After Umezu Mijiro finished speaking, Emperor Hirohito sighed and said: "The Soviet army in the Far East should indeed have a large amount of gasoline, diesel and various supplies. Major General Kazuse Nishihara, who was dispatched by Vietnam to the Surveillance Committee, did a good job, seizing 100,000 tons of Chinese strategic materials at the port of Haiphong, including a large amount of gasoline and diesel, saving the empire a lot of expenses. ”

"Your Majesty, if you occupy the Far East, just the eastern plain of the Ussuri River, you can resettle 2 million people, carry out reclamation, relieve the pressure of the dense population in the country, and find new channels for economic growth. During the Siberian War, he accompanied his army to the eastern plain of the Ussuri River. The water network is vertical and horizontal, the land is fertile, and a large number of corn, soybeans, and rice can be grown, although it is only one crop a year, but the yield per mu is very high. It can completely alleviate the pressure of domestic food shortage. ”

Akita Kiyoshi was afraid that the emperor would forget that he was the Minister of Expansion, so he hurriedly stood up and made a report. In fact, all of you here are Showa warlords, or affiliates of Showa warlords, and no one cares how much food they can get back from the Ussuri River Plain, they want much more than just food!

Emperor Hirohito's gaze passed over the crowd and looked at the military councillor, General Toshiichi Terauchi, and motioned to him to make a report.

Terauchi Shouichi wanted to be the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army last time, but he was robbed halfway by Nishio Shouzo, and under the depression, he was with Mrs. Terauchi and the concubine Miss Masako every day, and he was drunk and beautiful, so unhappy. It's just that Emperor Hirohito didn't want his love to lose his fighting spirit and his sword to rust, so he forced him to sit in the base camp and participate in the combat command. Recently, Shouichi Terauchi has been in a better mood again. Because the Japanese army has already invaded northern Vietnam. The southward movement to Southeast Asia is already on the line. As long as the Japanese army went south to fight in Southeast Asia, it was necessary to establish the same command structure as the Kwantung Army and the Chinese Dispatch Army. And this commander, General Shouichi Terauchi is of course the best choice. Emperor Hirohito had already exchanged views with Terauchi several times in private, and told him that he would have to go into battle for the Japanese Empire if needed.

Now, due to the outbreak of the Soviet-German war. The northward fighter appeared, and Terauchi Shouichi's mood was complicated. He was a giant of the Japanese army, and his original idea was to advance northward, but now the situation has changed, imperial diplomacy has reached a stalemate, and the United States has suspended trade with Japan, and only oil, rubber, and steel have put Japan in a difficult situation. Shouichi Terauchi was also entangled in whether to go north or south, trying to find a good way.

At the suggestion of the emperor, the temple Shou Yi reported to work: "Your Majesty," he said. The Northward Fighter is not to be missed. Because there is another key factor in the northward advance, that is, the complete severance of foreign aid channels for the Chiang Kai-shek government. The Soviet Union was the main donor to the Chiang Kai-shek government, and without the Soviet Union, the Chiang Kai-shek government could not have survived in 1938. As long as the northward march is successful. The Chiang Kai-shek government collapsed without a fight! However, it should not affect the southward expansion plan. The march into French Indochina was already on the way, and any further hesitation would only make the French, Americans, and British more prepared. The minister pondered that the Kwantung Army and Navy carried out general mobilization and undertook the task of advancing northward. In addition, troops were mobilized to attack French Indochina. The defensive strength of French Indochina is not worth mentioning, and it can be taken in one fell swoop without too many troops. Moreover, if you go south, you will be able to get oil, rubber, rice, and ore that you can't buy with money from the United States, and the benefits will be even greater! ”

The ass decides the head! Terauchi Shouichi was appointed by the emperor as the commander of the southward army, and began to speak from his own standpoint.

After hearing this, Emperor Hirohito turned to the commander of the Kwantung Army, the newly promoted general Umezu Mijiro: "Is the Kwantung Army really sure that it will be able to win this battle?" I remember that the Kwantung Army suffered a lot of losses during the Battle of Normenhan! ”

Umezu Mijiro immediately reported: "Your Majesty, the reason why the Battle of Normenhan was rude on the Western Front was repeatedly reviewed by the ministers. The main thing is to underestimate the enemy. At that time, the 23rd Division was mainly engaged in operations under the three-unit system, and if it had been replaced by the 2nd, 5th, and 6th Divisions, the situation would have been much better. And the Soviet army, according to later intelligence, the artillery commander and the air force commander all went to the front line to inspect, indicating that they did their best. In this case, according to intelligence analysis, the Soviet army did not take advantage of it, and the casualties were basically the same as those of the imperial army. Now the situation is different, the Kwantung Army has two tank divisions, two mechanized divisions of the 2nd and 23rd divisions, and a complete railway network for the mobilization of troops. Coupled with the support of the powerful Japanese Navy, he was sure that the Kwantung Army would definitely be able to defeat the Soviet Red Army in the Far East. ”

All that needs to be said has been said, and Emperor Hirohito doesn't want to be verbose anymore.

Emperor Hirohito is not an emperor of peace who opposes aggression and loves biology as the Japanese propagandize, but is an out-and-out aggressive and war maniac in his bones. However, this person has a characteristic, that is, he is very rational and calm, and he can calm down when it is critical. Historically, on the question of deciding whether to go north or south, it was he who made the decision to go south; On the question of whether the final battle or the decisive battle of the jade shatter, it was he who decided to surrender unconditionally. If it weren't for Emperor Hirohito, according to the opportunity of the decisive battle of the local jade shatter of the military headquarters, I am afraid that there would have been no Japan in the future.

Emperor Hirohito looked at his ministers with his eyes and said in a somewhat ethereal voice, "When I was still the crown prince, my body used to be very weak. My teachers, Vice Admiral Junyoshi Kawamura, Army Admiral Nogi Noshinori, and Admiral Heihachiro Togo, all took it as their responsibility to train me mentally healthy and physically strong, and they were extremely strict with me. His Excellency General Nogi Noshinori told me that the way out for great Japan lies in self-improvement, and only by self-improvement can it not be bullied by Western powers and become a world power. When I became an adult, I went to Europe at the age of 20 to visit five countries: Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, and I deeply felt that the European powers had developed economies, cultures, and strong military strength. I also made a special visit to the Disabled Military Home in Napoleon's cemetery, and brought back a bust of Napoleon, which has been placed in the study to inspire me to fight for the construction of a strong Japanese Empire. Since I ascended the throne, I have relied on the protection of Amaterasu and the support of my subjects, and my national strength has become stronger day by day. However, I have been asking myself all night and night, knowing that due to the limitations of natural conditions and the lack of resources, it will be difficult for Japan to become an industrialized power with Britain, the United States, Germany, and the Soviet Union if it does not take extraordinary measures. This measure is to take the road of military power and open up the mainland territory that we dream of for the Japanese Empire! ”

When he said this, Emperor Hirohito's voice was a little scary.

Immediately afterward, Emperor Hirohito said, "Ishihara once said that Manchuria is terra nullius. I think that not only Manchuria, but the whole of Siberia is terra nullius. This place was originally a place where the Huns herded horses, and later a place where the Xianbei people and other ethnic minorities who could not explain it. Whether it is the Huns, Xianbei people and those scattered ethnic minorities, they have never regarded this place as their real home. What they yearn for is to go south and occupy the Central Plains. The Han Chinese regime in China never really ruled this wild land. Only the Mongols once ruled, and after the fall of the Mongol Empire, it was divided into several small khanates. When the Russians expanded eastward, no one paid attention to it in the first place. Later, because of the erosion of Manchuria by the Russians, the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty fought two small battles with the Russians that were not worth mentioning, signed treaties, and divided the borders. The ministers thought about how great the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Kingdom was, and why was he willing to demarcate and coexist with the Russians? The reason is that he knows in his heart that this is a borderland. The situation became clear to everyone later, at the end of the last century, due to the defeat of the Qing State, it once again signed an agreement with the Russians to give all the land east of the Ussuri River to the Russians. The reason why they did it was because it was borderland, and they didn't feel distressed. The Eight-Nation Coalition has captured Beijing, and I haven't seen the Empress Dowager Nala of the Qing State cede Beijing to the foreign powers, and no one from the foreign powers has proposed to occupy Beijing, because everyone knows in their hearts that Beijing belongs to China and has the main land. As soon as Soviet Russia was founded, Lenin announced the abolition of all unequal treaties signed between the Russian Empire and China. Lenin's promise was clear to all three-year-olds, including the return of the Chinese territories forcibly occupied by Tsarist Russia. Why did Lenin say this? One reason is that Lenin wanted to show the world a new image of Soviet Russia, win the support and sympathy of the world, and reduce the pressure on Soviet Russia. Another reason is that the Russians know that the whole of Siberia did not belong to Russia in the first place, it was terra nullius, it was easy to gain, and it was not sad to lose it. If you think about it again, Lenin declared it so, why didn't the Chinese immediately negotiate with Soviet Russia to recover these lands? The answer is still the answer just now, this is ownerless land, and the Chinese do not even know the exact area of these lands, so naturally they have the attitude of celebrating the New Year and celebrating the New Year without it. As a result, as soon as Stalin came to power, not only did he not recognize Lenin's promise, but he also kept thinking about plotting and seizing Chinese land very despicably and greedily. ”

His Majesty the Emperor said so much in one breath, and the ministers and generals who attended the Imperial Council finally understood that His Majesty the Emperor had thought more than they had thought about and studied more thoroughly, and that even such a complex issue as whether Siberia was terra nullius had been clearly demonstrated by His Majesty the Emperor!

Without waiting for the ministers to think deeper, they heard the shrill voice of Emperor Hirohito sound again: "Due to the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, a good opportunity for the empire to advance north has appeared. However, since Siberia did not have the oil and rubber that the empire desperately needed, the empire had to obtain these essential resources if it wanted to survive. Therefore, I have weighed it again and again, and I believe that the Empire's strategy of advancing north and south is extremely appropriate. The purpose of moving north is to relieve the worries of going south, and this should be made clear. Based on this, I approved the "Imperial Program for the Development of the Situation" submitted by the Cabinet and the General Staff Headquarters, and instructed the Cabinet to immediately carry out mobilization, and the General Staff Headquarters, together with the Army and Navy, to draw up a practical plan as quickly as possible, and the Kwantung Army to carry out secret preparations for war against the Soviet Union, with the Navy fully cooperating. At the same time, the army carried out the plan to capture French Indochina, and the two could not be neglected. However, I would like to remind the military headquarters and the Kwantung Army that the war against the Soviet Union must be controlled and must not exceed the Urals line, leaving room for diplomatic negotiations. Moreover, the war against the Soviet Union must be carried out on the premise of confirming that Germany can defeat the Soviet Union, and it is not possible to use valuable war resources to fight a cooperative war with Germany. Germany is Germany, Japan is Japan. Be clear! ”

Dear book friends: It's been three changes, why haven't you seen a significant increase in monthly passes? Depressed! (To be continued)