"Yes, Your Majesty, I think it is not difficult to form another 40 divisions based on the current financial income of the Empire!"

Faced with Hirohito's deep doubts, Hideki Tojo was not panicked at all, nodding confidently and confirmed: "And only by investing in a strong enough heavy army group at one time can we ensure that we will not repeat the same mistakes!"

In the current time and space, in December 1940, Japan launched the Pacific War under the name of establishing the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle".

In just half a year, the Japanese army defeated Western colonists such as Britain, the Netherlands, the United States, and captured Malaya, Singapore, the Netherlands East India and the Philippines.

In addition to Thailand and French Indochina, which were actually controlled before the war, Japan successfully occupied Southeast Asia with an area of ​​more than 3.9 million square kilometers and a population of 140 million.

If we add Australia and the Chinese-occupied areas, Japan now occupy more than 15 million territory, more than square kilometers, and the population in the occupied areas is as high as more than 240 million!

In the early days of the occupation, Japan adopted different ruling policies in these regions.

For Thailand and French Indochina, Japan retains its original political system and implements indirect control; for the Philippines, it gives nominal independence and certain autonomy, making it a "alliance" under the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle";

The remaining Malaya, Dutch East India, Australia and other regions were directly ruled by Japan.

No matter which ruling policy is, its main purpose is to seize strategic resources such as oil, minerals and food, and even population, etc.

Although these resources have not been fully integrated to achieve the highest efficiency, they have been greatly improved Japan's comprehensive national strength and war potential, which is many times stronger than a year ago.

Therefore, Hideki Tojo has such confidence that he has to reorganize 40 new divisions in one go.

After a pause, Hideki Tojo said seriously: "After these 40 divisions are formed, they can be sent to China and the southern dispatched troops, so that the veteran divisions can be replaced and formed into a more powerful Myanmar dispatched troops, and then counterattacked Myanmar in one go."

Hirohito frowned and said, "Even if the empire is fine in terms of finance and weapons and equipment, what about people? Where do the empire have so many reserve troops now?"

Japan's total population is about 71.9 million, of which the number of strong men at the age of service is about 17 million, which can be used for recruitment.

The proportion of the extreme mobilization population in World War II was about one quarter. For example, the current Soviet Union almost reached this proportion, but the workers in the rear were basically women, children and the elderly.

And this is because the Soviet Union received a lot of assistance from the United States, otherwise the logistics support would not be able to be supported at all!

For example, Germany had a population of 66 million in 1933. It mobilized 17 million troops in World War II, of which 1.5 million were vassal troops, and more than 15.5 million were mobilized domestically, with the army accounting for 23% of the total population. The vast majority of the male population of appropriate age was devoted to the army.

So theoretically, the Japanese army can mobilize at least 18 million troops, but this is just a theoretical number. In fact, the number that can be mobilized is only about 10 million.

Because not all males of the service age are suitable for joining the army, because ten fingers have lengths and there are gaps between individuals, and those who have physical defects cannot join the army.

This is the case in the current United States. Because the Great Depression in the 1930s led to many people in that generation who were too thin due to malnutrition and were now unable to be recruited into the army.

Also, high-tech workers who are engaged in scientific research cannot be arrested and joined the army. In that case, the research and improvement of weapons and equipment, as well as the production of technical equipment will be stopped.

So far, Japan has more than 6.5 million athletes.

Before the September 18th Incident, the number of Japanese troops was only 320,000. After annexing the weapons, equipment and material resources in Northeast China, it increased to 1 million. After the full war of resistance, it reached 2.5 million when it annexed North China and Jiangnan, and after the occupation of Southeast Asia, it increased to 6.5 million.

In terms of quantity, Japan can mobilize at least 3.5 million troops, but in fact it is not the case. In fact, not to mention 3.5 million people, it is very difficult to mobilize another 1 million people.

After all, it is because Japan's industrial capabilities and organizational management level are not good.

The United States, the Soviet Union, Germany and other countries are old industrial powers with a very deep industrial foundation. They have entered the era of large-scale industrial production, with high production efficiency and corresponding reduction in human resources.

Conversely, Japan's industrial development started late and had a weak foundation, which led to inefficient labor and was very human resources.

Especially those heavy industries, which require young and strong men, they cannot be replaced by women, children and the elderly!

If a large number of strong men were drawn to join the army at this time, Japan's industrial production capacity would probably drop significantly, which would lead to a significant decline in industrial output.

In the current era of hot weapons, fighting is not only about people but also about equipment. If the performance of technical equipment cannot keep up with it and the consumption cannot keep up with it, then no matter how many lives are, it will be a waste of death!

"If 40 divisions are mobilized, even if they are only organized into three-unit security divisions, they will require at least 700,000 people! This is a total of 700,000 people!"

After all the thoughts circling in his mind, Hirohito shook his head gently and said:

"Tojo-kun, you should be very clear about the current situation of the empire. Scoring 700,000 people at once will inevitably seriously affect industrial production. This is undoubtedly a drinking poison to quench thirst, and the potential of the empire's war will be seriously weakened!

If there is not enough ability to ensure the supply of weapons and equipment, will the Imperial Army use engineer shovels to fight the enemy at that time?"

"Your Majesty, Yang Fan hopes that we can suspend the attack now, because he needs more time to digest and develop than we do now."

Hideki Tojo frowned and said, "Yang Fan already has a population of 17 million on the Shandong Peninsula. Now there are at least 20 million people in Myanmar!

Moreover, with the support of the United States, northern Myanmar has built a complete industrial base. Once the production capacity of the northern Myanmar industrial base is fully exploded, Myanmar will be more terrifying than the Shandong Peninsula!

Your Majesty, do you still want to raise a tiger to continue to strengthen Yang Fan’s strength and become the ultimate strong enemy that can be comparable to the United States?”

"Myanmar will become the fulcrum of the Allied Southeast Asian battlefield in a very short time. Although it is only the Chinese Expeditionary Force that is defending, who can guarantee that once a major situation reverses, the Americans and the British will not get into a shot?

This is not an alarmist statement, but a completely foreseeable fact! If that time really comes, will the Great Japanese Empire still win?"
Chapter completed!