Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 715 Commercialization is very important
Huaxia medicine, with definite historical records, can be roughly traced back to the period of the Five Emperors, and to the Taichang period of the Ming Dynasty, and has been passed down for more than [-] years.

During this period, Bian Que, Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao and other miracle doctors were published, as well as medical masterpieces such as "Bian Que's Internal Classic", "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", "A and B Classics of Acupuncture and Moxibustion", and "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions".

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen, a sage of medicine, was born. Moreover, Li Shizhen also summarized the inheritance of the past dynasties, and compiled such masterpieces as "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Extraordinary Classics and Eight Vessels", "Binhu Pulse Science".

It can be said that Huaxia Medicine was quite complete when it developed into the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was the heyday of Huaxia Medicine.

Historically, Huaxia Medicine was invincible in the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that this invincibility is nothing more than invincibility. Huaxia Medicine is like a lonely master. After invincibility, there is no future.

As for why there is no more, this Taichang has been carefully analyzed for a long time.

The reason for this is very complicated. There are all kinds of slander, suppression, and destruction by the European colonial bandits, and there are also reasons of their own.

To put it simply, the main purpose of Huaxia medicine inheritance is to cure diseases and save lives, while the most powerful thing of Western medicine is actually to make money or steal money.

Of course, people are euphemistically calling it commercialization.

This commercialization is incredible.

People compete with you by all means, and if they take all the money away, more money will be invested in research and development, and you will be inexplicably screwed up so that you can't even eat.

In this way, it is natural that others are getting better and better, and you are getting worse and worse.

It's like a new disease has emerged.

If people have made enough money, they can invest hundreds of millions or even billions in research and development of new drugs, and then set a high price for the new drugs developed, earning tens of billions of profits.

You can't even afford to eat, and insist on research and development based on the purpose of curing diseases and saving lives. After that, there is basically no future, and even if you develop it, you will be suppressed.

This commercialization is indeed very important, and the hungry will definitely not be able to do the job of the rich.

Therefore, Taichang is going to start with commercialization, vigorously develop Daming Medicine, occupy the market first, earn money, and let people go hungry!
So, how to do this commercialization?

Xinmacheng Pharmaceutical Factory, in the newly built R&D center.

Taichang took Li Shuchu, Li Shuben, Peng Bin and others around the middle floor, looked at the surrounding environment, felt the temperature inside, and then led everyone to a laboratory with a punching machine .

He spent a lot of energy designing this research and development center together with Peng Bin and other officials from the Ministry of Industry, and the cost was quite astonishing.

For example, the floor of the laboratory is not made of wood, but marble slabs specially pulled from North America.

The wall is not made of wood, but a double-layer red brick cement insulation wall with a hollow in the middle.

And the roof is not simply put on a roof, but a very high brick roof with an insulation layer in the middle.

Moreover, from the reinforced concrete pillar space on the bottom, to the laboratory in the middle, to the insulation layer on the top, there are many water-cooling fans installed.

It's almost [-] degrees outside now, but it's not hot at all inside, so it's just right to wear a single coat.

The reason why Taichang has invested so much is naturally to allow Li Shuchu and Li Shuben brothers to have a good research and development environment.

As for what to develop, he has already figured it out.

The punch he ordered to be pulled from the capital of Western Yin was a simple tablet press machine, and he had already ordered someone to make a mold for pressing the tablets.

This kind of mold is quite precise, and the upper and lower parts are made of separable steel plates. On the upper part of the steel plate are rows of smooth cylinders, and in the middle are rows of honeycomb-like round holes.

Since this is an experimental stage, the tablet press is only semi-automatic.

That is to manually put the orifice plate on the bottom cylindrical plate, then pour evenly mixed medicinal powder, corn flour, and starch on it, and then scrape it with a smooth scraper to scrape the powder into the hole, and the excess is directly scrape.

Then manually cover the upper cylindrical cover plate, and then put this set of things into a punching machine with similar gap adjustment and punch it, then take it out, remove the upper and lower cover plates, and push the pressed tablets in the orifice plate to the next knock.

At this moment, one hundred round and smooth pills are ready.

Li Shuchu and Li Shuben were secretly surprised when they saw this miraculous operation.

They couldn't help but picked up the pressed tablet and took a look. There were embossed words "Da Ming Medicine" on both sides of the tablet!
Li Shuben looked at it carefully for a while, and then couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, can you just swallow this pill?"

Of course not!

Isn't this a test?

Taichang shook his head slightly, then picked up a tablet and threw it directly into the glass on the test table.

This glass is filled with warm water.

After throwing the pills in, he picked up the cup and shook his head, then said with a slight shake of his head: "There is still a problem with this formula, add more corn flour and less starch, otherwise it won't dissolve in time if swallowed, and it will choke people's throats." and esophageal discomfort.

Do you understand this? "

Well, this is really easy, just shake the pills in warm water and you'll see.

Brothers Li Shuchu and Li Shuben nodded quickly: "I understand."

Taichang then said to Peng Bin: "Most of the whole process of this semi-automatic tablet press is done by manpower, which takes time and is too inefficient. In the future, your Ministry of Industry will find a way to develop a fully automatic one."

Uh, is this still slow?

Although this requires a lot of manpower to complete, it does not take much time. This is a hundred pieces, and it is probably no problem for one person to punch out tens of thousands of pieces a day.

Peng Bin thought for a while, and then carefully suggested: "Your Majesty, it may take a long time to develop a fully automatic tablet press.

Weichen thinks that we can carve a few more sets of such molds, and then let several people cooperate, arrange one person for each action, take turns to load the powder, take out the pills, and try to make sure there is no gap in the middle, so that the tablet press machine can continue to work. Different stamping.

In this way, the efficiency can be increased many times. Weichen estimates that it will not be a problem for such a tablet press to press more than [-] tablets a day. "

Hearing this, Taichang shook his head slightly and said, "A hundred thousand tablets is actually not much. It's okay to do it this way in the early stage. If the sales of Daming Medicine increase later, it will probably require a lot of people, a lot of molds, and a lot of punching machines, so this Fully automatic machines still have to be developed.”

Is it not enough for a machine to produce more than [-] pieces a day?
Li Shuchu couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, can we sell so many pills a day?"

Of course.

Without hesitation, Taichang said: "If people all over the world are used to the pills of our Daming Medicine, then I estimate that tens of millions of pills for one medicine will not be enough.

It's like this medicine for colds. If a person really has a cold, he has to take five pills in the morning and evening. Basically, he needs to take it for three days in a row to get rid of it completely, right?
Calculated in this way, a person who catches a cold once a year needs to eat [-] tablets.

Of course, it is impossible for everyone to get this cold, but it is easy to get it, and it is possible to get it several times a year.

Calculated in this way, on average, every five people get a cold once a year, which is not too much.

Think about it, what is the population of Ming Dynasty, what is the population of Ming's subordinate countries, and how many people are there in other countries in the world? "

My God, this is not ignorance, it is really shocking.

Calculated in this way, just a cold medicine alone costs at least billions of tablets every year!
The problem is that there is more than one type of cold symptoms.

Li Shuben could not help reminding cautiously: "Your Majesty, this is the easiest way to cure a cold and cold. Other colds may not be curable."

Isn't this simple?

Without hesitation, Taichang said: "We can come up with several more, for example, to treat colds caused by wind and cold, to treat colds caused by heat, and to treat colds caused by viruses.

In addition, those who treat coughs, those who have fever, those who have runny nose, those who spit thick phlegm, etc.

We can also attach instructions and tell them that if there are many symptoms, they can mix two or three medicines together.

In this way, the sales of our cold medicines have increased by two or three times. "

Uh, it's a bit too mercenary to do this, isn't it?

Li Shuchu hesitated for a moment, but said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the main purpose of our doctors is to cure diseases and save lives. Such a small cold can earn so much money, isn't it good?"

Alas, you really have no business sense.

You only think about curing diseases and saving people, but others only think about making money. Then they will make you have no food, you know?

Taichang couldn't help shaking his head slightly, and then asked back: "Do you think the money is too much, we can sell it cheaper.

For example, ten pills cost five cents, so thirty pills cost fifteen cents.

This amount of money is not enough for most people to eat a meal, so is it too much?

Besides, our purpose is to cure diseases and save lives, that's right, this is not contradictory with making money.

Think about it, if we make a lot of money, will we be able to recruit more talents, develop more medicines, build more pharmaceutical factories, and save more people?

If we don't make money, we can't hire anyone, we can't build a pharmaceutical factory, and we can't make medicines, how many people can we save? "

Well, so to speak, really should make more money.

They naturally want to develop more medicines and treat more people.

When Li Shu heard the words, he couldn't help but cupped his hands and said: "The emperor is wise, I understand."

(End of this chapter)