Did he trick the young marshal into becoming sworn brothers and then go south to Huangpu Military Ac

Clang!

Lin Qi deliberately dropped his teacup on the ground, splashing tea everywhere. He suddenly stood up, grabbed Fujiwara Heiji's arm tightly with both hands, and his voice trembled violently with excitement.

"My two...my two brothers! Is what you're saying true?! It really is His Highness Hirohito?! The future Emperor of the Great Japanese Empire actually wants to see a nobody like me?!"

Seeing Lin Qi's excited and out-of-control appearance, Fujiwara no Heiji's vanity was greatly satisfied.

See, even a peerless genius like Lin Jun, who looks down on the world, still has to bow down and worship when he hears His Highness's name!

"It's absolutely true, Mr. Lin!"

Fujiwara grasped Lin Qi's hand in return and said solemnly, "We strongly recommended your extraordinary talent to His Highness! His Highness, eager for talent, has decided to make an exception and grant you an audience! Lin-kun, this is an immense honor!"

"That's great...that's great!"

Lin Qi paced back and forth in the room, excitedly saying, "I will never forget the great kindness of my two brothers! When are we going? I'll go change into a formal suit right now!"

……

The next day at 10 a.m.

Accompanied secretly by Fujiwara no Heiji, a car with black curtains drawn silently drove into the extremely secluded Japanese villa.

After passing through a heavily guarded courtyard, Lin Qi was led into a dimly lit tatami study.

The moment Lin Qi stepped through the sliding door, his gaze instantly locked onto the young man sitting behind the wooden table.

Gloomy, indifferent, with an innate, domineering aura that looks down upon all living beings.

Is this Hirohito?

"Your Highness, this is the prodigy we recommended to you, Lin Qi, also known as Lin Tuozhi."

Fujiwara no Heiji knelt respectfully to one side.

Lin Qi did not kneel down like the Japanese soldiers, but bowed slightly, performing a standard but not humble Western-style greeting.

"Lin Tuozhi greets His Highness Hirohito."

Hirohito raised his eyelids, his eyes scanning Lin Qi up and down a few times. He didn't immediately offer him a seat, but instead spoke coldly, with a hint of contempt and probing:

"I heard from Fujiwara that you have two doctorates from MIT. Not only do you understand industry, but you also have a keen eye for the world? You Chinese have always loved to talk big."

Faced with the future emperor's show of force, Lin Qi showed no fear whatsoever.

After listening to Fujiwara's twitching eyes as he translated, he straightened up and sharply retorted:

"Your Highness, there is an old saying in the country: 'What you learn from books is never enough.' Whether I am just boasting or not, Your Highness is welcome to test me."

Lin Qi unceremoniously sat down cross-legged on the guest seat opposite Hirohito, his eyes instantly turning sharp.

"Since Your Highness has traveled to Europe incognito, you must be there to assess the strength of the Western powers. I dare to speak frankly, Your Highness has seen the weaknesses of these powers, but I wonder if Your Highness has also seen the fatal flaw within the Great Japanese Empire itself?"

Upon hearing this, Fujiwara no Heiji was terrified.

Lin Qi is far too arrogant!

How dare they speak so frankly about the empire's fatal flaw in front of His Highness?!

However, Hirohito suddenly stiffened, sat up straight, and abandoned his earlier disdain: "Oh? Tell me then, what is the root of the problem for my Great Japanese Empire?"

Lin Qi sneered inwardly; the grand deception technique was officially activated.

"Your Highness, the Great Japanese Empire may appear to have a powerful navy and an elite army, but ultimately, you are an isolated island nation with extremely scarce resources!"

Lin Qi tapped his fingers heavily on the tatami mat, the sound resounding.

"No oil, no rubber, no high-grade iron ore! Your current heavy industry system, though seemingly vast, is actually a castle built on sand! Your military is obsessed with outdated naval warfare, and the army and navy are locked in a fierce battle for a pittance of military funding! This short-sighted strategic approach means that if a full-scale war breaks out in the future, the war machine will collapse completely within three to five years due to resource depletion!"

These words are piercing, each one precisely hitting the weak point of Japan's national power!

These are sharp questions that even the highest-ranking cabinet ministers in Japan dare not raise so bluntly in front of Hirohito!

Hirohito's expression changed.

His previously gloomy eyes instantly revealed a look of shock!

He stared intently at the young man from China, discovering that the man's understanding of Japan was even more profound than his own, the Crown Prince's!

"Then, in your opinion, what should the empire do?"

Hirohito's voice unconsciously took on a tone of seeking advice.

Fujiwara no Heiji watched with immense delight.

His Highness was moved! Lin Jun truly is a divine being!

Seeing that the time was right, Lin Qi stared at Hirohito and unveiled the ultimate strategic theory that was enough to change the course of World War II.

"Your Highness, please forgive my bluntness."

"Your Japanese military's current strategic adversaries are either the impoverished and weak China or Soviet Russia in the north. But this is all foolish shortsightedness!"

Lin Qi leaned forward, like a seductive demon, and said, word by word:

"If the Great Japanese Empire truly wants to dominate Asia, its real mortal enemy is neither China nor the Soviet Union, but the United States across the Pacific!"

"USA?!"

Hirohito gasped.

At this point in 1924, although there were frictions between Japan and the United States, many high-ranking Japanese officials still considered the United States to be their largest trading partner.

"Yes, it's America!"

Lin Qi suddenly quickened his pace, his words becoming sharp as a knife, and began to frantically rub salt into the wounds of history, inciting nationalistic sentiments.

"Your Highness, have you forgotten? Just two years ago, at the Washington Conference in 1922! The Americans, in alliance with the British, forced the Empire to sign the Washington Naval Treaty! They used an extremely humiliating 5:5:3 tonnage ratio to tightly strangle the Imperial Navy! Why should the Americans and British have 5 tons, while the Yamato people can only have 3?! Isn't this a disguised strangulation of the Empire's maritime lifeline by the United States?!"

Hirohito's breathing began to become heavy.

The Washington Treaty remains a permanent source of pain for the Japanese military and right-wing elements!

Lin Qi didn't stop there; he continued to intensify his attack, dropping a bombshell that had just happened this year and enraged all of Japan!

"It's not just military suppression, but also a trampling of dignity! Just this May! The US Congress forcibly passed the Anti-Japanese Immigration Act! They blatantly and openly announced a complete ban on all Japanese immigration to the United States! To regard the Yamato people as an inferior race—this is such a disgrace! Can Your Highness swallow this insult?!"

"Baka!!"

Hirohito slammed his hand on the low rosewood table, causing the teacup to overturn and spill tea all over the floor.

The future Emperor Showa had bloodshot eyes and his chest heaving violently.

The arrogance and exclusion from Americans were like a poisonous thorn, deeply embedded in his pride.

"Your Highness!"

Lin Qi's voice, like a grand and resonant bell, echoed in the dimly lit study.

"The United States' industrial strength is more than ten times that of the empire! They will never allow an empire to rise in the Pacific that could threaten their hegemony! As long as the Americans exist, they will use oil and steel embargoes to strangle you!"

"so!"

Lin Qi stood up, looked down at the future mastermind behind the invasion of China, and delivered his final strategic pronouncement.

"If Japan wants to become a true Greater East Asian Empire, free from any constraints, it must, from this very moment, firmly identify the United States as its hypothetical enemy!"

"You must dedicate the entire nation's resources to developing aircraft carriers and long-range bombers! You must, in the near future, defeat the American fleet in the vast Pacific Ocean and completely seize control of the sea!"

"Otherwise, your so-called imperial grand plans and hegemony are nothing but a mirage bestowed upon you by the Americans, a dream that can be shattered with a single blow!"

Dead silence.

The study fell into a suffocating silence that lasted for several minutes.

Fujiwara and Heiji were drenched in cold sweat. They were shocked by the grand and brutal blueprint for the Pacific War described by Lin Qi, and at the same time, they were unable to suppress a deep sense of conviction.

Hirohito, sitting in the main seat, seemed to see a new door leading to world domination being kicked open by the Chinese man before him.

"Bang."

Hirohito placed his hands on the low table and slowly stood up.

She walked around the table step by step, heading towards Lin Qi.

There was no longer any disdain on his face, but instead a fervent fascination with a national hero.

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