"Mr. Prime Minister, if we can't end the battlefield immediately, the situation of the Japanese Empire on the Pacific front will be very worrying." A staff member knelt on a tatami mat and said to Hideki Tojo across the low table.

For the grim situation facing Japan at present, this aide can be regarded as a relatively tactful reminder.

As long as you are not blind, you can see that the current Japanese economy is completely supported by Kaya Xingxuan alone, and it is not working well at all.

This is very similar to the early state of German military expansion, which relied economically on the methods of a genius Schacht who made the Mifu ticket.

Economically passive, material scarcity. Since Japan started the war, iron ore has relied on plunder, oil has relied on plunder, and coal mines have relied on plunder, but they have rarely been really used to feed the domestic economy.

Most of these strategic materials that Japan was able to transport back to China under the interference of US submarines were also invested in the "Greater East Asian Holy War."

In fact, it is easy to understand why Japan and Germany are in a very different situation today due to the same external expansion.

The German occupation zone was the best part of Europe, and the poorest part of the country was Poland, which was a decent one. Even if you count the Soviet occupation zone, railways, highways and even industry are relatively well-established.

The Japanese occupation zone is different, with the exception of Tohoku, which Japan has been operating privately, the other occupation zones require a lot of infrastructure investment before they can start to produce benefits.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and the road conditions in China in 1940 were much worse than those in Europe, so there is no need to go into detail.

In such a gap, the role that the occupation zone can play is very obvious: if the German occupation zone can have a stat +10, the Japanese occupation zone can only be regarded as a stat +3 at most.

"You're right, but there's no good solution." Hideki Tojo bowed his head slightly, and complained, "I've tried my best, but I still can't think of a countermeasure." ”

It's not that he hasn't come up with a countermeasure, it's just that his countermeasure is not better than others, so it doesn't matter whether he says it or not.

The current collective consensus in the base camp is that it is best to find a way to end a local battlefield first, so that more troops can be transferred to other battlefields to form a virtuous circle.

It is precisely because of this consensus that the Army was able to throw out such a huge plan.

In fact, the Army's thinking is also normal: your Navy can't withdraw in order to deal with the US fleet, so if you want to solve the problem next, you can only rely on our Army, right?

The Navy has no choice but to be here: they are pinned down by the increasingly powerful US Navy, dragged down by submarine warfare, and can only run for their lives in the Pacific Ocean, unable to deal with the powerful United States in a short time.

Since the navy can't move away, and it can't settle the opponent the United States in a short time, it can only make up its mind with the army.

However, when the situation was very good, the army itself quarreled again: there was no problem for the army to be the main force next, but it was impossible to determine which side to fight first.

The chiefs in East China hope to deal with the Chongqing government first, crush China, and then they can turn right and left.

The Kwantung Army faction in the northeast felt that they could take the opportunity to stab the Soviet Union in the back, carve up Siberia with Germany, and then free the Kwantung Army to go south and deal with the Chinese battlefield.

"Mr. Prime Minister, if we can't end the battlefield immediately, the situation of the Japanese Empire on the Pacific front will be very worrying." A staff member knelt on a tatami mat and said to Hideki Tojo across the low table.

For the grim situation facing Japan at present, this aide can be regarded as a relatively tactful reminder.

As long as you are not blind, you can see that the current Japanese economy is completely supported by Kaya Xingxuan alone, and it is not working well at all.

This is very similar to the early state of German military expansion, which relied economically on the methods of a genius Schacht who made the Mifu ticket.

Economically passive, material scarcity. Since Japan started the war, iron ore has relied on plunder, oil has relied on plunder, and coal mines have relied on plunder, but they have rarely been really used to feed the domestic economy.

Most of these strategic materials that Japan was able to transport back to China under the interference of US submarines were also invested in the "Greater East Asian Holy War."

In fact, it is easy to understand why Japan and Germany are in a very different situation today due to the same external expansion.

The German occupation zone was the best part of Europe, and the poorest part of the country was Poland, which was a decent one. Even if you count the Soviet occupation zone, railways, highways and even industry are relatively well-established.

The Japanese occupation zone is different, with the exception of Tohoku, which Japan has been operating privately, the other occupation zones require a lot of infrastructure investment before they can start to produce benefits.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and the road conditions in China in 1940 were much worse than those in Europe, so there is no need to go into detail.

In such a gap, the role that the occupation zone can play is very obvious: if the German occupation zone can have a stat +10, the Japanese occupation zone can only be regarded as a stat +3 at most.

"You're right, but there's no good solution." Hideki Tojo bowed his head slightly, and complained, "I've tried my best, but I still can't think of a countermeasure." ”

It's not that he hasn't come up with a countermeasure, it's just that his countermeasure is not better than others, so it doesn't matter whether he says it or not.

The current collective consensus in the base camp is that it is best to find a way to end a local battlefield first, so that more troops can be transferred to other battlefields to form a virtuous circle.

It is precisely because of this consensus that the Army was able to throw out such a huge plan.

In fact, the Army's thinking is also normal: your Navy can't withdraw in order to deal with the US fleet, so if you want to solve the problem next, you can only rely on our Army, right?

The Navy has no choice but to be here: they are pinned down by the increasingly powerful US Navy, dragged down by submarine warfare, and can only run for their lives in the Pacific Ocean, unable to deal with the powerful United States in a short time.

Since the navy can't move away, and it can't settle the opponent the United States in a short time, it can only make up its mind with the army.

However, when the situation was very good, the army itself quarreled again: there was no problem for the army to be the main force next, but it was impossible to determine which side to fight first.

The chiefs in East China hope to deal with the Chongqing government first, crush China, and then they can turn right and left.

The Kwantung Army faction in the northeast felt that they could take the opportunity to stab the Soviet Union in the back, carve up Siberia with Germany, and then free the Kwantung Army to go south and deal with the Chinese battlefield.