In the eyes of many people, there is a significant difference between the people in Lianyungang and other places every day at 6:30 am. As the radio rang, the bus platforms on the streets were crowded with workers who were going to work in factories or companies. On the streets, the bicycles formed in a formation show the difference in this city.

Among the more than 200,000 citizens in Lianyungang, 60% of the working population directly work in enterprises under the name of ** Company, and the other 20% work indirectly for ** Company. To a certain extent, this city is like its establishment, everything belongs to the company. Of course, this is not all. There are also hundreds of enterprises established by investors of varying sizes here, but most of the enterprises that can be counted in Lianyungang are company enterprises, which cannot be changed at least in the short term.

As the manager of Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company, Xiang Songmao is different from other business owners. He does not have his own transportation car or his own chartered car. He wears a suit and takes buses most of the time. Although Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company needs to transfer to two buses to get there from where he lives, it does not prevent him from taking the bus to work every day.

While waiting for the bus on the platform, Xiang Songmao looked left and right. There were people waiting for the bus near the platform. Most of the people wearing blue jackets were factory workers, while most of the people wearing suits or imitation military uniforms were company employees. Here, you can't see the robe that you are used to in other cities. In fact, this may be the biggest difference in Lianyungang.

"It's not easy to wear after cutting braids!"

This may be a characteristic of the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. In the late Qing Dynasty, when the Chinese regime was still after the Qing Dynasty, although some people advocated cutting braids, cutting braids took risks. After all, the Qing Dynasty had the ancestral system of "leaving hair without hair, and beheading without braids". After the Jiashen year, braids were violently imposed on the people by using the method of "leaving hair without hair, leaving hair without hair" and those who are indifferent to the people. While braids became a manifestation of enslaving a nation, they also became a habit in the process of being prone to hair and dressing for hundreds of years.

After the rise of the Wuchang Army, the symbol of cutting braids and changing clothes was a symbol of restoring the nation. In the open-minded southeastern provinces, people cut off braids and cut braids automatically. In northern provinces, they were almost resisted by fools everywhere, and even caused a "braid-cutting blood case" in Shandong, Hebei and other places. The target of braids being beaten and killed was the braids without braids.

Later, although braid cutting became the mainstream, it became a habit in various provinces in China.

However, this habit in Lianyungang was forcibly blocked. From the day the ** company started to build the Longhai Railway, it began to provide uniforms to workers. Gradually, this became a habit in Lianyungang and the entire Longhai. Even non-company enterprises invested along the Longhai line also provided uniforms to workers. These uniforms were imitating "**" jackets, and were either suits or military uniforms to civilian employees.

Under this premise, the robe and mandarin jacket is naturally eliminated here, but more importantly, the robe and mandarin jacket is not "liked" here, especially the company. Although the company did not say it clearly, if two people apply for a job at the same time, one is wearing a suit or imitation military clothing, and the other is wearing a robe and mandarin jacket, the company will be the former, not the latter. It is said that this is related to Li Zhiyuan, and Li Zhiyuan does not like the "robes and mandarin jacket with very strong slave colors".

In this regard, it may be a rumor to the outside world, but Xiang Songmao knew that this was not a rumor. When he first came to Lianyungang, he was wearing a jacket, and was politely reminded by some friends in the company to take off his gown and jacket, just because the chairman once saw employees wearing trousers and jackets in the company. Although he did not express any opinions at the time, he finally said in a chat with others that those who "cut braids and dresses are not easy" were "a group of bastards who are not enough slaves."

At first, Xiang Songmao was very unaware, but later his friends explained that those who "cut braids and don't dress easily" were so sad, because they cut off the braids on their heads, but did not cut off the braids in their hearts. Their braids were just forced to be helpless. This was the tragic thing about those who were used to being slaves. It was the slave nature in his bones that allowed him to keep the clothes of the slave when he cut off his tail.

If China wants to be prosperous and strong, the first thing is to remove the slave nature in its bones. Otherwise, even if China is prosperous and strong, it will only be a slave from a foreign race and then a slave to a compatriot.

Although she did not think she was a slave, Xiang Songmao finally chose to wear a suit and threw away the jacket. In the end, even the female family members at home threw away the cheongsams in the style of the "Hansuit" journal published by the company.

However, in Xiang Songmao's eyes, what kind of clothing to wear is insignificant, and to him, it is more important to the pharmaceutical factory!

To a large extent, Xiang Songmao never felt that he was a simple businessman. Like many ethnic businessmen, Xiang Songmao was not from a noble family. He was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang in 1880. He studied in a private school when he was a teenager and received traditional Confucian education. Later, because of his family's decline, he went to Suzhou to be an apprentice at the age of 14. Three years later, because of his diligence and carefulness, he was entrusted by his boss as an accountant. 15 years ago, with the introduction of his second uncle Wu Ziqin, Xiang Songmao came to Shanghai Zhongying Pharmacy as an accountant. In the Zhongying Pharmacy, his talents were quickly appreciated by the general manager and transferred to the Hankou branch to serve as a manager. At this time, Xiang Songmao had already demonstrated his business talent and was elected as a director of the Hankou Chamber of Commerce.

Shanghai celebrity Huang Chujiu is an important guide for him. Huang Chujiu himself figured out a kind of "Ai Crying Brain Replenishing Skills", because morphine was added to the medicine, and it was easy to be excited after drinking it. Huang also used the American "Dr. Ai Luo" and "Strong Nation" signs, and this medicine actually sold quite well. In the process of promoting "Ai Luo Brain Replenishing Skills", Huang Chujiu met the smart and capable Xiang Songmao. At the invitation of this business owner, Xiang agreed to take the position of general manager of Shanghai Wuzhou Pharmacy, but the condition was to give complete autonomy.

The characteristics of Xiang Songmao's business are somewhat similar to Huang Chujiu. They are both pioneering, dare to think and do, and attach importance to the publicity effect of advertising. After he took office, he launched a reform, selling the luxury decorations in the store, enriching capital turnover, moving them to a new site, changing the internal mechanism, and establishing the brand's drug general distribution office, store retail department and wholesale sales department. On the one hand, it expands the import of drugs, and on the other hand, it develops self-made drugs. In addition to "artificial blood", it also adds "Buttering Tian Juice" to strengthen the stomach and replenish the deficiency, "Haibo Medicine" to clear blood and detoxify, "Bar bark pills" to strengthen the brain and moisten the intestines, "relieving the lungs and breathing gels" to relieve phlegm and relieve cough, etc. Xiang Songmao's reform, coupled with the advent of these patent medicines, has greatly boosted the reputation of Wuzhou Pharmacy and increased its profits exponentially.

Like the Chinese-French Pharmacy, after becoming famous in Shanghai, conflicts occurred within the shareholders. It was at this time that Xiang Songmao's friend invited him to Lianyungang to develop. However, after Xiang Songmao's investigation in Lianyungang, although there were many hospitals in Lianyungang, most of the hospitals were foreign drugs. This made him feel pain. If there was no modern pharmaceutical industry, even if there were many drugs sold in his own products, it would be just a traditional drug shop.

After several trade-offs, he withdrew from Wuzhou Pharmacy and chose to accept the employment of ** Company as the general manager of "Yasin Pharmaceutical Company". What he valued was that Yaxin Pharmaceutical is the first modern pharmaceutical company in China in the true sense. As soon as Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company was put into production, it caught up with the "Jiaoao Incident".

After the incident, he actively supported the Anti-Japanese Movement and served as a member of the Longhai Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Committee. At the same time, according to the instructions of the head office, he organized all the employees in the enterprise into a battalion of armed workers, served as the battalion commander, and strictly trained the employees. The employees were required to train for one hour after get off work. While actively preparing for the war, he also accepted the task of enabling the office to produce military medicines and personally supervised the production, and rushed to make medicines day and night, and supplying them urgently needed on the front line.

It can be said that it was from then on that time that Yaxin monopolized the supply of Western medicine in Longhai, and at the same time, it used the boycott of Japanese goods after the incident to sell Yaxin Western medicine to the whole country. Although Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company has only been established for a year, it has long developed into China's largest Western medicine and medical device manufacturer, and the Western medicine and medical devices it produces are exported abroad.

However, Xiang Songmao, the general manager of this company, does not have the style of a general manager of a "big company". Just like he takes a bus, this is exactly his style. In his opinion, instead of making a car that costs 4,000 yuan per car, it is better to buy a machine for 4,000 yuan and produce more gauze.

Finally, after moving to Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company, Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company did not look very conspicuous. A two-story wooden temporary building in front of the factory was the headquarters of Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company. However, Yaxin's heart was not here, but the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research between the factory and the office building, where is Yaxin's heart.

Standing by the window of the office and hanging a towel on the basin rack, Xiang Songmao looked at the four-story fully enclosed Institute of Pharmaceuticals. The institute brought together the best pharmacists in China, many of whom studied medicine in Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

In the past year after the establishment of Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company, the institute has developed more than 600 drugs based on foreign technical data. It can be said that it is the institute's technical research that supports the company to become the largest Western medicine manufacturer in Asia. Deep in Xiang Songmao's heart, he dreams of turning this into the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturer.

"I don't know how Professor Ma is!"

Looking at the institute, Xiang Songmao remembered the host of the institute - Markdo, the Penang overseas Chinese. Fifteen years ago, he went to Britain and Germany to study medicine with the support of Mr. Luo Kaitai of Tai'an Pharmacy in Guangzhou. He had only been studying in Europe for nearly ten years. However, in the eyes of Tai'an Pharmacy, the man was "confused", so he was full of knowledge, but he was not aware of adaptation and did not know how to save people. Although he helped Tai'an Pharmacy develop a variety of medicines, Tai'an had no intention of making Western medicines. Later, he was hired as the host of Yaxin Pharmacy Research Institute by Guangzhou ** Branch, but a few days ago, he was admitted to the hospital due to a minor injury.

"Go and see him in the afternoon!"

From two or three days ago, Markdo's voice became much deeper and he felt tired even when speaking. So when facing the nurse's request, he did not argue much and stretched out his right arm.

But he still wondered why he needed to intravenous injection of glucose and vitamins. Although to some extent, Markdo knew that he was not a qualified doctor. When studying medicine in Britain and Germany, he focused more on medicine. One was because of the monopoly of foreign pharmacies, and the other was because China could not produce Western medicine, so he focused on medicine. Unfortunately, Mr. Luo was not as far-sighted as Mr. Luo Kaitai and had no intention of engaging in Western medicine production. If not, he would not come to Lianyungang.

Looking at his left hand wrapped in gauze, Markdo's expression became a little helpless, but he fell down on his bicycle and his palm was scratched, but now the wound was infected. In the past few days, Markdo, who had only maintained his physical strength with only a few drops, suddenly felt dizzy and almost unstable. He put on his robe and slippers, and gently pushed open the door of the ward. Fortunately, there was no one on the corridor of the special ward. He looked at his ward about ten meters away from the nurse's station.

Markdo staggered and walked staggeringly on the wall of the corridor. Finally, he walked to the nurse station, where there were only the nurse and three nurses, and he saw no doctor. He walked into the nurse station without saying a word.

"Oh! Professor Markdo!"

A nurse screamed loudly, and the nurse immediately ran to Markdo.

"Professor, are you feeling uncomfortable? Why did you come here? If you have any instructions, just ring the bell. Come and I will help you back to your room."

The nurse and another nurse held Markdo.

"No, I want to see my medical records."

The nurse was stunned when he heard this.

"No..."

"What? No? He actually talked to me like this!"

Markdo was panting and scolded the nurse. He had always had a good impression of the Longhai Railway, especially after seeing the sign "No matter what ethnic group you are, no matter whether you have money or not, whether you have the status of yours, you have the right to be treated here." He was even more fond of this hospital.

In other words, if the poor come to treat the disease, the hospital will not refuse treatment. Markdo once read in the newspaper that when citizens outside the Longhai affiliated area are sick, someone will be discharged privately after healing the disease. Anyway, they leave a fake address and they will not receive a bill after being discharged. Despite this, the hospitals along the route have never refused to accept any patients, but the hospital naturally has funds to pay these fees. In fact, according to the hospital's rules, poor patients can get free diagnosis and treatment, and they just need to apply.

However, the favorable feeling is good, these hospitals are too "abiding" by rules. For example, patients do not have the right to view medical records. Even if it is him, the guest doctor of this hospital has no right to view their medical records without permission.

"Professor, you are a patient now. Please go back to the ward to rest." The nurse begged again, and went forward to support Markdo. Markdo shook her hand away.

"This is the doctor's order! Take out the medical record! Why don't you take out the medical record?"

At this time, Markdo's body, which was originally barely strong, has now become much thinner. His cheeks were thin and his face turned blue, but his sunken eyes still flashed with strange light, and his ghostly figure was approaching the head of the nurse. The head of the nurse was so scared that his face turned pale and he kept retreating.

"Hurry up, take out the medical record!" Markdo squeezed out his last bit of strength and shouted.

The nurse took out the medical record from the sorting cabinet with slightly trembling hands and handed it to Markdo. Markdo grabbed the medical record and opened it immediately.

After examination, it was found that the bacterial infection of the hand wound was found, and a variety of drug treatments have been carried out. Given that the drugs and various treatment methods are ineffective, comfort therapy is adopted...

“Comfort therapy”

Markdo read the medical record carefully and he quickly flipped through all possible pages. Uneasiness and fear made his heart beat faster and his eardrums buzzed. However, Markdo could not find any inappropriate records. He turned to the page containing the prescription for injection, and he wanted to know what the doctor had just given the intravenous injection.

Injection prescription:

Glucose:c

Vitamin B 1:200g

Vitamin B 2kkg

Vitamin C: 500mg

Sure enough, there is no drug name that can play a role except for vitamins. Markdo is not unfamiliar with vitamins, because although vitamins are Polish-American scientist Casimir 7 Fonk, he combined previous test results and published a theory of vitamins. He determined that four substances in natural foods can prevent night blindness, and the four substances are called vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C and vitamin D respectively.

However, Yaxin Da Pharmaceutical is the first pharmaceutical company to achieve mass production of vitamins. The four vitamins are called vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, and vitamin D. These names are taken by Mark Du. Although the export of vitamins is one of the most profitable products in the company, Mark Du, who is familiar with its effects, knows that these vitamins have no effect on their symptoms, and are just comforting treatments.

"Sir, sorry, I've been disturbed."

After closing the medical records, Mark Duo apologized to the nurse, and the nurse helped the nurse to return to the ward.

Lying on the hospital bed, looking at the lights on the roof, the coughs of other patients were heard from time to time in the ward. There were no single beds in the Longhai hospital. All the wards here were double wards. This was a necessity of the public welfare medical system. But at this time, he no longer felt that the room was no longer noisy. For him, he knew clearly that the doctor had no choice about his symptoms - bacterial infection. As a doctor, he also knew that this was the fact that medicine can not treat bacterial infection at all. Once anyone was infected by bacteria, there was only one result, that was to die in despair.

The doctor here has given him as much treatment as possible. The industrialized production of vitamins allows the doctor to give him a kind of comfort, and he will slowly die in the comfort.

"No, I can't die!"

(In this chapter, Mark Duo pays tribute to Thomak, who invented sulfamic, which changed the history of human beings fighting diseases!)
Chapter completed!