Chapter 410: Meeting

Dragons have reverse scales, and they will be angry when they touch them.

Although it is not clear how many pieces of the British reverse scales are, India is undoubtedly one of the more important of these reverse scales, and if Yan Guang really wants to touch this reverse scale now, then he must have the consciousness of fighting with the British endlessly.

Of course, Britain is not a dragon, so we can also put it in a more colloquial way.

England, John, John Bull, Cow Cow...

Britain is like a cow, and India is like a piece of red cloth.

If China touched India, it would be like shaking a red cloth in front of John Bull...

If the actions of the Nationalist government in Indochina can be tolerated by the British, then if it touches India, I am afraid that it will really be endless.

Although Yan Guang may not be afraid of the British, not to mention that the British are not strong in Asia, but don't forget that Iraq is isolated overseas—————— of course it is not very appropriate to say so, at least it is still connected to Kazakhstan and other provinces.

The current situation in the Middle East is that Saudi Arabia and Iran next to it belong to the British sphere of influence, Syria is a French colony, and there is also friction with Turkey next to it because of the relationship with Erzurum, but Kemal is very self-aware so he has always been very restrained, as for the Russians? There is no need to go into detail about the grievances with the Russians ...

If a full-scale conflict is launched now, Yan Guang is very sure that the Indochina Peninsula and India will be liberated, but from the south of the Volga River, the Caucasus to Iraq, it may be lost...

After all, Iraq and other places are still far from the mainland, and although there is a railway that can be connected, it may not be safe in wartime. As for the sea route? At that time, the British only need to take the Strait of Hormuz as soon as they get stuck, and the sea route will no longer need to be mentioned.

Don't forget, both Saudi Arabia and Iran are now the British's sphere of influence...

To exchange the Middle East, which can bring at least 2 billion Chinese dollars in benefits every year, for an India, which has nothing but a few hundred million untouchables, as long as it is a little more normal, will not do this.

What's more, before that, there is a fight with the British, and even if he wins, he will not really get this land with hundreds of millions of untouchables.

Yan Guang is the same...

Although Britain is no longer as strong as it was before the war, and China is far stronger than it was before the war, it is still not a wise thing to fight with Britain, not to mention the fact that there are the Soviet Union, the United States and Japan eyeing each other...

[Minimum effort, maximum gain]

For the sake of an India, he will fight to the death with the British, and it is very likely that the British, Soviet, Japanese, French and other countries will benefit from the fisherman, which is contrary to Yan Guang's motto...

So as Yan Guang said, he is not ready to jump out now to support Indian independence.

After all, it would not do him much good to anger Britain because of this.

Of course, it is also important to note that Gandhi himself was an advocate of the "non-violent non-resistance movement", and what was the best thing about the Communist government? It's subversion, it's sabotage, it's armed resistance, you let him support these to nothing, you let him support what "nonviolent non-resistance"...

It is clear to anyone that a mere non-resistance movement is ineffective.

Historically, if it had not been for the Second World War, India would not have had the possibility of independence at all.

Yan Guang has no interest in supporting such a movement...

And although in Yan Guang's concept, India is also a member of the Greater Far East Co-Prosperity Circle, it does not mean that he likes a strong India by his side.

For Yan Guang, a divided India is perfect, just like in a later real-time strategy game "Victoria 2". ..., not to mention that India was originally just a geographical term, and it was able to be unified like later generations, also because of the relationship between the British. Therefore, even if India is dismembered, it will only return to the original appearance of India.

However, no matter what, Yan Guang still has to meet Gandhi after all...

Although Yan Guang has always scoffed at "non-violence and non-resistance".

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After making a request to see Yan Guang through the Shanghai Municipal Government, Gandhi's request was quickly approved—————— in fact, even if the British did not inform him of this matter, Yan Guang would soon know about Gandhi's matter, after all, so much money from the Military Defense Bureau every year is not all in vain.

At this time, the British, after receiving the promise of the National Communist government, also quickly evacuated the people who were monitoring Gandhi. In fact, even if they did not withdraw, it would be useless, after all, after Gandhi's application, he had already been properly protected by the Military Defense Bureau.

In this case, we will not mention for the time being whether the British have the guts to take people into captivity, and even if they do, they do not have the ability.

Of course, if they can find 007, it wouldn't be possible, but 007 hasn't been born yet.

Therefore, although there was little trust in the promises of the Communist, the British could only do so.

In contrast to the frustration of the British, Gandhi himself was pleasantly surprised to learn of the consent, because his application had only just been submitted and was granted. You know, although Gandhi himself is very famous in India, but at most he is just an independent leader of India, and he is also the kind of advocate of "non-violent non-resistance", and now the application has just been submitted and approved, at least in Gandhi's opinion, this is a good start, and for this reason, Gandhi has great expectations for this trip.

"Mr. Gandhi, please..."

After entering Gandhi's room, a young man in his 20s said politely to Gandhi.

Gan nodded, and after taking his belongings, he followed the young man out of the room.

Outside, Gandhi's companions and members of the Military Defense Bureau had been waiting for some time, and those who saw Gandhi coming out naturally crowded up one by one, and the members of the Military Defense Bureau protected him in the middle.

When Gandhi and his party walked out of the hotel, they could even see a few Caucasian people standing in the corner outside.

The Caucasian did not hide their tracks, but the unwilling expressions on their faces made Gandhi understand something.

"Thank you..."

After getting into the car, Gandhi said to the young man who looked like a conductor.

"It's just our mission..."

The young man said to the driver.

"Drive!"

Looking at the cars in the distance, the faces of those Caucasian people were full of unwillingness.

Although Gandhi is still only a small role, everyone knows the importance of India to the British, so for a role like Gandhi, the British government has always wanted to deal with it quickly.

"Captain, can't you kill this guy..."

When the convoy had gone some distance, an Englishman spoke.

Since the creation of MI6's Division D, the intelligence unit specializing in sabotage and subversion has done many similar things, which is why the British would have proposed this.

"Nope." The captain shook his head. "Now we are still on the land of the Chinese, and this will anger them."

"But just let this Indian and Chinese......... If it was before, forget it, but now everyone knows the greed of the Chinese in the land, and if the Chinese support India as they did in Myanmar, then..."

Almost everyone knows that if the Communist government really supports the Indians as it does in Indochina, then ......, "Don't worry, Chinese have promised not to support the Indians..."

The captain wasn't convinced, but he continued.

"The Chinese should be well aware of the difference between India and Myanmar, so they won't touch this place..."

"This..."

"Okay, let's go, don't worry, India is the bottom line of Whitehall, if the Chinese really do anything in India, Whitehall will definitely not back down, and I believe that the Chinese will not exchange the gold-spraying Middle East for India, which has nothing..."

The captain still didn't say a word, that is, in his opinion, it is not necessarily himself who suffers by exchanging India for Iraq and Kuwait...

Obviously, Yan Guang thinks so too...

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Although the British did not like Gandhi, this was in China after all, so Yan Guang was still very relieved about Gandhi's safety.

And Gandhi himself also took this opportunity to take the train to Beijing, and by the way, he was enjoying the scenery along the way.

I have to say that everything along the way shocked Gandhi, because after more than ten years of development, the current China has completely become a different kind of China from the past China.

In particular, large-scale infrastructure construction has made the appearance of towns more and more westernized. However, perhaps it is the increase of national self-confidence, so the current China is not as blindly Westernized as it was in history, and at that time, even the remarks of abandoning Chinese characters could be thrown out in a grand manner.

Although China has invested a lot in infrastructure construction, many buildings still retain the ancient style, and there are even people on the street wearing "Hanfu" that has been restored...

Yan Guang's attitude towards this is neither for nor against, although Yan Guang does not like blind nationalism very much, but he has no reason to oppose this kind of movement initiated by the people, and each ethnic group has its own costumes, but the largest number of Han people do not, which is indeed a very strange thing...

(Recently, I watched the BBC documentary "Driving to China", which said that the assimilation of ethnic minorities by the Han Chinese made the young people not even wear their own national costumes.) The question is that are you sure that is sinicization and not westernization? You must know that none of these young people wear Hanfu... ）

Of course, none of this was a real subversion of Gandhi's notion of prosperity and opulence in the cities along the way.

Well, of course, it won't be as rich as Britain and the United States, but at least it's much better than India and South Africa.

Gandhi's impression of China was not a very rich country, at least until a decade ago China was a country that was not much better than India.

As for Shanghai?

In Gandhi's view, as the largest city in Asia, it is normal for Shanghai to be more prosperous, not to mention that Gandhi also heard the news that the "Empire State Building" was built by Yan Guang, at least Gandhi himself did not agree with this approach.

But even in Shanghai, these cities along the route are actually very prosperous, and all of this is changing Gandhi's concept...

When Gandhi arrived in Beijing, he looked at the city in front of him, which was different from Shanghai, and Gandhi was silent for a long time.

In Gandhi's view, if Shanghai shows a kind of youthful vitality, then Beijing shows a kind of stability after middle age. Although the architectural styles may be very different, Beijing at this time gave Gandhi the feeling of London, England, perhaps because of the precipitation of history...

"Mr. Gandhi, we have arranged accommodation for you at the State Guesthouse, and when you and your entourage are rested, we will arrange for you to meet the President..."

After Gandhi got off the train, an official in charge of the reception said.

In the vicinity of the train station, Gandhi unsurprisingly saw a few sneaky Caucasian people again. ..., "MI6..."

After a member of the Military Defense Bureau whispered for a while next to the officer in charge of the reception, the officer glanced at a few white men and sneered.

The British did not hide the identities of these people, so it was easy for the Military Defense Agency to get information about them, but these MI6 members were all hung with embassy identities, so it was difficult for the Military Defense Bureau to deal with them before they made a move.

The MI6 men had apparently heard the officials' laughter, but they didn't do anything other than a few of them with ugly faces.

In fact, they are standing here now, which is just an indication of the attitude of the British government.

"If you want to meet, you can meet, don't play any tricks..."

Gandhi's meeting with Yan Guang was a little unexpected by Gandhi's expectations.

On the first day, Gandhi arrived in Beijing, and had a good rest in Beijing, and on the second day, the official in charge of the reception took Gandhi on a tour of Beijing, and on the third day, someone had already come to pick him up early in the morning and take him to see Yan Guang...

Because the meeting between the two was not very formal, the meeting place was arranged at Yan Guang's villa on the outskirts of Beijing.

Not...

I should say that it is a luxury villa...

At least the companions who followed Gandhi all looked straight at each other, and Gandhi himself shook his head vigorously. Maybe it's because of the difference in perception, at least in Gandhi's opinion, such a luxurious life is wrong, but this time Gandhi came to ask for help, so he was not prepared to say more.

After entering the villa, after bypassing the pool that was large enough to keep whales and was a blue whale, Gandhi and his party saw Yan Guang waiting for a long time in front of the steps.

Seeing Yan Guang actually waiting in front of the steps, the group was very surprised, because Gandhi was just a small person at this time, and there was no need for Yan Guang to come out to greet him in person. However, in Yan Guang's view, if Gandhi is really as introduced in history, although Yan Guang cannot agree with many of his ideas, this does not prevent him from respecting such a great person, especially when Yan Guang believes that he cannot reach this height...

A person with high morals is worthy of respect, no matter what era he is.

In the living room, Yan Guang talked a lot with Gandhi, but it was limited to the horizontal relationship, and many times Yan Guang was listening and Gandhi was talking.

After talking for more than an hour, and the two of them talked about many topics such as philosophy (but they were all Gandhi and Yan Guang listened), Gandhi finally made a request for Yan Guang to help.

However, after pondering for a moment, Yan Guang shook his head and said.

"Personally, I still sympathize, well, sympathize with the Indian people, after all, more than ten years ago, we were bullied by the Western powers, just like the people of India..."

"However, there is a very important issue now, and that is that your party (the Congress Party) advocates non-violent non-resistance, which I do not agree with very much, because I think the people of India will not be able to free themselves from the rule of the British colonizers without violence..."

"And even though China is now one of the world's great powers, I don't think that China's support alone will make the British give up their rule over India......... If the people of India do not work their own..."

Putting aside the fact that Yan Guang didn't want to fight the British for the sake of India at this time, even if Yan Guang really thought so, the way he helped the Indians was contrary to Gandhi's philosophy.

Because the British can only be expelled from the land of India by violent means, and Gandhi and the Congress Party believe in "non-violent non-resistance", of course, not all Indians are like this, otherwise Gandhi himself would not be assassinated, but it is clear that those who believe in this dogma are the vast majority of ...... in India,

Gandhi apparently understood this as well, so he just said after listening to Yan Guang's words.

"So I just hope that your government will make a statement in support of the aspirations of the people of India for independence, and that it will be able to provide some assistance if necessary..."

It may not be that the idea of "non-violent non-resistance" cannot be abandoned, but after many years of practice, the idea of suddenly pursuing the other extreme will undoubtedly cause confusion in the Congress Party...

Although Gandhi himself sought only limited support, Yan Guang still did not agree...

Because before meeting Gandhi, Yan Guang had already promised the British that they would only meet and would not promise anything unfavorable to the British.

Approve of the independent behavior of the Indians? Is this bad for the British? Definitely, yes...

So Yan Guang can't agree...

In the face of Yan Guang's refusal, Gandhi was undoubtedly disappointed, but Yan Guang was indeed unable to help Gandhi in this matter, at least for now...

Although Yan Guang rejected Gandhi, in the end, Yan Guang still gave 100,000 Chinese dollars to Gandhi as the funds of the Congress Party, and Gandhi did not refuse, because 100,000 Chinese dollars is not a small amount for the Congress Party...

After a few days in Beijing, Gandhi left disappointed, even though Yan Guang had promised before leaving that he would help Gandhi at the right time, but Gandhi knew very well that the help Yan Guang was talking about was definitely different from what he hoped for.

And the most important point is that Gandhi knew very well that Yan Guang did not have any good intentions towards India, although it is not clear why this is the case, but Gandhi felt that way.

Unlike the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, Korea and Japan, India was not a vassal state of China in history, and even most of the time, India did not have much to do with China. And in terms of race, Indians are also different from yellow people, although it is a little strange, but darker Indians do belong to the white race, even if many Indians have the same dark skin color as blacks...

So, unlike other countries, Indians do not see China as the center, because India has not been a member of China's tributary system for thousands of years.

For example, in East and Southeast Asian countries, there are many people who regard China as hope, and even in Japan there are people like Miyazaki, and after China became stronger, although there have been many frictions, and even incidents such as the "Tokyo Massacre", there are still many people in Japan who regard China as the hope of East Asian civilization. But this is not the case with the Indians, who see China only as a help to get rid of British colonization, and it is one of them...

"China..."

While Gandhi was still practicing in the cabin, a young Indian named Nehru looked at the fading Empire State Building and whispered...

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Since Yan Guang did not hide his meeting with Gandhi too much, the British easily obtained the content of Yan Guang's conversation with Gandhi.

For Yan Guang's refusal, the British were also relieved.

Because on the Indochina Peninsula, the support of the Nationalist government for the Burmese independence forces has already made the British a little anxious, but because Burma is not a core British interest, it doesn't matter.

In fact, if it were not for the fear that the loss of Burma would allow India to engage with China's sphere of influence, there were even British parliamentarians who suggested that Burma should be abandoned...

If the Communist government really supported the anti-British organizations in India, although the Indians were not afraid of combat effectiveness (the British had tied Indians to cannons in the early years), it would still be an unimaginable disaster for Britain today, after all, Britain is no longer the Britain it was before the war...

And then...

Just like Gandhi thought, Yan Guang did not have good intentions towards India...... "Supporting India's independence is necessary, but not now..."

After sending Gandhi to the train station in person, ignoring the curious eyes of the people around him (curious about what kind of person he raised, it was actually worthy of Yan Guang to send him personally), Yan Guang faced Wang Yaowu and the others.

"If India can be independent from British rule, it will undoubtedly be equivalent to chopping off one of the claws of the British, but we must also know that India is different from Thailand and Vietnam, this country has its own independent civilization and culture, and it has not had much to do with us in history, so there are not as many pro-Chinese people in India as Japan, Thailand and other countries, and as a country with a population of more than 200 million, India is not comparable to Japan, Thailand and other countries in terms of population and territory..."

"It is important to free India from British colonization, but we can't keep such a behemoth around us, so even if we help India become independent in the end, we will dismember it like Indochina..."

Yan Guang is very clear about the blind and arrogant character of the Indians, if they help India get rid of colonial rule, there will be no problem in a short time, but after a long time, the Indians who are arrogant and begin to pursue the status of "superpower" will have friction with China.

At that time, India, with a population of hundreds of millions or even billions, will be in trouble for China.

Therefore, when India became independent, that was when he was dismembered.

Moreover, in order to conform to China's interests, India must be dismembered like several countries on the Indochina Peninsula, so that it can meet China's interests.

And in this way, it will also guarantee China's domination over the Indians...

"But in that case, why did the president just say to the man named Gandhi..."

Hearing Yan Guang's ruthless attitude towards India, Wang Yaowu said a little strangely, after all, Yan Guang was very respectful when he met Gandhi.

"Because he's a man I respect, and I think I'm not going to be able to do that..."

After patting Wang Yaowu on the shoulder, Yan Guang said...

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Well, it seems that the opinion is the same, that is, India must be dismembered, after all, it is not a good thing to raise a country like India next to it, especially since the arrogance of Indians is still unjustified...

In addition, about the Golden Gate Bridge, maybe it was too excited when the code word was written, and as a result, it was not yet born to be coded into an unfinished ~~~

Then again, Gandhi should be the one who has no stain on his personality, right? At least that's what I know, so I still have a lot of respect for this old man.

ps: But I'm more speechless about his "non-violent non-resistance" - u-c-t-x-t-[UC e-book] The end of the text [UC e-book]-u-c-t-x-t