The meeting discussed for a long time, and the debate was not too fierce, let alone quarrelling, but there was no agreement to lay off personnel, and only Ishihara made an opinion: The army is currently suspending the newly formed and uncompleted divisions and regiments, and all personnel and equipment are being reorganized, which is the biggest concession given by the army center at present.

Unexpectedly, Horikichi didn't say anything and agreed directly.

Such a refreshing style made Minoru Higashimiya Minoru Wang Lang for a moment, not only could not understand the meaning of Horikiyoshi, but also worried that the opponent had additional conditions, who knew that Yamamoto Fifty-six directly turned the page: "The prior communication of disarmament is here, and I think we need to fully discuss the issue of Indochina and Samoa." ”

Ishihara frowned, the main event came.

The issue of southern Indochina has dragged on for nearly a year, and Germany and France have repeatedly asked questions, and Japan's stance has always been very ambiguous, not saying that it will not say that it will not, but only saying that it wants to see the opportunity and talk about it; for this matter, the diplomatic relations between Japan and Germany have also frozen a lot, at least the rocket technology that Japan most desires has not been able to obtain, and now seeing that German rockets are repeatedly powerful, gaining momentum and playing a more and more obvious role, it is unrealistic for Japan not to be in a hurry. What's worse is that not long ago, Germany reported about the American rockets, and the Americans and Costa Rica erected rockets to attack Panama, although the number is not large, and the role is also very limited, but it has sounded the alarm for people, and this thing has begun to spread, and now Germany has it, the United States also has it, that is, Japan does not have it, not only does it have no object for imitation, but even the current technical reserves are not enough, and there is a sense of urgency from top to bottom.

It is impossible to obtain rocket technology from the United States, and it is too slow to develop it yourself, so the idea must be hit here in Germany. This is something that both the army and navy are well aware of, but the stance is reversed: in the past, the army center was anxious, and the navy center did not care, but now the navy center is anxious, and the army center does not matter.

In fact, the price of French Indochina has been preliminarily negotiated: a full set of rocket technology of 20 billion German marks, of course, the rocket technology was not given by the French, and the Germans had a word in advance, and the technology obtained by France could not be transferred without a German license.

But this is a triangular debt: Germany owes French debt, Japan owes Germany, and France wants territory, and as long as the territory is handed over, the entire debt chain can be paid off. As for the dealings between the Germans and the French, it was beyond the control of Japan.

For Japan, if it had to hand over southern Indochina, it would be better to give it to France than to Germany.

However, the strange thing is that as soon as Yamamoto Fifty-six's proposal came out, the attitude of the army's top brass was very strange, a few generals, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say. He was confused, and Ito bit his ear with him: "Sir, according to reliable information, the army red deer is in contact with the German side. ”

"Engage with what?"

"How to reasonably and legally obstruct the passage of the reform plan."

Speaking of which, Yamamoto Isoroku understands that the Army's contacts with the German side have recently begun to increase, and not only Ishihara, Tada, and Kohl have always met and drunk together, but other parties have also interacted frequently.

However, Ito can only listen to half of what Ito said: Germany does not want to obstruct Japan's reforms, Germany does not want Japan to make peace with the United States so soon and stands on Japan's standpoint, and it also does not want Germany to make peace with the United States as soon as possible. The last time the conditions with the United States were discussed, Germany had actually taken advantage of the situation from the army side to scare off the United States' demand for peace with a high demand for reparations, and sabotaged Horikichi's idea of a quick peace on low terms, which made Horiyoshi very unhappy.

However, the conditions discussed today are obviously somewhat strange, because Ishihara Wanji Shinto put forward the request for German assistance for the materials and equipment required for the "Ren Plan", which made Yamamoto Isoroku and Horikichi very speechless, because the "Ren Plan" is the project that Ishihara Wanji is most enthusiastic about, although this project was initiated by Hideki Tojo, it has received unprecedented attention in the hands of Ishihara Wanji, and not only transferred all the nuclear program talents, materials, technology and materials in the hands of the Navy to the hands of the army through the exchange of interests. It also allows the two projects that were originally separate to be merged into one. After the merger, the committee held more than 20 meetings to discuss the project, and they initially estimated that it would take several hundred tons of uranium ore to build an atomic bomb, and that separating uranium-235 would consume about one-tenth of Japan's annual electricity generation and one-second of the country's copper production, and the cycle would take at least 10 years.

However, after Germany provided uranium ore and centrifuge equipment, the Japanese side successfully separated the uranium-235 isotope for the first time in March 1945 using the gas diffusion method, which made Ishihara overjoyed, but the separation was successful, and the scientists told him in frustration that from the point of view of separation technology, the production requirements for copper were overestimated, and the electricity was underestimated by at least one-third of the electricity and lasted for five years. This made Ishihara dumbfounded, one-tenth of the power squeeze can still be overcome, how can one-third of the power be squeezed? Do you want other industries? And behind such a huge price, there is no guarantee that such a bomb will be successful. It's not a problem of money, and the problem of electricity is not something that can be solved by money.

However, he is also a ruthless person, regardless of whether the electricity is enough or not, first turn on the centrifuge and then say that although Japan can barely imitate this equipment, the effect is not as good as that made in Germany, so he made an intelligence deal with Cole: on the one hand, he revealed the news to Germany, and on the other hand, let Germany take out uranium-235 and centrifuge equipment to trade. The so-called drunken Yunyun is completely a cover-up statement, how can he drink and make mistakes at this level?

Cole was very powerful, and the news came in just 2 days: centrifuges are available, and Japan can sell them, but uranium-235 is not

The so-called no, of course, means that it cannot be sold, and in turn, it reminds Ishihara that Germany is also studying this thing? If Germany is, does the United States have it? Originally, he didn't believe that the United States had it, but when he saw that Germany was the first to have rockets and the United States officially launched the second one, he was a little uncertain. Therefore, at the meeting, it was put forward in a grand manner: the reduction of the army's military spending is not negotiable, but the resources and expenses of the Dan Ren plan must be immediately increased by five times. At the same time, domestic industrial production must make concessions for electricity, in addition to vigorously building new power plants, the fastest effect is thermal power plants!

This attitude made Horikichi and Yamamoto Fifty-six speechless, the two were fully aware of the "Ren Project", but they did not value it as much as Ishihara Waner, the two thought that this new weapon might be useful, but it would not be as useful as Ishihara Waner said, and the two were against the new Yamato-class back then, and they were also skeptical about this super project of the army

The meeting lasted for three whole days, and no consensus was reached, but the exchange of views was relatively sufficient, and at this juncture, Horikichi decided to suspend the meeting, hoping that everyone would take a good look at his reform plan

(End of chapter)