Women are more like animals

  A heavyweight diplomat appeared, and the head of state asked: "Mr. Ambassador, I'd like to ask you a question: If you had to choose between declaring war verbally or substantively, which one would you choose?"

  The Japanese ambassador's beard twitched: "Of course it is a declaration of war."

  Li De gazed at him with profound meaning, and Oshima Hiroto sensed something, nervously glancing back and forth between the Premier and the Foreign Minister: "What do you mean? Hmm?"

  Li De gave him a lecture on the international situation and finally returned to the subject: "The United States is playing the role of the world's arsenal, continuously sending weapons and strategic materials to Britain, Russia, and China. German submarines are sinking British ships in the Atlantic, while the United States is sending war supplies to the National Government in Chongqing through the Burma Road. Now, your country has occupied many islands in the Pacific, approaching Australia, but Japan's navy - forgive me for speaking bluntly - is far inferior to that of Britain and the United States. If they control the Pacific, then the Japanese troops scattered on various islands will become fishermen in military uniforms."

  The Japanese ambassador blinked his small eyes, apparently unwilling to discuss this topic further: "Does the leader have any specific suggestions?"

  Li De continued to talk, or rather, continue to bluff: "Rather than putting limited troops in the Pacific and being cut off and defeated one by one, it's better to concentrate our forces and march towards Burma and India. Firstly, we can rely on the mainland, and the enemy will not be able to cut off our connections; secondly, next year the German army will advance towards India through the Middle East, as long as the German and Japanese armies meet in India, they will cut off the supply lines of China and the Soviet Union, splitting the entire Asian continent in two. These two countries will eventually become ripe persimmons, falling into our hands."

  Oshima Hiroshi closed his eyes, indulging in a fairy-tale-like beautiful prospect. Li De seized the opportunity: "In fact, Germany and the US have been in a state of war for a year. The US has long violated the Neutrality Act, openly escorting British ships and attacking German submarines. However, we must wait for the US to declare war. The impression of the German people on the US's participation in World War I, leading to Germany's defeat, is too deep; Moreover, American isolationism still has a certain market, we want to take advantage of it rather than seeking empty...".

  The Japanese ambassador sighed and said that in Japan, the responsibility for Germany's failure to declare war on the US was all pushed onto him, and he estimated that his tenure as ambassador would not last long.

  Ribbentrop said anxiously, "If that day really comes, the German Foreign Ministry will give me the best certificate." Li De disagreed: "On the contrary, if I award you a medal today, it would actually harm you."

  He instructed Ritter von Brenner: "Immediately issue a note in the name of the Foreign Office, protesting against the Japanese Ambassador to Germany, Hirota, for damaging German interests, wantonly prying into German military secrets and blackmailing the German head of state into marching on India, etc."

  Oshima Hiroshi haggled: "You should at least make a strongly worded statement against the United States, you can't not show any attitude at all."

  Li De agreed. Next, their atmosphere was very harmonious, and they chatted about Churchill's old smoking habit, Roosevelt's childhood polio, Stalin's wife's suicide, and Chiang Kai-shek's fear of his wife.

  "A man, if he listens to women in everything, will surely have no good results, because women after all have long hair and short sight, they do things not with reason but with feelings. From this point of view, women are more like animals..." Li Dezheng was speaking loudly when Aiwa came in, she had just rushed from Berlin, followed by her sister.

  Li De quickly stood up, Aiwa stretched out his hand to Oshima Hiroshi, he first bowed deeply and said "Konnichiwa" several times with a silly smile on his face.

  Li De hinted for his sisters to sit down, but they politely declined: "Women are more like animals, let's not continue talking about animals, the animals have returned to their dens." After finishing speaking, he entered the bedroom and "bang" shut the door from inside. Immediately afterwards, the sound of the animals' unrestrained laughter was heard.

  Oshima Hiroshi was delighted for a moment, but his face soon turned gloomy. He had to do something practical to show his loyalty to the Emperor. Li De immediately said: "This is easy to handle. Don't you have the best submarines? I'll prepare several sets of new tank engines for you, including the Soviet T34 diesel engine. You can study and replicate them as soon as you return, because with your current bean tanks, you can still deal with backward China, let alone America's, even the Soviet light tanks are not enough."

  The German head of state and foreign minister both discovered an interesting phenomenon: every time the Soviet Union was mentioned, the Japanese ambassador involuntarily touched his own buttocks. Ribbentrop's explanation was that two years ago Japan had been beaten on the buttocks by the Soviet Union at Changkufeng, leaving behind a sequelae.

  Oshima stood up to bid farewell, and Li De added a sentence: "When the submarine comes, don't forget to load some Southeast Asian rubber." The Japanese Foreign Minister looked at the two of them with an expression that seemed to say, "How can the leader and foreign minister of the Third Reich both have such a mercantile demeanor, as if they had all graduated from a commercial academy?"

  ……

  Li De walked into the bedroom, Aiwa was lazily lying on the bed, her sister was applying nail polish to her toes.

  "Hello Gretel." Li De La took his sister's hand, kissed the back of her hand, and the two sisters giggled. Only then did he realize that his sister's hand was stained with nail polish.

  "What is this? How does it look like a British listening device?" Li De looked at the English paper package on the table with vigilance and asked, the two sisters laughed even more happily, Ai Wa smiled and replied: "What listening device, sanitary napkin."

  Seeing Li De's dejected expression, she added: "It was used by my younger sister."

  "Why use American ones? Are German ones no good?" He muttered under his breath.

  "Don't say it's useless." Eva withdrew her foot and gestured for him to sit beside her: "Hey, I'm asking, how's the blind date you set up for your sister going?"

  Li De told his sister to wash her hands clean and make him a cup of tea.

  That's the difference between the front line and the rear, the front line, Rania fought bloody battles, the rear, Eva worried about her sister's marriage.

  Generally speaking, younger sisters are prettier than older sisters and at least younger, so there are constant rumors about the sister-in-law and the younger aunt, saying things like "the younger aunt's half butt is the sister-in-law's." However, Eva's younger sister's butt won't pose a threat to her older sister because in terms of looks, figure, or temperament, the younger sister is far inferior to the older sister, to the point where finding a decent partner requires some effort.

  Aiva nudged him: "Hey, what's on your mind? You were just talking to 'Kong you qi wa' with great enthusiasm, but now that I'm in front of you, you're speechless. Did the frontline capture another Eastern beauty?"

  His sister handed him the teacup and looked at his face expectantly. Li De patted her hand and comforted her, "Don't worry little sister, you'll find a better one."

  Ava sat up and asked unexpectedly: "He doesn't agree?"

  Li De wanted to introduce the chart officer of the Supreme Command, a handsome young Bavarian man, to her. Of course, it's not good for a head of state to play matchmaker, let alone for his own younger sister. He entrusted Kettel's deputy to do it. Facing the strongest social relationship in Germany, the young man disagreed after meeting Eva for a moment. The introducer, in order to please the leader, proposed two options: either marry Eva or go to the Eastern Front. As a result, the young man signed up for the front line without hesitation.

  There's more to it. The young fellow, after drinking, spread blasphemy about Hitler to his comrades: he suspected Eva's sister of having an affair with her brother-in-law, the current Führer. Li De was furious when he heard this. If the young fellow hadn't stepped on a Soviet landmine, the Führer would not have let him off. Of course, these became later stories.

  Three people fell silent, Lin Ge came in and called him out. There were many people outside asking to see the leader.

  ……

  December 21, 1941, two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the company of Goebbels, G?ring, Himmler, Ribbentrop and Field Marshal Keitel, the German head of state was to deliver a speech at the Reichstag, the American chargé d'affaires had also been invited, Goebbels had even gone out of his way to invite many journalists, including several from America.

  Hitler strode briskly to the rostrum, whereupon the carefully picked members of the Reichstag elected by Dr. Goebbels applauded wildly until at last they quieted down and waited in silence for a minute before he burst forth:

  "Roosevelt, I want to express my contempt for this madman, war-monger, chief representative of the Jews, general agent of the financial oligarchy, supporter of the Bolsheviks, secret sympathizer of Freemasonry, covert protector of the Black Hand, and advisor to the Homosexual Association. Roosevelt, because he single-handedly directed and planned the Pearl Harbor incident, just as Britain fabricated a clumsy map of Germany's invasion of South America, he was so eager for war that he got it..."

  The hall was in an uproar, and the American ad hoc delegation seemed like a lonely boat on an angry ocean, as if it might be engulfed at any moment.

  The German leader, after handing all the non-shining hats except for the green one to the US President, went on to talk about Roosevelt's motives for plotting the Pearl Harbor incident. He said that there were only three aircraft carriers not in port, the sunken ships were outdated old battleships, and they would be repaired soon anyway. After that, he calmed down and read in a tone as if reciting a textbook:

  "Since the outbreak of the European War, the United States Government has repeatedly violated the rules that a neutral country should observe, supporting Germany's enemies and repeatedly provoking Germany seriously, incited by Britain's declaration of war on Germany on September 3, 1939, and finally taking military action openly against Germany."

  On September 11, 1941, the President publicly announced that he had ordered the U.S. Navy and Air Force to fire on any German warship entering within a certain zone. In his October 27 speech, he again explicitly confirmed this order. Since early September 1941, American naval vessels have been frequently attacking German naval forces. For example, an American destroyer... once attacked a German submarine. The U.S. Secretary of the Navy has also acknowledged such incidents.

  In addition, the US Navy also received orders from their government to seize German merchant ships on the high seas as if they were enemy vessels.

  The German government thus confirmed the following facts:

  Although Germany has strictly adhered to international law in its relations with the United States during the present war, the American Government has repeatedly violated its neutral status and is now preparing for war against Germany; it is actually the American Government that brought about the war.

  The German government therefore decided ——

  He deliberately paused for a moment, and the room fell silent. The American chargé d'affaires knew that the words "declaration of war" could not be uttered by the German Chancellor's lips, and he waited without any suspense for the announcement of the severance of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the entry into a state of war.

  However, ivory was indeed spat out of the dog's mouth. Li De slowly read: "The German government has decided to issue the strongest protest and call on the American people to restrain themselves as much as possible, not to sacrifice the lives of American youth in vain for the declining British Empire and the Bolsheviks. I believe that if the American people see Germany showing kindness while Roosevelt wants to fight, the American people with a glorious democratic tradition will take away the wheelchair of the President of the United States."

  The hall erupted in laughter, the American acting ambassador stood at his table, stunned, until Ribbentrop patted him on the back: "Hey, let's go eat."