Chapter 704 Militaristic World (Three Watches)

Once again, the world's attention was drawn to the Far East, and even Roosevelt, who was at a critical juncture, temporarily put aside his economy and convened a cabinet meeting to discuss the sudden change in Japan's political situation. For European and American politicians, who are accustomed to settling internal disputes by political means, they do not understand why Japan has mutinies one after another, and why the Far East has always been so unstoppable. The one who paid the most attention to the 620 mutiny was definitely China, and Yang Qiu, like Roosevelt, stopped all work and quietly watched every move across the sea, but the difference was that he focused on Japan's next move.

The attention of the countries around the world did not affect the soldiers who participated in the mutiny, and even if they did, they felt that it was a good opportunity to refocus the world's attention on Japan. So the mutiny not only did not end, but intensified. On the second day of the mutiny, the central figure of the Mutiny, Shinzaburo Mazaki set up a temporary martial law command in the Prime Minister's Office, announced the takeover of Tokyo, and publicly invited Emperor Hirohito to take charge of the government, and established the Imperial Cabinet to abolish the constitutional system.

This historical regression has sparked condemnation from all walks of life in Japan, with the Asahi Shimbun even expressing a boycott on the front page. But only one day later, the Asahi Shimbun headquarters was occupied by mutinous soldiers, and the editor-in-chief and the journalist who published the boycott article were dragged to the square and publicly executed! The people were silent, and all opposition was gone! The ruthless and ruthless methods made everyone's hearts chill, and no one dared to provoke these soldiers who had already killed the red-eyed soldiers.

The Asahi Shimbun was seized, the Ministry of Education was seized, the War Department was surrounded, and the Admiralty was blocked! Faced with the chaotic situation in the whole of Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, who had previously downplayed the handling of the Aizawa assassination, suddenly turned his face, and sternly demanded that the ministers and officers who came to report suppress the mutiny as soon as possible, and even invited the semi-retired General Yuheng Issei to personally sit in the War Department.

When the War Department took action, the navy was even more furious, in the 510 incident, they had already paid such an important minister as Kantaro Suzuki, and this time in the face of the situation that Minoru Saito was killed by the mutinous soldiers, and Admiral Kobayashi was injured, the admirals led by Okaku and Nagano Shusei immediately mobilized the fleet to rush into Tokyo, aimed the cannon muzzles at the mutinous soldiers, and threatened that if the army did not do it themselves, then the navy would clean up the portal instead of them!

It was an absolute shame to let the navy intervene in the army mutiny, so Admiral Utsune Kazunari, who had always wanted to show mercy to his subordinates, finally cheered up and sent troops from the garrison near Tokyo, as well as from Osaka, Kobe and other places to Tokyo to quell the rebellion, and dispatched Vesk armored vehicles imported from Britain to suppress the rebels. At the same time, Prime Minister Keisuke Okada, who had mysteriously disappeared, suddenly appeared inside the Imperial Palace, declared a state of emergency in Tokyo, and personally presided over the crackdown.

Fighting broke out.

Faced with the encircling forces from all sides, Masaki Shizaburo was unwilling to be defeated and ordered resistance, and the mobilized soldiers relied on urban construction to maneuver with the counterinsurgency forces, and stubbornly resisted in the area around Mizuta Town for five days before all of them were completely destroyed. When Utsune Issei announced that the counterinsurgency battle was over, Keisuke Okada immediately returned to the devastated Prime Minister's Office, and in the face of the broken situation, he drank the entire bottle of wine in one go, and then smashed the wine bottle and sat on the sofa for a long time.

Mutiny. No, it should be said that the cleaning is finally over!

With the help of soldiers loyal to him, Emperor Hirohito finally completed the complete eradication of the feudal lords, swept away all the so-called "garbage" of constitutional government, and restored the emperor's ability to intervene in politics after the Meiji era.

Hirohito, who was in power, began to carry out the "revitalization" path he had designed, first summoning Keisuke Okada and others into the Imperial Palace, and straightforwardly integrating 11 naval officers, including Takuzo Kobayashi, into the reserve, the rebel leader Shinzaburo Masaki was dismissed on the spot, and dozens of army generals related to him were also put into the reserve. According to the tradition of the Japanese army, once they are incorporated into the reserves, they have no possibility of promotion unless there are special circumstances such as the outbreak of war.

After suppressing the only remaining feudal forces, he appointed Yoshiyuki Kawashima to replace the assassinated Hayashi Juro as the land minister, and took Kobayashi Tatsuzo away to let the obedient Okaku Qinsheng serve as the sea minister, and arranged Konoe Fumiyu, who did not understand economics at all, to the position of the prime minister. Adopting the military fiscal stimulus plan left behind before Nagata Tetsuyama's assassination, it provided huge loans to various banks and obedient chaebols with guarantees in the name of the royal family and the state, and asked the cabinet to strengthen military construction and increase military spending. He also actively intervened in the land-sea dispute, and after some so-called "mediation by the emperor", he promised to let the navy build eight warships, and at the same time agreed to the army's expansion plan, increasing the current number of troops from 100,000 to 300,000! And began to develop combat vehicles to create armored forces.

In the end, he hadn't forgotten Nagata Tetsuyama on the sickbed. However, due to the fact that Nagata Tetsuyama was too seriously injured to perform the stressful job of military chief, he was happy to send this lieutenant general, who was very popular in the army before the mutiny, to East Timor as garrison commander. However, the most surprising thing is that the person who succeeded Nagata Tetsuyama as the chief of affairs of the army was actually an unknown person before.

Hideki Tojo!

With everything arranged, Hirohito set his sights on the last Democrus, and has been oscillating between the emperor and the constitution. As a pawn of the emperor, Keisuke Okada was very self-aware and submitted his resignation to the emperor as soon as the situation in Tokyo stabilized. The next day, Hirohito agreed to his resignation and authorized Hirota Hiroki, who had a fanatical militaristic mindset, to form a cabinet and become Japan's new prime minister.

In just one month, from the Aizawa assassination incident to the 620 Mutiny, and then to the final military and political d'état, the whole country was dumbfounded and the emperor regained power, etc., all countries in the world were dizzying. It was only after the Japanese Navy announced that it would build two new treaty battleships to replace the Ise-class battleships and build four more heavy cruisers that many people realized that dangerous militarism had begun to run rampant within the paranoid island nation, and that Japan's expansion could no longer be stopped.

The world outside the window is vigorous, but the world inside the window is blurred.

Nagata Tetsuyama had forgotten how long he had been lying in the hospital bed, and the pain from his left rib made him frown and grit his teeth, and the sweat drops on his forehead made Yamamoto Fifty-six who came to see him secretly frightened. But Yamamoto didn't know that the physical pain was not the most painful, what really made Nagata uncomfortable was that because his liver was punctured and hit his head when he fell to the ground, his current vision could only see a few meters away, and if it weren't for Yamamoto sitting on the edge of the bed, he wouldn't be able to see the human appearance at all.

But he didn't tell anyone about it, and even Okamura Ninji and the others didn't know about it.

"Nagata-kun, I really admire your perseverance." Yamamoto Isoroku picked up a towel to wipe away the sweat from Nagata, who was still unable to move. It's really ridiculous to say, the army and navy outside fought to the death, but these two people in the ward cherished each other and became good friends.

Nagata Tetsuyama doesn't want to mention his body, as if he is afraid of being discovered the secret of his vision loss, although this matter will definitely be exposed, but it can be hidden from one day at a time. He sighed in his heart, looked in the direction of Bai Huahua's window, and asked, "Yamamoto-kun, how is it outside?" ”

Yamamoto Isoroku told all about what happened after the mutiny, although he was willing to see the elimination of the feudal forces and the militaristic economic route, but when he learned that Hirohito had driven him to East Timor to serve as the commander of the garrison, and insisted on expanding the army and increasing the number of troops stationed in Korea and Nanhua Taidao, Nagata Tetsuyama couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and slowly closed his eyes after a while.

A deep sense of powerlessness floated from the bottom of his heart, and now that this crippled body couldn't even get out of bed, what else could he do? When I get out of the hospital, the overall situation has already been decided, so there is no way to reverse it. Thinking of this, he felt his body ache again. "Hey! Emperor Hirohito, who had high hopes, was still inferior to Yang Qiu. With a heavy sigh in his heart, he reopened his eyes and continued to ask: "Yamamoto-kun, I'm afraid it's a big problem now." ”

"Yes, it's too undeserved! The national strength no longer allows for simultaneous confrontation on land and sea, and their doing so will not only anger China, but also make the United States raise its vigilance. "Yamamoto didn't say anything about Britain, because as long as Britain goes south, it will be a mortal enemy, but before settling Britain and France, it will have to compete with China for the army, and it will be a mortal situation to prevent the United States from intervening!

In fact, the reason why he befriended Nagata Tieshan was also because the two looked at each other the same, otherwise with his arrogant temper, even many people in the navy would not look down on him, so how could he make friends with the army. However, he admired Nagata Tieshan very much, because one of the two advocated an alliance with the Soviet Union to strengthen the navy, compromise with China to strive for peace, and the other promoted the initiative to hand over the right to trade raw silk to China. In fact, in the final analysis, this is all a means of showing weakness to the enemy and deliberately handing over the weakness to the enemy, just like Yang Qiu's continued to hand over the oil channel to Britain for surveillance in exchange for Saudi Arabia and Arab status, the ultimate goal is to avoid simultaneous confrontation between land and sea. But now that this situation has been broken, the future that has just revealed a little bright has become gloomy again.

"So what will the witty Yamamoto-kun do next?" Nagata Tetsuyama deliberately used a relaxed tone, but on the other side that Yamamoto couldn't see, his big hand was holding the sheet tightly, and the green tendons on the back of his hand were bursting out.

"What else can be done? We, the soldiers of the Empire, can only do our duty, and now we only hope that there will be an opportunity for us to advance south. Yamamoto Fifty-six looked solemn. The situation has been completely different, and even if Yang Qiu wants to hold the World Expo, he will certainly not allow Japan to expand its army, so an arms race and an increase in troops in Korea are imperative. Because of this mutiny, Japan's early armament will inevitably accelerate the timetable for foreign expansion, otherwise no one can guarantee that the next time the internal contradictions intensify, there will be a scene of civil war between hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Nagata Tieshan nodded with satisfaction, and finally there was someone who understood: "Yes." can only go south early, but if the balance of power is broken early, Yamamoto-kun may not be able to avoid an early contest with the British! I don't know if the Navy will get involved, so why expand the Army so early? Two years later armament is better than this. ”

Listening to his final sigh, Yamamoto Fifty-six took a deep breath, it was time to draw up a detailed plan for the southward advance! So he patted Nagata Tetsuyama, comforted him and quickly left the ward after recuperating from his injuries. When the blurred back like a halo finally disappeared, Nagata Tetsuyama slowly closed his eyes.

As the two men thought, after learning that Japan was going to eliminate the Ise-class battleships and build two new battleships and four heavy cruisers, Whitehall immediately took countermeasures and redeployed the battleship Malaya and two heavy cruisers stationed in the Mediterranean Sea to the Singapore fortress to deter Japan and protect important Dutch allies.

On the contrary, Roosevelt, instead of thinking about strengthening the Pacific Fleet, adopted a completely different attitude from Britain, once again submitted the "Philippine Independence Act" to Congress, and on the pretext that there was an intensification of military competition in the Far East and that the United States should actively resolve domestic affairs and avoid getting involved in conflicts, he encouraged the dominant isolationist congressmen to try to forcibly pass the bill to withdraw US troops from the Philippines.

At the same time that the bill was submitted to Congress, after receiving the help of Japan and the Soviet Union to promote the continuous decline in gold prices, Roosevelt suddenly turned around and announced the implementation of the 100-day economic bill on the grounds that someone had deliberately sabotaged the financial market. According to the bill, the U.S. government banned all trading in gold and silver, allowing all gold and silver to be sold only to the federal government, while forcibly tying the price of gold at $33 per ounce.

As soon as the bill was introduced, countless merchants and companies holding gold suffered heavy losses, and in order to preserve their wealth, they immediately launched a march to accuse the White House of expropriating their wealth. But they encountered a big *oss who was even more ruthless than Hirohito, and after receiving congressional authorization to implement the 100-day emergency bill, Roosevelt had already held the military and political power in one hand, so he immediately targeted these people and ordered a crackdown in the name of spreading GCISM and destroying economic reform!

While Moscow was lying on the ground and shot, more than 3,000 protesters were thrown into federal prison in just ten days.

Immediately afterwards, Roosevelt introduced the famous economy bill, announcing a total of $500 million in government spending and veterans' allowances, and once again emphasizing that the Philippine military garrison was too expensive, saying that if Congress did not take decisive action, the economic recovery would still be dragged down by the Philippine quagmire. Finally, with the majority of the American people supporting the abandonment of the Philippines and all-out efforts to solve the impact of the domestic economy, Congress finally began to seriously review the plan to withdraw from the Philippines, and said that the question of the final status of the Philippines would be resolved by June 1934 at the latest.

After receiving a reply from Congress, Roosevelt came up with the last killer move, announcing the suspension of the monetary policy pegged to gold in the dollar, abandoning the gold standard, and artificially forcing the dollar to devalue by 40 percent!

The world is in an uproar! No one expected that the dollar, which was still strong, would suddenly depreciate by 40 percent, and those countries and private individuals who had previously held a large amount of dollar cash for exchanging US Treasury bonds would suddenly lose a lot of money, and the rich, including Rothschild and other Jewish families, would lose nearly half of their assets overnight! The economies of European countries with the largest holdings of dollars have been hit hard again!

The intricate geopolitics of the Far East has undergone subtle changes again due to the 620 Mutiny, and Roosevelt's crazy but highly targeted financial reforms have once again made the world experience the decisiveness and ruthlessness of strongman politics. And Hitler, another strongman in Europe, finally won the election and ascended to the German chancellor's throne, and on the day of his inaugural speech, he publicly stated that he would rearm Germany and strive for the status of a normal country!

A new round of world political competition has finally kicked off with the actions of political strongmen, militarism before the European war has returned, and the newly-born Republic of China has stood at a crossroads...... (To be continued.)