Chapter 614: The Peace of Calcutta (Part II)

The materials that were too late to be shipped were sent to the nearby Bhutanese government as a favor, while Nepal, because it was China's key support object, directly allocated some materials to be shipped over at the beginning. The reason why these two countries with somewhat similar national conditions at first glance are treated differently by Hu Weidong is because Bhutan is too poor and its population is too small, and if the enemy really makes up his mind, Bhutan will not even be able to fight guerrilla warfare, while Nepal's economy is stronger than Bhutan's, its population is many times larger, and its people are much stronger than Bhutan's

After a rough calculation by the British and Indian governments, the Chinese army caused no less than $3 billion in direct economic losses to British India (including the damage caused by the war itself), and because the railway traffic in the north was completely paralyzed, the limited modern industrial and mining foundation was also dug up more than half of the corners, and the British government is now too busy to take care of itself, and it is difficult to rebuild before the end of the Shijie war, and the indirect losses suffered by British India this time are so great that they cannot be measured by money

On the contrary, China has gained a lot of benefits from it, you must know that India's industrial base is nothing compared to the great powers, but it is stronger than the whole of China before the liberation, although it can be brought back to China less than 20% (more than half destroyed), but it still plays a lot of help in the domestic industrial and mining industry, especially Myanmar, which is "close to the water". The development of the industrial and mining industry has accelerated dramatically in just three years (thanks to the help of the engineering corps, otherwise the local government alone does not know how long it will take to fully convert the equipment shipped back into usable industrial and mining capacity). It was the second poorest provincial-level administrative region among the eight provinces and one city in central and southern China to the third highest per capita income, behind the municipality of Singapore and the largest granary of China at the time, Luo Hu Province (Luo Hu was one of the two ancient states of Siam's predecessor, and unlike another poor country with a predominantly mountainous area, Luo Hu was a fertile plain). )。

Later, with the continuous improvement of traffic conditions and the full development of teak, jadeite and other specialties, Myanmar once became the richest province in the central and southern regions, until the economic rise of the Lancang River Delta was surpassed by the Champa province, of course. That's all for later

For such behavior in China. The British government was naturally very dissatisfied, but after the Indian economy was hit hard, it for a time dealt a heavy blow to the Liliang of the Indian national bourgeoisie, making them even more dependent on the British. And for the time being, the idea of independence was abandoned. Most of them even chose to support the British and Indian governments in exterminating the PKI. After all, class contradictions are often more difficult to reconcile than national contradictions, and their own liliang is not enough to deal with those "untouchables". They would have to join the colonizers, a considerable number of whom fantasized about winning independence peacefully because it would prevent the "untouchables" in the armed struggle from becoming stronger

This situation is obviously what the British government is happy to see, as for their idea of fighting for independence, Churchill's attitude is that it is better to be false and wrong, if Britain still has Liliang after the war, the Indians will not be able to become independent no matter how much trouble they make, if Britain loses great strength, it will not be able to stop their independence, it is better to make a blank check first, and deceive the Indians to consciously and voluntarily serve as cannon fodder for the British Empire, what is that famous saying called? "As long as the Indians are not dead, the British Empire will not surrender."

In addition to the release of prisoners of war and the withdrawal of troops from India, the British and American weapons and supporting ammunition captured by the Chinese army were also purchased by the British and Indian governments at market prices, not mainly because they were short of weapons and ammunition, in fact, with the strong support of the Americans almost gratuitously, the British did not lack weapons and ammunition at all, but mainly to reduce the amount of weapons and ammunition flowing into the Indian Communist forces, of course, these weapons and ammunition were originally British, and they could be used when they got their hands, and they would not conflict with logistics supplies. It is also an important reason that it is much more convenient than transporting it from outside.

The Chinese Red Party did not want the PKI revolution to succeed, and now with the rapid development of the domestic military industry, it no longer relies on seized weapons and ammunition as before, but has begun to eliminate the previous various "Wanguo" equipment due to logistical supply considerations

It must be noted that the "Peace of Calcutta" not only involves the "self-defense counterattack war against Britain" that has exceeded the scale of the vast majority of local wars, but also makes a review of Sino-British relations since the Opium War

At the beginning, the British government also put forward a request to the Chinese side on this ground, that is, to ask the Chinese government to disarm the German soldiers in China, mainly the German Navy's Far East Fleet, and hand them over to the Allies, which is obviously impossible for the Chinese side to accept, although the Nazi atrocities have now gradually been exposed, and China also has the heart to dissociate itself from Germany as soon as possible, but the Germans who came to China did give China a great help, if we sweep them out of the house in the blink of an eye, In the future, where will there be foreigners willing to come to China to help or cooperate?

More importantly, if China does this, it will suffer huge losses in the economic, technological, and military aspects, and will leave a bad image of no credibility in the international community, which will never be less than $12 billion if converted into money. Therefore, China's attitude is very clear: the allies must provide compensation worth $12 billion, and exchange market prices for equipment and resources according to the category and quality requirements selected by the Chinese side, so as not to play tricks such as specifying commodity categories and procurement channels by the US and British governments, and in addition, the US government must also compensate for the losses caused by the collapse of Zhongfu International (the result calculated by the Chinese side is $3 billion), otherwise the matter will not be discussed

The sum of the two is $15 billion, which is not a small number, and it is a net expenditure with no return at all, and Roosevelt will be impeached and removed from office by Congress if he dares to agree, and Churchill will not be able to come up with so much money at all (to be continued......