In addition, Hu Weidong also specifically demanded that the Japanese authorities send to China all the families of more than 300,000 Japanese Jishu workers (including those trained by our rapid training method of technicians) and even higher-level scientific and technological personnel in China who were captured in China and Japanese civilians, and said that they could use this to offset the compensation of $1 billion (but the Japanese government will bear the travel expenses and settling-in expenses, although this amount of expenses is not a small amount, but because it can be paid in yen, the Japanese government can still get it.) On the surface, China is at a loss, but it can make those Japanese Jishu talents feel at ease to work in China, and they will be able to work in the second half of their lives (considering that these people are generally younger, it would be more accurate to call them "the second half of their lives"). How can the value that can be created be compared to the billion dollars that are impossible to get in the first place?

In addition, Hu Weidong also hinted to the Japanese representative that if Japan can take the initiative to return the cultural relics looted in China, then the Chinese side can also reduce part of the compensation as appropriate. There is no way to do this, if you force it, with the virtue of the little devils, there is a great possibility that they will hide it and falsely claim that it has been lost, or even quibble that they have never seen those cultural relics, and under the premise that the Chinese army is unable to land on the Japanese mainland, this is likely to evolve into endless rip-offs, which is very unfavorable to China, which urgently needs to stop the war and start domestic recovery and reconstruction, after all, Japan still has the United States to provide economic aid, and China can only rely on itself. Moreover, if the little devil is ashamed and angry and destroys those important cultural relics and dies without proof, the loss will be even greater, and it is better to use the money that is unlikely to be obtained to lure the Japanese side to take the initiative to hand it over, which is also Japan's current economic difficulties. And not willing to become a vassal of the United States, China has the opportunity to get back those important cultural relics

However, it is worth mentioning that Hu Weidong is not an expert in cultural relics, he is more concerned about those ancient books, among which he pays special attention to the "Yongle Canon" that was finally lost in history, although the "Yongle Canon" during the Anti-Japanese War is already incomplete, but compared with the only little scattered scrolls left in history and later generations, the content is still much richer and more detailed, and more importantly, the "Yongle Canon" has not been arbitrarily deleted by the Manchu rulers. Therefore, if the "Yongle Canon" is still there. Many of the questions that plagued the historiography in later generations are likely to be answered.

Naturally, the Japanese are well aware of the value of ancient books such as the Yongle Canon. However, in the face of huge practical interests, the Japanese authorities, who were anxious to get rid of the immediate predicament, still took the initiative to return as much as possible the precious cultural relics in the key list drawn up by the Chinese delegation, such as the "Yongle Grand Canon", and many of the minor cultural relics outside the list were still privately hidden by the devils, but some were also returned. It's better than not being able to get anything before. Speaking of which, China's national strength is still weak. Otherwise, the Japanese army would not have dared to set foot on Chinese soil at all. How could these cultural relics be lost overseas?

In addition, the Japanese side could not accept the Chinese side's request that the Japanese authorities stop persecuting the Japanese Communist Party and other left-wing figures and give them due freedom in the press, propaganda, and association, and promised to abandon the long-term national policy centered on aggression and expansion. But they also made certain concessions, and they agreed to give three freedoms to people from all walks of life in Japan (in fact, there was a problem here, but Hu Weidong was negligent for a while and ignored the special factor of the Japanese underworld, but Hu Weidong also planted a lot of mines for the Japanese side. ), but demanded that the Japanese Communist Party henceforth abandon the armed struggle and make all its identities public. Hu Weidong's reply to this was that he could persuade the Japanese Communist Party to suspend the armed struggle on the premise that the Japanese Government did not expropriate and extort money, and that it was the personal freedom of the members of the Japanese Communist Party whether or not to make their party membership public, and that the Red Party, as a foreign political party, had no right to interfere.

As for the question of promising to abandon the long-term national policy of aggression and expansion, the Japanese deputies replied very skillfully; they only said that the Japanese authorities were deeply saddened and regretted by the harm caused to the people of the two countries by the war of aggression against China, but they did not mention that they should change the national policy, and Hu Weidong did not force this; anyway, with the current comparison of the military strength of China and Japan, as long as China itself does not have problems, Japan will never dare to commit it again, at least the devil will openly daoqian, and this is something that has not happened in history until the 21 st century. Therefore, Hu Weidong can barely accept that negotiations between countries should still focus on interests in the final analysis, and if he insists on the struggle of will, it will be too irresponsible. As for whether Japan will change its goals to invade other countries in the future, Hu Weidong will not worry about that, he is convinced that as long as China is fully developed, no matter how strong the enemy is, China will not need to be afraid, which is also the general mentality of traditional Chinese, from this point of view, China's isolationist tradition is actually more serious than the United States

Eventually, Japan's total war reparations fell to $8 billion, and although the down payment increased to $3 billion on paper, most of it was reduced by the alternative (the Korean partition plan also had a big impact, as discussed below). In the end, Japan only needs to come up with $300 million in hard currency to fill the down payment hole. It is worth mentioning that the Americans did a good thing at this time, because they actually hoped that China and Japan would conclude a peace treaty at an early date, so they specially issued an additional loan of $200 million to Japan, so that the Japanese government itself only needed to immediately take out $100 million, after all, Japan is a great power with a population of 70 million and has completed primary industrialization, and although the hard currency of $100 million is not a small amount, it can still be squeezed out.

Although the amount of cash paid by Japan is limited, the huge benefits that China has obtained through those alternatives are enough to compensate for the losses in this regard, not to mention that few people in the whole country thought that they could force the Japanese to lose money, so the down payment of 300 million US dollars is enough to surprise people, not to mention that there will be 100 million US dollars per year for the next 50 years (later, with the changes in the international situation, the Japanese authorities only paid in batches for two years before stopping, but the Chinese did not know at this time)! Therefore, Hu Weidong not only did not receive criticism for this, but was recorded for another great achievement. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that the war reparations reduced by the Chinese delegation are limited to intergovernmental reparations, and victims of Chinese civilians can still go to Japan to file a lawsuit to claim compensation

However, although war reparations are important, they are not the biggest obstacle to the Sino-Japanese peace talks, and the issue of war criminals is the unavoidable hurdle (to be continued......