Laszlo was a pure businessman without any noble title.
In the past, he might have cared about his civilian background and wanted to try to keep up appearances. But after experiencing the uprising and revolution [1], Laszlo suddenly felt that the title was not that important. What really determined his identity and destiny was money.
Now, he has used practical actions to prove that his original choice was correct.
In Hungary, he never had a title, but his status was no worse than anyone else. Even when talking with Count Gyula Andrassy, the spiritual leader of Budapest, they only called each other by their first names without excessive etiquette.
After coming to Austria, he could spend a little money to buy a count at any time if he wanted to. But at Morasso's wedding banquet, Laszlo politely declined Queen Elizabeth's suggestion of knighthood.
At least now, the relationship between Austria and Hungary is delicate. The two sides have reached consensus but also have differences in several talks, and the final result has not been clear.
The future is still unclear, and Laszlo is unwilling to express his attitude so early.
The current situation in Central Europe is complicated, Austria is at the center of interests, and there is pressure from all parties in the southeast, northwest, and north. As Count Andrassy's half-agent, he not only has to seek business opportunities in Austria and maintain economic exchanges between the two places, but he also has to get more information for himself and prepare for future development.
The person I was invited to meet today is an old friend from the business world. He has been very active among the three countries of Germany, Italy and Austria recently, so I can get some information from him.
The time was set at three o'clock in the afternoon. Laszlo had a leisurely lunch, put on a formal suit and was about to leave. The butler suddenly walked upstairs: "Sir, Dr. Carvey is here."
"Huh? Didn't you say that the lab report will be in two days? Why did it come today?"
Laszlo looked in the mirror and was about to stop the servant who was dressing him in a bow tie when he suddenly thought of something: "...it's not a bad thing. Go ask him if he has had lunch. If not. , just ask the kitchen to quickly cook a few decent dishes to fill his stomach."
"I just asked. Dr. Kawei came here after dinner."
Laszlo straightened his tie and chose a purple-black coat: "Now that he has eaten, let him get in the carriage quickly and wait for me to finish picking out boots and canes, and I will arrive later."
"Okay sir."
Fifteen minutes later, Laszlo's private carriage left the manor.
Kawei was a little confused by this operation. He only heard from the housekeeper that Laszlo was going to meet someone today: "I didn't expect you to be so busy. You came at the wrong time. I brought the animal experiment report of oxytocin." , including the dosage, effects and symptoms..."
"There's no rush." Laszlo said, "Just take it out when you get the place."
Kawei closed the black suitcase at hand: "Where are we going?"
"The Burgtheater," Laszlo said with a smile, "come with me to meet someone."
"Who to meet?"
Laszlo opened the glass window and looked out of the car: "I'm going to meet an old friend. I originally wanted to talk about the silk business that he is better at. But since you are here, I can try to ask him if we can jointly set up a pharmaceutical company. factory’s interest.”
The car passed the Ring Road and circled around the city center before arriving at the entrance of the Burgtheater.
"He is Italian and likes opera and ballet, so every time you talk to him, you have to find your place in the theater first." Laszlo got off the carriage and took Kavi directly into the theater, "By the way, I remember you too Italian, right?”
Kavi followed him and replied: "I was born in Lombardy, but of German descent."
"Oh, Lombard, come to think of it, you still inherited the title of baronet?"
"The king has already nodded, but the official certificate has not yet come out."
"Things will be easier if you have a title. He values this kind of thing more. After all, there are too many scammers these days, and having a title is more reassuring."
Laszlo smiled and said hello to the waiter, and then went straight upstairs: "But it depends on whether he is interested. If not, then I will do it alone. He is a weirdo who likes to see surgeries. When the time comes, I will I’ll praise you well, but you should also say a few more words to show off your talents, and don’t always look like you don’t care.”
"Show your talent?" Kawei didn't know what he had to show. "Mr. Laszlo, this is a bit embarrassing for me..."
Since investing money in the Burgtheater, Laszlo has become a small half-owner here.
The Italian just reported his name and was sent to the VIP room on the third floor. He waited for a full hour before seeing Laszlo: "You're here."
Laszlo took off his hat with a smile, stepped forward and hugged him: "Kino, my old friend, long time no see."
"It's true that we haven't seen each other for a while."
Chino is of medium build, slightly fatter after he is over 40, but judging from his facial profile, his appearance when he was young is definitely not bad: "How are you doing recently? Isn't it hard to do business in Austria?"
"Business comes second..."
Laszlo thought again of the coming-of-age ball held for his daughter. After sighing for a while, he called Kaveira behind him: "Come, meet my great benefactor, Dr. Kawei Hines. He was the one who saved the life." You saved my life, otherwise you would not have come to Vienna to sit here and listen to the opera, but to attend my memorial service."
"so serious?"
"It was all caused by oysters." Laszlo gently pulled down his collar, revealing a small scar. "Just those few lumps of meat almost killed me."
"Oysters are delicacies, but delicacies can also be harmful to people?" Chino found it unbelievable. "I think Doctor Carvey is still very young."
"This year is 17."
"Only 17?"
"This is the real medical genius. What's the name of the famous Italian surgeon you mentioned last time? He seems to be 28 already." Laszlo was full of praise for Kavi's ability, "It's really bad. 11 years old.”
"No, to be honest, Mr. Laszlo, 28 is already very young. But..." Chino couldn't help but look at Kavi twice, "Are you really only 17?"
"Really only 17 years old."
"Too young."
"Mr. Laszlo thinks highly of me. In fact, it was just an ordinary tracheotomy." Seeing Laszlo boasting, Kawei felt that it was too much and quickly explained, "And I just completed it. The finishing work and the first half are all the work of Teacher Ignatz.”
"Ignatz? That fast surgeon Ignatz?" Chino's eyes widened, "I saw his surgery in Vienna three years ago, and it was indeed fast enough... It seems like, Are you his student?"
"right."
"Young and promising."
"I didn't notice it before. I thought you went to the surgery theater just to seek excitement. But now it seems that you really like surgery."
"You don't understand this. Surgery is also a dance, but it's just danced with a scalpel." Chino went through several dance styles in his mind, "If I really want to make a metaphor, surgery should be on the tip of the knife." Waltz.”
After saying that, he hummed a waltz tune in his mouth and waved his hands back and forth in the air to the tune.
Laszlo saw that he had laid the groundwork and started to get to the point: "My feelings are different from yours. Lying on the bed facing the steel knife and various surgical instruments, without the hypnosis of ether... you definitely can't It is so painful and wonderful to experience the feeling of a dying person coming back to life."
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Kino nodded repeatedly, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was not interested in Laszlo's rescue process: "Is Dr. Kawi doing surgery next to Professor Ignatz now?"
"I can already perform part of the surgery myself. Of course, the big scenes still require Teacher Ignatz to perform on stage."
"It's really amazing...You can be a surgeon at the age of 17?"
"Haha, modesty, Dr. Kawei successfully performed a cesarean section." Laszlo said casually, then hurriedly stepped on the brakes and pointed at the dancers wearing tight stockings and low-cut dresses on the stage. They said, "It's almost time, let's watch the ballet first."
“Did you just say cesarean section???”
Kino did like ballet, but the cesarean section in front of him whetted his appetite even more. He glanced at the stage, then immediately turned his attention back to Kawei: "Dr. Kawei can perform cesarean section? Has it been successful?"
Seeing the rare opportunity, Kawei wanted to take the opportunity to talk about oxytocin.
But Laszlo felt that the time was not yet ripe, and the ballet was about to start, so he interrupted him in time: "Kino, something is wrong with you. Today's show is your favorite "Giselle", and the main dancer is still the young Beautiful Beatrice, don’t you want to see it?”
"But cesarean section..." Kino was a little embarrassed, "Mr. Carvey, you must tell me the process after the first act is over."
"sure."
Beatrice is the principal of the ballet company and the only dancer in Vienna who can combine performance and dance skills.
As soon as she started, she received a burst of warm applause.
Kino really likes ballet. After just the beginning of the conversation about the silk business, he was attracted by the wonderful dance and all his attention was taken away. Especially at the end of the first act, when Giselle is abandoned, Beatrice's solo dance vividly expresses this regret, hatred and grief.
"How was it?" Laszlo couldn't help but ask after the first scene ended.
"Awesome. The last time I came to Vienna, Beatrice was still a little girl. I didn't expect that she was already the chief in just three years." Chino still looked at the stage. "I talked to her backstage. She was a Very hardworking kid.”
"She became the chief two years ago, and her Giselle is the best in Austria."
"It shows light and darkness, life and death, it's really amazing."
"Okay, I guess let's talk about my business first. This is today's theme."
"Silk, it's up to you. Just follow the old rules and there's nothing much to talk about." Chino stood up, switched seats with Laszlo, and sat next to Kavi, "Since we're in the theater, of course it's more exciting to talk. The topic is better.”
The topic finally returned to Kawi's cesarean section, which was probably the performance Laszlo was talking about.
In his eyes, doing this is as embarrassing as doctoral graduates always talking about their college entrance examination scores. But there was no other way. In order to successfully win over Chino to open the factory, he had to endure it.
He shortened the entire surgical process, eliminating Hills' role and some preparation work. But before using oxytocin, he spared no effort to describe the bleeding situation at the time:
"The mother's uterus was bleeding heavily. We used all the crow's beak forceps in the surgical instrument box, but it still didn't work."
"What should we do?"
"I first chose to pack it with gauze." Kawei made a move to stop the bleeding, "but I immediately realized that this was not the answer, because too much blood loss would lead to death."
"Yes, many surgeons think so now."
"At this time, I realized that the enlarged uterus might be the key." Kawei used his hands to form a shape of a uterus, "because when the uterus enlarges, the blood vessels will be stretched open, and the blood will flow out naturally."
Kino's mood was completely aroused: "What should I do? How can I shrink it?"
"At first I chose to squeeze with my hands."
"Yeah, good idea..."
"But later it was found that it was not enough, and the uterus did not shrink at all." Kawei explained, "This is called uterine dyscontraction in medicine, because normal mothers will shrink their uterus back to its original size after giving birth."
Kino took a breath of air: "It's so difficult."
"There is no other way. I can only use a new drug that is still in the experimental stage." Kawei did not bring oxytocin and could only describe its effect. "This drug can contract the uterus very quickly and stop bleeding." Effect."
"And this medicine? I've never heard anyone mention it."
"It was a prescription left by my father. I tried to make it. The effect was very significant after using it. It only took less than half a minute for the bleeding in the uterus to stop." Kawei patted the suitcase and bag, " So I found Mr. Laszlo this time just to promote it.”
"Promotion? Just promotion?"
Kino shook his head and scolded Kawei for his waste of resources: "I have seen several cesarean sections, and none of them were successful. In the end, the patient died of excessive blood loss. If there is really a drug that can Stop the bleeding instantly..."
Kino still couldn't believe his ears: "It's incredible that just medicine can stop the bleeding."
"It is indeed incredible, but it is a fact." Kawei took out all the experimental reports, "I have done many experiments to prove that it can indeed shrink the uterus and stop bleeding."
"Such an effective drug should be made into an assembly line product!"
This is what Laszlo and Kavi were waiting for: "That's true, but the pharmaceutical company needs a lot of capital investment, and Mr. Laszlo is also powerless."
"Are you short of money?" Kino looked back at Laszlo and felt very strange, "You have enough money to build three pharmaceutical factories."
"My expenses have been a bit high recently, and I can't come up with so much cash at once." Laszlo did not shy away from his old friend, and finally expressed his thoughts, "If you are interested, we can jointly create a joint venture, and we will make a profit by then." Just divide it according to the investment ratio.”
"Pharmaceutical factory..."
"How about it?"
“How much does your medication cost?”
"The cost of 1ml of oxytocin used in experiments is about 5 crowns," Kawei said. "It will be more expensive if it is purified."
"Only 5 crowns?"
"If we change the raw materials and replace rabbits with pigs, the cost can be further reduced to about 3 kronor per bottle."
"Too cheap......"
Such a huge profit made Kino tempted. Looking at the red curtain slowly opening on the stage, he gritted his teeth and agreed to the two people's request: "Okay, I will invest in the pharmaceutical factory, but the funds are limited. The silk business that was negotiated before I just can’t do it.”
