Chapter 538: 537 [Earl Russell]

Why is Zhou Hexuan able to come up with a rough plot of the novel in an instant?

Very simple, there are too many works that can be used for reference.

For example, in terms of the overall structure and creativity, he somewhat imitated "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "White Deer Plain". The content of the story in the opening part comes from the TV series "Crossing the Guandong". Regarding the chapter about horse bandits and green forests in the northeast, he plans to learn from Yao Xueyin's "Long Night". In addition, there are many characteristics of classic works, and he is ready to integrate them.

Of course, these are just references, not plagiarism at all.

For example, Duanmu Hongliang's "Horqin Banner Grassland" imitates "A Dream of Red Mansions" in many details. But the contents of these two books are not the same, no matter how picky one is, it can only be said that Duanmu Hongliang is paying tribute to "Dream of Red Mansions".

Similarly, Lin Yutang's subsequent "Moment in Peking" is also a high-quality imitation version of "Dream of Red Mansions" in the Republic of China.

Can you say that Moment in Peking is plagiarized?

impossible.

Compared with the TV series "Crossing the Guandong", Zhou Hexuan intends to write the chapter of "Crossing the Guandong", both of which are immigrants from Shandong, and both have a gold rush plot, and there is no overlapping content other than that.

As for Yao Xueyin's "Long Night", Zhou Hexuan just misappropriated its presentation method. Even if you compare them word by word, there is no similarity at all.

There is also "White Deer Plain", which Zhou Hexuan likes very much. He directly imitated the overall idea, and even borrowed some of its plots.

Just do it!

Zhou Hexuan stayed at home for a whole month, consulted Duanmu Hongliang and Zhang Xueliang's secretary and adjutant, and recorded everything they said about the customs and customs of Northeast China. Then he went to Beiping, chatted with students from Northeastern University and Fengyong University, and then talked to exiles in Northeast China. He wrote and recorded 200,000 words about stories, customs, and legends about Northeast China.

Zhou Hexuan also specially studied Shandong and Northeast dialects, and planned to add many local dialects with local characteristics, so that the writing would be more suitable for the people of Northeast China.

It took Zhou Hexuan three months to prepare for the novel.

Zhang Xueliang knew that Zhou Hexuan was going to write a great book about Northeast China, so he offered to help. Before he left Tianjin, he found a lot of Northeast related materials for Zhou Hexuan, such as military maps, mineral distribution, local county annals, prices over the years, disaster chronology, and so on.

It was not until mid-June that Zhou Hexuan really started to write, and tentatively named the novel "Black Soil".

Before that, the most depressing ones were probably the British readers—after the serialization of "Galaxy Heroes" was completed, it stopped for four weeks, as if I might want to be a eunuch.

Asshole!

...

University College London, Aldrich-Cory Laboratory.

Aldridge looked through the experimental data carefully, and sighed: "Oh, it failed again!"

"We're going to make it," Gene Curry said confidently.

"I hope it succeeds sooner." Aldridge said helplessly.

Aldrich has been developing new sulfa drugs since the successful discovery of sulfasulfonamide. But it is a pity that half a year has passed, and they have only experienced one failure after another.

At this moment, a student suddenly rushed in and said, "Teacher, there is a Mr. Dumark from Germany who wants to see you."

"Dumac?" Aldridge exclaimed happily, "Please invite him in!"

Gerhard Dumark, a German biologist, was the first person in history to discover the antibacterial effect of "Puronidose", and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this.

At this time, the scientific and literary circles were keen to write and exchange letters. Dumac and Aldridge corresponded for two full months, discussing the research progress on sulfa drugs.

Some time ago, Aldridge formally sent an invitation to Dumark, hoping that the other party could join his laboratory.

Dumak agreed without thinking too much, because Germany was having trouble with the Nazis. At the beginning of the year, there was even an anti-Nazi demonstration of 100,000 people in Berlin. The following congressional arson case frightened many Germans, and Dumak himself did not want to stay in Germany any longer.

"Hello, Mr. Dumark!" Aldrich warmly welcomed.

"Hello," Dumac came in with a big box, and said with a smile, "This is a gift from me, all the experimental materials about sulfonamide."

"Great!" Aldridge's eyes lit up with excitement.

With the addition of Dumark and the experimental data he brought, it is believed that the development of new sulfonamide drugs will be much faster.

Compared with the joy of these scientists, Vivien Leigh's father, Ornis, was obviously much more depressed.

Sulfonamide was officially put into production in early February this year, and it has been one month now. As an emerging powerful antibacterial drug, sulfonamide has encountered a very embarrassing problem, that is, it is difficult to be promoted.

Even though Aldrich's thesis caused a small sensation in the medical world, only a very small number of British doctors are willing to try this new drug on their patients. That is to say, sulfanilamide is still in the clinical stage for the time being.

By the way, at this time, the governments of various countries did not strictly regulate drugs, and things like morphine were even regarded by many doctors as a panacea.

For example, in 1937, an American pharmacist prepared a sulfa elixir, and he dared to supply it to patients on a large scale without even knowing the side effects. As a result, more than 300 people suffered from acute renal failure, 107 of whom died, which directly led to the amendment of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act in the United States—one of the important regulations is that drugs must be labeled with side effects.

The same is true of the pharmaceutical factory run by Ornish now, and they want to sell it everywhere after they manufacture a new drug like sulfanilamide. As for the side effects of the medicine, such as allergic reactions, no one will take care of them until something happens.

...

London, Thompson Hospital.

"Cough cough cough cough..."

Portland Russell coughed crazily, as if trying to cough his lungs out of his throat.

The doctor said with a serious expression: "Mr. Russell, your pneumonia is getting worse. It's best not to stay up late and smoke."

"I will, cough, cough," Russell said sadly, "please prescribe me the strongest medicine, I really don't want to cough like a consumptive patient again."

The doctor thought for a while and said, "Recently, there is a new drug called sulfanilamide, which has a good therapeutic effect on pneumonia. I have tested it on several patients. Do you need some?"

"New medicine," Russell hesitated for a moment, and finally agreed, "then have some."

This is the most difficult part of drug promotion at this stage, because many patients refuse to take new drugs because there is no safety guarantee.

Russell is not afraid of death. He suffered from severe malaria in China more than 10 years ago, so that the Japanese rumored that he died of illness, and he is still alive and kicking now.

Back home, Russell began writing immediately after taking the sulfa pills. Although his grandfather served as prime minister twice, his father once served as a member of parliament, and he himself has the title of earl, unfortunately his parents died early and his family fell into poverty. Russell's life is very tight now, and he has to rely on manuscript fees to subsidize his family—— He has to support the families of his ex-wife and his current wife, and pay to maintain the experimental school he founded.

After finishing the manuscript, three hours had passed, and Russell was pleasantly surprised to find that he stopped coughing!

Just like when penicillin first came out, sulfa drugs in the early 1930s were the magic cure for all diseases, and they worked very quickly because there was no damn resistance yet.

Early the next morning, Russell went to the hospital for reexamination, and the doctor told him that the pneumonia had recovered.

Russell was very pleasantly surprised by this. After inquiring about it with a doctor, he found out that sulfanilamide was discovered by a famous oriental wizard, and he published a joint paper on The Lancet last year.

Russell is very fond of Chinese culture. He also gave lectures at Southeast University (Central University). In recent years, he has written many articles about China. When he was happy, he wrote a new manuscript and praised the new drug called "sulfanilamide", claiming that the drug cured his pneumonia in only three hours.

After this article came out, it didn't cause much repercussions, but it was discovered by Vivien Leigh's father Ornis.

Ornis realized that there was an opportunity to promote sulfonamide, so he rushed to spend money frantically, and found more than ten newspapers to report on it on a large scale.

Who is Russell?

The grandson of the former British prime minister, noble earl, famous philosopher, mathematician, logician, historian, writer, social activist... This long list of titles is still very scary and has a good reputation. Propaganda effect.