However, Hiroki Kagesa's speech was not recognized by other generals. Several generals present today all had different opinions on the current decision of the base camp. As the military intelligence leader, Junhei Uehara naturally knew the specific situation. He coughed lightly, and the others suddenly became quiet. They also wanted to know Junhei Uehara's view on this matter.

Jun Uehara said gently: "Although we cut off the supply line of China-Vietnam in the Guangxi Battle, the situation of the Chinese government's other transportation supply line, the Yunnan-Burma Highway has greatly improved. It has replaced the status of the Guizhou-Vietnam Highway in the past few months. Although the transportation cost and distance have increased, it has little impact on the supply of materials of the Chinese government, so we do not have an advantage in fighting the war of attrition.

Unless we march into Myanmar and occupy Yangon, it will be difficult to completely cut off the Chinese government's material supply, but the level involved is too great. Whether this major decision can be implemented depends on the cabinet and base camp, and we are powerless."

Everyone sighed when they heard this and shook their heads helplessly. Japan's problem is time. They are eager to participate in the world-wide war of hegemony. The two years that Kagesa Yuki said made it difficult for them to accept.

In the eyes of the Japanese, their biggest opponents have always been not China, but world powers such as the Soviet Union and Britain and the United States. However, because they were too arrogant and underestimated the enemy, their strategic judgment made them entangled in the Chinese war zone, and the result was a stalemate, which caused such an embarrassing situation that they were neither up nor down.

I wanted to continue fighting, but the Chinese government resisted stubbornly. The Japanese were afraid of wasting resources and military power, and missed the excellent opportunity to fight for hegemony in the world and ended up getting nothing.

I don’t want to continue to fight, but now I have occupied most of China. Once the troops are withdrawn, the interests in China that have already been obtained will inevitably be lost. Will the Chinese army recover the lost territory be wasted?

That's why there was a move to support the puppet government, but the new Nanjing government is not able to control the situation for the time being, and even without the support of the Japanese, it will be subverted in an instant, and none of this has achieved the effect expected before.

In this way, the Japanese military still cannot withdraw, which led to the idea of ​​some people represented by Harada Takao, which is to negotiate directly with the Chongqing government, reach peace talks, and to retain the current results as much as possible, and to allow the military to escape and concentrate its efforts to participate in the world war.

Ning Zhiheng sat aside without saying a word. He naturally knew that these Japanese people tried to force the Chinese government to recognize and consolidate Japan's interests in China at the negotiating table, but did not want to spend a lot of military power to maintain it. This was completely wishful thinking.

Could it be that the empty puppet government like the pseudo-Nanjing government? How can there be such a good thing in the world? Unless the Chongqing government is willing to be the public enemy of the whole Chinese and willing to be the Japanese lackey?

At this moment, when Harada Gango saw Ning Zhiheng thinking, he suddenly asked, "Mr. Fujiwara, do you have any insight?"

Gango Harada tried to get recognition from President Fujiwara. Sure enough, Ning Zhiheng smiled slightly and echoed: "Harada is worthy of being a wise man. I also think that peace talks are what we need to do most at present. To be honest, we have occupied half of China now, and they are all regions with a large population and richest resources. It can be said that the best areas in China are already in our hands. Other regions are just fighting. In addition to making us futilely increase our defensive power and spending military strength, there is actually no substantial benefit. So I also agree with Harada's idea that we should adopt peace talks instead of continuing to fight. But what Kagesako said makes sense. The Chongqing government is afraid that it will not be so easy to sit down and talk to us. They have lost half of their country in vain. How could it be that way? So we must make sacrifices, give up some unnecessary interests, and make some concessions, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve our goal."

Ning Zhiheng's words seemed to be standing on Harada's side, but when he savored them carefully, he said nothing. If the Japanese government was willing to make concessions, how could the war end to this day?

Junhei Uehara spread his hands and said helplessly: "It seems that it is another dead end. We still can't do anything at the moment. We can only wait for the decision of the base camp."

Everyone shook their heads and said nothing. They all knew that at present, no matter which method Japan adopted, it would not be able to make significant progress on the Chinese battlefield. Three years of high-intensity combat has made the Japanese military lose its original confidence.

In the following time, everyone continued to discuss the current situation. Gango Harada was very concerned about Ning Zhiheng. He talked with Ning Zhiheng several times, but the topic was not separated from the intention of the Chongqing government. Ning Zhiheng had to cheer up and deal with it. He was unwilling to discuss this matter in depth. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he simply found an opportunity to leave the seat. Gango Harada gave up.

Ning Zhiheng found a free time and invited Kagesa Yuki to the side. The two of them started to talk in a low voice.

"Ying Zuojun, you are now in charge of the affairs of the Nanjing government. I have a reluctant request. I wonder if you can agree?"

Hiroki Kaeda was in a very good mood during this period. After spending more than a year, he finally built a new Nanjing government. As the executor of Mei’s work, he was responsible for comprehensively managing and handling all matters of the pseudo-government. He was in power and had a happy life. This was a pinnacle of life.

Now that I heard Ning Zhiheng ask for something, I naturally agreed readily and said with a smile: "Kun Fujiwara, you are so polite. When I was in Shanghai, I only had your care to make my work progress so smoothly. Now that I have arrived in Nanjing, please tell me if you need anything. I should do my best!"

Ning Zhiheng smiled and said, "I heard that a minister of the Supervision Bureau was assassinated a few days ago?"

Kagesa Yuki nodded. The incident caused a lot of storm. For this reason, he ordered the investigation of the matter. It is said that it was a move by the Military Control Commission and is currently in the investigation stage.

Ning Zhiheng then asked, "I don't know, is there any successor arrangement?"

Kagesa Yuki suddenly realized that it turned out that Fujiwara Tomohito wanted this position, so naturally someone took his path, so he mentioned it to him.

In fact, this position is not very important. The Nanjing government followed the old system and had five major courtyards in total, namely the Executive Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, the Judicial Yuan, the Supervision Yuan, and the Examination Yuan.

However, except for some key positions, most other positions are in name but not real, and their names are very intimidating. In fact, they are just some errands that are used to receive salary and experience.

Fang Hongqi, the assassinated Minister of the Supervision Bureau, was an old member of the reform government. After the pseudo-government was established, she was marginalized and given such a idle position. It is logical that the pseudo-government should have arranged a successor in the past few days, but since Fujiwara Tomohito asked this, he naturally could not refuse.

Kagesa Yuki immediately replied: "There should be no arrangements. Why, Fujiwara Jun has a suitable candidate?"

In Kagesa Yuki's mind, these are naturally small things that can make a person like Fujiwara Tomohito talk to him about this, but instead earn favors, which is a good thing.

"That's right. The person responsible for solving this assassination is Wen Hao, director of the Nanjing Special Agents Headquarters. This man is capable, smart and capable, and loyal to the empire. I have always wanted to find an opportunity to promote him. This time I happened to have this position free. I want him to succeed him. What do you think?"

"Wen Hao?"

Kagesa Yuki looked at Ning Zhiheng and immediately realized that he knew something about Wen Hao. He was also an old agent of the Central Commission for Translation who had defected to him very early. Later, he was assigned to the agent headquarters and was inferior to Li Zhiqun. When he arrived in Nanjing, he did a good job in the anti-espionage work and was recognized by many people. Unexpectedly, he now flattered Fujiwara, the powerful man.

Kagesa Yuki nodded immediately and agreed, "No problem. In fact, this so-called ministerial position does not have any real power. Since Fujiwara Jun has taken a fancy to this person, it is natural to say."

Ning Zhiheng laughed at him. For them, these were just small things, and they could decide between chatting and laughing. The two of them chatted for a few more words.

As the banquet went on, seeing it was too late, several generals said goodbye one after another. Junping Uehara and Ning Zhiheng stood up and sent them to the gate, watching everyone leave.

The two of them then turned back to the study and continued to talk. Junhei Uehara pondered for a moment and said to Ning Zhiheng: "At the banquet today, Takao Harada asked about your opinions several times. Do you find it strange?"

Ning Zhiheng naturally had already noticed the abnormality of Gangsu Harada and nodded immediately and said, "It's indeed a bit strange. I don't work in the army, and I don't have the ability to influence the decisions of the senior management. But Harada Jun seemed to want to convince me, why is this?"

Junhei Uehara shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Before today, Harada had talked to me. He had long wanted to find a channel to contact the Chongqing government and convey the meaning of the peace talks. He thought you might have access to some important members of the Chongqing government, so he wanted to convince you to build this bridge."

Ning Zhiheng was stunned and quickly thought about the meaning of Junhei Uehara's words in his mind. His Fujiwara Company mainly deals in smuggled materials, and everyone is sure that they know the whereabouts of some goods. Junhei Uehara is his firm supporter. He had no other intention to ask for it bluntly.

"In other words, Harada Jun thinks that I may have some relationships in Chongqing and want to further contact through these relationships?"

"Yes!" Junhei Uehara spoke out bluntly.

He also knew that he had put in enough effort to transport these scarce supplies to the Kuomintang-controlled area for sale and to ensure that the business was not disturbed by external interference during this period. His nephew must have put in enough effort, and there must be some strong relationships on the other side.
Chapter completed!