Chapter 342: It's also a mistake to be too good
In fact, the problem of the empire is not in Germany, since the empire has decided to use nuclear weapons, Germany is not a problem at all, which is the reason why Emperor Song Biao has not paid much attention to the problems of Germany and Europe in the near future, and he is thinking more about how to maintain the leadership of the empire in Asia more permanently and stably.
The countries of the Middle East are unreliable.
Only by firmly controlling South Asia can the empire truly avoid all kinds of crises, truly control the leadership of the Asian League for a long time, and then strongly maintain the leading position of the empire in the world.
A big country must have a bunch of small countries willing to revolve around you, and a world hegemon must be even more so, and the newly established Republic of Korea happens to be one such country, but the real and most important goal of Emperor Song Biao's visit to Korea was to meet with Nosaka Sanzo, the leader of the Workers' Revolutionary Party.
If nothing else, the empire will officially push the Communist Party to power within this year, completely abandon the existing temporary political axe organized by the right-wing ** people in the country, and the previous negotiations have long been stopped, the empire's policy in the country is about to usher in a bizarre turn, and the Central Military Intelligence Department of the empire and the revolutionary party have also reached a secret agreement.
The Revolutionary Soviet Party will accept the armistice treaty of the Reich in its entirety, abolish the emperor system, and admit all the crimes of militarist aggression committed by the Reich, and they will also rearm themselves with the support of the Military Intelligence Department of the Reich Central Committee, and take it as their duty to eliminate all ultra-right-wing forces in the country.
At the same time, the Reich promised to endorse the socialist revolution in the Confessional Testament.
Of course, the Reich will continue to support it, and for this reason more than 400 Soviet experts from the prisoner of war camps have been specially selected for the Soviet Union, which are involved in the political, intelligence, military, and public security fields, and these staunch Soviet revolutionary parties will find their last revolutionary comrades in the book.
Experts from the former Soviet Union are actively helping to draw up a new National Constitution, which will effectively guarantee the dictatorship of the Revolutionary Party and establish their own Cheka and National Revolutionary Supervisory Councils.
…… Like the Hon, North Korea is a very special country.
This is an ally with unlimited potential, known for its willingness to do dirty work, in the DPRK, the Korean National Defense Forces stationed in the DPRK sent 25 infantry divisions, with a total of 450,000 personnel, to undertake more than half of the work of suppressing the Northeast National Defense Forces, and in the DPRK, they have also established more than 60 prisoner of war camps to hold prisoners of war and elements, and solved the problem of receiving and supervising more than 3 million prisoners of war for China.
There are now several particularly important cities in North Korea that represent the areas with the highest concentration of Chinese businessmen, namely Nampo, Dandong and Incheon, which are the areas with the highest concentration of Chinese, and there are about 1.4 million Chinese in North Korea, and Nampo accounts for half.
Under Chinese control for the past three decades, Nampo has also been the real economic capital of North Korea, and before the outbreak of the Third Sino-Japanese War, the economic level of Seoul, Incheon, and Pusan was barely comparable to that of Nampo, but after the end of this war, the only remaining major cities in North Korea were Nampo and Pyongyang.
Today, Nampo is not only the best industrial city in North Korea, but also the most important financial center and international port, and of course, it is also a platform for Chinese business capital to control North Korea.
As with other South Asian countries, the empire first forced the Republic of Korea to recognize the legal surnames of dual nationality, so that Chinese businessmen had legal national status in Korea, and then made large-scale investments in North Korea's financial, mineral, industrial, and commercial industries, and if one were to select the list of the 100 richest people in North Korea, there is no doubt that these 100 people were Chinese.
This is the problem of North Korea, but at the moment, it cannot be considered a problem of North Korea, and even if it is, they cannot say it.
Emperor Song Biao and the new General Secretary Nosaka made an appointment to meet in Pyongyang, but he was not in a hurry to go to Pyongyang, and after arriving in Nampo by special plane, Emperor Song would stay in Nampo for one day, and in the evening he met with Zheng Dafang, the general director of the Korea Credit Bank, and several other prominent Chinese businessmen in North Korea.
Speaking of Zheng Dafang, many people will think of Shandong's famous business name Tong Taihe, the Zheng family began to do business in North Korea and this very early, after the first year of Shenwu, the Zheng family transferred the main business of Tong Tai and the firm to Nanpu, in the early days was to operate textiles, hardware, groceries, and later opened the Nanpu Real Estate Company and Taihe Bank, which is the predecessor of the North Korean Credit Bank.
After inheriting the family business, Chung Dafang gradually expanded the Taehe Silver into the Korean Credit Bank, and also ran a textile factory, a port and a shipyard in Nampo, and was not the richest among the Chinese businessmen in North Korea, but he began to fund the Korean Freedom Party very early, and had special friendships with many important members of the current North Korean political axe, and is now also the president of the Korean Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
The power of the consortium in the south of Korea has completely collapsed, and all the assets of the consortium have been confiscated and auctioned by the North Korean political axe, and most of them have fallen into the hands of Chinese businessmen, and now the economy of the DPRK is basically presided over by the four major consortia, and the two major consortia of the Far East and Jiangnan occupy the main body, basically controlling the main economic lifeline of the DPRK, and then it is the textile king Zheng Dafang and the coal king Li Ganlin.
In fact, Zheng and Li's business experience is very flexible, in coal, iron ore, copper mines, textiles, ports, real estate have large-scale investment, the two have both competition, but also cooperation, other Chinese businessmen and them are similar, as long as the profitable business will do a hand.
This seems to be a characteristic that all Chinese businessmen have.
Of course, in the North Korean market, it is definitely not the textile king, the coal king, nor other real estate kings, ship kings, and hardware kings that really occupy an absolute dominant position, but the two major consortia of the Far East and Jiangnan, which are the absolute controllers behind the North Korean economy and the actual controllers of the Nampo Special Administrative Region.
With the layout of Chinese capital in Korea, no matter how much the DPRK tosses in the future, as long as it does not dare to confront the empire militarily, its future will not be much better than that of Thailand and Indonesia, and it will always be under the control of Chinese capital.
As for the capital, the empire originally intended to use the war to destroy all the consortia in the capital and control the economy in the hands of the empire, but now the surname Suo has given up, and all the machinery and equipment have been moved, even if the local people do not want it, they will be used as compensation to North Korea, leaving a completely impoverished book to the Soviet Revolutionary Party.
The Revolutionary Party did not have any capital to negotiate with the Reich at all, and their only demand was to come to power and carry out the proletarian revolution according to their ideas, and the Reich gave them this precious opportunity, and at the same time ceded to the Reich the Men and Women Islands, the Osumi Islands, Yakushima, and Kuroshima on the west coast of Samoto as war reparations, and together with the cession of the Iwo Jima Islands and Hokkaido, the Reich had completely advanced the coastline to the entire area around the Nakumoto mainland.
The characteristics of the Soviet party are still very powerful, as long as they can come to power, they will sell the country more ruthlessly than anyone else.
…… Although it has experienced a large-scale war, the city of Nampo is still very prosperous, in fact, it was not too threatened in the war, it is the area with the highest proportion of Chinese on the Korean Peninsula, nearly 90% of the local population is Chinese, after the southern economy was destroyed by the war, the share of Nampo's economy in the GDP of the entire Republic of Korea has also reached half the size.
It is almost impossible to see traces of the Republic of Korea in this place, it looks like a Chinese city, and such cities are very many in the whole of Southeast Asia, during this period, the national education level of the empire was very high, and the main flow direction of the Chinese to East Asian countries was the city, and it was also the main promoter of the urbanization process in East Asian countries.
After meeting with a number of Chinese business leaders of the Republic of Korea, Emperor Song stayed in Nampo in the evening, and only took a train to Pyongyang the next morning to meet Nosaka Samsan......
There are now two left-wing organizations in the country, one is the Revolutionary Party of Workers' Workers and the other is the Socialist Party, the former is the ultra-left, and the latter is the left-wing party, that is, the so-called Bushviks and Mensheviks.
Because the strength of these two organizations was still relatively weak, with a total of more than 600 people, the Military Intelligence Department of the Central Committee of the Reich funded their merger into the Socialist Revolutionary Alliance Party, that is, the "Socialist Alliance Party," and the general secretary of the party was the ultra-left Nosaka Sanzo, who was a relatively moderate leader among the ultra-leftists, and this was also a candidate acceptable to all parties.
After the Central Military Intelligence Department selected more than a dozen candidates, it finally selected him and gave him great support.
In the past six months, the Socialist League has expanded from more than 600 members to 30,000 members, and the armed revolutionary teams organized by these people have been much more ruthless than the Imperial Northeast Defense Forces in suppressing the right-wing and militarist elements, and even the Korean garrison is not as powerful as them.
Of course, the empire connived at them to do whatever they wanted, and not only did it appoint a group of advisers from the former Soviet Union to provide all kinds of advice and training, but the Central Military Intelligence Department also participated in the construction of the armed revolutionary team in large numbers, providing all kinds of guns and ammunition.
With their rise, the empire can prepare to evacuate with peace of mind, and as for how the Socialist League party will toss in the country after the withdrawal of the imperial garrison, that is their own business.
They themselves made a request, wanting to arrest Emperor Showa and the members of the Imperial Family, hold a people's trial themselves, and sentence them to death, for fear that the empire would not agree, in fact, for the empire, this is simply fucking good.
The reason why Ben dared to refuse to sign the armistice treaty proposed by the empire was precisely because he was a monolith in the country, and you chose Mitsumasa Yonechi as the interim prime minister, and he did not agree to sign it, and he changed people, but the result was still not signed, and all his military and political classes and business oligarchs were of the same mind, and it was difficult to do it.
Even if the empire occupied the whole of the country, there was no way to force them to sign an armistice, they did accept unconditional surrender, admit defeat, admit all war crimes, disbanded the army, surrendered their weapons, and did not sign it.
It is okay to sign, either to keep the emperor system or not to cede the country.
The empire is now also forced to be helpless, Suo surname gave up the original idea of controlling the economic and political circles, and directly supported another left-wing revolutionary alliance, let them fight within themselves, you don't agree, he will always agree, as soon as he comes to power, he will not only agree to all the conditions, but also kill all of you.
Compared with the empire, Xiao Yue really found the wrong target.
On the way to Pyongyang by train, Emperor Song Biao's mood was also very complicated, his visit to the DPRK today is to make a decision on all this, as long as he reaches a final agreement with General Secretary Nosaka today, the empire will get all the conditions it wants, and officially end this war with dignity, and what will be left to Yuben will be decades of bloody storms.
There are too many unknowns in this, but it was the right wing of Yueben that forced Emperor Song Biao and the central political axe of the empire to this point, and they deserved it.
Compared to the affluence and prosperity of Nampo, Pyongyang is much more prosaic as the capital of the Republic of Korea, without any remnants of the Korean Kingdom, and even here there are about 200,000 Chinese living here.
The Republic of Korea political axe prepared a very grand welcome ceremony for Emperor Song Biao at the railway station, and the crowd that came to welcome them stretched for several kilometers on both sides of the railroad tracks, and the gongs and drums sounded in unison, which was very lively.
Emperor Song walked out of the train and looked at the high-ranking officials of the Republic of Korea on the platform and the large number of people wearing Korean national costumes, and he had an unspeakable contempt in his heart, he obviously did not like Koreans very much.
It was in this warm welcome that Ri Kyung-hoon, President of the Republic of Korea, strode excitedly in front of Emperor Song, shook hands and half-bowed in salute, eager to hug Emperor Song and cry, which made Emperor Song feel disgusted.
Li Qingxun used to be a person trained by the Central Military Intelligence Department, but today he is the founding president of the Republic of Korea, with a high status, and a high reputation in North Korea, his wife is the daughter of Jiang Yanxing, a former senior general of the Imperial Army, so he has had many opportunities to meet Emperor Song before, but every time he meets, Emperor Song feels that this person is very hypocritical.
Emperor Song can keenly feel that behind Li Qingxun's enthusiastic admiration and unconditional obedience, there is a hidden self-esteem that is almost arrogant and blind, before sending additional troops to suppress the rioters, Li Qingxun once tried to bargain with Prime Minister Gu Weijun, wanting to negotiate the recovery of Jeju Island and the re-demarcation of the Changbai Mountain border, but Gu Weijun ruthlessly refused.
Behind this incident, Li Qingxun's strong national pride has actually been exposed, and before that, the Central Military Intelligence Department has always thought that he is a very capable and suitable puppet, but in fact, the Military Intelligence Department was deceived by his acting skills.
It didn't matter, because Li Qingxun and the Republic of Korea did not yet have any strength to dare to challenge the empire, and the Song Emperor would not give them this opportunity.
Anyway, Emperor Song is the elder of President Li Qingxun after all, and in the face of the other party's indescribable excitement, Emperor Song gently patted him on the shoulder, and still had a few polite words.
On the surface, Emperor Song was going to visit the capital of the DPRK before, and the meeting with General Secretary Nosaka was only interspersed with an intermediate arrangement; after arriving at the new presidential palace of the Republic of Korea accompanied by Yi Qingxun, Emperor Song still had to have a round of simple and polite talks with President Yi Qingxun on some issues between China and the DPRK, symbolizing the fact that he would give the Republic of Korea some new assistance and repay the hard work of the Korean garrison in Yuben.
The new presidential palace has just been built, because there are Chinese businessmen behind the back, the construction is quite magnificent, Li Qingxun, who has lived in Yenching for many years, has an extremely difficult to give up the feelings of the Yenching Central Special Zone, and also imitates the Yenching Central Special Zone, and the central district has been demarcated in the entire center of Pyongyang to build the presidential palace and other central political institutions, and the industrial and residential areas of the city have been relocated to the surrounding areas of the central district.
It's a pity that there is no money in hand, except for the presidential palace, the central Liberty Square and other political axe buildings have not yet been built, and it looks like a big construction site at a glance, but at the moment it is temporarily suspended, and it is used to welcome the visit of His Majesty the Emperor Hua after an emergency dress.
The founding president chosen by the Central Military Intelligence Department for North Korea can't be a real leader to be honest.
Emperor Song naturally didn't take all this into account, and he didn't care, if Li Qingxun wanted to be an ungrateful person, he could get Li Qingxun out of the Korean Peninsula with a single telegram.
Li Qingxun's imitation and plagiarism have reached a very high level, and the General Office and the State Administration Hall have also been set up in the Presidential Palace, as well as the Xuanzheng Hall and the State Guest Hall, both in decoration and layout, there are obvious traces of imitation of the Central Palace.
It's funny.
Emperor Song thought that he had returned to the Central Palace, but the host and guest were reversed.
After being invited by President Li Qingxun to sit down in the state guest hall, Emperor Song Biao also looked around very interestingly, wanting to laugh, but without any expression, Li Qingxun couldn't wait to say hello again in fluent Chinese, expressing his admiration and respect for Emperor Song, as well as the Korean people's gratitude to Emperor Song and the Chinese Empire, and so on, and said that the thousand-year-old friendship between China and North Korea is as immortal as a green mountain, and green water flows forever.
Emperor Song just listened silently, with a serious expression, and did not have any intention of being polite with the other party, with his identity and status in the international world, there was no need for him to go along with anyone.
Your Majesty.
The de facto controller of this world.
Li Qingxun could only keep telling his good views on Sino-North Korean relations, like a subordinate courtier, reporting his and the Korean Liberal Party's grand plan to build North Korea in the future, crackling a lot, and the subtext was actually to ask China for assistance.
Which country to aid and how much to aid has always been the responsibility of the Central Cabinet and the Central Military Intelligence Department, Emperor Song Biao rarely asked about these things, Li Qingxun also seemed to be hoping for a miracle to happen, and stopped here, hoping to get a positive reply from Emperor Song.
After waiting for a while, Song Biao saw that the other party seemed to really want to reply, so he replied with emotion: "The development of North Korea is a very important thing for the empire, and it is appropriate to give necessary assistance in the early days of the founding of North Korea, but from my experience over the years, the development of a country should still be based on the freedom of the market, and the Central Policy Research Bureau has also been advocating the free market theory all these years. I remember forty years ago, when I was in charge of the Northeast, I advocated expanding exports and reducing imports from the Northeast, and in order to achieve this goal, I tried to attract foreign capital and all other free capital to the Northeast as much as possible, and as the local governor and the governor's office at that time, I didn't actually take much care of things. Now I will look back at those five years, but it is the stage of the fastest development in the Northeast, and it also lays the way for the empire to become a strong country in the next 35 years. When I see you today, I think of me forty years ago, so I bring up those things in the past today, and I want to encourage you, and I also hope that you will continue to adhere to the theory of the free market and encourage the free development of capital and trade, as for you saying that you want to learn from our country's large-scale industrial plan in the 15th Five-Year Plan period and the plan to establish a complete modern industrial system, I think it is unrealistic, but if you say that the DPRK wants to become a strong country in certain fields, I think it is realistic, and everything wants to be grasped. You may end up catching nothing, but if you can concentrate on a certain part, the results will be quick. ”
What he said couldn't be said to be very sincere, and he didn't even have too much emotion, and ruthlessly refuted Li Qingxun's mentality of trying to copy China's road to success, but what he said was also considerable and reasonable.
Li Qingxun nodded again and again modestly, and admired as if he had learned the supreme scriptures: "Your Majesty is so clever, I can listen to such words, it is really better than reading the books of sages for decades." Your Majesty, in your opinion, can we in North Korea focus on the development of machinery and automobile industries? ”
Song Biao asked Li Qingxun, "Why not?" It is always possible to make a good plan and adjust it slowly over a period of 30 years, but the most efficient thing is to let the market choose freely, and opening up the free flow of capital is the most basic work. As a person who has come over, my advice to you and the DPRK is very simple: if you look at the development of China and the United States, you can generally find a common denominator, that is, China and the United States first start with the development of agriculture and the mining industry, you must first let the people have enough to eat, encourage the free investment of domestic and foreign capital, reduce unnecessary imports, increase exports through industries with a low starting foundation such as the mining industry, and accumulate national and national wealth. The market is very simple, there is sales to have production, if you build a factory but cannot sell orders, then the factory is meaningless, even if you build a thousand factories, it is impossible to make North Korea a modern industrial country. ”
Lee Kyung-hoon even claimed yes.
Although he didn't like this person, Emperor Song Biao was an elder after all, and he still had to say what he should say, and in these words, Emperor Song Biao also rejected Li Qingxun's excuse that he wanted to ask for help.
How could the empire agree to the fact that Yi Kyung-hoon wanted to copy 175 industrial projects and use this as a reason to borrow money from the empire to develop the Korean nation's own modern industry?
The empire will certainly give the Republic of Korea a part of its long-term aid program, and it is possible to engage in agricultural and water conservancy construction and strengthen infrastructure construction and mining industry construction.
The empire is actually facing a lot of [***] pressure, empathy, if you are a North Korean, you see that the resources of the whole country, industry, commerce, and banks are controlled by the Chinese, and they enjoy a prosperous and high-quality life, while you can only live a poor life, how would you think about these problems?
Do you feel that you are not good and diligent enough to compete with others, or do you feel that the Chinese have robbed you of everything that should belong to you?
In this narrow world, being too good is a mistake.
(To be continued)