When the City of Johannesburg took out a loan from the RAND Bank, it was Scarlett who approached Johannesburg on behalf of the RAND Bank.

Speaking of which, Roark hadn't seen Ida for a long time, and it seemed that after Roark and Phyllis got engaged, Ida returned to Cape Town and never returned.

At first, Roque thought that Ada was stimulated, and was ready to break off with Roque completely, and never set foot in Roque's life again.

If Ada really chooses so, then Roque really has no reason to continue to pester Ada, after all, Ada is a very assertive woman, which is also the point that Ada attracted Roque the most, if Ada really leaves Roque, then Roque will only bless.

But it is obvious that Ada did not ignore Roque, nor did she change her attitude towards Roque because Roque and Phyllis were engaged, although Ada was in Cape Town, but she often exchanged telegrams with Roque, and even for the Rand Bank and Rock Gold Mine, Ada also commanded remotely through telegrams, not a complete break with Roque.

So Roque didn't understand why Ada left Johannesburg, and for this reason, Roque specially called Scarlett over.

"Mrs. Capet has personal matters to attend to, so she must return to Cape Town." Scarlett's answer is simple.

"Do you know what's going on?" Roque asked, this question Roque had already asked Ada, and Ada answered the same as Scarlett.

"I don't know—" Scarlett began to bow her head and play with her pen, a gesture that Roke was somewhat familiar with, as Scarlett used to do when she was flustered.

"I don't know?" Roque asked.

"Yes—" Scarlett asked, not knowing anything.

"Good." Roque didn't force Scarlett, waved her hand to let Scarlett leave, and turned around to send a telegram to Roy, who was still in Cape Town.

After Anton went to Nyasaland, Luo Yi successfully took over Anton's work, and now the police rank is also Inspector, and he still has a lot of power in the Cape Town Police Department.

Speaking of which, in fact, Luo Yi is more suitable for the deceitful workplace life than Luo Ke and Anton, after all, Luo Yi has been on the streets since he was a child, and he is used to seeing the warmth and coldness of the world.

There is a relationship between Roque and August Russell, although Roque is no longer in Cape Town, and August Russell did not wear small shoes to the Chinese police officers in the Cape Town Police Department, on the contrary, because of Roque's rise to the top, August Russell still takes care of the Chinese police, so that the status of the Chinese police in the Cape Town Police Department is getting higher and higher. This fully shows that the status of the Chinese police has improved.

With Luo Yi's status in Cape Town, it was easy to figure out what trouble Ida was in, so Roque left the matter to Luo Yi and left it behind.

You can't blame Roque for not paying attention, Roque has been in Nyasaland for three months before, so it is inconvenient to leave Johannesburg now, not to mention, there are many facts on the Johannesburg side, and Roque can't leave.

At the same time as the road was built, construction began on the medical school and pharmaceutical factory that Roque was trying to stay in Johannesburg.

The medical school is a little better, after all, there are not too many interests involved, and the return on investment cycle is a bit long, and the mine owners in Johannesburg can't look down on it, so they can let Roque play.

The pharmaceutical factory is too important, everyone knows the profits of the pharmaceutical factory, the income created by a pharmaceutical factory in this era is not inferior to a large gold mine, after all, the gold mine has more wolves and less meat is eye-catching, and there is a day when the mining is finished, the gold mine is the hen that can continue to lay eggs.

So there are a lot of people who want to take a stake in the pharmaceutical factory, and some people even took Owen's path and took the initiative to give the money to Roque.

"I am the leader of the Liberal Party, I have to work for the welfare of the members of the Liberal Party, and this is also a good thing, the more people who invest in the shares, the greater the interests of the pharmaceutical factory, because the community of interests formed by the pharmaceutical factory is stronger, not to mention, these are all small shareholders, and they are not even qualified to participate in the board of directors, which will not affect the operation of the pharmaceutical factory at all, no matter how you look at it, this is a good thing." Owen took the initiative to find Roque, hoping that Roque could open the pharmaceutical factory and let more people join in.

"Whatever you want, what you think is a good thing, that's a good thing." Roque does not take power, the current pharmaceutical factory, can only buy patents to produce specific drugs, to put it bluntly, it is a product of the bad street, it is impossible to want more profits, the real money is the biological laboratory led by Abu, this point is not realized by anyone except Roque.

The meaning of the word "biological" is very broad, and Abu himself studies cytochemistry, and he studies drugs in his spare time.

With Roque here, Abu must be indispensable for research projects, penicillin and artemisia annua are only one aspect, Roque has now introduced Panax notoginseng from the Qing Dynasty and carried out experimental cultivation in Johannesburg, which is a new profit growth point over time.

Panax notoginseng is the main ingredient of Qu Huanzhang Baibaodan, "Quhuanzhang Baibaodan" is another famous white medicine in time and space, many of Roque's current research is for the future of the First World War, penicillin is important, Quhuanzhang Baibaodan is also very important, and even more important than penicillin.

Qu Huanzhang is the inventor of white medicine, only 22 years old when he developed the medicine, legend has it that one day Qu Huanzhang went up the mountain to collect medicine, saw two snakes were fighting, after a while, one of them retreated, the dying snake swam to a piece of grass and wriggled, after a while, the wound on the snake became intact as before, Qu Huanzhang and other snakes swam away, picked up the grass on the ground and carefully identified, determined that the grass must have a miraculous effect, so, based on folklore and his usual experience in healing and stopping bleeding, Qu Huanzhang finally created Baibaodan

It sounds like this story is a bit magical, but there is no doubt about the effect of Panax notoginseng on wounds, and it is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": ginseng is the first to replenish qi, notoginseng is the first to replenish blood, and the taste is the same, so it is called ginseng notoginseng, which is the most precious in traditional Chinese medicine; Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacist in the Ming Dynasty, called Panax notoginseng "gold does not change", which is enough to prove the efficacy of Panax notoginseng on wounds.

Once the "hometown of Panax notoginseng", 70% of the state's areas belong to the subtropics, 30% of the areas belong to the temperate zone, the average annual precipitation and sunshine are quite sufficient, the frost-free period of the year reaches 270-350 days, this unique light, heat, water and gas conditions, so in order to produce high-quality Panax notoginseng medicinal materials.

If these conditions are applied, Johannesburg seems to be very compliant, so Roque transplanted Panax notoginseng to Johannesburg and asked Abu to conduct research on Panax notoginseng.

In terms of medicine, the white and Chinese are really too far apart, in the pre-Qin period, the Chinese wrote the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", and in Europe until the eighteenth century, doctors treated patients and bled at every turn.

It is also understandable why the "Black Death" has become a nightmare for white people, while the Chinese have not had a serious outbreak like the "Black Death".

Specific to Johannesburg, if there is an industry that Johannesburg can quickly catch up with the world, then I am afraid it is the pharmaceutical industry.

The pharmaceutical industry in the West began in the middle of the 19th century, and the first research on drugs was the dye enterprise and chemical factory, until the end of the 19th century, the dye industry and the chemical industry began to merge into the pharmaceutical industry, and some scientists began to study the structure-effect theory of drugs.

During this period, pharmaceutical companies could only produce some generic drugs, such as drugs for pain, infection, heart disease, etc., and there was still a big gap in medicine.

The golden age of the pharmaceutical industry was from the thirties to the sixties of the twentieth century, and it was in the First World War that people fully realized the importance of drugs, so various countries began to increase the research on drugs, which promoted the rapid development of the pharmaceutical industry.

It's only just the twentieth century, so Roque still has plenty of time.

"What are you thinking?" Owen keenly sensed that Roque's attitude seemed a little abnormal.

"What?" Roque pretended to be stupid.

Don't look at Owen as Phyllis's brother, but there are some things that Roque can't even say about Owen.

For example, the research being conducted in the biological laboratory, Roque will never reveal half a word to the public, the Johannesburg boss wants to invest in the pharmaceutical factory, and the reason why Roque is laissez-faire is because Roque still has a backhand.

Roque is ready to set up a new pharmaceutical factory in Nyasaland to produce new drugs as soon as Abu's biological laboratory produces results.

As for the pharmaceutical factory in Johannesburg, Roque's positioning is to produce some medical consumables, as well as basic drugs, these drugs and consumables have low profits and high costs.

"No, you must be planning something, tell me and listen, maybe I can give you some advice." Owen worked hard, and with Owen's understanding of Roque, it must be abnormal for Roque to be so generous now.

"Don't think too much about it, it's really nothing." Roque is tight-lipped, Johannesburg, a pharmaceutical company without core competitiveness, is actually of little significance, if Abu's laboratory can produce results as soon as possible, then just relying on drugs, Nyasaland can make a lot of money.

The most important thing is that there is basically no conflict between the pharmaceutical industry and the local industry in the United Kingdom, and the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United Kingdom are Wellcome and Bnemen, Wellcome is the future GlaxoSmithKline, and the Bnemen Group is one of the five largest companies in the modern world and one of the four major companies in the United Kingdom.

It sounds very powerful, but in fact, the current Wellcome and Bneimen are not much stronger than the handicraft workshop, and they are not very competitive at all.

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