Chapter 541: Armed Forces

After the occupation, Dien Bien Phu was very peaceful, the people here have become accustomed to being occupied and ruled by others, they used to be a subject state of the Manchu court, and then the French came and became a colony of the French, and now the Chinese are here again, and life is still the same.

In the hazy night, a group of people are secretly meeting in a rice shop with a closed door.

"Comrade Ho Chi Minh, now that the Chinese have completely occupied this place, it seems that they want to stay here for a long time, but I didn't expect that the Chinese people have just driven the French invaders away, what should we do?"

"Yes, not only did they occupy the airfield, but they also bulldozed all the minefields around the airfield, and they nearly doubled the size of the airfield. Now that the Huaxia troops around Dien Bien Phu have reached the size of two infantry divisions, what do the Huaxia people want to do? ”

Listening to the discussion and puzzled expressions of his subordinates, Ho Chi Minh was also puzzled, these Chinese sent so many troops, should they also turn this place into their colony like the French?

Ho Chi Minh took a long breath and said slowly: "Can't you see this, I guess they want to stay in Dien Bien Phu for a long time." ”

"What? Long-term stationing? ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard Ho Chi Minh's words, originally thinking that with the help of the Chinese to drive out the French, Vietnam would be able to become independent, but they didn't expect that now it is the front door to reject the wolf and the back door to enter the tiger.

After being quiet for a while, a young man jumped up and blushed and said, "How can this be, we finally drove out the French, why are the Chinese garrisoning here again?" ”

"Yes, we should negotiate with them, and Vietnam's affairs should be handled by the Vietnamese, and we must not let people station troops on our territory anymore."

"Okay, everyone, stop arguing, what's going on, I think we'll know when the negotiators sent by the Huaxia government come tomorrow." Ho Chi Minh stopped his men's quarrel, "Our quarrel here doesn't help things in the slightest, and we can only ask what they want when the negotiators from the Huaa government come." ”

Speaking of this, Ho Chi Minh remembered what the envoy of the Chinese government said a few days ago: "It is enough to give us back the land occupied by the French." It seems that the Chinese people have ideas about the territory of Vietnam, and Ho Chi Minh lit a cigarette and took a long puff, always feeling as heavy as pressing down on a mountain.

At noon the next day, Ho Chi Minh finally waited for the envoy sent by the Chinese government, but Ho Chi Minh did not expect that the Chinese government would actually photograph their foreign minister, Zhou Tiecheng, coming in person. In front of the city hall in Dien Bien Phu, Ho Chi Minh waited for Zhou Tiecheng, who had come from afar.

"Hello, Minister Zhou Tiecheng"

"Hello, Comrade Ho Chi Minh"

Zhou Tiecheng didn't seem to hear the other party's estrangement from Ho Chi Minh's title, and still shook hands with the other party with a smile.

"Comrade Ho Chi Minh, hello" Zhou Tiecheng's hand was held very strongly, but Ho Chi Minh just nodded lightly and withdrew his hand.

Zhou Tiecheng didn't care, and took a few entourages and Ho Chi Minh and others to the large conference room.

After the two sides sat down, Ho Chi Minh said: "Minister Zhou, it is not easy for you to come all the way to Vietnam, and we at the Vietnam Social Workers Party welcome your arrival, but before that, you should first tell us what you are here for." ”

Ho Chi Minh's words were very unkind, and several officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs next to Zhou Tiecheng pouted, "These Vietnamese are really dead ducks, obviously they have no ability at all, but they insist on pretending to have everything under control, don't they see that this is our army?" ”

Zhou Tiecheng's self-cultivation is very good, and he was not angry after hearing this, and said with a smile: "Okay, we will start formal negotiations now, this is the condition proposed by our government, you all take a look." Xiao Xu, send them the documents. The latter sentence was addressed to a Foreign Ministry official next to him.

A young man next to Mr. Zhou stood up, pulled out a stack of documents from a briefcase he was carrying, and handed them to the Vietnamese negotiators present. Ho Chi Minh took it and looked at it, and it clearly read: 1. As a symbol of Sino-Vietnamese friendship, the Huaxia government is willing to help the Vietnamese people establish their own democratic government, and is willing to take the lead in recognizing the legitimacy of the Vietnamese government. 2. In return, the Vietnamese people wanted to return to the Chinese people all the land north of Hanoi that had been taken away by the French invaders. 3. In order to help the Vietnamese people resist the invasion from the Western powers, Vietnam leased Cam Ranh Bay to the Huaxia government as a naval military base for a period of 100 years after the establishment of the Vietnamese government. IV. On the issue of the attribution of islands in the sea,

There was a crisp sound of "pop", and Ho Chi Minh was trembling with anger when he held the document in his hand, "You deceive people too much."

Originally, Ho Chi Minh thought that these Chinese people would be stationed in Dien Bien Phu like those French, but he didn't expect that they were even more ruthless than those French, and directly assigned Dien Bien Phu to their territory.

"Shamelessly, you said that you want to assign all the territories north of Hanoi to Huaxia, is this what your government calls democracy and morality?"

After reading the terms of negotiation put forward by the Huaxia government, all the Vietnamese delegates were furious, and the Huaxia government directly took away nearly one-eighth of Vietnam's territory by making such a move.

"Yes, that's the condition of our government, and it's a condition that can't be changed." Zhou Tiecheng raised the smile on his face, and said calmly: "This is the final condition formulated after consultation with our government, and this condition cannot be changed, if you don't want to, I don't think we have anything to talk about." ”

Ho Chi Minh held the table in front of him and looked at Zhou Tiecheng and his people angrily, he never thought that the Chinese people, who had always been known for their generosity and humility, could be so domineering, they were going to take away one-eighth of Vietnam's territory at once, which almost killed him.

Zhou Tiecheng said: "Comrade Ho Chi Minh, I don't think there is anything wrong here, Vietnam has never formally established a government, and let alone north of Hanoi, the whole of Vietnam was the territory of our Huaxia State during the Tang Dynasty, and now we can help you build a country It is already a big concession." ”

"We will never cede even an inch of land to you, unless all of us Vietnamese are dead." A Vietnamese representative stood up and shouted angrily, "We can fight for half a century to defeat the French, and we can fight for another half century to drive you away, we will not give in, comrades, let's quit together."

It is a pity that the Vietnamese delegate did not receive the support of his peers, and the anger was followed by calm, and these Vietnamese delegates, including Ho Chi Minh, did not leave the protest as soon as their brains were hot like this hot-blooded young man, they thought more about the problem.

Yes, they have resisted the thousands of French soldiers who came from thousands of miles away for half a century, and what if they rebelled against those Chinese people who were all at hand? How many years, fifty years? Or five hundred years?

"Minister Zhou, we will have to negotiate carefully before we can give you an answer, and I hope you can give us some time to think about it carefully." Ho Chi Minh stood up and looked at Zhou Tiecheng, although his tone was calm, the angry flames in his eyes could simply pierce people.

It's just a pity that if the eyes can kill, then human beings don't need to make those murderous weapons.

Zhou Tiecheng didn't expect a negotiation to be successful, he smiled and said: "Of course, of course, you have to discuss such a major matter in detail before you can make a decision, then I look forward to tomorrow's meeting." ”

The first meeting between the two sides can be said to be just a mutual temptation, but the result of the trial made the Vietnamese stunned, and the aggressive attitude of the Chinese government can be said to be completely unexpected by the Vietnamese, so that Ho Chi Minh did not have time to react.

Looking at the Vietnamese delegates who had left with unhappy expressions on their faces, several foreign ministry officials behind Zhou Tiecheng couldn't help but be a little worried.

"Minister Zhou, do you think those Vietnamese will agree to our terms?"

"They will." Zhou Tiecheng smiled mysteriously, "Because they don't have the capital to bargain with us." ”

After returning to their residences, all the Vietnamese delegates sat down for a meeting again, and everyone was silent. Don't look at the fierce shouting they just made at the negotiation meeting, but their own family knows their own affairs, and the current Vietnamese Social Workers Party can be said to be poor and white, and they do not even have a decent armed force, and their greatest reliance is nothing more than the support of the local Vietnamese people. If the Huaxia government really wants to come to Heng, they really have no way at all.

"Are we really going to give the land north of Hanoi to the Chinese?" One delegate said with some pessimism.

Someone replied in frustration: "If we don't give them to us, what can we do, do we still want our men to use broadswords and spears against their machine guns and cannons?" ”

"Armed, we must have our own armed forces" Ho Chi Minh secretly made up his mind in his heart, he raised his head and looked at the participants and said: "Comrades, we can see from the lessons of this time that our biggest weakness is that we do not have an armed force of our own, first the French, and then the Chinese can bully us, so we must have our own armed forces this time, this time we can temporarily bow our heads, But in the future, we must rely on our own strength to regain what we have lost. ”