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Chapter 1127 For the benefit of all mankind (first update, please subscribe)
Through what channel did the emperor learn about external information?

There must be various speculations from the outside world, and the most well-known one is the official memorial.It's been a thing for thousands of years.

However, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also had a "Daily Intelligence Briefing", which was an intelligence report tailored for the emperor. The report contained intelligence content on foreign policy and domestic security affairs. The length of the briefing was generally controlled within 10-12 pages.It can be said that the emperor's daily work started from this briefing.

But more often, the emperor learned external information through newspapers, and it was not just one newspaper, but five or six newspapers. Except for three of which were fixed, Emperor Zhu would instruct his attendants to follow the news every day. Buy random tabloids on the street.

Don't underestimate the tabloids, even the third-rate tabloids like to report eclectic news, but there is a lot of information in it. In fact, even Emperor Zhu likes to read those eclectic news, such as a certain senior official and a certain opera The stories that actors have to tell, such as the exposure of the rich man's affair with a certain star.

Because the Ming Empire did not recognize polygamy, but men, everyone knew that rich men naturally learned from their European and American counterparts, so lovers took root in the traditional polygamy of Ming Dynasty.

Even the ladies don't object, why?Because the law guarantees that illegitimate children have no inheritance rights, wives do not need to worry about the children born to their lovers competing with their children for inheritance rights.

The emergence of lovers and the traditional dross of polygamy filled Daming's second- and third-rate tabloids with all kinds of gossip.

What kind of officials and actors, what kind of rich people and celebrities, what kind of scholars and socialites, in short, there are people who eat melons from time to time, even if it is Emperor Zhu, it is not impossible for the occasional people to eat melons.

Of course, there are gossip news every day, and there are not many that can attract attention.

"This……"

Just like in the past, looking at the news in the newspaper, which was not true or false, but quite shocking, Emperor Zhu seemed to be lacking in interest.

Suddenly, an advertisement caught his attention. The advertisement was a medicine to drive roundworms. Although the picture was a bit straightforward, it was simple and clear, and ordinary people could understand it at a glance.

But it wasn't the picture of a long roundworm in a vise that caught his attention.It's the name of the medicine.

"Baota candy!"

Emperor Zhu is very familiar with pagoda candy.He ate it when he was a child.When I was young, I had a stomachache, and the doctor gave the children pagoda candies, and the roundworms came out. Some children even picked out the roundworms with a small wooden stick to play... showing off how big the roundworms were in their stomachs.

Although it looks full of memories, roundworms have a great impact on the healthy growth of children. They will rob children of nutrients, lead to malnutrition, and cause developmental delays and other diseases.

"Someone actually made pagoda candy? I don't know if it's true or not. If it can really drive away roundworms, then it will be a strong generation."

It is not clear whether Emperor Zhu is true or not, but what is certain is that if this medicine is effective, it will definitely be beneficial to the country.

Putting down the newspaper, Emperor Zhu directly called the Shangshu of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. In addition to asking for the safety test report of pagoda sugar, he also instructed the Food and Drug Administration to conduct a drug test on "Pagoda sugar", which involved children in the empire. have to be treated with caution.The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for the inspection of food and drugs imported and exported by the empire, but its power is limited, and it mainly uses the disclosure of product label information as a breakthrough to establish a unified regulatory system.

It’s just that this kind of supervision is limited. Although the Drug Administration has the right to inspect factories, new drugs do not need to be approved. Pharmaceutical companies only need to prove their safety—that is, the poison will not kill people.

Even so, the drug supervision of the Ming Empire has been far ahead of other countries in the world for at least half a century.

Just, just a few days later, Emperor Zhu received the test report.

"Shan Dao Nian Artemisia?"

Flipping through the raw materials of the medicinal preparation, Emperor Zhu was surprised.

"Yes, Your Majesty, according to Xu Shili, the manager of the pharmacy, this is a kind of herbal medicine he discovered during his time in the Western Regions. Because it has the effect of repelling roundworms, he extracted the Shandao Nian crystal from it and used it as a raw material to make this medicine. , and its effect is very good, and its toxicity is very low, we think it can be promoted in China.”

As the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Sun Siwei, who studied business in the UK, was the first among the first batch of foreign students in the empire to become a minister. This is directly related to his participation in the formulation of the First Five-Year Plan and the Second Five-Year Plan.

The success of the "Five-Year Plan" allowed him to successfully enter the emperor's sight. When the new cabinet was appointed and removed, he was still a commercial minister at that time, and was promoted to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.

The reason why he proposed to promote this new drug is that there are indeed many children suffering from ascariasis, and secondly, there has been a lack of treatment methods, and even arsenic drugs are used to treat ascariasis.

"The promotion at the official level...we still have to wait a little longer. We have to be more cautious about drugs. After all, drugs are three-point poisonous. After long-term use, it is not too late to promote them after confirming that they are indeed harmless to the human body. The official Well, when it comes to this kind of health issue, especially children's health, we still have to be conservative."

After shaking his head and vetoing Sun Siwei's suggestion, he looked at the test report in his hand, and when he was thinking about "Shan Dao Nian Artemisia" in his heart, although he didn't know what this Artemisia was, Emperor Zhu had another idea in his mind. A kind of Artemisia annua.

Or go back and extract the artemisinin?
In Africa and Southeast Asia, quinine is inseparable, but... after thinking about it, Emperor Zhu felt that it was not necessary for the time being. Cinchona tree plantations have been established in the archipelago and Shanxi, and the large-scale production of quinine has long been realized. If artemisinin is extracted now, it will definitely have an impact on the cinchona tree industry.

Moreover, quinine is still a very effective antimalarial drug. In the absence of further market demand, the introduction of artemisinin is not necessarily a good thing, and it will only increase the resistance of malaria parasites.

In this case, the launch of artemisinin is likely to be worth the candle.

However, the unexpected discovery of Shandao Nianhao by a private enterprise made Emperor Zhu feel quite relieved.Because after 20 years of continuous development, the current big celebrities have initially possessed scientific awareness.

If it is traditional Chinese medicine, they will include this herbal medicine and add a prescription for killing insects, but now, private enterprises in Daming have known that the active ingredients should be extracted from Artemisia chinensis for treatment, and Not just with herbs.

This is a change from experience to science. Such a change is undoubtedly gratifying, and it also allows Emperor Zhu to see the difference between the current Ming Dynasty and the past.

What kind of fruits will the consciousness of modern science, coupled with this spirit of independent innovation, produce here?
Although it is still unknown, it is certain that Huaxia will be fundamentally changed.

"Maybe, you can try..."

After thinking about it, Emperor Zhu said.

"Sun Qing, the empire now has more and more connections with the outside world, and the empire's overseas colonies are also so vast. There must be many valuable herbs in such a vast land. For now, medicine is the most important export commodity of the empire. One, we can definitely strengthen research in this area, increase the types of drugs and the scope of treatment. Increase exports."

The empire's pharmaceutical industry is very developed. Although it was the foundation laid by Emperor Zhu with special goods, it finally thrives on modern drugs including aspirin. Compared with the metaphysical drug research in European and American countries, Daming's pharmaceutical company relied on various traditional Chinese medicine extracts extracted from ancient proven prescriptions, but they did not lose money.

After all, those medicines do have certain effects!Although the effect is not so obvious, it is certain that it is better than the various counterfeit medicines that are popular in Europe and the United States.

As the traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, combined with modern technology, not only benefits the Chinese people themselves, but also benefits all mankind!
Of course, it also brought extremely rich returns to the empire - last year alone, more than [-] million yuan of medicines were exported.

And in terms of profit, the profit of no commodity can compare with that of medicine.

"What Your Majesty said is true. The cost of medicine is low, the profit is huge, and no one can leave it. Our medicine currently occupies almost half of the European and American markets because of its good curative effect and high safety."

Good curative effect and high safety.The chemical medicines prepared by pharmacists in Europe these days must not be as effective as Ming's medicines. It is the crystallization of thousands of years of wisdom and experience!

"Curative effect, safety, this is our trump card! Therefore, even if a new drug is developed, it cannot be rushed into the market. You must pay attention to the safety of the drug, and you must not smash your own brand."

What is the biggest fear in the drug business?It's just smashing your own signboard.The curative effect almost doesn't matter, but the medicine can kill people, if it kills people, it's just smashing the signboard.

After thinking about it, Emperor Zhu said.

"In the future, drug trials can be conducted more fully. Not only basic safety tests need to be conducted, but also drug efficacy comparison experiments can be conducted. Well, in short, a little bit."

Regarding how to conduct drug experiments, Emperor Zhu is a layman.At most, you know something like a double-blind experiment.

But that's okay.After all, now the Empire not only has time to explore a little bit, but also has vast colonies to exploit.After all, the colonies also need medicines, well, they can be sent to learn another world, the traditional "virtue" of the pharmaceutical industry in developed countries in Europe and America, and send medicines to Africa...

(End of this chapter)