While Yang Zhen was sweeping through the Japanese mainland, in addition to keeping the emperor, he also escorted all the members of the Japanese royal family who served in the military back to the northeast. The Asaka Palace who single-handedly created the Nanjing Massacre King Yanyan committed suicide on the day the Anti-Japanese Alliance entered Japan after learning that the first people to land were Chinese.
However, Yang Zhen kept the emperor, but nothing of the royal family's property was left. The Japanese emperor, who was actually Japan's number one war criminal, met the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific Theater for the first time. In this matter, they actually hope that the US military can subsidize some living expenses to the royal family so that the remaining royal family members can maintain a minimum living.
Because all the properties of him and all the royal family members in the imperial family were combined, except for some small villas in the countryside that were extremely worthless real estate, not even 10,000 yen was left, and the emperor was even more disappointed. What is puzzling is how the Chinese knew the location of the secret treasures of the Japanese royal family, which even most members of the royal family did not know except for a few of his confidants.
Not only did they plunder all the apparent royal property, but there was not a single trace of the huge amounts of gold plundered from China and all Japan’s victimized countries in World War II that were secretly hidden by the Japanese royal family and buried deeply. Those who were pulled down were also found and transported away.
The Chinese plundered the Japanese royal family so thoroughly. In addition to the dead money that could not be withdrawn from the Swiss bank account that had been frozen since the war with the United States and Britain, the entire royal family, including the emperor himself, , before the U.S. military landed in Japan in large numbers, they were so embarrassed that they could no longer even afford money for food.
The most important thing is that almost all the palaces of the Japanese royal family were deliberately razed to the ground in the air raids. If the Japanese government had not built an air-raid shelter for His Majesty that was too strong and had external anti-virus and fire-fighting facilities, I am afraid that the royal family would have been destroyed. In this war, it is not just a matter of several princes.
Wherever the emperor went, wherever he was bombed by the Anti-Japanese War, from Tokyo to Kyoto, and from Kyoto to the countryside, there was no place where the emperor lived that was not known to have been bombed to the ground. Even the Americans were bombed to the ground. The bombings and the razing of the palaces that he had deliberately avoided were clearly understood to be the intention to wipe out his entire royal family.
When the first wave of anti-alliance troops parachuted in Tokyo found the emperor and brutally suppressed the resistance of the Guards Division in order to protect the emperor's dignity and safety, the emperor was almost frightened to death for fear that the Chinese would come. , like General Matsui Iwane, parade him through various cities in China with a sign and a high hat, and then shoot him.
As soon as the U.S. military arrived, the emperor, who was so frightened that he couldn't help himself all day long, didn't seem to have seen the great savior there. Although it was a little embarrassing to open his mouth to ask for living expenses, it was better than being under the gunpoint of the Chinese all day long. Being scared to death is much better than being hungry.
In fact, Yang Zhen's plan is not really to kill the emperor, let alone bring him back to China. He knows that if he also captures the emperor, it may be easy to do it, but the ending will be difficult. At that time, this guy couldn't be killed, and it would be useless to raise him. It would also become a problem in the future work against Japan.
In the end, Yang Zhen simply adopted a method of intimidation, trying to scare the emperor out of his mental state and let him abdicate on his own initiative, or let the Americans force him to abdicate, so as to save himself trouble. After all, he is a mental patient. As the supreme ruler, even if it is used as a tablet, it is not acceptable to the public.
Yang Zhen is still clear about this guy's methods. He knows that Emperor Showa is not only much smarter in controlling his methods than his brain-dead father, Emperor Taisho, but his methods are not only very vicious, but also deeply rooted in Chinese culture. It is not an easy task to turn him into a psychopath with the emperor's inner tricks.
It's just that this guy with tough nerves was far more difficult to deal with than Yang Zhen imagined. Under repeated threats, he managed to survive for nearly a month, watching his brother and nephew being taken away without doing anything. , quite resigned and waited until the US military landed and took over his custody.
However, compared with the failure of turning the emperor into a madman, Yang Zhen's looting of Japanese industry was quite successful. When the new Japanese government was established after the war, it was actually found that the equipment of the mint, together with the technical personnel, and the take-out inventory were The banknotes and all the raw materials for coinage were looted.
The newly established Japanese government wanted to print a batch of banknotes to cope with the increasingly severe inflation, but it could not find printing equipment and workers. It was impossible to find a piece of paper that could print banknotes or a printing press in Japan. Machines and technicians were needed to print currency, all bank vaults were looted, and all coins were shipped back to China.
The new Japanese government had no choice but to negotiate with the United States and ask the Americans who were about to become the Emperor of Japan to immediately stop the Anti-Japanese League's almost unlimited looting of Japan by dismantling whatever they caught. model, a batch of currency was printed at the U.S. Mint, and a batch of equipment was re-customized.
Although after the landing, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific Theater urgently negotiated with Yang Zhen, who personally rushed to Japan and personally commanded the sweep of Japanese industries, demanding that the Anti-Japanese Alliance immediately transport back all the equipment that had been dismantled and evacuate all equipment immediately. troops in Japan and return all Japanese scientific and technical personnel kidnapped by them.
The supreme commander of the Allied Pacific Theater, who believed that dismantling Japan was not in the interests of the Americans, was extremely firm on this matter. He insisted that the Anti-Japanese Alliance was not an army of the Chinese government and had not been authorized by Chongqing. , has no right to station troops in Japan as required by the established United Nations.
If the Anti-Alliance does not immediately withdraw all troops in Japan, the United States will regard the Anti-Alliance as illegal intruders and retain the right to fire on the Anti-Alliance. If any unpleasant incident occurs, all responsibilities will be borne by the Anti-Alliance. Responsible.
However, Yang Zhen's attitude towards the threat from the United States was very firm. Not only did he refuse to return all the dismantled industrial equipment and the technicians who had been robbed and transported, he also demanded that the US military agree to the Anti-Japanese Alliance Yawata Steel Plant and the remaining parts of the entire , all demolished to Northeast China.
The reason for Yang Zhen's insistence was that during the war, the Americans promised to use loan models to aid the construction of two steel plants in Northeast China, but not all of them were in place. They only provided one set of 450-ton iron-making blast furnaces and 270-ton iron-making blast furnaces. There are three sets of blast furnaces. As for steel-making equipment, only two sets of 60-ton open-hearth furnaces, four sets of 50-ton open-hearth furnaces, and six sets of 15-ton converters are provided.
The rest are about three tons of electric furnaces that are demanding on raw materials and consume huge amounts of energy. The Americans only provided one-third of the required coal and coke equipment. They need power transmission and transformation equipment that other steel plants should have. , and other key equipment, did not even arrive until the end of the war.
Even with the equipment dismantled from the Taiyuan Northwest Steel Plant, the steel plant barely put into operation, but due to the lack of a large number of key equipment, the production capacity was less than one-third of the original promise of the Americans, and due to the lack of rolling equipment , although this steel plant was barely put into operation, it could only produce crude steel and could not be rolled into finished products.
The promised second petroleum refinery was only given half of the equipment, and not a single part of the key equipment distillation tower was given. Other industrial equipment was promised to be assisted, but only 45% of what the Americans originally promised was delivered. , especially the various lathes urgently needed by the machinery industry, the quantity was far less than the Americans' original commitment. In Yang Zhen's view, it was the Americans who breached the contract first, which forced the Anti-Japanese Alliance to take unilateral actions.
These steel plants, oil smelting companies, and other factories in the hands of the Japanese were built using resources plundered from China. Before the Japanese brutally plundered China, the Anti-Japanese Alliance generously gave up their claims. The Americans The Anti-Japanese Alliance does not intend to pursue the breach of contract during the war, but these factories must be used to compensate for the industrial equipment that the Americans had promised during the war but were not shipped in the end.
In the face of Yang Zhen's accusation that the United States did not provide real benefits to the population, the promised aid was far from the amount originally promised by the Americans. The huge gap caused serious consequences, causing the Chinese to pay more blood in the war. In fact, in the eyes of the Americans, it was an accusation that was intended to be denied and not repaid. Coupled with the resulting warship incident, it caused serious conflicts between the two militaries.
After President Roosevelt died of illness, the United States, which had already changed its policy towards China, finally broke away from the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Originally, according to Yang Zhen's intention, the Americans tried to mediate the post-war situation in China by using their mentality as mediators. , the idea of finding a way to get back the equipment that the Americans promised but never had in place ultimately came to nothing.
The so-called blood-earned friendship formed during the war by using each other was so fragile that after the war against Japan ended, it disappeared in a short period of time. The public accusations between the two sides intensified. There was a heated exchange of words, and privately they were making some preparations to deal with the unexpected.
After falling out, the United States not only rejected Yang Zhen's suggestion that the United States continue to provide the equipment it had promised but failed to provide during the war, and that the Anti-Japanese Alliance should return some Japanese industrial equipment in exchange, it also demanded that Yang Zhen immediately return the equipment that had been provided during the war. All U.S. aid equipment expenses will be paid, and all troops will be withdrawn from Japan immediately.
After being rejected without hesitation by Yang Zhen, in order to intimidate these Chinese who were quite lawless in the eyes of the arrogant American general who had been transferred from the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific to the Commander-in-Chief of Allied Military Control in Japan, the Chinese stationed in The Japanese U.S. military sent troops to surround the armored brigade of the Anti-Japanese Alliance that was performing missions in Japan and equipped with fully manufactured equipment.
Yang Yan said that now that the war is over, they will disarm this armored brigade and take back the ninety M4 Sherman tanks, thirty M5 light tanks, and a large number of M3 half-tracks equipped by this brigade. In order to threaten the Anti-Japanese Alliance While stationing troops, the US military also dispatched a large number of aircraft with bombs attached to fly back and forth over the armored brigade's station, cutting off all external supply channels and wired communication links between the brigade and the station.
The armored brigade of the Anti-League, which received the ultimatum, without receiving orders from their superiors, immediately followed the Anti-League's private policy of beating the hell back on anyone who dared to take action. Even if they lay down, they could not let their opponents stand. Following the old habit, he immediately reduced his troops without showing any signs of weakness, and the entire army began to build fortifications and prepare for battle.
And put on a show that if you really dare to come, I will fight to the death with you. Even if I die, I will bite you off hard. The other two divisions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance stationed in Japan, Under Yang Zhen's order, the US troops in front of him were immediately surrounded, and the artillery was set up directly under the nose of the US military headquarters in Japan.