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After Yamaguchi returned to Japan, he reported the words of Sun Xuecheng to Yamamoto Fifty-six, who had been promoted to the rank of sea minister at this time, and Yamamoto couldn't help but be deeply shocked, especially after he later learned that the military expenditure of the Chinese Navy was only one-tenth of that of Japan, and he had an unprecedented and inexplicable fear of it, and only one-tenth of the investment could dare to start a war against the powerful Imperial Japanese Navy and the British Royal Navy at the same time, and give both a big blow, if China also spent nearly half of its military expenditure on naval construction like Japan, After all, in the eyes of the Japanese, although China is poor, after all, there are many people in the land, and if we show the strength of the whole country to raise funds to buy and build ships during the First Sino-Japanese War, the military expenditure that can be invested may not be much less than that of Japan.

It has to be said that the sense of crisis of the Japanese is indeed a bit too strong, so much so that Isoroku Yamamoto, who is obviously supposed to be a smart man, has subconsciously ignored all kinds of unfavorable factors in China's development of the navy, and has even thought of all factors in the worst, and even has the bizarre idea that Red China is ideologically identical to the Soviet Union and is a natural ally, so there is no need to maintain an excessively large army. However, it was precisely the deep-rooted sense of crisis of the Japanese nation that enabled Yamamoto Isoroku to successfully unify the opinions within the navy and propose to Emperor Takahito to reduce the salaries and benefits of naval officers and men, so as to free up more military expenses for the purchase of new aircraft carriers and various auxiliary ships

However, Yamaguchi Tawen, who triggered this reform, was inevitably hostile to his colleagues, and it was not advantageous to lead the fleet south to fight. As a result, he was temporarily removed from the post of commander of the Combined Fleet. However, due to Chongren's gratitude to him, and Yamamoto Isoroku defended him again, saying, "Yamaguchi is a genius in commanding an aircraft carrier battle team, but this time he let him lead a traditional battlefleet, so he did not perform well, if I want to be held responsible, it should be my improper use of people, and I can't blame Yamaguchi, who has done his best." What's more, the new weapons developed by the Chinese will inevitably suffer losses when they encounter it for the first time, and even if Dongxiang is reborn, its performance may not be much stronger than Yamaguchi. At least Yamaguchi finally figured out the characteristics of the enemy's new weapons. If we fight again, we won't."

"No, as long as the Chinese stop chasing, Japan will never be an enemy of China again." Chongren waved his hand and motioned for Yamamoto Fifty-six to stop talking. immediately told him what Hu Weidong had said to him.

That seems to make sense. Non-ferrous metals in the Philippines (nickel ore, copper ore, etc. discovered in advance by Zhongfu International), rubber, oil and iron-rich ore in Indonesia are all strategic resources urgently needed by the empire. It is true that the value is far greater than that of China, and it is far easier than China to digest and become the inalienable inherent territory of the empire, but if you want to get this, you must be enemies of the United States and Britain! Yamamoto Fifty-six couldn't help but feel apprehensive in his heart, but the unbearable performance of the British Far East Fleet before gave him a certain confidence, "In the short term, the empire still has a chance, because our new naval and air weapons are finalized and equipped earlier than the United States and Britain, and our shipbuilding Jihua is at least a year earlier than the United States and Britain, so in the near future, the empire's navy has an advantage."

But Yamamoto Fifty-six quickly changed his words, "It's just that with the strong industrial strength of the United States, even if it is hit hard in the early stage, when it completes the war mobilization, it can rely on its terrible military production capacity to quickly recover its strength, if they insist on fighting to the death with the empire, they must lose the empire." ”

"I know that if I had a choice, who would want to be the enemy of the United States? I hope that the Americans will know the proportions and not push our Japan to the German side! After Chongren finished speaking, he sighed with a worried face, and Yamamoto Fifty-six also had a solemn face when he heard this, and secretly clenched his fists

The words were divided into two ends, after the successful breakthrough of the Yuan, Ye Fei, who calmed down, finally felt a trace of regret, if he was not so impulsive at that time, maybe Shen Honglie and the hundreds of officers and soldiers on the Zhiyuan ship would not have sacrificed, and the Zhiyuan, a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser, could also be saved. And unexpectedly recruited a strong enemy for China, which made Ye Fei mentally prepared to accept the punishment of his superiors, but who knew that he was rewarded by the central government, on the one hand, because Taizu was also a hard bone who would never be willing to concede half a point to the great powers unless he really had no choice, on the other hand, it was not the navy that fired the first shot at the British, so even if this responsibility is real, it will not be Ye Fei's turn to carry it!

Let us turn our attention to the roof of Shijie, since Fang Yongle led his troops into Tibet on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, he and his troops have been actively working for the welfare of the Tibetan people, especially the millions of serfs who have been oppressed and exploited; On the other hand, it is actively training Tibetan (and other Tibetan-speaking ethnic groups) cadres, and their popularity among the Tibetan people is growing day by day, which makes the Kashag local government in Tibet very uneasy. In addition, the Red Party troops stationed in Tibet took in fugitive serfs again and again, touching the scales of those Tusi Tou Living Buddhas, and the local government of Tibet's Kashag began to find ways to drive Fang Yongle and them away.

At first, they thought of using the Kuomintang as the nominally Chinese orthodox regime, but at this time the relationship between the two parties was good, and Lao Chiang was forced by the aggressive offensive of the Japanese invaders to ask for help from the Red Party, so he did not respond too positively, especially the Nationalist Army was not as hard-working as the People's Army, and very few people were willing to come to Tibet, a barren and bitter cold place, so although both parties sent troops to Tibet, the strength of the Kuomintang was less than a quarter of that of the Red Party, and there was also a gap in the quality of soldiers and weapons and equipment, if you really make a move, even if you add the so-called "Tibetan army" whose combat effectiveness is like, it will not be able to win against Fang Yongle's more than 10,000 elite soldiers at all (due to the continuous participation of exiled serfs, this number has been increasing). Later, after Lao Chiang set off the first anti-Red upsurge, Fang Yongle commanded the troops stationed in Tibet to easily disarm the Nationalist army stationed in Tibet, and led the army eastward to take Xikang, completely dashing the hope of the Tibetan Kashag local government for recourse to the Kuomintang "central government".

Under these circumstances, the local government of the Kashag in Tibet, which only cared about the selfish interests of the original ruling class in Tibet, such as the Living Buddha, the Touren, and the Tusi, did not hesitate to betray the state and sent secret envoys to Sikkim to meet with the British and beg them to send troops to intervene. The British Viceroy of India had been trying to infiltrate Shili into the strategic location of Tibet, and the two sides immediately hit it off (to be continued......