Chapter 002: Money for Time
The defeat of the Soviet Union was also quite a shock to Japan, which has been watching since the signing of the peace agreement with the United States.
The alliance with Germany was null and void with the private reconciliation with the United States, and it can be said that Japan now has no allies in this world, and the United States and China are both countries with deep hatred for Japan, but Japan is now surrounded by these two countries.
Hirohito once again sat with the ministers of military affairs, but today they were no longer sitting in the imperial palace on the Japanese mainland, but in the imperial palace in Canberra, Australia, of course, Canberra was changed to Tokyo, which became the new capital of Japan.
So far, 30 million people from Japan have migrated to Southeast Asia, which can be said to be very difficult, because in the process of these people, many industries in Japan have come to a standstill.
For this reason, vested interest groups are very dissatisfied, the shutdown of the factory means that the creation of a lot of wealth has been abandoned, but considering the future of Japan, considering the current situation of Japan, and the Japanese government has promised a lot of benefits, these talents moved, and moved the factory to Australia and other places.
The natives of Southeast Asia were almost killed, except for the prettier women, and some of the strong laborers were forced to do the dirtiest and most tiring work, and their wealth was expropriated by the Japanese wall cloth, and these wealth, together with the wealth plundered by the Japanese before, provided economic support for the Japanese immigrants.
However, at present, most of their wealth is obtained by China, because all their money is used to buy supplies in China, otherwise they would not be able to support such a huge immigration program.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Soviets have been defeated, China and Germany are connected on land, and the Eurasian continent is almost controlled by them, so where should the empire go?"
On the wall, a huge Eurasian map shows the border line between China and Germany and all parties, the border between China and Germany is the most eye-catching, especially China's greatest stimulation to Japan, this country is around, and now it has the world's first territory, and they still have a grudge with their brother country, and it is difficult for them not to be nervous.
Now Japan's biggest concern is that China will attack them, although it has an advantage in the navy, but China's air force is not vegetarian, there are more than 40 million people in Japan, all of these people are under the bombing of the Chinese Air Force, as long as China takes here, then Japan will rely on a small number of people to guard Australia will not be long, for Japan he needs time, the longer the time Japan will develop in a more and more favorable direction, otherwise even if he takes the risk, he will take advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union is still attacking China with all its might,
"Your Majesty, China has just taken such a large territory, they also need to digest it, I don't think they will have a war with anyone for the time being, and we are relatively safe at the moment."
"Yes, Your Majesty, our trade with China has been very prosperous in recent months, and the empire has 10,000 tons of gold to pay for various materials purchased from China, and it is still being paid in a steady stream, I don't think the Chinese will go to war with us, otherwise they will not only not get a lot of gold and silver, but even if they are a little careless, they will not even have time to digest Central Asia and Siberia."
"Yes, China needs at least three years to immigrate and digest those places, otherwise they will be internally unstable and it will be difficult to guarantee that the Germans will not covet that huge territory."
"No, China and Germany are close allies now."
"What won't, didn't the Soviet Union and Germany divide Poland before and signed a non-aggression pact, in the end it's not a fight of life and death, this world is a world of the weak and the strong, and the Chinese will not not understand."
Hirohito looked at the ministers, he glanced at Yamamoto Isoroku and Tojo Hideki, and the two of them understood,
Hideki Tojo said: "Your Majesty, what you said is very reasonable, I also think that China will not start a war against us at present, the Sino-Soviet war has ended, for China, the stability of immigrants and digestion is the key, the territory they occupy is large enough, and they understand very well the reason that greed is not enough to swallow elephants, otherwise they can take the opportunity of the Soviet army to flee to the Middle East to annex the Middle East, no one can stop the squadron, but they don't, which shows that they are not planning to start a new war at present, so we are still relatively safe." ”
Hirohito said: "Yamamotoqing, what do you think?" ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six said: "Your Majesty, our army has been deployed, even if the squadron wants to fight, we will only have to fight to the death to defend the empire, but I think China will definitely not go to war against us in half a year." ”
"As we all know, China has obtained a large amount of gold and silver from the empire, so the economy has developed greatly, if there is a war with the empire, then the trade between the two sides will inevitably end, this is a huge blow to China, their products will have no foreign market, they will not have a lot of gold and silver to earn, those factories and companies that rely on the orders of the empire will inevitably close down, and then a large number of workers will lose their jobs, so that they will increase a lot of instability."
"If this alone is naturally not a threat to the Chinese government, but in Siberia and Central Asia there are still remnants of the resistance to suppress the remnants, and immigrants, especially immigrants, need a lot of money, and now the empire can give them, once the war starts, not only do they have no source of these funds, but attacking the empire requires a lot of war funds, and most of the battles with the empire are naval battles, the Chinese navy is too weak, to defeat the empire I don't know when, They probably don't have that much money to support this protracted war, so they won't choose to go to war. ”
Kimura Hyotaro said: "Not necessarily, they can go to war against the Soviet Union, why won't they go to war against us, I am afraid that economic interests will not play a decisive factor." ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six said: "Of course, the economic factor is only one of them, China went to war against the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union occupied the most territory in China, and the Soviet Union was also the most powerful, if it was difficult to destroy this country by the strength of one country alone, I am afraid it would be difficult to destroy this country, so the Chinese took the risk of attacking the Soviet Union, and now Germany is attacking in Europe, which can be said to be the time with the greatest chance of victory, once they win, then the northern troubles that have plagued China for thousands of years are completely lifted, and they can also free up their hands to deal with the empire or defend the empire." ”
"As for the consequences of failure, it will be like that, not to mention that the existence of the Soviet Union is the biggest threat to China, and when the Soviet Union passes this hurdle, they will still invade China, and there will still be a big war between China and the Soviet Union, so it is better to take advantage of the helper, and the enemy will give the enemy a fatal blow when he is the weakest."
"I think the Chinese suddenly opened the door to the empire, and what to buy is mainly in the hope of strengthening themselves in the war with the help of the empire's funds."
"Yamamoto-kun, in this way, the reason why China was able to support the defeat of the Soviet Union is because we inadvertently supported them behind the scenes."
Yamamoto Fifty-six smiled and said, "You can say the same. ”
Kimura Hyotaro sneered: "Since Yamamoto-kun has long known that we are really helping the Chinese by trading with the Chinese, why do we still do this and not come out to stop it." ”
Yamamoto Fifty-six knew that the army faction led by Kimura Hyotaro was going to talk about this, and he said: "Kimura-kun, after stopping it, where will we buy materials to immigrate, not to mention that our behavior cannot fundamentally affect the Chinese defeat the Soviet Union, and if we do not trade with the Chinese, the Chinese may die a little more." ”
"Isn't that enough, as for trade, we can do it with the Americans."
"You are too simple, the Americans have been guarding against us, will they sell what we want, even if they sell, what about the price, not to mention that the transportation is several times farther than that of transportation from China, and the cost is also multiplied, and the risk of such a long distance will also increase, the most important thing is that in terms of time, if the United States is willing to sell us any materials, the price is about the same, but with such a long transportation distance, I am afraid we will not be able to immigrate so many people today."
"China is our enemy, and the United States is the same, if we don't hurry up immigration, tens of millions of people in the empire can only wait to die on our own soil, what do you say we should choose."
Kimura Hyotaro was silent, Yamamoto fifty-six said: "Kimura-kun, only if most of our people stay away from the bombing range of the Chinese Air Force, the empire will be safer, if all our eggs are placed on the mainland, as long as the Chinese take the homeland, it is equivalent to defeating the empire, then the probability of them attacking will be much greater, as it is now distributed everywhere plus our navy is much stronger than theirs, they dare not act rashly, as time goes by, they are developing, we are also developing, and as long as we have time." , With our technology, I believe that soon we will be able to close the gap with the equipment of the squadron, and even surpass them, everything we are doing now seems to be the enemy, in fact we are exchanging money for time, whether it is Germany or the United States, they do not want to see China's strength, when the time comes, China will attack us, as long as we show strength, they will also support us behind the back, otherwise they will one day face the anger of the squadron alone, which of these countries has no enmity with China. ”
Hirohito said: "These Yamamoto Qing have told me, in order to have more time to immigrate, we must continue to implement the strategy of exchanging money for time, Zhu Qing should not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, don't care about small profits and pounds, Zhu Qing should reflect on why China, which was still waging its tail and begging for mercy to the United States three years ago, can become the world's largest country and power in three years, even Americans are afraid, don't they have anything worth learning from us, when the empire conquered China, if you don't care too much about the gains and losses of one city and one place, I am afraid that China has long been an empire, I hope that the secretary of state will analyze the reasons for this, only in this way can the empire prosper forever, and being good at learning is the greatest merit of our Yamato nation, and I hope that the secretary will continue to maintain this spirit and not be arrogant. ”