Chapter 333: Mossadegh

At the age of Prime Minister Mossadegh, especially in Europe and the United States, there are many such old politicians who discriminate against China in their bones, and they are also very stubborn, which is relatively rare in Iran, and the CIA has enough evidence to confirm that Prime Minister Mossadegh is not at all grateful to China for helping Iran get rid of British colonial rule, and perhaps in his opinion, if it were not for China, the Qajar dynasty would not have been overthrown, and Pahlavi would not have come to power.

It is certainly not an easy task to deal with such a stubborn old Iranian who hates China and has a deep prejudice against China.

Emperor Song Biao was still very sincere in preparing a good Wuyi black tea, and some traditional Iranian refreshments, and met Mossadegh in the rose garden, in addition to the emperor and Mossadegh, who was also accompanied by a first-class interpreter of the Imperial Embassy in Iran, and Mossadegh also had a young interpreter by his side.

The old man always seemed very calm, and the prime minister of Mossadegh did not know that Emperor Song Biao had already known all about his information, and he still seemed very humble on the surface, and used Chinese etiquette to meet Emperor Song Biao.

After the two sat down, they had a relatively simple conversation on the British colonial issue and Sino-Iranian cooperation, economic and trade cooperation, exchanged some views, and seemed to be very harmonious, and the Prime Minister of Mossadegh even admired Emperor Song Biao incomparably, and always kept praising the emperor and the Chinese Empire.

Emperor Song Biao listened to it and did not expose the old background of Prime Minister Mossadegh.

Mohammed, who lived in England, France and Switzerland for a long time. Mossadegh belonged to one of the rare Westernized Iranians, who were older, but not rigid or fundamentalist, and during his three years in office, his reform policies were effective without angering fundamentalist conservatives.

That's a rare thing.

For Iran, Emperor Song Biao has a kind of status as a supreme emperor, and Prime Minister Mossadegh seems to be applying for the post of Prime Minister of Iran, with elegant speech, humble demeanor, and many times quoting traditional Chinese classics of Confucianism to support his ruling ideas.

Listening to his dictation of the future of Iran, Emperor Song Biao found it quite interesting, as if it was the most perfect country in the world.

Emperor Song Biao just thought it was funny, because he knew very well that the Prime Minister of Mossadegh at the moment was more like a liar and was deceiving his trust.

The original meeting lasted only one hour, and Prime Minister Mossadegh wasted half an hour in this way, and Emperor Song Biao listened to the other party's half-truths without much words.

It is estimated that almost half of the time has passed, Song Biao consciously raised his wrist to look at the time, and saw that it was indeed 9:30, so he was ready to say something real.

Finding that Emperor Song Biao looked at his watch, Prime Minister Mossadegh politely stopped and did not continue to speak, but waited quietly, guessing that Emperor Song had other schedules in the future.

Song Biao also glanced at Mossadegh and said very frankly: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, I think you don't know me very well, and I also suggest that we say something really useful." I would like to make one question clear, that is, whether you are prejudiced against our country, as our intelligence officers have assumed, and have the intention of reviving the Qajar dynasty with the help of Britain and France. ”

Hearing this, Prime Minister Mossadegh was shocked, and his face turned pale as he looked surprised.

He hurriedly defended: "No, I think it's certainly not like this, I am full of gratitude to your country, maybe I did not clearly express such a view in the process of being in power, but this is my sincere words." Of course, I do not deny that in many projects in Iran, your consortium pursues interests too much and ignores the feelings of the Iranian people. As for the restoration of the Qajar dynasty, although I still have some contact with many officials and members of the royal family during the pre-dynastic period, it was only a normal interaction. Politics is realistic, Your Majesty, I will definitely not put Iran and the Iranian people at risk for those unrealistic illusions. ”

Listening to his defense, Emperor Song Biao looked quite satisfied with his head slightly, and said, "I think you must know that the empire has the best intelligence system in the world, so every word I say to you here has exact information to verify." I don't really care about what you really think as Prime Minister, I just need to remind you that if Shah Pahlavi does something that is not in the long-term interests of the Asian League, China and Iran, and the Iranian people, I am personally willing to consult with him, but if you want to do something that is not in the common interests of China and Iran, I can guarantee that the empire will definitely not sit idly by. For people of your age and me, we may still live in the old thinking habits, always believing in how powerful Western European and American countries such as Britain, France, Germany and the United States are, but times have changed drastically, and in today's world, our country has enough military strength to defeat any two other military powers at the same time, even if it is the Soviet Union and Germany, or Britain and the United States. At the same time, we have very high expectations for Iran, and we are willing to maintain the special and close alliance between China and Iran in perpetuity, and support Iran to become a stronger country, whether it is secular or religious, which is not particularly important to us, but the choice of the Iranian people. If, in the long-term cooperation, Iran needs to get more benefits, we can negotiate on this, China is not the traditional kind of Western powers, all the problems we face can be solved through consultation, because we really cherish friendship, but if you are sure to use that traditional and crude balancing trick of the great powers as a threat, I can guarantee that neither you nor Iran will have a good outcome. To put it simply, we need a sincere and courageous Iran as China's most important ally in the Middle East and West Asia, not a hypocritical and greedy self-serving and false ally. In the same way, if you as the prime minister do not want to be China's most sincere ally, then you should tell your people, tell your monarch, don't play these shoddy tricks with us, I will not interfere in your appointment as the prime minister of Iran, this is Iran's internal affairs, we will not interfere, but if I don't like you, China doesn't like you, we will also say it bluntly, if there is no improvement in the near future, we will directly tell the Iranian people that you are the one we don't like. "Obviously, if there is no improvement in the near future, we will directly tell the Iranian people that you are the one we don't like."

After saying this, Emperor Song Biao simply and forcefully continued to ask Prime Minister Mossadegh: "Do you understand what I said? ”

Prime Minister Mossadegh finally realized what it meant to be a world hegemon.

In his impression, even Britain did not have such a domineering moment, and in any case, he was the prime minister of Iran after all, how could he face such a direct threat. At the same time, he also understands that what he has done in the past two years has completely angered China and His Majesty.

After all, this is the legendary emperor as Alexander the Great, who was once known as the Napoleon of the East, but in fact, this emperor has already achieved far more than Napoleon.

The Prime Minister of Mossadegh did not know for a moment how to respond or how to respond to the questions and warnings.

He was silent, as if his heart was bearing the incomparably heavy weight of a Damavande peak.

Emperor Song Biao still stared at the Iranian prime minister he didn't like strongly and coldly, and after waiting for a while, he couldn't wait for Prime Minister Mossadegh's answer before he said again: "As a monarch of the empire, I hope you can have good cooperation with my prime minister in the future, jointly maintain Sino-Iranian relations, maintain the unity of the Asian League, and also as a monarch, I hope you can be loyal to your monarch like my prime minister, if you can't be loyal to your country and your monarch, I suggest resign now, Don't be a person who destroys your country and destroys the constitutional monarchy, that would make you a sinner for the Iranian people. ”

The prime minister remained silent for a while, and he began to realize that he was under pressure and that he might not have a better choice than to resign. He had never thought about what it would mean to offend Emperor Hua and China before, but now, he understood, but it was too late.

When he was considering whether to resign or find another way to solve the problem, Emperor Song Biao looked at his watch again and said: "I don't think there is any need to waste any more time later, if you want to negotiate specific diplomatic and administrative matters, you can consult with our country's Deputy Foreign Minister and Minister of Finance, and they will give you a good answer." As for whether you choose to resign, or change yourself and serve your country and your monarch in a better way, I think it is your own choice, and what I and my country will still have to do is to wait and see, but I would like to warn you not to continue to provoke your country, especially when I know what kind of person you are. ”

After saying this, Emperor Song Biao ignored the prime minister very coldly, and asked the chamberlain next to him to light a cigar and sit in his rattan chair to enjoy the beautiful view of the rose garden of the Gulestan Palace.

Prime Minister Mossadegh was still struggling silently in his heart, and he still seemed to be very calm in the face of the Empire's harsh criticism, but the struggle and panic in his heart could be seen from his slightly trembling hands.

At the end of the hour-long meeting, the chamberlain persuaded the reluctant Prime Minister Mossadegh to leave.

After he left, Emperor Song Biao also sighed helplessly.

History always has its inevitable trajectory, but he still does not want the Iranian revolution to happen, which will be unprecedented bad news for the empire, in fact, there is nothing worse and more terrible than Iran becoming a religious country.

It is unrealistic for the empire to prop up its own prime minister to power in Iran, and even if it is reluctantly achieved, it will do so at the cost of damaging the long-standing friendship and interests of China and Iran.

All the empire can do is to send more advisers and scholars, provide better professional advice and think tank advice to Iran, provide better technical assistance to Iran, export imperial reformism, and slowly maintain the long-term ruling environment of moderate reformers in a stable situation.

Emperor Song Biao is not an Iranian, so he can't think about how to make the country rich and strong from the perspective of Iranians, and the only person who can answer this question in the end is the Iranians themselves, and this sometimes really requires luck.

In a way, Islamic countries like Iran, Afghanistan, and Iraq are a hundred times more difficult to become modern and powerful than China.

Iran, perhaps, needs a good monarch.

It was in the rose garden of the palace of Gulestan that Emperor Song Biao suddenly thought of a method that might make a difference, and he decided to send the prince of the Pahlavi dynasty to study at the Central Imperial University, and serve as an internal chamberlain by his side, which he would train.

Iran is very important, if there is a problem here in Iran, once there is a religious revolution, the entire Middle East will always be irreconcilable, the empire is the world hegemon and controls the Middle East region, it will inevitably be responsible for the long-term stability of the Middle East.

If the empire is unable to effectively control the Iranian problem, and does not at least make Iran a quasi-modern state similar to Turkey, the future challenges that the empire will face in the Middle East will be terrible, which is simply unimaginable.

The current prince of the Pahlavi dynasty is Reza Khan. Muhammad, the eldest son of the Pahlavi king. Reza. Pahlavi, Crown Prince Reza is 21 years old this year, Chen Wu established a complete set of military education system for the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran during his tenure as the top military adviser in Iran, which is basically completely transplanted to the military education of the empire, the king is very doting on his crown prince, and initially did not want to send him to the military school, under the persuasion of Chen Wu, Prince Reza entered the Tehran Youth Military Academy at the age of 14, and after graduating from the youth military academy, Crown Prince Reza did not study at the Tehran Military Academy in Iran, Instead, he went to study at the Far Eastern Army Non-commissioned Officer School in Shenyang, China, and transferred to the International Branch of the Far Eastern Military Academy for three years.

As a leading country with the highest level of military education within the Asian League, China is bound to have the responsibility to train first-class military experts and generals for other member countries of the Asian League, but the Central Military Academy will never be open to the outside world, and the Far Eastern Military Academy, which is second only to the Central Military Academy in imperial education, will have to assume this responsibility, and the international branch of the Far Eastern Military Academy is located in Vladivostok, which belongs to the military school with a comprehensive surname, and consists of more than 20 departments and departments, such as the navy, air force, army, staff officers, intelligence, logistics, and national defense science and technologyThere are many majors, excellent teachers, and the average number of new students is only more than 300 per year, and there are only a dozen students in each class, and the elimination rate is also very high.

Young members of the royal families of Brunei, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia and other royal families receive military and modern science, philosophy and political education at the international branch of the Far Eastern Military Academy.

Emperor Song Biao had some impressions of Crown Prince Reza, because he had met this young man two years ago and had invited him and a prince of the Saudi royal family to a summer resort in Chengde for a vacation.

Like the Imperial Crown Prince Yuhua, Emperor Song Biao would definitely suggest that Crown Prince Reza go to the School of Political Science and Law of the Central Imperial University to study for a master's degree in international politics, and then send Crown Prince Reza to the Inner Court for a few years to serve as a chamberlain after graduating from the Central Empire, or arrange a job as a researcher in the Central Policy Bureau.

It's all a good arrangement.

Of course, Emperor Song Biao did not want Crown Prince Reza to become a very tough emperor in the future, which is certainly not a good thing, so the two-year master's degree at Central Imperial University is a very important process.

As a world hegemon, it has a lot of world responsibilities to consider and bear, especially for the Asian region, China bears very important responsibilities, and if Asia is unstable, the empire's position as a world hegemon will be unstable, and this is a very simple basic truth.

After meeting with Prime Minister Mossadegh in the morning, under the arrangement of Finance Minister Chen Jin, Emperor Song Biao continued to meet with several tribal leaders from southern Iran, as well as some religious leaders in Iran, including the opposition leader of the Iranian parliament, Ayatollah. Hassan. Mordays.

The ayatollah is the honorific title of the religious leader of the Shia sect in Iran, and it is also a very high priesthood, there are only 12 ayatollahs in the whole of Iran, and the highest leader is called the Grand Ayatollah.

King Reza Khan was an anti-clerical king, because the impact and squeeze of Iran's clerical power on the royal power was very powerful, and if the king wanted to promote Iran into a modern country, sectarian institutions and religion were also his worst enemies.

The CIA is one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world, and they not only collect military, economic, scientific, technological, and political intelligence of various countries, but also collect poll data of various countries, and these poll data and other intelligence are shared with the Central Policy Research Bureau, which itself is the most important think tank of the CIA and the Central Cabinet.

According to the research of the Central Bureau of Policy Research, the situation in Iran is indeed very complicated, and most of the grassroots people themselves are anti-Shah's modernization policy, and the state adviser appointed by the empire in the Kingdom of Iran is Mapuren.

Ma Puren was a native of the Ma family of the Hui nationality in Gansu Province, graduated from the Central Imperial University, served two terms as governor of Gansu Province and a member of the Standing Committee of the Religious Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, and after Chen Wu's return to China, he was appointed by the Central Cabinet to serve as Iran's state adviser, and with him arrived in Iran to replace Chen Wu's top military adviser Ma Zhongying.

After the pacification of the northwest, Ma Zhongying entered the Central Military Academy for further study, was a regiment commander of a cavalry regiment during the Sino-Soviet War, and then served in the Novosibirsk Military District for a long time, and retired two years ago with the rank of lieutenant general.

After his arrival in Iran, Mapuren also believed that the religious problem in Iran was still very serious, and repeatedly suggested that King Reza Khan should adopt some more moderate measures, but it seems that these new policies have not worked very well.

As a state adviser, Ma Puren had a good relationship with Iran's religious institutions, and he also greatly respected Iran's Grand Ayatollah Brujdi. Hassan. Morday's relationship is also very good, and this time it is he who accompanies the opposition leader Ayatollah. Mo Dai said that he met Emperor Song Biao.

For these people, Song Biao's posture was still very soft, and the conversation was very harmonious throughout the afternoon, but in the process of talking, Song Biao could also feel that these ayatollahs subconsciously regarded him as a criminal infidel.

Religion is a good thing, but sometimes it's a bad trouble.

The most complicated part of Iran's problem is that its religious rejection is too strong, and all non-believers are natural enemies in their hearts, either to kill or to convert.

This kind of thinking is really scary.

In the afternoon with opposition leader Ayatollah. After Mo Dai said that he was very harmonious on the surface, Emperor Song Biao felt a real tricky complication and headache in his heart, and even people like him couldn't find any solution at all.

Anthropologists have suggested that cavemen perished because their populations adhered to traditional culture and hunting methods, and did not adapt to changes in the natural climate, which led to the mass disappearance of the population, which eventually led to extinction.

Sticking to backward lifestyles, ideas, morals, laws, and social rules is a major factor in the self-destruction of the human race.

After sending these opposition leaders and religious figures away, Song Biao was very troubled, because this was the first time he felt that it was so difficult to change the world, and he had no way to solve these problems.

That being the case, he came to a very simple conclusion.

If the problem cannot be solved, and if it cannot help one side to gradually eliminate and suppress the other, the empire should maintain friendship more broadly, or neutrality, and at the same time resolutely prevent the emergence of religious states in principle.

Even if it is difficult to find a suitable friend on the religious side, the empire should still be a qualified friend on both sides, acting as a mediator, maintaining a channel of communication and a non-intensifying relationship for both sides, so that both sides can tolerate what the other is doing.

That's the only way.

This itself is a barrel of explosives, and if you set it on fire, it will definitely spread to China in the end and cause more trouble for China.

(To be continued)