786, the devil changed generals
Born on November 12, 1891, Konoe was born into a small devil aristocracy, and the fascist dictatorship was implemented by her. He was the eldest son born to his father, Atsushi Konoe and Maeda-Yan. His mother died of puerperal fever eight days after he was born, and Atsuki married Wenlu's aunt Sadako Xuxian.
Therefore, Konoe Fumiro, a miscellaneous child, was born as a mother, and was later raised by his aunt. But after this miscellaneous person later learned the truth of the matter, not only did he not have a sense of gratitude, but he actually said: "After knowing about this incident, I feel that the world is full of lies." ”
In 1918 (Taisho 7), he wrote a paper for the magazine "Japan and the Japanese" entitled "Pushing Forward the Pacifism of the Anglo-American Standard".
In his essay, he wrote: "Anglo-American pacifism, in fact, takes advantage of the maintenance of the status quo and makes use of the doctrine of passing, which has nothing to do with justice and humanity. Our ideologues indulge in the beautiful rhetoric they preach, that peace is humanity. At present, China's international status is no different from that of Germany and Italy. The Japanese, who should break the status quo, are singing Anglo-American pacifism, and looking up to the League of Nations as if they were praying for the gospel. ”
After the September 18 Incident on September 18, 1931, Fumiro Konoe openly shouted: "The direction we have advanced since the Manchurian Incident is the path of destiny that Japan must take."
On June 4, 1937, Konoe was appointed to form a cabinet and established the first Konoe Cabinet, and Konoe, who was 46 years old at the time, was called the "Young Prime Minister". The newspapers referred to his cabinet as the "Young Cabinet" and the "Bright Cabinet," and most of the people were full of expectations that he would become a groundbreaking prime minister.
Fumiro Konoe was sworn in and exclaimed: "The new cabinet has the mission of exercising international justice, and the best way to do it is to obtain the freedom of resources, the freedom to exploit resources, and the freedom of labor needed to exploit resources." "This is undoubtedly a manifesto for the seizure of the colonies.
Freedom of access to resources. Freedom to exploit resources. Freedom to access the labour needed for resource development. Good a "three freedoms".
Hitler, the mustachioed man of Germany, threw out the "theory of the superiority and inferiority of human blood". In the German mustache's view, "there is only one Germanic people" on the earth, and other garbage peoples are not qualified to live on the earth and waste resources, and should all be cleaned up.
Fumiro Konoe, the dwarf of Monkey Island, is crazy about the "three freedoms". In Dwarf's view, the Yamato nation should be able to "freely obtain resources" on the earth and "freely exploit resources" on the earth, and other nations on the earth are all races of the Yamato nation with "free access to labor".
It was under these circumstances that Song Zheyuan in Beiping and Jiang in Nanjing still dreamed all day long, hoping that Konoe Fumiji could "grant peace".
It's a pity that Konoe Wenlu has worked hard for this miscellaneous.
Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division was completely annihilated, and such a big thing had already been suppressed by him, and no one in Monkey Island knew about it.
However, today, when he heard that the Fourth Division had made the same mistake and that the entire industrial base of Manchuria had been destroyed, Konoe Fumiro was stupid on the spot.
Three big things, no matter how much you can't hide them.
Because Jinzhou, Yingkou, Lushun and Andong provide 47% of the island's energy, 34% of industrial raw materials or semi-finished raw materials, and 41% of grain.
Now that winter is just around the corner, without Manchuria's energy supply, the island will have to start the difficult process of freezing to death again this year.
More than one-third of industrial raw materials are missing, and half of all factories are shut down. Not to mention that the number of unemployed people is about to triple again, and the economic crisis that has just picked up a little bit has come again.
In particular, all the grain collected by Nanman is gone, indicating that the largest grain "warehouse" has suddenly collapsed, and the day of starvation on the island is just around the corner.
"Maintaining stability in Manchuria is now the first priority, so I ask the military department to appoint Umezu Mijiro as commander."
The corners of Konoe's mouth twitched and said, "Sakagaki-kun, this is my last request. Because the Konoe Cabinet is going to resign today and apologize, please. ”
Sure enough, Konoe Fumiro immediately entered the palace and submitted his resignation to His Majesty the Emperor.
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the three fatal problems involved in the resignation letter have finally been revealed to the world. The "genius prime minister" on the island, who had high hopes for it, collapsed after less than five months of taking office.
It was precisely during these five months that the two main divisions did not survive, and they also lost two independent mixed brigades.
When the monkeys on the island suddenly heard that "the coal ration will be cut by 30% and the food supply by 12% this winter", the island finally boiled.
Fumihiro Konoe stepped down and recommended Kiichiro Hiranuma, an old man, to come forward to organize the cabinet and clean up the mess for himself.
Kiichiro Hiranuma, born on October 25, 1867, is 71 years old this year, and he is still an old bachelor. He has a long donkey face, a wide forehead, and protruding eyes, like a hanged man. So he hung a pair of gold-rimmed glasses all day long, just for fear of scaring the child to death.
He has a beard like sesame dots under his nose, fat lips, and a slender body, which makes him more like a hanged man.
Such a hanged ghost turned out to be the emperor's chief representative of justice. It can be seen that Monkey Island is a monkey island after all, and each one is like monkeys jumping up and down.
However, no one can ignore Kiichiro Hiranuma, the monkey reincarnated by the hanged ghost.
It was this miscellaneous that created a complete set of absolutist ideological theories and constructed a complete set of absolutist judicial systems. It provides a theoretical basis and institutional guarantee for the development of the militarist forces of the little devils.
Of course, Kiichiro Hiranuma was recommended by Fumiro Konoe to form a cabinet, which is not a good thing. Now, the chariot of the all-out war of aggression against China has been launched, and the main force of the little devils is already attacking Nanjing.
If it stops at this time, the Nanjing government army will counterattack, and the 360,000 imperial warriors in the entire Shanghai will all be driven into the sea to become kings. Although the little devils respect the king very much, but if they really want to go to the sea to be the king, there are still few people who are willing to do it.
Now that winter has arrived, the boundaries of Manchuria have begun to freeze. This year and the first half of tomorrow, I can't count on anything. The people, money, materials and other resources of the little devils have already burned their eyebrows, and the government urgently needs to come up with countermeasures to reverse the situation.
In the early morning of October 20, 1937, the day Kiichiro Hiranuma came to power, the Korean governor and commander of the garrison army, Nanjiro, sent an urgent telegram saying:
"All the trains sent out did not return to the capital (Seoul). The telephone at Andong Railway Station was not available and the telegram was not answered. What happened when the Korean Peninsula was not opened to traffic for seven consecutive days? ”
To say that Minamijiro is an old crumb, it's really unlucky. When he was the commander of the Kwantung Army, he was continuously deflated at the hands of Bai Shujie, and was finally deprived of military power and incorporated into the reserve.
Last year, that is, on August 15, 1936, I finally mixed up the title of the governor of North Korea, and just straightened out some things, and the trouble came again. Of course, he didn't know that it was none other than Bai Shujie, an old enemy, who caused him trouble.
Although he was able to answer Nanjiro's question, he was also able to tell him what was going on in Manchuria. However, Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma, who has just taken office, believes that it is not possible to say anything lightly to the outside world until the truth is thoroughly understood.
Now, the new commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, has been ordered to return to Manchuria with the person concerned, Ishihara Waner, to thoroughly investigate the truth of the "Southern Manchurian and Liaonan Massacre".
This question is already directly related to the future national policy value orientation of the empire, and without detailed investigation data, it will surely be disastrous. At the same time, it is necessary to give an account to His Majesty the Emperor and the people, at least to be able to justify themselves.
Otherwise, if the common people really want to make trouble, it will still be more troublesome. Before getting the first-hand information, when he didn't find a good excuse, Hiranuma Kiichiro could only let Minamijiro calm down a little.
It is precisely because of the personnel changes at the highest level on Little Devil Island that the Korean Peninsula is so quiet, allowing Bai Shujie to have a rare buffer time.
But for Minamijiro, getting an order to "be calm and not be impatient" made him even more puzzled in his heart: "Isn't it just to investigate the problem of railway transportation in Manchuria, something that can be solved by a telegram, and this also needs to be calm?" ”
After all, he was born as a commander of the front army, and he still has the most basic strategic vision and political vision.
The words "don't be impatient" must contain many reasons for "making people thunderous".
Therefore, when Minamijiro saw the words "don't be impatient", the bad feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger. There is no reason, it is just that I feel cold in my back and restless.
After wandering around the garden of the Governor's Mansion for a long time, there was still no way to erase the feeling of restlessness, and Nanjiro decided to discuss it with the commander of the North Korean Army, Nakamura Kotaro, but he still couldn't sit still, and he should send someone out to have a look, otherwise he would always be a little uneasy.
Unexpectedly, on the other end of the phone, General Nakamura Kotaro was also very annoyed: "Your Excellency the Governor, you must also know that my 20th Division is assembling in Tanggu, and it will take some time to return to North Korea." I also noticed that there were some problems in the north, and I sent a telegram to the Kwantung Army Command, but they did not answer my questions directly. ”
"To tell the truth, since the North China Incident, no one can figure out what has happened in North China now. I sent a telegram to Kawagishi Fumizaburo, the commander of the 20th Division, to inquire, but he was also secretive. The telegram to me was also vague and incomprehensible. In my opinion, the current shape is very subtle, and it is better to be still than to be still. ”
Minamijiro now has no military power, so he can only continue to discuss: "Your Excellency Nakamura, I found that there seems to be something hidden from the base camp, as if it meant to seal us off. So, I still feel the need to send someone out to see what's going on in the north and then decide what to do. ”
"Your Excellency the Governor, I have one armored vehicle brigade left in my hands now." Kotaro Nakamura hesitated: "After the Manchurian Incident, the 39th Mixed Brigade led by Major General Tatsujiro Kamura and the 6th Flying Wing on the Pyongyang side entered Manchuria, but they have not returned to their formations until now, and the western part of North Korea is a completely blank area. ”
"The 74th Infantry Wing of the 19th Division and the 19th Wing of the Search Division are now in Manchuria, and the remaining three infantry wings not only have to defend the front line of Hoering and Ronan Fortresses, but the armored brigade and the field artillery wing are in a stalemate at Zhanggufeng and Polar Bear, and they cannot move now. Well, I'll send an armored car to see if it's going to happen. ”
As a result, an Empire's newest railroad dual-purpose armored car left the Parliamentary Railway Station at nine o'clock in the morning and headed north for reconnaissance. Then it alarmed Shi Liancheng, and then Bai Shujie began to have a headache.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.