Chapter 479: Bargaining (I)
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On the one hand, the business circles with which it has a lot to do with it urgently need US economic assistance, but on the other hand, the US act of enclaving Japan's outer islands will first damage the face and interests of the Japanese Navy itself. In the face of tremendous practical pressure, the Japanese Navy's attitude of refusing to give up Taiwan has begun to loosen, because after all, no matter how important Taiwan is, it is not as secure as Japan's mainland, but this determination is not easy to make, unless China can put enough pressure on it or come up with a quid pro quo that is enough to make it happy
Compared with the navy, the Japanese Army, which has always been known for its stubbornness and stubbornness, unexpectedly preemptively changed its attitude in favor of negotiating peace with China; on the one hand, it was because they were really afraid of being beaten by the PLA, but the more important reason was that Hu Weidong threw out a new plan of "exchanging Korea for Taiwan" in a timely manner, and this undoubtedly had a huge temptation for the Japanese Army, which had gradually become a "coastal garrison" because it had lost all its land and land, and its status was completely overwhelmed by the navy
Although this will make the DPRK comrades somewhat dissatisfied, in Hu Weidong's eyes, China's interests are obviously more important than the interests of foreign countries, not to mention that he is not prepared to exchange the entire Korean Peninsula with Japan, after all, even if it is only for the purpose of protecting the Northeast Industrial Zone, there must be a buffer zone between China and Japan, and even if it is the bottom line of negotiations in his heart -- "taking the 39th parallel as the dividing line between North and South Korea" -- is relative to the limited contribution made by the Korean comrades during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China. It's enough to be worthy of them. Besides, in view of the evil deeds of those Korean devils during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, who were no less than the Japanese army on Chinese soil, the new commander of the Korean Communist Party, Wu Ting, who was the commander of the heavy artillery brigade of the Eighth Route Army, was reluctant to make too high demands, not to mention that in any case, it is much better to have even a quarter of North Korea as a base for the recovery of the motherland than to start from scratch completely.
Moreover, Hu Weidong also promised him that in addition to the three Korean divisions in Dongye that would return to the DPRK as the backbone of the new DPRK, the Central Plains Field Army would also help the DPRK rearm and train nine light infantry divisions, a motorized hoplite division equipped with armored regiments, two heavy artillery brigades, a coast guard unit, and an air force division with the eliminated Japanese-style equipment. For the DPRK, the CCP was already quite overjoyed. Furthermore. Hu Weidong is well aware of the truth that "it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish." Although he had some reservations out of national security considerations, he still helped the DPRK establish a basic military industrial system capable of producing light weapons and maintaining and repairing all kinds of heavy equipment, including aircraft and tanks, as well as the necessary heavy industrial sectors such as iron and steel, electric power, and so on. It's worth mentioning though. It is different from the history of the Soviet Union competing to win over North Korea and giving it a large amount of free aid. Hu Weidong has always adhered to the idea of "brothers should also settle accounts". The DPRK government will have to repay all the costs of aid projects in the future, but compared with the Soviets who paid interest on the aid during this period, it is too late for the CPK and the Korean people to be grateful. There will be no complaints
But then again, almost all of the current high-level leaders of the DPRK and the Communist Party are comrades who participated in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China and studied at the Kang Da, that is, the so-called "Lanzhou faction", and the Korean People's Army is also trained on the template of the People's Liberation Army (historically, it was completely modeled on the Soviet Army, blindly pursuing strong firepower and mechanization, so that the three elite Korean divisions of Siye who returned to China were not taken seriously.) It can be said that they are completely their own people, and the "guerrilla faction" with a strong local consciousness or the "Moscow faction" that only the Soviet Union is the leader of the horse is completely out of the climate, among which the former was sent to fight guerrillas in North Korea and lost all the backbone in the cruel struggle environment, and the latter did not have the army as a backing, so it was naturally difficult to fight for leadership, so Hu Weidong was willing to give such a strong support, otherwise if he spent the people's hard-earned money but raised a white-eyed wolf, then Hu Weidong would really be angry
Although the Japanese Army was quite moved by the proposal of "Korea for Taiwan", it was still difficult for them to accept it if they could only exchange half of Korea; On the contrary, the Japanese navy does not want to exchange the whole of Korea for the sake of Korea, because this may enable the Japanese Army, which is currently losing power, to revive it, but it is really difficult to give an explanation to all circles in the country if it only exchanges Taiwan for half of Korea, so they hope that the Chinese side will make major concessions on several other conditions.
The condition of Ryukyu independence was originally deliberately used by Hu Weidong to disgust the devil, so it was naturally withdrawn at the earliest, and the reduction of the Japanese army and its reserves can only be a sky-high asking price under the current situation of China's inability to land on the Japanese mainland, but Hu Weidong still insisted that the standing army of the Japanese army should be reduced to at least 300,000 people, because this is also what the Japanese navy is happy to see, and he is naturally happy to take advantage of the contradictions within the enemy to strive for the greatest interests for China.
Hu Weidong himself had the right to change these conditions, but he had to report to the central authorities for instructions on such major issues as war reparations and the investigation of war criminals, and the great man, Zhou Gong, and others generally believed that since it was impossible to get the reparations, it would be better to waive them in the name of "for the sake of the friendship between the Chinese and Japanese peoples." In this way, it would be more politically powerful and more face-saving than shouting about asking for money but never getting it. However, Hu Weidong put forward a different view, arguing that if it is directly exempted, once Sino-Japanese relations deteriorate again after the war, China may fall into a great passivity.
In order to avoid regretting it in the future, Hu Weidong tried his best to persuade the central government not to give up the reparations, but the Japanese really couldn't afford to pay so much money, and if they pressed too hard, they would only make them make up their minds to be the little brother of the United States, and then China would not only not be able to get a dime in the reparations, but the external environment would also deteriorate further in the future, and if the armistice could not be stopped for a long time, the additional military spending alone would probably not be much less than the reparations in a few years or even longer, and China would be more likely to miss the development opportunities brought about by World War II. The loss is even more incalculable in money.
In order to solve this contradiction, Hu Weidong proposed a plan of installment payment, in which the Japanese only needed to pay 20% of the down payment first, and the two sides could sign the peace agreement first, and the remaining 80% of the reparations would be gradually paid off over the next 50 years. Moreover, Hu Weidong also "considerately" took into account the practical difficulties of the Japanese side, and proposed that whether it is a down payment or a subsequent installment payment, it is not necessary to use hard currency to pay, as long as the materials, equipment and even talents that China is interested in, they can be compensated after discounting, so as to ensure that the price is fair and the children are not deceived (to be continued......