If it were a large workshop, or a serious "factory", the number would be much exaggerated, with the average output per person being thousands of charcoal pencils.
Charcoal pencils don't have much wood in total, but stuffing that thin charcoal stick into an equally thin wooden stick is a great test of skill and concentration.
It can be said that with the past method of making pens by hand, this kind of production itself was quite torture for the craftsmen. But when it becomes a factory, this is different. Everyone only needs to do simple actions to produce quickly!
Sun Simiao, as an individual...
He is not very interested in the big profits. After all, he is already old, and he can earn a lot of money just by giving a pulse to a noble family member or an important minister in the court.
But this kind of potential makes people have to think about it... So of course Sun Simiao immediately took action, summoning his students from the "Chengxi Medical College" and started arranging factory-style division of labor production.
Soon...the trial production period of more than a month is over.
During this period, although Sun Simiao almost lost a layer of skin by staying up late at his age, and even the young people under his command were overwhelmed by the continuous work, none of the master and disciples showed signs of exhaustion on their faces, and spoke negatively.
feeling.
Because the output has really increased dramatically!
Although it did not increase by dozens or hundreds of times like the charcoal workshop, it also increased the output of penicillin by more than ten times.
As soon as this result came out, not only Sun Simiao himself was extremely happy, but also his disciples were extremely excited.
So then...
What happened next is not difficult to predict. Sun Simiao set up a pharmaceutical factory, but within half a year, the output of penicillin increased significantly.
Originally, penicillin among the people of the Tang Dynasty was extremely scarce and extremely expensive.
And there was a reason for this. Sun Simiao knew that such strange medicines would definitely cause wealthy families to hoard them. If they were simply sold, it would inevitably lead to a situation where ordinary people would never be able to eat them, so he deliberately reserved only a small part for them.
Make money by dealing with princes and nobles to support the small, so to speak "young" pharmaceutical industry in Chengxi Academy.
Most of the other penicillin drugs were secretly ordered by Sun Simiao to his disciples to collect information about various medical clinics and pharmacies in Chang'an, and select patients with severe symptoms and corresponding symptoms to be sent directly to them. Such a move would naturally win the prize.
It has received unanimous praise from the people of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that Lingzhou College now also has a medical school, and there is also a Hangzhou institution that is said to be converted into a medical school in the future, that is, the Research Institute of the West Lake Industrial Zone. These organizations are also
There is a figure from Chengxi Medical College, and...
It was also under Sun Simiao's initiative that several medical schools in Datang are currently mainly busy with penicillin, benefiting more people.
But despite the good reputation, Sun Simiao is actually not very excited, because this model is equivalent to... It is equivalent to that only in places like Chang'an, Lingzhou, Hangzhou, and nearby counties and counties, people can get this kind of medicine.
And the entire territory of China is so big, what will the people in other places do? In fact, it is precisely because of this vague but never-going-away sense of uneasiness that Sun Simiao did not find a place to open a medical clinic even at his age.
Practice medicine, but travel everywhere.
But now...this situation is different.
Originally, the output of penicillin was very small, and it could easily be monopolized. As a result, no matter whether it was the people in Chang'an, Lingzhou, Hangzhou or other places, ordinary people could not take the medicine, so I had no choice but not to sell it directly. However,
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If it were produced in a factory, things would be different.
If we continue to give away medicines as before... this is still feasible, but overall it is different from before, because the coverage area is much larger. Even if it is still centered around the three major cities of Chang'an, Lingzhou, and Hangzhou, the entire coverage
The range is also quite amazing. And...
As in the past, we still mobilize our disciples to go out to donate medicine. Although this is not impossible, it is too inefficient after all and cannot cope with the increasingly large scale of production today.
And under this situation... If you want to do what you are doing now, you obviously have to find another way, and then you can only choose to sell the penicillin directly. After all, if you send it directly... let alone such a large amount,
Even when the supply was small, in addition to rich families going to poor people to stockpile penicillin with coercion and inducement, ordinary people also often deliberately pretended to be sick to obtain drugs.
It's just that Sun Simiao didn't want to use this thing to make a fortune, so he just turned a blind eye. But now that the scale has expanded, don't say that the scale of such things has also expanded. He certainly can no longer sit idly by and do nothing. If the scale expands,
The manpower, material resources and costs to be used will also increase significantly, and this means... Chengxi Medical College will not only have to mobilize more scholars who study medicine, but also have to hire a large number of external craftsmen and craftsmen.
Obviously, it is impossible for everyone to do good deeds according to their own needs. They must also support their families without charging money...Obviously, there is no way to produce large-scale production of penicillin.
In other words, you still have to collect money. But...
It was also this time that Sun Simiao decided to collect money that he discovered the horror of factory production...
Although in the first month, people from all walks of life in Chang'an were quite shocked by this, it naturally attracted a large number of people of all kinds to take action and hoard in secret. And Chang'an...
There is an old saying: It is not easy to live in Chang'an. This means that there are too many wealthy families in Chang'an, and prices are driven up extremely high, so life is not easy. The problem of difficulty in life obviously does not bother Sun Simiao, a leading figure in the medical field of the Tang Dynasty.
, but it can also be seen from the side that there are so many rich people in Chang'an.
Even Sun Simiao, at this initial stage, would wonder if he had done something wrong, because the phenomenon of purchasing and hoarding penicillin was so serious that those people seemed to have all the money in the house falling from the sky.
In this case, things will go against the original intention. Drugs are monopolized by wealthy families, and it will be difficult for ordinary people to buy drugs. Although penicillin purchased directly from the drug factory of the medical school is still rated, the number of people who can buy it is also
There are only a limited number of them, and most of them are actually bought in large quantities by the servants sent by these wealthy families.
But in the second month, Sun Simiao simply changed his mind and directly sold the penicillin at a higher price - thinking that the wealthy people would take the goods anyway, so he might as well be harsher and make them more meat.
It hurts. But this time when the price increased, the market price immediately collapsed!
