Chapter 1509: Distribute Money, Throw Away Coins

Lieutenant General Kinoshita and his men rushed towards the US army's position.

Then, he saw dense trenches, massive artillery, and tanks like steel city walls.

"Can this be beaten by humans?"

Lieutenant General Kinoshita was completely stunned.

No matter how arrogant he is, he knows that it is impossible to resist those steel tanks with only his flesh and blood body.

But now, it's too late.

Boom, boom, boom.

The artillery roared.

Howitzers smashed into Kinoshita's team one after another.

Kinoshita watched helplessly as his men were blown to pieces.

In the blink of an eye, the two regiments were wiped out.

"Retreat, retreat quickly."

Kinoshita knew that he couldn't resist now and had to move in immediately.

Kinoshita loudly ordered his men to retreat.

However, how could their legs run past the cannonballs.

The firepower extended in depth, covering his entire division.

Although the entire team retreated quickly, it was already too late. In the end, only a hundred or ten people ran out of the range of the artillery, and the rest turned into broken corpses on the ground.

The survivors ran frantically to the shore and reported the situation.

Nayun did not dare to conceal the loss of an entire division and reported it immediately.

However, when reporting, he kept an eye on it.

The telegram stated that Kinoshita refused to listen to dissuasion and insisted on leading the troops deep into the interior. He was ambushed by the American army and lost most of the entire division. Fortunately, he was rescued by the combined fleet, otherwise the entire army would have been annihilated. He hoped that the base camp would severely punish Kinoshita.

Nagumo was bullying Kinoshita for not being able to speak.

If Kinoshita knew that Nayun arranged for him like this, he would have to crawl out of the ground and strangle Nayun to death.

The news that the Kinoshita Division was almost completely wiped out quickly spread to the base camp, shocking everyone in the base camp.

They originally thought that the Americans were extremely weak, and as long as the brave imperial soldiers rushed forward, they would surrender.

This has been proven in Luzon.

However, it is completely the opposite in the United States.

They had already captured the city. Not only did the opponent's army not surrender, but they actually dared to fight back and even wiped out most of their division. This was beyond their imagination.

But things have already happened, and finding a way to shift the blame is the right thing to do.

Navy Minister Matsumoto immediately seized the opportunity and said: "Your Majesty, this kind of loss is all due to the incompetence of the Army, which led to such a defeat. I ask Your Majesty to punish the Army and allocate more funds to our Navy." , we guarantee to capture all ports in the United States.”

Seeing that the Minister of the Navy was adding insult to injury, the Minister of War, Tojo, naturally refused: "Humph, our army will accidentally fall into an ambush, isn't it because your navy's reconnaissance is not good? If we are given enough aircraft, we can do it."

"Besides, your navy can only deal with matters within fifty miles of the coastline. What about matters beyond fifty miles? Shouldn't our army take action?"

"I beg your Majesty to stop the naval construction plan. One battleship is enough to arm several divisions. Please think twice."

The Minister of the Navy's eyes turned red when he heard that the army was actually going to take action against his large-scale construction plan.

Dajian is his lifeblood and no one can touch it.

"Your Majesty, the large-scale construction plan is the pillar of the country and the core of the country. If there are no warships, how can we maintain the empire's thousands of miles of sea territory? Your Majesty, please think twice."

The Minister of the Navy and the Minister of the Army were so angry that they might have started fighting on the spot if Zhang Tuohai had not been present.

In the end, the two couldn't come to an agreement and had to ask Zhang Tuohai to make the decision himself.

Zhang Tuohai thought for a while and said: "Both of them are loyal ministers of the country. The army and navy are the pillars of the country. Neither one can be given up. Therefore, I have decided that the navy's major construction plan will not change and will be accelerated. All Workers work in three shifts to step up construction and must complete the battleship as quickly as possible.”

"In addition, the Navy will make a list of ships needed for the next quarter based on actual needs. I will approve it if it is reasonable after review."

"As for the army, expand it to twenty divisions and recruit one million troops. These divisions will be sent to Southeast Asia after basic training, and then elites will be drawn from Southeast Asia and transferred to the United States."

"The Americans are weak and rely on nothing more than advanced weapons. As long as the imperial soldiers are elite and courageous, they will be able to defeat the American army."

Old God Zhang Tuohai said calmly.

After hearing Zhang Tuohai's words, the Minister of Navy and the Minister of War were overjoyed.

They did not expect that Zhang Tuohai did not reduce the quotas for the two armies, but instead increased them.

Moreover, one million soldiers were recruited at once, which had never happened before.

"Your Majesty is holy."

The two of them knelt on the ground, their eyes full of excitement.

The Minister of War and the Minister of the Navy were happy, but the Minister of Finance was not.

"Your Majesty, the new construction and military expansion plans require a lot of money, but there is no such money in the treasury anymore, so it may be difficult to achieve it."

"No money? This is simple, just print as much as you need."

Zhang Tuohai waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

"Your Majesty, you must not do this." Minister Tibet panicked upon hearing this.

"Your Majesty, the random issuance of additional banknotes will lead to too much cash in the market, causing the devaluation of cash, wiping out the savings of civilians, and causing social unrest."

"Baga," Zhang Tuohai slammed the table, "Now the country is in trouble. It's time for those civilians to contribute to the country. What's wrong with issuing more banknotes? Anyone who dares to object at this time is a traitor to the country and a traitor. Send the military police to Street, arrest those who dare to oppose, send them to prisoner-of-war camps, strip them of their citizenship, and treat them the same as prisoners of war!”

Zhang Tuohai said loudly.

"Yes." Minister Da Zang did not dare to say more.

He was afraid that Zhang Tuohai would treat him as a prisoner of war if he said anything more.

Zhang Tuohai's order was passed on, and the money printing machine began to run rapidly.

Massive amounts of banknotes were printed.

Zhang Tuohai not only printed a large amount of money, but also started a large-scale money scattering plan.

In order to celebrate his birthday, Zhang Tuohai generously announced that he would send a red envelope of 10,000 yen to each resident.

This made the civilians extremely happy.

You must know that the salary of ordinary soldiers at this time was only a few yen, and the cost of a Zero fighter was only more than 2,000 yen. For many people, 10,000 yen was simply an astronomical figure.

The Japanese knelt on the ground and worshiped, thinking that they would become rich soon.

As a result, reality slapped them hard.

When there is more money, the value of money becomes lower without increasing the number of things.

They were surprised to find that the prices of all daily necessities had increased rapidly.

The price of rice increased rapidly from 2 cents to 200 yuan per catty, a full increase of 10,000 times.

The money in their hands is only enough to buy less than 50 kilograms of rice, which is not enough for a month's consumption.

However, the savings in their hands were completely diluted, and everyone became completely pauper.