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Chapter 541 Retirement, World War II is over

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At this time, the amount of Japan's war reparations and the proportion of distribution had been finalized.

Due to the division of the 14 union republics and the civil war, Russia's national and military strength has plummeted compared with the Soviet Union, and in addition to the fact that most of the troops have been contained in the European theater, it seems to be somewhat powerless in the Central Asia and Far East theaters.

In less than a year, the first and third fields basically occupied Central Asia and the Far East, and were attacking the Siberian region from the east and west, and Russian President Molotov carried out the second war mobilization in the country, urgently mobilizing fifty infantry divisions, in an attempt to conduct a strategic decisive battle with *** near the Ural Mountains.

In China, a vigorous large-scale production campaign was being launched at this time.

Since Japan was unable to pay up to $26 billion in war reparations, the Chinese side proposed that it could be deducted in the form of industrial machinery and equipment and labor imports, and from the beginning of '45, heavy industrial equipment from Yokohama, Osaka, Yokosuka, and Tokyo was dismantled and loaded on ships and shipped to China's coastal areas.

At the same time, a large number of skilled workers in Japan were also sent to China in the form of labor exports.

As for the more than 2 million Japanese prisoners of war in Nanyang, Northern Mongolia, and Northern Manchuria, except for a few who were sentenced to death because their hands were stained with Chinese blood, the vast majority of the rest were sentenced to 10 to 30 years of re-education through labor, and had already entered mines and road construction sites in northeast, north, and southwest China to perform high-intensity labor.

In the first month of the 46th year, the Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee held a national work conference in the capital Xi'an.

China has always been a multi-ethnic country, and how to peacefully coexist among various ethnic groups has always been the biggest problem in judging the rulers, and in this regard, all dynasties have not done well enough, including the new China in history, which comprehensively imitated the strict ethnic division of the Soviet Union in its ethnic policy, plus the model of ethnic autonomy, but it was a big mistake.

At the national work conference, Yue Weihan proposed to try his best to dilute the concept of nationality, emphasizing only the "Chinese nation", no matter what nationality, the state should treat all people equally, and never engage in any specialization, and at the same time promote Sinology education throughout the country, vigorously popularize Putonghua, and strictly ban any written inheritance except Chinese characters.

As a traverser, no one knows better than Yue Weihan how terrible the wrong national policy is!

Historically, because New China adopted a wrong ethnic policy and blindly treated ethnic minorities preferentially, the result was that all ethnic minorities were alienated from morality, never regarded themselves as real Chinese, and the Han nationality, which accounted for the largest proportion of the people, felt that they could only be regarded as second-class citizens, and the government was really Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror, not people inside and outside.

Yue Weihan's proposal was approved by a majority of the committee members and was eventually written into the constitution.

The national work conference has just ended, but Yue Weihan unexpectedly submitted an application for retirement to ***!

This news suddenly set off an uproar in the whole country, the whole party, and the whole army, and no one thought that Yue Weihan would suddenly apply for retirement, because at this time, Yue Weihan was just in his early thirties, and he was in his prime, and it was the time when his energy was at his peak, and even everyone thought that Yue Weihan would indisputably become the core of the second generation of leadership!

However, Yue Weihan applied for retirement at this time, and his attitude was extremely resolute!

**, Mr. Zhu and Zhou Gong successively talked to Yue Weihan, and the three of them moved with affection and reason, and repeatedly emphasized that the construction of post-war China requires the joint efforts of the whole people.

Generals Deng Gong and Wei Lihuang also flew from Qingdao to Xi'an to do Yue Weihan's ideological work.

Later, according to Chi Chengfeng's guards in his memoirs, Chi Chengfeng even did not hesitate to take out a gun to threaten in the end, but he still failed to say anything about Yue Weihan, Yue Weihan resolutely resigned from all positions in the party and the army, and officially announced his retirement from active service!

Regarding Yue Weihan's choice, the whole country was in an uproar, and no one could understand it.

In fact, the reason why Yue Weihan chose to retire when he was in his prime was indeed considered.

First of all, Yue Weihan's prestige in the party and the army is too high, and his light has even overshadowed **.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, many Chinese people don't know who ** is, but absolutely no one doesn't know who Yue Weihan is, in the world, **'s prestige and Yue Weihan are even more incomparable, although ** is very open-minded and doesn't care about these, but Yue Weihan knows that a country can only have one top leader!

Therefore, between ** and Yue Weihan, there must be a person who retires, **has just been elected as the president of the Central Committee at the party congress, and at the same time was elected as the chairman of the Republic of China, and the five-year term has just begun, so it is naturally impossible to retire at this time, so it can only be Yue Weihan who retires.

Secondly, Yue Weihan also wants to set an example for national leaders and force them not to be obsessed with power!

Power is like opium, you haven't been exposed to it, but once you have tasted it, it is difficult for ordinary people to let go, the feeling that the power is in hand, thousands of troops are born because of you, and because of you die The feeling does make people nostalgic, unless it is a person with great perseverance, it is difficult to really let go.

**After becoming the ruling party, it adopted the way of democratic centralism in governance, which has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that the administrative efficiency has been greatly improved, the country can concentrate on major affairs, on key projects, and the disadvantage is that the top leader is easy to be attached to power and is unwilling to hand over power to the next leader.

This is the case in history, he should have handed over the supreme power to Chairman Liu after the expiration of his two terms, but in fact he did not do it, until his death in 1976, China's supreme power has always been in the hands of **, during which several presidents were just puppets, this phenomenon is of course inappropriate.

Last but not least, Yue Weihan chose to retire so that the country's power could be smoothly transferred.

Because in Chinese officialdom, there is a very peculiar phenomenon of compensation, if two forces compete, when one of the forces takes the initiative to make concessions with a high profile, the other force is hindered by the rules of the game and must be compensated.

For example, Yue Weihan, he took the initiative to resign from the party, government, and military, of course he knew what was going on, so when his two terms of office expired, he must compensate Yue Weihan, and when determining the best person, he must first consider the candidate of Yue Weihan's line, this candidate is actually about to come out, that is, Deng Gong, the general political commissar of Siye!

Therefore, what Yue Weihan adopted was actually a strategy of retreating to advance, forcing ** to truly transfer power to the next national leader after the expiration of his two terms, so as to set an example for the smooth transfer of China's supreme power! This is what Yue Weihan really cares about.

What is most feared about democratic centralism?

What I am most afraid of is the hereditary, supreme leadership tenure system!

Yue Weihan's move is to nip the hereditary system and the lifelong system of the supreme leader in the bud!

However, in the end, Yue Weihan still did not completely withdraw from the military circles, taking into account Yue Weihan's special situation, proposed by the first committee, and agreed by all the committee members, the post of honorary vice chairman was created.

Later, such appointments became the norm, and every time a top leader stepped down, he was automatically elected as the honorary vice president of *** until his death.

At the end of 1946, the Germans took the lead in developing the atomic bomb!

As early as a year ago, the Germans had developed a V4 missile with a range of more than 5,000 kilometers, and its killing range covered all large and medium-sized cities on the east coast of the United States.

On January 7, 1947, a V4 missile carrying a nuclear warhead hit the center of New York City!

In an instant, a huge mushroom cloud rose from the center of New York, and the powerful shock wave instantly flattened more than a dozen blocks at the center of the explosion, killing millions of New Yorkers by the heat, strong light and sound waves generated by the explosion, of which the direct death toll exceeded 500,000!

Almost at the same time, another V3 missile, also equipped with a nuclear warhead, exploded on the front line of the Balkan Peninsula, and the 16 infantry divisions, eight tank divisions and four heavy artillery divisions of the US army on the front line were instantly severely damaged.

The next day, another V3 missile carrying a nuclear warhead bombed London.

Thankfully, just two days later, the Americans similarly developed the atomic bomb.

By this time, the German air force had been completely depleted, and the US Air Force was ready to bomb the German mainland at will.

On January 9, 1947, three days after Germany razed New York with atomic bombs, two B-29 Super Fortress bombers, escorted by eight jet fighters, flew over Berlin and dropped two atomic bombs named "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" on top of the range of anti-aircraft guns.

After the huge explosion, the whole of Berlin was almost flattened!

After seeing the tremendous destructive power of the atomic bomb, President Roosevelt and Hitler finally realized that if this war continued like this, the result would only be a defeat for both sides, and the result could only be that Germany, the United States, Britain, Russia and other Western countries collectively return to the Stone Age, and China would become the only victorious country in the entire World War II!

On January 10, 1947, representatives of Germany, Russia, the United States, and Britain finally sat down at the negotiating table.