A flat tin box that looks somewhat like alabaster with elaborate patterns printed on it.

"Kyoto Nenjian!"

Before Lin Yuhang could introduce him, Technician Zhu suddenly shouted in surprise.

"You know?" Lin Yuhang was stunned for a moment, and looked at Technician Zhu with some surprise.

"Meet ......." Technician Zhu raised his hand and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and nodded: "Factory director, this product is actually our old brand of Yanjing, I have been engaged in the work of Chinese patent medicine technology for half my life, of course I know it." ”

"This is our old brand of Yanjing?" Lin Yuhang was very surprised, he grew up in Yanjing, he had never seen this thing, and this thing was bought from the Friendship Store, how did it become the old brand of Yanjing? Immediately, Lin Yuhang picked it up and took a closer look, flipped over the box to see the manufacturer's label on the back, but when he saw that the back was printed from Xiangjiang, he was even more puzzled.

"I've never seen this thing, but I seem to have heard the name." Director Li said thoughtfully, but after thinking about it, he couldn't remember where he had heard of it. As for Lao Lu and Deputy Director Shen, they were confused, they didn't say they had seen each other, they had never heard of it, even the head of the technical department, Mu Section.

"Have you ever heard of Ye Tianshi, a Chinese medicine practitioner?" Seeing the inquiring glances of everyone towards him, Technician Zhu asked.

"Ye Tianshi? Isn't it the famous miracle doctor in the Qing Dynasty? The Ye Tianshi you are talking about can't be him, right? As soon as the words fell, several people said in unison.

"That's right! That's him! Technician Zhu nodded and said: "In the Kangxi period, there was a county order called Yang Jin, Yang Jin's father died early when he was young, and his mother grew up with hard work, Yang Jin is very filial, and became an official after being admitted to the Jinshi, and brought his mother from his hometown to support, but he didn't think that his mother was in poor health because of perennial work, and had a weak lung cough. ”

"Yang Jin is a big filial son, looking at his mother every day by lung disease torture is very sad, everywhere for his mother to seek medical treatment, and later through the guidance of people to find the famous doctor at that time Ye Tianshi, Ye Tianshi saw that he gave him a recipe for honey refining Sichuan shell loquat ointment for the sake of his mother's filial piety, Yang Jin used this recipe to cure his mother's illness."

Yang Jin's mother finally lived to die at the age of 84, and when the old man was dying, he told his son to use this recipe to benefit the world, so that more elderly people can live a long and healthy life. After the death of his mother, Yang Jin paid for the opening of a traditional Chinese medicine shop, specializing in honey refining Sichuan shellfish loquat ointment, and at the same time personally drew a picture of filial piety, using this picture to make a brand of loquat ointment. And this Chinese medicine shop is called Nian Ci Nunnery to commemorate his mother. ”

Speaking, Technician Zhu pointed to the pattern on the iron box and said, everyone looked at this picture carefully, indeed this picture depicts a man holding medicine and serving an old woman, and the characters in it are all from the Qing Dynasty, no wonder this picture is called filial piety.

"After the establishment of Nianci'an, because of the remarkable effect of the exclusive honey refining Sichuan shellfish loquat ointment, the fame quickly became famous. Later, the descendants of the Yang family moved to Yanjing from other places, re-established the store in Yanjing, and added the word Kyoto in front of the original store name, and from then on Nencian became Kyoto Nencian. ”

"And later?" Lin Yuhang asked.

"When the war broke out 40 years ago, Kyoto Niancian moved to Xiangjiang, and the descendants rebuilt the main factory in Xiangjiang, so this century-old brand was transferred from Yanjing to Xiangjiang."

Speaking of this, Technician Zhu sighed: "In fact, although the old store in Yanjing was abandoned back then, the original location is still there." ”

"Where is the original location?" Lin Yuhang asked curiously.

Unexpectedly, Technician Zhu actually stretched out his finger and pointed to his feet, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, its original site is our third factory, didn't expect it?" In the early 50s, the old shop was converted into a small Chinese medicine factory, and in the early 60s, the expansion of production was changed to the current name of the third factory. ”

"How can such a thing happen?" Lin Yuhang was shocked and hurriedly asked where this old file was. Technician Zhu told Lin Yuhang that he should still be in the archives of the factory, and immediately Lin Yuhang asked Technician Zhu to look for it immediately, and Technician Zhu agreed, got up and went out directly to the archives.

"I didn't expect our third factory to have this origin, I only knew that the first factory and the second factory were big, but I didn't think that the predecessor of our third factory was also famous!" Deputy director Shen said with emotion, Kyoto Nianci Nunnery was relocated to Xiangjiang before the liberation, and the old shop in Yanjing in the early days after the liberation was gone.

Everyone is also emotional, and perhaps it is the reason for history. Just like the predecessor of the first factory and the second factory, it was a well-known time-honored brand, but later, because the name of the time-honored brand belonged to the old name, it was not advanced to continue to use this time-honored brand, and there was also a suspicion of detachment from the masses, so it was changed to the first and second factories.

The same is true of the third factory, as the predecessor of the third factory, Kyoto Nenjian has long been relocated, and it was based on the predecessor of the old shop, so it naturally changed its name, and then it became the third factory. After going around, Lin Yuhang found that the product he found in the friendship store was actually the original product of his own factory, which could not but be said to be a surprise.

Technician Zhu soon came back from the archives, holding a leather document bag in his hand, which contained the old files of the third factory.

Lin Yuhang took it and opened it, and it was some old materials of the third factory, including the documents of the old factory and the old shop of the earliest Kyoto Nianci'an, among which there was a yellowed advertising paper, and the pattern on it was exactly the same as the pattern on the iron box that Lin Yuhang bought from the friendship store, which was the picture of filial piety.

Everyone circulated to each other, and they couldn't help but admire, at this time Lin Yuhang seemed to remember something, and asked Technician Zhu.

"Lao Zhu, since the predecessor of the third factory is this old store, is the loquat paste of the third factory the old formula of the year?"

"This ...... Yes, but it's not ....... Technician Zhu replied.

"What do you mean by that?" Lin Yuhang asked.

Technician Zhu explained: "The loquat paste of Kyoto Nencian is very famous, and the medicinal effect is excellent, the formula is a unique formula provided by Ye Tianshi, you can hear it from its name, it is called honey refining Sichuan shell loquat ointment. ”

"Honey refining Chuanbei loquat ointment, the main medicine is nothing more than three kinds, honey, Chuanbei and loquat, in addition to other excipients. In addition to these, literally this honey refining has two meanings, one is the honey of honey, and the other is the secret of the secret. ”

"Leaving aside the three main medicines, Chuanbei and loquat are not mentioned for the time being, the loquat ointment of all traditional Chinese medicine factories in Yanjing basically uses these two main drugs, but this honey refining is different. First of all, it uses honey in the refining process of loquat paste, and the price of honey is clear to everyone, and the output is small and the price is high...... No, one of the main drugs of ginseng royal jelly produced by our company is royal jelly, and some honey is also added. ”

Everyone nodded, and everyone could understand the words of Technician Zhu, honey as a raw material far beyond ordinary sugars in terms of source, price and means of use, although adding honey to the finished product of traditional Chinese medicine will inevitably make the efficacy much better, but for the increased efficacy ratio, it is worth the loss from the original business operation in terms of mass production.

After the liberation, the whole country was in ruins, due to the backwardness of China's medical level at that time, the country urgently needed low-cost and curative Chinese patent medicine products for the general public, and these products could not only be affordable by ordinary people, but also industrialized and mass-produced.

If the old recipe was still used at that time, not only would the production cost increase significantly, but also the production limit and the selling price of the finished product would not be reduced. Under the rights and pros and cons, taking into account the actual situation at that time, the production of loquat paste was adjusted from the raw materials, so as to replace the original honey with glucose, maltose or other fructose.

Although the efficacy of this is not as good as before, it is no problem to cure diseases, and the cost and sales price are greatly reduced, and it is also suitable for the needs of industrial mass production.

"So, is the old recipe still there?" Lin Yuhang asked urgently.

Technician Zhu shook his head: "The old formula is the ancestral heirloom of Kyoto Nianci'an, the reason why I moved to Xiangjiang was that I didn't want the formula to be lost, and then the production of the old shop stopped after the relocation, and some old people also went to Xiangjiang one after another, even if they stayed for so many years, they had already passed away, so this formula did not stay." ”

"It's a pity ......." Lin Yuhang sighed in his heart, how good it would be if the old formula was still there. However, he just asked casually, although he has not been the factory of the Chinese medicine factory for a long time, he also knows that some old formulas are things that people press the bottom of the box, and in the past, it was the lifeblood of passing on the son but not the daughter, how could such a formula for the inheritance of the family be easily known to outsiders?

Just when Lin Yuhang was a little regretful, Technician Zhu suddenly said: "Factory director, are you planning to use the current raw materials to make loquat candy?" ”

"That's right! I had this idea. Lin Yuhang nodded, pointed to the loquat candy in the iron box and said: "The sales of loquat paste are too limited, generally speaking, it can only be sold in hospitals and pharmacies, and the possibility of selling it in stores is very small, and there are also restrictions on the relevant departments of this kind of products." ”

"Come and see!" Lin Yuhang opened the iron box and picked up a small packaged loquat candy from inside: "If it is made into sugar, it will be different, this is not a medicine, and in this way, it can not only be sold in the way of ordinary products, but also has a certain effect of moistening the throat and clearing the lungs." ”

"Now the throat lozenges on the market should be clear, generally mint throat lozenges, this kind of sugar tastes too medicinal to eat, plus although peppermint can have a cool feeling in the throat, but in fact it is not good for the throat, compared to Chuanbei loquat candy The medicinal effect is more significant."

"In addition, candy is something that both adults and children like, and some children don't like to take medicine, but they like to eat candy. So I wondered if I could replicate such a product and use the equipment and ingredients we had to make this candy? ”