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Chapter 251 Stepping aside the Nobel Prize

〖China's rapid growth and rapid growth of fertilizer industry is just a microcosm. China's major heavy industries, light industries and agricultural fields are growing rapidly.

Chinese merchants have always been not short of money. They were unable to grow before because the old social system emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, and the suppression and bullying of foreign merchants. Merchants used to invest in factories and set up yellow ones. What they lacked in the past was national policy support. Now Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang government eliminated the Qing Dynasty's national policy of suppressing agriculture and suppressing commerce, and also withstood the suppression and bullying of foreign merchant groups for domestic merchants. At the same time, China's technical forces represented by Beiyang Technology began to provide technical and scientific guidance for national enterprises. Therefore, the good domestic growth environment has rekindled the hope of investing in factories.

After the meeting of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Wang Chenhao, the Imperial Minister, said to national businessmen at a press conference, "It is not only military soldiers who can become national heroes. The country is poor and weak and bullied. Investment and factory investment contribute to the national economic construction. The government and the people also regard these people as national heroes." This has made thousands of national businessmen excited.

Beiyang Technology gathers more top international experts, professors and scholars, who have brought a large number of international cutting-edge science and technology to China. Except for military technology, other technologies have been quickly invested in the practice of major factories in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base. After Wang Chenhao became the general manager of the Imperial Domestic Cabinet, he fully implemented industrial reforms. The cutting-edge technology from the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base quickly spread to industrial bases in other provinces across the country. With technical support from private merchants, he was able to invest in and set up factories.

In order to encourage merchants to invest vigorously in factories, the Beiyang government has formulated a series of incentive policies.

For example, a considerable number of unreasonable taxes are exempted from unreasonable taxes, anti-subsidies are adopted for commercial investment in scarce industrial projects in some countries, and tax cuts and tax exemptions are given to enterprises that absorb a large number of idle private labor.

Merchants were born for profit. The state gave them money concessions and allowed them to enjoy the reputation of "national contributors" and "national heroes", which made them both fame and fortune. Therefore, merchants were very enthusiastic about investing in factories. A large number of industrial and mining enterprises have emerged throughout the country, almost covering all walks of life in the national industry, and even some equipment and materials in the military field were contracted by private enterprises.

For the Beiyang government, the government suffered a huge loss in tax cuts, tax exemptions and counter-subsidies for national workers and commerce, but in fact it was the opposite. Although the government's tax reduction and tax exemption suffered losses in the early stages, it reduced its financial income, but as a large number of industrial and mining enterprises emerged like mushrooms after a rain, the tax revenue for industry and commerce increased instead of reducing.

At the same time, in order to allow the state to further reduce taxes on enterprises, a large number of industrial and mining enterprises have continuously expanded their scale and absorbed more labor to join, which invisibly helped the government solve a large number of idle social labor. In order to set up idle social labor, the government needs money to provide relief. idle labor such as umbrellas have flocked to major factories, so naturally no longer need the state to provide relief. Instead, it reduces the burden on the country's finances and provides great help to the Beiyang government's stability maintenance work.

In general, the Beiyang government's policy adjustment is just right, so that the government, enterprises and the people can achieve a win-win situation.

Although Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang government are worthy of praise for formulating strategies, the direct success factor is attributed to Beiyang Technology.

In fact, it is precisely because of the rapid growth of Beiyang Technology Heavy Industry that China has mastered international advanced technologies and even cutting-edge technologies in various fields. It is precisely because these advanced technologies are introduced into various fields in China and with advanced technology support that domestic businessmen can invest and start factories with peace of mind, so as not to suffer losses due to the gap with foreign technology.

At the 1899 fiscal year budget meeting, the 1899 growth budget submitted by Beiyang Technology Heavy Industry was approved by Congress and received a financial appropriation of 20 million dragon coins. Wang Chenhao specially added a budget of 4 million dragon coins when the cabinet was reviewed. When Congress asked about the whereabouts of the funds, Wang Chenhao explained that the fee was used to establish the China International Science Foundation to reward major scientific discoveries or discoverers in the international community.

Previously, Beiyang Technology had a special fund to reward scientists, professors and scholars from various laboratories of Beiyang Technology Heavy Industry. The bonus was very high because they were all their own people and were serving Beiyang Technology and China.

But this time Wang Chenhao established the China International Science Foundation, and the scale of the reward was expanded to various fields in various countries around the world.

This practice of rewarding money to foreigners has made a considerable number of members of Congress dissatisfied with it. In their common words, it is a scammer, and the other ones are full.

But the members of Congress dare not accuse him of Wang Chenhao in the face of seeing him, but there were many discussions behind his back.

After Wang Chenhao learned about it, in addition to despising these people for short-sightedness, he decided to explain it to them.

So, in the subsequent Congressional consultation question and answer, although no member of Congress asked about Wang Chenhao's establishment of the China International Science Foundation, Wang Chenhao still explained it to them.

Wang Chenhao's explanation is very easy to understand. He just told the members of Congress that they had heard of but did not pay attention to, that is, buying bones for a thousand gold coins.

After Wang Chenhao told the story of buying bones with a daughter, people with a little political savvy understood the truth. The members of Congress here are all politically old foxes, like Zhang Zhidong.

Liu Kunyi, Weng Tonghe, Li Hongzao, Gangyi and others understood when Wang Chenhao just started the story. And Yi, Yuxian and other congressmen who didn't like reading ancient books also understood at the end of the story. Wang Chenhao's real purpose was to enhance China's international popularity and influence. Because China was a backward slave country in the eyes of people from all over the world, it did not pay attention to science and academics, and excluded and slandered scientists. In this case, no one was willing to grow up in China, especially

Most of the magnificent scientists are arrogant and have a big temper. When they mention China, they immediately look down on their eyes. Most of the scientists, professors and scholars that Beiyang Technology has brought before are trapped by funds, forced by life, and excluded by their peers. They are willing to come to China for the sake of money. If they can solve those problems themselves, they will not come to China. This is because China is backward, so Wang Chenhao needs to change the international community's impression of China.

Just like before, Wang Chenhao forcibly passed the National Personal Grooming Act, stipulating that citizens have the right to choose their own grooming, and they can cut their hair without leaving their braids. They are not called slaves, nor do they have to kneel down and other regulations, which caused a sensation at home and abroad. That time, Wang Chenhao made a show in front of the whole world, allowing the international community to no longer use braids, slaves, kneeling and other excuses to contempt human rights to criticize the backwardness of Chinese society, and prove to the international community that China is entering and integrating into a civilized society.

For this purpose, the China International Science Foundation also set up a 4 million dragon coin bonus pool, and draw out 1 million dragon coins every year as a direct reward, including the manufacturing of the China International Science Treasure Star Award medal and certificate.

The medal is stipulated as gold. The medal weighs about 300 grams, the diameter of the medal is about 7 cm. The front is the relief statue of the China Monument and the Chinese International Science and Technology Treasure Star Award. It does not match the award, and the back pattern and engraving of the medal are incompatible. There are dragon totem, Great Wall, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, etc., which are all representative landmarks of China and play a propaganda role. The winner's name, nationality, gender and achievements are engraved above the pattern, giving the winner a high sense of achievement. At the same time, the design and sentence of each award certificate are different.

The China International Science Treasure Star Award was promulgated by the Ministry of Education of China and Beiyang Technology, and the annual prize amount was 50,000 dragon coins. Compared with the newly established Nobel Prize in the international community, the Nobel Prize was 150,000 Swedish kroner at the first time in 1901, which was equivalent to the salary of a professor in Sweden for 20 years. The individual prize of the China Science Treasure Star Award was 2.5 times the Nobel Prize. It was even established before the official release of the Nobel Prize. In addition to Wang Chenhao's purpose of launching the "Chinese brand", it is not ruled out that Wang Chenhao was jealous of the lack of Chinese in the Nobel Prize and adopted an action to erase the influence of the Nobel Prize.

Since the China Baoxing Award is an international award, a series of laws must be formulated to come to the international community to prove that the award is fair and fair.

According to Wang Chenhao's suggestion, the Ministry of Education Lingding established the National Academy of Sciences to manage funds. During the entire selection process, the winners are not affected by any nationality, ethnicity, ideology and religious beliefs. The only criterion for selection is the size of the score.

According to the research regulations of the National Academy of Sciences, the Peace Prize is selected by the Beiyang Government Parliament of China. The Physics Prize, Chemistry Prize, and Medicine Prize are evaluated by the Beiyang Science and Technology Management Committee and the Academy of Evaluation. The Economic Prize is jointly evaluated by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the School of Economics of the Ministry of Education. The Mathematics Prize is evaluated by the School of Mathematics of the Ministry of Education. Each awarding unit has a 10-person Chinese Science Achievement Prize Committee responsible for the selection. The committee is held every five years.

The selection process is: the candidates who accept various Chinese Science Achievements Awards recommended by the Supreme Being of the Supreme Being of the Chinese Science Achievements.

Usually, there are 100-2,000 candidates recommended by each party. Those who are qualified to recommend candidates include: former winners of the Baoxing Award for China Science and Technology Achievements, members of the Baoxing Award jury, Beiyang Science and Technology Heavy Industry, specially designated university professors, special invited professors of the Baoxing Award jury, chairmen of the Writers Association (prize), international conferences and organizations (peace prizes). In addition, they are not allowed to recommend themselves.

Starting from January 1 of the following year, the jury of various China Science and Technology Achievements Treasure Star Awards will screen and review the recommended candidates, and keep the work situation strictly confidential. By mid-March, the list of winners of various China Science and Technology Achievements Treasure Star Awards will be announced. The winners will grandly hold the China Science and Technology Achievements Treasure Star Awards in the Ganqing Palace Hall on June 24 at 11:18 on June 24. At that time, the ministers and wives of the Chinese Cabinet General will attend the award ceremony and award the award.

The reason why I chose this day and this time to award the award was Cai Yuanpei, Minister of Education, said that this day was the summer solstice time, but when answering a reporter's question, Ruan Zhongshu revealed that this day happened to be the birthday of Wang Chenhao, the Imperial Minister. The reporters asked whether they were pleasing to the Lord General. Ruan Zhongshu smiled shyly, implying that the Lord General was the person who advocated this initiative, but the time was indeed "coincident... (ps: Wang Chenhao hints strongly protests and dissatisfaction with this: This nature is clearly the author's birthday)

In order to create a good impression of international public opinion, Wang Chenhao made additional provisions during the selection period, that is, the Chinese government must not interfere with the selection of the Baoxing Award. Of course, this is just a paper show, and in fact, various awards cannot be separated from political influence. In general, Wang Chenhao set up this award a bit sensational, but in fact it is to plunder talents from all over the world. Because the huge prize money needs to be collected from China, as long as these award-winning people come to China, Wang Chenhao will prepare a series of "big meals" for them without leaving them all in China.

The China International Science and Technology Achievement Baoxing Award is scheduled to be awarded for the first time on June 24, 1899, so the first batch of winners will be nominated and screened by the Ministry of Education and Beiyang Technology Heavy Industry.

The winners of the Peace Prize are Frederick Passi, who was the French-born Frederick Passi who founded the International Peace Alliance and the Parliamentary Union of various countries, the Swiss-born Joan Henry Dunnan, who created the Right Red Cross, and led three international hospital ships to Central and South America, the Philippine Islands to voluntarily treat soldiers injured in the war, and the innocent Chinese female doctor Ms. Chen Meili.

The three Chinese hospital ships applied for international law to protect the world and caused a sensation. They went to the Caribbean and the Philippines to serve the war, but they were given the title of international rescue, mainly to treat Chinese and American soldiers, but also voluntarily treat many people for the local people, and distributed a large number of medicines to the local area, saving many lives.

The Beiyang government sent Chen Meili to the winner of the Peace Prize. The most important purpose was to let the whole world know that China's hospital ship, Chinese doctors are saving lives and helping the international community, showing the international responsibility of the Chinese government, and improving the international good image of the Chinese government. At the same time, they did not choose male doctors but female doctors. This is mainly to prove to the world that China has completed social system reforms and no longer discriminates against women, sending a signal that China has entered a civilized society.

The two winners of the Chemistry Prize, one is the French Curie couple, who discovered chemical element locks and lock rays. The other is the German chemists Haber and Bosch, a professor at the Beiyang Science and Technology Chemistry Laboratory. They collaborated to create the "Habber-Bosch" ammonia synthesis method, which solved the technical problems of large-scale production of nitrogen fertilizers. It laid the foundation for the large-scale production of human food and made great contributions.

The two winners of the Physics Prize, respectively, were found by Rongen, a German native, and French native Van Becquerel, a French native, discovered "Sodium rays... The discovery of sodium radioactivity is of great significance to revealing the mystery of the structure of matter, and has discovered the prerequisites for the creation and creation of emerging disciplines such as radiochemistry, nuclear physics, and radio medicine.

The winners of the Medical Prize were Artur Eisinggreen, a German Jewish chemist at Beiyang Science and Technology Medical Laboratory in China, and Liu Shengxu, a Chinese traditional Chinese medicine physician, who was awarded the discovery of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs Shennong antibiotics and realized a large-scale industrial production plan.

Shennong anti-inflammatory drugs are actually the Chinese version of aspirin produced by the combination of aspirin and the Chinese Shennong herbal meridian. At this time, aspirin had just been clinically presented in Germany and had not yet been promoted. His discovery was Felix Hoffmann and Artur Esinggreen from Germany. The latter was the boss of the former, but because Germans discriminated against Jews, the director of Bayer Company attributed the efficacy to Hoffmann's achievements. So the indignant Artur Esinggreen was dissatisfied with Bayer's ruling, but could not match them. So by chance, he came to Beiyang Technology, China with the help of the Chinese Embassy in Germany, and became the main expert of the Beiyang Technology Medical Laboratory.

At this time, aspirin was only clinically confirmed to be anti-inflammatory, so Artur and other laboratory doctors called it an anti-inflammatory drug. After the project was introduced to Wang Chenhao's ears, Wang Chenhao immediately realized a huge business opportunity, which was to register aspirin first, and produce the drug on a large scale before Germany's Bayer company to seize the international market.

Wang Chenhao knew the huge influence of aspirin in the international market and the huge profits it brought. But the problem is that the German Bayer company will soon put aspirin into production and start selling, and the two sides will have to start a patent war for huge profits.

Therefore, Wang Chenhao specifically instructed Liu Shengxu, a medical laboratory physician, to integrate some Chinese medicine concepts into aspirin to reduce the negative effects of aspirin.

Liu Shengxu specializes in traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine. He has a profound study of Shennong Materia Medica. Shennong Materia Medica recorded the pharmacological effects of willow bark as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty two thousand years ago, which was the main component of aspirin. So he studied with Artur and added some mild Chinese medicine preparations to accelerate absorption on the existing aspirin. In fact, it was to add some fenaxitin and caffeine to change the original aspirin to compound aspirin.

In terms of naming, Wang Chenhao was preparing to sue for future commercial purposes, so he changed it to Shennong antibiotics. Wang Chenhao knew the huge effect of aspirin, so he told Artur and Liu Shengxu and others that Shennong anti-inflammatory drugs have pharmacological effects such as antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic and anti-platelet aggregation, which expounded the rapid effect of the drug, stable effect, easy to diagnose and deal with overdose, and rarely caused allergic reactions. It is often used for colds, headaches, neuralgia, arthritis, muscle pain, rheumatism, acute internal hygrochemical arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and toothache.

With Wang Chenhao's reminder and guidance, Artur and Liu Shengxu immediately launched relevant clinical trials. The results verified Wang Chenhao's statement one by one, and announced the research efficacy and clinical trial data of Shennong antibiotics in China before the German Bayer Company, which was recognized by the medical community around the world.

At this time, Bayer's aspirin is still undergoing clinical trials. It only knows the anti-inflammatory effect of aspirin, does not know other effects of the drug, or is not sure about other effects, and only declares that aspirin is an anti-inflammatory drug.

Bayer only applied for anti-inflammatory patents on aspirin, while China Beiyang Technology's Shennong Antibiotics has registered more than a dozen drug application patents at once. This will be very beneficial to China when the two sides sued in the future.

Similarly, Wang Chenhao chose to list Artur and Liu Sheng as Baoxing Award for the medical field, and the purpose is to promote their efficacy, enhance international influence, and prepare for future lawsuits.

It can be said that from the beginning, Bayer Company unknowingly fell into Wang Chenhao's calculations. Bayer Company is destined to give up huge profits to Beiyang Technology...
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