Jiang Weiguang, as a translator, couldn't help but say something, but Wang Maoru waved his hand very calmly, motioned for everyone to sit down, and said lightly: "Everyone listen to the old man's words carefully, don't get excited." ”

"Yes, Xiushuai." The officers immediately sat down, and it was evident that everyone was extremely angry at the Japanese words.

Yuzaburo Kato smiled at Wang Maoru and continued: "I'm not provoking, I'm discussing an academic study. I personally experienced the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, in which the Qing soldiers were extremely brave, even if the warships were silent, they floated in the sea and refused to be rescued by the Japanese warships, and these Chinese soldiers died to atone for the defeat of the naval battle. But now that I think about it, the biggest reason for China's naval defeat is the pride of the Chinese. After speaking, Kato looked at Wang Maoru, although others were extremely angry and wanted to refute, but Wang Maoru calmed down, nodded with a smile, and Kato said: "It is not easy for you to listen carefully to the words of an old man, and it is no wonder that you have been able to achieve today's achievements." Some are proud of their own strength and disdain for each other, some are proud of themselves and disdainful of being strong, in Chinese terms, Yelang is arrogant, and some are proud of not knowing the true strength of the other party at all. In my opinion, the defeat of the Qing State in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle belongs to the third type, and before the naval battle, the Qing Beiyang Naval Division had never made any war assessment and war drills, which was an extremely stupid act. ”

"You're right." Wang Maoru said with a smile, "So, we won't make such a mistake again." ”

Yuzaburo Kato smiled slightly and said, "No, you will still make this kind of mistake, because your army is too smooth." Wang Maoru frowned, the words of the old man in Japan. Let him fall into deep thought. This game can be regarded as a victory for the Japanese, and they did not win by force, but with reason and lessons, and the Chinese are indeed prone to this problem. Arrogance, proud arrogance. This kind of self-esteem will distort one's ears and eyes, and it will also make the combat effectiveness of the national army decline, and the former Great Song Dynasty Beifu Army is useless in the later period, and the Ming Iron Cavalry has also become a cavalry defending the city, and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is also corrupt and degenerate. It's all because of arrogance. You must know that there are other countries besides China. Wang Maoru thought of himself, he was indeed a little arrogant, especially after he sent people to stir up a muddy water in Japan, arrogantly thought that Japan was finished. There is no threat to China anymore.

Kato Yuzaburo's words aroused Wang Maoru's alarm, and the old man won a game, but after arriving in Kyoto, Kato Yuzaburo's old illness relapsed and was sent to the hospital.

Regarding the visit of China's No. 3 leader to Japan, the Japanese newspaper wrote: "Chinese Defense Minister Wang Maoru visited Japan and personally attended the ceremony of Crown Prince Hirohito as regent. It indicates that China and Japan will enter into good relations. "It's really nonsense with your eyes open, China and Japan are wrestling all the time, and the temporary friendship is because both sides need a buffer, just like two boxers, they can't be energetic all the time, they both need to rest.

After Wang Maoru arrived in Japan, Hidetake Sato (Li Muhan), a Japanese Ministry of Treasury official and a young official valued by Crown Prince Hirohito, wrote a report known as the "Sato Report" in northern Japan.

In the 30,000-word Sato Report, Hidetake Sato elaborated on his new views on China, which he saw as a country without ambition. We guide China to become a raw material base, invest and build factories in China in the name of Sino-Japanese goodwill, and make China a backyard for Japan. The previous policy of military occupation of China by force was changed to economic occupation, and the use of compulsory military occupation was changed to population migration advantage. China does not refuse immigrants, nor does it reject immigrants of any race. The Japanese people, especially the poor, emigrated to China, ostensibly Chinese, but in fact they were the potential for the expansion of the Japanese Empire.

Of course, Sato also analyzed why it is not feasible for the military to occupy China by force, first of all, from the perspective of military population comparison, after the reunification of China, there will be one million regular troops, one million second-line troops, and two million reservists. On the other hand, the total number of Japanese troops was only 380,000, and if China was occupied, the army would inevitably be expanded, but now that the Japanese economy is sluggish, the whole world is rejecting Japanese goods, and there is a workers' revolutionary movement in Japan. As an official of the Ministry of Finance, Sato used figures to show that if the Japanese army expanded by 500,000 troops, the Japanese government would go bankrupt. Can 500,000 people occupy China? The answer is no.

According to the investigation of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, after the reunification of the Republic of China, in only ten years of the Republic of China, its GDP reached two-thirds of Japan's, so to speak, Chinese ability to create wealth is extremely strong, if there is a war between China and Japan, this war cannot end within three years, Japan will face the largest financial crisis in history, and the country will collapse and be reborn to find the latest chapter.

And the third reason is about the individual, here Sato emphasized the importance of two people to China, the first is President Sun Liwen, Sun Liwen's reign marks the unification of China's north and south, as long as Sun Liwen is in the position of president for one day, China will definitely not be a divided country. Sato believes in another way that in fact, Wang Maoru, the chief defense minister, is far less important to the squadron than Sun Liwen's importance to China's spiritual totem, Sun Liwen is a symbol, a symbol of the revival of China's unified nationalism. The reason why Wang Maoru seized military power and did not hunt down Sun Liwen was that he saw that Sun Wen was actually a spiritual symbol, and he represented peace and democracy. What China needs now is peaceful development, and Sun Liwen's survival will definitely do more good than harm to Wang Maoru.

This also explains the fact that China did not wantonly interfere in the regime after the military power was greater than the regime, but chose to compromise and make concessions, and the Japanese military insisted that Wang Maoru's personal weakness led to concessions to the Kuomintang and Sun Liwen. But Sato believes that Wang Maoru is only a representative of the military, and he is actually represented by many officers who have the same ideological views as him, in other words, the Chinese side agrees with Sun Liwen's use value. The living Sun Liwen is far more valuable than a dead Sun Liwen. China's rapid reunification after ten years of war was largely due to the strength of the Wehrmacht and the call of the living Sun Liwen.

In addition, Hidetake Sato also put forward the idea of expansion, and his extended view was to dominate the Pacific Ocean and occupy the countries of South Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand, to realize the dream of a Pacific empire.

Everyone knows that Hidetake Sato once made a splash at the negotiating table on Australia as a negotiator with the United Kingdom, and only then did he step into politics. It is believed that what he has been unable to do is the shattering of the dream of the Australian continent, and in Sato Hidetake's house, there is an oil painting of clothes and grassland scenery given to him by a Japanese family who committed suicide in Australia. Everyone believes that another very important reason why this talented young man abandoned the ancient continent of China, where the land is barren, was the collapse of his youth in Australia.

He told Crown Prince Hirohito: "China is an arrogant, unambitious, and unenterprising country, and if we use a whip, we will wake them up." However, if we take advantage of the truth in a different way, with false harmony and goodness, we can make China our backyard and let the 440 million Chinese willingly be driven by us. ”

The focus of Sato's report was the Pacific Empire Plan, which also made Hirohito very fond of it, but made the Japanese War Department very angry, because according to this plan, the Japanese Army would be the foil in the future. Of course, the Japanese Minister of War (Land Minister) Hanzo Yamanashi also has to admit that the young man Hidetake Sato is indeed talented, and there has not been such a talented young man in Japan for a long time.

In particular, this young man's brain seems to be imaginative, he can often jump out of the inherent thinking of the Japanese, and the people in the staff headquarters even said that Hidetake Sato is not an earthling, he should be an alien, because his brain is different from others. Of course, Hidetake's "Sato Report" is actually contrary to the opinion of the Japanese elder Tanaka Yoshiichi's "Tanaka Sogashi", Tanaka's goal is to occupy Chinese mainland, while Sato's opinion is to make China his own back garden, and then occupy the northern and southern hemispheres, making Japan the first country in the world to cross the north and south poles.

Compared to Yoshiichi Tanaka, Hidetake Sato, a twenty-four-year-old young man, is like a madman, and such a madman is liked by all Japanese people. A 24-year-old was allowed to make mistakes, and a 24-year-old was allowed to be ambitious, and he was so sharp that he also angered the cabinet elder Tanaka Yoshiichi.

In front of Crown Prince Hirohito, Yoshiichi Tanaka's general Hidetake Sato, in front of all the cabinet elders and ministers, refuted the "Sato Report" one by one.

Sato Hidetake didn't say a word, and in the end Sato said a word, so angry that Tanaka Yoshiichi almost had a heart attack, he said: "You are a **naked villain, your jealousy and narrow-minded vision can never be compared with me." Compared to me, a descendant of Hokkaido fishermen, you are a farmer in the mountains, and the most you see is the scenery from the top of the mountain, while I see the vastness of the whole sea, and we are not on the same level. I refuse to waste my saliva with you. ”

"This kid is so arrogant?" Wang Maoru said to himself in surprise with the information, he looked at the content carefully, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, the loss is big, such a talent is only a spy, and the country is a big loss.