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Chapter 717
The flood was a disaster, but the flood was not a disaster.
“Lord Oda, our Yamamoto family’s port facilities were severely damaged in the flood, and the economic losses are incalculable.”
A middle-aged man with a buzz cut stood up and said in a low voice:
“Even so, our Yamamoto family is willing to donate 10 million US dollars to contribute a little bit.”
Then, the representative of the Ito family also stood up.
It looked haggard and said in great grief:
“This rainstorm and flood destroyed tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in our Ito family, and this year’s crops will be completely lost.”
“But our Ito family is still willing to donate 9 million US dollars for disaster relief.”
With the statements of the powerful families, Oda Kiyono’s heart sank to the bottom.
After a long time, a total of 150 million US dollars was raised.
Although this money is already an unattainable huge sum of money in the eyes of ordinary people.
But for these aristocratic families who control the lifeline of the Japanese economy.
Not to mention that more than a dozen families jointly put up 150 million US dollars, even if any one of them puts up 1.5 billion, it is just a drizzle.
At this time, it would not be satisfied even if it tore these aristocratic families into pieces one by one!
Although thinking so in his heart, Oda Kiyono knew very well.
If anyone dares to touch the core interests of these intricately connected, deeply rooted clans in the East for many years.
Even if it is the shogun, there will be no good end!
Because these clans have long put family interests above the country.
Since the Tokugawa Shogunate, these Eastern clans have intermarried and formed alliances with each other.
Weaving a complex network of relationships that can affect the whole body.
They have long formed an unbreakable monopoly in their respective fields.
Not only do they control the economic lifeline of the country, but they are also closely connected with the political arena.
If anyone dares to touch their core interests, these clans will unite.
Use the resources and political influence in their hands to make opponents die without a burial place!
Of course…
These clans in the East are not monolithic.
The struggles among them are also extremely serious, and there is even an irreconcilable hatred!
The most famous one was during World War II in the last century.
The army clan headed by Nagasu and the navy clan headed by Satsuma.
They were incompatible with each other, and even during the war, they were frantically trying to sabotage each other.
During the war with Russia, the Japanese Navy defeated the Russian Navy and was in great glory for a while.
But when the Japanese Army was charging on land, the Japanese Navy was happily drinking tea and watching the show on the warship.
They could obviously provide artillery support and easily destroy the Russian Army, but the small Japanese Navy just didn’t fire.
It perfectly interprets what it means to be unmoved when friendly forces are in trouble.
The result is that the Japanese Navy smiled and watched the Japanese Army suffer more than 40,000 casualties, but never fired a shot.
After the tragic victory, the leader of the Japanese Army went to the Navy to ask for punishment, asking why the other party did not provide fire support?
The response of the Japanese Navy was, why should I save you?
I didn’t sneak attack you when you were attacking, which was the greatest kindness to you.
This made the army clans of Nagasu very angry, but there was nothing they could do.
Because if the Eastern Navy was in trouble, they would also stand by and watch the show, or take the opportunity to fire a few shots at the naval warships.
And there are far more similar situations.
This kind of thing is commonplace between the two major clans of the Eastern Navy and the Army.
When the Eastern military attacked Java Island, Army General Kanemura led his subordinates to reinforce on a transport ship.
But halfway, it was sunk by the Eastern Navy’s naval guns.
Kanemura, who escaped death, swam in the sea for 3 hours before running ashore.
After capturing Singapore City, the Eastern Army seized the most advanced warship radar of Yingguo.
This advanced equipment should have been handed over to the Navy for research.
However, the Japanese Army completely blocked the news and kept it for their own research, just to build more advanced warships than the Japanese Navy.
So in the Battle of Midway, due to the backward radar of the Japanese Navy, four aircraft carriers were sent into the Pacific Ocean by bombers from the United States to feed the fish.
If the Japanese Navy had advanced radar in this battle, most of the people thrown into the sea to feed the fish would be American people.
Of course, the Japanese Navy also did not stop the Japanese Army from dying.
In the later stages of the war, the Japanese Army was extremely short of supplies, and many of the little bastards starved to death on the front lines.
But the Japanese Navy had plenty of food and grass, and it could even be said to be very rich, so much that they could not finish eating.
But the Japanese Navy would rather leave the extra rice and vegetables in the warehouse to mold and rot.
Even pouring them into the sea to feed the fish, they would never give the Japanese Army a grain of food.
Similarly…
The Japanese Navy, which had several warships and carrier-based aircraft and had a huge demand for fuel.
In the later stages, oil resources were extremely scarce, and they were almost crazy about oil.
At this time, the Japanese Army just occupied Southeast Asia, and the stolen oil was piled up like a mountain.
They would rather detonate the oil that could not be taken away on the spot, and they would never give a barrel to the Japanese Navy.
This practice of the Japanese Army at that time also caused fatal damage to the Japanese Navy.
In the Mariana Islands aircraft carrier air battle, the small East Asia had a large fleet battle group, but it was unable to participate in the battle because of lack of fuel.
At the same time, in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October, it was also because of insufficient fuel that two battleships could not rush to reinforce from the mainland.
In the end, the opportunity was missed, resulting in the aircraft carrier battle group of the small East Asia Navy being completely destroyed by the United States.
In summary…
During the entire World War II.
The East Asia Army and Navy are the only armies that are strong individually, but weak when combined together.
Both sides use 30% of their strength to attack the outside world, leaving 70% of their strength to stab each other.
The fact that the army is busy building aircraft carriers and the navy is gritting its teeth to build tanks sounds very strange, but it is true.
Other countries have “Marine Corps” but only the small East Asia has a “Land and Navy”.
Before the war, the total tonnage of the East Asia Navy’s warships was about 1.5 million tons.
The total tonnage of the warships of the Japanese Army has reached 2.1 million tons!
Similarly, the Japanese Navy also has its own army tank unit.
And it has also developed the Type 2 amphibious tank and the short 12 self-propelled gun.
Among them, the best armored vehicles in Japan were made by the Navy, but they just refused to give them to the Army.
The most advanced 37mm anti-aircraft guns developed by the Japanese Army at that time were also left idle and not given to the Navy.