Kantaro Suzuki stood up, slowly walked to the window, closed the window, and Higashiki shouted, "Your Excellency! ”

Kantaro Suzuki sighed and gestured to Togo to sit down, but Togo stood there stubbornly and motionless. Kantaro Suzuki smiled bitterly.

"Togo-kun, I know you're in a hurry, and I'm in a hurry, but you know that neither the army nor the navy agrees, and the cabinet can't do anything without their support."

"As Prime Minister, you should demonstrate your influence and decisiveness." Dongxiang is not relenting, and he is still pressing step by step.

Kantaro Suzuki looked at him, and Togo took two steps forward to Kantaro Suzuki and lowered his voice: "The army has now proposed an outline for a general decisive battle, this is an opportunity, unless they agree that we will start negotiations with the allies in Switzerland, the cabinet will not approve this outline." ”

Suzuki was stunned, in the previous cabinet meeting, Togo was the most vetoed, but now he wants to risk this. Suzuki couldn't help but shake his head: "No, this outline is too risky, this is completely to exterminate the Japanese species, absolutely not." ”

Togo sneered: "I know no, but this is just an outline, if the navy can win the battle of the Marianas, our negotiations in Switzerland may go smoothly, if not, the navy and the army will fail completely, what reason do they have to veto the peace talks?" ”

"But what if they want to veto? You know, there are a lot of stubborn guys in the Army. "Kantaro Suzuki will be suspicious, but he is very aware of the stubbornness of the army, in the past, because he implemented some policies of relaxation, the army dared to instigate the 226 incident, and now he still has shrapnel on his body that has not been taken out.

"When the time comes, you can ask Your Majesty to make a holy judgment." Dongxiang's eyes flickered, and his expression was very resolute.

Suzuki looked at Togo in surprise, to know that the cabinet could not decide to be ruled by the emperor, which had not happened after the Meiji Restoration, the Meiji Constitution stipulated, the emperor is a national symbol, but the actual power of the emperor is not very large, nominally the emperor has absolute power, in fact, the constitutional law stipulates that the power of the emperor is performed by the cabinet, the army and navy have the right to command, self-reliance and the curtain plays, the cabinet cannot intervene,

This system determines that the military power is independent of the cabinet, which is why the army frequently intervenes in the cabinet's decisions.

Only the emperor has the power to restrain the army, but none of the previous cabinets has exercised this power, and today Togo proposed it, but Suzuki Kanjuro did not dare to promise it easily.

"Your Excellency, this is the only way to do it." Togo's expression was very serious, and his eyes were fixed on Suzuki.

Suzuki thought for a while: "Wait a minute, you can ask the Swiss ambassador to secretly contact the allies and test their attitude, our conditions are three, preserve the emperor system, do not pay reparations, and try war criminals by themselves." ”

Dongxiang Youyi bowed slightly, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart The prime minister finally agreed to let him take the first step, which is a very good step, but it may have been a life-and-death step against Japan, but, judging from his decades of diplomatic experience, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union may not be so easy to accept such a clause. With his idea, as long as the emperor system is preserved, everything else can be promised first.

But before he could speak, Suzuki made up for it: "I also have to add that we must not garrison troops in our country, and the war has not yet reached our homeland." ”

Togo was silent for a while, estimating that he couldn't take Suzuki now, so he had to sigh: "Okay." ”

As soon as Togo was about to leave, Suzuki stopped him again, and a new idea came to his mind: "Togo-kun, see if we can contact Chiang Kai-shek through the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and we will ...... on the condition of handing over Jiangnan and Manchuria." ”

Dongxiang smiled bitterly, and Suzuki immediately added: "If you add North Korea, half North Korea, well, or Taifu." ”

Togo sighed, Suzuki is already old and a little confused, how much benefit has the United States and Britain given China, Taiwan Ryukyu, now Suzuki can mention Manchuria Taiwan, but once it is proposed in the cabinet, will the army and navy agree? I'm afraid it's going to be the same.

"You can try it." Dongxiang didn't have the slightest confidence in his heart: "I heard that the Chinese army has always had a contact channel with Chongqing, which can allow them to test Chongqing's attitude." ”

Suzuki shook his head, he didn't have much hope for the army, the army guys didn't know the changes at all, they just blindly stubborn, as if they didn't show their patriotism like this, and the country's affairs were ruined by these guys.

"Let them try, and after they have tried it, they will know what kind of critical moment the state affairs have reached."

Suzuki understood that Togo did not believe that the tool he gave him would satisfy Chiang Kai-shek, and let the army try it and lay the foundation for the future.

The Minister of War is the de facto leader of the Japanese army, a position that every Japanese general dreams of, but after Nishio Shouzo assumed the post of Minister of War, he did not feel the glory at all, only a bunch of troubles that could not be solved.

The Kwantung Army wants ammunition and military strength: the Southern Army wants ammunition: the Chinese dispatch army wants ammunition and military strength: the domestic army wants weapons and ammunition and trains new soldiers: there are so many steel pots and copper produced by the state, and the navy is still grabbing it, grabbing steel, planes, and gasoline, as if it is poor and crazy, and grabbing all kinds of tools.

The Ministry of War was also not quiet either, Okamura Ninji led the Beiping defenders to surrender, the Ministry of War was in an uproar, and young officers rushed into his office and demanded that Okamura Ninji be expelled.

The joint meeting of the cabinet of the headquarters camp was held for three days, and the outline of the general decisive battle was not adopted, which caused the officers of the Young Zhuang faction of the Ministry of the Army, who were already in an unstable mood, to explode immediately, and almost all the officers at home rushed to Nishio Toshizo's office and demanded that he adopt a tough attitude towards the cabinet and resolutely retire if he had no choice, and the army would not send anyone to serve as the minister of war.

"Smack!" Nishio Shouzo couldn't hold back any longer, and shot the case angrily: "What are you going to do!"

When the country is in crisis, it is time for us to work together to tide over the difficulties! But they are planning to overthrow! What are we going to do? Want the country to plunge into chaos! ”

The officers were shocked, the office was silent, Nishio Shouzo was furious, he was very disgusted with these young Zhuang factions in the Ministry of War when he was still in China, but he also knew that these young Zhuang officers were very energetic, and they could even influence strategy and tactics, and reprimand those lieutenant generals and major generals, and their purpose may be to hang a golden bean on their shoulders.

"From the Lugou Bridge incident to the present, the cabinet has changed frequently, the national strategy has fluctuated, and the front-line soldiers have suffered greatly. To implement the general decisive battle program, there must be the consent of the cabinet, and it must be carried out with the support of the cabinet, without the support of the cabinet, this program is just a piece of waste paper, the cabinet is dissolved, who will implement this program, even this is not clear, and what national policy is still talking about here! I'm so ashamed of you! ”

Nishio Shouzo was sarcastic, and the officers' faces were red and white for a while, these officers had never met such a tough minister, and the previous ministers, including the always tough Hideki Tojo, did not dare to do so under the pressure of so many officers.

Takeo Imai, vice minister of the Ministry of the Army, looked left and right, and saw that no one dared to speak, and the situation was deadlocked, so he had to come forward to persuade him: "Your Excellency, everyone is also worried about state affairs, and it is inevitable that you will be a little anxious in your words, and you are really going to collapse the cabinet, please forgive me!" ”

Nishio Shouzo knew about the epilepsy of the Ministry of War, so before he accepted the minister's nomination, he made a request to make personnel adjustments to the Ministry of the Army, which was actually a purge, and all the officers he was not used to purging, including the former deputy official Kimura Hyotaro, who was replaced by Takeo Imai whom he brought back from China, and the director of the personnel bureau was taken by Yasuken Nakajima, who escaped from the North China Dispatch Army.

With these two key parts in hand, Nishio Shouzo was confident that he would be able to control the Ministry of the Army.

Yasuken Nakajima was also among these officers, he was the only division commander who led the team to break out of the outflanking circle during the Battle of North China, and was transferred back to Tokyo after the war to serve as the director of the Personnel Bureau, and Nishio Toshizo admired him very much. Yasuken Nakajima refused to do this, he preferred to go to the advisory department to serve as a combat adviser, but Nishio Shouzo resolutely disagreed and demanded that he must do it.

In today's scene, lethua somewhat understands the purpose of Nishio Shouzo to stay in the Ministry of the Army.

"Worried about state affairs?" Nishio Shouzo didn't save face for Takeo Imai, and sneered and mocked: "I think it's a rhetoric, have you ever heard the enemy's gunshots?" Do you know the actual rubber situation at the front? ”

From this point up, when Kantaro Suzuki became prime minister, there was a rumor in the army province that the defeated general of the Chinese dispatch army would rule the army ministry, and as a matter of fact, not only Nishio Shouzo became the minister of the army, but the vice minister was also served by Takeo Imai, who had a background in the Chinese dispatch army, and the director of the personnel bureau, who seemed inconspicuous but very important, was appointed by the defeated general of the North China Dispatch Army, Yasuyashi Nakajima.

After Yasuken Nakajima arrived at the Ministry of War, he was attacked by a lot of cold words, which made him more aware of the arrogance of these advisers of the Ministry of War, and they even refused to recognize the absolute superiority of the squadron in terms of firepower and military strength, and some advisers even used the calculation method that a Japanese brigade was equivalent to a Chinese division formulated at the beginning of the war when formulating the battle plan, which made him completely speechless.

Today, these arrogant advisers saw the majesty of the new Minister of War, and Nishio continued to sneer at the officers.

“… Hide in Tokyo, hide in the Ministry of War building, and sit in a well and watch the sky! False accusations out of thin air! Nishio Shouzo grabbed a stack of papers in front of him and threw it into the advisor's body: "Look at the battle plan you have made, it's a pile of waste paper!" Do you know what the Chinese army looks like now?! Do you know how many artillery pieces they have in one division? How many tanks? How many planes can be put into this campaign? I don't know at all, I'm still talking about strategy and tactics here! ”

"Your Excellency!" A young man standing in the front row couldn't stand it, trembled all over, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "You ,............"

Takeo Imai immediately interrupted him: "Alright! Let's go out first, Your Excellency the Minister has his own ideas in his heart, and he will not sit idly by and watch the outline be delayed, let's all go out, Nakajima-kun, come here. ”

The resolute look on Shaosa's face was still the same, Hattori Takushiro pulled him, Shaosa swallowed a few words that were ready to be exported with difficulty, and slowly turned to leave, Nakajima Yasuken stood at the back of the infantry team, looking indifferently at these departing officers, and at the same time greeted the anger and disbelief in their eyes. @。 @ko

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