Chapter 453: Chinese Supremacy (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
At the time of the trial, Qin Shou and Chen Jiale watched not far away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Seeing that Phibun Songkham was sentenced to death, Chan Ka Lok couldn't help but sigh. He and Phibun Songkham had known each other since they were young. Now, it's been more than twenty years.
Even, in their early years, they struggled for a common goal. It's just that later the political views were different, which made them go their separate ways. But no matter what, seeing what happened to Phibun Songkhan now, he felt a little bad in his heart.
"Prime Minister, there is no need to be sad for such people. From the beginning of his anti-Chinese policy in Siam for his own purposes, this kind of outcome was already doomed. Qin Shou said expressionlessly.
If it had not been for the sudden rise of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army, Phibun Songkan would undoubtedly be an extremely successful person. Through the persecution of the Chinese, he succeeded in winning the love of the Siamese natives, so that he was convicted of a Class A war criminal even because of his cooperation with the Japanese in World War II. However, he was soon released from prison. Later, he also became the prime minister of Siam and became a military dictator.
However, in this plane, it's different. Such a traitor, Qin Shou has always been quick to kill.
Chen Jiale nodded and didn't say anything more. After becoming the prime minister of the Siam Military Government, he was naturally very clear about the concept of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. To put it in one word, it is Chinese supremacy.
That's right, what the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army is and will be implemented throughout Nanyang is the concept and norm of Chinese supremacy. Other than the Chinese, other indigenous people are not qualified to become commoners at all. They had only one end, and that was to be enslaved by the Chinese, and then gradually die out. In the future, there will only be Chinese people in Nanyang.
Phibun Songkan was undoubtedly a heinous person among Qin Shou and the vast number of officers and soldiers of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. As a Chinese, but he does not want to seek welfare for the Chinese, but also establishes his own status by suppressing the Chinese, what is this not a white-eyed wolf? Such a person is naturally certain to die. The Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army will never allow such people to continue to exist.
Even Phibun Songkhan changed Siam to Thailand, which has a secret to tell.
On June 24, 1939, the Siam National Assembly decided to change the name of the country from "Siam" to "MuangThai" and the English name from "Siam" to "Thailand". "Thai" means "freedom" and "independence" in Thai, and the name "Siam" comes from Sanskrit and means "gold". The abandonment of this ancient name, which had been used for 13 centuries, was undoubtedly related to the chauvinistic and nationalist tendencies of Siam at the time. Thailand's ethnic chauvinists also put forward the slogan of "Greater Thailand", believing that the Laotians, the Mon in Vietnam, the Dai in China, and the Shan in Burma all belong to the "ethnographic Tai people", and intend to unite "30 million people of Thai ancestry" within the "Greater Thailand" to build a powerful bourgeois state in Indochina. Phibun Songkhan explains: "Generally speaking, the name of a country is named after the name of the main ethnic group of the country...... We are Thai...... It is clear that Siam does not suit our nation...... If there are (enormous) immigrants who settle in our country, then, perhaps, in a thousand years, we may no longer be able to tell whether Siam is Thai, Chinese, or somebody else's......"
A particularly powerful shock point in the Phibun Somkham government's policies was their implementation of economic nationalism, "Thailand for the Thai". The problem stems from the still-frustrating development of the countryside and the thinking brought about by the monopoly of commerce by Chinese Americans. The Chinese not only monopolized the economy, but also continued to send large amounts of money to China, which brought huge losses to Thailand. The second is the growing Chinese nationalism in Siam, especially after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, when the Chinese in Siam organized anti-Japanese demonstrations that undermined Thailand's neutrality and relations with the outside world, as Japan had become Thailand's main trading partner by this time. The outbreak of anti-Chinese activities in this context, coupled with Luan Wich's public speech hinting at how to deal with the Chinese with Hitler's methods of dealing with the Jews, was a sign that Thai-Chinese relations were deteriorating. The government controlled the salt, tobacco, oil, and rice businesses, and competed with the Chinese, many of whom were forbidden to hold positions. The provisions of a new decree had significantly increased the taxation of the business class, and all foreigners were required to pay an alien registration fee. Phibun Somkhon believed that the state should intervene in the economy in order to change the fate of the peasants and workers, who made up the majority of the population. The Phibun Somkham government's culturally imposed policies included the abolition of ethnic minority language newspapers (the number of Chinese-language newspapers was reduced from 10 to one during the pre-World War II Phibun Somkham government) and the requirement that Chinese teachers must have completed four years of Thai language education to be eligible to teach, as well as requiring them to study longer if they fail the Thai language exam. No one is kept in the dark by the government, which believes that anti-Chinese is the most important prerequisite for building a "Thai Thailand".
From the policies implemented by Phibun Somkam, we can see how serious his exclusion and persecution of the Chinese were. In such a situation, Qin Shou can let him go, then there is really a ghost.
After the trial, Qin Shou and Chen Jiale left. The two left in the same car. On the way, Qin Shou once again communicated with Chen Jiale on some development plans of the Siam military government.
It was the time of the war, so most of Qin Shou's energy had to be put into army building and fighting against Japan. Therefore, the affairs of government affairs can only be entrusted to other people. However, Qin Shou had to make sure that his ideas could be implemented.
"Prime Minister, now Siam, has a population of 16 million. However, less than one-third of them are Chinese. If you want to rely on a small number of Chinese to rule so many indigenous people, there is undoubtedly a great difficulty in this. Therefore, we can only suppress these indigenous people through various means. In this way, the dominance of the Chinese can be stabilized. Qin Shou said.
Chen Jiale nodded: "Yes, Commander." At all levels of government in the Siam military government, the police and the security forces formed are all Chinese. The junta has ordered the confiscation of all indigenous land, mines and other property. However, this may provoke fierce resistance from the natives. ”
"It's okay, let them resist. Anyway, the army is in our hands. The next war against Japan will go in a few months. We have plenty of time to suppress these indigenous rebellions. Qin Shou's face was hideous.