That afternoon, a small steamer docked at a dock near Hangzhou, where several horse-drawn carriages were already waiting. As soon as the boat docked, a few student-like people got on the boat and brought out some tin buckets and some long wooden boxes from it.

Several students laboriously carried the tin bucket and wooden box onto the carriage, and when they were placed on the wagon, they all made a heavy noise.

"Be light, be careful." The leader shouted, "Don't you see the sign on it?" Xu Bai, Wang Bing, can't you see which side is positive? Face up! ”

"Mr. Chen, we know." Several students responded.

In a short time, the tin buckets and wooden boxes were loaded into the carriage, and then the coachman shook his whip slightly, and the carriage headed in the direction of the West Lake.

Chen Jianping sat in the first carriage, holding a wooden box next to him in one hand to help him keep his balance.

Probably because of the secrecy discipline, although the students could see that they were all excited, everyone forced themselves to say nothing in the car, but some people couldn't help but scare the long wooden boxes with a smile on their faces.

At this time, several carriages came to a slope, and the handlebars waved their whips vigorously, and the muscles of the horses pulling the carriages bulged one by one, but the carriages could not get up.

"Gentlemen, the slope is too steep, and the car is too heavy to go up, or ......," said the handlebar on the leading car. He knew that, in general, these students were very delicate, and if they got off the bus, I was afraid they would be quite dissatisfied. However, these students were willing to move things just now, which was different from ordinary students.

But these students are really different, and the handlebar type saw the Mr. Chen stand up and shouted, "Everyone come down and help push the car up." So the students jumped out of the car one after another, and everyone worked together, and in a short time, several cars were pushed up.

After crossing this slope, Chen Jianping got back into the car. The handlebar drove the car, but they talked to him:

"Mr. Chen, are you all from Salvation Medical College?"

"Yes." Chen Jianping replied. Because these cars are going straight to the medical school, this problem is simply a handlebar to start the topic.

"Mr. Chen, your students are not ordinary." The handlebar said, "Ordinary foreign students, who would want to do this kind of hard work." ”

Hearing this, Chen Jianping couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart, and he suddenly remembered some things about secrecy that he had learned when he was training in the United States, one of which was not to look too different. Nowadays, the performance of these students is a little different. That's not a good thing.

At that time, the temper of students who read foreign books was generally not good. Since the Qing court abolished the imperial examination in 1905, students who read foreign books have a chance to get ahead. If you become a master, you will naturally be a "laborer". Those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people. So where is the reason why the master moves things by himself and the master pushes the cart by himself.

"Our school is a little bit different from those schools, and these students are going to the United States in the future." Chen Jianping explained, "The rule in American schools is that all kinds of hard work must be done by students. Therefore, all students who are going to go abroad to the United States should let them get used to it when they are in China, so that they can learn to do something so as not to be looked down upon by foreigners when they get the United States. ”

"Ah, that's right. In this way, it is quite a sin to go to a foreign country to study. The handlebar felt that he had more material to brag about when he drank in the future, so he became more and more interested, "You are carrying things so heavy?" What are they? ”

"Most of them are various drugs, and some are medical devices. Many of these things are made of glass, which is very valuable, so we don't dare to let people who don't know how to carry them. It's really going to be broken, it's really ......" Chen Jianping also took this opportunity to explain those doubts.

"Medical devices?" The term handlebar style has never been heard of. However, compared with other languages, Chinese has an obvious advantage, that is, Chinese words are often composed of meaningful morphemes, and whenever something new appears, these morphemes only need to be recombined to create corresponding words. And it's also quite easy to understand, for example, "electric light" is equivalent to a lamp that uses electricity. In contrast, English is much more troublesome.

Because of this characteristic of the Chinese language, although he doesn't know anything about what "medical equipment" is and the handlebar style, he can guess a little bit by relying on this word. So he came up with another sentence: "I heard that foreign doctors can disembowel, cured it, sewn it up with thread, and then the patient is alive again." Is it relying on these devices? ”

"That's what you need, but it's not all about that." Chen Jianping replied, "It still depends on the doctor's own ability, as well as various drugs." ”

"Well, yes, it's like this car, it's not okay without a whip, but just with a whip, it doesn't necessarily mean a good drive." Shaking the whip on the handlebar, he said, "People say that Western medicine is a tiger and wolf medicine, which can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause, and I don't know if it's true." ”

Hearing this, Chen Jianping smiled, but although he did not agree with this statement, like most Western medicine at that time, in his opinion, Chinese medicine was closer to a kind of witch doctor. As for the treatment of the root cause of traditional Chinese medicine, it is even more of a joke. But he's not going to argue here about it with a ride.

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However, what Chen Jianping didn't expect was that Dr. McMillan, the director of the Salvation Hospital, was now studying the deception of the witch doctors in his heart.

"Zhou, thank you very much for helping me sort out so many things." McMillan said to Zhou Shuren while putting the information in his hand into a classified information bag.

"Dr. McMillan, this is just a gesture, but I don't understand why you're so interested in this stuff that has absolutely no scientific basis, and is almost nonsense?"

"No, no, Zhou, these things are not nonsense, although there may be many mistakes in the guiding theories that use them, but after all, they have a history of practice for thousands of years, even if they are random attempts like alchemy without theory for thousands of years, and now, after trying from generation to generation, the things that can be handed down must have something very valuable, but before, we didn't use science to explain them. It's like when we Caucasians in ancient times, because the sun rose in the east and set in the west, we thought that the sun was revolving around the earth. Today we know that this statement is wrong, but the calendar derived from it is not therefore wrong. Zhou, you know, in the Middle Ages, doctors in Europe used to do all kinds of stupid things, but some of the drugs that they found are still used by us today. In addition, we have learned a lot of very useful medicinal uses from the indigenous people of South America and the Pacific, such as quinine. Even those who have no civilization at all have such treasures hidden in the witchcraft, then there must be more treasures in the traditional medicine of China, which has a history of civilization for thousands of years. Dr. McMillan replied earnestly.

Although Zhou Shuren has a very bad opinion of traditional Chinese medicine, he also has a lot of bad views on traditional Chinese culture. However, for China and China's history, although China is now in turmoil, he is still full of love for these and for China. Sometimes, although he himself will scold all kinds of problems in traditional Chinese culture, this is just the depth of love and responsibility. Therefore, when he heard that a foreigner could recognize the value of Chinese things without prejudice, Zhou Shuren's heart was actually quite moved.

But McMillan's view is not his own, to be precise, it comes from Scrooge. And the information he collects now is actually designated by Scrooge.

When World War I began, tens of millions of people in the world would die on the battlefield, but Scrooge knew that war was not the most efficient way to harvest lives during this time, and Scrooge knew that from 1918 onwards, there would be an epic flu pandemic, the Spanish flu pandemic. In this epic flu epidemic, the whole world will die between 25 million and 40 million people. This will be the deadliest and most widespread plague epidemic in human history. If any company can launch an effective treatment during this epidemic, the benefits it can obtain are unimaginable. For Scrooge, this was an opportunity that could not be missed.

However, the strain of the Spanish flu has not survived in later generations, so it is not known which antiviral drugs will fight the disease. Scrooge didn't know either. All he knew was that he didn't even have a drug in his hands that could really be used against the virus.

In Scrooge's research institute, antibiotics are in the final stages of research, but Scrooge knows that antibiotics are used against bacteria, and these things cannot deal with viruses. And antiviral drugs, even in later generations, are much less known than antibiotics. Scrooge was not a doctor or pharmacist in his previous life, so naturally he didn't know much. Basically, he only knows one or two of these, one is amantadine hydrochloride, but unfortunately, he only knows one name, the specific structure, production method, and scope of application, he is not very clear. But after some hard work, the big lab still got this thing out. Then they found out that this thing does have anti-virus function, but it only works against a small percentage of viruses. It is estimated that it will not be of much use against the Spanish flu.

In this case, Shi Scrooge suddenly remembered a stock called "Xiangxue Pharmaceutical" that he had bought back then, although this stock did not make Shi Scrooge make money back then, but he finally learned about one of the company's trump card products through it - Xiangxue antiviral oral liquid, which is a broad-spectrum antiviral drug based on traditional Chinese medicine based on white tiger soup and Qingwen septic drink researched under the leadership of the government after the establishment of the Chitu country. It has good results against most influenza viruses. So part of the task of collecting these prescriptions, refining them, and finally coming up with MacDonald's version of the "antiviral oral solution" fell to McMillan.