Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 405: Penicillin's Main Target Customers
After learning that penicillin can not only cure diseases but also enhance sexual performance, Wang An and Zhao Ke became interested.

Rushed to Li Yi to ask for medicine as soon as possible!
Well, other people might be intimidated by Li Yi's majesty and dare not bother Li Yi for such trivial matters.

But Wang An and Zhao Ke don't care about this.

Because these two people are Li Yi's elders.

Zhao Ke is Li Yi's uncle, his biological uncle, and he often held Li Yi in his arms to play when he was a child.

After Li Yi rebelled, Zhao Ke took his family and joined the "revolution" without saying a word.

Wang An was an old friend of Li Yi's father. After the death of Li Yi's father, Wang An took good care of the Li family.

When Li Yi started his rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, Wang An brought all the young and strong members of the Wang family onto Li Yi's pirate ship.

Among the people that Li Yi first gathered, people from the Li family and the Wang family were the absolute backbone, and people from the Zhao family also occupied a number of positions.

Therefore, in front of Li Yi, they are naturally more confident than others.

After hearing this, Wang An still asked with some reluctance.

"Your Majesty, is there really no penicillin?"

Li Yi nodded and said.

"Really not."

"What the Institute of Drugs has produced so far is only a semi-finished product, and its safety is uncertain."

"If Duke Xin's health was not in critical condition and he had no choice but to take a risk, I would not have allowed Duke Xin to take the medicine."

What Li Yi said was half true and half false.

What the Drug Research Institute produced was only a semi-finished product, but the medicine he gave Luo Dagang was not a product of the institute.

Therefore, security is actually guaranteed.

However, this medicine was purchased by Li Yi from the system, and Li Yi's system has a fixed consumption limit every month.

Li Yi has to use this limited spending quota to purchase industrial equipment and various technologies, so he is very tight and naturally does not want to waste it on such useless things.

That's why they use this as an excuse to shirk responsibility!

Of course, if the two people in front of him were sick and really needed penicillin to save their lives, Li Yi would not be stingy.

Hearing this, Zhao Ke smacked his lips and continued to ask.

"Your Majesty, is it true that penicillin can enhance male potency?"

This was actually the main reason why he and Wang An came to Li Yi to ask for penicillin.

Well, it’s very simple, it’s just for aphrodisiac effect.

Men, when they reach middle age, will have some unspeakable secrets...

Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh again.

"fake."

"If you don't believe me, ask Duke Xin."

"Duke Xin has already used the medicine. He knows best whether penicillin can improve male potency."

Zhao Ke and Wang An looked somewhat disappointed when they heard this.

Obviously, they all understood that the rumor that penicillin could enhance male sexual function was most likely just a rumor.

Otherwise, Li Yi would not say that!

Seeing the disappointed expressions of Wang An and Zhao Ke, Li Yi spoke.

"The sika deer raised in Nanhaizi are almost grown. I will have someone send two sika deer to your house later."

"Drinking deer blood can also improve your sexual performance, so don't even think about taking penicillin."

After hearing this, the two knew that if they continued to pester Li Yi, it might really make him annoyed.

So he stopped pestering her and just bowed down to express his gratitude.

"I thank you, Your Majesty!"

After expressing their gratitude, the two of them took their leave together.

Li Yi couldn't help but rub his eyebrows.

Damn it, who spread this rumor?
Can penicillin enhance sexual performance?

It's really outrageous!

After Wang An and Zhao Ke took their leave, Li Yi called Zhang Zhidong over for questioning.

"Xiaoda, how is the progress at the Drug Research Institute going?"

“When will the results be available?”

Urged by Zhao Ke and Wang An, Li Yi is now more and more concerned about the research and development of penicillin, and urgently hopes to get a satisfactory result.

Zhang Zhidong heard this and spoke.

"Replying to your Majesty."

"After receiving the purification plan from His Majesty, the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research has already started conducting experiments."

“So far, the effect is pretty good.”

"After the purified penicillin was administered to humans, the allergy rate and mortality rate were greatly reduced."

After hearing this, Li Yi nodded in satisfaction.

"Ah, very good!"

"Let the research institute speed up the process and come up with a mature and reliable mass production plan as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhidong nodded to show that he understood.

Then Li Yi continued.

"After the Institute of Drugs came up with a plan, we arranged for penicillin to be put into production as soon as possible and produce a batch of finished products."

Penicillin is a rare commodity these days.

It has an immediate therapeutic effect on diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, diphtheria, anthrax, etc.

Most of these diseases are incurable in this era.

In addition, penicillin is very effective in treating sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea.

Given the level of promiscuity among European nobles at that time, if you had not contracted a sexually transmitted disease, you would be embarrassed to call yourself a noble. Under such circumstances, once penicillin, which can effectively treat sexually transmitted diseases, was developed, you can imagine how popular it would be.

At that time, as long as Li Yi raises the price of penicillin, or even only accepts gold transactions, wouldn't there be plenty of foreign exchange?
If penicillin is to be used in war and on ordinary soldiers, and the unit price is high, those noble lords may not be willing to pay for it.

For example, the Crimean War is now breaking out, and Britain, France and Tsarist Russia have all suffered huge casualties.

Penicillin is very effective in battlefield medical treatment. If Britain, France and Tsarist Russia could buy a batch of penicillin and use it on the Crimean battlefield.

It will definitely reduce the army’s casualties!

However, if Li Yi sets the price too high, there is a high probability that Britain, France and Tsarist Russia will not buy it.

Because, in the eyes of politicians, human life is the least valuable thing.

If the price of medicine exceeds the death pension, then the nobles will inevitably choose to pay the death pension and then recruit new soldiers to supplement the army.

Not buying medicine.

This is how politicians measure up.

However, humans are very hypocritical creatures, and their interests are only measured with respect to others.

If penicillin was used on themselves, those noble lords would definitely let everyone see what the hell is called the consumption power of the nobility.

In addition, Li Yi understands that even if the current production difficulties of penicillin are overcome, the output will be very limited in a short period of time.

If the selling price is not raised, it will be difficult to recover the R&D costs of penicillin or even make a profit in a short period of time given limited production.

Therefore, Li Yi had no intention of taking the approach of small profits but quick turnover in selling penicillin.

Instead, they set their sights on the wallets of European nobles!

A dose of penicillin costs one hundred yuan, or gold coins. No bargaining, take it or leave it if you want.

Penicillin, which can effectively treat various diseases and save lives, will always be in short supply even if it is sold at a high price.

The nobles would not be stingy with money for the sake of their own lives.

Of course, the same was true for the gentry and landlords in the Tang Dynasty.

Although the relationships between men and women, men and men, and women and women in the Tang Dynasty were not as chaotic as in Europe, there were still quite a few people infected with syphilis.

These people are also the main target customers of penicillin!
Especially those wealthy merchants and landlords, each of them is very rich.

For the sake of their own lives, they will not be stingy with money either.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhidong immediately nodded to show that he understood.

Then he said goodbye and left.

Li Yi set off for Bitong Academy, preparing to visit Fu Shanxiang who was pregnant.

……

Outside the Great Wall, Shengjing!
Imperial Palace, Chongzheng Hall.

At this moment, the atmosphere in Chongzheng Hall was stagnant.

Regent Gui Liang stood at the front with a serious expression.

Beside him were the current Qing Dynasty officials, who were constantly whispering to each other and were in a very pessimistic mood.

Because they had received news that the Sunite tribe had been annihilated by the Tang army.

Even Ma Xiangyun, the new Minister of Rites of the Qing Dynasty who was sent to the grassland to contact the Sunite and other Mongolian tribes, was captured by the Tang army.

This also makes the current situation faced by the Qing Dynasty extremely serious.

Guaerjia, who had recently become the Empress Dowager, was sitting behind a beaded curtain, holding a child in her arms, and asked with a slightly trembling voice.

"Please tell me, my lords, how can the Qing Dynasty save itself in the current situation?"

Since the civil strife in Chengde, a round of power reshuffle has taken place within the Eastern Qing.

First, Gui Liang took the lead in supporting the child born by Guaerjia as the new emperor of Daqing. Because the new emperor was young, the Queen Mother Guaerjia temporarily ruled the country from behind the curtain.

Afterwards, Guwalgiya appointed Guiliang as regent to assist the queen mother in handling state affairs.

From then on, the entire political situation of Eastern Qing was controlled by the father and daughter of the Guwalgiya clan.

As for the fact that the child born to Guarjia was a daughter, a woman could not inherit the throne...

This is actually not important!

Because many people knew that Guarjia had given birth to a child, but not many people knew the child's gender.

Besides, the difference between boys and girls is not very obvious during infancy, so it can be fooled for the time being.

Of course, the more important reason is the military power in Gui Liang's hands.

It is true that political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

As long as you can control the army, everything else will be easy.

As soon as Guaerjia finished speaking, Regent Guiliang was the first to speak.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the Qing Dynasty should proceed according to the original plan."

"First destroy the Xuantong pseudo-dynasty, then integrate forces to deal with the threat from the Tang thieves."

After hearing this, Guaerjia still spoke with some doubt.

"But now that Minister Ma has been captured by the Tang thieves, they must have known about our Qing Dynasty's plan to mobilize troops against the Xuantong pseudo-dynasty."

"If the Tang thieves tell this information to the Pseudo Dynasty, the Pseudo Dynasty will be prepared."

"Even the Tang thieves might as well go to war and send troops to help the rebellion..."

"It may not be easy for the Qing Dynasty to conquer the pseudo-dynasty!"

If they were only facing Xiqing, the Guwalgiya clan would not be afraid.

What she feared was the fate of the Tang army.

In his view, since the Tang army was able to march north to destroy the Sunite tribe, it was also possible that it would send troops to assist the puppet dynasty in its war against the Qing Dynasty.

Once the Tang army is defeated, the Qing Dynasty will have no chance of winning this battle!

The current Qing army is really scared by the Tang army!

Whenever the Tang army was mentioned, the Qing army couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)