know? This really made me angry when I was at Oxford Medical School, that year, I took the lead in completing a cell division experiment, and I was ridiculed by several French classmates, saying that the professor helped me complete it, hehe...... Speaking of which, I am not afraid of Mr. Ma's jokes, but the entire Oxford Medical School, even another Chinese, a Japanese, doubted me. And the only person who believed in me was my bacteriology mentor, who described me as a genius who had come from the East, and of course, he also wanted me to go back and continue working under him! ”
Chen Shao nodded, put down his job, and said in an extremely affirmative tone: "Believe me, in less than two years, all your classmates, including your mentor, will be ashamed of their short-sightedness and despicable behavior at the beginning. And I will do my best to help you develop our own medical system for Chinese and develop the strongest cell and biological sciences in the world. ”
"Tree ......"
Mrs. Liu Shusheng obviously wanted to say something, but before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Liu Shusheng.
"Head Zhang, I am Chinese, and I also graduated from Oxford University and studied linguistics."
Where has Chen Shao learned this in the third place, linguistics? Talents, especially rare language talents who are native speakers of Chinese, although there are foreign language teaching materials in their schools that fully meet the needs of the times, but there is a lack of senior language teachers, and even several teachers recruited from the coast are still at the level of alphabet teaching, and follow-up grammar and oral teaching especially need real experts." As I said earlier, within two years, a university will be built here, and I desperately hope that Madame Zun will stay and teach."
"University? You, are you really willing to invest so much money? "It's a hospital and a university, it's hard to imagine that a militia leader has so much courage, but when I think of that huge industrial base, I already believe in this militia leader.
"Also, Mr. Liu, you will not feel lonely here, because here, there is more than one patriotic scholar who has returned from studying abroad, and there are perfect experimental facilities." Chen Shao took out a bill of exchange, a bill of exchange with a limit of 500,000 US dollars, and showed it to Liu Shusheng, "As the start-up capital of the hospital, this money may not be enough, but it will be the first investment." ”
Liu Shusheng smiled happily: "Head Chen is so bold, it is better for Shusheng to be respectful than to obey his fate."
Seeing that Liu Shusheng agreed to stay, Chen Shao smiled mysteriously, of course, it was a surprise, although the invention of penicillin was a company, it would rely on the hands of this patriotic medical scientist surnamed Liu.
To put it bluntly, I was lucky to meet a high-end medical talent who returned to China. And Liu Shusheng's luck is that he will be famous at home and abroad because of himself.