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On May 5, China and Japan formally signed the "Sino-Japanese Territory Exchange and Lease Concerning Central North Asia, Jilin Province, Northern Liaoning Province, Eastern Heilongjiang Province, Kanto Prefecture (Lushun and Dalian), Tianjin City, Shanghai City, and Showa City. On the same day, the Japanese government very efficiently announced that it would no longer recognize "Manchukuo", cut off diplomatic relations between Japan and Manchuria, canceled the Japanese embassy in Manchuria, and removed the post of Japanese ambassador to Manchuria; not only that, the Japanese Kwantung Army also officially Disbanded, the troops retreated in batches to the Korean Peninsula, Japan, or to the "Northern State" (the new name given by the Japanese to Japanese East Siberia and Japanese Central Siberia).
For a time, the government and the public of the Puppet Manchukuo were shaken. The officials of the Puppet Manchukuo, large and small, who were abandoned by their masters were all in mourning and panic all day long when the doomsday came. , Some beat their chests and stamped their feet, shouted at the sky, lamented "the sky is dead and the Qing Dynasty", some were hysterical, swearing, and denounced "the Japanese have no faith", and more of them were frightened and distraught, desperately sending telegrams to Wuhan and Peiping, swearing I "actually lived in Cao Ying and my heart was in Han" "Although I was forced to surrender to the Japanese and puppets, I was always at odds with the Japanese and puppets in my heart. I never forgot the hatred of the country and the family. I hope that the righteous division of the national army will soon crusade against the Japanese and puppets and recover the country." "After the arrival of the king's division of the national army, he immediately devastated himself, destroyed his family to relieve his difficulties, and made allegiance, and cooperated with the king's division to arrest traitors and search for counterfeit properties." Some issued telegrams announcing to draw a clear line with the Japanese and puppets, claiming that they were either involuntary or confused for a while or were threatened, etc. At the same time, they used all kinds of obscene language to curse all people including Pu Yi, the "Emperor of Manchukuo". The top leaders of the Puppet Manchukuo denounced their crimes such as forgetting their ancestors and betraying the country for glory. Some kept sending special envoys to see Chiang Kai-shek and Jiang Weiguo, begging "to be able to make up for their crimes, make up for their mistakes, and be leniently dealt with" and so on.
The entire Puppet Manchukuo was in chaos. Senior government officials announced that they would "abandon the dark and turn to the bright", and the generals of the army "connected to the uprising". , So lively.
On June 6, the Japanese army formally withdrew from the puppet Manchukuo and the two cities of Tianjin and Shanghai. The Chinese army entered and took over the above occupied lands at the same time, announcing the recovery of northern Liaoning Province, Jilin Province, eastern Heilongjiang Province, Tianjin City, and Shanghai City.
On the same day, the "emperor" of the Puppet Manchukuo, Aixinjueluo Puyi, announced the "Abdication Edict", and the Puppet Manchukuo officially declared its demise, and the "Guozuo" was nine years and three months old.
The demise of the Puppet Manchukuo was of course carried out by Jiang Weiguo himself. After all, such a meaningful historical event, if you don’t participate in it in person, you will definitely leave regrets. On June 6, Jiang Weiguo led the 1th Division of the Nanjing Army from Shenyang. Head north to Changchun.
The commander of the 40th Division is Sun Dianying. Since he defected to Jiang Weiguo, he has been very loyal to Jiang Weiguo, and he has worked hard to do the shady things that Jiang Weiguo asked him to do. Letting him go to Changchun together is also Jiang Weiguo's kindness to him. Kind of reward.
Jiang Weiguo actually wanted to laugh secretly, because what Sun Dianying had been doing all along was to excavate the tombs of the Manchu emperors, and now it was a historical coincidence that he took him with him to accept the surrender of the puppet Manchukuo.
On the main road on the outskirts of Changchun, Puyi, the "emperor" of the puppet Manchukuo, and hundreds of civil and military officials of the puppet Manchukuo, large and small, greeted Jiang Weiguo honestly. Some were trembling and frightened, some had resentful eyes and unwilling faces, some were full of pain and despair, and burst into tears. As for Puyi himself, his expression was numb and stagnant, like a wooden man. , He was originally a puppet puppet.
Amidst the earth-shattering "Long Live" slogan, the Nanjing Army marched aggressively outside Changchun City, and [-] officers and soldiers burst into roars of mountains and tsunamis.
Sun Dianying first jumped out of his own car, and then opened the door for Jiang Weiguo in the second car with great hospitality.
Chapter 578 Great Harvest (2)
Jiang Weiguo got out of the car and stood proudly outside Changchun City. He is very imposing today. He is wearing a bright and spotless lieutenant general uniform. His leather boots have been polished to a shine like a mirror. He is wearing snow-white gloves. , holding the golden Lion Awakening Knife in his hand, perhaps because he has been a big shot for a long time, or maybe because his status today is after all fighting from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood and endless wars, so although Jiang Weiguo is very young, but in While maintaining a graceful demeanor, he also has an aura of calmness and prestige and a temperament of fierce killing. In short, when he stands like this, Gu Panzixiong's expression immediately surges out.
Liu Wugou, who got out of the car behind Jiang Weiguo, hurriedly set up a camera, and took pictures of Jiang Weiguo himself, the tiger and ben army beside Jiang Weiguo, Changchun City behind him, Pu Yi and other leaders of the Puppet Manchukuo. But a historic picture, a historic moment.
There were thousands of Chinese and foreign journalists at the scene, but they were all kept away by the gendarmes of the Nanjing Army, unable to take pictures of Jiang Weiguo at close range. Only Liu Wugou enjoyed this "privilege", and the identity of the "Four Wives" is naturally extraordinary. .
Jiang Weiguo was triumphant and boastful: "How is it? Is your husband handsome today?"
Liu Wugou covered his mouth with a smile and raised his thumb at the same time: "Handsome!"
Jiang Weiguo was surprised: "You didn't mock me today? Did you take the wrong medicine?"
Liu Wugou rolled her eyes, she was not angry at all: "You recovered the lost ground for the country, this is a solid feat, a feat that shines in the annals of history, why should I mock you?" She looked at Jiang Weiguo, smiled and said, "I did wrong you before. At the beginning, you turned enemies into friends with the Japanese. Like most people, I didn't understand. Now, I understand. I understand your painstaking efforts, as well as your wisdom and courage!"
Jiang Weiguo became more and more complacent and boasted: "Of course! Is my foresight and foresight beyond my imagination?"
Liu Wugou was too lazy to continue talking nonsense with Jiang Weiguo. She looked at Puyi and the others curiously: "The puppet Manchukuo surrendered without firing a single shot? It was so smooth! Even if the Japanese abandoned them, they themselves could still resist. Well! I thought a war would break out! I didn’t expect it to go so smoothly! It’s completely peaceful reception!”
Jiang Weiguo said contemptuously: "It's just a group of rats who wear monkeys and wear crowns! Without their master, how dare they resist? What a joke!"
At this time, a court servant beside Puyi ran over with his head down, and held up a lacquer plate respectfully to Jiang Weiguo: "This is the imperial seal of Manchuria and the imperial seal of the emperor of Manchuria, please accept it, General!"
Jiang Weiguo picked it up with great interest. The two seals are both cubic. The "National Seal" is slightly larger, with a size of about eight or nine centimeters. "The Treasure of the Manchukuo", a dragon with teeth and claws is carved on the upper part, and the "Yuxi" is slightly smaller.
Jiang Weiguo held it in his hand and weighed it, then put it back disapprovingly: "It's just two stones, and it's not the Jade Seal of the Kingdom!" He was too lazy to talk to Puyi and his gang, those buffoons are not qualified to be worth his trouble, they should lose their heads None of them survived, and none of them deserved to be imprisoned could escape.
Jiang Weiguo waved his hand vigorously: "The whole army enters the city!"
There was great military music and cheers in the city. In the welcome of hundreds of thousands of residents in Changchun, the Nanjing Army rushed into the city.
Objectively speaking, the standard of living of the Northeast people is not low, but they know that the puppet Manchukuo is just a colony of Japan, and the emperor of the puppet Manchukuo is just a puppet. The Japanese are the masters of this "country", and they are only second-class citizens. Moreover, 90% of the population of the puppet Manchukuo is Han nationality (except for Japanese soldiers in the puppet Manchukuo, there are more than 200 million Japanese and Japanese Koreans/Koreans living in the puppet Manchukuo. However, they have not joined the puppet Manchukuo nationality, and they are still Japanese nationals are not included in the population of the Puppet Manchukuo), and the Han people are naturally more sympathetic to China, and do not agree with this puppet country where the Manchus are the emperor and obey the Japanese, so they really welcome the Nanjing Army sincerely .
"Long live the reunification of China!" "Long live the return of the Northeast!" The entire Changchun and the entire Northeast were in jubilation.
Jiang Weiguo looked at Changchun and couldn't help sighing: "It's really a beautiful city!" At this time, Changchun was the first city in East Asia, more advanced than Tokyo, with excellent planning and excellent greening. In the ocean, it has the reputation of "Forest Capital". At this time, Changchun's per capita green space reached more than 2000 square meters, more than twice that of Washington, and five times that of Japan's big cities, ranking first in the world's big cities. Not only that, Changchun built the largest wireless station in Asia seven years ago. This city is the first city in Asia to fully popularize flush toilets and piped gas, the first city in Asia to realize main road wires entering the ground, and the first city in China. It is no exaggeration to say that Changchun is the most developed, modern and beautiful city in Asia at this time.
In the final analysis, this has to be "thanks" to the Japanese, because today's Changchun was planned and designed by the Japanese nine years ago, drawing on the successful experience of Tokyo and other Japanese cities, and avoiding the lessons of failure and shortcomings. This makes the city quickly become the only Asian city in modern history that is more advanced than Tokyo.
The more he thought about this, the more uncomfortable Jiang Weiguo felt: "Could it be that Chinese cities and land are better built by foreigners than by Chinese people? Alas! If this is the case, it is simply a Chinese What a tragedy!" Thinking of this, Jiang Weiguo secretly made up his mind to make Northeast China better and better in the future, and to make the whole of China better and better in the future.
Jiang Weiguo is not at all interested in Puyi's "National Seal" and "Yuxi", and he is not interested in Puyi's dragon chair at all. He is only interested in the treasure land and the entire treasure house in the Northeast.
The Northeast has been completely recovered. What does it mean that China has gained?The Northeast is a good place with rich and natural treasures, and it has indeed been developed, operated, developed, and constructed by the Japanese with great efforts and painstaking efforts during the years in the hands of the Japanese. The Japanese have successively invested more than 15 billion US dollars in the Northeast. However, the Japanese are not the international Lei Feng. The Japanese built the Northeast for Japan, not for China. But now, most of the achievements made by the Japanese in the Northeast belong to China.
Jiang Weiguo completely recovered the Northeast, what did he get?
He got a population of more than 3500 million, more than 110 million square kilometers of land, the largest of the three major plains in China, and one of the three largest black lands in the world (black soil is the most fertile land. There are three major lands in the world, one In Northeast China, one in Ukraine, one in Mississippi in the United States, all three are agricultural bases with huge output), oil reserves accounting for half of China's total, iron ore reserves accounting for a quarter of China's total, reserves Up to more than 700 billion tons of coal;
他得到了4亿多亩可耕地（中国本土可耕地总面积约为20亿亩）、超过1.7亿顷森林，每年能够生产出250万吨大豆、200万吨小麦、70万吨水稻、100万吨小米、800万吨高粱、500万吨玉米、60万吨杂粮的大粮仓；
He got 400 million horses, 300 million cattle, 3000 million sheep, and 4000 million pigs in Northeast China at this time;
他得到了东北此时的1万多座小学、200多座中学、140多座高等学府以及一些单独的科研机构和军官学校、1600多座私立学校、150多座宗教学校，另外还有2万多名专业教师、50多万名大学生；
他得到了东北的2万多公里的空中航线（占全国总量的60%多）、6万多公里的公路（占全国总量的70%多）、1万多公里的铁路（占全国总量的80%多）；
He obtained a Northeast economic output value of more than 120 billion U.S. dollars, a Northeast industry with a production value of more than 25 billion U.S. dollars, and tens of thousands of large and small factories;
Jiang Weiguo looked up at the sky with a lot of emotion. The blue sky and the dazzling sunshine are just like the future road of China.
After the Soviet Union begged for a peace armistice, China and Germany were jubilant. After China and Japan signed a new territory exchange treaty, Japan also joined in the jubilation. Just as the British satirized, the Allied Powers defeated the Soviet Union and divided up most of the Soviet Union’s body. A gluttonous feast, everyone eats their brains full of fat." In fact, among the four major members of the Allied Powers, Germany, China, and Japan have greatly increased their territory, but Italy has not received any territorial benefits, because Italy is separated from the Soviet Union by several countries, and it is beyond reach. Italy did not have the ability to pass through like Germany, so Italy did not get new territory after the Soviet Union begged for peace, but Germany did not ignore and treat this "fourth of the Allied Powers" with a low sense of existence, except for land, other aspects The spoils of war, all that should be given to Italy, funds, resources, weapons and equipment (the German army looked down on the Soviet army's ordnance), mining privileges...a lot, and Hitler solemnly assured Mussolini, " In the future, Germany will do its best to help Italy acquire a large amount of land in southern Europe and Africa," which made Italy a lot of money in the Soviet war. Of course, the biggest beneficiaries of this war are the three giants of Germany, China and Japan in the Allied Powers.
There is no need to say much about Germany. China has once again realized its grand plan of expanding its territory. First of all, after the war, five new vassal countries (Kazakhs, Uzbekistans, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Iran) were added to China. China's influence has covered the entire Central Asia and penetrated into the Middle East. Secondly, China's land area has greatly increased, mainly the entire territory of western North Asia (West Siberia) and the southern part of Central North Asia (Central Siberia). The total area of the two areas is about 440 million square kilometers, making the total territory of China at this time as high as about 1750 million square kilometers.
If only the area of the homeland is counted, and the area of non-native areas such as colonies, overseas territories, trusteeships, slave states, and dependent countries is not counted, then at this time China has replaced the Soviet Union as the world's largest country and has become the country with the largest territory in the world .
The Japanese are happier than the Chinese, because they have also increased their territory and gained Central Siberia with an area of more than 400 million square kilometers, making Japan's land area at this time increase to more than 770 million square kilometers (Eastern North Asia and North Asia The total area of the central part exceeds 700 million square kilometers, accounting for about 91% of the total area of Japan).
It is no exaggeration to say that the Japanese never imagined that they could have such a vast territory. At this time, "the vast territory and vast territory of the Great Japanese Empire" made the Japanese almost feel like a dream, although the Japanese have always longed for it. The more territory the better, but now that the dream has come true, it is indeed a bit difficult to get used to psychologically. After all, Japan annexed the Ryukyu Islands, and the territory only increased by more than 4600 square kilometers. Japan annexed the Taiwan Islands, and the territory only increased. Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula, and the territory also only increased by more than 3.6 square kilometers. The area is not very large, and Japan has spent decades, countless financial and material resources, A lot of people died, and a lot of blood was shed, but now, they have obtained more than 22 million square kilometers of new territory in one fell swoop. The area is so large that the mentality of the Japanese at this time is like a person who just won the 700 million lottery What's more, such a vast and vast territory was acquired in just two or three years, and the speed is unimaginable. The most important thing is that Japan's rapid increase of these huge territories is almost all Chinese troops. The price paid by the Japanese army and the Japanese country for what was fought for Japan was very slight.
Paying such a small price, spending so little time, and getting such a huge benefit, the Japanese have to feel deeply intoxicated.
Because of this, the pro-China faction and the Chinese faction among the top military and political leaders in Japan have rapidly increased, and the logic is ready-made: Japan will benefit immensely and be extremely cost-effective by turning the enemy into a friend with China and boarding the chariot of Germany and China. Such a correct line, how can we not go on firmly?
Konoe Fumimaro proudly said publicly: "Since the Meiji Emperor, Japan has actively launched the grand plan of expanding its territory. After decades of painstaking efforts, it has accumulated only more than 20 square kilometers of new territory. But now? In just two or three years, we have obtained more than 700 million square kilometers of new territory! This shows how wrong our previous national policy (invasion of China) was! We have only found Japan today. The true road to glory!"
These remarks have received wide support among the Japanese high-level officials and among the Japanese people.
The Japanese official is even more boastful, claiming that "Under the wise leadership of His Majesty the Emperor Showa, Japan's grand plans are now soaring into the sky like the wings of a dragon! Japan is reaching a new historical pinnacle! The 'Showa Prosperity' has officially arrived ".
After solving the issue of territory exchange with the Japanese, Jiang Weiguo was still busy non-stop, because there were too many major issues that he needed to solve, such as economy, people's livelihood, military, scientific research, expansion of military industrial bases... all kinds of things.
After the great victory in the war, there must be a solid reward for the troops. In this matter, Jiang Weiguo was responsible for paying the money, and Chiang Kai-shek was responsible for issuing medals, official caps, and certificates of appointment. Jiang Weiguo received a blue sky and white sun medal again. However, he is not very interested in this thing anymore. In addition, many people in Wuhan official circles proposed to promote Jiang Weiguo from lieutenant general to second-level general, but he was undoubtedly suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek in the end. This is not very interesting. He has everything he should have. He doesn't care about those medals and military ranks. The position he is doing now is to give awards to others. In addition to money, there is also land. This is Jiang Weiguo's promise to the officers and soldiers. The dead, disabled, and meritorious officers and soldiers will all be allocated land in the new territory China has acquired. Jiang Weiguo must not break his promise, anyway, China now has plenty of land.
蒋纬国最关心的自然是南京军的建设问题，南京军在广义上拥有37个师、1个荣誉旅、2个自行重炮团，实际上是27个师、1个荣誉旅、2个自行重炮团，另外10个师是蒋介石安插到蒋纬国的北方地盘里的。
The Nanjing Army must be reorganizing the army again now. First of all, the two self-propelled heavy artillery regiments will be disbanded, because those self-propelled heavy artillery were leased by Jiang Weiguo from the Japanese, and they will be returned at this time, and there are still those leased from the Japanese army. However, returning those artillery and aircraft will not damage the combat effectiveness of the Nanjing Army, because the Nanjing Army has seized a larger number of weapons and equipment originally belonging to the Soviet Army (there are basically no self-propelled artillery among the Soviet artillery captured by the Nanjing Army , because the Soviet Army has only initially developed self-propelled artillery and has not yet mass-produced it, but the Nanjing Army has obtained the Soviet Army's rocket launcher), which is enough to make the Nanjing Army's combat effectiveness more than a level higher.
Regarding the weapons and equipment of the Soviet army, light weapons naturally need not be said. Among the heavy weapons, there are not many naval ships, and they are basically light and old-fashioned. The Chinese Navy does not look down on them. The army's heavy weapons are still artillery, tanks, and aircraft. Jiang Weiguo doesn't like Soviet tanks and aircraft very much. The Soviet army's tanks are naturally dominated by T-34. T-34 is an excellent medium-sized tank. But there are also many shortcomings, among which the defense is low, so the death rate of the Soviet tank soldiers is very high when the tank is hit and destroyed. It is the same thing that cares about the output of weapons and not the quality. As for the aircraft of the Soviet army, it is the same.
Among the weapons and equipment of the Soviet army, the most valuable artillery is undoubtedly the artillery, especially the large-caliber heavy artillery.
Getting thousands of them at once really made Jiang Weiguo very happy, and it also greatly made up for the disadvantage of the Nanjing Army's weak artillery.
With so many Soviet artillery pieces, plus the production line of Soviet artillery pieces, the Nanjing Army will no longer suffer from insufficient artillery fire and low attacking capabilities. According to Jiang Weiguo's plan, 26 field divisions of the Nanjing Army Therefore, the main divisions have established artillery brigades, and the reserve divisions have also established artillery regiments, and they must be equipped with rocket launchers on a large scale.
In mid-June, another Japanese came to Jiang Weiguo. He was an old acquaintance of Jiang Weiguo and the commander of the Japanese Navy Joint Fleet Commander Yamamoto 56.
"Shan Yuan is looking for me?" Jiang Weiguo was very surprised, and then his heart suddenly moved, "Could this guy plan to attack Pearl Harbor?"
Chapter 579 Can't hold back
Jiang Weiguo had a good impression of Yamamoto 56. On the one hand, this person did not support the invasion of China in the original history (Yamamoto did not support the invasion of China because he loved peace and sympathized with China, but he clearly realized that Japan’s invasion of China would lead Japan into a The quagmire of war and will completely break with the US-British group whose strength far surpasses that of Japan), on the other hand, because this person has "very great use value", it is worth Jiang Weiguo's hypocrisy to be a "friend" with him.
Speaking of it, the status of the Japanese navy before World War II has always been very embarrassing. Japan has nothing to do with China or the Soviet Union. The war between the United States and Britain is something that the Japanese navy dare not do and wants to avoid, so that the Japanese navy has always been overwhelmed by the Japanese army in terms of political status. The Japanese navy has already occupied a dominant position in the Japanese military circles, while the originally arrogant and domineering Japanese army has been reduced to a supporting role.
In this regard, Yamamoto and other high-level Japanese navy leaders are both happy and worried. The happy thing is that the Japanese navy is currently receiving unprecedented attention. Not only Japan attaches great importance to it, but also allies such as Germany, China, and Italy have high hopes. If it weren't for Japan's navy, which ranks third in the world, Germany, China and Italy would not bother to deal with Japan at all, and they would never take Japan seriously; the worry is: as the saying goes, the Japanese navy is currently "enjoying everything" Those favors and favors are not free pies in the sky. Japan and the entire allied countries spend so much money, resources, and effort to support the Japanese Navy. It is not as a decoration, but It should be used as the first maritime main force of the Allied Powers against the United States, Britain and France in the future.
According to the war strategy of the Allied Powers, after defeating the Soviet Union, the Allied Powers will meet with the United States, Britain, and France. Right now, although the Soviet Union still exists, it has already been completely defeated. Beating the drums, they had a hunch: it might be their turn to go to the battlefield.
Because of this, the high-level Japanese navy needs to know the attitudes of the high-level leaders of Germany and China. Naturally, Yamamoto 56 came to Jiang Weiguo to find out what he said, and he came to Jiang Weiguo in person to express his formality and grandeur.
Jiang Weiguo warmly entertained Yamamoto. It happened to be lunch time when Yamamoto arrived, so Jiang Weiguo simply invited Yamamoto to have a lunch. Anyway, both Chinese and Japanese use chopsticks.
This lunch can be called luxurious and extravagant, and the table is full of delicacies from mountains and seas, which made Yamamoto who was seated stunned.
Jiang Weiguo is like a local rich man, introducing the delicacies on the table to Yamamoto:
"General Yamamoto, come here! This is the tiger meat of the Siberian tiger, this is the grilled venison, this is the wolf meat, and this is the sturgeon from the Volga River. It is extremely delicious. I know you Japanese like to eat sashimi. Let the chef make it for you... You are welcome, please eat!"
Yamamoto laughed dumbly: "Mr. Jiang, please forgive me, this is too extravagant, right? As far as I know, you, like your father, are very thrifty..."
Jiang Weiguo laughed: "When a distinguished guest comes to the door, it is natural to entertain him warmly.
In addition, I am not like this every day. How can I eat tiger meat, venison meat and wolf meat?These are wild game caught by our army on the front line, some of which were frozen and sent to Peiping for me to taste.
Especially for tiger meat, my country's environmental protection department has enacted a law to list the Siberian tiger as a national first-class protected animal, and hunting is not allowed. However, those tigers ran wild in the military camp without knowing what to do, and there is no way to kill them thing.
By the way, tiger bones and tiger penis have great supplements, I’ll give you some later!” He said that he gave Yamamoto the tiger penis, but he was actually making fun of Yamamoto, because Yamamoto, like Jiang Weiguo, has a bunch of women.
Yamamoto also laughed: "Then I would like to thank you! Thanks to the generosity of the second son, so that I can feast on my mouth today.
It seems..." He said with a smile, "Second Young Master really gained a lot during the Soviet War! "His words are obviously a double meaning.
Jiang Weiguo also smiled and punned: "But I didn't eat alone. Didn't I share it with General Yamamoto?" After the Soviet Union was forced to cede North Asia and Central Asia, China controlled Central Asia and annexed the western part of North Asia. Japan also made unprecedented profits, acquiring eastern North Asia and central North Asia, which increased Japan's territory to an "unprecedented level in Japan's 3000-year history."
Of course Yamamoto could understand Jiang Weiguo's voice, he raised his glass with a smile: "Yes, thank you, Second Young Master, come, please!"
The two clink glasses.
The two of them were ulterior motives for this incomparably sumptuous lunch. They exchanged polite greetings while moving their chopsticks. Naturally, Yamamoto would first congratulate Jiang Weiguo, praise China and the Chinese army, and praise the beauty of the Sino-Japanese alliance. The prospect looked forward to it.
Yamamoto said with great emotion: "This meal is really extravagant. I am in Japan, not to mention my family's private dishes, even the official high-level banquets, it is impossible to be so sumptuous!"
Jiang Weiguo was very curious and interested: "General Yamamoto, you are a senior Japanese general and a high-ranking official. I am very curious. If you can tell me, let me take the liberty to ask, what do you eat for your daily meals at home?" What is it?"
Yamamoto smiled: "Rice, potatoes, carrots, sauerkraut, plus a little fish, and sometimes a little meat!"
Jiang Weiguo let out an oh, feeling quite surprised in his heart. He became more and more aware of the national strength of China and Japan in this era. China is weak, Japan is strong, China is poor, and Japan is actually not much richer. The difference That is: the Chinese people eat a full meal when they are hungry, and the Japanese people can reach the point where they are full, but they are still far from having fish and meat every meal.
After all, Japan's national power foundation is too shallow, and it is militaristic. Too much national power and financial resources are used for the army, so Japanese civilians do not live well. If you compare it horizontally, the United States is a big fish on the front line, and a big fish and meat on the rear. Germany and the United Kingdom Almost, both the frontline and the rear are doing well. Of course, they are not as rich as the United States. Italy, on the other hand, has a lot of fish and meat in the rear, and the frontline tightens its belt. The same is true for China, Japan, and the Soviet Union. However, there are differences in degrees, and the Chinese people are the most constrained.