Gao Fei paused slightly and continued: "The British want to save face. I'm afraid the only thing left is shamelessness. If they still want to pretend to be the boss, we can't be too polite to him. We have laws to follow when sending troops to Myanmar. Myanmar has been China since ancient times.

The territory was ceded and occupied by the British. Our party has abolished all imperialist impositions.

Our country's unequal treaties will be announced one by one at the appropriate time. They can even include unequal treaties such as the Treaty of Nerchinsk, announcing the recovery of Hong Kong, Macao, Annan, Taiwan and other territories that have belonged to China since ancient times. Therefore, our army is sending troops. Myanmar is my country’s internal affairs and does not require interference from other countries.”

Gao Fei's words caused Chiang Kai-shek's facial expression to change back and forth several times. Gao Fei's thinking was so fast that Chiang Kai-shek felt that his thinking was a bit behind. He could only tell Gao Fei to slow down and then ordered someone to bring a notebook.

, recorded in person.

Just as Gao Fei was eloquent, in the Army Minister's Residence in Tokyo, the Army Minister Hideki Tojo, still in military uniform, touched his bald head. If he were not in the Army Minister's Residence, many people would doubt the Empire.

Does Prime Minister Lu only have one set of clothes to wear?

Tojo Hideki, who had a dull expression on his face, also secretly summoned a small figure who was ultimately important to his future strategy formulation, Lieutenant Colonel Kikusaburo Okada, the Chief of the Armament Section of the General Staff Headquarters, and known as Japan's No. 1 strategist besides Kanji Ishihara.

, Tojo Hideki believes that due to his great reputation,

It is difficult to prove that Ishihara Kanji was kicked out of the army by him. Okada Kikusaburo is actually a theoretical data person and does not have the strategic analysis ability of Ishihara Kanji at all, so he is considered by Tojo Hideki to be modest and prudent.

So he was unexpectedly reused and summoned alone.

In less than a year, three consecutive cabinets collapsed. After several cabinet changes like Hiranuma Kiichiro, Abe Nobuyuki, and Yoneuchi Mitsumasa, Konoe Fumimaro once again came out to form the cabinet. In Konoe's cabinet formation this time, he was tough.

The factionalist Hideki Tojo was appointed as the Prime Minister, so Hideki Tojo decided to seize the opportunity to do something to show everyone. Can I only manage three machine guns?

Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice to Mountains and Rivers 576

Okada Kikusaburo sat respectfully opposite Tojo Hideki. Tojo Hideki's personal life was indeed simple and frugal. This was also related to the fact that he was afraid of poverty since he was a child, so after he took office, he left the leather sofas, crystal table lamps, etc. left behind by his predecessor.

All the luxuries he considered were thrown into the rubbish heap, but little did he know that his frugality had earned him the title of the most prodigal Minister of War in Japan.

In fact, both Okada Kikusaburo and Tojo Hideki can see that Konoe Fumimaro's cabinet may not be around for long, because Japan has completely angered the U.S. government over the French Indochina incident.

The U.S. government has clearly issued clear warnings in advance.

The first time was three days after the Japanese government issued an ultimatum to the French Indochina authorities to enter southern French Indochina. Sumner Wells, the deputy secretary of state of the U.S. government, asked Wakasugi, the minister to the United States, to stop the invasion. The second time was when the French

After the Indochina authorities accepted the request to enter, Wells once again urgently summoned Ambassador to the United States Koshisaburo Nomura, and strongly condemned Japan's actions which can only be considered as conclusive evidence of the policy of aggression and conquest of the Southeast Asian region.

To this end, U.S. President Roosevelt deliberately summoned Japan's Ambassador to Washington, Nomura, and proposed measures to neutralize French Indochina. He also stated that so far, the U.S. government has insisted that providing loans and oil to Japan is for peace in the Pacific, not war, but now

Seeing Japan in French Indochina already meant the path to peace

The United States has already revealed its intention to embargo steel, oil and other strategic materials. At the same time, with the expansion of the Japan-China war, the United States has increased its economic pressure on Japan. During the year, the United States government has successively abolished the "Japan-U.S.

Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, it can be said that the U.S. government was very anxious and worried about the Japanese army's attempt to advance southward.

As the Japanese army entered northern French Indochina, the United States decided to ban the export of scrap steel as weapons manufacturing materials to Japan. Since then, important materials such as copper and nickel have also been included in the list of contraband. The only exception is oil. Although the U.S. government

Japan hardliners advocate an embargo, but

President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull always took a cautious attitude, because they fully understood that Japan's oil self-sufficiency rate was less than 9%, and most of the imported oil came from the United States. If the oil supply was stopped, Japan would be in a desperate situation.

, is likely to push Japan into war.

Therefore, after Hideki Tojo took charge of the Army, the Army Ministry's Combat Readiness Section proposed a judgment on national strength in early March. The person responsible for making the judgment was Major Hideo Shibao, attached to the Military Strategy Section, and Lieutenant Colonel Kikusaburo Okada, the section chief, was responsible for the final decision.

Revision and correction as well as research and judgment of specific information, etc.

After conducting long-term and accurate data analysis, Hideo Shibao and Kikusaburo Okada concluded that it would be "difficult" to use force against the South. Kikusaburo Okada believed that from the perspective of material national strength, a long-term war against the United States and Britain would

It will inevitably make people uneasy.

Okada Kikusaburo also hesitated before making the report. The main items of the "Shinjo Report" that he compiled listed in the comparison of Japan and the United States. In terms of steel alone, the United States has an annual steel production of 95 million tons, which is the largest number of Japan's.

Twenty-four times that of Japan, the annual refined oil production is 120 million barrels, which is 1,200 times that of Japan.

The annual output of coal is 500 million tons, which is 12 times that of Japan. The annual output of finished aluminum is one million tons, which is ten times that of Japan. The annual production of aircraft is 120,000, which is 25 times that of Japan. The annual production of automobiles is 500 million tons, which is 12 times that of Japan.

There are six million vehicles, fifty times that of Japan, and the number of ships produced per year is ten million tons, five times that of Japan.

Moreover, what Okada Kikusaburo reported was a rough peacetime industrial estimate of the United States, which contained a certain amount of moisture. This moisture was the so-called survey statisticians who deliberately underestimated the industrial strength of the United States during the survey and statistics process. If the US industry turns to war,

Under the current system, the power produced by the United States could directly and completely destroy the Empire of Japan.

In Okada Kikusaburo's view, if the Empire of Japan wants to become an enemy of the United States, it is simply making an unprecedented gamble, and the result is likely to bring about the final destruction of the Empire of Japan.

Hideki Tojo almost gasped after reading the real version of the report. The report submitted to the military department was actually changed and simplified. Okada Kikusaburo's investigation results are related to the national policy of the final decisive battle of the empire.

It was formulated, so even Tojo Hideki did not dare to be sloppy.
Chapter completed!