[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 775: The Imperial Council (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

is about to become a father, Ma Zheng's mood is naturally good, and there is nothing more joyful than this! Ma Zheng had been worried about whether he would have no future in his life like the crossing man Xiang Shaolong in "Looking for Qin", but now it seems that this is simply worrying about himself. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ma Zheng has never been a father, but he likes children very much, and now that he is about to have his own children, there is no need to say much about his feelings. But his mood is happy, but some people are not good, and it is not generally bad!

The war some time ago completely broke the bones and revitalized the Japanese army, and the casualties of tens of thousands of troops and overseas Chinese caused the entire Japanese country to fall into a kind of silent grief and indignation, and made the Japanese economy, which was already on the verge of collapse, worse again.

The economy is the foundation of a country, and if the economic foundation is gone, all the superstructure will be affected, or even collapse. The rapid regression of the Japanese economy has caused the wealth accumulated in Japan since the Meiji Restoration to disappear rapidly, the poverty of the domestic civilian population has become more and more superficial, and the voice of domestic anti-war has risen.

After determining that Ma Zheng's troops would not continue the attack, the commander of the North China Front, Lieutenant General Tada Jun, ordered him to commit suicide, and a large number of officers were brought to court-martial, including the long-established Yokoyama Isamu and Kasawara Yukio.

For the Japanese base camp and the entire Japanese government, the performance of the Japanese army in the entire Chinese theater in the past year was disappointing. Except for the Wuhan Raiders and the Battle of the Central Plains (Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain), the rest of the battles did not have any bright spots.

In particular, the North China Front Army in North China and the Kwantung Army in Northeast China performed much more than the high-level leaders of the base camp expected; in just one year, the North China Front Army lost most of Shanxi and half of Hebei, and even the Pingjin area was repeatedly attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and important ports such as Tianjin and Qingdao were also sacked once, with at least 150,000 soldiers and civilians suffering casualties.

More importantly, during this period, many famous units of the Imperial Army, including the 108th Division, the 2nd Division, and the 12th Division, were wiped out, and such heavy losses were definitely the most serious losses in the past hundred years of the Great Japanese Empire, and of course the greatest shame.

Regardless of whether such a fiasco was caused by Tada's command mistakes, as the supreme commander of the North China Front, he had to bear the most important responsibility, so the best outcome for His Excellency, a once powerful general, was to commit suicide by seppuku.

The death of Tada Jun plunged the entire Japanese army in North China into an unprecedented downturn, and although Japan sent a lot of reinforcements to the North China Front, the huge losses were definitely not compensated for by the same number of reinforcements. Moreover, the economic situation in China has deteriorated, and many soldiers are very worried about the situation of their families, and cargo ships and cruise ships between China and Japan have become more frequent for a time.

There were also divisions in Japan about this war, and the vast majority of the officers were still so fanatical, still clamoring that the Imperial Japanese Army would not be able to win the war.

Even Prince Kanin Miyaehito, the actual ruler of the base camp, claimed that the Northern China fiasco was just an accident, caused by the stupid and stupid command of Tada Jun, and that the decline could be reversed by a change of commander, and that the imperial army had already captured Wuhan, the second capital of the Chinese people, in Central China.

However, a large number of politicians were skeptical of the proposal of the base camp, because the politicians did not understand the fanaticism of the military and the military did not understand the operation of the economy, so the vast majority of Japanese officers and men did not know to what extent the domestic economy had declined, they only felt that the living standards of the people had dropped a lot.

With the military fiasco, the economic recession, and the panic caused by the war, some Japanese political leaders and non-governmental anti-war forces openly raised the banner of stopping the war.

In fact, there has been a debate in Japan about where this war will eventually go, but because the Japanese army has won many battles on the Chinese battlefield before, the Japanese people have been fascinated by the brilliant results in front of them, and the reminders and suggestions of some anti-war people have been taken as a deaf ear, and no one cares.

At the same time, Japan's domestic contradictions were also disguised by the record of successive victories, and the expanding ambitions made the Japanese completely lost. But they did not think at all that one day they would be defeated by the Chinese, and they were defeated so badly.

The military defeat was crushing and the economy was greatly regressed, and the contradictions and differences that had been hidden within the Japanese government were once again detonated.

With all kinds of intelligence showing that all forces in China are busy celebrating the holidays, there is no intention of continuing the war at all. Because of this, the Japanese top leadership finally has the time and energy to consider the heavy and serious question of the final direction of this war!

On the afternoon of February 12, the Japanese cabinet and all the high-ranking officials in the base camp received a notice from the Inner Palace that the imperial meeting would be held at 8 p.m., and all those who received the notice must attend.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Prime Minister Fumima Konoe, Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka, Interior Minister Eiji Yasui and Kiichiro Hiranuma, War Minister Hideki Tojo, and Navy Minister Yoshida Zengo all arrived.

On the issues discussed at this Imperial Council. In fact, everyone already knew beforehand. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Prime Minister Fumima Konoe got up and said, "Your Majesty, all the people who participated in the meeting have arrived, and you can start!" ”

"Yo Si! Now that everyone has arrived, let's start the meeting! Emperor Hirohito said in a deep voice.

In Japan, the Imperial Council is a very serious meeting, and unlike the Cabinet Meeting, the Imperial Council usually decides on military affairs, and domestic affairs are generally not discussed at the Imperial Council.

In addition, there is a very strange phenomenon when the meeting is held, that is, the emperor usually does not speak, and the entire meeting is presided over by the prime minister, and at the end of the meeting, the emperor will express his thoughts and decisions, or simply talk about it after the meeting, and this time is no exception.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it has been nearly three years since the incident of Zizhi. In the past three years, our Imperial Japanese Army has achieved brilliant results, we have occupied most of China, and even the capital and the second capital of China have been occupied by the Imperial Army, which is the pride of all imperial subjects! ”

Speaking of this, Konoe Fumima's voice changed, and he suddenly said: "But we can't ignore a problem, that is, in order to support this war, the Japanese Empire has exhausted more than half of the wealth accumulated during the Meiji Emperor, and now the domestic economy has reached a dangerous situation where it is unable to sustain, so how we should face this war still needs to be carefully considered!" ”

This time, Japan suffered an unprecedented fiasco, and at the same time, domestic problems were also detonated, which not only affected the fate of a large number of high-ranking officers such as Tada Jun, Yokoyama Isamu and Kasawara Yukio, but also forced Japan's Minai cabinet to collapse quickly, and in desperation, Emperor Hirohito only ordered Konoe Fumima to form a cabinet for the second time.

The reason why Fumima Konoe was able to be entrusted with the important role of prime minister again by Emperor Hirohito has a lot to do with the statement of "new system movement" put forward by Fumiro Konoe before. Konoe, who had been discouraged by pressure from the military ministry during the first cabinet period, resigned and devoted himself to the movement for a new system.

His idea was supported by many people in the country, especially the main battle faction led by the military department. Especially with Hitler's blitzkrieg on Poland and the start of World War II, which engulfed most of Western Europe and all of Northern Europe in less than half a year. The brilliant results of the German army greatly stimulated the aggressive ambitions of the Japanese fascists, and the Japanese imperial kings were extremely dissatisfied with the stalemate of the war of aggression against China and were anxious to expand the scale of the war.

In order to break this stalemate, the base camp even did not hesitate to bring down the Minai cabinet, which opposed the alliance with Germany and Italy, and actively supported Konoe Fumima to form a cabinet. (To be continued.) )