If Ito Hirobumi were still alive, how would he feel when he saw such a story?

In the past 30 years, the government has been implementing a 33 policy, that is, the national fiscal revenue accounts for 30% of the total national economy, and the navy military expenditure accounts for 30% of the national fiscal revenue, this policy is indeed very effective in the early days, so before the First World War, China's naval military expenditure was only equivalent to half of the navy, but after 1927, the naval military expenditure was not as good as China's, and by 1937, China's naval military expenditure was equivalent to 1.8 times that of the capital.

In 1937, the total military budget of the Chinese Navy was 1.335 billion yuan, while the military expenditure of the navy in the same period, although it increased by nearly 30 percent compared with 1935, was still only 740 million yuan.

In short, it is a very short-sighted country, fishing for the best of the water, killing chickens and eggs.

If they were willing to abandon the spirit of Darwinian socialism and fascism that they adhered to and adopt the national policy of peace, friendship and development with China, why did they have to do it today?

In the past two years, China has built 8 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 14 cruisers, and 33 destroyers, while only two battleships and a small number of cruisers have been built.

Not only did he lack an adequate naval budget, but his shipbuilding and warship industries could not sustain competition with China, and in this competition, he was already completely hysterical, and the empire's sudden policy of decolonizing the Korean Peninsula was the last straw that crushed him.

Fumiro Konoe's luck is really bad, the prime minister of the Konoe cabinet, who was once notorious for proposing the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, has just taken office and is still struggling with whether to adopt a hypocritical peace posture towards China, when he was confronted with such an absurd thing as the "decolonization" of North Korea.

Konoe couldn't believe that the Shina Empire was so shameless, it was clear that they were implementing colonial rule in Korea, and the Great Empire was just protecting the imperial family of the Korean Empire, but it wanted to overthrow the Korean Empire in such a shameless way and try to rule the whole of Korea autocraticly.

In his view, almost all of the member countries of the Asian League are nothing more than protectorates and colonies of the "Chinese Empire."

The concept of "decolonization" has also been popular in recent years, and Konoe Fumiro is such a caller, but his spirit of "decolonization" is specifically aimed at the "China Empire", and the "decolonization of East Asia" he advocates can basically be understood as supporting Mongolia, Manchukuo, Tibet, and Xinjiang provinces to read out of the so-called territory of "China" and strip away the colonial rule of the China.

As the Duke of the Konoe family of the Imperial Family, Konoe Bunji has a very high status in both the military and political worlds, and even the "last patriarch" Saionji Gongwang has a very good personal relationship with him and respects each other.

Konoe's father and Saionji Konobu were the same era as the great nobles of Saionji and were very good friends with each other, while Konoe Fumiro's ideas were diametrically opposed to his father's, his father advocated an alliance with the Qing Dynasty to jointly resist European and American foreign invaders, while Konoe Fumiro inherited some of his father's ideas, but advocated the idea of splitting the "Shina Empire" and leading East Asia to confront Europe and the United States.

From a young age, he often declared that "a country like China will always be divided, and then it will bring great disasters to East Asia", which often makes him particularly interesting and famous.

The reality is very cruel, the Chinese Empire not only did not split, but also walked very steadily on the road of anti-separatism, although the empire did not become a disaster in East Asia, but it was indeed a disaster in the world.

Before Konoe Fumiro became prime minister, he had already collapsed two short-lived cabinets, and at first all parties hoped that Fumiro Konoe would become prime minister to form a cabinet, but he refused twice in a row, and finally when he finally decided to become prime minister, all parties made great concessions for him, making him form a powerful cabinet in the real sense for the first time in nearly a decade in the political arena of Konoemoto.

Of course, this is also related to the special support given to Konoe Fumiko by the Marshal's Palace, Prince Zaihito, Admiral of the Fushimi Palace, and the Duke of the Konoe family, who is the head of the five regents of the Konoeto, and as the head of the Kamoto clan, he and Prince Zaihito and King Fushimi Miyahiro represent the peak of Emperor Samoto's control over the military and political affairs of Samoto.

Later, he declared that the emperor had no responsibility for fascism, but it is well known that without the support of the emperor, Prince Zaihito, King Hiroko Fushimiya, and Fumihiro Konoe, fascism would not have become the mainstream ideology of society and the state.

Emperor Showa had a long-standing anti-fascist vigilance, but in the end he accepted this idea, and even acquiescing in the idea of controlling the book was a great crime in itself.

In the days following the announcement by the Chinese Central Cabinet that it would ban the colonial jurisdiction of North Korea within two years, tensions arose in the military and political circles, and the Admiralty and War Departments had already considered the extreme policy of attacking the Chinese Navy by sneak attack, destroying the Chinese Navy, using the mountainous terrain of Korea to fight a decisive battle with China, and forcing China to agree to hand over all of Korea to the jurisdiction of the Admiralty.

Of course, they also considered retaking Western Ryukyu and Taiwan after destroying the Chinese navy, opening the way for the empire to expand southward.

The phrase they used was "to recover the western part of the Ryukyus and Taiwan."

Because it was a very risky strategy, Konoe Fumiro was resolutely unacceptable to this, but he still decided to do another secret consultation with Prince Zaihito and King Fushimi Palace Hiroko that night, but the three of them were only one of the protectors of Fascism, in fact, the real control of the army and navy was not high, but this situation was a situation that had already been decided by the Meiji Constitution, and the Meiji Constitution of that year was regarded as an eternal and unchangeable constitution. In fact, it was only the result of the compromise between the various feudal forces in the early days, which led to the emergence of factions within the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of the Army, the Navy General Staff, and the Army General Staff, and there were all kinds of factions within the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of the Army, the Navy General Staff, and the Army General Staff, and they could not be knotted together at all.

When all the factions were secretly discussing attacking the Chinese Navy first and ending the naval race between China and the Chinese Navy, one person stood on the opposite side of everyone, and this person was Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, the Minister of the Navy at the time.

Mitsumasa Yonechi insisted on his point of view, that is, attacking the Chinese navy was tantamount to self-defeating, and that Mitsumasa Yonechi could refute everyone's proposals with just one sentence about the ridiculous so-called battle plans drawn up by the young admirals of the navy - no matter what, as long as you can't stop the air force of China from attacking the empire mainland, all your plans are useless.

This was the fatal wound of the Ben.

After 15 years of naval competition with China, the company's spending in the aviation field could not support the development needs of the modern aviation industry, and although it had manufactured fighters that it considered to be absolutely excellent, it was far from being able to compete with China in terms of the number of fighters produced.

Mitsumasa Yonechi is very clear about this.

On this issue, Mitsumasa Yonechi also has a very important ally with the same opinion, the first head of the army staff headquarters, Ishihara Waner, and Ishihara Wan'er's attitude is the same - there is no way to start a war with the Shina Empire, unless you fools really want to die.

Ishihara was a very crazy person, he once personally disguised himself as a businessman to visit the Shenyang Aircraft Factory in the northeast in the name of buying passenger planes five years ago, and after returning to the company, he said to a section chief of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, who was close to the army, - you bastards, you are so much worse than those guys, how can this be?

This sentence has been circulating in the military headquarters for a long time.

In fact, Ishihara did not see the military aircraft manufacturing workshop of the Shenyang Aircraft Factory in the Changling area of northern Shenyang, but only from the side of the passenger aircraft factory, he was able to clearly understand how big the gap between China and the aviation industry was.

All in all is really big.

From Ishihara's point of view, if the Ichinomoto and the Shina Empire go to war, it would be better not to fight if they could not win quickly within three months.

However, with the strength of the army air force, it is simply impossible to achieve a quick victory over China within three months, and even so, the adventurous faction within the military headquarters still accounts for the majority, and those who oppose the war can only concentrate all their energies on finding a way to see if they can accomplish such a task that cannot be accomplished at all.

It is said that this is such a strange country, as long as most people say so, a small number of people will automatically follow others, and it is easy to see a shameful thing to highlight a surname and be different.

It's a bit of a strange thing.

The Chinese side definitely did not expect that there would be such a crazy idea, and would actually want to sneak attack the Chinese Navy, which is actually very difficult to do, because the main force of the Chinese Navy is the Sanduao Naval Base and the Luoyuan Bay Naval Base, especially in the past ten years, Sanduao has gradually replaced Luoyuan Bay as the headquarters of the Imperial Naval Base.

The Central Navy of the Chinese Navy has two main forces, the Northern Fleet and the Southern Fleet, the former with Lushun, Qingdao, Weihai, and Jinzhou as naval bases, and the headquarters base as Lushun, and the latter with Sanduao, Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, and Luoyuan Bay as naval bases.

Because the Northern Fleet as a whole was on the defensive, with only four Aurora-class battleships, two Qingzhou-class battleships, and two aircraft carriers, the main force of the Chinese Navy was the Sanduao Naval Base of the Southern Fleet.

In the vicinity of the Sanduao base, the empire has an air force division, and the naval headquarters also has a naval aviation team, which is responsible for patrolling and guarding the periphery, and in Taiwan Province between China and China, the empire also has a very powerful and concealed radar base station, which can scan the surrounding sea area of nearly 100 kilometers, and the radar station of the Sanduao base is of the same level.

At this time, they still lacked sufficient understanding of radar, and their own radar industry was not strong, but they magically pinned their hopes for a surprise attack on Sanduao on the naval air force and tried to rely on aircraft carriers to win.

In short, this is an absolutely unimaginable fact.

This plan is very risky, but once it succeeds, the Chinese Navy will lose more than 70 percent of its elite navy and completely lose the capital to fight a decisive battle with the navy.

In fact, Ben had been planning this all along, and had discussed it in a very confidential manner among a small number of naval staff officers.

…… Chinese politicians have always had a habit of cleanliness, and Gu Weijun did not like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, two very crazy countries, but he also did not want to be a lobbyist who instigated war between the two countries.

He only cleverly made some suggestions with Hitler, and opened some new windows for Sino-German military and technical cooperation, allowing Germany and the Reich to carry out some very critical technological exchanges, which would help Germany effectively defeat the Soviet Union in the war.

After the visits to Poland and Germany, out of the importance of Sweden and Spain, Gu Weijun also continued to visit Sweden and Spain, and a large part of the capital transferred from Germany will enter these two countries in the form of central credit capital to support their industrial development.

In 1938, with the annexation of Austria by Germany and the announcement of China's outlaw of colonial rule over Korea, the Soviet-German War and the Sino-Chinese War in the new world war had already revealed a gloomy outpost.

From this year, the world entered a new era of war.

With the size and level of China's industry, if China were unfortunately involved in World War II, it would be destined to become the only victorious country in the end, and no country would dare to truly challenge the empire. Just as the United States had no enemies before World War II who dared to challenge it, China is even more lonely than the United States, because the blind know that China is much stronger than the United States now, and its population, size, and industrialization are much larger than those of the United States.

It's such a tragedy that you take a bomb in your hand, but your opponent doesn't dare to bet on you.

China thinks so, because the vast majority of countries and powers in the world also think so, but China absolutely did not expect that Yue Ben actually had the courage to plan a sneak attack on Sanduao, if he let Yue Ben do this, it would definitely be more outrageous than the Pearl Harbor incident, because the main force of the Chinese Navy is basically in Sanduao, and the reason why they should all be concentrated here is to deter Yue Ben, so that Yue Ben cannot rely on the navy to expand southward.

With a territory of 19.5 million square kilometers and a one-third of the world's economy, no feasible countermeasure has been taken by any country in the world, and China seems to be the end of this chaotic era.

Only they feel more and more that China is immortal, and they really can't develop.

As the emperor of the empire, he has walked in the military and political world for decades, Song Biao knows very well that the current international situation is entering a very absurd and strange situation, in fact, from the perspective of the whole world, Germany just wants to become a powerful country like the United States and China, but it has chosen the wrong path of annexation.

After the end of the Sino-Soviet War, Song Biao was always worried that the three countries would conclude an alliance against China, but it was only at this time that he found that as long as China was strong enough, Su Deyue would not conclude an alliance in the real sense, and if there was such an alliance, in this alliance, Germany would have little benefit, and it was possible to risk offending the most powerful enemy.

The Soviet Union said that it was impossible to truly form an alliance, because the Soviet Union really did not have this certainty.

All this implies a simple conclusion - the Chinese Empire ruined World War II.

If there is still a new world war in this world, this war must be very bizarre because of the existence of China.

Beginning in 1938, the Reich broke the previous balanced and ambiguous strategy in its foreign policy, adopted a strategy of covert and strong support for Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, adopted a strategy of division against Germany and Italy, and used the policy of decolonization of Korea to carry out internal and external attacks in an attempt to further weaken the country.

Everything went well, but no one thought that Yu Ben would dare to plan a sneak attack on Sanduao.

It's ridiculous.

Although Ben hasn't really figured out how to put it into practice, it's very powerful to dare to plan it.

The empire has a very powerful intelligence infiltration network in its own country, but because this discussion has been limited to the special scope of a certain group of people, neither the Central Intelligence Administration nor the Central Military Intelligence Department have received special intelligence feedback, but another intelligence network has detected some strange peculiarities.

This intelligence network is called the Anglican Church.

The so-called Anglican Church is a secret society organization against the hegemony of the Anglo-Saxon race, mainly concentrated in the military, political, economic, medical and scientific circles, and the main sources of intelligence and composition of the Anglican Church come from these fields.

There are also secret sub-societies composed of many members of the Anglican Church within the Navy, and they are not low in rank, and it is usually difficult for the middle and lower non-commissioned officers of the normal low level to have such an awareness, and it is difficult for them to realize the real death of the Akaben.

On October 20, 1938, the Imperial Central Government suddenly announced in advance that it would abolish the colonial guardianship in Korea, recognize the legal surname of the Republic of North Korea, and transfer the jurisdiction over the north of Korea to the North Korean government.

This is a difficult thing for Yuben to accept.

There are two countermeasures, one is to recognize the northern political axe and split Korea into two countries, and the other is to not recognize the northern political axe and judge this as a rebellion against the central Korean dynasty, then send troops to quell the rebellion, or support the Joseon Dynasty to send troops to quell the rebellion.

Choose one of the two.

At the same time, Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe also issued a statement declaring that he would also renounce his colonial rights in Korea and support the freedom of reading in the Korean Empire.

China's decolonization is a real decolonization, hoping to promote free trade in the world through decolonization and safeguard China's national interests on a larger scale.

The two sides are only one line away from war, and both Chinese and Chinese armies are still stationed in the north and south of the Korean Peninsula.

On the afternoon of October 28, 1938, two days after the release of the Guardian Statement, Song Biao received a secret report from the Episcopal Church, claiming that the Navy was discussing a possible attack on the Sanduao Naval Base, and that it was possible that a battle plan was already being drawn up.

Song Biao was still very surprised by this news, and he immediately summoned Chen Jiliang, chief of staff of the Navy, and Zhang Jun, director of the Central Military Intelligence Department, in the general office.

Although Luoyuan Bay is a very good deep-water harbor for the navy, in the era of aircraft carriers, once carrier-based aircraft and torpedo bombers taking off from aviation enter Luoyuan Bay, they will face a very broad operational field of vision, and there is also a lack of suitable space for air defense construction in the surrounding area.

Sanduao is a special port group of seven smaller Luoyuan Bays intertwined with each other, and the naval base is located in the central port of Baima, which allows the navy to build more anti-aircraft batteries and land-based batteries around it, as well as land-based radar stations on higher coastal ridges.

After the torpedo bombers entered Sanduao, their field of view was limited, and they would be affected throughout the flight and fighting, and because of the undulating mountains around the surrounding sea, the planes were also very difficult to fight.

For this reason, after many years of research, the Admiralty decided to abandon the Luoyuan Bay Naval Base, which had been built for more than 10 years, and moved the headquarters of the Southern Fleet to Sanduao, while the Luoyuan Bay Naval Base retained the dock and other hardware facilities for the Central Oceanic Department and the Fujian Coast Guard to continue to use.

Ten minutes later, Chen Jiliang and Zhang Jun hurriedly arrived at the office.

After they bowed and saluted, Song Biao asked them to sit down and said directly: "I learned from some special intelligence channels that the possible surname of the sneak attack on the Sanduao naval base is being discussed within the Navy, is there any relevant source here from the Ministry of Military Intelligence that can corroborate it?" ”

Zhang Jun replied: "Back to the emperor, there is no reliable news to corroborate for the time being, but there seem to be two news worthy of attention, one is that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is revising the design of the new carrier-based aircraft, requiring the use of a way that can throw auxiliary fuel tanks to further increase the range, in addition, the Wu Jun Shipyard is revising the aviation torpedo, this kind of airborne torpedo is required to further increase the power and accuracy, at the expense of reducing the range, we initially suspected that this is the adjustment of the parameters of the torpedo by the Navy, and now it seems likely to be preparations for a sneak attack on China's naval base. Reducing the range meant that torpedo bombers had to fly closer to the target, which would be difficult to do in normal naval aviation combat unless the aircraft of the opposing aircraft carrier were completely unable to take off. ”

Song Biao thought for a while, and asked Zhang Jun: "How is the newly opened telegram code breaking work of the military?" ”

Zhang Jun replied: "For the time being, there has been no definite progress, and the telegraph codes of the Navy and the Army are very complicated, and although we have been tracking them for many years, there is indeed no reliable progress on the new cipher system that was replaced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs three years ago. Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent telegrams mainly to the DPRK issue, and from the intelligence point of view, it is said that the cabinet still hopes to avoid a serious military conflict, but with the attitude and tradition of the military department that has always been tough and does not take the cabinet seriously, it is expected that a military conflict may still break out in the DPRK, and the possibility of the military taking the initiative to provoke is extremely high. ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, the Central Military Department still has a very high degree of precaution against this, and also knows that the military department will not be at the mercy of the cabinet, and it will really start fighting.

He and Chen Jiliang asked, "If Yue really planned to attack Sanduao, is the navy fully prepared?" ”

Chen Jiliang pondered for a moment and replied cautiously: "Back to the emperor, the Sanduao Naval Base is the most widely defended and complex naval base in the world, and it is very difficult to sneak attack the Sanduao Naval Base. ”

Song Biao quietly pondered what Chen Jiliang said just now, and it was difficult to say anything for the time being.

It is still difficult to say whether this will attack the Sanduao naval base, but Song Biao believes that even if he adopts this kind of sudden sneak attack tactic, it is very likely that he will be surnamed.

Song Biao suddenly had a comprehension, and said to Chen Jiliang: "Or we just believe too much that the defense of the Sanduao Naval Base is very good, so it is difficult to believe that there are loopholes in it, and I don't believe that there will be a sneak attack on Sanduao, the navy must strengthen the defense, and let other northern fleets send personnel to try to simulate the tactical design of sneak attack operations, looking for some possible loopholes, in short, you have to secretly prepare for this matter, take more precautions, and find a way to confirm this matter." ”

Chen Jiliang and Zhang Jun said yes at the same time.

Song Biao had a headache.

It would be a great irony if the Empire had just given up on the idea of launching a full-scale attack on the Empire last year, only to be attacked by the Lord.

Song Biao first asked Chen Jiliang to return to the military headquarters to verify the preparations of the navy, leaving Zhang Jun to continue to discuss the issue.

After a little discussion, Song Biao suddenly asked Zhang Jun: "You still know a lot about Yueben, in your opinion, what kind of country is Yueben today, and what kind of situation is it in?" ”

Zhang Jun thought for a while and replied: "Poor people must have something to hate, and hateful people must also have pitiful, this is very suitable for this book, the problem of this book is very simple, life is thinner than paper, heart is higher than the sky, and it has always been unscrupulous for the result." If our country is not strong, it will be invaded sooner or later, and if our country is strong, it will be doomed to tragedy. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly and agreed: "What you said is very right." ”

Immediately, he and Zhang Jun asked: "How long will it take for the detection of the telegram of the military department?" ”

Zhang Jun replied: "It's still hard to say, it's almost impossible to crack them all, but it's not difficult to figure out the code of some key areas and equipment, we can basically confirm the code of most important military areas and naval ships, the code of Sanduao Naval Base has not appeared in the past six months, I suspect that it is possible to change the code, but it is not difficult to reconfirm the new code, I only need to send an Aurora-class battleship into the port, according to the wireless telegraph feedback from this side, You can basically check the new code compiled by the opponent. ”

Song Biao instructed: "Investigate this matter as soon as possible, although it may not be possible to really attack Sanduao, but we are still very clear about the psychology of this country that is good at speculation, don't be careless." ”

Zhang Jun replied: "Please rest assured, the emperor will do his best!" ”

(To be continued)