Traveling through the Republic of China, I married a dead person

Su Bai called Guo Deyi and told him about his concerns about Kong Nanwei.

The price of opium has not been expensive in recent years. The reason is that after the Opium War, the late Qing government saw that all the money went into the pockets of foreign opium dealers, and began to gradually relax the restrictions on domestic opium cultivation and trade. Although it defeated the foreign opium dealers, it also caused opium to spread throughout China.

Even ordinary people can afford to smoke some low-quality tobacco paste occasionally.

This situation will change fundamentally when the Republic of China's anti-smoking law is finally implemented in the Sanlong area.

Chairman Han has always been vigorous and resolute in banning smoking. All sellers will be shot, and smokers will be imprisoned and forced to quit. Smokers who refuse to change their ways will also be shot.

Guo Deyi broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. He and the Third Wife would carefully observe the Second Young Master and immediately report to Su Bai if they found anything.

"Check the things he brought back first!" Su Bai instructed again.

Just one day later, the third concubine came to see Su Bai and told her that the second young master was indeed smoking opium.

Moreover, he did not hide his smoking from the third concubine.

This is normal. Before smoking was officially banned in the Three Dragons area, this kind of thing was commonplace.

When Su Bai asked the Third Aunt how much opium the Second Young Master had brought back, the Third Aunt shook her head and said she didn't know. The main reason was that her son didn't allow her to ask and she didn't dare to search.

"Talk to him more when you have time and persuade him to quit taking drugs, otherwise, his life will be over!" Su Bai could only say this much. She had a hunch that if the Second Young Master didn't quit taking drugs, he would become a disaster one day.

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Su Bai counted the days and spent every day in anxiety and busyness.

March 1937, 3 was the day when Su Bai’s fifth batch of medicines were purified before bottling.

Early in the morning, Su Bai brought Niu Yanzi and others out of the back door of Li Mansion and headed for Cave No. 1 of Panlong Cave.

This time, Gao Hu specially sent Xiao Wei and four soldiers to go together.

Gao Hu's advice to Su Bai was that although Cave No. 1 was relatively hidden and difficult to be discovered, someone had to guard it just in case.

If Su Bai was unwilling to let Liu Yiyan and Yang Huasen send soldiers to guard Cave No. 1, then he would select a few of his most trusted soldiers to guard there.

Su Bai certainly didn't want Liu Yiming to get involved in this matter. If he sent people to Cave No. 1, he would definitely tamper with the medicine produced. It was his usual method to rob openly and then cheat.

Except for Xiao Wei, the four soldiers Gao Hu assigned to Su Bai were all carefully selected. He told Su Bai that from today on, including Xiao Wei, they would officially take off their military uniforms and follow Su Bai.

In fact, he had made preparations a few days ago. After the Kong Yanglin battle, when the various troops reported their casualties, he deliberately ambushed 36 team members. He should have reported 19, but he reported .

In addition to the five team members who went up the mountain today, there are 12 others.

These seventeen people were the ones who went up the mountain with the eight boxes of equipment and were stationed in Cave No. 1 last time. They all witnessed the final step in Su Bai's production of medicines, and also helped Zi Yan to put labels on them. For safety reasons, they should take off their military uniforms and follow Su Bai from now on.

Besides, they are also willing to follow the eldest young lady.

Gao Hu told Su Bai that after each battle, each unit would count the number of casualties, the number of injured and the severity of injuries to determine the number of casualties, and report it to the company level, which would then report it to the battalion level. After reporting it layer by layer, the division headquarters would then adjust or supplement troops to each unit based on the number of casualties.

In addition to casualties from death and serious injuries, there were sometimes deserters.

Judging from Kong Li's current situation, it is unlikely that he will be able to receive additional troops.

Unless he reduces the security division into a security corps, none of Kong Li's departments will be fully staffed.

In fact, Gao Hu's 30-odd subordinates no longer wanted to follow Kong Li. When they just returned to Longxing from the mountain, Bai Ying told everyone that the county government had reported to the provincial government that it wanted to take over the first company and form a security team. Everyone was very happy.

Unexpectedly, this report was not approved, and all the soldiers seemed to be hit by frost and were listless.

"Don't worry, I have arranged everything. You don't have to worry about this, Madam!"

However, these 17 soldiers no longer received their salaries.

"How much is the military salary? I'll pay it!" Su Bai happily accepted these people.

Gao Hu was right, they already knew that penicillin came from Hole No. 1, so they might as well keep them here.

Gao Hu then told Su Bai that he came up with this idea because he felt that this amount of military pay was not a burden for the young lady.

For safety reasons, Su Bai had the remaining 12 soldiers stationed in Li's Mansion.

After Adjutant Feng and Gao Erzhu returned to the mountain, Xu Tianyi monitored the small courtyard next to Li's Mansion several times and found that although the people were still there, they had given up monitoring the back door of Kong's Mansion. These people no longer stayed in the house as before, but often walked around in the courtyard.

Su Bai thought that these people had been monitoring him for such a long time without any results, and they might have lost confidence. Or it might be because the war was intense a while ago and Kong Li was almost surrounded and annihilated, which caused them to relax psychologically.

In fact, there is a more important reason. Since he took over the Confucius Mansion again, the front and back yards have been connected, and he walks through the front yard more often when going out.

Before he knew it, there were more than thirty people under him, including the twelve men from Niu Village, the seventeen men from Gao Hu's guards who had taken off their uniforms, and his own old team.

After the fifth batch of medicine comes out, we must work at full speed.

Su Bai had a new idea at this time. If he could not buy the pharmaceutical factory in Shanghai as soon as possible, he would find a way to contact the relevant personnel of the National Government, introduce them to the miraculous effects of penicillin, and ask the National Government to build a pharmaceutical factory in Chongqing so that he could produce drugs openly. In this way, he could not only produce the penicillin, erythromycin and quinolone drugs he had originally envisioned, but also many other drugs needed for the war of resistance.

It is worth making a significant contribution to the War of Resistance even if you earn much less money.

But the timing is not right now. What if the Kuomintang government does not allow us to build a factory in Chongqing, but instead builds it in Shanghai or Nanjing where conditions are better?

Su Bai couldn't possibly tell the Kuomintang officials that Shanghai and Nanjing would fall, right?

Su Bai believed that if he insisted on building a factory in Chongqing, he might get approval, but the prerequisite was that penicillin and erythromycin to be produced next must have a good reputation so that he would have the capital to insist on this.

But it is not possible now. The people who know about the effect of this medicine are limited to a small number of people in Linhua Military Hospital and the Security Division.

The fundamental reason is that our own production cannot be increased, making it difficult to expand the scope of influence.

We can only wait a little longer. Su Bai believes that this day will not take long.

After going up the mountain and entering Cave No. 1, Su Bai started working immediately. Niu Yanzi was already able to operate independently, and Su Bai personally guided her to do it twice before he felt at ease.

Su Bai had to go down the mountain. She had to return to the laboratory in Li Mansion.

The research and development of quinolone drugs has made certain progress. Su Bai plans to develop it in one go. Laboratory success is only the first step. He also has to figure out the production process and determine the required equipment and raw materials.

Su Bai brought Xu Tianyi back to Longxing, entered from the back door of Li Mansion, and then went through the tunnel back to Kong Mansion.

She had to see if there was anything wrong at the Kong Mansion before returning to the Li Mansion.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I returned to the Kong Mansion, I received a message that Kong Li had arrived.