Chapter 928: The End of the Wang Family
With the strains and research materials brought back by Lao Song from the United States, the Meng'an Institute's research on "penicillin" is not worse than that of the United States.
Although American pharmaceutical companies have completed research on related mass production technologies, clinical applications have also achieved very shocking results.
Penicillin has begun mass production and is supplied to the military in small batches.
This antibiotic with extremely strong efficacy has caused a sensation in the medical community all over the world once it was launched. A penicillin of 400,000 units can be bought with equal weight of gold.
If you count the shipping costs and various factors, if you buy a penicillin in China, at the beginning, the black market price was a yellow croaker.
Of course, Meng'an Company has also developed the research, but the technology was sealed by Lu Xiyan, and all the Chinese technicians involved in the research were sent out of Shanghai by Lu Xiyan through various means.
Even Laura and his wife had been sent to Yan'an long ago and brought a large amount of research materials.
Subsequently, the research department was quietly cut off into an empty shell in the Meng'an Institute, and the main focus of the research institute is infectious disease vaccines and prevention and control.
This is basically the same as the Pasteur Institute at the time, with little changes.
Huo Xiaoyu replaced Laura as the director of the institute, and Ke Mo also grew from an assistant researcher to a backbone force in the institute. Huo Xiaoyu was originally responsible for the vaccine research on cholera and plague, which was taken over by Ke Mo.
The artificial synthesis of quinine has been successful, but due to the limitations of chemical raw materials and equipment, the purity has not been very high, and there will be some side effects in clinical practice.
But it is relatively cheap and has a very powerful effect on treating malaria in ordinary people and in the military.
The flagship products of Anping Pharmaceutical Factory are sulfonamide series drugs and artificial quinine. In addition, there are some Western medicine production.
Without Anping Pharmaceuticals, Meng'an Company would have been unable to hold on and went bankrupt, and even Fanxing Investment would have benefited a lot from it.
Fanxing Children's Hospital and Orphanage are getting bigger and bigger, and it is impossible to sustain through social donations alone. Without Anping Pharmaceutical's blood transfusion, it would have been impossible to handle it long ago.
Lu Xiyan has too many places to use money. In fact, on the surface, he is a senator from Shanghai, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, and many other titles. He is very glamorous. In fact, he is not a rich man in his bones.
You can imagine that a rich man like him has not purchased any new clothes for two years, and the same is true for Meng Fanxing. Unless he attends necessary events, those precious dresses are usually placed under the box.
The price of goods is very high, and Japan also rations daily necessities, which is very difficult for ordinary people to eat three meals a day.
All industries are in a state of depression.
There were originally three cars in Lu Xiyan's family. The two Ford's bulletproof cars were picked up by Zhou Fuhai, and there were two left. He and Meng Fanxing usually had the same car, so he tried to calculate the time, including picking up and dropping off two children to school.
Gasoline is very expensive and scarce. Even if Lu Xiyan has the channels to get some, he can save money and use it. In some aspects, he can save as much as possible.
The family's food expenses have increased several times, but the food on the table has been getting worse every year, which is enough to show how difficult it is for the people to live in Shanghai occupied by the Japanese army.
After Lin Shiqun's death, the No. 76 agent headquarters was reorganized and a political security bureau was established. Zhou Fuhai wanted to control this agent team and proposed that his confidant Luo Junqiang take over as the director. However, Wang and the Japanese side found that Zhou was too powerful. If they were in control of the spy organization, they would be too big.
Later, a man named Huang Ziqiang took over this position, and Wan Lilang and Hu Junhe served as his deputy respectively. One of them was from the Military Commission and the other from the Central Commission for Discipline. Both of them had some strength in the past secret service headquarters. The two joined forces to divide the sphere of influence, one was based on Shanghai and the other was based on Nanjing, which undermined Huang Ziqiang.
In a blink of an eye, another year was another. Not long after New Year's Day in 1944, Zhou Fuhai suddenly called him one night and said he wanted to treat him to a meal.
Lu Xiyan couldn't guess what Zhou Fuhai was suddenly having a "dinner"? Although he had a close relationship with Zhou Fuhai, he was not very diligent when walking with each other.
However, Meng Fanxing is closer to Zhou’s wife Yang Shuhui.
Zhou is also a wind and seed, making a lot of jokes, and Yang Shuhui is not a big-bellied person. She made a lot of troubles several times, and Meng Fanxing was in the middle to mediate a lot.
After a while, Yang Shuhui and Meng Fanxing had a very good relationship. If you have any worries, they would tell Meng Fanxing, especially some important information about Wang Puppet.
Meng Fanxing has obtained a lot of information about Wang Puppet through Yang Shuhui in the past two years, among which the "clearing the countryside" intelligence helps to avoid the loss of a large number of personnel and materials.
Of course, this information was secretly polished by Lu Xiyan and then passed it out after changing the source. Therefore, the Japanese and puppet parties could not find out that the information was leaked by the wife of the third person of the Wang Puppet.
At the agreed time, Lu Xiyan went to the appointment. Without taking anyone else, he brought Xiaole alone, the driver and bodyguard.
Zhou Fuhai's pomp was much bigger than his, but the dinner tonight was quite low-key. He chose a not-so-conspicuous restaurant in an alley on Yuyuan Road. It is said that the dishes are pretty good, and a restaurant specializing in Hunan cuisine.
"Brother Zhou, are there only two of us at the dinner party today?" He was a little surprised to see that only two dishes were visited on the small round table.
He didn't have many meals with Zhou Fuhai, but there were also quite a few. For family banquets, Yang Shuhui and Meng Fanxing attended every time. If it was a banquet in other aspects, Zhou would definitely bring some of his confidants, such as his wife's brother-in-law, Luo Junqiang and others. Almost rarely did two people eat alone.
At this time, it seems a little unusual.
After three rounds of wine, five flavors of dishes.
"Brother Xiyan, you expert in this field, I want to ask you to help me with a medical record." Zhou Fuhai still trusts Lu Xiyan very much, because Lu Xiyan is very strict, but never makes political demands. It is much better than the greedy faces around him.
"Where is Brother Zhou feeling uncomfortable? Can I help you arrange a whole body examination?" Lu Xiyan was shocked. Zhou Fuhai invited him to dinner, just to see a doctor?
"No, you misunderstood. It's not me, it's the person here." Zhou Fuhai gently tapped the document bag containing a thick stack of medical records.
Lu Xiyan nodded and took out the medical history from the file bag with the "top secret" written on it. A thick copy was a thick stack of X-rays, and there were as many as seven or eight, as well as various examination reports. Japanese accounts for the vast majority. Lu Xiyan saw the names of several familiar Japanese doctors. These people are famous in the medical field.
The test form issued by these people in person is enough to show that the identity of the owner of this medical record is very unusual. Of course, there is no name of the relevant person on the medical record, only a simple physical overview, height, age, and weight.
Without these, doctors cannot judge the patient's physical condition as a whole. The physical examination report of a twenty-year-old person is completely different from that of a forty-year-old person, which is also common medical knowledge.
Lu Xiyan took a random X-ray, took a look under the light, and immediately guessed whose medical records Zhou Fuhai showed him.
This is a hot potato!
Lu Xiyan's mind was running rapidly. If he dealt with it improperly tonight, it might cause him a lot of trouble.
Why did Zhou Fuhai show him this medical record? Does he want to take action or have another purpose?
Zhou and Chongqing have already colluded deeply, and the battle situation is becoming clearer now. Zhou and this person had conflicts openly and secretly, and now it is even more impossible to get together.
Zhou had already paved the way for him, otherwise he would not have agreed to the Military Control Commission and used the Japanese to get rid of Lin Shiqun.
"Brother Zhou, this is an old injury. It's been eight or nine years. Is this person not paralyzed?" Lu Xiyan looked one by one, and after nearly ten minutes of looking, he asked.
"Well, brother Xiyan, can the bullet on his spine be removed by surgery?" Zhou Fuhai asked.
"If his injury happened now, there might be 30% hope." Lu Xiyan said, "From the X-ray taken a month ago, his bone marrow swelling is already very serious. I am afraid that it will affect the central nervous system soon, and then you will feel paralyzed on both legs and then paralyzed."
"Can it be cured?" Zhou Fuhai asked slowly with the wine glass in his hand slightly tilted, put it on the table.
"Yes, but if you want to cure it completely, you can basically not do it." Lu Xiyan thought for a moment. All the diseases in the world can be cured. If they cannot be cured well, that's another thing. As a doctor, you must not give the patients any hope. Sometimes even a little comfort is fine.
"If you were to treat it, how much hope?" Zhou Fuhai took a deep breath, his body slowly leaned forward, and asked Lu Xiyan solemnly.
"I haven't seen a specific patient, so I can't guarantee it, but according to the examination results I have seen now, it will not worsen after the operation and will be able to live for at least five to ten years." Lu Xiyan thought seriously.
"Can you guarantee it?"
"No, he was hit by a lead bullet. Toxins have penetrated into the bone marrow and affected his spinal nervous system. Even if the operation is successful and he survives, he may have to lie on the hospital bed for the rest of his life." Lu Xiyan said.
He noticed that when he heard him say this, Zhou Fuhai obviously made a "relieved" move.
Lu Xiyan understood. Zhou Fuhai was afraid that he didn't want this person to survive. This was much easier, and he felt relieved.
"My medical records will be kept confidential by Brother Xiyan tonight and should not be mentioned to anyone." Zhou Fuhai put the medical records into the file bag and solemnly asked.
"I understand, we as doctors will never disclose the privacy of patients." Lu Xiyan nodded.
"Thank you!"
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When he returned home, Lu Xiyan asked Lao Ma to find out all the recent news reports about the Wang Puppet in Nanjing and read them one by one.
In the end, he made a clue that the report about Wang was gone half a month ago, and those attending some important meetings were either Chen Zhibo or Zhou Fuhai.
It is obvious that Wang's health is not good, but the news is blocked.
Chapter completed!