The dispatched troops not only solicited investment from Japan and Europe, but also restored the industrial facilities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that had been blown up and destroyed during the initial attack and built more factories, and in addition, they moved domestic second-hand equipment, machine tools, and industrial facilities to China, to whom they paid for them, and the Japanese capitalists who made money imported better goods from Europe and replaced them -- a bunch of industrial facilities in France, Germany, and Italy could be exported. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because of this relationship, the chaebols feel that although the army orders are a little less, but other businesses can barely be maintained, and they don't plan to make trouble with the military department for the time being, and the base camp is also alive, as long as the quality of the things you imitate is similar to the imported goods, and the price is more expensive, after all, imitation can also shorten the technical gap.

In order to win the hearts of the people, and referring to Germany's proposal to build an oil fund and the navy to divide the land of military merit, the top brass of the dispatch army took out a part of the shares of these newly established enterprises and distributed them to the lower levels -- the officers were allocated meat according to their ranks, and the big soldiers did not want to drink soup, and the target group was limited to the Chinese dispatch army.

Now the army has begun to polarize: the Kwantung Army is bent on fighting, getting equipment and establishment around all day long, grabbing tanks, planes, and train guns, and conducting small exercises today and big exercises tomorrow, just waiting for the sharpening of knives and firing at the Russians, and the "northward advance" slip on the door of its head; China's dispatched troops are full of business, pondering all day long what materials can be resold, which industrial facilities can be moved, what equipment and equipment can be exported, where factories can be invested in, and which fields can be engaged in "international" cooperative development.

The overall situation has become more and more delicate, and not only have the army and navy been "red deer" with each other, but even several heavy army groups have begun to call each other "red deer."

It can be seen during Horiyoshi's "Heavenly Punishment of the National Thief" that the Southern Army, because it has the closest relationship with the Navy and guards the island, and has a relationship with the Vice Admiral who sent weapons, the number of people is only more than 300,000, but it is a hardcore naval faction, and the Southern Army is all first-line elites and is well equipped; The strength of India's dispatched army is relatively high, and it currently has 700,000 troops, but only 300,000 can fight, and 400,000 are security forces that have been formed one after another.

At present, the Chinese dispatch army, which has a total strength of less than 350,000 troops, was very dissatisfied with the navy at first, believing that it was because the navy wanted to attack that it forced them to withdraw from Chinese mainland, and at the same time led to a decline in their own strength, but now because of the navy, business is doing very well, and they do not want to speak ill of the navy.

The Kwantung Army is the strongest group, with 900,000 troops, equipment and weapons quite complete, bent on going north, very dissatisfied with the navy occupying more resources, but if you really want to go north, you can't do without the cooperation of the navy, not to mention the equipment needs the navy to provide convenience, and the emotions of the two sides are relatively delicate; The North Korean army has always been attached to the Kwantung Army, and its strength is the weakest and poorest, but it has a population of 100,000 people, and there is neither a large amount of equipment and materials of the Kwantung Army in the account, nor is there such a boom in business as the Chinese dispatch army. As for the largest local army (with a nominal total strength of more than 1 million), except for the Guards Division, which is a first-class unit built with great efforts, the rest are not second-rate, even third-rate, but the political status is very high, there are matchmakers everywhere, and the relationships involving all aspects are also the most complicated.

This posture made the Tokyo army top brass a little anxious, but in the final analysis, this situation was created by the center itself, and no one else was to blame. At the beginning, in order to stabilize the situation and prevent the commanders of the various localities from threatening their position, the Ishihara-Tada faction set a strategy of containing each other among the heavy military groups and letting the center play its greatest role; the leaders of the various army groups generally did not change for two to three years, not to mention anything else; according to Yamashita Fumi, a general who had completed the Indian strategy, he should have become a war minister or chief of general staff in the country a long time ago, but the army top brass still arranged for him to be the governor of India -- the latter was also willing to do so, and did not want to return to Tokyo to stir up trouble for the time being.

Under this arrangement, Ishihara Wan'er, who is not highly qualified enough and has never been a commander of the army, can firmly control the situation and achieve land and sea cooperation and unity, and the prime minister position of Minoru Higashikure Palace can also sit securely.

As for the navy, which was originally full of factions, it is now completely reversed, and it has become a monolith, or it is said that only the "Hori faction" remains.

In the past six months or so, the navy has carried out one system change and adjustment after another in accordance with Horikiyoshi's opinions, and all those who are disobedient, uncooperative, and disrespectful have all been dealt with by Yamamoto Isoroku and Inoue Narumi. At the beginning, many people wondered why Horikichi kept Yamamoto Fifty-six still, and even publicly said that he went out to fight, and Yamamoto commanded the navy in a unified manner. According to Horikichi's wishes, Yamamoto Fifty-six's power can be used to the extreme, and the reverse is useless, because Yamamoto no longer has a team - his team has all run to Horiyoshi's hands.

In the minds of many people, the original Chief Yamamoto has long disappeared, and now it is Minister Yamamoto who can be seen, and there is still gossip circulating, saying that Inoue Narumi will soon be transferred to the president of Haida, and the position of vice minister of the Navy will be handed over to Ito Junichi who returned from the German inspection, and I think that the hardcore "remnants of the Fushimi Palace faction" like Ito Junichi have been subdued, what else do others have to say?

After receiving the campaign report and troop dispatch request from Horiyoshi, Ishihara and other high-ranking army officials were overjoyed and distressed, happy that the US Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated, Japan could go sideways in the Pacific Ocean, and this war would basically not be lost; What worries me is what to do next, there must be someone in the army who wants to propose a strategy to attack Australia and New Zealand, and the Kwantung Army must be clamoring to go north, and he, like Hori Yiyoshi, resolutely opposes meddling in Australia and New Zealand again, and also opposes going north, just thinking about winning a peaceful life in peace and stability.

Yamamoto Isoroku has a different idea about this: "How the Australia-New Zealand issue will be will not depend on the army, or even the navy, it will depend on how the Japan-US issue will be discussed in the end, and the combined fleet has not even taken down Hawaii now, how can it be able to deal with the Australia-New Zealand issue?" As for the northward advance, I think that except for the Kwantung Army, no one supports it, anyway, the Navy does not support it, if the Kwantung Army has the ability, it will fight by itself! ”

Ishihara could only nod helplessly, Yamamoto Fifty-six's words were correct.

"The top priority is to fight Jie 3, take Hawaii, and lay the foundation for victory, this is the key, the army said that if we fight Hawaii, you will provide 150,000 troops, this is still counting, right?"

"Of course the counts count, but it's not easy to do so many troops......" Ishihara spread his hands, "You know the situation now, many things are not as simple as before." ”

"150,000 can't be used for the time being, 2 infantry divisions and 4 flying divisions must be guaranteed!" Yamamoto didn't want to be sloppy with him, so he made a straightforward request, "It must be shipped at the end of this month, and the ship will be settled by the navy." ”

"The infantry division will draw the troops of the Southern Army stationed in the direction of New Guinea, not to mention 2, there is no problem in drawing 4 - you don't want to sell New Guinea to the Germans, you must make proper arrangements for Imamura-kun, but the flying division does not dare to draw the Southern Army, it is not very peaceful there, and besides, the Germans have not officially entered the country, and you must be on guard and alert against Australia and New Zealand; You can't draw the Indian army, they just drew ...... last time"

Yamamoto Fifty-six interrupted him and said bluntly: "Hori-kun means to draw the Kwantung Army mainly. ”

"The Kwantung Army?" Ishihara was taken aback, "It's hard to twitch. ”

"The Kwantung Army now has a surplus of troops, and there are more than 3,000 planes alone, who will they not smoke? Didn't the Kwantung Army want to fight with all its heads? The pilot didn't go to fight with the Americans for a dozen training first, in case even the Americans couldn't beat him, and it would be embarrassing for him to go north......"

"This ...... I'll talk to Admiral Umezu first. ”

Yamamoto Fifty-six saw that Ishihara still refused to give in, and finally took out the big killing weapon: "Hori-kun said that if the army fully cooperates in this matter, he can hand over the Navy's plan F and put it under the unified management of the army." ”

Ishihara stood up excitedly and lost his voice: "Really? ”

"What are you lying to, Hori-kun has always been trustworthy."

"That's good, that's good." Ishihara rubbed his hands together, and then said, "Then what about the future expenses?" ”

"Land 6 Sea 4."

"No, the army is poor, the navy is rich, and the land is 4 and 6!"

"Ishihara-kun, I haven't seen you for a few days, why did you start learning to do business?"

"Didn't you learn it with Hori-kun?" Ishihara Wan'er hippie smile, "He is doing well in business, fighting well, everyone admires him, I want to study hard......"

"I really can't help you, half and half, it's all in your hands, and you still want the navy to take the lead, is it embarrassing to say it?"

"Okay, deal! When will it be handed over? ”

"When you get your troops ready, you will hand them over, 2 army divisions + 4 flying divisions you have to give me by the end of this month! Otherwise, the Hawaii front line is tight, and you and I can't afford it. ”

"Of course, of course...... Then I will report to the Prime Minister and organize a parade to congratulate the Prime Minister? ”

"Yes, but the caliber is controlled, not to mention the destruction of the US Pacific Fleet, only to say that the Hawaiian fleet, there is a difference between inside and outside."

Ishihara was stunned for a moment, then understood, and a solemn look appeared on his face: "I understand what Hori-kun means." ”

While he was talking, Foreign Minister Gu Masayuki hurriedly rushed in, looked at Ishihara Wanji and Yamamoto Fifty-six and asked breathlessly, "What about Your Highness?" ”

"I haven't had much going on lately, and the weather has cooled, so I went to the hot spring pool to recuperate...... What, there's something urgent? ”

"There's something big!" Gu Zhengzhi calmed his mind, "The news has just come from the secret channel in Switzerland that the Americans have requested an armistice and set out the conditions. ”

"What?" The two were taken aback.

Yamamoto fifty-six hurriedly asked, "What are the conditions?" ”

Gu Zhengzhi immediately handed over the telegram with the word "top secret" to the two of them for a look.

After reading this, the two shook their heads in unison -- this condition was not sought by Japan before, but now it is difficult to talk about it!