Greece’s Roman Road

Seeing that Terry Kupis agreed, Constantine turned around and arranged for the two new employees;

"Nina, Dr. Philip, one of you is in charge of technical aspects, the other is in charge of administrative management, and the factory will be handed over to you."

"In work, we should pay special attention to the establishment of a confidentiality system, minimize the number of personnel who know the overall production process, and let employees only engage in a specific operation in a certain step."

Constantine asked worriedly.

"The two steps of production and sales can be separated, and the production personnel are only in charge of production, and the sales personnel are only in charge of sales, which can reduce the risk of leaking secrets and make it easier to manage." Nina put forward her own suggestion.

Constantine also felt that it made sense to do so, and nodded in agreement.

"For the sake of confidentiality, you can actually make a fuss in the raw materials." As a technician, Dr. Philip also proposed a method to strengthen the confidentiality from a technical point of view.

"For example, you can add some plants that are completely ineffective and do not affect the active ingredients, and add them before extraction," Philip said.

"This is also to make it more difficult for others to decipher the secret of artemisinin. After all, if it is just pure artemisinin extract, the risk of being deciphered is too great. Adding some invalid substances can disrupt the attention of malicious researchers. The degree is almost a geometric increase”

"Anyway, this work, Dr. Nina and Philip, let's work together. This is our common cause."

Constantine encouraged the two of them.

"Regarding the choice of sales location, Constantine, I still advise you to be conservative and mainly sell in Greece and the Congo. The Germans and Dutch who monopolize quinine are powerful, so don't stimulate them positively for the time being." , Nina said.

After a few months of training in the head office of the Greek Congo, Nina has frequent contact with those business elites every day, and she has enriched her knowledge a lot.

Hearing this, Constantine lowered his head and pondered, no matter when, monopoly oligarchs are not easy to mess with.

As for what it means to carry out legitimate business competition and abide by the spirit of the contract under the constraints of the rules, this kind of high-sounding remarks, just listen to it, don't take it too seriously.

Look at the shady tricks that Rockefeller's Oil Trust used in order to monopolize the U.S. oil market.

Shopping malls are like battlefields. Under the stimulation of huge profits, no matter how indiscriminate tricks, they will appear in the shopping malls.

It's like bribing the top managers of competitors, always knowing each other's decisions, dispatching gangsters, gangsters, assassinating, intimidating competitors, and forcing them to surrender control of the enterprise.

Such means are also indispensable means for Mr. Rockefeller to make a fortune.

The Dutch and Germans monopolize the quinine market, forming a solid alliance of interests, enjoying huge profits every year.

The Dutch control the origin of quinine's raw material, cinchona bark (East Indies), while the Germans control the chemical technology for extracting quinine.

When the two cooperated, the money was very good.

Now there are new drugs for malaria suddenly appearing on the market, competing with them for the market, and the price is low.

It is impossible for them to calmly divide the market that was originally all their own with their competitors.

There is no reason to argue for interests.

"Well. You can figure it out. It's best not to have a direct conflict with them first," Constantine said.

"In addition, you have to take out a part of the shares to circulate on the Athens Stock Exchange. If the big families in the country are interested, you can also let them participate in the shares, and try to let the domestic people share the profits of artemisinin. ', said Constantine.

The reason for this is to find more alliances of interest for yourself.

Constantine intends to unite everyone in this way, so that Greece can be tied together, and the protection of artemisinin production technology will eventually become the will of the entire Greek people.

Everyone has the same interests, and naturally they have the obligation to contribute to the protection of the production process of artemisinin.

If the secret is leaked, everyone's interests will also be damaged.

Otherwise, Constantine would not only have to beware of foreign malicious forces and pay attention to artemisinin, but also be careful of the prying eyes of those who are attracted by domestic interests.

Constantine is the Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara, so I'm afraid he can't be too busy.

"Go, protect the secrets of Greece, just as the Greeks used to protect the secrets of Greek fire," Constantine ordered.

The so-called Greek fire is a secret weapon invented by the Eastern Romans. It once played an important role on the battlefield, especially in naval battles.

For example, in 717, during the war against Arabia, a fleet of Arabs tried to block the Golden Horn. The Eastern Roman Emperor Leo III immediately ordered the fleet to fight, and used Greek fire to burn down twenty Arab warships, while the rest of the warships were captured.

The great power of the Greek fire caused panic in the Arab navy.

In this siege, the Arab army used a total of 2,560 ships, but only 5 returned to Syria and Alexandria.

The soldiers who were attacked by Greek fire once wrote this record: "Whenever the enemy attacks us with Greek fire, all they do is kneel down and pray for God's salvation."

The power of Greek fire can be seen in general.

What exactly is Greek fire is still a mystery, and the method of making Greek fire has also been lost.

From beginning to end, the secret of Greek fire was firmly in the hands of the Greeks.

Constantine said this because he wanted the two of them to protect the secret of artemisinin like the Greeks kept the secret of Greek fire~www.wuxiax.com~.

Having said that, the two left the prime minister's office, and the meeting room fell silent.

"About the Greek industry, especially the steel industry, Mr. Prime Minister, do you have any good ideas?" Constantine asked.

In the industrialization of modern countries, steel is a threshold that cannot be bypassed no matter what.

The embarrassing thing is that there is neither hard coal nor iron ore in Greece. If you want to build a steel plant, you can only import coal and iron from abroad.

This brings up another problem. Even if such steel is produced, it will not have any competitiveness, because the price is too high.

This is not the 21st century. Whether it is the transportation of coal or iron ore, transport ships with a displacement of hundreds of thousands of tons can be delivered to you economically.

In sea transportation, the larger the tonnage of the vessel, the lower the transportation cost per unit weight.

This is also the reason why ocean-going oil tankers of 300,000 to 400,000 tons appeared.

Compared with these behemoths, the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier is still a younger brother.

However, the cargo ships of the late 19th century had a relatively large displacement, that is, a scale of several thousand tons. Ships of this scale were used to transport coal and iron. Such huge demand for basic industrial raw materials and the transportation cost per unit made anyone Stunned.

To smelt steel by means of imported coal and iron ore, frankly speaking, it is not as good as directly importing steel, and it is better to buy it.

Every time he thought of this, Constantine felt a headache.

Therefore, I would like to hear Trikupis' opinion on steel construction.

As an evergreen tree in Greek politics, Trikupis, who has always advocated the development of the country's industry and commerce, must have considered this issue.

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