Early morning, June 29, 1914.

After the Japanese offensive in Gaizhou was contained for two days, the hour hand finally came to this moment.

No one knew what happened last night, and Du Wenhao, the head of the Wehrmacht's logistics and military medical department in the Fengtian Field Hospital, did not pay attention to the outside world at all, more than a thousand beds were already full of wounded soldiers sent down from the front line, and the bloody and blurred pictures made the lips of many young nurses who had just come out of the internship white. On the contrary, those field doctors who have been following the Wehrmacht from Xinhai to the south and the north have long been accustomed to this kind of scene, as soon as the wounded soldiers arrive, they will immediately sort and screen to ensure that they can receive timely assistance.

"Director, Baibaodan is almost gone."

"Hemostats, give me hemostats!"

"Director."

After stepping into the operating area, there are shouts and busyness everywhere, and the medical staff who come and go do not touch the ground, in stark contrast to the wounded soldiers who toss and turn and moan on the hospital bed, these are also very serious in the eyes of Du Wenhao, who has just returned from studying medicine in the United States, the soldiers are fighting bloodily for the future and destiny of the country, and this is the battlefield of their own people! He solved the problem on the spot as he walked, and the Wehrmacht was no longer a feudal, rotten and inefficient old army, where the military would even use all military forces to get the equipment needed by medical personnel whenever needed.

As he walked, an elderly figure suddenly caught his attention. It was an old man with gray hair, but wearing a white coat of a medical worker, who was skillfully directing several nurses to clean the wounded soldiers' wounds and remove the bullets in their thighs.

"Who is that?"

"It's Lin Lianhui Lin Lao from Beiyang Medical Hall." The deputy introduced: "Lin Lao heard that there was an emergency in the north, so he brought more than a hundred students from the medical hall to help. ”

Lin Lianhui was Li Hongzhang's personal doctor back then, and he could be regarded as a pioneer in creating Western medicine in China, so it was natural to visit the arrival of such a figure, not to mention that he also graduated from Phillip Medical School in Massachusetts, and he could be regarded as Du Wenhao's predecessor, but just after thinking about it, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him, and he turned his head to see that Yang Qiu actually walked in with Traun, the German minister to China.

"Why is the vice president here? It's still so early? In everyone's whispers, Du Wenhao could only temporarily abandon the idea of visiting Lin Lianhui and stepped forward to salute: "Wenhao has seen the vice president." ”

"You're welcome." Yang Qiu waved his hand and asked directly, "How is the situation here?" Have all the wounded soldiers been accommodated? Is the medicine keeping up? A series of questions made people see Yang Qiu's concern for the field hospital, and Du Wenhao quickly answered them one by one and then took them to visit.

Compared with Europe, the conditions of this field hospital are still very simple, and the medical staff is obviously insufficient, and many people seem to be temporarily transferred from the army to help, and lack professional training, so they often help out of the situation. However, from Traun's point of view, it was not bad to be able to support such a large field hospital in the Far East, a place with extremely poor medical conditions. Maybe Yang Qiu brought himself here early in the morning to seek medical support?

In Traun's reverie, Yang Qiu had already entered a special care ward, and more than a dozen nurses were recording something while checking the injury, and after seeing Yang Qiu, he also personally introduced the situation here: "There are a total of 180 beds here, all of them are wounded soldiers who have completed wound treatment, and the wound infection and inflammation have been reduced a lot after the use of new drugs, and the specific statistics have not yet come out, but from these days, the number of people who have died due to infection has not exceeded 10 so far." ”

"Wait!" After the translator muttered a few words, Traun and several military observers behind him all gathered around, and immediately called out to stop Du Wenhao's introduction and asked, "What did you just say?" ”

Du Wenhao couldn't figure out what these Germans were excited about, but he didn't want to offend people, because at this time, the call for an alliance with Germany at home had become higher and higher, especially after the outbreak of the war, many people thought that this matter should not be slowed down, and that a foreign aid like Germany should be enlisted as soon as possible, so as to completely defeat Japan and drive them from the mainland to the sea. Some people even said that they could invite the huge German Navy's main fleet to send a few battleships to solve the Japanese fleet that was giving the navy a headache by Lend-Lease, so he patiently repeated the words again, but he didn't notice the corners of Yang Qiu's quietly upturned mouth.

Of the thousands of wounded soldiers, less than 10 died due to inflammation of the wounds infected with bacteria!! God, aren't these guys too good at talking? Even Europe, where medical conditions are ten times better, cannot do so. According to German statistics at that time, at least one-third of every 100 wounded soldiers would show signs of wound infection, and even if they were disinfected with alcohol, at least 5 to 7 people would die due to complications caused by infection germs, which was 10 times more than 50 to 70 people.

It doesn't seem like much, but what if it is magnified a thousand times over? Moreover, the symptoms of inflammation and infection are not only found in wounded soldiers, but also in the civilian population, the number is even larger! At present, scientific researchers from all over the world are looking for special drugs, but no progress has been made, could it be that Traun recalled what he just said, remembered the new drug that Du Wenhao said, so he couldn't wait to ask what kind of drug can be so magical.

Du Wenhao looked at Yang Qiu and shook his head: "Your Excellency, the new drug is still in clinical trials and absolute confidentiality, please forgive me for not being able to answer your question." ”

Looking at his face, Traun knew that this matter would definitely follow Yang Qiu's path, and hurriedly pulled the latter's tone to become extremely enthusiastic: "Yang, it's really surprising, can you tell me what kind of medicine is so magical?" Germany has the best pharmaceutical research team in the world, and if we can, I think we can quickly solve the industrialization and bring it to market. Probably afraid that Yang Qiu didn't understand the meaning of industrialization, he deliberately accentuated his tone: "If it is really that magical, I think it is worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars!" ”

Traun looked expectant, but many days later he regretted the number he had said, but he didn't realize it yet. Yang Qiu looked at him and rubbed his nose, today he did deliberately bring Traun here, at this moment, Europe should have been disturbed by the sound of gunfire, so it is time to take out the heavy bomb sulfonamide, but it is a pity that the pharmaceutical factory has spent too much time on the road from formula to medicine, and it has only initially solved the problem of industrialization so far, and the output and scale are also seriously insufficient, otherwise he would not be willing to take out this golden chicken that lays eggs and sell it for money.

Since you can't achieve large-scale production, at least in two or three years, exchanging it for something is undoubtedly the only option, otherwise if you miss this war, even if you want to sell it, the price will drop a lot. What's more, sulfonamides are not something that cannot be cracked, even if there is no formula, as long as the finished product is bought, it can be analyzed in a year at most with the current technology in Europe, so he said very simply: "This is a new Western-style drug that has only recently been synthesized by Chinese researchers, and we are also conducting experiments, and we will consider fully introducing it to the market after the test." ”

Having dealt with Yang Qiu a lot, Traun knew very well what it meant to be fully introduced to the market. How many pharmaceutical companies are there in China? The output cannot even be satisfied with its own domestic medicine, and the only way to bring it to the market is to sell technology patents. And no one knows when the war broke out in Europe, but unless God stood up and redistributed the world, it would be fought sooner or later, so if the new medicine really worked, then it would at least save the lives of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of soldiers. Thinking of this, he was a little impatient, but before he could ask if there was a possibility of buying a patent, he only heard a sound of falling objects ringing behind him, and turned his head to see Cai Gongshi crashing into several medical staff like crazy, and he didn't even have time to apologize before he waved his hand and suddenly continued to rush to this side.

What happened?

Han Ge has been with Yang Qiu for the past few days, so he is already very familiar with this polite secretary, so much so that when he saw him rampage like a bull, he thought he was looking at the wrong person. Only Yang Qiu's heart shrank sharply! As if something had hit the backbone, an electric current slammed through the tail vertebrae.

"Vice President, Vice President!" Cai Gongshi stumbled in front of everyone, and before he had time to catch his breath, he shouted: "Europe is an urgent telegram from Europe!" ”

Cai Gongshi was already stupid, and since yesterday evening, Yang Qiu told him to stay by the radio 24 hours a day, and personally told him that a major event would happen in Europe. He thought it strange at the time, but when the translator gave him a telegram from Austria, even the most politically savvy person could feel the tension and the atmosphere of war in the telegram. He stammered, his words were never nervous, and he even regarded Yang Qiu as a god: "Last night, Archduke Ferdinand, the Crown Prince of Austria, was assassinated by Serbian radicals while inspecting the exercise army!" He died! ”

What the!

What the!

That's impossible!

An exclamation gushed out from the mouths of Hanger and the German ** officials behind him, and when Jiang Baili and the others were still thinking about what the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand would lead to, they were already solemn one by one, and even breathing became extremely difficult!

Who is Ferdinand? He is the crown prince of Austria-Hungary!

I want to know it with my ass! There was already a lot of tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and now that the crown prince was assassinated by the other side, even ordinary people knew that war was inevitable! The problem is that Russia, in order to reach into the Balkans, declared early on that it would protect Serbia's interests from infringement, and if Austria-Hungary did it, the madman of Nicholas II would definitely fulfill his rights.

Relying on Austria-Hungary itself can not handle the Russian Empire, which has tens of millions of gray cattle and millions of fierce Cossack cavalry, so the old Emperor Frank is bound to seek help from Germany, and the two countries can't fight with Nicholas II, so they must ask for help from France, and the Russian-French alliance is one of the most important alliances in Europe, and if France is also involved, Britain will inevitably be involved!

Oh, God!

These damn Serbian idiots!

Balkan maggots, they should be thrown into hell and never be reborn!

Hanger and the officers cursed loudly, sparing every swear word imaginable. No one likes war, even if they are all in the service of Germany and most of them are wearing German ** clothes, but when the war really comes, the Serbian and Balkan people who started it are all cursed dozens of times.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency the Vice President." Hanger had never been so serious, but before leaving, he nodded intentionally or unintentionally: "I need to go back to Qingdao immediately, and I hope that we can come together in a closer relationship soon." ”

Yang Qiu nodded with heavy breathing, even though he had known it for a long time, he still couldn't keep calm when he could hear the major events that changed the world in the twentieth century.

Hanger was gone, walking in a hurry and not even having time to ask about sulfonamides. Looking at his back, Yang Qiu suddenly laughed, the more he laughed, the louder he became, and after a while, even Jiang Baili and the others laughed, making Lei Meng, who rushed to report, stupid: "Commander, Haicheng telegram, the Japanese army has launched a full-scale attack on Gaizhou!" ”

"Let's fight! Let Yue Peng let go of his hand and fight, no one can stop us now! ”