After reading the message, Han Lihong smiled.

The United States after Roosevelt had only small means, and no big realm.

The United Nations, the World Bank, the National Fund, the Bretton Woods system, the post-World War II world pattern...... All of these cornerstones that laid the foundation for American world hegemony were created during the Roosevelt era.

A few decades later, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the victory of the Cold War in which the United States emerged as the unique world hegemon were, in fact, were just the enormous names of the cornerstones laid by Roosevelt.

The United States won the Cold War, and that was not how good the Americans were, because in essence it was not a victory for the United States, but only a defeat for the Soviet Union.

In the United States after Roosevelt, stupid people stubble after stubble, no, the United States just lost Roosevelt, and began to be ridiculous.

Yesterday, at the UN, the representative of the United States to the UN Atomic Energy Commission, Bernard ? The main content of the plan proposed by Baruch is to establish the Atomic Energy Development Agency, as the international atomic energy monitoring body, to regulate the development and use of atomic energy, even including the production of raw materials, and any violation of control using fissile material to develop atomic bombs will be severely punished; The agency could send representatives to countries to "observe" to ensure effective controls; This body is not bound by the principle of unanimity among the major powers, and the Permanent Council of the United Nations has no veto power; Cease the production of nuclear weapons and eliminate all existing nuclear weapons once effective controls have been established by the Agency.

Ninety-nine percent of this plan is Wei Guangzheng, but there is a little flaw, and it is this flaw that turns this "99 percent Wei Guangzheng" into stinky shit.

The flaw is that the plan requires effective controls before disposing of existing nuclear weapons, so it does not ensure the elimination of existing nuclear weapons, which would certainly help the United States maintain its nuclear monopoly.

The Americans are blatantly treating other people as fools, but others are not fools, so the fools are precisely the Americans themselves.

How could the U.S. political axe come up with such an impossible policy? What's the point? The only explanation for this is the rapid deterioration of the IQ of the American elite.

Degradation is good!

-- New Delhi, India.

In the large conference room, Mountbatten, Vice-King and Viceroy of India, sat at the head of the long table, flanked on the right by the top members of the Congress Party led by Jawaharlal Nehru, on the left by the top leaders of the Muslim League headed by Jinnah, and the remaining princely state leaders.

Today, July 11, 1947, is the day when the British government announced the partition plan for India and Pakistan.

Louis? Mountbatten was the former Allied Supreme Commander in the Southeast Asian Theater of Operations, and he was appointed by the British Cabinet on December 17, 1946 as the last Deputy King and Viceroy of India.

Mountbatten's mission was to solve the problem of reading in British India.

After his arrival, Mountbatten's head was a big one, and in addition to the Hindu Congress Party and the Muslim League representing Muslims, there were more than 550 semi-reading princely states.

This is a mess, plus the Chinese, Mountbatten has to faint seven times or eight times every day.

Fortunately, the problem of the Chinese was solved, but after the problem of the Chinese was solved, trouble came again, and the chairman of the Congress Party, Jawaharlal Nehru, clearly declared at the Congress Party Congress that the princely states had only two options: to join the Union of India individually or collectively, and there was no other way.

Busy, after Nehru made a strong statement, Mountbatten was busy, busy persuading these princely states to listen to Nehru and join the Indian Federation, and not choose to read.

Mountbatten's persuasion was very effective, and in the end, except for the six princely states that joined Pakistan, only two princely states, Hyderabad and Kashmir, remained in the position of reading power, and the others agreed to join the Indian Federation.

No one knows, and perhaps even if they do, there is nothing to be done, the British have planted a nail in the South Asian continent, and this nail will pierce India and Pakistan with blood.

This nail is Hyderabad and Kashmir, but in reality, Hyderabad is just a cover, and the real nail is Kashmir.

Under the partition plan, the Hindu-majority areas were assigned to India and the Muslim-majority areas to Pakistan, but the question of Kashmir's ownership was left to the princely states to decide whether to join India or Pakistan, or to maintain their reading power.

Seventy-seven percent of Kashmir's population is Muslim, and they tend to join Pakistan, but the princely kings of Kashmir are Hindus.

This was clearly a trap, but for a variety of reasons, both India and Pakistan accepted the plan.

At this moment, Mountbatten's mood was extremely complicated, because every word he was about to say represented the decline of the British Empire, and it was hopelessly decayed.

The Mountbatten Plan was announced: British India was divided into two Dominions, the Union of India and Pakistan, and the autonomous government was established respectively; Pakistan is made up of East Pakistan and West Pakistan; After the "transfer of power," the princely states enjoyed the status ......of reading power, and they could negotiate to join any of the Dominions of India and Pakistan -- in the White House, which was relaxed and happy.

Today, the Senate and House of Representatives adopted Secretary of State Marshall's plan to aid Europe.

For the national interests of the United States, Marshall's plan to aid Europe is of both political and economic significance, and its adoption is inevitable, but Truman is not Roosevelt, although he is also the president of the United States, and the power held by Truman and Roosevelt cannot be compared.

When any proposal enters the Senate and the House of Representatives, in fact, what sounds good is a game of interests, and what is unpleasant is the distribution of spoils, and the biggest manifestation of the difference in power between Truman and Roosevelt is their influence on the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The distribution of spoils is not only between the two parties, but also between the two parties, and there is also the issue of sharing the spoils within the two parties, so it is very troublesome, especially when major interests are involved.

The interests involved in the Marshall Plan are the largest since the founding of the United States, so the game is extremely fierce.

Politically, the Marshall Plan would greatly strengthen U.S. control over Western Europe, and economically, it would be even more imperative.

Now, the US economy is too strong, and being strong is a good thing, but being too strong can turn into a bad thing, especially for a liberal capitalist country like the United States.

After the Great War, the world was in a depression, and what was produced in the United States was not bought, and this was a problem that had to be solved for Americans, especially for capitalists large and small.

What's more, the problem is much more serious than that.

Because of the war, the United States not only has a serious overcapacity, but also a backlog of war materials. If this problem is not solved, one is not good, and the Great Depression and economic crisis may not be far away.

So, the passage is inevitable, but the question is time.

Time has two meanings.

The first meaning is humanitarian.

The continuous bombardment caused serious damage to the vast majority of Europe's large cities, especially their industrial production.

Many of the continent's most famous cities, such as Warsaw and Berlin, have been left in ruins, while others, such as London and Rotterdam, have also suffered severe damage, with most of the buildings associated with economic production in these areas reduced to rubble and millions of people left homeless.

Not only that, but what was more serious was that the war caused great losses in agricultural production, and Europe, especially Western Europe, faced widespread hunger. Moreover, the situation was exacerbated by the rare cold winters experienced in northwestern Europe in '46 and '47.

In addition, during the war, transportation facilities were the most damaged, railways, bridges, and roads were the target of air raids, and merchant ships were often sunk, which made it impossible to get food to the areas where it was needed in time, even if there was a surplus.

This is the humanitarian temporal significance of Marshall's aid program.

Of course, the meaning of humanity alone is not very significant, but when it is linked to politics, the humanitarian significance is extremely significant.

The second meaning is political.

Politically, the Marshall Plan had a double significance.

Of course, the United States is not a bodhisattva, and the aid plan has an extremely clear political purpose, and if in normal times, the political axe of various countries will not be easily complied with, but in the current situation, if the United States proposes an aid plan, then even if the political axe of some countries is very unwilling, it will have to give in to the pressure of many people.

What do the common people know? The common people will not know that the United States wants to control their country, and the common people will only regard the United States as a savior, and this will naturally have a negative effect on their national political axe, which is conducive to the United States achieving its goal of controlling Europe.

In addition, Western Europe was controlled by the United States, and Eastern Europe was controlled by the Soviet Union; in the past, Eastern Europe was the breadbasket of Western Europe, and after the implementation of the Marshall Plan, because of the harsh conditions that were formulated, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union would definitely be excluded from the aid plan, and in this way, if Western Europe was to get better and better with the aid of the United States, it would inevitably affect the Soviet Union's control over Eastern Europe, so the Soviet Union would cut off the ties between Eastern Europe and Western Europe, especially the food supply, and this would inevitably further strengthen the United States' control over Western Europe.

Finally, and even more serious, [***].

In France and Italy, the widespread post-war poverty provided sufficient nourishment for the growth of [***] power, and the important role played by [***] in their revolts during the war in their countries increased their prestige dramatically.

In the post-war elections in these countries, [***] achieved universal success, and in France, France [***] even became the largest party in parliament for a time.

All of this has made it inevitable for the United States to come to the aid of Western Europe. Therefore, the aid plan must be implemented as soon as possible, and as soon as possible.

-- The cemetery residence is very busy.

At this moment, not only the cemetery mansion was extremely busy, but also how many chaebol giants in the south of the Yangtze River gathered in Nanjing.

Chiang Kai-shek was particularly excited.

Yesterday, Secretary of State Marshall stood on the steps of the Harvard Garden Memorial Chapel at Harvard University and declared that the United States was ready to help Europe and its allies recover.

In his speech, Marshall did not mention China, but he did mention friendly people, and this "friendly person" was Chiang Kai-shek.

More than $20 billion in aid, oh my!

In the conference room, the party-state elders and chaebol magnates gathered together and discussed excitedly.

Chiang Kai-shek was not in the conference room, he was in the study with Soong Meiling at this time.

Suddenly, the door of the study opened, and Song Ziwen walked in.

"Ziwen, how's it going?" Seeing Song Ziwen coming in, Chiang Kai-shek asked.

"Sit down, there's still no news from Pirom." Song Ziwen said indignantly.

"Niang Xipi!" Chiang Kai-shek cursed in a low voice.

In China, the most powerful American is not the U.S. ambassador to China, Comax, but the U.S. political envoy to Nanjing, Pirome.

Pirom was a modest but powerful man, and he was not affiliated with the U.S. Embassy in China, but directly under the State Department, reporting to the Secretary of State himself.

Pirome's power is primarily economic, and he controls all the funds and projects that the U.S. government has invested in and aided China.

Pirom did not like Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek did not like Pirom even more.

Pirom was a Roosevelt-era person, because this position was special, it was not easy to replace, and Pirom did a good job, which can be regarded as fruitful, so Truman did not remove Pirome after he took office.

During his lifetime, Roosevelt attached great importance to China, and he personally chose Pirôme to serve as this special envoy for business.

Roosevelt's usual eyes were like a torch, and Pirom was qualified for the position, but in this way, Pirom also offended many people, including Chiang Kai-shek.

At the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek also admired Pirom very much, because Pirom's competence was beneficial to him, but Pirom would not come to trouble, and he did not know much about the Chinese people.

Chairman Chiang did not eat raw rice, let alone jump out of a stone, and many favors also had to be talked about, and on some small matters, it was better to be able to pass or be in the past, but Pirom could not understand Chairman Chiang's thoughts.

Actually, it's okay for Pirome not to understand Chairman Chiang's thoughts, and the Americans can understand it, but it is not something that Chairman Chiang can understand if he directly refutes face again and again.

In addition, at Chiang Kai-shek's place, he could not hear a word of good words for Pirome, and those who said bad things were all day long.

As a result, the relationship between Pirom and Chiang Kai-shek became worse and worse.

In the past two years, the efforts to get Pirom away have not stopped.

This Pirom is either an American, in the way of people's money, a little one, hum...... It's been two days since Marshall gave his speech, but they didn't get any inside information from Pirom, so he couldn't help but curse after listening to Song Ziwen's words.

There's no way, if you don't like Pirom anymore, it's also an American father, and Chairman Chiang can only wait.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Pirom visited.

Commissar Chiang was large and personally went to the door to take Pirom into the living room.

In the living room, Jiang Jie, Song Meilingshi and his wife met with Pirome.

After taking his seat, Pirom said straight to the point: "Mr. Jiang, I know that you are in a hurry, but it is impossible to know the specific amount of aid now. ”

This is a lesson, a naked lesson, Chiang Kai-shek said expressionlessly: "Mr. Pirom, I don't want to know the specific amount, but I want to know the approximate range." ”

Pirom hated this kind of sophistry and word play of the Chinese, but he could not worsen his relations with Chiang Kai-shek and others, in which case he would be unemployed.

Although Chiang Kai-shek hated these people, this position in China was really good.

Pirome's face softened a little and said, "Mr. Jiang, I came this time with a suggestion. ”

The eyelids seemed to be petrified, motionless, Chiang Kai-shek said: "You say." ”

Pirom said: "Mr. Jiang, the specific content of the assistance will take some time to be determined, but there are some things that can be done now. ”

Chiang Kai-shek said: "Mr. Pirome, I don't know what can be done now?" ”

"Mr. Jiang, Europe has been badly damaged, and reconstruction requires a large number of workers, and it will be very beneficial for you to recruit laborers from China to go to Europe." ”

Chiang Kai-shek was moved, then closed his eyes and pondered.

Slowly, a smile appeared on Chiang Kai-shek's lips, he opened his eyes, and asked, "Mr. Pirome, is it really possible?" ”

Pirom said: "It should be possible, but there will be some problems with the quantity." ”

After thinking about it, Chiang Kai-shek said: "Mr. Pirome, I have an idea, you can see if it will work." ”

Pirom said, "Mr. Jiang, please speak." ”

Chiang Kai-shek was a little excited, his eyes lit up, and he said: "Mr. Pirom, if the recruitment of laborers is done well, it will greatly help us to bring these provinces of Hunan and Hubei over." ”

"Oh." Pirom was taken aback, and then asked, "Mr. Jiang, you mean to recruit laborers from Hunan and other places?" ”

Chiang Kai-shek nodded excitedly and said, "Mr. Pirome, if there are enough of them, this is completely feasible, so that the people of these provinces can understand how beneficial it will be to cooperate with us." ”

Pirome's momentum also came.

The reason why he came up with this suggestion was originally just to ease the relationship with Chiang Kai-shek and others, so as to keep his job, but now it seems that his suggestion is too heavy.

Pirom is well aware that everything the United States is doing in China is aimed at preventing China's reunification.

In order to prevent the reunification of China, it is necessary to strengthen the power of the Chiang Kai-shek clique, and to strengthen the power of the Chiang Kai-shek clique, the most important means is to pull more provinces into Chiang Kai-shek's clique.

Pirom is extremely intelligent, and his mind is so quick that he thinks things through in an instant.

For a long time, the progress of pulling other provinces for Chiang Kai-shek was not very good, because it took time to implement the benefits, but the benefits of this matter were immediate, and, more importantly, the benefits did not cost a penny, and the American political axe did not need to pay a penny for it.

If this is done, then he will be able to completely show his nose in Washington, and he will have a good relationship with Chiang Kai-shek and others, both of which will help keep his job.

Further, it is not impossible.

Chairman Jiang's eyes are green, Pirome's eyes are green, and Song Meiling's eyes are even greener.

If only there were a million workers...... Get ...... from every laborer When the news goes out, there are even more people whose eyes turn green.

(To be continued)