Time passed quickly in the busy, less than two weeks after his wife and daughter arrived in Changchun, Han Yunhua had to go far again, this time to a place a little far, and the itinerary was relatively tight, because Han Yunhua was going to Cairo, Egypt this time -- kbook update Originally, the Central Committee planned to send Vice Chairman Zhou to attend the Cairo Conference alone, but Roosevelt and Stalin jointly invited Han Yunhua to Cairo, and the Central Committee had no choice but to send Han Yunhua to Cairo with Vice Chairman Zhou.

Originally, the Nationalist Government had a lot of opinions on the invitation of representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union to attend the Cairo Conference, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered the diplomatic department to lodge a strong protest. However, under the joint pressure of the United States and the Soviet Union, the Nationalist Government could only give in.

On February 8, 1943, Han Yunhua and his entourage arrived in Chongqing, met with Chiang Kai-shek and others, and then rushed to Cairo by special plane.

Han Yunhua was required to attend the Cairo meeting, although Han Yunhua was not on the list of personnel previously determined by the central government. On the one hand, it is because Han Yunhua himself is extremely important to the central government, and he must not allow any mistakes. On the other hand, because Han Yunhua's political immaturity also made the central government worried, this is an international political conference, although it will also be involved militarily, but the content will not be too much, so the central government does not want Han Yunhua to be stunned to Cairo to toss.

But Han Yunhua had a reason to attend the meeting, so he vaguely told Stalin and Roosevelt that he wanted to attend this meeting, and who Stalin and Roosevelt were, and soon knew Han Yunhua's plan, so there was a joint invitation to Han Yunhua to attend the meeting. This incident not only caused a huge shock in the first aspect, but also caused a certain impact on the entire allies, Han Yunhua did not arrive in Cairo, but the name has spread in Cairo.

Cairo, the capital of Egypt, straddling the Nile River, is the political, economic and commercial center of the entire Middle East. It is also the largest city in Egypt and the Arab world, and one of the oldest cities in the world.

Although it was daytime in Cairo when they arrived in Cairo, Han Yunhua and his party were still very tired, and the pick-up personnel on the Allied side also saw the thoughts of Han Yunhua and others, so they took them directly to the hotel for special reception, anyway, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill had not yet arrived, and there was no military and political official in Egypt who was worthy of the Chinese people in terms of rank.

On the afternoon of 8 February, the special planes of Stalin and others arrived one after another, and a dinner was held at 8 p.m. at the Cairo City Hall, and it was agreed that a formal meeting would be held at 8 a.m. tomorrow.

At 8 a.m. on 9 February, the Cairo meeting officially began. The first was a political conference to discuss the post-war political landscape. Before leaving, Han Yunhua and the entire ** were fully prepared, and all departments of the National Government were also fully prepared to participate in the Cairo meeting. To this end, the Counsellor's Office of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government put forward the "Draft Questions to be Raised by Our Side at the Cairo Conference," which was divided into three categories: the strategy of the counteroffensive against Japan and the institutions for discussing various issues in the Far East, the terms to be accepted in the event of Japan's unconditional surrender, and the important post-war issues. Stilwell, chief of staff of the Chinese Theater of Operations, drew up a "Proposal on the Military Aspects of the Future Conference," which included launching the Burma campaign, equipping 90 divisions of the squadron in three batches, maintaining the combat capability of the US 14th Air Force, assisting the construction of the Chinese Air Force, and sending 10 infantry divisions of the US military to fight in China. The Secretariat of the Supreme Council of National Defense has drawn up three specific plans: the "Wartime Military Cooperation Program," the "Wartime Political Cooperation Program," and the "Wartime Sino-US Economic Cooperation Program."

The meeting was divided into several stages, including Sino-US talks, Sino-Soviet talks, Sino-British talks, US-UK talks, and US-Soviet talks. Therefore, the first one to start was the Sino-British talks, and the representatives of the Sino-British talks were Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Executive Yuan and chairman of the Military Commission of the Republic of China, and president of the Executive Yuan; Zhou *lai, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee of China and Vice Chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border District Government; ** Han Yunhua, commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the British Empire. …,

The content of the Sino-British talks was very complex and sensitive, and the two sides almost collapsed from the beginning. The British delegate Judkan held that the draft declaration mentioned that all other areas occupied by Japan "should be deprived," with the exception of Manchuria, Taiwan, and Penghu, which stated that they should be "returned to the Republic of China." He suggested that, for the sake of unanimity, Manchuria, Taiwan, and Penghu should also be changed to "must be abandoned by Japan." The British are harboring evil intentions and trying to rewrite the history of carving up China once again. The representative of the Chinese government fought back, and the representative of the Nationalist Government retorted: "The whole world knows that World War II was caused by Japan's invasion of northeast China, and if the Cairo Declaration only says that Manchuria, Taiwan, and Penghu should be abandoned by Japan without saying which country should be returned, the Chinese people and the people of the world will be puzzled." ”

Deccan argued: "The words "Manchuria, Taiwan, and Peng" in the draft are already marked with the words "Japan has seized the land from China," and it is self-evident that after Japan gives up, it will be returned to China. ”

Wang Chonghui, the representative of the Chinese state, argued on the basis of reasoning and continued: "The British representative must have heard all kinds of remarks and propositions on Manchuria, Taiwan, and Pengzhou, and if the Cairo Declaration does not explicitly declare the return of these lands to China, but uses vague language, then the goal of uniting countries to fight together and fight against aggression will not be clearly reflected." The Cairo Declaration will also lose its value. ”

As a result, the British side failed to revise the substantive issue of the draft declaration, but only made some non-substantive textual changes to the US draft, and expressed this paragraph of the preliminary draft declaration as follows: "The territories stolen from China by Japan, especially Manchuria and Taiwan, should be returned to the Republic of China." In this way, the phrases "perfidy" and "as a matter of course" in the US text were deleted. Churchill himself made further changes to the text of the draft declaration, replacing the word "in particular" with the word "for example" and adding "Penghu" after the two place names "Manchuria and Taiwan."

Immediately after ** representative Han Yunhua raised the Hong Kong issue, as we all know, Hong Kong was stolen by the British from the Chinese during the two opium wars, according to the relevant provisions of the "Treaty of Nanjing" and international conventions, the lease period shall not exceed 100 years, generally 99 years, and now Hong Kong is also occupied by Japanese invaders, and there is also an army of infantry stationed on Hong Kong Island, so Han Yunhua believes that Hong Kong has no relationship with the British until now, After the war, Japan was supposed to return Hong Kong Island to China.

Churchill and other British representatives were resolutely opposed to this, believing that Hong Kong had been ceded to them by the Qing government, and that before they occupied and developed Hong Kong Island, it was a barren land, a small fishing port that could not be smaller, and now after more than 80 years of development, Hong Kong Island has become a metropolis, and the Chinese are shamelessly stealing the property of the British Empire, and they absolutely cannot agree to it.

Han Yunhua argued on the basis of reason, and like Deng Gong in the past, Han Yunhua seemed to have a sovereignty issue that could not be discussed, and Hong Kong must be returned to China. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek also thought about the ownership of Hong Kong, but he was afraid of stimulating the British, so he didn't mention it. Soon the KMT and the CCP reached a tacit understanding, and the two sides jointly forced the British to give up their dominance over Hong Kong.

For this reason, Chiang Kai-shek also specially invited President Roosevelt to seek his opinion. Roosevelt was not satisfied with Chiang Kai-shek, and the progress of the Asian war situation was obviously not in line with President Roosevelt's requirements, especially the strong rise of the Red Soviet Union, which was not in the interests of the Americans, although it was the war period, but Roosevelt had already thought about the near future. However, now the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperate, and there are strong enemies of the Japanese around, so Roosevelt still decided to support the Chinese, after all, Hong Kong is so big, Britain already has India, a colony with an area of more than 3 million square kilometers, Hong Kong, a small island with an area of only a few hundred square kilometers, has it not hurt the bones, not to mention that Hong Kong Island is still in the hands of the Japanese, in fact, the British have nothing to lose. …,

With Roosevelt's support, Churchill is obviously bottomless, and the reason why Britain has been able to support it until now is not that Britain is behind the background, but with the support of the United States, 60% of the war aid in the Lend-Lease Act of the United States was shipped to Britain, and if it were not for the assistance of the United States, Britain would have been occupied by Germany long ago.

Soon the Hong Kong issue was resolved, and Churchill agreed to give up the rule of Hong Kong Island, but asked the ** side to also transfer some troops south to participate in the Battle of Burma, which Han Yunhua agreed without thinking about it. As long as the sovereignty issue of Hong Kong is resolved, everything else will be easy.

In addition, Han Yunhua also raised some issues concerning Tibet, the most important of which was the determination of the boundary between southern Tibet and India; at this time, there was no Tibet issue, still less a boundary dispute with India; in order to avoid disputes between the two countries in the future, Han Yunhua strongly urged Britain to determine the boundary marker in southern Tibet in the near future, so as to give ownership of the 90,000 square kilometers of land in southern Tibet.

The British side did not quarrel too much with the Chinese on these issues, after all, they were all trivial matters, and it would be boring to say too much, and the British representative believed that this move was a manifestation of self-preservation that the Chinese side was afraid that the British Empire would continue to occupy their territory, which showed that the Chinese were still afraid of the British Empire in their hearts.

After the Sino-British talks, there are Sino-US talks, about the Sino-US talks originally did not need Han Yunhua to participate, especially Vice Chairman Zhou did not want Han Yunhua to be in the limelight again, Han Yunhua's performance in the Sino-British talks made Vice Chairman Zhou very dissatisfied, on the one hand, because Han Yunhua raised some irrelevant questions, but the first side had to pay the price of 50,000 elites to go south, which is obviously not cost-effective. And whether it is Hong Kong or Tibet, now all the benefits have been obtained by the national government, but it has become a big loser.

During lunch, Vice Chairman Zhou criticized Han Yunhua on this. Vice Chairman Zhou is equivalent to half a father to Han Yunhua, so his criticism Han Yunhua accepted it humbly, but he still retorted: "Regardless of whether the British return Hong Kong to the Nationalist Government or us, one thing is certain, Hong Kong is China's after the war, and this is enough." The 50,000 troops went south not only to help the British, but also to win the support of the United States and Britain and other countries if they want to develop, otherwise the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will start before the end of the civil war. We must show the British and Americans the value of the first, so that they dare not or cannot support Chiang Kai-shek in the civil war. ”

As for the Tibet issue, Han Yunhua did not say it, because he felt that it was unnecessary, because at that time, it was better to prevent trouble before it happened, and now no one would know that the shameful Indian Asan would openly encroach on more than 90,000 square kilometers of land in southern Tibet a few decades later, and it was also in vain.

Han Yunhua finally participated in the Sino-US talks, to be honest, he participated in the Cairo Conference mainly for the Sino-US talks, Chiang Kai-shek's trip to Cairo in history did make a lot of achievements, Chiang Kai-shek, who likes to keep a diary, wrote in his diary: "The four northeastern provinces, Taiwan, and Penghu Island have lost their territory for 50 or 12 years, and they can obtain a joint declaration by Britain and the United States to return to our country, and recognize the independence and freedom of Korea after the war. The fact that it can be published in the joint statement of the three countries is indeed an unprecedented diplomatic success in China and the rest of the world. However, if we do not work hard in the future, we will not be able to rely on a piece of paper. His excitement flowed through the lines. On the territorial issue, comparing the three eastern provinces, Taiwan, the Penghu Islands, and other Chinese territories plundered by Japan with the Ryukyu Islands, the value of which priority came first, and Chiang Kai-shek's order was clear.

However, Han Yunhua knew that Chiang Kai-shek's trip to Cairo would leave a regret that all Chinese regretted, and Roosevelt called Chiang Kai-shek, telling him to go to North Africa in three days, asking Chiang and British Prime Minister Churchill to meet him in Cairo, hoping that Chiang would arrive in Cairo on November 22. After receiving the telegram, Chiang saw this as a good opportunity to abolish the unequal treaties and restore China's national interests, so he asked his officials to draw up a plan for the conference. Among the political proposals involving China was to return Northeast China, Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to China after the war, and to take over the South Manchurian Railway and the Eastern Railway free of charge. The Cairo Conference was held on November 22, 1943, during which Chiang met with Roosevelt four times. On the evening of 23 November, Chiang took Wang Chonghui to have a private meeting with Roosevelt, and when talking about depriving Japan of the islands occupied by Japan in the Pacific, Roosevelt thought of the Ryukyu Islands and said to Chiang: "The arc-shaped archipelago composed of many islands in the Ryukyu series, which Japan used improper means to seize in those years, should also be deprived." I consider that the Ryukyus are geographically close to your country and have historically had very close ties with your country, and if your country wants to acquire the Ryukyu Islands, it can be handed over to your country for management." …,

This was supposed to be an extremely rare opportunity, but Roosevelt's sudden offer to hand over the Ryukyu Islands to China greatly surprised Chiang, who did not know how to answer. After a while, he said to Roosevelt: "I think it would be better for China and the United States to occupy the islands, and then to administer them together." When Chiang said this, Roosevelt felt that Chiang did not want the Ryukyu Islands, so he did not go any further. On November 25, when Chiang and Roosevelt met again, they talked about the Ryukyu Islands. Chiang still insisted on co-management. Why didn't Chiang want the Ryukyu Islands? On the other hand, Chiang was afraid that after China got the Ryukyu Islands, Japan would have come to China after the war, and China and Japan would have formed new grievances again, and they had missed the great opportunity to recover the Ryukyu Islands in vain. One of the very important reasons for Han Yunhua's participation in the Cairo Conference was to take this opportunity to first determine the ownership of the Ryukyu Islands and the Diaoyu Islands, so as not to leave a little loophole for future generations of small Japan to exploit.

The Sino-US talks officially began in Han Yunhua's expectation, and as Han Yunhua expected, the two sides soon reached a consensus on the eight issues raised by China and the United States, and when President Roosevelt finally asked whether China intended to take over the Ryukyu Islands, when Chiang Kai-shek hesitated, Han Yunhua decisively put forward a claim on sovereignty over the Ryukyu Islands, and Roosevelt agreed.

On the morning of 10 February, Roosevelt sent someone to inform Han Yunhua, hoping that he would attend an afternoon military meeting to discuss the military deployment of the fascist forces of the German-Japanese-Italian Entente.

The military conference is much more realistic than the political conference, and most of the political meetings mentioned are the post-war political structure, and those are invisible interests, and although the two sides are fighting to the death, they are fighting a war of words. However, military deployment does require the contribution of troops and money, which is not a small number, so several countries are extremely cautious.

After talking for more than an hour, he heard where several big giants were arguing, and Han Yunhua's head was dizzy when he heard it.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, I would like to know when your navy will be able to concentrate in the Indian Ocean and how it will gain sea supremacy, which I think will be crucial to the Burma war." It was Chiang Kai-shek who asked, and he himself was dissatisfied with the performance of the British government and the rubbish British soldiers on the Asian battlefield.

Churchill prevaricated: "Your Excellency, the detailed plan for naval operations still needs to be studied, and I will tell you when the two of us meet separately in the future."

The two sides dodged like hide and seek, and there was no progress at all for more than an hour, and no one put forward a detailed battle plan, which greatly disappointed Han Yunhua.

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