Chapter Eighty-Four: Keep Pressing

After saying a hurried farewell to MacArthur, Zhao Zhi flew back to Tokyo, where the war had subsided, and he had to continue to put pressure on Emperor Hirohito and those Japanese politicians to see a Japan that had no hope of survival, so as to force the Japanese government to completely cease the war and surrender." Are you Zhao Zhi? Zhao Zhi of Thunder? The gray-haired Konoe Funma looked at Zhao Zhi who appeared in front of him in disbelief, on the day Emperor Hirohito read the Tokyo Armistice Edict, this young man was obviously standing in the middle of the group of thunderous mercenaries, Konoe Funma didn't expect that the actual controller of the thunder would be such a young person.

Although Emperor Hirohito read out the edict of the Tokyo Armistice, Japanese troops under the banner of King Qin were still rushing to Tokyo, so Zhao Zhi ordered that the Tokyo magnates and politicians should be confined in the imperial palace. Politicians can work in the palace and give orders in the palace, but they must not leave the palace, so Zhao Zhi is not afraid of Fumima Konoe leaking his news in Tokyo.

"That's right, I'm Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi of Thunder." Zhao Zhi, who was mainly anti-guest, stretched out his hand and motioned for Konoe Funma to sit down and speak, and the latter woke up from the shock. Konoe Bunma began to pay attention to Zhao Zhi or after the Taiyuan Offensive and Defense War, at that time Zhao Zhi had become a nightmare for the Japanese army, if it wasn't for the fact that he heard someone mention Zhao Zhi's name at a drinking party, I am afraid that Konoe Bunma would not know that the owner of the thunder was actually a young man until Zhao Zhi completely controlled Burma.

"Mr. Konoe, I asked you to come here to have a good talk with you, to talk about the future and present of your Japan." Seeing that Konoe Wenma rejected his resistant cigar, Zhao Zhi was not angry, but just lit his cigar and took a few puffs. "I think you've seen the situation that Japan is facing now, half of your homeland is already under my control, and in just a few days, a large number of American troops will move in from the Philippine battlefield, your native forces may be able to force us to withdraw our troops in a thunderbolt, but they will definitely not be able to stop the American warships and tanks, what do you think?"

Zhao Zhi's pulling of the tiger skin did not scare Konoe Wenma, the expressionless Konoe Wenma just stared at Zhao Zhi's Lian, but did not say a word. "Okay, since you don't believe this, then let's talk about something practical, in fact, I don't mean anything about your Japanese territory at all, your pattern here is too small, and besides, European and American countries absolutely don't want Japan to fall into the hands of thunder, I'm here this time, just to rob."

When Zhao Zhi said about the robbery, Konoe Funma seemed to want to laugh, but in the next moment, Konoe Funma couldn't laugh, because Zhao Zhi took out a document on which almost all Japanese factories and research institutes were written in Japanese. "As early as a few years ago, I arranged for a large number of Chinese to infiltrate Japan disguised as Japanese expatriates, and they helped collect these materials, and those attacks on your mainland some time ago were also done by them, and they have an independent organization in the thunder - lurkers."

"As long as the names and facilities that appear on this will be loaded into the hold of my fleet after it reaches the Gulf of Tonkin, and then transported to Siberia, I forgot to tell you, the Soviets have already leased the whole of Siberia to the Thunder for 100 years, do you want to see the contract signed between us?" Zhao Zhi's tone seemed a little frivolous, but Konoe Wen's face turned pale, and he almost fainted in the hall immediately.

As Prime Minister, Konoe Fumima naturally understood what it meant to Japan to transport almost all industrial facilities, especially when Zhao Zhi talked about Thunder's loan to Siberia from the Soviets, Konoe Fumima's face was even more dead. No matter what means Zhao Zhi used to establish ties with the Soviets, this meant that the passage for Japan's northward expansion had been sealed, and if there were irreversible changes in the mainland, the struggle and efforts of several generations of Japanese people would come to naught.

"What exactly do you want?" Fumima Konoe only said a few words, and even he himself was startled by his hoarse voice. Konoe Fumima is naturally not an incompetent person to become prime minister, since Zhao Zhi moved out of the Americans to pull the tiger's skin, Konoe Fumima has already guessed that Zhao Zhi is looking for him for another purpose. The relationship between Thunder and Japan has reached the point of non-stop, Zhao Zhi dared to talk to him in front of himself and said that Thunder had arranged a dead lurker in Japan, so there must be his reliance, but now Konoe Bunma doesn't want to go around in circles with Zhao Zhi anymore, so it's better to figure out his purpose earlier.

Zhao Zhi, who was a little depressed by Konoe Fuma's rhetorical question, touched his nose and smiled, "Well, I want you Japan to surrender with a complete armistice, I can't control the battlefield in South Asia, but you must let the troops in China lay down their arms and surrender, and I promise that the national government will not abuse your soldiers." Zhao Zhi clapped his hands, and Eugene, who was waiting on the side, brought a map and put it on the table, on which the red circles representing the troops and numbers were densely marked.

"Most of your troops in China are concentrated in the Northeast, North China and Jianghuai areas, and of course there are also your troops in the south, but if you look carefully, in all your so-called control areas, there are armed forces that resist you. Now that Shanxi has returned to the control of the Nationalist Government, Shandong and most of Henan have also been regained by the Nationalist Army, and I have almost 300,000 troops in Hebei, how long do you estimate that the Japanese puppet army in Hebei can support? Zhao Zhi deliberately exaggerated the number of Burmese mercenaries entering Hebei, but he did not mention the Spark troops.

"Compared to the fact that you also know that my mercenary troops are very good at small-scale operations, do you think how long I can maintain your advantage in Hebei if I break all these 300,000 troops into zero. The main thing is that you are still in my hands, and if I order you to kill these high-ranking Japanese figures, will you and your army fight on their own? Or maybe I'll have my troops start a purge of your native civilians, believing that they are willing to keep Japan's population to less than 40 million, which of course does not include young men. ”

"You devil." Konoe Fumima was stunned by Zhao Zhi's words, if Zhao Zhi really ordered to start purging the population of the Japanese mainland, it would be a catastrophe for Japan. What can 40 million civilians who are just old, weak, women and children do, as long as Zhao Zhi starts to carry out a purge operation against civilians, Japan's military in Asia will face a situation of no supplies. "You're a demon, what the hell do you want?" Konoe Wenma, who was held down by Eugene, shouted at Zhao Zhi through gritted teeth, but unfortunately his body was not Eugene's opponent, so he could only nest in the chair and struggle.

"Hehe, what else can I want, I want you to lay down your arms and surrender, I want Kyushu Island." Zhao Zhi's conditions made Konoe Bunma break out in a cold sweat, any of these two conditions is not something Konoe Bunma can agree to, and agreeing to it is equivalent to betraying the country. Konoe Furuma didn't dare to agree to Zhao Zhi's conditions, but promised to give Zhao Zhi an answer after consulting with Emperor Hirohito and the ministers, and Zhao Zhi didn't embarrass him, but arranged for his mercenaries to keep an eye on the Japanese in the palace.

Emperor Hirohito and the cabinet ministers fell into silence after listening to Fumima Konoe's conditions, and there was no outrage as Fumima had imagined, but only silence. Those who can enter the cabinet are not fools, Zhao Zhi dares to show himself directly in front of Konoe Bunma, he must have been prepared to win. Since Zhao Zhi dared to say that the population cleansing was carried out against the civilians in Japan, then he must have made careful arrangements and arrangements, who did not know that Zhao Zhi was a person who was accustomed to planning and then acting.

Just as Konoe Fumima feared, even if the imperial army conquered the whole of China or Asia, the local population was laundered to less than 40 million, and the large troops fighting abroad could not be replenished at all, so in the end, the number of soldiers could only be reduced and decreased, and finally it would be extinct. Japan is an old man in the twilight of its life without young men, and those Asian countries that have been invaded by Japan can come and fight at will, which shows that Japan's prospects are not optimistic.

"How credible do you think Zhao Zhi's words are?" Although Emperor Hirohito read out the Tokyo Armistice Edict under the coercion of Zhao Zhi, in his heart he still hoped to complete the great cause left by his ancestors and create a place for Japan to survive. Therefore, when the cabinet ministers bowed their heads and remained silent, it was Emperor Hirohito who was the first to break the deadlock, not because he wanted to take the main responsibility, but because Emperor Hirohito at this time needed someone who dared to make suggestions.

Emperor Hirohito, of course, could not count on these ministers, who had been imprisoned in the palace by Zhao Zhi, and there had been disagreements among the cabinet ministers since the emperor himself read out the edict of the Tokyo armistice. The Fourth Division, which has always stayed on Kyushu Island, is a living example, Zhao Zhi is not hostile to all the Japanese, on the contrary, as long as they act according to Zhao Zhi's requirements, they are still alive and well.

In the face of death and even the danger of being exterminated, some people in the cabinet have already put forward the idea of cooperating with Thunder, and it is a big deal to lie dormant for a few more decades like their ancestors, as long as the territory and army are still there, there will always be a day when Japan will rise again. Although the Japanese advocate theocracy, they are actually no different from European countries, Japan is controlled by many gate valve families and consortia, and the emperor is just a puppet, a means used to coax ordinary civilians, for the continuation of the gate valve family, they dare to abandon the emperor and even the entire imperial family.