Insufficient balance

  After Wang Geng finished writing this letter of advice to US President Wilson, he was again in a dilemma. Obviously, it could not be passed on through the diplomatic channel of Gu Weijun, the Minister to the United States. At that time, no matter which country's diplomatic envoy was active in Washington, they must represent their own government.

  A diplomat representing his own government to lobby the US President would certainly be discounted, with the eyes of the world watching closely. Any good or bad suggestion, in the face of domestic and international forces opposing US entry into war, would be seen as having ulterior motives, aiming to drag America down. Therefore, this letter of advice absolutely cannot be delivered through official or formal channels to Wilson.

  Should we directly send a letter to President Wilson via the US Postal Service? That would be drowned in the tens of thousands of letters sent to the president's office every day, and is not feasible. Time is more precious than anything else.

  What is the channel for admission to West Point Military Academy? The original host Wang Geng spent two years at West Point, and it can be said that he was a legendary figure during his time there. As West Point mainly recruits high school graduates, the age limit is between 17 and 22 years old.

  Wang Geng, as a 1911 domestic Tsinghua Academy graduate who was sent to the United States as a public-funded overseas student, had already graduated from Princeton University's Literature Department with a Bachelor of Arts degree before entering West Point, so he skipped a grade and read for two years. He should have graduated normally next year, but due to the war, West Point Military Academy graduated its third-year students ahead of schedule along with the fourth-year students this year.

  In fact, in the previous life, West Point Military Academy had two batches of students graduating simultaneously in 1917 and 1918, which was due to the war.

  Wang Geng searched through the original owner's memories for a moment, unable to find a suitable channel or person within West Point Military Academy to pass on this letter of advice. Although Wang Geng had always been an active advocate for America to enter the war as soon as possible, his identity as a yellow-skinned foreign student made it easy for people to view his opinions as having ulterior motives. Moreover, how could the pride and self-respect of the President of the United States possibly take seriously the suggestions of a yellow-skinned West Point Military Academy student?

  In a previous life, that war little madman MacArthur would become the youngest superintendent of West Point, but that would have to wait until after the end of World War I. In 1919, the future commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force, Pershing, was about to be promoted from captain to brigadier general this month for leading troops to suppress Mexican guerrillas, but a division-level general's influence on the president at this moment could basically be ignored.

  The US military and arms manufacturers were actually the active promoters of the US entry into the war, but the final decision was made by Congress. The president could submit a request for war to Congress, and the opinions of his cabinet had considerable influence on him, except for Wilson himself. However, the military's influence within the cabinet was always extremely weak.

  It was necessary to bypass diplomats, the military or interest groups and hand over his proposal book to Wilson's desk through an unexpected channel that others would not think of. Of course, if there is a chance to see this president who is both compassionate and iron-fisted, it would be even better!

  Wang Gang was at a loss for a moment, so he simply found an envelope and stuffed the letter of recommendation into it. Seeing that Nurse Kelly and the newspapers to be collected were nowhere to be seen, he stood up and habitually reached for his cigarettes in his pocket, only to realize with a start that he had none, as he was wearing hospital clothes and his pockets were empty.

  He walked over to open the wardrobe, and the inner and outer clothes he wore when he jumped into the water to save someone yesterday had been carefully washed, dried, ironed and hung neatly in the wardrobe by the hospital. After searching his memory, he found that the original owner, Wang Gang, didn't smoke or drink during his school days.

  What's going on, how can a special forces soldier from the military region survive without cigarettes? Wang Gang suddenly had a craving for cigarettes and was pacing back and forth in the room. He wanted to go out and buy some but found that he didn't have any money on him. His wallet and ID were not under his pillow or in his pockets, could it be that he lost them when he jumped into the water from Brooklyn Bridge?

  For the time being, he couldn't think of anything and had no choice but to wait for Kelly to come back and ask again. Sitting back at his desk, he twirled a CROSS pencil in his hand as he recalled the details of the discovery of penicillin.

  This penicillin is actually just one type of antibiotic, referring to the molecules extracted from the culture liquid of Penicillium chrysogenum that contain penam and can destroy bacterial cell walls and have a bactericidal effect during the bacterial cell division period. It is the first kind of antibiotic that can treat human diseases.

  Wang Geng thought to himself, this penicillin was first discovered by British bacteriologist Fleming in 1928. Later, it wasn't until around 1941 that British pathologist Howard Florey and German biochemist Ernst Boris Chain together achieved the separation and purification of penicillin and discovered its therapeutic effect on infectious diseases. And as for Fleming, Florey, and Chain jointly winning the Nobel Prize in 1945, that's a story for later!

  What's giving Wang a headache is that this guy was a second-year graduate student in the Military Strategy Department of the National Defense University's Graduate School, and came to the US for an exchange visit with a military exchange delegation. This guy never thought that there would be such a thing as crossing over in the world, let alone that he would have to go back to 1917 to rediscover penicillin!

  Everyone knows penicillin, but how to cultivate and extract it. Even Wang Gang has always boasted that he is a special forces soldier, a graduate of the Army Command College and the National Defense University, a triple super ace. However, this guy is not a medical professional after all, even though his interests and hobbies are very broad, and his memory is incredibly strong, but he hasn't learned enough to discover and purify penicillin on his own!

  This guy can only frown and bite the pencil head, desperately recalling the numerous materials and articles he read in his previous life. Of course, he remembers the process of discovering penicillin in 1928, Fleming got a professorship for his many achievements including the discovery of lysozyme. As a result, this guy was so excited that he didn't even wash the glassware from the culture medium before going on vacation.

  By September 3, 1928, Fleming had returned from a two-week vacation to his laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London. Before leaving for vacation, he had inoculated several petri dishes with bacteria, hoping that they would still be usable when he got back. On this particular morning, he decided to clean up some of the clutter that had accumulated on the laboratory benchtops. He picked up one of the petri dishes and was about to throw it away when he noticed something peculiar - a visible growth of mold (Penicillium notatum) had contaminated the dish.

  To say that Wang Gang's memory ability, whether in his past life or present life, is unparalleled. In history, all geniuses and excellent students have two outstanding abilities: first, their memory ability; second, their logical judgment ability. After the fusion of Wang Gang's soul and body from his past and present lives, a 1+1>2 effect was produced.

  Wang Geng racked his brains, but for a moment he couldn't think of how to purify penicillin. However, the method of cultivating penicillin was recalled from some obscure article in the depths of his memory. The key is the selection and cultivation of penicillin-producing strains, as naturally occurring penicillin has very low yields. The focus should be on finding high-yielding penicillin-producing strains from different soils for large-scale production to produce applicable penicillin.

  Thinking of this, Wang Gang smiled wryly. The selection and breeding of high-yielding strains is naturally left to medical professionals. Ordinary Aspergillus species are actually ubiquitous in life, rotten fruits, vegetables, even bread, etc., the greenish-blue fungus that grows on them must have Aspergillus present.

  One of the key points in developing penicillin was to directly tell experts that the penicillin produced by this strain of Penicillium is the best antibacterial agent of this era. The second key point is to inform them that high-yielding strains need to be comprehensively collected and cultivated from soil, and corn is the best medium for large-scale production. Storage seems to have something to do with potassium or sodium salts!

  He quickly wrote down the details of penicillin on another piece of paper, put it in an envelope and sealed it. This was a matter of great importance to human life safety, so he had to be extremely cautious in selecting patent applicants and research institutions as well as development and production partners, and he had to settle this before returning home.

  Relying on the US's scientific talent reserves and medical industrial foundation, if they can find the right partners and agents, it's estimated that within three to six months, they should be able to produce the first batch of penicillin.

  Given China's current situation, it can only make plans to "borrow a chicken to lay eggs", cultivating and growing talents, equipment and instruments in the United States first, and then bringing them back to domestic production when the time is ripe. Wang gradually discovered that based on the scientific and technological status of 1917, with China's so weak foundation, it was simply a fantasy to produce leading-edge weapons or medicines that surpass the world.

  He gradually came to the realization that in order to achieve his ideal of unifying the country through the Beiyang government, defeating the old devils and little devils, he would likely still have to rely on conventional weapons such as planes, tanks, and artillery. At most, it was just a matter of taking fewer detours and striving to establish a complete military-industrial system.

  When all the weapons can be self-produced, all raw materials can be self-developed and refined, plus a little unreliable prediction of history, add conspiracy!

  I don't believe we can't take down those little devils and old Mao's men! Wang Geng gritted his teeth, thinking to himself.