"Week! What's been going on with you lately? As soon as Zhou Shuren walked into the school, he heard Dr. McMillan's enthusiastic shouts. He looked up and saw Dr. McMillan walking briskly from the warehouse.

"Mr. McMillan, is there anything going on?" Zhou Shuren stopped.

"Ah, didn't we just record the other day how to make a white tiger potion that can be used to treat the flu? In the past few days, there have been a lot of flu cases in Hangzhou. I think it's a good way to test the effect of these drugs on the flu. Well, Zhou, we can provide this white tiger potion to the patients in Hangzhou, as well as other medicines, and count them in groups for comparative experiments. This may provide some evidence of whether these drugs are effective against influenza viruses. Unfortunately, this potion has a special smell and taste, and it is difficult for us to conduct double-blind comparison experiments at this time. Dr. McMillan replied, "Anyway, I need some Chinese to help me find more flu patients who are willing to come to our hospital for treatment, the more the better." Are you available now? ”

"Ah," Zhou Shuren was silent for a moment, and then replied, "I'm busy arranging for those new comrades to learn the basics right now. However, if the matter is urgent, I can leave it to someone else for the time being......"

It was probably from Zhou Shuren's voice that he heard the taste of reluctance. Dr. McMillan was silent for a moment, then said to Zhou Shuren, "Zhou, I feel that you are very resistant to things related to traditional Chinese medicine. I wonder if you think that these were originally China's wealth, but now they may be brought to foreign countries by a gringo like me? Zhou, I think you should think about it from a different perspective. Well, you know, science knows no borders. Moreover, bringing China's traditional medicine closer to modern medicine will also play a great role in the progress of Chinese medicine, and the mutual penetration of science and tradition can also gradually penetrate new knowledge and new ideas into the people's spirit. So, Zhou, in a sense, although the Chinese medicine has become the world's medicine, it seems that we have taken what China has taken away, but in the long run......"

"Ah, Mr. McMillan, that's not what I meant......" Zhou Shuren defended, not saying that the Chinese secret recipe had been taken away by Westerners. To be honest, before fully entering the commercial society, the Chinese had a poor sense of secrecy about this kind of knowledge. Coupled with the fact that since 1840, the West's overall superiority over China has become more and more apparent, so Chinese generally lack self-confidence in the face of the West. Therefore, when something is taken by Westerners, the first thing that comes to mind is not the protection of intellectual property rights, but the sincere fear that "I actually have something that can get into the eyes of Westerners".

"Then you don't think it's proper for us to experiment with white tiger potions with those patients?" Dr. McMillan said, "Chow, to be honest, it's really imperfect in terms of rules. According to the rules, we should provide free medical care for those who participate in the experiment, and provide them with compensation for lost work, risk compensation, etc. However, Zhou, you also know that first of all, this white tiger potion - hell, you Chinese will always take out some names that you don't know what it means - this white tiger potion has been used in your country for thousands of years, although in terms of efficacy, we are not very sure, but it should not be too dangerous. In addition, our funds are quite limited, and it is very financially stressful to want to do so. Zhou, as you know, there are a lot of places where we have to use money now. ”

Zhou Shuren naturally knows how important money is now for the Restoration Society. Although I have now found an overseas financier, I have a lot more money than before. However, as the old saying goes, the hole is as big as the snake. In the past, the Liberation Society was nothing more than contacting a few revolutionaries who were not pleasing to the eyes of the Manchu Dynasty, and then trying to get a few bombs, thinking about assassination activities or something. Now, after conscientiously studying the revolutionary history of Western countries, especially the revolutionary history of Britain, the United States, and France, the members of the Liberation Society have also understood that the revolution cannot be won by simply assassinating a few Manchu officials, and that the revolution must have its own military force. And to have their own military power, either to build their own army, or to have a great influence in the country's original army, which can attract them to defect and join the revolution.

The Liberation Society now had a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, sending people abroad for training in preparing the officers necessary to build up the army after the uprising in the future, and on the other hand, intensifying the infiltration of the new army, especially in Zhejiang and Jiangsu. And in this way, the cost is naturally very large. As a result, the upper echelons of the Restoration Society sometimes feel that they are even more short of money than they were before they received funding.

"I know, that's not what I care about. I just want to be more involved in the work that is directly related to the preparation of the revolution. Zhou Shuren explained.

"Oh, that's right." Dr. McMillan smiled, "Zhou, you should understand that what we are doing now is also part of the revolution. And it's a very important part. I have heard that when you were studying medicine in Japan, you once made this feeling: "All the foolish people, no matter how strong their physique, can only serve as meaningless material and spectators." So you thought the most important thing was to heal their spirits, right? In fact, many years ago, Europeans were just as numb and ignorant, trembling under the double pressure of clerical power and imperial power. But there were two things that eventually changed their spirit: science and literature. If it had not been for the discoveries of scientists such as Copernicus and Darwin, the history of obscurantism in the Western world would have been much longer than it is now. Therefore, working for science is a revolution in itself, and it is the basis of all revolutions. Without this, even if the military victory overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it would probably be just a Manchu dynasty without braids. ”

Hearing these words, Zhou Shuren thought for a while, then nodded to Dr. McMillan and said, "Mr. McMillan, thank you for teaching me. I'm willing to be a part of this. ”

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To be honest, in that era, the flu was really not taken too seriously by the Chinese. For most people, this is nothing more than body aches and weaknesses, plus runny nose, sneezing, coughing or something, generally for seven or eight days, and they are almost fine. Of course, because of the flu, then it turned into pneumonia, and then various treatments were ineffective, and finally many people died every year. Especially the elderly and children. However, in that era when the average life expectancy was only more than 30 points, it was really a very normal thing for a few people to die of illness every year, and everyone was not surprised. In addition, most of the people who died because of this situation were poor, which made it even less noticeable, because the poor ghost died, who would care? In particular, many of the people who died were old people, and for the poor, the death of the elderly is a sad thing, but in a sense, it is not necessarily a good thing for the poor who have been burdened by the burden. Of course, children are still very important. It takes a lot of money and energy to raise a child, and if a child dies, it means that all the money and energy is wasted. Such losses are difficult for any family to bear, especially for those who lack money.

So for a period of time after Salvation Hospital started providing free White Tiger Soup to treat the flu and took the means of sending medicine directly to the slums, there were really a lot of people receiving treatment. Soon, though, that changed, as some rumours began to spread in the slums.

These rumors are mainly about the way Salvation Hospital treats patients that are different from those of other doctors. The staff of Salvation Hospital will record the patient's various conditions in detail, the date of birth, height and weight, measure and record the body temperature, and draw blood for laboratory testing. These practices soon spread to be used as preparations for the collection of souls, so much so that violence was later committed against the doctors of the Hospital of Salvation.

If something like this happened, according to the normal procedure, Dr. McMillan could naturally find the Manchu government and ask the Manchu government to crack down on those gangsters who spread rumors and attacked the doctors of the Salvation Hospital. However, Dr. MacMillan had no intention of doing so, for the simple reason that he could not trust the Manchu government at all. First of all, the government's control is extremely low, and even if they are willing to cooperate fully, they will not necessarily be able to get things done. Moreover, the Manchu government was also full of hatred for foreigners. Although they don't dare to provoke foreigners, they will still be passive and slacking off. Think about it, a group of guys who are already incapacitated, and then play passive sabotage, or even secretly make trouble, what the effect will look like.

However, Dr. McMillan still has a solution, and that is to use the local underworld organization in Hangzhou. Human beings are naturally animals of order, and if the government cannot provide order, then there will naturally be another order, which is the underground order based on the gangs.

All along, the revolutionary party has been in close contact with gangs in various places, and many of their activities have been carried out with the help of gang organizations. This is even more evident in the Xingzhong Society, where almost all of their important people have close ties to the gang, and some are even directly gang leaders.

In contrast, there was even less connection between the Restoration Society and the gangs, and most of their leaders were gentry-born, and they instinctively looked down on the ninth-class people. But they themselves had nothing but a few revolutionaries. Therefore, in the original history, the revolution of the Liberation Society was more just some personal assassination or something, and it was not a climate at all. Even after the revolution "succeeded", the Restoration Society, as the head of the land, did not gain any territory in his hometown. On the contrary, it was the people of the Xingzhong Society, with the support of the gang and the Shanghai compradors, who got the lion's share. However, the Xingzhong Association is not completely unconnected with the gang, and it is not difficult to use them to connect with the gang. As for the hook-up, Dr. McMillan had something to convince them to help.