"I said, if we continue like this, the entire Taihang Mountains will be deprived of food by us!"
As soon as he returned to the headquarters, Lao Song grabbed Liu Yu and poured a lot of bitter water.
Although the independent column originally consumed a lot of money, the resources of the two counties could still support it, but now the force has expanded to a field reorganized division plus three guard regiments, as well as units directly under each military region, as well as an ever-increasing number of refugees.
Although there is no large-scale open recruitment of new recruits, those who come one after another to take the initiative to join the Eighth Route Army, you can't refuse, right? They had no choice but to be admitted into a recruit training camp. In the past month, there were more than 1,000 people.
Let's put it this way, the daily consumption of Liu Yu's unit has already caught up with the consumption of the entire Eighth Route Army.
After all, other units of the Eighth Route Army did not have the conditions to bring meat with their meals.
Staple food is secondary, meat is the most important thing. Almost all the livestock and poultry from the surrounding people's homes have been bought, and the rest are some chickens, piglets and the like.
Originally, hunting in the mountains could yield a lot, but recently, for some reason, the animals in the mountains seemed to have noticed something was wrong. They all ran away, and even the old hunter Ma Biao came back empty-handed several times.
Now that Lao Song said this, Liu Yu also became nervous.
Meat cannot be cut off. Soldiers are trained so intensively that without adequate nutritional supplements, something will happen.
After checking the system, there were 11,000 boxes of canned beef and 11,000 tons of white flour in there. I didn't take them out directly because I only had 500 points left and I really couldn't bear to pay for the freight.
But if you don't take it out, the army's meat supply will be cut off.
In the end, I had no choice but to spend 66 points to pay the shipping fee.
"We can't stop eating meat. I'll try to import a batch of canned beef from abroad and deal with it first."
Liu Yu touched his chin and said: "The breeding base must be set up. Since the landowners and wealthy people were unwilling to cooperate before, then we will invest in the establishment ourselves! This will also give the disabled and retired soldiers a place to go, and they can help the troops to support them on weekdays." Raising pigs and stuff.”
"Not only breeding bases, but also other factories should be opened, such as chemical plants, power plants, textile factories, etc. I will figure out the equipment."
"In addition, let those refugees stop being idle and go out to reclaim wasteland. If there is not enough farmland and there are still people left, use them to build infrastructure and widen the roads in villages and towns. There is a saying that if you want to get rich, , Let’s build the road first. In the winter, we couldn’t do it before, but now the weather is perfect!”
Then he looked at Lao Song: "Don't worry about the money. If you spend it now, you will come back in the future! Those French currency, please spend them as soon as I say. After a while, it will be too hard for you to use as toilet paper!"
Old Song was frowning and thinking, but when he heard Liu Yu's words, he was confused: "Isn't that true?"
Liu Yu said solemnly: "Just listen to me! Now our division has initially formed a combat effectiveness and can protect itself! When you go to send an advertisement later, use a clear code telegram to send it to the whole world! Just call me Liu Yu, has been fully authorized by Sanliu Pharmaceutical Company to be responsible for the external sales of penicillin. Currently, it can supply 500 boxes of 20,000 units of penicillin per month, 10 per box, and the supply may be increased in the future! At the same time, I emphasize one point , must be purchased with the border ticket issued by our border area!"
Lao Song had a question mark face like Yang Shaoxia: "Three six pharmaceutical companies?"
Liu Yu waved his hand: "Don't worry about these details, just call 666!"
"666?"
"Yes, that's what you shout!"
Lao Song rolled his eyes, indicating that he believed you.
. . . . . .
An hour later, a telegram signed by Liu Yu once again caused an uproar.
Of course, Yan Laoxi'er and other domestic warlords sneered at it, and Wang Ming and others in the party also looked at the telegram as a joke.
penicillin? WTF?
There is also the border ticket, whose real name is Guanghua coupon, which is now the Guanghua store voucher. Because it is issued by the border bank, it is also called the border ticket. Can that thing also be counted as currency?
At the same time, some people from the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee and the Southern Bureau also spoke, directly labeling Liu Yu as "undermining the Anti-Japanese National United Front", saying that he ignored the status of legal currency and disrupted the country's financial order. At the same time, he said that no matter what kind of drug it is, you should hand over your agency rights to the organization instead of using it for personal gain!
Liu Yu naturally thought they were farting and didn't even bother to reply. If it weren't for some people he really couldn't afford to offend, he would have to kill them!
But Liu Yu's silence actually made those people think that he had a guilty conscience, and they criticized him even more fiercely.
For a time, there was a continuous stream of criticisms against Liu Yu within the party.
However, after a while, all the sounds disappeared.
Because the United States, Germany, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union all notified the Chongqing government and wanted to contact Liu Yu through them, and wanted to test whether the penicillin in Liu Yu's hand met the clinical application standards.
The great powers all have offices in China, and the people they send are not just ordinary people, they are all very knowledgeable, so as soon as they received Liu Yu's clear telegram, they immediately realized the importance of this matter.
Fleming discovered penicillin ten years ago and speculated that it was a drug that could effectively treat inflammation. However, a method of purifying it had never been found, so no one paid much attention to it. After all, it had not undergone clinical trials.
Until last year, Fleming found the German chemist Chain and the British pathologist Flory and gave them all his research results. Although the academic community was still indifferent to this gift, governments around the world began to pay attention to it. Heartbroken.
When they learned that Liu Yu could produce high-purity penicillin, ministers from various countries relayed this information back to the country via ocean telegrams.
After that, the heads of state immediately summoned officials from their respective medical ministries. After hearing their speculations about the effects of penicillin, the heads of state could not sit still.
Even when they proposed to contact Liu Yu, they treated the Chongqing government with an attitude that was close to a request, which confused the Chongqing government, which had always been looked down upon by the great powers.
What exactly is penicillin?
Including the parents in Yan'an, they had never heard of penicillin.
Some people within our party received orders from the Soviet Union, requiring them to obtain detailed information on the "Three Six Pharmaceutical Companies" that Liu Yu mentioned.
To put it bluntly, it requires production technology.
Then they were confused.
Then, Liu Yu also received many inquiring telegrams. He once again sent a message with a clear code, saying: The 122nd Division has already used penicillin to treat injured and injured patients, and has accumulated a lot of clinical application experience. This drug is highly effective and non-toxic, and its cure rate for pneumonia, meningitis, diphtheria, anthrax and other diseases is almost 100%. And Liu Yu himself can guarantee the authenticity of this telegram with his personality!
Moreover, Liu Yu directly priced penicillin at the end, with the price of each box being: 1,000 yuan for a border ticket!
You must know that the border ticket was initially equivalent to legal currency and was linked to grain. Not only was it strong, it also appreciated in value in recent years because grain prices continued to rise.
Whether the people recognize it or not is one thing, but the currency value of our border tickets is so low!
In other words, based on the current currency value of border tickets, it is equivalent to buying a box of penicillin for 1,000 oceans.
At this moment, the whole world exploded!
Everyone in the country is laughing at Liu Yu, saying that he is sensationalizing.
But the international community is just the opposite. Liu Yu has set such a high price. What does that mean? It shows that penicillin really has the effect he said!
The heads of all major countries are regretting that they did not pay attention to penicillin before, and then urgently ordered their relevant departments to speed up the production and research of penicillin.
Such a big gold mine just passed them by!
As for Liu Yu’s price being too high? They said it was normal. If penicillin was in their hands and it was a monopoly, they could charge a price of 10,000, let alone 1,000 oceans.
How many patients do you know who die from pneumonia and meningitis every year these days?
The next day, the United States took the lead in offering to purchase 100 boxes and would send the most professional medical team to China for clinical trials.
After that, Britain, France and other countries followed suit, but the Soviet Union did not move. I guess Starshu felt in his heart that certain people now have a high say in our party, and sooner or later everything in our party will belong to them.
In this regard, Liu Yu said that he would send a batch of penicillin to Chongqing, and then these medical teams can conduct clinical trials in Chongqing. He also expressed his willingness to provide an additional batch for free for them to conduct research, but the research location must be in our party's base area, and the research results must be shared with our party.
The most unexpected thing is that Japan has also expressed purchase intention.
But Liu Yu directly stated that the things in his hands would never be traded with the Japanese.
. . . . . .
A week later, a team of more than 30 foreigners, composed of surgeons, pharmacologists, and biochemists from the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, took a flight via Hawaii, Hong Kong, and finally arrived in Chongqing. At the same time, they also brought 10 patients with various inflammatory diseases.
As soon as they landed, they rejected all kinds of hospitality from Chongqing and wanted to directly start the clinical verification work of penicillin. After all, they can afford it, but not the 10 critically ill patients.
It just so happened that the airport on Liu Yu's side was basically completed, so he took out the Type 97 bomber awarded by the system and asked Li Qi and others to accompany (monitor) Kato Shinichi to escort Penicillin to Chongqing.
Once penicillin was used, the conditions of seriously ill patients improved in just one day.
By the third day, the ten patients who had been able to prepare for their funerals were actually able to sit up and eat on their own!
After just one course of treatment, famous doctors from various countries also suspended the medication for some patients. As a result, because penicillin had killed most of the bacteria in their bodies, they could slowly recover based on their own immunity alone. Those who continue to take medication can get out of bed and move around in about a week.
Everyone understands that this is really a life-saving miracle drug!
Then, they found many patients in Chongqing. Some patients with mild symptoms were cured the next day after one injection.
Even half a month later, they discovered that penicillin also had a good therapeutic effect on some sexually transmitted diseases, such as measles.
Of course, this is also because penicillin has not yet become widespread and the human body's drug resistance is not yet so strong. In future generations, penicillin will definitely not be able to achieve this clinical effect.
Those medical scientists all went crazy. After mailing the remaining penicillin back to China, they all said they would go to Liu Yu's base to conduct follow-up research on penicillin.
The ministers and ambassadors of the four countries could not persuade them, but they were all top medical scientists and pharmacologists in their countries! But there was nothing they could do. Those old men were determined to go, so they had no choice but to send people to follow them and discuss follow-up cooperation matters with Liu Yu.
In this regard, Liu Yu also sent a report to Yan'an for instructions.
The answer given there was: Comrade Liu Yu is fully responsible for the corresponding matters. Except for some issues of principle, there is no need to ask for instructions.
This is equivalent to giving Liu Yu the right to kill first and then report later.
