47 Liberation of Korea (5)

Li Runshi knew that he was not an immortal, he was a man of great knowledge and knowledge, and as a member of the Chinese delegation, he participated in the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. At that peace conference, the British Prime Minister said, "It is better to give a pocket watch to the monkey than to give Upper Silesia to Poland." ”

The North Korean comrades have never seen the world, let alone a leader like Chen Ke, who is not mature enough but has received a good education. In the theory of practice, everyone should complete the understanding of things through practice. But knowledge and knowledge have to rely on education, and it is too inefficient to rely on practice. No matter what level Chen Ke is, he contributes his knowledge without reservation. With this knowledge to prepare, the People's Party will not be too out of shape. Coupled with democratic discussion within the party, as well as criticism and self-criticism, a large number of comrades will soon be able to take charge on their own. After such a period of contact, Ri Yun-seok does not think that the North Korean comrades are inherently bad. Their level of insight and knowledge is too poor.

But at this meeting, there must be a North Korean comrade. The Central Committee of the People's Party made it very clear that this was a meeting of the great powers interfering in the affairs of other countries, and Japan and Korea would have to fight here.

Of course, the talks weren't all North Korean affairs. The big countries have to talk about business together, and Li Runshi's other job is to negotiate business with foreign countries.

Recently, the domestic organic chemical industry has broken through the threshold of high-temperature cracking technology, and Chen Ke is trying his best to train these departments. During the finalization of chemical fiber products, phenolic resins, plexiglass and other products have begun to be tested in the international market. The response in the international market has been quite good. According to China's foreign trade policy, China will increase imports at the same time as it expands its exports. The domestic production of 10,000-ton ships is also on track, and shipyards are desperately producing ships. The shipping department is desperately pulling back raw materials.

Sweet crude oil is relatively expensive in the world market, and sour crude oil is cheap, and the market is not selling well. China has finally solved the problem of desulfurization technology, including sulfur collection and reuse in the later stage. A large amount of sour crude oil in the Middle East is unattended, and China has bought a lot of sour crude oil wells, and one of the contents that Li Runshi wants to discuss with Britain is the purchase and transportation safety of this part of the crude oil.

As in the past, if Chen Ke does not attend this meeting, Li Runshi will have full responsibility for the negotiations. The BJP will set up a tanker with a gross tonnage of more than 100,000 tons to be responsible for the transport, which would simply not have been possible without the cooperation of the British. If it were someone else, take all these things into account, and I was afraid that I would be tired to death. Li Runshi is not good, but he is never afraid of things. Through such negotiations, Li Runshi found that the economic context of the entire country could be seen clearly.

Before leaving, Li Runshi wrote a letter to Chen Shijun, a friend and poet friend in the army, which was a song of harmony. The meeting was held in Washington, D.C., and the Americans were not small, and without joining the League of Nations, they tried their best to hold an international conference on American soil. At the Washington Conference a few years ago, there was a treaty to limit the Navy, and this time it was nothing.

At the end of July, the Washington conference on the Far East was finally held. Before the meeting, Li Run-seok sent some gifts to the delegates of various countries. These are plexiglass goggles, as well as regular sunglasses. Not only are these lenses made of pure and transparent plexiglass. The springs of the temples are also the kind of outward springs, which can be tilted outward by more than ten degrees. It is very suitable for people with wide faces. This kind of delicate part may not seem difficult to imitate, but it requires a high level of processing technology to manufacture. Those who know the know can understand it at a glance. Not to mention the new material of plexiglass.

The people who attended the meeting were all people of great stature and didn't care about these gadgets at all. The talks went straight to the point, how to solve the current problems of North Korea.

The United States had been clamoring for national self-determination, even though they would never give the Indians the right to self-determination. This time, the United States repeated the old tune of the DPRK and demanded that the DPRK region practice national self-determination under international supervision.

This hostile approach was immediately met with strong opposition from Japan, and the national self-determination of Korea was destined for the restoration of Korea. The British also immediately expressed their opposition, saying that if Britain supported Korean self-determination, it would be tantamount to selling Japan. If North Korea can self-determine, can the British colonies be self-determine? Can India be self-determined? Can Ireland be self-determined?

The Soviet delegates came to the meeting purely for soy sauce, they were blocked for several years and also needed the opportunity to return to the international community. The Chinese comrades fulfilled their promise to continue to suppress Japan, so that Japan was completely unable to fight the idea of the Soviet Union. The original purpose of the Soviet Union was to help stand on the platform and shout a few times when speaking. A glance at the self-determination of the American nation gave the Soviet Union a keen sense of the implications. Americans also had a strong opposition to the colonial system. Regardless of whether the United States invaded the Soviet Union or not, this position coincides with the Soviet Union's position. So the Soviet Union was the first to express its support.

France soon understood the intentions of the United States, and its representatives were equally adamantly opposed to national self-determination, even if they had little overlapping interests with Japan.

When the DPRK delegates listened to the speeches of the representatives of various countries, they almost burst into tears of grievance. What did Britain and France do in Korea, but Britain and France openly interfered in the internal affairs of Korea. It must be noted that there are still considerable misgivings among the DPRK people with lofty ideals about China, and if the DPRK resumes its traditional relations with China, they will be able to accept it. However, there were also Korean aspirants who feared that the Japanese would be driven out and the Chinese would annex Korea again. Now listening to the speeches made by the major powers of the world, the DPRK representatives no longer have the mind to worry about China. Compared with these wolf-like foreign countries, the Chinese comrades are really as warm as spring to the DPRK.

If Korea is excluded, the six major powers are divided into two camps, China, the United States and the Soviet Union clearly have the same position, and Britain, France, and Japan, as supporters of colonialism, still have the same imperialist style. North Korea, as the injured party, has no say at all.

The first day of the public meeting ended unhappily.

The interests of the major powers are diverse, and talking about the North Korean issue can be broken up on an unhappy note. Naturally, there are all kinds of business representatives in the delegations. Business delegates are actively holding discussions in their own fields. The oil deal between China, the United States and the United Kingdom is progressing quite well.

The United States was the largest oil producer and refiner in the 20th century, and Britain occupied such a large territory, and its actual use was quite limited. Before China developed the Yumen oil field, China was once considered to have no oil resources. Now that the Yumen oil field is available, it is an "oil-poor country", and the United States wants to become an oil supplier to China.

Of course, the British are not willing to give up such a large market, and both Britain and the United States want to know how many tons of crude oil China wants to import a year. Of course, the Chinese side does not want to be blackmailed for nothing, and the British side holds the dominant power in the world oil market, and the British crude oil exchange price is the weather vane of the world price. No matter how large the oil production of Texas in the United States is, it has no pricing power. Therefore, once China and the United States can reach an oil supply agreement, they will simply throw Britain aside.

After China finally gave the standard of 20 million tons of crude oil a year, the competition between Britain and the United States immediately became fierce. On the third day of the negotiations, the representatives of the Soviet Union, having "learned" the news, also intervened. The three countries all want to compete for the big market of China.

There are two requirements from the Chinese side, the price should be preferential and the supply should be stable. In this regard, Britain has an advantage to the point where it is not as great as that of the United States. After all, the distance from the Middle East to China is not much closer than from the United States to China. The advantage of Britain is that there is a lot of high-sulfur oil that no one else wants, so the British ended up with a quota of 10 million tons, and the United States got a quota of 10 million tons. The price is much lower than the average world price.

As for China's request for self-transportation, it has also been agreed to by the two countries, and in any case, the number of oil tankers in China is very small, and most of the profits from transportation are still in the hands of British and American transportation companies. After the British business representatives theoretically negotiated such a large deal, they were in a good mood, and since 23 years, China's new stockings and plastic products have been bought and sold very much, and the UK can easily balance Sino-British trade. It can also put a large part of China's oil lifeline in the hands of the British.

Commercial negotiations on the DPRK issue are in full swing and are proceeding quite smoothly. However, there has been no progress on the issue of North Korea, which is nominally the core issue of convening this meeting.

The representative of Japan openly demanded that all countries work together to extinguish the Korean rebellion and hand over the "Korean rebels" to Japan for disposal. The representatives of the United States continued to embarrass the Japanese by raising the issue that Japan was going to kill all the Koreans. Naturally, the Japanese side tried to refute it vigorously and tried to tell the participating countries that this was a rumor.

The representatives of the DPRK were finally given the opportunity to speak, and they presented a large amount of evidence that Japan was deliberately killing the Koreans. From the death mines in northern Korea, to the mass massacre of Koreans in Japan. Of course, North Korea did not forget to prove that the Japan-South Korea merger treaty itself was a hoax. The signatories were not the kings of Joseon at all, but the treaties signed by the ministers below.

Speaking of sadness, the representative of the DPRK could not help but cry. The cry of grief was contagious.

Finally, the British side argued that the matter could not be resolved in the form of national self-determination. Japan can guarantee absolute goodwill to Korea, but countries cannot intervene to divide Japan's inherent territory.

"Inherent territory?" The representative of the Soviet Union gave a heavy snort. During the period of Tsarist Russia, Russia also intervened in Korea, and even gained great benefits. So the representative of the USSR simply asked, in a mocking tone: "What period of the inherent territory is it?" ”