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In the office, looking at the report sent from the hospital, Li Zicheng's heart was tight. Perhaps outsiders could not see the impact and importance of the Expeditionary Force on the future political situation of China, but he, who understands the historical process, knows the great impact of this elite force on the future political situation of China...

Historically, after the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the US government decided to send an expeditionary force to Europe at the request of Britain and France, at the request of Britain and France. Wilson appointed J.J. Pershing as the commander of the expeditionary force and J.G. Haberd as the chief of staff. In mid-June, Pershing led more than 200 command personnel to France. In late 1917, the first batch of combat troops arrived in Saint-Nazell, France. In early July, Pershing formulated a plan for the expeditionary force from company to army group, and called the president to request the expeditionary force's forces to be replaced.

It increased to more than 1 million people. Due to insufficient maritime transportation capacity and other reasons, the US military's assembly speed in Europe was quite slow. By January 1918, there were only 175,000 American troops arriving in Europe and the United States, and they were organized into two regular army divisions and four National Guards. Since then, due to the help of the British Navy, the speed of transport of troops has accelerated. The US troops arrived in France in March, increased to 600,000 at the end of May, and increased to 1 million in August. In November, the US troops stationed in France reached its peak, with a total of about 2.08 million people in 41 divisions. Artillery, tanks and other equipment were mainly provided by the French and British troops.

For China, which will send its first 150,000 troops in January 1916, in the thirty-five months after the war ended, China will need to send 3 million troops, which will far exceed China's national strength and reach twice the national strength. The dispatch of these troops will bring about an improvement in international status to China, but its impact on the domestic situation is that it will fundamentally withdraw the local provincial and provincial armies on the grounds of participating in the war. Now the national army is only more than one million. At the latest by the end of next year, the provincial armies of each province will be drawn out. Of course, these provincial armies will be expanded and given new organization.

In addition, it will also bring an elite, battle-prone army to China. In terms of its weapons and equipment alone, the equipment of this expeditionary army of millions will be the first time in Chinese history, even exceeding the level of a European army power. Moreover, China does not need to spend even a penny. What kind of impact will millions of troops return to China after the war is over?

Through war, personnel, organization and troops that disrupt the source of officers and soldiers will become a national army that cannot be continued to be commanded by the local government. As many as three million national troops to eliminate localization will definitely be the most powerful deterrent force for China. Their existence can deter any province. With the help of military deterrence, the central government can implement administrative reforms in the local area according to its own will.

And the premise of all this is that the army must complete the sharp transformation from private army to national army!

Yuan Shikai was quite troubled to choose the commander. It can be said that Cai E is the best candidate. Whether in history or in reality, he is the best candidate. After the war is over, the old Beiyang forces and local forces will be severely weakened in the war. But if Old Beiyang can take the opportunity to master this elite army, it will undoubtedly be a nightmare for China!

And now Cai E's body...

Even if you don’t ask other doctors, Li Zicheng knew that in this era, whether it is tuberculosis or Adam’s tuberculosis that you have never heard of in the past, even if it is not a terminal illness, it is not far from the terminal illness, and there are no antibiotics...

antibiotic!

These three words only made Li Zicheng's eyes lit up. Many years ago, a relative who had tuberculosis seemed to say something at that time. If it weren't for the "anti-inflammatory drugs", his tuberculosis would have been fatal. Aren't anti-inflammatory drugs just antibiotics?

What antibiotic is it?

Sulfonamide?

If you remember correctly, the drug sulfonamide is already available in the Expeditionary Force's drug list. Markdo, one of the inventors of sulfonamide, also received the corresponding bonus, and it was approved by himself. When he was "assassinated" in Shanghai, in the press release to the outside world, it was the "sulfonamide" that saved his life. It can be said that he made a vivid "live advertisement" for sulfonamide.ishu.

It should not be sulfonamide. Otherwise, Dr. Schnell would mention this drug in his treatment plan. He is not a doctor of medicine who has just arrived in China. Now sulfonamide has begun to be exported in batches, and the orders in Europe have reached 100 tons. Now the most profitable drug for big pharmaceutical companies is various sulfonamide drugs. Of course, although it was discovered in the early stage that it was Marko, the technology of sulfonamide extraction and production patents is ultimately provided by the company.

Sulfonamide drugs were discovered by the Germans more than ten years later, and were also the most important antibiotics in Germany during World War II. For example, the United States is penicillin...penicillin!

Speaking these three words, Li Zicheng felt excited. Yes, it was penicillin. That thing was priced at gold. If I remember correctly, he was "seriously injured" at the beginning of the year. After learning about "sulfonamide", he thought of penicillin at that time. Before mass production, one thing needed a few taels of gold. When the United States solved the problem of mass production during World War II, one still needed twenty dollars. In the black market in other countries, one still needed one or two ounces of gold.

At that time, I even checked the information in person at the technical center. Penicillin was invented by Alexander Fleming, an Englishman, but his research progress was not great. Until 1939, German biochemist Chan En, who was working in Oxford, and Australian pathologist Flory continued Fleming's research. Two years later, the first patient to use the drug was a policeman. His head, face, and lungs were seriously infected with bacteria. He received treatment for only 5 days and his condition improved greatly. The rapid recovery was amazing. Unfortunately, due to insufficient penicillin continued treatment, he finally died a month later. World War II prompted mass production of penicillin. In 1943, the United States successfully solved the problem of mass production of penicillin; in 1950, the production could meet the needs of the world.

But during World War II, Germany also conducted the same research. After all, this new drug is very effective in controlling wound infections. Moreover, German soldiers are not iron men. They are also injured and need this drug. On July 20, 1944, a case that shocked the world occurred in Nazi Germany: an anti-Hitler officer organization attempted to assassinate Hitler. The leader of the organization, Stoffenbeg, placed a time bomb under the conference table in the conference room of the command "Wolf Cave" at Hitler's eastern battlefield. The time bomb exploded, and Hitler was covered in blood and was seriously injured. Historians have always believed that Hitler survived the emergency rescue using penicillin made in Germany or the Czech Republic.ishu.

During World War II, not only did Germany study the process of mass production of penicillin, but the Soviet Union also conducted penicillin research. A research team led by Zf Yermayeva, a famous bacterologist at the Gorky Experimental Medicine Institute, successfully studied penicillin and produced it in small batches. It was widely used in the front and rear, saving the lives of a large number of wounded and sick people. However, in the end, the Soviet Union's real solution to industrial production of penicillin was achieved after the end of World War II, with the help of German technicians. Germany had theoretically achieved industrial mass production of industrialized penicillin at the end of the war, but it was only when the batch experiment was completed, it stopped because of the end of the war.

In the database of the Patent Technology Center, Li Zicheng spent three days to find the technical information of penicillin. Then the big pharmaceutical company began to conduct penicillin research. He didn't know how the progress is now... Thinking of the ongoing research, Li Zicheng picked up the pen on the table, wrote more than a dozen words on the telegraph paper, and then pressed the bell on the table.

"Send this telegram to the company! Who likes it?"

When he handed the telegram to the secretary, because he had previously told him not to disturb him for the time being, after putting Cai E's inspection report into the drawer, Li Zicheng asked the secretary.

"Prime Minister, Liu Huacheng, head of the Technical Supervision Section of the Central Mint of the Ministry of Finance, asked for a meeting!"

"Please come in!"

The Central Mint of the Ministry of Finance is built to renovate and expand the Tianjin Mint next year, and when the Copper Yuan Bureau and Silver Yuan Factory were acquired in various provinces, the machines were inspected. If new machines that could be used in recent years were newly built and used, they would be shipped to Tianjin or Shanghai. The Central Mint was established in Tianjin and the Shanghai branch of the Central Mint was established in Shanghai. In the future, only these two factories in China will have the right to mint.

The head of the technical supervision department is an extremely important position in the Central Mint. Liu Huacheng was a technician who helped the company design "fake copper coins" when he was in Lianyungang. He studied coinage at Nagasaki Higher Engineering School. It can be said that there are a few minting professionals in China, but like him, he was rejected in the past in the mint and finally had to go to Lianyungang.

"Prime Minister!"

Liu Huacheng, who entered the Prime Minister's office for the first time, looked at the Prime Minister's office. Except for the crystal chandeliers, the other interiors were very simple, with only those two rows of bookcases, which looked very conspicuous.

"Sit down, Zhentao!"

He got up and walked to the sofa, pointed to the sofa in front of him, and Li Zicheng smiled.

"I haven't seen Zhentao for almost two years. How are you doing in the past two years?"

"Prime Minister, if it weren't for your care, Zhentao wouldn't be like today!"

Seeing the Prime Minister's questioning, Liu Huacheng quickly expressed his loyalty. Perhaps he was not suitable for the officialdom, but he knew very well that if he had not been promoted by the Prime Minister who was ten years younger than him, he might have been just a small factory technician, who would have been the technical chief of the Central Mint and a coin of the Ministry of Finance.

"Zhentao, don't learn from their style. You are not a flatterer, nor am I a person who hears it. I admire you, not because of other things, just because of your thoughts on doing things!"

Speaking of his thoughts, Li Zicheng still remembered that when he was making counterfeit coins, the coin expert who had finally found strongly opposed it and even wanted to report to the official. Then he was persuaded to make "counterfeit coins" like "making durable real coins". Of course, he only heard from Mu Ouchu at that time that he did not see him for the first time until a year later. The person in front of him was the kind of person who was good at doing things but was not good at speaking.

"Prime Minister……"

With a honest smile, Liu Huacheng quickly took out a wooden box from the briefcase. The wooden box was made of oak and inlaid with copper buckles. The copper chain looked quite exquisitely made. When he opened the wooden box, he spoke.

"Prime Minister, according to your instructions, we have successfully developed a new auxiliary currency!"

While speaking, he turned the wooden box to the Prime Minister. Looking at the few coins on the red velvet pads in the wooden box, Li Zicheng's eyes lit up. At the same time, he took out a coin and observed it carefully. The coin was not a single material. The diameter of the coin was about three centimeters. The outer layer was about 5 mm of brass, and the inner layer was nickel... No, it should be stainless steel, obviously to increase the difficulty of manufacturing.

"Prime Minister, this is a 1-cent coin, using a steel core brass ring. The reason why this double material is used is to increase the difficulty of manufacturing. In the past, my country widely used copper coins, and only needed to be pressed with copper cakes, which did not require high technical requirements. However, this double material coin greatly increased the difficulty of manufacturing..."

When explaining the new auxiliary coins, Liu Hua, who was not good at speaking and even a little taciturn, became endless. Behind these seemingly simple coins, it contained the sweat and hard work of him and other mint employees for several months. The new silver dollars requested by the Prime Minister was very simple. The silver dollars still used Yuan Shikai's avatar, but only added three small silver dollars that are easy to use, such as five cents, two cents, and one cents, silver dollars. These silver dollars were manufactured as early as the late Qing Dynasty.

For mints, the real challenge comes from copper auxiliary coins. The Prime Minister's requirements for copper auxiliary coins seem very simple. First, the cost of auxiliary coins does not exceed the cost of currency value, and preferably pre-war costs. After all, for the central government, the central government needs to obtain huge profits for national industrial investment by issuing new auxiliary coins. Second, it is necessary to consider the difficulty of manufacturing. For copper auxiliary coins, manufacturing difficulty is the most important anti-counterfeiting measure.

In order to meet these two requirements, in the past month and a half, Liu Huacheng has tested more than a dozen materials to ensure that the cost of the copper auxiliary coins does not exceed the currency value. However, no matter what raw materials are used, the cost is either too high or too low. In the end, he still used steel core copper plating to solve the cost problem, but steel core copper plating cannot solve the anti-counterfeiting problem. Solving the anti-counterfeiting problem requires starting from the design of the coin. At the beginning, the solution proposed by everyone was very simple, which was to solve the anti-counterfeiting problem through the design of the coin pattern of the traditional lock and the edge embossing. But in the end, these were rejected because those technical means could not solve the anti-counterfeiting problem.

"... Using double materials can prevent small factories from manufacturing to the maximum extent. Small factories need to add multiple equipment. If they cannot form assembly line production, it is difficult to form scale. If the equipment investment alone requires one million yuan. However, it uses a combination of soft and hard materials in the material. Brass is a soft material and stainless steel is a hard material. There are also certain technical difficulties when pressing coin patterns. Compared with the direct pressing technology used in copper coins in the past, the technical difficulties have increased several times. The loss of stainless steel to the mold far exceeds that of copper materials. In the past, the mold tools used by various copper coins in China were introduced to other countries! However, the steel materials used by various countries have not yet used to make coins. Therefore, even new auxiliary coins that others try to imitate, funds are required to solve the problem of auxiliary coins embossing molds. Otherwise, with old molds, the auxiliary coins pattern cannot be printed, and the mold life is not worth the cost..."

When talking about the technical difficulty, Liu Huacheng felt proud. At present, except for the Central Mint, only ** Company has the ability to produce and manufacture embossing molds with new auxiliary coins. Through technology, it has undoubtedly opened up a new world for Liu Huacheng. After completing the design of copper auxiliary coins, he has begun to manufacture new banknotes with the mint technicians.

When I was playing with the coins with copper and silver light in my hand, it can be seen from the surface of the coin that the copper ring and the steel heart were inlaid with no difference, and there was no gap at all. It was like a whole. When I picked up the two-cent coin, the two-cent coin was bigger and turned into a copper-heart steel ring. They all have one thing in common. The front is Yuan Shikai's avatar and the back patterns are all plum blossoms. However, the plum blossoms are not simplified, but the plum blossoms are from the master of the painting Qing Dynasty. Moreover, the upper corner of the plum blossoms is valued and has a very strong Chinese style.

Nodding in satisfaction, Li Zicheng asked,

"Will copper-inlaid steel like this fall off?"

"It will never fall off. The cold blank inlay used for blank inlay is used to use a ten-ton press during the inlay process. Unless it is shot, the heart of the vicissitudes will never fall off!"

When answering the Prime Minister's question, Liu Huacheng seemed very confident. The new auxiliary currency is the only one among the Chinese currency made in accordance with the coin specifications of European and American countries and accepts durability and durability tests. Its durability is even greater than that of old copper coins.

"I'm very satisfied with this new auxiliary currency..."

Although Li Zicheng was very satisfied with the coin whether it was made or patterned, he had to consider another issue - cost.

"But, Zhentao, you have to know that we are using these coins to repurchase the old copper coins of as many as one million yuan on the market! The Ministry of Finance cannot bear the deficit of tens of millions."

Although the cost issue was not mentioned directly, Li Zicheng's words still revealed the problem of manufacturing costs. Cost issues are the key and cannot solve the cost issue. Others are empty talk.

"Prime Minister, according to cost estimates, his manufacturing cost is only 20% of the cost of pre-war copper coins, which already includes the impact of raw materials and manual price increase. If the raw materials fall back to pre-war level, their cost will reach the bottom of the cost of copper coins. With his repurchase of copper coins, he can make a profit of 30 taels per 100,000 pieces!"

When handing over the report, Liu Huacheng said with a smile.

"Prime Minister, the question you need to consider now is how to issue the new auxiliary coins nationwide as soon as possible!"


Chapter completed!