Jiang Baili frowned, and the war clouds over Myanmar were even thicker than those over Europe at one time. On the surface, it appeared to be a regional war in which the British suppressed a colonial uprising.

In fact, in the eyes of many international politicians, it is the old rivals of the British, the Germans, or the rising China that are trying to challenge the British for global colonization.

The predecessors divided the earth like a cake, and later people wanted to eat it, and there was only one way: grab!!

At this point, the so-called Western political leaders agreed that the newly rising Red Soviet Union, Germany, and the Chinese should be added to the alert list.

"According to our established strategy, a large-scale war with the British should be avoided as much as possible until the situation in the world deteriorates further. So as to ensure that we have enough energy to invest in the next once-in-a-century opportunity to rise. However, Myanmar has emphasized many times that only by obtaining access to the sea from Myanmar will we have a huge advantage in global trade. ”

Jiang Baili got up and walked to the huge world map on the wall of his office, pointed his baton near the coastline of Burma in the Indian Ocean, and nodded, "We are all engaged in the military, and the economic problem is in terms of the distance of sea transportation. Through an efficient China-Myanmar railway, our route to Europe can shorten the distance of thousands of nautical miles compared with Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangzhou, and even Shandong.

Malacca, as an important waterway in the world, was controlled by the British relying on Singapore, and the entire waterway was dominated by Western forces, which was very unfavorable to the development of maritime trade during the critical period.

Militarily, having an important access to the Indian Ocean will allow the Chinese Navy to drive deep into the Indian Ocean in the future, bypassing Malacca and heading for Europe. Otherwise, if there is no such outlet to the sea, not to mention the intricate situation in Malacca, and not to mention the various arrangements that Britain, France, the United States and other countries may make in Malacca, the fleet will face the same problem as the Europeans conquering Asia when it starts from the mainland, and the road is too far away.

Of course, in addition to this, as long as we have complete control of Burma, we can effectively block the British power in the Far East, and thus lay a solid foundation for the future grand strategy of Southeast Asia. ”

After Zhang Shusheng listened, the general situation was just as Jiang Baili said, the important surnames in Burma and the dangers that might arise from a rash war with the British made people have to be cautious.

Cai Yi remembered the intelligence sent by the Ministry of Special Intelligence to the Ministry of Defense before, and couldn't help reminding, "The British, especially the British mainland, a considerable number of politicians and public opinion newspapers believe that the war in Burma was provoked by the Germans, but they only borrowed our hands and armed the Burmese nearby according to the geographical advantage. For us, the British are hated and jealous. They hate us for playing tricks behind our backs, and they are afraid that we will completely tear our faces and stage a war between the old empire and the emerging countries in Asia in advance. ”

"Hehe, my Minister Cai, if it were us, we would have the same worries as the British. It is said that if you sit on the throne of the Immortal Empire for a long time, you will inevitably worry about this and that. As the saying goes, the barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, the British have a big business, which colony is their heart, the old empire is weakening, if you don't think about war, their only way out is to make up your mind from the colony. Dump their products, or loot resources and food, and obtain extremely cheap labor, never injecting the blood of evil into their vast and weakened empire. ”

Zhang Shusheng knew very well what the British were thinking, although they had been winning victories since the Anglo-Spanish, Anglo-Dutch wars, and even the Opium War, they also relied on the support of the United States, a 'foreign compatriot', to win the war in World War I. However, the victor of this so-called civilized world always has a sense of crisis, fearing that his colonies will be robbed, and that his world hegemony will be robbed.

Therefore, they are desperately colonizing the world, they are desperately arming their own navy, and they are crazy about building dreadnought-class, super-dreadnought-class and other battleships, in order to maintain their colonial hegemony derived from maritime supremacy.

This is also why the British and French hated the Germans so much that they constantly compromised and regressed, and the policy of appeasement did not hesitate to sacrifice their allies to satisfy the appetites of the Germans.

Don't they see the ambitions of the Germans? No, they can see it.

Don't they know the serious consequences of Germany becoming stronger? No, they can see it too.

It's just that the appeasement, luck and arrogance of the British and French put them on a path to death.

Zhang Shu stared at the world map on the wall, thinking about the current situation of world international relations, and suddenly, his mind flashed suddenly, and he suddenly smiled, "My two ministers, it seems that we have all fallen into a trap. ”

"Huh? What does the chairman mean? ”

Cai Ye and Jiang Baili's eyes lit up, is there a better way?

Of course, they all knew that if the Germans could step across to Asia, then it would be best for them to fight the British, and at the very least, they could fight remotely, just like the Boer War. But not at the moment, Burma is surrounded by British and French forces.

Zhang Shusheng stroked his palms and smiled, and then said, "I also just remembered a report handed over to me by the Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday. In fact, the current situation in Myanmar is very simple, the Burmese want to read, but the British naturally refuse. The British did not rashly expand the scale of the war at the beginning, because they were worried about triggering a second war between China and Britain, and at the same time, they also believed that the Germans were behind the Burma incident.

The most pressing problem at the moment is that the British have made up their minds to reinforce and strangle the Reading War. And the overall lack of training of the Burmese People's Army, and the combat effectiveness of the Burmese indigenous people is too low.

Therefore, the key to solving the Myanmar problem lies in two things.

The first is to turn the Germans from potential behind-the-scenes players into real ones.

Second, since the Burmese can't fight, and our People's Army can't move easily, then find an army that can fight, at least against the British. ”

"I !! myself"

"I !! myself"

The more Cai Yi and Jiang Baili listened, the more pleasantly surprised they became, but they didn't expect a complicated problem to make the chairman find a solution. Frankly speaking, Zhang Shusheng has not participated too much in military decision-making, but only set goals in the general direction, but this time, Zhang Shusheng has shown a skill that the world's top leaders often have: touching the bypass.

He never started from purely military or political thinking, but from the pragmatism of solving problems, and with a whim, he found the best way.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, then strode to the map, pointed to the border between China and Myanmar and said, "In the report two days ago, I said that I still have the last batch of more than 60,000 prisoners of war in the southwest. Although this group of prisoners of war was not one of the seven most elite first-class divisions, they were the officers and men of the main division. If it weren't for the fact that they were far away in the southwest, he would definitely exchange them for Koreans first. ”

Zhang Shusheng was referring to the part of the "Korean Labor Agreement" in the "Final Solution of the Sino-Korean Prisoner of War Issue" that was finally finalized by China and Germany. He said that he used the Koreans under his rule to form a labor league and went to China to participate in China's large-scale construction in full swing.

At present, there are more than a million North Koreans working across the country. Although they were in China, they lived in labor camps, and as the project progressed, they were constantly on the move, and they were not even free to eat, wear, live and move.

The Chinese government refused to regulate the laborers, and the agreement stipulated that the laborers would be a "labor exchange organization" provided by the Chinese government, and that the Chinese military would only exercise deterrence and supervision.

Under the harsh management of the labor officials, the North Koreans stayed in the labor camp with peace of mind under the 'protection' of the Chinese [***] team.

Of course, the Chinese political axe is relatively benevolent, and at the very least, the laborers still get a penny, which is unimaginably low compared to the Chinese workers, but it is enough to surprise the Koreans under colonial rule.

According to the latest situation, some North Koreans who are accustomed to staying in Chinese labor camps have fallen in love with this kind of life of having food to eat and money to spend, although they are more tired than pigs and dogs in doing work, but in North Korea, they are also inferior to pigs and dogs. After all, the person who manages them here has no guns, only whips and batons, and he does not dare to kill them at will, and the civilized Chinese never start beating them, and the one who beats them is the manager of the damned labor camp, Yue himself.

The Koreans gradually discovered that instead of being enslaved in Korea, it was better to come to China to work, although it was extremely tiring, but it was better than at home. He also found that China's huge infrastructure projects require a lot of laborers because of the many dangerous projects, and those captured Korean laborers have performed very well in China, whether it is building roadbeds or digging dams, they are 100 times more diligent than when they were working for the empire in Korea.

He himself has also begun to plan that perhaps he can discuss more with the Chinese political axe and use more North Korean laborers in exchange for Chinese support.

Zhang Shusheng: "I am now receiving assistance from the Germans every day to develop military and industrial strength, so when they are full, they always have to do some work to prove their worth."

Nazi fascism is not something that can be achieved just by shouting slogans, we should do Hitler a favor and make him more obedient.

If the prisoners of war are released immediately, they will be escorted to the Sino-Burmese border. In addition, they immediately contacted the Germans and asked them to urge them to reorganize the 60,000 prisoners of war who were stranded in China and "refused to leave" into the Burmese Legion, and announced to the public that this prisoner of war camp close to Burma had been bribed by the Burmese and voluntarily joined the "Yueben People's Volunteers". ”

Cai Ye and Jiang Baili discussed it in a whisper, and then said, "Chairman, this plan is completely feasible. The General Staff will be able to come up with a plan by tonight at the latest, and it will be placed in your office tomorrow. ”

"Okay, let's do it."

Zhang Shusheng waved his hand, signaling that the two could leave, and turned to look at the entire Southeast Asian territory, with a lot of thoughts in his heart. After all, Cai Yi and Jiang Baili did not know that the later generations of the British and French Far East Coalition forces in Southeast Asia were as miserable as pigs and dogs, and in the end they had to rely on the Kuomintang to form an expeditionary force to participate in the war.

It is not that his combat effectiveness far surpasses that of the British army, but the key is that the British and French Far East armies are really outdated and poorly trained, and the commanders are also nth class non-excellent officers who have been 'dispatched' to Asia.

And this time, Zhang Shusheng decided to let them enjoy the ravages of Yue himself in advance, knowing that there are more than 60,000 Yue troops, plus the Burmese are about to expand to the so-called scale of 100,000 people, and the combat strength of the coalition army will be at least about 100,000 at that time. Well, the British are really in big trouble.

Actually, there is another very important reason why he did this.

It is said that Ben will be more thoroughly integrated into the 'fascist harmonious family' than it was in the original history, and its strength will inevitably increase, and if they abandon China as an adversary, they are likely to achieve miracles in the Far East and even in Southeast Asia as a whole.

The early outbreak of the war in Burma was a golden opportunity to weaken some of their own forces, or at least, to make them slower than China.

And there is often a common problem in wars, the initial combat target may only be the Volunteer Army, but once he achieves a big victory and sees the great results achieved by the 'Volunteer Army' in Burma, he will inevitably covet Southeast Asia even more, which will lead to many good things that can make Zhang Shusheng hold tea and slowly savor it.

After all, there are all kinds of resources, food, markets, and people that make them laugh when they fall asleep.

"As long as China has absolute power, I am a good dog."

Han Jing, German Ambassador to China Rimmel suddenly received a secret appointment from Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhou Guolai. And when he drove to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in his beloved world-famous car: Zhonghua Model A (English brand name: China), he still couldn't help but sigh along the way.

"Oh, if the great head of state visits China, he will be surprised."

Sitting in the back seat, Reimmel couldn't help but recall that when he returned to China last year to report on his work, Führer Hitler summoned him to ask him a photograph and asked him to assure him that the photo was Hanjing, the capital of China, and not San Francisco, or other Western cities with a high concentration of Chinese.

The photo shows a street scene taken by German agents in Hanjing, with a dazzling number of cars passing through the streets, and China's largest bicycle, which is crowded with bicycle lanes. The huge advertisement on the bus is actually a photo of the bus outside the bus, with an advertising slogan on it, "There are dreams, there are rainbows, rainbow TV sets are grandly listed!" ”

Rainbow TV, of course, is well known to China's Tongrimmel, because its English name "rainbow" has been marketed in the United States, and they have begun to appear in Europe, and it is even reported that the Germans even took the initiative to propose a joint factory to China's Rainbow Group, preparing to build a new era of propaganda tools: television stations, using locally produced Chinese TV sets, to sell to German families.

In China, Rimel, who was even more interested in Chinese affairs than in Europe itself, saw that in 1936, there were about 10,000 television sets in the country's cities and some particularly wealthy rural areas, and there was one television station, Chinese state television. However, in September 1937, the newly launched Rainbow Family Popular Edition TV set was sold at a price of 200 yuan internally, which means that middle-level Chinese workers, clerks, soldiers, teachers, and other families only need to spend 1 to 2 years of savings to buy a television. The construction of television stations was also very rapid, from the initial 1936 to try to broadcast news, documentaries and song and dance performances, to September 1937, the addition of Hanjing TV, Southwest TV, Beiping TV, bringing the total number of TV stations in China to four.

He has become more and more interested in China, and even plans to immigrate to China after retirement.

When he first came out, Remel was still watching TV, first watching a theatrical performance that he hadn't learned for half a year, and then a very important program that just appeared this year: a TV series.

A TV series with a total of 10 episodes, which reflects the war, "Soldiers in the City", in the form of a half-documentary, half-feature film, for the first time brought the novelty of TV dramas to the Chinese. In the play, the fierce battle between the Chinese and the Yuben army, the rapid change of the battlefield situation, the heroic and tall middle [***] people, and the brutal Yuben soldiers, formed a stark contrast.

The real black-and-white battlefield allowed the Chinese to truly see the cruelty of war for the first time.

According to the newspaper, when the TV series was broadcast, there were thousands of empty alleys where there were TV sets everywhere. Guangzhou Daily reported that in a rural village in the southwest, a family of demobilized soldiers in the village owned the only television set. And in order to let the villagers see this TV series that truly reflects the battle he once participated in, the old soldier even boiled tea every night and moved the TV set outside the house for the whole village to watch.

The veteran soldier even had to beat gongs and drums every night after the TV program preview to inform the villagers, and for such a Chinese, Remel was shocked while understanding.

"Damn, compared to this TV series of the Chinese, the European TV series is simply dishwashing water that should be poured into the smelly gutter."

Still immersed in the TV series that he had just finished watching, Remel, led by the staff of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, walked into a non-external building of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

...... "What? Dear Zhou, you're kidding. The Nazis were peace-loving and would not get involved in any war that could lead to a sharp deterioration in European relations. ”

Remel looked at Zhou Guolai, the Chinese vice minister of foreign affairs who was accustomed to dealing with the other side, shook his head, and anxiously forgot to say it in Chinese, and said quickly directly in German.

"Please note, Ambassador Remel, I have heard you say that you have participated in advance in your statement, and it is clear that the German political axe does not reject war, nor will it not, nor should it pass away this golden opportunity to make trouble for the British." Zhou Guolai smiled and repeated in his equally proficient German-like German German that Remel had just said because he was too anxious to say in Chinese.

Remel shrugged, took out a cigar, and after seeing Zhou Guolai signaling that it was okay, he nodded to himself and took two puffs comfortably, "Dear Zhou, this matter is not as simple as you Chinese political axe thinks. As soon as the British get the handle of our German political axe, Europe will definitely be in trouble. ”

Zhou Guolai shook his head and said, "Ambassador Remeer, you may have forgotten that Germany also has an ally in Asia that 'has not yet proven its role,' and I say myself. Here's a letter of proposal that you can take a look at. It may help you decide how to decide. ”

Remel took the suggestion suspiciously, and then looked at it, and the more he looked at it, the tighter his brow wrinkled, and finally he laughed, "Dear Zhou, this is really an excellent solution. There are already many voices in Germany that are skeptical of the gratuitous help he himself has made in Asia.

Although this voice was muffled by the Führer's personal charisma, the military and political leaders of the country believed that it might be better to spend their energies on himself than on Italy.

Now, there is a wonderful opportunity for them to prove their abilities, both to receive all kinds of assistance and to increase the depth of cooperation between the fascist countries. ”

What Reemmel said was not a secret, Germany's doubts about the German alliance did exist, and many German [***] dignitaries advocated that these resources and aid should be used to support Italy, but Hitler insisted on "propping up" himself.

"Yes, it is said that Ben is a belligerent country, and it is not their forte to bury their heads in development, Remel, frankly, a wolf who has never seen blood and a wolf who has tasted blood are completely incompatible." With his usual smile, Zhou Guolai described a future scene to Rimeer, "Think about it, one day in the future, when Germany needs to contain the British or the French more in Asia, and at that time, I am already deeply fascinated by Southeast Asia, what wonderful things will happen at this time......

"Hahaha, Zhou, my respected Zhou, the future you said is full of reverie, it's really a fascinating situation." Rimel could not help but imagine the day in the future, when Southeast Asia would be filled with his own troops, and the British might even be driven to the edge of the Indian Ocean, and he could not sit still, but wanted to go back and write a report at once.

"Thank you, friend of Germany, Zhou!"

"Hahaha...... Ambassador Remel, the Chinese and the Germans are very good friends, and naturally I would like to see you overpower the British. ”

Remel nodded, and pressed the suggestion on the table, "I will contact the ambassador to Japan and work with him to make my best report to the country, which will be a win-win situation for all parties." Personally, I think that the likelihood of approval is very large, of course, the key is how much special expenses the Führer is willing to approve. ”

"Don't worry about this, as long as the German political axe is willing to pay, we will be happy to provide weapons. Our trade tenet is that where there is business, there must be money. ”

(To be continued)