Chapter 1814: The Heaven and Earth(1/2)
The British ambassador in Japan picked up the Times during dinner in the morning. When he saw the front page headlines, he was immediately frightened and stunned on the spot. After reading the contents of the newspaper, his face turned pale.
"This, how is this possible? Is this really happening?!"
The ambassador stopped eating breakfast and immediately ran to the telegraph room and asked someone to send the contents of the newspaper to the country.
In fact, at this moment, the Prime Minister also saw the Japanese newspaper of the Times. Because the branch newspapers were published simultaneously around the world, although there were not many people in Japan who subscribed to the Times, most government officials and elites had subscribed to the newspaper.
After all, The Times is the largest newspaper today.
After seeing the contents in the newspaper, the Prime Minister sat dejectedly on the chair, his face looked extremely ugly, and he murmured: "The thing that I worry most is still happening. Such a big noise can't be kept in the end."
"Now, as the Times reported, there is a fear that there will be riots and turmoil in the country. Is this happening to the military?"
In fact, the chief also had doubts in his heart against the military. After all, only the military can conceal this matter to such a level, and eliminate 12,000 to 800. He would not believe it unless someone sacrificed those 12,000 people for the sake of the money.
The military has been crazy, and they keep making moves just to bet on the national movement to launch a war.
The military headquarters was very dissatisfied with the government for this year's budget and said that the money was too low for them, so they quarreled in front of His Majesty several times.
Could it be that some people have been crazy about banking in order to launch a war?
But if they do this, don’t you know that the entire country’s economy will collapse!
In the past two days, he has thought of many solutions. If that money cannot be found, how can he overcome the current difficulties?
Taking advantage of the robbery incident, it is probably the only way to fill this hole by secretly printing paper money, but now it has been exposed by the Times that this plan is no longer possible.
Then, in which direction will Japanese society go next, he is already confused, inflation, trade stops, currency depreciation, and people's livelihood withering.
He seemed to see the turbulent ending of Japan's future livelihood.
That morning, riots finally broke out in Japan.
Countless people ran to the bank and filled the hall with them. They took the money they had saved and wanted to withdraw their money, but now the bank had no money to exchange for them. The staff only had one reply and could not withdraw cash now.
The people didn't dare to shout.
"Our money is stored in the bank for insurance, but now it is stolen by the army, you need to be responsible."
"Yes, we only talk to the bank and withdraw money quickly."
"Get the money quickly!"
"Get the money quickly!"
The hall was in a mess and a quarrel.
And it's not just this one, but the whole of Tokyo and even Japan, and people flock to the bank to withdraw money. You know, this is a little money that the family has saved for many years. Now, telling them that they are gone, how can they accept it?
There are more than 100 banks in Japan, with only 32 headquartered on Bank Street. In fact, most banks have not been robbed by Jiang Hao, but the people don’t know that, they all went to the bank to withdraw money.
Those banks that have not been robbed will not stop persuading the public, but the public does not care about your tricks, and it is safest to hold them in their hands now, so other banks have also been severely squeezed.
Squeezing and withdrawing is a very terrible thing for banks. Normal banks cannot withstand squeezed and withdrawing because the bank's money will not be in vain in the bank's vault. They will lend the money to earn loan interest in order to earn interest spreads.
The cash flow stored by banks is actually not as much as people imagine. Under normal circumstances, it will naturally not affect operations. However, if there is a squeeze, people will withdraw money in a row, and all the money will be withdrawn, and the consequences will be disastrous for banks.
Therefore, after the Japanese squeezing incident, in addition to the 32 banks that were robbed, other banks were also seriously affected.
Some banks were afraid of something unpredictable and ordered the closing of the door to drive out the crowd. Now the people quit. Fight broke out in the middle of physical conflict, causing greater riots.
After reading the newspaper, the emperor suffered another heart attack and fainted, which made the imperial palace lively for a while, and finally finally came to save him.
After waking up, the emperor said weakly: "Immediately call all cabinet members and the third chiefs of the military to have a meeting to discuss how to deal with this matter."
Someone answered his order immediately.
Hirohito closed his eyes and kept playing a sentence in the newspaper in his mind. Whether this matter was really done by the military, the emperor also became suspicious.
The cabinet members came over, and each of them lowered their heads as if they were lost. They were as sad as if their parents had died, and no one spoke.
"Prime Minister Lu, how is the investigation? Five days have passed, are there no clues?" the emperor asked in a deep voice.
The Army Minister knew that the Emperor had already become suspicious of them. In fact, when he was reading the newspaper, he even felt that what the newspaper said was very right. If it weren't for the support of the military, how could 800 people dare to rob the bank?
How could eight hundred people kill 12,000 people? This is incredible.
"Return to Your Majesty, I didn't find any clues." The Army Minister had to bite the bullet and said.
The emperor took a few deep breaths, looked at the Prime Minister and asked, "Prime Minister, how do you think the situation that is happening now should be solved?"
The Prime Minister didn't know how to answer, and the room became extremely quiet.
Silence in the conference room is a tradition in Japan, referred to as "cold scenes", and this situation in later generations is still continued.
"Your Majesty, the redemption minister is incompetent. Now I can't think of a better way to solve the problem in front of me." The Prime Minister said with his head down.
"Just before coming to the Imperial Palace, I received telegrams from several heads of state, all asking about this matter. The Ministry of Commerce also received a lot of telegrams informing that some trade would be temporarily stopped."
"Maybe there is only one way to solve the problem, that is, to retrieve the huge sum of money." The Prime Minister said as he looked at the Army Minister opposite him.
The Army Minister immediately understood the meaning of the Prime Minister's look. Damn, is this the incident caused by the military?
"Prime Minister, why do you think of me like this?" the Army Minister said in a deep voice.
"I guess Prime Minister Lu has also read today's Times." The Prime Minister said.
"Of course I read it, so what? Do you believe what the newspaper said, suspecting that our military headquarters did this?" said the Minister of the Army angrily.
"Eight hundred soldiers, I don't know where they came from or where they went. Hundreds of tons of gold, silver, banknotes, and antiques were lost. If no one cooperated, could they be so seamless? Isn't it questionable?"
"You~~"
The Army Minister was speechless.
Seeing the two ministers of military and political affairs quarreled, the emperor felt even more irritable. He felt that his heart could no longer bear it.
In the end, neither side could argue with any result, but there were no less difficulties.
There is chaos in Japan.
Banks went bankrupt one after another, and people were stuck at the bank's door all day long. Government staff heard that their wages were gone and they had no intention of going to work.
The treasury was empty, and all plans for the second year were stranded. Foreign countries were very optimistic about Japan's situation, and a large amount of trade stopped, which put Japan in a dilemma.
At this moment, a fire broke out in Yokosuka Armory, and the warships anchored in the harbor were attacked, causing heavy losses, shocking the entire Japan!
Yokosuka Military Port is Japan's largest military port, close to Tokyo Bay, with an armory here to facilitate transportation of materials.
Jiang Hao was about to leave Japan, so he naturally could not go back empty-handed, so he would not give his master a face, so he came to Japan's largest armory area and cleaned up the place.
Set up a teleportation formation and transport the 50,000 Type 38 rifles, tens of millions of bullets, and thousands of Dazheng machine guns in the armory to the cave in Sichuan and Shu.
In addition to guns and bullets, there are 600 mortars, about 100,000 mortar shells, 200,000 kilograms of explosives, as well as quilts, clothes, military boots, canned food, etc.
Jiang Hao discovered another batch of aviation bombs, a total of several thousand.
Anyway, I can get it all away, but it's just a few more trips.
finally,
The huge cave in Sichuan and Sichuan was filled with full of fillings by Jiang Hao, and Jiang Hao stopped moving.
Then, a strong wind blew in the sky.
The wind rises and the clouds fly.
Then a fire ignited throughout the armory area. The fire took advantage of the wind and helped the fire power. Finally, the entire armory area was completely turned into ashes in the fire.
Where did the strong wind come from? Of course, it was Jiang Hao who cast the spell.
Where did the fire come from? Of course, it was also released by Jiang Hao.
Japan has four major naval bases, Wu, Yokosuka, Sasebo, and Maizuru. As of 1937, Japan has already owned 285 ships, with a total tonnage of more than 1.15 million tons and a navy of more than 120,000 people.
As for China, its navy has only more than 20,000 people, 66 warships, and a total tonnage of 50,000 tons, which is only a fraction of Japan's.
On the eve of World War II, Stalin once said that China has no military industry, and now whoever is happy can ravage her.
It's very harsh, but it's the truth.
Therefore, without a strong industry or a strong military force, no matter whether you are rich in things or talented in the world, you will be looked down upon.
Yokosuka Military Port.
In the evening,
A strong wind blew in Tokyo Bay and the sky was rolling dark clouds, indicating that a major storm might be coming. The surrounding warships received orders and all returned to the port to dock to avoid the storm.
The ships returned to their own berths one after another, docking in their berths. Many warships without berths were connected together with cables to ensure stability and squeeze the Yokosuka military port full of climbing.
Among these ships are the famous Kaga aircraft carrier and the Akagi aircraft carrier.
Both aircraft carriers participated in the war against China. In 1932, Japan invaded China at the Battle of August 13, the carrier-based aircraft of the Kaga bombed Suzhou and Hangzhou. After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the Kaga had been operating in Chinese waters.
In addition, there are battleships, cruisers, destroyers, transport ships, etc. in the port, with a total of more than 60 ships.
Dark clouds covered the sky, the entire military port fell into darkness, the strong wind roared, and the warship was beaten by the waves and shaking.
Suddenly,
A lightning dragon descended from the sky and slashed towards the sea.
Boom~!
To be continued...