Chapter 1083: Change of Coalition Government
Xiyuan Temple Gongwang smiled bitterly, how can the current situation be reversed? ! Japan has lost the capital to negotiate, the navy cannot pose a threat to the enemy, and the army is almost crippled.
The only army and navy units that are still fighting are now only enough to defend the homeland. What will Japan take to negotiate with others?! Are people willing to accept such negotiations?!
By extension, what Japan did on the battlefields of China and the Soviet Union must be well known to everyone. There is no doubt that Japan is now at least a sworn enemy of China and the Soviet Union.
Saionji Gongwang would not be naΓ―ve enough to think that these two countries would give Japan a way out regardless of their previous suspicions.
"Your Majesty, I already have some thoughts in my mind. But to say it now, it is not appropriate. Let's wait and see how things go......"
Hirohito could only sigh when he heard this, and the two said something casually. Saionji saw that Hirohito was not in high spirits, so he said goodbye very acquaintedly. Hirohito didn't hold back, waving his hand to let Saionji leave on its own.
"Go to the Fushiminomiya Prince's Mansion." After leaving the palace, Xiyuan Temple commanded in the carriage. At present, Japan is extremely lacking in resources, and even those with high achievements such as Saionji Temple can only ride in horse-drawn carriages and cannot use automobiles.
Even the cars of Xiyuan Temple have already been donated. What can be smelted into steel is re-smelted, and what cannot be smelted is also used for others.
"Your Excellency, what is Your Majesty's reaction?! Did you talk to him about our suggestion?! "When Saionji Temple came to the residence of Fushiminomiya, he was immediately met by Fushiminomiya.
As soon as they met, Fushimi Palace couldn't wait to ask about the situation at Saionji.
"No, I didn't talk to Your Majesty about these things." Xiyuan Temple shook his head and said, "I don't think now is the best time to talk about these things. β
"Now the situation in the empire is close to collapse, but the radicals still occupy the main position. His Majesty himself still has illusions about the situation of the war, as can be seen from his attention to the expeditionary force and the German battlefield in Moscow......"
Fushiminomiya was silent. In fact, he also knew that Hirohito had not given up until now. It was only just in case that the royal family was withdrawn from the base camp and the government.
In fact, deep down, Hirohito still hoped that Japan could turn the tide and win the final victory in the war. Unfortunately, the reality is that this hope is getting slimmer.
"Old Duke, know that our time is running out! If you can't convince Your Majesty as soon as possible, then by the time the Wehrmacht is equipped with aircraft carriers, then even the mainland will no longer be safe. When the time comes, the empire will be in the midst of no return......"
Xiyuan Temple's face was ugly, how could he not know the current situation?! The problem is, this is really not a good time to come up with a plan. On the one hand, Hirohito still had illusions, and on the other hand, it was true that the radicals occupied important positions in all strata.
Once the news leaks out. Then their plan was rejected, not only that, but maybe everyone would be directly "punished" by the radicals. These radicals have not done this once or twice.
"Let's bear with it! Only when the situation in Moscow becomes clear will His Majesty be able to accept our opinion. Otherwise, even if we say that Your Majesty will probably take it as the wind in our ears......"
In the imperial capital of China, the General Staff of the Wehrmacht was filled with smoke. Su Zongzhe had red eyes, and led a large group of staff officers to constantly deduce on the map and sand table all night.
The latest news from the German royal family shows. Four German train guns have already been shipped. And along with the train guns to the Soviet battlefield, there were also a thousand heavy rocket-booster bombs.
But these were not the most headaches for Su Zongzhe, what made Su Zongzhe feel the most headache was the news from the German imperial family that after the "most dangerous man in Europe" was withdrawn from the Soviet front, he was ordered to form a special SS.
The details of this small force were unknown to even the German royal family. They were responsible only to Hitler himself, and no one else had the right to intervene in their training, their tasks, and their actions.
"There is no doubt about it. This force is something like our 'Raven'. After inviting the staff officers out of the command room, Su Zongzhe said to Tu Mengben, commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces: "Otto has participated in cooperation with us before, and I believe he must know something about our special operations detachment." I don't know, the actions of our Special Commando Team A 18 have already been detected by him......"
Tu Mengben did not speak. He thought of the legendary experience of this man who has been revered in history as "the most dangerous man in Europe". The small detachment he formed once made the entire Allied army panic.
Even when he surrendered voluntarily, the Allies could not believe that this dangerous man would surrender. No matter how he explained it, the Allies believed that he had a conspiracy.
Even the Allies refused to try him at one time. He was simply imprisoned. This kind of indefinite detention is unacceptable to this man with a scar on his face.
So he chose to break from prison. Then start anew. Strangely, after he escaped from prison and went to South America, the entire Allied army was relieved.
No one pursued him anymore, no one even paid attention to him anymore. Perhaps, the Allied generals thought that such a man would be better off keeping him under their own surveillance in South America than in prison.
"Inform Ike of the news, and warn Commando A18 not to attack. Waiting for the order of the headquarters......" Tu Menghu said with a smile: "It's good to let them suffer a little loss, but our commando team can't be damaged." β
"Would Ike not want to?!" Su Zongzhen hesitated and said, "Under the uncertainty of the situation, I believe that he has no certainty to deal with it. If we choose to withdraw at this time......"
Tu Menghu shook his head with a smile and said, "I didn't say that I wanted to withdraw, but the Eighteenth Commando Team needs to wait for our orders. And they don't necessarily need to attack. It's just a matter of defending against the surprise attack of this small force. β
"If they can't stop the Germans just like that, then they deserve to be unlucky. I don't feel guilty about it. Tu Menghu shrugged his shoulders and said, "We have trained their troops and provided them with information. If they can't prevent it under such an invitation, then I have nothing to do. β
Su Zongzhe smiled helplessly, this commander-in-chief looked easy-going, but in fact, once he made up his mind, almost no one could convince him.
"Uncle Qiliu, let that guy Qi Muden speed up. I don't think it will be long. The war will be decided. "Tu Menghu knew that once the train artillery arrived outside Moscow, the outer defensive positions would be useless.
It's just that what we don't know now is whether Moscow will fight a defensive battle as brutal as Stalingrad at that time. If the Allies were able to successfully drag Germany into winter, they would still have the upper hand in the event that the precision train guns and warplanes were temporarily out of order.
Otherwise, once Moscow is lost, it will undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the entire Allied army. Whether it can be relieved or not, no one can say.
"Commander, are we going to let Xiao Qi catch some prisoners over there?!" Su Zongzhen opened his notebook and said with a wry smile at Tu Mengben: "Chairman Lin Sen has asked me several times, and now there is a large shortage of prisoners in China!" The railway from Tibet to Mongolia. It's a waste of manpower to build. In order to rush the work, more than 5,000 captives have been lost......"
"It's so expensive?!" This surprised Tu Mengben a little, the Wehrmacht captured hundreds of thousands of prisoners in the last battle in the country.
Although these captives were distributed to various places, it was indeed a drop in the bucket for China, which has a vast territory. But the Wehrmacht has also been replenishing prisoners. It doesn't consume so fast, does it?!
"We have a lot of mountainous areas in China, such as the section from Gui Province to Guizhou Province. Almost all the way is a mountain road. If you want to build this mountain road, you have to follow the requirements of the Ministry of Construction, and there will be a lot of lives on the mountain......"
"There are also routes from Guizhou Province to Sichuan Province, railway and highway routes connecting Guizhou, Guizhou and Tibet, almost all of which are filling in the road with human lives! There are also a large number of reservoirs, mines, fields, etc., which need manpower, and such a small number of captives are not enough to divide at all......"
For the first time, Tu Mengben felt a little dizzy, although he proposed to use the captives to build his own infrastructure in the country. But he also did not expect that in order to build these infrastructures in a hurry and with quality, the methods used by officials everywhere on those prisoners would be inhumane.
The entire coalition government is now promoted on a merit basis. How did the political achievements come about?! Doesn't it depend on the evaluation of your local indicators?!
Literacy rate, progression rate, number of people lifted out of poverty, infrastructure construction, regional vision planning and implementation...... and so on are within the scope of the evaluation and examination of schools.
Many investigations, unbeknownst to local officials, are being conducted in secret. Including the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Commission for Discipline Inspection...... and other institutions, in cooperation with the Ministry of Administration of the United Government, conducted a comprehensive and detailed inspection of these officials.
It can be said that if these guys want to, they can even find out when the ancestors of the officials have knocked on the widow's door for three generations.
When the state apparatus twists into a strand. And when all the strength is used in one place, such a huge power is unmatched by an individual.
"Commander-in-chief, this is all due to their mercy. You don't know how lawless these kids were when we first got the captives, almost every kilometer of railroad and road. You have to bury a human life. If it weren't for the fact that the source of captives had decreased, and in order to use them for a long time, they had improved their treatment, and maybe those prisoners we captured would have died long ago. β
Tu Mengben couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. Although this matter was provoked by him. But he didn't expect that these coalition government officials would be so black-hearted.
The tragic fate of those captives, Tu Mengben can fully imagine. As long as you compare the black coal kilns of later generations, you can roughly guess the fate of these captives.
Of course, the reality is that the fate of these captives will definitely be even more miserable than falling into the hands of the Black Coal Kiln. The officials of the coalition government were justified and legitimately and directly fucked to death.
No one cared about the fate of these captives, and the crimes committed by the Japanese in China under the propaganda of the state apparatus were well known. Those operas and dramas performed for the Anti-Japanese War spread the hideous image of the Japanese in everyone's minds.
At least for now, you ask the common people everywhere what the Japanese are like?! They will tell you that the Japanese are beasts. Only dead Japanese are good Japanese.
And those captives of Southeast Asia, what would be a good thing to be lackeys of the Japanese?! They deserve to die more.
Under this mentality, the fate of those prisoners of war can be imagined. However, the coalition government and the defense forces have maintained a high degree of tacit understanding on this matter, namely: not to publicize, not to advocate, and not to attack.
"Uncle Qiliu, even if I let Qi Muden capture the prisoners, I estimate that I can catch no more than 100,000 people. This little bit of people is still not enough......" Tu Mengben smiled helplessly. Now the Japanese Expeditionary Force has suffered repeated blows, and there is not much left.
Can the capture of 100,000 captives be enough for those wolf-like provincial officials to distribute?!
"Commander-in-Chief, in fact, Chairman Lin Sen gave me a report. But this report has to be approved by you......" Su Zongzhen smiled bitterly and handed a report to Tu Mengben.
Tu Mengben was a little puzzled with the report, what kind of report did Lin Sen not like to give himself in person, but asked Su Zongzhen to hand it over on his behalf?! After taking the report, Tu Mengben couldn't help but smile bitterly.
What a self-inflicted sin! It's only been a few years, and Leng has turned a humble gentleman like Lin Sen into a black-hearted chairman of the coalition government.
Lin Sen's report contains a lot of words, starting with the construction of reservoirs, aqueducts, railways, road networks and other facilities that the coalition government is currently building in various places, and then mentioning the current lack of prisoners of war that has slowed down the construction progress of large areas.
For the better development of the country, these constructions are indispensable. But it is impossible to say that a large number of prisoners of war can be captured. So after discussing it with the officials of the coalition government, Lin Sen took out this report and submitted it to Tu Mengben.
The requirements of this report are simple, including a large number of people in Annam, the Philippines and other places who have cooperated with the Japanese army or joined the Japanese coercion army.
These people had been given light sentences in the past, and Lin Sen thought it was a wasteful thing. These people should be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment and then sent to China to serve their sentences.
What is the content of the sentence? Naturally, he wants to build infrastructure for China to compensate for the crimes he has committed against China.
Tu Mengben looked at Lin Sen's request and couldn't help but smile bitterly. Many of these so-called coerced subordinate forces, many of whom have not even seen the Wehrmacht have ever seen come from, "committed crimes against China"?!
Of course, the black-hearted coalition government officials were vocal about the matter. This is a mental oppression, a psychological attack. Even if there is no crime that has been created, at least they have the idea and put it into practice.
So, they are guilty. The guilty will naturally be sentenced. Naturally, they have to pay for their crimes.
Well, Tu Mengben didn't read those words to know. This must have been done by the young Zhuang faction of the coalition government who rushed to Lin Sen, and the older Lin Sen gets, the more he likes those energetic juniors.
Especially those young people who work hard and have high morale, Lin Sen likes it from the bottom of his heart. He thinks. These people are the hope of a strong country.
Therefore, he will do his best to protect these young people. At the same time, Chunchun taught them how to deal with government affairs and those old foxes in officialdom.
It is estimated that Lin Sen was stunned by these young people, and signed the report without paying attention. But after signing, the old guy started to have a headache.
A lifetime of clearing your name~ I'm getting old. Being signed by a group of young people is the end of the report. Lin Sen can fully imagine what kind of image this report will make him have in the history books.
The report. will definitely not leave a good reputation in the history books. But the sign was also signed, and the old guy gritted his teeth and decided to hand over the report to Tu Mengben.
But he himself was really embarrassed to hand in this report, and he also had a discussion when Tu Mengben proposed to use prisoners of war for infrastructure construction.
As a result, it is good now, and seeing the benefits, all the etiquette and shame that I usually adhere to have been thrown into the pit. The old guy couldn't stand this, so he simply threw the report to Su Zongzhen and turned around and left.
Thinking of this, Tu Mengben smiled and signed his name on this report. After handing the report to Su Zongzhe, he said: "Redo the report, don't hang on Lin Lao's name." I'll sign it then. Tell those cubs, don't rely on Lin Lao's favor for them to be lawless. If there is such a thing in the future, come to me directly. β
Su Zongzhen smiled and nodded, those young people in the coalition government were indeed a little lawless. Some time ago, I wanted to make a report and ask officials to go to the battlefield to experience it for themselves.
The young people are all enthusiastic at an age, and when they mention the battlefield one by one, they are simply in a state of fighting chicken blood. However, their enthusiasm was hit hard by Lin Sen.
Is it easy to train you?! How much effort and effort has been wasted by the entire coalition government?! If you are left on the battlefield, many people in the coalition government will cry to death.
Of course, in order to calm the enthusiasm of these young people, Lin Sen still agreed to select a group of people to go to the battlefield for a walk. Moreover, I went to the Soviet battlefield, which is now relatively strong in the control of the Wehrmacht, and on the one hand, I went out to see it. On the other hand, it is also for them to experience it for themselves.
"Uncle Qiliu...... How old do you think I?! Why, I feel old when I see these people......" Tu Mengben smiled bitterly and said, "It's good to be young......"
Su Zongzhen didn't speak, in fact, the two had been working together since the Battle of Jinan. After so many ups and downs, Su Zongzhe is still willing to be the shadow standing behind the tiger.
"Commander, I'm not old, why do you say you're old?! How big is eight pounds?! Your days, how long are ......" Su Zongzhe smiled slightly and said: "Qiliu only hopes that he will be peaceful and prosperous with the commander!" β