My client Li Yunlong

Jinan base area.

Early January.

Ze County, material purchasing and sales office.

"Penicillin, I want to buy ten thousand bottles of penicillin."

"I want fifty thousand bottles."

"I want 100,000 bottles of penicillin."

"Insulin, insulin, ten thousand vials."

"High blood pressure medicine, five thousand boxes."

"Chlorpromazine, 50,000 boxes? The price has been reduced?! I want 500,000 boxes."

"The antidiabetic drug, metformin, is 10,000 boxes. The price has been reduced? I want 100,000 boxes."

As soon as the door opened in the morning, businessmen with thick eyebrows, unshaven beards, and obvious foreign characteristics rushed over, waving US dollars in their hands, and asked to buy various medicines.

Even the cheapest drug here, chlorpromazine for treating mental illness, costs US$5 per box in U.S. dollars, and the effect only lasts a week.

In this era, spending almost one dollar a day on medicines is still expensive, and not many people can afford it.

But the buyer also asked for 500,000 boxes, and paid the full price in one go.

In just one hour, all the drug sales quota for the month was cleared.

"Just sold out?!"

At noon, the economic manager heard the news from the sales office and was shocked and speechless.

January,

Li Yunlong obtained more drugs. Not only did the total amount almost triple, while fully meeting the needs of the people in the base area, there was also a large surplus, and there were more than a dozen new drugs.

So the headquarters issued new instructions to increase investment in pharmaceuticals in the world market.

Although under the persuasion of Dean Liu, the prices of civilian drugs were even further reduced, such as the anti-manic and anti-depressant drugs chlorpromazine, as well as anti-diabetic drugs, etc., which were significantly reduced.

down to one-tenth of its original value.

But the total amount is expected to be around US$90 million.

result.

Sold out in one hour?

That is,

In just one hour, the base earned 90 million US dollars?
"Sure enough, monopoly means huge profits!"

The person in charge of economics couldn't help but sigh.

Ninety million dollars.

Currently, more than half of the countries in the world, no, even most countries, do not have a GDP of 90 million US dollars.

Last year, the Japanese's annual national product was less than 12 billion U.S. dollars, and their annual military expenditure was only more than 2 billion U.S. dollars.

"But it doesn't seem to be of any use."

The person in charge of economics curled his lips.

At present, the base is still making every effort to develop the economy, build roads, repair water conservancy facilities, and reclaim farmland. The wallets of the people are visibly bulging.

When you have money, you have spending power.

If there are not enough goods to meet the consumption level of the base area, then the currency will depreciate uncontrollably.

However, after all, the base area has only been developed for seven months, and the people's main consumption is still concentrated on food, clothing, housing, etc., especially housing, which accounts for the majority of consumption in the base area, and the Chinese people have a tireless pursuit of housing.

January.

Li Yunlong bought 500,000 tons of fine grains including white flour, rice, cornmeal, 5 million tons of sorghum, millet, buckwheat and other coarse grains, 100,000 tons of various meats, and 100,000 tons of various canned meats.

Not to mention being self-sufficient in food necessities, the base area can even export on a large scale.

It also brought in 500,000 tons of wood, 300,000 tons of reinforced concrete, 50,000 tons of cotton, etc. It meets the needs of house construction, bridges, and fortress stronghold construction in the base area.

Fifty thousand tons of cotton also meet the demand for clothing in the base area, and the people are more willing to buy cheap and high-quality clothes made by the garment factories in the base area. It is said that in the Taiyue base area, a large-scale, super-advanced clothing and shoe factory has also been built .

There is absolutely no need for US dollars as foreign exchange to import any necessary goods.

As for stable currency,

The silver dollar quota for January is 150 million silver dollars, and there are ten tons of gold, plus advanced medicines and other hard monopoly necessities. Even if the price of silver in the international market plummets to the point of being worthless, he can still be stable. Catch the new Jinan coins.

There is absolutely no demand for U.S. dollars in the base area.

Accepting U.S. dollars is just the strongest dollar in the world, and can be used to recruit international technical talents, import industrial equipment, etc.

However, because the New Hebei Nan dollar was inverted against the silver dollar, and medicines had to be purchased with the New Hebei Nan dollar, in fact, in the base areas and in the Republic of China, the New Hebei Nan dollar was more popular than the U.S. dollar.

···
Headquarters hospital.

"call··"

Dean Liu looked at the huge hospital in front of him and sighed deeply.

After more than half a year of development, today's headquarters hospital, in order to prevent Japanese sabotage and bombing, although the building is inconspicuous, its scale has reached the world's top level.

As for technology,
Absolutely number one in the world.

Li Yunlong's mysterious friend helped the Independent Regiment set up a medical camp to train 500 doctors and teach them the medical techniques of more than ten or twenty years in the advanced world.

The equipment provided was first used in the world for more than ten or twenty years.

to this end,

The Taihang base area also opened Taihang Medical College to cultivate talents on its own.

Dean Liu also compiled a simple medical manual with dozens of medical experts in the base area to promote barefoot doctors to the base area. Coupled with sufficient medicines, the medical level in the base area has almost skyrocketed.

Infant mortality dropped from more than 30 percent to less than 5 percent.

And it's still decreasing.

"Old Liu." In a trance, Zhang Wanhe in front of him woke Dean Liu up from his trance.

"Old Zhang."

Dean Liu continued walking along the mountain road.

As the base area also has an air force and is capable of defending its own sky, the headquarters hospital also plans to expand and build a new inpatient building, operating room and other facilities to further improve the medical level.

Zhang Wanhe was here to stop this.

He is the Minister of Construction of the Taihang Base Industrial Zone.

···
at the same time,

It is also in the headquarters hospital,
An ordinary doctor looked at the documents in front of him,
The document is about the decision to reduce the price of the psychotropic drug chlorpromazine, the anti-diabetic drug metformin and other drugs from one hundred US dollars per box to five US dollars per box, a twenty-fold price reduction, and no purchase restrictions.

Among them, there are plans to further push down the prices of commonly-needed drugs such as chlorpromazine, preparing to reduce the price to one dollar a box or even lower, striving for a terminal price that most people can afford.

His eyes were a little blank.

As a graduate of Tokyo Medical College, although he was an elite Japanese spy, he never fell behind in medicine.

Mental illness is currently the most poorly understood disease in the medical community.

none of them.

There are even methods abroad to treat mental illness by destroying the frontal lobe of the brain.

People often think that mental illness is a disease of wealth. People will only get sick when their living standards improve, they have money, and they have time to think about other things.

But in fact, a poor and difficult life is also a huge cause of mental illness that cannot be ignored.

Even the biggest inducement.

It is such a mental pressure to work all day long and live a life without any hope. Because of poverty, you have to give up treatment for your sick family member and lose your life.

Therefore, the current prevalence of mental illness is extremely high.

People think that mental illness is a disease of the wealthy, but it is just a survivor effect. Who can see the mental condition of the poor at the bottom?
These people kill themselves, who cares?

And now...

The Eighth Route Army saw it!

And started to help in action.

Although the monopoly of advanced drugs is used as a weapon, the price of drugs used by high-level capitalists starts at one hundred dollars, but for the drugs that ordinary people need, the prices are kept as low as possible.

In the words of Dean Liu who promoted this matter, although drugs can also be used as a weapon, we should try not to harm civilians. We can be cruel to invaders, war initiators, and war supporters, but we cannot be cruel to innocent people.

As a medical student, he had little interest in Ten Locust or Bushido. What attracted him to fight for the empire was what Ten Locust said was Asia's own Asia, building a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and achieving prosperity for all.

The empire's slogans are loud, but there is currently no action at all. The empire's explanation is that the current problems must be solved first.

And the Eighth Route Army,

Since October, when he came in to lurk, no one in the base has starved to death.

In the empire itself, many people died of hunger every year.

Almost all the people in the base area can receive timely treatment. According to his own statistics, if ordinary civilians are included, the infant mortality rate in the Taihang base area is less than four percent.

It is lower than Imperial Tokyo, and much lower.

"Can Greater East Asia prosper together?"

Sighing, he walked to the security department of the hospital.

At this moment, he agreed with one sentence.

There is no absolute loyalty, but the price of betrayal is not enough.

He doesn't care about money,

But he couldn't refuse the dream.

···
Early January.

America.

"George Galvin."

The Minister of Finance called out this person's name with some headache.

As the first American businessman to do business with the base, George Galvin accumulated a large amount of wealth and is now worth over fifty million US dollars.

then,

Began to expand political influence in the United States.

And this person's method of choice is medicine.

It claims to make high-quality penicillin and high-quality medicines available to everyone in the United States, so that everyone has the right to enjoy health.

"Today, the price of imported penicillin has dropped to US$220 per bottle for five million units."

The Minister of Medical Affairs sighed:

"Furthermore, George Galvin also said that the price of penicillin should be lowered to less than one hundred dollars, with a target of fifty dollars a bottle."

"The price is too low."

Although the price reduction of penicillin is beneficial to domestic medical care, it is a fatal blow to the nascent penicillin industry.

"Unless the five million units of penicillin imported are maintained at more than US$120 a bottle, it will be difficult for the country to organize funds to conquer the penicillin technology."

The Minister of Medical Affairs continued.

As a commercial country, few people will do things that are not profitable, even if the government takes the lead.

"I see."

The finance minister couldn't care less.

What bothers him is,
This George Galvin combined the huge political influence of several state governments with low-priced, high-quality penicillin, and ultra-low-priced drugs such as chlorpromazine, which was only five dollars a box.

As a result, the federal government had to pass the import qualifications of these drugs,
Even tariffs cannot be collected. (End of chapter)