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In December 1936, when the Olympics had come to an end, some "interludes" hidden behind the scenes also began to come to an end in Berlin, a secret hotel.

〖China's delegation to Germany this time was nominally composed of the Olympic delegation and the 10,000-ton ocean-going transport ship of Qinghai Lake. In fact, there was also a secret delegation. The Olympic delegation lived in the Olympic village, and the Qinghai Lake sailors who visited Germany stayed on the warships and occasionally walked around the port, while the Qinghai Lake officers were organized to visit the German shipyard.

Members of the secret visiting delegation live in a secret hotel in Berlin. The members of the delegation were arranged to visit various important German military industries and even some military camps in the name of the Chinese business expedition.

Hitler hoped to use this method to show the other side of the German Third Reich that the Chinese were not very familiar with: strong industrial and military potential.

After a few months, on one side, there was a big fanfare Olympic Games, and on the other side, the Germans took the Chinese delegation to visit factories, barracks, military academies, etc. in various parts of Germany. During this period, senior German Nazi officials representing Hitler repeatedly tactfully to the two leaders of the Chinese delegation, a political representative, Gu Weijun, director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Huo Weiguo, commander of the Northeast Security Command of China, said that the two countries should look to the future and take common interests as the starting point to conduct comprehensive negotiations on more in-depth Sino-German cooperation.

It was not until December that the visiting delegation returned to Berlin that Hitler could not hold back.

On October 25, Germany and Italy successfully reached an alliance treaty with the purpose of coordinating foreign policy," which means the formal establishment of the Berlin-Roman axis. In negotiations with the Italians, the dictator Mussolini expressed a strong interest in the Nazi Party led by Hitler. He believed that "it is necessary for Germany and Italy to work hard to establish a powerful pan-third empire..." After reaching a series of secret military and technological terms, the two sides signed a covenant very happily.

In the direction of Europe, Hitler can temporarily relieve himself, but there has been no big news in Asia.

Deep in his heart, the strategy of Asia's direction is equally important, because it concerns whether the Soviet power in Asia can be effectively restrained when the war will inevitably break out in the future, whether the British and French forces in Asia can be restrained, and whether the United States' Pacific can find an at least seemingly reliable ally to restrain it.

At this time, Asia was at least, and it seemed to be reliable. However, Japan was small in territory. In Hitler's view, Japan was far less powerful than China in terms of strategic potential in war. They had vast territory and directly bordered the Soviet Union. The two countries had many irreconcilable problems such as territorial disputes. Although Hitler appreciated the idea of ​​"Japanese" to redeem martial arts, he was extremely suspicious of whether the Japanese, who had just suffered a great loss at the hands of the Chinese, and still had hundreds of thousands of prisoners in China to serve hard labor in China, could be competent for the important task of the Axis powers.

The Chinese have shown great performance in the world economy in recent years and have shown a trend of catching up with Britain and France in all respects. According to the predictions of the imperial economic sector, if the war breaks out in two or three years, the Chinese people's GDP and various important industrial indicators, including steel, power generation, and mineral resources, may have fully reached the level of the United Kingdom, catching up with the United States, the Soviet Union and Germany.

From a global perspective, their advanced products are beginning to emerge everywhere, whether it is Germany, the United States, or even the red Soviet Union.

Especially Americans, from large to high-end cars and various new medicines, from small to military quilts, razors, toothbrushes, cigarettes, chocolates, and coke supplies are all provided by the Chinese, or are Chinese brands. Information proves that even the cannons and military cars used by American soldiers have begun to appear. Of course, China also imports a lot of cheap resources from Americans, such as oil, rubber, coal and iron ore, gasoline, kerosene, and even machinery that they don’t have time to produce, and the ships they want. As long as there are enough cheap resources, they are happy to buy, and the quantity is very large.

Let’s look at the refrigerators produced by Chinese people, high-end and luxurious Chinese cars, washing machines and TVs in Germany. A larger range of high-end clothing, new foods, and chain stores from China have begun to appear in Germany.

Berlin economists told him that "China will be the only new economic hegemon that is likely to rise in the next decade, just because their technological innovation has exceeded other countries.

A Nazi barracks in Berlin," several senior members of the Chinese delegation, including Huo Weiguo and Gu Weijun, finally met Hitler.

"Welcome friends from China, Germany will always be your reliable Western allies. I hope my ministers and generals can reach a Berlin-Roman-like axis agreement with you as soon as possible." That will be a truly perfect triangular axis agreement, spanning the two continents of Eurasia. Once the agreement is reached, the future axis alliance will leverage the entire earth." In Huo Weiguo's view, "Hitler gave him the first impression of being taciturn, but once he said something, he will talk endlessly, full of strong rendering and infectiousness. Moreover, this German head of state is extremely easy to override his thinking on others.

His almost urgent and unconcealed mentality of hoping that China and Germany would become allies is ridiculous, and he has to fear his strong ambitions.

Hitler's appearance is just a short "interlude" song. He does not participate in the real negotiations. "He will only appear again after the negotiations reach a true intention.

At the beginning of the negotiations, the Germans clearly raised the issue of Hitler's axis agreement. "Germany hopes to sign a longer-term, diplomatic agreement with China" so as to exert the huge power of the three axes when the situation is needed.

The German representatives clearly stated that China faced military crisis. The red color of the north will squeeze the living space of the new China, while the British, French and even Americans at sea will threaten the new China's development of maritime trade. The representatives of the German Ministry quoted the era of great navigation to illustrate that the rise of any great power, in addition to the necessary land war, will face extremely harsh maritime hegemony.

However, Gu Weijun and Huo Weiguo continued to implement the strategy of dismissal until they received the latest and most clear instructions from the country that they began to have a real showdown with the Germans.

"His Excellency Chief of Staff, General Gorene, I'm sorry, "I have to convey to you the latest decision from Chairman Zhang Shusheng, the highest leader of our country." Finally, in the last Sino-German negotiation that basically "cleared each other's trump card, Huo Weiguo conveyed Zhang Shusheng's final decision to the German military and political negotiating team."

"…The Baath Party and the Supreme Power Committee unanimously agreed that the Chinese government must maintain good relations with the German government, and in the fields of military, politics, diplomacy, science and technology, business, new relationships with special treatment unique to China and Germany should be maintained and developed.

As we are located in the East, our military and technological power are not strong enough. The current opportunity is not particularly suitable to clearly express our participation in any party’s agreement alliance, but is more suitable to provide the necessary support for the Berlin-Roman alliance with a transcendent political status of a third party to ensure that when the situation changes further, the Axis Alliance can receive sufficient external support.

As our friend, Your Excellency Hitler, the Head of State, said, "We can foresee the natural differences between China and the Soviet Union." From a military and political perspective, this difference will inevitably be expanded in a certain period of time. Therefore, if China and Germany have a friendly agreement with low stimulation to other countries and at least cooperative relations, it will ensure the long-lasting and friendly relationship between China and Germany while minimizing the suspicion and prevention of other countries about us. As a good friend relationship, in a secret situation, "China can provide Germany with some weapons and technologies that can effectively suppress its opponents at the necessary moment. In return, we hope to get German about...

Of course, we can understand that the powerful German Empire needs an Asian military ally. After long and careful thinking, we believe that Japan will be a good choice for your country…”

This is a final decision of the Chinese side that stunned the Germans. In this decision, the Germans found that the Chinese were sincere in signing a minimum friendly agreement with the German side, but it was not a "axis agreement" at least not for the time being.

〖Chinese people tend to Germany" but are unwilling to be the target of public criticism too early.

In this decision similar to a diplomatic secret letter, the Chinese expressed their vigilance against the Soviet Union and said that in due time, there would be greater conflicts with the Soviets, thus helping Germany's Asian strategy.

And further "China is Japan".

In this straightforward decision, China "China tactfully stated that it could release Japanese prisoners of war conditionally, but put forward many demands that could be called harsh.

That night, Hitler saw the latest negotiation progress report after being sorted.

"Head of State! The Chinese people proposed a very detailed plan for the future relations between China, Japan and Germany in this secret letter. In the plan, the Chinese people expressed their natural hatred for the Soviets, implying that a large-scale Sino-Soviet conflict will occur in the future on territorial and survival issues.

From this point of view, this head of state of China is very inclined to us.

Their senior negotiator Huo Weiguo is the commander of the Northeast Security Bureau of the Chinese People's Army, responsible for leading two huge armies to the Far East Soviet Union and Japan himself. Judging from the fact that they sent him to Germany, the Chinese also attach great importance to the relationship between China, the Soviet and Japan."

The current Chief of General Staff of Germany, Ludwig-Baker, briefly reported to Hitler on important issues in the negotiations. "The Chinese people assure us that China and Japan can sign a treaty that is proactive with the Chinese people, and that China and Japan are non-aggression." On the premise of ensuring the stability of China-Japan-German relations, they put forward the following specific requirements or suggestions.

〖China's "government" released 6-47,351 non-key war criminals currently in custody or hard-working, and required twice the number of North Korean workers, that is, 1.29 million workers to use the 1-day North Korean labor mutual aid agreement in exchange for "to make up for the delays in various projects that may be caused by the return of Japanese workers. The Chinese "government" guarantees that the North Korean workers will not commit slaughter and particularly excessive "abnormal treatment,"

The Japanese government shall not take any hostile attitude towards China. "The garrison within 100 kilometers of the Sino-North Korea border must be reduced to the size of a regiment. Any movements of the Korean Japanese army must be reported to China two days in advance.

In the future, Germany may arm Japan, in the form of a covenant, it should strictly restrain Japan in the form of a covenant. It is recommended that on the premise of strict military supervision, Germany needs to deeply join the Japanese combat command to supervise the Japanese operations and staff system. While helping Japan to restore and strengthen military strength, ensure the stability of Sino-Japanese relations. During the necessary war period, any large-scale military operations in Asia by Japan need to be notified to China in advance, "otherwise," China will regard it as a collective betrayal of the Axis Alliance and will take any form to counterattack the Axis Alliance.

China suggests that "Germany's armed forces against Japan should eliminate technology transfer, but take a special form. Through Germany as a central guarantee country, on the premise of guaranteeing payment, China is responsible for producing the required weapons and equipment for Japan. This will ensure the sustainable combat effectiveness of Japan during wartime and eliminate the huge war logistical problems caused by the sea blockade.

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After listening to Beck's report, Hitler frowned. He had never imagined that the Chinese would have such a unique mind. "He really made me more interested." Choose a suitable opportunity and maybe invite him to visit Germany."

"Head of War" Maybe you are going to be disappointed. This head of war in China never accepts any invitations for foreign visits after the founding of the country!" Baker smiled.

"Well, it's really interesting. Chief of Staff Baker, I'm very interested in listening to your analysis of these conditions proposed by the Chinese."[

Hitler waved his hand and, as usual, would always allow others to express his opinions before he directly made his decision, although these opinions would not be accepted.

Beck stood attentively and saluted, then walked to the big map, picked up the baton, and said to Hitler that the geographical and historical relationship between the "head of state" China, Japan and the Soviet Union determines that they must be hostile. Any cooperation between China, Japan and Germany in Asia in the future will be based on the premise of avoiding Sino-Japanese hostility. Although the Chinese's suggestions are very harsh, they make sense, because they are trying to transfer this Sino-Japanese contradiction, at least in the early stage of the war, to the Sino-Russian contradiction and Japan-Russian contradiction.

First, "they promised to return prisoners of war" but only proposed that the Japanese and Korean workers were organized to exchange. Once this agreement was reached, Japan not only avoided paying compensation for hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war. During the armistice agreement, the war compensation problem bound to the prisoners of war was avoided, and the prisoners of war were able to be taken back to the country with decent amounts without paying any price. Of course, in order to avoid excessive hatred from North Korea, the cunning Chinese only asked the Japanese and young and middle-aged workers who were not limited to use, and the use of young and middle-aged workers who were sufficient to transfer most of the future problems to the Japanese and they were.

Since China has just ended the Sino-Japanese War, its hatred towards Japan is inevitable. Just as we are hostile to the French, the Chinese do not want to see any potential threats from Japan, even if they are absolutely sure to defeat Japan.

The Chinese are very right. "A Japanese that has risen more moderately" on the premise of strengthening control. After re-arming, the entire Far East of the Soviets will be enveloped by the sun flag. At this time, as long as the control is properly controlled, the Chinese armed forces will easily deal with the Japanese who are landing. You must know that they have a stronger industry, a larger population, a larger army, and the best geographical location.

The Chinese believe that if we want to ensure that Japan can deal with the Soviets in the Far East alone, a large number of tanks, aircraft, and cannons will inevitably be needed. These weapons will most likely not be able to produce enough technology, factories, materials and military expenses. If the Chinese agree to provide paid arms production, they will completely eliminate the logistics problems that Japan may face after the war begins. Germany's military aid projects to Japan and the Japanese government itself can freely purchase these weapons from China.

China is completely uneasy about Japan, so they suggest that we take deeper military and staff control over Japan. This will also be beneficial to the empire. First, we can ensure that the strategic direction of the Japanese National Congress is not a problem, and secondly, we can assist in commanding the stupid Japanese National Battle. Finally, we can completely relieve China, a potential future ally.

To be happy, I think the mentality of the Chinese people is similar to that of the United States. They try to gain more time to develop the economy. After all, they have just established a unified national regime. It takes time to develop and grow and catch up with the countries. But "their military and political propositions are biased towards Germany, and at least in the face of the powerful common enemy of the Soviet Union, we don't have to worry about any of their betrayals. Of course, the premise is that the Japanese do not anger them, and thus completely turn China to other countries."

Hitler nodded, "and said to himself, "The Chinese want to stay out of the early stages of the war, develop a stronger economy, and prepare for stronger military forces. Baker, I never believe they will be foolishly afraid of war. Every country wants to take advantage of it." Especially when the huge war is coming, just like the Americans.

The price that a stronger Japanese empire needs to pay is too great, but the benefits that can be seen are also huge.

However, the Chinese are right. Our control over Japan must exceed that of Italy. Only in this way can we stabilize China, a potential ally, and the empire ensure that the Japanese and Japanese Asian chariots are tied tightly to the axis battlefield of the Third Reich.

The best way is to refuse to provide technical support and leave the huge military supplies supported by the empire to the Chinese to do.

"As long as the Japanese can provide enough soldiers and the Chinese can produce enough weapons, the Soviet Far East will be bloody. Our plan will be more smooth.

The Soviet Union will be the natural enemy of the empire and will have a huge impact on the future Europe. The revival of Germany will inevitably be blocked by them. After the French are eliminated, our opponent will be them.

〖Chinese people’s proposal is very good.”

It was already early 1937, and Hitler's mentality was occupied by Germany's strong rise. A super-large war had already had basic ideas in his mind. For various reasons, he even urgently urged the German tank to speed up the preparations for expansion.

With his strategic vision, it is easy to find that the carefully prepared powerful German team will usher in the "harassment" of the British as a battle after defeating the French, while the real enemy is still the Soviets.

At this time, the Far East assistance provided by China and Japan became extremely important, and even in the long run, "Hitler even believed that once the Chinese and Japanese people maintain, peaceful and common development relations based on the invasion of the Soviet Union, the significance of China and Japan represented more than Italy.

If Japan himself concentrates on the Far East of the Soviet Union, it will make up for Japan's shortcomings in military, science and technology, economy and resources.

In April 1937, the "Germany Affairs Trip" arrived in Japan and conducted a comprehensive investigation and visit to Japan, while a secret German Nazi delegation negotiated with the Japanese government.

"His Majesty the Emperor" is now time to make a wise decision."

Several contemporary military and political officials from Japan, even two or three military and political veterans gathered at Kikuno-geo to meet the emperor and begged Hirohito to make a decision on the future direction of Japan.

"His Majesty Hirohito, the empire has faced several choices." Today, it is already another time to make a choice." Nishizoji Gong hopes to be extremely prestigious in Japan. His health has miraculously recovered a lot in the past two years. He began to become active in Japan after the defeat. If he was not too old, he might have jumped out of the scenes. "If he chose to regard the Chinese as an enemy, he would reject the demands made by the Germans." Taking military defense or even an offensive stance against China will make the empire lose its only opportunity to rise after the defeat. Only the help of the Germans can allow us to obtain enough support and re-arm sufficient troops. "Can obtain German loans to improve the economy."

"Sir Nishiyuanji, this way, we will lose the offensive ability against China for a very long time." A military representative, Asazaburo Kobayashi, who had just been promoted, endured his irritable temper and said in a low voice.

"Do you think today's Japanese is still an opponent of the Chinese? Their hundreds of thousands of troops in the northeast can reach the easternmost coastal coast of North Korea in just one week." As soon as the military officer Asazaburo finished speaking, he immediately attracted the anger of another senior military officer, Jinya Wan San, who is the chief of staff of the military. "The Chinese military power is far stronger than they seem." Think about it, their countless military factories, advanced aircraft flying all over the sky, and the huge aircraft carriers in the shipyards, what do the empire fight against them? Why does the empire fight with them meaningfully? China is not the Soviet Union. Even if you are asked to lead your army to land in China, can you defend those territories?"

Jingu Fan San said the thoughts of most military officials. After the defeat, many military officials were very unwilling to accept it. However, after a few years of in-depth spy on China, they found that the southwest of the Chinese people had industries far surpassed Japan, and the result of the war reflection was that Japan was no longer an opponent of China for a considerable period.

Those failures one after another, those new weapons of the Chinese team that appeared on the battlefield, those who were as afraid of death as Japanese soldiers.

Jin Gu Fan said earnestly, "I am not afraid of the Chinese, but this Sino-Japanese dispute is destined to produce a result of the law. The previous Sino-Japanese War was because they were at the weakest time, and the empire could launch the Sino-Japanese War with a small fortune. But now, they are a unified and developing future industrial power." The empire needs to cross the sea to fight with them, which is unwise.

The current situation is that we may not be enemies with the Chinese, but the Germans need us to get together with the Chinese and use the power of China and Japan to impose unprecedented strong restraint on the Soviet Union. Therefore, the opportunity given by the Germans this time "is also forcing us to choose to continue to fight against the Chinese people strategically, or to cooperate with them in moderation to turn the enemy into a common Soviet Union."

"But we are also summarizing the war, we are also studying new weapons, and we are also trying to develop stronger air force and naval aviation."

Nishiyuanji Gongwang shook his head, "Silly people always have their eyes blinded by their vengeful hearts." Only great people, such as His Majesty, can see the real benefits of the rise of the empire.

Kobayashi, do you think that relying on the Chinese people's strong industrial strength now, the empire can produce more aircraft than them? It can build aircraft carriers stronger than them? The empire, which is struggling to recover, can provide more military expenditures than them? The population is far smaller than that of them, and can recruit more troops than them? The empire they drove back from the mainland, and now there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the empire that serves war labor in China, and can defeat them in terms of combat will?

You stupid soldiers, you don’t know anything. The empire only needs to do one thing. We can treat the Sino-Japanese War as if it does not exist. We also hope that the Chinese can treat it as if it does not exist, so as to seize any opportunity, so that the empire can obtain more territory, and obtain more resources, and let the empire sit on the Germanic chariot like the Italians, and go to the Soviets to cut their flesh and drink blood together.

As we all know, the Germans said that "as long as we have no problems in Japan" the Chinese will also fulfill all their promises, isn't that enough?

If you are not brave enough, "I would rather serve myself" and take weapons, fight with the Soviets like the heroes of the Russo-Japanese War", and snatch the entire Soviet Far East like you did when you snatched back to the Northeast from them.

What is there? According to the information given to us by the Germans (the secret handed over to Germany by China) "there are full of resources that can make the whole world crazy, and when our scholars took the opportunity to visit the Far East," it also initially confirmed that several places are indeed full of resources, just as the Germans said.

His Majesty, let the empire move forward. As long as we no longer anger the Chinese and pay enough money to compensate them. "They will no longer regard us as the main opponents." They will not take the initiative to attack the already powerful Japanese in the future. As long as we truly reflect on the Sino-Japanese War and compensate them. They need workers that are cheap to almost free, then we can give them millions of Korean workers, and even more prisoners of war in the future. They need markets, and we can open all the markets in the Japanese territory to them. They need raw materials, and we can sell them whatever they need in their homeland.

Cooperation, real cooperation, cooperation between two powerful countries.

Their opponent is the Soviet Union, and the Empire can completely divide most of the Soviet Union with them!!!

And if we shrink our hands and choose to fight, then "we will bear the revenge from them. The Sino-Japanese War can be finished, or it can be said that it is just a pause. Maybe we can defeat them in the future, but in the face of the entire China, we will also suffer the same result as the last war.

If we resist China, we will not have Germany as an ally, and we will not receive their deep military and economic support because of our strength towards the Soviet Union.
To be continued...