Chapter 337: The Worst, There Is No One
The United States relied on two atomic bombs to occupy the country, and the deterrent to the country was very great, because it was a weapon that was enough to destroy the entire nation, and the environment facing the country at that time was that the whole world would destroy it, and the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France, and China would all try it.
Under these circumstances, the United States was very cooperative with the occupation of the United States, and there was also a high degree of cooperation between the United States considering the factor of confronting the Soviet Union and the Provisional Political Axe.
The current situation is certainly different, and he has been using tens of millions of people in the entire country as a threat in a vain attempt to retain the emperor system, and nothing else is a problem, and the specific war reparations may have to be negotiated, after all, he has a certain initiative on this issue, but there is no way to divide Hokkaido and other territories.
Hokkaido, the Ryukyu Islands, and Iwo Jima were occupied by the imperial army, and the Tsushima and Oki Islands were occupied by the forces of the Republic of Korea.
The empire has a bilateral secret treaty with Korea, in order to curb the naval superiority of the empire, the empire bought Jeju Island by purchasing islands, and set up the largest air base in Northeast Asia here.
In this case, North Korea can only recognize that Jeju Island belongs to China, which is also beneficial to it, the history is very long, if the future of the Zoben rises again, the DPRK still has to rely on the imperial garrison on Jeju Island to protect North Korea and contain the Bon.
In exchange, the empire agreed to Korea's occupation of Tsushima and the Oki Islands, and for Korea, its control of Tsushima was tantamount to grasping the initiative in the Korean strait.
Therefore, on the issue of territorial cession, there is no room for negotiation, and you don't even have the most basic military strength, so what territorial issue can you talk about?
If China has to abolish the emperor system, the people will be completely defeated, and tens of millions of people will have to fight to the end with the Chinese garrison.
On the surface, the current Emperor Showa is willing to abdicate to protect the country and the people, but behind the scenes, he is constantly in contact with various forces, meets with right-wing organizations, and tries in vain to force China to back down and retain his throne through suicide attacks by the people.
This is the case at the moment.
As Gu Weijun said, if you don't take yourself seriously, then we don't have a reason to take it too seriously, as long as you are willing to attack, we will shoot, there is no problem with this.
Well, China has a lot of bullets, one yuan can buy 30 rounds, and the ammunition expenditure of 10 million yuan is enough to slaughter tens of millions of people.
As long as you dare to attack, I will dare to kill.
This is never a problem.
Moreover, they are different from the previous stage, they do not engage in large-scale activities of tens of thousands of people, but have come up with all kinds of complex means in society, sometimes small-scale, sometimes peaceful, sometimes collective, and at most more than 400 people committed collective suicide in front of the headquarters of the Northeast Occupation Army.
To be honest, there was a certain amount of political and humanitarian pressure, but the more this happened, the more determined the empire was to abolish this evil imperial system.
Time is favorable for China, and with the gradual intensification of the attack on the right-wing organizations of the Northeast National Defense Force, as well as the unified propaganda of the Senior Political Advisory Committee, the society of the Northeast is much more stable than before.
It's a problem at the moment, but it's not a big problem.
At this stage, the garrison retained by the empire in this city includes 22 regular mechanized infantry divisions, 4 armored divisions, 2 artillery brigades, and 4 air divisions, and the navy has set up the Far East Naval Command to garrison the fleet in Yokosuka, which has 1 aircraft carrier, 3 battleships, 6 cruisers, 27 destroyers, and more than 40 other ships.
The navy had been wiped out before its complete defeat, and its last two trump cards were the battleship Yamato and the battleship Musashi, which had just been completed before 1940, but both of these huge ships were directly sunk in the harbor.
The Northeast General Headquarters salvaged the two giant ships again, and towed them back to Jinzhou Port for refurbishment after a little repair in the port, the battleship Yamato remained in the Imperial Port Arthur as a trophy for exhibition, and the battleship Musashi was temporarily left in the Tenth Fleet to serve because it was well preserved as a whole and had the conditions to continue to serve after the overhaul, and used this huge cannon to deter the company itself.
According to the agreement reached between the empire and the Korean political axe, the Musashi was decommissioned and given to the North Koreans, where they were left in the port of Busan as trophies of the North Koreans, and were used for exhibitions and to swear their victory.
As a supplement, the troops sent by the Korean Defense Forces also had more than 10 infantry divisions, and all the members of the right-wing organizations and criminals captured in Yueben, as well as the captured officers and soldiers of Yueben, were escorted to Korea for post-war reconstruction.
The Northeast Commander-in-Chief and the Korean Political Axe signed an agreement requiring the DPRK to treat these prisoners of war and criminals in accordance with the principles of international law, and the Provisional Political Axe also signed this agreement, agreeing that the Korean political axe would manage these war criminals and prisoners of war.
Through this series of arrangements, the Empire's garrison in Yuben is not much, but it is certainly enough.
His Majesty's attitude is now simpler and clearer, if the provisional political axe continues to be uncooperative, the ultra-left wing will be supported to come to power, and after the armistice treaty is signed, the Soviet organization will be slowly tossed in the country, and the empire will not care.
Of course, no written evidence will be left in this matter, and no matter how the ban on the confidential documents of the political axe is lifted, the attitude of Emperor Song Biao will not be found, and the person responsible for this matter will be Gu Weijun, Chen Wu and the Central Military Intelligence Department, Wang Zhaoming will not agree and there is no way.
For the Empire, this should be the only better way for now, and it may be endless troubles in the future, but that is more of a matter for the people themselves.
After Prime Minister Gu Weijun understood the emperor's meaning, he returned to his prime minister's mansion and asked Minister Zhang Jun of the Central Military Intelligence Department and Tang Xiaohu, the chief of the Central Intelligence Administration, to come over and hold a very secret meeting to make arrangements for this matter.
Gu Weijun's methods are still relatively "modest"; his method is to force Yue Ben to first pass the legal political party bill, and allow all kinds of political parties to pour out to make trouble, and the Military Intelligence Department and the Central Intelligence Administration secretly contact the left-wing and ultra-left-wing organizations of Yue Ben, asking them to form a labor party, or a legal political party organization such as the Labor Party and the Socialist Party, and with the cooperation of the Northeast General Headquarters, to take control of the security army and control the military strength of the Yueben, and then formally come to power through various other means.
After these organizations formed a new Provisional Regime, the Empire signed an armistice treaty with the Provisional Axe, and then gradually withdrew from the Empire on schedule, and the two sides also retained formal diplomatic relations.
It is just a matter of asking, and the empire will definitely continue to give long-term support through the CIA through the General Intelligence Agency, support a suitable candidate to maintain ** rule in the city, and connive at the other side to eliminate all opposition forces, and it is best to let the company continue to enter a new state of seclusion.
β¦β¦ A few weeks later, the news of the defeat of the French army at Cambrai reached the country, and the news was quickly published in all the newspapers, which was certainly not good news for those Chinese who were concerned about the fate of France.
In addition to China, the Far East consortium has four largest investment locations in the world, in order of the United States, France, Spain and Sweden, and the largest French bank, the largest automobile company, the largest steel company, the largest aircraft company, the largest electronic and electrical company, the largest machine tool and train manufacturing company are all controlled by the Far East consortium.
At this time, in Paris and Lyon, the French companies of Far East Holdings were desperately moving their assets to Spain.
After receiving the exact news, Emperor Song Biao held a regular meeting of the Central National Defense Commission in the Central Palace according to the original plan, and all the others attended the meeting, except for the members who were outside.
Fu Liangzuo, chief of staff of the army, was seriously ill due to a sudden stroke, and Cai Ye was appointed as the new chief of staff of the army and came to attend the meeting.
Emperor Song Biao, accompanied by Chen Jiayou, chief of the Inner Court, went to the conference hall of the Military Aircraft Academy on time, including Prime Minister Gu Weijun and Chief of General Staff Jiang Fangzhen, a total of 17 Central National Defense Commissioners in Beijing all stood up and bowed.
The Military Aircraft Institute is a building complex in the Central Palace that inherits the meaning of the words of the previous dynasty, located on the easternmost side of the Central Palace, also known as the East Pole Pavilion, which is the office headquarters of the Central Secret Bureau and the National Defense Bureau of the Inner Court, and is also the place where the emperor convenes the National Defense Committee.
Although the conference hall of the East Pole Pavilion is only a place that can only accommodate more than 100 people to hold a meeting, the layout is very magnificent, and the momentum is also incomparably majestic, and the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties is different, the building of the central palace of the empire is mainly made of stone, the internal stone carvings are realistic and magnificent, there are many exquisite painted domes, and most of them are the handiwork of famous teachers of contemporary Chinese academy painting.
Sitting in his seat, after Emperor Song Biao sat down, he put his golden cane inlaid with golden rooster diamonds next to the chair, and then motioned for everyone to sit down as well.
The Central Secrecy Service and the Central Military Department had prepared the materials for the meeting, and in front of each of the Central Defense Commissioners there was a summary of the latest European war reports, as well as the latest aid reports submitted by France and Great Britain.
According to the Constitution of the Empire, since the war between China and China had not yet ended, the Central Defense Committee remained the highest authority of the Empire.
Such a regular meeting of the whole committee also represents the highest level of power in China, and even the National Assembly has no ability to overturn the various decisions made by the Central National Defense Commission at this stage, and if the resolutions of the National Assembly and the Central National Defense Commission in wartime violate each other, the prime minister has the right to directly veto them, and must also veto the resolutions of the National Assembly.
This means that in the current special period, Emperor Song Biao is the supreme leader of the empire, and the empire is currently under the rule of the Central Defense Commission, which was formed by the emperor and the top military officials.
Emperor Song Biao read through the report on the new application for assistance submitted by Britain and France, and inevitably scoffed at many of France's demands, he sneered, and said to the committee members: "As Liu Gengyun said, France is a dou who can't be supported, and in the past, let them strengthen the construction of mechanized troops, they were afraid of spending money, and they had to borrow money from us to build a Maginot Line. I told them a long time ago that it is not enough to have a defensive line, but we also need to have enough pilots and air force strength to ensure the safety of the defensive line, but they still did not listen, and now they have suffered a loss, and they demand that we immediately enter the war, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. I don't know what the consequences will be for us, I only know now that the consequences of the French are to be slaves to the country. β
He was very angry when he said this.
Hearing the emperor's angry words, none of the committee members present dared to express their position, and all of them could only sit with their heads bowed and straight as a monument without saying a word, and no one dared to say half a word.
The members also understood that the emperor's anger was justified, and that during the reign of President Lelumbus, a large number of proposals made by the Reich to France fell into a deep pool, and there was no response at all, and not only that, but Le Lorenbus also greatly increased the welfare of the French people, cut taxes, and cut military expenditures again and again, and the Germans continued to expand their armaments, while France, under the command of President Lelumbus, turned its army, which ranked second in Europe, into waste.
France had just over 4,000 tanks before the war, and this was all a legacy from the time of Marshal Chauffeur.
With the export of imperial technology, France has been able to produce the best tanks, military trucks, artillery, armored vehicles, and planes in Europe for the past decade, but they just don't buy them.
An idiot leader can easily ruin a country.
Even now, France is really confused, most of the high-ranking military generals are still looking at this war with the thinking of World War I, Liu Gengyun gave a lot of suggestions to the French army, but very few were adopted by the French army.
This not only discouraged Admiral Liu Gengyun, but also discouraged Emperor Song Biao.
In the face of the large number of military purchase orders put forward by the French now, as well as their bizarre requests for more gratuitous assistance from the Empire, Emperor Song Biao actually did not know how to respond.
Anger won't solve the problem.
Emperor Song Biao was very impatient and could only push aside the aid application report in front of him, and asked Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Yi: "What do you think should be done with the current situation?" β
Jiang Fangzhen pondered for a moment and replied: "We can provide France with all the assistance it needs, and there is only one condition, that is, we must give the Chinese military advisers the highest respect, otherwise, we will strictly follow the agreement between the two sides and cancel all gratuitous assistance." On the issue of the volunteer army in France, I suggest that the Council of the Asian League should adopt a resolution as much as possible, and if an agreement cannot be reached in the Asian League, a free army can be formed with Iran and Thailand to participate in the war in France, or it can be suggested that Vietnam enter the war in exchange for Vietnam's reading power. β
Emperor Song Biao was actually very unhappy to give France more aid, but being angry would not solve any problems, and for the empire, if it could support France for a longer delay, it would undoubtedly be the best choice.
Of course, if the empire does not ask for the end of the emperor system, it can be solved half a year ago, and it will be delayed until June next year to end the emperor system, and a chaotic political axe will be retained, which can be regarded as a reward for the empire.
Song Biao thought about the affairs of France in general, and felt that the level of the previous exchanges was not particularly high, so he instructed Jiang Fangzhen: "You are personally responsible for the negotiations with the French side, and you had better go to France to clarify their problems." If France is willing to resist, we can provide all the necessary assistance, and if France gives up on itself, or thinks that they French can solve everything without us, or still look down on us, then let them solve it themselves. It should be said that the problems in France are still very complex and serious. President Renaud spoke very well and he gave me a lot of promises, which now seem to have not been fulfilled at all, and there are many reasons for this, but I think the Wigan Chief of Staff has to pay the vast majority ......of the responsibility. β
As soon as Song Biao's words were halfway through, Jiang Shoulin, a first-class chamberlain, hurriedly walked in with a panicked expression, holding the red emergency telegram book of the Ministry of Military Intelligence in his hand, and stepped forward to hand it to Song Biao for a look.
Everyone here is very strange, thinking what is the situation, running in at this time to report?
Emperor Song Biao also felt very strange, how urgent was it? Can't wait even half an hour?
After Jiang Shoulin was allowed to make a confession, several intelligence officers behind him also handed the same telegram book to Jiang Fangzhen, chief of the General Staff, and Zhang Jun, director of the Military Intelligence Department, who were in the conference room.
The two of them and the emperor are the highest level of intelligence authority within the military committee, as long as it is the intelligence of the military department, what the emperor can know, they can also know, of course, the highest level on the side of the Central Secret Service and the Central Intelligence Administration is different.
Emperor Song Biao, Jiang Fangzhen, and Zhang Jun were surprised at each other after reading the latest telegram at about the same time.
After reading the telegram, Emperor Song Biao slowly put down the telegram book and said: "The German army did not continue to pursue the Anglo-French army in Lille, but sent the main force to attack Paris directly. President Reynaud stepped down, and the next step may be to surrender to Germany. President Reynaud flew to Spain on a special plane. β
None of you here is not surprised, the list of France's requests for help that was being discussed just now has now become a great surrender of France, is it really absurd?
The dignified French decided to surrender?
With the full support of the Empire, and the joint operations of Britain, France actually wanted to surrender on its own initiative?
Is France really a bad seed?
"Ridiculous!"
Emperor Song Biao couldn't help but sneer, and said to Jiang Fangzhen: "I see that you can't go to France, immediately arrange for the troops to be evacuated from France, the materials sold by the Ministry of Military Industry to France have not arrived on the shore, and have not been signed by France, including those that have not been moved out of the port after signing, will be recovered and transferred to Spain." β
Jiang Fangzhen thought about it for a while and said: "The empire just sold a batch of short-range missiles and J-6 fighters to France last month, and we will immediately find a way to send troops to destroy these materials. β
Emperor Song Biao nodded and said: "Before France completely surrenders, after stepping up the evacuation to Britain and Spain, I suggest that President Reynaud go to the French colonies to establish a new political axe and continue to fight against Germany, and my country is willing to continue to provide support according to the original agreement." β
Jiang Fangzhen asked: "How to deal with the issue of France's surrender of the political axe?" β
Emperor Song Biao replied: "It is considered a conspiracy coup d'Γ©tat, and does not recognize the surrender of the political axe." β
After saying this, Emperor Song Biao continued to instruct Prime Minister Gu Weijun, who was sitting on his right: "On the side of the Central Cabinet, you must also issue a public warning to Germany in the name of the Central Political Axe as soon as possible, strictly prohibiting the war from spreading to Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, neutral countries and Asia, otherwise the empire will take severe military action." β
After the surrender of France, there are few countries left in Europe where the German army does not have a political axe, Sweden and Spain are the two countries with the highest concentration of imperial investment, and once occupied by Germany, the main enterprises of the empire and the four major trust companies of the central political axe will suffer heavy losses.
The surrender of France was a very different situation from the defeat in the previous war, which meant that Nazi Germany had completely threatened the Empire's bottom line in Europe, Spain.
Emperor Song Biao took five minutes to quickly finish the meeting of the National Defense Committee, and there was no need for any further discussion, everyone performed their duties according to his orders, and the First Army, which had just been evacuated from the battlefield, was immediately transferred to Spain to station, even if the German army did not attack Spain, the garrison transferred to Spain by the end of the year would be increased to 4 group armies.
In Africa, Ethiopia will also deploy two additional army groups to defend against Italy.
Regardless of whether Britain agrees or not, the Reich will send troops into Egypt to protect the Suez Canal, which is the best passage for the Reich Navy to enter the Mediterranean Sea to deter the Italian Navy, and the Italian occupation will never be tolerated.
On the occasion of France's imminent surrender, a week after the defeat at the Battle of Cambrai, Foreign Minister Guo Taiqi of the Chinese Central Committee held a press conference to formally put forward China's bottom line to Germany and its allies, demanding that the German-Italian-Polish alliance and the Anglo-French alliance absolutely not attack neutral countries such as Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as other allies and important strategic partners of China, for any reason, and that if China's interests are further violated, China will take severe military action to protect the national interests of the empire.
Prior to this, the Reich had made this position clear to Germany and Poland through diplomatic channels, and Germany and Poland had no objections, and they had no intention of attacking neutral countries such as Spain and Sweden, since Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland also provided special needs for the German-Polish and Italian Entente.
The Empire has now officially announced this bottom line, not actually to re-emphasize the matter, but to officially carry out a new round of large-scale preparations across the country.
In fact, because the empire's gold reserves grew very rapidly during this period, and it also became the most important foreign exchange reserve in the world, which made the imperial central bank have a larger scale of currency issuance capacity, and the market also has a huge digestion capacity, so it is not difficult for the imperial central government to maintain an annual military expenditure of 7 billion yuan.
7 billion yuan is not a small amount, and the factory price of the best MBT40B tank is only about 70,000 yuan, about 44,000 US dollars, and 10,000 yuan is only 700 million yuan.
In the week before and after the press conference held by the Central Political Axe, the Central Military Department quickly came up with a plan for replenishing armaments that had been drawn up long ago, and wanted to expand the total size of the Central Defense Force to 13.5 million, the army to 9.5 million, the navy to 2.2 million, and the air force to 1.8 million.
In terms of military equipment replenishment, the number of Black Falcon J-6 fighters will increase to 15,500 and become the main force of the Air Force, the number of naval carrier-based aircraft J-606 based on the J-6 Black Falcon fighter will increase to 3,000, and 14 new Novosibirsk-class aircraft carriers will be put into service in the next five years.
The number of armored divisions nationwide will be increased to 75, the number of permanent group armies will be increased to 15, and the total number of MBT33\35\40 series main tanks will be 28,500, 35,000 MT series medium and light tanks, and 127,500 armored vehicles of various types.
According to this plan, the empire will continue to maintain an annual military expenditure of at least 5 billion yuan in the next five years, in fact, the construction of the empire's navy, land and air forces has reached a very high level in the past three years, even if it is now at war with the German army, the imperial defense force can fully occupy an absolute advantage, it can only be said that it will be very difficult to face the German-Polish and Italian alliance at the same time.
When the number of permanent group armies of the empire is increased to 15, the current new plan of the Central Military Department is realized, the number of armored divisions reaches 75, and the total number of army personnel increases to 9.5 million, the empire will have the strength to fight against the German, Italian and Polish coalition forces at the same time.
Of course, this is a new five-year plan of the Central Military Department of the Empire during the war, and basically in the eyes of Song Biao and Jiang Fangzhen, there is no need to reach this level in the end, after all, the Empire is ready to use nuclear weapons.
As long as we continue to increase the number of new weapons in service and replace them, temporarily mothball old weapons, expand the total number of soldiers, speed up the training of new officers and men, and speed up the training of the whole army in modern tactics and new equipment, the Reichswehr will be able to raise its overall military strength to a limit in about three months.
After all, judging from the current situation, it is still unknown whether China and Germany will eventually fight, and if Germany can force Britain to sign an armistice treaty within a few months, temporarily end the war, and not invade other countries, the empire will lose the reason to go to war...... So what else to fight?
Regardless of whether it is fought in the end or not, it is inevitable that the Reich's navy and air force will usher in a new round of large-scale rearmament with the entry into service of turbojet fighters, and Britain and Germany are also gradually changing, and it is impossible for the Reich not to replace.
The current World War II is very fierce, it is an era of assault rifles, and the number of tanks and armored vehicles is huge, and as soon as such a war starts, military spending will be even more outrageous.
(To be continued)