On a remote island in the South Pacific, deep in the dense tropical rainforest, under a volcano with a low altitude, the Tang Empire built a secret base there. It is unknown to the world, and even the senior officials of the Tang Empire know that there is such a place. Its codenamed District 51 is the 51 secret laboratory of the Tang Empire National Laboratory.

Unlike other laboratories, the laboratory of District 51 is a biological virus. Taking the Spanish influenza that appeared in the late stage of World War I as the research original, a very small number of diseased strains left by medical colleges around the world were obtained for cultivation experiments.

Accidents are always inevitable. The key is to deal with accidents in a timely manner and dealing with accidents can prevent the spread of the virus to the greatest extent possible, otherwise it will be extremely harmful.

Zhang Meng ordered emergency measures as soon as he learned that the accident had occurred to isolate and treat all people exposed to the virus. Due to insufficient preparations for anti-Qing, some people died without medication.

However, in the end, the 51th District returned to peace. Only a few people outside knew that an accident had occurred. The 51th District was still full of mystery.

Since state secrets were involved, only a few people participated in the accident investigation and kept it secret, the case was quickly closed, which was attributed to ordinary accident handling.

However, what is unknown is that this accident in District 51 was not accidental, but someone hoped to obtain virus strains and serum antibodies to seek huge benefits.

This matter is related to Yang Chen, the manager of a pharmaceutical company under Datang Third Heavy Industry. His nephew is an assistant to a foreign virology expert. He once revealed the content about the mysterious District 51 when he was drunk. Yang Chen knew that District 51 was the state secret of the Tang Empire and he was also patriotic, so he did not talk to the outside world. But as the manager of a pharmaceutical company, the amount of drugs sold and the profits were the key to measuring his own strength.

Yang Chen also wanted to climb up, and he wanted to take the high position of the Third Heavy Industry, so he needed to create performance to defeat his competitors. For drug sales, the most expected is that someone gets sick, and only he can provide the medicine that can cure the disease. Just as the umbrella seller hopes that it will rain every day, Yang Chen then found a way to get the virus strain and antibody serum samples through his nephew, but the inspection in Zone 51 was very strict. There was no way to start.

In the end, Yang Chen asked his nephew to take the risk and deliberately create an accident to make the virus strain spread. Then his nephew collected samples of the virus strain from his infected colleagues, and lied that he was also infected, thus obtaining antibody serum.

After Yang Chen obtained the virus strain and serum, he immediately received funding from the company in the name of developing new drugs to produce antiviral serum on a large scale. When the quantity reached a certain scale, he sent someone to quietly carry the virus strain named h1n1 to Europe and the United States. He did not dare to spread the virus strain in the Tang Empire, nor did he go to China crazy. He wanted to spread it to Japan to spread it to kill the Japanese devils, but he thought that the Tang Empire could not provide medicine to the Japanese and would not make money and get results. At the same time, Japan was too close to China and could easily infect the Chinese, so he gave up.

In the end, Yang Chen sent people to spread the virus in the United States and Europe, and he knew that Westerners were rich.

At first, the spread was very slow. Westerners went to the hospital for treatment as soon as they found a cold and headache. Although the doctors in the hospital did not know about the h1n1 virus, they treated them as severe colds. They quickly improved after injection and medication. Only a very small number of people died after they had no time to seek medical treatment. This situation is very common all over the world, so no one cared about it.

Three months later, the flu season was already over, but more and more people were getting flu, and hospitals in Europe and the United States were overcrowded. The drugs that originally treated colds could only delay the condition but could not be cured. Health departments in Europe and the United States took it seriously and sent invitation letters to ask major pharmaceutical companies to help develop targeted therapeutic drugs.

At this time, Yang Chen finally waited for the opportunity and sent a large number of professional salesmen to sell the medicines he had secretly hoarded to major hospitals in Europe and the United States. It quickly achieved remarkable results, and the patient's condition was immediately controlled and began to improve.

As a result, more and more European and American hospitals placed orders with the pharmaceutical company where Yang Chen worked, and the order volume surged exponentially. Yang Chen finally created a huge income of hundreds of millions of Tang Yuan for Datang Third Heavy Industry. Yang Chen's popularity suddenly became famous in the Tang Empire. The position of senior management he had envied for a long time had opened its doors to him.

However, although Datang Third Heavy Industry successfully blocked the European and American influenza that had lasted for several months by mass production of h1n1 antiviral drugs, Yang Chen did not estimate the power of the h1n1 virus. Although this virus stopped spreading in humans, it combined with traditional avian plague viruses in poultry, resulting in a large-scale plague outbreak in the European and American animal husbandry industry. Millions of cattle, sheep, and hundreds of millions of chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry were destroyed. A large manor with tens of thousands of cattle, after one cow was infected, tens of thousands of cattle were infected in less than a week and died within three days, causing the rancher to go bankrupt in an instant, which was very terrifying.

The Tang Empire also had a huge livestock and poultry breeding base, all in Australia. Although there has not yet been avian influenza outbreak in Australia, the Tang Empire immediately took measures after receiving the news to strictly monitor and disinfect all livestock farms operated by the Tang Empire to prevent infection with avian influenza.

The world's meat market has suffered a devastating blow, especially in Europe and the United States. Westerners cannot bear it if they don't eat meat every day, but the terrifying avian flu makes everyone dare not eat meat for fear of being infected.

At this time, canned meat from the Tang Empire became a best-selling product. Since avian influenza only appears in Europe and the United States, Australia is considered an isolated place, and the source of meat from the Tang Empire is obtained from Australia, so Europeans and Americans can eat it with confidence.

As a result, major meat product manufacturers under the Tang Empire Second Heavy Industry received huge orders, and the supply was in short supply. Originally, a canned beef retail price of 1.5 Tangyuan, but it rose to 3.5 Tangyuan per can in a few months. In addition, the supply was in short supply, which caused major meat processing companies under the Tang Empire Second Heavy Industry to work overtime to produce various meat products, making profits of hundreds of millions of Tangyuan. The bosses counted the money and cramped their hands.

The huge changes in Europe and the United States within half a year made the Tang Empire profit hugely and made the European and American countries jealous. However, there was a person in the Tang Empire who was very sensitive to such things, and this was Zhang Meng.

In the era when Zhang Meng lived, the avian flu mutated every day, and he would not stop worrying about being infected when eating meat. He often found out about the epidemic in a certain chicken farm. As a result, hundreds of thousands of innocent chickens and other livestock were not spared, and they were culled cleanly. That was why the chickens and dogs were not kept.

Zhang Meng knew very well that such a large-scale flu mutation should not occur in this era, otherwise it would have been recorded in history. The outbreak of this influenza was half a year after the accident in Area 51, and it was easy for people to guess that there was a connection between the two.
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