Unlike China, a Japanese empire that wants to become a world power must have a large enough colony, especially when Sino-Japanese economic and trade has fallen into an unprecedented period of stagnation. The Sino-Japanese economic and trade war has continued from 1908 to the present, spreading from the Northeast to the

Worldwide, in addition to each other’s internal markets being protected by tariffs, China

Japan's economic and trade war in the Asian, African and Latin American markets has become increasingly fierce. After fifteen years of development, this economic and trade war has actually been of great benefit to both sides. It has stimulated the national industries of both sides to make great progress in technology, management, marketing and products.

The development of China has only changed from Japan's initial absolute advantage to China's gradually occupying a more comprehensive advantage.

Right now, today, in this era, in the 11th year of Taisho in the Japanese Empire, in the 12th year of Jinmu in the Chinese Empire.

Standing next to the increasingly powerful Chinese Empire, Japan's sense of crisis is far stronger than that of the entire world. The empire's territory is 42 times that of Japan, its population is 8 times that of Japan, and its total economic volume is 10 times that of Japan.

The total amount of major resources such as coal, iron, copper and aluminum is thousands of times more.

Japan cannot stop the pace of development. Once it stops, it will be severely grasped and crushed into pieces by the Chinese Empire. At this moment, the gap between the navies of China and Japan is the largest.

Japan is in its most glorious stage after the Treaty of Washington, while the Imperial Navy is just starting out. It will take at least ten years to make up for this gap.

Japan, which was suddenly becoming more timid, embarked on yet another more thrilling adventure strategy.

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Song Biao's political acumen allowed him to make another successful prediction. Rather than sending Rear Admiral Akiyama Shinyuki to apologize, it is better to say that Japan is asking for the colonial rights of Chinese New Guinea. At the very least, Japan wants China to pay a suitable price.

Sold to Japan.

Japan also proposed that if China transferred the former German New Guinea to Japan or sold it to the Empire of Japan, the Empire of Japan could meet the requirements of the Chinese Empire and ban the use of the word "China" in domestic government documents and diplomacy.

A notable feature of Ouyang Geng's cabinet in diplomacy is that it is tougher than that of Tang Shaoyi's cabinet. The cabinet not only rejected Japan's unreasonable and ridiculous demands, but also condemned Japan's arrogance and rudeness. It will not make any decisions on colonial issues.

Give in.

What is German New Guinea?

How could the empire cede a colony that produces hundreds of thousands of tons of copper concentrate and nearly ten tons of gold to a foreign country each year, much less to Japan. Don’t underestimate this place. The climate and environment here determine its advantages. German colonization

During this period, a good economic and agricultural foundation has been laid here. It is rich in palm, copra, coffee, cocoa and rubber, plus the surrounding abundant fishery resources, as well as oil and gas resources, it is absolutely impossible for the empire to transfer it.

The empire's consistent policy is to do its best to "reduce imports and increase exports," and this place is the best complement to the empire. The empire has even begun a large-scale immigration plan to settle in New Britain, which has the most intensive gold and copper resources.

and the oil-rich New Ireland Island as its own. In the next ten years, the empire will gradually immigrate 600,000 people there. It will also use this as a springboard to continue to export more people to the South Pacific.

As the empire enters the second industrial revolution, the empire's demand for copper grows rapidly. Currently, the world's refined copper production is only 1.4 million tons. The empire's copper output last year accounted for 17% of the world's. The New Guinea copper mine is not only the only world-class mine controlled by the empire.

The copper content of copper mines and copper concentrates is also much higher than that of domestic poor copper mines, so the empire will never make any form of concession.

A new round of conflict between China and Japan has come again.

Although Akiyama Shinyuki hoped to solve this problem by meeting Emperor Hua directly, the Emperor did not make arrangements to meet him. He could only return home sadly amidst a tough conflict with the Imperial Foreign Minister. No one expected that this would be

The complete decline of the pro-China faction in Japan.

Japan's greed and the expansionism they must maintain have caused renewed turmoil in Sino-Japanese relations, which have been in a cold war for a long time due to economic and trade wars.

Shortly after Akiyama Masayuki left, Japan dispatched two battleships to Port Moresby, which was hosted by Australia. The Empire ordered the garrison in Chinese New Guinea to be on first-level alert, and was also preparing to send two Cathay-class battleships to Laos.

City port garrison.

Before the warship was about to leave the Qingdao Naval Base, Chief of General Staff of the Central Military Department Jiang Fangzhen, Chief of Naval Staff Sa Zhenbing, and Minister of Navy Song Wenhui went to the General Office of the Central Palace to report the latest situation of the incident to Emperor Song Biao, and waited for the Emperor

the final order.

The expressions of the three of them were extremely serious and nervous, because the Japanese navy they were facing maintained a level three times that of the Empire on its battleships.

The written report was written by Chief of Naval Staff Sa Zhenbing himself, and he presented it to His Majesty the Emperor with respectful hands. At this moment, deep in his heart, he was also filled with an inexplicable fear, worried that the Emperor would decide to adopt a more violent confrontation.

As the chief of naval staff of the empire, Sa Zhenbing knew very well that the imperial navy was not a match for the Japanese navy at all. Although the empire already had two Austro-Hungarian Empire's Combined Forces-class battleships and four Cathay-class battleships, due to their smaller tonnage

, the total displacement tonnage is only 114,000 tons (imperial system), which is only equivalent to the Japanese army's 13.

The Japanese Navy has 6 super-dreadnoughts with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, and 4 super-dreadnoughts with a displacement of more than 25,000 tons. If you add the Nassau class compensated by Germany and the Japanese-made Satsuma that have not been officially dismantled,

Class, Settsu class, the gap between the Chinese and Japanese navies is 4 times.

This battle is obviously unwinnable.

The Imperial Army is the best in the world, but it is an indisputable fact that the Navy is far weaker than Japan. Of course, the Imperial Navy also has long-term grand plans, but such long-term plans happen to be in the most vacuum at this stage.

According to the Treaty of Washington, the Imperial Navy will have a total tonnage index of capital ship displacement of up to 275,000 tons (imperial system). Although the total is smaller than Japan's 385,000 tons, the Empire is allowed to subsequently build two more 35,000-ton battleships, and is allowed to

Uses a 16-inch main gun.

The most supplementary agreement. The Imperial Navy maintains the same 85,000-ton (British tons) standard as Japan in terms of the total tonnage limit for aircraft carrier construction. Relying on the Empire’s air force and aircraft industry advantages, this will further bring the Imperial Navy and Japan closer to a certain extent.

The gap between the Japanese navy.

However, according to the plan of the Imperial Navy, this gap will eventually be filled around 1935, and the Imperial Navy will not have the strength to challenge Japan's naval hegemony in the Western Pacific in the next ten years. Regarding this, Song Biao

, Jiang Fangzhen, Sa Zhenbing, and Song Wenhui all knew it very well, because this decision was made jointly by them.

Song Biao looked at the latest information provided by the Naval Intelligence Department. The Japanese Navy was under full martial law, which meant that the Japanese Navy was ready for battle. And all of this was just another long-planned conspiracy by Japan.

He knew very well that Japan had wanted to attack the Imperial Navy for a long time, but it had never had the chance in the past, but now it finally found it.

At this time, Japan probably also had a policy confusion. On one side, the cabinet wanted to get Chinese New Guinea, and on the other side, the navy was crazy and dreaming of fighting the Chinese navy. It defeated the Chinese navy in the first battle and once again established through war claims that Japan was the only naval hegemon in Asia.

status, once again regaining the national destiny and all privileges in China that were lost by the Japanese Army.

When Song Biao was reading various information here, Jiang Fangzhen, Song Wenhui and Sa Zhenbing were all filled with nervousness. They knew very well that once the Aurora and Lushun left the port, they would probably be like Zhenyuan and Dingyuan.

Can't come back.

Everyone was struggling. They didn't want to cede New Guinea to Japan, but they also didn't want to risk a decisive battle with the Japanese navy.

Song Biao didn't know that the Imperial Navy was still in its infancy and had just learned to walk, while Japan had been sharpening its sword for a long time. However, the real reason that forced Japan to adopt such a tough stance came from the compromise between Britain and the United States.

, and Japan itself indeed has no choice. If it wants to develop, it has almost no other choice except to use crazy provocations to fight for interests.

All the colonies that can be fought for around the world already have owners. Although the Dutch colony in Indonesia is weak, it has the protection of the United Kingdom, and to the east is the United States, which cannot be offended at all. Japan can only take risks with China to gain benefits.

maximize.

Song Biao was silently thinking about this issue.

Song Wenhui finally couldn't help but suggested to Song Biao: "Your Majesty, maybe Japan has no intention of starting a war. After all, they have just signed the "Washington Treaty". They are launching a new round of naval war at this time just to completely force our country to withdraw from the treaty. Other countries

You won’t allow it, right?”

Song Biao hummed slightly, and then corrected: "It's hard to say, I think the tolerance and sympathy of countries such as Britain and the United States towards Japan is largely due to our country's expansion too fast. Even quasi-allies like the United States and France are

allies, they actually have a mentality of wanting to contain our country.

. It should be said that Japan seized this opportunity. We did rely on the army to force the British to make many concessions, but how could the British be willing to do so? I think the British supported Japan's tough stance, otherwise they would not have moved the port

Giving up the garrison to Japan already shows Britain's attitude."

Song Wenhui asked: "Your Majesty, how should we respond? Should we ask the United States and France to coordinate?"

Song Biao was noncommittal.

Before signing the Treaty of Washington, he considered purchasing four battleships from the United States as an emergency. The United States was going to dismantle this part of the battleships anyway, but in the end he gave up the matter out of luck, and now he has suffered retribution.

Because the United States made major concessions to Japan and withdrew from various naval bases in the Western Pacific, the United States is now unable to stop this situation.

After careful consideration for a period of time, Song Biao speculated that the current international environment was relatively stable. Although various countries had some intention of using Japan to contain the empire, they may not really want to tear up the "Washington Treaty".

Especially for the United States, once the United States is involved in this matter, the outcome will become difficult to say.

Taking this into consideration, Song Biao and Jiang Fangzhen ordered: "There is no need to send battleships into Nanyang for the time being. The entire Air Force will be put on level 2 alert. The 215th Division will be transferred from Fujian to New Britain Island, and the 204, 205, 207, 208, and 210 Air Force Divisions will be transferred to the Northeast Military Headquarters.

, the 208th and 210th divisions were transferred to the Pyongyang area to allow the Air Force to unblock and overhaul old models at any time.

In preparation for resumption of service, the 213th Division was transferred from Nanchang to Taiwan. Other divisions were transferred to the coast one after another, and five new air force divisions from 216 to 220 were added to prepare for entering the Northeast and North Korea. At the same time, the production speed of heavy bombers was increased.

An air force bombing exercise targeting warships was secretly conducted in the waters of Qiongzhou Bay to test various previous related research and new torpedo technologies."

After hearing these instructions, Jiang Fangzhen and the others understood that the emperor wanted to use the empire's superior air force to fight Japan. Due to the large number of aircraft exported during World War I, the scale and level of the empire's aircraft industry has remained at the leading level in the world, with

Shenyang Aircraft, Far East Fokker and Shanghai Curtis are three famous aircraft manufacturing companies. They also cooperate very closely with France and the United States. In recent years, they have also conducted secret cooperation with Germany on a large scale.

This is something that Japan cannot achieve.

Affected by the Sino-Soviet War, the empire still maintains a regular establishment of 15 air force divisions. Each provincial patrol force also retains an air patrol detachment. The empire's air force establishment is greatly affected by the army. Each air force division maintains two air force combat groups.

, one bombing regiment and two ground support regiments, each air regiment maintains three aviation detachments, each detachment has 3,035 fighter jets.

The difference between the air force of World War I and World War II and that of the latter part of World War II is very big. For now, especially after the test of the Sino-Soviet War, the establishment of the Imperial Air Force is generally more suitable for the needs of the current stage of war.

If a large-scale war is encountered, the aviation detachments under each air force will surge from three to ten, the limit of large-scale air combat, and the reserve of flight and ground staff will also remain at the world's leading level.

If Japan cannot understand the empire's air superiority, attack blindly and attempt blackmail, the empire can only take the initiative and use its air force superiority and land superiority to prove its strength to Japan.

After making a series of military deployments, Song Biao believed that his warnings to Japan were sufficient. If Japan ignored these warnings, the next step would inevitably be a new Sino-Japanese war.

After the Imperial Air Force began to mobilize frequently, Japan seemed to suddenly realize that China was no longer the Manchu Empire it had been in the past. The Chinese Empire had no intention of making any kind of concessions, and would not even hesitate to engage in an all-out war. This result made Japan quite unhappy.

Surprisingly, although it has absolute superiority in the navy, Japan must also consider the influence of the Sino-French alliance and other factors.

Because Japan demanded that the Empire transfer German New Guinea and sent two Ise-class battleships to Port Moresby to threaten the Empire, it was called the Sino-Japanese Ise Incident. After the Empire's 215th Air Force Division stationed in New Britain Island,

The Japanese army, which lacked sufficient air support, was forced to withdraw its two Ise-class battleships to the mainland.

Japan's long-planned Ise incident thus turned into a contest between the Chinese Air Force and the Japanese Navy. Because of the large-scale use of the Chinese Air Force and its irreversible tactical advantages in the Sino-Soviet war, Japan was in the middle of the war between China and Japan.

The Ise Incident ended silently in the secret battle.
To be continued...