From to 1935 2020

"what?"

"Enough coffins!"

The negotiations on the day were suspended again when it came to this point.

Soon, Roosevelt realized that he was foolish to try to gain some fame by presiding over the six-party talks in Washington.

During more than a month of negotiations, what did the five companies talk about?It can be summed up in a few words.

China and the Soviet Union: The Japanese, get out of China, the British and the French also get out of China.

Japan: Cease the war in place, and both China and the Soviet Union withdraw from the Northeast.

United Kingdom: The CCP must guarantee the fundamental interests of the British Empire in China.

Frenchman: I agree with the British.

For a whole month, the five parties attending the meeting repeated lines similar to those above.The attitudes of both China and the Soviet Union were so tough that they would not back down.The British and the Japanese pretended to make a small concession, but the CCP and the Soviet Union didn’t show any face at all, saying that our request is the bottom line...

It would be fine if all five parties were repeaters.But the thing that made Roosevelt want to vomit blood the most was that every time the Americans stood up to smooth things over and "persuaded" the Soviet Union to make concessions, the Soviet Union would say that Germany and Japan would attack the Soviet Union in the future, and then talked about it, and it involved the United States arming Germany , is the conspirator who provoked the European war (did not say it clearly, but Roosevelt could hear Molotov deliberately tempting the conversation here)

"We are already preparing for a world war that will break out in the next few years. The Japanese completely withdraw from China. This is the bottom line of the Soviet truce."

Roosevelt maliciously guessed why the Soviets, who obviously didn't want to talk about it, were so enthusiastic about launching the Six-Party Talks. In fact, they wanted to take this opportunity to tell the world that Roosevelt was behind the world war, right?

The answer is really like this... So the six-party talks are destined to not have the results that Roosevelt wanted to see.

When Roosevelt was yelling that he was unlucky, Japanese negotiator Yosuke Matsuoka was also suffering.Shouldn't there be another military person in the negotiations with the CCP and the Soviet Union?Asking him, such a foreign minister, to go alone is obviously asking him to take the blame!

After talking for a month, Yosuke Matsuoka didn't even dare to make a "reasonable" request such as "the Japanese army will withdraw from Shandong and Songhu in an all-round way, and then the two sides will cease fighting on the spot." The exaggerated conditions that he agreed to were not because he was really stupid, but because he really chose the former. Yosuke Matsuoka can guarantee that he will be punished by the heavens immediately after returning to China!

On New Year's Eve, he was knocked down to the ground by Huang Ke's malicious shoulder. After the news was sent back to China, he was already scolded by the people for losing his country's constitution and dignity, and he was asked to apologize by cutting open his stomach. Yosuke Matsuoka originally thought he had suffered such a Humiliation, Prime Minister Konoe has just stepped down again, and his hard-working foreign minister can also take the opportunity to be replaced and give up this hot task. Who knows that even in the ten days when the cabinet was disintegrated and there was no prime minister, his position as foreign minister was also Sit securely, no one wants to grab it.

As for how to negotiate with the CCP and the Soviet Union, the Japanese government with "no cabinet" fell into a state of being without a leader during this period and collectively pretending to be stupid. Only Yongren sent him a vague telegram (asking him to take the blame) : Negotiate with China and the Soviet Union according to the actual situation, to maximize the interests of the imperial country - it is simply nonsense that has not been said.

Yosuke Matsuoka knew exactly what the people above were thinking: Please take the initiative to propose the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Songhu and Shandong in exchange for a truce between China and the Soviet Union in the Northeast.

But Matsuoka Yosuke said that he would not take the blame for others to sign this kind of treaty that would be punished by the red deer after returning to China. He was forced to "negotiate independently" and behaved like a tough militarist. The above is "not giving up an inch of land".

His stubborn attitude and thinking made Roosevelt, who was watching, recall the content in "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" written by Huang Ke: a group of militaristic lunatics relied on crazy and unreasonable assassinations, and the lower classes forced the upper classes to go crazy. Force rationality and turn the whole country into a "large madhouse" where only the "craziest" dare to speak out.

Yosuke Matsuoka was suffering, and British Foreign Secretary Halifax, who came to Washington to negotiate, was also suffering.

At the end of January, the Battle of Nanjing ended, the Japanese army suffered a disastrous defeat in Songhu, and the interests of the British in China were about to come to an end. The whole world saw this. Let's see how the British Empire, the titular "world's first empire", will react at this critical moment.

But what made Halifax want to vomit blood was that just after the Chinese New Year, in early February, the CCP forcibly took back the Kailuan coal mine in the eastern Hebei region. This move immediately caused an uproar.

In the UK today, what the people want in their hearts is often Mao Dun's.

On the one hand, they were terrified by the First World War and did not want another war. This is the basis of public opinion for the appeasement policy to prevail.On the other hand, they can't forget the glory of the "Empire on which the sun never sets". People in Europe can tolerate losing face, but in other places, they really don't want to lose face.

There was an uproar among the people, and then Downing Street sent him unrealistic instructions: asking him to put pressure on the CCP through negotiations to recover the losses.But let Halifax also see it at this time, let alone a small Kailuan coal mine, the two British concessions in the CCP-controlled area: Tianjin and Zhenjiang, don't even try to keep them.

Sure enough, less than a week after the Kailuan Coal Mine was taken back, the CCP garrison in Tianjin forcefully took back the concession there. was also withdrawn.

But it's just flying around.

The British and the French said a lot of hard words at the negotiating table, but only tough words remained.The only consequence of this move by the CCP is that the Six-Party Talks, which was about to end immediately, lasted for another week because of the concession issue, and the farce just ended.

The Six-Party Talks are held in secret on the surface, but in fact the degree of secrecy is not high.Foreign journalists with keen information have long received the wind and stayed outside. (The main reason is that Britain and France are not tight-lipped, and the Americans have no awareness of wanting to keep them secret.) These shrewd reporters discovered the whereabouts of the six-party negotiators very early on, and they stayed near their residences all day long, and stopped them when they went out. Interviews, but basically all of them were rejected.

But these all-pervasive foreign reporters quickly thought of a breakthrough—Huang Ke and Elena, this couple is now leading the Soviet Art Troupe on a high-profile tour around the United States.At the same time, Huang Ke and Elena, under the arrangement of the consortium, took turns giving academic lectures and discussions at various universities in the United States.

The reporters were not very interested in what the two said about medicine and physics in the university. They only wanted to pry news about the Far East from the two.After all, apart from being scientists, the other two famous identities are senior spies.

At the gate of the famous Bell Labs of AT&T (American Telegraph Company), the reporter stopped Huang Ke, who had just completed an academic discussion with a group of semiconductor experts in the United States, and asked him about the issue of the concession between the CCP and the United Kingdom that was being hyped by the media recently. The topic of conflict.

Before being stopped by these reporters, Huang Ke led a group of Soviet experts and had just had a "very happy" academic discussion on semiconductors with experts from Bell Labs.In terms of semiconductor development, the situation in the Soviet Union is the opposite of that in the United States: the Soviet Union has no theory but no equipment, and a large number of basic process equipment is seriously missing and needs to be supplemented.On the other hand, Bell Labs has everything but lacks theoretical support. The two parties take what they need, and they have long been colluding in private to prepare for cooperation.Huang Ke, the "semiconductor powerhouse" who just won the Nobel Prize in Physics, appeared, and the colleagues at Bell Labs were very happy.

When Huang Ke was stopped, it was already eleven o'clock in the middle of the night. These reporters were also very dedicated. In order to interview Huang Ke, they endured the cold snap of February in North America outside, and the cold wind blocked him for half the night.

The one who asked Huang Ke first was a British reporter. He knew that Huang Ke's English was very good, so he asked Huang Ke in British English:

"Mr. Huang, the CCP forcibly took back the British concessions in Tianjin and Zhenjiang, and at the same time refused to fulfill the terms signed by the government and the UK in the past. Aren't you afraid that this will cause unpredictable changes?"

Huang Ke communicated with experts from Bell Labs all day and did a lot of experiments, so he was already very tired.He was about to go back to the residence and hold Elena's fragrant body to relieve the fatigue of the day, but was blocked by a bunch of reporters, and his mood suddenly became not so good.

"Unforeseen changes? You just want to say, isn't your Communist Party afraid of the British Empire sending troops to interfere in the Chinese revolution? Don't joke, the British Empire 20 years ago was indeed the great world's number one empire! Now they are just a tooth It’s just an old shark that has been lost. It can still be scary after splashing twice in the water. When it lands on the shore, it’s braised shark’s fin—why, do you think I’m too arrogant and hurt my self-esteem? We used nearly 60 people in the Battle of Songhu The number of casualties, killed four 10,000+ Japanese troops. And the British Empire, how many lives are you going to fight in China?"

Huang Ke glared at him, and continued to speak with a big mouth: "You British guys, are you so stupid that you refuse to recognize the reality! In the past few years, look what you have done?"

"A few years ago, when the German army forcibly entered the Rhine Neutral Zone, Hitler was prepared. As long as you and France made a little tough move, the German army would immediately retreat. What are you doing? What are you doing to France? People say that if Germany and France go to war, at most one division will be sent to support them. You shrink, and the French also shrink... Hitler, who made a successful gamble, successfully earned his first political capital."

"Now, in Europe, you are selling Austria, and you are preparing to sell the whole of Austria to Germany. The empire on which the sun never sets once sold its allies so recklessly. After selling Austria, you will sell the Czech Republic... Today's British Empire is nothing but a paper tiger—my words will be confirmed in two months at most, and Hitler will annex Austria forcibly soon, and the fallen British Empire will only play closed games from beginning to end. Eyes are a game of darkness."

Facing the British reporter, Huang Ke publicly and maliciously mocked. Of course, he did not forget to pull the United States out to praise and tout it again.

"The empire on which the sun never sets has already set in the west! America is the beacon of new life, the most powerful bastion in the capitalist world!"

As soon as he said this, the American reporters on the scene were all happy.

"Well, I'm sorry, I went too far, I really shouldn't tell the truth......"

It was not until after World War II that Americans in this period truly established their self-confidence as a world hegemon, "I am the number one in the world and can live every day".Now their xinxing is actually arrogant and inferior.Most Americans like him, a "big scientist" who "praises the United States to the point of being shameless", especially after he publicly insulted the British Empire, the American people are even more happy.

Although the British hated Huang Ke, Huang Ke was just a "civilian" without any official position in name.They protested to the CCP twice at the negotiating table, but in the end they did not take any effective retaliation.After wasting a month and a half in Washington in vain, China and the Soviet Union completed the goal of "mad black" Roosevelt and left satisfied. Britain, France and Japan had nothing to gain and left bitterly, while Roosevelt, who had been disgusted for a month and a half, was in the White House Looking at the "Roosevelt on the Iron Throne" sent by Huang Ke, he was also extremely disgusted.

"Being tricked!"

That's how he felt then.

Then, the situation in Europe, as in history, continued to change.

PS: Continue to write later, around 01:30, there will be another chapter, the number of words will not be many, between [-] and [-] words.

Chapter 274

From January to mid-February in 1938, during the month and a half when the CCP delegation’s trio came to Washington secretly, Roosevelt was not just what he seemed: a peacemaker (shit stirrer), In mediating the conflicts between the parties, he is actually observing his new opponent (the CCP) and assessing in his heart what attitude the future America should take to position this new regime that is about to enter the world stage.

The United States in 1938 and the United States in 1946 are actually two countries.

Before becoming the last and greatest victor in the most tragic war in human history, the United States under the leadership of Roosevelt has always been ambitious, but cautiously watching the world.

They know that they have unlimited potential, they know that the opportunities are great, and they also know that if the new king wants to overthrow the old king, he needs to face various suppression crises-the United States played a decisive role in the victory of the Allied Powers in the last war , But in the end he got nothing, and was even "jointly repudiated" by his opponents. Wilson was humiliated at the Versailles Peace Conference. The humiliation of being played with is still fresh in the memory of all Americans.

The United States under the leadership of Roosevelt is far from "brainless anti-communism" like the descendants of later generations, and it will not be like Truman, who will become rampant once he is proud, completely ignoring the assessment report on the CCP handed in by his subordinates (here refers to the 1946 , the U.S. Military Observer Mission in China submitted an evaluation report on the China issue to Truman.

During this period, Roosevelt's confidence in the United States was far from overwhelming.Having learned the lesson of being alone and helpless after victory in the last war, even he is now working hard to find future allies—at this time, he would never have imagined that the outcome of World War II would be Except for the United States, the remaining major countries participating in the war need not say much about the losers. Even if Britain, France and the Soviet Union won, it would be nothing more than a Pyrrhus-like victory.After the war, the United States can swallow the most and the biggest fruits of victory in a glance.

"The Chinese was right. China is no longer a chessboard. The CCP is becoming a valuable pawn. Stalin saw this and worked so hard to support them..."

For a month and a half, Roosevelt, who seemed to be doing nothing, carefully read all the reports on the CCP regime, recalled the U.S. ambassador and military attache in Nanjing, and asked them face to face about their views and attitudes towards the CCP. As for the specific performance in the battle, he even called the head of the security team of DuPont's Nanjing factory, the Marine Corps officer, to the White House to inquire about related matters.

In private, he said to his staff: "No matter how backward China is, it is still a big country with a population of 5000 million. Once Li Runshi unifies China and at the same time drives the Japanese out of China with the help of the Soviets, you know that Does it mean something?"

He asked and answered himself, and said with an extremely serious expression: "The Soviet Union with a population of [-] million, China with a population of [-] million, and the two closely related Bolshevik regimes add up to a quarter of the earth's land and The populous world has turned into a communist regime!"

At that time, Roosevelt was sitting at his desk, stroking his Iron Throne statue with his palm, with an extremely serious expression on his face.

Rofus tapped the report on the CCP on the table. All the staff at the scene had read these reports. In the report, the military attaches of the United States stationed in China generously used a lot of information on the CCP regime and soldiers. The words of praise: the officials are as clean as Puritans, and the soldiers are extremely tenacious and brave.

"Obviously they are soldiers from the same country, but the difference between the soldiers of the CCP and the soldiers of the Nanjing government is as big as the difference between the German soldiers in the last World War and the braided soldiers of the Qing Dynasty."

In that report, they specifically mentioned the food of the CCP army: During the Battle of Nanjing, according to our observations, the CCP soldiers who participated in the battle, on that battlefield like a meat grinder, fought in hell for a month without food expenses. Will be over six dollars.According to the reply of General Peng we have contacted: this is the premise that they do their best to provide the best food for the frontline troops.

The American military attache who wrote the report described it this way:

"If our troops were thrown into the hellish battlefield of Nanjing and given them pig food like that, the soldiers below would have mutinied long ago! But these terrible CCP soldiers, they endured and persisted until victory. "

Roosevelt tapped the report with his fingers: "If this analysis report is completely true, it means one thing: Whoever can draw the CCP to his side will gain an ally with countless cheap and high-quality soldiers in the future."

Hurley said: "You mean that the Soviet Union and the CCP joined forces? The CCP's army did defeat the Japanese in Nanjing, but all of this was based on the support of the Soviet Union and even the United States. Our military attache reported, During the counterattack, the CCP’s Schneider artillery was provided by us, um, it was given to them by Chang Kaishen, the transportation captain!"

At the end, Hurley couldn't help showing a speechless expression.

Although Hurley was the Secretary of the US Department of War (1929-1933), in fact, his ability is very average, and he made many stupid mistakes on the China issue: such as supporting Chang Kaishen to fight the civil war (thinking that he can easily win) , during the McCarthy era, persecuted diplomats from the former US embassy in China who advocated maintaining friendship with the CCP.

Roosevelt glanced at him, and said lightly: "But they are really good at fighting, and that's enough. Regarding the CCP, we can no longer just watch from the sidelines as before. We must do something... ..”

In the past one and a half months, Roosevelt only acted as a mediator and middleman on the surface, but in fact, Roosevelt also tried to contact Zhang Wentian secretly in private, to test the opponent's cards, position, and calculate his future attitude towards the CCP.Regarding the United States and Roosevelt, Zhang Wentian followed the instructions of the central government and deliberately showed an attitude of "positive communication". He was not as "rough-tongued" as he was with the British and French, and would slap the table if he disagreed.In addition, there is another Huang Ke who intentionally performs an exaggerated performance like a clown, but it is only to the point. (Huang Ke's performance was actually approved by the central government, which was also Stalin's opinion.)

Roosevelt read several layers of information from the CCP's contradictory approach of "hacking him" and "getting close to him": This opponent is completely different from Chang Kaishen and Chen Jitang, and he is a shrewd opponent who must be treated with extreme caution. picture.

"Support the CCP, win over the CCP...or, unite with the British, support the CCP's opponents, maintain China's north-south balance, or consider bringing Japan in, and continue to maintain this balance... In short, whether it is Either way, we all have to do something, and doing nothing is the worst choice."

After giving these orders, Roosevelt called Hoover and asked him about the situation of Huang Ke, the guy who had been with him.

"About this young Chinese man, is he going to leave America soon?"

"He will return home with the Soviet delegation the day after tomorrow."

Hoover knew what Roosevelt wanted to ask, so he took out the report he had prepared and placed it in front of Roosevelt.When Roosevelt opened the report to read, Hoover said beside him: "This young Chinese, his professional level should be genuine. People from Bell Labs told us that his familiarity and understanding in the field of semiconductors is simply Can be called a groundbreaking mentor-level figure...."

Roosevelt said: "Such a young mentor? He is not yet 21 years old!"

"Perhaps the Soviets and Chinese deliberately underreported their ages in order to make gods, but his age is certainly not very old."

During this month and a half, Hoover was also the busiest.The people under him closely monitored the whereabouts, speeches and even telegrams of the other five-party delegations, and installed bugs in everyone's residences. (Note: Americans have historically done this when negotiating naval treaties.)

The U.S. intelligence agency even deciphered the telegrams sent by the CCP delegation and the country, and knew the opponent's cards early on. During the exchange of telegrams, they deliberately made some traps.

The information Roosevelt collected was that the CCP’s attitude towards the United States was: while maintaining national sovereignty, try to befriend the United States as much as possible, so as to achieve the goal of a Sino-American alliance against Britain, France, and Japan.

Compared with the tight protection of the Sino-Soviet negotiating delegation's residence with their own guards, eavesdropping is troublesome (but there is still a way), and it is much easier to monitor Huang Ke and Elena who are moving around.

The two traveled around the United States with the Soviet art troupe, and the room they lived in was already installed with a bugging device by the Americans. "Every night someone next door listens to the foot of the bed" is the real status quo and not a joke.

In response to the monitoring of the two, Hoover collected a lot of information.

The men and women of the Nobel Prize winners are indeed scientists with real materials-especially their ability to help women beautify their skin, which shocked the circle of ladies in the United States.Relying on this ability, they receive the warmest welcome wherever they go in the United States.American cosmetics companies took away the beauty ointments they prepared and restored their operations afterwards, but they couldn't achieve that magical effect.

They are indeed a couple in love. The evidence is that the two sleep together every night, and basically spend a long time every night. The bed creaks and creaks, which makes the eavesdropping American intelligence officers very depressed. .

What made Hoover very speechless was that when the couple was together at night, they basically only cared about sex. Before and after the sex, they seldom talked about politics. What they discussed most was medical science, which the surveillance personnel basically didn’t understand. topic.

The few valuable topics related to international politics are the Anglo-Japanese alliance. According to their views, the leaders of China and the Soviet Union believe that after China's defeat, Japan will probably return to the old path of the "Anglo-Japanese alliance" in the past .

Roosevelt asked, "What do they think of America?"

Hoover said: "The most powerful industrial country, the biggest victor in the next war, must not be our enemy. According to the Soviet woman, they really believe that, Mr. President, you strongly support the arming of Germany... ...."

When it came to this topic, Roosevelt's face was colorful, and Stalin was so annoying.

Roosevelt said bitterly: "Like Narumi Inoue, he is hostile to the United States, but he knows our strength and is in awe."

"That's pretty much what it means."

On the same day, Roosevelt made a decision in the White House that in the next few days he would form a business delegation to visit China secretly, on the surface to conduct business negotiations, but in fact he took the opportunity to test and observe this young and thriving regime to determine the future His attitude towards him in the past few years——As for whether the CCP can defeat Japan, Roosevelt has already reached a conclusion from the attitude of the Soviets and the CCP at the negotiating table: unless Britain and the United States send troops to join the war, otherwise The Japanese will definitely be kicked out of China relying on their own strength, and even Roosevelt, who sells his liver to aid Japan, cannot change this result.