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Chapter 68: Internal and External Troubles

When it was late at night, Qin Di closed his eyes and thought, where was the weakest place in China in 1928?

At this time, China's internal and external troubles were in the most difficult stage in history. A word, "semi-colonial and semi-feudal society", is the best summary of China's current situation.

With the oppression and exploitation of the great powers outside, China does not even have tariff autonomy! Japan occupied Taiwan, Ryukyu and North Korea, occupied Qingdao and Jinan, and coveted the three eastern provinces! British warships can drive to Wuhan and Sichuan in one breath! They will sank China's merchant ships! Where can there be normal operations and trade under guns and cannons?

There were warlords fighting, the Qingbai Party repeatedly expeditioned the Northern Expedition, the Da Chi Party spread wildfire, the people were ignorant and difficult, and industrialization was just beginning, while the West had completed the first industrial revolution and was carrying out the second industrial revolution!

The war between China and Japan is an unequal war. Japan has completed industrialization, and China has just reached the threshold of industrialization. Japan's invasion of China is equivalent to a dimensional reduction strike.

During the 14th year of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China suffered hardships not because the people did not fight hard, but because the foundation was too weak.

"If you fall behind, you will be beaten" is not empty talk.

China is very backward in all aspects, including the government's organizational capabilities, industrial production capabilities, and the qualities of the people. China's population literacy rate is less than 20%, while Japan's population literacy rate is more than 95%.

In fact, Japan's literacy rate in the early Meiji year (1868) was less than 30%, which was similar to China. However, after the Meiji Restoration, the literacy rate was increased in just 30 years.

They robbed money from China and used it all to develop education. And the Chinese Lafayette is still preparing jewelry for burial!

Qin Di was a human being in his three lives and was reincarnated in this era. What could he do?

The old China was poor and weak for more than a hundred years, and it can be said to be full of holes! Even if he donated all his assets, it would be a drop in the bucket for the entire country.

Forty-nin million Chinese people need to undergo the baptism of blood and fire and go through arduous exploration to find the right path.

In front of the huge historical wheel, Qin Di could only hide while beating and drumming.

He could not rise up and set up a political party himself, dreaming of being a leader, because the country was already in chaos and could not allow him to take action randomly.

Although he was extremely skilled in martial arts, he could not stand up and assassinate Hideki Tojo, Neji Kamura, and Iroku Yamamoto. Because assassination did not solve the problem, a general was killed in Japan and there were more successors, while he himself had to bear the backlash of the way of heaven.

So Qin Di could only think quietly: "Is there any way to make many Chinese live a better life?"

He knew very well that neither he could do it, whether it was to increase the literacy rate or improve the industrial foundation.

After liberation, China participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and aid Korea, and made great sacrifices to win 156 major projects provided by the Soviet Union, including 2 refineries, 7 chemical plants, 7 steel joint enterprises, 11 nonferrous smelting enterprises, 24 machine manufacturing plants, 25 coal mining and coal washing yards, 25 thermal power stations and hydropower stations, as well as light industry, medicine and 43 military industries. Although some of them have not been completed, they have made up for the shortcomings in the industrial foundation!

Just imagine, can this be done by individuals?

Qin Di can only do something within his ability in the pharmaceutical industry.

Moreover, even in the pharmaceutical industry, he cannot do whatever he wants. For example, Ci'an Surgery Hospital only opened ten branches in big cities and did not continue to open more branches, not because he had no money, but because he could not find a qualified doctor.

Fortunately, the "Chian Higher Medical College" has started school, and one hundred students are being trained, and another one will be recruited next year.

In addition, the production of penicillin and sulfonamide drugs is already accelerating. The price of penicillin has been falling again and again. It is obvious that it has dropped to ten o'clock each, and I don't know how many people have been saved.

Chen Shuqing of the Da Chi Party went to different pharmacies every month, bought ten boxes of Western medicine at a price of 10%, and then sent them to Jiangxi, Hunan and other places via water. Fights occurred in those places every moment, and many people were injured and infected and needed treatment.

Every time I get the medicine, Fu Zhengchen, the director of the Soviet Hospital, is ecstatic.

The situation in the Soviet area is complicated, and doctors often ask: "How do you buy these intimidating drugs? Why can you get them every month?"

Chen Shuqing strictly abides by the requirements of the commander-in-chief of the Special Corps, refused to tell the source of the medicine, and only said that he bought it from the Magic City for a large sum of money.

At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Special Corps had a very high status and was named "Zhou Xiang".

However, Zhou Xiang is busy with affairs and is very stationed in the Magic City. He also has important work in the Soviet area.

Therefore, the leaders of the special science department often change people, mainly Li Shenggong and Qian Renfei are in charge.

Before leaving, Zhou Xiang told Chen Shuqing: "I can only tell Li and Qian about receiving the medicine. Apart from that, I cannot tell the third person."

Chen Shuqing also shoulders an important mission and cannot stay in the Magic City to buy medicines.

Of course, he was very careful about this matter. As long as he stayed in the Magic City for a day, he would go to handle it himself.

He knew very well: "This matter is related to the lives of many soldiers. If this line is broken, it will never be able to be carried out again! What a great loss that will bring to the revolutionary cause!"

In October 1928, another Nobel Prize was announced.

What surprised Qin Di was that the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was once again awarded to Chinese scientists Zhu Wan and Qin Ling! They rewarded their contributions to vitamin C. In 1925, they published a series of papers, including "Artificial Synthesis Methods of Vitamin C", "Mechanism of Vitamin C Ascorbic Acid", "Vitamin C Anti-Aging", "Vitamin C Prevent Colds", "Vitamin C Anti-Cancer", etc. These papers have attracted the popularity of vitamins, and many people have regarded it as a panacea.

In history, there have been nobel prizes about vitamin C twice, so it is not too strange to win the awards by Zhu Wan and Qin Ling.

Qin Di thought that her mother had already reached the pinnacle after winning the Nobel Prize twice, but she didn't expect that she would win it three times! Her sister Qin Ling also won it twice!

The news came back to China, causing another sensation across the country!

The overwhelming newspapers praise the great scientists "Mr. Zhu Wan" and "Mr. Qin Ling".

Many people came to visit the Qin family to congratulate them. For a while, the guests were crowded with traffic.

Soon, Cai Yuanpei, the newly established "Central Research Institute", came to the door personally and said that he would abdicate and give up the wise and let Zhu Wan be the dean. If she was too busy, she would be the "honoral president".

This time, Zhu Wan accepted Qin Di's suggestion and agreed to be the "Honorary Dean" of the Central Academy of Sciences.

In addition, the central government also invited Qin Ling to go to the Ministry of Health to preside over the work. Because Qin Ling's child was too young and did not like to be restricted, she only accepted the false position of "Deputy Minister" and agreed to attend meetings every year to discuss national medical policies, and did not participate in specific work.
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