Chapter 322: The Aftermath of the Conflict
While Yang Zhen swept through the Japanese mainland, in addition to keeping the emperor, all the royal family members in the Japanese imperial family who served in the military circles were also escorted back to the northeast. The king of Asakanomiya, who single-handedly caused the Nanjing Massacre, committed suicide on the day the Anti-Japanese Union entered Japan after learning that the first to land was actually Chinese.
However, Yang Zhen left the emperor behind, but all the property of the imperial family was left with nothing. The first thing the Japanese emperor, who was actually Japan's No. 1 war criminal, did when he met the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific Theater was that he hoped that the US military would subsidize a little living expenses to the imperial family, so that the remaining imperial family personnel could maintain a minimum of living.
Because of him, all the royal family of the royal family, all the property combined, except for some small cottages in the countryside that are super worthless, there is not even 10,000 yen left. What puzzled the emperor even more was how the Chinese could know that, apart from a few of his henchmen, even the vast majority of the imperial family members did not know the location of the secret treasures of the Japanese imperial family?
Not only did he plunder the royal property on the surface. As for the huge amount of gold that was secretly hidden by the Japanese Imperial Family, which was buried very deeply, it was plundered from China and all the Japanese victim countries of World War II, and none of them were pulled down, and they were also found and transported.
The Chinese looted the Japanese imperial family so thoroughly. Except for the dead money that can't be withdrawn from Swiss bank accounts that have been frozen since the war with the United States and Britain. The entire imperial family, including the emperor himself, was so embarrassed that they could not even afford to eat before the US troops landed in Japan on a large scale.
The most important thing is that almost all the palaces of the Japanese imperial family were deliberately razed to the ground in the air raids. If it weren't for the fact that the air-raid shelter built by the Japanese government for His Majesty was too strong, and the anti-poison and arson facilities were outside, I am afraid that the imperial family would not have been just a matter of catching up with a few princes in this war.
Wherever the emperor went, the anti-coalition bombed everywhere. From Tokyo to Kyoto, and from Kyoto to the countryside, there is not a single place known to the emperor that has not been blown to the ground. Even the bombing of the Americans, the move of razing the palace that was deliberately avoided was razed to the ground, and it was clear that the people were trying to destroy his entire royal family.
When the first wave of anti-Japanese forces parachuted in Tokyo found the emperor and bloodily suppressed the resistance of the Guards Division in order to protect the emperor's dignity and safety, the emperor was almost not frightened to death. I was afraid that the Chinese would come to the door and shoot him, like the general Matsui Ishone, with a sign and a top hat on the streets of various cities in China.
When the U.S. troops arrived, the emperor, who was so frightened that he couldn't give up all day, didn't he seem to have seen a great savior? Although it is embarrassing to open your mouth to ask for living expenses. But it is much better than being scared all day long under the guns of the Chinese, plus hungry.
In fact, Yang Zhen's plan was not really to kill the emperor, let alone bring him back to China. He knew that if he captured the emperor as well, he would be able to do it easily, but it would be difficult to finish. At that time, this guy will not be able to kill, and it will be useless to raise it, and it will become a problem in the future work with Japan.
In the end, Yang Zhen directly adopted the method of intimidation, striving to scare the emperor's spirit out of a little problem, so that he could take the initiative to abdicate. Or let the Americans force him to abdicate and save himself trouble. After all, a mentally ill person, as the supreme ruler, is not acceptable to the public even if it is a tablet.
Yang Zhen is still clear about this guy's methods. Knowing that this Showa Emperor not only controls the means, but is much more shrewd than his brainless father, the Taisho Emperor. And its methods are not only very vicious, but also deeply rooted in the imperial mind of Chinese culture. It's not an easy thing to make him mentally ill.
It's just that this guy with tough nerves is far more difficult to deal with than Yang Zhen imagined. Under the intimidation in turns, he survived for nearly a month. watched his brother and nephew being taken away, and didn't do anything, quite submissive. waited until the U.S. troops landed and took over his custody.
However, compared to the failure to make the emperor a madman, Yang Zhen's ransacking of Japanese industry was quite successful. When the new Japanese government was established after the war, it was discovered that even the equipment of the mint, along with the technical personnel, the banknotes in the stock and all the raw materials for minting, had been looted.
The newly formed Japanese government wanted to print a batch of banknotes in response to rising inflation, but could not find printing equipment and workers. It was impossible to find a single piece of paper that could print banknotes, nor could it find a printing press or technician who could print money. All the bank vaults were ransacked and all the coins were shipped back to China.
In desperation, the new Japanese government negotiated with the United States and demanded that the Americans, who were about to become the emperor of Japan, immediately stop the anti-Japanese alliance's robbery of Japan, which was almost unlimited and dismantled whatever it caught. On the one hand, it could only print a batch of currency at the American Mint in the form of a loan, and re-customize a batch of equipment.
Although after the landing, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific Theater urgently negotiated with Yang Zhen, who had personally rushed to Japan and personally commanded the sweep of Japanese industry, and demanded that the Anti-Japanese Federation immediately transport back all the equipment that had been dismantled. and immediately withdraw all troops in Japan and return all Japanese scientific and technological personnel who were kidnapped by it.
The Supreme Commander of the Allied Pacific Theater, who believed that it was not in the interests of the Americans to dismantle Japan, was unusually firm in his attitude on this matter. He insisted that the Anti-Japanese Union was not an army of the Chinese government, that it had not been authorized by Chongqing, and that it had no right to station troops on the Japanese mainland as required by the United Nations, which had already been established.
If the Anti-United Nations does not immediately withdraw all its troops on the Japanese mainland, then the United States will regard the Anti-United Nations as an illegal intruder and has the right to maintain the right to open fire on the Anti-Japanese side. If there is an unpleasant incident, all the responsibility will be borne by the anti-union side.
However, Yang Zhen's attitude towards the threat of the United States was very resolute, not only refusing to return all the dismantled industrial equipment and the technical personnel who were snatched away. He also demanded that the U.S. military agree to the Anti-Japanese Union to demolish the Yawata Iron and Steel Plant and the remaining parts of the Iron and Steel Plant to Northeast China.
The reason Yang Zhen insisted was that during the war, the Americans promised to help build two steel plants in the northeast in the form of loans, but they were not all in place. Only one set of 450-ton iron-making blast furnaces and three sets of 270-ton blast furnaces were given. As for the equipment for steelmaking, only two sets of 60-ton open-hearth furnaces, four sets of 50-ton open-hearth furnaces, and six sets of 15-ton converters were given.
The rest are about three tons of electric furnaces that are harsh on raw materials and consume huge energy. And the required coal and coke equipment, the Americans gave only a third. The power transmission and transformation equipment that other steel plants should have, as well as other critical equipment, did not even have a shadow by the end of the war.
Even with the equipment dismantled from the Taiyuan Northwest Steelmaking Plant, the steel plant was barely put into operation. But because of the lack of a large number of critical equipment, the production capacity is less than one-third of what the Americans originally promised. And because of the lack of rolling equipment, although the steel mill is barely operational, it can only produce crude steel, not rolled into lumber.
The second oil smelter that was promised was only given half of the equipment, and not a single part of the key equipment distillation tower was given. The promised aid to other industrial equipment was only 45 percent of what the Americans had originally promised. In particular, the number of lathes urgently needed by the machinery industry is far from meeting the original promise of the Americans. In Yang Zhen's view, it was the Americans who broke the contract first and forced the Anti-Japanese Federation to take unilateral action.
These were the steel mills and oil smelters in the hands of the Japanese, as well as other factories. All were built using resources plundered from China. Before the Japanese brutally plundered China, the Anti-Japanese Federation generously gave up their claims. The Americans breached the contract during the war, and the Anti-Japanese Federation did not intend to pursue it again. But these factories had to be used to compensate for the industrial equipment that the Americans had promised during the war, but which had not been delivered.
In the face of Yang Zhen's accusation that the United States did not benefit the population, the promised aid was far from the amount promised by the Americans. The huge gap had serious consequences, making the Chinese pay more blood in the war. In fact, in the eyes of the Americans, it is an accusation that is intended to be denied and not returned. In addition to the ensuing warship incident, it brought about serious contradictions between the two militaries.
After President Roosevelt's death, the United States, which had already changed its policy toward China, finally made a complete break with the Anti-Japanese Union. Originally, according to Yang Zhen's intentions, the idea of taking advantage of the Americans' attempt to mediate the situation in post-war China as a mediator and trying to find a way to get back the equipment that the Americans promised but never had in place ultimately failed.
The so-called friendship forged in the face of mutual use in times of war is so fragile. When the war against Japan ended, it was destroyed in a short period of time. On the surface, the two sides openly blamed each other and fought with each other, and in private, they were also making some preparations to deal with accidents.
After turning its face, the U.S. side not only rejected Yang Zhen's proposal that the U.S. side continue to provide the equipment promised during the war, but failed to provide, and the Anti-Japanese Federation returned some Japanese industrial equipment in exchange. He also demanded that Yang Zhen immediately return all the expenses for U.S. aid equipment during the war. and immediately withdraw all troops from the Japanese mainland.
After being rejected by Yang Zhen without hesitation, in order to intimidate these arrogant American generals, who had changed from the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific to the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in Japan, who were quite lawless in the eyes of the arrogant American general, who had changed from the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific to the commander-in-chief Chinese of the Allied forces in Japan, the U.S. forces stationed in Japan sent troops to surround the armored brigade that was fully American-made and equipped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Yang Yan Now that the war is over, they want to disarm this armored brigade. The brigade was equipped with 90 M-4 Sherman tanks, 30 M5 light tanks, and a large number of M3 half-tracks. In order to threaten the anti-coalition garrison, the US military also dispatched a large number of planes to hang bombs and shuttle back and forth over the garrison of this armored brigade while dispatching troops. and cut off all supply channels and cable communication links to the outside of this brigade and the station.
And the armored brigade of the Anti-United Nations, which received an ultimatum, did not receive an order from its superiors. Immediately according to the anti-union in private, whoever dares to do it, will be fucking beaten back. Even if he was lying down, he couldn't let the opponent stand, and he immediately shrank his forces without showing weakness. The whole army began to build fortifications and prepare for battle.
And put on a pretense that if you really dare to come, I'll fucking fight you to the death. Even if I die, I'm going to bite you hard. The other two divisions of the Anti-Japanese Union stationed in Japan, under Yang Zhen's order, immediately surrounded the US troops in front of them, and the artillery was directly erected under the nose of the US military headquarters in Japan.