While Hideki Tojo and Hiroshima were talking to Hiroshima, Japanese Foreign Minister Shigekimiya's brows were frowning tightly, as if he was thinking about something.

Hearing the Prime Minister's question, Shigekami responded, but did not answer, but asked Hideki Tojo a question: "Prime Minister, how many great powers do you think do you still have in the world today? Who is the strongest and who is the weakest?"

"Oh?" Hideki Tojo was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "Now the Soviet Union is over. It is not considered a great power. Britain and France have been destroyed by Germany, and it is no longer as prosperous as before. In today's world, it can still be called a great power, only Germany, the United States, Rome and our great Japanese Empire! As for strength and weakness... At present, of course, Germany is the strongest, the United States is the second, the imperial country is the weakest, and Rome is the weakest."

Hideki Tojo is still a little self-aware now and knows that he can't beat the Americans anymore.

"What about the future?" asked Geokuniu again.

Tojo said: "The future will naturally be the leader of my great Japanese empire worldwide! Now the Soviet Union has broken down, and the vast land in the Far East and the East Asian continent have been taken by Japan. The United States will bow down and admit defeat, and the Southwest Pacific will also be the inland sea of ​​our imperial navy. The islands of the South China Sea and Indochina are all colonized by our imperial countries, and the land of Australia and New Zealand will also rely on the breath of our imperial countries. When everything is pacified, only 100 million citizens will work hard for twenty years. After all, the great Japanese empire is at the top of the world, and even Germany can only rank second."

Shigemitsu Ao seemed to disagree with Tojo's words, but just shook her head with a smile. Tojo had no intention of blame, but just smiled: "Jung-jun, don't you believe that the imperial kingdom can beat Germany in the future?"

"No." Shigekami said, "The imperial kingdom has laid the foundation for all eternity, and the future is bound to be limited. It is undoubtedly a top of the world. But it is difficult for Germany to become the second most powerful country in the world."

Hideki Tojo nodded and said, "That's right, America will be defeated, but its foundation is still there, and future revival is inevitable. Germany seems to be able to rank third."

Geumami still shook her head, "It's hard to be third."

"What? Third is difficult?" Hiroshima, a little embarrassed, "Is Germany still inferior to Italy?"

"Not as good as Italy," Shigemitsu said with a smile, "but not as good as the Roman Empire!"

"Not as good as the Roman Empire?"

"Yes!" Shigemitsu said, "The future development of a country depends on many factors such as resources, territory, population and surrounding land. Among the four major powers today, Japan is the most favorable, so its future is unlimited. Germany is the worst. Even if Ukraine and Belarus are included, it is only about 2 million square kilometers, which is far less than the Roman Empire with more than 7 million square kilometers of fertile soil. The country is small, and its resources are naturally not as good as Rome.

Moreover, Rome is mostly African ‘bored land’, which can be expanded by ease, and it is unknown if there is a million lands in the future. There are many powerful people around Germany, Britain, France, Russia and Germany all have feuds, and it is inevitable that there will be another peak in the future. As for the population, although Germany is known as 100 million, it belongs to the Germans, which are only 70 to 80 million, and there are no colonial slaves to drive it. The decline in the future is conceivable."

"But Germany has a European Community?" said Hiroshima Oshima.

"Haha," Shigekami just smiled contemptuously, "British, France, Russia and other countries are just coerced by Germany and are imprisoned. In the future, there will be a day when the European community falls apart."

This time, even Hiroshima didn't speak for Germany because he knew the virtues of Europeans too well. It's been a hundred years since he was a nation-state, so how could it be integrated so easily? Now Britain, France and Russia are just afraid of being beaten by the Germans, and they are facing the crisis of the collapse of the colonial empire economically. They have to unite with Germany to get rid of the predicament.

If the German European Community cannot give everyone a way out, Germany's military power will decline again in the future, and it is entirely possible for the European Community to fall apart.

Germany, which lost its European community, is just a European regional power surrounded by Britain, France, Russia (Roman), and is not an intercontinental power such as Japan, America and Rome. Therefore, it is normal to rank at the bottom among the four great powers in the future.

Hideki Tojo nodded, "It seems that the Imperial Kingdom is the real winner of this world war!"

"That's right!" Shigekami smiled and said, "The problem facing the imperial kingdom is how to end the war successfully and define a sphere of influence that the imperial kingdom can develop and grow in the next decades. As long as it can win decades of stable development, the imperial kingdom will surpass the virtues and be on the top of the world will be inevitable. Therefore, there is no need to get into a feud with Germany on the issue of Australia and New Zealand. It is very far from Japan and is different from the Soviet Far East... If Germany wants to settle in, let them settle in."

Shigekimiki said a lot, and it turned out to be trying to convince Hideki Tojo to make concessions to Germany on the Australian and New Zealand issue.

"Jung-jun said it right," Oshima Hiroshima also agreed with Shigekami's words, "The Far East is part of the absolute defense circle of the Imperial Kingdom and must be taken down. And Australia and New Zealand... will be the backyard of the Imperial Kingdom in the future!"

The Soviet Union's Far East was like an abandoned son to Germany, but it was a must-fight for Japan. If the Far East was brought back by Queen Oliga for various reasons and Russia and Germany would not have any opposite intentions in the future, then Japan would be in trouble.

As long as Germany deploys hundreds of jet bombers that Japan does not have the ability to intercept in Vladivostok, His Majesty's life will be under the threat of the Germans at any time. Not to mention the nuclear fission bombs that the Germans are developing, even if they throw sarin gas bombs (after Japan used bacterial weapons against the United States, Germany disclosed sarin poisonous agents), His Majesty the Emperor could not stand it...

Therefore, the Soviet Union was a must-have for the Far East, and Australia and New Zealand were abandonable for Japan.

When Hiroki Oshima saw that Tojo Hideki was silent, he reminded him: "Prime Minister, it would be very cost-effective if he could support Germany invade the Far East with Germany's acquiescence to our country's invasion of the Far East."

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"Good news, Japan and Rome have accepted our peace proposals in principle!"

On May 20, in the White House cabinet conference room, President Roosevelt, sitting in a wheelchair, rarely showed a spring breeze on his face, and smiled and informed everyone in the conference room of good news... Of course, not everyone thought this was good news.

"Mr. President, have we really let the Japanese go like this?" General William Lexi, the Chief of Staff (equivalent to the Chairman of the Joint Conference), seemed very unhappy. "These Japanese devils killed a lot of us, really a lot of them!"

Of course, there are many American officers and soldiers who were killed by the Japanese. From the First Hawaii War to the present, Americans have successively lost about 200,000 officers and soldiers on the Pacific battlefield, of which more than 100,000 were killed. However, William Lexi is not talking about these American soldiers who died on the battlefield, but about the American prisoners of war and American civilians killed by the Japanese!

It turned out that during the US military capturing Niho Island, the attacking US military also discovered some unknown things before. After the Japanese occupied the Hawaiian Islands, the US officers, soldiers and civilians who were captured by them were put into concentration camps. They also forced them to carry out high-intensity physical labor without providing necessary diet and medical treatment.

Therefore, in the past two years, more than 100,000 Americans have died in various concentration camps on the Hawaiian Islands.

Some of them were buried on Niho Island! The US military discovered these concentration camps during the capture of Niho Island, and also dug out many corpse pits... Some of them had just died not long ago, and some were women's corpses!

Among these Americans who were tortured by the Japanese, a considerable number of them were the U.S. Navy families and captured naval officers and soldiers who were trapped in the Hawaiian Islands!

"I know the Navy is unwilling to let the Japanese go," Roosevelt looked at Lech with anger on his face. "In fact, I don't want to do this either, but we must concentrate our efforts against Germany... The Soviet Union is about to fail now, and there is not much time left for us."

"Mr. President," General Leach shook his head, "it's hard for us to defeat the Germans in the Atlantic Ocean. Perhaps we should make peace with Germany and focus on Japan."

Now Americans with a little brain know that the United States cannot win the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean at the same time, so they can only concentrate their efforts to fight one side.

However, most Americans, including William Lexi, advocate fighting against Japan because the Japanese look rather hateful and easier to fight.

Roosevelt lit a camel cigarette at this time, took a sip, then shook his head and said, "Admiral, I actually didn't think about defeating Germany, and it seems unrealistic now. Look at the performance of the Germans rushing in the Soviet Union, and then look at the situation on Nicholas Island. Everyone knows that we can't beat them."

In 1939, in this time and space, the Japanese Army also competed with the Soviet Union. However, those Japanese who were very good at fighting on the Hawaiian Islands were no match for the Soviet army. The Soviet army that beat the Japanese army met the German army and became the target of being beaten.

Therefore, it is not difficult to conclude that the US military is not as good as the Japanese army, the Japanese army is not as good as the Soviet army, and the Soviet army is not as good as the German army. And the gap between the US and the German army is not as good as the German army! The battle between the US and Germany in the Battle of England further illustrates this point, and the US military was beaten so hard that it could not even find the north.

"Then why don't we make peace with Germany?" William Lech asked.

Roosevelt shook his head and explained with a wry smile: "We are making peace with Germany... I am sincere. As long as Germany agrees to withdraw from South America on the surface, we can tolerate a pro-Germany and Italian-Argentina. And Australia and New Zealand can also be handed over to the European Community."
Chapter completed!