The Governor's Palace, Hanoi, the new capital of the Republic of Indochina, was filled with laughter and laughter, and today's reception was held to celebrate the first general election of the Republic of Indochina and the referendum. Politicians and senior government officials from Tokyo (Pakki), Annam (Chungki), Cochinchina (Namki), Laos and Cambodia, as well as senior IDF officers in the Republic of Indochina, were well present.

Just over five months ago, taking advantage of the announcement of France's withdrawal from French Indochina after its defeat, 30 divisions of Chinese defense officers and soldiers launched an almost bloodless blitzkrieg against French Indochina from three directions: Siam, Guangxi, and the South China Sea! Disarmed 30,000 French troops and 200,000 French Indochinese indigenous troops, and completely took over the administrative system left by the French, due to the long-term non-violent non-cooperation struggle of the Vietnamese under the leadership of the Vietnamese Socialist Party and the Vietnamese Nationalist Party, and the local Chinese in Indochina adopted the policy of actively cooperating with the French colonialists, so the proportion of Chinese in the civil service system of the former French Indochina was very high, so the process of taking over was also very smooth. In most places, the Chinese Governor-General in the Republic of Indochina, of which Huang Baopei was governor-general, sent officials to replace the original French colonial officials, while the middle and lower-level civil servants were mostly retained as they were.

It was only a few minor troubles when it took over the Central Quarter region of Vietnam, which was directly administered by the Nguyen Dynasty, but after the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association launched a silver bullet and meat bullet offensive, which enveloped a large number of corrupt officials and members of the royal family of the Nguyen Dynasty, the Central Thi region fell into the control of the Chinese Governor's Office.

Immediately afterwards, the officials of the Indochinese Governor's Office posted notices everywhere. The Indochinese people were freed from the colonial rule of French imperialism with the help of the Federation of Great China. Really stood up! At the same time, the Federation of French Indochina, which was an instrument of French colonial rule, had been completely destroyed, and a Republic of Indochina that truly represented the interests of the Indochinese people had been formally established. Moreover, this new state is the republic of Mínzhǔzìyou, which is temporarily governed by the Viceroy of China and the Provisional Provisional Zhèngfǔ of the Republic of Indochina, and a general election and a referendum will be held in December 1934 to elect the members of the Indo-Chinese Republic to participate in politics and the Legislative Yuan, and at the same time decide whether the Indo-Chinese Republic will join the Federation of Greater China!

As soon as the news came out, Laos and Cambodia were relatively calm, and these two small countries were not dúlì countries before they were accused by France. Rather, it is a vassal state of the Kingdom of Siam, and now that the Kingdom of Siam has joined the Federation of Great China, what else do they have to say? However, as a former vassal of China. The reaction in Vietnam was a bit chaotic, and it was clear that the indigenous leaders of Vietnam had always sought dúlì, not joining the Great Chinese Federation! In their words: "There is nothing more precious than dúlì, zìyou". However, the shape of the Greater East Asia region is clearly China's hegemony! The Soviet Union has been defeated by the joint attack of China and Germany, and has lost millions of square kilometers of land. It looks like it's completely out of reach. Britain's power has also shrunk dramatically. Having ceded Burma, Malaya, and North Borneo to China, it is completely wishful thinking to expect them to support Vietnam. The Americans were very enthusiastic about Vietnam, but ...... They'd better recover the Hawaiian Islands first and then think about Asia! As for the Japanese, before they occupied the Philippines and the East Indies, the Vietnamese politicians had certain expectations of them. But now, looking at what they are doing in the Philippines and the East Indies, the Chinese "aggressors" are as kind as angels!

Moreover, the Japanese obviously did not dare to touch the ass of the Chinese tiger. When the Chinese had just entered Vietnam, the Indochinese GCD sent a representative to the GC International Nanyang Bureau in Batavia to ask for help. The reply was that they were allowed to participate in the process of mínzhǔ in the Republic of Indochina. And joined the Chinese GCD - of course, Ruan Aiguo never imagined that Yasuo Yasuda, the current secretary of the Nanyang Bureau of the GC International, was a big spy who had infiltrated the ranks of the world revolution......

After receiving instructions from the GC International Nanyang Bureau, Nguyen Aiguo and the Indochinese GCD were the first to go into the water to become Yue Jiān, so the position of provisional prime minister of the Indochinese Republic of China was attributed to Nguyen Aiguo. However, due to the existence of the Governor-General's Office of the Republic of Indochina, he, the interim prime minister, actually has nothing to do.

Seeing that Nguyen Aiguo was no longer patriotic, the Nguyen Dynasty bureaucrats in Hue no longer insisted on any moderation, and happily accepted the Hua Yuan and beautiful women of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, and became glorious members of the Co-Prosperity Association, and even a vote of the Vietnamese landlord class and Catholics joined the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association. In the end, it was the Vietnamese Kuomintang (KMT) that became the only Vietnamese nationalists, who joined the KMT with the idea of maintaining their strength.

However, after these three former comrades-in-arms joined three different Chinese political parties, they suddenly found that they had become competitors with each other! If they want to survive and thrive in the future political arena of the Indochinese Republic and the Federation of Greater China, they will have to get more votes in the elections at the end of December!

And the election is a very expensive political activity! According to a survey by the Ta Kung Pao and the Declaration of the Federation of Greater China, in a federal-level parliamentary election, the average cost of each elected candidate is more than 1 million Chinese dollars! Among them, the Chinese GCD parliamentarians spent the least, with an average of less than 550,000 Chinese dollars, and the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association spent the most, with an average of more than 2.3 million Chinese dollars! In short, elections are a struggle for money, and with the exception of a few politicians with particularly high prestige, who do not use overwhelming campaign advertisements and campaigning activities, most of the legislators basically use money to pile up.

Now that the Federation of Great China has brought this evil election to the Republic of Indochina, the Vietnamese politicians, who were fighting for the Vietnamese people's dúlì and zìyou not long ago, can only focus their main efforts on coaxing voters and raising election funds. But where can they, the Vietnamese politicians, go to raise hundreds of thousands of Chinese dollars? In the end, they can only turn to their respective political parties for help, and how can these Chinese political parties get their money so easily? In this way, unwittingly, the Chinese took advantage of the evil rules of the constitutional game to take these Vietnamese political elites for their own use. They also let them fight each other on the electoral battlefield, staging round after round of dog-eat-dog shows. To this day, after the end of the general election and the referendum vote. These former comrades-in-arms, now rivals, once again gathered like friends in Hanoi's Chinese Governor's Palace for a reception to celebrate the election/referendum.

An umbrella was propped up on the lawn outside the Governor's Palace, and several figures under the umbrella were talking in low voices. The three most influential politicians of the Indochinese Republic finally got together. The last time they saw each other alone was a few months ago, when they were still fighting for the Vietnamese nation, but now they were fighting for the political future of their respective followers.

Pan Peizhu, the director of the Indian branch of the Kuomintang, was the oldest of the three, and his physical condition did not seem to be very good. Now sitting in a white rattan chair with a glass of red wine, I have only been chatting for a few rounds. He took a big sip of wine and sighed: "Secretary Ruan, President Wu, we are all in the hub now......"

"Mr. Pan, our strength is still there, and 65% of the members of the two houses of the Indochinese Republic of China are Vietnamese." Wu Tingyan still doesn't seem to give up. muttered in a low voice, "As long as this force can unite." It will be possible to hold a bill for the Indochinese dúlì referendum in Guò, and ...... then."

"No one will support dúlì then!" Nguyen Aiguo grinned without smiling, and his eyes were gloomy without a trace of brilliance: "Mr. Pan is right, our Vietnamese political elite has been exhausted in the hub of Chinese...... Although 65% of the members of the Senate and Legislative Houses are Vietnamese, they belong to the Central G, the Kuomintang and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, which are all Chinese parties! ”

"Patriotism is right," Phan Pei Chu took another big sip of wine: "Originally, I thought that as long as I maintained the political elite of Vietnam, I would stay until the time was ripe. There is always an opportunity to achieve Vietnamese dúlìzìyou. Moreover, the Constitution of the Federation of Greater China also stipulates that all federal subjects have the right to withdraw from the federation, and also stipulates that local governments have the right to self-government. But I didn't think of it...... These are simply the machinations of the Chinese. With a little hope and political interests, we Vietnamese elites are all included in their political game, which is much more clever than the French before them! ”

Nguyen Aiguo snorted coldly: "Mr. Pan, Brother Dinh Yan, we Vietnamese must have our own political party!" Are you interested in working with me? ”

Hearing this, Wu Tingyan was suddenly shocked in his heart, although the counting of votes in the general election has not yet ended, but the general results of the election are already known in their hearts. The Kuomintang won a little more than 40 percent of the vote, the GCD won 25 percent, and his Gongrong Association received about 34 percent of the vote. Moreover, Sun Yuexun also informed him by phone two days ago that after the election, a coalition will be formed, and the prime minister will be Pan Peizhu, and he will be the deputy prime minister. However, looking at Pan Peizhu's body, he is really not very good, in case anything is good, the prime minister will do it for him.

In addition, Sun Yuexun also said on the phone that the election results of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association in the Republic of China, the Far East Republic, and the Kingdom of Siam are very ideal. After the federal election, Co-Prosperity is expected to win 12% of the seats in both the federal political and legislative chambers, thus becoming one of the three major political parties in the federation!

Moreover, because the National Socialist Party (which is estimated to have won 10% of the seats) has diverted some of the right-wing supporters of the Central G, the number of seats in the two houses will definitely fall to less than half, and there is no way to form a separate government. So the next federal zhèngfǔ will be the joint zhèngfǔ, and Sun Yuexun himself will be the minister of national education in the new joint zhèngfǔ. If Ngo Dinh Diem is interested in serving in the federal council, the Co-prosperity Council can arrange for him to serve as a non-constituency member in the Senate Council, and after five years, as long as he can be elected as a federal senator in the Hue constituency, the Co-prosperity Council will arrange for him to be a minister in the Confederation......

Ngo Dinh Diem knew that the woman Sun Yuet Xun was not fooling herself, and it was entirely possible to be a Vietnamese minister in the federation zhongyāngzhèngfǔ! Because the Federation of Great China does not give prominence to the concept of nationality at present. And over the years, the rule of the federal government game has been to judge heroes by elections! Sun Yuexun, who is less than 30 years old, can sit firmly on the throne of the chairman of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association because he is good at fighting election campaigns.

In the same way, there is an unspoken rule within the ruling party that is almost universally known: all cabinet members must rely on their own strength to be elected to the council, and whoever can be elected three times in a row is eligible to submit to the cabinet, and as long as the party is still in power, his demands will be met -- of course, there will still be a queue. The Kuomintang, the Gongrong Association, the National Socialist Party, and the Progressive Party all have similar rules.

Although at the moment Chang Ruiqing can still control the Chinese government through the national defense force and his own special prestige, but in the long run. China's political life will inevitably revolve around the voter's ballot box. For a young Vietnamese politician like himself who grew up under a French-style education, it is simply tailor-made! What is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Indochina, Federal Councillor. Federal ministers, it's not all a matter of time or time!

But if you don't take the path of this mínzhǔ政zhì family, what kind of path can you take? Do you want to form a new party with Nguyen Ai Ai? Will this new party follow the path of violent revolution or will it follow the path of mínzhǔ elections? If you want to make a revolution, can you beat the Chinese National Defense Force? Besides, even if he can be defeated in the end, will this victory be the turn of his bourgeois politician? In India, it's dúlì now, but where are the leaders of the Congress and the Autonomous Party?

Contrarily. If the new party were to follow the line of the election, first, there would be no funds, second, no political resources, and third, there would be five years before the next general election...... How are you going to spend these five years?

Come to think of it. Ngo Dinh Diem had already made up his mind to take Yue Jiān to the end, but he did not immediately reject Nguyen Aiguo, but set his sights on Pan Peizhu, who was drinking alcohol.

Pan Peizhu seemed to feel Wu Tingyan's gaze, and said with a bitter smile: "Another new party, another new party...... Patriotic. Do you know how many new parties open in the Federation of Greater China in a year? There are a few more new parties that can be in the 5th Congress. Oh, and now it's going to become the encirclement of the four major political parties to survive? It is very easy to form a party, go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice in Nanjing to register for a few hundred yuan, and then rent an office in Hanoi to set it up. According to the constitution of the federation and the law on political parties, we can even openly fly the flag of the Vietnamese dúlì, but ...... Do you really think this party will survive until the next Indochinese election? What's the point of surviving until then? After this election, you should understand how high the threshold for fighting an election campaign under the system of the Great China Federation is! There are no donations from the big chaebols and a large middle class. No party can afford to fight an election, not even a local election! But within the territory of the Great China Federation. And what chaebol would donate money to a party that advocates secession? And now the middle class in Vietnam is mostly Chinese, and they won't donate money to us. ”

looked at Pan Peizhu, who was depressed and only knew that he had borrowed wine to drown his sorrows. Look at Wu Tingyan, who has a greasy head and a powdery face, a radiant face, and seems to be ready to do a big job. Nguyen Aiguo had to sigh, he knew that these two, one represented the interests of Vietnam's petty bourgeoisie and traditional knowledge knots; One represents the interests of the big bourgeoisie, the big landowners, and the Westernized intelligentsia. None of them are their fellow travelers, maybe they made the wrong choice to join China G in the first place, and the real hope of Vietnam is still in Delhi and Moscow!

"Zhisheng, do you think they will go to Delhi, to Moscow?".

At this time, behind a window on the second floor of the Governor's Palace, Mao Zd, who had come from Nanjing to attend the celebratory reception, was looking at the three Vietnamese politicians on the lawn downstairs from a distance. Standing beside him and talking to him was Huang Baopei, secretary of the Nanyang Bureau of China and the governor of the Republic of Indochina.

"Chairman, Phan Pei Chu and Ngo Dinh Diem will definitely not go. They are not all the way to Moscow, and if they go, they will definitely die, and it is difficult to say as for Ruan Aiguo. "Although Huang Baopei and Ruan Aiguo are both GCD people, the relationship between the two is not good, and the relationship between the Sino-G Indian Branch and the Sino-G Nanyang Bureau is not very harmonious.

"If Nguyen Aiguo leaves, can you take the plate from the Indian branch office along the way?" Mao ZD was very calm, he was already thinking about Nguyen Aiguo's departure from the Republic of Indochina. It is impossible for this leader of the Indochinese GCD to stay, either to Delhi, Moscow, or to Nanjing!

"There is no problem," Huang Baopei thought for a moment and said, "There has already been a split in the Indochinese GCD before, and the most radical part of them followed Le Duan to India. Those who stayed with Ruan Aiguo to participate in the election were all relatively moderate figures, and if Ruan Aiguo took another batch, then the rest would be people who were very cooperative. It's just that...... The repeated splits of the Indian branch bureau may affect our party's political territory in the Indochinese Republic. Moreover, in places such as Myanmar, Malaya, and Borneo, the support of our party is not high. It is estimated that it will fall into the hands of the Kuomintang and the Gongrong Society. In this way, our seats in the two houses of the federal zhongyāng will be ......"

Mao ZD shook his head: "You don't have to worry about these, there are always more than 40 percent of the seats, plus the Gongrong Association and the National Socialist Party are enough to form a government." He paused and said: "Zhisheng, after Ruan Aiguo leaves, the party is ready to merge the Indian branch into the Nanyang Bureau, and the whole is under your control, no matter what method you use, you must control the members of our party in the Indochinese parliament, there are several tough battles to be fought in the Indochinese parliament in January next year, the most critical of which is the Indochinese Republic of China Compulsory Education Act, which is the key to the integration of the Indochinese Republic into the federation, and it is expected to be opposed by some Vietnamese, but zhongyāng has already made up his mind, Be sure to pass this bill! ”

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