[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 807: Preparations Before the War (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

In fact, the September 18 Incident was not deliberately created by the Japanese Government, but was created by some ambitious fellows of the Kwantung Army who figured out the emperor's intentions behind the government's back, and the government only acquiesced in the development of the situation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, they also did not have the authority to manage the Kwantung Army. Later, two mutinies took place in Japan, and finally the politicians of the cabinet were completely cleared out of the political arena, and the cabinet was completely controlled by the military department. For example, some extremists in the military department, such as Terauchi Shouichi, Binshan Moto, Ishihara Waner, Itagaki Seishiro, Umezu Mijiro and others.

Although these people are very bad, they are all fanatical loyal patriots, and they have always faithfully carried out the emperor's orders. Therefore, it makes sense that many countries that suffered from Japanese aggression after the war, including their own people, demanded that Emperor Hirohito be severely punished, because the emperor was actually Japan's biggest war criminal, but the United States forgave him for various reasons.

The contradiction between the Japanese army and navy is also extremely acute, and this contradiction originated during the Meiji Restoration, when the main forces supporting the Meiji Restoration were the Satsuma and Nagasu domains, such as Okubo Toshitsu, Saigo Takamori, Ito Hiroshi, Yamaguchi Aritomo and others were all from the Satsuma and Nagasu domains.

And the basis for the establishment of a new army after the beginning of the Japanese Restoration was called from Satsuma and Nagasu, with Satsuma becoming the navy and Nagasu becoming the army. In the early days of the Meiji Restoration, Japan had no parliament and no constitution, and it was completely feudal politics. The Satsuma Domain and the Nagasu Domain each had their own troops and controlled the political situation in Japan. The army and navy became tools of various factions. After successfully seizing state power and eliminating the shogunate, two major factions were soon formed in Japan, and they were constantly at odds with each other.

The second was that the Japanese Navy learned from the British, and the Japanese Army first learned from France, and then changed to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. That's why the Japanese army and navy are divided, because that's how Western teachers are.

Before learning from Germany's creation of the General Staff and the establishment of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Defense to become the highest organ of the national armed forces, the army and navy of Western countries were respectively the War Department and the Navy Department of the Cabinet, and the monarchy was managed by the Minister of War and the Minister of the Navy and was directly responsible to the highest organ of power.

Japan has also learned this set, and because the development of the navy and the army consume resources, and the navy and the army represent the interests of different feudal lords, there are many contradictions in the competition for development resources, such as steel and oil.

As a result, the weapons of the army and navy can no longer be produced in the same workshop, and must be produced separately in the army supervisor workshop and the navy supervisor workshop. But the greatest advantage of this is that even if one branch betrays the interests of the warlord chaebol, there is another branch that has enough strength to suppress it.

For example, in the 226 Incident, the Army mutinied, and the Japanese Marines shouted the slogan of avenging the great predecessors of the Navy and obeyed the emperor's orders to quickly quell the rebellion. Even in order not to form the third largest military bloc, Japan does not set up an independent air force, and the Japanese army and navy are divided into army aviation and naval aviation, and the Japanese Navy's marines are not weaker than the ground forces of the army, and even the airborne troops that are mostly subordinate to the army in various countries, and Japan not only has airborne troops in the army, but also naval airborne troops.

As a matter of fact, purely from the perspective of coordinated operations, any branch of the Japanese army and navy belongs to an alternative all-round service, and it can completely accomplish most combat missions within its own service.

However, the Americans are also in this system, and the reason why the Americans were able to win was entirely because the US Army and Navy were able to sit down and negotiate the interests of various branches of the military, while the Japanese Army and Navy basically never sat down to talk, but always wanted to stab each other in the back.

The reason why the appearance is quite good now, and the form of cooperation between them is still quite gratifying, is entirely because the Japanese Emperor's Palace has done a lot of mediation, temporarily putting aside the contradictions between the government, the military department, and the army, and everyone is bent on development. In addition, the glory created by the German army in Europe made the entire Japanese interest group envious, so the big guys had the possibility of cooperation.

After temporarily shelving the differences and contradictions, the Showa warlord clique headed by the base camp in Japan began to strengthen the management of domestic political parties and other political groups, and practiced strong politics, and for a time some anti-war groups and progressives were persecuted and even assassinated. Public opinion throughout Japan was surprisingly unanimous, all glorifying the government and the military, and propaganda newspapers and cartoons glorifying the war were scattered throughout Japanese towns.

At the same time, the media in Japan also completely turned their back on their social mission and vigorously welcomed the needs of the legal fascist war, ignoring the huge crisis hidden under the gorgeous surface of Japan at this time, and hyped up the success of the "Greater East Asia War" and justified the war.

In order to preach the so-called "Japanese spirit" and maintain the militaristic image of the Japanese government, Japanese broadcasters have completely ignored the essential requirements of news truthfulness and even vigorously propagated the argument that the fighting spirit can defeat death.

It can be seen from a series of performances, such as the Japanese media's concerted service to the fascist domestic and foreign policies and their efforts to boast of the "successive victories" of the Japanese "Imperial Army," that it has played an important role in creating public opinion on the war and in cultivating a blind war consciousness among the Japanese people, and has become a force that cannot be ignored when waging war.

At the same time, the Japanese government seized the opportunity to vigorously propagate the theory of the conquering powers and the government's greater East Asia in Asia, mobilized the Japanese people extensively, and also revised the "National General Mobilization Law" promulgated in 38 years, which together with the "Temporary Fund Adjustment Law" and the "Law on Temporary Measures for Import and Export of Commodities" promulgated earlier, are called the "Three Wartime Laws", and the promulgation of these three laws is aimed at strengthening the state's intervention in the economy and putting it on the track of wartime.

Among them, the "National General Mobilization Law" was the core of Japan's wartime statist control legislation, which placed science and technology, education, news reporting, industry, transportation, finance and trade under the control of the government. Subsequently, the Japanese government promulgated various control laws and regulations in accordance with this law, bringing all aspects of national life under the scope of national control.

At the same time, the Japanese Government began to hoard a large number of ships and warships, and a large number of the navy's main warships were included in the government's military expenditure budget, actively strengthening the navy's combat effectiveness.

In addition, with the support of the cabinet and the military ministry, the Japanese government began to actively contact the Soviet Union, and the two sides tried to reconcile after more than half a month of secret negotiations.

With this combination of blows, the Japanese government not only quickly resolved the domestic crisis temporarily, but also pooled all its domestic forces to actively prepare for a possible larger-scale war.

Japan's series of actions were all in preparation for the future big war, and under the stimulation of the Germans, the Japanese had obviously forgotten the crisis at home and how strong their opponents on the Chinese battlefield really were. In their eyes, there are only naked interests now, and there are only madness and ambitions desperate to dominate the world.

Driven by this ambition and desire, they dare to do anything, even if they know that there is danger, even if the country's fortunes are ruined.

As Karl Marx, the discoverer of socialism and the founder of the Communist Party, made a surprising discovery and classic emphasis: "If there is a 10% profit, capital is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With 20% of the profits, capital can be active; With 50% of the profits, capital will take risks; For the sake of 100% profit, capital dares to trample on all human laws; With more than 300% of the profits, capital dares to commit any crime, even to the risk of hanging his head. ”

Obviously, Germany's one-size-fits-all move has made Japan, which also wants to succeed, red-eyed, and they are not only active, but are also taking risks to trample on all the laws of the world. Of course, their end was predictable, that is, they were finally sent to the gallows. (To be continued.) )