Seeing that everyone was no longer talking, Ishihara said to Hirohito, "Your Majesty, to sum up, and considering the time of the German army's movements, we must prepare one million troops in Manchuria in half a year to a year, including 1,000 combat vehicles, 1,200 aircraft, and 5,000 cannons, including 1,000 field artillery and mountain artillery over 75 mm. ”

Hirohito nodded "yes"

Konoe looked at Hirohito and agreed to Ishihara's proposal, and suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, although I'm sorry, but in the past two years, the cabinet led by me has not calmed the war outside, and there is no prosperous economy inside, which is really extremely ashamed, and there have been tragedies such as the Battle of Lunan, the Battle of Wuhan, and the Battle of Shanxi, in which the responsibility of the cabinet is not insignificant, therefore, Wechen hereby proposes to resign!" ”

"What? Konoe Gong can't. ”

"Is this too sudden?"

"It's okay to change the cabinet at this time, the empire's policy is about to change, and it can be said that this time is just right."

All kinds of voices suddenly buzzed, and the guards shouted, "In front of Your Majesty, be quiet!!" In this way, everyone slowly quieted down.

Hirohito looked at Konoe for a while before he said, "Is there a replacement?" ”

"Konoe's grace is not lost" This sentence flashed in everyone's hearts, and Hirohito's meaning of asking this is that the next cabinet prime minister has made Konoe decided, which can be said to be a great favor and trust.

Konoe was moved to tears, lying on the ground and crying, "Your Majesty's grace is difficult to repay Wetochen, Hiranuma Kiichiro is the Privy Council Speaker, a fair person, and has been in charge of Japan's procuratorial affairs for many years." Immortal contributions were established for the judicial construction of the empire. If he were to serve as prime minister, no one would be dissatisfied, and the empire at this time would not be able to fight again, and stability would be paramount. ”

The Hiranuma Kiichiro that Konoe is talking about is a 70-year-old man with a long donkey face. He has a long forehead, protruding eyes, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a beard like sesame dots under his nose, fat lips, and a slender body, and he has never married. He is obsessed with ****ist ideology and theory and ****ist judicial system, and can be said to be a militarist theorist.

The most important thing is that he said that he was a master of law, but he turned a blind eye to the corruption of the army. In the 1914 Siemens Incident, the fact that Navy Minister Minoru Saito received 100,000 yen was included in the investigation materials, but it was secretly covered up by Hiranuma. After that, he was rewarded by the Minister of Justice, so to speak, when Konoe mentioned him. All the generals left their minds with the words "to get rich".

Hirohito had always been interested in Hiranuma's theories, and knew that he had always had the support of the navy and the senators, and had always been anti-Red and anti-Soviet, which would help in the ensuing war. He nodded and said, "Okay, let him form the cabinet." ”

It's dark in Tokyo. The senior Japanese officials in their respective cars are no longer thinking about whether to go south or north, but are thinking about what kind of position they can get in this cabinet.

Ishihara's plan was also approved, and a large number of Japanese military enterprises led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries received new capital injections, all of which required them to develop new technologies, especially in combat vehicles and aircraft. Not to be outdone, the Navy introduced various new warship designs one after another, and the progress of the "Yamato" and "Musashi" ships already in the dockyard accelerated. The air faction, headed by Yamamoto Isoroku and others, even issued a demand for new aircraft carriers and fighters.

More Japanese were mobilized, and Japanese diplomatic envoys were running around the world, constantly buying strategic supplies. Japan's bond holdings have been rising, and its diplomacy with Germany and Italy has been further strengthened.

The world was surprised to find that Japan, which had suffered a setback in China, seemed to be provoked to anger and was preparing to launch another large-scale attack on China.

-- Germany

One after another Czechs walked into the Civil Affairs Bureau, looking at the German flags and swastikas fluttering high, many people sighed, but no one was willing to resist, after all, Czechoslovakia at this time could still survive, as long as it could live, who would want to risk fighting?

A man with messy hair walked into the room with the "audit room" hanging on it, and a fat man in a shirt looked at him and asked, "Profession, ethnicity, what are your specialties, bring the watch." ”

The man hurriedly handed over the form he had filled out, and the man hummed and said, "Well, worker, I just passed the second-level fitter skills test, Bohemian, I have two children, I have not participated in the Red Organization, I know two languages, very good." Come on, rate it, go over there. ”

The man hurriedly nodded and walked to the side, and the woman over there quickly filled out the form and calculated, and said, "Level 9 citizen, this is your badge and rank behavior manual, in addition, remember your rank identity and the difference between the upper and lower levels, once you find out that you have done something that is not allowed in your rank, you will be fined at least and you will experience prison at worst." ”

The man nodded, took the badge, and looked at the badge with a grass-green eagle drawn on it, with a shield in his left paw and a sword in his right foot. The back of the badge is coded, which represents his identification code. With the help of the staff next to him, he put it on, and then walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, looking at the street, there were more and more people wearing badges. And those who wore German-style military uniforms all wore badges representing rank.

"Franz, you're out, see what level you are?" A voice came, and Franz looked at it, but it was his friend Milan, the two of them had played together since childhood, and now they also worked in the same factory.

"Grass green is the second order, with a shield in the left paw and a sword in the right foot. It's four, yes, level nine. Milan looked at Franz's badge and smiled.

"How much is yours? How did you recognize that? Franz asked, not quite understanding the hierarchy.

"You see, it's very simple, there are five levels in total, from top to bottom are golden, silver-white, bronze, black iron, grass green and blood red, each level is divided into five levels, respectively, the eagle's left claw holds a grass ring, the right foot holds the rice, the left and right feet hold a shovel and a hoe, the left and right feet hold a shield and a sword respectively, and the left and right feet stand on the swastika, so it is still very easy to distinguish." Milan fiddled with his badge and said, "Look at mine, mine is standing on the swastika, that is, level ten, which means that I have the same rights as the most basic Germans." ”

"The same as the Germans? How is that possible? The Germans have invaded us, how can they give us the same rights as them? Franz whispered. His eyes were full of resentment, he was bohemian, a true Czech, and although Austria-Hungary, the predecessor of the Czech Republic, sided with Germany during World War I, this did not mean that he could accept the Germans as the masters of the land.

Milan waved. With a disdainful expression, he said, "Franz, don't you be fooled by those careerists, haven't you seen the announcement?" As long as we can abide by the law for two years in a row, we can start to enjoy the same normal benefits as the Germans, you are level 9, you can only receive 90% of the normal Germans, I can receive as much as them, if our professional level is a little higher, or produce more products than others. We can improve even faster, and didn't Hitler promise that as long as we don't make a rejection of Germany in ten years, the German army will leave us, and those careerists actually want us to give them their lives and climb to the top of the ladder themselves. ”

Franz could not disagree, but he always felt that he was a Czech, and that the Czech Republic had been invaded. It is the reason and the obligation to drive out the aggressor.

"Huh? It's him? Wow, it's a red eagle. Come on, come on, Franz, come with me. Milan laughed as he pulled Franz to the side of the road, where a Jew in a suit was walking briskly with his head bowed, and a blood-red eagle was pinned to his chest, standing on the swastika. This is the fifth estate.

"Hey, are you walking to see the road?" Milan shouted loudly, and the man quickly raised his head to look at Milan and said repeatedly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." As he spoke, he turned and left.

"Hey, hey, hey. Is there only one excuse for it? Take a look at my badge and remember the rules of the grade manual. That gentleman, it seems like someone here doesn't want to follow our grade manual! Milan smiled and beckoned, and a man still in a Czech police uniform walked by, looked at the two, and said to the Jew, "What is your situation?" ”

Milan pointed at the man and said, "He bumped into me, and he only said sorry, which is not allowed in the grade book." ”

The policeman seemed to be well versed in the grade manual, nodded and said, "That's right, according to the grade manual, you should bow to this gentleman for three minutes to show your remorse." ”

The man clenched his fists, looked at the policeman who was already touching the gun in one hand, closed his eyes and bent over and said word by word, "I'm sorry, sir!" Sorry sir! ”

Franz said with some unbearable eyes, "Milan, forget it, it's not interesting." ”

Milan shook his head and said, "Franz, have you forgotten, more than 20 years ago, our Austro-Hungarian Empire was defeated, we had no money, so we went to a Jewish house to ask for food, but they were beaten out with stones by their children, you still have a scar on your head, that child is him, if I am above the fifteenth level, I will beat him half to death now!" ”

The man was shocked when he heard this, looked up at the two of them, and quickly lowered his head.

Franz remembered this, of course, but he didn't remember that this man was the man he was back then, and he looked at the Jewish businessman who had been arrogant and never looked at him, but now he kept saying sorry like a dog, and suddenly felt that all his pores were open, and his heart was extremely comfortable.

The policeman smiled and said, "You are merciful, you don't know, there is a Germanic merchant in the East City, who is said to have made great efforts for the German army to enter the city, and has been specially approved as level 21, level 21!" I can't imagine that after he got the badge, he immediately took someone to the house of a Jewish merchant who had been working with him, and killed his whole family, there was no way, that Jewish merchant was only the sixth level, and the Germanic merchant was fined 20,000 Reichsmarks, and the punishment ended after being lowered by one level. ”

Franz and Milan couldn't help but fall into the trap when they also got a badge above level 20, did someone bow to them wherever they went? Even the consuls had to curry favor with a slick when they saw him.

But above level 20, where is there such a good thing to get, Franz shook his head and said, "Let's not have any illusions, that level is not something we can get." ”

Milan nodded helplessly and said, "That's right, but it's okay, can we take our time, my goal is to raise the level to seventeen in my lifetime, and then our child will be born at level ten, and we can stand on the same starting line as other Germans." ”

The policeman smiled and said, "Then you can go to the army, as long as you can catch a person who resists the organization, you can increase it by a hundred points, this is the fastest." ”

Franz's eyes lit up and he said, "Really, that's great." ”

The Jewish man saw that the three of them ignored him, and hurriedly left quietly.

When the Jewish man returned home, his wife hurriedly came up and said, "David, are you alright?" ”

David shook his head, pulled the badge off fiercely, threw it on the ground, sat on the sofa and covered his head and said, "We should have left here a long time ago, instead of thinking about it now, I just went to ask, and we have been restricted from leaving, unless we give up all our possessions and only carry things that do not exceed 50 Reichsmarks." ”

"That's too little, and we'll end up starving to death outside." The woman covered her mouth and said, "Why don't we stay here, there isn't much persecution on us now, and our shop can still be opened, right?" ”

David sighed and said, "As long as we are still low-level, we can't do business well, and I can't look directly at people on the road now, for fear of being called rude." ”

At this time, a teenager walked into the house, looked at his parents and said, "Dad, Mom, what's wrong with you?" ”

David smiled and said, "It's nothing, okay, you can go to eat when you come back, you haven't been bullied in the class, right?" ”

The young man didn't dare to look at David, shook his head and said, "No, no." ”

David felt something was wrong and shouted, "What's going on?" Edward, you tell the truth, was it bullied? ”

The boy cried and said, "They laugh at me, they say I'm of an inferior race, they say we're all low-ranking red-headed eagles, Dad, let's get out of here." ”

David felt that his heart was about to break, and hugged Edward to comfort him and said, "It's okay, it's okay, our family's level is about to be raised." Believe me, you can also go out with the green eagle later. ”

Edward looked at David in disbelief and said, "Really? Father? ”

David nodded, let Edward go play, he closed his eyes and thought about it, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm sorry, I'm here for the child" After saying that, he put on his hat again and said to his wife, "I'll go out, you can eat by yourself." ”

His wife looked at his back worriedly, sighed, and stopped talking. (To be continued.) )