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    "Your Excellency, Foreign Minister, Your Excellency, Shigehara." Hirota stopped.

    Although the three of them were all Japanese political diplomats who spanned the Taisho and Showa eras, and had all served as foreign ministers, they did not have much contact with each other, so Hirota was a little confused, why did they ask him to come here?

    Shigemitsu Aoi asked him to sit down and asked someone to bring him tea before he started talking: "Hirota-kun, have they told you the news about Malacca (the Japanese army regarded Singapore and Sumatra as the Malacca War)?"  , naturally a die-hard military department.  Since the defeat in Seoul, the military has adopted an increasingly strict information blockade system, confiscating radios and private radios, and strictly prohibits the dissemination of any leaflets dropped by the Chinese Air Force. Anyone who spreads rumors is immediately arrested.  Because she is the foreign minister, Shigemitsu Aoi can still know some things about the military, but it is difficult for many fringe figures to get timely and accurate information.

    "Yesterday, my friend from the Army came to visit me." Hirota didn't say it was the Army soldier who was coming to visit him, but just nodded with a heavy heart.  The news that all 140,000 Japanese young people and tens of thousands of foreign nationals were killed in retaliation due to a wrong order given by Yamashita Fengfumi was so shocking that if it spread in the country, it would definitely cause a major earthquake.  So he didn't want to talk about it anymore. He clasped his hands around the cup and asked, "Is this why Your Excellency the Foreign Minister came to me to talk about this matter? With all due respect, if the war has progressed to this point, we can only let the army  Let¡¯s end it ourselves, it¡¯s too late for us to say anything else.¡±

    "No, no, please cheer up Mr. Hirota." Hearing that he seemed unwilling to care anymore, Shi Yuan waved his hand quickly: "The foreign minister invites your Excellency to come here to find a way to end the war."

    "How to end the war?" Guangtian lowered his head and looked at the water in the tea cup.  I was also quite disdainful of Aoi Shigemitsu's use of the word "method" instead of "surrender", and secretly murmured in my mind: "What did you do earlier? If you surrender before the Cape Town meeting, Britain and the United States will definitely put pressure on Beijing, but now  The United States and the Soviet Union showed obvious signs of war, and they even voluntarily gave up Northeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Therefore, unless Japan agrees to extremely harsh conditions, even if Japan surrenders, Yang Qiu will pretend that he did not see it."

    "Your Excellency Hirota, the empire has reached the precipice of survival. At this time, we should stand up and turn the tide. We can't have tens of millions of subjects suffering!" Shigemitsu Aoi didn't notice his expression, and slowly told the details.  It turned out that after the last time he proposed sending people to China to negotiate peace at the Imperial Council was rejected by the military ministry, he had been resenting it, so he went in and out of the palace many times to persuade Hirohito.  Hirohito was still very hesitant at first, but Malacca paid his respects again.  Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and foreigners were executed in retaliation due to the military's erroneous battle plan. Hirohito also realized that if the fight continued, there would probably be even greater casualties.  But he was reluctant to give up the idea of ??"as long as he defends the island and persists until the allies counterattack, there is hope", so he thought of a compromise and asked Shigemitsu Aoi to send someone to contact Yang Qiu secretly.  Of course Shigemitsu Aoi is willing to accept this task, but China and Japan are conflicting and distrustful of each other, so he lacks people who know Beijing well, so after much deliberation, only Hirota Koki, who has dealt with Yang Qiu, is the most suitable.

    After revealing the idea of ??letting Guangtian secretly contact Beijing as a special envoy.  Shigemitsu Aoi looked at Hirota nervously, fearing that the other party would reject her, and she didn't even notice that the tea cup in her hand was getting colder.

    Hirota Hongyi was silent, and he really didn¡¯t want to get involved in this muddy water.  Because after leaving the decision-making circle.  On the contrary, it allows him to see more clearly the inside and outside of Japan from the perspective of a bystander.  He already knew very well where Yang Qiu's hatred for Japan came from and why he regarded Japan as a great enemy!  Not the Sino-Japanese War, not Manchuria and Mongolia, and not even Taiwan.  This is because there is a fundamental conflict between the "Co-Prosperity of Asia" proposed by Japan and the "peaceful and developing Asia-Pacific" proposed by Japan.  This is not national hatred or a conflict of ideas, but simply a confrontation at the core of national interests!  It is very difficult for a country to rise.  Especially for a populous country like China, since the year of 1911, Yang Qiu first wooed Germany, which was eager to expand, and then sold Germany out to serve as a thug for the British. Finally, he took the opportunity of gcism to cause panic in capitalist countries and took the initiative to act as a thug for the British and the United States.  Eastern Barrier, expending national power to attack the Soviet Union, and actively joining the "Washington Naval Treaty" to act like a good baby and actively limit the size of the navy.

    Even during the period of world economic crisis when Britain and the United States were unable to make expeditions to Europe and Asia, he did not act radically. Instead, he first used Saudi Arabia as an excuse for hundreds of millions of people in need of oil to test Britain's reaction, and then provoked the Netherlands to settle in Southeast Asia.  But he still didn't take action and kept holding back!  Even when Japan and the Soviet Union began to expand their armed forces, they continued to reduce military expenditures and pretended to focus on domestic development.

    Until Germany rearmed

    However, mere forbearance is not enough, because if China wants to rise, it cannot have a powerful country that is close but cannot control it.  He can accept Europe and the United States exerting influence on other Asian countries, and can even accept a direct war with Europe in the Asia-Pacific region, but he will certainly not allow Europe and the United States to have an ally in the Asia-Pacific that is capable of containing and challenging him. This is the bottom line!  Not only Yang Qiu, but alsoFuture Chinese politicians will never accept a Japan that turns to Europe and the United States!  After all, Europe and the United States are too far away. No matter how powerful they are, they will not be naive enough to think that they can win the war on China's doorstep.

    Unless they have an ally on China¡¯s doorstep that can cause Beijing a lot of trouble.

    Therefore, the more powerful Japan becomes, especially after it has a world-class navy that occupies the Ryukyu Island of Sakhalin and can completely block the passage of Northeast Asia in and out of the Pacific, the more intolerable it becomes to Beijing.  Therefore, when Japan rapidly increased its naval strength in the 1930s, it maintained a "weak navy" while strengthening new technologies such as aircraft carrier aviation, making Japan and the world believe that the Chinese navy could not stop Japan.  What is ridiculous is that before the war, the idiots in the military department actually thought that the Chinese Navy was a "primary school student who could just walk" and thought that Yang Qiu would tolerate them defeating the devils and occupying Southeast Asia. In the end, they acquiesced to the "Twin Pillars of Asia" to jointly deal with the white people to achieve "Asian co-prosperity"  View.

    So he understands that even if he goes to Beijing now, he will definitely face difficulties in every possible way, because Yang Qiu needs a denormalized Japan that completely relies on him, rather than a complete Japan that is likely to turn to Europe and the United States at any time.  Because it is too clear that Britain and the United States have reached an unbearable level with China¡¯s expansion in the Asia-Pacific!  That's why Yang Qiu was forced to issue a statement at the Cape Town meeting, forcing Yang Qiu to let Singapore and Borneo be independent instead of "referendum merger".  A China that controls all of Asia is a naked challenge to the white world order!  Therefore, if they were not accidentally trapped in Europe, Churchill and Roosevelt would never mind wooing Japan and starting an all-out war with China in the Southwest Pacific!

    But can you not go?

    Japan has sacrificed the lives of more than one million soldiers, and the country is devastated.  Counting from the time when the Chinese navy raided Sasebo and bombed the city, China's successive bombings have killed 800,000 citizens.  More than 4 million people were injured and sickened, and more than 10 million people were displaced.  Eighty percent of the cities in Japan with a population of more than 100,000 were burned to the ground by incendiary bombs!  Fishing and food production plummeted to 60% of pre-war levels, and industrial capacity dropped to less than 20% of pre-war levels!  Japan does not have a population of 600 million. It can easily mobilize tens of millions of soldiers without damaging China's foundation. Even counting the expatriates in South Korea and the colonies, the pre-war population was less than 70 million.  Two-sevenths of the Japanese people are now directly affected by the war, and more than 50% of the Japanese people are hungry. If the war continues I am afraid that the species will really be exterminated!

    "I can go, but please tell me one thing before I go." Thinking of this.  Guangtian sighed deeply in his heart. After a long time, he raised his eyelids and looked at the two people: "Does the military agree tosurrender?"

    Shigemitsu Aoi suddenly looked embarrassed, because he hadn't told the military department about this yet, and Hirohito just told the military department to check it out for some reasons, so he had to ask Hagehara Kijuro for help.  The latter was also very embarrassed. His lips wriggled for a long time before he uttered a sentence: "The Navy has agreed."

    "Is it just the navy?" Hirota Koki felt a tightness in his chest.  The military was supposed to serve politics, but now, politicians like them actually have to wipe the military's butt.  Moreover, when negotiating such a big matter of surrender, you actually dared not tell the military department. How could you do such an errand?  But Shigemitsu Aoi also had difficulties. The radicals in the military department were not easy to mess with.  Especially for those mid-level and low-level officers, if they leaked the news that they were preparing to surrender, God knows whether they would die on the streets like Saionji and Nagata.  The following ghosts born during the Meiji period are really a terrifying force that politicians like them are extremely afraid of.

    He was afraid that Guangtian would refuse.  He had no choice but to get up and bow deeply: "Don't worry, Mr. Hirota, Your Majesty also wants to end the war. I have already made an agreement with the Navy. They will send a Red Cross plane to take you to Okinawa. I believe that China will not be shot down.  Everything is up to you, Your Excellency!"

    Looking at the resolute Shigemitsu Aoi, Hirota showed a wry smile after a while: "I understand, I will try my best. But I hope you are prepared. The conditions in China may be very humiliating.  And harsh. You should also know that there is a group of blind bison in our army, and they are the biggest obstacle to the empire!"

    Shigemitsu Aoi and Shigehara Kijuro both nodded and promised to try their best to stabilize the military.

    When Koki Hirota rushed to Sagami Bay to board the Navy¡¯s Red Cross plane with Japan¡¯s future in mind, Beijing continued to carefully carve out its own future in Asia.

    In the Prime Minister¡¯s Office, Gu Weijun handed over the plan to establish the Southwest Frontier Province to Murong Han and Bei Zuyi.  After recapturing Singapore and seizing Palembang to end the main war in Sumatra, he and the cabinet breathed a sigh of relief.  The end of the two-front war that lasted for nineteen months saw the dawn of an end in the east. Although the sound of gunfire on the two peninsulas and at sea will continue for a while, the cost of funds can be reduced by most.  Of course, he and the cabinet also understood that the war was only half-way through, and there were still many challenges on the long western front from the Persian Gulf to the Urals.The Great War is far away from the peak of Germany. However, Germany has the support of Britain and the United States. As long as it waits for the spring of the Urals to launch a comprehensive strategic bombing of the Soviet Union, it will definitely greatly weaken the Soviet Union's war potential and give them plenty of time to continue to adjust.  On the contrary, Southeast Asia around us needs to be resolved as soon as possible, because everyone knows that with most of Asia falling into the arms of China, Britain and the United States have become increasingly hostile, so it is necessary to accelerate the completion of the new territorial integration before the end of the war and include Southeast Asia into the Asian Alliance mechanism.  , in order to achieve mastery of the Asia-Pacific and establish the defensive advantages of the first and second island chains at sea.

    "This is the newly prepared plan for establishing a province. There are many ethnic groups in the Southwest Frontier Province, and there are also many die-hards who escaped after the abolition of serfdom in Yunnan and Tibet and returned to the land. The pressure on you, Minister Murong, is not small.  "Murong Han took the plan and looked through it first, and snorted coldly: "The president said that pressure is motivation. As for those slave ownersit is best if they are obedient, and if they are disobedient. Humph! This is a war period.  ." Working in the Ministry of Justice for a long time made this muffled sound sound as cold as ice slag.

    Gu Weijun and Bei Zuyi looked at each other and smiled.  He resigned as Minister of Justice, attended the Cape Town Conference, became the first Minister of the Interior, and went to Central Asia to pave the way for Yang Qiu's visit to Central Asia.  They are all sending a message to the outside world that the pending candidates of the National Socialist Party are slowly emerging.  However, the two also knew that their tempers were not suitable for maintaining the toughness Yang Qiu needed.  After all, there will definitely be chaos for a period of time both domestically and internationally after the war, and a hawk will be needed to continue to calm the situation.  So he wasn't jealous. Instead, he joked about the time when the two of them argued about the country's sports and politics in front of Yang Qiu: "You are still the same. Your temper on the ship has not changed at all."

    "You can't change your bad temper. Prime Minister, you are getting better and better." Murong Han also laughed, put down the plan temporarily, and asked about the US aid: "Songsun. Is the US aid going well?  "

    Some time ago, Beizuyi made a special trip to the United States to discuss assistance.  Said: "It's quite timely. The first batch of goods has been shipped in San Francisco. But, as you know, we don't have the urgently needed heavy metal raw materials. We also have industrial products that we can produce ourselves. If we can't produce them ourselves, we won't provide them."  "

    "Haha, as expected."

    "Never mind. There's no hope anyway. What we have may not be what they have. What we don't have, we can always make it through self-reliance." Bei Zuyi waved his hand openly.  Instead, he asked about the King of Siam: "Prime Minister, what happened to the King of Siam who was so angry that you wanted to kick someone?"

    Thinking of Rama VIII, Gu Weijun was still angry: "I have asked someone to accompany him to visit the whole country, and he will be back in two days. I heard from the person who sent him. His temper is still the same, but he has no confidence in the strength and strength of our country.  There is some envy in the construction, and there are already some signs of cooperation.¡±

    Bei Zuyi didn¡¯t understand why Rama VIII was asked to cooperate.  Asked: "Prime Minister, why does the president have to be King Rama VIII? Can't we just come forward and clean up Thailand?"

    "Yes." Before Gu Weijun could answer, Murong Han put down the documents and interrupted: "But have you ever thought about it, the purge will bring hatred. Unless we kill everyone, how can we ensure border security in the future?"

    "Murong is right. The domestic forces in Siam are even more complicated than we were in the year of 1911. There are many pro-Japanese and pro-British forces. If we come by ourselves, it will become a massacre in the eyes of the Siamese people, and we will cause trouble.  There is no need for hatred. But if King Rama VIII orders, relying on his prestige among the Siamese people, and then we and the Siamese military who are loyal to him form a liquidation committee, the conflict between the two communities can be avoided to the greatest extent. After all, we  We also need to consider the long-term security of the southwest border.¡±

    "That's not all."

    ¡°Compared to Gu Weijun who only talks about the relationship between the southwest and the southeast peninsula, Murong Han prefers to put the southeast strategy in the context of the whole world.  After saying the next sentence, he stood up, got a hot water bottle, poured hot water for him and the two of them, and then continued: "Actually, it can be understood that the president does not want too many borders and ethnic conflicts around him. Open a history book and you can see  We can see that all countries that can become a global power have one thing in common, which is that they have relatively few problems with their borders and neighboring countries. The United Kingdom is an example. Their ability to become a global power has a lot to do with their isolation from the European continent.  , allowing them to focus on the ocean and invest in the navy. The decline of Britain was also because Britain mistakenly believed that Germany would threaten its sea power, so it got deeper and deeper into affairs on the European continent, and eventually launched a full-scale war with William II.

    Britain has declined, and the only ones qualified to compete as world powers are us and the United States!  But the geographical environment of the United States is more advantageous than ours. It is far away from Europe and Asia, there are no major threats around it, and it is all Anglo-Saxon. It can easily get the support of British and European whites, and it has the technology and industry of the entire white world.  Help.  Asia, where our country is located, currently lacks such capabilities and advantages, even if Japan is the third largest country after our country.The second largest technology country in Asia, but in fact it has seriously lagged behind the world, so our country will suffer a lot in the competition for the world's minds, not to mention geographically.  That¡¯s why the president conceived the idea of ??a Central Asian barrier and asked me to go to Central Asian countries to draft a Central Asian military and political convention similar to the London Straits Convention and the Lausanne Agreement, which would limit the number of troops in Central Asian countries and provide guidance to China.  This will minimize the number of troops stationed in the northwest in the future. We only need to maintain some military bases and troops in the Urals, the Persian Gulf and the Indian-Muslim League region to form a countermeasure against Central Asia.  Geographical encirclement cuts off external interference in Central Asia and prevents it from sinking too deep.  We have the same idea for Siam and Nanyang, but unlike Central Asia, there are many Chinese who have a better foundation. So as long as Singapore and Borneo become independent as soon as possible, there is no harm in mixing them appropriately, but it must not cause serious ethnic antagonism!

    If our generation can do these things well according to the president's conception, then with our country's current land area more than twice that of the United States, the riches such as Persian Gulf oil and Central Asian mineral deposits controlled, coupled with strategic points in the Pacific and huge Asian  The population advantage of China may not be as fast as that of the United States, but sooner or later it will become a global power competing with the United States!  so  "Murong Han picked up the plan book on the table, patted the cover, changed his tone, and said with a naughty smile: "We have a big money bag, please allocate the money as soon as possible, otherwise we will miss the big event.  ".

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