Over the next two months, Zhou Hexuan temporarily joined Lao Jiang's chamberlain and helped refine a series of drafting negotiation plans. In particular, he told Chang Kaishen that if the United States was willing to hand over the Ryukyus to China for management, then it must agree.

Historically, because Chang Kaishen felt that his diplomatic ability was limited, he asked the chamberlain to formulate a negotiation plan before going abroad. All his actions during the meeting were carried out strictly according to this plan, mainly because he was afraid that he would mess up again.

As a result, Roosevelt encountered an unexpected situation on the way, and Roosevelt twice said that he would hand over the Ryukyus to China. As for whether to let China directly annex Ryukyu or let China administer Ryukyu as the suzerain, this question was rejected by Lao Chiang before he had time to discuss it in detail.

Why did Chang Kaishen refuse such a good thing?

Because the Ryukyus were not in his established negotiation plan, he did not know what to do with it, so he could only think about the problem with a set mindset. Chiang Lao feared that China would get the Ryukyus and that there would be another conflict with Japan in the future, so he suggested that China and China should take over together.

Roosevelt was incredulous at this, he couldn't imagine that Lao Chiang didn't even want this benefit, and then he simply didn't bother to mention it again.

The Ryukyu archipelago consists of more than 400 islands, including the Okinawa Islands. If Lao Jiang had agreed to come down, then Aragaki Yui might have been a Chinese girl, and the fat houses didn't have to shout every day to find a Japanese wife.

After the Cairo meeting, the more Chang Kaishen thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he probably regretted it before he got on the plane. He thought that this incident had damaged the image of the leader, so he told Wang Chonghui: "Only a few people know about Roosevelt's decision to hand over the Ryukyus to us, so don't talk about it again." If someone asks about it, they say that we have no basis for the treaty and cannot give a reason. ”

In the negotiation plan that Zhou Hexuan helped draw up, after several revisions, he believed that China should propose suzerainty over the Ryukyus, or at least guarantee the independence of the Ryukyus after the war.

Chang Kaishen was suspicious of this, he felt that Japan had annexed the Ryukyus for too long, and it was difficult for China to claim it directly. Under Zhou Hexuan's repeated persuasion, the elder Chiang Kai-shek only promised to guarantee the independence of the Ryukyus and to be jointly administered by China and the United States.

Until September, Chang Kaishen was probably annoyed by Zhou Hexuan, and finally agreed to claim the suzerainty of Ryukyu, and refused to annex the Ryukyu Islands to death - he had no interest in Ryukyu and did not consider the island's natives to be Chinese.

Zhou Hexuan could only say that he was speechless.

To be honest, as long as China can't directly annex the Ryukyus after the war, then it will be very difficult to do it next. Because of the three-year civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the United States quickly adjusted its Asian policy and wanted to support Japan against China and the Soviet Union.

At that time, even if China gains suzerainty over the Ryukyus, the Yankees are likely to backtrack. Like the Diaoyu Islands, they were de jure returned to China in 1945 and then taken over by the United States in 1951, which was later used by Japan as a pretext to claim sovereignty over the islands.

This could even happen even if China annexed the Ryukyus. Because the Communist Party did not have a strong navy, and Lao Chiang, who retreated to Taiwan, did not have the strength to take over the Ryukyus, there would be all kinds of disputes and changes at that time.

The biggest problem was that it was the Washington Conference that really established the post-war order in the Far East, and neither the Kuomintang nor the Communist Party sent anyone to attend. If you do not participate in the spoils sharing conference, many of the benefits you deserve will naturally not be realized, which belongs to the helplessness of the international political environment at that time.

Historically, the United States also suggested that China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain should garrison troops to jointly administer Japan.

The Yankees divided the territory into two parts, with the United States administering Honshu, the United Kingdom administering Kyushu, China administering Shikoku, and the Soviet Union administering Hokkaido.

As a result, Britain was too busy restoring its post-war domestic economy to send troops to manage Japan. The Soviet Union again contradicted the United States, and after compromise negotiations, it obtained sovereignty over the Kuril Islands, but the United States only acquiesced (the Yalta Conference had already made a commitment), which led to the territorial dispute between Russia and Japan.

China did intend to take over the Shikoku region of Japan, and at that time it planned to send a total of 14,500 troops from the 67th Division to Japan. When the vanguard set out, a large amount of propaganda was carried out in various Chinese newspapers, and all Chinese felt that their eyebrows were raised.

Unfortunately, the war broke out, and the 6,000 vanguard troops stationed in Japan were transferred back by Lao Chiang to fight the civil war.

Until the 21 st century, neither the New China nor the Taiwan authorities announced that they would renounce the right to station troops in Japan. In other words, from a legal point of view, China not only has sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands, but also has the right to legally station troops in Japan, and the garrison has at least one division.

This is the legitimate right and right of the victorious country!

October.

Roosevelt's fourth telegram invited Chang Kaishen to attend the summit, and Chang Kaishen replied with a letter agreeing, but requesting that the venue of the meeting be changed from Washington to Cairo.

Roosevelt accepted this suggestion and conveyed Chang Kaishen's opinion. Churchill was of course willing to do this, because Egypt was British territory, and it would be very beneficial for Britain to meet on its own territory.

The key lies in Stalin, a loving father who is still neutral with Japan, and even his support for China is sneaky and constantly reduced. He was afraid that meeting directly with Lao Chiang would arouse the dissatisfaction of the Japanese government and provoke those stunned Japanese officers to send troops to the Soviet Far East again.

As a result, the plan for the four-nation summit was once again shelved.

By November, Roosevelt was unable to solve the problem, so he had to hold a meeting with Chang Kaishen and Churchill in Cairo, and then ask Stalin to hold another meeting in Tehran next door (a clerical error in the previous chapter was written as Yalta).

During the whole meeting, Chang Kaishen was smiling and proud. Although Churchill did not like him, he was generally pleasant, and did not reproduce the tragedy of Versailles as Chiang had expected.

Roosevelt agreed to all of China's postwar political and territorial claims, including sovereignty over the Ryukyus and the Diaoyu Islands.

This surprised Chang Kaishen very much, he just asked for the suzerainty of the Ryukyus. If he couldn't talk about it, he just wanted Ryukyu to become independent. If we can't talk about it any longer, then let Japan continue to rule the Ryukyus. As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, Roosevelt directly handed over the Ryukyus to China, not with suzerainty, but with real sovereignty.

That is to say, Okinawa and other islands will be Chinese in the future, and Yui Aragaki is also a Chinese girl.

Zhou Hexuan was very happy to receive the news in China, but that's all, no one knows whether the Yankees will go back on their word.

Historically, the Soviet Union also achieved sovereignty over the Kuril Islands at the Yalta Conference, and the Yankees did not say that they would change. Not to mention the entire Kuril Islands, later the Soviet Union only had four of them, and the Japanese still played tricks and refused to give them to them.

There was only so much that Zhou Hexuan could do, and he was not optimistic about the annexation of the Ryukyus - he was not even sure that he would be able to get the Diaoyu Islands, because China did not have the strength to deliver on it after the war.

But at least, in this time and space, Yui Aragaki legally belongs to a Chinese girl!