The spy career of a surgeon

Chapter 331: Conversion
Yasuda Manor.

When Zhou Qinghe returned from the palace, Konoe Fumima and Yasuda Kenichi had been waiting for some time drinking tea.

As soon as he approached, Konoe Fumima asked hurriedly, "How about the question and answer session in front of the emperor?"

Zhou Qinghe gave him a smile: "Everything is within the plan, 90% sure."

Konoe Fumima laughed out loud and sat down with a relieved look on his face. "Good, very good. Fujita does hold an extraordinary position in your Majesty's heart. I whispered in his ear yesterday, and with Fujita's advice today, there shouldn't be any surprises about Mitsumasa Yonai overthrowing the cabinet. It's just that Monai-kun will have to suffer a little, hahahaha."

The three of them looked at each other and burst into laughter.

Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai came from the navy and was of course supported by the Yasuda family. This time, Mitsumasa Yonai's nonsense to the media caused Hirohito's displeasure, which was just a part of the plan to seize power.

The fall of a prime minister marks the beginning of this power grab!
Mitsui Mitsubishi has a strong influence in the Army Ministry's General Staff Headquarters. Although Yasuda Konoe has risen, he has not worked as hard as others for as long as others, and is still a little lacking in high-end combat power.

This is about the right to vote by raising your hand.

Yingzuo holds the rank of Major General and serves as the director of the Special Committee on China. The decision on whether to punish him must be discussed at the highest level meeting.

If Zhou Qinghe wants to get rid of Yingzuo in this report and teach Mitsui Mitsubishi a lesson, he needs to win more than half of the votes, which is not an easy task.

The seven bureaus of the Army Ministry plus the two votes of the General Office make a total of nine votes, plus the two votes of the Army Minister and the two people from the General Staff Headquarters, for a total of 13 votes.

Putting aside other people for now, the Army Minister will have two votes for Kagesawa. This is not based on the Army Minister's will, but is determined by his position. He is the Army Minister, so he must stand on the side of the Army and continue on this side of the Chinese battlefield.

Mitsui Mitsubishi was born with two votes. They only needed to get five more votes from the other eleven people to ignore the others and directly decide the direction of events.

And Yasuda Konoe needs to get seven votes out of 11 people to reverse the situation, which is extremely difficult.

Therefore, before the meeting started, Yasuda Konoe had to get rid of the two votes of the Army Minister, so that the total number of votes would drop to 11. Out of 11 people, he only needed six votes.

Although it is still difficult, every vote is crucial and one less vote will greatly increase the chances.

The only way to get rid of Lu Xiang is to fall from power.

In exchange for the general resignation of Yonai Mitsumasa's cabinet, the Army Minister will be buried with him!

There is no prime minister and no army minister. Before the new army minister takes office, the 11 people in the Army Ministry decide the direction of the Army Ministry.

Mitsumasa Yonai had to take the blame, but for the future of the navy, he had no choice but to make a contribution.

As for Zhou Qinghe, Yan Junliu's future assistant, before he even took office, Lu Xiang Yan Junliu had already been booked for retirement.

"How's the contact going? Are there enough votes?" Zhou Qinghe asked.

Yasuda Kenichi counted on his fingers: "Your Military Medical Bureau got one vote, your mother's family's Major General Maintenance Bureau Director Suzuki Daisuke got one vote, the Foreign Affairs Bureau got one vote, the Management Bureau got one vote, and the General Office got one vote, five votes in total."

"Then there is still one vote missing." Zhou Qinghe raised his eyebrows.

At this time, the guard laughed and said, "You will know when the time comes. There is another vote that has been obtained."

Still keeping the secret: "Who is it?"

This made Zhou Qinghe really curious.

The seven major bureaus of the Army Ministry include the Military Affairs Bureau, Military Medical Bureau, Ordnance Bureau, Maintenance Bureau, Management Bureau, Accounting Bureau, and Foreign Affairs Bureau, plus the Director of the General Office, the Deputy Minister, and the two votes of the Chief and Deputy Chief of the General Staff.

The two votes of the General Staff Headquarters must be tied together. If it only gets one vote, it is not the General Office, but the director level. The remaining directors are all the main players of Mitsui Mitsubishi.

Needless to say, the Military Affairs Bureau, personnel and administration are firmly in Mitsui's hands.

The Ordnance Bureau is in charge of frontline weapons, and with so much profit to gain, it must be in the hands of Mitsubishi.

The Accounting Bureau is in charge of finances. It is the lifeblood of Mitsui Mitsubishi. How many tricks are hidden in it? How can they be exposed? They will never let others get involved.

There is also a Foreign Affairs Bureau, which is responsible for international relations and foreign affairs activities. It is a window for external propaganda. Yasuda Konoe's people tried hard but just couldn't get it.

Later I found out that the daughter of the director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau was actually a distant relative of the Mitsui family.

If you try to win over someone without clarifying the relationship, you will probably be laughed at by the Mitsui family behind their backs.

On Zhou Qinghe's side, the first director of the Maintenance Bureau was a person from Fujita's mother's family who was pushed up by Yasuda with great effort. He was in charge of domestic conscription and training. Once the war broke out, he was actually a marginal bureau that delivered consumables.

Mitsui Mitsubishi was unprepared at the time. To put it bluntly, it was a marginal situation. It was a tough job to keep sending people to death. Just let others sit for a while, and then you can get it.

The Military Medical Bureau was established because Zhou Qinghe himself came to power and used his strong professional qualities to investigate corruption and get rid of the old man. The director of the Medical Bureau is highly professional, and there are too few military doctors with the rank of lieutenant general. Zhou Qinghe had contacted some people in advance before the launch, and this is how he stole Mitsui Mitsubishi's chicken and made them miss a game.

The Management Bureau is in charge of materials. This director is very important. His capture is the biggest gain of Yasuda Konoe's series of operations in recent times.

It can be said that controlling each vote is arduous and difficult.

After all the effort put in, Mitsui Mitsubishi made several mistakes, and in fact they only got one extra vote.

And just because of these three votes, with a full ten votes left, the people from Mitsui Mitsubishi were already furious and wanted to take action against Zhou Qinghe.

Now hearing from Jinwei that they had won another game, Zhou Qinghe became really curious, who was it?

Foreign affairs is impossible, so the remaining three bureaus are military affairs, weapons, and accounting. Which of these three bureaus is not an important bureau?

If Mitsui Mitsubishi knew that one of their members had betrayed them, it would at least suffer a heart attack.

In the evening, at the cabinet meeting, the military was very dissatisfied with Mitsumasa Yonai's speech at the press conference, and the cabinet once again broke out into a war of words.

Mitsumasa Yonai was furious and said arrogantly, "If the military still wants to form an alliance with Germany and Italy, I will resign on the spot. You can play this game by yourselves!"

Who wouldn't threaten someone? The army wasn't raised to be scared!
It is imperative to form an alliance with Germany and Italy, and the army will never stop the alliance because of anyone or anything!
Does it mean you can quit and give it a try?
He still doesn’t believe that the Navy can get the position of Prime Minister after 800 years. Are you going to resign just like that?
Then after the meeting, Mitsumasa Yonai said in front of reporters, "The contradictions in the cabinet are irreconcilable. In order to prevent Japan from going down the wrong path, I hereby announce that on behalf of the cabinet, I will formally submit my resignation to the parliament!"

When Lu Xiangyan Junliu heard this, he was stunned.

No, are you serious?
Minai's resignation immediately caused an uproar, and various evening newspapers reported it. For a time, all senior executives were paying attention to the subsequent impact.

Pay attention to what is being paid attention to, move around, and layout what is being laid out.

What is strange is that Congress approved Minet's resignation at an extremely fast speed.

Upon inquiring, I heard that word had spread from the palace that the Emperor was quite dissatisfied with what Mine said in front of the media.

Afterwards, the emperor summoned Konoe Fumimaro to the palace.

The situation is changing so fast that it's dizzying.

Indeed, few people could have imagined that such a big event could be related to Fujita Kazukiyo's report tomorrow. The next day, Zhou Qinghe went to the Army Ministry.

Because of the general resignation of the cabinet, everyone in the military had expressions written all over their faces, reminding them to do more and talk less because of the recent turmoil.

However, the cabinet has resigned several times in the past two years. As time goes by, everyone has become accustomed to it. There is an established process for how to do things, and matters are temporarily approved by the second-in-command, the Under-Secretary of the Army.

Zhou Qinghe first returned to the Military Medical Bureau to handle affairs and approve documents. At 10 o'clock, he went to the high-level conference room at the appointed time to make a detailed report on the Shanghai incident.

Important military figures came in one after another. In fact, everyone knew what to expect in today's briefing.

Foreign newspapers and media have all commented on whether Shanghai has been pacified. There is no dispute about Fujita Kazuki's meritorious service. He just needs to apply for commendation and go through the procedures.

As for the poisoning incident in Hankou, His Majesty has already made his judgment. Even if Fujita really killed the person, it is definitely not the case now. We should all tacitly choose to forget it and there is no need to mention it at all.

The key point lies in the report submitted in advance by Fujita Kazukiyo last night. The report pointed out that Yingzuo should bear all the responsibility for the Shanghai incident.

In his report, Fujita clearly pointed out that Kagesa was suspected of colluding with the Military Control Commission.

It is not that Yingzuo betrayed, but that Yingzuo deliberately condoned the Military Control Commission to destroy the peace in Shanghai in order to pursue his own interests.

This is an escalation of Kagesawa's guilt based on his dereliction of duty.

It might have been just a punishment, but now it may be a military court.

"This is a very serious accusation!" The Director of the Ordnance Bureau was the first to speak up. He glared and said coldly, "Section Chief Fujita, to make such an accusation against a major general, you need to provide complete evidence."

Zhou Qinghe: "There is no evidence. The evidence was lost in the plane crash from Shanghai to the mainland."

"You mean to say that you still want to accuse Kagesawa of planning this plane crash. Are you accusing Kagesawa of murder?"

"I have to correct you. I only said what I saw and heard. The last page of the document contains the investigation report of the members of the Shanghai Military Police Command. Although there is no substantial evidence, I think it is necessary to bring it to the meeting to give you some reference space."

The director of the weapons bureau flipped through the pages, chuckled, and said mockingly: "Section Chief Fujita, just do your job. Do you think it's appropriate to accuse a major general based on hearsay?"

"What's inappropriate? When I accused you of murdering someone, why don't I remember you standing up and speaking for me?"

The director of the weapons bureau was choked and his smile faded slightly.

"That is also the launch of an investigation into you, not a direct conviction against you."

"I didn't say I wanted to convict Kagesawa. I'm just a section chief. This is a matter for you higher-ups."

Zhou Qinghe smiled slightly, lowered his head to play with his fingers, and stopped talking.

The director of the weapons bureau saw Zhou Qinghe's attitude and didn't want to make trouble. He glanced at everyone and said, "I don't think it's necessary to waste time on rumors without evidence. The war situation is so busy now, and there are many things to deal with. Let's disperse as soon as possible."

As soon as this was said, people from one faction began to nod and say that it made sense, and they started to make a fuss and were about to go back.

However, Yasuda Konoe's people began to sing a different tune, saying that Kagesawa's position was critical, and since someone had reported such misconduct, he should at least be allowed to return to the country to be investigated, and the position should be temporarily replaced by someone else.

The Deputy Army Minister sitting among the audience was now facing the fall of the cabinet and really didn't have much energy to deal with such groundless matters, so he spoke.

"Don't argue. Record this matter and wait until the new land minister arrives. Then we can deal with it."

After this was said, the people from Mitsui Mitsubishi were satisfied, and they looked at the people from Yasuda Konoe's faction with some mockery in their eyes.

Not to mention accusing Kagesawa of murder, even the matter of giving Kagesawa a mild punishment was suppressed because the Minister of War was not in place.

If you have the right to speak, you can do whatever you want.

It's time to end this.

Some people stood up.

After all, people from Mitsui Mitsubishi have the power to make decisions.

And it was at this moment that one of the three people that Zhou Qinghe had been silently watching, who had been silent the whole time, tapped the table.

Major General Muto Akira, Director of the Military Affairs Bureau, First Bureau of the Army Ministry.

“I think this matter needs to be discussed.”

A creepy feeling emerged in the bodies of everyone present. They were shocked and couldn't believe it. Just now, they stood up to get tea cups and left the noisy meeting room, where there was a lot of noise from banging chairs. Suddenly, it was so quiet that they could hear even the sound of a pin drop!

The hair stands on end!

The matter has been settled, why would Muto Akira speak at this time?
Below, Zhou Qinghe smiled.

It’s amazing, Konoe Fumima is really amazing.

Without making any noise, he actually took down the most critical figure in the Army Ministry, the Director of the First Bureau in charge of personnel and government affairs, Muto Akira!
No wonder Konoe suddenly said he wanted to return to the position of prime minister and was very confident.

In Zhou Qinghe's opinion, Konoe Fumimaro is a person who is extremely careful about his reputation.

To put it bluntly, good reputation has reached an extremely abnormal level.

He was born into a noble family and was the head of the Five Regents. He was already at the pinnacle of power and had a very high prestige among the public.

The guards would not do anything that would make him feel that he could not win 100%.

For example, when he took office as prime minister for the first time, Konoe Fumimaro took the initiative to resign because the future situation was unclear, in order to avoid the risk of possible defeat. He did not want even the slightest possibility of damaging his reputation, and wanted to maintain his undefeated record in the public's mind.

Now that he has proposed to resume the position of Prime Minister, it means that he is very confident in the upcoming war and that he will definitely win. He is the only man in Japan who is certain of winning. And it is not just his eloquence, but he is risking what he values ​​most, the 100% glory of the Konoe family.

It is easy to understand from Zhou Qinghe's perspective. The time window has come. Given the current situation, as long as the army can be mobilized to attack East Asia, East Asia will be destroyed.

And this record can be attributed to the new Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, and the Konoe family will become great again!

The choice was correct, the key was why the guards thought that he could definitely turn the army around.

Now seeing Muto Akira, Zhou Qinghe was really amazed by Konoe.

Awesome, the most unlikely and most important person was actually pulled here!

Ministry of Army, things are really going to change.

(End of this chapter)