The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 568 God's Greatest Gift to Mankind
"White people have more when they are born. Identity, status, better prospects. Chen has none of these, so he has to keep fighting..."

“He is always fighting. He is full of energy and challenges everything unreasonable in this world. He is a rule breaker and a social reformer!”

“When the news came that penicillin had been successfully developed, he was delighted!”

"He said that 700,000 people died in the Civil War, and 400,000 of them died from infections caused by injuries. If penicillin had been available, these 400,000 people would have survived!"

"He is not as violent as many people think, which is the prejudice many people have against him."

"He actually has a lot of emotions, but because of his skin color, he has to face more challenges, so he needs a shell!"

"He supports racial equality, he also supports the women's rights movement, he is happy for the successful development of drugs, he has brought so many changes to the world!"

"He always told me you should do something... do something to change the world!"

"But I'm not a fighter like him. I prefer to stand from the perspective of a spectator and watch everything with appreciation."

Cicely Dupont bit the pen from time to time and lowered her head to write lines of words in her notebook.

Then he stretched lazily with joy.

Finally finished.

In fact, the "Love Letters of Cicely" she had written earlier had already been sorted out.

Now she has written another article expressing her own thoughts, allowing people to understand Chen Zhengwei from another perspective.

A day later, she came to the publishing house with the sorted "Cicely Love Letters".

The whole process went smoothly. Both the identity of the DuPont family and the content of the book made the publishing process of the book smooth.

Moreover, the publishing house is very optimistic about the sales of this book, whether it is Chen Zhengwei's identity, the identity of the lady of the DuPont family, or Cicely DuPont's beautiful words and the sweet emotions contained therein.

It has a charm that makes people's heart beat faster.

Not only will many young women buy this book, but some men will also buy it because it contains some descriptions about Chen Zhengwei.

Therefore, in an era when first print runs were usually only a few hundred to one or two thousand copies, publishers were printing 10,000 copies for the first print run.

It takes two months from proofreading to typesetting and then to printing and distribution.

After spending two days discussing with the publishing house, Cecily could not wait and sent a telegram full of joy to tell Chen Zhengwei about it.

Of course, the telegram was sent to San Francisco and then forwarded to Chen Zhengwei from San Francisco.

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Peru.

"I can give you 500 guns every month!" Chen Zhengwei said to Karl Friedrich von Schmidt-Palm, the German Minister to Peru.

"That's too little," said the German ambassador. "We can offer a higher price."

He originally thought that Chen Zhengwei would ask for an exorbitant amount of money. As everyone knows, Chen Zhengwei is a troublesome person.

But he didn't expect that Chen Zhengwei agreed to it just because he proposed it.

The only problem is that there are too few of them.

500 pens a month couldn't even satisfy the nobles in Berlin.

He believed that many nobles would want to buy a few and keep them for life-saving use in critical moments.

"It's not a question of price! It's that the production is limited. Do you know how many people out there want to buy a bottle of penicillin? Those nobles suffering from syphilis alone can line up from here to Panama!" Chen Zhengwei lay on the sofa, pointed at the ground with one hand, and then pointed in the direction of Panama.

"So I can only give you 500. We can discuss the rest after production is expanded!"

Chen Zhengwei is not in a hurry to gain profits from using penicillin, and there is no point in negotiating any profits now.

After all, the specific effects were only published in medical journals, and the results are not intuitive enough.

Just let everyone know that he is the only one who has this thing.

After two or three months, when all countries have tasted the sweetness, the production of penicillin will begin to expand.

By then, if countries want to increase the import volume of penicillin, we can have a good talk.

Even this thing can influence public opinion.

"Okay! The German Empire is willing to establish business relations with San Francisco so that we can build deeper and broader ties between us. At the same time, you are also welcome to visit Germany!" The German Minister nodded and smiled. He did not argue any further.

His initial goal had been achieved, and once the first batch of penicillin was delivered to the German Empire, it would be evaluated by professionals.

Then a professional team will contact Chen Zhengwei to discuss expanding import share.

After the German envoy left, the henchman handed a telegram to Chen Zhengwei, smiling with his eyes narrowed: "Brother Wei, look!"

"You're smiling furtively! You look like a chicken thief now!" Chen Zhengwei said unhappily. He took the telegram and glanced at it. It was from Cicely DuPont.

Cicely Dupont happily told Chen Zhengwei that "Cicely's Love Letters" had been scheduled for publication.

There is another sentence besides this.

"Love is the best gift God has given to mankind!"

"Brother Wei, Miss Cicely wrote a book just for you!" The henchman laughed so hard that his eyes could not be seen.

"Because I'm awesome!" Chen Zhengwei read the telegram again with a smile on his face.

It feels really good.

In the next few days, Chen Zhengwei met with the French and Spanish envoys again and gave each of the two countries a quota of 500 penicillins.

Even the President of Peru, the Bolivian Minister, and the Ministers of Argentina, Colombia and the Brazilian Empire all found Chen Zhengwei.

However, Chen Zhengwei refused all of them and only donated 500 doses of penicillin to Peru and 200 doses of penicillin to Bolivia in his private capacity.

Chen Zhengwei rarely gives gifts to others, but Peru gave too much, and Bolivia also wanted to buy a batch of arms.

Even a man like him felt he could give them a gift.

At the same time, San Francisco also delivered the first batch of penicillin to hospitals in various states in the United States, a total of only 2,000 doses.

It is foreseeable that this penicillin will never fall into the hands of ordinary people.

Many people are closely watching the flow and effects of this batch of penicillin.

They all want to see with their own eyes whether this so-called "great invention that changes the world" is as magical as it is said to be.

……

Seven days later, the docks in San Francisco were piled with mountains of cargo.

Food, medicine, rifles and ammunition, as well as a cargo of textiles, stretched out in a continuous stream along the dock.

Countless workers are struggling to load these goods onto the ship.

In order to carry this batch of goods, Rong Jiacai rented most of the ocean-going ships in San Francisco, even the fishing boats that could sail to the ocean.

Yan Qingyou was leading his men to watch the workers at the dock loading cargo.

This batch of goods must first be shipped to Panama, and then escorted to Peru by Chen Zhengwei's fleet, so no mistakes can be made.

Meanwhile, Bellevue Hospital in New York, which is the best hospital in New York.

More than a dozen doctors entered the ward together, scaring the patients in the ward.

A group of people came to one of the beds, where lay a man whose right leg was missing. The broken leg was bandaged with gauze, but yellow liquid was seeping through the gauze.

"how is the situation?"

"The wound has become infected again after the operation. I'm afraid we need to continue the excision! The patient is now feverish due to the wound infection and has pneumonia!" One of the doctors said as he looked through the records in his hand. The others checked the patient's condition to make sure it was as written in the records.

"Give it to him! Given his condition, inject twice a day!" one of them said.

This is why so many doctors come here. This patient is the most symptomatic and the one with the most serious condition in the hospital.

Soon, someone took out penicillin, drew it out with a syringe, and injected it into the muscle.

Next, doctors continued to come to observe the patient's condition.

It wasn't until the third day that all the doctors gathered around the bed again.

"The patient's fever has gone down, and the pneumonia and wound infection have improved significantly! The medicine is effective, and this serious infection can be treated!"

"A total of five penicillins were used...and a few more injections may be needed!" The doctor in charge of this patient showed an excited smile on his face.

In the past, it was almost impossible to survive this level of infection, unless God had mercy on you.

And now, they have really snatched the person back from the hands of death.

This way, they have more options when undergoing surgery.

"But the consumption is too great! We only have 30 in total!" said one of the doctors.

"As long as the effectiveness of penicillin is confirmed, the production of this drug will definitely be expanded. It just takes some time! There is no other way!" said another doctor.

"No matter what, this is a great thing! The discovery of penicillin can indeed bring about tremendous changes to today's medical community!" Another doctor spoke with a smile.

They were all excited about the effects of penicillin.

The entire world's medical community will change with the emergence of penicillin.

The doctors left after examining the condition of the injured. They will observe the condition of the injured for a few more days before announcing the use of the drugs.

But the news spread faster than they thought.

Just as evening approached, reporters heard the news and flocked to the hospital.

The hospital had to disclose some information.

The next day, the headlines of major American newspapers were "Snatching Life Back from the Hands of Death!"

And he praised the effectiveness of penicillin.

Soon after, news of the use of penicillin in other hospitals also spread, showing that it was extremely effective in treating soldiers with infections, pneumonia, syphilis, etc.

"This is the best gift God has given to mankind in this century!" This sentence was spoken by a doctor and then spread quickly.

And countries have greater expectations for this drug.

At one time, countless people wanted to ask for medicine, but the current monthly supply of medicine was too small, except for the previous ones that the hospital used to test the effects.

Ordinary patients simply cannot get in touch with it.

In particular, some serious injuries may require not just one dose of penicillin, but multiple doses.

Many wealthy people want to buy some penicillin and keep it at home as a life-saving measure.

This means that even less penicillin can flow out each month.

……

Louisiana was a mess at this time.

Twenty days have passed since the hurricane, and a large number of ordinary people have been affected, but the progress of disaster relief has been very slow.

Today, a large number of disaster victims are sleeping on the streets, living a hard life in makeshift tents, and even food is in short supply.

Fights and even deaths occurred every day due to competition for food.

Under such circumstances, the confrontation between whites and blacks became increasingly serious.

Many black people did not die in the hurricane or from injuries or illnesses, but starved to death.

Because of the existence of people like Nathaniel, white people in Louisiana are now wary of black people, and even segregate black people during disasters.

This also made black people in Louisiana increasingly dissatisfied.

Under these circumstances, news gradually spread among the black people.

There was a place with black organizations, plenty of food, and even medicine.

When they were on the verge of starvation, more and more people traveled across mountains and rivers to join Nathaniel every day, which made Nathaniel's power expand rapidly.

In a short period of time, the number of people expanded from one or two thousand to nearly ten thousand.

The existence of these people can no longer be concealed from the Louisiana government, but the state government is now unable to take care of them. The various post-disaster relief and reconstruction tasks alone have already made them overwhelmed.

To the north of Lake Pontchartrain, the forest is dense, but a large number of simple wooden houses and tents made of rags stand among the forest.

"How's George doing?" Nathaniel walked into a wooden house. Several months had passed and he now looked like a leader.

This young man is now beginning to mature.

"Not very well, still having a fever! If only we had penicillin!" said a black man in the cabin.

George is Nathaniel's best friend and his right-hand man.

But he was also injured in the hurricane, and his injury has been recurring since then.

Penicillin is so popular nowadays that even if they are hiding here, they have heard about it.

"Maybe we can get some!" Nathaniel gritted his teeth. He felt that he should ask Mr. Chen for help.

He felt that Mr. Chen would help them.

Now he has done it, as Mr. Chen said, allowing more people to speak out with him.

After leaving the tent, Nathaniel first participated in an event to welcome new people.

"We will have our own city, maybe in Louisiana, maybe in the West, we will have our own stores, our own schools, our own police stations, our own banks and hospitals! And our own mayors and congressmen!"

"We will live under the sun without pressure. No one will oppress us or insult us! No one will whip us!"

"We will stand up straight and watch our children laugh and smile!" Nathaniel loudly proclaimed his philosophy.

Everyone who heard it showed a deep yearning for it.

Nathaniel's philosophy was not only attractive to these lower-class blacks, but also attracted some elite blacks.

For example, some black elites who once served as congressmen also began to join them.

These people had gained some status after the Civil War, but as the federal troops withdrew from the South and southern states continued to increase legal restrictions on blacks, they were pushed back to their original state.

These people had no expectations of Nathaniel in the beginning, but after this disaster, they had nowhere else to go.

The addition of some veterans also enabled his men to receive better training.

This force is expanding rapidly with the help of a disaster.

Nathaniel felt that God was helping him and that this disaster was a gift from God to him.

After attending the welcome event, Nathaniel found two black elites who had just joined.

"Find somewhere to send a telegram! We need some help!"

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