On the morning of the second day after the Soviet Pacific Fleet broke out of the island chain of the North Kuril Islands, a meeting of the five prime ministers was held in the prime minister's residence. Although the Five Phases Imperial Council is the highest level www.biquge.info of Japan's national policy, as it is today, not only Hideki Tojo (Prime Minister and Minister of Land), Isoroku Yamamoto (Minister of the Sea), Aoi Shigemitsu (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Konobu Kaya (Minister of Tibet) are all present, but also Prince Zaihito of Kanin Miyaya and King Hiroko Fushimi Palace, two "myth spreaders", as well as former Prime Ministers Fumitsu Konoe, Mitsumasa Yonechi, Nobuyuki Abe, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Hiroki Hirota, and Keisuke Okada. All of them came to the meeting one after another in the name of important ministers, but they rarely appeared. In addition, Gen Sugiyama, chief of the Army General Staff Headquarters, Shusei Nagano, chief of naval command, and Otsumito Yamada, director of army education, also appeared at the meeting.

This shows that today's meeting of the Five Ministers is about the fundamental national policy of the Japanese Empire! Therefore, it is necessary to listen to the advice of these important ministers who have the power to play the curtain - in addition to the former prime minister and the two princes, the chief of the army staff headquarters, the chief of naval command, and the director of army education also have the power to play the court.

Hideki Tojo sat on top of his distinguished prime minister's position, his eyes were a little dazed, and he suddenly had a feeling of powerlessness. As the prime minister who led Japan into a world war, and seemed to have won, Tojo himself was not brilliant in wisdom and even a little stupid. He was able to succeed only because he had the courage to jump down from the platform of Kiyomizudera Temple with his eyes closed. As a result, he hitched a ride with the Germans, and it can be said that he hit a world empire with millions of square kilometers in a daze!

But when Tojo's dream victory came, he found the Japanese Empire isolated like never before. The Germans were not really friends with Japan, they were only using Japan as cannon fodder - this Hideki Tojo had known for a long time, and he was also using Germany to achieve Japanese hegemony. However, he did not expect that the Japanese-German alliance would take a sharp turn for the worse when victory was imminent.

In Tojo's view, the reason for this situation was not Japan's fault, but Germany's "EC-UEC line."

The essence of this line, according to the analysis of the Aoi Shigemitsu and Yosuke Matsuoka, and other intellectuals, was in fact to turn enemies into friends in Europe.

On the one hand, it uses the pan-Germanic and pan-Aryan lines to unite those countries in Western Europe and Northern Europe that are related to Germany; On the one hand, it took advantage of the Russians' desire to integrate into Europe, propped up the Romanov dynasty, and won Russia into the European Community.

And the implementation of such a line deprives Germany and Japan of the basis of their common interests - because the basis of Germany's world leadership is no longer the alliance with Japan and Rome, but the European Community and the United States of Europe!

As long as Germany can unite Britain, France, and Russia, neither the United States, nor Rome, nor Japan will be able to challenge Germany's hegemony.

Moreover, if Germany wants to unite Britain, France and Russia, it must safeguard the interests of Britain, France and Russia to a certain extent! And the proposed United States of Europe and the already formed European Community are, in a sense, the heirs to the assets of the three intercontinental empires of Britain, France and Russia.

Therefore, Germany's position has changed from uniting Japan and Italy to divide the assets of Britain, France and Russia to wanting to inherit the assets of Britain, France and Russia in name only. Even if the Germans don't care very much, the British, the French and the Russians don't like it. And Germany is now coaxing the British, the French, and the Russians to vote in favor of the United States of Europe, and pulling them along to extort money from the Americans, and of course the ass will sit on the side of Britain, France, and Russia.

As for Japan...... Seeing the prospect of a merger between Germany, France, Britain and Russia, are you really not afraid at all? Would you really like to see the reunification of Germany, France, Britain and Russia?

This is certainly impossible!

Ishihara's theory of "Mongolia, Southern Song Dynasty and Dajin Kingdom" is still very reasonable! Even if Germany could now treat Japan with sincerity, rationally distribute the assets of Britain, France, and Russia, and at the same time give enough aid. For the sake of post-war world balance, Japan must also leave the United States as a "gold" to contain the "Mongolia" of the United States of Europe.

Unless, while Germany solidarly aids Japan, it is willing to abandon the unified line of inheriting the "European Community-United States of Europe".

But this is also impossible!

Therefore, the alliance between Japan and Germany has actually come to an end, and all Japan can do now is to strive for a post-war situation that is most favorable to itself while maintaining the fact that Japan and Germany do not turn against each other.

The most favorable post-war situation for Japan is undoubtedly to maintain the strategic confrontation between the United States and Europe......

Although Hideki Tojo was ridiculed by some people as a high-class soldier, he still had this bit of political wisdom.

There was a jumble of footsteps on the wooden floor of the corridor, and then the Minister of the Interior, Koichi Kido, walked in with two secretaries from the Imperial Household Ministry, who were attending and presiding over the Imperial Council on behalf of the Emperor, which was theoretically supposed to be held before the Emperor's car, but in practice the Emperor rarely appeared directly. Because the emperor is a god! Although Japan since the Meiji Restoration is a somewhat Westernized European-style country on the surface, Japan is actually a **** theocratic state.

The Emperor is a god! And if you die fighting for the emperor, you can become a god after death! This is the spiritual atomic bomb that supported millions of Japanese soldiers to forge ahead bravely in this war. And with the expansion of the Japanese Empire, the emperor's divine power has also risen, and naturally people can't just look at it - this is also for the good of the ministers, the emperor is a descendant of Amaterasu, which is about equal to a high-power searchlight, which is not level, otherwise it will light up the blind beads, and the ministers will be blinded by the Showa Emperor, what kind of system is this?

"This official is entrusted by His Majesty to preside over the meeting of important ministers, but if you have suggestions, you may wish to speak freely, and this official will play according to the facts for Your Majesty's reference."

Koichi Kido finished speaking, and then sat down in his seat, with an unfathomable gaze that had been practiced for many years, he glanced over and over again the ministers and important ministers present, waiting for them to speak one by one.

"Your Excellency," Prime Minister Tojo tapped lightly on the table, and was the first to speak, "Now the strategic objectives of our Imperial Kingdom in the direction of the Pacific and South Seas have been basically achieved. The west of the Hawaiian Islands, the east of the Strait of Malacca, and the north of Australia are all lakes within the Imperial Kingdom, and the dream of the Meiji Emperor to raise the prestige of the country in the four seas has been realized. Therefore, in the future, the development of the Imperial State should be turned to the mainland, and the primary goal at present is to take the Soviet Far East from the north and form an absolute national defense circle in the northwest of the Imperial State......"

Tojo spoke eloquently, Kido didn't say a word, and the two secretaries he carried with him buried their heads in notes. Kido's mission was to take the emperor's place as a bodhisattva, and at the same time bring back the results of the imperial council to the emperor and tell the emperor.

"Prime Minister." Former Prime Minister Mitsumasa Minechi, who came from the Navy, asked at this time, "Does the adjustment of the national policy mean peace with the United States?" ”

Mitsumasa was a pro-British and American faction, and when he was Lord of the Navy and Prime Minister, he was opposed to an alliance with Germany and Italy. At present, he has not completely changed his viewpoint, and advocates "coexistence between the United States and Japan," which is similar to the "Three Kingdoms Theory" of Ishihara and others.

"Peace talks with the United States have been going on." Hideki Tojo replied, "The current Central Pacific operation is actually aimed at gaining more bargaining chips in the peace talks. ”

"What about Germany? Germany's attitude is not taken into account? Mine asked.

"The Central Pacific operation was conducted in order to take into account the attitude of Germany." "But the future national policy of the Imperial Kingdom should be to maintain a balance between the United States and Germany, and at the same time to strengthen itself so that the future world will not be dominated by any one of the great powers." ”

"What about the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands?" Minai asked again, "Is it okay to give up?" ”

"Try not to give up." Hideki Tojo glanced at Fifty-six Yamamoto as he answered the question.

Yamamoto said, "Minai-kun, the Combined Fleet will adopt protracted tactics to delay the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Hawaiian Islands and wait for an opportunity to reinforce Oahu. Since the United States is now in a hurry to reinforce the Atlantic-Caribbean theater, delaying tactics may eventually work. ”

Yamamoto's original attitude was to fight a battle to deal with it, but now he has taken another step and changed it to procrastination - procrastination is more conducive to protecting the ship than fighting!

And the Soviet Pacific Fleet now also gave the Japanese Navy an excuse, and after breaking through the chain of Kuril Islands, the Soviet Pacific Fleet turned east and headed in the direction of Aleutian Island.

Theoretically, it was also possible that the Soviet Pacific Fleet would go to the west coast of the United States and then sail through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic...... Therefore, the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet went north to intercept and annihilate them, which was also to help Germany.

In the central Pacific direction, Yamamoto and Nagano hoped to use the First Mobile Fleet to deal with it, although the air war would lose a large number of pilots, it would be impossible to lose the last elite pilots of the Japanese Navy. But the losses that aviation warfare will inflict on the fleet are relatively manageable.

Because there are now 19 aircraft carriers dispatched with the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet (including the First Mobile Fleet), except for 8 aircraft carriers such as Akagi, Kaga, Zuizuru, Xiangzuru, Taiho, Unryu, Katsuragi, and Amagi, which are more valuable, the remaining 11 aircraft carriers are not too valuable. After the Pacific War, it will definitely be eliminated, and it is not a pity to sink.

If you take out 8 of the 4 expensive aircraft carriers and go for trouble with the Soviets. If the remaining 15 aircraft carriers are deployed in a dispersed formation, the probability of high-value aircraft carriers being discovered by the US military will be greatly reduced - it is already difficult to find the enemy's scattered aircraft carriers in the vast ocean, so once it is discovered, it will definitely attack with all its might, and it will no longer pick and choose.

So in terms of probability, if the Japanese Navy loses an aircraft carrier in the Central Pacific Campaign, there is only about a 26% chance that this aircraft carrier is a "high-priced aircraft carrier", and the loss of 4 aircraft carriers is only "certain" that it is a high-priced aircraft carrier, with a loss of 8 ships, of which the high-priced aircraft carrier should theoretically be 2.

With the defeat of 8 aircraft carriers in World War I, the Germans must have thought that the Japanese friends did their best, and the US Pacific Fleet must have suffered heavy losses......