Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 49: Negotiation (1)
Following Ribbentrop, Oshima Hiroshi walked into the office of the German head of state in awe.
Looking at it, Oshima was surprised to find that the office of this European dictator, who is known for his extravagance, was unexpectedly clean and simple. This office was previously a senior suite, with a huge space like a French palace. The ceiling is decorated with numerous alabaster carvings along the walls. A row of huge carved lattice windows that occupies almost half of the wall, the curtains are not drawn, and the sunlight shines through the clear glass on the floor. A three-layer crystal chandelier hangs in the middle of the roof, and the surrounding walls are inlaid with light brown wooden wall panels, and there are several paintings of unknown age. The floor is covered with maroon mixed wood inlaid floor, polished to be instructive.
In the corner of the room, next to the oak-lined fireplace, is the most conspicuous set of furniture in this room. A huge brown walnut desk with a dark green embroidered carpet underneath. Behind the table is a high-back seat with green velvet surface. The top of the seat back is engraved with a German eagle emblem. The oak leaf ring and iron cross that the eagle emblem grabs are covered with silver foil, shining brightly in the sunlight coming in from the window. Of silver light.
"Mr. Minister, where is the head of state?" Hiroshi Oshima looked around the empty room suspiciously.
"In the small conference hall, please follow me from here." Ribbentrop walked to a door in the corner of the room, and the two Waffen SS members who had followed a few people took a few steps He opened the door, and stood with his hands behind his back on both sides of the door.
The Japanese have "comprehensive" information about the head of state, at least they think so. Standing in front of that door, Hiroshi Oshima punched the manuscript again in a panic. He must establish a "good impression" in front of the European giant. This was the first time he met the head of the empire, "good impression" "Is the most precious "wealth" of a diplomat.
"My head of state." Ribbentrop bowed his head respectfully in salute.
"These gentlemen are the special envoys sent by the Japanese government." Ribbentrop stepped back obliquely, exposing the bunch of radish heads within the firepower of the imperial head of state. .
This is a tightly closed room without a window, and the decoration is as simple and simple as an outside office.
"This man is very happy to show his integrity in front of his subordinates, but in his bones he is a guy who is eager to enjoy."
Oshima Hiroshi remembered an explanation in the "Character Information" given to him by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, while secretly learning about the opponent's weakness, he ignored the small characters added temporarily by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs analyst (hypocritical and cruel, greedy and cold, but is this really the man's true color?) .
The German head of state in front of him is indeed radiant. The stiff German uniform, the gorgeous marshal collar and epaulettes, the shiny legs and military boots, the short hair like soft gold, the handsome facial curves like a Greek statue, bright like a morning star Blue pupils that flickered like a flash. Oshima Hiroshi paid special attention to the two rows of honor watches representing Wuxun on the opponent's left chest and the silver-colored oak leaf knight medal on the neckline.
"What a heroic Nanban man." Hiroshi Oshima secretly praised the Japanese aesthetic values.
"A breathtaking giant square lower jaw, a pair of twinkling small eyes, and a nose bridge that is not tall and straight but also an odd number among the Japanese people, make up a pair that makes people feel unwise. Face." Xu Jun also secretly looked at Hiroshi Oshima, who stood at the top of the Japanese special envoy. "What a Class A war criminal, he looks so concealed."
Just as the two Class A war criminals looked at each other with affectionate eyes and secretly admired each other, the other Class A war criminal couldn't help but come up to have fun.
"My head of state, this is the big...oh... The head of the Special Envoy of the Japanese Empire, Mr. Oshma Kuroruko."
Ribbentrop's body was trembling, and his tongue was knotted. The reason is that he accidentally used the word "big" when introducing the Japanese Empire in front of the head of the Great German Third Reich. . . . This is the most taboo term of the head of state. According to the previous warning from Colonel Dogen, the guy who made this mistake is likely to be castrated by the Führer himself. Although he felt that it was an honor for the head of the imperial state to perform the cutting operation on himself, and he already had two sons, Ribbentrop believed that it was necessary to protect his reproductive rights for the rest of his life.
"General Oshma Black Ruo Shi, I have heard of you a long time ago. Xu Junqiang endured the burst of laughter, and said grimly at Oshima Hiroshi. "Your Excellency, I represent the Empire of Japan. , To express the most sincere respect and greetings to the head of state. "
Facing the solemn German head of state, Hiroshi Oshima bowed in awe of one hundred and fifteen degrees. This was only a great gift to the emperor of Japan.
"In addition, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor and the Imperial Japanese Government, I would like to express our sincerest apologies for the harm caused by our personnel to the head of state."
A group of Japanese bowed another one hundred and fifteen degrees.
"I see, let's sit down and talk, Mr. Envoy."
Xu Jun bowed his head to the conference table, then dropped the Japanese envoys who were still pouting their butts and walked over by themselves.
touched a soft nail, but Hiroshi Oshima was not moved at all. He still maintained that restrained and respectful look and led his deputies to the conference table and sat down.
"This is Lieutenant General Weierle, chief of staff of my base camp, and this is my deputy commander Colonel Daogen. You have known Ribbentrop for a long time."
Xu Jun sat at one end of the conference table and pointed to the subordinates sitting next to him.
"General Weierle, Colonel Dougen, I have heard of the two outstanding military officers as early as when I was the military attache of the army in Berlin. It is a great honor to see you here."
Oshima Hiroshi quickly stood up and bowed to Weierle and Dogen.
Berlin military attaché? I heard it a long time ago? If you want to make a relationship, you can't open your eyes and talk nonsense. When Hiroshi Oshima was the military attache of the Japanese Army in Berlin, Weierle and Dougan were a salary thief at the Army Command and the other was frustrated and frustrated at the SS military training camp. He could have heard of Wuxun. However, basic diplomatic etiquette is still needed, and forbearing a look of contempt, Weierle and Dogen also stood up and gave a nod to Oshima Hiroshi.
"Special Envoy Aoshima, please introduce your deputy head to the head of state."
Seeing that the scene was a little cold, Ribbentrop immediately used his professional quality as a champagne merchant to set off the atmosphere.
"Ah, I am very sorry, Your Excellency. This is the deputy head of this special mission, Ambassador Schlatorz Toschou."
Shiratori Toshio quickly stood up and bowed to Xu Jun.
"Mr. Slatorj Toschou is the ambassador of the Japanese Empire to Italy, my head of state." Champagne merchant introduced graciously.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Ambassador Toschou." Xu Jun nodded slightly in return.
"Well, here today, I’m just meeting with your Japanese special envoy to exchange your opinions. It is not a formal official negotiation. So, don’t be so restrained, Special Envoy Osmar, Envoy Toschou . Let’s use some refreshments first."
Xu Jun stretched out his hand and gestured to the serviceman standing in the corner of the conference hall. The serviceman in the uniform of the waiter hurriedly pushed into the food cart. Lifting the celadon tea cup in front of him, Xu Jun gracefully flicked the tea leaves on the water with the cup lid, taking a leisurely sip.
"Please drink tea, Mr. Envoy, very good Chinese tea. You must drink this often in Japan."
Xu Jun calmly put down the tea cup.
"Ah...Yes, very good tea, your lord."
Looking at the four Germans in front of him, except for the poker-faced SS colonel holding coffee, the other three were tasting Chinese tea with gestures more proficient than himself. Hiroshi Oshima was Completely lost direction. Which one of these is calculated? When did Germans start to taste tea, don't they always like to hold beer cans and blow bubbles? Hiroshi Oshima carefully drank a few sips of tea, and then respectfully put the teacup on the table. To be honest, he was really not used to this bitter Chinese tea. He preferred English black tea with lemon.
"What is this man thinking?"
Looking at Xu Jun who was sitting calmly, Oshima Hiroshi felt a little uneasy.
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Oshima Hiroshi is a stranger among the Japanese.
His old man, Lieutenant General Oshima Kenichi, served as the Japanese ambassador to Germany. After returning to Japan, his family has never interrupted a German guest. His family has a good impression of Germany. Moreover, when he was a child, he was fostered for a period of time in a German immigrant home. It can be said that he is a Japanese who grew up in a German-speaking environment and received a German-style family education.
According to the practice of all Japanese officers’ families, he was kicked into the Japanese Army Junior School by his old man. Then came the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School, and finally admitted to the Japanese Army College, which every Japanese officer must enter if he wants to get ahead.
He was able to successfully complete his military academy career, despite the backing of his father's background, his German level also played a big role. There are only three foreign languages taught in Japanese military schools, German, Russian, and Chinese. All Japanese officers must learn one or two of them. But there is a problem. Although they can both listen and write, they can speak fluently and be able to make the other party understand. Such people are rare in the Japanese army.
Oshima Hiroshi is such a phoenix. He may be the only Japanese army officer who can communicate smoothly with Germans without gestures and notebooks. The other flocks, such as the famous army three feather birds, have been mixed in Germany, but the Germans still rely on guesswork to communicate with them.
Hiroshi Oshima worked as a heavy artillery for a while. This is a rare technical unit in the Japanese army. There is no real material, but it’s not even reliable. Anyone with simple thinking is only infantry. Work. From here, we can see that he is highly regarded from above, so after working in the Second Wing of the Heavy Artillery Corps, he was transferred to the General Staff Headquarters for mixed salary within half a year.
The remaining military career of Hiroshi Oshima is colorful. He was first sent to Siberia on a business trip, essentially espionage. He was subsequently transferred to Germany as a deputy military attaché in Germany, followed by a military attache at the embassy in Austria, and a military attache at the embassy in Germany. The rank has been promoted to at least general. Military attachés stationed abroad are one of the rare positions in the Japanese army that can be legally corrupted. They belong directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No matter how you eat, drink, prostitution, and gambling, as long as you say it is for intelligence, all expenses will go into classified military expenses, and even the ambassador can't control it.
During the years when Oshima Hiroshi was in Berlin, relying on his excellent eloquence and a lot of golden votes, he established a good relationship with the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the military. As mentioned earlier, this guy is an odd number among Japanese people. The reason is that this guy has spontaneously and completely moralized himself during his years in Germany. Whether it is language habits or way of thinking, they are all German. According to his colleagues, this guy is simply a German.
Oshima Hiroshi extremely admired Nazi Germany, almost to the point of fanaticism. For example, he admired the handsomeness of the German uniform. Since he couldn't change the style of the Japanese army uniform, he used his brain on the military cap and changed the original British military cap into a German military cap with a high hat wall. As a result, the combination of the two is indescribably weird and ridiculous, so Hiroshi Oshima’s hat became a laughing stock in the Berlin diplomatic community, and only he himself took the German-style Japanese military hat and haunted social spaces. Swagger.
However, he, who admired Germany extremely, never thought that he would be put alive by the Germans, which almost ended his diplomatic career. Because Germany suddenly signed the "German-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty" relationship with Russia, he had been jumping up and down for the German-Japanese alliance and contributed to the "Japanese-German Anti-Communist Agreement". He was severely questioned in the country. He even played a diplomatic game of "giving up" and wanted to sign a military alliance agreement with Germany privately. He almost stabbed a basket that could not be made up. As a result, he was quickly recalled to the country by the jumping Prime Minister Hiranuma. Because of this incident, he was forced to resign from the post of ambassador to Germany that he finally climbed up to, but he also caused the resignation of Hiranuma's cabinet chief, and he got a ticket.
But when the cabinet of Fumiko Kanae came to power, he was the first official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be re-promoted. Due to the rising enthusiasm for the German alliance in Japan, Hiroshi Oshima regained his previous position and was sent to the battle again. Germany has served as ambassador.
Originally, the first thing he did after taking office was to visit the German head of state and submit his credentials. But I didn't expect that after arriving in Berlin, the capital of Germany's principal and deputy yuan jumped to France and was pinched, and the two factions of men and horses appeared on the front lines of France. No one in Berlin could know their exact location. Even the Germans themselves didn't know where their heads were, which made Oshima Hiroshi where to find them, so the process of submitting credentials could only be delayed. Then came the news of Hitler's death and succession to the throne, making Oshima Ho, who admired Hitler, really sad for a few days.
The ambassador of the Empire of Japan to Germany wiped his nose and waited for the steaming new German head of state to return to the meeting, but what I did not expect was that Reinhard von Steide did not come back in France. Up.
Although the credential was not delivered for one day, Oshima Hiroshi’s ambassador could not be counted as taking office for a day, but he didn’t care about these procedural issues. Since the German head of state has not yet returned to the capital, he will wait here slowly. Pull up the relationship established before, and see if we can get any oil and water from the changes in Germany. However, Oshima Hiroshi immediately discovered that Reinhard von Steide must be incompatible with him. Before Oshima Hiroshi started his activities in Berlin, the Reinhardt purge began. Regardless of the fact that a large number of high-ranking Nazi officials that Oshima knew or did not know were captured, Oshima's network of connections instantly became fragmented. Had it not been for a handful of German military relations established when he was a military attache, his painstaking efforts over the past few years would have been wiped out.
In just one month of cleansing, Hiroshi Oshima learned the thunderous methods of the new German head of state. The high level of the German government came to a big exchange of blood. Basically all the familiar faces were on the obituary board. The methods were calm and ruthless. Spicy can be compared with Lu Guo's big beard, and it is even worse.
Hiroshi Oshima suddenly began to look forward to meeting this powerful new German head of state. At the same time, in order to vote for the favor of the head of state, he began to study what kind of person the new head of state of Germany is like. As a result, he was very puzzled~IndoMTL.com~ Although the German head of state was as good at intrigue, intrigue, and seizure of power like other Nazi Party officials, the ability and experience he showed before could not defeat the rest. The leader of the party inherited Hitler's throne unless the German head of state had his unknown killer.
Hiroshi Oshima began to collect information about the German head of state, but as the collection deepened, he felt more and more that Reinhardt was not as simple as he was on the surface, because no matter what kind of channel he could collect There is very little information about this apostle. Except for the official articles in newspapers and books that praised him, Oshima Hiroshi couldn't get any other information about this man. No one in this world can wash himself into a piece of white paper, but this man actually did it. Therefore, when Hiroshi Oshima received the Tokyo telegram and ordered him to be the head of the special envoy, he felt excited that he had never had before. Because he can finally confront the mysterious German head of state. What made him even more overjoyed was that he finally obtained detailed information about this man from Tokyo, and he also discovered the fatal weakness of this man from these information.
This is a man who possesses this integrity and wisdom, but in his bones is full of hypocrisy, vain, shallow, and extremely greedy. Oshima Hiroshi couldn't help sighing. As expected, no one in this world can be perfect, and there is no God who is as clean as a blank sheet of paper. So when Oshima Hiroshi boarded the special plane to Paris, he was full of confidence in accomplishing this mission. However, when he really sat in front of the German head of state, Oshima couldn't help but began to doubt whether his judgment was correct.
He may have made a huge mistake, it is dangerous to underestimate a god.