Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2087, the lives of Daming people are more precious

Hong Kong, with the occurrence of the Black Death in Europe, Hong Kong has also been greatly affected.

The Ming Empire issued a strict order to prohibit European slaves from entering Daming, which directly caused the originally prosperous slave trade here in Hong Kong to suddenly fall into a freezing point.

The slave trade has always been the most important trade here.

It can even be said that slaves from Europe supported the prosperity of Hong Kong.

The Japanese pirates of the Japanese country ravaged Europe, and sold the plundered slaves to Hong Kong, and then resold them to the Golden Continent, Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia and other places through Hong Kong.

In addition to the Japanese pirates, many nobles and businessmen in Europe also participated in the slave trade. The huge profits allowed them to plunder and sell people to Hong Kong by any means. Only they knew the huge profits.

Now, in order to prevent the Black Death from spreading to Daming, slave trading is directly prohibited. The Ming Navy even dispatched directly to patrol the sea area and check passing ships.

Once any ship containing slaves is found, it will be directly detained, and some related businesses and individuals will be held accountable and severely punished.

Although the commercial firms and Ming merchants in Hong Kong wanted to make money from the slave trade, they also knew the horror of the Black Death. Once it spread to Hong Kong, the consequences would be very serious.

So even though the price of slaves has risen due to this incident, there are still very few people who dare to make money from the fire.

Everyone knows that there is no rush now. After the plague is over, Europe will still be the source of our slaves, and the money that should be earned can still be earned.

If the plague breaks out in Hong Kong, then everyone will forget about making money.

Without the importation and trade of slaves, Hong Kong has suddenly become a lot more depressed, but it is still the most prosperous and lively city in Western Europe.

In addition to the slave trade, other trades are still prosperous, and even have increased compared with the past.

Europeans have always had a strong demand for goods from the Ming Dynasty, especially European aristocrats are very advocating the use of things from the Ming Empire.

Needless to say, silk, porcelain, tea, and sugar were the three most important items that Ming traded with Europe. Industrial products such as watches, automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, and perfumes were also very popular in Europe.

Especially cars, watches and motorcycles. Now European aristocrats, as long as they have status and status, basically wear a watch and go out with a car.

If you take a horse-drawn carriage, it is too old-fashioned, and it is already far behind. It will be considered a sign of old-fashioned, a country bumpkin who has never seen the world.

When the ban was not implemented before, the favorite thing for European nobles to do was to come to Hong Kong to shop. The shopping streets in the wealthy districts of Hong Kong made European ladies linger, and the feasting and feasting at night attracted European nobles. Fascinated, I forgot my hometown.

Of course, these nobles in Europe are no longer in the mood to shop, and they are all worried and worried about the Black Death.

Hong Kong Hospital here.

"Penicillin, penicillin, I want to buy penicillin!"

A European waved a large amount of banknotes in his hand and shouted at the people in the hospital.

He was entrusted by his master to come to Hong Kong for shopping, and it took him a lot of effort to get here. He also found out that there was penicillin in the Hong Kong hospital, and hurried to the Hong Kong hospital.

"Sir, I'm sorry, we have sold out of penicillin here!"

Tom, the doctor at the hospital, looked at him. He was blond and blue-eyed. He looked like he was European, not from Ming Dynasty. He also said very directly.

"sold out?"

"I know you must have some reserves of penicillin. I'm willing to pay a high price to buy it. Is three thousand taels of silver enough?"

"As long as you are willing to sell, I will give each of you an additional 100 taels of silver."

When Kane heard this, he immediately said quickly.

My master is a great nobleman, who knew he was infected with the Black Death, and now he is waiting for his purchase of penicillin to go back to save his life.

However, I went to every business in Hong Kong and said that there was no penicillin. Even if I paid a high price, I still couldn't buy penicillin, which made Kane very collapsed.

The price of this penicillin is very high, and now even thousands of taels of silver can’t be bought, even if you have money, you can’t buy penicillin.

"Sir, I understand how you feel, but there is nothing we can do!"

Tom looked at the other party and said helplessly.

He is a native of Hong Kong. He went to Daming Medical College to study medicine, and became a doctor in this hospital after he came back.

In fact, he also knew that there were actually a lot of penicillin in reserve in the hospital, and these penicillins were dispatched to Hong Kong by the Ming Empire.

Because of the fear that the Black Death would spread to Hong Kong, a batch of penicillin was dispatched in advance. Once a Ming person is infected with the Black Death or needs penicillin for other diseases, they can be treated in time.

On this point, the Ming government was very considerate. Knowing that the Black Death was spreading in Europe, they immediately took many measures.

It is also for prevention and control and the mobilization of penicillin in advance, for fear that my Ming people will get sick and die.

Of course, the reason why the Ming court did this was also for its own safety, and also for Hong Kong.

Crazy is to prevent infection, and some penicillin is mobilized to stabilize people's hearts. With penicillin, the Black Death is not terrible, it can be cured easily, and there will be no chaos. Coupled with reasonable prevention and control measures, the Black Death will It will not have any impact on Daming.

"Really not?"

"I can pay more."

When Kane heard this, he immediately despaired. The feeling of having money and not being able to buy penicillin is really too bad. This time he came here with a lot of money, but he couldn't buy penicillin.

How should I report to my master this time?

Without penicillin, his owner doesn't know if he can survive.

"Sir, it's not a matter of money or not, but that there is really no spare penicillin."

Tom shook his head helplessly.

Then he thought for a while and said, "Maybe you can go to the black market and ask."

This is already the advice and help that Tom can give, but Tom knows that the penicillin in the hospital is decreasing every day, and many of them have been quietly sold at high prices.

The profit here is too high!

Although penicillin is still not cheap in Daming, the price is not so outrageous. As long as you have penicillin in your hands, you can earn two or three thousand taels of silver for a box of penicillin. It is so big that there are not enough to sell.

In the face of such huge interests, many Ming people are also desperate to smuggle penicillin that is now listed as prohibited for takeaway and export.

Hearing Tom's words, Kane's eyes lit up slightly and he understood, and he left directly in an instant.

When I came out, I just heard a doctor seeing a patient.

"Your child has pneumonia. The main reason is that the weather is cold and it is easy to get pneumonia. But don't worry about it. It can be cured quickly with some penicillin."

"I'll prescribe medicine for you. This medicine is a bit expensive. I wonder if you have enough money?"

"I've brought enough, I've brought enough. I've seen it at the medical clinic. The medical clinic also recommends penicillin, so I brought enough money."

"That's good. I'll prescribe you a prescription. You can just go and pay for the injection."

"Thank you doctor, thank you doctor."

Hearing this, Kane immediately became angry. There was obviously penicillin in the hospital, but the doctor told him that there was no penicillin. Isn't this lying to himself?
He also said that he asked himself to go to the black market to ask, this is a lie.

Thinking of this, Kane found Tom angrily, grabbed his clothes and said, "Didn't you say that there is no penicillin?"

"Why did I just hear a doctor prescribe penicillin for pneumonia?"

"You tell me why?"

Kane was extremely angry, and his voice alarmed many people around him. Everyone looked over curiously, and many of them came from Europe to buy penicillin.

"Yeah, why?"

"You have to give us a reasonable explanation?"

"There is still penicillin, why did you tell us that there is no more?"

"We are all waiting for the penicillin to go back to save our lives. Why don't you sell us the medicine if you have the medicine? Isn't it that we don't give money?"

When the other people heard that they knew they were being tricked, they immediately shouted angrily.

Tom looked at Kane, then at the people around him.

I can only bite the bullet and say: "Because this is the Hong Kong of the Ming Empire, everything here is given priority to the Ming people, and penicillin is also given priority to the Ming people, understand?"

Hearing Tom's words, Kane slowly let go of his hand, and immediately understood.

It's not that there is no penicillin, but because the people of Ming Dynasty have to use penicillin first. Even if they don't use it now, they still have to keep some.

This medicine is not only used to treat the Black Death, but also has miraculous effects on other diseases.

The lives of Ming people are more precious!

The people of Daming have been practicing this principle all along. Even though the price of penicillin has been skyrocketed, the hospital still has the penicillin used by the people of Ming Dynasty.

I believe that not only in the hospital, but also in some other places, there must be penicillin in stock, just so that if the people of Ming Dynasty contract the Black Death or other diseases, they can use this penicillin as soon as possible.

Just like just now, the people from Daming came to see a doctor and needed penicillin, so they arranged for it immediately. As for me, I begged hard and spent a lot of money to buy it, but it was useless.

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