Chapter 280: Sino-British Negotiations
"Too much, right? You're driving Chamberlain crazy!" Uncle Guo looked at the draft with more than a dozen pages in his hand, and said with some dumbfounded, which was densely written with conditions put forward to the British, from the amount of military aid to the various unequal treaties that needed to be abolished, and even included a lot of things that even he didn't know very well.
"It's all over the place to ask for a price to pay back, and now it's the British begging us, so of course we have to have a bigger appetite, as long as everything we can think of is listed, as for how to bargain, that's their business!" Boss Yang said indifferently.
"In fact, a Burma, except for the Ringanqiang oil field, there is no valuable thing at all, even if the British don't want it, it's not a big deal, if we ask for too high a price and they simply withdraw to India, it will be a big problem for us, the French are afraid that the Japanese will trouble them, and now the transportation of the Yunnan-Vietnam railway has been interrupted, and we now only have Burma as an external channel, and it is best to pull the British in Burma at this time." Uncle Guo said with a frown.
"Don't worry about this, it's better if the British go to India, we just take the opportunity to grab the Ringanqiang oil field." Yang Feng said that he didn't care much about the Ren'anqiang oil field or something, what he was worried about was the super big jade pit in northern Myanmar, and he was bound to get this place, otherwise the British would live or die in his business.
"As for the import of materials, we don't need to import arms, I can supply anything I want, oil and the like now have a liquefaction plant in Yunnan plus Yanchang Oilfield, basically it's enough, and the Japanese haven't closed the ports of Tianjin and Qingdao yet!" The thing went on.
"Can you make sure that the Americans always protect this route?" Uncle Guo said with a frown.
"How can I guarantee this kind of thing, but I can guarantee one thing, as long as I am Yang Feng, there will be domestic supplies." Yang Feng patted his chest and said. In fact, at this time, the bald guy didn't need much things, and a hump route in later generations could support it, less than one million tons of materials in three years, and most of them were oil, and now there is coal liquefaction, and there are Yanchang oil fields. In addition, if the Yumen oil field is brought out, even if the Japanese really blockade Tianjin and Qingdao ports in the future, it will be almost enough to support domestic consumption.
As for the other supplies, it's just a few more trips.
His explanation could not reassure Uncle Guo, although he had the courage to put forward the request to the British, but his confidence was inevitably a little insufficient.
The head of the negotiations on the British side, Foreign Secretary Anthony Murphy. Aiden, looking at the conditions listed on the paper with contempt, then said with a regretful expression: "Your Excellency, envoy, we are discussing the issue of alliance operations. Rather than the post-war distribution of benefits, I think it's a little early to discuss that. ”
"Your Excellency, what do you think is not the right time? Or when the Japanese army came down to the city of New Delhi. Yang Feng, who was sitting next to Song Ziwen, said with a smile that he was now the deputy envoy of the Sino-British negotiations, and theoretically came to assist Song Ziwen, but in fact, Song Ziwen listened to him in everything.
"Mr. Yang, you are so humorous." Aiden smiled and said that he could play arrogant with Song Ziwen. I don't dare to Yang Feng, otherwise this guy will be in a bad mood one day and remember that he has pretended to be in front of him*. Then it will be troublesome to pick up a few parliamentarians to find fault with themselves, to be honest, how many people in the upper and lower houses of Britain have received JY's secret money, and even Prime Minister Chamberlain is not very clear.
"Humor? I don't think at all, in fact, as the wearer of this medal," Yang Feng said very reservedly, looked down at the Grand Cross of the Order of Knighthood on his chest, and then continued: "I worry about this issue all the time. The Royal Navy lost Hong Kong in one morning, Singapore in one morning, and Malaya in a month, so how long will it take to lose Myanmar? Two months or half a year?
As one of the most sincere friends of the British Empire, I was sleepless at night over the war in Southeast Asia. I am worried, but you think that my anxieties are humorous, Your Excellency the Foreign Secretary, do you think that is appropriate?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Yang, I don't use the right words, but I can assure you and all those who care about the British Empire that the Imperial Army is capable of defending every inch of the Empire's land." Aiden said with a pinching of his nose.
"Then why are we sitting here?" Boss Yang said with a pure face.
'Huh?" Aiden almost made him faint, of course, he also knew what Yang Feng meant, this thing was nothing more than telling himself that it was Britain who was begging for China now, and since it was begging for someone, he had to show an attitude of begging for someone.
"I think you'd better take a closer look at our negotiation proposal." Song Ziwen couldn't help but smile and said, he now understands why his eldest brother told him to listen to Yang Feng in the UK, no matter who is the negotiator in the UK to negotiate with this goods, it is inevitable that there will be a little psychological pressure, and it would be good to be able to play half of the normal level.
Aiden lowered his head rather resentfully, and then looked at it more and more angrily, although we are begging you now, there is no need for such a lion to open his mouth, right? See what all this is? What kind of joke is it to abolish consular jurisdiction and let noble whites be tried by the Chinese?
The return of all concessions in China, including Hong Kong, is simply shameless.
To abolish all the privileges conferred on Great Britain by all unequal treaties signed by Great Britain with successive Chinese Zhengfu since 1840, blackmail, is pure blackmail.
Military aid worth no less than $200 million, why don't you grab it?
The abolition of the illegally demarcated McMahon Line, the return of part of the territory of southern Tibet to China, the abolition of the perpetual lease right to Nankan and the illegal occupation of Jiangxinpo as part of the original Chinese territory are simply a humiliation to the British Empire, and we are now unlucky, but it is not something that the Chinese can humiliate.
The more Minister Aiden looked at it, the more angry he became, and finally he endured his anger and finished reading it, and then he said with a gloomy face: "Mr. Special Envoy, your country's demands are too many, and I don't see any alliance friendship in this."
"So what is the friendship of alliances? Extraterritoriality? Or an unequal treaty? Or a permanent lease of a thousand rupees?" Yang Feng said.
"Your Excellency, the Alliance must first and foremost be equal, and we have not seen the sincerity of your Alliance since it needs our help and continues to treat us with discriminatory treaties." The creature continued lightly.
"Mr. Yang, these are all issues left over from history, and we need to discuss them for a longer time." Aiden said.
"We're not in a hurry, what we have is time, we can discuss it slowly, if it doesn't work for a month, we can discuss it for a year, I think we will always find a solution." Yang Feng said with a smile.
Nima, can you wait, can we wait? If you wait for the Japanese, you should really go to India. Aiden gritted his teeth and said: "Mr. Yang, the front line is fighting, we shouldn't be involved in this issue for too long now, we must know that the only way we can aid China is Myanmar, if we lose Myanmar, even if we want to provide assistance to your country, it will be impossible."
This guy's meaning is very clear, it won't do us any good to lose Burma, don't think that you can threaten us freely.
"It's okay, I can send a plane to India." Yang Feng smiled happily when he said this, and he suddenly found that it was actually quite good to watch the excitement for a while, if the British army let the Japanese drive out of Burma, then he would just take the opportunity to grab northern Burma with peace of mind in the name of reinforcements.
Aiden didn't know that in fact, this cargo now made up his mind to delay time, and then sit back and watch the Japanese occupy Burma, the Chinese are not in a hurry, but the British are really anxious, the Japanese army through the Kra Isthmus on the battlefield almost bloodless captured Rangoon, and then used Rangoon as a base to receive supplies from domestic sea, and attacked north along the railway line, and the British troops in Burma continued their wandering journey, fleeing towards Mandalay step by step.
This is an army that has completely lost its soul, and they now have no courage to fight, and they just want to leave the dangerous jungles of Myanmar and run to the warm, friendly and kind India, where they lie in the arms of dancing girls to comfort their wounded little hearts.
Now the Indian governors are going crazy, not only the rout of the British army in Burma, then the Japanese army should enter India, the telegram is sent to the country eight times a day, Chamberlain is so worried that his hair is almost gray, and at this time it is not only the Japanese who add to his blockage, the poor performance of the British army in Southeast Asia greatly stimulated the ambitions of the Germans, and the Sudetenland, which was originally still hidden, no longer needs to negotiate, on the same day that the Japanese army invaded Rangoon, the German army occupied Czechoslovakia.
And the occupation without the slightest explanation, the Czech representative to the League of Nations cried like a pear blossom, like a little daughter-in-law who had been condemned, begged the British and French to administer justice to them, but unfortunately the British still wanted to find someone to administer justice for themselves, and Chamberlain could only watch the Germans show off their might on the European continent.
And now the original desire to draw some troops to reinforce Asia has also been completely dispelled, except for the Chinese no one can help them in Burma, after the negotiations have been stranded for more than half a month, the arrogant Chamberlain finally decided to make appropriate concessions, from a series of demands put forward by the Chinese to pick a few first agreed, such as Yang Feng has been holding on to the issue of extraterritoriality, as well as the Jiang Xinpo issue, as for the concessions in various places except Hong Kong can be discussed, but not Hong Kong can also discuss, Anyway, that place has now been occupied by the Japanese, as long as the Chinese themselves have the ability to snatch it back, then the British Empire will pinch its nose and admit it. (To be continued......)
PS: There is another chapter today, and in addition I got the King of England wrong, it should be George VI, Edward VIII resigned himself after less than a year in office.