June 19, fine.

The warm and humid air that had been hovering in the south of the Yangtze River began to move north after 18 days, and the Yangtze River basin began to enter the early summer with sunny weather. With the withdrawal of the intervention fleet, a salvage ship and the Nanchang torpedo boat stopped at the place where the destroyer Ruozhu sank.

Lin Han drove the Nanchang and the salvage ship here, in addition to salvaging some useful equipment on the sunken ship, another purpose was to find the cipher machine and code book on the Ruozhu.

The sea depth was only 80 meters where the Ruozhu sank, and when the Nanchang fired a torpedo, the ship only held up on the surface for less than a minute before sinking. Because the ship sank too fast, Lin Han estimated that the Japanese would not have had time to destroy the miè cipher machine and code book at that time.

Speaking of which, the salvage ship also has to thank the British. A few years ago, the Carlyle incident, the British brought in a batch of salvage equipment from China, and then converted a thousand-ton ship into a salvage ship in Shanghai for the purpose of investigating the sinking of Carlisle and salvaging the gold from the sunken ship - but of course, nothing was found. However, considering the cost of freight afterwards, all these salvage equipment were left in Shanghai, and later bought by Lin Han at a low price.

With this professional salvage ship, the Red Army easily salvaged a large number of usable materials from several sunken ships in the Yangtze River a few days ago, and when the war is over, the Red Army will also float up and reuse those shallow gunboats that have sunk in the river. Ships are not as fragile as people think, and their power systems are extremely resistant to "manoeuvring". Historically, the cruiser Chongqing was soaked in the sea for several years, and the power system was dismantled after being salvaged. It can also be used for power plant starting, and boilers can continue to be used. The Taiping Wheel, which had been soaked in the Yangtze River for many years, had a similar experience after being fished up and repaired.

On the Nanchang, Lin Han and Li Huamei merged and went into the water, and the two worked underwater all day and successfully found the cipher machine and codebook. With this thing, it will be easier to crack the military code of the Japanese in future wars.

In addition to the cipher machine and code book, Lin Han and Li Huamei scooped up the ship's two 120-mm naval guns, a bunch of shells, and hundreds of 38-large cover rifles from the sea. As for the new Japanese torpedoes, which the Germans wanted the most, since the Wakatake dismantled all the torpedoes before departure, vacating the torpedo compartments. So nothing.

Due to the fear of mines. The Japanese fleet did not dare to rush into the Yangtze River, and the distance when shelling Shanghai was limited, and the shells fired for more than an hour only hit the backward areas on the outskirts of the city. Even the Jiangnan Shipyard was not hurt - Jiangnan Shipbuilding in 1935 was not in the place of later generations. It's a little bit further inland. Unless the Japanese fleet rushed into the Yangtze River and used charged-range extender shells, it would not be able to hit the Jiangnan shipyard.

From 19 June. Ever since the Japanese intervention forces were briefly raised in the sky over Shanghai, and then beaten down like wild ducks, a short and false period of peace began in the whole of South China.

In this window of peace before the new round of the war, all forces are preparing for the future war.

On 20 June, a large number of passenger ships transferred from Singapore, the Philippines and other places arrived in Shanghai and began to pick up the "refugees" stranded in China. Those foreigners who used to run rampant in Shanghai rolled out of China with tears in their eyes and suitcases very unwillingly.

Although the Red Army promised to guarantee the safety of the legitimate personal property of these foreigners. But what is legitimate?

The word legal is very elastic. Therefore, the vast majority of them will face bankruptcy after returning.

American soldiers in the Public Concession were also evacuated along with the American diaspora, and the Americans fared far better than the bankrupt Europeans and the Japanese who are still in concentration camps. Although Citibank's assets in China were frozen and sealed by the Red Army, the Red Army still left room for negotiation on this issue, which gave the Americans a little hope.

The American consul in Shanghai stayed behind and went to Nanjing, where secret negotiations would continue at the top of the Red Army. On the one hand, they support the joint intervention of Britain and Japan in Red China, and on the other hand, they also oppose the blockade of China's coast by Britain and Japan, which affects trade with China.

The reason for supporting Anglo-Japanese interference in China is that in American capitalist society, this is a matter of ass and class interests.

Opposing the embargo against China is a matter of income in the pockets of the capitalists, and it is a matter of personal interests in the greedy nature of the capitalists that "the capitalists will sell the last noose that hangs themselves."

By opposing the embargo, an opening was opened to give the Red Army the opportunity to obtain war resources that could not be produced by itself, in order to make it "not too easy" for Britain and Japan to intervene in China's war, which was purely a matter of Chiguoguo's national interests. No matter what kind of interference the two countries do in China, it will consume their huge military spending and reduce the national strength of the two countries. At the time of the Battle of Shanghai, the Red Army had already told the whole world by its actions that they were a capable army, not the one of the former Qing Dynasty -- although the governments of the world still habitually refused to admit this, and were still actively looking for various reasons to deceive themselves into denying this. But in Shanghai, the U.S. troops in the concession, which was the closest to the Red Army, had already witnessed this qiē in the battle of the Tongguò Concession.

After receiving their reports, the Americans, who were in a third-party position, were more likely to accept this than Britain and Japan.

On the insidious Cheng dù, "Cactus Ghana" is far inferior to the polio patient Roosevelt, and his two-faced and three-knife style is too explicit and too unconcealed. His attitude was to wish that Britain and Japan were all mired in the quagmire of China, and that all their China policies revolved around this center.

For the next two weeks, there was no fighting in Shanghai. After receiving the news of the disastrous defeat of the Japanese, the British warship that departed from Singapore only sailed to the waters off Shanghai for two days to demonstrate force, and then sailed to Japan with the help of Japanese shipyard facilities to strengthen air defense modification.

They left only a few warships to cooperate with the passenger ships, and the ships helped evacuate the expatriates from the Shanghai Concession.

The British needed time to wait for the transfer of Indian garrisons, and it also took time to complete the anti-aircraft transformation of warships. in Japan. The Japanese collected anti-aircraft weapons from all over the country and mounted them on warships like hedgehogs. The British also took out money and bought a batch from the Japanese. Due to the urgency of time, many of the anti-aircraft weapons were temporarily transferred from the Japanese Army, which made the Japanese a small fortune -- but this small fortune was really insignificant compared to the sinking of the Fengxiang several ships.

Under the pretext of giving the Red Army an ultimatum, the British Conservative Party government issued a large number of "politically correct" clauses to the Red Army, the content of which was nothing more than another version of the "Xinchou Treaty", demanding that the Red Army compensate for huge losses and withdraw from the Yangtze River Delta region.

The representatives of the Red Army who came to negotiate were tempted to say to them, "Go and dream your dreams," and kick the British robbers out. However, in the same principle of delaying time. They still sat down at the negotiating table and began to negotiate hypocritically with the same ideas as their opponents.

Throughout Japan, shipyards are working overtime. Busy repairing the damaged Chicheng. At the same time, the modification of the Kaga will be accelerated. On the other hand. In Japan, however, there was a big war of words over the defeat of Shanghai. All forces are trying to shift this responsibility onto their opponents. The two sides are fighting each other with verbal artillery, and the emperor's position has always been ownerless, and the entire domestic political situation is in chaos.

However, the two sides have reached a consensus on one point. That is, before a full-scale invasion of China, Japan must elect an emperor in the next few days.

Finally, on June 22, 10 days after the emperor's assassination, after 10 days of bickering, various Japanese forces finally selected Prince Takahito Mikasa as the next emperor.

Prince Takahito Mikasa was an outlier among the Japanese, and in his early years he was a fanatical invader of China. However, after the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance against Japan, after 1943, as the war situation in Japan gradually deteriorated on all sides, he began to reflect.

Historically, in 1943, Mikasa, under the pseudonym of Staff Officer Wakasugi, extensively inspected the Chinese battlefield from Inner Mongolia to Yichang, and on January 5, 1944, he made a speech to the cadres of the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army: "As a Japanese Inner Reflection on the Chinese Incident". In this speech, he listed the facts of Japan's aggression against China since the Sino-Japanese War, exposed the brutal behavior of the Japanese soldiers, and said that Japan had "taken everything and plundered everything" against China, so how could the Chinese not resist, and pointed out in particular that the communist army "has an extremely strict relationship between men and women, and rape is equal to no other; Military discipline for the people is also particularly strict, and it is by no means beyond the reach of the Japanese army." Under these circumstances, if the CCP does not "run rampant," it will become the first of the seven wonders of the world. He also said: "In my opinion, such a Japanese army cannot compete with the Chinese Communists. This speech, which was confiscated as a "dangerous document" at the time, was found in the archives by Japanese scholars in 1994 and published after being confirmed by Mikasanomiya.

He opposed the "kamikaze attack" during the war, and even planned the assassination of Hideki Tojo, and after the war, he opposed the retention of the "Kino Festival" (that is, before the war, February 11, the day of the accession of Emperor Jimmu in the history of the gods, was one of the four major national holidays in Japan). After the war, he engaged in historical research, was willing to live as a "common people", and was able to take the initiative to conduct self-criticism as an imperial family, openly criticizing the war and the imperial system in his ideological autobiographical work "The Emperor, the Tomb Filling and the People" (Guangbunsha edition).

Compared with those Japanese extreme rightists who do not admit their mistakes and desperately deny them, this person is a very small number of Japanese upper echelons who resolutely admit Japan's crime of aggression against China, and he is also a minority of pro-China factions in Japan.

However, in 1935, when Prince Takahito Mikasa was in the office, his thinking had not yet begun to change dramatically. Under the influence of the general environment, he is still a supporter of the war of aggression against China -- and he should be a rare rational person who knows how to reflect.

But it is not 1931 anymore, and today the Red Army has grown very strong. They already have the ability to fight a long-term war with Japan, although this war may be fought hard because of the disparity in industrial strength, but it will definitely drag Japan to death in China. Without the Cannon Party, a pig-friendly regime whose scourge of the war far outweighs its merits, Japan would not have been able to occupy most of China lightly as in the original history, and they would only be snorted with a mouth full of teeth here.

And the current Prince Takahito, no, should be called Emperor Takahito. In Lin Han's view, this somewhat rational Chongren is more beneficial to China than the imperial faction's favored candidate. After all, historically, there are few people in the Japanese, especially in the Japanese imperial family, who know how to reflect and think rationally.

The Red Army needed time, and it would have been more beneficial for China for the Japanese to have a full-scale war of aggression against China that could break out a little later under the control of such a "rational" emperor. When he came to power, in Lin Han's opinion, he was more advantageous than the other Prince Yongren, who was relatively weak and completely manipulated by the red deer of the Imperial Dao faction.

It is very likely that such a candidate will suffer in the war with the Red Army, and after understanding that Red China is a hard walnut and not a soft persimmon, he will most likely shrink back -- of course, this is only possible in the most ideal and best state. From the perspective of class interests, no matter how rational Emperor Shohito was, he could not go against the will of the forces behind the scenes who brought him to power.

After all, his current foundation is too shallow, and the current Japan is full of war maniacs from top to bottom, even the current Emperor Chonghito.

Prince Chonghito was the candidate of the ruling faction, and his coming to power made the imperial faction even more dissatisfied. Coupled with the disastrous defeat of the intervention forces in South China, the contradictions between the imperial faction and the unification faction continued to intensify. While the warships returning home were busy repairing and refitting in the shipyards, there was an undercurrent of various forces in Japan.

On the bright side, although the Japanese official blocked the news of the disastrous defeat of the intervention army, the news still spread under the secret promotion of the imperial faction.

The Japanese people could not accept the fact of the fiasco, and soon in front of the Capitol Building, the Navy Department, and other departments in Tokyo, Japan, crowds of protesters were crowded, and the voice of "heavenly punishment of national thieves" with Japanese characteristics sounded again.

Under tremendous pressure from the people, less than three days after the new emperor took office, Japan's current land minister, Terai Shouichi, and sea minister Okakuling Ikuichi were forced to resign and apologize under the pressure of the people.

However, they were replaced by members of the pro-Domination faction. The new sea and land ministers, when they were held accountable for the defeat, took the opportunity to deal with a large number of members of the imperial faction, and the reason was that they were not prepared to send troops in a hurry before the war.

Before Britain and Japan jointly sent troops, Japan itself was facing the crisis of great turmoil. (To be continued......)

PS: Update this chapter first, after 12 o'clock, and then update another chapter around 12:5, 6,000 words

These two chapters have just been written, and there are some typos, so let's just look at it first, and I'm proofreading. I will change it back after the school is finished.