In Europe, Germany and Britain, the fierce battles over Great Britain by Britain, the United States, France and other countries have entered a normal state, and almost all European countries have been involved.

Even the United States, which pursues isolationism, has volunteers formed the "Flying Eagle" brigade to support the air battle in Britain.

Of course, in China, under the lobbying and mediation of the United States, the United States has also increased its resources to China through private channels.

Since Japan officially formed an alliance with Germany and Italy and sent troops to land in French Indochina, although France surrendered to Germany and France and Japan are now considered allies, Japan's move is obviously to attack Britain, the United States and France in Southeast Asia.

Of course, under the "***" strategy they proposed, the slogan "Asia is Asian", was actually to drive away Britain and France's colonization of Southeast Asian countries and replace them with them.

Japan's ambitions are obvious. They want to try their best to get rid of domestic difficulties and plunder a large amount of wealth and resources from other countries to maintain the subsequent war and consumption.

Two more months have passed.

Due to the intermediate merger and acquisition of Pasteur Research Institute, the research department of Meng'an Company was independent, the relocation of relevant research offices and the integration of teams, etc.

The Pasteur Institute was officially renamed the Meng'an Institute.

Lu Xiyan presided over the integration of the institute's team and determined the three major research directions of the Meng'an Institute in the future. The "sulfonamide" drug follow-up development laboratory led by Shizuka Fujimoto, which is the company's current flagship products and profits.

It turns out that the infectious disease prevention and control vaccine research team led by Willman, chief scientist of the institute, focuses on the prevention and control of cholera and tuberculosis.

Then Huo Xiaoyu's team is mainly engaged in the development of new drugs, the existing "quinine" artificial synthesis research team, and the research on new antibacterial drugs.

The director of the Meng'an Institute is Laura after giving birth, while Huo Xiaoyu serves as the deputy director, and the chief scientist is Willman of the Pasteur Institute.

After Lu Xiyan acquired the Pasteur Institute, he announced that the annual investment in the institute will not be less than US$3 million, and will be at least 10% growth rate each year.

Moreover, Lu Xiyan also spent tens of millions of dollars to rebuild the new Meng'an Research Institute, redesign and plan, and also transferred the research institute's production factory, purchased a large amount of new research equipment, and eliminated some old equipment.

Where does the money come from?

Lu Xiyan invested almost all the profits he earned in the sales of sulfonamide drugs into the transformation and expansion of the institute, and recruited talents all over the world.

The eliminated old research equipment is actually not unusable, and a considerable number of them can continue to be used. These equipment may be useless to the current Meng'an Research Institute, but for many domestic universities and research institutions, they are treasures that cannot be bought with money.

Of course, now the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe impose sanctions on Japan, and many high-end equipment cannot be purchased and introduced. However, this is only open and the secret smuggling path has not been cut off. Moreover, medical research equipment is more relaxed than the research, production and manufacturing of weapons.

Furthermore, many European countries are now occupied by Germany, and the equipment of universities and research institutions in Germany is despised by Germans. If they are piled up in the laboratory and eat dust, it is better to sell it and make some money.

It is much easier to import related research equipment from Germany. After all, Japan and Germany are now an alliance, and Shanghai is under the control of Japan.

Another thing is that the Japanese side is happy to see it. The more money and effort Lu Xiyan spent at the Meng'an Institute in Shanghai, the less he would give up or leave easily.

Shanghai has long been recognized by the Japanese as its forbidden property. Everything you have in this city is your own, so how could they Kalu Xiyan?

Moreover, Lu Xiyan has not restricted Japanese scientific researchers from joining the Meng'an Institute. Such "friendly" people are naturally welcomed and appreciated.

Therefore, the Chinese in the newspaper scolded Lu Xiyan more fiercely, and the Japanese and puppets sang praises to him in the newspaper, with all kinds of honors and invitations.

Lu Xiyan naturally has a temper and does not want any honor. Anyone who has nothing to do with his job will be refused. As for the meetings invited to attend, except those related to medical work, they will attend, but do not speak, indicating that he is young and has insufficient qualifications to show his low-keyness and modesty.

This very slutty attitude made the Japanese more and more respectful to him.

This is how the Japanese people are. If you have the ability and strength, they want to offer you. If you have no use to them and have no strength, they will not look at you at all, and will trample your dignity and life on the ground.

In this way, 1940 passed quickly.

In the middle of January, the "Southern Anhui Incident" that shocked China and the world happened. When Lu Xiyan heard the news, he felt extremely shocked and sad.

If you fight with your family, your relatives will hurt you and your enemies will be happy. Can the Kuomintang authorities in Chongqing actually do such a thing?

For this reason, he had a fierce quarrel with Tang Jin. Of course, he was resentful of Chongqing's approach. Did he do this? In fact, some people within the Kuomintang felt that they had done it too much.

Wouldn’t this be a joke for the enemy when doing this at this time?

As for the Japanese and puppet newspapers in Shanghai, they looked like they were celebrating the New Year, and they reported this issue one after another, and some people even postponed the breakdown of the cooperation between the "KMT and the Communist Party".

The voices of criticism from Chongqing at home and abroad are higher than the other.

Of course, Lu Xiyan also sent a stern telegram to the Second Department of the Military Order as a "military advisor", questioning why Shangfeng provoked internal strife at this time?

The "military advisor" is not the Kuomintang, so of course there is no need to give face to the Kuomintang. This stern-worded telegram naturally made Zheng Jiemin, who became the deputy director of the Second Department, look ugly.

The first place was ordered to severely punish the "military advisor" and the Death Team.

The telegram of reprimand was sent to Lu Xiyan and others, and immediately made the information within the Death Group informed. People were angry and disappointed. In the most dangerous situation of the War of Resistance, the Kuomintang authorities still did something that they didn't take. Can such an authority still trust?

Originally, accepting "recruitment" was just to give yourself a suitable identity, and it was easier to coordinate relationships with the two governments, and basically no one valued this official.

For this matter, in addition to Tan Si, Lu Xiyan, the core members of the Death Group, convened a meeting to discuss the following decisions.

"Sir, let's do it alone and follow the Kuomintang to do things without any pleasure."

"The Kuomintang is a group of selfish villains from top to bottom. When Jiu Ge was alive, he said that at most one-third of the good people in the Kuomintang, but in power, they are indeed two-thirds of the evil people."

"Don't be excited, everyone has experienced the limitations of fighting alone. I think everyone has experienced it in these three years. Chongqing has no attitude towards this matter. If they really don't fight against Japan, then we naturally cannot fight with them. But if they continue to fight against Japan, then my opinion is to continue to endure it."

"Horse, when will you bear it?" Scar Huang San said angrily.

"Mr. I'm right. Chongqing basically cannot restrain us. The most they give us is a name. With this name, it's much easier for us to do things in Shanghai. Moreover, we don't need to get involved in the matters between them." Guo Hanjie said calmly.

"What Lao Wu said makes sense. Just do our own things well. This matter is too much involved. Mr. has already expressed his opinion. We must consider our own situation. We are now deeply involved with the two regimes. It is really not appropriate to make too much statement on this matter." Yan Lei also expressed his views cautiously.

"Brother Ding Er, what do you think?" Ding Pengfei remained silent, but everyone knew that his opinions were actually very important.

"I want to say that the gentleman's judgment has never been wrong, and this time it is obviously a fight between the same family. Even if we don't draw a clear line with Chongqing immediately, we must at least express our position and attitude." Ding Pengfei said.

Lu Xiyan nodded. According to the previous personality traits of the "military advisor", it is impossible for him to have no reaction to such things.

"I know everyone's attitude and opinions. What I mean is to wait for the development of things and then express our attitude at the right time?" Lu Xiyan said.

"We listen to Mr."

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"How about it, what are your attitudes?" Lu Xiyan then went to see Hu Yunzhi.

"They have all become mature and no longer impulsive and reckless as before. They will also think about the overall situation without analytical problems." Lu Xiyan said.

"People will grow up. They are different from your identities and naturally have different angles. It is normal to have such an attitude." Hu Yunzhi nodded, "Otherwise I will contact Guo Hanjie and test his attitude. Anyway, they all know my identity, so I don't need to avoid this."

"This is a suitable time. You can give it a try, but don't rush it." Lu Xiyan said. Lu Xiyan is really unfamiliar with ideological work and has no experience at all. On the contrary, Hu Yunzhi has studied in Yan'an and has experience in this area.

If his work was not cooperated by Hu Yunzhi, it would be really difficult to carry out. Lu Xiyan made information, money and supplies, while Hu Yunzhi did specific work. The two people had clear division of labor and had no intermittent cooperation, which led to the current golden combination.

"The storm is about to start, let's be careful." Hu Yunzhi reminded.

"I understand." Lu Xiyan nodded. What decision will the central government make when this happens, but now they have no idea and are not easy to speculate.

The rumors on the market are one after another, of course none of them are true. Meng Fanxing is not in a good mood at home.

When encountering such a thing, anyone with a slightest view of right and wrong knows where right and wrong lies.

The happiest ones are naturally the Japanese and the Wang puppet government. If the Kuomintang and the Communist Party do not restrain themselves and fight again, they will definitely benefit.

Not long after, Lu Xiyan received an urgent call from his superior, asking him to "keep restraint" and be vigilant at the same time. It is time to test his wisdom.

Chongqing is now at a disadvantage in public opinion, military gains the upper hand, while Yan'an is the opposite. Whoever takes action first will lose, and in the end, everyone is actually loser.

This year, Lu Xiyan had no time to go to Hong Kong to celebrate the New Year with Meng Hao's family. Even Meng Fanxing and his two children stayed in Shanghai. The situation in Hong Kong was also very tense. Although the British, who bullied the weak and feared the strong, closed the Yunnan-Burma Railway to please the Japanese, the Japanese did not buy it. They sent troops to occupy French Indochina, threatening the British colonial interests in Myanmar. Because of the pressure from the United States, the Yunnan-Burma Highway was closed for only three months and reopened.

The Japanese were very annoyed and kept increasing troops in Guangzhou and threatening to send troops to occupy Hong Kong. In this way, Hong Kong was in a precarious situation and the role of safe haven was gone.

"Yan Lei, this Spring Festival, our two families will spend together. You and Xiaotian come to my house to stay up to the New Year together?" Lu Xiyan said.

"Okay." Yan Lei had no relatives in Shanghai. For him, the military advisor and his brothers were his relatives in the past. Now that he has started a family, the brothers have their own affairs. It is no longer the time when he drank and ate meat together.

Tian Rui is also pregnant and is about to give birth to a baby after the New Year. This is their first child. The feeling of welcoming the arrival of a new life has made Yan Lei more mature and steady.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month (that is, New Year's Eve), after the work of worshiping ancestors, the two families gathered together to prepare dinner. This matter, both men, women, and young, were involved together.

Lu Xiyan also got a job as a knot, which is his best.

"Where is Lao Ma?" Meng Fanxing suddenly came in from outside the kitchen and asked.

"Aren't you cleaning the yard outside?" Lu Xiyan asked strangely.

"No, I haven't seen anyone after lunch." Meng Fanxing said strangely.

"Maybe he's going to the bathroom?" Lu Xiyan also felt strange. If Lao Ma went out, he would definitely tell his family and suddenly disappeared. Something must have happened.

"Look for it, not here."

"strangeness……"

"Stop looking for it. Maybe I'll go out and come back later. What can happen to the New Year?" Lu Xiyan said.

In fact, it wasn't long before Lao Ma came back, carrying a bag of things in his hand, and I don't know what it was, so he should have gone out to buy things.

But Lu Xiyan saw Lao Ma wink him through the kitchen window. He immediately opened his apron and said, "I'll go and make some convenience, and I'll do it when I come back."

"Lao Ma, what's going on? You went out without saying a word. Don't you know what the situation is now outside?" Lu Xiyan couldn't help but blame him when he saw Lao Ma.

"There's something urgent." Lao Ma whispered, "The old ghost told me that Comrade Lan Liying died in the Southern Anhui Incident."

"What?" Lu Xiyan was stunned for a moment.

"Comrade Lan Liying died." Lao Ma repeated.

"Is the message confirmed?"

"Confirm, Lao Gui was also shocked when he received this news. He went to the comrades from Jiangbei to inquire. The news was true. After nine months of studying at the Anti-Japanese University, Comrade Lan Liying went to work at the New Fourth Army headquarters. During the retreat, he sacrificed heroically to cover the evacuation of other comrades." Lao Ma's eyes turned red. Lan Liying lived at home for two months. Although she didn't know Lao Ma's identity, when she got along, everyone had feelings, let alone her own comrades.

"What about the body?"

"I guess it was buried by the Kuomintang army." Lao Ma said.

Both of them were immersed in grief, without paying attention at all, and Meng Fanxing stood quietly behind her.
Chapter completed!