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War has never been a matter of trouble between two great powers. It's just destruction or destruction, or both sides fight until they can't move. The trouble is that both sides of the battle camp believe that the war is manageable. It was only after nuclear weapons threatened the existence of the entire human race that there was finally a war with completely uncontrollable consequences.

In Chen Ke's time and space, the great powers before World War I believed that war was completely controllable. After reflecting on the tragic First World War, the facts have proved to the great powers that wars between the great powers are not completely controllable. Therefore, the major powers are not willing to come to a war that gambles on the fortunes of their countries. Until the madmen of Japan and Germany were forced to start World War II. After World War II, the major powers understood one thing, the outcome of the war between the great powers and the great powers was uncontrollable. As a result, there is such a thing as a so-called "local war".

The Korean War was a battle for the founding of China, because in this local war in Korea, China proved that its combat power was enough to become a great power. The United States has repeatedly calculated the gains and losses of the Korean War and found that if the United States uses China itself as a "local war battlefield," the intensity of its war is basically no different from that of a war between a major power. So since then, China has existed as a great power. After World War II, there was no direct war between the major powers.

Under Chen Ke's analysis, the Central Military Commission finally understood this problem. But whether the British can understand it, Chen Ke is not very clear about this. If the British could understand the problem, then it would be okay to position the Korean War as a local war. A simple land war between China and Japan would not be necessary to discuss the outcome of the war. But how to look at this war is a big question.

When the comrades of the Politburo were discussing the war, one of them put forward a point of view. "If Britain replaces the Anglo-Japanese alliance with a Sino-British alliance, will it be of better help to the war?"

Chen Ke smiled: "The first demand made by the British must be that China cannot ally with the Soviet Union. This is a condition that we cannot accept. ”

"Break up the Sino-Soviet alliance?" Many comrades were stunned. The Sino-British alliance and the Sino-Soviet alliance do not seem to contradict each other so much, according to the traditional view of Chinese folk, "many friends and many paths". Britain must break up the Sino-Soviet alliance, and this cannot but puzzle comrades who are not familiar with diplomatic issues.

Chen Ke did not want to explain, and he suggested that when Zhang Yu negotiated with the British, the comrades of the Politburo should send representatives to attend.

Without waiting for China to make contact with Britain, the British minister took the initiative to contact China. During the talks, Zhang Yu tentatively proposed the idea of a Sino-British alliance. The British minister did not hesitate to propose that if China wanted to talk about the Sino-British alliance, China must dissolve any alliance with the Soviet Union. At the same time, it opposes all actions of the United States into the Western Pacific.

The main intention of the British contact was to demand that China immediately cease any military action against Japan.

After the meeting between China and the UK, the Politburo continued to meet. This time, Propaganda Minister Zhang Yu was in charge of explaining, "The British are now the world hegemon, and what he needs is not friends at all, but the right to decide the world's physical objects." We Chinese feel that we can manage our own affairs. The British don't see it that way, they think that as long as everything in this world, the British have to take the lead. It has to be done according to the order set by the British. ”

"Fuck it!" Immediately, someone scolded. Many comrades think that diplomacy is a very elegant thing, and when they see the truth behind diplomacy, comrades who are more vigorous and full of blood are already about to be angry.

Chen Ke actually wanted to laugh, because before he realized what hegemony was, his reaction to the various hegemonic acts of imperialism was similar to that of his comrades now. However, before Chen Ke realized that imperialism had no future and could not follow the old path of imperialism, Chen Ke still envied the imperialist countries in his heart. The so-called royal soup soup is domineering and brilliant. If China can become a world hegemon, Chen Ke is not very opposed.

It seems that most of the people in the BJP are imperialists. Chen Ke thought to himself.

The immediate priority of reality was not the Sino-British alliance or the Sino-Soviet alliance, but the British behaved in the Sino-Japanese war to Chen Ke's surprise. The British's reaction was much more relaxed than expected, and it seems that the pressure on the British is not small.

But Chen Ke didn't dare to say this god-like thing. Chen Ke is now an anti-materialist existence in the People's Party, or at least an anti-"practical existence". Chen Ke engaged in a war of public opinion, and said that the British were under great pressure at home. The connection between the two is hardly something that the Central People's Party Central Committee is able to understand now. Chen Ke himself saw with his own eyes how foreign countries tried to infiltrate China in the Internet age, but this problem was not practiced in 1924. There was only one thing Chen Ke could do, and he ordered his troops to hurry up the battle. Gain control of the mountainous regions of northern Korea as soon as possible.

The war itself was nothing remarkable, China produced 8 million tons of crude steel in 1923. Japan's crude steel production is less than 300,000 tons. In terms of heavy industry output, China's output of each item exceeds that of Japan by more than 10 times. In particular, the synthetic ammonia industry chain is much more complete in China than in Japan. Taking soda ash as an example, China's output is hundreds of times that of Japan. These high-quality and inexpensive soda ash are exported in large quantities all over the world. A large part of this was given to the Soviet Union as aid. Japan is also an importer of soda ash from China.

In the regular army, Chinese snipers arrived at the squad level. The People's Party began firing glass in Anhui more than ten years ago, and with the introduction of optical glass technology from Germany and Russia, the lens making technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. According to the information gathered by the People's Party, the Japanese military secretly imported Chinese telescopes. After importation, Japan cut off the label, and installed the Japanese army's logo on the deducted label. Not to mention, the Japanese are really good at making a dojo in a snail shell. The "modified" telescope really doesn't tell which areas have been treated.

On 14 May, news came from the front that the Korean Volunteers had defeated the Han River Plain and occupied the mountainous areas of northern Korea. The forward forces were progressing well, and the follow-up forces were still trying to clear the remnants of the Japanese enemy in northern Korea, and the main forces were besieging Pyongyang. After the Japanese learned that the Korean warriors cut off their heads and dug out their hearts when they caught the Japanese, the defenders in Pyongyang were extremely tenacious, and it was much more pleasant to die in battle than to be brutally tortured to death after being caught. Kill one more and earn one.

Of course, in the news that came with the same news, there was also the fact that the North Korean aspirants wantonly liquidated the "North Korean traitors" and killed their heads.

The British Minister, Sir Humphrey, was finally given permission on 26 May, and the new Foreign Minister, Lee Run-seok, was free to receive the British Minister.

Sir Humphrey knew Lee Run-shek was a rising political star in the People's Party. At the age of 31, he became a minister. Although it is not uncommon in the BJP, it was the first generation of the BJP, and it was a rebel group that could be the elder brother at the age of 25. In the intelligence of the British, Li Runshi is obviously the second generation.

Regardless of the generation, Sir Humphrey is jumping to protest against China's actions. Minister Lee Run-seok was not in a hurry, and he said in Chinese-style English, which he did not speak fluently: "Sir Humphrey, there have been many wars between the DPRK and Japan. This war was no different from many of the Korea-Japan Wars in history. ”

Sir Humphrey had not come to listen to a history lesson, he had come to defend British control over the Far East. So Sir Humphrey had no intention of dealing with Lee Run-seok at all, and he immediately put forward the British demand to end the war! Return to your original posture!

Li Runshi smiled: "Sir Humphrey, what kind of state are you going to return to?" Yesterday's state? What was it like 20 years ago? It was still the state of 200 years ago, or the state of 1000 years ago. China has a long history, and Chinese also love to record history, and in China's thousands of years of history, various states of Korea and Japan can be found! ”

Sir Humphrey was a wise man, and after listening to Li Runshi's words, he already understood what the Chinese side meant. As the leader of the order in the Far East for thousands of years, it is natural for China to regain its dominance over the Far East after its revival. So the next topic went straight to the discussion between China and Britain about the dominance of the Far East.

There is a reason why Lee Run-seok has risen so quickly in the People's Party. He has an extremely high level of mastery of communism, the theory of practice, and the theory of contradiction. He is a recognized theoretical expert within the party and a master of integrating theory with practice. Now that Japan has suffered a heavy blow and Britain has not yet recovered from its losses in World War I, China has a real advantage. It is simply impossible for the BJP to make concessions and recognize the dominance of the British over Korean affairs. Therefore, Sir Humphrey deeply felt how difficult Lee Run-seok was to deal with a master negotiator.

Sir Humphrey was a man in the British bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy was characterized by the fact that when talking about problems, problems were entangled together, and people were dizzy with a thousand things. In the end, they put together all the biggest boundaries of the whole thing and made a huge frame.

Lee Run-seok was able to straighten out many of the relations proposed by Sir Humphrey, to put aside all the things that had nothing to do with the war between Korea and Japan, and to divide all the relations between China and Britain very clearly. Sir Humphrey felt that the Foreign Minister of the People's Party had mastered the principle of fighting without breaking it too well. Unless Britain's China policy changes to the defeat of the BJP government in any case, it is unlikely that he will have the upper hand in the negotiations in any case.

Negotiations, before they know it, become a mode of negotiation between the great powers. Two large countries with their own strength, for their own strategic interests, decide the fate of small countries.

Sir Humphrey found that the negotiations had come to this point, and he was clever enough to terminate them. Before leaving, Sir Humphrey dropped a sentence, "We in England cannot accept the continuation of the war." The war must end here! If the Chinese side cannot accept this demand, then we in Britain can only intervene in this matter under the Anglo-Japanese alliance treaty. ”

For such a naked threat, Li Runshi was not angry at all. This is the real bottom line for the UK. As in the struggle between the great powers of the past, any great power acknowledges the status quo. The status quo is a manifestation of strength. The strategic goal of the Central Committee of the People's Party was to liberate the mountainous areas of northern Korea. Because the strength of the People's Navy was not enough to overwhelm Japan. If China's navy can overwhelm Japan, the goal of the People's Party will naturally be to liberate all of Korea.

This is the end of the struggle between China and Japan and Britain, and if we want to liberate the whole of Korea, we have to look at the strength of the Korean comrades themselves.

On this matter, Li Runshi very much agrees with the viewpoint of the Central Committee of the People's Party. "I'd rather fight with people who understand, than talk to fools!" The British can negotiate, but God knows how the Korean comrades will behave when they learn that they will have to fight the war themselves.