The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 458 Leaving Early
"What did you say!?"

These words immediately made the Japanese soldier angry. He turned around and glared at him angrily.

However, Li Shitou and Ye Hai, who had been following Jiang Cheng closely, both stepped forward, one on the left and the other on the right, and immediately sandwiched the Japanese officer who showed his dissatisfaction in the middle.

"you……"

Seeing Jiang Cheng's guards being so rude to him, Takeuchi's face changed instantly, but the soldiers accompanying him were far less quick than Jiang Cheng. It was not until he, the highest officer, reacted that the soldiers accompanying him thought of drawing their guns.

But they forgot that Jiang Cheng's guards had already taken away their weapons when they went upstairs...

"Chief Jiang!"

Okawa jumped up, and Suzuki Hiroshi beside him was also nervous: "Our commander Takeuchi was a little blunt, but he... didn't mean any harm!"

"We came here today to exchange views on the situation near Jilin. But didn't you, Chief Jiang, also say that the exchange of views in the treaty did include the transfer of ownership of more than a dozen resources, including mines and forests?"

As soon as he said this, Takeuchi was furious: "Suzuki, what are you talking about? Regarding minerals, the suggestion is that the Fengtian Army redeems them,"

Jiang Cheng interrupted him calmly: "We are planning to redeem it - but Commander Takeuchi, you have also seen that the entire Jilin Province was first in war and then suffered a drought at the beginning of this year..."

"In addition, there were outbreaks at the Liufangzi Coal Mine and Changchun. I had to provide relief to the victims, treat the common people, and do some construction work,"

"Hey, this pocket is cleaner than my face. I really don't have any extra money!"

Takeuchi was right.

In order to demonstrate his so-called "sincerity", their Japanese emperor did offer various preferential conditions to Marshal Zhang, including replacement of defense and transfer of resources.

But the resources are not returned for free, but there is a very shameless additional condition, which is redemption.

It would have been fine if they had just given two, but the Japanese devils demanded a huge amount of 100,000 taels of gold for just a small mine.

One hundred thousand taels, in gold... Even if you dig up all the mine and give it all to the Japanese, it still wouldn't be enough.

If we take into account the forest farm, coal mine and so on, not only Jiang Cheng himself cannot pay back the money, even if his sons Jiang Chengye, Jiang Hongye and Jiang Jiahe were all tied together, together with their entire descendants - they still cannot pay back the money!
You can ask me for money...Okay, if I give you even a penny, I will lose!
Even if you don't have money, you will have enough bullets, cannons and grenades.

This is what Jiang Cheng meant, but Takeuchi immediately said: "Since Chief Jiang said so, then we should follow what our Chief Tanaka said."

"Follow the example of the Zhi army and sign a loan agreement... Doesn't your country also have a saying that debts must be repaid, which is only natural."

Jiang Cheng and his generals looked at each other, and then they all burst into laughter. The highest official of Jilin Province said, "Damn it, how can this be justified?"

"This place is ours. From the mines to the forests, everything belongs to us in the Northeast! It's only natural that we're coming back now. How dare you ask for money?"

Of course, Takeuchi had to talk about his "paying is necessary theory", especially when he heard Jiang Cheng's tough refusal, he turned hostile on the spot, pushed away the chair, and was about to leave angrily.

"Why, Chief Jiang still plans to stop Takeuchi?"

Seeing that all the Fengtian Army soldiers were on alert, he became very angry and said, "Get out of the way! I have important official business to attend to!"

Judging from his behavior, if Ye Hai and the others didn't make way for the old guy, they would definitely turn hostile on the spot and even bite each other. Jiang Cheng raised his chin, and Han Ming, who had been standing at the door of the banquet hall, received the order and opened the door for the angry devil.

Takeuchi looked around at his companions who were still sitting at the table, but his arrogant expression unconsciously tightened.

Not only did Machino and Okawa show no intention of moving, but even his military colleague Suzuki Hiroshi acted as if nothing had happened...

Even when she noticed his fierce glare at her, she picked up her coffee with a flickering look in her eyes and pretended to avoid him.

hateful.

After secretly cursing the three bastards, Takeuchi angrily threw away his arms and left with his guards.

"Close the door, Chief Jiang. Actually, we..."

Dachuan smiled bitterly, "We have been pushing for the rotation of troops in Hunchun, but you can see that the military not only has not withdrawn its troops, but has even intended to increase its troops."

Turning back and taking a quick look at the closed door, Suzuki said with a gleam on his face: "That's right, withdrawing troops and changing guards is beneficial to both of us--"

"The cabinet has long suffered from excessive military expenditures year after year... If Hunchun moves its troops to Japanese Korea, we can save at least a quarter of our annual expenditures!"

The devils are the devils, no wonder they are called poor imperialists.

Jiang Cheng complained in his heart, but he also felt that this lackey was quite smart and knew how to find some plausible excuses for himself.

"That's not the point. The point is that since the military lost the South Manchuria Railway and control of Changchun and Jilin Prefecture, it has been planning to send troops to Siberia to divert the dissatisfaction of the emperor's subordinates."

Seeing Jiang Cheng's expression, Machino chose to tell the truth, "So they don't really want to withdraw their troops... They are just using this excuse to get Marshal Zhang to give in."

Gao Wensheng immediately turned his gaze towards Jiang Cheng, and Sun Zhengnan's glances at him also started to become unnatural.

Similar to Jiang Cheng's subordinates, Okawa and Suzuki also cast shocked eyes at Machino at the same time: "What are you talking about? Sending troops to Siberia... Is this news accurate?"

Machino did not notice the change in the mood of these Fengtian Army senior generals. Instead, he showed a deep expression and said, "That's right. In fact, at the same time as the withdrawal of troops from Hunchun, Tanaka Giichi submitted a proposal to the cabinet to go north."

"His Majesty the Emperor agreed, and it was approved by the Cabinet. This information was collected by Kikuchi."

"And the worst part is, I found that Kikuchi seemed to be extremely concerned about this matter... He not only repeatedly proposed to the General Staff and Chief Shiota twice that we should temporarily put aside our suspicion of family background and support Chief Tanaka's grand plan,"

"And... using my own network, I have been lobbying for this matter in Fengtian. I have met with Marshal Zhang three times and proposed to him that we should send troops together."

Jiang Cheng was secretly shocked.

No wonder they always felt that old man Kikuchi had broken up with them. This man who originally belonged to the General Staff actually defected to the military and supported their commander Shiota’s biggest political enemy, Tanaka Yoshiichi!

"This is definitely not good news."

(End of this chapter)