Seeing that everyone was no longer talking, Ishihara Wanji said to Hirohito, "Your Majesty, based on the above, and considering the movement time of the German army, we must have you prepare one million troops in Manchuria for half a year to one year, including one thousand tanks.
vehicles, 1,200 aircraft, and 5,000 cannons, including 1,000 field guns over 75 mm and mountain cannons. Only in this way can our army get a share of the pie in the subsequent European War."
Hirohito nodded and said "yes"
Seeing Hirohito agreeing to Ishihara Kanji's proposal, Konoe suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, although I'm sorry, in the past two years, the cabinet led by me has not calmed down the war outside, and has not prospered the economy internally. I am really ashamed, and even more so.
Tragedies such as the Battle of Lunan, the Battle of Wuhan, and the Battle of Shanxi occurred, in which the cabinet's responsibility is not small. Therefore, the minister hereby proposes the resignation of the general secretary!"
"What? Isn't the imperial guard a man of honor?"
"Is this...is this too sudden?"
"Should we change the cabinet at this time... Well, the empire's policy is about to change. This time can be said to be just right."
All kinds of voices suddenly buzzed, and the guards shouted, "Be silent before His Majesty!" In this way, everyone slowly became quiet.
Hirohito looked at Konoe for a while and then said, "Is there a replacement?"
"Konoe's favor has not been lost..." Such a sentence flashed in everyone's mind. Hirohito asked what this meant, meaning that the next prime minister of the cabinet was appointed by Konoe. This can be said to be a great favor.
and trust.
Konoe was moved to tears, lying on the ground and crying: "Your Majesty's favor is hard to repay, and Hiranuma Kiichiro is the chairman of the Privy Council. He is a fair man. He has led Japan's prosecutorial affairs for many years and has made immortal contributions to the judicial construction of the empire."
If he is appointed as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, no one will be dissatisfied. At this time, the empire must not engage in internal strife again. Stability is the priority."
The Kiichiro Hiranuma whom Konoe is talking about is a 70-year-old man with a long donkey face, a wide forehead, protruding eyes, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and a beard like a sesame dot under his nose.
, has thick lips, a slender figure, and has never been married. He is obsessed with communist ideology and theory and the communist judicial system, and can be said to be a militarist theorist.
The most important thing is that he said he was a master of law, but he turned a blind eye to the corruption in the military. In the Siemens incident in 1914, the investigation materials included the fact that Navy Minister Saito Minoru accepted 100,000 yen, but it was covered up by Hiranuma secretly. After that, he
This was rewarded by the Minister of Justice. It can be said that when Konoe mentioned him, the words "want to get rich" appeared in the minds of all the generals.
Hirohito has always been interested in Hiranuma's theory, and he also knows that he has always been supported by the navy and elders, and has always been anti-Red and anti-Soviet. This will be helpful for the next war, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's do it by
Let him form the cabinet."
As darkness falls in Tokyo, senior Japanese officials in their cars no longer consider whether to go south or north, but are thinking about what kind of position they can get in this term of cabinet.
Kanji Ishihara's plan was also approved. A large number of Japanese military industrial companies, led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Fuji Heavy Industries, received new capital injections, requiring them to develop new technologies, especially in tanks and aircraft. The Navy was not unwilling to do so.
Showing weakness, various new warship designs were introduced one after another, and the progress of the "Yamato", "Musashi" and other ships already in the dock accelerated. The aviation faction headed by Yamamoto Isoroku and others even issued a request for new aircraft carriers and fighter aircraft.
Require.
More Japanese people were mobilized, Japanese diplomatic envoys were scurrying around the world, constantly purchasing strategic materials, the number of Japanese bonds was rising steadily, and the intensity of diplomacy towards Germany and Italy was further enhanced.
The whole world was surprised to find that Japan, which had encountered setbacks in China, seemed to be aroused and was ready to launch a large-scale attack on China again.
--Germany
Czechs walked into the Civil Affairs Bureau one after another. Looking at the German flags and swastikas flying high, many people sighed, but no one was willing to resist. After all, Czechoslovakia could still survive at this time. As long as it could survive,
Who wants to risk fighting?
A man with messy hair walked into the room with the "Audit Room" hanging on it. A fat man in a shirt looked at him and asked, "Occupation, nationality, what are your specialties? Bring me your watch."
The man hurriedly handed over the form he filled in. The man hummed and said, "Well, worker, I just passed the second-level benchwork skills test. I am a Bohemian with two children. I have not participated in the red organization. I have two skills."
Language, very good. Come on, rate it, go over there."
The man nodded quickly and walked aside. The woman over there quickly filled out the form and made calculations and said, "Level 9 citizen, this is your badge and level behavior manual. In addition, please remember clearly your level identity and the difference between the upper and lower levels.
Once you are found to have done something that is not allowed in your level, you will be fined at least, and you will go to jail at worst."
The man nodded and took the badge. He looked at the badge with a grass-green eagle drawn on it. He held a shield in his left paw and a sword in his right foot. There was a code behind the badge, which represented his identity.
Information code. I put it on with the help of the staff nearby, and then walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Looking at the streets, more and more people were wearing badges. And those wearing German military uniforms all wore badges.
A badge representing rank.
"Franz, you're out, what level are you at?" came a voice. Franz looked over, but it was his good friend Milan. The two of them had played together since childhood, and now they are also in the same group.
Factory work.
"Grass green is the second level, with the shield in the left paw and the sword in the right foot. It's four, not bad, it's level nine." Milan looked at Franz's badge and smiled.
"What's yours? How did you recognize it?" Franz asked, not knowing much about the hierarchy.
"Look, it's very simple. There are five levels in total. From top to bottom, they are golden, silver, bronze, black iron, grass green and blood red. Each level is divided into five levels. The left paw of the eagle holds the grass ring.
The right foot is holding rice, the left and right feet are holding shovels and hoes respectively, the left and right feet are holding shields and swords respectively, and the left and right feet are standing on the swastika, so it is easy to distinguish." Milan fiddled with his badge and said, "Look at mine.
Mine stands on the 10,000-digit level, which means I have the same rights as the most basic Germans."
"Same as the Germans? How is that possible? The Germans... invaded us. How could they let us have the same rights as them?" Franz said in a low voice, his eyes full of resentment. He was Boheme.
Asians are real Czechs. Although the Czech Republic's predecessor, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, stood with Germany during World War I, this does not mean that it can accept the Germans as the masters of this land.
Milan waved his hand and said with a disdainful expression, "Franz, don't be fooled by those careerists. Didn't you see the announcement? As long as we can abide by the law for two consecutive years, we can start
You can enjoy the same normal benefits as Germans. You are level 9 and can only receive 90% of the normal benefits of Germans. I can receive the same amount as them. If our professional level is higher, or the products we produce are better than others.
More, we can improve faster, and didn't Hitler promise that as long as we don't reject Germany within ten years, the German army will leave us. Those careerists actually want us to sacrifice our lives for them.
Then just climb to a high position."
Franz couldn't say what he disagreed with, but he always felt that as a Czech, if the Czech Republic was invaded, he had reasons and obligations to drive out the invaders.
"Huh? It's him? Wow, it's a red eagle. Come on, come on, Franz, come with me." Milan smiled while pulling Franz to the side of the road, where a Jew in a suit was holding his head down.
He was walking quickly with his head down, and there was a blood-red eagle pinned on his chest. The eagle stood on a swastika. He was a fifth-level person.
"Hey, are you watching the road when you're walking?" Milan shouted loudly. The man quickly raised his head and looked at Milan, and said repeatedly, "Sorry, sorry." Then he turned around and left.
"Hey, hey, I'm just sorry? Look at my badge and carefully recall the rules of the level manual. Sir, there seems to be someone here who doesn't want to abide by our level manual!" Milan waved with a smile, and one of them remained the same.
A man wearing a Czech police uniform walked by, looked at the two of them, and said to the Jew, "What's going on with you?"
Milan pointed at the man and said, "He bumped into me and he just said sorry. This is not allowed in the level manual."
The policeman seemed to be very familiar with the rank manual. He nodded and said, "Yes, according to the rank manual, you should bow to this gentleman for three minutes to show your regret."
The man clenched his fists, looked at the policeman who was already touching the gun with one hand, bent over with his eyes closed, and said word by word, "I'm sorry, sir! I'm sorry, sir!..."
Franz couldn't stand it and said, "Milan, forget it, this is meaningless."
Milan shook his head and said, "Franz, have you forgotten? More than 20 years ago, our Austro-Hungarian Empire was defeated. We had no money, so we went to a Jewish house to ask for food, but in the end we were beaten with stones by their children.
, you still have a scar on your head, that kid is him, if I were above level fifteen, I would beat him half to death right now!!"
The man was shocked when he heard that. He raised his head and glanced at the two of them, then quickly lowered his head.
Of course Franz remembered this, but he didn't remember that this man was the same person back then. He looked at the Jewish businessman who used to be arrogant and never looked at him, but now he kept talking like a dog.
When I apologized, I suddenly felt that all my pores were opened, and I felt extremely comfortable.
The policeman smiled and said, "You are kind. You don't know. There is a German businessman in the East City. It is said that he made a lot of efforts for the German army to enter the city. He was specially approved as Level 21, Level 21! I can't even imagine it.
After he got the badge, he immediately took people to the house of a Jewish businessman who had been fighting against him and killed his whole family. There was no other way. The Jewish businessman was only at the sixth level. The German businessman was fined 20,000 Reichsmarks and had his salary reduced.
The punishment ends after level one."
Franz and Milan couldn't help but wonder if they had obtained a level 20 or above badge, would someone bow to them and salute them wherever they went? Even the consul would have to be shy to please him when they saw him.
But... how can it be so easy to get something above level 20? Franz shook his head and said, "Let's not have any illusions. We can't get that kind of level."
Milan nodded helplessly and said, "That's true, but it's okay. Can we do it slowly? My goal is to raise the level to level seventeen in my lifetime. By then, our children will be level ten when they are born.
I can stand on the same starting line as other Germans."
The policeman smiled and said, "Then you can join the army. As long as you can catch a person who resists the organization, you can increase your score by 100 points. This is the fastest."
Franz's eyes lit up when he heard this and he said, "Really? This is really great."
When the Jewish man saw that the three people ignored him, he quickly and quietly left.
When the Jewish man returned home, his wife quickly came up and said, "David, are you okay?"
David shook his head, pulled off the badge fiercely, threw it on the ground, sat on the sofa and covered his head and said, "We should have left here a long time ago, instead of thinking about this issue now. I just asked, we
We have been restricted from leaving unless we give up all our possessions and only carry no more than 50 Reichsmarks."
"This... this is really too little. If this is the case, we will eventually starve to death outside." The woman covered her mouth and said, "How about we stay here? There is not much persecution against us now. Our
The store can still be open, right?"
David sighed and said, "As long as we are at a low level, we won't be able to do business properly. Now I can't look directly at anyone I meet on the street for fear of being said to be rude."
At this time, a teenager walked into the house, looked at his parents and said, "Dad, Mom, what's wrong with you?"
David smiled and said, "It's nothing. Okay, you can go have dinner when you come back. You're not bullied in the class, are you?"
The young man did not dare to look at David, shook his head and said, "No...no."
David felt something was wrong and shouted, "What's going on? Edward, tell the truth, are you being bullied?"
The boy cried and said, "They laughed at me, saying that I am from a lower race, and that we are all low-level red-headed eagles. Dad, can we get out of here?"
David felt that his heart was about to break. He hugged Edward and comforted him and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Our family's level will be improved soon. Trust me, you can also take the green eagle out in the future."
Edward looked at David in disbelief and said, "Really? Dad?"
David nodded and let Edward go play. He closed his eyes and thought about it. He gritted his teeth and said, "I'm sorry, I'm doing this for the sake of my children..." After that, he put on his hat again and said to his wife, "
I'll go out and you can eat by yourselves."
His wife looked at his back worriedly, sighed and stopped talking.