64 Praying Mantis Catching Cicadas (6)
In the era of industrialization, Taiwan was very important to China's geographical location. If Taiwan is possessed, the Chinese navy will be able to enter and exit the Pacific Ocean at any time, and Japan's southward sea passage will also be blocked by China. The so-called maritime alliance of Japan, Great Britain and the Netherlands turned into a joke in an instant.
There are two sides to everything, and China's seizure of Taiwan has brought about all the changes in the situation in the western Pacific. The U.S. is the biggest variable here. The United States has been trying to break up the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and after China recaptured Taiwan, the Anglo-Japanese alliance existed in name only, and Taiwan and the Philippines cut off the British and Japanese maritime echoes.
The contradictions are constantly transforming, and the contradictions between the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the United States are likely to change from the main contradiction of the United States in the western Pacific to a secondary contradiction. What options will the United States have in the face of China, an increasingly powerful power in the Western Pacific? As the world's largest industrial country, the United States is now plagued by an economic crisis and domestic isolationism. However, this is only an internal reason why the United States does not want to participate in world changes, and it does not mean that the United States is incapable of participating in world changes.
A change in strategy can be understood by looking at the map. Regarding the attitude towards the United States, the Politburo wondered why Chen Ke looked down on the British so much. In this era, Britain was still the world hegemon, and the United States was only one of the great powers. For Chen, to put it in foul language, "You're a bird!" ”
At a time when Chen Ke was born, China had no tradition of looking down on the British, and the British were never able to influence the existence of a threat to China when Chen Ke was growing up. At this point, it took Chen years to develop the idea that China and Britain were real neighbors.
Chamberlain back then was definitely not a fool who was deceived. It was clear to the British upper echelons that as soon as the Second World War began, Britain would win or lose, and the hegemony of the British Empire would end. So Chamberlain, who adopted a policy of appeasement, returned to London and received unanimous praise. As for Churchill, it was just that he was blown so high after the victory, and it really followed Churchill's hardline policy of "even if the last Indian dies, the British Empire will not give in" from the beginning, and Britain will definitely die a miserable death.
In 1933, China's crude steel production would exceed 30 million tons, while the Americans produced more than 40 million tons of crude steel in 1916. Chen Ke knew that in 1944, the United States would easily produce more than 80 million tons of steel. China's current iron ore exploration and development capacity can reach the level of 60 million tons.
If China can comprehensively change the situation in the Western Pacific, there is no reason why the United States should not have other ideas. Isolationism sounds scary, but as long as there are enough interests, the American capitalists are not incapable of changing this trend. So Chen Ke never cared what happened to the British, and whatever happened to the British, they would be finished. And the Americans are completely different, the Yankees are really powerful, just waiting for an opportunity.
The Japanese comrades of the People's Party did not care what the British thought at this time, nor did they care what the Americans thought. Their goals are all focused on what China is going to do with Japan. From 1905 to 1933, the Japanese cadres in the People's Party included the political commissar of the garrison, the minister of agriculture, and even the provincial governor. These nearly 60-year-old men first joined the Chinese revolution 28 years ago. Now some of the grandchildren have been embraced, and some comrades have even died of natural old age, but the original intention at that time, the goal of liberating Japan, still seemed to be far away.
These people are all mixed in the middle and high-level levels, and of course they are well aware of the recent situation, and China is determined to solve the Japanese problem. But to what extent does this have to be solved? The idea of the old men, of course, was to liberate all of Japan and establish a Japanese People's Republic. However, from a strategic point of view, China may not be willing to fight such an all-out war. Therefore, the Japanese comrades, headed by the political commissar of the garrison, Hitoshi Kuroshima, formally submitted a request to the Party Central Committee, hoping to solve the Japanese problem.
On behalf of the Japanese comrades, Hitoshi Kuroshima proposed the liberation of Japan, the establishment of a republic, and the joining of the subsequent establishment of the Western Pacific Socialist Grand Alliance. This is exactly in line with the ideas of the original Japanese comrades.
Chen Ke raised several questions: first, did China enter Japan as a liberator or as a coercion? Second, the People's Party stresses seeking truth from facts, and if it wants to eradicate the Japanese feudal system, how many people does it have to kill?
This is a very real problem, the Chinese People's Revolution has been going on for almost 30 years, and Chen Ke talks every day every year, which can be regarded as constructing an understanding of the feudal system in the thinking of the Chinese. Anti-feudalism has a system of theory and practice. In Japan, where industrialization and feudalism are closely integrated, and there are a lot of elements of capitalist industrial operation, a stormy revolution would really be a big deal.
It is true that revolution is not a dinner party, and the purpose of revolution is not to completely exterminate the "bad guys" physically. What kind of structure and relationship the post-war socialist alliance will be is a big question. At the same time, the post-war territorial division, and the contradictions that inevitably erupted, were also tricky.
"We in China do not want to be the emperor of Japan, and I think Japanese comrades can definitely understand this." Chen Ke said seriously to a group of Japanese comrades who could not see any difference from the Chinese at all.
With China's attitude toward the DPRK, the Japanese comrades can certainly understand this. Since the liberation of Korea, China has not interfered in the internal affairs of the DPRK. In addition to taking the initiative to help North Korea establish a household registration system under the modern industrial model, and some help in forming an army, North Korea is in charge of its own affairs. Based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, China and North Korea have established a new relationship that is different from the old tributary system.
Japan is unlikely to follow this old path. Without China, there would be no independence for the DPRK, and the DPRK is willing to draw closer to China and learn from China. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army entered Japan, killed a large number of Japanese, and then presented itself as a liberator. Such an idea is nondescript no matter how you look at it. What the Japanese people need is to improve the current state of suffering, what they need is raw materials, the market, not to reflect on how they have suffered from the poison of the feudal system. This is just like the people of Anhui in China throwing themselves into the revolution, and they can't live anymore anyway, and since they are all dead, it is not inconceivable to follow the People's Party.
If we consider it from this angle, the Japanese comrades cannot but admit that the Chinese people are really great enough. Much of the oppression that the Japanese are accustomed to is unbearable in the eyes of the Chinese people. Thousands of years ago, there was a sentence "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning?" This has completely opened a new chapter in Chinese cultural thought. However, Japan's envoys to the Tang Dynasty failed to turn the imperial examination system into Japan's national policy.
But Chen Ke's wisdom seemed almost endless to the Japanese comrades, and they frankly asked Chen Ke what he thought.
"I think Japan can build a socialist country with Japanese characteristics." Chen Ke gave the answer. Just like the People's Party's recent incessant struggle in Jiangsu, while maintaining an all-round military superiority, the People's Party has launched an all-round struggle in accordance with the needs of the people of Jiangsu and the actual situation in Jiangsu. At present, a quarter of the members of the Jiangsu parliament are members of the Jiangsu People's Party branch or members who stand with the People's Party. In the struggle between politics and economics, many changes that were not previously thought of are taking place. The propertied classes are not useless, especially those who realize that feudalism is unreliable, and when they evolve into the higher spheres of capitalism, there are quite a few people who show a very high level of labor. For example, the garment industry, the footwear industry, the catering industry, and so on.
Kuroshima Ren deserved to be the political commissar, and he quickly figured out the key to the matter, "So what does Chairman Chen mean to get Japan to agree to the legalization of the communist party after taking out Japan's military forces, and use the universal suffrage system that Japan has now established to transform Japan in a long-term struggle?" ”
"It's better than killing millions of people all the way in Japan. We are revolutionaries, we are not executioners. Chen Ke replied.
Hearing this, it took a lot of effort for Kuroshima Ren to keep up with Chen Ke's mentality. This is a difficult thing to say, although the BJP did not kill millions at once, but the total number of killings added up to several millions. However, if you look at this problem from Chen Ke's mentality and thinking, every killing is "punishing the former and the latter, treating the disease and saving people". It belongs to the category of making rules. Just like in the implementation of the "Marriage Law" that ended not long ago, those who killed women who wanted to divorce, whether they were the woman's husband, husband's family, or mother's family, were all sentenced or executed for homicide.
The state is an instrument of class control, and the judiciary is the violent organ of the state, and these violent organs are the organs that use violence to establish that the will of the ruling class can be carried out smoothly. Although the ruling class of New China is the working people and the majority, the violent organs that represent the interests of the majority are still violent organs.
Looking at the pensive appearance of the Japanese comrades, Chen Ke said: "Comrades, many people who participated in the revolution believe that through the revolution, it is necessary to establish a system that will last for thousands of generations, and to establish a system that is absolutely correct and absolutely just. We can understand this revolutionary passion, but this idea is clearly inconsistent with the attitude of historical materialism. The future is definitely not a simple repetition of the past, we open our eyes every day to a new world. The capitalist system that Marx had seen, criticized, and praised was finished after the Great Depression. In order to survive, capitalism itself must continue to develop, and in the end, the capitalist system itself will completely bury the feudal system. What we want to oppose and eradicate now is the feudal system. It's those things that draw the ground as a dungeon. ”
Chen Ke has never been hesitant to sing praises to the capitalist system, and he originally thought that as a traverser, he should have a world-leading vision. Now he practiced, thought about it, and then realized that the world was really interesting. In the past, Chen Ke had read books written by hardcore believers in the capitalist system, in which he criticized the American system as nonsense, believing that the United States had completely fallen into the trap of crony capitalism. Now Chen Ke thinks that it may be called feudal capitalism, that is, what the Americans themselves call the "blue-blooded aristocracy" system. The book argues that neither pure capitalism nor pure communism (socialism) will have any interest in monetary policy. The capitalist system cherishes money and refuses to issue money indiscriminately, while communism does not look down on money at all, so it will not consider any policy of indiscriminate issuance of money.
The 50s and 60s in the United States were truly glorious times. At that time, the status of laborers was very high, and if they had a job, they worked hard and worked hard, that was their social status. In those days, the children of the wealthy also went to public schools, and they never proclaimed that they were rich, and like the children of ordinary laborers, they studied, worked, earned, and lived. Without a job, just thinking about speculation is an act that falls into the category of shame.
This ethos reached its peak in the era of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for space development, when workers and technicians associated with the space industry secretly climbed over the wall and returned to the factory after work, and continued to work secretly for a few hours without pay. At that time, the United States was really strong and glorious enough.
That's why U.S. President John F. Kennedy dared to say that passage full of deception, full of the ruling class letting the ruled class die, and that passage can become a famous saying in the United States.
"So, fellow citizens: ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
Citizens of the world: Ask not what the United States is willing to do for you, but what we can do together for human freedom.
Finally, whether you are a citizen of the United States or a citizen of another country in the world, please hold us to the high standards of strength and sacrifice that we demand from you. Our only sure reward is a clear conscience, and the final judge of our actions is history, let us guide forward our beloved land for God's blessing and support, but we know that in this world, God's task must be our own task. ”
Of course, Kuroshima didn't know what Kennedy, who no longer wears open crotch pants, would say in 30 years, and he didn't know or care at all that there was such an American with the surname Kennedy. He is concerned about the future of Japan, "Chairman Chen, that is to say, the next steps are divided into three parts: first, to eliminate the Combined Fleet; 2. Forcing the Japanese authorities to sign the alliance under the castle; 3. Victory of the Socialist Revolution through Struggle with Military Superiority? ”
Chen Ke smiled: "It's almost, but I still say that it's not the revolutionaries who create the revolution, but the people who need the revolution." I believe that the Japanese people need to emancipate themselves. ”
Finally persuaded the Japanese party members, Chen Ke held another meeting in the Politburo. After the liberation of Taiwan, the situation will certainly be different. The liberation of Taiwan was not the end of China's foreign wars, but the beginning. After such a war, what influence will China have in the international community?
Once China is truly targeted in the Western Pacific, its future strategy will have to be completely changed. For the iron man of the Soviet Union, Chen Ke has full trust. Chen Ke firmly believes that Uncle Iron Man will never sacrifice the slightest interest of the Soviet Union and sell his teammates, and Uncle Iron Man is very high. Based on this trust, there was no need to count on the help of the Soviet Union when China was under siege by the world. It is indeed too difficult to confront the world with the strength of China alone.
Chen Ke himself feels that his attitude is very scientific and calm. However, this scientific and sober attitude brought a lot of frightening to ordinary Politburo comrades. Chen Ke has always liked to say that the world is uncontrollable. However, in terms of international strategy, Chen Ke actually wanted to completely control the enemy. This is not even the level of anticipating the enemy's aircraft first, but an attitude of wanting to take full control. Reflecting on the path of the People's Party, without Chen Ke's unusually comprehensive strategic concept of control, the People's Party would never have come this point easily.
As for the other 11 people involved in the China-Australia strategy, knowing that 30 years ago, Chen Ke was still a hairy boy in his early 20s, and he already had a grander strategic concept, and they didn't even feel frightened. Now that China has come this far, it can go as far as it wants. Everyone knows very well that what Chen Ke wants to do is only to let the Politburo loose and let the comrades of the Politburo be mentally prepared before the situation changes.
On June 1, 1933, a small unit of submarine forces was ready to set sail. Mi Feng was transferred to the commander of the Fujian Military Region at this time, and he personally practiced it for his comrades. Alcohol is strictly forbidden inside the submarine. Hundreds of comrades used tea instead of wine.
"After arriving in Taiwan, the comrades who are already in Taiwan will receive everyone. Fighting is dangerous and cruel, comrades should be mentally prepared for this! When everyone comes back, I'll invite everyone to drink! ”
"Give everything for the cause of China's liberation!" The commandos replied in unison. The mobilization meeting has been held many times a long time ago, and there is no need for Commander Mi Feng to stress what kind of situation everyone will face.
The commander and the commandos raised their teacups and drank the top-notch Fujian tea in one gulp, and someone took the lead and broke the teacup on the ground. Immediately, a series of teacups broke from the concrete-laid military dock. With the determination to go and never return, the troops lined up and boarded the submarine moored in the harbor without looking back.
The combined fleet of the Japanese Navy had already returned to Kure Harbor from the port of Keelung, Taiwan, at this time, and the fleet stationed in Taiwan did not relax its daily patrols in the slightest. If the Chinese fleet were to force its way through the Taiwan Strait, such a strait would not be able to stop the Chinese landing force. Japan is thousands of kilometers away from Taiwan, but it cannot always be stationed in Taiwan, so it can only come to Taiwan from time to time every year.
The use of submarines by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to transport personnel is also a matter of no choice. In recent years, China has repeatedly transported personnel to Taiwan, which has aroused great alarm in Japan, and the density of maritime patrols has increased. Only submarines can quietly and unobtrusively approach Taiwan and send personnel to the island of Taiwan.
In order to cooperate with this operation, the task force of the People's Navy did not disband after returning from the Netherlands, but appeared in the northeast waters of Taiwan. The movement of the fleet immediately aroused the alarm of the Japanese, who, in addition to issuing a heightened alert, hurriedly transferred a ship defending the southeast of Taiwan to the northeast to strengthen the vigilance of the Chinese navy. At the same time, the United Fleet, which has returned to Japan, will be informed of this latest situation.
The submarine unit relied on sonar to search and successfully put the unit down in southern Taiwan.
On June 5, the whole world received a telegram in clear code. The content of the telegram was that the people of Taiwan wanted to shake off Japan's colonial rule and return to China. Such a message from the international public channel did not provoke a special response.
At 3:40 a.m. on June 6, the lights on the Fujian airport suddenly brightened. A large number of planes that had been prepared for a long time slowly drove onto the runway, and dozens of of them were particularly eye-catching. Groups of infantry began to board from the assembly area in an orderly manner. As soon as boarding was complete, the cabin door closed. The plane's four large propellers immediately began to rotate, and under the strong thrust, the plane began to move forward along the long runway that seemed to have no end in sight, and finally the nose of the plane was pulled up, the tires of the landing gear broke away from contact with the ground, and the huge plane flew into the air, heading eastward, towards the south of Taiwan.