Thirteenth Trickery of Chemical Plant

  In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed. Due to Deng Benying and Chen Fengqi adopting Roger's suggestion, taking a turn-a-blind-eye or even encouraging attitude towards the protest activities, the civilian protests for compensation have become very intense.

  At first, it was just students marching and distributing flyers, with enlightened people scolding in the newspapers. At the beginning, everyone was still a bit afraid, thinking that according to Deng Benying's usual practice, shouldn't they have arrested a batch of people? Those student protesters were mostly motivated by the heroic spirit of "the wind is strong and the water is cold, the brave warriors go and never return", and before taking to the streets, they had already instructed their families to prepare to bail them out at the police station, fully prepared.

  But later, everyone found that this preparation was not useful at all. Let alone catching people, those police who were normally fierce and bullied others more than bandits, actually enforced the law with a smile! They were smiling while helping to maintain order, advising everyone not to squeeze together, if they squeezed too much and trampled on children it would be bad, even if they didn't trample on children but trampled on flowers and grass it was also not good.

  It seems that Deng Benying still has a patriotic heart! Previously, compromising with imperialism was also unavoidable, and it must have been so.

  Deng Benyin did not expect that the trick he originally used to deal with Americans would actually bring him a lot of public support! He was overjoyed and exclaimed that Luo Jie was the reincarnation of Zhuge. However, this public support did not last long and dissipated soon after. Later, during the Guangdong-Hong Kong general strike, when Hong Kong was completely paralyzed, Deng Benyin, who had gone mad, dared to defy the heavens and do business with the British Hong Kong government, selling living materials to Hong Kong, and even "cracked down" on students who took to the streets again...

  With no more scruples, the movement to protest US extortion of reparations grew in momentum. The American consulate was plastered with every inch of its walls covered with slogans of protest, even the faces of the soldiers on guard were not spared, and a student who had been driven mad by pasting up advertisements slapped a "cowhide leprosy" sticker on one of them with a "slap".

  Apart from the demonstrations and processions, the fierce attacks in the press have not stopped for a moment, and their influence has rapidly spread from Qiongya to the whole province, so that everyone knows about it, and there is a tendency to expand nationwide.

  This crazy momentum has the meaning of evolving into an anti-American storm, making Tan Ni and his friends feel like they are sitting on pins and needles. If this matter really expands, their political careers will definitely become dull and unremarkable.

  At the same time that Mr. Dennett was being bothered by the demonstrations, Mrs. Dennett, thanks to modern medicine, quickly recovered from her illness, although she had been bedridden for a long time and was still weak after recovering, so she stayed in bed to rest until now when she has finally recuperated. To celebrate his wife's recovery, Consul Dennett is planning to host a dinner party at the consulate, but it is clear that the consul's purpose for the dinner party is not just to celebrate.

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  "Dear Jie, I have managed to scrape together the start-up capital for building the pharmaceutical factory, which is already a large part of my assets. I hope you will make good use of it."

  It wasn't long after the dinner party began that Tan Ni, having finished paying his respects, hastily came to Roger's side and handed him a check from the Bank of China.

  "Five hundred thousand dollars?" Roger looked at the check again and handed it back to him, "Tanny, just give me one million for now to fix the road and hire people, you can use the rest of the money to purchase some equipment."

  "But I don't know what equipment to buy."

  "Don't worry, I've already prepared everything. You can go to the inn tomorrow to pick it up. I made a detailed list, but it's just some chemical synthesis equipment, which is abundant in your America."

  "Chemical synthesis equipment? Are there also synthetic chemical products in traditional Chinese medicine?" Ever since hearing Roger say that penicillin is a traditional Chinese medicine product, Tan Ni has been making up for her lack of knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, but she really didn't know what kind of traditional Chinese medicine was a chemically synthesized substance.

  Of course, the traditional Chinese medicine in the Republic of China was not synthesized by chemical methods, and penicillin has never been produced by chemical synthesis even in the 21st century, all are produced by microbial fermentation.

  So why did Roger want Danny to buy chemical synthesis equipment? It's completely unnecessary for producing penicillin!

  The reason is simple - business deception! It can be foreseen that after penicillin, this epoch-making new drug, shows its magic to the world, anyone will go crazy for it! No one can guarantee that they won't get infected, so every single person in the world may even necessarily use penicillin! Such a magical medicine will naturally attract the attention of various characters, so Roger thought of such a method to ensure that penicillin is firmly in his own hands.

  At present, the most popular mode of drug development in Western countries is to find their medicinal value in compounds and then produce them by chemical synthesis. For any new drug, the first industrial production method that comes to mind is chemical synthesis. No way, who makes this method the cheapest? Unless there is no other choice, no pharmaceutical company will consider methods other than chemical synthesis.

  Roger bought the chemical synthesis equipment just to give those guys who would come later and try to steal the production method a false impression - that penicillin can be synthesized chemically! That it can be produced in the cheapest, most popular way! As long as they have this idea, they will start researching in the wrong direction from the very beginning! Don't even think about getting penicillin out for a lifetime - you know, penicillin has never been synthesized by chemical methods until 2012! With the technical level of the twenties, even if those scientists wanted to, it would be impossible to synthesize penicillin chemically.

  But if the penicillin factory is turned into a household chemical plant, how will the penicillin be produced? The answer is simple - import it from modern countries!

  When penicillin was first industrially produced, what was the monthly output of the whole world? It was 45 million units. Later, due to Pfizer's open production technology to other factories for joint production, production capacity increased by hundreds of times in a short period. In modern times, retailing a bottle of 8 million units of penicillin costs 5.4 yuan, and buying 10 billion units costs 120 yuan... Less than 10 yuan can buy the monthly output of an American big shot, this business is more cost-effective than producing it yourself.

  Because the mountain road is impassable, Roger prepares to let the mules carry goods on their backs. With two more mules making two trips to the empty cave, the factory's annual output will be settled...

  After selling penicillin, Roger is preparing to buy land at both ends of the cave and build a highway, so that modern fermentation equipment can be imported. At that time, a formal penicillin factory will be established in the Republic of China to produce penicillin.

  So, Roger is going to use the space-time cave to set up - I sell penicillin on a large scale every day, and all the equipment I import are chemical synthesis equipment. If penicillin isn't synthesized through chemistry, then where does it come from? It can't just appear out of thin air, right? (Actually, that's almost true)

  With this layout, Roger estimated that those jealous forces would not be able to crack it even if they studied it until they vomited blood.