The seventeenth century was an era of genius, and when a paper was sent out, there was no need to form a research team, set up a medical school, invest in well-known scholars, promote new ideas, etc., and a large number of scholars devoted themselves to it, and the focus of their research was undoubtedly the "Black Death" that ravaged Europe for centuries.

Scholars first found the bacterium that would later be named "Yersinia pestis" in the patient's body, then found fleas carrying the bacterium in the patient's home, and finally traced it back to the mouse.

Although long-standing hygiene habits could not be easily changed, the fear of the Black Death led to the de-rat cleaning work being carried out all over Europe - as a 'serious cleanliness patient', Lyle naturally did not lag behind and ordered the maids to clean up as soon as possible.

"This time, neither mother nor Ami objected~" Lyle, who was holding a stack of letters, came to the family who was sitting in the garden drinking afternoon tea.

Ami shrunk her neck and replied, "Isn't that what many scholars advocate? ”

"So, you can believe what a well-known scholar says, but you can't believe what your brother says?" Lyle asked with a grin.

"Eh, hey~" Ami smiled awkwardly, she still remembered that she had questioned Lyle's bathing frequency, but now she has washed once a week, and the frequency continues to rise.

There is no way, compared to my brother who is less than twenty years old, or the words of those gray-bearded old pedants.

The mother, who was pretending to drink black tea elegantly, spoke to eliminate her embarrassment: "Lyle, what ......is the letter in your hand?" ”

During this time, Lyle received more letters than his father, and they didn't care about it at first, but they soon found themselves in the social circle, and many people came over in the form of touting Lyle. Although they also knew that these people had no interest in academics at all, and it was still based on their own financial resources, they couldn't help but start to care about the academic exchanges between Lyle and the scholars.

This time is a little different, though.

Lyle threw the letter on the tea table and said depressedly: "This is a letter from the person in charge of those factories, it is estimated that it is either a lack of time or a lack of equipment, and I will go out for a walk in a few days to see what the specific situation is." ”

Some scholars are really just engaged in learning, and they don't have the financial resources to convert learning into material, but Lyle was pressured by his father and had to put his research results into actual production, masks, gloves, disinfectants for wounds, disinfectants for household cleaning, bath products and other commodities have been put into production, advertising in the name of "the first person to discover bacteria", and seize the blank market resources.

"Hmm~" The mother, who was dressed up luxuriously but had hay in her head, nodded, and was very satisfied with her son's progress, "Your father has a high opinion of this business, work hard." ”

The prospect of this business is still far from that of the East India Company's overseas business, but it is enough to fight for a lifetime, and it completely convinces Daddy to let Lyle 'not do business'.

"But," Ami blinked, remembering something, and said funny, "What did my brother say before, isn't this a serious business?" ”

"No, I've never given up on my plan," Lyle shook his head, "It's just that my later goals require a bit of capital investment, so let's save a little money for the time being~"

"Ha......" Ami rolled her eyes, everything in this family would be Lyle's sooner or later, and this reason could not convince her.

"And," Lyle turned, turning his head to look at the maids who were walking quickly with buckets and rags, "and, as you can see, wouldn't it be quite fruitful even if I had spent most of my year studying bacteria?" ”

Detecting the source of the Black Death's transmission is the greatest achievement, and I don't know how many lives can be saved.

"But those achievements have nothing to do with you, brother." Ami said without thinking, and after saying that, she found her mother glaring at her, and then she said, "Uh, I mean...... As long as my brother has enough time to study the Black Death, these results will be my brother's. ”

It's the truth.

Some research results need to be accidental, and it is useless to not encounter this 'accident' even if you have invincible insight, and this is the origin of penicillin, but the goal of the Black Death is too clear, and the results are only a matter of time...... In particular, Lyle has the blessing of the goddess, and will never be infected, and there is no possibility of accidentally contracting and dying in the process of studying the Black Death.

"Does it matter whose results are the results?" Lyle glanced at his sister in disappointment, if his future wife was also the eldest lady with such vulgar ideas, it was estimated that he would be uncomfortable for the rest of his life.

"Huh?" Ami, who was stunned for a moment, was stunned.

"What I want to know is the 'truth', whether it is my own exploration or someone else's exploration, it doesn't matter at all." Lyle knows very well that the reason why he is so open-minded is purely because he is not short of money, and his grandfather and father have created a large amount of money, "The only thing I have to worry about is that others have discovered the truth but not made it public." ”

Ami frowned and said, "Who wouldn't make it public?" ”

If there are academic achievements but they are not published, others will publish them in the future; If the results that can be put into production do not apply for patents, they will be copied by others, and if the patent is seized by others, they will have to pay money to the copycats in the future. Ami couldn't think of anyone who would hide it and not say it.

However.

Lyle smiled slightly: "I~"

"Huh?"

…………

Years later.

In order to sterilize drinking water, a certain scholar put a certain chemical reagent that is regarded as a poison into the water, and through a large number of biological experiments, he came to the result that "under the appropriate dosage, this chemical reagent will not cause harm to the human body, but will only kill most bacteria, and drinking this water meets the health requirements", and published it to the public.

However, this was later proved to be a completely correct result and was widely used around the world, and at that time, it was understood by people who could not accept 'poisoning', and the scholar was tried and thrown into prison.

Ami, who happened to have an unsatisfactory life after marriage, went back to her parents' house to complain and begged for some pocket money by the way to talk about it with Lyle, Lyle smiled, took out a notebook with yellowed pages from the bookcase next to her and threw it to her, Ami looked at it patiently, and was surprised to find that Lyle had come up with this result many years ago, and the notebook was full of experimental results diluted with various chemical reagents that she couldn't understand.

Subsequently, Lyle, who had invented a variety of practical devices with far-reaching uses at that time, and was blown into the sky by the royal family and the commoners, gave a word of extreme hatred - [Although I am not afraid to die on the way to explore the truth, if I know that I am on the right path, but I am stabbed to death by a group of fools in the back, then forget it, I would rather be secretly happy. 】

In the past year, after the turmoil of the 'poison experiment' had passed, Lyle used his power in the academic community to get the aggrieved scholar out of prison.