A hundred years later, the Asian Wall Street journal even named the Woo family as one of the 50 richest people in the world in the past thousand years.
Relying on the Qing court, the Thirteen Lineages were the wealthiest in the world. Thus, the imperial court had ordered the Thirteen Lineages to raise huge sums of money as war reparations after several defeats.
The decline of the Thirteen Elements was extremely dramatic.
According to the records, the thirteen merchant houses were filled with gold and silver.
The buildings in Line 13 were mostly made of brick and wood. They were usually two or three stories tall.
A house like this could easily be set on fire." Yu Jiu He's Notes " recorded a big fire: " The fire burned 13 lines of Guangdong Province for seven days and seven nights. The silver melted into the ditch and grew to one or two miles long. When the fire was extinguished, it formed a line that was unbreakable." Although it was a little exaggerated, it also reflected the wealth accumulated by the 13 lines.
The fire alone had destroyed 40 million taels of silver worth of property in the merchant house.
After the fire, as well as other reasons, the Thirteen Houses of Guangzhou gradually declined.
The De Sheng Trading Company's history wasn't much shorter than the Thirteen Lines, but it had always been second only to the Thirteen Lines in Guangzhou. Unlike the Thirteen Lines, the De Sheng Trading Company was very low-key, so low-key that most people thought that the De Sheng Trading Company was just an ordinary Chamber of Commerce.
The ancestral teachings of the Cai clan of the Desheng Trading Company was to keep a low profile. It was precisely because of this that the Desheng Trading Company had been able to avoid the Qing court's slaughter knives countless times. Until now, the Thirteen Branches had disappeared, but the Desheng Trading Company still existed perfectly.
After Cai Chun brought the penicillin and the instruction manual back, he reported the matter to the chairman and clan leader of the Desheng Trading Company. After Zeith heard it, he looked at Cai Chun as if he was looking at a fool, almost thinking that Cai Chun had been bewitched.
He didn't believe that there was such an all-purpose medicine in the world that could cure so many incurable diseases.
Cai Chun's words made Zeith fall silent."It's an incurable disease anyway. If you don't treat it, you'll die. Why don't you give it a try? If it was true, how big would the benefits be?”
Zeith was immediately tempted. His sensitivity told him that if it was really an all-purpose medicine, this powder would be more valuable than gold of the same weight.
The profits would exceed any business of the De Sheng Trading Company.
Although De Sheng Trading Company did not have its own hospital, it had its own Western medicine clinic and doctors. All the equipment and Western medicine were complete.
Within a day, the Desheng Trading Company found patients with scarlet fever, suppurative strep throat, diphtheria, malaria, gonuria, and more than a dozen other diseases. They bought their lives with simple and crude money.
Most of these people were commoners. They had contracted an incurable disease in this era and were almost all waiting for death. Now that someone had bought their lives with money, they could leave a large sum of money for their families before they died. Why not?
Moreover, the De Sheng Trading Company had promised that the purpose of giving them money was not to take their lives, but to help them treat their illnesses. However, accidents might happen.
In the best case scenario, he would have gotten a large sum of money and even cured his illness.
Dr. Anthony looked at the powder crystals on the table in disbelief.""My dear Cai Chun, there is no medicine in the world that can treat these diseases. I am sure that you have been deceived.”
"Anthony, we'll only know after we try." Cai Chun said lightly.”
Anthony was in a difficult position. He had his professional ethics and bottom line. He was unwilling to use patients to test medicine. However, when he thought about how the entire clinic belonged to the Cai family, he really did not want to offend the Cai family.
He was a rather famous doctor in Germany. Because of a medical accident, he had offended a dignitary and had no choice but to leave his hometown. The Cai family saw that his medical skills were good, so they opened this Western medicine clinic with him as the leader. Now, he was quite famous in Guangzhou and had gained the trust of many dignitaries.
"Alright, my dear Cai Chun, I can help you try this medicine, but you gave it to me. If anything happens, you have to be responsible.”
Anthony thought about it for a long time before agreeing. He picked up the penicillin and looked at the instruction manual. He sighed in his heart. Based on his experience, there was a high chance that something would go wrong with this kind of three-nothing product.
After reading the instructions in detail, Anthony called in a patient with scarlet fever. He was about fifteen or sixteen years old.
This disease has a swollen throat, a high fever, and rashes all over the body. It is red like the blood of orangutans, so it is also called scarlet fever.
Shi Zai:
"Throat disease is prevalent, killing countless people.”
The disease was ferocious and the mortality rate was extremely high. If there is no effective medicine, it will take two or three days at least, five or six days at most, and people will die.
In this era, this disease was still a terminal illness. Once infected, no one dared to treat it, no one was willing to treat it, and no one could treat it.
After the discovery of penicillin, it was regarded as a special medicine to treat scarlet fever.
This patient had just contracted scarlet fever not long ago. Under normal circumstances, he would be a corpse after a few days.
Anthony sighed and took out the penicillin. According to the instructions, he opened the bottle and poured in distilled water. He shook it gently a few times and the powder dissolved.
"Maybe this young man will become a corpse after I inject the drug.”
Staring at the three drugs in his hand, Anthony felt bitter. He really didn't want to inject this drug into the patient. However, since he had agreed, if he went back on his word, he would offend the Cai family.
"Young man, I hope you have God's blessing.”
Anthony prayed silently and injected the penicillin.
"Anthony, how is it?"
Cai Chun couldn't help but pull Anthony's arm and ask as soon as he left.
"According to the instructions, the effect will only be seen after about an hour." Anthony shrugged.”
An hour passed, and Cai Chun felt like a year. As he watched Anthony walk in, he was restless, like a prisoner waiting for his sentence.
Not long after, Anthony appeared in front of him and kept muttering,"Oh my god! It was unbelievable! This is simply a miracle!"
Cai Chun was overjoyed. It seemed like it was effective. He quickly went forward and asked,"Anthony, what's the result?"
"Dear Cai Chun! Where did this medicine come from? Putting everything else aside, the scarlet fever patient could be saved!”
Anthony grabbed Cai Chun's hand excitedly.
It turned out that after the injection, the young man had fallen asleep. After all, sleep and unconsciousness were two completely different things. The young man's condition had obviously stabilized.
His temperature changed from a high fever to a low fever. Judging from the situation, his body temperature would return to normal soon.
As a skilled doctor, Anthony knew what this meant.
A medicine that could cure a terminal illness like scarlet fever was born!
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