Break out of the courtyard

"Tens of millions of magnesium dollars?"

Seeing Director Dao's dubious expression, Zhang Heping smiled and said, "Let's not mention that project for now. We'll talk about it after we sell the malaria medicine."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Heping took Director Zhao and asked the driver, Master Chen, for gasoline.

Back at Jingcheng College, Zhang Heping asked Vice Principal Dao Yuzhu to help him get two barrels of 95% medical alcohol.

Then, Zhang Heping called Bai Yun at the Nanla Town Health Center and asked her to find someone to harvest a hundred pounds of Artemisia annua, throw it on the dam to dry in the sun, and use it in two days.

The next day, Director Zhao took his grandson back first.

By the way, another reason why Old Zhao went to the city was because his eldest grandson was clamoring to see his parents; that is, to save fares, Zhao and his wife had not been home for more than a month.

Zhang Heping waited an extra day and took four large antimony pots to the Jingcheng Machine Repair Factory to modify them and built two simple extraction devices.

Afterwards, he borrowed Jeep 212 from Director Dao and carried a lot of things to Nanla Town.

Because he just wanted to get some finished medicine to test the therapeutic effect and did not ask for much, Zhang Heping just soaked the chopped Artemisia annua in gasoline for 4 hours, and then started extraction.

Finally, through multiple purification and extraction with 95% ethanol, more than grams of colorless needle-shaped crystals were obtained.

Generally speaking, 100 kilograms of August Artemisia annua can extract 8 kilogram of artemisinin.

Artemisia annua in October has relatively less artemisinin content; in addition, the artemisinin has not been soaked for 10 hours, so even less artemisinin is dissolved.

However, more than two hundred grams is enough.

The general dosage of artemisinin for adults is 1 gram for the first dose, 1 g for the first 6 hours, and 0.5 g for the second and third days. A three-day course of treatment, with a total dose of 2 g is enough.

If administered rectally, less is needed, 0.6 g for the first time, 6 g again 0.6 hours later, and 2 g each on the second and third days, for a total of 3 g.

Considering the disintegration of oral drugs, Zhang Heping thought it was prudent to call the director and ask him to find some empty capsules to hold the powder when he was looking for malaria patients.

In this way, there is no need for a hand-operated tablet pressing tool, and he also saves a slow-release processing step.

At 19: in the evening, Zhang Heping returned to Jingcheng College and gave the artemisinin crystals to Vice President Dao Yuzhu, asking her to take a group of medical students to fill the capsules.

"Principal Zhang, the maximum capacity of this empty capsule is 0.5 grams. Are you sure that malaria can be cured by taking only 3 of these capsules in 5 days?" A doctor in the capital said he was not convinced.

"Well, this medicine..." Another doctor from the capital asked hesitantly: "Should we test it on mice first?"

"No! Someone has already tested it." Zhang Heping walked out of the classroom with his hands behind his back, "You can just give the patient medication and observe it tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Heping returned to the office and drew drawings of the pharmaceutical factory and extraction equipment.

The gasoline and ethanol he used today were not recycled, so he burned them directly to cheer up the bonfire party in Nanla Town.

Three days later in the afternoon, Director Dao Xing hurried to Jingcheng College and said excitedly to Zhang Heping: "It's done. All 15 malaria patients have been cured."

Zhang Heping went to the office drawer and took out a stack of drawings and gave them to the other party, and said with a smile: "Then I have to ask Director Dao to arrange for someone to go through the formalities. There are also capsules, medicine bottles, packaging cartons, etc. I have to get them as soon as possible."

"What's the name of this medicine?" Director Dao couldn't hide his excitement, thinking about the praise of the medicine from the doctors in the capital, and then thought of the high profits Zhang Heping said...

"Huanghao Capsules, Malaria Spirit, Anti-malarial Capsules, you ask everyone for their opinion, I don't care." Zhang Heping said, taking out a letter of introduction issued by himself from the drawer, and said to the director as he walked out :

"I'm going to visit the Autumn Canton Fair in Huadu to prepare for next year's export business. You first build a factory in a low-key manner, get equipment and supplies, and when I come back, start making pharmaceuticals."

“After the drugs are produced and packed, we can then apply to the Provincial Pharmaceutical Foreign Trade Company to participate in the Canton Fair.”

Director Dao followed closely and asked, "Would you like to apply for some business trip subsidies for you?"

"No need!" Zhang Heping went back to the dormitory, took the Magic City luggage bag, locked the door, and said, "Just take me to the station."

……

This year’s Autumn Canton Fair started on October 10th. When Zhang Heping arrived at the new exhibition venue on Liuhua Road in Huadu, it was already the afternoon of the 15th and it would be closed for another three days.

The old rule is to get an admission ticket first, otherwise you will have to be like the people in other small clubs and teams, surrounding the venue and waiting for the foreigners who come out to give them a chance.

Just when Zhang Heping pushed through the crowd with brute force and squeezed to the entrance of the venue, several black brothers happened to come out, and people around them swarmed around.

Zhang Heping saw the opportunity, stretched out his right hand, and took away the admission pass of the male translator who had just come out.

Then, Zhang Heping waved his admission ticket towards the security guard at the entrance of the venue and entered the venue.

Then, I saw a luggage bag hanging on his left arm, a small notebook in his left hand, and a pen in his right hand, walking towards the three old black men who were talking.

After Zhang Heping came over, he muttered a few words, and then wrote in a notebook the usage of artemisinin capsules in Laohei's local script, as well as the phone number of Director Dao's office as the ordering phone number.

Finally, Zhang Heping took out a small white plastic bottle from his luggage bag and showed the five capsules inside to the three old men. He tore off the paper from the notebook, folded it a few times, stuffed it into the bottle, and closed it. The lid was handed to one of them.

"Hey! Friends, we two haven't done it yet!" An old black man was dissatisfied.

Zhang Heping said with a smile: "I don't have many free medicines. If you treat me as a friend and introduce your friends to me, I can give you another bottle."

Lao Hei pointed to the companion next to him who did not receive the gift of medicine, "Two bottles!"

"Then introduce a few more friends to me!"

"make a deal!"

After a brief exchange, Zhang Heping wrote two more notes, stuffed them into a plastic bottle respectively, and then paid them in advance to the two black brothers.

Things will be simple after that. Business from referrals is much easier than business from strangers.

In addition, Zhang Heping was just donating the medicine and asked these African brothers to take it back to test the medicine first. He also stated that the current production of this malaria medicine is not high and it is first come, first served.

A total of 75 bottles of free medicine, including a total of 375 artemisinin capsules, were given out. Zhang Heping stepped away decisively.

He ran fast, but the mess was left to Director Dao to deal with.

That very night, the organizer of the Canton Fair called Yundu, criticizing people in Jingcheng for not complying with foreign affairs regulations and so on...

As for Director Dao, he heard that leaders of the Canton Fair were looking for him, so he excitedly asked Yundu, "Are there any foreign businessmen willing to buy our special medicine?"

Not to mention, there are really foreigners who want to pay a deposit to buy medicine.

First, the influence of today’s referral and Zhang Heping’s fluent local dialect deepened trust.

The second is Zhang Heping's deliberate hunger marketing rhetoric, "The output is not high, first come, first served."

You must know that there are many malaria patients in Africa. If this specific drug is really effective, it will be a huge business opportunity.

The key is that in their opinion, anyone who can enter the Canton Fair venue cannot be a liar!

Because the reputation of the Canton Fair has been established over the years, it attracts so many foreign businessmen.

Therefore, when Yundu heard that Jingcheng had ignored the rules and pulled in foreign exchange-earning orders, they partly criticized and partly asked, how much inventory does it have? How much foreign exchange can I do?

At this time, Director Dao was confused and said that he wanted to ask first.

As a result, no one answered the phone at the Nanla Town office!

Do you think it's irritating or not...