Just as Lin Sanqi was introducing the production line to hundreds of pharmacy students, professors and pharmacists on the scene.
Suddenly, the lights in the auditorium dimmed and all production lines stopped instantly.
At this time, an electrician outside shouted:
"Commissioner Lin, there's a power outage."
Lin Sanqi slapped his forehead and thought to himself that he was really careless. With so many production lines running, the transformer would probably explode, right?
"How long will it take to fix it? Is there something wrong with the transformer?"
The electrician quickly explained:
"The transformer wasn't broken. We made preparations in advance. The power plant ran out of oil, so the power went out."
In 1962, Bao'an County had only one small Nantou Power Plant, with a prime mover of 112 horsepower diesel engine and a generator capacity of 75 kilowatts, which was used for lighting in the county.
Let me put it this way, in another time and space, the backup generator at the Oriental Hospital where Lin Sanqi worked had 600 horsepower.
The direct consequence of such a small generator in Bao'an County is that the vast rural areas and commune towns have no electricity, and its use is limited to certain areas in the county.
Of course, rural areas don’t need electricity either. The few people in Bao’an County are almost all in the county town, and nine out of ten houses in rural areas are empty.
The problem is not that the generator is small, but that diesel is hard to come by.
Therefore, the power supply in Bao'an County is also time-limited. It is supplied for a few hours during the day and a few hours in the evening. It stops and starts, which is not even as good as 996.
This time, the top leader of Bao'an County wanted to try out the drug production line, and the Nantou Power Plant also wanted to show off, so it provided power at full capacity.
Unfortunately, the diesel supply was insufficient, and the machines were aging. When the power was high, the machines started smoking and stalled, and then the whole county was without power.
There was no electricity, and the auditorium, which usually served as a cinema, was huge and lacked sufficient lighting.
Lin Sanqi had no other choice, so he smiled and said to everyone:
"It's out of power, so be it. Anyway, I've already demonstrated the machine to everyone, and that's how it works. Professor Sun Yecong just mentioned the issue of APIs, so let's talk about that."
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi looked at the tables and chairs against the wall of the auditorium:
"Come on, everyone, move yourselves some stools and tables. There's a small square outside the auditorium. It's sunny there, although it's a bit hot. But we can always overcome this little difficulty, right?"
“Yes~~~”
After all, they are college students from the 1960s, obedient and willing to endure hardships. If they were college students from decades later, they would definitely scold you, the leader, to death.
Let me bask in the sun?
Will you compensate me if I get tanned?
The college students had a strong ability to execute. They carried their tables and chairs and walked out of the auditorium, then quickly formed a fan shape in the square.
The staff carried over a few cardboard boxes and put them aside.
It was already May. Lin Sanqi looked at his watch. It was 10 o'clock in the morning and the tropical sun was still very scorching, but no student on the scene complained.
Even the teachers leading the team sat properly, with curiosity for knowledge in their eyes.
Lin Sanqi was still quite moved, so he gestured:
"Li Yujie, Bai Ruli, distribute the materials in this cardboard box to everyone. Come on, students in the front row, stand up and help. I'm afraid everyone will get heatstroke from being exposed to too much sun, so I'll keep this short."
Many people stood up at the scene. Strength lies in numbers, and hundreds of pieces of information were immediately distributed.
Lin Sanqi quickly cut to the chase:
"I'm sure everyone has heard at school or in the pharmaceutical factory that our Capital Infectious Disease Hospital can now cure tuberculosis."
A student nearby shouted, "We're all reading the newspaper."
“Yes, not only was it reported in the newspaper, but we now have a medical team from the Capital Infectious Disease Hospital conducting clinical verification experiments at the Welsh Hospital in Hong Kong.
Because foreigners suspect that our Chinese doctors are falsifying data and that we cannot truly cure tuberculosis, we have to verify it for them. This verification is judged by more than 50 experts from various countries, including the World Health Organization.
But how can tuberculosis be cured? It relies on a single drug called pyrimethamine tablets.
This is a specific medicine for treating pulmonary tuberculosis, but in fact this medicine is composed of four drugs, namely isoniazid, pyrazinamide, rifampicin and ethambutol.
Making these four drugs, or a four-in-one drug, is actually quite simple. You've just seen the production process. The production line is semi-automatic, requiring workers to load the drugs.
If it is a fully automated production line, a huge workshop will only have a few workers watching the data on the screen, and no workers are required to operate it. We will talk about this kind of production line later.
What we are going to talk about today is how we make raw materials.
To be honest, letting you work as production line workers is actually a waste of your talents. Perhaps some of you are not convinced, thinking how can you, a university student, be an ordinary worker?
Everyone chuckled.
"But there's nothing we can do. You 306 students will be 306 seeds from now on.
My goal is that you not only know how to make raw materials, but also how to operate a drug production line.
When you have mastered the entire industry chain of drug production and can handle every link, you will become an expert.
Then you can become the directors of major pharmaceutical factories in the future, or at least the heads of technical departments. Then do we have 306 pharmaceutical factories?
There are even some outstanding students among you who will be able to create and invent new drugs in the future.
When that day comes, it will mean that my training program has been successful, and our country's pharmaceutical industry will truly be a world leader."
As soon as Lin Sanqi finished speaking, the eyes of all 306 pharmacy students present lit up.
The world is bustling with people seeking profit, and the world is bustling with people seeking profit.
It is undeniable that college students in the 1960s were full of passion and wanted to serve their motherland.
But it is also undeniable that everyone is selfish. Who doesn’t want to get promoted, get rich, and earn an administrative salary above level 11 in the future?
You should know that when you reach administrative level 11 (director), the starting salary is 159 yuan, and you will also have several times more food coupons, oil coupons, meat coupons, etc. than ordinary people. You can also get scarce bicycle coupons, radio coupons, sewing machine coupons, etc.
And their children don’t have to go hungry, they can go to Moscow Restaurant to eat black bread and sausage on their birthdays.
So don’t despise human nature. It is precisely because of human greed, the pursuit of material things, and the desire to have enough food and clothing that mankind can progress.
If everyone were like the black people in Africa, lying down all day, eating some breadfruit when hungry, drinking water from mud puddles when thirsty, and building a straw hut when sleepy, what hope would there be for humanity?
Lin Sanqi is a qualified leader because he has drawn a big pie for these college students, the future directors of pharmaceutical factories, so that these students will have more motivation to study and work.
In fact, Lin Sanqi did not want these college students to be coolies. Ordinary workers were recruited from all over the country. College students were rare treasures in this era.
"Okay, now let's look at isoniazid. There are two main methods for producing isoniazid API:
Since we all graduated from the pharmacy major, I will explain the Reye's aspirin method and the condensation method of isonicotinic acid and hydrazine hydrate in more depth.
The Reye's aspirin method is relatively complicated, but the raw materials are easier to obtain. The raw materials include: chloroacetyl chloride, acetamide, pyridine, anhydrous ethanol, anhydrous sodium carbonate, concentrated hydrochloric acid, and activated carbon.
The steps for producing the raw material drug are to mix chloroacetyl chloride and anhydrous ethanol, add pyridine, and stir the reaction for 1 hour.
The reaction solution was added with anhydrous sodium carbonate, filtered, and concentrated hydrochloric acid was added to the filtrate to precipitate a white precipitate..."
The scorching sun could not dampen the students' enthusiasm for learning. Even several professors took notes and wrote down every word Lin Sanqi said.
Lin Sanqi has copied pharmaceutical knowledge for decades. He may not have enough experience, but his theory is definitely better than any other pharmacy professor of this era.
Unlike other rebirth novels, this story is about a chip expert who is reborn in 2024 and has to flatter the semiconductor professors of the 1970s and 1980s and humbly seek their advice.
What could they teach him? How to make electron tubes? How to flatter the boss? How to be a school tycoon?
Instead of spending time on interpersonal relationships, it's better to focus on scientific research. If scientific research still relies on seniority, it's no wonder that the domestic chip industry is falling further and further behind. (End of this chapter)
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