African Nationhood

Chapter 340 Difficulties with Penicillin (Part )

Warm and humid April is the most annoying season in Jinling City (Bulawayo). Rong Kui put on a tarpaulin raincoat and rolled out his "Muller School" motorcycle neatly from under the hood.

In the past two years, motorcycles and cars have become very popular and popular means of transportation in Southwest Africa.

Because the salaries of civil servants at this stage are very low, cars have become an aspect of the company's benefits to various departments.

The company has equipped the heads of each department with high-end T-model cars as office cars. In addition, each department will also have several mid-range T-type cars as official cars.

Many times, freedmen can determine whether a leader is high-ranking or not by looking at whether the leader is in a car when he arrives.

Ordinary civil servants are not qualified to ride in cars, so they often choose motorcycles or bicycles as their means of transportation.

During the rainy season, most civil servants wear raincoats made of tarpaulin and ride around on bicycles.

As the head of the Harbin military industry system, Rong Kui should be equipped with a car.

But he felt that riding a car was slow and boring, and it was not as convenient and fast as riding a motorcycle.

Therefore, he directly discussed with the company's general affairs department and converted the high-end car into a motorcycle. Like the directors of the military factory, he rode a motorcycle to travel.

In this way, everyone has no objections and is more harmonious.

There are special gas stations here in Harbin, but these gas stations only accept special "industrial fuel stamps" and neither money nor military stamps.

Therefore, freedmen or others in Southwest Africa did not have "industrial gas stamps" and could not obtain gasoline or diesel.

……

Today is the weekend, and Rong Kui finally took the day off.

Today he came out mainly to see his wife, so after leaving the arsenal's family compound, he turned directly towards the Notwane Dam.

Due to the successful operation of the Notwane Hydropower Station, the entire hydropower station has entered the second phase of the project. When the second phase of the project is completed, the power generation here will be greatly increased.

By then, the installed capacity of the entire hydropower station will be increased to 5 kilowatts, supplying the electricity needs of the entire Harbin town and surrounding satellite towns such as Molai Town (today's Molepo Molai City, Botswana).

……

There are different industrial factories on both sides of Notwane Dam. The east side is the arsenal and the west side is the factory set up by the pharmaceutical department.

Rong Kui's wife is stationed at the pharmaceutical department factory west of the dam. He came here today to help his wife solve the problem.

Because it was the rainy season, the work on the dam had been suspended, so it was not difficult for him to cross the Notwane Dam.

However, you need to register for a work permit, and free people are not allowed to enter here.

The construction department employees stationed here were surprised by Rong Kui's work permit. They expressed respect to this colleague from the military industry department and then let him go.

After passing the Notwane Dam, Rong Kui rode for about an hour. He finally arrived at today's destination - Harbin Pharmaceutical Factory No. 1.

It's said to be a pharmaceutical factory, but the guards here are no worse than those at a military factory, because this is the company's top-secret unit - the fermentation factory for penicillin.

When he arrived outside the factory gate, the guard watching him stared at him with an unkind expression, "What are you doing?"

Rong Kui parked the car, then pulled off the hood of his raincoat, and said with a smile, "I'm here to meet Mr. Cai of your pharmaceutical factory."

Hearing the message from Chief Engineer Cai, the guard's face looked better, "Who are you, and what do you want from Chief Engineer Cai?"

Rong Kui continued to answer with a smile: "My name is Rong Kui. This is my ID. Please inform Chief Engineer Cai."

The guard took Rong Kui's work permit and looked at it, then compared it with the photo on it, and then nodded to Rong Kui, "Wait a moment."

Rong Kui replied with a smile and said hello, then stood patiently waiting outside the gate of the pharmaceutical factory.

His acquaintance with Cai Ya dates back to two years ago, when he was inspecting the mortar shell workshop. A worker accidentally knocked over a shell, and the picric acid contained in it exploded.

The entire workshop was directly blown into ruins, and Rong Kui was shot into the abdomen by bomb fragments, causing severe internal bleeding.

When he was sent to the newly established Harbin Hospital, his vital signs were almost gone.

Cai Ya happened to be visiting Harbin Hospital for inspection, and she immediately performed surgery on him when she saw that his condition was critical.

Because he lost too much blood, and Harbin Hospital had just been established and had no blood in stock. After Cai Ya checked Rong Kui’s blood type, she found that she had the same blood type as him.

So Cai Ya took the initiative to give Rong Kui a blood transfusion, which saved his life.

Then the two became lovers because of this relationship and got married naturally.

Nowadays, the two of them have no time to spend together because they are too busy at work, and the birth of a child has been postponed for a long time.

He came here this time because Cai Ya had problems with the production process of penicillin and had to ask her husband for advice.

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The guard's notification was very efficient. It didn't take long to see the guard and Cai Ya coming from the factory together.

Cai Ya held an oil-paper umbrella and wore a white coat. Her flat black leather shoes clicked as she walked on the road.

When she saw Rong Kui standing outside the door, she smiled sweetly.

Rong Kui also had a smile on his face, as if he was reunited with an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time.

"come in."

"Ah."

……

"What have you been busy with lately? You haven't called me for so long. If I hadn't been looking for trouble, would you have just forgotten about me?"

Cai Ya's angry tone made Rong Kui feel very embarrassed. He chuckled and said, "Well, I have been busy setting up a new weapons production line recently, and I also have to take care of the production of original products. Sorry, I am too busy."

When Cai Ya heard this, she couldn't blame her husband, "Well, I know you are busy.

I'm just waiting for you to take some time out after this busy period. We have to make plans to have a baby.

I am already twenty-nine this year. If I don’t give birth, I won’t be able to have a child.

Sister Ye Rong is one year older than me and is the mother of three children. Now she is pregnant again. "

Hearing what Cai Ya said, Rong Kui became even more embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I'm too busy..."

Cai Ya couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw her husband looking so embarrassed.

"Okay, this is a major event to continue the family line. You are not a man in a hurry. I am quite curious."

Rong Kui laughed: "Since I converted to the Lord's faith, I don't care much about these ancient customs of the Qing Dynasty.

But the child is cute and pure. I also want a child. I will schedule this matter as soon as possible. You must cooperate well when the time comes! "

Upon hearing her husband's teasing, Cai Ya secretly spat and whispered to her husband, "I hate it!"

……

After Rongkui parked his motorcycle, he followed Cai Ya into the fermentation workshop.

A large sealed metal tank appeared in front of him, "This is our fermentation tank, which is 1000 liters. This fermentation tank can produce more than 12 units of penicillin crystal solution per fermentation cycle.

However, our technology is not yet mature and we can only obtain crystallized solutions and cannot purify them in large quantities.

Moreover, we have found that penicillin crystals deactivate very quickly at room temperature, and a large amount of them will be deactivated within a few minutes. Therefore, we must lower the temperature of these crystal solutions within 5 minutes.

At the same time, the crystallization liquid must be separated as soon as possible. With the power supply, Mr. Shi reminded us that we can use a high-power centrifuge to solve the purification problem.

However, the electrical laboratory told us that high-power centrifuges still need to be tackled, so large-scale purification technology will take time to be realized. "

Hearing this, Rong Kui couldn't help but smile awkwardly, "I can't solve this problem either."

Cai Ya glanced at her husband, "I just gave you an overview of the progress. I called you here because I want you, a top student majoring in chemistry, to help us solve some fermentation problems."

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