After sending away Delixi, Chen Feng and the Japanese envoy Fang Ze Qianji held talks, as Chen Feng expected, Fang Ze Qianji did have the intention of making peace this time, and the Japanese government also put forward a series of preferential conditions. According to the Japanese Government's wishes, as long as Chen Feng's troops abandon their hostile policies toward the Japanese Government and stop attacking Japanese troops stationed in North China and Northeast China, the Japanese Government is willing to unilaterally sign a peaceful armistice agreement with Chen Feng's troops.

As long as Chen Feng acknowledges Japan's vested interests in Northeast China, the Japanese government can withdraw its troops from North China and hand over all the territory in North China to Chen Feng's department, including Beiping, Tianjin, and other important cities. The Japanese government will also support Chen Feng to become the head of the Chinese government and the army, and if necessary, Japan can even directly send troops to help Chen Feng fight for state power.

On the surface, Chen Feng's subordinates could even obtain the territory of Hebei, Rehe, and Shandong provinces without spending a single soldier, as long as Chen Feng declared that he would not be an enemy of the Japanese government.

However, Chen Feng knew about the conspiracy in the Japanese government, and he knew that his position in the eyes of the people of the whole country was that he was a god of war and a hero, and that he was the condensation of the anti-Japanese spirit of the 40,000,000 people of the Chinese nation. If even he made peace with the Japanese government because of his own selfish desires, it would be no less than a devastating blow to the confidence of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance. And once the national self-confidence collapses, it will definitely not be restored in three or two days.

Once Chen Feng makes peace with the Japanese government alone, he will immediately turn from an anti-Japanese hero into a traitor reviled by everyone. Don't talk about others, I'm afraid even those big and small wives in my own family can't settle down. What's more, the old lady has a father-killing enmity with the Japanese, which is a real national hatred and family hatred, so Chen Feng will not be able to make peace with the Japanese government no matter what.

Moreover, the naked temptation in the conditions put forward by the Japanese Government openly sow discord. Chen Feng is not stupid, and Chen Feng has no ambition to be the king and hegemon, the reason why he stands up to fight devils is entirely because he is a soldier, and it is the responsibility of every soldier to protect his family, defend the country, and return China. He only hopes that the country and the people will be safe. I only hope that the people can live and work in peace and contentment. Fight with the Japanese. Fighting with the Soviets was forced to be helpless.

The Japanese tried in vain to sow discord between Chen Feng and the Nationalist Government and the Jin warlords in Shanxi, and Chen Feng was well aware of the trend of historical development, even if he had ulterior motives. But how could it be that the Japanese government was on the verge of silence?

Chen Feng clearly rejected Fang Zeqianji's proposal. He said sternly to Kenji Tsukazawa: "Whether it is the four eastern provinces or Taiwan. Northern, Central, Southern, and Ryukyu Islands occupied by Japan are all inherent Chinese territories, and no one should try to separate them from China's territory. The Russians can't do it, the British can't do it, and you Japanese can't do it either. No matter how tempting the conditions put forward by the Japanese government, as a soldier, I and the army under my command will not make peace with you under any circumstances. ”

Subsequently, Chen Feng took the initiative to terminate the peace talks and ordered someone to send Fang Zeqian out of the country.

After sending off the Japanese envoy, Chen Feng quickly summoned a meeting of senior officials of the provincial government of Saibei Province in Gui Sui to discuss how to develop the newly annexed territories of Saibei Province.

According to the results of the discussions among senior officials of the Saibei Provincial Government, under the protection of the Eighth War Zone, the administrative plan of the administrative region was revoked and the province was divided into 12 cities and 5 leagues, a total of 17 league-level administrative divisions, namely Guisui City, Baotou City, Datong City, Zhangjiakou City, Chengde City, Chifeng City, Xinghe City, Yikezhao League, Ulanqab League, Bayannur League, Xilin Gol League, Alxa League, Saiyin Shanda City, Dongfang City, Zongmod City, and Ulaanbaatar City, the city of Terlegi.

Under the provincial government, there were three levels of government: city (league), county (district, banner), and township (town, sumu), which divided the administrative divisions of the Eighth Theater in detail, which were originally very chaotic, and adjusted the duties of a large number of administrative officials.

As a result of the readjustment, the proportion of administrative officials who originally belonged to Chen Feng's department has increased by a large margin, while although the number of administrative officials of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has not increased much, their ranks and posts have increased, and among all 17 city-level administrative divisions, 12 of them have served as the top leaders of the government.

The three parties can be said to take what they need, Chen Feng needs to control the overall situation, and what he asks for is the absolute number, especially the number of grassroots officials. And what the Kuomintang and the Communist Party want is quality, and they also know that it is obviously a stupid thing to want to have more people than Chen Feng on Chen Feng's territory, so they demand that there be their own people in the vast majority of the league cities.

After agreeing on the administrative divisions and the adjustment of officials, under the chairmanship of Chen Feng, the provincial government of Saibei Province formulated a work plan and goals for the second half of 1940. Chen Feng demanded that before the Chinese Lunar New Year in 1941, complete the task of building five heavy and five light and four agriculture and animal husbandry, that is, to build five heavy industrial zones, five light industrial zones, four agriculture and animal husbandry zones, and one economic, cultural, and political comprehensive city.

Subsequently, Chen Feng convened a military meeting of all the commanders and deputy commanders of all group armies and commanders of the navy and air force in the Eighth Theater. Chen Feng told all units that starting next month, the theater command will successively transfer one or two brigades of troops from various units, but asked all units to recruit soldiers and restore their combat effectiveness with the assistance of the local armed forces department in the shortest possible time.

According to the results of the statistics of the General Staff, the Eighth Theater now has 5 army group armies, 10 integrated infantry divisions, 4 armored divisions, 2 air defense divisions, 4 artillery divisions, and 4 army aviation brigades. The Air Force has 3 fighter divisions, 3 bomber divisions, 2 transport aircraft divisions, 4 reconnaissance aircraft regiments, and 2 airborne divisions. The Navy has 148 large and small warships and 3 marine brigades in its three major fleets. The total number of troops has reached 1.04 million.

Although the number of troops reached one million, it was divided into two places. Therefore, Chen Feng still feels that the troops are stretched, and it is likely that a new battlefield in the northeast will be opened in the second half of the year, so Chen Feng asked all troops to expand by another 300,000 people within half a year.

On the occasion of the military meeting, Chen Feng also announced several decisions, the most striking of which was that Lieutenant General Ye Helina, former chairman of Saibei Province and deputy commander of the Eighth Theater of Operations, would no longer hold a government post from now on, but Chen Feng did not announce the specific reasons for the job transfer and future arrangements, which caused many military officers to speculate.

In addition, Chen Feng decided to hold a mass wedding ceremony for the commanders of the group armies in the theater and for senior officers at the division and brigade levels in mid-August. The armies were asked to prepare in the order of their numbers. At that time, Chen Feng will personally go to preside over the weddings of various group armies.

Not to mention that a cadre of military and political officials in Saibei Province was busy carrying out Chen Feng's orders, but changing the topic and talking about the actions of the Japanese, the Japanese lost the Battle of Changsha, and they lost very badly. In front of Xue Yue's Heavenly Furnace Tactics, the Japanese behaved too badly. This time, the Nationalist Government, especially Lao Chiang's Central Army, performed extremely amazingly. During the Battle of Changsha. The Nationalist Government successively mobilized 11 fully equipped Japanese mechanic divisions, which greatly shocked the Japanese side.

Although there were less than 150,000 of the 11 Japanese mechanics, what puzzled the Japanese was where the Nationalist Government had obtained so many Japanese-made weapons. Whether it was captured or the people of China had already obtained the technology to produce weapons of the imperial standard. What's more, with the powerful intelligence gathering capabilities of the Japanese army's special high-tech department, they didn't even know when the Chinese people formed such a Japanese armed unit, let alone how many new troops there were, could it be that there were only 11 infantry divisions?

When the news was transmitted back to Japan, the base camp attached great importance to it and hurriedly ordered the Mei and Ju organs in Shanghai to find out the matter at all costs.

The defeat of the Japanese army at the Battle of Changsha made the Japanese government recognize the current situation clearly, and it was probably impossible to end the Sino-Japanese war in a short time. The only way to do this is to hold on to the existing territory and consider Southeast Asia first, so as to ensure that Japan can obtain war resources.

The Japanese government convened three imperial councils and eight four-phase meetings in succession to unify thinking, and several important ministers, including Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe, agreed that as long as the Imperial Japanese Army defeated the French army in Indochina and the British army stationed in Burma as quickly as possible, as well as the Dutch troops stationed in Indonesia and other islands in Southeast Asia, then the Japanese Empire could not only obtain a large amount of war resources, including oil, in a short period of time, but also cut off the only external channel of the Chinese government. Yunnan-Burma Highway. Therefore, the Government of Japan considers it necessary to talk to the above-mentioned countries.

In accordance with the "Outline for Handling the Current Situation in Accordance with the Evolution of the World Situation" drawn up by the Japanese Government some time ago and the defeat in the Battle of Changsha, the attitude of the Japanese Government from top to bottom toward the settlement of the Sino-Japanese war has decided to shift to a long-term and protracted posture, and the Japanese Government has focused its attention on the south.

The situation in Europe has not changed much during this time, except for the intensification of air and submarine battles between Germany and Britain, the French government has completely surrendered, and the government-in-exile formed by de Gaulle in England is nothing more than a joke in the eyes of the Japanese. And the Queen of the Netherlands, who fled to England, did not pose the slightest threat to the Germans except for a few empty slogans. Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, and other countries still did not make any improvement, and the whole of Europe basically remained in a state of temporary calm, while the Japanese government and public were still immersed in the excitement of Germany's decisive victory over France.

The fact that the European countries are still in a half-dead state and that Germany has no intention of making peace talks is also very exciting for the Japanese, and the German government has promised that they have no intention of interfering in Asian affairs, let alone in Southeast Asia, is undoubtedly a signal to the Japanese. So the Japanese decided to try the depth of the water and see the attitude of the Europeans.

The first country that the Japanese government came into contact with was the Netherlands, which had its own glorious era, once the Netherlands was known as the sea coachman of Europe, and was once a country with strong economic and naval strength, and when the Netherlands was at its strongest, its overseas colonies were hundreds of times the size of its land area, including Taiwan, China, which was once its colony.

Even now that the Netherlands has declined, most of its overseas colonies have been divided between Britain and France, but in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia. The Netherlands still had a large number of colonies, all of which were administered by the Dutch East India Company.

There is a reason why Japan had the idea of the Dutch East Indies, and the Dutch colonies in Asia were mainly concentrated in Malaysia and Indonesia, and of course, Brunei, so it was the kingdom of rubber and oil, and in the thirties and forties of the twentieth century, it was known as the treasure trove of oil in East Asia, with an annual output of about 8 million tons, about 20 times that of Japan.

At this time, Japan needed about 5 million tons of oil a year, but its self-sufficiency was less than one-tenth. In order to obtain continental lands, in order to obtain more war resources. In order to achieve victory in the war. Japan has long been eyeing the Netherlands, a small and weak country. The declining Netherlands seems to Japan, like China, to be the kind of little kid who crawls all over the ground with gold in his hand, and is born to cause crime.

But the Netherlands has always been a wise country, when the war broke out in 1939. The policy of the Netherlands is unmistakable. This country has experienced a hundred years of peace. Determined to pursue a "resolute and self-evident policy of neutrality", which, although a member of the League of Nations, has made it clear that it is not bound by the resolution to enforce the maintenance of collective security.

Although its national sentiment is biased towards the British. But he didn't mind doing business with Germany, as he did during the First World War; The Netherlands may have been on high alert for a German invasion and had made some preliminary preparations, but at the same time it continued to express its displeasure with the British naval blockade, which it considered to be an obstacle to normal trade between neutral countries; There are quite a few parties in the Netherlands, but thankfully, both the communists are at the far left end of the political spectrum. Both the Industrial Party and the far-right Nazism were in a position of fundamental insignificance. Because of the correct policy of the Netherlands, although its national strength was not strong, its status in the country was not low, so before they decided to start a war with Britain and France, the Japanese did not attack the Netherlands, although they were greedy.

However, this is no longer the case, half a year ago, after 5 days of fighting, the Netherlands was quickly conquered by Germany. In a way, however, it is clear that the Netherlands is the poster child of a country in Europe that was innocently involved in the war in 1940, with the exception of Luxembourg. Originally, they had been frightened by two invasions, but they had survived without danger, so the Dutch were convinced that the Germans would not attack them.

So the rest of the army went on as usual, and the Dutch were convinced that their small army, protected by the flood line, would be enough to support the arrival of foreign aid. As it turned out, they were all wrong. Although it was not without warning, the Dutch were unprepared when the Germans invaded in large numbers, and although they fought valiantly everywhere, this small force was clearly no match for the German army, which held out for only five days before being forced to give up resistance, but they had won enough time for the Queen of the Netherlands to withdraw abroad.

The weakness of the Dutch completely stimulated the Japanese, and it was really a pipe dream and a whimsical idea to have most of Southeast Asia with this strength. On July 26, 1940, in accordance with the decision of the "Outline for Handling the Current Situation," the Japanese government sent Minister of Commerce and Industry Kobayashi Kazuzo to the Dutch East Indies to negotiate closer economic relations between the two countries. The Government decided at a Cabinet meeting on 29 July on Measures for the Development of Economic Relations with the Dutch East Indies.

Its basic policy was very strong, stating: "With the development of the new order of the world, an economic circle will inevitably arise, and according to the trilateral treaty between Japan, Germany and Italy, the superior position of the imperial state in the Dutch East Indies should be recognized; Proceeding from the overall situation of coexistence and common prosperity, we will quickly seek close economic cooperation with the Dutch East Indies with a view to developing and utilizing its abundant resources so that it will actually become a link in the Greater East Asian Economic Circle with the Imperial Kingdom as the center." That is, of course, the ultimate goal, and the priority is to obtain strategic goods, especially the oil that is needed.

The Japanese are now determined to play hooligans, and anyway, for a small country like the Netherlands, the Japanese have no psychological pressure at all. The Japanese navy even threatened that if the Dutch government dared to say nothing, the powerful Imperial Navy would wipe out the Dutch fleet stationed in the Dutch East Indies within half a month, and the casualties would not exceed 500.

The Japanese wanted to take advantage of the favorable situation under pressure to force the Netherlands to submit, but the Japanese underestimated the backbone of the Dutch, and even more underestimated the confidence of the Netherlands in their allies, Britain, France and the United States, and the attitude of the Dutch East Indies in relying on the United States and Britain was extremely firm, and the Netherlands was originally a wing of the economic strategy of the United States and Britain toward Japan, so the negotiations with the Dutch East Indies were almost no different in essence from negotiations with the United States and Britain, so the Netherlands was not afraid of the Japanese.

In the eyes of the Dutch, although the Dutch navy stationed in the Dutch East Indies was not strong and not very numerous. However, the strength of Britain, France, the United States, and other countries in the entire Southeast Asian region is still very strong, and if they are united, the Japanese will not be afraid at all, so the attitude of the Dutch is also extremely tough, and they are determined not to compromise with the Japanese, even if Japan threatens war, they are not afraid at all, and they do not take the Japanese in their eyes at all, which makes the teeth of the Japanese hate. (To be continued......)

PS: It's the New Year, there are a lot of things, there are a lot of entertainment, and Aotian is not a wine jar, so I don't know which day it will be broken, please forgive me.

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