Chapter 52 Chapter 51 "SB-1" Laboratory

Ye Yuhan rushed back to Peiping as soon as possible after the war.But Dr. Simon Czerny from the American "SLR Foundation" arrived in Peiping earlier than her, and rented two rooms on the first floor of Building C of Xiehe as the SLR office in Peking.Czerny is knowledgeable and has a unique education: he has studied physics and biology, has a master's degree in medicine, and finally obtained a doctorate in the Department of Biochemistry of Oxford University in the United Kingdom.He met Ye Yuhan when he was teaching at Harvard Medical School in the mid-1930s, and the two could be regarded as having a teacher-student relationship.Czerny is in his forties, handsome, well-dressed, extremely shrewd and practical, with two piercing gray eyes; he has a face, tall and thin, with rough white skin and reddish-white skin, and grayish-yellow hair His curly hair swept back, his cheeks and chin shaved clean like a movie star.Just after the Anti-Japanese War ended, Ye Yuhan received a letter from him when he was still in Kunming, inviting a female doctor to return to Beiping to prepare a microbiological laboratory for SLR.

Cheerny is Ye Yuhan's teacher, seven or eight years older than her, but respects her very much, and is very considerate in everything.Arrangements were made in advance for her to return to Peking to participate in the resumption of the Concorde School and a position in Tongren Hospital, and she did not even settle for such things as securing a house on Foreign Ministry Street; she was promised a high salary for the establishment of a laboratory, and specifically stated that it was not The "legal currency" is U.S. dollars—Ye Yuhan doesn't care about money, but SLR's actions to fund Tsinghua, Xiehe, Yanjing, Huiwen and other large and medium schools and hospitals make her quite fond of it.She once asked what kind of organization SLR was, and Czerny replied, "Same as the Rockefeller Foundation."

This made Ye Yuhan very happy.The Rockefeller Foundation has established or funded many schools, hospitals, research institutes and charitable organizations in the United States and around the world. It has established thirteen medical schools in Asia alone, and Peking Union Medical College in China is considered the best of them. .Ye Yuhan has a special affection for Xiehe and its microbiology. Not long after Ye Yuhan returned to Peiping, she began to preside over the construction of the first SLR laboratory in Beiping, and gave it the replacement name "SB-1", S is the abbreviation of "SLR", and B refers to Beiping——Cherny was straight up about this Thumbs up, keep saying: OK, OK!

The property purchased by the foundation in Beiping for the purpose of building this laboratory is the Jinyuan in Dongchang Hutong. It is said that the Jin Garden was originally the mansion of Liu Jin in the Ming Dynasty, and he himself signed the Jin Garden to show his sincerity and caution in the face of the mighty grace of the emperor.Later, the stars changed and the dynasties changed, and somehow it became Jinyuan.Before the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Yuhan often passed by here, and the word "Jinyuan" was written on the gate board.She thought that although only one word was changed, the meaning of "sincerity and sincerity" not only remained the same, but became more vivid!When she returned to Beiping after the war, she found that the courtyard had changed greatly: the plaques were gone, and even the painted gatehouse with high steps and thresholds had been demolished, and it was rebuilt into an ordinary gate for cars to enter and exit, but there was no nameplate of the gate The exterior walls facing the street are all painted dark gray; the two heavy doors covered with iron sheets and painted black are always tightly closed, and there is a small door for people to walk through and a palm-sized, The lookout hole can be opened and closed; when the two gates are accidentally opened, a tall and wide dark gray screen wall inside will immediately block people's sight... In short, it is far from the majesty and style of the "Jiangyuan" in the past, but it adds a certain A kind of strong mystery and depression.

The Ming Dynasty practiced spy politics from beginning to end.The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang set up a secret service agency "Jinyiwei" to deal with "imperial orders", and the torture was cruel.Still thinking it was not enough, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di added a special agency "Dongchang", which was in charge of the eunuch and directly informed the emperor - this "Dongchang Hutong" was the location of the Dongchang headquarters back then.Then, Zhu Jianshen, Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, added the special agency "Xichang", which was even more powerful than Dongchang. Its scope of activities spread all over the country, and it was still in charge of eunuchs.Although it was forced to withdraw due to strong opposition from scholars and officials, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty revived it when Zhu Houzhao was in power, and even set up a special agency "Expert Factory" outside the East Factory and West Factory—and the person who did this was Great eunuch Liu Jin.This person not only killed Zhongliang, but also frantically robbed people's property.After a minister was murdered, Liu Jin invaded his mansion and named it "Jinyuan", which was later called "Jinyuan"...

There is a small door on the high wall next to the gate of Jinyuan, which is also covered with iron and painted with black paint. The inside is the gatehouse.It was through this small door that Ye Yuhan stepped into the Violet Garden for the first time.I went in and took a look, only to find that the inside is very big, with twists and turns, and there is no hole in the sky.This may not be Liu Jin's own mansion, it may just be a place where "Dongchang" used to handle "prison" at the beginning, integrating functions such as office, custody, torture and even execution.Evil comes with evil.Liu Jin was finally accused of "rebellion" and sentenced to "Ling Chi", which really spread the old saying: "A thousand cuts to pieces", was cut more than 4,700 knives, and finally died after three days of cutting. He spent the last three days of his life here—although this kind of statement is very satisfying, it also casts a gloomy atmosphere on "Zhiyuan".There are hundreds of houses in a large courtyard and a small courtyard here, as well as cellars and modern basements; the houses are from the Ming and Qing dynasties, some from the Republic of China, and some were built by the Japanese—during the Occupation of Japan, this place became the Japanese military police team station.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang government sent personnel to take over the "enemy property". the SLR.

Simon Czerny asked Ye Yuhan to build a "microbiology laboratory".However, the concept of "microorganism" is vast, including bacteria, actinomycetes, molds, yeasts, spirochetes, mycoplasmas, chlamydia, rickettsias, viruses, viroids, protozoa and unicellular algae, which are closely related to human beings and medicine. There are tens of thousands of related microorganisms.It would take more than a single city to study all these "microbes." Ye Yuhan asked, "What kind of laboratory is it?" Czerny replied: "How should I put it, it is a general-purpose type."

"Universal?" "That is to say, when you plan to build it, you only think about it for the study of bacteria and viruses in general—but, of course, the bacteria and viruses that make humans sick." Dr. Czerny said that the Chinese are too poor, and China's education and science are too backward. Therefore, building more schools, hospitals, research institutes and laboratories in China is of great benefit to China in every sense.Also, let's be honest, many new and exotic bacteria and viruses can only be found in China. "Miss Ye, you understand better than anyone else what bacteria and viruses are." Simon Czerny continued, "You are a woman with a thin body and have not yet married or given birth. It is difficult to stay in this kind of laboratory for a long time It’s not a good thing. So, according to our arrangement, you will be in charge of building the laboratory, and go back to Tongren Hospital after it’s completed; when Xiehe resumes school, you’ll go back to Xiehe.”

"When will Xiehe resume school?" Ye Yuhan's heart skipped a beat when this topic was touched. "Six months," Czerny looked confident, "one year at most." "So, who works at SB-l?" "SLR will send a group of American scientists who are strong, relatively young, married and have children." Ye Yuhan was stunned.She knew that such a requirement would only be required of staff in a laboratory where it could directly harm fertility. Viruses are the smallest and simplest life forms on earth, consisting only of proteins and nucleic acids.Can cause disease spread among infected subjects.According to the different infected objects, viruses are divided into plant viruses, animal viruses, human viruses, zoonotic viruses and bacterial viruses.People have an average of more than 200 viral infections in their lifetime.Seventy to eighty percent of acute infectious diseases are caused by viruses.Influenza, smallpox, yellow fever, polio, and measles kill millions if not tens of millions, as do viruses such as rubella, encephalitis, mumps, hemorrhagic fever, rabies, and various types of hepatitis Diseases are killing people day and night. The "World War I" that ended in 1918 killed 10 million people, and the "Spanish Flu" that started in the same year caused 30 million deaths in the United States and Europe!The twentieth century has not yet passed halfway, and smallpox has killed more than 200 million people, which is equivalent to three times the number of people who died in wars during the same period.Yellow fever in the 17th and 18th centuries killed millions of people in America and Europe, killing one tenth of the population of Philadelphia, the capital of the United States at that time, forcing the US government to shut down for a while, and President George Washington "fleeing" countryside.Polio has a high mortality rate and a higher disability rate, and the resulting disabled people can be seen everywhere in the world; US President Roosevelt, who died in 1945, is the most "famous" one. "Those who suffered from this disease in the first year...

Ye Yuhan paid special attention to measles when she was in Qilu University School of Medicine.The frightening thing about measles virus is that it can be transmitted through the air just like smallpox; it is even more frightening than smallpox because it can cause the human body to produce immunosuppression, that is, to lose immunity.It killed a quarter of the population of Fiji in the nineteenth century, and together with smallpox invaded Central and South America and killed tens of millions of Indians and wiped out many tribes.In the long history of war, it has recorded many cases in which it caused a large number of deaths and severe attrition of the army, thereby completely losing combat effectiveness...

After graduating from university, Ye Yuhan insisted on researching measles in Xiehe, especially when she was studying in the United States.She put forward a novel point of view: Measles virus was originally an animal virus of dogs and cattle. After entering the human body, it was induced by certain factors to mutate, thus endangering humans on a large scale.During her research, her knowledge of hematology was instrumental in improving serum electrophoresis for virus detection.In addition, she has made innovations in new culture medium and animal models, virus isolation, purification and attenuation techniques.This series of results supports her theory that the measles virus... Ye Yuhan plans to study the measles virus in depth after returning to China.However, after the "July 7th Incident", she left Peiping and traveled to the Southwest to participate in the rescue of war wounds, and she was insulated from basic research ever since.When he returned to Peiping after the war, the resumption of Concorde was nowhere in sight. The threat of civil war, poverty of the people, social chaos and economic collapse made it impossible to talk about scientific research in the country.So when Simon Czerny hired her on behalf of "SLR" to start a microbiology laboratory to study "bacteria and viruses," she was, to be honest, delighted, even thrilled. From autumn to winter, and to the turn of spring and summer, Ye Yuhan worked hard for nearly half a year; during this period, Dr. Czerny often came to inspect and was full of praise.When the project was coming to an end, a few young scientists from the United States came, and they said that some more people would arrive one after another.After returning to Beiping, Ye Yuhan was hired as a doctor by Tongren Hospital, and her salary was also paid by SLR through Tongren Hospital; after the laboratory was completed, she really went to Tongren to work as a doctor.When handing over to the Americans, she was a little bit reluctant, as if she was going to give away her own child; just thinking that she would be able to return to work in Xiehe soon, she felt a little relieved... However, reuniting with Lu Ning, Lu Ning's last few words completely broke the female doctor's peaceful state of mind!