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However, the central government did not support China's expansion of the war in consideration of the international environment and the pressure of domestic reconstruction, so it rejected Fang Yongle's proposal, but still ordered the construction of two highways into Tibet to transport supplies to Tibet as quickly as possible. For a certain period of time, Fang Yongle's supplies were still not enough to deal with the Anglo-Indian army, which seemed to be impossible to kill, but the old chief Hu Weidong gave him an idea, which was to liberate another small British puppet country in the southern foothills of the Himalayas, the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Bhutan was one of the poorest countries in the world in later generations, and now it is even poorer, and its population is pitifully small (only one-fortieth of Nepal's), so Hu Weidong did not think of attacking it at first. But since the liberation of Nepal alone cannot make the British back down, then lighting another fire in the southern foothills of the Himalayas may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. When Hu Weidong came up with this idea, he soon discovered that Bhutan may not be as worthless as he originally thought

First of all, the main language in Bhutan is a dialect of Tibetan, and although the Bhutanese people have formed an independent ethnic group, most of them share a common ancestor with the Tibetans, so it is much easier to develop the Red Tissue in Bhutan than in Nepal. Bhutan then borders the British-conquered regions of southern Tibet, which are about the same as Bhutan in terms of language and ethnicity, and the total size is not much smaller than that of Nepal. And although the population is still small, there are still hundreds of thousands, if they can be liberated, even if it is still not enough to make the British back down, it can add a little more trouble to them, anyway, it is not very difficult, why not do it?

After following the instructions of the Southwest Military Region to send military engineering teams to Bhutan and southern Tibet, Fang Yongle gradually learned that although most of the local people are descendants of ancient Tibetans, they have been away from the motherland for too long and are separated by an impassable Himalaya. So the local residents don't have much identification with China (but because of cultural and linguistic differences. They also have little identification with India and the UK. However, they are generally dissatisfied with the poverty and the brutal oppression of the local government (the Kingdom of Bhutan or the Anglo-Indian government) (Note 1), and as long as they make good use of these places, they do not worry about causing trouble. And once all these lands are red. It is equivalent to creating a buffer zone in the southern foothills of the Himalayas. so that the Anglo-Indian army could not directly threaten Tibet, China. Fang Yongle called it the "Shannan Barrier"

The seeds of rebellion have long been planted, and once someone triggers it, it immediately begins to grow wildly. The ass of the new Anglo-Indian governor is not yet hot. Although the population of the area was small, the number of rebels was naturally limited, but the high mountains (in fact, the average altitude of southern Tibet was also over 4,000 meters, not the rich plains of Bhutan, as some forums advertised) caused great problems for the attacking British and Indian troops.

The bigger trouble is that Fang Yongle also helped those Indian prisoners of war to establish the first branch of the Indian Red Party, and the reason why another Indian Red Party was established when there was already a PKI was mainly to prevent China from working hard to make a wedding dress and the fruits of Zuihou's victory being taken away by the Soviets. Unlike the CPI, which had to report everything to the Comintern, the Indian Red Party, which was generally a military man, followed the example of the Chinese Red Party from the very beginning of its establishment and established such important principles as "the party commanding the gun," "the mass line," and "armed struggle," and thus was noticeably more revolutionary and combative. Although due to India's special national conditions and the large gap in the standards of its leaders, the Indian Red Party did not succeed in liberating the whole country like the Chinese teachers, the problems they caused to the colonial government of British India were far greater than the liberation of Nepal and Bhutan

A few months later, almost all of the impoverished mountainous areas of northern India were covered with the activities of the Red Party of India, one base after another (in fact, most of them can only be regarded as guerrilla zones by Chinese standards). When the British sent troops to attack them, the terrified Chinese army seized the opportunity to break out of the Sikkim Pass and eliminate some of the Anglo-Indian troops who were helping the government forces in Nepal or Bhutan

The British and Indian governors-general, who felt that the troops at hand were insufficient, further increased the intensity of conscription in India, but out of anxiety about the Indians, the officers still had to be served by the British, and the cost of transporting weapons and ammunition from the country was really not low. The Chinese Government naturally welcomed this, but the stubbornness of the British representatives in the negotiations soon led to another stalemate in the negotiations, and they went so far as to demand that China cease its hostilities against the Royal Government of Nepal and the Royal Government of Bhutan and its support for the Red Party in India as a precondition for the start of formal negotiations. Hu Weidong, who was fully responsible for the negotiations, naturally would not agree, but as a result, it dragged on until the news of Klim's crisscrossing of North Africa came, and Hu Weidong became more and more hardened in the negotiations, and Britain was still stubborn and refused to back down because he was not directly involved, and when the news of the German invasion of Poland came, Hu Weidong suddenly hahadaxiao, "Finally let me wait, even if they make major concessions now, I am not interested in talking to them!" ”

Just as Latin America is the backyard of the United States, Southeast Asia is also China's backyard, especially the Indochina Peninsula, which is directly connected by land, and Hu Weidong is even more ambitious. Compared with other periods in history, Indochina has been colonized by Britain and France for a long time, except for Thailand, and the national consciousness is at its weakest, and it is deeply influenced by Chinese civilization in history, not only is most of the economy controlled by the Chinese, but the proportion and influence of the Chinese population are also the highest in history (Note 2), so it is not difficult for China to completely digest the Indochina Peninsula after it has "liberated".

Note 1: For the inhabitants of the princely states of northeastern India, in addition to economic oppression, the Anglo-Indian government forced them to learn Hindi and English, and to renounce the Tibetan Buddhist faith, which was also intolerable to the locals.

Note 2: Historically, after the independence of the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, there have been waves of anti-Chinese to varying degrees (unlike Indonesia, the Philippines and other island countries in the South Seas, except for Vietnam, the countries of the Indochina Peninsula have no history of Chinese exclusion before, but the independence boom has strengthened the national consciousness, and the Chinese have become the target of public criticism, of course, the historical background of the Cold War is also a reason. In addition to the loss of life and property, the dominance of the Chinese in the local people has also plummeted, and a large number of overseas Chinese have died or been forced to leave, and the fertility rate of the local people is significantly higher than that of the Chinese, so the proportion of the Chinese population has also dropped significantly. (To be continued......)