Beiyang reactionaries

Whether in Chongqing or Wuhan, Luang Phibun Songkham has seen many amazing things.

On the other side of the Yangtze River, ships are driving one by one, and a large number of cars, trucks, and motorcycles can be seen on the road.And when he was in Wuhan, Luang Phibun Songkham also observed the car base in Wuhan.

Wuhan is the largest automobile base in China.

There are Wuhan Ford Company, Wuhan General Motors Company, and China's first automobile company and tractor company.In Wuhan alone, the annual production of various automobiles and tractors reaches the scale of one million vehicles.

After seeing it, Luang Phibun Songkham turned pale.

Because it is too powerful.

Needless to say, Luang Phibun Songkhram's aircraft did not occupy the civilian airfield.For his safety, and in order not to disturb the order of the civilian airport, he used the military airport along the way.

Luang Phibun Songkham even saw rows of military aircraft at military airports in several cities in China.At the airport in Kunming, the rows of planes could not be seen to the bottom.Just such a military airport has more aircraft than the entire military aircraft in Thailand.This kind of understanding made Luang Phibun Songkham feel so helpless.

He came to China this time to make friends with China.But when Duan Xun suddenly mentioned this issue, Luang Phibun Songkham was of course surprised.He didn't want to fall out with China, especially after seeing such a powerful industry in China, he didn't dare to fall out with China.

So Luang Phibun Songkham immediately explained: "Chairman Duan, there were some radical voices, but I suppressed them all. I am dissatisfied with Chairman Duan. My ancestral home is Chaozhou, Guangdong, and I am a Chinese-Thai mixed race. , I will absolutely not support such a voice. I hope that the friendship between our two countries can be maintained forever."

Quickly explain.

Duan Xun smiled and said: "Prime Minister Songkham, I just heard about it, so I just said it casually. I believe in Prime Minister Songkham. After all, Prime Minister Songkham also has a blood relationship with us in China, so it must be more than ordinary people. The country is close. The friendship between our two countries has always been very good, and I believe that Prime Minister Songkhorn can solve these small problems."

"Of course, of course."

Luang Phibun Somkham is an anti-Chinese member, but he is not.

In his eyes, there is no difference between European and American whites, Chinese, or Japanese.He himself has no prejudice against the Chinese.The goal of Luang Phibun Songkhram is to take advantage of the current chaotic world situation to complete his "Great Thailand" goal.Whoever blocks his goal is his enemy.It just so happens that there are a large number of Chinese in Thailand, and they are all from the wealthy class, so the trend of "Chinese exclusion" has been aroused.

This is a matter of interest.

Now that Luang Phibun Songkham sees the strength of China, he immediately prepares to change his attitude.Thailand and China have a lot of blood relationship.Not to mention that there are many Chinese in Thailand, and there are also many Chinese-Thai mixed races in Thailand.Not to mention, the Thai also has branches in China.Make good use of it, and the relationship between China and Thailand can be further improved.

"Chairman Duan, the friendship between our two countries has a long history. I am here in Beijing this time, hoping to further promote the friendship between our two countries."

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"Chairman Duan, the friendship between our two countries has a long history. I am here in Beijing this time, hoping to further promote the friendship between our two countries."

"That's a good point."

Duan Xun smiled.

He picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and then slowly said: "Prime Minister Songkhan, in fact, both of our countries have wasted a good opportunity. The Lancang River in our country is the upper reaches of the Mekong River. We didn't take such a good route. use."

"Chairman Duan is right."

Luang Phibun Songkham immediately said: "It is indeed our mistake that the Mekong River has not been fully developed and utilized. However, since the outbreak of the war, our country's exports have been hit hard, and the Mekong River is of little use."

Luang Phibun Songkham spoke very frustrated.

Duan Xun smiled slightly, but did not answer.Luang Phibun Songkham is a political strongman in Thailand, how could he show his frustration so easily.It's just that I want to show Thailand's current difficulties in front of Duan Xun, and I hope Duan Xun can help.

Seeing that Duan Xun didn't answer, Luang Phibun Songkan could only bite the bullet and said: "Chairman Duan, many of our country's agricultural products were originally exported to Germany. But now the UK has blocked the import and export of Germany, which has also hit our country. Exports. At present, there are a large number of agricultural products in our country that cannot find a market and are backlogged in the country, which has greatly affected the domestic economy. We know that only a big country like China can absorb these agricultural products in the world.”

"I wonder what agricultural products your country exports?"

"Mostly rice and cassava."

In fact, there is another product that Thailand exports more, that is natural rubber.However, the natural rubber production in Thailand is currently limited, and there are not many natural rubber plantations in Thailand.The little output is also very easy to sell.

Thailand currently holds the most rice and cassava.Thailand is a big agricultural country, producing a lot of rice and cassava.In the past, many of these items were sold to Germany, including some other countries in Europe.

But when the war broke out, Britain directly blocked the European sea area, and the things from Thailand could not be shipped to Europe at all, and the business channel was directly cut off.

Duan Xun nodded and said, "I sympathize with the problems in your country."

"Chairman Duan..."

Luang Phibun Songkham was a little anxious.

Problems in the domestic economy, especially the continuous rise in prices, have made his rule unstable.For him now, if he does not get the support of China, then he has only two ways to solve the current predicament.Either Japan will get a big strategic victory, and Thailand will get enough benefits.In other words, he really promoted extreme nationalist policies in the country to attract those ethnic extremists.

But neither of these are realistic now.

In the direction of Myitkyina, the Japanese army still did not achieve substantial results.The Thai army fought with the Japanese army, and it is clear that they know the current logistics situation of the Japanese army.The food of the Japanese troops on the front line was very poor, and most of the Japanese troops could only eat two meals a day.And the two meals were not very good, at most they were not hungry.

Because the Japanese army's logistics supplies were seriously insufficient.

Before the Japanese army launched the Battle of Myitkyina, they had already laid many roads.But these roads are still too primitive, and the transportation capacity is far from enough.In addition, it is always attacked by the British and Indian mountain troops and the Burmese army, and the transportation channels are also intermittent.

In order to fight, the Japanese army can only guarantee the supply of weapons and ammunition first.As a result, the Japanese soldiers did not have enough to eat, and the food they ate was poor.Under such circumstances, the morale of the Japanese army is getting lower and lower.As the saying goes, people are iron and rice is steel, and only when they eat can they have combat effectiveness.

In addition, after entering May and June, it began to rain in Myanmar, which made many Japanese soldiers uncomfortable, and non-combat attrition slowly occurred.The current situation is that the Japanese army is short of food on the front line, and there are more and more injuries, but the shortage of medicines is getting worse.

And what about the British and Indian troops?

It can be known from the captured British and Indian troops that the food of the British and Indian troops is very good.In order to guarantee the logistics of the British and Indian Army, the British and Indian Army even dispatched a large number of transport planes to drop supplies.Of course, both Japan and Thailand know that most of the transport planes participating in the airdrop are Chinese planes, even the Chinese Air Force.At present, although the British and Indian forces have many aircraft, they are mainly fighter jets and bombers for combat use, as well as a large number of trainer aircraft for training pilots.There are not many transport planes in hand.

To guarantee the logistics of hundreds of thousands of British and Indian troops, such a transport aircraft must be large in scale.In Asia, only the Chinese army can take it out.Therefore, continuing according to the current situation, Luang Phibun Songkan does not believe that Japan can win Myitkyina.Unless the Japanese army is really desperate and gathers more elite troops to launch a full-scale attack on the British and Indian troops.However, the Japanese army is currently fighting the US military in the Pacific Ocean while conducting the Australian campaign. It is impossible to devote all its forces to the direction of Burma.

As for setting off nationalism in Thailand and winning the support of ethnic extremists, Luang Phibun Songkham immediately vetoed it.Not to mention that Chinese and overseas Chinese have great influence in Thailand itself, and there are very few extremists in Thailand. If you want to use them to consolidate your position, it is likely to cause great turmoil in Thailand.

And the current Luang Phibun Songkham has no guts.

Seeing how powerful China is now, Luang Phibun Songkham really dare not offend China.Therefore, we can only strive for the support of China.

"Prime Minister Songkham, please be safe."

Seeing that Luang Phibun Songkham was very anxious, Duan Xun smiled.

Then he said: "Prime Minister Songkham, you may have misunderstood. I am not a person who will talk about how to do it. If your country wants to sell things to our country, you should ask our cabinet prime minister or our business manager for this kind of thing. Ministry, and the Bureau of Foreign Trade. I don't talk about those things."

"The chairman..."

"Prime Minister Songkhram, let's talk about history, talk about the present, and talk about the future."

"This……"

Luang Phibun Somkham is completely inexplicable.

I don't know what Duan Xun means.The purpose of Luang Phibun Songkham in coming to China is very simple, and he didn’t come here to talk nonsense with Duan Xun.Duan Xun didn't care about Luang Piwen Songkham's emotions, and continued: "I mainly want to talk about the historical friendship between our two countries. I won't talk about the ones that are too far away. Let's talk about the Ming Dynasty in our country, Ming Hongwu According to the Western calendar, it was about 1370. At that time, the relationship between my Ming Dynasty and your country was very good. In just five years, the number of envoys from your country came to the Ming Dynasty reached [-] times. After many years, your country Envoys come here almost every year, or even several times a year in many cases."

"Later, the establishment of the Qing Dynasty did not affect the exchanges between your country and our country. In the ninth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, from 1652 in the Western calendar, to the eighth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1869 in the Western calendar. In 200 years, your country has Sent envoys 44 times."

"Since the Opium War, that is, beginning in 1840 in the Western calendar, our country has been bullied by force by foreign powers and has begun to decline. However, your country did not attack our country like other countries, but has always been close to our country. After the Opium War, your country is still It is to send envoys to our country. This is the greatest proof of the friendship between our two countries, and our country appreciates the friendship of your country."

"Asia is the Asia of Asians. Our country has always hoped to restore the traditional friendship with Asian countries and maintain the peace of Asian countries. Prime Minister Songkhan, do you think my idea can be realized? I wonder if your country will help us realize this wish ?”