Save the Bachelor of Heaven

Xiang Nan saw that his reputation was almost rising, so he slowly started selling these medicines, and the prices were not cheap. These medicines were sold in pills.

 Even the cheapest Baitongjie costs one penny per pill. As for Kangbidi, Zhengqiwan, and Anleshu, the prices are as high as two or three coins. Even so, demand still exceeds supply.

 After all, these miracle medicines are rare and have been proven to be real and effective. You must know that at that time, even the imperial doctors had limited medical skills.

It stands to reason that the princes of the Qing Dynasty were cared for by imperial doctors and should receive the best medical care. But not many princes of the Qing Dynasty lived long. Qianlong alone lost four elder brothers and five princesses,

This shows that the medical skills of Tai Hospital are really unreliable. In comparison, it is not as effective as Kang Bide, Zhengqi Wan, Anleshu, Baitongjie and other drugs.

 For colds, coughs, headaches and fever, just take a few tablets and it will be effective. And take it with water and just swallow it, which is much better than drinking bitter Chinese medicine soup.

That's why these medicines are so popular, and rich people want to hoard them for food. It is precisely because of this that the Third Fortune Factory has made a lot of money.

 Hand of this money, Xiang Nan used half of it for production and half for the production of new drugs.

  Xiang Nan is already preparing to produce penicillin.

 Because he now has basically all the conditions needed to produce penicillin.

 The production of penicillin requires a series of material conditions such as bacterial strains, culture media, production solutions, extraction agents, centrifuges, etc. It also needs to go through a series of processes such as fermentation, filtration, extraction, crystallization, etc., which is originally relatively difficult.

 After all, just the manufacture of these precision instruments requires a lot of effort. What's more, the production of penicillin is more complicated than the production of perfume, soap, sulfa and the like.

 So just workers need to be able to read and write and understand certain operating skills. Otherwise, what is produced is not a life-saving medicine, but a murderous weapon.

 Fortunately, in these years, Xiang Nan has always paid close attention to education and opened schools in the countryside.

You must know that since ancient times, the imperial power has not gone to the countryside, but now it has opened schools in the countryside, with free tuition and book fees, thus giving many children who could not afford to go to school a chance to change their destiny.

 Although there is no accurate statistics on today’s literacy rate, compared with before, today’s younger generation is indeed more literate and hyphenated.

 As a result, the new generation of workers have become more qualified. Quality workers obey management and learn quickly, so they are much better than illiterate people.

 The reason why China quickly became the world's factory after the reform and opening up is because Chinese workers have a high literacy rate, high quality, good management, and are willing to endure hardships.

 Put it in other countries, workers are illiterate and cannot understand rules, regulations, operating procedures, and quality requirements. They are not qualified to be the world's factory.

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 At the beginning of 2021, in addition to producing medicines and alkali, there was another biggest harvest, which was chemical fertilizer - ammonium chloride.

That’s good stuff. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are the elements most needed by plants, especially nitrogen, which is a component of proteins, nucleic acids, and chlorophyll in plants.

 Generally, nitrogen deficiency in plants often manifests as slow growth, short plants, thin and small leaves, and chlorotic and yellow leaves. When there is severe nitrogen deficiency in the late growth period, the ears will be short and the grains will not be full.

 Our country's land is generally deficient in nitrogen, especially in the Huanghuaihai Plain, Northwest Plateau, and Mongolia and New Zealand. It can be said that all grain-producing areas are included.

 So now that ammonium chloride is available, it is really helpful for food production.

After the second Zaihua Factory was successfully produced, Xiang Nan applied ammonium chloride to the test field. Winter wheat, spring corn, peanuts, soybeans, etc. were planted in the experimental fields. In summer, in the experimental fields where ammonium chloride was applied, the crops grew stronger than those without ammonium chloride, and the leaves were all green and black.

 Once weighed after the final harvest, the winter wheat yield per mu reached an astonishing 500 jins, the spring corn yield per mu reached 1,000 jins, the peanut yield per mu reached 600 jins, and the soybean yield reached 500 jins...

 Such an output greatly surprised the farmers in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and they wrote a special report to report this good fortune.

You must know that winter wheat usually yields two hundred kilograms per acre, which is considered a high yield. Corn only produces four to five hundred kilograms. It is unusual for peanuts and soybeans to yield two hundred kilograms.

 But now after using the fertilizers given by Xiang Nan, the yield per mu has generally more than doubled, which is really miraculous and worthy of praise.

“Your Majesty is really the reincarnation of Yao and Shun, and the reincarnation of Shen Nong. The yield of the fertile fields that you enlightened has doubled. The ministers are really overjoyed and prostrate themselves to the ground.

 The Qing Dynasty has an emperor, which is really a blessing from heaven. We, the people of the Qing Dynasty, share the kindness and weep with gratitude. Long live the Emperor! "Da Sinong danced and said.

“Okay, a good harvest is a good thing, I already know it.” Xiang Nan waved his hands and said, very satisfied with the effect of ammonium chloride.

If the grain output per acre can be doubled, then half more people can be fed, and the people's lives will be easier.

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Xiang Nan then rewarded ammonium chloride to the princes, nobles and high officials in the court.

Although these people are officials, in fact, they are all big landowners, and their families have accumulated a lot of fertile land.

For example, during the Yongzheng period, Cao Xueqin's house was inspected and it was found that their family of 100 people occupied an area of ​​19 hectares; during the Qianlong period, the corrupt official He Shen annexed more than 8,000 hectares of land. During the Daoguang period, Borjijit Qi Shan, with as many as 25,000 hectares of fertile land...

Of course Xiang Nan taught them that the name was not "ammonium chloride", but "Tianji Fertilizer" and taught them how to use it.

Ammonium chloride is a powerful fertilizer and will burn seedlings if applied too much. Moreover, crops such as potatoes, tobacco seedlings, sugar cane, and potatoes are not suitable for ammonium chloride application. Otherwise, not only will it not work, it will even affect output.

If he doesn't teach these people these methods, they will definitely suffer. But good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. If they apply the wrong fertilizer, burn the seedlings, and reduce grain production, it will directly affect the reputation of ammonium chloride.

 Sure enough, in the coming year, the yield of all the land fertilized by princes, nobles, and court officials nearly doubled. And such news could not be concealed, and it soon spread to the whole world.

 Hence the reputation of "Tianji Fei" is so popular that everyone praises it. Subsequently, the imperial court began to sell Tianji fertilizer to the outside world, and the price was not low.

A ten kilogram bag of Tianji Fertilizer is equivalent to ten kilograms of copper coins. Even so, the supply is still in short supply, making Xiang Nan want to build more factories.

 It’s just that in order to prevent the leakage of production secrets, the new factory address must be carefully considered, and the confidentiality measures must be more stringent.

You should know that with the introduction of new things such as machine guns, howitzers, soda-lime glass, alkali noodles, and sulfonamides, many people have focused on these transactions.

 Not only domestic businessmen, but also foreign businessmen abroad have been coveting it for a long time. Thanks to the fact that the factories built by Xiang Nan were relatively remote and were always under military control and extremely tightly guarded, secrets were not leaked.

 But once production starts, the secret is likely to be leaked. With the industrial scale of foreign countries, if the secrets were revealed, they would probably surpass them quickly, so Xiang Nan had to keep it secret as much as possible.