Chapter 95 Claims against Japan
On 29 August, after the discipline and rules of the meeting were determined, the progress of the meeting entered the fast lane.
On 30 August, the meeting decided on the name of the Chinese country, the Republic of South China, and changed the song sung by Zhou Nan that day to "Nanhua Huaren" as the provisional national anthem of Nanhua.
The national flag is also applied to the design of Zhou Nan, a three-to-two ratio of the red flag, the red flag is divided into five grids, and in the second grid is a yellow horizontal bar.
In the upper left corner of the banner, there is a large five-pointed star, centered on the second square, and extending halfway to the upper and lower squares.
The five-pointed star is mainly yellow, surrounded by a circle of red, red symbolizes revolution, yellow symbolizes skin color, and pentagram symbolizes the five elements.
At the insistence of the Dutch, the upper left corner of the flag will be printed with a lion representing the Dutch royal family, but only half the size of a five-pointed star.
When the design plan was announced, Chen Zhihe, a famous businessman in South China, printed tens of thousands of national flags and distributed them for free.
On September 1, more than 100,000 Chinese gathered at the Provisional Parliament Square. Countless Chinese people sang the national anthem with tears in their eyes and witnessed the first national flag being raised on the flagpole.
On 2 September, it was decided that the first national elections would be held in October to elect the first parliament, and that the first leadership of the Government would be elected by December.
The most sensational thing is that the founding ceremony will be held on January 1, 48.
In the days that followed, every day there was exciting news announced through the South China Daily, such as the formation of a new party, the Conservative Democratic Party, led by businessmen. The radical faction, which is dominated by the Red Party, has canceled its name as the Red Party and changed its name to the Radical Democratic Party or the Reform Democratic Party.
The name of the Red Party is firmly rejected by the Dutch.
This decision was warmly welcomed by Western countries, which sent congratulatory telegrams, and even the American media praised South China for taking the right path of democracy.
Of course, this decision was also severely condemned by the Soviet Union, and they even directly denounced the former Red Party headed by Chen Zhongqing as a traitor and an enemy in the newspapers.
It is worth mentioning that Huang Wenxin has withdrawn from the ruling coalition because of this decision, and he and his supporters are ready to continue fighting in the name of the Red Party.
It's just that they don't know that Zhou Nan is already planning to establish laws and regulations in this regard, and in the future, he will cancel the right of other political parties to participate in politics and maintain the stability of the political system.
However, such laws and regulations cannot be formulated in a short period of time, just like the current South China does not have its own constitution, and mainly adopts the current constitution of the Netherlands as the law of the country.
One system and another plan has been introduced, and the people of Nanhua spend every day in excitement.
And Zhou Nan returned to Asia for half a month, spending every day in a busy way, and lost ten pounds.
Because the weather is too hot, Zhou Nan is not used to such a climate, although Audrey tries her best to supplement Zhou Nan's nutrition every day, and the wild blood bird's nest is used as porridge for Zhou Nan to drink, but it doesn't work.
Zhou Nan's brain is like a machine that keeps spinning, thinking about countless things and making countless choices every day, and at such times, he can't get fat if he wants to.
Audrey's autumn has already started, and Zhou Nan originally wanted her to go back to Switzerland first, but she insisted on refusing and was determined to accompany Zhou Nan in Nanhua.
In fact, even she has lost a little weight recently, she was already on the thin side, and now her ribs are a little ugly.
On September 7, after completing most of the overall institutional planning, Zhou Nan was ready to return to Switzerland. The rest of the legal details, including some specific development plans, Zhou Nan does not need to participate in everything, and he does not have this mind.
But before leaving, he had two more things to deal with.
The first thing was to set up a World War II civilian compensation team in South China and Malaysia, and Chen Lao and his team had collected countless military tickets issued by the Japanese army, and prepared to file a civil compensation against Japan in addition to military compensation.
It's just a rough estimate that Chen Lao and the others have already collected 630 million yen in military tickets. These tickets were worth as much as the yen during World War II, but after the war, they were worthless.
Relying on these indiscriminately printed military tickets, Japan plundered countless resources from Asian countries.
Although the Tokyo trial has not yet ended, and the trial court will not accept civil lawsuits, Zhou Nan knows very well that this matter must not be relaxed.
Because after the trial, the United States and the Soviet Union chose North Korea in Europe and Asia in order to open up a new battlefield. From then on, Japan became a logistics base for the war.
In order to give play to Japan's role, the United States forced the victorious powers of the world to sign the "San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan" with Japan in San Francisco, exempting Japan from military compensation in many respects.
Japan also took advantage of this to start defaulting on its debts and refused to pay compensation in many ways on legal grounds.
A new war led to the re-emergence of Japan, a defeated country, and the world's second-largest military power and a famous rogue state.
Every time he thinks of this, Zhou Nan is unwilling.
In another life, he did not have the ability to deal with Japan, but in this life, he must stumble on Japan's development in all aspects and at all levels.
Even if he doesn't talk about national revenge, his own father died at the gunpoint of the Japanese, and if he doesn't take revenge, he will be a son of man in vain!
However, Japan is now controlled by their own father, MacArthur, who was accustomed to being the emperor, and in order to enjoy this lofty worship, his ruling line is very biased towards Japan.
It can be said that without MacArthur, there would have been no Japan, which developed rapidly later, and without MacArthur, the Ryukyu Islands would not have returned to the bosom of the Japanese.
You can't do anything to the Japanese with the power of the private sector alone. Zhou Nan had to integrate the civil forces and suppress MacArthur in order to really ask for compensation from the Japanese.
The next few years will be the years when MacArthur became a god, and MacArthur has been deified in the United States and in Japan.
Of course, his most defeated opponent is also because of this, he has spent too long in Asia, too long to be touted, and forgotten that his roots are in the United States.
Every time he returned to China, he was welcomed by everyone, thinking that his influence was great enough that no one could do anything to him. But he didn't know that all this was false, and Truman gave an order, and he could only return to China in disgrace.
He also wanted to run for president, and he looked down on his former aide Eisenhower, believing that he would win the election. However, he ignored that the basic national policy of the United States at that time was that Europe was more important than Asia, and his actions in Asia had already won the hearts of most of the upper echelons.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, just over one percent of the vote.
But that was four years later, and MacArthur was at his proudest and most inflated. He single-handedly controlled the fate of Japan and even the fate of Asia, and it was impossible for MacArthur to change his mind without integrating all his forces.
All this had to be done before the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed.
Because if we do not determine the influence and basic positioning of this matter in the world at the beginning, when the war begins and the United States changes its strategy in Asia, it will be more difficult to make reparations at that time.
Taking the Philippines as an example, after Japan's defeat in the war, the Philippines demanded a billion dollars in compensation, but Japan refused, so the Philippines directly killed the hundreds of Japanese prisoners of war they captured.
With the mediation of the United States, Japan promised reparations, and even after the Treaty of San Francisco was signed, the money was not lost.
But what about other countries? Over the next twenty years, the Japanese were able to complete military reparations with commercial investment and assistance. But at the same time, they are indirectly involved in the economic development of Southeast Asia, making more money than they lose.
Zhou Nan would never allow such a thing to happen again, all he had to do was to contact all the forces he could contact, ask for compensation, and curb their business development.
The second thing is also related to this, and that is business development.
Zhou Nan planned to contact a group of Chinese businessmen to set up a car factory in Nanhua to produce and sell Volkswagen models. In the coming decades, there will be frequent wars in Asia, and becoming a supplier of war will be the most important step in business development.
Relying on a war, Japan got out of the predicament, and now, what Zhou Nan wants to do is to cut off his beard.
He forgot when he saw a report that Toyota in '51 had only produced 500 cars. But after the outbreak of the war, the United States alone placed an order for 5,000 cars for Toyota in 52 years, and Toyota gradually developed by relying on this order.
Therefore, when he came to Asia this time, he also wanted to inspect the environment here, and prepare to establish a Volkswagen branch in South China, so as to make Volkswagen the first choice of other countries from the beginning.
The current automotive industry and the future electronics industry are Japan's two advantageous industries, and Zhou Nan does not want to let go of the opportunity to cut off the beard.
Moreover, the automobile industry is an industry that can drive the overall upgrading of the industry, because a car involves various industries such as steel, stamping, machining, rubber, electronics, etc., which can drive the overall industrial development of the country.
The Chinese in Southeast Asia, especially some big businessmen, are very rich. But the industries they can get involved in are very low-level, basically forestry, paper, tobacco, sugar, rubber, minerals, planting and other resource industries.
An automobile factory can definitely drive the overall upgrading of the industry.
Volkswagen has technology, talent, but no money. These people have money but no technology, and this kind of cooperation can be said to basically not have much difference of interest and is relatively complementary.
Zhou Nan just proposed this plan, and during this time, there was an endless stream of people who came to Zhou Nan, and countless people wanted to invest in it.
After Zhou Nan analyzed the huge investment in the car factory, they also quickly formed a consortium and raised a large amount of money to cooperate with Volkswagen.