Chapter 203: Public Welfare Competition
At present, it is widely regarded in the international community that the Windsor consortium and its so-called military members of the World Trade Organization are the biggest black hand threatening world peace, disrupting the world order, and drawing the four major powers of the United States, France, Russia, and Prussia into the quagmire of endless war. Even the United States, which is generally favored by the world's elites, is basically a foregone conclusion that the North and the South will be divided, and long-term antagonism can be expected in the future. France and Italy will also be in opposition for a long time, and Russia will encounter an unprecedented retreat in the Near and Far East. Bismarck has officially assumed the post of Prime Minister of Prussia, and he believes that if the Windsor consortium is not stifled, the unification of Germany is almost impossible, not to mention defeating Austria, the nominal boss of the German Confederation, and Prussia will not even be able to move the kingdom of Bavaria, otherwise the Kingdom of Bavaria, a country quite friendly to the Windsor consortium, will definitely join the WTO to resist Bismarck's iron-blooded policy.
Downing felt it was necessary to clarify that the Windsor Consortium is investing far more in the welfare of humanity than in its military. The deployment of weather forecasting networks in the world is a very manpower-consuming and financially resource-consuming thing, and the weather forecasting network based on the British Telegraph Company was a fee-based project, but later it was found that weather forecasting is of considerable use for the prevention of natural disasters, and the paid weather forecasting service has created obstacles to disaster prevention for civilians, and natural disaster relief organizations have to spend a lot of effort to provide disaster relief after the disaster, so it is better to make this service free of charge, so as not to waste money and labor. Therefore, BT** undertakes this free service for global public welfare.
Similarly, the Global Vessel Positioning System (GPS) was also dropped free of charge, with only a small donation from Lloyd's Insurance Association in gratitude for the gratuitous service of the British Telegraph Company.
Considered to be the best hospital in the world, Windsor Hospital thought it was very profitable, but the result was a big surprise, due to the large number of patient volunteers, and the unconditional first aid policy, Windsor Hospital has waived the fees of many patients, and now Windsor Hospital is like a global public welfare hospital. If you include the huge expenses such as super-large-scale animal expenditures, human expenditures, compensation for experiments, and vaccination of infectious diseases in poor countries, Windsor Hospital as a whole has a negative income. This result even Tang Ning himself did not expect that Windsor Hospital, which has a monopoly position, would actually have a negative output. It seems that he really has the potential to build a socialist state.
Why did Windsor Hospital decisively withdraw from the market of NATO countries? A big reason is that it is not profitable in the first place, and it will be closed early, and it can also hit the morale of NATO countries. The countries that withdrew here were those who had already directly participated in the war, such as the United States Federation, France, and Russia, and Prussia was an observer country for the chicken thief. The Netherlands was originally a relatively friendly country, and I am not embarrassed to turn around now.
As soon as the financial figures of Windsor Hospital were exposed, it really greatly improved the political image of the Windsor Foundation, but it also brought huge negative effects - people who did not know the unconditional emergency policy of Windsor Hospital suddenly realized that this could be exempted! Later, a large number of people were so sick that they pretended to be dying and asked the hospital for help, which once again made the financial situation of the hospital system worse.
In addition to the pharmaceutical industry, the Windsor consortium has not taken a crazy money-making action against agriculture. Since the successful experiment of vegetables in soilless hydroponic greenhouses in Munich, scientists led by Liebig have popularized the technology, because vegetables play an incalculable role in the balance of human diets. According to the Windsor Hospital, the health of Munich citizens has improved significantly since the "Liebig Vegetable Company" made it possible for Munich citizens to eat fresh vegetables in winter. In particular, the number of maternity hospitals shows that babies born in winter or spring are not as intelligent and healthy as babies born in other seasons, and compared with the process of improving the diet of Munich citizens, it can be seen that this is due to the lack of one of the most common problems of fetal development.
In fact, it is a vitamin called folic acid that works, and over the course of several years of operation, Windsor Maternity Hospital has demonstrated its role in protecting infant development with a control measure. Under the impetus of the mayor of Munich, the city became the first municipality in the world to establish folic acid supplementation for pregnant women. The Windsor Hospital explained in the Telegraph the role of this vitamin in ensuring the development of the baby's neural tube, and suggested that pregnant women around the world should supplement folic acid or eat more vegetables to try to avoid pregnancy when food is scarce.
There are 13 kinds of vitamins that humans cannot synthesize by themselves, as well as various minerals, and Windsor Hospital is using real yàn and several jù to prove that their storage zài requires a huge amount of animal and human real yàn. Tang Ning's wife was pregnant, and her meals had been personally identified by god-level medical scientists.
Because of the public welfare effect of this technology, the Liebig Vegetable Company has set up a special school to spread this technology, which is also an important public welfare expenditure and cause of the Windsor Foundation.
Agricultural technology is indeed important for the improvement of human life, and the agricultural revolution led by the Suez Canal Company began with the use of chemical fertilizers to the revolution of herbicides and pesticides.
Without the guidance of a god-level pharmacist, human beings will inevitably go through painful large-scale destruction of the ecological environment in the process of using herbicides. Because herbicides that also have a broad-spectrum toxic effect on humans are the most intuitive and easy to detect. Herbicides that are low-toxicity and only work on green plants require a very in-depth understanding of the biological effects of plants.
Downing is researching a very classic herbicide that interferes with an important metabolic pathway in plants, the shikimic acid pathway. This will block the production of aromatic amino acids by green plants, and it will not participate in the physiological metabolism of animals, and will be excreted from the body basically intact, and there will be no teratogenic, mutagenic and carcinogenic effects on animals under experimental conditions. Low toxicity to fish and aquatic organisms; Non-toxic to bees and birds; It is safer against natural enemies and beneficial organisms.
While primitive human weeding methods were nothing more than hoeing and pulling weeds, the process of using herbicides was simply sprayed on the leaves of the weeds when they were at their most vigorous, allowing them to suck in the whole plant, and the greenery died within a few days. The herbicide loses its effectiveness when it comes into contact with the soil, so there is no need to worry about killing the crops. Combined with no-till, farmers will be thousands of times more productive. Herbicides are expected to be 40 to 50 per cent of all pesticide use. If you spray orchards, rubber plantations, etc., be careful not to get green bark and other places, this herbicide can be described as a "green devourer".
Corresponding to the green devourer, Downing also embarked on the study of "insect devourer". The production of this insect devourer is similar to that of antibacterial drugs, which are the superior weapons in the fight against microorganisms, and at the scale of insects, there is still such a weapon, that is, the BT protein.
BT protein is a crystalline protein produced by bacteria, which has many species, which can be activated by biological enzymes in the intestines of lepidoptera, coleoptera and diptera and other groups of insects to produce hemolytic and cytolytic effects, pierce the intestinal tract of insects, and cause their death. Non-insect endosomes cannot activate the toxicity of the BT protein, so it is completely safe for humans.
Following Downing's guidance, scientists at the Suez Canal Company extracted BT bacteria from various diseased pests to culture and produce them on a large scale like antimicrobiotics, which is the world's first biological insecticide. In order to delay the evolutionary pressure on insects to develop resistance to the BT protein too quickly, Suez Canal is also working with farmers on large-scale mechanized cultivation to create "evolutionary" buffers, which deliberately leave a certain number of crops free from "insect eaters" so that these pesticides can maintain their properties.
Friends of organic intelligence will ask, why can't drugs against bacteria be used in this way? The reason is that it is possible to destroy the bacterial colony that invades an individual, but it is impossible to exterminate a certain insect in an ecosystem by relying solely on pesticides, and they can fly nearby to eat other plants without eating crops. Therefore, in this war where it is impossible to destroy the other side, we can only adopt the strategy of being gentle and restrained.
People who don't know the inside are completely mistaken to think that the Suez Canal Company is just a low-tech company that lives off the canal. In addition to the large number of high-efficiency heavy machinery invented to dig the canal, it also has three important products that have a revolutionary impact on agriculture: fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. A large number of botanists, entomologists, and ecologists who used to rely on government subsidies for leisure food have been recruited by the company's high-tech network to engage in agricultural technology that is not only related to the profession, but also can produce huge economic benefits. Even biologists like Charles Darwin and Wallace have visited the company's fields around the world.
The Suez Canal Company has inadvertently become a global agricultural powerhouse, guiding global agricultural development policy. Due to the peculiarities of agriculture, Downing intends not to sanction NATO countries with its monopoly at any time. In a war, it's good to sink the warship, at most it's OK to kill the soldiers, and it's not good to starve the common people.
At present, only the anti-Windsor sentiment in France has risen the most, and the agricultural technology department of the Suez Canal Company has also been smashed and looted, and has to close its doors. (http://)。
The Windsor Consortium also spends a lot of money on charity, and it is purely rational, in contrast to church charity. Take, for example, the philanthropy of French missionaries in China. Not only did they fail to make the Chinese people feel good, but they almost made a big misunderstanding.
In Tianjin, there are Catholic missionaries who treat dying babies for charitable reasons, but they always have to pray for a long time before they do it, and as a result, the disease is often delayed, and the survival rate of these sick babies abandoned by their parents is low, and it is even worse if they make such a fuss. Then some Chinese people found a large number of dead babies around the church, and then there were sensational rumors of foreigners eating children and even abusing infants.
At the height of the misunderstanding, even the church was burned, and because the Catholic missionaries had no good way to preach, and the doctrine of God was too bizarre, the Chinese intellectuals, gentry, and people with social status and economic ability who were deeply influenced by Confucianism did not believe in it, so they had to fool those gangsters who wanted to be sheltered by foreigners. The local officials hated the Catholic Church, and with their deliberate connivance, the people's resentment boiled over, and if it had not been for the clarification of the reporters of the Daqing News after listening to the missionaries' self-defense and verification, they might have caused a lot of death.