In the eyes of many people, the early morning in Lianyungang is obviously different from other places. Every morning at 6:30, as the radio sounds, the bus stops on the street are crowded with people rushing to factories or companies.

Employees going to work, and the array of bicycles on the streets show the difference of this city.

Among the more than 200,000 citizens of Lianyungang, 60% of the labor force works directly in enterprises under the name of ** Company, and the other 20% work indirectly for ** Company. To a certain extent, this city is like

Like his establishment, everything belongs to the company. Of course, this is not all. There are also hundreds of companies established by investors of varying sizes here. However, most of the companies that can be counted in Lianyungang are corporate companies. This is

, which cannot be changed, at least in the short term.

As the manager of Yasin Pharmaceutical Company, Xiang Songmao is different from other business owners in that he does not have his own transportation car or chartered car. Wearing a suit, he takes the bus most of the time.

Although Yaxin Pharmacy is far from where he lives and requires two bus routes to get there, it does not prevent him from taking the bus to work every day.

While waiting for the bus at the platform, Xiang Songmao looked around and saw that there were people waiting for the bus near the platform. Most of the people wearing blue jackets were factory workers, and most of the people wearing suits or imitation military uniforms were company employees.

, here, you can’t see the robes you are used to in other cities at all. In fact, this may be the biggest difference in Lianyungang.

“It’s not easy to get a braid cut!”

This may be a characteristic of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when China's political power was still after the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although some people advocated cutting braids, cutting braids was risky. After all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a saying of "leaving hair without braids, no braids."

The ancestral system of "beheading", and braids have been violently imposed on the people since the Jiashen period, using the method of "leave the head without leaving the hair, leave the hair without leaving the head". Those who obey will live, and those who rebel will perish. The braids are becoming slavery.

At the same time as the embodiment of a nation, it has become a habit in the process of easy development and easy service over hundreds of years.

After the rise of the military in Wuchang, cutting braids and changing clothes became a symbol of national restoration. In the open-minded southeastern provinces, people voluntarily cut off braids. In the northern provinces, they were resisted by ignorant people almost everywhere, and even in Shandong, Hebei and other places.

This leads to a "braid-cutting murder case", in which the person with the braid shouts and kills the person without the braid.

Later, although braid cutting became the mainstream, "braid cutting is not easy to accept" has become a habit in various provinces in the country.

However, this habit was forcibly stopped in Lianyungang. From the day the ** company started to build the Longhai Railway, it began to provide uniforms to the workers. Gradually, this became a habit in Lianyungang and the entire Longhai, even in Longhai.

Non-corporate enterprises investing along the route also provide uniforms to workers, and these uniforms are imitation "Japanese-style" jackets, while they provide civilian employees with either suits or imitation military-style clothing.

Under this premise, long robes and mandarin jackets will naturally be eliminated here, but the more important point is that long robes and mandarin jackets are not "popular" by people here, especially not by the company. Although the company has not said so clearly, but if

If two people apply for jobs at the same time, one wears a suit or imitation military-style clothing, and the other wears a robe and mandarin jacket, the company will choose the former rather than the latter. It is said that this has something to do with Li Zhiyuan, who does not like that kind of "slave"

Very colorful robe and mandarin jacket."

This may be a rumor to the outside world, but Xiang Songmao knows that this is not a rumor. When he first came to Lianyungang, he was wearing a mandarin jacket. Some friends in the company politely reminded him to take off his mandarin jacket.

, because the chairman once saw employees wearing trousers and mandarin jackets in the company. Although he did not express any opinions at the time, he ended up chatting with others and said that those people who "have trouble getting dressed after cutting their braids" are "a group of people who are not enough slaves."

bastard".

At first, Xiang Songmao didn't understand it very much, but later his friends explained that those people who "can't get into clothes after cutting their braids" are really pathetic, because they cut off the braids on their heads, but not the braids in their hearts.

Cutting off one's braids is just a matter of necessity. This is the tragedy of a person who is used to being a slave. It is the servility in his heart that allows him to keep the clothes of a slave even when his tail is cut off.

If China wants to be prosperous and powerful, the first thing it needs to do is to get rid of the servility in its bones. Otherwise, even if China is prosperous and powerful, it will just become a slave of foreigners and then a slave of compatriots.

Although he did not consider himself a slave, Xiang Songmao finally chose to put on a suit and throw away the mandarin jacket. In the end, even the female relatives at home also threw away the Manchu clothes according to the styles in the "Hanfu" journal published by the company.

cheongsam.

However, in Xiang Songmao's eyes, what kind of clothes he wears is not important. For him, what is more important is the pharmaceutical factory!

To a large extent, Xiang Songmao never thought of himself as a simple businessman. Like many ethnic industrialists and businessmen, Xiang Songmao was not from a noble background. He was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang in 1880. He attended a private school when he was young and received traditional Confucian education.

Due to his family's financial difficulties, he went to Suzhou as an apprentice when he was 14 years old. After three years of training, he was assigned the position of accountant by his boss because of his diligence and carefulness. 15 years ago, Xiang Songmao came to Shanghai Zhongying University through the introduction of his second uncle Wu Ziqin.

He worked as an accountant in a pharmacy. In the Sino-British Pharmacy, his talents were quickly appreciated by the general manager and he was transferred to the Hankou branch as a manager. At this time, Xiang Songmao had already demonstrated his business talents and was elected as a director of the Hankou Chamber of Commerce.

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Huang Chujiu, a famous person in Shanghai, was an important guide for him. Huang Chujiu himself came up with a "brain-boosting drug" because morphine is added to the medicine, which makes people easily excited after drinking it. Huang also called himself Dr. Arrow from the United States.

With the slogan of "Strengthening the Nation", this medicine actually sold quite well. In the process of promoting "Ailuo Brain Booster", Huang Chujiu met the smart and capable Xiang Songmao. At the invitation of this businessman, Xiang agreed to take up the post.

The position of general manager of Shanghai Wuzhou Pharmacy, but the condition is that it will be given complete autonomy.

Xiang Songmao's management characteristics are somewhat similar to Huang Chujiu's. They are both pioneering, dare to think and do, and attach great importance to the publicity effect of advertising. After he took office, he launched a reform, sold off the luxurious furnishings in the store, increased capital turnover, and moved into

In a new location, we changed the internal mechanism and established the main distribution office, store retail department and wholesale sales department of our brand of medicines. On the one hand, we expanded the import of medicines, and on the other hand, we developed self-made medicines. In addition to "artificial blood", we also added stomach supplements.

"Tianbu juice" for deficiency, "Haibo medicine" for clearing blood and detoxifying, "bark pills" for strengthening the brain and moisturizing the intestines, "helping lungs and breathing gum" for resolving phlegm and relieving cough, etc. Xiang Songmao's reforms, plus these

The advent of patent medicines greatly boosted the reputation of Wuzhou Pharmacy and doubled its profits.

Like the Chinese and French Pharmacy, after Wuzhou Pharmacy became famous in Shanghai, conflicts continued to arise among shareholders. It was at this time that Xiang Songmao’s friends invited him to develop in Lianyungang. However, after Xiang Songmao’s inspection in Lianyungang, although Lianyungang Hospital

There were quite a lot of them, but most of them in the hospital were foreign drugs, which made him feel painfully that without a modern pharmaceutical industry, no matter how many homemade drugs they sold, they would still be nothing more than traditional pharmacies.

In the end, after weighing several times, he chose to accept the invitation of ** Company to serve as the general manager of "Yaxin Pharmacy" after withdrawing from Wuzhou Pharmacy. What mattered to him was that Yaxin Pharmacy was China's first truly modern pharmaceutical company.

Pharmaceutical companies. As soon as Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company started production, it caught up with the "Jiao'ao Incident".

After the incident, he actively supported the anti-Japanese movement and served as a member of the Longhai Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Committee. At the same time, according to the instructions of the head office, he organized all employees in the company into a battalion of armed workers and appointed himself as the battalion commander. He conducted strict training for employees and prescribed employees

They trained for one hour after work, and while actively preparing for war, they also accepted the task of the Economic and Strategic Envoy's Office to produce military medicines and personally supervised the production, working day and night to rush for medicines to supply urgent needs on the front line.

It can be said that it was from that time that Yaxin monopolized the supply of Western medicines in Longhai, and at the same time, with the help of the boycott of Japanese goods that took place after the incident, Yaxin Western medicines were sold across the country. Although Yaxin Pharmaceutical Company was only established a year ago.

Years ago, it has already developed into China's largest manufacturer of Western medicines and medical equipment, and its Western medicines and medical equipment are even exported abroad.

However, as the general manager of this company, Xiang Songmao does not have the style of a general manager of a "big company" at all. It is like he rides a bus, and this is his style. In his opinion, instead of doing the four

A car that costs 1,000 yuan is better than spending 4,000 yuan on a machine to produce more gauze.

After finally taking two buses and arriving at Yasin Pharma, Yasin Pharma didn't look very conspicuous. A two-story wooden temporary building in front of the factory is the headquarters of Yasin Pharma.

But the heart of Yaxin is not here, but in the drug research institute between the factory and the office building. That is where the heart of Yaxin lies.

Standing by the window of the office and hanging the towel on the basin rack, Xiang Songmao looked towards the four-story fully enclosed pharmaceutical research institute. In that research institute were gathered the best pharmacists in China.

Many of them have studied medicine in Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

In the nearly one year since the establishment of Yasin Pharma, the research institute has developed more than 600 drugs based on foreign technical data. It can be said that it is the technical research of the institute that supports this company to become the largest Western medicine manufacturing company in Asia.

, but deep in Xiang Songmao's heart, he dreams of turning this into the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing company in the world.

"I wonder how Professor Ma is doing!"

Looking at the institute, Xiang Songmao thought of the institute's host, Mark Duo, an overseas Chinese from Penang. As early as fifteen years ago, he went to Britain and Germany with the support of Mr. Luo Kaitai from Tai'an Pharmacy in Guangzhou.

He studied medicine and lived in Europe for nearly ten years before completing it. However, in the eyes of the people at Tai'an Pharmacy, he was "muddled" in his studies, so that his mind was full of knowledge but he didn't know how to adapt or save people.

He helped Tai'an Pharmacy develop a variety of medicines, but Tai'an had no intention of manufacturing Western medicine. Later, he was hired by the Guangzhou ** Branch as the host of the Yaxin Pharmacy Research Institute. However, a few days ago, he was admitted to the hospital due to a minor injury.

"Let's go see him this afternoon!"

Since two or three days ago, Marko's voice has become much deeper, and he feels tired even when talking, so when faced with the nurse's request, he did not argue much and stretched out his right arm.

But he still didn't understand why intravenous injections of glucose and vitamins were needed. Although to a certain extent, Marko knew that he was not a qualified doctor. When he studied medicine in Britain and Germany, he focused more on medicine.

It was because of the monopoly of foreign pharmacies, and secondly, because China could not produce Western medicine, so he focused on medicine. Unfortunately, Master Luo was not as far-sighted as Mr. Luo Kaitai, and had no intention of engaging in the production of Western medicine. If not, how would he come?

Lianyungang.

Looking at his left hand wrapped in gauze, Marko's expression became a little helpless. He just fell down while riding a bicycle and scratched his palm, but now the wound is infected. In the past few days, he only maintained his strength with intravenous drips.

Marko, at this moment he suddenly felt dizzy and almost lost his footing. He put on his robe, put on his slippers, and gently opened the door of the ward. Fortunately, there was no one in the corridor of the special ward. He took a look

My ward is about ten meters away from the nurse station.

Marko held on to the wall of the corridor and staggered along. Finally he reached the nurse's station. There were only the head nurse and three nurses inside, and no doctor was seen. He walked into the nurse's station without saying a word.

"Ouch! Professor Marko!"

A nurse screamed loudly, and the head nurse immediately rushed to Marko's side.

"Professor, are you feeling uncomfortable? Why did you come here? If you have any instructions, just ring the bell. Come and let me help you back to your room."

The head nurse and another nurse supported Marko.

"No, I want to see my medical records."

When the head nurse heard this, she was stunned.

"No way……"

"What? No? You're actually talking to me like that!"

Mark was out of breath and angrily scolded the head nurse. He had always had a good impression of the Longhai Railway, especially in this hospital when he saw the sentence "No matter what nationality you are, whether you have money or not, it doesn't matter who you are."

After reading the sign "No matter what your status, you have the right to receive treatment here", I became even more fond of this hospital.

That is to say, even if poor people come to treat their illnesses, the hospital will not refuse treatment. Mark Duo once read in the newspaper that when citizens outside the Longhai affiliated area came to the hospitals along the Longhai Railway when they were sick, there would always be some people who were cured.

They were discharged privately. Anyway, they left a false address, and they did not receive a bill after discharge. Despite this, the hospitals along the route have never turned away any patients. However, the hospital naturally has funds to pay these fees. In fact, according to the hospital's policy

According to regulations, poor patients can receive free diagnosis and treatment, they only need to apply.

However, good feelings are good feelings. These hospitals "observe" the rules too much. For example, patients do not have the right to check medical records. Even if he is a visiting doctor in this hospital, he does not have the right to check his own medical records without permission.

"Professor, you are a patient now. Please go back to the ward and rest." The head nurse pleaded again and stepped forward to help Marko, but Marko shook off her hand.

"This is the doctor's order! Take out the medical records! Why don't you take out the medical records?"

At this time, Macdonald's body, which was still barely strong, has now become much thinner. His cheeks are thin and his face is blue, but his sunken eyes are still shining with a strange light, and his ghostly figure is approaching the head nurse. Nursing

Chang was so frightened that his face turned pale and he kept retreating.
To be continued...