With the devastating blow to the Japanese joint fleet, the Japanese Navy lost strategic initiative on the Pacific battlefield and could not form a counterattack force within several years. This is undoubtedly a pain of breaking the arm for Japanese imperialism.

To make matters worse, the Tang army, with the power of great victory, sent Marines to successively seize strategic rushes in the Pacific Ocean such as the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Caroline Islands, had strategic attempts to attack the Ogasawara Islands and Iwo Jima, and other southern islands.

Japan was in a state of tragedy. First, the economic crisis caused the Japanese economy to be severely damaged by millions of people. Then, at the beginning of the war between the Tang and Japan, the Tang army's Blue Fox Special Service Team was too young to carry out terrorist attacks everywhere in Japan to destroy factories, which made the Japanese panic all day long. Then the Japanese navy lost one after another until the joint fleet was defeated. The Tang army launched a counterattack and approached the Japanese mainland. A series of blows made Japan exhausted, and the entire Japan suddenly fell into endless panic.

"It's rumored outside that the Tang army has come here, is it true?"

"I heard that Tang Jun has landed in Tokyo Bay, is that true?"

"What are you doing for? You can't even beat a little Tang Dynasty. You might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill him!"

The phone calls from Japanese cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense and other departments were almost blown up, with comfort and verbal condolences, and asked whether the Tang army had landed in Japan. Rich people began to retreat inland, not only worried about being robbed by the Tang army landed in Japan, but also worried about being smashed and looted by Japanese mobs everywhere, because those mobs were far more terrifying than the army when they started mad.

Eggs, rotten cabbage, bricks, etc. All the things that could be picked up near the Japanese government office were picked up and smashed by the Japanese mobs marching and demonstratively, and the doors and windows were smashed immediately.

At first, the Japanese military and police also suppressed armed forces and massacred a large number of civilians. However, as the situation in Japan became worse and worse, millions of unemployed vagrants joined the ranks of thugs. The suppression could only make the conflict more intense. The Japanese government, which was in trouble at home and abroad, was forced to announce the resettlement of millions of unemployed vagrants.

In fact, this was just a conspiracy of the Japanese military. The Japanese military was dissatisfied with Yuyuki Hamaguchi and several cabinets of Wakatsuki Reijiro. The newly-employed Inukai Tsuka was quite obedient at the beginning, following the military's intentions, planning the puppet Manchukuo and supporting the use of troops in China and the expedition to the Tang Empire.

However, with the defeat and severely damaged Japanese fleet, Inukai Tsuki's cabinet immediately had an excuse. It accused the Japanese military of being a group of people who were a victim of the country and the people, and received a unanimous response from all walks of life in Japan. Kato and Hideki Tojo, the Japanese military was criticized and abused by the people, and Inukai Tsuki's cabinet took the opportunity to seize most of the rights and grants previously handed over to the Japanese military. Instead, it planned to seek peace from the Tang Empire, stop the war with China, and quickly end the war and recuperate.

But the fanatical Japanese militarists were unwilling to lose their power like this. The disastrous defeat of the joint fleet hurt their nerves even more. They vowed to slaughter the Tang Empire in blood. But before that, the Japanese navy must be rebuilt as soon as possible. The Japanese militarists led by Kato were eager to rebuild the Japanese Navy's 88th Fleet, and did not spare any effort to build the Japanese navy's aircraft carrier battle group to compete with the Tang Empire's aircraft carrier battle group.

Rebuilding the 88 Fleet and building an aircraft carrier battle group, and retraining tens of thousands of Japanese naval officers and soldiers. This requires a lot of time and money, especially one expense for shipbuilding. The 88 Fleet of the Combined Fleet, namely eight super crossbow-class battleships, eight heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers, and a large number of destroyers and related auxiliary ships, will cost up to 3 billion yen. Building at least four large aircraft carriers and their auxiliary light cruisers and destroyers formations also requires 1 billion yen, and one battleship alone accounts for 4 billion yen.

This is not considered confidentiality costs, including the cost of building new ships, workers' wages, new warship design, and designing new carrier-based aircraft to build aircraft carrier battle groups. If these warships are built normally, it will take at least three years for all Japanese shipyards to start construction at the same time. As the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle groups threaten Japan's mainland, all warships have to work overtime to catch up with the progress. In this way, the total expenditure is conservatively estimated to be 6 billion yen, which is equivalent to 9 times the total fiscal revenue of Japan in 1931, equivalent to 2 billion US dollars.

This is still the cost before global currency depreciation. As the economic crisis intensifies, the cost of shipbuilding will be outrageously high, which will inevitably make Japan breathless.

Obviously, the Inukai Yi's cabinet could not have paid so much money, so it flatly rejected the military's request.

Therefore, in order to make Inaki's cabinet pay for their faults, the military gave up the full control of the matter, causing millions of Japanese mobs to impact the national and local governments and threaten the security of the Japanese people. Especially the major chaebols in Japan suffered heavy losses, and put pressure on Inaki's cabinet, demanding Inaki's cooperation with Kato to resolve the domestic crisis.

Inuyasu was forced to stop millions of mobs from slaughtering Japan and causing greater losses, he had to compromise with Kato and agreed to the reconstruction plan of the Japanese joint fleet formulated by Kato. Major Japanese shipyards, including private shipyards, received huge shipbuilding orders from the Japanese Navy. The military resuppressed the mob on a large scale and drove the mobs to work at major shipbuilding plants, which largely solved their work and life problems, and weakened the riots in Japan a lot.

However, due to the defeat of the Japanese Navy, the prestige of the Japanese Empire was completely supported by the Japanese army. The Japanese Kwantung Army showed unprecedented toughness and forcibly established the puppet Manchukuo under the opposition of the whole world, and at the same time expanded the scale of the war in Shanghai, China.

The Japanese Army Department obviously wanted to divert the international attention from the original plan to fight a local war with China, but now it has to set up a full-scale war of aggression against millions of unemployed people in order to divert the crazy social conflicts in the country, so as to solve the current tragic situation of the Japanese military.

On the battlefield in Shanghai, China and Japan have been fighting for a month. The 19th Route Army and the 5th Army had less than 50,000 troops, and mixed with the Japanese army into the 24th Brigade, the 9th Division, the 11th Division, and the 14th Division had about 70,000 Japanese troops in bloody battles. Facing the advanced equipment of Japanese aircraft, tanks and cannons, the soldiers still forced the Japanese army to change their commands three times with their simple equipment, and suffered many attacks, winning praise from the people.

Although the National Government had moved its capital to Luoyang and was preparing to go to full war with Japan, it was still just preparations. The Kuomintang was still fighting for power. Chiang Kai-shek supported the anti-Japanese war in order to return to power, but refused to increase troops in Shanghai, because the Red Army took advantage of the opportunity of the Battle of Shanghai to capture many cities controlled by the Kuomintang, giving Chiang Kai-shek the excuse that he would first settle the country with the resistance against foreign countries.

In fact, the real reason is that Chiang Kai-shek has been waiting for Europe and the United States to mediate, wait for the League of Nations to make a ruling, and wait for the negotiation results between Soong Mei-ling and Zhang Meng.

Even Chiang Kai-shek did not believe in the mediation between the League of Nations and European and American countries. Otherwise, it would be impossible to move the capital to Luoyang. What he is most looking forward to now is the alliance between the Middle Tang Dynasty and the joint anti-Japanese war. He relied on the economic and military aid of the Tang Empire, and even sent troops directly to the war.

After several days of negotiations between Zhang Meng and Soong Mei-ling, Zhang Meng and Soong were finally reached an agreement.

According to the agreement, the Tang Empire signed a military alliance treaty with the Republic of China government, but it was only aimed at Japan and not against the third country. The Tang Empire would send naval and marines to participate in the war and work with the Chinese team to fight against the Japanese invading army. At the same time, the Tang Empire would provide the Republic of China government with free aid worth 10 million Tang Yuan, such as weapons, equipment and medicine, and interest-free loans of 50 million Tang Yuan to purchase related military and daily necessities from the Tang Empire.

The weapons and equipment that Zhang Meng promised to provide to ** are very powerful, including the M1 submachine gun, M2 heavy machine gun, SRA tank, 75 infantry gun, 105 field gun, FC-1 dive bomber used by the Tang army. There are even various military jeeps, military trucks, etc.

Zhang Meng didn't care about aiding the most advanced weapons and equipment, because the agreement stipulated that the National Government did not allow imitation and production of ammunition by itself. All ammunition must be supplied by the Tang army. In this way, the Tang army knew how much ammunition was used. If it was used in the civil war, the Tang army would immediately stop supplying.

At the same time, the Tang army sold weapons and equipment to ** at almost a bargain price. On the surface, it seemed to be a loss of money, but in fact, it was profitable in the long run. Once the ** fully equipped with advanced equipment provided by the Tang army, it would be like being stuck by the Tang Dynasty.

Only future people like Zhang Meng will understand the business practices and strategic and military uses. I have to say that he is cunning like a fox and never suffers losses. Everything is naturally under his calculations.

The daily necessities are mainly pharmaceuticals. The Tang Empire has a huge strategic reserve of pharmaceuticals. Many drugs will expire after they are reserved for a long time. Zhang Meng does not like to waste them. Therefore, he took advantage of the earliest reserved drugs that have not expired and quickly assisted the National Government to rescue the comrades in the mainland. The places that were freed up will reserve new drugs that have just left the factory to complete the renewal of strategic reserves of drugs, killing two birds with one stone.

In return, the National Government promised that the relevant military weapons obtained from the Tang Empire should not be used in civil wars, but could only be used in the anti-Japanese battlefield. Although Zhang Meng constrained Chiang Kai-shek's civil war, ** was the main force of the anti-Japanese war after all, so he had to focus on it. So he alone allowed ** to use the Tang Dynasty's advanced weapons for self-defense and defense. This was actually a tough counterattack against the Red Army's behavior of sending troops to attack ** during the National Anti-Japanese War in 128th. It was specially added by Zhang Meng to express his serious dissatisfaction with the matter, because it gave Chiang Kai-shek the excuse that he would first settle the country with foreign aggression, which was a complete failure.

At the same time, the agreement also has a secret provision. This is one of the real reasons why Zhang Meng assisted Chiang Kai-shek, namely the Taiwan issue. The agreement stipulates that if the Tang Empire seized Taiwan, it would have the right to rule Taiwan, and the National Government should understand it. But at the same time, in order to appease the National Government, Zhang Meng also stated that Taiwan would be a special administrative region and would decide its ownership in the future according to public opinion.

Although the National Government was cautious about this matter, Zhang Meng said that the matter could be resolved through descendants. This proposal was immediately approved by the National Government, and the agreement was reached.
Chapter completed!