NCCnovel Chapter 380 Escorting Medicines
Chapter 380 Escorting Medicines
"Captain Yang, do you understand?"
Seeing Yang Qingfeng's confused face, Chen Feng said seriously:
"I'll say it one last time. If you think it works, take it back and try it. If it doesn't work, you can go back after dinner. But next time you want this thing, it won't be two dollars, it'll be five dollars, do you understand?"
Yang Qingfeng didn't dare to have any wild thoughts. Although the medicine bottle didn't look good, maybe it could really reduce inflammation. If it really worked, he would not be able to wash himself clean even if he jumped into the Yellow River because he had raised the price.
"Captain, please speak slowly so I can take notes."
After Yang Qingfeng finished recording, Chen Feng stood up. It was his first time as a salesman, and he felt a little embarrassed.
"Let's go! Tuan Lin has prepared the food, let's go and have a meal and try the specialties of Pingyi."
Yang Qingfeng just came to his senses now. This medicine might not be simple. He wanted to go back and experiment with it. Although there were not many seriously injured soldiers, some of them still had rotting legs and some still had pus in their stomachs. These wounded soldiers were particularly troublesome. They had no combat effectiveness and lived in pain all day long. But he did not dare to offend Leng Qiang. If he really offended this person, he would suffer in the future. Yang Qingfeng just wanted to take a few bites and run away.
Yang Qingfeng felt very uncomfortable during the meal, especially when the head of the regiment Lin Chuan and their captain reported the use of penicillin. He was really stupid! How could it be bad to introduce the things in person? If I had known that the political commissar would come earlier, Lao Li would be careful and would definitely be able to guess the mystery.
After lunch, Yang Qingfeng quickly said goodbye. He had to go back and do experiments overnight. He had to report the results to the headquarters first. If one gun could really save a wounded soldier, he would have to buy it for at least five dollars, not to mention two dollars, and in large quantities.
When Lin Chuan saw Yang Qingfeng running away in a hurry, he felt a little smile in his heart.
"Captain, do you want me to help you pull some connections? I can just find a few people and it will be easy to call the channel."
"Don't worry, the production is limited. Let's accumulate some first and sell them when we have enough. What do you think of two dollars?"
"It's cheap. It's a life-saving thing. Ten dollars is not expensive."
"Ten dollars, do you think it can be used on ordinary soldiers? Or how much of it can be used on the soldiers? You know the situation over there. I sell it for ten dollars, and they dare to sell it for thirty. Such huge profits must have become exclusive to the rich and powerful!"
Lin Chuan blushed a little. That was true, but wasn't he the nobleman that the captain despised?
"Captain, quantity is very important. If the number is small, no matter how cheap we offer, it will not be used on the wounded soldiers."
"Don't worry about the quantity. All the equipment have been brought up the mountain. Lao Liu is doing greenhouse cultivation. As long as the cultivation is done on a large scale, mass production can be carried out. We have to consider the channel."
Lin Chuan frowned. The distance from here to the Kuomintang-controlled area was really a big problem! To put it nicely, it was called transportation. To put it bluntly, it was smuggling. Smuggling in one's own country was really ironic.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the stubborn residents at the foot of Mount Meng finally left. Although the total number of bottles did not reach 10,000, it was enough for the wounded on Menglianggu, and each regiment going down the mountain also received a quota.
Shen Honglie sent a secret telegram to Chongqing, detailing the effects of penicillin. Chongqing took it seriously. The Nightingale Squad sent a telegram after the New Year. A pharmaceutical factory was opened on Mount Meng. They developed a kind of penicillin for anti-inflammatory purposes. Two dollars a bottle was considered a joke. It seemed that the reward was less. Leng Qiang also started to do business! No one took it seriously. Instead, they thought that Leng Qiang was a bit greedy. He had just finished robbing Qingdao. I heard that trucks were used to transport the dollars and gold bars. They were divided equally with the New Fourth Division. If it weren't for the long journey, the top leaders would want the New Fourth Division to hand over some.
After reading the telegram from the New Fourth Division, the top leaders realized that they had underestimated the cold gun. A total of 36 seriously injured soldiers were rescued, all of whom were on the verge of death. 32 survived, and the three who died were allergic and could not be injected.
To be honest, two dollars for such medicine is really not expensive. The top leaders knew at a glance that Leng Qiang was trying to make money. I heard that they have established a relationship with the Americans, and their path is even wilder than theirs. Are they going to expand the army? Will they get out of control?
What are you thinking? They were not under control before and now. Thinking about Lin Chuan and the Nightingale Group, the top management's worries have eased a little. They should still be loyal to you, otherwise they would never use them.
"Send a message to the Nightingale team and order 100,000 units. The 200,000 dollars can be shipped over or they can be written off for compensation. But now it's best to write it off to the Americans."
After hearing the order, the attendant room staff sent a telegram. The senior management was still considering how to use the medicine. It was impossible to give it away for free. Two hundred thousand dollars was nothing, but it would definitely cost more and more in the future. What if it cost two million dollars? It was not suitable as military pay, but once it was circulated, everyone knew how precious the medicine was. It could be distributed as a reward. The officers below probably had no objection.
After the pharmaceutical factory was on track, the arsenal began construction. The arsenal was not built on the mountain, but in the dense forest on the west side of Jiulongtan. The important equipment was placed in several large caves. The temperature was not yet good. Except for the stoves inside the caves that could be lit to heat up and cement could be used, the defense system outside was not good enough and had to wait until the spring warmed up and the ice thawed.
Liu Kuang brought out the team from the pharmaceutical factory. They were all wounded soldiers who had recovered from various regiments and hospitals. They could no longer continue fighting, and entering the pharmaceutical factory was a chance for them to make use of their remaining energy.
Liu Kuang understood the importance of his work. Although the pharmaceutical factory made money, arms were the foundation for the army. With steelmaking equipment and a full range of machine tools, the arsenal was no longer a repair shop. Liu Kuang was no longer satisfied with manufacturing parts and repairing them, so he began to research weapons and ammunition. He had done this in Wuhan before. He knew that the captain looked down on the things he had researched before, so he started from a very high starting point.
On February 2, the 22 doses of medicine ordered by the Lunan detachment were delivered. Yang Qingfeng had not saved much, and the four thousand dollars almost cost him his life. Although the headquarters promised to make up for it, Yang Qingfeng knew the situation there and knew how long it would take to get the replenishment.
After receiving the medicines, Yang Qingfeng left 200 of them and sent a vanguard platoon to escort the rest. They could not pass through the middle section of the Jinpu Line and it was too risky to break through. They could only take the Jinpu Line between Jinan and Mount Tai to enter Liaocheng, and then pass through Handan to enter Taihang. Once they entered the Taihang Mountains, even if the mission was completed, the headquarters had the same requirements as Captain Leng Qiang, that is, if they encountered force majeure, all the medicines must be blown up.
A special operations platoon of the guard regiment also set out at the same time. Their route was even more complicated. First, they had to cross the Jinpu Line south of Xuzhou, then cross the endless Anhui plains, and then head west along the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains. Only when they arrived in Suizhou would they be picked up by the special operations team of the Fifth War Zone. The task given by the team leader and the regiment commander was to ensure that the medicines would never fall into the hands of the Japanese.