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Spring is coming, the warm sun returns to the earth, and the branches and leaves have sprung up like mushrooms after the rain. Even in the Ryukyus, where there are no four seasons, you can sense the recovery on the mainland. Standing at Shurijo Castle's Hori Gate and looking east, a large area of masts between the sea and the sky was moving south, and it was a Pacific fleet of more than 200 merchant ships. More than 20 alert frigates were scattered around the flotilla under the command of an escort aircraft carrier, and two "Harpoon" twin-engine maritime patrol planes from the Ryukyus swept over the flotilla.

This is a wartime Pacific supply fleet that departed from Qingdao, and some of them will travel to Marshall and other places when they arrive in the waters of Wake Island, where they will transport supplies for the already launched "Pacific Safe Haven" program, and more will continue to San Francisco, where 1.5 million tons of goods will bring a lot of money to 300,000 Chinese families, from razors and toothbrushes, military uniforms, to radio and navigators.

This is the Alliance, and it is also one of the reasons why Yang Qiu firmly tied the country to the Allied chariot, because there is nothing to promote the export of goods more than joining the Alliance! The old idea of using colonial populations to dump commodities is outdated, and the way in which China and the United States use the war to force countries to open their markets and promote the export of their own goods is the future! The annexation of Siberia was not so much a solution to the hidden dangers of the north as a land expansion solution to the hidden dangers of the north, but rather a supplementary means adopted by Yang Qiu to the United States in terms of the amount of local resources. Therefore, after the Cape Town Declaration laid the foundation for cooperation, a steady stream of Chinese goods began to flow into the great river of the Allies. Yes, the United States has the most powerful industry in the world and can make all the goods, but the Americans, who are deep in the war, also need to prioritize the military industry, so a large number of domestic civilian markets and markets such as South America are waiting to be filled. The British are not even able to fill the gap, and only China, a country that has been largely untouched by the war but has a large number of national light industries, can make up for these gaps. Roosevelt would not be willing, but at least he was level-headed and aware of the status quo, so the United States would not restrict the inflow of Chinese goods until the end of the war. Of course, Roosevelt would also use the Cape Town Declaration to ask Yang Qiu to open up more markets for capital industry (capital industry refers to optics, technical equipment, metal cargo, shipbuilding, vehicles, chemicals, pig iron, crude steel, etc.). This is a war with no smoke in sight. Restraining each other and fighting each other, but for ordinary Chinese, they can get benefits. On the one hand, the quantity and price of imports will be lower, and commodities will be more abundant, and on the other hand, there will be good returns and stable jobs due to strong exports. Although it is impossible for Japan to get accurate export figures from Beijing. But Hiroki Hirota, who has served as foreign minister, can also estimate. At least until the end of the war. During the war, the total annual trade tonnage between China and the United States will be at least 30 million tons, and the total trade volume may exceed 50 billion yuan! China, which is dominated by light industry exports, accounts for at least 70 percent of the share, after all, the capital industry in which the United States has the greatest advantage has to deal with the war first. And the proportion of Chinese light industry goods that helped the country in the war was not very large, and they could be exported in large quantities without affecting the domestic market.

This is only the trade volume to the Americas, and the trade volume between China and Britain is also very large because of Churchill's "loser", and the 150 wartime standard ships alone are worth hundreds of millions of pounds. After Malacca was unblocked, the Persian Gulf, the traditional export area, Central Asia, which was occupied by force and had already signed super contracts, and the South Seas Korea and other places ceded by Japan, it is foreseeable that for a long period of time, China's commodity exports will rise from less than 10 percent of the world's share before the war to at least 30 percent, becoming another foreign trade power after Britain and the United States!

And that's not even counting the lucrative arms exports and weapons imitation patents! Before and after the Cape Town meeting only. Yang Qiu used the super giant ship of the Allied forces to sign a large number of arms export orders, including hundreds of long-range transport planes, tanks, ships, fighters, etc. Just a few days ago, the Turkish ambassador to China reached an order with China to purchase 1,500 31T improved tanks, 400 second-hand "Wind" naval fighters and thousands of artillery pieces. The total amount of arms exports from Japan is also not clear, but at least it is nearly 10 billion yuan! And the benefits are unimaginable!

In addition to this, China has also used war loans to accelerate the expansion of capital, according to the intelligence of the Special High School. By the end of 41, the Chinese government and banks had exported a total of 8 billion yuan in loans to Vietnam, North Korea, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf, Poland, Free France, and the United Kingdom, equivalent to 4 billion US dollars! In one fell swoop, it went from a debtor country to a creditor country. The British government even raised 300 million pounds of national military bonds on the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the first time early last year, which is much smaller than that raised in the United States, but it is the first national financial bond issued by a white man in the Far East.

Under the guise of a military alliance to raise supplies to defeat the enemy, China has also brought back large quantities of cheap ore, rubber, oil, and grain from Australia, Central Asia, the South Seas, and India at a rate of hundreds of millions of tons per year. Within a week after the opening of the Strait of Malacca. More than 20 ore carriers have arrived in Calcutta, including at least five large ocean-going vessels carrying more than 30,000 tons, and seven large oil tankers stranded in the Persian Gulf returning from the Persian Gulf with full loads of oil. And the minyuan they left in the local area was used by the locals to buy more Chinese goods.

At least 30 million Chinese households have benefited from this invisible expansion of goods and capital. The Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War in Japan's history have proven that rapid economic growth and foreign wars can effectively unleash the huge social problems that have accumulated in the country's development. Victory in foreign wars can also boost national morale and boost national self-confidence, which is more effective than any rhetorical propaganda. Before the war, the Chinese were still a little inferior in the face of foreigners, but now? At least during his time in the Ryukyus, he had seen an argument between an ordinary Chinese sailor and some American sailors escorting a convoy of ships passing through the bar. The sailor's voice was several times higher than that of his American counterpart, and the last sentence, "Let's talk about this when you set foot on German soil," was even more 'lethal'.

Hirota turned his attention to the port of Naha, where the three 50,000-ton oil tankers on the outermost part of the terminal had arrived from the Persian Gulf, bringing 120,000 tons of treated light crude oil and 20,000 tons of gasoline to Naha in one go to meet the needs of the reconstruction of the Ryukyus and the stationing of troops.

This is the gap between the Axis and the Alliance! In contrast to Roosevelt and Churchill, those in Tokyo never understood what kind of war would benefit the country. Although the Japanese army plundered thousands of tons of gold, silver, and other floating wealth after going south, gold was not steel, oil, and grain, and could not help win the war. Therefore, even if the Allies are temporarily frustrated, he is still not optimistic about the Axis, because the Allies have begun to complement each other industrially and militarily, and have enough resources and manufacturing capacity to consume. It will take only time to polish the enemy's war potential and confidence a little bit. Not to mention anything else, the three countries alone have an annual capacity of hundreds of millions of tons of iron and steel, which occupy 70 percent of the world's strategic resources, and can produce 50 million tons per year, accounting for 80 percent of the world's total shipbuilding tonnage. It is enough to dwarf the axis. The Axis powers have not yet cooperated in the true sense of the word. Even if there is an alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany, it will not work. Having visited Moscow and spent half a year in the Soviet Union, he knew very well that the Soviet Union was simply unable to manufacture elaborate German weapons, and the Germans looked down on the shoddy Soviet ones.

One of the simplest examples. The Soviet Union had oil but not enough oil refining, and the Urals, Stalingrad and Sevastopol, where the main refineries were located, were bombed by China last year, and production capacity was severely reduced. Germany has no oil at home, relies on Romania, the Soviet Union and coal liquefaction technology, and the refining capacity can only meet domestic demand, so the oil industries of the two countries are not complementary at all, but both have huge shortcomings. As long as the oil fields in Baku and Romania are blown up, there will be a Japanese-style oil shortage in the Soviet Union. On the other hand, China and the United States alone control 300 million tons of annual mining, transportation and smelting capacity.

One world fights one Europe, and the results speak for themselves.

"Mr. Hirota. This side please. Jiang Baili interrupted Guangtian's thoughts, and invited him to continue walking inside.

"Thank you." Hirota bowed politely.

Because Shuri Castle was badly damaged in the war, craftsmen from Chinese mainland are rebuilding it. This is the scene all over the big island, and so far 50,000 Chinese workers have arrived here, and many family members have brought with them, and the invisible integration is beginning little by little. Japan has completely lost the Ryukyus. Hirota was very clear about this, so he had no interest in visiting, and asked, "Mr. Jiang, how long will I stay here?" ”

"What's the matter, Mr. Hirota misses his hometown?" Jiang Baili smiled. After Hirota arrived in the Ryukyus. He was ordered to negotiate with Shi Zhaoji, but because he had not entered into substantive negotiations for a long time, Yang Qiu was not interested in it, so he detained Hirota Hongyi here in disguise. However, he is still free here, except for the fact that he is not allowed to enter the military base, the rest of the place can be visited.

This approach also made Hirota realize that Yang Qiu didn't want to negotiate at all, so he had the idea of going.

"Don't be in a hurry, Mr. Hirota. We are all here with the future of the Far East on our shoulders, but what you have proposed is too nihilistic. Yes, everyone wants to end the war, but how to end it is a question. You know better than us the reasons for the war and the culprits, so if you want to end it, you must be more frank and repentant. It is a good idea to hand them over and stand trial. In addition, the president was deeply sympathetic to the plight of the Japanese people, so it was necessary to add to the treaty matters such as Japan's comprehensive reform, stop the persecution of the national community, and allow multiple parties to take turns in power. ”

Jiang Baili knew his thoughts, and with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he spoke freely of the idea of surrender and a thorough reform of Japan. The more Hirota listened, the more shocked he became, not to mention how difficult it was to get those guys from the military department to stand on the judgment bench at the moment, and the issue of the emperor alone was not negotiable. You know, the Imperial family has become a symbol of Japan since the Meiji Restoration, and if the emperor steps down, and if the Japanese national news agency takes turns to govern, how will this be different from the shogunate era? As for the reform of people's livelihood, people with lofty ideals in Japan have always hoped to force Yang Qiu's "Cheng Cheng Act", but in the end it has not been done. Why? This is because it touches on Japan's deepest problems of landlords and zaibatos, and if these things are induced, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Hirota Hongyi suddenly felt that the sea breeze was very cold, and even Jiang Baili, who was full of gorgeous hair, became hideous in his eyes. Although the current conversation is not formal, with Jiang Baili's identity in China, these words must have been confessed by Yang Qiu, intending to completely interrupt the backbone of Japan! "Mr. Chiang, continuing the war in East Asia will not do your country any good, your interests are in the South Seas, and our country is willing to give up them all, and Rabaul and Guinea can also give up. And you should be aware that the situation in Europe is already very, very bad, your allies are losing in a row! The Persian Gulf and Central Asia are already in a very, very dangerous position. ”

He used two "very, very" in a row to remind Jiang Baili not to push people too much, and a cold light began to accumulate in his eyes: "Japan has not yet failed!" There are still millions of soldiers on our own soil, and. ”

"yes, it's a nuisance over there." But before he could finish speaking, Jiang Baili interrupted and choked: "But Mr. Hirota really thinks that relying on the anti-aircraft bamboo poles of the Fujita Ordnance Research Institute can block my country's bombers?" A cauldron to dodge shells? A bamboo arrow with a warhead can penetrate the armor of our tanks? ”

With a single word, all the cold rays gathered by Guangtian were punctured. He didn't expect that Jiang Baili actually knew all about the weapons of the national decisive battle that Fujita had researched, which showed how deep China's penetration into Japan was! In fact, although the military department has been clamoring for a decisive battle on the mainland, it believes that as long as China does not set foot on the Japanese mainland for a day, the war will not be lost. However, the protracted bombing has caused a great deal of disaster to the people, the manufacturing industry has been basically paralyzed, and the local troops are desperately short of weapons and equipment, and they are not even equipped with military uniforms, so even he does not know where the confidence of the military headquarters for the decisive battle at home comes from.

"Hehe, before I know it's spring again." Jiang Baili spoke, walked to the center of the hall and deliberately stretched. Listening to Hirota's ears is clearly reminding himself of the biggest and most difficult problem.

Grain.

Negotiations were at an impasse again, and Hirota couldn't remember how many times it was. When he returned to his temporary residence, he was about to lie down and meditate when Ito, the secretary of the Ryukyus, walked in with him.

Ito was his old subordinate when he was foreign minister, and he served as Japan's counselor to the League of Nations. But after the outbreak of the war, he lost his job because of the resistance to the war, so Hirota took him in and helped by his side. "Your Excellency, this is a telegram from Tokyo. Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi asks you to stop negotiations and wait for news from your allies. In order to facilitate communication, Guangtian brought an encrypted radio station, which the Chinese government knew about and did not obstruct it.

"Idiot! These stupid guys! ”

Guangtian bounced up from the chair with a swish, and the anger that had just been choked by Jiang Baili could no longer be suppressed. Originally, he didn't want to get involved in this matter, because he had long thought that Shigemitsu Aoi and Koiso Kuniaki might be Hirohito's hexagram. I didn't think it was really expected, did they really think that Su De could turn the tables? You must know that what I said to Jiang Baili just now was nothing more than a means of conversation.

Germany has long not defeated Germany in the French period, otherwise how could it not even be won by Spain for more than a year? Turkey has also been at war for three weeks, and Ankara remains in the hands of the Allies. And in the just-concluded Battle of Cape Matapan, Italy lost one battleship and three cruisers, which was no better than the Combined Fleet. On the contrary, the US Sixth Task Force, which lost three aircraft carriers, has increased by 6 aircraft, and the total number of aircraft carriers in the Eastern Mediterranean has increased to 11! All this shows that Germany is already as strong as it gets. As for the fact that the USSR did not have blood transfusions from the Asian region, meat, cotton, nickel, copper, these were already beyond their means. The Caucasus is under people's noses again, and once Tehran and the Urals are firmly established by China, Ukraine and the little possessions in Europe will not be blown up in the same way.

The United States began to exert its strength, the British mainland was already safe, and Yang Qiu was not unable to fight in Asia, but deliberately used Japan as a target, not wanting to give Britain and the United States an excuse to ask him to participate in the war in the Mediterranean. Does the military department really think that it can rely on the tens of thousands of troops in Southeast Asia and North Korea to survive until the day of the counteroffensive?

Thinking of this, Guangtian felt irritated for a while, in fact, he knew who was behind the suspension of negotiations.

Is the abolition of the emperor really inevitable? What does the future look like for Japan?