Chapter 789: Setting off an anti-British wave

Loquat drugs are riding the free ride of Coptis chinensis, a piece of famous in Europe.

Even if the Panama Canal is located in the tropics, the rain is abundant, and the scene of wolf smoke on the construction site is indispensable. Chinese, especially those Chinese who occupy leadership positions, sent large quantities of cough syrup and loquat paste to Panama, and soon the Japanese were affected as well. When the eyes of Westerners are focused on the Panama Canal, loquat drugs have entered the eyes of the Western world by the way.

The industry in Europe is definitely developed, and the more developed the place, the worse the air quality, loquat this thing clears the lungs and relieves cough, and there is a large market in the industrially developed regions of Europe.

In recent years, China's strength has continued to grow, and the change of the world's image has given some items in China that were not originally seen by the Western world a new value. Medicine is one of them, and many pills, pills, powders and decoctions, as well as traditional Chinese medicine that can be applied orally, have become a new growth point for foreign trade in recent years.

The pharmaceutical industry across the country is also going crazy to make decoction drugs, which occupy the main position in the traditional Chinese medicine system, into oral drugs with the same effect. There is no need to guarantee the same efficacy, as long as it has the corresponding efficacy. And it needs to be suitable for the masses.

The attention of Chinese medicine to patients is super multifaceted. The same medicine, the same disease, as long as the people are different, it is not uncommon to cure the disease, and even make the patient's condition worse. Being able to adapt to the masses is the biggest problem for Chinese medicine to go global.

Therefore, the export of traditional Chinese medicine in China today has either solved this problem - loquat ointment. Either it is the direct medicinal material of Coptis chinensis, and quinine produced in the South Seas. That is, the cinchona cream that Kangxi regarded as a miracle medicine is a nature.

The origin of cinchona cream is Peru in the Americas. It is a special medicine for the prevention and treatment of fever, especially malaria, and has made great contributions to the development of the colonized world by Europeans.

And when the cinchona in the South Seas, to be precise, the cinchona in the East Indies, left the South American origin far behind, Liu Xian didn't know, and he didn't need to know. It would be enough for him to confirm that at least 80% of the world's quinine is produced in the South Seas.

The British have a large number of interests in India and Africa, and they cannot do without this kind of thing.

And aspirin is a miracle drug that has only appeared on the Chinese market in the past two years. In the Chinese army, it has appeared for nearly seven years, and it is a standing analgesic and antipyretic drug in the army, in addition to fighting rheumatism, promoting the excretion of uric acid in gout patients, anti-platelet aggregation and biliary roundworm treatment have good effects.

This is naturally another outstanding invention under the leadership of Liu Xian. The reason why it was put on the market was that Liu Xian remembered that this thing was invented during the intersection of the 19th and 20th centuries. He couldn't remember who it was.

In addition to organizing manpower and material resources to develop aspirin, Liu Xian also let people develop penicillin, as for sulfonamides, another antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drug that was popular on a large scale before penicillin, Liu Xian really didn't know what that thing was. He's chemically superb. That penicillin is known by the name. and appeared in the novel many times, which made Liu Xian have some impressions. Aspirin is even more equated with willow bark, and Liu Xian's contribution to this drug is a special sentence. It's just that enough funding and a large number of researchers are provided. I made aspirin seven or eight years ahead of schedule.

It was only in 1897 that he made the drug public in order not to make foreigners cheaper. In this era when chemical medicine was just in its infancy. Aspirin can definitely be called a miracle drug.

It's just that it's 1899 now, and the 19th century is coming to an end. Why hasn't the European side seen any news of this thing being invented and put into use? Could it be that he is mistaken? Or did the butterfly's wings fan this thing away?

In any case, both raw silk and medicine had a greater or lesser impact on the British Empire. It's not a qualitative threat, but it's definitely a big hit for Whitehall.

It's more of an expression of attitude. If Britain and France start a war on the peninsula. China, on the other hand, has been quiet and has not reacted at all, which will inevitably undermine China's prestige. Therefore, China's continuous trade 'measures' are clearly retaliation against the British.

On the afternoon of the 25th, less than five hours before the order to raise tariffs on Britain was announced, the Great Wall Film Factory, directly under the Ministry of Culture and Education, and three local state-owned film companies in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, jointly announced that they would jointly shoot a film called "The Opium War", with a total investment of 100 million yuan.

This can be said to be an astronomical amount, and in the early days of the film, this cost was completely insane, and it was an investment that did not pay off.

At the same time, China's most famous scientist, the Serbian Nicholas, who had already received the hereditary count of the empire. Tesla officially announced to the world that his latest invention, the sound film, will be auditioned with the birth of the film "Opium Wars"!

If there was no war in the Middle East, if there were no Sino-British trade disputes, Nikolai . Tesla's invention is sure to attract worldwide attention. Because after the birth of the movie, it quickly spread all over the world, Europe, Asia, Africa - colonies, not Uncle Black, North and South America, all have their figures. In China, twenty or thirty film companies such as state-owned and private companies were born.

In a short period of time, 25% of the country's theaters have been converted into theaters, and with the addition of new theaters, the existence of movies has largely overstocked the living space of dramas and theaters.

In particular, during the war, from Russia to North America, from Siberia to the South Seas, in the air, on land, and in the sea, 33 war documentaries were named as a whole -- the great Wehrmacht series, which caused a sensation throughout the country and directly made the people of the whole country know and accept the novelty of films.

To this day, this series of war documentaries is still shown in local theaters.

Even then the film was a "great mute". In order to make up for the shortcomings of this "dumb", filmmakers have thought of all kinds of ways to make it "speak". In the beginning, movie theaters had voice actors stand behind the scenes and speak while the film was being screened. But this method was quickly phased out. Later, someone came up with another solution: to provide musical accompaniment at the film screening. For example, this is the case with the great Wehrmacht series, each of which is accompanied by deafening gunfire and screams of slaughter during the screening, which stimulates the audience's enthusiasm. This method was more popular, and it was popular in both the East and the West before.

But filmmakers and audiences at large still expect the sound to be a formal honor and disgrace movie, not a movie + gramophone. For Liu Xian, sound movies are the real movies. Gramophone and records only make up for the audience's lack of hearing, but cannot fundamentally solve the problem of the audience's expectations for the timbre of the film. This task he gave to Nikolai, who had achieved complete success after the invention of the radio. Tesla.

Nikolai. Tesla has devised a clever method of synchronizing the action with the lines, using compressed air to amplify the sound so that all the audience members gathered in a large theater can hear it.

That's his sound film.

At the press conference, Nikolai, who has the title of count. Tesla sat in the middle as it should, confident in the face of the photo shoot that flashed into a sea. The tone of the reply was firm and high-spirited, which made the reporters present feel that the era of sound films has really come.

No one knows Nikolai who returned home from the press conference. Tesla, without having time to rest at all, said hello to his wife and children, and quickly rushed to Shijingshan and plunged into his laboratory. Because of what he calls 'sound films', the sound produced is always nasal, and the synchronization method is still imperfect. The actors had to try to match the movements of their lips with the sound of the gramophone record "recreated". This is an immature, unsuccessful invention! But in order to cooperate with the government's strategy, for the orders of His Majesty the Emperor whom he most respected, Nikolai . Tesla threw his own honor into this struggle. Although in the contest between China and Britain, the film that claimed to cost 100 million yuan was just an expensive tool. Tesla's invention is only part of this tool. Nikolai. Tesla's credibility and prestige are just a tiny dot smaller than a fingertip in this game between two world empires.

Nikolai. Tesla must work hard, not only for his own glory, but also for the sound film to truly appear in the world, so that "The Opium War" will be released without the slightest flaw.

As the most influential scientist in China and the world's leading scientist, Nikolai Nicholas has epoch-making significance in electromagnetism. Tesla doesn't have to deal with it as a last resort, and he really doesn't want to lose his credibility. Although His Majesty the Emperor will definitely have compensation, and this will not affect his position in China at all. Co Nikolai. Tesla still felt like he wasn't running out of time, like a knife was chasing him behind him.

"Opium and Sheet Wars" is huge in scale, not only involves a large number of personnel, but also has naval battle scenes and war scenes, and the whole filming and preparation process takes a long time. Tesla expects that he will have a year to a year and a half, and during this time he must solve all the flaws of his 'invention'!

And the appearance of this press conference of "Opium and Chip War", in the eyes of the British, can also draw a very accurate understanding - the Chinese are not joking. If the British continued to target their attacks in the Middle East or threaten Kuwait, the British Empire would also face a sharp decline in trade in China. And because of the film "Opium and Film War" in the whole of China, a huge anti-British trend will definitely be set off in the near future.

This is very likely to evolve into a social phenomenon that affects all industries in China! (To be continued......)