What should Japan do in the face of China, which is showing overwhelming power? Not only did Prince Regent Hirohito feel overwhelmed, but so did the Japanese cabinet.

Since the beginning of industrialization in Britain, the rate of development of a country has been very limited, except for looting. On average, a 3% increase in a year is a big miracle. The speed of industrial and agricultural development in the base areas controlled by the People's Party is unheard of and unseen in this time and space. According to the internal statistics of the People's Party, since 1911, the growth of industry and agriculture in the base area has exceeded 7% every year. The lowest annual industrial growth rate was more than 12 per cent. In 1923, China's industrial scale was eight times that of 1911. The most important thing is that China's industrial categories are constantly improving, and the first problem is solved.

Japan could not understand the changes in China, and they originally saw that China could "blow vigorously" every day, and that the grain yield per mu could increase by more than 10 catties every year. Over the past ten years, China's average grain yield per mu has reached 400 catties. It's twice as fast as Japan. The industry broke through a steel rolling today, and "the days when the Chinese people's rolled steel products completely relied on imports are finally over!" "Tomorrow break through a hydraulic press, gantry crane" The days when the Chinese could not produce large-scale marine processing equipment are gone! "The People's Daily is full of articles like this every day.

There are many jokes in Japan that ridicule the Chinese People's Party for bragging, but these changes are true, and China is running in small steps and constantly improving its industrial level. Japan's industrial advantage over China has turned into a disadvantage in a dozen years. The Battle of Arthur Fortress and the three-in-one attack of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army finally made Japan understand how powerful China it was facing. In particular, the navy, which Japan was proud of, took four torpedoes from the fleet. Thousands of shells were fired at the sea. The result was fruitless. After the submarine forces of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attacked the Japanese Navy, they were able to safely break away from the battle line. This frightened the Japanese Navy. They don't know exactly how many submarines China has, and they can't guarantee that their luck will be so good every time. The torpedoed warship managed the damage well, but there was no problem of sinking. There are no big things, but there are small things. Repairing a warship torpedoed cost millions of yen. The war between Japan and China could no longer be fought.

The current Prime Minister, Gonbei Yamamoto, knows that his position as prime minister is at the end of his life, and he simply does not have the power to turn the tide in Japan. Disaster relief and war, either of which is beyond Japan's current capabilities. After receiving the news that the "traitors" in northern Korea had made a public appearance in Geneva, Yamamoto Gonbei simply resigned in the cabinet. He resigned very happily, and the position of prime minister was not a hot potato at this time, but a volcano about to erupt. No one wants to sit on this crater and die. No one wants to fight for such a high-ranking position as prime minister.

It is clear to the members of the Cabinet that the key now is not the post of Prime Minister. Japan's policy of modest expansion, which had been established since the First Sino-Japanese War, was at this point at the end of its rope. As long as Japan continues to uphold the policy of tough foreign expansion, there will be constant wars with China, and judging from the current balance of forces between China and Japan, it is almost impossible to reverse the trend of Japan's inevitable defeat in every war. The environment on the outside is so harsh, and the situation on the inside is no better than on the outside. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, the level of industry and agriculture in Japan continued to shrink, and unemployment and bankruptcy occurred. External pressures could not be transferred internally, internal problems could not be transferred externally, and the whole of Japan was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, and social conflicts were brought to the brink of extreme danger.

Japan's War Ministry and Admiralty all asked Takahashi to be prime minister. In the past ten years, Takahashi has completed his term as prime minister, although Takahashi Shiqing encountered "unprecedented pressure" at that time, when the Japanese upper echelons and the people looked back, the life of the Takahashi cabinet in those years was quite passable. However, Takahashi Kiyoshi was inclined to decline the request. Takahashi is not a fool, how could he not understand the current problem. The pressure on the Japanese people is unprecedented, and the people lack food and clothing, so the Japanese people's thinking is "to solve this practical problem as soon as possible, and it is also a good way to go out and grab it." Takahashi is Kiyoshi can't do anything about it at all.

The Japanese cabinet meets not even to discuss how to solve the problem, but who to choose as prime minister first.

In such a desperate situation, Takahashi Kiyoshi still put forward a suggestion to send someone to talk to the People's Party. Such a suggestion was agreed to by the Japanese Cabinet. The candidate is very easy to choose, and Takahashi is Qing recommended Kita Kazuki as a Japanese envoy. Now the cabinet members know that Kita Ikki is such an existence between nationals and non-nationals. In the end, it was decided that War Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka would be the head of the delegation and Kita Kazuki would be the deputy head of the delegation, and Japan would send this high-level delegation to China for talks with the People's Party.

After the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, Kita Kazuki became famous. The reason for this is that the Japanese in China, especially the Japanese People's Party in China, and the Japanese workers in China have shown their patriotism and are smashing pots and selling iron to raise money everywhere. The People's Party also secretly supported it, and finally raised more than 4 million yuan. With this money, more than 16 million catties of rice and some medical and disaster-stricken supplies were purchased, and a ship was hired to send them to Japan. In Japan, the person in charge of distributing these supplies is Kita Kazuki.

There is no shortage of manpower for Kita Yihui, and his student team is now following Kita Ikki for disaster relief. These are all members of Japan's current ruling class, and the chaos in the disaster area poses the greatest threat to them. Young people have enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and now they still have supplies in their hands, and Kita Yihui's composure in rehousing the victims of the earthquake is very admirable to young people. As a result, many students from several prestigious universities in Japan have joined the rescue group. Some students even applied for a leave of absence after the school reopened to participate in the disaster relief work with Kita Yihui.

The heads of Japanese universities are not heartless, and they are even very supportive of young students. As long as the supplies from China are not interrupted, they are also happy to have their students establish a good image among the people. There are more and more students under Kitaikki's rescue teams from various universities, and Kitaikki in the Kanto region is also a figure that tens of millions of people have heard of.

So Kita Ikki was invited to the Ministry of Finance, and the Minister of Finance, Takahashi Kokiyo, personally received Kita Ikki. It wasn't too surprising to see Takahashi is clear, and it was extremely surprising to see War Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka. Knowing that the Japanese cabinet had made such an arrangement for him, Kita Yihui was silent for a while and then asked, "Your Excellencies, is there going to be a change in Japan's national policy?" ”

As soon as these words came out, it was Takahashi's turn to be Kiyoshi and Yoshiichi Tanaka were taken aback. The Japanese top brass has not taken Kita Ikki because they don't know what Kita Ikki wants to do. The Japanese War Department has long wanted to establish a relatively reliable communication channel with China, but it has suffered from the lack of suitable candidates. At the beginning, the War Department allowed Kita Yihui to return to China, and it also had this intention. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, the War Department tolerated Kita's continued existence. With the passage of time, Kita Yihui gradually became an immovable figure. He rescued the disaster in Japan, and he also saved many victims. Among the middle and lower-ranking officers of the War Department, there are those who openly call for the elimination of Kita Ikki, and there are also those who openly believe that Kita Ikki "is not guilty of death now." At this point, unless it is a "private" heavenly punishment action, the Japanese upper echelons really can't openly dispose of Kita Ikki on the cusp.

Yoshiichi Tanaka thought that Kita Ikki was a very smart speculator, and after listening to Kita Ikki pointing directly at Japan's national policy, he understood that Kita Ikki was definitely not an ordinary person.

"What do you think about Japan's current national policy?" Yoshiichi Tanaka asked with narrowed eyes.

Bei Yihui has been working hard for most of the past six months, and his eyes are as dark as pandas, and he said in a tired voice: "Whether Japan's national policy will change in the future is impossible to judge." At present, Japan's most important problem is to shrink across the board and lose as little as possible in the process of contraction. ”

Takahashi felt that he had probably chosen the wrong person when he was Kiyoto, and Kita Kazuki had already seen through the current situation in Japan, and if he, as a member of the negotiating team, revealed this bottom line to the People's Party, it would be extremely detrimental to the negotiations.

Kita Yihui looked at Takahashi Shiqing's changing face, and he smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency Takahashi, Your Excellency Tanaka, Japan can't solve any problems by working hard, and for the People's Party, they would rather let Japan survive like this." Japan's strength will only get weaker and weaker, and if it drags on for a few more years, the disparity in power between China and Japan will become even greater, and then they will be more comfortable in dealing with Japan. As far as I can see, the offensive and defensive situation between China and Japan has changed ten years ago, and Japan has not adjusted its policy in time, always thinking that it is the superior side, which has led to its current continuous defeat. ”

Takahashi Kiyoshi and Tanaka Yoshiichi didn't say anything for the time being, they had already vaguely understood this issue, but no one dared to say it so bluntly. It is very painful to position yourself on the weaker side, let alone show weakness in a threat as big as China.

Kita Ichiki has long given up the idea of Japan competing with China, and when he was in China, all he saw was that China was facing endless troubles and hardships, labor, labor, labor, labor, labor China's socialist system guides all labor in China to continuously improve China's productive forces. After seeing first-hand how the socialist system operates, Kita felt that the socialist system was too hard. When he returned to Japan, the life he experienced was no longer hard, but a kind of despair with no future in sight. Natural disasters can die, man-made disasters can die, and without natural disasters and man-made disasters, the situation that Japan faces by relying solely on national strength competition will eventually come to an end. As long as Japan insists on confrontation with China in its national policy, Japan will have no future. Surprised by Takahashi Kiyoshi and Tanaka Yoshiichi, Kita Kazuki felt that it was not anger or surprise, but disgust. At this time, the Japanese upper echelons are still pretending.

The rest of the matter can't be talked about anymore, Takahashi is Kiyohara thinks that Kita Yihui can be used, at least use Bei Yihui as a matchmaker. As a result, Bei Yihui saw things too clearly, and it was obviously not suitable to take on this job again.

Yoshiichi Tanaka was even more depressed, and the bad mood brought about by this contrast was almost impossible to eliminate when Kita Kazuki, who had never been an official and had a very low background, who had been a revolutionary, and who had been a petty hooligan who had intimidated and blackmailed hooligans. The most important thing is that Kita Yihui is telling the truth in every word. Yoshiichi Tanaka knew that any rebuttal he would be self-defeating.

Far from being eliminated, the chaos in Japan has become more intense because of the confusion in perception.

On July 1, 1924, the United States, which did not participate in the League of Nations, sent a telegram to Britain, France, Japan, China, and the Soviet Union. The content reads: "In view of the current chaotic situation in the Far East, the United States proposes to convene a conference on Far Eastern affairs." Settle things in the Far East through negotiations. ”

The meaning behind this telegram is very interesting, and for the first time, Chen Ke encountered a problem outside the track of history. For Chen Ke, it was to make the most of Japan's chaos and finally achieve the recovery of all the country, including Taiwan, while confined Japanese territory to the four islands. Restoring the independent status of the Ryukyus was his ultimate plan. So far, the project has gone quite smoothly. After a series of blows to Japan, the government is in a state of chaos and numbness. Cleverly guiding the situation and allowing Japan to continue to be so chaotic, or in a few years China will be able to rely on its own strength to deal a fatal blow to Japan.

At this time, if Britain jumps out, China has many ways to deal with it. At this time, it was not Britain that jumped out, but the United States. The so-called international conferences are all arenas for major powers to re-establish their positions. It is very bad for China for the United States to jump out, but it is very good for Britain and Japan. This made Chen Ke quite unhappy in his heart. Because it is impossible for China to openly say that we want Japan's territory to be limited to the four islands, and that the whole of East Asia must be decided by China.

First, the United States sent a telegram, and the British thieves immediately agreed with France. And all the belligerents were asked to join the meeting. China was also able to unite with the Soviet Union, which was completely soy sauce, and the two countries issued a demand that North Korean representatives must participate in the meeting. Now Japan is on the cusp. The United States, Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union are all world powers, and Japan's strength cannot be compared with these five countries.

According to the principle of unanimity among the great powers, once the five great powers of the United States, Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union reach some kind of agreement, it will be the final decision on the earth. Because 80% of the world's land, population and industrial strength are in the hands of these five countries. Japan can only kneel in front of these five countries.

Of these five countries, Britain has an alliance with Japan, France has no special relationship with Japan, and based on Japan's role in the Far East, China, the United States, and the Soviet Union are all countries that want to be in conflict with Japan. It is clear that Japan will not be able to please this matter.

In the end, under the repeated urging of the British, the Japanese government had no choice but to send representatives full of grievances to attend this meeting of the great powers interfering in Japanese affairs.