Chapter 67, The Japanese Response

Jiang Qiang watched Tang Juwu's speech at home, and at this time he was thinking, who revealed Tang Juwu's speech, Tang Juwu at this time was the public enemy of the world, but it seemed that he was still so relieved, and it didn't take long to see Tingting, his eldest sister and Wang Huimin holding a newspaper, Jiang Qiang thought that the three angry young people in the family must have made trouble at home.

Jiang Qiang was not wrong at all, he heard the sound of squeaking before he got home, especially the gesture of Tingting in the tooth and claw is yes, Jiang Qiang at this time did not want to cause public indignation, so he quietly took the vegetable basket to the market to add a few dishes to the family table, at this time, the angry youth at home could not be provoked, Jiang Qiang came to the vegetable market and bought a few vegetables casually, and went home.

The emperor in the Japanese imperial palace is talking to the general ministers about how to suppress the prestige of the Shanghainese, and the new Japanese prime minister Hirota Hiroki said that the biggest headache we have now is how powerful Tang Juwu's weapons are, and whether the war must be fought depends on how we fight, or the problem of going south and going north, at this time we will have to face Wang Yizhe's troops in the north, after these two years of war, our weapons are not the opponent of the people of China for the time being, and our planes go first or are too slow, Look at whether you can borrow money with Britain and the United States, at this time Britain and the United States still need us to restrain China's military power.

Let's see if we can challenge the folk such as swordsmanship, Go like China, so as to strengthen the cohesion of our country, if we continue like this, the confidence of the people in our country will collapse, this is a very serious problem, we can also invite Western countries to comprehensively suppress China in boxing, in terms of swordsmanship, our Japanese Empire is still much stronger than the Chinese people, and our country's Go is also, I have not met an opponent in recent years, the emperor said, don't underestimate the Chinese people, After all, they have a history of 5,000 years, and we still can't be careless about this.

At this time, Japanese Prime Minister Hirota Hiroki was born in Fukuoka, Kyushu in 1878, and in his early years, he became acquainted with Mitsuru Toyama, known as the "great patriarch of the right-wing movement", and former foreign minister Tanetomi Toshima, and was deeply influenced by his expansionist ideas. In 1901, Hirota entered the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1906, he entered the diplomatic service. In 1913, he was appointed Chief of the First Section of the International Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1915, Japan proposed to the Beijing government the "Twenty-one Articles," which seriously violated China's sovereignty, and Hirota was one of the drafters of this aggressive document. Since then, Hirota has successively served as Director of the Second Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Intelligence Department, Deputy Director of the Intelligence Department, Director of the European and American Bureau, Minister to the Netherlands, and Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Outstanding in college, graduating in 1905, Hirota took the consular exam, hoping to pass the exam to become a full-fledged diplomat. However, before this exam, perhaps because of his previous successes, he didn't pay much attention to it, and suffered a failure of "falling first". This was a major setback in his life, and from then on he warned himself that he should not take anything lightly, even if he was very sure. After "falling to the top", he studied Japan's foreign colonial policy for a period of time at a Japanese graduate school. Later, on the recommendation of his fellow countryman Tsuruhara Dingki, who was then the head of the General Affairs Department of the Korean Unified Supervision Office, he was hired by the Unified Supervision Office to work in North Korea. In 1906, Hirota was hired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an alternate diplomat. The following year, he was sent to work at the Japanese Embassy in China, which was the beginning of his real diplomatic career. In 1909, he was transferred to work at the Japanese Embassy in Britain. During this period, Japan and Britain adjusted the alliance treaty and signed the Japan-Britain Treaty of Commerce. In 1913, he was transferred back to Japan and served as secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and head of the first section of the International Trade Bureau. In 1919, he went abroad again to work at the Japanese Embassy in the United States. Since then, Hirota Hongyi's career has taken a turn for the better. He rose through the ranks, successively serving as Deputy Director of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the European and American Bureau, and Japanese Ambassador to the Netherlands. In 1929, he attended the 10th Congress of the League of Nations as a representative of the Reich. In 1930, he served as ambassador to the Soviet Union, and this work experience laid the foundation for him to take charge of Japan's foreign affairs and plan and promote Japan's invasion of China.

In the late 20s and early 30s of the 20th century, the Japanese economy, which was very dependent on the world market, suffered a huge blow to the huge impact of the world economic crisis, and the collapse of the economy stimulated acute social contradictions and political crises. In 1932, the cabinet of Inu's political party coalition collapsed after the May 15 Incident launched by the fascist soldiers, and Inukai himself was assassinated in a coup. Admiral Minoru Saito formed a new cabinet, which adopted a compromise attitude toward the arrogance of the military department, hoping that the military department would "respect" the cabinet and create a situation in which "the whole country is unanimous." At this time, Japan was gradually moving towards the fascist road of foreign aggression and expansion, and its military strength was constantly expanding. Hirota replaced Yasuya Uchida as foreign minister in the new cabinet at this time.

After Northeast China became a Japanese colony after the 918 Incident, Japan began to extend its hand of aggression to North China after supporting the puppet emperor Puyi to establish the so-called "Manchukuo", and Japan's aggression provoked the resistance of the entire Chinese people. Hirota is actually an active advocate of aggression against China, but at the same time, he is also a veteran diplomat who knows the art of diplomacy well. Therefore, Hirota Hiroki did his best to advise the fascist invaders and adopted ingenious diplomatic means to resist the Chinese people to achieve the ultimate goal of aggression. Former Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida pursued a policy of "scorched earth diplomacy", which allowed the Japanese government to officially recognize "Manchukuo" and withdraw from the League of Nations, achieving short-term goals. As soon as he took office, Hirota promised in the image of a peace envoy that "there will be no war during my term as foreign minister" and announced that he would practice "concord diplomacy." In essence, he did not do so out of good intentions to maintain peace, but to safeguard the rights and interests of the vested aggression in China, consolidate the "achievements of the war," and at the same time, gain the understanding of the international community and change Japan's international isolation.

At the "Five-Ministers' Conference" held in October 1933, Hirota Hiroki launched the main measure of "concord diplomacy," in which he strongly advocated strengthening relations with the "Manchukuo" regime, and at the same time expressed that Japan would devote itself to improving friendly relations with major countries, especially relations with China, the Soviet Union, and the United States, which had become hostile due to the September 18 Incident. Hirota declared that "in international relations, the purpose of world peace is to implement China's policy through diplomatic means." His ideas were adopted and formed into a document guiding diplomatic strategy. Under the guise of "concord diplomacy," Hirota Hiroki negotiated with the Chinese Nationalist Government to realize the opening of traffic between China and "Manchukuo," and the Chinese and Japanese legations were upgraded to embassies. However, this does not change the essence of Japan's aggressive diplomacy, but only makes its aggression more hidden.

In October 1935, Hirota put forward three principles for Sino-Japanese relations: 1. China should completely ban anti-Japanese activities, abandon the policy of relying on Europe and the United States, and adopt a pro-Japanese policy; 2. China should formally recognize "Manchukuo" and realize economic cooperation between China, Japan and Manchukuo in North China; 3. China and Japan should cooperate on the issue of anti-communism. The "Hirota Three Principles" were in effect intended to place China under Japan's military, political, and economic control.

The essence of the "Three Hirota Principles" is to demand that China cease its anti-Japanese activities, accept Japan's aggression and "support," recognize Japan's rights and interests in North China, and finally recognize the "legitimacy" of the existence of "Manchukuo." On October 21, 1935, Jiang Zuobin handed over the opinions of the Chinese side to Foreign Minister Guangtian, the main contents of which were: (1) China has no intention of destroying it. In the future, in order to realize the goodwill relations between the two countries, China will not do anything to exclude or hinder Japan in its relations with other countries. (2) We will not make intergovernmental representations with regard to Manchuria, but we will not provoke trouble with regard to the local situation by any means other than peace, and will consider ways to maintain economic ties between the people inside and outside the country. (3) China has made its greatest efforts to prevent redness, and the situation of redness is no need to be worried, and on the question of how to prevent redness in the border areas in the northern region, if Japan fully implements the three principles previously put forward by China, China will consult effective methods in this regard without prejudice to China's sovereignty and independence.

Under Japan's military and diplomatic coercion, the chairman of the NPC National Committee proceeded from the "overall situation" of "fighting outside the country and first securing the interior," and adopted a policy of compromise and surrender. At the end of November, the chairman of the NPC National Committee told Japanese Ambassador to China Akira Ariyoshi: "I fully agree with the above three principles. And on December 18, 1935, the "Jicha Political Affairs Committee" was established to respond to Japan's request for "special regime in North China". The committee was able to handle all government affairs in Hebei, Shanxi, Chahar, and Pingjin independently, and was essentially a semi-puppet government agency, through which the Japanese government achieved its goal of invading North China.

However, the "Three Principles of Guangtian" was a joke for Wang Yizhe in Shanghai and Heilongjiang, Tang Juwu simply ignored the demands of the Japanese, and even turned a blind eye to the demands of the Japanese, that is, he tightly controlled Heilongjiang and fully supported the actions of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and the Anti-Japanese Federation retreated to Heilongjiang as soon as it encountered difficulties. The last Hirota Hiroki is also using the power of the people to fight against China's resistance.

The next day, all the newspapers in Japan showed that the Japanese swordsman Hokushin Ichitoru Hideda Michio was going to challenge the master of Huaxia. Tang Juwu and Shanghai's Hongkou District were silent for two days, at this time Jiang Qiang and Tang Juwu they were also discussing how to deal with the challenge of Japan, at this time Jiang Qiang said, our goal now is to deal with the Olympic Games in Germany, then there is time to deal with these clowns, in this way, we will hold a world swordsmanship and Go competition next year, invite the world's masters to Shanghai to participate in the 1937 world swordsmanship competition, and invite swordsmen from all over the world to formulate the specifications of the competition, In this way, Japan's unreasonable demands can be invisibly resolved, and we can also invite our colleagues from all over the country to come to Shanghai, so that our stadiums can also make money, and so that our China's status in the international community will also be improved.

The next day, all the newspapers in Shanghai published Tang Juwu's speech on the front page, indicating that the competition between China and Japan was too narrow, Shanghai Hongkou District will hold a world swordsmanship competition in March 1937, and invite the world's masters to Shanghai to formulate the competition specifications, all the expenses are all borne by the Shanghai Hongkou District, and the national martial arts colleagues are also invited to Shanghai to communicate, all the expenses are still responsible for the Shanghai Hongkou District, at this time the Japanese emperor is also dumbfounded, At this time, a large number of samurai in Japan asked to go to Shanghai to participate in the world swordsmanship competition, and various countries in the world also reacted, that is, to support the decision of Hongkou District of Shanghai.

At this time, the chairman of the committee was also furious in Nanjing, saying that Tang Juwu did not respect his chairman at all, and did not talk to the Nanjing government about anything, so that the Nanjing government could not cope with the reporter's questions. This competition is worldwide, you must pay attention to your words and deeds when you go to Shanghai, you are in Shanghai to represent the whole of China, not our Wudang, Songbai, you have to take care of several brothers.

Li Yunxin, Li Yunlong, and Li Yunfei from Yanzimen in Shandong are all packing up their things to prepare to go to Shanghai, as well as Baguazhang in Tianjin, Red Boxing in Shaanxi, and other martial arts children from all over the country are on their way to Shanghai.

Tang Juwu came to his base camp again today, and he was working with Jiang Qiang to find a way to deal with the current situation, Jiang Qiang said, the people in the rivers and lakes are talking about righteousness, so they will be arranged in the stadium, and there is a special community for them to live in, and one of my special forces and a company are selected among these people, they are much stronger than the people we train, and those old martial artists must respect them, they are the treasures of our country.

This time, I will take a look at the situation in Afghanistan, transfer Wang Yaqiao back, transfer that Ye Qi to Afghanistan Where to be the chief of police in Afghanistan, where to see the police station to pick one of the people below to replace Ye Qi, you go and talk to Ye Qi well, it still depends on his own wishes, I will also go to Afghanistan to see the situation when I have time, and the current espionage work can not be relaxed, those agents will give us a surprise from time to time, this is not good, In addition, Guo Xiaoliu also told him to be more careful, and it is better to put the current rocket artillery here in Shanghai for production, and our quantity is now sufficient, that is, the technology cannot be leaked out, and the lethality of this weapon is still too great, so we cannot ask Little Japan to get our technology.

In two months, I will go to Germany with the delegation of the Olympic Games, the most important thing is to see how Germany is prepared, it seems that the war is still the first to start by the Japanese, the Japanese prime minister at this time is a war maniac, our army is also to pay close attention to training during this time, to see if the time comes to the national war of resistance, the chairman will put us in that war zone, don't underestimate the chairman, at that time he came to a clear code, we are not obedient and obedient, but it is to take a good look at the Sichuan army, If you can't let the Japanese occupy Guangdong, as long as the Japanese don't have the idea of attacking Shanghai, I'm not afraid of the rest, and next year we will start deploying missiles in Shanghai, which is also to give the Japanese a disadvantage, and if they are crazy, we will take Taiwan and see how the Japanese deal with it.

Jiang Qiang said: The Soviet Union is difficult to protect itself, and where can it take care of us; you think Germany will let the Soviet Union go, but that is impossible, and when the time comes, our goal is that the five Central Asian countries must become independent so that they can meet our strategic goals, and we will have to communicate every day in Germany and see the actual situation before making a decision.