48 Liberation of Korea (6)
The reality is more convincing than any imagination, and the DPRK representative feels that the world is black and oppressive. Compared with the wolf-like powers, even the Manchu Qing's control of Korea can be said to be warm and intimate.
After the DPRK delegates wept in public, the representative of France made a request that in the future, the DPRK representatives should not participate in the meeting unless all six countries agreed to the meeting. For the Great Powers, such a request could not have been more normal. If you personify the great powers, if you want to say that the great powers say, "Our status is all shot with a knife, and there is a use in crying." Even if we have a larger population than a small country, we have more tears than a small country! Not to mention that in reality, which great power country has not killed millions of people in the competition for interests, and has also killed millions of people in other countries? The fact that small countries are not killed already shows that our great powers have a conscience! ”
Tsarist Russia was the Great Powers, and the representatives of the Soviet Union knew the way the Great Powers talked about things. At the Sino-Soviet consultation, the Soviet representative bluntly stated: "We must get other countries to recognize the existence of such a war." ”
Li Runshi is well aware that whether the world recognizes a war or not is of great significance. Once a war can be recognized by the world, it can be considered a public casino where all parties can go in and place bets. According to the rules of the present world, this is equivalent to determining a local war. The purpose and bottom line of the war have rough secret rules, and the European and American powers are quite willing to gamble on this. Generally speaking, no one would meaninglessly expand the war because of such a "small market". This is really imperialist, and everyone is a businessman.
However, North Korea's "handicap" is rather special, and once the world recognizes this handicap, Japan will be in a situation where it will not win. Naturally, Japan resolutely refused to admit it, and Britain would not have watched his thugs in Asia suffer such losses.
Li Runshi suggested: "Let's just settle for the next best thing and let the world know that there is such a war." ”
"Don't be so troublesome, you can get North Korea to officially declare war on Japan." After all, the representatives of the Soviet Union were old imperialist countries, and they were still very clear about these international ways.
As soon as China and the Soviet Union discussed it, the DPRK representatives immediately dispatched. The meeting was very noisy, and a large number of reporters came to cover it. The DPRK representative first publicly announced to reporters that the newly established Korean People's Republic had officially declared war on Japan, and then gave a detailed account of the relations between the DPRK and Japan that have lasted for thousands of years. North Korea has a much longer history than the United States, and the mention of thousands of years of ties has attracted the interest of American journalists.
After such a fuss, the Japanese delegates were completely outraged. The attitude of China and the Soviet Union was one of clear intent on taking away North Korea. The United States is still trying to pull the strings, and Britain and France are completely unreliable in this matter. The Japanese delegates could only angrily announce their withdrawal from the meeting and lodged a solemn protest with the US Government.
After the Japanese withdrew from the conference, the Americans were overjoyed, and the British were a little scornful. Without the two small countries of Japan and Korea, the five big countries, the United States, Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union, immediately exposed the past and began to discuss the relations between the five countries.
In accordance with the instructions of the central authorities, Li Runshi delivered a speech that became very famous later, "Delegates, our five countries are all big countries, and no matter how we view each other, no matter what kind of contradictions we have, we are all big countries, and this is a fact. We must build relations between the great powers on the basis of acknowledging this fact......"
This speech, which came to be known as the "Declaration of the Great Powers", was imbued with the pragmatic style of the BJP and for the first time proposed a concept of future decolonialist globalization.
Of course, since this speech involves opposition to colonialism, Britain and France, as colonial powers, are of course extremely dissatisfied in their hearts. The People's Party's initiative to globalize trade was very much agreed with by the United States and the Soviet Union, and even Britain and France found it a little interesting. One of the reasons why China was not too hostile to the European and American powers after liberation was that China was willing to trade. Although the renminbi, as a legal tender was incompatible with the world's mainstream gold standard at this time, relatively speaking, the BJP's trade balance policy was relatively satisfactory to all countries. China is very export-oriented, and many of its export products sell very well. After the trade balance, each country is very good to account with its own government and consortium. Since there is no way to open China's borders by force, doing more business is originally the forte of Europe and the United States. Some industries have indeed been hit by Chinese goods, and some industries have made a lot of money, and the parliaments of various countries will not hold on to a country with a trade balance.
During the group talks, Britain, France, and the United States even discussed with China the issue of currency exchange. France has the least gold reserves, so it is able to accept the exchange of the yuan and the franc.
As soon as France showed this intention, Britain was furious. What does this mean by French? Do you want to tear down the table? Regardless of China's rise, Britain sees the Western Pacific as its own backyard, and in cooperation between the nation's banking sectors, Britain sees itself as the financial center. The UK must be responsible for the settlement.
This is the case with the contradictions and struggles between the major powers, as long as they have strength, they will not worry about having business. Even the United States negotiated several big deals with the Soviet Union, including coal mines. In the end, the five major powers felt that they were still unsatisfied, and the United States simply suggested that the five major powers sit together once a year in the future and hold talks in Washington.
Britain objected at the time, and the British side thought that if there was to be a definite place, it would have to be London. France, of course, thinks it should be Paris. The Soviet Union came out to play a round and suggested that after each meeting, the place for the next meeting should be determined at the end of the meeting. Countries take turns to be the east.
Of course, the Chinese side adheres to a low-key attitude, and seeing that all countries agree with this opinion, Li Runshi supports the holding of the next meeting in the Soviet Union. The Americans, who did not want to give face to the British, agreed with the Chinese proposal. In the end, it was determined that the annual meeting of the five countries should not be too high, and the level of ministers should not be too high.
After the conference was dismissed, the Soviet Union was very satisfied, the nascent Soviet state lacked diplomatic channels, and the regular meetings between the great powers were a breakthrough in Soviet diplomacy. The United States showed its face, and it also reaped a lot of benefits, and by the way, it hit Britain and Japan, and they were naturally satisfied.
The Chinese side is also satisfied, and before the development of domestic oil fields, it has barely determined the problem of oil supply for the next two or three years. Therefore, at the end of the meeting, Li Runshi made a special explanation to other countries that China absolutely had no intention of annexing North Korea. There was no intention of colonizing Korea, and if Korea gained independence, all countries would be free to engage in normal diplomatic and commercial dealings with Korea.
This guarantee can be regarded as dispelling some of the British fears, and France and North Korea have no relationship, and they can certainly accept China's attitude. Britain knew that it could not solve China by force or trade pressure, and without British trade, China could still trade with the United States and the Soviet Union, and even the French did not support Britain behind it, so Japan was sold.
The Japanese representative returned to China like an angry little daughter-in-law, and the news he brought back shook the Japanese upper echelons. After the Korean war was accepted by the world, the nature of the problem was very different. The biggest problem is that the belligerents are no longer China and Japan, but the DPRK and Japan, and China has really taken off its own involvement. Most importantly, this is the result of British recognition. It also means a significant change in the position of the United Kingdom. Britain has recognized China's position in the Far East.
Also as an island nation, Japan can easily understand the British way of thinking. In the face of an opponent who cannot fight, the island countries will choose to ignore it for the time being, and they will shrink their power on the mainland, waiting for the power on the mainland to change themselves. Britain's approach is to recognize China's say in North Korean affairs. If China's actions in North Korea are not met with strong resistance, or if China itself has gone awry and gives Britain an opportunity, Britain will "recognize" any "status quo" that is happening in North Korea.
By this time, everything that diplomacy can do has been done. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has sent 200,000 additional troops to Korea and is moving south with a devastating force. Tanaka Yoshiichi was shrewd, and he immediately ordered the "total contraction" of troops in North Korea. The Japanese army ran faster than rabbits and "fully shrunk" to the Pusan area to organize resistance.
By January 1925, Japanese troops had withdrawn from the Pusan area, and the whole of Korea had been liberated. The situation in the Far East has changed dramatically. The newly established Korean People's Republic and China have signed a Sino-DPRK friendship treaty based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. The DPRK took the initiative to request China and signed a five-year "Sino-DPRK Mutual Defense Treaty."
The mutual defense treaty stipulates that the treaty does not involve any offensive elements. Purely voluntary and defensive, the signatory country is obliged to participate in military support to the invaded country after it has been invaded by another country.
In addition, the DPRK took the initiative to apply to China, requesting China to establish land, sea, and air military bases in seven regions of the DPRK, including Busan, to help the DPRK build up its own national defense forces. The base will be used for 20 years, and China will bear the construction and operation costs of the base.
Since then, the offensive and defensive forces in the Far East have been completely reversed, and Japan has changed from an offensive side to a defensive side. The whole of Japan was plunged into further chaos.
This was only chaos in Japan, and the situation in the Far East as a whole was not chaotic. At this time, the Soviet Union had no intention of participating in the affairs of the Pacific region, and China, the United States, and Britain had no intention of expanding the chaos, and even reached a new trade agreement between the three countries. Britain agreed to establish a Western Pacific Financial Settlement Centre in Guangdong. Renminbi, the non-gold standard legal tender, officially became the settlement currency of the settlement center.