Chapter 1084 No Friends Forever
On the morning of the second day after the Soviet Pacific Fleet rushed out of the North Kuril Islands chain, the Wujiu Conference was held in the Prime Minister's residence. . The fastest update Although the Wujiu Conference was the highest-level meeting of Japan's national policy, as it is today, not only Hideki Tojo (Prime Minister and Mainland Prime Minister), Iroku Yamamoto (Major), Akihiro Shigeki (Foreign Prime Minister) and Yoshinori Kaya (Tibetan Prime Minister), and two "mythical disseminators" of Prince Saihito and Fushimi Miyamiya Hiroki, as well as former Prime Ministers Komemoto Komemoto, Minumasato Abe Nobuyuki, Kiichiro Hiroda, Hirota Hirota and Keisuke Okada, all came to attend the meeting in the name of important officials, but they rarely appeared. In addition, the Chief of the Army General Staff Head Office, Sugiyama Moto, Nagao Cultivation and Army Education Director Yozo Yamada also appeared at the meeting.
This shows that today's Five Prime Ministers' Prefecture Conference is about to discuss the fundamental national policy of the Japanese Empire! Therefore, it is necessary to listen to the suggestions of these important officials who have the power to report the tent. In addition to the former prime minister and two princes, the Chief of the Army General Staff Headquarters, the Minister of the Navy Command and the Director of the Army Education also have the power to report the tent.
Hideki Tojo sat in his position as the noble prime minister, his eyes a little confused. He suddenly felt powerless. As a prime minister who brought Japan into a world war and seemed to have won, Tojo himself did not have outstanding wisdom or even a little stupid. The reason why he was able to succeed was entirely because of the courage to jump down from the Kiyomizu Temple platform with his eyes closed. As a result, he took the German ride and it can be said that he was confused and created a world empire with millions of square kilometers!
But when the victory that Tojo had always dreamed of came, he found that the Japanese Empire was unprecedentedly isolated. The Germans were not Japan's real friends. They were just using Japan as cannon fodder. Hideki Tojo had known for a long time, and he was also using Germany to achieve Japanese hegemony. However, he did not expect that the Japanese-German alliance would take a sharp turn when the victory was about to come.
The reason for this situation is in Tojo's opinion: Japan is not the fault, but the "EC-United States of Europe route" pursued by Germany.
The essence of this route, according to the analysis of Shigekimi Ao and Matsuoka Yosuke, is actually turning enemies into friends in Europe.
On the one hand, we used the Pan-Germany and Pan-Aryan route to unite countries with blood related to Germany in Western Europe and Northern Europe; on the other hand, we used the idea of Russians' desire to integrate into Europe to support the Romanov dynasty and win Russia over to join the European Community.
The implementation of such a route has caused Germany and Japan to lose the common foundation of interests because the foundation for Germany's leadership of the world is no longer an alliance with Japan and Rome, but the European community and the United States of Europe!
As long as Germany can unite Britain, France and Russia, neither the United States, Rome nor the Greater Japan will be able to challenge Germany's hegemony.
Moreover, if Germany wants to unite Britain, France and Russia, it must safeguard the interests of Britain, France and Russia to a certain extent! The planned United States of Europe and the already formed European community are also in a sense the heirs of the assets of the three intercontinental empires of Britain, France and Russia.
Therefore, Germany's position has changed from uniting Japan and Italy to sharing the assets of Britain, France and Russia to wanting to inherit the assets of Britain, France and Russia legitimately, why should we share them with others? Even if the Germans don't care much, the British, French and Russians are not happy. And Germany is now coaxing the British, French and Russians to vote for the United States of Europe, and they also take them to extort Americans' money together. Of course, they have to sit on the side of the British, French and Russians.
As for Japan... are you really not afraid to see the prospect of merger between Germany, France, Britain and Russia? I am really willing to see Germany, France, Britain and Russia complete the unification?
This is certainly impossible!
Ishihara Kanr's theory of "Mongolia, Southern Song and Great Jin" is still very reasonable! Even if Germany can treat Japan sincerely, reasonably allocate the assets of Britain, France and Russia, and provide enough aid. For the sake of post-war world balance, Japan must leave the United States as the "Gold" to restrain the United States of Europe as the "Mongolia".
Unless Germany is willing to give up the unification route of "European Community-United States of Europe" while solidly aiding Japan.
But this is also impossible!
Therefore, the alliance between Japan and Germany has actually ended. What Japan can do now is to strive for a post-war situation that is most beneficial to itself while maintaining the goal of Japan and Germany without rebelling.
And the post-war situation that is most favorable to Japan is undoubtedly to maintain a strategic confrontation between the United States and Europe...
Although Hideki Tojo was ridiculed as a private by some people, he still has this political wisdom.
At this time, there was a burst of footsteps coming from the wooden floor of the corridor. Then I saw the inner minister Yukichi Kido and two secretaries of the intramus, walking in. He was the emperor who attended and presided over the imperial meeting on behalf of the emperor and presided over the imperial meeting in theory, it should be held in front of the emperor, but in fact the emperor rarely came forward directly. Because the emperor is a god! Although Japan since the Meiji Restoration has appeared to be a somewhat Westernized European country on the surface, in fact, Japan is a **** theocratic country.
The Emperor is a god! If you die for the Emperor, you can become a god after death! This is the spiritual atomic bomb that supports millions of Japanese soldiers to move forward in this war. With the expansion of the Japanese Empire, the Emperor's power has also increased, so naturally people cannot be admired by them at will. This is also for the good of the ministers. The Emperor is a descendant of the great god Amaterasu, which is roughly equivalent to a high-power searchlight, and cannot be looked at directly, otherwise it will be blinded. The dignified ministers will be blinded by Emperor Showa. What kind of pride is this?
"I am entrusted by Your Majesty to preside over the meeting of important officials. If you have any suggestions, you may as well speak out without hesitation. I will report the truth to your Majesty for your reference."
After finishing the cliché, Kido Yukichi sat in his seat, using a mysterious gaze that had been practicing hard for many years, he glanced at the ministers and important officials present over and over again, waiting for them to speak one by one.
"Hissergeant," Prime Minister Tojo tapped the table lightly and spoke first: "Now our imperial country is in the Pacific Ocean and the strategic goal of the South Ocean direction has been basically achieved. To the west of the Hawaiian Islands, east of the Malacca Strait, and north of Australia, are all the lakes of the imperial country. The dream of Meiji to promote national prestige in the world has been realized. Therefore, the development of the imperial country should turn to the mainland in the future. At present, the primary goal is to take the Soviet Union's Far East in the north and form an absolute national defense circle in the northwest of the imperial country..."
Tojo talked freely, but Kido didn't say a word, and the two secretaries he brought beside him were taking notes. Kido's mission was to be a Bodhisattva instead of the Emperor, and at the same time, he brought the results of the Imperial Conference back to tell the Emperor.
"Prime Minister." Former Prime Minister Mine Hiromasa, who was born in the Navy, raised the question at this time, "Does the adjustment of national policy mean peace with the United States?"
Mine Mitsumasa is a pro-British and American faction. When he was the Minister of the Navy and Prime Minister, he always opposed the alliance with Germany and Italy. He has not completely changed his views now and advocated "coexistence of the United States and Japan", which is similar to the "Three Kingdoms Theory" of Ishihara Kanir and others.
"The peace talks with the United States have been underway." Hideki Tojo replied, "The current central Pacific operations are actually to gain more bargaining chips in the peace talks."
"Where is Germany? Germany's attitude is ignored?" Mine continued.
"The Central Pacific War is to take into account the attitude of Germany." Hideki Tojo said, "But the future national policy of the imperial state should be to maintain a balance between the United States and Germany, and at the same time strengthen itself, so as to ensure that the future world is not dominated by any powerful power."
"Where are the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands?" Mine asked again, "Can you give up?"
"Don't give up as much as possible." Tojo Hideki glanced at Yamamoto Isyuki as he answered this question.
Yamamoto said: "Minejun, the Joint Fleet will adopt a protracted tactic to delay the main force of the US Pacific Fleet in the Hawaiian Islands and wait for an opportunity to reinforce Oahu. Since the United States is now eager to mobilize troops to reinforce the Atlantic-Caribbean battlefield, the delay tactic may eventually work."
Yamamoto's original attitude was to deal with it in a battle, but now he took another step, and it was changed to delaying and delaying is more conducive to protecting the ship than fighting!
Moreover, the Soviet Pacific Fleet has now given the Japanese Navy an excuse. After breaking through the Kuril Islands chain, the Soviet Pacific Fleet turned east and headed towards Aleutian Island.
Theoretically, the Soviet Pacific Fleet may also go to the west coast of the United States and then sail to the Atlantic Ocean from the Panama Canal... So the main force of the Japanese joint fleet went north to intercept and annihilate them, which was also helping Germany.
In the central Pacific direction, Yamamoto and Nagano hope to use the First Mass Fleet to deal with aviation warfare, although it would lose a large number of pilots, they might compensate the last elite pilots of the Japanese Navy. However, the losses caused to the fleet by aviation warfare are relatively controllable.
Because now, with the main force of the Japanese Joint Fleet (including the First Mass Fleet), there are 19 aircraft carriers dispatched, except for Akagi, Kaga, Ruizu, Xianghe, Dafeng, Yunlong, Katsuki, and Tiancheng, eight aircraft carriers are more precious, and the other 11 aircraft carriers are not very valuable. After fighting the Pacific War, it will definitely be eliminated, and it is not a pity to sink.
If 4 aircraft carrier escort battleships were taken out from the 8 expensive aircraft carriers to find trouble for the Soviets. The remaining 15 aircraft carriers were deployed in a dispersed formation, the probability of high-value aircraft carriers being discovered by the US military will be greatly reduced. It is already difficult to find the enemy's scattered aircraft carriers in the vast ocean. Therefore, once you find it, you will definitely attack with all your strength and you will no longer be picky.
So in terms of probability, if the Japanese Navy loses an aircraft carrier in the Central Pacific Battle, it is only about 26% possible. This aircraft carrier is a "high-priced aircraft carrier" and loses 4 aircraft carriers. Only one of them is "certainly" a high-priced aircraft carrier, losing 8, of which the high-priced aircraft carrier should theoretically be 2.
Chapter completed!