Fumiro Konoe immediately felt that he was not alone in opposing the war at this venue. And because of the enormous weight of the emperor, it will certainly be possible to force others to at least revise the original too radical line.

The scene tends to be deadlocked, and it seems that one more straw can turn the situation around. Although the military department can ignore the prime minister and finally sell the account to the emperor, it is a pity that just reciting a poem is still ambiguous, and it seems that it is not enough to finally overwhelm the military department. Konoe peeked around, hoping that someone would stand up and say something that was slightly biased towards peace talks. According to the custom of the meeting, all the five prime ministers have finished speaking, and the two commanders of the army and navy have also expressed their views, and now there are only those veteran politicians who are particularly present at the meeting.

Sure enough, the director of the intelligence bureau, Ito Shushi, stood up at the right time, as if he was going to throw a stone at such a critical moment. Ito is only an intelligence chief, and he is usually not asked, and he rarely expresses subjective opinions, so Konoe doesn't know what position he will choose, but considering his character, he should be on his side, right?

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is not unreasonable for the two commanders of the army and navy to say that the cutting off of oil is equivalent to starting a war," Ito's opening remarks were so simple and clear that Konoe thought he had lost his eyes, "but an important piece of information that the minister has just obtained from Shanghai was obtained from within the Anglo-American Petroleum Company, and according to reliable information, Shell and Mobil had conducted several detailed joint explorations and theoretical studies in Manchuria several decades ago, but on the surface they could not be explored. But in reality, they discovered much larger oil fields. It was only before the Manchurian incident that they were keenly aware of the political climate. So reach a consensus and keep it secret......"

"Oh? How is the information obtained? ”

"It was obtained by Kinoshita Sakaiichi Osa, who sent the army, through stratagem."

Ito briefly mentions Kinoshita's Daisa, but does not mention Kinoshita's plan to buy women, which seems undignified to mention on such an occasion. Of course, there is no mention that Kinoshita sent the information to the Ministry of War at the same time, which was withheld by Tojo on the grounds that it was not verified.

"So, there's oil right under our noses? How much is the reserve? ”

Konoe turned to Ito excitedly, he realized that the second good news of the day had come, it seemed that in addition to the support of the emperor, there was also an intelligence endorsement, once the oil was secured, the navy should not make any more noise, and the army would become lonely.

"Maybe smaller than Romanian oil fields, but 10 million barrels per year should be no problem."

"Is the news true?"

The emperor suppressed the strong desire in his heart, and said with a blank face, he was taught to speak quietly since he was a child, and after a long time, he really had no expression.

"This is not yet certain, but yesterday he asked Professor Morita of the Imperial University, and the professor believed that he had inspected northern Manchuria ten years ago. The terrain there is not suitable for the formation of oil storage belts, and even if there is, it is relatively fragmented. Therefore, he thinks that it may be a deeper oil, and part of the reason why Anglo and American oil companies have given up on exploiting it may be more difficult. ”

Ito immediately added a contrary opinion, his slippery head was that he didn't say too much, and he also saw the scene of Chief of Staff Yuyama being reprimanded for frivolously replying just now. In short, there is always one person between the geology professor of the Imperial University and Kinoshita Eichi, and the wrong person is not him anyway, as for the right opinion, it is his credit for collecting intelligence.

"So, it's not so sure?"

The emperor suddenly looked a little deflated.

"Whether it's true or not, if the annual output is just over 1 million tons, it's still not enough? Last year, we imported more than 3 million tons of oil and 2 million tons of refined products. What about the remaining gaps? Nagano added, "Besides, it is difficult to rule out that Britain and the United States deliberately leaked false information to us, why did this kind of good news not appear sooner or later, but at this time?" ”

What he said seems to be very reasonable, the timing of this information is too strange, just a month after the oil embargo, it is difficult not to make people suspect that it is some trick of Britain and the United States, hoping that Japan will believe it, miss the opportunity to start the war, and then be trapped alive. Of course, he couldn't have known that the information stolen from the Shanghai Petroleum Company by relying on the beauty of the Mei Agency was extremely high, and it was actually one of the derivative results of various mistakes after the break-in of No. 419.

Most of the people in the room continued to hesitate, as if Nagano's analysis made sense.

Hideki Tojo walked into the conference room in a huff, as if there was something urgent.

"Your Majesty, the minister has just received a call from the Ministry of the Army, and a few hours ago, the fighter planes of the US Army Air Corps intercepted our bombers in China, and we heard the entire contents of the US radio conversation in English about the results of the battle. Apparently those planes and pilots who just got off the boat from the sun last month. ”

"So, the enemy made a move ahead of time?" and the river lost color.

"The enemy has already given us a punch, and it is simply self-deception to continue to discuss peace talks in this situation."

Nagano simply stood up.

"Hasn't the Soviet Air Force always helped the Chinese in the name of supporting aviation? Why didn't you declare war on the Soviet Union at that time? ”

The prime minister continued to hold on, but he knew that the tide was turning, and in the blink of an eye, the situation was reversed.

"It was then, it was then, and it is now. Moscow will soon be taken by the Germans, and this is the time for us to show our strength. ”

"As a person who is responsible for a social country, is it really so easy to make up your mind to go to war with an unprecedented enemy like the United States?"

"Sometimes, we have to make some real decisions, like jumping down from the platform of Kiyomizudera Temple, just close our eyes."

As the sun sets, 419, which is sailing at periscope depth on the surface of the East China Sea, is constantly collecting all kinds of radio information and sorting it out by vague classification of keywords. But there has been no news about it.

At 5:40, the Central News Agency stopped its daily news from the battlefield and predicted that it would broadcast a major news story 10 minutes later.

In the middle, several anti-Japanese seven laws submitted by patriotic professors of Southwest Associated University were inserted, which sounded like imitating Wang Changling's side plug style, but there was a slight problem with the rhythm. Qin Xiaosu waited patiently, he had a hunch that this pretentious news would be related to the plane and Chu Aiyun, and there seemed to be no bigger battlefield news today. So I picked up the intercom and waited for all the heads and brains.

Sure enough, ten minutes later, a female voice with a low tone and a very long voice began to read a message: "Central News Agency News." After Izumo was killed at sea, the Japanese invaders sent troops to Shanghai to humiliate him again. Our heroic and fearless lone agent infiltrated the enemy's Pudong fortress, killed dozens of enemy soldiers with his bare hands, robbed the enemy's new plane in one fell swoop, and flew back to the rear. This feat made Japan the laughing stock of the world powers. ”

After waiting for another 30 minutes, the radio stations in the concession also began to follow suit, revealing some sporadic news, of course, the concession was isolated from the rear, which was nothing more than blind guessing. I believe that tomorrow there will be a variety of headlines.

None of the reports have mentioned the exact name of the co-captain, so it is impossible to read his current situation from the news, which of course is likely due to his use of a pseudonym. The message also did not mention the exact location where the plane landed. Except for Lin Xiuxuan, who pretended to be calm, the others were still worried.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the civilian radio station in the concession that reacted quickly had already started to interpret the martial arts routines of the lone agent, and the master invited by the radio station believed that the northern fist road with wide opening and closing was not suitable for this kind of assassination occasion, and most of them were the southern fist routines that cut out the heart and locked the throat and were as fast as lightning. From the analysis of boxing theory, mantis boxing is the best against Japanese judo.

Cheng Dayang stood in the communication room, constantly asking for a change of channel and jumping over these messy things. He knew that kicking Aiyun would know how many ways of Tai Chi, and he seemed to have won the 16th place and Shu Ping 9th place in the military exhibition competition. He has also read the file of the deputy captain, which records his annual record of three good students since elementary school, and no matter how you look at it, it is not a good thing to fight.

"Why is it that all the news only talks about lonely heroes? If there was only one person who drove the plane to the rear, that person should be the pilot, named Ouyang ...... What's going on? ”

"Ouyang Shou." Lin Xiuxuan added.

"No matter who he is, where did Chu Aiyun go?"

He was worried.

"Don't listen to their nonsense, it must be Chongqing deliberately concealing the facts, so that the Japanese can't figure their heads, this is obviously a characteristic of intelligence warfare, and the radio stations in the concession are just following the blind guess. I watched him get on the plane with my own eyes, so what's false? Didn't you get a communication from him too? ”

"That being said, it's true that he got on the plane, but will he be taken away by the military commander as soon as he gets off the plane? The loyal salvation army is directly under the military command, will his identity ......?"

"No, do you think the military commander can find everyone in the loyal salvation army? It's impossible, Chu Aiyun looks quite clever, and he will definitely be able to say round. ”

"You say rest assured, rest assured? Every time you go out, I'm scared. Do you know how it feels? ”

"Yes, yes."

All 419 were worried about the danger of the first officer. In the official residence of Long Yun in the center of Kunming, Chu Aiyun was sitting under the chairman of Yunnan Province, Long Yun, hanging his hand, and exchanging cups with a large group of high-ranking Yunnan officials who accompanied him.

Long Yun gave him enough face as a loyal and loyal rescue army, personally presided over the practice banquet, and prepared to send him to Chongqing the next day.

Although there are no people from the central government, there are all high-ranking officials and giants in Yunnan. They all want to see with their own eyes what this heroic hero who has torn seven or eight devils by hand looks like? How can he be able to snatch a plane from the Japanese airport and drive it back.

After Chu Aiyun landed on the lake at noon, he knew that he had to find a reasonable explanation for himself. How to kill the Japanese soldiers in custody is the starting point of the whole story of snatching the plane, but he can't tell the truth, he must omit secretly sniping the enemy's teammates, so he thought of a reasonable explanation, saying that he took advantage of the Japanese guards to take advantage of the unpreparedness, knocked them down and strangled them to death, so it is also right with Ouyang Shou's side. Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, the news from outside began to spread randomly, saying that he had ancestral martial arts, killed several enemy soldiers by himself, and then snatched a plane and flew to Yunnan.