Chapter 269: Conversation between Murakuchi Saburo and Ding Wei, Ding Wei's murderous intention
Xiaocaozhuang stronghold, central artillery tower.
"Mr. Qin, I would like to invite you to taste the cherry blossom wine from my hometown, and this group leader."
In the artillery tower, at a square table, Qingquan Muyi, Murakuchi Saburo, Qin Yangming and Ding Wei were sitting on each side.
Qingquan Muyi opened a bottle of unmarked wine and poured a glass for each of them.
Qingquan Muyi knew that Qin Yangming and others would be worried about the problem with the wine, so he took the first sip.
"Mm~ Mr. Qin, please rest assured to taste the wine. The taste of the wine has not changed. Instead, it has become more mellow."
"The taste of my hometown... I really miss it. If it weren't for this damn war, Qin Jun, I think we would have become good friends.
Then I can invite Qin Jun to go to my hometown to enjoy the cherry blossoms and taste the newly released cherry blossom wine."
As a little devil in the cultural circle, he also likes to say a lot of words before talking about business to bring both parties closer.
Qingquan Muyi, who came from a merchant family, was no exception.
Especially after being exposed to China's drinking culture and the preference for discussing things over the wine table, Qingquan Muyi also learned how to do business with others.
Qin Yangming had no intention of objecting to the situation before him.
He also knew that if no news came from Chiyang Town, Qingquan Muyi would hardly be in the mood to talk to him about the affairs of Ping'an County.
The problem in Chiyang Town has not been resolved, so it will be useless even if Ping'an County gives him a handful of Qingquan wood for free.
Faced with this situation, Qin Yangming could only accompany Qingquan Muyi and Murakuchi Saburo to drink, chat and discuss things.
Although Ding Wei didn't understand Japanese, Murakuchi Saburo understood Chinese, so Murakuchi Saburo and Ding Wei had a lively conversation.
"Captain Ding, what do you think of this war?"
As they were chatting, Murakuchi Saburo and Ding Wei talked about the war.
Ding Wei was stunned when he heard the question from Cunkou Sanlang.
You know, in order to avoid causing embarrassment to both parties, they tried their best to avoid talking about this topic. As a result, now Murakuchi Saburo actually started to take the initiative to talk.
When Murakuchi Saburo saw Ding Wei's expression, he smiled.
"Captain Ding, just tell me what you want to say... We don't want to fight this damn war. I just want to ask for Captain Ding's opinion."
"…What does the village captain think?"
"My opinion? This is a war started by a bunch of idiots and a bunch of lunatics.
As soon as the war started, our division commander predicted that we could not win this war.
Before the July 7 Incident, many of us also guessed that we could not win this war.
Instead, we will be dragged into the quagmire of war and the entire country will be emptied. After meeting your Eighth Route Army, I understand even more clearly that we have no chance of winning this war."
Ding Wei was a little surprised when he heard the answer from Murakuchi Saburo.
It was the first time he heard a Japanese officer say that they could not win this war.
"Muraguchi-kun, why do you think so? You are still very powerful now. On the surface, we are still at a disadvantage. Why do you say that you can't win?"
“Hahaha~ Captain Ding, you are a member of the Red Party. You don’t understand some people’s ideas. We also have the Red Party in our country. I have been in contact with them, so I know quite a lot about the Red Party.
First of all, the vast majority of our country, whether it is the locusts or those so-called congressmen, have only one purpose in starting a war.
Benefit!
With the outbreak of the economic crisis, wealthy politicians did not want to use their own money to fill the gap, so they wanted to start a war to divert conflicts.
At the same time, you can use war to make a lot of money.
In the eyes of these guys, the outcome of the war is not important; what matters to them is the benefits.
If a businessman can get 300% profit, then he will dare to trade with the devil.
Qingquan-kun and I are both businessmen. In order to make money, we can sell out not only the interests of the army, but even the interests of the country.
Captain Ding, do you think we are not worthy of being soldiers?
Captain Ding, don't rush to refute, this is a very normal thought.
Although we hated war in the past, we would still try to avoid it when it happened and try our best to avoid it.
However, it has not yet reached the point of reselling military supplies on a large scale to earn personal profits.
When we started to resell military supplies on a large scale to make personal profits, it was because we knew that this war would be a loss or a victory.
Local resources will inevitably be exhausted.
And we have no chance of winning. At least in my opinion, we have no chance of winning. Once the top leaders decide to open up a new battlefield, it will be even more impossible for us to win.
The resources obtained through war will certainly be consumed by the war in the future.
Especially in our country, there are huge conflicts among the armies, and countless resources are wasted in the process. It's ridiculous to say that the war was originally launched because of the scarcity of resources, but there is still so much waste in the process.
The army buys the same weapon blueprint once, and then the navy buys it again. If the navy's screws are turned to the left, then the army's must be turned to the right. It's the same weapon, but the parts are not interchangeable, especially in an industrial country like us.
The big joke of slipping the world!
Facing two countries at the same time... fighting on two, three, or even four fronts... I really don’t see how we can win.”
Saburo Murakuchi was looking at the news in the newspaper and saw that the Navy had issued a statement demanding that the Army abandon the Chinese battlefield and not continue to launch attacks in China. The remaining troops should quickly go to Southeast Asia and take over Southeast Asia to obtain oil.
At the same time, it was demanded that the army's military spending be cut and the funds be allocated to the navy to build warships.
Another piece of news was that the Army was scolding the Navy, and the two sides were arguing fiercely in the newspapers.
While looking at the newspaper handed to him by Murakuchi Saburo, Ding Wei was also surprised by what Murakuchi Saburo mentioned about the contradiction between the navy and the army.
He really couldn't imagine that the conflict between the two armies of a country could be so serious.
The Japanese do not have such sharp party conflicts like the Chinese do.
"Captain of the village, facing this situation, can your Heavenly Locusts not do anything? Your country is still an imperial system, right? Although it is a constitutional monarchy, your Heavenly Locusts should still have a lot of power, right?"
Ding Wei looked at Murakuchi Saburo with doubt.
"Tsk, Tian Huang, that idiot Tian Huang is hoping that the conflict between the navy and the army will continue to intensify."
Murakuchi Saburo curled his lips in disdain and said, "Captain Ding, in all the feudal dynasties in China, have you ever seen an emperor willingly hand over his power?
Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s take the more recent example. Your original useless emperor gave up his dignity for the sake of power and sought our help to establish the Manchukuo in Manchuria?
What is the difference between this guy and Shi Jingtang in your history? None.
Even this kind of person is unwilling to give up the power in his hands and wants to become emperor again as soon as he gets the chance.
Do you think that after Tian Huang finally took back power from the shogunate and tasted the power, he would willingly hand over the power in his hands to the parliament or something like that?
The conflicts between the navy and the army, apart from the original historical conflicts, were also caused by the instigation of Tian Huang.
The greater the conflict between the navy and the army, the more stable the position of Tianhuang will be.
Because both sides want to win over Tianhuang and want to gain Tianhuang's support, then they must give Tianhuang's power to Tianhuang.
Therefore, in order to hold on to the power in his hands, Tian Huang provoked conflicts between the navy and the army at all costs, making the conflicts between the two sides become more and more serious. Finally, he sat firmly in the middle and helped whoever was weak.
This is your Chinese way of controlling your subordinates.
For Tian Huang, it is not important whether he can win the war... What is important is whether he can continue to be Tian Huang and whether he can pass on the position of Tian Huang from generation to generation.
Tianhuang actually hopes that all the troops will be wiped out so that he can form his own army.
The locusts at the top only care about the power in their hands, and those politicians only care about the benefits they can get. How many people are really thinking about the country?
No.
If those people really care about the country and the people, then they should not start a war or brainwash the people with the spirit of Bushido.
Even if it is an economic crisis, is there no other solution besides war?
Yes, but the other method is more complicated, and it also requires taking money out of the pockets of those politicians and out of the treasury of Tianhuang.
They didn't want to spend money, so they chose the simplest method, which was to start a war directly and divert the conflict.
Rely on war, send those civilians to the battlefield, consume those civilians, and then use the plunder of war to fill the gap and continue to make money.
Dragging the people into war will not end well.
Captain Ding, please look at John.
The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets is so majestic. The sun always shines on the land of the empire and never sets.
What now?
Although John won the war twenty years ago, he also completely destroyed the prestige of the empire. Now only a little bit of the empire's power remains.
And it won’t be long before the British Empire will become a thing of the past forever.
This is the price of war.
I bet that it won't be long before war breaks out again in Europe, and after the war, the British Empire will become history.
As the first country to initiate the war, our country will become more difficult regardless of whether we win or not.
Even if we win, we don't have enough troops to stabilize so much territory, nor do we have enough resources to continue supplying the troops.
The situation in our country is already very bad, let’s talk about this canned food.”
As Murakuchi Saburo was talking, he picked up the two cans of beef on the table and handed them to Ding Wei.
"Captain Ding, take a look. This can was produced a few years ago, and this one is new this year."
Ding Wei took the can handed to him by Cunkou Saburo, took a bite, and immediately realized something was wrong.
The can of beef from a few years ago that Murakuchi Saburo handed him was really a can of beef, and the beef was in large chunks.
But the one at the back, the freshly made canned beef, only had a bit of beef flavor, but there wasn't much beef at all, and the taste was terrible.
“There are not enough resources!”
"That's right, the local resources have been almost exhausted. The war did not obtain enough resources as those politicians expected, but instead has caused a deficit.
You see, the original canned beef actually contained beef, but now it is just some beef blood, beef offal and other miscellaneous ingredients.
This shows that the war did not obtain enough resources at all, and now local resources are so scarce that even canned beef cannot be put into the can.
Moreover, our daily food supplies have not been replenished according to standards for a long time.
And this, look at this gun... some of its accessories are gone, which means that the local people are now running short of even the materials to make guns, and they have started to reduce the accessories on the guns.
The bayonets are all different.
Another thing is that when we fought in the field in the past, each person carried at least 120 rounds of ammunition.
What about now? Eighty rounds... For example, this turret used to have at least 10,000 or 20,000 rounds of ammunition in stock. What about now? It has been a long time since the ammunition stock reached 10,000.
From this we can see that our domestic war potential has basically been exhausted, or that all of it has been put into the pockets of politicians.
It can be seen from this that the local area cannot hold out for much longer, unless the local politicians continue to brainwash, or really follow the advice of the navy and go south to Southeast Asia to plunder resources, and then hold out for a while.
But that was just a last-ditch effort.
Since we already know that we are going to lose this war, it doesn't make any difference whether we lose sooner or later.
In order to continue living in our hometown after the war, we had no choice but to start selling military supplies on a large scale to earn money. "
After Murakuchi Saburo finished speaking, he started drinking.
Ding Wei looked at Samurai Cunkou and felt a little unbelievable.
“I didn’t expect that there are people among the Japanese who can see so far… The last time I heard that the Japanese couldn’t hold out for much longer was when I heard the division commander and others at the Yizhong Military Region.
I never thought that a small major like Murakuchi Saburo could see so far.
Fortunately, he is not in a hostile relationship with this guy Murakuchi Saburo.
Fortunately, Murakuchi Saburo doesn't like fighting, otherwise it would be a big trouble."
Ding Wei also had a long-term vision. After reading Murakuchi Saburo's analysis, he also noticed these situations.
"Should we talk to Xiao Qin and have this villager Sanlang killed or recruited into our army? This guy is really too smart!"
After realizing the ability of Murakuchi Saburo, an idea popped into Ding Wei's mind, an idea to kill Murakuchi Saburo.
Although Murakuchi Saburo is a temporary ally of theirs now, who knows if they will become enemies in the future?
Ding Wei looked at Sanlang at the entrance of the village and felt murderous.
(End of this chapter)
