Beiyang reactionaries

The United States can not worry about the loss of aircraft at all, and it can produce three or four if it loses one.But Japan is different. Japan produces more than 15000 aircraft a year.No more than [-] aircraft at most.

With such a large-scale loss in the United States, the Japanese army also lost a lot.But it is becoming more and more difficult for the Japanese army to replenish.

This is the industrial gap.

The United States can accept this loss, but Japan cannot.Moreover, the loss of pilots is too fast, which is the most unacceptable in Japan.In order to train pilots, the number of Japanese commissions to China has been increasing.Up to now, the number of pilots sent by Japan to China for training has grown to 1.4.

If the United States is allowed to continue to use aircraft like this, Japan will really feel overwhelmed.When Stilwell goes to China at this time, what is he going to talk to China about?Will it be bad for Japan?

This needs to be considered by Hideki Tojo.

"Prime Minister, what General Yamamoto means is that we should take a step back. The number of U.S. fighter jets and bombers is increasing, and the number of bombings of Midway and Johnston Island is increasing. We are head-to-head, which is not good for us now. Or else Abandon Midway and Johnston Islands to avoid U.S. bombing."

Shintaro Shimada made a suggestion.

"Exit Midway and Johnston Island?"

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"Exit Midway and Johnston Island?"

"Yes."

Shintaro Shimada nodded.

Hideki Tojo understood what Shimoda Shigetaro meant, including what Yamamoto 56 meant.That is the current head-to-head confrontation, and large-scale air battles with the United States, Japan is the one that suffers.

The current situation is that there are not as many pilots in Japan as in the United States, and there are not as many aircraft in Japan as in the United States, and the performance of Japanese aircraft is not as good as that in the United States.Generally speaking, an air war with the United States is not conducive to Japan.

Especially those heavy bombers in the United States, the range is too far.

If it weren't for the current limited range of American fighter jets, unable to protect American heavy bombers all the way, American heavy bombers might be rampant to some extent.Those heavy bombers in the United States not only have a long range, but also carry an astonishing number of bombs.At present, ordinary bombers can only carry bombs of a few hundred kilograms, and slightly better bombers can only carry more than one ton.However, American heavy bombers can carry five or six tons, or even seven or eight tons of bombs at a time to participate in the attack.Such a heavy bomber is too powerful.

Including American fighter jets, various new weapons are emerging one after another, and the performance of aircraft is getting better and better.In the current air battle, Japan is at a disadvantage.Therefore, what Yamamoto 56 and the others mean is to avoid the advantages of the United States and carry forward the current strong advantages of the Japanese navy.

Taking advantage of the almost complete annihilation of the US Pacific Fleet, the Panama Canal has not yet had a favorable opportunity for navigation, mainly to attack the US logistics fleet.The ability of the Hawaiian Islands to be built into a military fortress so quickly is inseparable from the strong transportation capabilities of the United States.At this time, it should be the right way to vigorously attack the US logistics fleet.

"Wait, let me think about it."

Tojo shook his head.

Hideki Tojo was really reluctant to give up Midway Island and Johnston Island.Because Midway Island and Johnston Island are very good naval military bases, having these two islands can directly threaten the US Pearl Harbor military base.It is an island with very important strategic significance in Japan at present.

If it withdraws here, it means that Japan has no ability to win the Hawaiian Islands.

Hideki Tojo was unwilling to accept such a result.So he paused for a moment and said: "Send a telegram to General Yamamoto and ask him to hold on. Our plane will support soon."

"Yes."

Shintaro Shimada nodded.

Shigetaro Shimada is regarded as the most obedient navy minister in Japan's decades of history. He followed Hideki Tojo's footsteps completely, and was ridiculed by the Japanese Navy as "Hideki Tojo's dog".However, it is precisely because of Shimata Tan's attitude that the conflicts between the Japanese army and navy have been reduced a lot in the past two years.

"Also, let our naval forces attack American transport ships. Don't let the United States build the Hawaiian Islands easily."

"Yes."

There are indeed many transport ships in the United States.

So many transport ships were sunk by Germany, Italy and Japan, but the United States still has no shortage of transport ships.

"Zang Xiang, how much money can we spend now to buy warships from China?"

Hideki Tojo asked Konobu Kaya.

Konobu Kaya has always been a confident person, and as the Prime Minister of Japan, he has indeed done a very good job.After Kaya Konobu became Prime Minister, the Japanese war became more and more serious, and the annual budget was unknown how many times the fiscal revenue.But Japan has not had too many financial problems.On the contrary, his fiscal policy effectively guaranteed Japan's war.

But at this time, He Ya Xingxuan frowned deeply.

He replied: "Prime Minister, the funds we can spend now are getting less and less. After the war broke out, the prices of arms and materials in China have become higher and higher, which have increased several times compared to around 38. Not to mention anything else, The price of light cruisers sold to us by China has increased by 3.7 times. The price of destroyers has increased by 5.2 times. If we buy warships and arms from China on a large scale, there will always be times when we cannot hold on to the foreign exchange in our hands.”

War will cause the price of goods to rise sharply.

The prices of various resources exported by China have risen rapidly.The same goes for warship prices.In fact, even if the price of Chinese warships rises, they are still cheaper than Japan's own.The battleships of the same type are now four times more expensive to build in Japan than those built before the war.This is because of the war, the prices of all materials are rising.

As long as it is related to the war, the price will rise.This puts a lot of pressure on Japan's finances.

The so-called gold in troubled times.

Since the war broke out, the paper money has been useless.International trade no longer uses paper money, and even the pre-war world currencies are no longer useful.Like the British pound, as the currency of the "empire on which the sun never sets", the pound was the world currency before the war, and its credit in the world is leveraged.How many countries use the British pound for foreign exchange.But with the outbreak of the war, the pound was useless in the eyes of other countries.You in the UK want to buy supplies with pounds, but no one cares about it.

This is true even in the UK, not to mention Japan.

After the First World War, Japan's exports suffered a serious setback, and the domestic economy suffered a huge blow.In order to increase exports, Japan chose to devalue the yen, and the depreciation was very strong.As a result, when the major powers in Europe and America got angry, they kicked out the yen and disqualified Japan from being a world currency.

This is true in times of peace.After the war broke out, the yen was even less useful.

Therefore, the trade between Japan and China uses gold.But where does Japan have so many gold reserves? Although a large amount of gold has been searched from Southeast Asia, Japan imports too many things from China, and that little gold reserve is simply not enough.

The results of it?

Japan even began to sell a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings in their hands.Although China lowered the prices of these antique calligraphy and paintings to the extreme, Japan decided to make a deal.In every transaction, Japan offers tens of thousands of pieces, 10,000+ pieces of antique calligraphy and paintings as transactions.

But still not enough.

He Ya Xingxuan also has not much to do.

"Zangxiang, just tell me, how much money can you give?"

"We still have a lot of valuable things in our hands, all of which are worth about 1700 tons of gold. But these seem to be a lot, but they are actually useless at all. Because at present, our country imports various materials from China every year, and it costs us 1000 tons. Tons of gold. In addition to the large-scale purchase of arms, we have to pay more than 1500 tons of gold a year. The little money we have is enough for one year.”

"Just like that?"

"Yes."

Kaguya Xingxuan nodded.

In fact, Japan has really made a fortune in Southeast Asia.Not to mention anything else, after Japan occupied the Philippines, it collected 70 tons of gold, more than 80 taels of silver, more than 300 million taels of silver coins, and 3000 million US dollars in US treasury bonds in the Philippine treasury alone.There is also the Citibank of the United States in the Philippines, which found more than 50 tons of gold, 270 million taels of silver coins, and a lot of jewelry.Think about the Philippines alone, the treasury and Citibank have collected nearly 140 tons of gold, more than 600 million taels of silver, more than 3000 million US dollars in US treasury bonds, and various jewelry.

And that's not all.

There are other banks in the Philippines, and there are a lot of American merchants too.All these are counted. After Japan took the Philippines, it got more than 300 tons of gold and about 1000 million taels of silver in the Philippines.The U.S. national debt alone has nearly 5000 million U.S. dollars.

These are the treasury and banks, as well as the assets of some European and American businessmen.Not to mention there are still those very rich temples in Southeast Asia.There are many temples in Southeast Asia, because there are many people worshiping Buddha.

Many of these temples have been passed down for hundreds of years, and the accumulated wealth is amazing.

Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia.However, after Japan launched the Burma campaign, the Burmese Buddha statues that were robbed alone contained more than 8 tons of gold.In fact, the value of these Buddha statues far exceeds the value of 8 tons of gold.The longer this kind of Buddha statue is, the higher its value is, and it is possible that it is ten times the price of gold itself.