634 White Wolf with Empty Gloves (Part I)
Li Xiaofeng's view is completely opposite to that of Sverdlov, and he believes that now is the best time to help Huaxia recover the Xiangjiang and Haojiang rivers. Why do you say that www.biquge.info Because this is the weakest period in Britain in two hundred years, the British Empire at this time has no imperial style at all, and it is completely a phoenix with lost hair.
Attlee's cabinet faced a serious crisis of confidence, the British Empire lost face on the Egyptian issue, the domestic economy was in shambles, and the victory in World War II disarmament greatly reduced the strength of the British army. The combination of these factors has led to the fact that Britain is in a deep quagmire, not at this time, the **** guy, wait for two years for the United States to start the Marshall Plan to help the economic recovery of Western Europe, and the British Empire, which has regained its vitality, will be difficult to deal with. Especially looking at the current public opinion in Britain, the Conservative Party has the upper hand, and it is inevitable that Churchill will kill a horse.
Li Xiaofeng knew very well that Churchill was much more difficult to deal with than Attlee, and that once Qiu returned to power, the first thing he had to do was to develop a close partnership with the United States. When Britain and the United States really make up a special partner, the difficulty of Huaxia to recover Xiangjiang and Haojiang will skyrocket!
Taking into account these considerations, Li Xiaofeng believes that once Britain and the United States become one, then there are only two possibilities for China to recover Xiangjiang and Haojiang, one is to harden Britain and the United States with the support of the Soviet Union, and whether this will succeed is not to mention first, and it is difficult to say whether the four superpowers can cause political disasters caused by the head-on hard bar, and whether World War III will be detonated because of this. The second possibility is that China, like the Soviet Union, parted ways and turned against each other because of various contradictions, and the United States did not interfere too much in the Xiangjiang and Haojiang issues out of consideration for winning over China.
It can be said that either of these two possibilities is not what Li Xiaofeng wants to see, then the result is likely to be that Huaxia will never be able to recover Xiangjiang and Haojiang.
Based on this consideration, Li Xiaofeng believed that it was better to solve the problems of Xiangjiang and Haojiang sooner rather than later, and that it was necessary to take advantage of the fact that Britain was at its weakest time to quickly cut through the mess, and there would be no such shop in this village after that.
Li Xiaofeng's opposition to the government. The situation is in a dilemma, because on this issue, most of the political The councillors were inclined not to clash head-on with the British, which meant that they were more inclined to Sverdlov's suggestion. But after listening to such an analysis by an immortal, I felt that what a certain immortal said was very reasonable, so the big guy was entangled, to do it or not to do it?
Politics. Several rounds of governance discussions have not resulted in a definite outcome for most of the political authorities. The members of the bureau did not want a head-on conflict with Britain, but they did not want China to miss the opportunity. Politics in desperation. The ruling situation can only feed back the results of its own analysis to the Huaxia side, listen to the opinions of the Huaxia side, and see if the Huaxia side has the political wisdom to solve this difficult problem.
So do the leaders of Taizu and Zhou Gong have such political wisdom? It's safe to say that there is, absolutely. And it's well thought out. "We can understand the desire of the Soviet comrades to rebuild their homeland just after the Great Patriotic War, and it is understandable that they are reluctant to enter into a head-on conflict with British imperialism at this period...... But in my judgment, British imperialism is nothing more than a paper tiger, and as long as we work together and put on a posture that we will not give up until we solve the problem, British imperialism will be intimidated and will retreat......"
Zhou Gong also suggested: "It is entirely possible that our comrades and those of the Soviet Union should sing white faces and red faces and force British imperialism to make concessions by fighting without breaking." ”
To put it bluntly, the meaning of the T Communist Party is that our side has made a big gesture of using force to recover Xiangjiang and Haojiang, and to scare and scare the British. And big brother, you pretend to be persuasive, nominally mediating the conflict, but in fact stabbing the British with a soft knife, we will cooperate with each other and will definitely force the British to give in.
The Soviet side thought about it and thought that this method was quite good, and it was the T Communist Party that sang the white face, which avoided direct conflict and friction between the Soviet Union and Britain, and the Soviet Union intervened in this conflict as a mediator, even if the British suddenly had convulsions and brains, they could not bite the Soviet Union, right?
The overall framework of this envisioned was soon replaced by the Soviet government. The governance situation accepted, but Li Xiaofeng also raised a very pertinent question: "What about the attitude of the United States?" ”
Some comrades may want to say that this is a matter between China and Britain, and what does it have to do with the Americans? Truth be told, it really doesn't matter, but who made the United States one of the two giants of the Big Five? The privilege of the Big Five is to manage international affairs, let alone the two axes of the Big Five.
It's true that helping the British bully China is not good for the Americans, but it doesn't hurt either, is it? Anyway, the normalization of relations between the United States and China is not possible for the time being, so why shouldn't the United States, which is not in a hurry to restore relations with China, use a-stirring stick? What's more, China and the United States are still in a state of confrontation, and striking at the enemy is also a matter of effort for the United States!
Li Xiaofeng is 100 percent sure that the United States will definitely intervene, and if he doesn't find a way to find something for the Americans to do or distract their attention, the Americans will definitely mess up this matter for him. So is there a focus for the United States now?
It should be said that there must be such a focus to find it, for example, in South America, which is becoming more and more turbulent, the United States has always regarded South America as its own backyard, and once the Soviet Union does something in South America, it is difficult for Americans not to pay attention to it. But the question is, is it cost-effective?
Whether it is cost-effective or not should also be considered from several aspects, the first is the cost of doing things. If the cost is big and the benefit is small, or the risk is big and the benefit is small, then it is stupid to do so. And Li Xiaofeng has always disliked doing stupid things. The second is the degree of trouble, things can't be particularly big, others Americans think you are going to die with him, once Americans feel unbearable, then there is really no one in the Americas who can stop them, not even the Soviet Union. For example, the Cuban Missile Crisis in history, that is, the Americans found it unbearable, so they categorically gave the Soviet Union a little color. Now the strength of the Red Navy is indeed much stronger than in history, but it is still inferior to the United States to be honest, especially at the doorstep of the United States, where people occupy the right time and place, how do you get it?
Therefore, the scale of the incident cannot be particularly large, and if it is too big, the United States will directly flip the table, and then there will be no play. Of course, you can't drink too small, the matter is too small for Americans to care, and they won't invest too much energy at all, and that won't have the effect of helping Huaxia.
The last one is that the way to do things should not be too direct, and it cannot be that the Soviet Union directly intervenes, which is tantamount to slapping the United States in the face, and the United States will not be willing to be humiliated and rise up to fight back, and this violates the original intention of the Soviet Union, which is tantamount to persuasion and persuasion into fighting, and the referee becomes an athlete, which is not in line with the established thinking of the Soviet Union.
So to sum up, you have to have special skills to do things, and the strength has to be controlled very well, so is there such a condition? Li Xiaofeng thinks that there is not, the only chassis of the United States in the Middle East is Egypt, and people are not generally interested in it, and if they want to make trouble here, it is strange that the Americans do not work hard.
The established strategy of the Soviet Union is to weaken the direct confrontation of Western Europe and try to keep Western Europe neutral.
Then make a mess in Japan? But it seems that Japan has no way to make trouble, except for Hokkaido, the rest of Japan is under the control of the US military, and it is easy to misfire when making trouble here.
Going to South America to do something? It was too far away for the Soviet Union to be able to reach it, and the foundation for trouble in South America was not very good, at least until Castro and Che Guevara matured.
In other words, it is not very mature to go around in a circle, and it is not very mature to do things there, that is to say, it is probably not possible to distract the United States by doing things. Does this mean that there is no way?
What kind of immortal is it called, for Li Xiaofeng, there are many ways to deal with the opponent, there are ways for the overlord to make a bow, there are ways to transfer thousands of catties in four or two, and the most direct and simple way - to buy the enemy.
Some comrades are about to vomit again: "We didn't hear it wrong, right? Buying Americans, is there a richer master than the United States today? Buying Americans is tantamount to playing a big knife in front of the public gate! ”
Buying is not the same as giving money directly, and spending money to buy is also the simplest, most direct and even least effective way to buy. For a superpower like the United States, of course, giving money makes them happy, but when it comes to the little thing between Britain and China, they value more than just money. In other words, at this time, the United States is no longer focusing on short-term interests, but on longer-term and greater interests.
Therefore, if you want to buy the Americans and stop supporting the British for the time being, you have to make a deal with them, and exchange a long-term benefit that the Americans have not yet obtained for the long-term benefits they may get from supporting the British. To put it bluntly, it is still a political transaction.
And if you want to do this type of political bargaining, you have to find enough chips to make Americans happy, and now Li Xiaofeng happens to have a little bit of that leverage. It has previously been said that the United States supported Nasser and overthrew British rule in Egypt through a coup d'état. After that, Nasser moved closer to the United States in an all-round way, relying on the support of the United States to clear the remnants of British power.
This work did not go particularly smoothly, because Britain has been operating in Egypt for more than 100 years, and where can the penetration of hundreds of years be washed away overnight? All in all, Nasser had a lot of troubles at the beginning of his administration, most of which were deliberately planted by the British, who were not willing to fail.
Of course, Nasser also knows that this work is not so simple, it should be said that he still did it very carefully and carefully, and has made some progress in the past year. But the Americans were not particularly satisfied with these developments, mainly because of the Suez Canal Company.
In the middle of the Suez Canal Company, the leading role is still played by the British, who hold more than 60% of the shares, and the company is contractually bound to operate the Suez Canal for the next 100 years.
Speaking of which, the British were also dark enough to sign a new contract in advance of Nasser's coup d'état, and to extend the operation of the Suez Canal to a hundred years later. Anyway, the idea was quite bad, and Nasser was very dissatisfied.
It's just that Nasser is also a smart man, he knows that his ruling foundation is not yet solid, and it is not the time to be busy with the British to continue to entangle, only to completely eliminate the internal opposition first, and then talk about the Suez Canal issue. According to Nasser's plan, he was going to work hard for ten years, and then settle the account with the British after ten years.
Of course, Nasser was not completely jealous of the British, so he did not immediately and forcefully take back the ownership of the Suez Canal. What's more, Nasser also sensed the Americans' coveting of the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is in the hands of the declining British, and Nasser is confident that the problem will be solved in ten years, but if the ownership of the Suez Canal is controlled by the Americans, then Egypt probably will not want to take the canal back for the next 100 years.
Nasser is not a lackey of the United States, he relies on the United States only to expel Britain, and it is impossible to make him a lackey of the Americans. Therefore, it is better to wait ten years and then take back the canal in peace than to take back the canal in name immediately, but the actual ownership is in the hands of the United States.
Therefore, after the coup d'état, Nasser was busy eradicating the remnants of the British forces, but he was not enthusiastic about the Suez Canal issue.
Nasser's slippery head made the Americans feel depressed, and their main purpose in supporting Nasser was the canal, but Nasser took the Americans' money but did nothing. And the United States still has no good way to deal with him. You can't just overthrow Nasser's provisional government, right? In the past, American public opinion blew Nasser to the point that it was rare to have no heaven on the ground, so you can't step on him in the mud in a blink of an eye, right? Moreover, Nasser's superficial kung fu is quite good, so that the American people have a good impression of him, and the US government can't go the other way to deal with him!
Anyway, the Americans are quite a pain in the ass, they spent a lot of money to make a deal with the Soviet Union, put pressure on Britain, and gave Egypt a lot of economic aid, but in the end it was a blank check, you name it.
At this time, the Americans also wanted to put pressure on Nasser to force him to quickly reclaim the ownership of the Suez Canal, but the British were not stupid, Nasser's coup d'état before made them very disgusting, but Nasser's attitude towards the Suez Canal now is favorable to Britain, so the British are also very single, and immediately turned to support Nasser and help him share the pressure of the United States.
Seeing this, you can't help but pay for the level of dancing on the tip of Nasser's knife, this set of tricks to raze is 6666!
And this was an opportunity that could be exploited for the USSR, was the USSR interested in the Suez Canal? That's for sure, and it's political idiots who aren't interested in such crucial geographical points. For the Soviet Union, it dreamed of getting the Suez Canal, and Israel actually came to the canal to help so much before.
It's just that Li Xiaofeng and others still have self-knowledge, for the Soviet Union, the Suez Canal is too fat, and if you really rush to eat it, I'm afraid you will choke to death. The Suez Canal is not as delicious as it is, and it doesn't matter if it continues to live, right?
Therefore, the attitude of the Soviet Union towards the Suez Canal is an out-and-out spoiler, and the more chaotic the situation is, the better it will be for them. Therefore, after the United States entered Egypt strongly, the Soviet Union changed its previous attitude of supporting the United States and began to secretly cooperate with Britain to make the Americans bad. And this is one of the key reasons why the Americans frequently hit a wall on the Suez Canal.
If the Soviet Union changes its attitude, then it will be much easier for the United States to cut the knife on the Suez Canal, and Li Xiaofeng is ready to take advantage of this to make another deal with the Americans, and the Soviet Union will no longer create obstacles for the United States to get involved in the Suez Canal, and the United States must also not take a position in the relevant negotiations between China and Britain in the future. Everyone takes a step back and takes what they need!
It should be said that if this condition can be achieved, it will still be quite beneficial to Huaxia. But as soon as Li Xiaofeng's proposal was proposed, Sverdlov expressed the most vehement opposition.
In Sverdlov's view: "This is the exchange of the national interests of the USSR for the national interests of China." The strategic position of the Suez Canal was extremely important, how could the Soviet Union abandon this vital canal? Just because China needs to recover two small islands the size of a projectile and of no value to the USSR? What is this? This is a typical traitorous act! ”
Recently, Sverdlov has been buttoning Li Xiaofeng whenever he has the opportunity. Of course, this can only show that he has exhausted his donkey skills, and can only attack a certain immortal by insulting and slandering, which can only show how weak Sverdlov is.
However, he really gained a lot of political power from today's abuse. The members of the governing bureau agreed, and for them, the Suez Canal was a hundred times more important than the Xiangjiang River and the Haojiang River. Why let the Soviet Union abandon the pursuit of the Suez Canal in exchange for the interests of China? Isn't this a trap for our Soviet Union? Comrade Andrey, you have to straighten your ass, you have to give an explanation!
Li Xiaofeng was not in a hurry or impatient, he glanced at the somewhat angry bureau members around him, and asked indifferently: "Who told you that I want to give up the Suez Canal?" ”
This rhetorical question made many bureau members stunned, could it be that there was something wrong with their ears just now? Or is it that some immortal is ready to take back what he just said?
However, Li Xiaofeng ignored the stunned group of people and asked a key question: "Does the Suez Canal belong to us now?" ”
The answer to this question is obvious, the Suez Canal never belonged to the Soviet Union, and even the Soviet Union could not even touch the edge of the Suez Canal, and if it had not been for the transaction with the United States, the Suez Canal and Egypt issues would not have had anything to do with the Soviet Union at all.
Li Xiaofeng suddenly straightened his face and asked loudly: "Since the Suez Canal does not belong to us at all, how can we talk about the so-called traitor?" (To be continued.) )