Chapter 702: Madness (4)

The land minister was stabbed, the minister of military affairs was stabbed, the officers of the Guards Division made a big fuss about the military department, and the army and navy were about to go to war. Rumours abound, and the gloomy city of Tokyo was shaken up by an airplane, an unknown cannon and a $500 million loan.

Undercurrents are surging.

The car sped down the road to the palace, and the street intersection was full of police. Sitting in the car, the Japanese sea minister Okaku Atsushi and Prince Kanin Miyajihito were in a bad mood. The dispute between land and sea is not a day or two, more than ten years ago on the night of 510 caused the death of Yama Prefecture Aritomo and other elders, the only person who can suppress the dispute is Togo Heihachi, but the marshal has been getting worse and worse recently, and he often talks nonsense, so neither of them dared to disturb, so they had to go to the palace to ask Emperor Hirohito.

At the moment when the building was about to collapse, the politicians who were usually coaxed finally remembered that there was still an emperor on their heads. Originally, because of the emperor's inaction during the Taisho period, the army, navy, and politicians did not really take the emperor very seriously, especially the old feudal factions in the Senate, and they even shouted for constitutional government all day long, intending to completely empty the emperor and realize a real constitutional monarchy.

So Hirohito didn't give a good face at all when he saw Okaku Cen Sheng in the palace, and even secretly smiled psychologically, and now he finally remembered the emperor?

Prince Zaihito is a member of the royal family and a descendant of Hirohito, how could he not know his thoughts, but now that it has reached the critical moment of pulling out a gun outside, he has no choice but to ask him to interfere in politics and say, "Your Majesty." This is a moment of crisis, the Guards Division is really undeserved, Lin Miaojun and Nagata-kun are both people who have made great contributions to Japan, they are still lying in the hospital and their lives are unknown, at this time, we must suppress the anger first. ”

There was a prince in front of him, and the big horned Qinsheng also hurriedly said, "Your Majesty." The Prince's words are very reasonable, our navy does not want to clash with the army, but now is the critical time to prepare for the southern offensive strategy, and we must not delay it due to internal disputes. We have carefully studied the 480 mm cannon in China, and it is indeed capable of combat, and if they had built it first, the life of the empire at sea would have been hanged. ”

"Really? Is it really that serious? Hirohito sat on a straw mat with no fancy furnishings around. Just like Emperor Meiji a few decades ago, he insisted on a simple style of life, but no matter how he dressed up and studied, he was never a grand Meiji, and although he valued the navy, he was much worse at controlling the feudal lords. So when I heard this, I was still very angry. "Why did you go earlier? Only now do I think of building warships against China, if you let me be pro-government, how can I have these troubles? These bastards, still have to be banged and banged. Hirohito thought secretly in his heart, and asked quietly, "So how is the sea minister going to deal with it?" Isn't the tonnage of our country's battleships full? ”

Okaku Cen Sheng still thought that Hirohito was persuaded by himself, and raised his spirit: "Your Majesty doesn't know, the Washington Navy Treaty stipulates that all capital ships purchased from outside can be eliminated in advance, and China will also retire two United Force-class ships to have the tonnage to build four Beijing-class ships." So the opinion of our Navy is to follow this maneuver, eliminate the Ise class (the British Lion class snapped up after the European war) and build four new battleships and four heavy cruisers. ”

"Heavy cruisers are fine, but will the elimination of two battleships and the construction of four will cause protests from Britain and the United States?" Prince Jaehito did not expect the navy to have such great ambitions, and he was actually ready to build four more heavy cruisers and four battleships in one go.

Dajiao Cen Sheng and the navy had already reached a consensus, and said triumphantly: "Your Majesty and the prince rest assured, we have not signed the London Treaty, and the cruiser will not be restricted. As for the Washington Treaty, there are still three years to expire, and it is already a consensus that all countries will withdraw, and the study of 480-mm artillery in China is also preparing for the expiration of the treaty. Therefore, our plan is to build two ships before them, and to replace the Ise class, and to build two more ships in two years, so that when the next two ships are launched, they will no longer be covered by the naval treaty. ”

"How big is it going to be? Are you going to continue building Nagato? ”

"How so! Our navy has long been studying the 460 mm naval gun, although the caliber is a little smaller, but the power is more powerful than the 480 naval gun in China, as long as some additional funds are invested, it can meet the standard of installation. Therefore, we are going to build the largest battleship in the world, and only in this way can we overwhelm the United States and China. However, in order to confuse them, we will announce to the outside world that it is only the standard of the Nagato-class, and the tonnage is also concealed in accordance with the requirements of the naval treaty. "Big Horn Cen Sheng's words are true and false. It's really the Navy that is really stimulated this time, so it's ready to forcibly mount the long-dreamed super battleship. The lie is that Japan's 460-mm naval guns are actually far from meeting the requirements of the navy, and it will take at least two years and tens of millions of research funds to invest, and the manufacturing technology and equipment of super-large ships are not perfect, and the reason why I say this is entirely to win the loan of 500 million US dollars. But even if the money is in hand, it will take at least a year to start construction.

But what he never expected was that Hirohito's heart had long been like a mirror, but he deliberately asked quietly: "So can the sea minister tell me how much money is needed?" ”

"We are already estimating the cost, and the preliminary calculations include the purchase of equipment and the expansion of the dockyard, which will require a total of 1.5 billion national dollars." After Bighorn said the total cost, Hirohito's face suddenly turned dark, and his voice was low as if he was pressed in his throat: "So much?" You can't be wrong! ”

"Nope." As soon as he wanted to say that he had not miscalculated, he felt two sharp eyes stabbing him, and then looked at Hirohito's heart, and suddenly chuckled, secretly thinking that the emperor was deliberately indulging himself and the navy just now? Or is the emperor already aware of the mystery inside? Thinking of this, cold sweat suddenly oozed from his back, and even Prince Zairen next to him was angry, so obviously can't he see it? This time, the emperor wants to help the army a little bit and break the power of the feudal lords, and the navy Satsuma Domain is also the target of the attack!

In total, the United States has only given $500 million in loans, and all of them are in-kind loans, which means that equivalent goods must be purchased in the United States. Although it is possible to buy raw materials and machinery and equipment, physical goods and cash are different, and American businessmen will definitely deliberately raise the price, so the real conversion is only a little more than 400 million, that is, about 1.2 billion yen (the yen in the same period in history is about 1:1 compared to the dollar, but the yen in this book has depreciated seriously, and it cannot be equivalent to history, about 1:3, so please do not refer to it). This is good, it is only 1.2 billion in hand, and the navy will need 1.5 billion to build eight warships, what is this not a slap in the face that is not deliberately competing for military spending?!

Although Hirohito has a fire in his heart, the navy is related to the survival of Japan after all, and Okaku is the leader of the fleet faction, and he has a high prestige in the navy, and he still needs to deal with the feudal lords. So he took a deep breath before waving his hand: "Go back and recalculate, my country's military spending is limited now, and the army also needs to be appeased." Without an army, how can Korea be recaptured? In the future, the southward advance will also depend on the efforts of the army officers and men. Okay, go back and reconsider, and stop messing around. ”

There was no accusation in the bland words, but it made the big horned Qinsheng more and more restless, and quickly nodded to recalculate. Prince Zaihito, who was next to him, saw that Hirohito didn't mention how to deal with Aizawa's assassination, and asked, "Your Majesty, what should the army do?" ”

"Let all the Guards Divisions return to their stations, so be it." Hirohito glanced at Prince Zaihito lightly, got up and quickly disappeared behind the curtain. Looking at the shaking door curtain, Prince Jae-in and Dajiao Qinsheng looked at each other, and it was over? Will it solve the problem by returning all the Guards Divisions to their stations? If the weapons are not confiscated and other troops are not sent to supervise them, who can suppress these hot-headed soldiers?

"Prince, the Emperor meant." Okaku's political sense of smell is too low, so he hasn't figured out Hirohito's mind until now, only Prince Zaihito secretly guessed something, and said with a wry smile: "Okaku-kun, persuade Okada-kun and ask him to resign." ”

Let Keisuke Okada resign! No matter how dull the big horned Qinsheng was, he understood it at this moment, and turned his head to look at it, and his heart was cold.

In the presidential palace in Beijing, Yang Qiuzheng, Xu Xiujun, and others studied the countermeasures that needed to be taken after Roosevelt's New Deal, and they were also stunned when they received the Tokyo telegram sent by Song Ziqing. Yue Peng was even more anxious than him, and asked, "So, Yongtian Tieshan is dead?" ”

Song Ziqing shook his head, and glanced at the silent Yang Qiu, a trace of disappointment floated across his face: "Lin Milling Shilang was the first to be stabbed, and his liver was shattered and he died on the spot. However, Nagata Tetsuyama was already the second stab when he was stabbed, so his body had already reacted and only injured his left lung in the chest, and although he was unconscious since he was sent to the hospital, I had asked medical experts before I came, and they said that if I could survive the dangerous period, there was still hope for recovery. ”

"This guy, why wasn't he the first to be stabbed?" Yue Peng sighed. Nagata Tetsuyama is one of the few people in the Japanese army who can make the Republic of China jealous, but he didn't expect him to be lucky enough to avoid the vital point! The first knife is the most ruthless when you are not prepared, but everyone will definitely react later, this is the least truth, let alone a trained soldier. Therefore, even Song Ziqing secretly said that Nagata Tieshan was lucky, if Aizawa Saburo was the first to kill him, there was absolutely no hope of survival.

Even Yang Qiu lost his mind for a moment, he arranged so much this time, it was nothing more than to provoke a dispute between Japan's land and sea, create the 226 incident in advance, and tighten the noose around Japan's neck. But he didn't expect that Nagata Tieshan, who was hacked to death in the 226 incident, actually didn't die. However, this loss of consciousness is only for a moment, after all, the time and place are different, and the fate trajectory of many people has long been unable to replicate history, so it is not surprising.

His main concern is what will happen next.

"It is said that Kanin Miyajihito and Okakin Tsushio once asked Hirohito to come out and suppress both sides. Strangely, however, we received information that the Guards Division was not being supervised, but was simply asked to return to its station. In addition, there seems to have been a split within the Japanese Navy, with Keisuke Okada also publicly demanding the resignation of Shizaburo Masaki and Takuzo Kobayashi, and reportedly went to meet Heihachiro Togo. ”

"What does that mean?" Yue Peng secretly scratched his head and turned his gaze to Yang Qiu, but the latter's eyes lit up and sneered: "Hmph! You cannot live if you have done your own iniquity. After speaking, he put down the telegram and waved his hand to Gu Yuwen, who was studying the economic situation: "Yuwen, you can continue." ”

Gu Yuwen nodded: "Therefore, once Roosevelt forcibly depreciates the currency, we must also follow suit, only in this way can we avoid the impact of American goods and protect the domestic market." However, because China's economy is better than that of the United States, last year's total value of industry and agriculture has reached 170 billion yuan, and the output of iron and steel has exceeded 20 million tons. In addition, the population has maintained an annual growth rate of 3 percent since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the demographic dividend is enough to offset the damage of inflation after this depreciation. So what we need to do now is to launch an all-out focus on the changes in the US New Deal, and follow up as soon as the dollar depreciation begins. ”

Gu Yuwen's voice echoed in the room, but at this time, Yang Qiu's heart had already flown to Tokyo. Nagata Tetsuyama's failure to die is both a reasonable and somewhat regrettable accident, what kind of changes will this accident bring to a world that has no context? (To be continued.)