After Zeng Mu finished handling the matter in Liulinli, he and Zhao Chen and Wang Xue got on the carriage and headed from Gaochang City to Shazhou City to prepare for the Shazhou Conference.
This Shazhou Conference can also be said to have started because of Zeng Mu. Although the issue of ownership of Liulinli has not been resolved, the Shazhou Governor's Office still carved out a road in Liulin for Liulinli to pass through.
Zeng Mu was very fast and immediately invited the player's construction team to build a spacious road across the willow forest. From then on, no one would choke him again in the willow forest.
Zhao Chen and Wang Xue came out of the laboratory to promote their newly purified salicylic acid product.
Zeng Mu was sitting on the carriage, still feeling dizzy. When Zhao Chen and Wang Xue, a couple of gamers, approached him and asked Zeng Mu to help sell the medicine that had just been produced in their laboratory, Zeng Mu agreed immediately.
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Originally, Zeng Mu thought that Zhao Chen and Wang Xue were engaged in medicinal plant cultivation like other players.
The cultivation of this medicinal material is highly profitable, but it also takes time to grow. It can also be regarded as a long-term high-end agricultural project.
So Zeng Mu immediately granted them twenty acres of land. Unexpectedly, the two players only used two acres of land to build a laboratory, and then they did not level the land for farming.
However, at that time, Zeng Mu was already involved in a lawsuit with the Dong family and had no time to take care of these two players, so he just let these two players mess around.
But unexpectedly, Zhao Chen and Wang Xue suddenly came to Zeng Mu and told Zeng Mu that they had prepared salicylic acid in the laboratory.
"Salicylic acid? What kind of medicinal material is this?" Zeng Mu was stunned for a moment. The couple of players had been tinkering in the laboratory for almost a month, and they came up with a medicine that he had never mentioned. They actually wanted him to help promote it.
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Zhao Chen thought for a while and said: "Well, salicylic acid is the raw material of aspirin, and it is also the part that can play a role in aspirin."
Zeng Mu stood up and said, "What! Did you create aspirin?"
Although Zeng Mu majored in liberal arts, he also knew that aspirin was famous. This drug is still a very important analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug and is still a very best-selling drug!
If aspirin could be made in Datang, wouldn't it be a huge profit?
Zhao Chen quickly said: "It is the active ingredient in aspirin. The main pharmaceutical ingredient of aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. However, with the current technology, there is no way to acetylate salicylic acid, so we can only produce salicylic acid."
Zeng Mu quickly asked: "What's the difference between taking salicylic acid and aspirin?"
Zhao Chen scratched his head and said: "Salicylic acid has irritating side effects on the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract, but the physical and chemical principles of the drug are the same. Salicylic acid also has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects."
Zeng Mu asked excitedly: "Does that mean the therapeutic effects of salicylic acid and aspirin are the same? There are just a few minor side effects?"
Zhao Chen nodded, shook his head and said: "It's not a small side effect. Taking salicylic acid directly will cause great irritation to the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract. This is why the final aspirin is not salicylic acid, but acetylsalicylic acid."
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Zeng Mu was even more excited now. Aspirin is the longest-used and most effective analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug in human history!
He quickly asked: "How is your current production?"
At this time, Zhao Chen said: "We mainly extract salicylic acid from willow bark and branches. We can make about a hundred effective salicylic acid pills every day."
"A hundred pieces? It seems a little less. Can we expand production capacity?"
Zhao Chen shook his head and said: "The two of us work for more than ten hours every day to produce so much salicylic acid."
"Then why not let the people in Liulin do it?"
Speaking of this, Zhao Chen sighed and said: "We also tried to let the people in Liulin do it, but they have no mathematical foundation and there is no way to achieve the operational accuracy required for the experiment."
So that was the case, Zeng Mu quickly asked: "In other words, if we can increase the manpower, can we increase the output?"
"Of course, there are quite a lot of willow trees in Liulin, and the purification efficiency of our laboratory method is also very high. As long as we have more manpower, we will definitely be able to increase the output."
Zeng Mu immediately said excitedly: "This is no problem, isn't it just manpower? Let's go to Yixiali this time and find some young people who can write and calculate. We will definitely meet your requirements!"
Yixiali is also his territory, but now Yixiali is entrusted with the management of an indigenous villager. This time Zeng Mu went to Shazhou, he also wanted to go to Yixiali to solve the backlog of problems in Yixiali.
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Zeng Mu had already opened a night school in Yixiali. Even after he left Yixiali, he invited a sixth-level player to teach the villagers in Yixiali.
I heard from the player that several smart children are now able to recognize commonly used Chinese characters and can also do simple calculations.
As long as these villagers with literacy skills are properly trained, they will be able to complete simple chemical experiments.
Zeng Mu said ambitiously: "We rely on mountains to eat mountains, and we rely on water to drink water. We in Liulin finally have our own flagship product! With magic medicine like salicylic acid, I can also compete for the first place in this territory development competition."
Let’s fight!”
Next, Zeng Mu took Zhao Chen and Wang Xue to Shazhou to attend the Shazhou Conference.
This time Zeng Mu also wanted to promote aspirin, a miracle drug, in Shazhou. He asked Zhao Chen to put the pills into beautiful bottles, label them, and take them on a carriage to Shazhou.
Sitting on the carriage, Wang Xue looked at the official road being widened and asked: "Brother Zeng, why are roads being built everywhere?"
Zeng Mu pulled down the curtains of the carriage and said, "This is not to say that the plan to build the railway has been put on hold for the time being. Now everyone is widening the official road."
“Why is the railway on hold?”
"The players are still against it too much. Iron is too valuable these days. Bafu is short of money now. All the iron from the Dashuixia Iron Works has been forged into iron tools. Therefore, we are currently only planning to build the section from Shazhou to Dangjinshankou.
For the experimental railway, the official road is still required between Guazhou-Shazhou-Gaochang."
"Recently, the trade in the three states has been booming, so the village chiefs close to the official road talked about it in the forum and decided to widen the official road so that more goods can be transported. This is something that is beneficial to all players."
Zeng Mu added: "It's a pity that it's just rammed earth. The output of cement workshops now is just enough to build houses in the city. Building roads with cement is too luxurious."
"It would be great if there was asphalt, but we have still found oil, and even if we find oil, the technology for industrial production of asphalt is still far away. Let's use this soil to compact the road first, it is economical and economical."
However, the rammed earth road surface was now suitable for carriages, and the business of the carriage shop was getting better and better, and Zeng Mu also made a lot of money by investing in it.
Like Yixiali, there were many rest areas along the roadside. When the carriage drove into a rest area, villagers brought hot water and hot meals. Zeng Mu also got off the carriage and stretched his body.
Zeng Mu wandered around the rest area and found that everyone in the rest area was discussing the Shazhou Conference.
Zeng Mu did not expect that a debate that originated in Gaochang would have such a great influence.
In the same rest area, Hu Shang Hu Bayi heard that the Shazhou Conference was going to be held in Gaochang City, and he decided to go to Shazhou to observe it.
Hubay's original business was to sell silk to Shule City, and then buy spices from Shule City and sell them to Shazhou.
Nowadays, there is still war in the customs, and the spices from the Western Regions cannot be sold.
Originally, Hubay could purchase silk in Guazhou or Jiuquan and sell it to merchants from the Western Regions, but I heard that the government in Jiuquan had posted a notice that private merchants were no longer allowed to sell silk cloth. All merchants from the Western Regions who wanted to buy silk had to
Buy it at the government weaving bureau.
The quality of the silk from the Weaving Bureau is inferior and the price is high. If you purchase it from the Weaving Bureau, Hubay will have no profit at all.
Hubay simply did not buy silk, but took the risk of running a short-distance business and sold the ironware from Guazhou to Gaochang City. Unexpectedly, he made a huge profit unexpectedly.
Guazhou Iron was of high quality and durable, and was very popular in Gaochang City. Hubayi's goods were sold out.
The ironware in Guazhou was also sold by the Railway Bureau under King Jianning, but the price was similar to the ironware in Guanhai, and the quality was much higher.
I heard that there are many new products in Shazhou city. On the one hand, Hubay came to observe the Shazhou meeting, and on the other hand, he also inspected the Shazhou market.
Hubayi is a businessman from the Western Regions. His ancestors were from the Shule Kingdom. They only started doing business in Longyou after their family became Chinese.
There are many small countries in the Western Region, and Hubayi naturally has his own way of survival for his family.
When the Tang Dynasty was powerful, they naturalized in the Tang Dynasty and learned Chinese. Now that Hu Bayi was planning to move his family to Shazhou, he naturally wanted to see what the policies of King Jianning were.
At the same time, a kind of speech is also quietly brewing. The "virtuous literature" that originally had the right to speak is creating speech in the three states of Shazhou, Guazhou and Xizhou.
In Shazhou and Guazhou, where the Great Review was carried out, powerful families who had been suppressed by King Jianning gradually spoke up to support these "virtuous literature" remarks.
This statement means that the imperial court controls "mountains, rivers, swamps and mines" and monopolizes salt and iron in order to "compete for profits with the people."
If the label of competing with the people for profit is removed, it will be even more detrimental to the Jianning King's Mansion.
However, there is still a market for this kind of statement. Nowadays, the "virtuous writers" in Shazhou City are gradually building up the pressure of public opinion, requesting His Highness King Jianning to open the "mountains, rivers and mines" to the people, and open the Yantieguan which is monopolized by the government.
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In addition to attacking the policy of Jianning Wangbafu to firmly control salt, iron and mountains, rivers and mines, this group of "virtuous literature" also attacked the policy of Jianning Wangbafu to establish industry and commerce and encourage the development of industry and commerce.
They proposed that agriculture is the foundation of the country and that it is necessary to emphasize agriculture and suppress industry and commerce, placing agriculture in the most important position.