The $100 billion offer was not Horikichi, but was directly offered in Japan. The initial offer was the same as Hoffman imagined: Japan promised to give up its siege on Hawaii, but required all the Western Pacific islands, except Australia, to hand over all New Zealand and Solomon Islands to Japan.

Dulles absolutely dared to agree to this condition, so he hoped that Japan would raise the economic transaction conditions, so it became a condition of "paying all debts to Germany and delivering 100 billion US dollars of supplies". At present, the cumulative money owed to Germany by Japan has reached nearly 30 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to Japan's needing the United States to spend more than 130 billion US dollars, which is basically equivalent to the US military expenditure for one year. The military expenditure in the 1944 fiscal year was US$148.7 billion. Before the delivery of the indemnity materials, Japan's occupation of Hawaii will be guaranteed.

If the United States is unwilling to deliver materials, it can also deliver gold and deliver gold at a price of $35 per ounce. US$130 billion is equivalent to 1.4 billion ounces of gold. It is converted into metric units equal to more than 110,000 tons of gold. The total amount of gold mined on the entire earth to date is summed up and multiplied by four. Not to mention that the United States cannot take it out, even if it is willing, it will not be able to find gold that can be delivered. This is simply impossible.

Even Hori Teiki was stunned by this lion's request, because Japan did not ask for pure money, but the materials behind the money, even if they exist, they will start shipping continuously, and it will take at least half a year to complete the delivery. He believes that the Americans will absolutely not agree. Once they agree to such conditions, Japan's national strength will directly double on the existing basis. Will they still fulfill their promises at that time?

Dulles' psychological expectation is 2 billion, no more than US$3 billion at most. The gap between the two sides is too big. So he can only settle for the second best and "redemption" of the soldiers on the island of Hawaii. Although redemption is detrimental to the honor of the army, military bosses all believe that redemption is positive at this stage. Instead of letting 100,000 troops easily squander on the island of Hawaii, it is better to collect the domestic value.

Of course, they would not come forward to say such words, singing the high-profile "Resist to the end, fight to the last person" is more active than anyone else. Dulles saw through these politicians with different feelings at a glance, took risks and made suggestions, with a rather confused and self-righteous demeanor, which made them give a thumbs up in their hearts to praise the Secretary of State.

"In addition, given that the British, French, and Italian ships suffered a great loss in this battle, I also contacted them through secret channels, hoping that they could withdraw from the European Combined Fleet, but the results were not great," Dulles said with a wry smile, "The British and French warships were not able to be drawn, while the Italians received compensation from Germany in other fields."

"You can do the redemption matters. As long as it does not damage the honor and morale of the army, nor the image and cohesion of the United States, I think it can be tried." Dewey waved his hand weakly, his eyes swelling, "We have fought until now, and the incompetent people in this room, so it is not for the grassroots officers and soldiers."

Dewey scolded everyone, including himself, and everyone didn't say a word, and the audience fell into an embarrassing and continuous depressing state.

After 10 minutes of silence, Clark spoke hard and broke the deadlock: "At present, we have adjusted our strategic deployment and adopted a full-line defense in the Caribbean and Central America to prevent further attacks from happening. At the same time, the three armies continue to reorganize their teams and restore their strength. The army has come forward to preside over the land defense plan."

Hearing "land defense", Dewey felt that his mind was about to explode. Why was he so stupid? He took this position? He will "leave a name in history" for the rest of his life. Could it be that the White House was burned again? I am only in my 40s.

But no matter how unwilling it, I had to admit that such an opinion was reliable. Now that the two oceans fleets are completely destroyed, the air force is in a slump, and the east and west coasts are wide open, the enemy may come to fight at any time. If you don’t arrange national defense, it will be too late.

"I plan to contact Germany again this week to discuss peace conditions," Dulles added. "But it is possible that the Germans will increase their investment. After all, the Japanese are already increasing their investment, and Germany has occupied Bermuda. This is a very dangerous signal that the German army has a bridgehead for the attack. My opinion is that if we are temporarily unable to seize it in the military, we can only make concessions in other interests and exchange them."

"How to change?"

"The sphere of influence in Central America is based on the existing line of actual control. Our army retreated from Venezuela and Recife, respecting Haiti and Dominican independence, and Jamaica returned it to Britain, Puerto Rico and Germany for Bermuda." Dulles said to the map, "We retain Cuba and the Bahamas as a strong barrier to the southern frontier."

Dewey sighed, not knowing how to express his opinion. After hesitating for a long time, he could only say, "Go and talk. In principle, I don't have much opinion."

The rest of the people secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Dewey actually wanted to blame Turner for the idea of ​​attracting him at night, but he knew that the other party would definitely complain more about his fight now rather than the situation that he had agreed to delay until May, so he wisely stopped talking.

After discussing for a long time, everyone found that except for the army to redeem and start peace talks, there were no other countermeasures except the three policies of land defense, and they all sighed and sighed.

Finally, Dewey issued a personnel order: Mitchell, who pursued Jin and died as the admiral, appointed Ingram as the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Halsey as the deputy commander, and Hewitt as the chief of staff, no longer distinguished between the Atlantic Fleet or the Pacific Fleet. Although the title of commander-in-chief of the fleet sounds majestic, the navy's strength is not as strong as the original squadron, and such appointments are helpless.

Just as Dewey tried his best to find a way out for the leaking giant ship in the United States, other political groups were not idle either. War heroes, young and promising Kennedy represented Truman and the Democratic Party in close contact with various parliamentary groups and neutral people.

"Whatever turns the tide and what is looking for a way out is all fake," said Kennedy. "Under President Dewey, the American front is shrinking step by step, and we will soon fight a war of land defense. I don't know where his confidence in criticizing Mr. Truman came from. This is a war, a living war, and it cannot be dealt with by sensationalism or singing a few high-profile sentences."

Everyone, especially the press, nodded, saying that Dewey was not only a mess in military affairs, but also severely strengthened the control of news media and practitioners. FBI often invited people to "drink coffee", so that news reports are becoming increasingly difficult to write. Although the Truman government was also lacking in military and diplomatic terms in the past, at least the suppression of the media was not so tight. However, after Dewey came to power, Hoover, who had originally thought that he was going to be unlucky, not only did he have nothing to do, but his powers became increasingly greater and his methods became more and more excessive.

Thinking of Dewey's criticism of Truman with the news media and criticizing the Democrats for the Wallace incident, their current prevention and control are becoming more and more strict, and they are completely different on stage and off the stage.

“What do you think you should do now?”

"It is impossible to completely defeat the axis militarily, so my suggestion is to take some roundabout means as much as possible to achieve peace, which includes not only Germany, but also Japan." Kennedy said, "We must learn from Germany's spirit of rising again after hiding dormant. If no politician is willing to shoulder heavy responsibilities at this historical juncture, we should not think about what will happen in the future."

This attitude is completely different from the radicalism he helped Truman run for the first time, but Kennedy changed it naturally and calmly. After jumping in the large dye vat in Washington for several months, he quickly learned to be bad. Not only did he have the ability to talk to others and talk to ghosts, but he also could flexibly change his position and use a lot of plausible and beautiful words to reconcile the concepts of the past and the current situation. It sounds very reasonable that he was right at the beginning, but he is still right now.

Truman was very interested in this vibrant young man and planned to cultivate him as his deputy and successor, and some words were not so inconsistent and despicable through the mouth of Kennedy, the "war hero".

The reporters recorded his words and printed them on the newspaper, which was finally seen by Scorzne. Seeing the Americans talking in the newspaper and the secret telegrams he received, he couldn't help but sneer: "Brothers, be prepared to work quickly, the head of state has prepared the cigarette."

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