This was the old routine of the Meiji Emperor, who ate only one meal a day in order to defeat the Hokuyang Naval Division, so that he could save money to buy a warship.

Many people compare the Japanese emperor with the Empress Dowager of the West of China, and there are many jokes that have not been compiled in the middle, and the Beiyang Naval Division has been hacked for many years.

However, it is true that Emperor Meiji was determined to go to war against China, and it is also true that he really cut back on food and clothing to buy warships.

Now, history seems to have drawn another cycle, and Emperor Hirohito, also known as Emperor Showa (Emperor Showa's name is Hirohito), once again played with the meme of eating only one meal a day.

Naturally, the emperor only ate one meal a day, and Hideki Tojo could only eat one meal a day. As the prime minister in a state of war, His Majesty the Emperor has cut back on food and clothing, and if the prime minister does not follow suit, he is likely to be spurned and killed by the people.

"Since we don't have steel to produce so many tanks with good performance, then we buy tanks from the Germans! Ten tanks is far from enough, buy a hundred! A thousand! Emperor Hirohito clenched his fists and spoke.

He still didn't know that the price Germany offered to Japan, the price of 100 Leopard tanks, would almost make him starve to death because of food and clothing......

Moreover, when he said this, the admirals could not sit still. Kagawa Koshiro hurriedly opened his mouth and said to Emperor Hirohito: "Your Majesty the Emperor! The Navy also needed battleships, and the Germans also sold them! We should use limited funds to buy warships to ......"

Although the battleships sold by the Germans were very poor in performance, most of them were old destroyers of American production.

But in any case, it is always more appropriate to buy outdated destroyers for the Navy than tanks for the Army, right?

Thinking of this, Kazukawa Koshiro didn't care about complaining about the German destroyers being outdated, garbage in performance, and extremely expensive.

He stood up and said to Emperor Hirohito sincerely: "We can propose to the Germans to buy 10 cruisers and 20 destroyers, these warships are urgently needed by the navy, and compared to the chariots of the army, naval warfare is the foundation of our nation......"

From the standpoint of the Navy, in fact, these warships are very useful. Even if they can only be anti-submarine in the second line, they will be faster than they can make themselves.

Since Emperor Meiji, Japan has never purchased foreign warships on such a large scale. Now that they are gathered to purchase like this, the Minister of Military Orders Yoshida on the side is shocked.

There is also a frightened Emperor Hirohito - he only eats one meal a day here, and the navy actually wants to buy 30 warships in one go...... And this still doesn't let him eat?

Just as he was about to reprimand Kazukawa Koshiro, after thinking about it, Emperor Hirohito found that what Kazukawa Koshiro said also made some sense.

Instead of retreating to the land and fighting a land war with the US military, it is better to spend the same price to replenish the navy and keep the enemy out of the country.

"Tojo-kun...... Buying a battleship...... What do you think? Emperor Hirohito turned his face to look at Hideki Tojo.

Hideki Tojo was quite embarrassed, he was an army general, and now he was holding the position of prime minister, sitting in his position, it was obviously impractical to speak for the navy, and it seemed that he was not very fair to the navy.

So he pondered for a moment and replied, "Your Majesty the Emperor! There is too much foreign exchange gold for the Navy to buy ships, and I was about to talk to you about this. ”

He glanced at Kagawa Koshiro, whose face was not very good, and continued to talk to him: "The gold we sent to Europe last time only changed so many things, some radars for the navy and army, and some combat vehicles. ”

"The navy has already obtained some warships, and these warships have now arrived in Malacca......" After he finished speaking, he looked at Shiro Kagawa and asked, "Is there still not enough warships in the navy, and we still have to continue to buy them?" ”

"I'm just saying that if you have the money to buy combat vehicles for the army, you might as well buy more ...... for the navy," and at this point, Shiro Kagawa found that he couldn't go on.

Further down, the generals on the army side would seize the handle of his speech and ask him, "Isn't the army useless at all?" ”…… This is not an easy question to answer, and His Majesty the Emperor does not want to see the army and navy arguing with each other.

His Majesty the Emperor wants to buy some Leopard tanks for the Army, so let His Majesty the Emperor and the Army buy them themselves, anyway, the Navy will also apply for the purchase of projects at that time, after all, it is not easy to go to Europe once.

"You have to work together, don't tear each other down......," Emperor Hirohito glanced at Shiro Kagawa, who was shutting down, and said with a cold face.

Then he looked at Hideki Tojo, who was snickering on the side, and ordered: "Send the 10 German tanks you have to the Hawaiian Islands first...... Fortify the defenses there! ”

"Subsequently, I will do my best to purchase as many more German tanks as possible to strengthen the defense lines on the various islands." After he finished speaking, he patted Hideki Tojo on the shoulder and said, "Don't live up to my expectations...... You have to work together to defeat those cowardly Yankees! ”

"Hey!" Hideki Tojo hurriedly bowed his head and said in response: "I understand, His Majesty the Emperor!" Your subordinates will do everything they can to continue the glory of the empire! ”

"In addition, the fact that the plan to produce 50,000 aircraft a year is not a bit too high?" Emperor Hirohito suddenly remembered the report he had seen earlier, and Japan planned to produce 50,000 fighters of various types, which was really a bit of a joke.

Even Hideki Tojo, as the prime minister, felt that his face was gloomy, and explained: "This is a long-term plan, in fact, we are working hard to make the total production of fighters close to 10,000!" ”

In fact, this is all the people present, fooling Emperor Hirohito is not a professional soldier - in Germany, the Führer who crossed over knows more than the Emperor Hirohito in front of him, so the German military top brass does not dare to fool the Reich Führer who knows everything.

What Emperor Hirohito didn't know was that producing 10,000 aircraft, or even 20,000 aircraft, was not a difficult task.

As long as it is free to manufacture, Japan has the ability to increase the total number of aircraft produced annually to 10,000 or more.

But how to get the crude oil that takes these planes off is not as easy as building airplanes. And even more difficult, how to train pilots to fly these aircraft!

What the emperor didn't know was that the mechanism for training pilots in Japan during the Showa period was not perfect, and the number of elite pilots relied on accumulation over time, and the speed of replenishment was very slow, and it could not withstand the attrition of war at all.