Chapter 405 The President Returns to Heaven, Chongren is proud
On February 2, in Washington, USA, it was snowing heavily.
It's a cold winter, and a cold snap is sweeping across most of the United States.
Although it is said that "God bless the United States", let this country straddle two oceans, have the resources, population, and excellent strategic geography needed to become a modern industrial power. However, God was a little cautious in his partiality, and did not prepare large mountains for the United States to collapse east and west. Due to the lack of east-west mountain ranges, every winter, when the cold snap moves south, it can easily sweep across most of the United States, leading to a wide range of cooling.
For arrogant Americans, it's a season that makes them feel cold at the same time, both physically and psychologically.
In Washington, D.C., a teenager on a bicycle galloped out of the newspaper office, wheels running over the road covered with thin ice, delivering newspapers to thousands of households, and the newspaper delivery cart in the newspaper office was full of newspapers to deliver newspapers to newsstands everywhere.
"Give me a newspaper."
A passerby brought a coin to the newsstand and got it to the Washington Post for the day.
The front page of the Post carried the bold headline "Oahu Has Fallen" in large red letters, and the photo cited by the Post happened to be taken by the Japanese, with four Japanese soldiers huddled together and planting a flag on the top of Honolulu Mountain.
The passer-by sighed, put down the newspaper, and said to the newsstand owner, "Is Hawaii still lost?" โ
"If we hadn't fallen for that British fat man back then, and hadn't signed that waste paper agreement, it wouldn't have been like this."
The newsstand boss vomited his essence and complained about the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement," which was hated by the people of Britain and the United States at the same time. The British saw it as a "rogue treaty" that sucked their blood. The Americans, on the other hand, saw it as a useless "fool's agreement," and both sides were very unhappy.
The defenders of Oahu surrendered, and Hawaii fell completely. In the morning, the early morning broadcast of American telecasts also began to announce this sad news to the entire nation.
For the citizens of the United States of America, 2 February is another sad day.
However, soon after learning the bad news that Hawaii had completely fallen. They soon heard another piece of "good news".
At this time, the White House was in chaos, and outside the president's office, it was as chaotic as a vegetable market.
"Doctor, Dr. George, the president has a heart attack."
"Where are the nitroglycerin tablets, get them."
"The stretcher is coming! Get out of the way, everybody. โ
The Pacific Fleet was completely destroyed, and the Philippines was lost. With the fall of Hawaii and the "great sin" of President Wilkie, who "created" a series of humiliation in the United States of America for nearly a hundred years, his fragile heart finally reached the limit of what it could bear on this day.
The next day, news came out from the hospital that President Wilkee died at 6 p.m. on the same day due to a sudden myocardial infarction.
Vice President John Dewey, who is visiting Wรจn in China, is in accordance with U.S. law. "In line" to succeed him, he is the new president of the United States.
For the Japanese, who were nervous about Dewey Fanghua. This is simply the unfortunate thing that the house leak happened to rain overnight.
As for the Chinese side, Thomas, who is on a "goodwill visit" in China. A few days ago, Dewey was only a messenger on behalf of the President of the United States, but Wilkie's return to heaven at this critical juncture suddenly raised the status of this visiting "American friend" to a higher level and turned him into the head of a country.
Wilkie is dead.
I saw that the "deputy" title on my head disappeared overnight. From vice president to regular, US President John Dewey is grieving for his predecessor, but in a dark corner of his soul, he is actually secretly rejoicing.
After learning of Wilkie's death, Dewey stayed in China for only two days. In these two days. In his capacity as the new president of the United States, he had another secret meeting with the Chinese high-level officials, and then, under the arrangement of the Chinese side, he flew into the Soviet Union, then took the Guรฒ Soviet route, crossed the Bering Strait route in the north and entered Canada, and then transferred from Canada to Washington on 6 February.
This flight back to the United States is not easy, and if there is an accident on the way, the United States of America will have to change its president twice in a week.
In Washington, he was sworn in as the 33rd president of the United States of America after a brief ceremony.
For the Japanese, who had just conquered Hawaii, there was no worse news than the sudden transformation of the vice president of the United States, who was visiting China into the president of the United States.
The island of Taiwan is extremely important to the strategic importance of Japan's new colonies in the South Seas, and in their hearts, not many people in the Japanese top are willing to return this island to New China.
Even before the start of the Pacific War, the Japanese emperor personally visited China and even established diplomatic relations with the new China at the ambassadorial level, and during that visit, the Japanese side held secret discussions with the new China on the Taiwan issue, promising to return Taiwan to China within five years.
In his heart, however, he only has the illusion of stabilizing China, so as to avoid being stabbed in the back by China in North Korea while going to war with the United States. In the eyes of the Japanese, New China did not have a navy, and was not at all afraid that they would forcibly seize the island of Taiwan. What they are really afraid of is that New China will send troops in northern Korea.
On the Chinese side, in order to allow Japan to challenge Uncle Sam to the death with "peace of mind", with Li Huamei, a big undercover agent, knowing the Japanese one's cards, the local government also calculated in the negotiations, accepted the olive branch handed by the Japanese, and later had a series of "cooperation" between China and Japan before and after the Pacific War.
However, for Japan, their victory in the Pacific came too quickly and too easily. The total number of Japanese navy and army killed in the battle was only more than 10,000, and the loss of the fleet was negligible, but the victory achieved was an unprecedented victory that could not be imagined, and the biggest cost was "only" that a large amount of military supplies were imported from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and China before and after the war, and the foreign exchange reserves of the family were exhausted, and some foreign debts were saddled for this.
Li Huamei returned to Tokyo, got off the plane, and entered Mikasa Palace by car, and after Emperor Takahito saw her, he first asked about the war report on Oahu.
At this time, Emperor Chonghito no longer had the decadence he had when he first met Li Huamei in 1938, and his face was full of smug excitement. It is no wonder that he was so, after the ouster of Emperor Hirohito in 1935, he was promoted to the position of emperor under the competition of various forces. Although he, the emperor, had a very high prestige, he did not have much real power in his hands, and it was even more embarrassing that the emperor was forced to force the palace by a mutiny, and even the emperor was forced to bow his head and give in.
Emperor Meiji had the great exploits of the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and Emperor Hirohito, who was destroyed by the whole family, also had the great feats of "opening up the territory" in Manchuria, China, and what did he say?
Driven out of China and discarded Manchuria, in his first three years at the helm of Japan, Japan almost lost the gains of the past four decades of expansion in China.
In the first three years of the Japanese emperor, for the young and vigorous Emperor Chongren, everything was unfavorable, and it was like a nightmare, overwhelming him.
Fortunately, this worst-case situation finally took a turn for the better with the emergence of the "patron saint of Japan", Yamato Nadeshiko. Under her guidance, the Japanese military took the initiative to abandon Northeast China, jumped out of the quagmire of China, and soon took advantage of the opportunity of the European war, taking advantage of the contradictions between Britain, the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, and China, and even won a new colony in the South Seas within a few years, and in this half-year war, at an unimaginably low price, in one fell swoop, defeated the United States, the largest enemy of the Japanese navy in the Pacific, and even captured the dangerous place in the Pacific Ocean that Emperor Meiji had dreamed of but could not seek: Hawaii.
"When I took over Japan, it was a mess with fire everywhere, but now the Great Japanese Empire is the world's largest naval power!"
When he saw Li Huamei again, Emperor Chongren's heart was completely filled with this smug mentality.
When he met Li Huamei, he received another great news: US President Wilkie had just died of heart disease.
"That stubborn anti-Japanese president is finally dead, which is really gratifying and congratulatory news."
After hearing this good news, Emperor Chonghito, while excited, asked Li Huamei:
"Wilkie is dead, is it possible for the United States of America to accept the Empire's demands for peace talks?"
Li Huamei shook her head and replied to him: "It is absolutely impossible before we defeat the next Pacific Fleet again. โ
Then, Li Huamei pointed to the newspaper that she had just received about US President John Dewey's visit to China, and asked Emperor Chonghito: "Can the empire return the island of Taiwan to China now?" โ
"I'm afraid not. The island of Taiwan is located at the choke point of the South Seas, and once it is returned to China, the empire will be in an extremely unfavorable situation in terms of strategic layout. โ
In China last year, when he met with the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party, Chongren proposed a buffer period of "five years for the return of Taiwan," which was originally a delaying tactic.
Li Huamei said: "President Dewey is visiting China, and if he uses this to instigate China to succeed, the empire will fall into the dangerous situation of being enemies on two fronts."
Emperor Chonghito said: "When I met with the top level of the Chinese Communist Party last year, I talked about the Taiwan issue, and it was precisely in response to this matter that the Chinese Communists asked, and if the Chinese Communists asked, we could use the five-year period as an excuse. โ
Seeing Chongren's overly excited face, Li Huamei sighed lightly and stopped saying more about Taiwan.
The new China did not expect that Japan, the wolf in the middle of the mountain, would honestly return Taiwan after being complacent for a while, and the strategic layout there revolved around the fourth, fifth, or even sixth year of the Pacific War.
Before returning to Japan, Li Huamei was instructed to help Japan as much as possible and drag on the Pacific War to the fifth or even sixth year, as long as possible.
Ask for a thumbs up. Now to write another book "The Reaper of the Last Days" (to be continued......
PS: Ask for a like. Now it's time to write another book, The Last Reaper.