While the successful test flight of the Test-1 rocket was good news, Arthur also had greater expectations for further research on rockets and missiles.

To this end, Arthur deliberately divided the current rocket research group into two parts. Part of it is led by Tsiolkovsky, who is mainly responsible for the improvement and research and development of rockets, taking the Tester series of rockets as the main product, and striving to continue to innovate in rocket research and development and create more records.

The other part is led by Herman, who is responsible for transforming existing rockets into missiles for military use, and constantly innovating.

This also means that in the future, Tsiolkovsky and Herman's research direction will be divided into rockets and missiles, one in the military field and the other in the civilian field.

Neither of them had any objection to such a division. After all, Tsiolkovsky is 67 years old so far, and his main research direction is rocket theory, and he does not have much energy to transform rockets into missiles.

Herman, on the other hand, as a young researcher born in 1894, is only 30 years old now, at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and has more energy.

Rather than continuing to explore the theoretical aspects of rocket development, it is better for Herman to focus on the transformation of rockets into missiles, as well as the follow-up research of missiles.

After all, he is a young person, and he has more energy, and he will have more related thoughts, and maybe he will create more imagination.

Arthur still has a certain understanding of rocketry, and naturally understands the gold content of the three experts known as the pioneers of spaceflight, Tsiolkovsky, Goddard and Herman.

Leaving the research on missiles to Herman is a more reasonable choice, at least at this point in time.

Arthur also did not expect a major breakthrough in rocket and missile research in a short period of time. But at least until World War II, it is possible that there will be more improvements.

After all, Germany developed the V2 rocket in World War II with an attack range of more than 300 kilometers and a maximum flight altitude of nearly 30 kilometers.

Australasia's current development progress is much ahead, and it seems that it is not difficult to develop a rocket of the same class as the V2 rocket in advance, right?

In addition to the success of the rocket test, the pharmaceutical group also decided to sell penicillin as a drug, but strictly kept its manufacturing formula and specific production principles secret.

After all, penicillin was discovered before World War II, and many countries were already able to manufacture and produce penicillin on their own.

Rather than taking this technology into its own hands and waiting for it to be developed by other countries in the future, it is better to directly produce it as a drug and make a lot of profits from other countries one step ahead.

Even if Australasia were to start selling penicillin now, other countries would not have been able to discover and produce penicillin on a large scale without a few years or a decade of effort.

Coupled with the effects of the Great Depression, it is likely that the large-scale production of penicillin will be delayed for more than a decade.

And now it is 1924, more than a decade before the outbreak of World War II. This also means that when World War II really comes, not many countries will be able to master the production of penicillin, and the sale of penicillin alone will be enough to make Australasia a large profit.

The reason why the pharmaceutical group decided to sell penicillin now is because the current medical treatment does not have a very good treatment for wound infection.

It also means that penicillin, which has been proven to be able to treat wound infections, is a life-saving medicine for those who suffer from wound infections.

Didn't even Alexander, the former king of Greece, die of infection and sepsis caused by wounds?

Not to mention the ordinary people in worse conditions, when faced with more serious wound infections, all they can do is wait for death.

At this time, if it is claimed that there can be a drug that can completely treat wound infection, it will bring shock and sensation to those who need it, it is absolutely incomparable.

Even if you play a time difference, you can make a lot of profits by taking advantage of this time difference.

At present, the manufacturing cost of a bottle of penicillin is about 0.9 Australian dollars, but the external price is generally as high as more than 3.5 Australian dollars, and even the price in some areas has exceeded 5 Australian dollars.

This is still the selling price in Australasia. Due to the transportation costs and import tariffs, the price of penicillin is as high as 10 Australian dollars per bottle, and it is basically in a state of no market.

The real market time of penicillin was in July 1924, and it caused a sensation all over the world as soon as it was launched, and also caused a large number of media investigations and experiments.

They experimented with rats infected with wounds, and were surprised to find that this drug could indeed treat wound infections, which directly pushed penicillin to the altar and was hailed as the greatest drug of the 20th century.

Fleming and Wright, who invented penicillin, were also publicly declared by Arthur to be awarded the title of baron, and each was awarded a reward of 5,000 Australian dollars.

The net profit of a bottle of penicillin in Australasia is about $3 in China and about $7 abroad.

At present, more than 400,000 bottles of penicillin have been sold in just over a month after it was launched, with total sales exceeding $3.5 million and a net profit of more than $2.3 million.

You know, this is only a little more than a month's sales data, and because people do not believe in the propaganda of the pharmaceutical group in the early stage, coupled with the corresponding transportation work is not perfect, the sales in foreign countries are not good.

Even so, penicillin, which is sold abroad at a price of more than 9 Australian dollars, has been welcomed by a large number of people in Europe and the United States.

The reason given by the pharmaceutical group is because of the immaturity of the current production technology, coupled with the high price caused by the limited number of drugs produced.

Of course, high tariffs and transportation costs are indispensable, which is the reason why the price of penicillin abroad is close to twice the price of penicillin in China.

Fortunately, the limited number of production alone is enough to worry some wealthy people.

These rich people are not so worried about money that they are more afraid that the medicines they need will be snatched away by the poor or simply depleted.

While the price of penicillin is indeed high at the moment, translating to more than $25 in US dollars, it still does not stop wealthy Americans from snapping up penicillin.

According to the statistics of pharmaceutical groups in the United States, Americans buy the vast majority of penicillin, and the United States alone contributes at least 150,000 bottles to the sales of pharmaceutical groups.

This is also because the pharmaceutical group has adopted a starvation marketing strategy in the United States, which limits the sales volume in the United States to a certain extent.

If the purchase restrictions are lifted directly, I am afraid that sales in the United States alone will exceed one million bottles in a short period of time.

But there are benefits to hunger marketing, too. Penicillin is the most expensive in the US, generally above $11.5, well above the European average of $10.5.

But Americans have no dislike for this expensive drug, and even queue up every day to grab it, becoming very crazy.

According to the estimates of the pharmaceutical group, the sales of penicillin will not be affected at all in the short term, and even the sales will only increase.

Unless other countries can quickly discover penicillin in a short period of time, and quickly find ways to produce penicillin in large quantities, it will affect the marketing of penicillin in Australasia.

But the problem is that penicillin research in Australasia has taken more than a decade and a lot of effort from the people involved.

Alexander Fleming, in particular, was the first person in history to discover penicillin, and under the guidance of Arthur, he was even more handy, and he was able to discover penicillin quickly.

Arthur invested a lot of money in research for him, set up a corresponding research and development team for the discovery of penicillin, spent a lot of money to build the world's most advanced biological laboratory, and it took more than ten years to achieve the mass production of penicillin.

In other countries, it would take at least 10 years to complete the process from the discovery of penicillin to the mass production of penicillin without the strong sponsorship of the national government and the recruitment of a considerable number of biological talents.

According to the net profit that penicillin brings to the pharmaceutical group as much as 2 million per month, it is at least 24 million net profit in one year, and at least 240 million Australian dollars in ten years.

For Arthur, this is far greater than the investment in the pharmaceutical group and the biological laboratory, and the return is far greater than the investment and cost.

What's more, the next World War II was the biggest time for penicillin sales. Even if there are a few companies that are competing for business at that time, Australasia will still be able to get a considerable part of the penicillin orders.

This drug is an extremely important antibiotic even in later generations, and it will not be marketable at any time, and it is completely a continuous stream of gold-spitting monsters.

And such a profit calculation does not take into account at all the strategy of hunger marketing that the pharmaceutical group is currently undertaking.

According to the actual production speed of the penicillin manufacturing plant, the sales of 400,000 bottles in more than a month are far behind the production volume, and the next sales should be even more, or even several times more than a problem.

This also means that during this period, the benefits of penicillin to the pharmaceutical group are immeasurable.

This is not only in terms of financial income, but also in terms of the country's reputation and scientific research level, as well as the attraction of those biology students.

At this time, the sales of penicillin can also make a name for the Australasian pharmaceutical industry around the world, and prepare the foundation for the sales of other Australasian drugs.

Perhaps this can also become a brand, and Australasian Pharmaceutical Group will become a world-renowned pharmaceutical manufacturer, and even hopefully become one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world with penicillin.

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