When Chiang Kai-shek stepped off the plane, the airport was extremely deserted, and only Bai Sitong, who had arrived early, and a few people greeted him at the airport, and now Iran is an independent country, but China has no diplomatic relations with Iran. Before the outbreak of the war, Iran, like China, had good relations with Germany, and the king of Iran supported Germany, and after the outbreak of World War II, the king of Iran was ready to join the side of the Entente to fight, and Soviet Russia and Britain invaded Iran at the same time with the north and south, expelled the king of Iran, and set up the king's son Pahlavi as the new king. However, the Allies were not at ease with Iran, Britain occupied southern Iran, Soviet Russia occupied northern Iran, and Tehran was effectively under British control.

In the face of such a deserted scene, Chiang Kai-shek was slightly stunned, and Bai Sitong came over and whispered to him that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin had arrived, and Roosevelt got off the plane and stayed in the Soviet Russian Embassy, but he invited Chiang Kai-shek to live in the American Embassy.

When Chiang Kai-shek heard that Roosevelt had moved into the Soviet Russian Embassy, he invited himself to live in the American Embassy, and he couldn't help but wonder a little. Bai Sitong immediately explained that the Soviet Russian side had intelligence that Hitler had sent assassins to assassinate the heads of the four countries in Tehran.

"Is there such a thing?" Chiang Kai-shek was somewhat surprised that China did not have such intelligence, but China's overseas intelligence agencies were weak, and the tentacles of military command had only just extended to Southeast Asia.

Bai Sitong smiled bitterly, he also asked the British for verification, and the British were also inexplicable, or in Churchill's words, Uncle Joseph won the first round.

Although they were mentally prepared for the difficulties of the Tehran Conference, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling still did not expect that the situation would be so serious when they first set foot on Tehran soil.

Chiang Kai-shek took off from Chongqing as planned, but when he was in India, he was delayed for two more days, and he waited for two more days in order to wait for Gandhi, who was dealing with religious disputes in Mumbai.

The group got into a car sent by the U.S. Embassy and drove towards the U.S. Embassy. Along the way, Chiang Kai-shek observed the buildings in Tehran very carefully, and found that the buildings in Tehran were very messy, the city was full of beggars, and there was a lot of garbage on the streets, which was far inferior to Chongqing.

"Chairman, madam, the meeting lasts for four days," Bai Sitong sat in the passenger seat, turned his head, and said to Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling: "The first meeting tomorrow morning will mainly discuss the affairs of the European battlefield, according to the agreement in advance, we will not participate in this meeting, and the afternoon will be the second meeting to discuss the war situation in the Far East and the post-war planning in the Far East." ”

After the first day of the meeting, the second day was devoted to discussing the European battlefield, the third day was to discuss the maintenance of post-war international peace and the formation of the United Nations, and on the morning of the fourth day, the war situation in the Far East and the post-war situation in the Far East were discussed.

Chiang Kai-shek breathed a sigh of relief after listening to this, judging from the arrangement of the meeting, the other three countries still attach great importance to the Far Eastern battlefield, the European battlefield is too far away from China, China does not want to and cannot interfere in Europe, but the Far East is closely related to China, and every step taken by Soviet Russia in the Far East may be an infringement on China's interests.

Chiang Kai-shek's motorcade passed through the streets of Tehran, and Roosevelt was in the small garden in the backyard of the Russian Embassy, somewhat lazily enjoying the sea breeze and the lazy sun from the Red Sea. Stalin walked through the porch.

Stalin today wears the generalissimo of the Soviet Union's rattle uniform, wears a Lenin Medal and a Labor Medal on his chest, and a pair of long boots at his feet. Holding his pipe in his left hand, Stalin walked slowly to Roosevelt's side.

"Mr. President, how was your rest last night?" Stalin leaned forward slightly and stretched out his hand to Roosevelt.

"Good, thank you very much." Roosevelt smiled and took Stalin's hand, and Stalin sat down next to Roosevelt, and then habitually lit his pipe.

"Mr. President, we have no information about German spies." Roosevelt said with a smile.

"What, you don't believe it?" Stalin was slightly surprised.

"No, no, I think the Soviet Union, which has won a victory like Kursk, deserves the respect of the President of the United States," Roosevelt's expression remained relaxed: "I mean, in fact, I've already lived here." ”

"Fascist Germany suffered a great defeat at Kursk," Stalin did not continue to explain, but instead followed Roosevelt's words: "Hitler, however, was still very strong; According to our intelligence, Hitler transferred his elite troops in France to the Eastern Theater, the French defense line was very empty, and if the Allies opened a second battlefield in France at this time, it would definitely accelerate the defeat of fascist Germany. ”

"Landing in France is what I have always advocate, and we are here for this purpose." Roosevelt did not say anything to death, during the Battle of Kursk, the Allies landed in Sicily, Italy, conquered Sicily, Mussolini's government collapsed, and the new Italian Prime Minister Badoglio secretly contacted the Allies to negotiate an armistice.

In view of this, the Allies landed in southern Italy immediately after occupying Sicily, and on September 3, the Italian government signed an armistice, and the British Eighth Army forced its way across the Strait of Messina and landed on the Apennine Peninsula that night; On September 8, Eisenhower and Badoglio simultaneously announced an Italian armistice by radio, and on September 9, the Anglo-American allies landed in Salerno and marched to the west coast of Italy, occupying Naples in one fell swoop. The German army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately disarmed the Italian army and occupied Rome, and the Italian royal family and government fled from Rome in a hurry.

Then, on the 13th, Hitler sent paratroopers to rescue Mussolini, and Mussolini immediately established a new Italian government in northern Italy, calling on the Italian people and the fascists to continue fighting. Badoglio, on the other hand, established a government in southern Italy and announced that he would join the Allied side in the war against Germany, and the governments of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union immediately issued a statement recognizing Italy as a common fighting party.

After Italy withdrew from the war, the military operations of the allies in Italy did not go well, Italy is a gentle country in the south and mountainous in the north, the German army has long been aware that the Badoglio government is secretly making peace, and has long been prepared for this, Hitler transferred eight divisions from France and the mainland, plus eight divisions originally in Italy, a total of sixteen divisions, commanded by Air Marshal Catherine, to establish the Gustav Line in central Italy to block the Allies from moving north.

The shortest route from the Atlantic to Berlin was France, which both Stalin and Roosevelt understood, and for several years, Stalin repeatedly demanded that the Allies land in France, but Churchill was against it; Churchill, on the contrary, proposed the Balkan strategy, believing that the Allies should land in the Balkans and penetrate the German mainland from the soft underbelly of Europe.

However, Stalin and Roosevelt were equally aware that Churchill's strategy was not so much about fighting the German army as it was about post-war Europe. Churchill's aim was to preemptively occupy the Balkans, cut off the road for Soviet Russia to rush to Europe, and prevent Soviet Russia's expansion in Europe.

Stalin did not say anything about this strategy, and Roosevelt's attitude was ambiguous, and when Churchill and Stalin exchanged telegrams and argued, he stepped in as a peacemaker, first conquering North Africa and the Mediterranean coast, and sweeping the periphery of Europe. Now the question is in front of him, and it can no longer be avoided.

Now Roosevelt showed his attitude that he was in favor of landing in France, but Stalin did not think it would be that simple. Roosevelt puffed out a puff of smoke, and then asked: "Chairman Chiang Kai-shek has also arrived today, the Far East battlefield has been going well recently, the Chinese army has reached North China, the Soviet army has also recovered Ulaanbaatar, and the Chinese army has formed a flank attack on the Japanese army in North China, Mr. President, what is your next battle plan in the Far East?" ”

Stalin hummed lightly, did not answer immediately, but took a puff of cigarette first, and he had an unforgettable memory of Chiang Kai-shek, a man who had played him once more than ten years ago and almost lost him in an argument with Trotsky, which was his greatest crisis since becoming general secretary of the CPSU.

However, after 918, the relationship between the two countries improved significantly, as an excellent politician put that unpleasant past behind, the Japanese army invaded China and Soviet Russia, the two countries quickly improved, in order to support the Soviet Russian battlefield, Chiang Kai-shek ordered an attack on the Japanese army, effectively contained the Japanese army, which made Stalin particularly grateful.

Thankfully, with the decline of the Japanese army, Stalin clearly felt China's ambitions, and the official mouthpiece of China openly declared that he would take back all the land lost at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and Stalin certainly understood that China lost not only the Penghu Islands in Taiwan at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but also the more than one million square kilometers of land ceded by Tsarist Russia, and Mongolia that has not yet been recognized. These statements aroused great alarm in Stalin.

"Although our main battlefield is in Hitler's Germany," Stalin pondered, "but the Russian army will attack the Japanese in Mongolia and the Stanov Mountains, and the time of the attack is set for next spring, and this attack will certainly deal a heavy blow to the Japanese army." ”

Seeing Stalin going around in circles, Roosevelt smiled slightly: "China and Soviet Russia will be an important guarantee of post-war peace in the Far East, I want to know, what do you think about the post-war Far East?" ”

Stalin looked up at Roosevelt solemnly: "Mr. President, Russia has great strategic interests in the Far East, we hope that the Mongolian people can gain independence, we support the Korean people to regain their independence by the fate of enslavement, in addition, Russia should recover the four northern islands and the southern part of Sakhalin Island that were lost in the Russo-Japanese War, and finally, as the victorious power, Russia should have the right to garrison troops in Japan." ”

When he said this, Stalin kept staring at Roosevelt's face, China, the United States and Britain met in Cairo, they definitely discussed the post-war Far East issue, but the news from the United States did not seem to be unfavorable to Soviet Russia, but Stalin did not believe it.

Seeing that Roosevelt did not say anything, Stalin pressed: "According to the decision of the Cairo Conference, Korea will become independent after the war, and Taiwan's Penghu Ryukyu will be recovered by China, I don't know if Mr. Chiang Kai-shek has any other demands." ”

Roosevelt did not answer Stalin directly, but continued to ask: "Does your country have any claims for the Northeast region, that is, the Manchuria region that Japan calls it?" ”

"The Northeast should be returned to China, it is Chinese territory, but Russia also has important interests there." Stalin thought for a moment and said that Stalin was impressed by the battles shown by the Chinese army in the past two years, and for the sake of post-war relations between China and the Soviet Union, Stalin intended to give up the right to the northeast, including the Middle East Road.

Here we must explain the Middle East Road, which refers to the main line of the Middle East Railway from Manchuria through Harbin to Suifenhe, which was built by Tsarist Russia in the late Qing Dynasty using the secret agreement between China and Russia. After the establishment of the Soviet government, Soviet Russia agreed to jointly manage the Middle East Road with China, and transferred the local administrative, judicial, and taxation rights along the railway line to China, but it withheld telegraphs, astronomy, schools, and other organizations.

It must be explained here that in those years, foreign railways built in China were not only the two tracks and the trains on them, but also a series of rights such as local administrative power, exploration rights, public security rights, tax collection rights, and garrison rights in the surrounding areas of the railways, and the railways became a powerful tool for various countries to invade China.

After the Soviet Union and Russia seized these organizations, many disputes arose between China and the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the Middle East Road War, the Northeast Army suffered a crushing defeat, and then the two sides signed the Boli Agreement, through which the Soviet Union and Russia took back almost all the original powers.

After the 918 Incident, Soviet Russia signed an agreement with Japan and the puppet Manchukuo in 1935 to sell the Middle East Road to Manchukuo for 140 million yen.

Stalin also made up his mind when he came to Tehran this time, and the bottom line of Soviet Russia was Mongolian independence, taking back the four northern islands and the southern part of Sakhalin, and as for the northeast, this was a good bargaining chip.

Roosevelt nodded silently, feeling a little bottom in his heart, at this meeting, China and the Soviet Union will have a fierce conflict in the northeast and Mongolia, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the competition between Britain and the Soviet Union on the second battlefield.

"I have noticed that Cairo is preaching, agreeing that Taiwan, Penghu, Ryukyu and other places will be returned to China, and the Northeast will also be returned to China, and we support this propaganda." Stalin also had a bottom in his mind, and in Cairo, China must have raised some information that the United States had not reported, and this situation must have something to do with the interests of Soviet Russia, so he asked tentatively: "But, Mr. President, what do you think about the post-war Far East?" ”

Roosevelt smiled slightly, took off the cigarette holder, squinted his eyes and said slowly: "I think that peace in the Far East after the war should be based on the establishment of mutual cooperation and unity among the allies, in the post-war garrison of Japan, General Chiang Kai-shek has a suggestion, China, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union each occupy an island, the United States is responsible for occupying Honshu, China is responsible for Kyushu, Britain is responsible for the four countries, and your country is responsible for Hokkaido and the four northern islands, what do you think about this proposal?" ”

Stalin was stunned, this was the first time he had heard of this content, and it was not included in the content of the Cairo conference reported by the United States. He quickly pondered the meaning of Roosevelt's words.

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