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

Originally, Zhang Meng was preparing to severely punish Yang Chen, but senior officials from the Second Heavy Industry of Datang went to the Daming Palace to plead with Zhang Meng. From their standpoint, Yang Chen was hateful, but he made great contributions to the Second Heavy Industry of Datang, and his contribution to the Tang Empire was obvious to all.

The senior executives of Second Heavy Industry didn't care about anything that was evil or not. In their eyes, humanity was more than a cent, especially the lives and death of foreigners had nothing to do with them. The reason they protected Yang Chen was purely for the economic interests of Second Heavy Industry, and Zhang Meng was eventually convinced, and he also cared about the national interests of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng quickly looked at the problem from his standpoint. The Tang Empire held the world's top medical patents and was also the world's top medical device manufacturing base, supplying 70% of the world's medical equipment market. If the main drug sales are controlled, it will completely monopolize the global medical market.

When he thought that billions of people around the world needed to use medicines produced by the Tang Empire, this huge profit immediately made Zhang Meng make a choice. For the sake of money, Zhang Meng turned a blind eye.

In this way, European and American countries are in trouble. In order to fight against the large-scale spread of influenza and avian influenza, they had to order scarce medical and medical devices from major pharmaceutical factories under the Tang Empire Second Heavy Industry. Datang Second Heavy Industry also took the opportunity to raise prices, making the drugs comparable to gold prices, and earned billions of Tang Yuan in just a few months.

At the same time, the European and American meat products caused by avian influenza have been further shortened. This has enabled the meat processed products of the Tang Empire to fully capture the European and American meat food markets, becoming a popular product that people from all over the United States and have won brand benefits. At the same time, the Tang Empire also issued a decree that prohibits the export of primary products such as raw meat. In order to obtain greater profits, all raw meat products are processed into high-end meat industry finished products exported.

In order to control the origin of raw meat, the Tang Empire signed a treaty on animal husbandry protection with Australia. The Tang Empire regarded Australia as the source of meat, and invested 3 billion yuan to set up more livestock farms in Australia and provide 100,000 jobs for Australians. In exchange for Australia's exemption or reduction of tariffs on raw meat exports to the Tang Empire, in order to achieve a win-win situation between the Tang and Austrian countries.

However, the competition is still very fierce. European and American countries also tried to obtain raw meat from Australia for supply. Especially the United Kingdom, in the name of the Federation, pressuring Australia to give priority to supply raw meat to the United Kingdom in order to reduce the competitive pressure of meat processing companies in the Tang Empire against their British counterparts. But in the end, Australia did not succumb to Britain's tyranny. In addition to the British's stingy without the generosity of the Tang Empire, more importantly, it is because of geopolitics. After the British military force evacuated from the Pacific Ocean, the Tang Empire became the most powerful military existence in Oceania. The Tang and Austria countries were close together. The Australian government had to consider its relationship with the Tang Empire, which was much more important than the British-Austrian relations that were thousands of miles away.

After the failed competition between Australia and the Tang Empire, European and American countries turned their attention to other Asian countries, such as China and India. These two countries are also major meat-producing countries, especially China. Food is the most important thing for the people, and the Chinese are delicious. They have a strong source of raw meat.

Originally, Datang Second Heavy Industry also thought about letting the flu spread in China, but this idea was wiped out by Zhang Meng as soon as it was born. No matter what, his comrades could not be harmed. At this time, the bottom line cannot be violated.

Seeing that the National Government announced that the country would sign a contract for raw meat supply with which country was given a high price, the Tang Empire was angry because the Tang Empire also wrote to the National Government and asked the National Government to sign a contract with the Tang Dynasty. However, the National Government was very dissatisfied with the Tang Empire because Chiang Kai-shek had always planned to use the economic and military aid given to the National Government by the Tang Empire to suppress the Communist Party, but he was repeatedly threatened by the Tang Empire. He was very unhappy, so he hoped to cooperate with other countries to obtain funds to continue suppressing the Communist Party.

The National Government rejected the request of the Tang Empire, which made Zhang Meng very unhappy, so he summoned the ministers to discuss countermeasures, and finally had to adopt the most shameless method, which was to use the powerful naval and air force of the Tang Empire to completely block the coast of China, with the reason being that the war against Japan blocked all possible supplies that could fund 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 going to war with Japan, and the battlefield was placed in Taiwan, and it was reasonable to block the Chinese coastline and all cargo ships in and out. But this was obviously intentional. European and American countries are not a monolithic, especially Germany, Italy and the Tang Empire are allies. If they do not come forward, other countries are forced to give up the idea of ​​obtaining raw meat from China for supplying sources.

Therefore, in the competition in the global meat market, the Tang Empire won again. This was a good thing for the Tang Empire, because it was not easy for the Tang Empire to open a breakthrough in the international market shortly after its founding, but now it has achieved great achievements in arms, medicine, and meat processing, which is a good thing. However, the strong rise of any country will inevitably break the original international balance. Other countries are not willing to be involved in a limited piece of cake and eaten by the Tang Empire. The rise of the Tang Empire is so strong that it will inevitably cause greater economic and trade frictions between countries in the future. The rise of a country is either a peaceful rise or a war rise. In most cases, peaceful rise is almost impossible, which also lays an irregular hidden danger for the future of the Tang Empire.

The battlefield in Taiwan has been fighting for more than half a year, but it still has not ended. The Tang Empire originally planned to sweep Taiwan Island in three months, but now it has only occupied half of Taiwan Island. The fronts of the Tang Army's First Marine Division and the Third Marine Division in the east advanced to Hualien, and the Tang Army's Second Marine Division, the Fourth Marine Division and the Fifth Marine Division in the west advanced to Changhua. The Tang Army's east-west army planned to return to Taichung, but the Japanese army fought to the death, relying on the favorable terrain of a man who was in a pass near Taichung, which was a favorable terrain that was unblocked by tens of thousands of men. This stalemate lasted for three months, which prevented the Tang Army from advancing.

The combat effectiveness of the Tang army, the strength of the Tang Marine Corps is comparable to that of special forces, and is considered to be advanced weapons and equipment. The combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is almost seven or eight times that of the Japanese army, and the overall combat power is more than ten times higher than that of the Japanese army. However, what troubles the Tang army's advance is the miasma problem in Taichung. After more than half of the Tang army entered Taiwan Island, the impact of this miasma on the Tang army is increasing day by day. If the Tang army had not had enough medical supplies, the number of non-combat reductions would have exceeded half. Even so, nearly 10,000 people in the Tang army were forced to withdraw from the battle and rest in the rear. The Japanese army on the front line did not fight head-on with the Tang army at all. They hid in caves and trees, and were very scattered. The Tang army spent every day capturing caves, and the rainy season had not passed, and the heavy rain made the battle very difficult.

However, over the past six months of fighting, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties. More than six divisions were crippled, with more than 100,000 casualties. The Tang army was not considered to be a non-combat reduction, with less than 3,000 casualties.

The key factor in this result is also the result of several large-scale air battles over Taiwan by Tang Ri, three large air battles and more than a dozen small air battles. The Tang army destroyed all Japanese airports in Taiwan at the slight cost of losing thirteen aircraft, shooting down more than 700 Japanese aircraft, leaving the Japanese army without aircraft support over Taiwan and completely losing air supremacy.
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