Chapter 354: Japan's Reaction (Part I)

It was only after Xu Jun obtained the documents from the Japanese embassy that he learned that Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese ambassador to Germany, had been promoted again, and he had now become the diplomatic plenipotentiary of the Japanese Empire in Europe.

Hiroshi Oshima took over as German ambassador six months earlier than in history, and that was because the Japanese side needed his network to continue to promote cooperation between Japan and Germany. Now he has been able to go further, but the Japanese cabinet has found that there is no other diplomatic candidate besides him who can understand the German thinking so consistently.

Hiroshi Oshima is now about to become an "old friend of the German people", and every once in a while he has to make a trip to the building of the German Foreign Office, either to refresh his friendship with his old friend Ribbentrop, or to inquire about the personal preferences and habits of the new German head of state.

Hiroshi Oshima considers himself patriotic, but his personal vision and thinking are a little different from ordinary Japanese. To this day, he still insists that only by forming a solid offensive and defensive alliance with Germany can Japan have the possibility of countering the threat of those powerful enemy countries, otherwise His Majesty the Emperor's goal of "eight Hong and one universe" can only be an illusory dream, and the stakes in it, the pigs' heads in the House of Lords and the octopus heads in the Navy will never be understood.

Hiroshi Oshima was born in the Army, and the Japanese Army was his natural backing, and all the efforts he made were not only for the sake of the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor, but also for the interests of the Japanese Army itself. But what he never expected was that in the end, it was the army that desperately dragged him back.

Since his last meeting with the German Führer, he has been going back and forth between France, Italy, and Germany, in order to mend the bilateral relations between Germany and Japan, and he has painstakingly inquired about all the news about the new German Führer, in order to do what he likes, and to bridge the gap between the Reich Führer and the Japanese.

As soon as the dust had settled on the stupid assassination farce, the German Führer's impression of Japan had improved, and diplomatic contacts between the two sides had begun to become more frequent. But then, a red deer captain who didn't know what to put in his head messed up all this.

When Tokyo telegraphed the news to Hiroshi Oshima, he was in Italy to meet with Toshio Shiratori, who was considering further deepening cooperation with Italy, but feared a reaction from the German side. Seeing the content of the telegram, Hiroshi Oshima was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot, this group of guys can't get into some trouble, how can they not be considerate of the feelings of these imperial diplomats in Europe. Everyone got up early and worked so hard at night, but now all the previous efforts have been defeated because of a small emergency.

Are the heads of the military department idiots? Do the ministers of the Cabinet sleep every day? Hiroshi Oshima couldn't help but sigh with this kind of rebellious emotion at that time.

After this kind of thing, Hiroshi Oshima began to rejoice that the current Führer of Germany was not Hitler. Although Feng. Städler looked very angry at the time, but when the Japanese explained the ins and outs of the incident to him, he was surprisingly reasonable. Although there were some fierce conflicts and twists and turns in the middle, in the end, after the Reich apologized, paid reparations, and punished those responsible, Germany finally accepted Japan's conciliatory intentions, and the incident was resolved satisfactorily, at least according to Hiroshi Oshima.

After the incident, the German head of state did not take any further action, such as the decision to downgrade diplomatic relations between the two countries, which worried Hiroshi Oshima the most. Hiroshi Oshima is convinced that from this it can be seen that the German head of state still attaches great importance to and cherishes the harmonious relations between Germany and Japan.

"Mr. Oshma, this is the explanation that your country gave me?" The Reich Führer tipped through the papers on the table with his slender fingers, repeating them as if he were tapping the keys.

"Yes, Your Excellency, this is the report of the investigation given by the Imperial Navy, and although it lacks the testimony of the person concerned, the basic facts are so. You should be able to understand that none of the Japanese naval officers and sailors who have been involved in the conflict so far have returned to their starting points. As for Lieutenant Shirane, we have not yet received further information about him, and if he does return to the Japanese-controlled area, we will interrogate him, and once the whereabouts of Second Lieutenant Gerhardt are confirmed, we will certainly inform your country as soon as possible. Hiroshi Oshima was wearing a brand new black dress with a bow tie at the neckline, and the cuffs of his shirt were fashionably studed with silver buttons, which was originally a very decent dress, but the problem was that his square chin that was about to turn into a right angle completely ruined the picture.

"We've also done an investigation, and the facts are a little different from what you tell you are. What is certain, however, is that this incident was indeed a tragic misunderstanding. I deeply regret the casualties caused to the officers and men of the Japanese Navy during the conflict. I consulted with Vice-Minister Ribbentrop of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and decided not to demand compensation from Japan, but to apologize from those responsible on the Japanese side. Because of the sincere friendship between Germany and Japan, the apology can be made public. Xu Jun tried hard to take his eyes off the other party's chin, how did he look like this, the head of the empire was very curious.

"Thank you very much, Your Excellency. The soldiers of the Imperial Japan had long been prepared to lay down their lives for His Majesty the Emperor, and if they knew that their mistakes could be forgiven by the German Führer, their souls would be happy. Hiroshi Oshima replied overjoyed, he didn't care if those dead ghosts of the navy would be really happy, anyway, he was really happy now.

The mess of the army has not yet been cleaned up, and the navy has actually stepped in again, and a series of Japanese-German conflicts have made Hiroshi Oshima begin to wonder if the Japanese Empire has done too many things that lacked virtue in the past, so that some of them have committed "morality" this year.

"Your Excellency, the Imperial Cabinet would like to know the true purpose of the series of operations currently being carried out by your country in Southeast Asia. In addition, the Imperial Japanese wanted to know whether Germany was prepared to intervene in the conflict between China and Japan, and the Imperial was worried about whether Germany had any intention of changing its previously guaranteed neutrality. Hiroshi Oshima felt that the German head of state was interested in easing relations between the two countries, so he took the opportunity to raise the issue that the Japanese side was most concerned about.

When the Japanese side discovered that Germany had sent a special mission to China, both the military and political factions were taken aback. This is no joke, even fools know at this time that once the independent people change their former neutral attitude and start supporting the war of resistance in China, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Although the Japanese Empire's naval strength had risen to become the second largest in the world, Japan still had no confidence in the face of the independence of the country that swept across the European continent, defeated the powerful heroes, and controlled almost all of Europe.

Xu Jun has been wondering that Japan has not reacted in the slightest for several days after this incident. In fact, during this period of time, the Japanese military and political factions have long been in chaos.

The Japanese Army will never give up any opportunity to attack the Japanese Navy, and this time it opened fire almost with all firepower, unanimously accusing the Navy of being a mistake on the part of the Navy, which led to the fact that the independent and friendly countries that had always been close to Japan began to turn to China for diplomacy. If, because of the navy, the independent country is bewitched by Shina and begins to become an enemy of Japan, the navy must bear this serious consequence, the head of the naval aviation headquarters should resign, and the commander of the 12 air forces must seppuku.

The Japanese Navy is not a fuel-efficient lamp, their problem goes straight to the core, the independent country has already sent a diplomatic mission, and it was not your army that first clashed with them? The Navy should be the victim in this incident, and everything is completely based on misunderstanding, and it is simply a calamity. Moreover, it can be seen from the exact time of the arrival of the German envoy in French Indochina that Germany had long planned to develop relations with the Chongqing government in China. In fact, the Independence People are the same as other European and American ghost animals, and they are not worthy of the trust of the Great Japanese Empire at all.

In the end, the two ministers of the army and navy almost rolled up their sleeves at the cabinet meeting and made a move, but Konoe Fumiro couldn't stand it and stood up and became a peacemaker. He slapped the table and shouted that the navy and army must immediately stop the needless quarrels, and now the top priority of the cabinet is to immediately formulate an effective response plan. The most important question for the ministers of the empire at the moment is what the empire should do in the face of such a grim situation if the independent country really stands on the opposite side of the empire.

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