-- Chongqing

A man looked at Dai Lisa in disbelief and asked in Japanese, "Are you really willing to let me go?" ”

Dai Li nodded and said, "You are an old friend of our commission, if you want a lot because of the war, the commission still wants to continue to be friends with you, this time let you go back first, the commission does not want your friends to suffer here, and the second and most important, I hope you can send a message when you go back, Chongqing is willing to negotiate, but your country's sincerity has not been enough." ”

The man nodded and said, "I believe in Mr. Jiang's sincerity, I don't know if you have any requests that I need to convey?" ”

Dai Lian wrenched his fingers and said, "First, the Chinese government only allows one, and Wang Wei in Nanjing must be dissolved. ”

The man understood, "Reasonable." ”

Dai Li continued: "Second, Mongolia and Northeast China can be put on hold for the time being, but we cannot accept the puppet Manchu State either, but we can make these two areas disputed. ”

The man was a little embarrassed and said, "It's a little difficult, but I've been reading newspapers and listening to the radio during this time, and I feel that the strategic thinking of our Japanese top has changed, so there is still hope." ”

Dai Li nodded and said, "In the end, we will not cede land, pay compensation, or be vassals, but we can give you some special economic status, if we can agree to these three conditions, we can talk about everything." ”

After the man waited for Dai Lisa to leave, he looked at the Japanese military uniform placed beside him, sighed, slowly put on the military uniform, put on the military hat, and looked at himself in the mirror, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "I don't know if I will be judged if I go back to Tokyo like this?" ”

This man was none other than Ryosuke Isoya, who had been captured by Liu Hong, and who had been imprisoned since he was brought to Chongqing, even after losing the Battle of Wuhan. Chiang did not release him either, but now, under pressure from the Red Party and Nanking, Chiang had the idea.

But Jiang Intermediary was also afraid that others would know that he had released Isoya Ryosuke, after all, Isoya Ryosuke was the first division commander to be arrested and had an important political role. Therefore, let Isoya Ryosuke return from Hong Kong under the escort of the military commander.

-- Shanxi

Li Qian was practicing swordsmanship outside the warehouse when she suddenly heard a strange noise in the warehouse. She immediately understood that Jiang Cheng was back, and hurriedly pressed the button next to her, and naturally someone would notify Mr. Zhu and the others.

Sure enough, after a while, Jiang Cheng walked out, looked at Li Qian and said with a smile, "Why are you sweating, let's exercise again." How was this time? ”

Li Qian tiptoed to get closer to Jiang Cheng, then shrank back and said, "Fortunately, this time is quite quiet, and there is no war." ”

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps, Jiang Cheng looked at it, but it was a few guards who came over with Mr. Zhu, who looked a little fatter than when he was in Lu Liangshan. Looks like it's going to be okay.

Mr. Zhu looked at Jiang Cheng and said with a smile, "It's hard work." 203, how's that? What's the catch? ”

Jiang Cheng pointed to the tall containers behind him and said, "It's not bad, the financial problem over there has been solved for the time being, this time I brought all the machinery and equipment, mainly machine tools and steelmaking equipment, I think we are also waiting for these." I also brought some cloth. It can enrich the market. ”

Mr. Zhu snorted and said, "Indeed, Ren Chi has been urging in the past few days, and the preliminary construction and site selection work of the factory has been completed. Come with me to dinner, there will be oil and meat to eat, and in addition, the chairman will arrive in the afternoon. ”

Jiang Cheng asked, "Why did the chairman come out of Yan'an?" What's wrong? ”

Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "It's a good thing, our Taiyuan Arsenal has begun to resume production, Chairman Mao can't help but want to take a look, anyway, now our sky is safe, so I won't stop it." ”

Speaking of the arsenal, Jiang Cheng said as if inviting credit, "Boss, I bought a small factory in Czechoslovakia, and I can also make weapons there and ship them over there in the future." ”

Hearing that it was a small factory, Mr. Zhu said indifferently, "It's okay, we're not bad now, besides, you might as well move that factory over, isn't it tiring to toss back and forth?" ”

Jiang Cheng shrugged helplessly and said, "That's not good, I'm going to move all the Skoda over, Hitler has to fight with me." ”

"Why is this guy Hitler so stingy? Isn't it just a Skoda Skoda??? Mr. Zhu's eyes widened and asked, "Is that the largest arsenal in Czechoslovakia, our factory for Czech light machine guns?" That Skoda, which can produce heavy artillery? Is this still a small factory? Little Jiang, you're deliberately teasing me, aren't you? As he spoke, Mr. Zhu's whole face bloomed, his two eyes were almost invisible, and he rubbed Jiang Cheng's head with his hand, and his excitement was clear at a glance.

Jiang Cheng said hesitantly, "Isn't this modesty making people progress, boss, are you still casual?" ”

"I'll just say, you must not believe all of Xiao Jiang's words, let me tell you, if you can't take out 100,000 rifles from the Germans in a year's time, you should be careful of your ass." With the smell of smoke, a familiar voice sounded, who was not Chairman Mao.

"Lao Mao, why are you ahead of schedule?" Mr. Zhu looked at Chairman Mao and asked.

"The weather is good, the road is good, it's ahead of schedule, Xiao Jiang, tell us how you won Skoda, if we have such a factory in China, what are we afraid of the Japanese." Chairman Mao said as he took out another cigarette and caught fire on the cigarette butt that he was smoking about the same.

Jiang Cheng shook his spirits and said vividly, Li Qian next to him heard the stars in his eyes, and Chairman Mao and Mr. Zhu also kept nodding.

Chairman Mao asked Li Qian and the others to leave, and the three of them sat in the room and said, "This Hitler is really the same as Xiao Jiang said, cunning to death, and that Chamberlain is also shooting himself in the foot, after all, the 'appeasement" policy, to put it bluntly, is your good policy, give me your candy to eat, you don't beat me." As a result, it will just be played around by Hitler. ”

Jiang Cheng snorted and said, "But I don't know the current situation." ”

Mr. Zhu said, "Let me tell you, a few days ago, Poland and Britain signed an entente, and Germany should be half angry now, and the Poles will sign a contract with France." ”

Jiang Cheng recalled. It's not much different from history.

Chairman Mao took a puff of cigarette and said, "Little Jiang, see if you can let the war break out in Europe later, the later the better." ”

Jiang Cheng knocked on his head and said, "Actually, it's easy, Germany cooperated with the Soviet Union to carve up Poland in history, and the most important reason is that Poland closed the door to German negotiations, as long as Hitler felt that it could be resolved through negotiations." It wouldn't be so simple to start a war, after all, he wasn't actually fully prepared, and he didn't want the world to see his true colors so quickly. In addition, I gave Hitler a Roman plan some time ago, and now at the critical moment of implementation, Hitler will not go to war immediately. ”

"Then Xiao Jiang, you will work a little harder, in addition, our country has been very quiet in the past two months, I look at eighty percent of the calm before the storm, Mr. Zhu. You're going to have to be on your side. Chairman Mao said this, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "What happened to that Japanese spy?" ”

Jiang Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Yes, what about that Kawashima Yoshiko, is she still in Taiyuan?" ”

Mr. Zhu looked at Jiang Cheng who was watching the show, shook his head, pointed at Jiang Cheng and said, "Here, she sent and received the report in the dispatch room less than three or four kilometers away from us, and what she received and sent was the news we gave her, but it was not yet time for us to use this chess piece." Little Jiang, how long are you staying here this time? ”

Jiang Cheng pointed in the direction of the warehouse and said, "This is a small part of it." I'm probably going to ship these in the next half month, boss, you have to hurry up and move it, but don't I have nowhere to put it then. ”

Mr. Zhu smiled when he heard this, "Don't worry, I promise that every time you come, it's empty, you don't know." The telegrams from the people in each factory were sent one after another, and we were lucky immediately. ”

-- Europe

The Polish authorities did not know whether they had intentionally or unintentionally ignored Germany's feelings, and instead of giving any explanation to Germany, they signed a protection agreement with France a week later, and since then. As long as Germany and Poland went to war, Britain and France would automatically go to war with Germany, but both Britain and France were optimistic about the situation, believing that Germany would never go to war when they saw such an alliance.

And Hitler's anger made the German General Staff immediately take action, and it took less than a week for a war plan codenamed "White Plan" to be released, the essence of which was to end the battle in the shortest possible time, and the German soldiers at this time were deeply affected by the results of the First World War, and most of them believed that the long-term war was the main reason for Germany's defeat in Europe, and if the war was only one or two months, Germany would not be afraid of anyone.

From Asia to Europe, from China to Germany, the whole world has quieted down, as if waiting for something, Jiang Cheng continued to carry machinery and equipment to Taiyuan, Shanxi's various mining areas began to work one after another, countless ores were transported to various smelters and power plants, Shanxi's industry developed rapidly.

Time flew to May 1939, in Tokyo, Ishihara Waner, Itagaki Seishiro and Hiranuma Kiichiro and others were sitting on one side, opposite Isoya Ryosuke, who had just returned to Tokyo.

In the month since he took office, Kiichiro Hiranuma immediately brought into full play his strengths, first promulgating the "Outline of the Plan for Expanding the Productive Forces," launching a new round of mobilization of Japan's human, material, and financial resources, and investing a large amount of money and weapons in research and development and production. At the same time, the Military Service Law was amended to abolish the short-term military service system and extend the length of military service for citizens.

However, it was not all smooth sailing for Kiichiro Hiranuma, and on the issue of the Triple Alliance, until now Kiichiro Hiranuma has not been able to completely unify the thinking of the cabinet, and the infighting between the navy and the army cannot be solved, so it can only be said that Kiichiro Hiranuma is trying his best to maintain it.

Ishihara opened his eyes and said, "Jiang is going to make a move against the Red Party in Yan'an. ”

Ryosuke Isoya didn't understand how he just passed the word, and how it came to such a result, he hurriedly said, "No, I didn't say this, on the contrary, there are many people in Chongqing who support the Red Party's Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and I don't think the two parties can fight at once." ”

Ishihara shook his head and said, "No, it's not to fight now, it's just that Jiang Intermediary should already have this idea, and the Sino-Japanese truce is also in line with our plan, but it is impossible to let us withdraw all at once without taking anything, where is the specific negotiation?"

Ryosuke Isoya replied, "In Hong Kong." ”

Kiichiro Hiranuma said understandingly, "Hong Kong? It is the place of the British, and the sincerity of Chiang's intermediary can be seen there, and I think it can. ”

"In that case, let's go and meet His Majesty the Emperor and talk about it." Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita proposed that he had always believed that the Soviet Union was the real enemy of Japan, and now that there was an opportunity to pull his leg out of the quagmire of China, he was a hundred willing.

Everyone got up together to prepare for the palace, but Ishihara and Itagaki Seishiro were left behind.

"Poland is close to Britain and France this time, I think the Germans will not be able to stand it, Ishihara-kun, you have to say it again." Seishiro Itagaki said admiringly.

Ishihara shook his head and said, "Now there are still people in China who don't agree with us to engage in the Triple Alliance, and they feel that they can't offend Anglo-American law, and they don't want to think about it. ”

Seishiro Itagaki understood what Ishihara meant, and said approvingly, "That's right, our empire is the hope of Asians, and it is also a thorn in the side of the Caucasians, they will definitely find a way to deal with us, and they want to avoid Anglo-American law, I'm afraid that in the end, others will find us." ”

Ishihara nodded, changed the subject and asked, "How is Manchuria now?" Are the soldiers starting to move? ”

Seishiro Itagaki hummed and said, "Three divisions have already arrived in Manchuria, and they are still increasing, and the Soviets seem to have noticed that we are moving troops, and the border has not been quiet recently." ”

-- Tohoku

At this time, the Northeast had the most developed industrial and railway network in China, a black train slowly stopped, and one after another Japanese soldiers with packages on their backs stepped off the train, all of them carried 38 big covers, many of them were full of curiosity to look at this land that had never been before, and some people dug a little soil with bayonets, and began to study whether this place was really as fertile as the legend.

"Is this Manchuria? It's similar to our Hokkaido feel. A Japanese soldier said with a sigh.

"Yes, it was here that the god of war, Nogi Noshinori, started the war with the Russians, and now it's our turn." Another Japanese officer shouted excitedly.

"The Soviets are very strong, and their tanks are better than ours." Some Japanese soldiers said with little confidence.

"If it were just that, we wouldn't have to fight." The Japanese officer who had just spoken shook his head and said, "Besides, now the Soviets are fighting among themselves, and many experienced generals and soldiers have been killed. ”

(To be continued.) )