[Infrastructure] Rose kissed Barcelona

What Joey hadn't realized before was that being famous can be annoying.

Previously, because of the famous design of the Fernandez House, people often visited the house, especially looking for the pillar with the lettering.

But generally speaking, after a while, people's novelty passed, and another hidden exit was opened on the inner side of the block, and the life in the house gradually returned to an acceptable lively level.

But now, a steady stream of citizens and tourists are flocking again.

Although it is a beautiful thing to see many flowers every day, the main entrance is completely closed, and even the neighbors are troubled.

Joy thought with some distress that maybe it was time for her to consider moving.

However, for the time being, I can't take care of that much.

The whole city is gradually restoring daily order, and schools, large and small, have begun to resume classes.Mary happily went back to school, while Joy was thinking about her penicillin, and exchanged research progress with scholars in the medical school several times.

Many different raw materials were collected to prepare Penicillium—moldy cheese, oranges, asparagus, and rice, to name a few.

Joey chose citrus and melon at the beginning because Penicillium is the most distributed on citrus, and it is said that the strain with the highest yield was found on a certain type of melon.

The success rate of this experiment is indeed not high, but because of the large number of researchers, dozens of strains have been screened out.Next, further purification and experiments are needed to confirm that the prepared penicillin does not contain other toxic substances.

"Dear Ms. Gaudí, this research is amazing," said the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona respectfully, "Penicillium will secrete substances to kill bacteria... If it can be used to treat human diseases, It will rewrite history."

"Miss Gaudi, I suggest you apply for a patent right away! This will bring huge profits." Someone said excitedly.

"Thank you for your suggestion, but I don't intend to apply for a patent." Joey smiled, "In fact, this is not my invention..."

Seeing everyone's slightly puzzled eyes, she thought for a while and said simply: "I think life-saving science and technology like this should belong to all mankind."

In fact, it is not just the patent of penicillin.

When she first had huge debts and no one to rely on, she had no choice but to apply for several patents in order to pay off the debt as soon as possible.

Now that more than a year has passed, she already has enough confidence and capital to continue to increase the value of her assets with selective investment, so she is ready to give up the patents for paper clips, electric lights, etc. Purchased several items of telephone, RC.

The scholars were stunned for a moment when they heard her words.

For the field of medicine, the profits generated by patents are of indispensable importance.The research and development of medicines often requires a large initial investment and a low success rate. Without the benefits brought by patents, this industry is almost completely unsustainable.

The dean took off his hat and bowed to Joey: "Miss, your idea is very noble. However, if you think so, I suggest you apply for a public patent. There is no fee for authorization-but you should apply anyway. patent."

"Why?" Joey wondered.

"Well, if you don't apply for a patent, someone else will — and whoever does it, and how the patent will be exploited afterwards, is out of your control. If you want the technology To benefit more people, this possibility should be ruled out."

"So that's how it is..." Joey nodded, "I'll look into it again. Thank you for your explanation, sir."

"In addition to penicillin, I think we should not forget about vaccines."

Her words immediately drew approval.Cholera has ravaged the world many times. It will be a huge breakthrough if we can protect human beings through preventive measures like smallpox.

"I wrote to Academician Pasteur of the French Academy of Sciences, asking him to conduct joint research with our researchers."

Writing to the 50-something science guru, Joy was terribly apprehensive—God, she was talking to a character in a biology book!

Mr. Pasteur replied in a very kind tone, appreciating the idea of ​​joint research and development of cholera vaccines, and also agreeing with her idea of ​​inactivated vaccines.

First, Vibrio cholerae needs to be isolated and then cultured.It kills the bacteria while leaving the antigen intact in an attempt to trigger the body's immune system to fight back.

This is exactly the vaccine route he is working on.

After the meeting with the scholars, Joey cautiously made a detour to return home through the back door, and was stopped by Ida as soon as he walked in the door: "Ah, miss, you came back just in time! There is your call, the city council is calling! "

City Council's phone number?Joey answered the phone suspiciously.

"Hmm... National Day commemoration?"

In a few days, it will be September 9th, the Catalan National Day-the day when Barcelona was defeated and fell under the siege of the Bourbon army in 11.

"Yes...the Police Department reported this matter to us, so I hurried to ask for your instructions, Your Highness." Mayor Alva's voice seemed a bit flattering after the sizzle of electricity.

The people of Barcelona, ​​who had just experienced a plague, showed a different enthusiasm for this year's National Day activities. According to the information of the Police Department, the size and method of participation of the crowd were dozens of times larger than in previous years.

But this just violated the taboo of the Madrid royal family.

For more than 100 years since Catalonia was reincorporated into the Kingdom of Spain, Barcelona, ​​the capital city of Catalonia, has been under the strict supervision of Madrid.

Commemoration of the National Day is banned, and for a century even the Catalan language was banned from teaching in schools.

If in the past few years, people's commemorative activities were mostly carried out secretly, not to mention that Madrid itself was in chaos, so the city hall turned a blind eye to it.

But now it's different, the king's own sister, Her Royal Highness Princess Rose, is in the city of Barcelona.

The mayor knew very well how much the young king trusted the princess, so the first time he heard the news, he hurriedly contacted Her Royal Highness with trepidation.

"Look, did we send the police to disperse the crowd in advance?" He asked cautiously.

Alas, what a chore.

Before, because of the rumors from the public, the city hall did not dare to announce the identity of Her Royal Highness to the public; now, they are worried that the actions of the public will offend the princess—Alva deeply understands the pain of being a sandwich sandwich.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone.

The mayor asked even more uneasily, "Your Highness?"

"How are they going to commemorate it?" The princess didn't sound very angry.

"Oh, it is said that there will be people dancing, shopping, and setting off fireworks in places like San Jomé Square and Aragon Square."

"Sounds interesting, and the fireworks. Mr. Mayor, do you know where the fireworks are best viewed?"

"Ah?" Alva was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously replied: "Montjuic has the best view."

"Well, Your Highness, what do you mean...does the police department need to do something..."

"Oh, of course the police department must do a good job of security in the areas where people gather, otherwise stampede accidents will easily occur. If you set off fireworks, you should also pay attention to fire prevention."

Alva regained his sanity, and asked again uncertainly: "Your Highness, so you...don't intend to stop the commemorative activities?"

"The plague has just ended, and after being suppressed for so long, there should be an outlet to vent. Let everyone be happy and take it easy."

Putting down the phone, Joey couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.

People's hearts can never be forced by coercion.

However, thinking of her embarrassing identity, she immediately sighed in distress.

Now, his prestige in Barcelona is already very high.But if one day, the public finds out that she is actually the princess of the Bourbon royal family - then, how will they react?

...Forget it, this kind of thing, take your time.

The emotion among nations is like a forest, it needs decades of sunshine and rain to grow, but perhaps only a fire is needed to destroy it.

After answering the phone, Joey took the incoming call from the telegraph by the way.

It was a secret message from Alfonso to her.

As with other recent calls, it's all good news.

Alfonso was indeed a child with military talent.As soon as he was crowned, he led the army to the south to eliminate the separatist forces of the Carlist faction, and now the south has been basically unified.

Before that, those encroached areas were already very close to Madrid, posing an imminent threat to the capital.And after his personal conquest, the kingdom's army basically cleaned up the southern provinces in just over a month, and the remaining troops were basically driven to the Spanish-Portuguese border.

The latest news is that the kingdom's army has completely driven those armed forces into Portugal to prepare for the squadron.

A few paragraphs Alfonso wrote at the end, though, made Joy frown.

[Sister, I don’t know why, I always feel that those troops shouldn’t be so weak—or, they could have used the advantage of the border to deal with us for a while, but they fled, and fled to Portugal. out.

I always feel that they want the kingdom's army to go north as soon as possible, but I can't figure out why they want to do this.Is it waiting for me to attack Madrid when I go north to attack Carlos?But I can completely stay with certain troops and not give them a chance.

Now that the South is completely unified, everyone thinks this is good news, but I always feel a little uneasy. ]

Joey thought for a while, and planned to call Alfonso back to remind him to be careful.

With the assassination of a head of state only at the beginning of this year, the country's enemies are not only on the opposite side of the battlefield, but may also be behind him.

But she did not expect that, ten seconds after sending it, she received a call from the Barcelona Telegraph Station: "Your Highness, I am very sorry, there seems to be some problem with the telegraph cable leading to Madrid, and the telegram has not been sent successfully... We will send Are you in a hurry to fix it? If you are in a hurry, you can go to the city hall and use the phone."

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry." Joey replied, "Thanks for your hard work."

She hung up the phone again, relaxed on the soft flannel sofa, and remembered the mayor's call just now.

National Day commemoration.

Catalonia is really a magical nation. People commemorate independence or victory, and they commemorate defeat and fall.

She didn't know what kind of atmosphere it would be, but she also wanted to experience it.

Call Antonio and go to Montjuic to watch the fireworks together.

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