King Fushimimiya Hirokyo seemed very arrogant. He was a hero of the navy during the Russo-Japanese War and represented the emperor to control the navy. It was precisely because of his identity that others could not resist his various requests.

He said coldly: "The Emperor hopes not to be enemies with Britain, the United States and China at the same time, so we must resolve conflicts with Britain, the United States and continue to implement tough policies against China. Therefore, the naval competition with China is inevitable, and the empire will never be

It may give the Chinese nation a shame that the navy has the technology and the advantages of warships. This is a matter of the dignity of the Great Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor. The cabinet should make every effort to do so. If there is no funding, then as much as possible.

Find ways to solve the problem. Even if all Japanese citizens can only eat porridge, the ultimate battleship must be built."

Keisuke Okada did not dare to refute the royal marshal, the royal marshal, and even though he felt that the royal quest was a bit too much, he could only nod honestly and say yes.

The Marshal means the Japanese Marshal's Mansion, just like the Military Affairs Minister of the Qing Dynasty, representing the highest qualifications and honors of the navy and army, rather than military rank. However, those who can be called marshal are generals of the Japanese Navy and Army, who have served as generals.

The third chief of the Navy and Army seat.

Among them, Prince Zai Ren and Navy General Fushimimiya Hirokyo are the royal marshals representing Emperor Showa, responsible for controlling the army for the emperor, whether it is the prime minister or anything else. The two royal marshals and navy

It is not worth mentioning in front of the general.

Especially the newly appointed Prime Minister Okada, he is really not as good as bullshit.

The three of them sat in the office clearly showed this. Marshal Fushimi Miyaki Hirokyo was sitting opposite the Prime Minister's desk. Navy Minister Okakuchi Sei was just sitting next to him, as if it was just Fushimi

The translator of King Gong Bo Gong.

During the three-person meeting, Fushimi Miyaki Hiroki most of the time, he didn't even have to lift his eyelids, and put his hands on the wide armrests, with a cold and arrogant expression. Keisuke Okada, who was clearly more experienced in the navy, could only bow his head and reply.

The way of speaking in Fushimimiya Hirokyoko was slow, but it was not allowed to be questioned by outsiders at all. He indifferently reminded Prime Minister Okada and Minister Okakuchiko, saying: "China has clearly proposed a new naval plan and will build four Ryukan.

The state-class battleship, four Yongzhou-class or emperor-class battleships, as well as eight new heavy cruisers and four aircraft carriers, the Great Japanese Empire could not allow China to gain the advantage of the navy, so please do your best, and the imperial navy must have it.

The same magnificent plan is to ensure the absolute advantage of the Imperial Navy over China.”

Keisuke Okada could only nod his head again, but felt even more painful in his heart, because Japan's finances could not support such an amazing suppression plan. Even if the Japanese Navy itself has a scale of the main ship that exceeds the Chinese Navy, it is necessary to compare it in practice.

Except for the four Sinian-class battleships that were built before and after the end of World War I, the rest were all newly built ships.

On Keisuke Okada's desk is the latest statistics of the Chinese Navy. Currently, according to statistics from the Japanese Navy, the three major fleets of the Chinese Navy in the north, south and Nanyang have a total of 4 Sinian magnitudes and 2 Qingzhou.

Class, four Yuzhou-class battleships, will start to build new Liangzhou-class battleships in three shipbuilding bases in Jiangnan, Qingdao and Luanzhou this year.

In addition, the Chinese Navy has four aircraft carriers and two aircraft carrier training ships, a joint strength-class battleship, 22 heavy cruisers and 45 light cruisers. If it were not for some old models, they were sold to others.

Allies, this number will be even higher.

The Japanese Navy Bureau estimates the number of Chinese submarines in the number of Chinese submarines at about 50, while Japan currently has only 32. Both sides mainly cooperate with Germany. It is expected that there is little technical difference and there may be a high degree of similarity.

Although the Japanese Navy is unwilling to admit it, the fact is that the Japanese Navy lost to the Chinese Navy in the cruiser competition. China has 10 naval bases to build cruisers, while Japan only has four shipyards to build. In terms of construction speed, the gap between the two sides is also relatively

Large, it only takes 10 months for each shipyard in China to build a cruiser, while it generally takes about 13 months for Japan.

According to the scale of the ship industry of both sides, if both sides strive to build ships and compete, China's warship production capacity will be about three times that of Japan during the same period.

Japan basically turned a blind eye to this gap and believed that the manufacturing technology of Chinese ships was too rough. In actual naval battles, 1.5 cruisers were usually needed to compete with one Japanese cruiser. Coupled with the influence of the traditional inferior level of the Chinese navy, the Japanese Navy has always been

I believe that the Chinese Navy needs to have a total displacement of twice or even three times that of the Japanese Navy to compete with the Japanese Navy.

On the one hand, the Battle of the Yellow Sea during the Russo-Japanese War created Japan's unprecedented national confidence, and to some extent, it also laid the shadow of failure.

As a hero of the royal naval army who participated in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Fumimiya Hakukyu was full of contempt for the Chinese navy in his heart and was extremely arrogant in dealing with people. Even the Prime Minister Okada in front of him, in his opinion,

It's not worth mentioning at all.

Since the cabinet fully agreed with the request of the Navy Headquarters, Fushimi Miyaki Hirokyo no longer wanted to get entangled with this cabinet prime minister who was not as good as the bullshit. He stood up arrogantly and put on the white imitation gloves that symbolize the holiness of the navy, and used Keisuke Okada

Emphasized: "The most urgent task of the empire is to dismantle the so-called Asian Alliance. No matter what means it is used, it must achieve this goal. The strength of the imperial navy is the basis for achieving this goal. If you always cherish it yourself, don't let others

If you see the strength of the Imperial Navy, those toads at the bottom of the well will not understand the power of the Empire, right, Your Excellency the Prime Minister?"

Keisuke Okada dared not neglect and hurriedly stood up and said, "What you said is that the empire must arrange a world sailing that follows the American white fleet, focusing on Asian countries, so that all countries can see the strength of the imperial navy."

Fushimi Miyaki Hirokyo proudly reminded: "The first stop is in China."

"yes!"

Keisuke Okada still dared not refute, so he personally sent Fushimi Miyaki Hiroki to leave the office.

After Fushimi Miyaki Hirokyo left under the protection of the guards, Keisuke Okada helplessly turned around and looked at Kinsuke Okakuchi. The two of them spoke indifferently, looking extremely serious.

After a while, Okakuchi said: "Prime Minister, although even if the Japanese people only eat porridge, the slogan of maintaining the superiority of the imperial navy is very loud. If you really want to do it, even so, it may not be possible for a long time.

Keep the advantage?"

Keisuke Okada slowly returned to his seat, closed his eyes silently for a moment, and then replied: "So we need to ease our relationship with Britain and the United States, but one thing is very troublesome, that is, even if

Our relationship with Britain and the United States will improve. As long as we want to try to expand south, it will threaten the interests of Britain and the United States. Whether it is South America, Southeast Asia, or the northward Far East, the empire has no suitable pioneering area.

Among the three countries of Britain and the United States, China is definitely the weakest. If we can unite the Soviet Union to attack China from east to west, we will have a great chance of defeating the Chinese Empire. The Soviet Union can regain the Far East and we can occupy Manchuria. This is undoubtedly our only one.

choice.”

Okakuchi-sen replied: "Yes, there are no other options, but cooperation with Germany will continue."

Okada Keisuke replied simply: "That's it!"

As he said this, his eyes turned to the globe next to his desk. This was the globe purchased during the Nishinoji Cabinet. However, Keisuke Okada hated this thing very much, and he would be aware of it every time he saw it.

How big was the Chinese Empire?

Just then, officials from the Ministry of Economic and Finance came to deliver a special economic report called "China National Situation Investigation", but only a few thin pages. Okada Keisuke was lazy when he got the report.

He waved his hand and asked the official from the Ministry of Economic and Finance to get out.

In short, officials are becoming increasingly irresponsible nowadays.

Keisuke Okada was really a little angry. He remembered that when he was still studying at Naval University, there were often various investigation reports related to China at the school, and almost every part of the content could be printed thickly on a whole volume.

At that time, the slogans of conquering China within the Great Japanese Empire were very taboo and exciting. It was their passion and passion when they were young. Have they dissipated now?

For the generation of Japanese who have experienced the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, this is a persistent dream that can never be forgotten and given up. It is like fulfilling Toyotomi Hideyoshi's great ambition. It is simply exciting to think about it.

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At that time, it was not far from dreams. Every time I looked up, I felt that Japan was getting stronger and stronger, while China was always getting weaker and weaker.

Really.

Keisuke Okada still remembers that there was a regular meeting of the military headquarters. There was a lieutenant general or major general in the army, or a suggestion that the emperor of the Chinese emperor would directly assassinate the Chinese emperor, and declared that as long as the emperor died, the Chinese would fall into collapse and division again, and the opportunity for the Japanese Empire would be

Here comes.

Why didn’t I support such an idea at that time?

Keisuke Okada can't help but feel regretful now, but the Chinese national survey of the few pages in his hand really couldn't explain the problem. He picked it up and looked it over a few times, noting that China was still like the United States, and he always tried to use it.

Gross national product is used to measure national strength.

However, the report on China's GDP in recent years has been difficult to find. I don't know whether China has not conducted specific surveys and statistics since the Great Depression, or because the data is very scary, it is afraid to publish it at all.

But no matter what the numbers are, Keisuke Okada is full of sarcasm. For his generation, the scale of the country's economy is really not worth mentioning. Didn't Japan defeat China and Russia?

This is enough to show that the standard that represents the strength of a country can only be military power, not the so-called GDP. That kind of thing is really meaningless, right?

The Ministry of Economics and Finance still found a way to verify the general GDP of the Chinese Empire last year from an academic research paper from Zhendan University, and analyzed that "China claims that the scale of GDP exceeded that of the United States in 1933, but based on the actual situation,

In other words, and considering the frivolity of the Chinese bureaucrats, it is expected that its actual economic output will still be half of the United States. Once the US economy recovers, the gap between the two sides will still widen again. From the perspective of technical level and exports, the scale of Japan's economy should be 1/ of the United States.

About 6, while the industrial scale is expected to be 1/4 of that in the United States.”

Just a rough look, Keisuke Okada felt that the officials of the Ministry of Economic Affairs were becoming more and more ridiculous. If it were just calculated in this way, the GDP of the Chinese Empire should only be three times that of Japan.

No matter what, Keisuke Okada feels that officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Japan are lying, and still want to prove that the gap between the total economic volume between Japan and China is continuing to narrow, and he wants to cover up the facts.

Okada felt that even if he just used his butt to consider the problem, he would know that the gap between China and Japan's total economic output was already very large. Of course, this gap has little to do with the strength of the country. No matter what, if the war starts now,

Japan can still defeat China, and this is its real strength, so there is no need to lose confidence for such a small matter, so it is necessary to rely on lying to maintain the so-called decency.

Even though he thought so, Okada did not intend to correct anything. Every prime minister was unwilling to correct it, and he also had no need to do such a thankless thing.

Officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs said the Asian Trade incident very seriously. Although the gap between Japan and China in the total national economic output is not large at this stage, in the expected next decade, if the Great Japanese Empire cannot effectively curb it.

The free trade organization dominated by China that clearly excludes Japan will completely lose its market in Asia.

What makes Japan most concerned is that once the Asian League expands around China and further spreads to Indonesia and other regions, Japan's existence value in Asia will be completely deprived.

In addition to making threatening statements in accordance with the military's tough demands, Prime Minister Okada Keisuke had no idea what other ways could be used to curb this matter. It is too late to stop it now. If you directly send troops to attack China, even if you threaten and

By seducing other Asian Allies to prevent these allies from participating in the war, Japan's probability of winning this war is not high.

Prime Minister Okada himself thinks it is just a matter of low probability, and the whole of Japan generally thinks so.

Japan is a very strange country. The Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia were so vast that it still dared to challenge it. Even if the Chinese Empire today has strong strength, Japan feels nothing to challenge.

After so many years, Japan still believes that it will have many advantages in the war with China. Japan simply blamed the lack of light machine guns for its failure in the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, and its overall reflection on this is very low, even today.

The Japanese citizens basically don’t know how heavy the losses were back then, and the middle and low-level officers in the military are also not clear.

Such a famous and one-sided war seemed to have been erased in Japan, as if it had never existed.

As a navy general, Okada has not had a deep understanding of this.

He considered the issue from the perspective of the navy and always felt that it was not very difficult to deal with China, but it was not as easy as it was to deal with the Qing navy, and it was probably easier than against the Tsarist Russian navy. After all, in terms of strength, the Japanese Navy still possessed absolute strength.

Advantages.

After so many years, Japan has not launched a war of revenge with China again, which is a great miracle.
To be continued...