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The first German-Italian axis? VIII. Gifts of the USSR

The streets outside Chita Railway Station are now full of welcoming people. This scene is completely different from what Crown Prince Hirohito and all the Japanese civil and military officials who accompanied him imagined! Obviously, the Soviet Union under the leadership of the GCD is no longer the same Tsarist Russia that was unusually obsessed with every inch of land. The Soviet people did not regard the visiting Crown Prince Hirohito as an enemy just because Japan had acquired nearly 400,000 square kilometers of land in the Far East. In fact, that land was not forcibly occupied by Japan, but ceded to Japan by the Bolshevik Party in order to win the civil war and liberate the Russian working masses! This is nothing more than a land deal very beneficial to the Russian working masses - this is the opinion of an editorial published in the latest issue of Pravda! It is said that Sadao Araki, a Russian expert, told Hirohito that Pravda was the mouthpiece of the Soviet GCD, and the editorials on it represented the views of Lenin and Trotsky. However, Kita Ichiki, Nagata Tetsuyama, and Obata Toshiro all thought that this kind of article was used to deceive His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who visited the Soviet Union.

But how do they, the "skeptics of the Soviet Union", explain the welcoming scene of the crowds on both sides of Chita Street? Now it is a bitterly cold weather of minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius in Chita, and almost the entire working people in Chita have put down their work and taken to the streets to wave all kinds of welcome signs and shout "welcome, welcome, warm welcome" in stiff Japanese. Their facial expressions did not seem to be faking, if the Soviet GCD had been practicing anti-Japanese propaganda in the country for a long time, how could these Russians have stayed in the house in the middle of the winter and ran out to welcome the Japanese? That's hundreds of thousands!

As the cars in which Crown Prince Hirohito and Dzerzhinsky were riding slowly pulled out of Chita Railway Station, the cheers of the crowds on both sides of the street seemed to reach their peak. And instead of shouting welcome in Japanese, I shouted "Half a load!" Half load! slogan. Even if such a warm scene is fake, it must have taken a lot of thought, at least it can show that the Soviet Union really wants to win over Japan.

Behind the car shared by Hirohito and Dzerzhinsky was the car in which Japanese Foreign Minister Kita Kazuki and Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union Katayama were seated. In the passenger seat of the Ford car sat Yasuo Yasuda, Katayama's secretary, while the driver was an Oriental man wearing a black hat and a black leather jacket. There are many such Orientals in the present Far Eastern Republic, who may have been Mongols, Koreans, or Chinese in the past, but the identity cards they now hold always show that they are Far Easterners—a new ethnic group created by the Chinese gang leaders such as Zhang Guotao and Ren Fuchen......

"Mr. Katayama, Your Excellency the Prime Minister is very dissatisfied with your facilitation of the crown prince's visit to the Soviet Union!" Kita Ikki didn't seem to realize that the Far Easterner who was driving the car was a spy of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, and that he would certainly speak Japanese.

"This is just one time, and I won't make an example," Katayama said, "and this is a request made by Lenin himself, and if he does not give any face, it will be very detrimental to the future relations between Japan and the Soviet Union." By the way, what happened to the assassination of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Is it really the Chinese who did it? - The net does not skip words.

"Chinese? Why would they do that? ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a Ming monarch, if he becomes the emperor, Japan will definitely become the hegemon of Asia, so the Standing Committee of China is afraid, so he instructed the Koreans to assassinate, isn't it?" - The net does not skip words.

"It's all a fool of the Army Continental faction reversing black and white!" Kita Kazuki said. "Alas, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would actually believe such stupid words, and even returned to Yanpu on the first day of the first month to give an order to the commander of the Far Eastern Army (田中中重臇財) to punish the tyrannical branch!"

"What reason did Tian Zhonghua refuse?"

"I can't beat it," Mr. Kita said. "After the army was defeated by the Soviets, it did not recover, and in the past two years, the focus has been on developing the navy, and the army's funds are insufficient. Therefore, the heavy weapons lost in the last war have not yet been replenished, and the level of training of the troops is not as good as before the war, and the Far Eastern Army has not held decent military exercises in the past two years. On the other hand, the equipment and training level of the Chinese Army has improved rapidly in the past two years, the training of recruits is almost the same as ours, and the number of military exercises is also very frequent...... General Tanaka also said: 'If there is going to be a war with China now, then we must be prepared for the Far Eastern Army to be crushed!' I'm afraid that the Far Eastern State and North Korea will all be lost! ’。 Hearing this, our future Ming Jun retreated, and wanted to form some kind of secret alliance with the Soviet Union, and after returning to China, he still wanted to adjust the military spending ratio of the army and navy, which was really nonsense. ”

"It is possible to realize the secret alliance between Japan and the Soviet Union." Katayama muttered in a low voice.

Kita Yihui glared at Katayama and lowered his voice. "This is absolutely not allowed! Japan's national policy is to go south, and it has invested so much money in developing its navy in order to go south, so how can it change direction halfway now? Those warships are not merchant ships, and if they don't fight, they are just a pile of scrap metal that can only slowly rust! ”

"The secret alliance between Japan and the Soviet Union does not mean that the national policy of going south should be changed." Katayama shook his head and said. "According to my observations, the Soviet Union has no intention of attacking China now, and their target is still Europe."

"And what's the point of this alliance?"

"The first is to contain China; The second is that after the Soviet Union defeated Germany and Japan defeated Britain, they went back and cleaned up China together. ”

Bei Yihui thought about it, but still shook his head. "It's too early to discuss this issue, let's wait until the Soviet Union really defeats Germany."

By this time, the car had already traveled through most of Chita and stopped in front of a luxury hotel built in the former Tsarist era, which is now the state guesthouse of the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Five days after the "Hirohito assassination," Sino-Japanese relations, which had been mired in tension, seemed to be back to normal. Crown Prince Hirohito had returned to the Soviet Union two days earlier, and instead of clamoring for severe punishment, the Japanese government and newspapers were pointing the finger at the Koreans. The Chinese have halted the mobilization of what is said to be the world's largest army, and their leader, Chairman Chang Ruiqing, continues to travel abroad on the heavy cruiser Haitian in the port of Mumbai, the largest commercial city in the Indian Empire.

On the same day, Jawaharlal Nehru, a representative of the Indian National Congress Party, surrounded by a large group of servants and retinues, boarded the Chinese heavy cruiser flying the blue sky and white sun flag to meet with the Standing Committee.

Chang Ruiqing had certainly heard of Nehru's name and knew that he might be a big man in the future of independent India—if India could still be independent in this time and space. And Chang Ruiqing's first impression of the future head of the Indian Ah San is that he feels that the other party is not an Indian at all!

Sitting in the officer's room of the heavy cruiser Haitian that day and talking to Chang Ruiqing was a rather handsome middle-aged man, well-dressed, with a mustache and very white skin, completely different from the red-headed Ah San that Chang Ruiqing saw in Shanghai, and went up like a white man with too much sun (in fact, Nehru was white, he was a descendant of the Aryans, and the Aryans were the first foreign colonists to conquer India, and they never blended with the ruled indigenous inhabitants of India). Moreover, Nehru's every move released a strong aristocratic atmosphere, and his eyes unabashedly revealed a strong sense of superiority, not at all like a citizen of a dead country......

"Welcome to India," Nehru said in standard London-accented English, "and Mr. Gandhi is on hunger strike, so he cannot come to Bombay in person, so I will see you in his place." ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled and nodded. He had already heard the news of Gandhi's hunger strike from the Indian newspapers, this time not against the British, but against the violence of the Indians - in the recent non-violent non-cooperation movement, a police station was attacked by thousands of Indians, and 22 Indian policemen were burned to death, so Gandhi announced an indefinite cessation of non-violent struggle, and called on the Indian people to remain calm and not to use violence against the British colonial authorities.

"Please say hello to Mr. Gandhi for me," Chang Ruiqing said, "and I hope that when I return from Europe, I will be able to meet Mr. Gandhi in India." He thought to himself, Gandhi must have stopped his hunger strike by then, right? - A lot of words on the Internet

Nehru smiled and nodded, going up as if he were an English nobleman. He said: "Your country and India are both ancient civilizations and the two largest countries in Asia, and now China has overthrown the rule of the Tatars and established a liberal democratic republic, and we in India will also get rid of British colonial rule in the near future and become a free country like China." We hope that in the process of the struggle for independence, we can get the solidarity of your country, and in the future we can become allies who jointly safeguard the independence and freedom of Asian nations. If possible, I would like to be able to meet with Mr. Gandhi and make a joint declaration when Your Excellency is returning to China and passing through India. ”

The declaration...... What to say? Chang Ruiqing frowned slightly. Nehru's words are very beautiful, but the actual intention seems to be to draw China to the Indian independence movement - in the words of later generations, that is, to make China rude* involved in British internal affairs and support British national separatists! If he really went to make such a declaration with Gandhi, I am afraid that Britain should strongly protest.

"Of course, we mean friendship, the friendship between two ancient peoples and nations that has existed, is, and will remain. China and India should always be friendly with each other, and that's what we want. Nehru shrugged his shoulders and smiled reservedly like an English gentleman. And please don't worry about the attitude of the British, they will not protest. Because India's independence movement does not need China's assistance at all, we are following a different path. Not by violence, but by means of peaceful struggle to achieve independence...... In fact, our relationship with the British, both struggle and cooperation, is very complicated. ”

"Do you really believe that non-violent means can succeed?" Chang Ruiqing asked knowingly.

Nehru nodded affirmatively. "It is clear that the sunset of the British Empire is coming. In 0 years at most, they will lose the strength to maintain a world empire, and India will definitely be free at that time, and it will be a friend of Britain in the future. ”

"If you resist violently, the process will be shortened to 0 or even 5 years." Chang Ruiqing said lightly.

"We are an ancient country with a history of thousands of years, and 20 or 0 years is nothing to us." Nehru said. "And the violence may have been able to expel Britain earlier, but it will take a whole generation or even more to eliminate the consequences of violence and restore peace and unity to India."

"So, Mr. Nehru, if, I mean, there is now one or more countries willing to provide money and weapons to India's violent **, will your NCP cooperate with them?"

This time there was silence in the cabin, and the English gentlemanly smile on Nehru's face was gone, but he looked at Chang Ruiqing coldly, and said word by word: "This country, it won't be the Republic of China, right?" - A lot of words on the net"

"No, not China."

"Is it the Soviet Union?"

"And maybe Japan." Chang Ruiqing said. "I have a definite source of information, and there are already local political forces in India ready to cooperate with them." In fact, he had not heard of it, it was just a conjecture.

"If anyone wants to do that, they are the enemy of the whole Indian nation! Mr. Gandhi and the entire National Congress Party will fight them to the end! ”

A cold smile flashed across Chang Ruiqing's face. "Mr. Nehru, please tell Mr. Gandhi that if that really happens, China will firmly support the struggle of the National Congress Party!" Because a and smooth dìng India, is an important part of the collective security of the Asian nation! We Chinese will never forget that the British colonizers used India as a springboard to send an invading army to knock on the door of our country. ”

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When Chang Ruiqing's heavy cruiser left the port of Mumbai and headed for the Suez Canal. The future emperor of Japan also left Chita, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic, and left Krasnoyarsk, the next stop of his visit to the Soviet Union, on a luxury train provided by the Soviet side. After the train left Chita, Japanese Foreign Minister Kita Kazuki received a summons and walked through several carriages into the special bulletproof luxury car where Hirohito was. Hirohito, with his long, stiff donkey-faced, stood in front of a world map in full armor - this was not a Japanese version of the world map, but a gift from the Soviets to Hirohito by Guò Katayama, on which Manchuria and the Far East states of China, as well as the current French Indochina, British Malaya, British Burma, the Dutch East Indies, and the American Philippines all belonged to Japan!

"Your Highness, what are you looking for me?" Kita Yihui glanced at this map that fascinated Hirohito's soul, and kept complaining in his heart about the old traitor Katayama.

"Beiqing, do you think it is possible that the shape on this map will appear? The empire occupied Manchuria in China, and the Soviet Union occupied Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet in China. The remainder of China is under the joint management ......of the two countries, and India is dominated by the empire," Hirohito pointed out and drew a circle around the small China on the map. “…… It is better to divide the country into several more countries, which are managed separately by the pro-Japanese and pro-Soviet factions, so that the eternal foundation of the empire will be unshakable. Don't you say? ”

"Your Highness, this idea is very good, but how can it be realized? China is a powerful country. ”

"Is there a Japanese empire and the Soviet Union combined to be strong?" - The net does not skip words. Hirohito glanced back at Kita-Ikki. "If the empire joins forces with the Soviet Union, one attacking from the northwest and the other from the east and by sea, China will be exposed to the enemy...... Moreover, Chang Ruiqing's rule is based on the army, and once his army is lost, his rule will definitely collapse. At that time, the GCD and the Kuomintang will leave him, the power of the Beiyang and Manchu will also be restored, and China may return to the state before the unification of the Nationalist Government - divided and slaughtered! ”

The word paranoia flashed in Kita Ikki's heart, and he was now basically sure that Hirohito was suffering from Yan zhòng's brain disease, which was a patient who needed to be hospitalized instead of going to the emperor!

Hirohito paused, wanting to wait for Kita Ikki to praise him for his wisdom, but he didn't. He frowned and continued: "Is it possible to conclude a Japan-Soviet Alliance Agreement that would stipulate the obligations and rights of the Reich and the Soviet Union in the future war against China?" Of course, this treaty was concluded in complete secrecy. ”

Kita Ikki frowned at Hirohito. "Your Highness, it makes no sense to sign such a treaty now, it's too early...... If such a treaty is to be signed, it should at least wait until the Soviet Union defeats Germany and the Reich takes the South Seas......"

"What if I insist on such a treaty with the Soviet Union?" Hirohito coldly looked at Kita Kazuki.

"Your Highness, please respect the national system of the Japanese Empire!" Bei Yihui gritted his teeth and reminded loudly.

"Kita Ikki! How can you speak to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince like that! "Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace doesn't know when he came to this carriage, maybe he has been there all along, but Kita Yihui didn't notice his cunzài.

"Your Highness, Your Minister...... The minister was terrified. Kita Ikki knew that he had lost his words, so he had to bend down deeply and bow to Hirohito.

Hirohito was just quietly watching this foreign minister - a minister of the elected cabinet, not a minister appointed by the emperor! However, one thing he said is right, Japan's so-called constitutional monarchy is a problem! There is also the command of the army and navy, although the constitution states that it belongs to the emperor, but since the Taisho era, the cabinet has been in fact in charge of the command, and the emperor is just a rubber stamp for them! Without the approval of the cabinet, as the crown prince regent, he has no right to sign any secret treaties with foreign countries, and even if he does, it will be a piece of waste paper...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )

The first German-Italian axis? VIII. Gifts of the USSR