846 Landing in the Americas 10 Can Japan Say No?
, 846 landed in the Americas ten Japan can say no?
To be honest, Luo Yaoguo is really envious of the "travelers" in the online novels he read in his previous life. Those "traversers" seem to be all unpredictable prophets, and they are scheming, resourceful, and especially good at figuring out the minds of their opponents, almost all of them are Zhuge Liang. Where is like yourself, you have been played by those historical celebrities, and you don't know what cards your opponent will play next! Even, after the other party played the cards, he had to find someone to refer to him for a long time to know what he meant.
For example, this time Roosevelt caused a "nuclear proliferation" crisis, our Generalissimo Luo is confused, I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Roosevelt's gourd?
That's an atomic bomb! A favorite of future dictators! I don't know how many dictators have ruined their families because they don't have the final killer in their hands...... And as long as there is this killer feature, it will be able to be passed down from generation to generation! Although such a good thing has not yet been finally created, but it has long been known through the calculations of the world's top nuclear physicists, then Roosevelt must not know nothing, right? In fact, according to the information that Luo Yaoguo has, the United States attaches more importance to the Manhattan Project in this time and space than in history! Just look at the fact that they could come up with 50 kilograms of uranium-235 with an abundance of more than 90% at the end of 1939. That's definitely not all of the weapons-grade uranium-235 that the United States has.
Who would hand over all the uranium-235 in their hands to an enemy who had just fought with them? Wrong! Who will put the weapon of atomic deterrence in the hands of the enemy? Unless he's a fool. Could it be that Roosevelt was deceiving Japan, and he was playing a delaying tactic? Or think about a nuclear blackmail before the advent of nuclear weapons!
"If this atomic bomb is really as good as those professors say, little Japan will have to its tail in the future!"
At this time, I don't know who suddenly came to say. Luo Yaoguo followed his prestige, and it was no one else who spoke, but the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Lieutenant General Wu Ziliang, Luo Yaoguo's ally brother.
"Third brother, did you say yes?" Wu Ziliang saw Luo Yaoguo's eyes full of doubts, and muttered in a low voice. "Japan has an atomic bomb, and even if we can defeat it, we will have to pay a lot of price."
"Is that what Roosevelt was trying to achieve?" Luo Yaoguo pondered for a moment and shook his head. "What the hell is this Roosevelt trying to do?"
"That's right, since he has such a powerful weapon, why doesn't he use it to fight the Japanese devils? Instead of trading it back to Hawaii? The question was asked by Bai Chongxi, the chief of staff of Bai who couldn't guess Roosevelt's intentions for a while.
"Although the power of the atomic bomb is great, the number of atomic bombs is not large, and it is not easy to drop them, so they are strategic weapons. It is ideal to use it to attack enemy cities, but it may be limited in power when used in field battles, and it is even more useless to use it in naval battles......" Luo Yaoguo knew a little about the theory of nuclear deterrence in later generations, so he explained it to Bai Chongxi and the others in the conference room.
"The maximum range of the bomber that can be made by current technology is only 6 or 7,000 kilometers. It would be nice if you could fly 3,000 kilometers with an atomic bomb weighing several tons. In addition, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb had to be equipped with a radiation-proof lead plate to reinforce the fuselage, which would add a lot of weight...... For example, if the FW-200D of our Air Force is to be hung with a 3 or 4-ton atomic bomb and then refitted, it will fly 2,000 kilometers at most, and the combat radius is only 1,000 kilometers. It's no problem to take off from Shanghai to bomb Japan, but if you want to fly out of the continental United States, you can't even bomb Hawaii. Therefore, Roosevelt was a weapon of emptiness, but there was no way to use it for the time being. ”
Bai Chongxi smiled coldly, tapped the table with his fingers, and said, "But the Japanese have it!" They're so close to us, and they're kamikazes! Roosevelt played the atomic bomb card in an attempt to drive a wedge between us and Japan, right? "Then we can't be fooled!" Wang Jingwei frowned, sighed again, and said with a wry smile: "Let's not be fooled, it's hard to guarantee that they will be fooled in Japan!" In the eyes of their warlords, China is much more hateful than the United States. ”
"What's there to be afraid of?" Air Force Minister Lee Soon-eun sneered and waved his hand. "What kind of atomic bomb do we also have, haven't we already saved nearly 300 kilograms of high-purity uranium-235? It's enough to build 10 atomic bombs, right? Moreover, the output of our isotope separation plant is more than 100 kg per year. Even if Japan has 50 kilograms of high-purity uranium-235, it will not dare to oppose us! ”
"That's right! It makes sense, they don't dare to use it. "Well, if they dare to use it, we will blow up Japan!" "Yes, blow up Japan!"
The high-ranking government officials attending the meeting seemed to agree with Li Shunen's suggestion, and they all nodded yes.
But Luo Yaoguo didn't think so, how many atomic bombs did the Kim family in North Korea have in the future? The United States still doesn't dare to pinch them? Japan in this time and space is much more crazy than that of North Korea, and who knows when a plane or submarine with an atomic bomb will run to Shanghai and blow itself up? This kind of loss is something that China, which has become an imperialist, is not willing to bear! Now Japan is barefoot, but China is wearing shoes.
If Roosevelt had traded the atomic bomb for Hawaii, China would have no way to stop Japan's expansion in the South Pacific, and it would have been difficult to integrate Japan into the new order in the East led by China. And in the long run, Japan, which owns the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago, the Philippine Islands, Papua New Guinea, half of Lanyin, and perhaps half of Australia, will have the opportunity to develop and grow because of the atomic bomb, and finally become the most powerful contender for China, the hegemon in the East! At the same time, the long-term confrontation between China and Japan will also create opportunities for the United States to profit from it in the future!
Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo snorted softly, and the conference room suddenly fell silent, and all eyes fell on Luo Yaoguo's face, as if waiting for him to make a final decision. Luo Yaoguo slapped his palm lightly and sneered: "This President Roosevelt is really not a fuel-efficient lamp!" A little trickery will change the new order of our Eastern world. A hint of sarcasm appeared on his lips as he spoke. This can be regarded as revenge for supporting Japan's attack on the west coast of America, right? ”
"Assistant, what should we do then?"
"What should I do?" Luo Yaoguo glanced at Foreign Minister Wang Jingwei, "Comrade Zhaoming, you have worked hard to go to Berlin, and it is best to meet with Hitler and find out his tone." Hitler must have known about this...... I am worried that he may offer the same conditions in order to win over Japan and continue to oppose the United States! ”
"As for the Americans, I'll have the ambassador in Petersburg Wan Yanhao go and Harry. Hopkins reached out and asked them if they still wanted to divide the world with us? ”
"Brother Fuwen, do you want to let Zhou Fohai contact the Japanese side? See if you can convince Japan to reject the American conditions? Wang Jingwei reminded.
Luo Yaoguo wrinkled his eyebrows and pondered for a moment, but still shook his head, and said coldly: "The Japanese also understand the truth of long-distance friendship and close attack, not only is it useless for us to oppose this matter, but it will also have the opposite effect if we don't do it." However, I guess the Germans are in a better hurry than we are, and they have been very concerned about the affairs of the Central American Federation during this time. Now let's make secret contacts with the United States, and let Germany win over Japan...... The fire of the war between the United States and Japan has been ignited, and the matter of adding firewood to the fire will be left to Hitler! ”
After speaking, Luo Yaoguo looked at the people attending the meeting again, and saw that they were also at a loss, and it seemed that they couldn't come up with any tricks, so he got up and announced the end of the meeting, and then went to the presidential palace with Wang Jingwei to report to Luo Yiqun.
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"His Majesty the Emperor has arrived, and all officials are welcome!"
A melodious roll call was heard from the end of the corridor in the Prime Minister's Residence into the brightly lit Cabinet Room.
"What? This incident actually alarmed His Majesty! Konoe Fumiro was stunned for a moment, hurriedly stood up from his seat, and led the cabinet members to stand solemnly at the door of the cabinet room.
After receiving an urgent telegram from Foreign Minister Yoyoshi Matsuoka, the Japanese Cabinet Office convened an emergency meeting overnight to discuss the terms of peace talks proposed by the US side. Faced with the conditions of the Americans, two diametrically opposed opinions emerged in the Japanese cabinet.
Most of the cabinet members in charge of Japan's economy, including Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe, Minister of Finance Ryo Kawada, Minister of Commerce and Industry Kazuzo Kobayashi, Minister of Railways Murata Seizao, and Minister of Health and Welfare Eiji Yasui, were in favor of the view. However, what they value is not the atomic bomb, but the $500 million loan given by the United States, the lifting of sanctions, and the ability to resume normal economic and trade relations with the United States sooner after the armistice.
Since the beginning of the war, it has been these civilian officials who have been in charge of Japan's economy who have been under the most pressure. With this war, the army and navy can naturally open their mouths and ask the cabinet for budgets, steel, airplanes, gasoline, labor, ships, and all kinds of rations, regardless of where the cabinet conjures up things? In particular, since the start of the invasion of the Americas, the amount of materials demanded by the army and navy has increased exponentially, but domestic production has shrunk day by day for various reasons. The biggest reason for the shrinkage of production is that the continuous decline of sea transportation and the shortage of raw materials imported from overseas have made the industry a rice-free cooker. And most of the ships were either requisitioned by the Army and Navy or sunk by the ubiquitous American submarines. However, the domestic shipbuilding industry is building warships at full capacity, and there is no time to undertake orders for cargo ships.
Contrary to the high-ranking officials of the army and navy, who were jubilant all day long calculating when they would win the war, the civilian officials of the Cabinet Office stretched their faces every day, as if they were suffering from depression, and their mood was even more gloomy. There are even people who are quietly calculating when Japan will perish because it runs out of gasoline, the last piece of steel, the last bullet! In the eyes of these civilian officials shrouded in pessimism, the fact that the Americans are willing to spend $500 million and that atomic bomb to make peace with Japan and end the war is definitely a pie-in-the-sky thing, and what reason does Japan have to refuse?
Could it be that he really occupied the Hawaiian Islands and wanted to establish a colony in the Americas? You know, this kind of expansion is simply not something that Japan's national power can support!
However, those leaders of the army and navy, including War Minister Nagata Tetsuyama, who has always been more rational, resolutely oppose such a condition of "losing power and humiliating the country" to negotiate peace with the United States. Although the Japanese military has been pondering the "uranium bomb" for many years, they are resolutely opposed to exchanging the Hawaiian Islands. They reasoned that the Hawaiian Islands were Japan's first and most important line of defense against American attacks. Especially in the future, when both Japan and the United States possess atomic bombs, the status of the Hawaiian Islands will be even more important, because the distance from there to the west coast of the United States is only more than 3,700 kilometers! And Japan is quite capable of producing a suicide bomber with a range of more than 4000 kilometers in the near future......
Therefore, as long as the Hawaiian Islands are in hand and Japan gets the atomic bomb from Germany, the United States will always be under Japan's suppression!
And just when the members of the Japanese cabinet were arguing, Emperor Hirohito actually left the palace overnight and personally condescended to rush to the prime minister's residence!
Presumably it was also for the sake of peace with the United States, right? I just don't know what His Majesty the Emperor thinks?
Just when everyone was pondering the emperor's thoughts, the voice of the minister of the palace, Koichi Kido, sounded again: "Finish the ceremony! All the ministers are seated! ”
Everyone straightened up, and Uzuni returned to his original seat, except for Prime Minister Konoe who took another seat. On the chair he used to sit on, there was now a Japanese emperor wearing a straight military uniform, sitting straight, but his expression was a little stiff.
"Konoe Qing." The Emperor's voice was cold, as if it did not carry any emotion, and it did not seem to belong to this world.
"The minister is here."
Konoe stood up respectfully and bowed deeply to the Emperor. As a descendant of the Fujiwara clan in Japan and the head of the Konoe family at the head of the Five Photographers' pen, Duke Konoe Fumiro of course knows that the so-called descendants of God are all deceitful nonsense, but this false sense of sacredness must be maintained, otherwise the Yamato nation will lose its cohesion.
"I've heard about the peace conditions proposed by the United States, what do you think?"
Emperor Hirohito's voice remained calm, but Konoe found an imperceptible gloom in his brow, and it was clear that the Emperor was not satisfied with the Americans' conditions.
"Your Majesty, I think it's ......" Konoe swept down Nagata Tieshan with the corner of his eye, took a deep breath, and said loudly: "Atomic bomb, the empire must get it!" No matter what the cost. Because the empire is currently ...... It is facing a critical juncture unprecedented in 2,000 years. Only with this kind of super weapon, coupled with the courage of the soldiers of our imperial army to sacrifice their lives to serve the country, can the empire be invincible in this world war, and then raise the prestige of our country to the four seas, and show His Majesty's kindness to the world. ”
"Nagata Qing, is what Konoe Qing said right?"
Emperor Hirohito interrupted Fumiro Konoe's words and turned to War Minister Nagata Tetsuyama. In the current Konoe Cabinet, the military, represented by Nagata, has always disagreed with Konoe Fumiko.
With a grim expression, Nagata, who was shriveled and short, stood up and bowed deeply to the emperor before speaking. "Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that the atomic bomb must be possessed, otherwise the Empire of Japan will not be able to become the maker of the future world order! It will even become a vassal of China forever. ”
"Speaking of which, Nagata is in favor of negotiating peace with the United States." Emperor Hirohito's tone was even colder, with a hint of unhappiness.
"Your Majesty, the minister just thought that the empire must have an atomic bomb! Whether it's from the United States or from Germany. ”
"But the German atomic bomb was not a free lunch!" Fumiro Konoe reminded loudly: "Germany, like China, just wants to use the empire as cannon fodder to contain the United States, and if the empire cooperates with Germany, it means that it must fight with the United States, and the empire can no longer have the resources to maintain such a large-scale war!" There will be no resources soon!
Now, the only way out for the empire is to make peace with the United States, and then concentrate its forces in the direction of Australia. Only by conquering Australia will the empire have a future. ”
"But can Americans be trusted?" Emperor Hirohito's words immediately left Konoe Fumiro speechless. Hirohito said slowly in a calm tone that he had trained for many years: "The condition that the United States penetrated through the Russian Empress before was to cede the Hawaiian Islands and pay an indemnity of $2 billion...... But now that the Hawaiian Islands have been exchanged for atomic bomb technology, who knows if anything will change in a few months? Konoe Guard, can you guarantee that the conditions proposed by the United States will not change again? ”
Konoe Fumiro shook his head and said, "The minister is panicked. ”
Hirohito didn't look at Fumiji Konoe again, but turned to War Minister Nagata Tetsuyama again. "Nagata-qing, shouldn't the empire immediately reject the United States?"
Nagata Tieshan frowned and hesitated for a moment before slowly speaking. "Your Majesty, it is not necessary to reject the United States, on the contrary, not only can we not reject the United States now, but we should continue to bargain with the United States at the 'Petersburg Peace Conference,' and even discuss the details. And on the battlefield in Central America, the Imperial Army should also postpone the attack on the fortress of San Lorenzo. In short, we must give Germany and China the illusion that Japan and the United States are reaching a rapprochement! In this way, in order to win over the Reich, Germany will definitely offer the technology to make the atomic bomb with both hands......"
Emperor Hirohito waved his hand and said, "It's a matter of negotiation skills, right?" I won't bother with such trivial matters, so I'll leave it to the cabinet and the military department to discuss and handle it. Speaking of this, there was also a hint of coldness in his eyes, and his tone suddenly increased. The Great Japanese Empire was not anyone's vassal in the past, and no country can override Japan now, and there will be no country that can dominate Japan's fate in the future! Not in China, not in Germany! This time, the heavy responsibility of dealing with China, the United States and Germany will be handed over to the secretaries, and Wanger and other secretaries will do it wholeheartedly, don't live up to my hopes! ”
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