Zhang Meng's suspicion was correct, and Tan Jincheng told him the situation after investigating.

Originally, Zhang Meng was ready to severely punish Yang Chen, but the high-level leaders from Datang Second Heavy Industry went to Daming Palace to plead with Zhang Meng. From their standpoint, although Yang Chen is hateful, he has made great contributions to the Second Heavy Industry of the Tang Dynasty, and his contribution to the Tang Empire is also obvious to all.

The senior management of the second heavy industry does not care about what is evil or not, humanity is more than a penny in their eyes, especially the life and death of foreigners have nothing to do with them. The reason why they protected Yang Chen was purely for the economic interests of the Second Heavy Industry, and in the end, Zhang Meng was also convinced, and what he also cared about was the national interests of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng quickly stood in his position to see the problem, the Tang Empire holds the top pharmaceutical patent rights in the whole Shijie, and it is also the top medical device manufacturing base in the whole Shijie, supplying 70% of the medical equipment market in the whole Shijie, if the main drug sales are controlled, then it will completely monopolize the global medical market.

Thinking that the billions of people in Shijie needed to use the medicines produced in the Tang Empire, this huge profit suddenly made Zhang Meng make a choice, and for the sake of the banknotes, Zhang Meng turned a blind eye.

In order to fight against the large-scale spread of influenza and avian flu, they had to order drugs and medical devices in short supply from the major pharmaceutical factories under the Second Heavy Industry of the Datang Empire on a large scale, and Datang Second Heavy Industry also took the opportunity to raise prices, making the drugs comparable to the price of gold, and billions of Tang Yuan were received in just a few months.

At the same time, there is a further shortage of meat products in Europe and the United States caused by avian influenza. As a result, the meat processing products of the Tang Empire have been able to fully conquer the European and American meat food markets, and have become popular products that people from European and American countries compete to buy, and have played a brand benefit. Meanwhile. The Tang Empire also issued a decree prohibiting the export of raw meat and other primary products, and in order to obtain greater profits, all raw meat products were processed into high-grade meat industrial products for export.

In order to control the origin of raw meat, the Tang Empire signed a livestock protection treaty with Australia, and the Tang Empire regarded Australia as a source of meat, at the cost of investing 3 billion Tang Yuan to set up more livestock farms in Australia and provide 100,000 jobs for Australians. In exchange, Australia will reduce or reduce tariffs on the export of raw meat to the Tang Empire, so as to achieve a win-win situation for Tang and Austria.

Still, the competition is fierce. Countries in Europe and the United States are also trying to obtain raw meat supplies from Australia. In particular, the United Kingdom has put pressure on Australia in the name of the Commonwealth to give priority to the supply of raw meat to the United Kingdom, in order to reduce the competitive pressure on the meat processing enterprises of the Tang Empire against their British counterparts. But in the end, Australia did not succumb to British coercion. Except that the British did not pull out a dime a dime, without the generosity of the Tang Empire. More importantly because of geopolitics. After the British military liliang withdrew from the Pacific, the Tang Empire became the most powerful military presence in Oceania, and the two countries were close together, and the Australian government had to consider the relationship with the Tang Empire, which was much more important than the Anglo-Austrian relationship thousands of miles away.

After failing to compete with the Tang Empire, Europe and the United States turned their attention to other Asian countries, such as China and India. These two countries are also big meat producers, especially China. The people take food as the sky, and the Chinese are delicious. There is a strong supply of raw meat.

Originally, Datang No. 2 Heavy Industry also thought about letting the flu spread in China, but this idea was extinguished by Zhang Meng as soon as it was born.

Seeing that the Nationalist Government announced that it would sign a contract for the supply of raw meat with whichever country gave the highest price, the Tang Empire felt angry, because the Tang Empire also sent a note to the Nationalist Government and demanded that the Nationalist Government could only sign a contract with the Datang. However, the Nationalist Government was very dissatisfied with the Tang Empire, because Jiang Zhongzheng had always planned to use the economic and military assistance given by the Tang Empire to the Nationalist Government to suppress the Communists, but he was repeatedly threatened by the Tang Empire, and he was very unhappy, so this time he hoped to cooperate with other countries to obtain funds to continue to suppress the Communists.

The Nationalist government rejected the demands of the Tang Empire, which made Zhang Meng very unhappy, so he summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures, and Zuihou had to take the most shameless method, that is, to use the powerful naval and air forces of the Tang Empire to completely blockade the Chinese coast, on the grounds that the war against Japan blocked all possible supplies to finance the Japanese army.

The Tang Empire's move immediately made European and American countries very annoyed, but there was no way, the Tang Empire was indeed at war with Japan, the battlefield was in Taiwan, and it was reasonable to blockade China's coastline and all incoming and outgoing cargo ships. But this is obviously deliberate, European and American countries are not monolithic, especially Germany and Italy are allies with the Tang Empire, they do not come forward, and other countries are forced to give up the idea of obtaining raw meat from China.

As a result, in the competition in the global meat market, the Tang Empire won again. This is a good thing for the Tang Empire, because the Tang Empire was founded not long ago, and it is not easy to open a breakthrough in the international market, but now it has made great achievements in arms, medicine, and meat processing, which is a good thing. It's just that the strong rise of any country will inevitably break the original international balance, and other countries are not willing to have a limited piece of cake and be eaten by the Tang Empire, and the rise of the Tang Empire is so strong, so it will inevitably cause greater economic and trade frictions between countries in the future. And the rise of a country is either a peaceful rise or a war rise, and in most cases it is almost impossible to rise peacefully, which also buries an unscheduled hidden danger for the future of the Tang Empire.

The Taiwan battlefield has been fought for more than half a year, but it still has not ended. The Tang Empire originally swept the island of Taiwan in three months, but now it has only occupied half of the island, and the troops of the 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions of the Eastern Tang Army advanced to Hualien, and the 2nd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions of the Western Tang Army advanced to the Changhua line. The Tang Army's eastern and western armies returned to Taichung, but the Japanese army resisted desperately, relying on the favorable terrain of the mountains near Taichung to block the Tang Army, which lasted for three months, making the Tang Army unable to advance an inch.

The combat effectiveness of the Datang Marine Corps is comparable to that of special forces, and it is regarded as advanced weapons and equipment, and its individual combat effectiveness is almost seven or eight times that of the Japanese army, and the overall combat strength is more than ten times higher than that of the Japanese army. However, what plagued the Tang Army's advance was the problem of miasma in the Taichung area, and the Tang Army's marines had been on the island of Taiwan for more than half a year, and the impact of this miasma on the Tang Army was increasing day by day. Even so, nearly 10,000 Tang troops were forced to withdraw from the battle and rest in the rear, the Japanese troops on the front line did not engage the Tang army head-on at all, they hid in caves and trees, and were very scattered, the Tang army spent every day in the capture of caves, and the rainy season has not yet passed, and the torrential rain makes the battle very difficult.

However, during the fighting for more than half a year, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, with more than six divisions and regiments being disabled, with more than 100,000 dead and wounded, while the Tang Army did not count non-combat attrition, with less than 3,000 killed.

The key factor that brought about this result also lay in the results of several large-scale air battles over Taiwan between the Tang and Japanese forces, three large air battles and more than a dozen small air battles, in which the Tang army destroyed all the Japanese airfields in Taiwan at a small cost of losing 13 planes and shot down more than 700 Japanese planes, so that the Japanese army had no aircraft support over Taiwan and completely lost air supremacy.

Another reason is that the Japanese Navy has not rushed to the Taiwan battlefield for reinforcements, the Japanese Navy in order to save the only navy Liliang, did not dare to fight a head-on battle with the Datang Navy, the only aircraft carrier battle group of the Japanese Navy commanded by Onodera Itsunori has been wandering near the Ryukyu Islands, the Datang Navy went to pursue them and ran, and when they returned, they chased them back, in this case, the Datang Navy did not dare to easily carry out landing operations in the Taipei area, and the Jihua of the Japanese army in Taiwan from the north and south could not carry it out for a long time. In the end, the Japanese army held on to the Tang Army in the Taichung area. (To be continued......)