Chapter Seventy-Five: The Difficult Road to Claim III
In the official residence of the President of Taiwan - Caoshan Hotel, Chiang Kai-shek, as usual, dressed in a traditional Chinese robe and horse coat, stood in front of a garden of roses in the rose garden of the official residence and looked at a plum blossom intently. Chiang Kai-shek, who had always been rigid and stalemate, loved plum blossoms and Taiwan's phalaenopsis orchids, and after being driven to this small island, he fell from the peak of China's power to the trough, and often cherished the heart of "striving for self-improvement" and "recovering the mainland". Therefore, the love of plum blossoms is more of a sense of appreciation. Although he retreated to the isolated island of Taiwan, he also compared the plum orchid to the jungle of the valley, although it was born with the wild wormwood grass, but he still did not lose the style of a humble gentleman, and the air of a noble and elegant person.
Chiang Ching-kuo walked over uncharacteristically quickly and shouted behind Chiang Kai-shek: "Father."
Chiang Kai-shek may have been too involved in watching the plum blossoms and was startled by Chiang Ching-kuo's voice, he frowned and said, "What is the matter with yelling?"
"Father, I, Kawada Lie, am here as a special envoy. Request to see you. I would like to talk to you about the relationship between China and China. Jiang Jingguo couldn't help lowering his voice and said softly.
"Oh" Chiang Kai-shek replied, pausing for a while before saying, "Why is this suddenly coming to talk about Sino-Chinese relations?" Kawada Lie said something in his words, as if [***] took the initiative to find them and said that Ben Zhengaxe wanted to talk about the peace treaty, and he came to Taiwan to report the situation to us," Xiao Jiang replied cautiously. Hmm" Chiang Kai-shek's right hand unconsciously touched his bald head. After a long time he put down his right hand and said, "I don't see you. Let Chen Cheng talk to him first and find out their true purpose." "Yes, I'll inform Chen Cheng right away" Jiang Jingguo just wanted to turn around and leave after speaking. He was stopped by Chiang Kai-shek again.
"Jingguo, is there any news on the Korean Peninsula?" Chiang Kai-shek asked with concern.
"Nope. At present, there are no major moves in [***] and joint [***], and the US troops are all south of the 37th parallel for supplementary rest. After the battle, they only moved each other and did not move forward. North and South Korea are not fighting in the 38th parallel. I have informed my Ambassador to South Korea that he will report any new information immediately. Chiang Ching-kuo replied.
Chiang Kai-shek withdrew his gaze from the flower garden, slowly turned around and asked, "How is the situation on the other side?" They expanded their airfields in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, and Qingdao, and according to our intelligence officers there, they bought some advanced MiG-15 planes from the Soviet Union in the name of the Korean War. But I don't think it will pose much of a threat to me in the short term, because training a jet pilot is not an easy task, and I don't think it will take more than a year to develop combat effectiveness. In addition to flying they used the Soviets."
Chiang Kai-shek shook his bald head and said: This kind of surname may not be big, and now the Soviet Union is too busy in Europe, so what can I do to help [***]." After speaking, he slowly walked to his study thoughtfully.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, Chen Cheng took a copy of the transcript of the meeting with the special envoy Kawada Lie that day and presented it to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chen Cheng reported to Chiang Kai-shek on the entire negotiation process today, and Kawada Lie said: [***] The side now wants to sign a peace treaty with them, and this time he came to inform us and wanted to hear our opinions. As I said, the political axe of the Republic of China represents the political axe of Chinese orthodoxy and led the eight-year war of resistance, how can you sign a peace treaty with [***]. Even if it is signed internationally, it will also recognize the legal surname of the treaty. However, this Kawada Lie said that Taiwan can only be regarded as a local political axe, not a central political axe, and China cannot sign a peace agreement between them, although we have deep feelings between us. But we have to take into account the emotions of the 470 million people on the opposite continent. If [***] is willing to waive the claim, they will have to sign a contract with [***]."" These damn people are completely robbing while the fire is burning" Chiang Kai-shek knocked lightly on the table and said angrily: "What a reason. The political axe of the Republic of China is the only legal political axe of China. For a long time, we have been repaying grievances with virtue and leniency, and they have to make inches. We want to gain greater benefits in cross-strait contradictions."
Chen Cheng hurriedly said: "The principal is wise, and the students think that this is also the purpose of Kawada Lie's trip."
Chiang Kai-shek frowned, thought for a long time, sighed deeply and said: "The [***] military threat we are facing and the abandonment of our friends, the diplomatic crisis of admitting the bandit puppet regime, and the Korean War situation is now confusing, and I can't see what the United States and [***] want to do next. It's hard!" Yes, Ben's wolf ambitions are clear, and if they sign a contract with [***], our situation will be even more difficult." Chen Cheng said. It is of little economic significance for us to give up war reparations, and we can reduce or give them up all at our discretion," Chiang Kai-shek touched his smooth head with his right hand and said: "We have taken the initiative in international relations by making peace with Yu Ben. It is conducive to international isolation**.Rhetoric you go and talk, don't lose to [***] in the political and diplomatic situation, just grasp this principle"
Kawada Lie, the special envoy of the defeated country, played Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan for more than two months. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek had to go on at his own pace. For the benefit of his own party, Chiang Kai-shek signed a contract with Yuben and renounced his claim for the war. Kawada Ryu took this and happily returned to the book.
There is a quiet and tidy alley on Foreign Affairs Street near Yanjing Jingdan. In the middle of the alley. It is located a complex of buildings with a long history, a solemn red gate, and a majestic stone lion on the left and right. The Chinese-style bungalow on the west side of the entrance is the reception room. A building with a large number of Chinese and Western walls rising upwards forms the main building, the east building. It used to be the Qing political axe's prime minister's national affairs yamen, and the Beiyang political axe's foreign ministry. It is now the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. In the negotiation hall on the east side of the main building, there are representatives of China and China sitting on the issue of war reparations, and the two sides have been arguing fiercely for two days.
According to the claim clause in the draft peace treaty drafted by the Chinese side, Li Dawei proposed that the Chinese political axe demand that the Chinese political axe immediately pay 120 billion US dollars in inter-state compensation to China and 180 billion US dollars in national compensation claims to the Chinese people. On this basis, the "Sino-Japanese Friendship Treaty" was signed with the two sides, and the two sides announced the end of the state of war and the establishment of formal diplomatic relations. In the early stage, all the equipment of the steel enterprises such as the Iron and Steel Company, the Steel Pipe Company, the Kobe Iron and Steel Company and the Kawasaki Iron and Steel Company, equivalent to 5 billion yuan, were relocated to China, Shanghai, Ma'anshan, Tangshan, Taiyuan and other shipbuilding enterprises such as Chuanqi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Shipyard in Yokohama, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company and Mitsui Shipbuilding Company, equivalent to 5 billion US dollars, and the whole was relocated to Dalian, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, and 6,000 lathes and 3,000 milling machines were dismantled in Shanghai. 3000 planers, 3000 grinders, 2000 bore machines. $200 million. Considering the problem of food for the workers of these enterprises, the Chinese government decided to hire these workers and engineering and technical personnel at high salaries. $100 per person per month, and the wages of these workers and engineering technicians are deducted from the compensation. Paid by the political axe. The Chinese political axe and the people fully consider that the food of the country is not self-sufficient, and these labor services are in China, and the Chinese political axe is responsible for food and shelter. In order to encourage the workers and engineering technicians, the Chinese government and enterprises will give them a certain amount of bonuses every month according to their work performance.
Takashima Ichiro, the representative of the negotiators, insisted that China had made compensation to China, that China had confiscated all of his property in China, and that from January 1948 to September 1949, China had sent a total of 22 ships to bring back 12,504 boxes of compensation equipment, totaling 35,912.76 tons.
The Chinese representative refuted this statement of the deputy: "The property of the Chinese government belongs to the Chinese government and the people, and cannot be counted as the property of the Chinese government. It is not even a part of this claim, just like a robber who robbed you of your things, injured your people, and after being caught, returned the stolen things to you, can this be regarded as the compensation given to you by the robbers The 35,912.76 tons of compensation equipment that were shipped back between 1948 and 1949 are worth $22.5 million. Will the $22.5 million compensate for the damage caused by Ben's 14-year aggression against China? According to the estimation of the Compensation Committee of the Kuomintang Executive Yuan at that time, China's wartime losses were no less than $62 billion at that price, and the compensation materials China received were only worth $22.5 million, accounting for only 3/10,000. Is this the whole of compensation?
According to the draft peace treaty drafted by the Chinese side, the views of the two sides are very different, and the negotiations have reached an impasse on many occasions.