Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 292 Allicin and Penicillin (four more, plus more)
What is busy is the pharmaceutical workshop of Zhao Chen and Wang Xue.

After Zeng Mu took office in Jiuquan City and took over the affairs of Ganzhou, he immediately invited Zhao Chen and Wang Xue to set up a pharmaceutical workshop in Jiuquan City.

Zeng Mu gave both money and land, and at the same time patted his chest to ensure that there would be enough manpower.

The success of Zhao Chen and Wang Xue's salicylic acid pharmaceutical workshop was also due to Zeng Mu's support back then.

Since Zeng Mu's kindness could not be rejected, Zhao Chen and Wang Xue brought the technical team to Jiuquan City.

Zeng Mu also fulfilled his promise. He planned an industrial zone outside Jiuquan City, leveled the land, and built a simple factory building with bricks.

After Zhao Chen and Wang Xue arrived, Zeng Mu immediately showed them around the factory.

Zhao Chen and Wang Xue were moved. They put the experimental equipment they brought in the laboratory and started researching immediately.

But on what drug to make, the couple disagreed.

Zhao Chen resolutely said: "I think penicillin should be made! This is the greatest antibiotic for mankind. As long as we invent antibiotics, most bacterial infections in this world can be cured!"

Wang Xue opposed her boyfriend's radical proposal: "There are too many types of penicillin in nature, and we don't have modern equipment. The efficiency of screening by culture is too low."

"Isn't it just cultivating mycelium, and then doing a control experiment? I don't believe that I can't find penicillin with bactericidal effect after doing thousands of groups!"

Penicillin is an antibacterial substance secreted by a fungus that exists in nature. The discovery of penicillin itself is also accidental. It is a kind of fungus discovered by the British bacteriologist Fleming by accident.

Fleming documented the fungicidal effects of this mold, but did not realize how important it was.

After purification and research by a large number of scientists, penicillin, which can kill germs, was produced.

This invention has also completely changed the history of the struggle between humans and bacteria for thousands of years.

After the invention of penicillin, diseases that were considered terminally ill, such as tuberculosis, cholera, plague, and dysentery, were treated.

Zhao Chen said: "We can select and breed penicillin in the laboratory. As long as we can find the mold that secretes penicillin, we can continuously optimize the strain to produce penicillin on a large scale."

"Now salicylic acid has been produced by many players. If we want to maintain our technological advantage, we must develop new drugs as soon as possible."

"I think the technical threshold of penicillin is high, as long as it is researched, it can guarantee a long-term advantage."

What made Zhao Chen even more anxious was that many players had already posted on the forum and started researching penicillin.

Penicillin is obviously a broad-spectrum antibacterial drug that is more widely used and has better effects than salicylic acid, which is why Zhao Chen feels anxious.

But obviously Wang Xue didn't think so.

She said: "The discovery of penicillin is just luck. We can't leave such a large factory empty and wait for the moment when luck comes?"

Zhao Chen didn't speak, and what his girlfriend said was indeed correct. Penicillin needs to be cultured with Penicillium, and then a control experiment is done. To put it bluntly, it's just luck.

Zeng Mu gave himself such a large factory building, wouldn't it be a waste if he couldn't produce penicillin?
Wang Xue said: "If you want me to say, we should follow our previous thinking and extract antibacterial drugs from animals and plants first."

Zhao Chen asked, "Then what medicine are you going to extract?"

Wang Xue immediately said: "Allicin!"

Allicin?
Zhao Chen looked at Wang Xue in surprise, why didn't he think of this thing! ?

Allicin, as the name implies, is an antibacterial drug extracted from garlic.

Garlic is a plant that is easy to grow, and the extraction of allicin is just to extract the active ingredients from garlic, and the difficulty is really very low.

Although allicin is not as good as penicillin, it is also a pretty good antibiotic that can inhibit many common bacterial infections.

However, Wang Xue still said: "We can slowly produce penicillin in the laboratory, and allicin can be produced immediately. We can ask Brother Zeng to promote garlic cultivation in Jiuquan, and then buy these garlic to extract allicin."

Now Zhao Chen was persuaded by his girlfriend, and he said, "I'll go to Brother Zeng and ask him to promote the cultivation of garlic in Jiuquan!"

Zeng Mu was also overjoyed when he heard the plan of the two. Compared with salicylic acid, an analgesic and fever-reducing drug, the value of an antibiotic such as allicin is obviously higher.

It's just that what the three of them didn't expect was that the first step of promotion encountered difficulties.

The difficulty is that the garlic in the Central Plains in this era is two different things from later generations.

The garlic used in the Central Plains today is a small single-headed garlic.

Single head means that there is only one round garlic clove in the whole garlic, and it is very small, not the kind of garlic of later generations.

Obviously, this kind of single-headed garlic is more difficult to reproduce than the clove garlic of later generations, and it is too small and has too little garlic, so it is not suitable for large-scale extraction.

Zhao Chen and Wang Xue searched the history books immediately, and finally found a record from the history books that the clove garlic used by later generations was originally grown in India, which is now the Tianzhu area.

Zhao Chen and Wang Xue looked for businessmen from the Western Regions who came to Jiuquan one by one, and asked them if they had garlic from Tianzhu.

The hard work paid off, Zhao Chen and Wang Xue finally found this kind of garlic in the seasoning bag of a businessman from the Western Regions.

Next, it is to propagate the clove garlic.

Clove garlic is much easier to reproduce than single head garlic.

After the garlic head is mature, the garlic cloves can be separated, and each garlic clove can grow another garlic.

Zeng Mu also cooperated with Zhao Chen and Wang Xue to promote the cultivation of garlic in Jiuquan City.

Garlic itself has a pungent taste and does not require additional deworming.

Moreover, this kind of plant does not pick the soil and climate at all, and it will grow in a pot at the door of the house.

This is why only the three seasonings, onion, ginger and garlic, can firmly occupy the table of ordinary people.

Zeng Mu also posted a notice that the governor's mansion bought garlic, and he could exchange it for a dollar when he took the garlic to the governor's mansion.

Although it’s not a lot of money, it’s worth it. In Jiuquan City, planting garlic has quickly become a trend. Even children will find a soil pot to plant a few garlic, waiting for it to mature for some pocket money.

Under the impetus of Zeng Mu, garlic planting gradually became a popular project in Wuwei City, and Zhao Chen and Wang Xue also extracted a test tube of allicin in the laboratory.

"This stuff is just too pungent." Zhao Chen stuffed his nose with cotton and looked at the colorless liquid in the test tube. The strong smell of garlic almost made him spit it out.

And Wang Xue has already put on a homemade gas mask, she said: "The first workshop is already preparing for production, and our first batch of goods has been ordered by God Yuchi, we should quickly sort out the industrial production process and start production as soon as possible Bar."

Just when Jiuquan City was rejoicing to develop a new drug.

An explosion sounded from a laboratory on the edge of Shazhou City.

(End of this chapter)