Chapter 1558: The Jedi Strikes Back
Because, in the original agreement between Chiang Haoran and Marshall, the first article was to abolish all unequal treaties imposed on the Chinese people by the imperialist powers from the signing of the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. The Portuguese colonized Macao much earlier than that, so the Portuguese government believed that they were not covered by this agreement and refused to accept the Anglo-British settlement.
This was Jiang Haoran's negligence, which had nothing to do with the British and Mi, and they could not quarrel with Portugal over this matter, and the rest of the matter could of course only be negotiated between the Chinese government and Portugal.
Of course, Portugal will not easily spit out this piece of fat to the mouth, and many negotiations have been fruitless, and they almost did not even claim that Macao is their inherent land.
Because Macao has always been surrounded by the island army, this matter has dragged on.
Speaking of which, I have to talk about how Macao came into the hands of Portugal, I believe that many Chinese people do not understand the reason for this.
Portugal was only a very small country in Europe, and later thanks to the development of Portuguese nautical technology, Portugal began its overseas adventures.
Portugal discovered the Cape of Good Hope first, and then India. Soon after, it invaded India, occupied Cochin, Goa, controlled the Strait of Malacca, then reached Siam, and finally came to China.
When Portugal came to China, China was under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and China was a world power at that time. When the Portuguese came to China, they began trading with the Ming Dynasty. In the process of trade, he had evil thoughts and sent the Portuguese fleet to invade the mouth of the Pearl River and forcibly occupy Tuen Mun, Dongguan County.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty of China was not a vegetarian and soon drove Portugal out. Portugal had no choice but to go north to Ningbo, and was later driven away by the Ming Dynasty. Portugal then went south to Fujian, but was defeated by the Ming Dynasty. In the end, he fled to the area of Macao, and borrowed Macao for drying clothes and goods, but this residence was hundreds of years.
Then why did my Ming Dynasty tolerate Portugal stationing in Macao?
As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the Portuguese paid "rent" to the local officials through bribery, so the local officials turned a blind eye and allowed the Portuguese to live in Macao.
Therefore, the Portuguese occupation of Macao was not brought in with artillery, but with silver bribes.
Later, the Ming Dynasty fell, and the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains. The Qing Dynasty, which liked to conquer the world with bows, arrows and spears, did not drive the Portuguese away for various reasons. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation in China was becoming more and more chaotic, and there was no time to take care of Portugal. Slowly, Macau became a Portuguese colony.
It is precisely because of these reasons that the Portuguese have lived in Macao for more than 300 years, and they have almost forgotten the fact that Macao has always belonged to China, so they refuse to recognize and accept the agreement signed between Chiang Haoran and Marshall.
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At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the island country, Tokyo base camp.
In the conference room, high-level officials such as Hirohito Tenlocust, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Chief of Staff Yamamoto, Minister of the Navy Yamagotoki Sushio, Minister of War Shunroku Hatata, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Combined Fleet, gathered together.
There was a gloomy fog in the conference room, everyone sat with their eyebrows bowed, their faces solemn with some shame and anxiety, and the Hirohito locust in the first place puffed out his eyes, and the green tendons on his forehead were exposed, obviously still angry.
Twenty aircraft carriers suddenly appeared in China's Pacific Fleet, and the poor locust intelligence agency knew nothing about it until then, resulting in an uncontrollable situation in front of us, and the Cabinet Intelligence Investigation Office, which was in charge of intelligence gathering, could not escape the blame.
Just now, Kazuo Kono, the head of the cabinet, was pushed out and shot by order of the locusts.
The Cabinet Registrar is the supreme head of the Cabinet Secretariat on the island, equivalent to the Secretary-General of the Cabinet on the island, this is a really high-powered minister, and the locusts have not been handed over to the court for ruling, and they are directly pushed out and shot, which has never happened since the Meiji Restoration, and it can also be seen that the anger of the locust is extreme, and it makes everyone here feel cold in their necks.
The people who should be killed were killed, but the matter still had to be resolved, and the majestic voice of the locust sounded again, scolding everyone to speak freely, and come up with a plan to solve the immediate crisis and save the southern army from fire and water.
But there was silence in the house, and there was a dead end in front of him, which could not be solved at all, and no one wanted to be unhappy with this rising bird.
A fleet of more than a dozen aircraft carriers is enough to blockade and encircle the entire Hainan Island, and with countless land-based support on the Indochina Peninsula, the locust army may not be able to dig Hainan Island out of their mouths even if they try their best.
Before Hirohito could get the answer he wanted, a senior staff officer hurriedly walked in and brought the latest news from Hainan Island.
As soon as this news came out, the conference room was in an uproar.
Although they had expected that the locusts would not be able to stop the advance of the army, it was too fast.
Most of the 30th Division of the Locust Army and the defense line carefully constructed by tens of thousands of overseas Chinese armed forces broke through the entire line in less than a day.
The staff officer stated bitterly that it was not that the locusts army was incompetent, but that the army was too strong, that the forward troops were the main force of their most elite special operations divisions, that they were fighting together with the tank divisions and heavy artillery regiments of the Far Third Group Army, and that the support was the new 38th Division, an elite unit of the expeditionary force.
The conference room was darkened, and everyone had an undisguised look of sadness and panic on their faces, and the situation was worse than they had imagined.
As early as two hours ago, the army of the north road had already reached Qiongshan, because the back road was basically empty, they had entered a no-man's land all the way, and the army had already marched towards the direction of Wenchang, where the headquarters of the southern army was located, and the commander Terauchi Shouichi had already begun the way to escape north.
At this rate, the Zhina army will be able to sweep the entire territory of Hainan Island in less than 10 days, and the best result is that the living forces of the locust army can escape to the mountains to fight guerrillas.
There was no solution to the matter here, and the telegram arrived again, and the Zhina Army suddenly landed on the Leizhou Peninsula, and the only wing on the Locust Army Island was all deployed on the south coast, but the landing site of the Zhina Army was chosen the west coast, and the Locust Army was unstoppable.
War Minister Shunroku Hata could no longer sit still, he could not let the situation continue to deteriorate, otherwise the 26th Army should be annihilated, rubbed his ground, and loudly suggested that the base camp immediately mobilize the local naval support and make every effort to seize the sea control of the Qiongzhou Strait, as long as it can control the Qiongzhou Strait, the 21st Army in Hong Kong can mobilize troops to support and buy time for the Southern Fleet and the 17th Army to return to help, only in this way can the Locust Army counterattack and recapture Hainan Island and the Leizhou Peninsula.