After two days of discussions, mainly a brawl between Sugiyama Motomo and Mitsumasa Yonechi, the final result of the Imperial Council was that Nishio Shouzo was promoted to commander of the North China Dispatch Army Command, whose task was to preserve the elite of the army currently in North China as much as possible, followed by seeking opportunities to defeat or annihilate the Shina army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The issue of new troops was stopped, and after eight months of war, Japan had almost exhausted its domestic reserves, but the outcome was not what the fanatics had thought.

Central China lost 300,000 yuan in the First World War, one did not occupy any land, and the other did not loot any wealth, which is a clean loss. There are 600,000 elites in North China, not to mention that there has been no progress so far, and even the headquarters has been terminated. Only the three eastern provinces and the Korean Peninsula, as well as Taiwan, were completely under the control of the Japanese army, and the resources of the three eastern provinces, the Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan were used to supplement the Japanese mainland.

Now just for the logistics of 600,000 elites in North China, this group of people has already scratched their ears and cheeks, and if they increase the army, everyone will starve to death.

This is not the Japan of later generations, later Japan occupied the essence of the Yangtze River in China at that time, wantonly looted wealth, used to import war materials, and attacked Southeast Asia with the supply of the Korean Peninsula, the three eastern provinces, and the rich land of Central China.

Koshin Kaya, the finance minister known as the 'holy hand of financial management,' put forward the 'three principles of Kaya's fiscal economy' for the implementation of the economic plan: first, it should be compatible with the supply and demand of materials, second, it should be compatible with the balance of payments, and third, it should be compatible with the expansion of production.

When Konoe Fumima formed the Cabinet, he asked Konobu Kaya to serve as Minister of Finance of the Ministry of Finance, and he demanded that if he became Minister of Finance, the Cabinet must implement the 'Three Principles of Finance and Economy'.

Moreover, after the war, the state budget proposed by the reporter was tripled in four years, and how did the money come from, and the answer of Heya Xingxuan was very fraudulent, as long as there was no problem with the printing press, you could have as much money as you wanted.

We all know that unlimited printing of money will lead to inflation, for example, the party-state issued fiat currency, which printed 1.4 billion before the Anti-Japanese War, and by the time Japan surrendered, it had printed more than 500 billion, an increase of more than 300 times.

By 1948, the amount of fiat currency in circulation in the market was as high as 604 trillion yuan, and the unit of attention was trillions, which was 470,000 times that before the Anti-Japanese War. Before the Anti-Japanese War, it only cost 100 legal dollars to buy two cows, and in 1948, it cost 2.4 million legal dollars to find a barber to cut their hair.

So how did Hewu Xingxuan deal with this problem in later generations, it was very simple, printing money to prevent money from circulating in the market, although the money was given to the people, but Hewu Xingxuan made a whole 'patriotic savings movement', allowing the people to deposit all their money in the bank.

The people have savings and support the country, and this money has disappeared from the market, so there is no need to worry about inflation. However, this is only temporary, and one day the money will circulate to the market, and the people will have to withdraw the money, so what to do?

He Ya Xingxuan made a trial calculation, by the end of the war, Japan's national debt would reach an unimaginable number, this national debt could not be repaid with Japan's national strength, but the war would always end, if Japan wins, then Japan can get war reparations, this national debt can be repaid, if Japan fails, then all the people should bear the burden equally.

This is Japan's thinking from top to bottom, it is all gambling with the national fortune, and the first time Japan gambled with the national fortune as a bargaining chip, that is, the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan won and obtained 230 million yuan, and the actual plus interest was 234.5 million taels of silver in compensation.

Twenty percent of this money was used by Japan for military spending, and more than fifty percent was used to expand the army, and then the second time the national fortune gambled with Tsarist Russia, and let Japan win, and then Japan was happy, and began the third gamble to occupy China, so there was the 918 Incident and the Lugou Bridge Incident.

Since the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese army has had a smooth journey, a large area of Chinese territory has been occupied, and most of the Chinese army is about to collapse at the touch of a button, even if it is a large-scale battle, it cannot stop the impact of the Japanese elite divisions.

However, since Lin Feng was born, the whole of Japan is simply eager to eat his flesh, including Heya Xingxuan, the reason is that Japan has lost too many soldiers at once, but the territory occupied is getting smaller and smaller, and 600,000 elites are trapped in North China, which has caused Japan's economy to begin to have problems.

At this time, the Japanese economy had not yet completely shifted to the ruling economic plan, that is, the wartime economy, and the country was already overwhelmed by the need to supply as many as one million naval and land troops to fight abroad.

There are now two ways in front of the top brass of the Japanese army, one is to grit their teeth, tighten their belts of all the people, and form new divisions and regiments to devote themselves to the battlefield in North China.

The other is to let the Shandong troops withdraw by sea, and the rest of the inland troops will withdraw around the grassland to the northeast, and build a large number of fortifications in the northeast to defend vested interests.

Sugiyama's proposal was to evacuate North China, hold the three eastern provinces, and develop for another two years, and at present the German mustache was in full swing and needed an ally in the east to hold back the Soviet Union, and Japan was the best choice.

Since Japan has a role, then Germany must come to Japan's aid, otherwise the Soviet Union will not be able to hold back when the war begins, and then Germany will be exposed to the enemy on its back and fall into the embarrassing situation of fighting on both sides.

At that time, whether to drag down the Soviet Union or invest its national strength in the war of aggression against China is not up to Japan, but the most important thing is to get the things.

Mitsumasa Yonei's opinion is that let's stop tossing around on the mainland, let's just hit Southeast Asia, which is rich in resources, especially strategic materials such as oil and rubber, which Japan lacks.

He Wu Xingxuan thought that as long as the transformation of the economic system was completed, the country could hold out a full-scale war for at least four years.

Hirota Hiroki does not approve of attacking Southeast Asia now, Southeast Asia is basically a colony of the Western world, and if he attacks Southeast Asia now, it will be playing against Western countries, and it will be easy to be attacked by a joint attack by various countries.

A group of high-ranking Japanese officials began to spit on each other over strategic issues, and from time to time they rolled up their sleeves and wanted to beat people, but in fact, in the final analysis, these people were all made by the faction they represented.

Needless to say, Sugiyama Motomo and Yonechi Mitsumasa represented one for the army and the other for the navy, and Kaya Konobu represented the major domestic consortia, and Hirota Hiroki only denied Yoneuchi's strategy of attacking Southeast Asia as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Konoe Funma and Hirohito glanced at each other, quite helpless, in addition to rolling up their sleeves and quarreling at this imperial meeting, they really couldn't discuss one, two, three.

"Gentlemen, please pay attention to the occasion and pay attention to the etiquette!" Konoe Fumima didn't want to listen to this group of people anymore, so he said directly to Hirohito: "Your Majesty, suspend the fighting, evacuate North China, hold Manchuria, and wait for the opportunity." (To be continued.) )