Chapter 269: Burma Border Demarcation Negotiations

The Kokang Kingdom of Burma soon made contact with the British colonial government, and the Kokang Kingdom proposed to the Burmese colonial government that Britain must completely withdraw from Burma in order to make the Burmese people read before they could release the captured British troops.

The British colonial regime in Burma tried to temporarily divide the border and wait for the mainland to withdraw from the war before launching a full-scale counteroffensive against the Kokang Kingdom.

It was impossible for the European colonial powers to abandon the great colonies.

In this era, the international national reading power is not strong, and the international capital has not begun to support the reading power doctrine, which makes the colonial reading power seem very ridiculous.

However, the capture of nearly 6,000 native British soldiers in the hands of the Kokang Kingdom made the Burmese colonial authorities very hesitant.

Of course, reading power is no problem.

The Burmese colonial authorities rejected the demands of the readers, and instead made demands for the Jesa area.

The Jesha region is located in the northern part of Burma, some distance from the rich river valley region, and the Kokang kingdom actually controlled more than that.

After demarcating the border, the Kokang Kingdom also put forward the requirements of the painting world, which must be bounded by the Eastern Branch, and the north of the horizontal line from east to west belongs to the territory of the Kokang Kingdom, while the southern part is British.

There was no room for change in this boundary for the Kokang Kingdom, as it was only from Taunggyi that one could obtain a port to the sea in western Burma.

As long as there is a port, it is a very good and important link for the Kokang Kingdom itself and for China.

With Myanmar's ports, there is no need to worry about the Strait of Malacca being blocked.

Of course, at this time, the Chinese Navy had already sailed to the naval base on the island of Sumatra and was ready for combat at any time to protect the smooth passage of the Strait of Malacca.

From this point of view, in terms of transportation alone, as long as the railways in the southwest provinces are connected with Myanmar, they can be transported to the port quickly, and exports to Europe can be reduced by a long distance.

The Burmese colonial government did not respond to this request of the Kokang Kingdom, but the Kokang Kingdom did not sit idle, and after bypassing the mountains from the river valley, the Kokang Defense Forces and administrators came to the mountainous region of southeastern Burma, with Taunggyi as the economic center, half the size of Yunnan, and across the border was Pu'er County, Yunnan.

The Kokang Kingdom intended to establish another base here, and the northeastern part of Myanmar also bordered China, which could easily receive domestic support.

Moreover, this is a mountainous area, suitable for fighting the British army, and if the British army wants to exterminate the Kokang Wehrmacht in the mountains, it is basically a joke.

At this time, the strategy of the Kokang kingdom was to occupy the northern and northeastern mountains first, and then rely on the motherland with these two mountains, and then expand into the valleys of Burma, so as to be invincible.

The authorities of Pu'er and Lincang counties in Yunnan also received orders from their superiors after the Kokang Kingdom made a decision, and mobilized the people to rush to Burma to repair roads, and the wages were all good.

…… The Burmese colonial authorities did not reply, and it turned out that the British political axe was trying to use diplomatic means to get China to intervene in the Burmese problem.

The British Embassy's special ambassador, Zhu Erdian, handed over a note to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, demanding that the Chinese political axe immediately stop the exchange of fire between the Kokang Kingdom and the British colonial authorities in Burma and release the prisoners.

Britain is indeed right, the Kokang Kingdom is actually an armed group under China's orders, but the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said that the conflict in Myanmar has nothing to do with China and that mediation is not China's responsibility.

China has flatly denied everything that Britain has put forward in relation to the Burma conflict, and Britain has nothing to do about it, and China is now clear that it wants to take advantage of the fire.

Now it is difficult for Britain to offend China, especially when China has the ability to trade with Germany, if China turns to Germany, it will be a terrible disaster for Britain.

China has a population of 400 million at this time, and its war potential is terrifying.

Tsarist Russia, with a population of 170 million alone, can pull up more than 16 million troops, so can China pull up 40 million troops?

In terms of the current level of development of China's military industry, coupled with its advanced agricultural technology, it is fully capable of embarking on a very terrifying route of expansion.

Britain was still reluctant to stir China's nerves at this time, so after a period of fruitless bargaining, the British political axe finally put down its posture and asked China to mediate the conflict in Burma.

In this way, the Chinese political axe agreed to mediate.

Under the mediation of the Chinese political axe, the Burmese colonial authorities and representatives of the Kokang Kingdom finally sat down at the negotiating table.

The two sides engaged in a heated debate on how to demarcate the border and govern the country.

The Kokang Kingdom proposed that Burma belonged to the Burmese people since ancient times, not to the British colonial authorities, and that the British colonial authorities should withdraw from Burma and let the Burmese people read.

To this day, the Burmese colonial authorities did not understand that the core component of the Kokang Kingdom was actually the Han Chinese, and thought that it was simply the 'Burmese people'.

In order to be able to achieve the predetermined effect, the Kokang Kingdom naturally shouted the conditions to the top.

The Burmese colonial authorities threatened that if the Kokang Kingdom continued its military operations, the British would soon send a large army to destroy the Burmese Kingdom.

The Burmese colonial authorities quickly paid the price for the threat, and the Kokang kingdom withdrew outright from the negotiations.

Three days later, the Kokang National Defense Force launched a tidal offensive, and the besieged 50,000 British troops were soon drowned in the 'sea of the Burmese People's War'.

Seeing that the reinforcements were delayed, the 50,000 British troops held out for a day and then officially surrendered.

At this time, more than 12,000 British native soldiers were captured by the Kokang Defense Force, and nearly 40,000 Indian Asan were captured.

As for the Burmese indigenous army, they were quickly rebelled after being captured and joined the 'sea of the Burmese people's war'.

After the surrender of the British, the Kokang Wehrmacht captured a large number of heavy weapons.

The Kokang Wehrmacht immediately sent an order back to the country, which required all the ammunition needed for the British army's heavy weapons.

At this time, the Chinese Empire's political axe was not good enough to directly give advanced heavy weapons to the Kokang Defense Force, but now that a large number of British heavy weapons have been captured, the Empire only needs to provide ammunition.

The ammunition is not simple, Xia Jun exchanged a large number of British standard ammunition from the exchange platform, and let people send it to Myanmar quickly.

With these heavy weapons, the Tatmadaw will be able to carry out larger-scale offensive operations.

The Chinese Imperial Government can only express regret at the breakdown of the negotiations, but it has not fulfilled the procedures that a mediator should do.

Britain saw some clues in it.

This Kokang kingdom is very much like China in diplomatic negotiations, and the same is true in diplomatic negotiations in East China, where it plays the military card if it can't be negotiated.

For a qualified politician, the military is the last trump card.

When it can be resolved in a political way, try to solve it in a political way.

The kind of country that uses force at every turn is a very dangerous and impulsive country in their eyes, and China is a very impulsive country.

Xia Jun has been listed as a dangerous political figure in various countries, and the devil knows what kind of behavior this young man will do.

In the eyes of politicians around the world, this young man has shown a very strong territorial expansion**, which has been difficult to curb since the Sino-Chinese war.

First Ben suffered, then Holland suffered, and now England suffered.

However, the conflict in the British colony of Burma was one of indigenous rebels, and before the outside world knew anything about the Kokang royal family, the Kokang people, it was thought that this might be China's intention to prop up a pro-China state on the China Peninsula.

As for who will suffer next, everyone understands, and that is Tsarist Russia.

Tsarist Russia continued to expand into Asia over the centuries and signed several ceding treaties in several wars with the Qing Dynasty.

If you open the treaty, you will find that more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land in China are still occupied by Tsarist Russia.

The next to suffer must be Tsarist Russia, and at this time Tsarist Russia was caught in a war situation in Europe, and the Entente did not want to see China use force against Tsarist Russia, so as not to affect the war against the Central Powers.

However, with the current momentum of China's development, the only way to avoid a war with Tsarist Russia is for Tsarist Russia to take the initiative to cede and occupy China's territory.

China is a ticking time bomb at this point.

Britain is unlucky at this time, and it can't be compared with China.

The situation in Burma deteriorated again, and the 100,000 British troops failed to achieve any good results, and Britain obviously did not have the spare energy to turn Burma into a second African battlefield, so it could only ask China to mediate again.

This time, the mediation of the Chinese Empire's political axe went relatively smoothly, and the Kokang Kingdom once again attended the negotiations, and the conditions of both sides also changed.

Thanks to the 'efforts' of the Chinese Empire, the Kokang Kingdom finally agreed to the conditions for demarcation and rule, but the precondition was that Britain recognized the international legitimacy of the Kokang Kingdom. At the same time, the boundary was moved from the original Taunggyi Nam to the Nay Pyi Taw region, which is basically equivalent to taking the mountains of Myanmar and half of the river valleys of Myanmar.

This boundary seems reasonable, because the main population of Myanmar is concentrated in the river valley area, and as for the economic backwardness of the mountainous areas, there is no oil and water in the mountains for the British colonial rule, and the environment there is a terrible environment except for rainforests and swamps.

However, from the perspective of the map, it is unreasonable, and in this way, most of the country of Myanmar is given to the Kokang Kingdom, while the Burmese colonial authorities occupy only a quarter of the original one, and the other three-quarters are occupied by the Kokang Kingdom, although this quarter is the most elite area.

"Britain should respect the aspirations of the people of Burma, and every ethnic group should have the right to read." Chinese Foreign Minister Zhu Xiaocheng said at the negotiating meeting.

It is clear that China is supporting the Kokang Kingdom in the Burmese issue.

(To be continued)