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[-]. The United States lifts all trade embargo measures against Japan.

[-]. Within one month after the signing of the peace treaty, the United States must pay off all war reparations.

[-]. Within three months after the United States pays off all war reparations, the Japanese army will withdraw from the Americas. "

The request made by Yosuke Matsuoka is just a mere $10 billion added to the conditions Roosevelt proposed through informal channels!In his opinion, such a condition is really very favorable. The US side should not refuse it, right?After talking about these conditions, he squinted his eyes and looked at the rather old Harry Hopkins opposite him, waiting for the other party to nod and agree to this "power loss and humiliation" treaty.At this time, Matsuoka Yosuke felt that the old man opposite looked a bit like Li Hongzhang, the powerful minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and of course he was Ito Hirobumi of contemporary Japan!

It's a pity that the United States is not Manchu after all!It is the world's largest industrial power.Although the United States has realized that it is impossible to defeat the alliance of China and Germany, Japan... is not a problem!

So Hopkins' answer was: "Sorry, Mr. Minister, these conditions are completely unacceptable to the United States!"

"What!" Yosuke Matsuoka stood up abruptly, glaring at the other party, just about to ask why the United States backtracked.The Russian empress who was sitting in the middle said with a smile: "Mr. Matsuoka, why don't you listen to the conditions of the United States first? Negotiations, of course you have to bargain."

Matsuoka gave the Queen a wide look, cursed a lot of whores in his heart, and then suppressed the fire a little, and sat down slowly.

Harry Hopkins nodded at the Queen, and without looking at Matsuoka, he said, "The US government's condition is that Japan must return the Hawaiian Islands and withdraw its troops from the Americas! And the US will withdraw at the same time." All troops stationed in Australia will lift sanctions against Japan, and will also provide Japan with government loans of no more than US$5 million.

In addition, before the end of the year, the U.S. government can also provide a complete set of samples and drawings of the isotope gas diffusion machine, 50 kilograms of uranium 90 with an abundance of 235%, all technical materials for refining and separating uranium 235, and a complete set of drawings for the U.S. atomic bomb design and design information!

Mr. Matsuoka, do you think these things can be exchanged from Japan for the Hawaiian Islands? "

After saying these words, Harry Hopkins gave the Russian Empress Anastasia another meaningful glance.Afterwards, he stood up and walked away with his entourage, ignoring Yosuke Matsuoka who was furiously protesting-this man didn't quite understand how tempting the conditions proposed by the Americans were, but in Japan There are people who understand.And even though the queen sitting on the throne didn't know much about atomic bombs, she would still tell Luo Yaoguo and Hitler about the conditions of the Americans!

So on the night of March 1939, 3, or the early morning of March 10, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, the Office of the Chief of Staff in Wuhan, China, and the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, Japan, Even No. 3 Downing Street in London, England, and Matignon House in Paris, France, are all brightly lit.All kinds of materials and technical experts were recruited from all over the world to tell the political leaders of various countries what they knew about the atomic bomb and uranium-11, and those leaders were all thinking about the real reason behind Roosevelt's move. The purpose, as well as a series of changes in the situation to be triggered...

In Luo Yaoguo's General Staff Department, several heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armament Department, Ministry of National Defense, Navy Department, Air Force General Administration, and Military Intelligence Bureau, as well as several deputy chiefs of staff of the General Staff Department were summoned.After listening to the explanations given by Lieutenant General Lu Min, Dr. Leo Szilard, and Dr. Wei Bojian, who are in charge of the U Engineering Committee, they began to urgently discuss the upcoming changes in the situation.To be honest, Roosevelt's ruthless move greatly exceeded Luo Yaoguo's expectations.

This US President Roosevelt is actually engaged in the proliferation of nuclear weapons!Moreover, this dangerous weapon that can no longer be dangerous is handed over to Japan!Isn't he afraid that the Japanese will drop the atomic bombs on San Francisco, Los Angeles and so on?Could this Roosevelt be possessed by a certain Japanese soul from the 21st century?

At this time, there were bursts of buzzing noises in the conference room, and everyone was whispering and discussing. Everyone's expressions were different. Some people were worried that Japan would use this super weapon to avenge the 9.18 war. Full of worry, some don't care, and some are ferocious and advocate pre-emptive strikes!

And Luo Yaoguo himself was sitting in the middle of the head of the long conference table at the moment, with a gloomy face facing everyone without saying a word.

Chapter 0838 Landing in America ([-]) Can Japan Say No?

To be honest, now Luo Yaoguo is really envious of those "travelers" in the online novels he read in his previous life.Those "travelers" seem to be all prophets, and they are deeply scheming, unparalleled in resourcefulness, especially good at trying to figure out the opponent's mind, almost all of them are Zhuge Liang who has no plans.Where is he like himself, who has been played around by those historical celebrities all the time, and has no idea what card his opponent will play next!Even after the other party played a card, I had to find someone to discuss it for a long time before I knew what they meant.

For example, in the "nuclear proliferation" crisis created by Roosevelt this time, our Marshal Luo is at a loss as to what medicine is sold in Roosevelt's gourd?

That's an atomic bomb!A favorite of future dictators!I don't know how many dictators have ruined their families because they didn't have this powerful weapon in their hands... And as long as they have this killer weapon, they can last forever and be passed down from generation to generation!Such a good thing, although it has not yet been finally created, has long been known through the calculations of the world's top nuclear physicists, so Roosevelt must not be ignorant of it, right?In fact, according to the information obtained by Luo Yaoguo, the United States in this time and space attaches more importance to the Manhattan Project than in history!Just look at the fact that they were able to produce 1939 kilograms of uranium-50 with an abundance of more than 90% by the end of 235.That's definitely not all the weapons-grade uranium-235 the US has.

Who would give all their uranium-235 to an enemy who just had a big fight with him?wrong!Who will put the atomic bomb deterrent weapon in the hands of the enemy?Unless he is a fool.Could it be that Roosevelt was deceiving Japan, and he was playing a game of delay?Or want to come to a nuclear blackmail before the emergence of nuclear weapons!

"If the atomic bomb is as good as what those professors said, Little Japan will be cocky in the future!"

At this time, I don't know who said it suddenly.Luo Yaoguo followed his reputation, and it was not someone else who spoke, but the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Lieutenant General Wu Ziliang, Luo Yaoguo's ally.

"Third brother, don't you think so?" Wu Ziliang muttered again when he saw Luo Yaoguo's suspicious eyes. "Japan has the atomic bomb, even if we can defeat it, we have to pay a lot of price."

"Is this what Roosevelt wants to achieve?" Luo Yaoguo frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head. "What the hell does this Roosevelt want to do?"

"That's right. Since he has such a powerful weapon, why doesn't he use it to fight the Japanese devils? Instead, he wants to exchange it for Hawaii?" Bai Chongxi was the one who asked the question, and the chief of staff of the White Army couldn't guess Roosevelt's intention for a while.

"Although the power of the atomic bomb is great, the quantity is not large, and it is not easy to release. It is a strategic weapon. It is ideal for attacking enemy cities. I am afraid that its power is limited in field battles, and it is even more useless in naval battles... ..." Luo Yaoguo knew a thing or two about the nuclear deterrence theory of later generations, so he explained it to Bai Chongxi and the others in the meeting room.

"The bombers that can be manufactured with current technology have a maximum range of only 6 to 7000 kilometers. It would be good if they could fly 3000 kilometers with an atomic bomb weighing several tons. Moreover, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb must be equipped with anti-radiation lead plates. Reinforce the airframe, which will add a lot of weight... For example, the Fw-200D of our air force, if we want to hang a 3-ton or 4-ton atomic bomb, and then make some modifications, it will fly a maximum of 2000 kilometers, which is reduced to a combat radius. 1000 kilometers. It is no problem to take off from Shanghai to bomb Japan, but to fly out of the United States, even Hawaii cannot be bombed. Therefore, Roosevelt has a powerful weapon, but there is no way to use it for the time being.”

Bai Chongxi smiled coldly, tapped the table with his fingers, and said, "But the Japanese have them! They are so close to us, and there are so many kamikazes! Roosevelt played the card of the atomic bomb to drive a wedge between us and Japan." Does it matter?"

"Then we can't be fooled!" Wang Jingwei frowned, sighed again, and said with a wry smile: "If we don't fall for it, there is no guarantee that Japan will be fooled! In the eyes of their warlords, China is much more hateful than the United States."

“那有啥好怕？”空军部长李顺恩嗤地一笑，摆了摆手。“那个什么原子弹我们也会有的，高纯度的铀-235不是已经攒了近300公斤了？造10颗原子弹也够了吧？而且咱们的同位素分离工厂的产量也有每年100公斤以上。日本就算有50公斤高纯度铀-235也不敢反对咱们的！”

"Yes! It makes sense, they dare not use it." "Well, if they dare to use it, we will bomb Japan!" "Yes, bomb Japan!"

The senior government officials present at the meeting seemed to agree with Li Shunen's suggestion, and they all nodded in agreement.

But Luo Yaoguo didn't take it seriously. How many atomic bombs did the Jin family in North Korea have?Is the United States still afraid to handle them?Japan in this time and space is much more crazy than that North Korea. Who knows that one day a plane or a submarine with an atomic bomb will come to Shanghai and explode itself?China, which has become an imperialist country, is unwilling to bear this kind of loss!Now Japan is that barefoot, but China is wearing shoes.

If Roosevelt really exchanged the atomic bomb for Hawaii, then China may have no way to stop Japan's expansion in the South Pacific, and it will be difficult to incorporate Japan into the new Eastern order led by China.Moreover, in the long run, Japan, which occupies the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago, the Philippine Islands, Papua New Guinea, half of India, and perhaps half of Australia, will have the opportunity to grow and develop because of its possession of the atomic bomb, and finally become China, the East. The strongest contender for supremacy!At the same time, the long-term confrontation between China and Japan will also create opportunities for the future United States to profit from it!

Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo snorted softly, and the meeting room fell silent, all eyes were on Luo Yaoguo's face, as if waiting for him to make a final decision.Luo Yaoguo slapped his hands lightly, and said with a sneer, "President Roosevelt is really not a fuel-efficient lamp! With a little trick, the new order of our Eastern world has changed." As he spoke, there was a hint of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth. "Is this also retaliation for our support of Japan's attack on the west coast of America?"

"Sir, what shall we do?"

"What should we do?" Luo Yaoguo glanced at Foreign Minister Wang Jingwei, "Comrade Zhao Ming, it's hard work for you to go to Berlin. It's best to meet Hitler and find out what he has to say. Hitler must know about this... I'm worried In order to win over Japan and continue to fight against the United States, he may offer the same conditions!"

"As for the Americans, I will ask Wan Yanhao, the ambassador in Petersburg, to contact Harry Hopkins and ask if they still want to carve up the world with us?"

"Brother Fuwen, do you want Zhou Fohai to contact Japan? See if you can persuade Japan to reject the US's terms?" Wang Jingwei reminded.

Luo Yaoguo frowned and pondered for a moment, then shook his head, and said coldly: "The Japanese also understand the principle of long-distance friendship and short-distance attack. Not only is it useless for us to object to this matter, it may have counterproductive effects. But I guess the Germans are more anxious than us. , They have been paying close attention to the affairs of the Central American Federation during this time. Now let’s go to secretly contact the United States and let Germany win over Japan... The fire of the US-Japan war has already been ignited, and the matter of fueling the fire will be handed over to Hitler Bar!"

After finishing speaking, Luo Yaoguo looked at the people present at the meeting again, seeing that they were also at a loss, and it seemed that they could not come up with any good ideas, so he got up and announced the end of the meeting, and then went to the Presidential Palace with Wang Jingwei to report to Luo Yiqun.

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"His Majesty the Emperor is here, all officials welcome you!"

A melodious call of fame came from the end of the corridor in the prime minister's official residence into the brightly lit cabinet meeting room.

"What? This incident has alarmed His Majesty!" Konoe Fumimaro was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly stood up from his seat, and led the cabinet members to stand respectfully at the door of the cabinet meeting room.

After the Japanese Cabinet Office received an urgent telegram from Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, an emergency meeting was held overnight to discuss the terms of the peace talks proposed by the United States.Facing the conditions of the Americans, there were two diametrically opposed opinions in the Japanese cabinet.

Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, Minister of Finance Kawada Retsu, Minister of Commerce and Industry Kazuzo Kobayashi, Minister of Railways Shozo Murata, Minister of Health and Welfare Eiji Yasui and other cabinet members in charge of the Japanese economy mostly agreed with it.However, what they value is not the atomic bomb, but the US$5 million loan granted by the United States, the lifting of sanctions, and the economy and trade that can resume normal sooner after the armistice with the United States.

Since the start of the war, it is precisely these civil servants in charge of the Japanese economy who have been under the greatest pressure.With this war, the army and the navy can naturally open their mouths and ask the cabinet for budgets, steel, aircraft, gasoline, labor, ships, and various rations, regardless of where the cabinet comes from. something?Especially after the landing operations in America began, the supplies demanded by the army and navy increased exponentially, but domestic production was shrinking due to various reasons.The biggest reason for the shrinkage of production is that the continuous decline of sea transportation and the shortage of raw materials imported from overseas have made the industry a meal without rice.Most of the ships were either requisitioned by the army and navy, or sunk by the ubiquitous American submarines.However, the domestic shipbuilding industry is building warships at full capacity, and has no time to accept orders for freighters.

Contrary to the high-level officers of the army and navy who are happily calculating when they will win the war all day long, these civil servants in the Cabinet Office stretch their faces every day, as if they are suffering from depression, and their mood is extremely gloomy.There are even people who are quietly calculating when Japan will perish because it runs out of the last drop of gasoline, the last piece of steel, and the last bullet!In the eyes of these pessimistic civil servants, the Americans are willing to offer 5 million US dollars and that atomic bomb to negotiate peace with Japan to end the war.

Could it be that they really occupied the Hawaiian Islands and wanted to establish colonies in America?You know, such an expansion is simply not what Japan can support!

However, the leaders of the army and navy, including the always more rational Minister of the Army, Nagata Tieshan, firmly opposed the negotiation with the United States on the terms of "loss of power and humiliation of the country".Although the Japanese military has been thinking about the "uranium bomb" for many years, they are firmly opposed to exchanging the Hawaiian Islands.They reasoned that the Hawaiian Islands were Japan's first and most important line of defense against American attacks.Especially after Japan and the United States have atomic bombs in the future, the status of the Hawaiian Islands will be even more important, because the straight-line distance from there to the west coast of the United States is only more than 3700 kilometers!And Japan is fully capable of producing suicide bombers with a range of more than 4000 kilometers in the near future...

Therefore, as long as the Hawaiian Islands are in hand and Japan gets the atomic bomb from Germany, the United States will always be under the oppression of Japan!

And when the members of the civil and military cabinet in the Japanese cabinet were in dispute, Emperor Hirohito went out of the palace overnight, condescending himself and rushing to the Prime Minister's official residence!

Presumably it is also for the sake of negotiating peace with the United States?I just don't know what His Majesty the Emperor thinks?

Just as everyone was pondering the emperor's mind, the voice of the palace minister Koichi Kido sounded again: "The ceremony is over! All honored guests return to their seats!"

Everyone straightened up and filed back to their original seats, only the Prime Minister Konoe changed his seat.On the chair he was originally sitting on, there was now a Japanese emperor in a straight military uniform, sitting upright, but with a somewhat stiff expression.

"Miss Konoe." The Emperor's voice was cold, as if without any emotion, as if he did not belong to this world.

"The minister is here."