The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Zhou Hexuan spent the entire June and July in the UK, being invited to give speeches, visiting celebrities, attending balls, and attending salons... he was extremely busy.

Even Vivien Leigh became a small celebrity in London. Zhou Hexuan took her to various occasions frequently. Vivien Leigh's beauty quickly spread in small circles, and newspapers directly called her "Zhou's beautiful girlfriend".

Since Vivien Leigh likes to be a star, Zhou Hexuan followed her will and spared no effort to support her.

At the end of July, "Titanic", which was rewritten by Bernard Shaw himself, had its public premiere at the London Grand Theater, and Vivien Leigh played the heroine Rose as a matter of course.

Zhou Hexuan is still very powerful. Although the London Grand Theater has not yet become the National Theater of England at this time, the people who can perform here are all big names. It is impossible for unknown students like Vivien Leigh to be on the stage.

For this reason, Zhou Hexuan spent 2,000 pounds to book the venue for three days, and he was responsible for the loss. The ticket revenue was divided 50-50 with the London Grand Theatre, and he was also responsible for paying the salaries of other actors.

This was a 100% loss-making business, and Zhou Hexuan paid for it with a smile for Bo's beauty.

Not only that, Zhou Hexuan also spent money to make newspapers popular, and invited many celebrities to watch the performance through Bernard Shaw, and he himself wrote to invite Prince Albert and his wife.

Bernard Shaw and his wife were sitting in the front row of the auditorium. He smiled and said to Zhou Hexuan: "Zhou, Vivienne is almost moved to tears by you, isn't she?"

"As long as she is happy." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Mrs. Charlotte suddenly said: "Zhou, do you have a wife in China?"

Zhou Hexuan nodded, he doesn't need to lie about such things.

Charlotte turned her head and glared at Shaw, muttering, "All men in the world are the same."

Bernard Shaw suffered an indiscriminate disaster, shrugging his shoulders and not daring to speak. Although he is 76 years old, he has not completely broken off with his lover in the UK. The husband of that lover is still a friend with him. Strictly speaking, the old man was playing with his friend's wife, and at one point made his friend's wife's belly bigger - the other party took the initiative to have an abortion and lied to Bernard Shaw that it was an abortion, and Bernard Shaw cried a lot because of this.

At this moment, a middle-aged man and woman came over, and the man asked, "Are you Mr. Zhou?"

"Yes." Zhou Hexuan nodded.

The middle-aged man said: "My name is Ernest Gertrude Hartley, Vivian's father, and this is my ex-wife Gertrude Yeke."

Halo, Vivien Leigh's parents have come to find her!

Zhou Hexuan quickly stood up, shook hands with the two, and invited them to sit down and watch the performance.

Both Ornis and Ge Chu are only in their 40s. Ornis is tall and handsome, a standard middle-aged handsome man. And Ge Chu is slender and beautiful, perhaps because of his French origin, he has the intellectual and charming temperament of a French woman.

Just looking at the perfect figures and looks of the two, one can tell that Vivien Leigh's beauty is not for nothing, she has inherited the excellent genes of her parents.

It's a pity that the middle-aged handsome man and beautiful woman who seem to be a perfect match have been divorced for seven or eight years at this time. Vivien Leigh lives with her father, and her mother remarried to a man named Yeke.

"Mr. Zhou, thank you for taking care of my daughter." Ge Chu said with a smile.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Madam, this is what I should do."

Ge Chu suddenly asked: "This performance cost a lot of money, right?"

Ornish interjected very displeasedly, "You shouldn't ask that, it's rude!"

Ge Chu glared at his ex-husband: "It's also impolite to interrupt someone else's conversation."

Well, it's no wonder that these two people divorced and started arguing when they met.

Ge Chu leaned on his seat and stopped talking, took out a small mirror from his bag, and went to touch up his pretty face on his own.

Ornis said to Zhou Hexuan, "Don't worry about her, women are all weird."

Zhou Hexuan could only say: "Mrs. Yeke cares about her daughter, so she can understand." He didn't want to get involved with his girlfriend's parents, so he quickly changed the subject, "I heard that Mr. Hartley is a successful businessman?"

"Success doesn't count, it's just a small businessman." Ornis smiled wryly.

When he was in India that year, Ornis made a living by reselling some British products. In order to attract clients, he had to choose to be an amateur actor and hang out in a drama club formed by military officers' wives. After getting to know many military officers' wives, his business scale expanded rapidly.

The conflict between Ornis and his ex-wife started when he hooked up with a lady at the club and seemed to get her pregnant. At that time, Ornis's business in India was booming, but he was almost caught and raped by a noble officer, and was so frightened that he fled back to England with his wife and daughter.

A few years after returning to China, Ornis embarked on the road of being a bad guy again in order to open up the business situation. As a result, his business grew bigger and bigger, but his wife couldn't bear the betrayal, and finally chose to divorce.

After Ornis became a "big businessman", he did not choose to remarry, nor did he become a fool. He concentrates on running his own business, occasionally taking care of two Xiaomis, and his life is very happy, until the outbreak of the world economic crisis...

Before 1929, the United Kingdom was still very powerful. Although the development of various industries was not as good as that of the United States, the global trade volume still ranked first in the world. But in the past two years, the UK has experienced a trade deficit, and the trade deficit is getting bigger and bigger. Among them, the steel and textile industries have been hit the hardest.

Vivien Leigh's father, Ornis, was in the textile industry. Before the economic crisis broke out, he was happy to expand the production scale, but suddenly found that his products could not be sold, and more than 60% of the machines in several factories under his control were forced to stop working.

After twenty years of hard work, once he returned to before liberation, he was talking about Ornis's current situation.

Don't look at this middle-aged handsome guy dressed like a dog, with famous brand clothes all over his body, but there is only empty air left.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Mr. Hartley, I wonder if you have thought about changing careers and doing other businesses?"

"What business?" Ornis asked curiously.

"Drugs," Zhou Hexuan said, "I plan to open a pharmaceutical factory in London."

Ornis said in a daze, "But I don't have any experience in the medical field."

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "You have factory management and sales experience, that's enough. If you are interested, we can cooperate to establish a pharmaceutical factory, because I discovered a magic medicine with amazing effects."

Ornis asked quickly, "Is there such a medicine?"

Zhou Hexuan said: "After the performance is over, we can chat slowly."

The so-called "miracle drug" that Zhou Hexuan mentioned is called sulfonamide, the most effective antibacterial drug before the birth of penicillin, and it has miraculous effects on the treatment of meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis and other diseases.

Zhou Hexuan came to the UK this time, not only for showing off and picking up girls, he was also quietly inquiring about penicillin and sulfonamide, the result surprised him very much.

Just half a year ago, a German chemist synthesized a red dye called "Pernadox", which was sporadically used to treat erysipelas. However, because this drug has no obvious bactericidal effect in test tubes, it has not attracted the attention of the medical community.

In fact, this compound is not difficult to obtain. It was synthesized as early as 24 years ago, but unfortunately no one realized its medical value.

Sulfa!

Although Zhou Hexuan doesn't understand medicine, someone does. He decided to invite some experts in the fields of biology, chemistry and medicine to specialize in the development of sulfa drugs, and the research results could be seen within a few months at most.

As for the famous penicillin in later generations, it was also discovered a few years ago, but penicillin is difficult to purify, so it cannot be used in clinical medicine in the short term.

After Zhou Hexuan decided to rely on sulfonamide to make a lot of money, he took out a large sum of money to support the research of penicillin. As long as he masters these two magical medicines, he will not only be able to make a lot of money, but also save the lives of countless Chinese soldiers in the future war of resistance.