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In Tanaka Yoshiichi's study, three Japanese civil and military officers sit around the desk. As soon as the telegram from the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union arrived, Yoshiichi Tanaka put off all official activities, and then summoned Foreign Minister Kita Kazuki and Army Intelligence Chief Okamura Ninji to his office, and studied the telegram repeatedly with Katayama.

"This Katayama, I really shouldn't let him be an ambassador!" Tanaka patted the telegram on the table and complained.

"Why?" Kita Ikki asked suspiciously.

Tanaka Yoshiichi sighed: "Now is not the time for His Highness to visit the Soviet Union at all, and when the Soviet Union is tempted, he should directly find an excuse to push it off!" Let's just say that His Majesty the Emperor is not in good health, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't leave or something...... Even if you can't think of a reason, you should send a telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs first, so how can you just send an official invitation from the Soviet side to Tokyo? It's so confusing! ”

Kita Kazuki, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was also a little confused, and after listening to Tanaka Yoshiichi, he still couldn't get the point, so he looked back at Okamura Ninji. Okamura explained: "Since Sino-Soviet relations have deteriorated as China is now clearly tilted towards Germany, the Soviet side's invitation to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to visit Wèn should be a countermeasure to Chang Ruiqing's visit to Germany." And ......" Speaking of this, Okamura Ninji's two eyebrows were twisted into a ball. "Moreover, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a little young and vigorous, and he has a lot of criticism about the current policy of the empire towards China, which he thinks is weak diplomacy, in case the Soviet side ...... again It's a bit embarrassing! ”

Because it was talking about the current crown prince regent, the future emperor, Okamura's words were a little slurred. However, Kita Kazuki still understood the general idea, Tanaka Yoshiichi and Okamura Ninji were originally worried that Hirohito would be fooled by others in the Soviet Union, and let the great mentor and revolutionary prophet be deceived into becoming a gunman.

Kita Yihui smiled faintly: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, Okamura-kun." I'm afraid you're a little worried, aren't you? It is rumored that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has the style of Meiji the Great and is the reincarnation of Meiji the Great. How could such a wise Highness be deceived by the Russians? If the two of you are really not at ease, you can put down the invitation of the Soviet Union, so there is no problem, right? ”

"It's late." Yoshiichi Tanaka shook his head with a wry smile. "This highness is not today. He's got a big idea! And he is the regent, and he can issue a great edict in the name of His Majesty, are we really disobedient as courtiers? This will not work, he can only let him go to the Soviet Union, but ......" he glanced at Kita Yihui. "Beijun. When the time comes, I can only trouble you to watch His Highness more, and don't let him conclude any secret treaties with the Soviet Union. ”

"Do I also go to the USSR?" Kita Yihui was stunned.

"Of course, you have to go." Yoshiichi Tanaka touched his bare head, and his face was still a little blue. "And. I would like to write a recital to explain the national policy to His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Kita-kun, Okamura-kun, come and help me consult, what should I write? With that, the Japanese prime minister took out a pen and paper and began to make a draft.

Well, this is the source of the famous "Tanaka Sonata Fold" in this plane. However, the content of the recital is very different from history. What "if you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchu and Mongolia" cannot be written. Tanaka took the brush and thought for a while, and then wrote the opening sentence of "If you want to conquer the South Seas, you must first unite with China to jointly resist Red Russia" - this seems to be a matter of course, Japan is an empire, the Soviet Union is to liberate all mankind, the first to oppose is the emperor Lao Tzu, their national anthem (international anthem) sings don't believe in the emperor don't believe in the gods or something, the Japanese emperor is both an emperor and a god. How can you go to the United Union? What is this not brain-dead?

"I should also explain to His Majesty and His Highness that the empire must dominate the seas, and only in this way can it lead Asia and lead the world." North Yihui built yì road.

"Well, the opening line reads, 'If the Imperial Kingdom wants to lead the world, it must first conquer the seas; If you want to conquer the seas. We must first unite with China to contain Red Russia. If Red Russia and China make mutual control, then I will have no worries about going south. ”

Tanaka used a brush to make a cross in his original opening line, and then wrote a new opening line underneath.

"Your Excellency, you should also make sure that Britain and the United States are false enemy countries." Kita Kazuki went on to give Tanaka an idea. "And the empire should avoid confronting Britain and the United States at the same time. It should be taken first to seize the British and Dutch colonies in the South Seas and close the Strait of Malacca. The strategy of blocking Britain's eastward advance and then fighting a decisive battle with the United States. ”

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, it would be better to write the help of India into the fold." Okamura Ninji interjected. "India's manpower and food, South Africa's gold, Canada's and Australia's lands, and Britain's naval fleet are the foundation of the British Empire's world hegemony. If India could be in turmoil, the foundations of the British Empire would be greatly loosened. ”

"Well, that makes sense! Helping India should not only become the South Asian policy of the empire, but also prompt the USSR and China to do the same. Beijun, when I visited the Soviet Union this time, I remembered to ask the Soviet Union, didn't they want to liberate all mankind? India is also a human being, and it should be liberated. When Tanaka finished his order, he wrote it down on paper with a brush.

"Hey." Kita Yihui answered. "Your Excellency, if the Soviet Union proposes to conclude a secret treaty with the Empire against China, how should the lower officials respond?"

"Of course I refused." Yoshiichi Tanaka said. "What is the purpose of this secret agreement other than leaking information?"

Hearing the Prime Minister's half-joking words, Kita Yihui smiled slightly and nodded. "What if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is persuaded by the Soviet Union?"

Tanaka Yoshiichi's face sank again, and he thought for a while. "Then there must be a sequence. The enemies must be cleaned up one by one, and they cannot be dealt with at the same time, otherwise the empire will be attacked from all sides and will be defeated! The first to deal with Britain was the United States, and then the United States, and after dealing with the United States, it united with the Soviet Union to deal with China, and the Soviet Union was put last...... Is this okay? ”

Kita Ikki and Okamura glanced at each other. Kita Yihui asked: "Is this also written in the fold?" ”

"Write it, Your Highness likes to hear such words, so let's satisfy him." As he spoke, Tanaka wrote the words of conquering China and fighting Red Russia on the draft of the song, and almost pieced together a plan to conquer the world. As for whether it can be realized, to be honest, Tanaka Yoshiichi is not sure at the moment, according to his mind, he can take the South Seas, conclude a peace treaty with the United States after defeating the US Pacific Fleet, and divide the Pacific Ocean equally. As for the subsequent conquest of China and the Soviet Union, there is no possibility, that is, it is just written to make Crown Prince Hirohito happy. If the future Japanese Empire implements it step by step according to Tanaka's plan, it may really be able to toss a big empire. But the later history was something that a few Japanese devils in this room could not have predicted......

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It was already the winter of 1922, and the waters of the Yangtze River near Wusongkou were facing a rather strong north wind. The Wehrmacht Navy warships, painted gray-blue and hung with blue edges and red flags, were lining up and cleaving the waves. Inside the No. 1 fortress of Wusongkou Fort, Chang Ruiqing wore the military uniform of the Marshal of the Wehrmacht and watched the exercise of the entire fleet. Standing next to him was the Navy's Chief of Orders. Vice Admiral Poplar Trag. He is a member of the Min naval system. At present, the National Defense Force Navy is still under the co-governance of Fujian and Guangdong, and the Minister of the Navy is Cheng Biguang of the Guangdong Department, and the Minister of Military Orders of the Navy is naturally Yang Shuzhuang of the Fujian Department. As for the old men of the Fujian Navy like Sa Zhenbing, they all went home to Taiping after the unification of China by the National Zhèng Mansion.

Looking at the river from Chang Ruiqing's telescope. I saw only a heavy cruiser of about 10,000 tons surrounded by a dozen light fleets, walking a Z-shaped course on the wide river. Chang Ruiqing knew that this was a standard anti-submarine formation, and at this moment there should be two light submarines imported from Britain lurking underwater, which are the only two submarines 001 and 002 in the submarine group of the Chinese Navy. It was commanded by Major Feng Yundong, a naval officer from Guangxi who graduated from the first phase of the Huangpu Navy. It was assigned to the First Fleet by the Admiralty, with Wusong Port in Shanghai as its home port, and was responsible for guarding the safety of the Yangtze River estuary - just by looking at this deployment, you can know how outdated the group of vice admirals and admirals of the Republic of China Navy are now! However, Chang Ruiqing has no way to replace all these guys in the short term, and there is no one to replace them, so he can only take his time little by little......

And playing the role of the imaginary enemy of the two submarines is a Hawkinson-class heavy cruiser that has just returned from England. This was bought for $2 million to decorate the façade of the Navy, and it is also the current flagship of the Chinese Navy, named "Haitian", when he heard this name, Chang Ruiqing remembered the name of a soy sauce used in his previous life! This heavy cruiser with the same name as soy sauce will probably be a "soy sauce ship" in the future, right? Although Chang Ruiqing does not know much about the history of naval development in this era. However, it is also known that this kind of "treaty ship" of about 10,000 tons will be of little use in World War II in the future. If it weren't for training personnel and decorating the façade, Chang Ruiqing wouldn't have spent that unjust money!

Of course, he didn't really want to develop the navy. With the help of the overly enthusiastic British, the Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai had begun a major expansion project, with plans to build two 30,000-ton slipways and a 30,000-ton dry dock. and a boiler and steam turbine plant for ships and power stations – a project under the Sino-British Naval Cooperation Treaty. In addition, the British Yesson shipyard is also expanding, but instead of a large slipway dock, it plans to build ten small and medium-sized slipway docks, and a marine diesel engine factory imported directly from the UK. It seems that it is ready to be positioned in the huge market for small and medium-sized ships. According to the published plan, the Chinese Navy will purchase three large aircraft carriers in the next ten years. 5 battle cruisers (built by Japan), 10 heavy cruisers, 18 light cruisers, 36 destroyers and up to 50 medium and light submarines, but also dozens of auxiliary ships. It is also planned to create a naval aviation corps with the size of five aviation regiments. Such an ambitious plan for the development of the Navy will be implemented in two main phases, corresponding to China's two five-year plans. In the First Five-Year Plan, the Navy's main task was to train personnel, including officers and sailors, and the scale of construction and purchase of warships was very limited. The large-scale purchase and construction of warships will begin with the Second Five-Year Plan.

The heavy cruiser Haitian maintained a speed of 15 knots on the river, which was much faster than that of submarines. However, the lookouts on the ship still did not dare to take it lightly, and they all stared at the somewhat muddy river with wide eyes. Their captain and commander of the First Fleet, Rear Admiral Chen Shaokuan, gave a death order, and the key to the success or failure of today's exercise is their lookouts! You can't mess it up anyway, or you'll all have to be beaten! When it comes to the problem of the buttocks, everyone is not unconcerned, and more than a dozen cadets of the third phase of the Whampoa Navy who are observing on the ship are also holding binoculars to help search the ship. Even Vice Admiral Chen Shaokuan, who was in command on the bridge, looked around with a telescope, but he didn't find anything after looking at it for a long time -- not to mention that the Chinese Navy does not have such advanced things as sonar at the moment, and even the Japanese Navy, which is the third largest in the world, does not have them, so the anti-submarine warfare between China and Japan can only be watched with their eyes...... I really don't know what to do at night?

"Torpedo! 80 meters on the port side, two torpedoes! A shout suddenly came from inside the speaker, and Chen Shaokuan's head buzzed and became blank. Everyone else's torpedoes have come over, and I don't know where my opponent is hiding? Fortunately, it was a drill, and if it was a real battle, it would have been too unjustly dead...... Lin Yuanquan, the first mate of the Haitian, did not think much about Chen Shaokuan, as soon as he heard a torpedo on the port side, he hurriedly came to the right full rudder, trying to cross the warship to avoid the rapidly approaching torpedo. But then there was a dull crashing sound. Or did this "anti-submarine exercise" turn into a stage for submarine performances.

I saw the Haitian raise the signal flag of "this ship was shot". Yang Shuzhuang smiled next to him and explained to Chang Ruiqing: "It was the submarine group that won, they took advantage of the favorable terrain at the mouth of the Yangtze River to set up an ambush and hit the heavy cruiser Haitian with a training torpedo. Would you like to summon the captain of the winning submarine group? ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded with a smile and said with a smile: "Okay." I met him on the Haitian, what was that person's name? ”

"Feng Yundong, the word Yizhi."

"Very well, I would like to hear his opinion on the construction of the Chinese Navy. You ask him to prepare for the evening, and tomorrow morning I will meet him in the officer's room of the Haitian. ”

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A week later. Feng Yundong, who had been promoted to lieutenant colonel, was lying on the top bunk of an officer's dormitory on the heavy cruiser Haitian, and on the bottom bunk was a Colonel of the Wehrmacht Air Force named Shi Jianfei, who, like him, was also a member of the European tour with Chairman Chang Ruiqing.

"Brother Yi, you're from the navy, right? How do I feel that the officers and men of the navy on this ship seem to have something to do with you......" A thick Shaanxi accent came from the lower bunk, this Colonel Shi Da of the Air Force is a simple-looking and down-to-earth young man, no matter how you look at it, he looks a little simple peasant. However, the family was the largest landowner in Shaanxi, and they were quite Westernized, and he was educated at a church school in Xi'an as a child. When he was eleven years old, he went to the other side of the ocean with his third uncle, who was a diplomat in the United States. When I was in college in Washington, D.C., I also fell in love with flying, and after graduating in 1914, I was abducted to France by a French girl who studied in the United States - I don't know how that beautiful French chick could fall in love with a "Chinese farmer"? Is it because this farmer's family is particularly rich? In the following years, Shi Jianfei participated in the World War as a volunteer and became a pilot. Fought with the Germans on the Western Front for three years and shot down eleven German planes! He was shot down by the Germans six times, the last time in the German-controlled area, and was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp. After more than a year in prison, he did not return to his French wife until 1919. Then I heard a story about the rise of China, and I dragged my family back to serve the motherland. Now take over the errand of the former director of the Central First Aircraft Factory that mysteriously disappeared.

"I commanded the submarine to sink this warship, during an exercise not long ago." Feng Yundong said coldly. This is not the only reason, first of all, he is a Guangxi native, if he is in the National Defense Army, being able to speak fluent Guangxi dialect is definitely conducive to promotion. Secondly, he also likes to propose to the top of the navy some not-so-archaic ideas, which would make him appear very gregarious if he served in the Air Force, which is now made up of young people with active ideas. But he was a naval officer, and his superiors were a bunch of old conservative stubborn ...... whose brains were still stuck in the Sino-Japanese War These people were extremely dissatisfied with his advocacy of the "submarine winning theory" in front of Chang Ruiqing, so they didn't even give him a good face with the entire naval officers and men on the Haitian.

"Haha, it's nothing, this Haitian is very fragile, and there is definitely no way to survive the next world war." The Air Force colonel made his own comments. "The armor of the ship is very thin, and it is certainly hopeless to fight a fleet artillery battle...... Its anti-aircraft firepower is also weak, and if aviation technology develops at the current pace, at most 15 years, the warship will not be suitable for combat. ”

"But the biggest threat still comes from underwater, now the Chinese Navy has almost no anti-submarine capabilities, not bragging, with my two submarines I can destroy the surface ships of the entire Chinese Navy!"

When the two of them were bragging, there was a knock on the door of the dormitory, and someone outside shouted: "Colonel Shi Jianfei, Lieutenant Colonel Feng Yundong, Chairman Chang is invited." ”

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