Currently busy are the pharmaceutical workshops of Zhao Chen and Wang Xue.
After Zeng Mu took office in Jiuquan City and took over the affairs of Ganzhou, he immediately invited Zhao Chen and Wang Xue to open a pharmaceutical workshop in Jiuquan City.
Zeng Mu gave both money and land, and at the same time, he promised to provide enough manpower.
The success of Zhao Chen and Wang Xue's salicylic acid pharmaceutical workshop was all due to Zeng Mu's support back then.
Since Zeng Mu was too kind to refuse, Zhao Chen and Wang Xue brought the technical team to Jiuquan City.
Zeng Mu also fulfilled his promise. He planned an industrial zone outside Jiuquan City, leveled the land and built simple factories with bricks.
After Zhao Chen and Wang Xue arrived, Zeng Mu immediately took them to visit the factory.
Zhao Chen and Wang Xue were moved. After placing the experimental instruments they brought over in the laboratory, they immediately started research.
But the couple had disagreements over what kind of medicine to make.
Zhao Chen said resolutely: "I think we should make penicillin! This is mankind's greatest antibiotic. As long as we invent antibiotics, most bacterial infections in the world can be cured!"
Wang Xue opposed her boyfriend's radical proposal: "There are too many varieties of penicillin in nature, and we don't have modern instruments. The efficiency of screening by culture method is too low."
"Isn't it just cultivating mycelium and then doing controlled experiments? If you do thousands of groups, I won't believe that you can't find penicillin with bactericidal effect!"
Penicillin is a bacteriostatic substance secreted by molds that exist in nature. The discovery of penicillin itself was also accidental. It was a mold accidentally discovered by British bacteriologist Fleming.
Fleming documented the bactericidal effect of this mold, but did not realize how important it was.
After purification and research by a large number of scientists, penicillin, which can kill germs, was created.
This invention also completely changed the history of the struggle between humans and bacteria for thousands of years.
After the invention of penicillin, diseases that were considered terminal illnesses, such as tuberculosis, cholera, plague, dysentery, etc., were all treated.
Zhao Chen said: "We can breed Penicillium in the laboratory. As long as we can find the mold that secretes penicillin, we can continuously optimize the strain to produce penicillin on a large scale."
"Now many players have produced salicylic acid. If we want to maintain our technological advantage, we must develop new drugs as soon as possible."
"I think the technical threshold for penicillin is high. As long as it is researched, it can ensure long-term advantages."
What made Zhao Chen even more anxious was that many players had already posted on the forum and started researching penicillin.
Penicillin is obviously a broad-spectrum antibacterial drug that is more widely used and more effective than salicylic acid, which is why Zhao Chen feels anxious.
But it's obvious that Wang Xue doesn't think so.
She said: "The discovery of penicillin was just a matter of luck. We can't just leave such a big factory empty and wait for the moment when luck comes, right?"
Zhao Chen didn't say anything. What his girlfriend said was indeed correct. Penicillin requires culturing Penicillium and then conducting controlled experiments. To put it bluntly, it's just a matter of luck.
Zeng Mu gave himself such a large factory, wouldn't it be a waste if he couldn't produce penicillin?
Wang Xue said: "If you ask me, we should follow our previous thinking and extract antibacterial drugs from animals and plants first."
Zhao Chen asked: "Then what medicine are you going to extract?"
Wang Xue immediately said: "Allicin!"
Allicin?
Zhao Chen looked at Wang Xue in surprise, why didn't he think of this!?
Allicin, as the name suggests, is an antibacterial drug extracted from garlic.
Garlic is a plant that is easy to grow, but extracting allicin is just extracting the active ingredients from garlic, and the difficulty is indeed very low.
Although allicin is not as good as penicillin, it is also a very good antibiotic that can inhibit a variety of common bacterial infections.
However, Wang Xue still said: "We can slowly develop penicillin in the laboratory, and allicin can be produced immediately. We can ask Brother Zeng to promote garlic cultivation in Jiuquan, and then purchase these garlics to extract allicin."
Now Zhao Chen was persuaded by his girlfriend, and he said: "I will go to Brother Zeng and ask him to promote garlic cultivation in Jiuquan!"
Zeng Mu was overjoyed when he heard the two people's plan. Compared with salicylic acid, an analgesic and antipyretic drug, the value of antibiotics like allicin is significantly higher.
But what the three of them didn't expect was that they encountered difficulties in the first step of promotion.
The difficulty is that the garlic of the Central Plains in this era is two different things from that of later generations.
The garlic used in the Central Plains today is a small, single-headed garlic.
Single head means that there is only one round garlic clove in the whole garlic, and it is very small. It is not the kind of garlic of later generations.
Obviously, this kind of single-headed garlic is more difficult to reproduce than the clove garlic of later generations. It is too small and has too little garlic meat, so it is not suitable for large-scale extraction.
Zhao Chen and Wang Xue immediately checked the history books and finally found records in the history books. The garlic cloves used in later generations originally grew in India, which is now Tianzhu.
Zhao Chen and Wang Xue looked for merchants from the Western Regions who came to Jiuquan one by one and asked them if they had garlic cloves from Tianzhu.
Hard work paid off, Zhao Chen and Wang Xue finally found this clove of garlic in a seasoning bag of a businessman from the Western Regions.
The next step is to propagate the garlic cloves.
Clove garlic is much easier to propagate than single-headed garlic.
After the garlic is mature, the garlic cloves can be separated, and each garlic clove can grow another garlic.
Zeng Mu also cooperated with Zhao Chen and Wang Xue to promote garlic cultivation in Jiuquan City.
Garlic itself has a pungent smell and does not require additional pest control.
Moreover, this plant is not picky about soil or climate at all and can grow in a pot at the door of your home.
This is also the reason why only the three seasonings of onion, ginger and garlic can firmly occupy the table of common people.
Zeng Mu also posted a notice that the governor's office purchased garlic. If you bring the garlic to the governor's office, you can exchange it for a dollar.
Although the money is not much, the little money adds up. In Jiuquan City, growing garlic has quickly become a trend. Even children will find a soil pot to plant a few garlic bulbs and wait for them to mature to earn some pocket money.
Under Zeng Mu's promotion, garlic cultivation gradually became a popular project in Wuwei City, and Zhao Chen and Wang Xue also extracted a test tube of allicin in the laboratory.
"This stuff is just too pungent." Zhao Chen stuffed his nose with cotton and looked at the colorless liquid in the test tube. The strong smell of garlic made him almost vomit.
Wang Xue had already put on a homemade gas mask. She said: "The first workshop is already preparing for production. Our first batch of goods has been ordered by Master Yuchi. It is better to sort out the industrial production process quickly and put it into production as soon as possible."
Bar."
Just when Jiuquan City was rejoicing over the development of new drugs.
There was an explosion in a laboratory on the edge of Shazhou City.