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Chapter 1,150: The direction of the war (4)

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    Hearing Retsu Kawada¡¯s words, all the Japanese ministers were stunned. What Minai said had made their hearts sink to the bottom. They didn¡¯t expect that the actual situation was even worse than this!

    "Kawada-kun, please inform us of the current actual financial situation of the empire, please!" Mitsumasa Yoneuchi said with a bow.

    Retsu Kawada nodded and said: "The issue of national debt can be put aside. After all, national debt is issued in batches. It is impossible for more than 30 billion national debt to mature at once. But apart from this issue, the empire currently wants to  To continue fighting, we must also deal with the increasingly serious energy and resource crisis, as well as the increasingly serious food crisis."

    "As we all know, the Empire of Japan is just an island country with an area of ??less than 400,000 square kilometers and is lacking in resources. Japan's external dependence before the S/N incident was: iron ore 52.3%, bauxite 100%, rubber 100%, and oil 80%  %, salt 63%, cotton and wool 99.9%, scrap steel 67%, copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, etc. are all half or more."

    "In addition, the development of heavy industry must be inseparable from oil. After all, without the industrial blood of oil, it is tantamount to wishful thinking to develop heavy industry. Therefore, Japan's oil imports also increased greatly during this period, that is, from Showa 7  increased from 2.28 million kiloliters to 4.51 million kiloliters in Showa 11, resulting in a large increase in the balance of payments deficit!"

    "In the first half of Showa 11, the empire's foreign trade volume exceeded 270 million yen. In the same period of Showa 12, the income exceeded 620 million yen, and the monthly gold export amount was more than 300 million yen. And by  This year, after drastically reducing the import of civilian supplies, the empire's imports were 2.918 billion yen and exports were 3.576 billion yen. However, excluding the import and export of the "yen circle" that cannot obtain gold foreign exchange, the imports were 500 million yen.  Yuan, exports were 1.829 billion yen. Japan¡¯s economic weakness began to surface last year, and the economic crisis is evolving into a national disaster.¡±

    Immediately afterwards, Retsu Kawada continued: "The first external manifestation of the economic crisis is insufficient food supply. In Showa 14, the demand for rice in Japan was 80 million koku, an increase of nearly 10 million koku from Showa 11, and  At this time, due to war factors, local grain production has been declining, and rice imports from Bay Island and North Korea have been declining year by year due to factors such as the war and local military supplies."

    "In order to cope with the increasingly serious food crisis, the government has tried its best to do this, and even ordered farmers to sell the rice, wheat and other grain products they produce to the government at official prices, except for their own consumption and seeds. At the same time,  Food rationing is implemented nationwide, and ordinary restaurants and restaurants are prohibited from selling rice. The government is also vigorously promoting the consumption of alternative foods, stipulating that breakfast cannot exceed 1 yen, lunch 2.5 yen, and dinner 5 yen. Even so, there are still 9 million  There was a shortage of rice. To this end, the government had to spend 200 million yen in foreign exchange to import 8 million kilo of rice from French Indochina, Thailand and other countries."

    ¡°Following the food crisis is the electricity and coal crisis. Due to the shortage of coal, power generation can only meet 80% of the demand. So far, the resources controlled by the Empire of Japan can only meet 88.3% of the demand for coal, and the demand for oil  18.4%, 42.4% of iron ore, 43% of copper, 15% of aluminum, and 18.4% of lead and zinc. The direct impact of insufficient resources is that weapons, equipment and other industrial products cannot be produced normally, which will affect the quality of frontline troops.  combat, and in turn will affect the outcome of this war.¡±

    There was silence in the entire Imperial Palace. As important ministers of the Japanese Empire, their sights have never touched the bottom of society. Therefore, except for professional financial personnel, they do not know the actual situation of Japan's economy at the moment.

    But we all live in this country, and we inevitably have to deal with some subordinates and people at lower levels. Naturally, we will hear words such as "living standards have declined" and "life is difficult" from these people, and we know this.  Life for the common people has been a bit difficult these past two years.

    ??????????????? However, I know I know, but I didn¡¯t expect that the empire¡¯s economy would be so bad. This can no longer be described as ¡°bad¡±, but it is not an exaggeration to describe it as erosion or collapse.

    At this time, some politicians finally understood why Minai opposed continuing to send more troops to China in such a high-profile occasion, and instead requested peace talks with China.

    ?Compared to soldiers, politicians understand the inner meaning of war better.

    War is a continuation of politics, but it is not the purpose. War is not for fun, but for profit.

    The Empire of Japan can go to war with any country for money and other benefits, but the prerequisite is that it is profitable. If there is no benefit and the war is purely for the sake of war, then there is no need.

    Soldiers can fight for honor, merit, or even promotion, but politicians do not. They are more realistic and diplomatic, and will not squint their eyes for unnecessary emotions.??

    At this moment, the words of Yonei Guangzheng and He Guanglie resonated with a large number of political officials who participated in the imperial meeting. Regardless of whether the army agreed with the armistice, the vast majority of politicians realized the crisis after learning about the situation.

    Japan has indeed invested too much in this war. Based on the principle of maximizing interests, if you invest too much in this war, the less benefits you will get.

    Therefore, no matter from the perspective of the current actual situation of the Japanese Empire and the return on investment, the empire should no longer invest more human, financial and material resources in this war.

    So, after a short period of silence, some politicians began to speak out in support of Minay.

    "The Mi cabinet is actually the pillar of the empire. He is thinking about the future of the Japanese Empire. The empire should really carefully consider the future of this war instead of blindly investing troops and material resources!"

    The speaker was Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. This man is a well-known hardliner, but he supported Yone at this time, which is really shocking!

    "Matsuoka-kun, do you also support the empire's withdrawal of troops from Z/Na?" Tojo Hideki asked in a deep voice.

    However, Matsuoka glanced at him and said: "We have no idea of ??withdrawing our troops yet, but I think the empire should have a good talk with the supporter. Maybe we can get what we want without bayonets!"

    "Haha, that person is not the person from a few years ago, they may not agree!"

    "It all depends on how big the empire's appetite is. If you want to annex all the branches, that's obviously impossible!"

    Speaking of this, Matsuoka Yosuke said again: "Your Majesty, Excellencies, in fact, we have always understood many truths, but before, we always thought that the Empire of Japan was invincible. For every extra yen invested today, then in the future  We will get countless yen in return. Even if it means selling the iron, even if the people across the country tighten their belts, everyone is still investing money crazily in this big gamble, because we all feel that the probability of us winning this big gamble is too high.  , thus ignoring the risks in the casino!¡±

    "However, the war itself is too uncontrollable, so that in the three-year war, the empire's foundation has been consumed time and time again. Reality has given us a hard slap! So now we must think about it.  A way out, otherwise the collapse of the empire mentioned before by the Mi cabinet is not impossible, and we will all become criminals of the empire by then!"

    Matsuoka Yosuke¡¯s words once again resonated with many people present. Before the war, everyone believed that China could not hold on for long at all, and one year was already the limit.

    Even General Gen. Sugiyama, who was the Minister of War at the time, frantically shouted the slogan of destroying China in three months. Therefore, everyone felt that this war was just a short-term investment by the imperial military and civilians, and the profit rate was very considerable, and the risks were controllable.  .

    However, the ruthless reality shattered all their hopes. In addition to the initial glory, the strong counterattacks of the Chinese government and military and civilians made Japan's military advantage smaller and smaller.

    Now the Chinese can even fight back against the provocation of the Imperial Japanese Army on a frontal battlefield, and still win. This shows that this war has made the Chinese grow up, and it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to defeat such an opponent.

    The disastrous defeat of the North China Front has slightly sobered Japan's fanatical ambitions and irrational minds, letting them know that Japan is still a small island country like a worm and cannot swallow China in one fell swoop.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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