With the successive victories of the Chinese National Defense Forces on the battlefield, the blue area representing the Great China Federation on the world map in Chang Ruiqing's office was also expanding, and by November 1934, Central Asia and Siberia had entered the winter one after another, and the large-scale conflict between the Chinese and Soviet armies finally came to an end - although battle-level conflicts did not occur often, but the fighting between the Chinese and Soviet armies on the Central Asian and Siberian battlefields did not stop, and in some areas it was still very fierce.

For example, in September and October 1934, China's Central Asian Front launched the Battle of Samarkand and the Battle of Dushanbe, crushing two Soviet army groups, capturing eastern Uzbekistan and all of Tajikistan, and pushing the Central Asian Front south to the Sino-Indian border (by the way, Afghanistan is now part of the People's Republic of India).

On the battlefields of Central Siberia, East Siberia, and Kazakhstan, the Chinese Defense Forces also fought four battles of small scale with the Soviet Red Army, all of which ended in Chinese victories. In addition, there were countless battles below the scale of the campaign, especially in the vast and boundless Siberian forest, where countless life-and-death battles were waged between the Chinese reserve army and the Soviet Red guerrillas.

But after the arrival of winter, the offensive of the squadron finally came to an end. At the same time, the Soviet partisans also suspended most of their raids and sabotage activities, and hid in secret bases deep in the great forest to spend the winter. According to the recollections of the Red Army partisans who were later captured and surrendered, the extremely cold climate of Siberia was dozens of degrees below zero to cause no less damage to the Soviet Red Army partisans than the purging of the squadron. Most of the partisans who died in Siberia were not killed by the Chinese, but died in the vast forests due to cold, hunger and disease, and more than 90% of these non-combat casualties occurred in winter! So in the winter of each year. The Siberian Red guerrillas will suspend their attacks on the Chinese and use their main jīng forces against their main enemy, the Siberian winter!

By this time, the map of the Great China Federation had also temporarily stopped expanding, and had covered almost half of Central and Eastern Siberia, East Kazakhstan, all of Kyrgyzstan, all of Tajikistan and half of Uzbekistan in the north and northwest. In the south, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, the Lesser half of Borneo, Palawan, and many islands in and around the South China Sea became part of the jurisdiction of the Federation of Greater China.

But everyone knows that it's one thing to take down the turf. It is another matter to make the ground that has been laid down truly part of the Federation of Greater China. If the problem of digesting the territory is not properly handled, these hard-fought areas will not only provide resources and impetus for the development of the Greater China Federation, but will instead become a burden for the continuation of the war. So in this winter. The most important task facing Chang Ruiqing and the whole of China is how to digest the territory that has already been acquired.

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"Prime Minister."

As soon as Chang Ruiqing walked into the conference room of the Prime Minister's Office, a room full of civil and military officials and heads of parliamentary groups stood up and saluted.

"Don't salute, sit down and talk." Chang Ruiqing smiled and waved his hand. Let everyone sit back in their seats. He himself walked over to the main seat at the head of the conference table and sat down. Then he glanced at the attendees with blazing eyes. The participants in today's meeting were a bit of a miscellaneous, including not only generals in Wehrmacht uniforms, but also senior members of the Federal Reserve, heads of intelligence services, leaders of the ruling Chinese GCD, and several leaders of the parliamentary opposition parties. Including Jiang Jshi, Song Ziwen, Sun Yuexun and others, they all gathered together, filling a conference room that was not too small.

"Brother Jie, I heard that the Kuomintang has a high support rate in Vietnam. It seems that the first official prime minister of the Republic of Indochina is none other than the Kuomintang, and the brother here congratulates the brother in advance. Chang Ruiqing noticed that Lao Jiang's eyebrows were full of joy. I guessed it should be because of the election of the Indochinese Republic.

After the collapse of the non-violent Vietnamese Socialist Party, left-wingers in this party followed Nguyen Patriot to form the Indochinese GCD, and also joined the GC International to begin the path of the GCIST revolution. The mainstream wing of the Socialist Party of Vietnam merged with the Kuomintang branch in Vietnam to form the Nationalist Party of Vietnam, hoping to achieve Vietnam with the help of a strong China. But Pan Peizhu's Chinese big brothers are not so competitive, they lost to the GCD in both elections, and before the third election began, the Federation of Great China replaced France to "trusteeship" the Indochinese Republic - of course, China's "mandated rule" in the Indochinese Republic has no legal basis, neither the consent of France, the original suzerainty of French Indochina, nor the support of the French Indochinese people, it is not too much to say that it is Chiguoguo's aggression!

However, Chang Ruiqing, the aggressor, knew that relying solely on brute force to annex was the next policy, and although there was less trouble in the short term, it was not conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the annexed areas. Unless...... Use the means of ethnic cleansing to drive out the non-Chinese residents there! But in French Indochina, a region that has long been home to the Chinese diaspora and part of the Greater Chinese Cultural Sphere, ethnic cleansing was not useful or necessary. Therefore, Chang Ruiqing has adopted a kind of mínzhǔ constitutionalism to expand the evil path!

Well, it's really a very evil way! Moreover, relying on the evil cloak of constitutionalism cannot at all conceal the essence of aggression and expansion carried out by the Changda aggressors, and sooner or later it will be seen through by the working people of Greater East Asia, including the Chinese people. But for now, the people of French Indochina, Burma, Northwest Borneo and Malaya seem to be temporarily blinded.

Let's first talk about how this evil path came out. First of all, Chang Ruiqing and the ruling circles of the Great China Federation have never admitted that they are pursuing a line of aggression and expansion! Rather, he presented himself as the savior who saved the peoples of French Indochina, Burma, Northwest Borneo and Malaya from Western colonial rule. Thus completely erasing the history of the struggle of the working people in the above-mentioned areas against the Western colonizers......

Secondly, after successfully dressing yourself up as a savior. Chang Ruiqing and the reactionary Chinese ruling clique declared that French Indochina, Burma, Northwest Borneo, and Malaya were temporarily under Chinese trusteeship until the people there elected their own zhèngfǔ and a referendum decided that their country would be fully constituted or join the Federation of Greater China! Of course. Since the majority of the working people in these colonial countries did not have the most basic compulsory education and could not tell right from wrong (which is the slander of the often reactionary working people), only adults who had a new primary school education or higher or owned a certain amount of property and had lived in these areas for more than three years had the right to vote.

In other words, most of the overseas Chinese (including the He) in the above areas have the right to vote! In addition, the indigenous landlords and the bourgeoisie also had the right to vote, while the vast majority of the indigenous working people did not have the right to vote because they had not read any books!

It's worth emphasizing, though. This method of election and voting was not proposed unilaterally by the Federation of Great China, but was proposed in consultation with the local indigenous political factions. Political parties including the Kuomintang (KMT) (Vietnamese branch of the KMT), the Indo-Chinese GCD (Sino-G Indian Branch), the China-Burmese Association, and the Malayan People's Committee also nodded in agreement. Behind these "voluntary" consents, of course. China's intelligence services, the Chinese government, the Kuomintang and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association have all done some work to some extent. There are a few stubborn guys who are either caught in some kind of scandal, or they are found to be Soviet agents, rìben agents, in short, nothing good!

After successfully giving the right to vote to the Chinese who make up more than 30% of the total population of French Indochina, Burma, Northwest Borneo and Malaya, and more than 60% of the total number of "voters". There is no suspense about the referendum to join the Federation of Great China. In fact. Most of the local indigenous landlords and capitalists also wanted their country to join the Great China Federation, because during this time, the local newspapers were constantly propagating how miserable the fate of the indigenous landowners and capitalists of the Nanyang Federation under the rule of Rìben was - if their country did not become a member of the Great China Federation, then it would definitely be annexed by Rìben in the end!

The third issue in front of Chang Ruiqing is how to deal with these small Southeast Asian countries that are about to join the Great China Federation. Unlike the policy of "national autonomy" implemented by Yugoslavia and China in the history of the Soviet Union, the Great Chinese Federation in this time and space does not have the concept of national autonomy, and only local autonomy. In the Federation of Greater China, all local governments are elected by the voters, in other words, they are self-governing. In principle, the federation does not interfere in the appointment and dismissal of local officials and the issue of fiscal revenue and expenditure (federal and local taxes are separated. And the local zhèngfǔ and parliament also have a certain right to increase taxes). In a sense, there is no literal autonomous region in the current Greater China Federation. But each place is a real autonomous region, so the small countries of Southeast Asia that are newly incorporated into the federation will have local self-government.

However, the practice of local autonomy does not mean that local power is left alone, and if that were the case, all the countries in the world that practiced local autonomy would probably end up divided. In fact, in the current Greater China Federation, there are many means of exerting influence at the local level, and the most important means of this is the political party. The federal government and the federal political and legislative houses are elected by voters throughout the country (the federal zhèngfǔ is not directly elected but is elected by the two houses of the federal government and the legislature), and the local government of the federation is also elected by the same group of voters, so the party that controls the federal zhōngyāng must also be the big party above the federal local government.

For example, China's GCD, which is now loved and supported by the broad masses of the people, controls all provincial-level local governments except Guangdong (ruled by the Kuomintang) and Hong Kong (ruled by the Kuomintang), and is also the largest party in most provincial councils. Moreover, the main parties in all the local councils are almost exactly the same as the main parties in the federal zhōngyāng parliament, which are several national xìng parties, such as the Central G, the Kuomintang, the Progressive Party, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, and the National Socialist Party. After all, elections are extremely resource-intensive, and they are not the kind of small local parties that can continue to play forever.

And this time, while the federation has successfully expanded, the five major parties of the Greater China Federation are of course also gearing up to seize territory. Chang Ruiqing is also extremely supportive of the Chinese political parties' preparations to enter the new territory of the federation. Because he understands that no matter how these Chinese political parties are. They will certainly safeguard national unity, because they have political interests in all parts of the country, and they will never sacrifice the interests of the whole in order to curry favor with the voters of a locality.

In fact. Over the years, all the small local parties that have appeared have been jointly encircled and suppressed by the five major political parties without exception, and they have not been able to obtain funding from the big chaebols, and finally they have either joined the five major political parties. Or shut down.

Therefore, as long as these parties can integrate the indigenous political forces in the new territory of the Federation, even if it is the political territory of the Kuomintang, Chang Ruiqing will support it in the same way. Local political forces in French Indochina, Burma, Northwest Borneo, and Malaya. Chang Ruiqing will spare no effort to suppress it. Today's meeting is to discuss how the five major political parties can divide up the territory of these new territories and at the same time encircle and suppress the local political forces.

Therefore, hearing Chang Ruiqing's words, Jiang Jshi also smiled kindly: "Yes, this is all a good fate formed by the former prime minister." The influence of our Kuomintang in the Nanyang region has always been strong. As he spoke, he glanced at Sun Yuexun again. smiled and said: "But this time it is not only our Kuomintang that has gained a lot in Nanyang, Miss Sun's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association is also impressive!" ”

Hearing Jiang Jishi's words, Sun Yuexun just smiled faintly and did not speak. The position of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association was originally a non-Han citizen of the Federation, and the government was abundant in funds and had many modest means, so it developed extremely fast in Nanyang and could almost keep pace with the Kuomintang. However, the development of GCD, China's largest party, in the Nanyang region is not satisfactory. For example, in the Indochinese Republic of China, which is the first to hold a general election and a referendum, according to the latest polls. The Kuomintang (KMT) has about 40 percent support, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association (GA) has about 33 percent support, the CG has only 23 percent, and the Progressive Party (the National Socialist Party is a right-wing party with a certain number of supporters on its own soil, and of course no one will like it in this new territory) has negligible support.

Chang Ruiqing took Lao Jiang's words and said: "This time our purpose in Nanyang is to completely integrate and squeeze out the local political forces, as long as we can hold the local votes in our hands, no matter who is elected, I will support it." Speaking of this, he paused: "There is one more thing I want to discuss with you today, I want to form a joint zhèngfǔ among the various Nanyang countries that have newly joined the federation. The post of Prime Minister is recommended by the largest party in the parliament, and the ministerial seats are distributed proportionally according to the number of votes received. What do you think? ”

Hearing this, Mao Zd suddenly frowned, and turned his head to look at Chang Ruiqing: "Prime Minister, does this not conform to the principle of parliamentary politics?" ”

The election of China and G in the Indochina Republic is not as good as imagined, but about 30% of the parliamentary seats can still be won, so Mao ZD's plan is to let China and G and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association form the first formal cabinet of the Indochina Republic together, and at the same time let Nguyen Aiguo continue to serve as prime minister.

"I know it's not in line with the rules of the game." Chang Ruiqing glanced at Jiang Jishi, who was full of joy, and then said: "However, the situation of these new territories in Nanyang is very special, and at present, our main thing is to integrate the local political forces. Therefore, we should let them have officials who are willing to cooperate with us, and they will all taste some sweetness. As for how to distribute this sweetness, the fairest way is to speak with votes. He looked at Lao Jiang again: "Brother J, is there a candidate for the prime minister of Indochina?" ”。

"We would like to recommend Mr. Pan Chaonan (Pan Peizhu) as this prime minister."

Although Phan Pei Zhu has some Chinese ancestry, he has always adhered to the position of Vietnam, so it is indeed not too ideal for him to be the prime minister of Indochina, but if this prime minister is not given to him, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the indigenous politicians who cooperate with China. Chang Ruiqing thought about it and nodded, and asked Sun Yuexun again: "Xiaomei, the vice premier is recommended by the Co-prosperity Association, is there a candidate?" ”。

Sun Yuexun frowned slightly, and reminded in a low voice: "Sir, the political goal of our Co-Prosperity Society in Vietnam is to restore the throne of Nguyen Bao Da...... Turning Vietnam into a kingdom under the Commonwealth of Greater China like the Kingdom of Siam. ”

"Oh," Chang Ruiqing nodded, he naturally knew about this matter, and this was also a condition for the Gongrong Association to win over the Vietnamese royalist figures. "Xiaomei, you go and tell Nguyen Phuc Ha and Ngo Dinh Diem that it is not up to me but for the Vietnamese people to decide whether or not to restore the Nguyen Dynasty. If the Co-Prosperity Association can get a majority of seats in the Indo-Chinese Senate and the Legislative Chamber, it will be able to propose a referendum on the restoration of the kingdom, and as long as it is passed, the Nguyen Dynasty will be able to restore the kingdom. By the way, the same is true of the Norodom dynasty in Cambodia and the Luang Prabang dynasty in Laos. As long as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Society can win a majority of seats in the Indochinese Parliament, there is hope that their dynasty will be restored. However, until the Co-Prosperity Society achieves this goal, members of their royal family can still hold public office in the Republic of Indochina. ”

Sun Yuexun thought for a moment and replied, "Yes, sir, I would like to recommend Ngo Dinh Diem as the deputy prime minister of the Indochinese Republic of China. (To be continued......)