Moreover, as early as the end of the war, Japan received a lot of jishu aid and a large number of loans from the United States, and it was also able to make profits through China's entrepot trade, and Germany also transferred a lot of advanced jishu in order to win it over, and the advanced production management methods that came out in advance because of Hu Weidong also spread to Japan, so Japan's post-war economic recovery was much faster than in history. During World War II, Japan's production management was worse than that of the Soviet Union, and the level of science and technology was also in the middle and lower reaches of the great powers, but because of this, the potential for improvement was great, and even it was entirely possible to increase industrial production efficiency several times, but it took time for the new system and new technology to take effect, and Japan in 1941 could not fully digest and absorb it, otherwise the economic data would be more amazing.

The more than one million Japanese prisoners (both military and civilian) who were quickly released by China were largely forced to remain in China. It also alleviated the shortage of young and strong Japanese laborers, and although more than 300,000 scientists, technicians, and skilled workers among the captives were still forcibly left in China, it was much better than staying in China as coolies.

With all these favorable conditions, and the efforts of the whole of Japan from Emperor Shohito down to recover their economy, Japan's economic figures in 1941 surpassed the pre-war total of 1936, including Korea, Taiwan, and Northeast China, and the total industrial output exceeded the $10 billion mark for the first time, just two years after the armistice in 1940.

This is despite the fact that all this, like the "economic miracle" of Nazi Germany, was based on desperate foreign borrowing. By the end of October 1941, Japan's foreign debt balance had reached a staggering $6 billion, of which more than $4 billion was government debt, and Japan's foreign trade deficit almost every year in the past few years (mainly for war preparation, otherwise it would have been possible to achieve a surplus by relying on entrepot trade, although the amount would not be too large). I can't afford to repay it (I didn't really think about it), but at least until I pay off the debt, the Japanese economy does look pretty good.

However, the results of these economic construction have not benefited the Japanese people, and Japan's actual military spending in the past two years has even been higher than during the war of aggression against China. Two-thirds of that money was spent on the navy, especially the air force (the Japanese term for aircraft carrier formations). After the completion and covert commissioning of two Yamato-class mega aircraft carriers in October 1941, the 12-ship Japanese Navy had become the most powerful force in the Pacific. In fact, although the losses of the Japanese navy in the early days of the war of aggression against China were not small, they were still much smaller than those of the army. And since aircraft carriers attracted attention earlier than in history. As a result, construction and completion are generally much earlier than in history. In fact, as early as the armistice with China, the strength of the Japanese navy actually exceeded the pre-war level

More importantly, after Emperor Shohito ascended the throne, he established the national policy of "valuing the sea over the land". Japan's defect of insufficient human resources has been avoided to a large extent, after all, including the navy, the navy burns money and burns money, but the number of officers and men needed is far less than that of the army, and if it is at war with the United States, the navy and the newly established air force are the key to victory, and the army is sufficient, plus the US navy is also divided into two oceanic fleets, so although the United States is strong, the current Japan does not even have a chance to win.

Of course, in view of the terrible war potential of the United States, the Japanese decision-making circles, including Emperor Takahito, generally do not want to jump out early and form a head-to-head situation with the United States, but the United States is really deceiving people too much. Moreover, once the U.S. fleet is stationed in Okinawa, which is very close to the Japanese mainland, it will become unlikely that the Japanese Navy will continue to hide its strength. Therefore, Chongren finally couldn't bear it anymore, but in order to sweep away his worries, he still took advantage of the period before the US fleet was stationed in Okinawa to send a secret envoy to visit China, which is now being pressed more tightly by the United States, and also contacted Berlin through the German Embassy in China by the way.

However, to the disappointment of the Japanese government, although China was also under tremendous pressure from the Americans, and the domestic people were also excited, the rational Chinese leaders were still reluctant to go to war with the United States, because Taizu believed that if China was really willing to take the great risk of the collapse of the regime due to the split of the Red Party and even internal strife, and give up the ideological conflict to formally form an alliance with Japan, especially fascist Germany, then the Americans could also put aside their ideological prejudices and join forces with the Soviets. With the abundant resources and super industrial strength of the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain, unless Germany can occupy the LinkedIn territory and accept its huge shipbuilding capacity basically without damage, even if China can ease its strength in the civil strife and join the Axis with Japan, it has little hope of winning the victory of Zuihou and holding up a draw, but it will have to pay a large number of military and civilian casualties and the price of greatly slowing down the industrialization process, which is undoubtedly worth the loss. The most important thing is that although the United States is constantly putting pressure on China, at the moment when the German army is sweeping Europe, they will not be stupid enough to take the initiative to declare war on China anyway.

In contrast to China's attitude, the mustache is now in the spring breeze, and has been grateful to the United States for providing Britain with more than a hundred ships (50 old destroyers, as in history, and a large number of Liberty ships) through the Lend-Lease Act in recent months. He was deeply dissatisfied, so he was somewhat interested in the Japanese government's proposal, but no matter how arrogant he was, he was also very jealous of the naval strength and war potential of the United States, so he did not agree immediately, but replied that he would consider it.

Although the result was regrettable, Emperor Takahito and his ministers regained some composure at this time, and did not impulsively declare war on the United States on their own, while a young staff officer of the Admiralty wrote directly to Yamamoto Isoroku and pointed out that Japan was not now without a way out.

This genius boy named "Sojiro Yamada" confidently believes that the current war situation in Europe has entered a very delicate state, and although Britain's proud Royal Navy has suffered unprecedented heavy losses, its overall strength is still stronger than that of the German Navy, and if Germany can create another miracle and completely defeat the British Royal Navy in a short period of time and make it possible to land on British soil, then the United States will inevitably declare war on Germany (to be continued......