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A great cause begins in a small way, and sometimes an unintentional discovery may benefit the world.

As a businessman, at least on the surface, Xu Shili never thought that he would be famous in history.

He is just a businessman, and the business he runs is also very simple, which is arms!

He is an arms dealer.

Six years ago, Xu Shili went to Lanzhou, where he met Shi Dakai, the winged king of the kingdom of heaven. It was also there that he personally participated in Shi Dakai's western expedition to Xinjiang-that western expedition was planned by the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau and was organized by several Departmental collaboration support.

In order to support Shi Dakai in recovering the Western Regions, the empire provided him with more than 500 million yuan in weapons, and even persuaded Li Hongzhang to agree to the Ming Dynasty's weapons entering Lanzhou via the railway. forces, and even pursued and occupied parts of Kokand all the way.

And now the empire further supports their expansion in Central Asia, and Britain also supports them in occupying the Khanate of Bukhara, the Khanate of Khiva and the Turkmen region.With the support of the empire and the United Kingdom, Shi Dakai's army has begun its final attack on the Kokand Khanate.

He didn't care how King Yi's army destroyed the temple and killed the heretics in their eyes when they attacked. He just completed a task - selling the arms to Shi Dakai.

However, all of this has nothing to do with Xu Shili, his mission has been completed, or his term of office.

When he was about to leave Dihua and bid farewell to his colleagues who came to hand over, Sun Kewei looked at his simple suitcase and asked curiously.

"No more luggage?"

Logically speaking, arms dealers like them will definitely accumulate a lot of property during the war, even if they have a cooperative relationship with the Military Intelligence Bureau, even if the profits are controlled within a certain range, after the war In China, there are many ways to make money.

"All that can be sent back are sent back, only this..."

After clapping the box in his hand, Xu Shili smiled.

"This box contains the real treasure!"

"Baby? What baby?"

Facing the curious questions from his colleagues, Xu Shili said.

"You will know in the future!"

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Haoshili Pharmacy is a newly established pharmacy with a capital of only 1000 yuan.

Pharmacies in this era are basically pharmacies that integrate sales, research and development, and production. Even Daming, which is ahead of the world, has not introduced a modern drug regulatory and experimental research system that surpasses the times. There are no other reasons. The level of technology limited.

Of course, drug development in this era is also very rough. Even the people who develop drugs may not necessarily have studied pharmaceuticals. Xu Shili is a layman. At most, he was good at chemistry when he was in high school.

"...Take 100g of Artemisia ascaris fine powder, add 20g of calcium hydroxide, and 800ml of water, boil for 40 minutes and then filter while it is hot. Then concentrate under reduced pressure at 2°C to 3ml, adjust the concentrated solution to pH 60 with concentrated hydrochloric acid, heat at 200°C for 2 minutes, dissolve the residue with 70% ethanol, add 10g of activated carbon for decolorization, filter while hot, and filtrate Add an appropriate amount of ethanol to make the ethanol concentration 95%. After the solution is left for 0.2 days, alkaloid crystals are precipitated, and after being sucked and dried, it is ready for use.”

In the laboratory, when Xu Shili listened to the hired pharmacist explain the extraction process, he nodded repeatedly.

"No wonder the color looked so ugly when I extracted it at Dihua. It turned out that there was a decolorization and filtering process missing."

What the boss said made Liu Donglin laugh.

"Decolorization is not only decolorization, but also can absorb a lot of harmful impurities. Those pharmaceutical companies may not use this process when using prescriptions, but it is necessary to extract alkaloids from a single herbal medicine, but sometimes a herbal medicine It contains a variety of alkaloids, and this decolorization process may also remove its active ingredients, right..."

Liu Donglin looked at the boss and asked with interest.

"How did the boss know that this medicine can cure roundworms?"

Ascariasis is a relatively common childhood disease. Because children are lively and active, they like to play around. Many times, they put food into their mouths without washing their dirty hands, and roundworms are easy to breed in the intestinal tract. .However, there has been no good way to treat it, and now Mr. Xu has found a herbal medicine that can treat ascariasis.

"It's completely a coincidence. When I was in Dihua, the local people used this kind of Shandao Nianhao to treat this disease. It cost five or six yuan a time. Grind it into powder, add one or two white wine, soak overnight, remove the residue and get the clear liquid, Evaporate the alcohol with water, take it once in the morning on an empty stomach, and after two or three times, it will be cured."

Xu Shili said with a smile.

"I experimented there and used the extracted alkaloids to drink for local children with worm spots on their faces. Although the taste was very bad, the effect was very good, and a lot of roundworms could be excreted the next day."

Because of this, when he returned to China from Dihua, he deliberately brought back a few kilograms of Artemisia saponica seeds, and rented a piece of land with a similar climate and environment to plant a large area of ​​Artemisia saponica.

"It's also fortunate that if you were someone else, you might just be thinking about treating him as a herbal medicine."

Xu Shili laughed at his words.

"Isn't it just a herbal medicine in the local area?"

"It's true. It's true in the local area. It's just a herbal medicine. Maybe the local doctor has discovered this herbal medicine a long time ago, but it's just a herbal medicine."

"Well, the difference between modern medicine and traditional medicine is that we extract the active ingredients from the herbal medicine. Only in this way can more people be treated. Of course, the taste is worse."

"The taste is almost okay, we can add maltose and starch to improve its taste, and we can even squeeze out the medicine like cream flower in the dessert shop, children, it is sweet and beautiful, they Definitely want to eat."

Liu Donglin's suggestion made Xu Shili's eyes light up, and he agreed one after another.

"Don't say it, your method is really good, just do as you said!"

A few days later, the first batch of insect repellent was produced, which was shaped like a small pagoda squeezed out of butter. The candies were yellow and red, and the colors looked lovely. Xu Shili took a sip himself, and the taste was quite delicious .

"I think it's almost the same. These few experiments have been very successful, and the people who participated in the experiments responded generally very well."

After the simple experiment, Xu Shili said.

"I see we can advertise in the papers, what do you think?"

Pharmaceuticals in this era are so simple and rude, without any experiments, and without any experiments, they can be directly advertised, not to mention that Ming is unscientific, this is the case all over the world these days.As for the Phase [-] and Phase [-] trials, at least wait until the medical technology is fully developed. Right now... a drug that does not poison people to death but can also cure diseases is already a medicine of conscience.

No way, the times dictate.

"The test results are good, and it's time to advertise and sell it. But, Mr. Xu, what's the name of this medicine?"

Holding the pink medicine and looking at its shape, Xu Shili thought for a while and said.

"I think it looks like a pagoda, or it's called pagoda candy!"

(End of this chapter)