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Chapter 1024: The Emaciated Camel

Everyone knows that the International Red Cross and embassy officials from six European and American countries just arrived in Syria yesterday, and they are about to discuss with An Yi the detailed rules of the border truce and the settlement of the prisoners, so as to clear the obstacles to the negotiations between the Chinese and British governments. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chiang Kai-shek, who received An Yi's secret telegram in advance, was very satisfied with An Yi's cautious instructions, and what he wanted was this effect, and he did not want An Yi, whose wings had grown stiff, to do his own thing without asking for instructions or reporting, or taking advantage of his momentary interests to blackmail the central government in every possible way, so that he could boast of his great achievements, and he did not have the existence of him as the chairman of the committee in his mind.

After saluting and greeting, An Yi saw that Yang Yongtai had no intention of leaving, and knew that Chiang Kai-shek intended to ask Yang Yongtai to stay and visit together. An Yi did not care about it, and reported to Chiang Kai-shek in detail the situation reported by the Dian Army Headquarters and the arrival of the International Red Cross delegation in Syria, and finally explained the Americans' proposal to hold a football game and their own countermeasures.

Chiang Kai-shek and Yang Yongtai were surprised, and when they thought about it, they understood the mystery.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction and praised An Yi for dealing with it properly and easily turning passive into active. Yang Yongtai was secretly surprised in his heart, feeling that if this could not be exchanged for An Yi's concessions, I was afraid that in the next negotiations, the central government negotiation team would be in a very embarrassing situation.

But Yang Yongtai was a civil official after all, and he couldn't control An Yi or the southwest, so he closed his mouth very knowingly and didn't say a word, waiting for Chiang Kai-shek to give his final opinion.

But this time Chiang Kai-shek also felt that it was very tricky, and he could appease his old friend Zhu Peide, but the leading generals of the Dian Army, the Anjia Army, the Xiangxi Army, and the Qianxi Army, which sent troops to help the war, were all a group of young Zhuang factions with strong blood and strength, and if they were forced to make concessions to the British with orders on the grounds of taking into account the overall situation, even if An Yi could stand it, others would not be able to stand it, and it was likely to exacerbate the contradictions between the central and local governments. From this, Chiang Kai-shek can also understand why An Yi is so cautious about a football game, and several years of conquest have made Chiang Kai-shek very clear: it is not easy for people's hearts to gather, but it is very fast for people's hearts to be dissipated or even detached.

"What do you think about this?"

Chiang Kai-shek finally threw the problem back to An Yi.

An Yi replied a little helplessly: "The student believes that appropriate concessions are necessary, but it is absolutely impossible to unilaterally withdraw troops as a prerequisite for solving the problem, that is to say, Xia Jian's 26th Army cannot withdraw north or east of the customary border line before the negotiations have any results, this sensitive issue is related to the dignity of the country and the nation, the people of the whole country are watching wide-eyed, and the reporters of the major newspapers across the country are staring at the front line, who dares to give this order?"

"Second, the huge amounts of cash, gold, silver, jewelry, jade, and other valuables from the banks and money houses in western Yunnan that the British had robbed, as well as a large number of materials from the two customs warehouses of Wan Town and Ruili, must be returned first, and the money in the banks is the loss of the governments at all levels in Yunnan Province, and the money in the money is the wealth of the gentry in various places who have deep influence in western Yunnan, and it is simply impossible to obtain concessions from the people and governments at all levels in western Yunnan if they do not return the money.

"As for the issue of war reparations, we can talk about it slowly, after all, more than 10,000 officers and men of the Anglo-Burmese army were captured on Chinese soil, and the charges of aggression and defeat have been confirmed, and the British cannot afford not to compromise, and to a certain extent, the prisoners are hostages, and the British are much more anxious than us."

Chiang Kai-shek and Yang Yongtai glanced at each other, Yang Yongtai nodded frequently with his usual humble smile: "Vice Minister An said very reasonably, the will of the army and the people is our priority category, the more difficult the time, the more we need to observe public opinion and respect public opinion." In Vice Minister Ahn's lofty remarks just now, I very much agree with two points, one is that we cannot take the initiative to withdraw our troops, and the other is to make appropriate concessions. We cannot withdraw our troops because it is rare for us to take the initiative for the first time in a century, and the appropriate concessions are based on the consideration of the overall situation, that is, the consideration of the international and domestic situation. I don't know, right? Please also ask Anji to axe. ”

"An Yi is young and shallow, how can he be worthy of the word 'axe'? Mr. Changqing, please speak. ”

An Yi felt that behind Yang Yongtai's clever words, there must be another purpose.

Yang Yongtai smiled slightly: "General An is polite, not to mention it throughout the ages, only since the Republic of China, who can compare to General An's courage and wisdom?" Hehe...... First of all, we need to figure out what kind of situation we are currently facing and who our primary enemy is. This is an extremely critical question, and only by understanding it can we make the most informed response. I don't know if the general agrees with this point of view? ”

An Yi nodded: "Agreed, please continue!" ”

"Good! Then I'll be ugly! ”

Yang Yongtai said that he was ugly, but in fact he was very confident, he stood up and paced lightly, walked to Chiang Kai-shek's side, turned his head to look at An Yi, and began to make his own tirade:

"As we all know, our greatest enemy is Japan, which is constantly encroaching on our northern territory, and the European and American powers still continue to oppress and plunder our China in history, but no country is as unscrupulous as the Japanese. And one thing must be clear, from the two Opium Wars to the present, it is still the British who dominate the invasion and exploitation of China by the great powers, although after the last world war, the international status of the United States is rising day by day, but Britain still has a huge influence in China and the world, its national strength is more than dozens of times greater than ours, except for the three eastern provinces, the power of the British in all provinces and cities throughout the country is everywhere, and any motion that we need the support of the League of Nations must obtain the support of the British Government in advance, which is obvious to all. During the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai the year before last, the military presumably realized this, right? ”

Yang Yongtai saw An Yi's brows furrowed slightly, and did not answer his question, and continued with satisfaction:

"Everyone knows the meaning of the phrase "a weak country has no diplomacy", general, you have also mentioned this point of view from time to time in your speeches on various occasions in various places, and I deeply sympathize with this, after all, what my generation inherited is an extremely poor and cowardly country, and it is not easy to get to this point, and in such a situation and difficult situation, how many choices can we have?

"As far as the enemy facing the party-state is concerned, the great powers are still secondary, and the top priority is to rectify the internal, and only the unity of the whole country is the basis for resisting foreign enemies, so I believe that the final disposition of the Sino-Burmese border war should also strictly follow this principle, and we should not make enemies everywhere and bring about our own destruction.

"General An, in recent years, the United States has gradually replaced Britain as our biggest collaborator, but Britain's war potential and recognized leadership position in the world are not something we can subvert, so we can't go too extreme in the Sino-British negotiations, and forget who the biggest enemy we need to face is. As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Britain is not as unbearable as the newspapers and magazines nowadays promote! ”

"Nope! Mr. Changqing, you can chew on the words and shake the burden with anyone, and distort other people's opinions, but please don't come to this with me An Yi, your summary and my original intention are fundamentally different things! ”

An Yi stood up in annoyance: "Maybe your starting point is good, maybe you think more broadly than my An Yi, but there is one thing you can't compare to me, and that is action!" Yes, an emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, but after all, an emaciated camel is already a dead camel, and there is no threat!

"Mr. Changqing, there are some things I don't really want to say, but your clever words today make me have to say them! A lot of the previous unhappiness was caused by you and conspirators like you, including the misunderstanding between me and the principal last year, which was also the result of your fueling. Do you think that this is the only way to show your extraordinary strategy and ability? I An Yi can't say anything about what you do to others, and I don't want to say anything, but what you did to me An Yi made me change from respect to disgust for you.

"Yes, I used to respect you, but not now, I hope you can understand this. For more than a year, I have been full of anger and have been wanting to vent to you, and even want to kill you, you know that this is not a difficult thing for me, but for the sake of the great cause of the party and the state, I have endured it, if you still want to play with your so-called 'wisdom' in the face of the dignity of the country and the nation, I advise you to stop, your opinion will do me and the principal a hundred harms but not any good! I say that, do you understand? ”

An Yi had a sudden attack mercilessly, and Yang Yongtai was hit at a loss, and he was inexplicably frightened.

Chiang Kai-shek's face turned red, and he pointed at An Yi and was very angry: "An Yi, are you crazy?" ”

An Yi ignored Yang Yongtai's existence at all, stood up and stared at Chiang Kai-shek's eyes: "Principal, the students are not crazy, if the students are crazy, there will be no great victory in Western Yunnan; If the students are crazy, there will be no one to solve the problem of tens of millions of victims for the principal; If the students were insane, there would be no active mediation of the Americans and no anger of the British; If the students were crazy, they wouldn't leave everyone behind and fly to the principal...... Principal, am I still a student you trust? Is it? ”

Chiang Kai-shek was stunned for a moment, his face changed instantly, his expression was extremely complicated, he looked at An Yi with a red face and bright eyes, and then turned to Yang Yongtai, who was frightened and angry and short of breath, and waved his hand lightly after a long time, and after Yang Yongtai's face retreated, he let out a long sigh:

"You're out of shape, it's the first time I've seen you so faceless...... Say it, say whatever you want. ”

An Yi was short of breath, his chest was heaving and he couldn't calm down for a long time, and it took a while before he walked to Chiang Kai-shek's side:

"Principal, the reason why students follow you is because you can bring hope to the Chinese nation, from the Northern Expedition, the Western Expedition to the Central Plains War, from the Shanghai 128 War of Resistance to the Great Wall of Resistance, from the Northwest Disaster Relief, the Yangtze River Basin Flood, the Huanghuai Flood to today's Western Yunnan War, Principal, when have students disappointed you?

"It's not that students are not without ambition, yes, they are ambitious! Of course, this ambition is not to replace the principal, but to revitalize the nation and drive away humiliation. Yang Yongtai may be a brilliant talent for governing the country, but in this troubled world, two lips cannot stand, only in this Western Yunnan War, how can two lips be obtained by moving a single movement?

"The students also know in their hearts that in the face of the heavy pressure of the Japanese invaders, they can no longer make strong enemies, but after all, the British are different from the Japanese, the international environment in which Britain is located is different from Japan, Britain has colonies all over the world, and we can easily give up any of them in times of crisis, but we can't give up! Headmaster, you say, in today's day, when the whole ** people are waiting for it, can you easily compromise with the British? ”

Chiang Kai-shek silently looked at the excited An Yi, and for a while he didn't know how to answer his student's words, An Yi almost integrated all the questions into a passionate speech, which made Chiang Kai-shek difficult to digest.

After a long time, Chiang Kai-shek stood up and patted An Yi's arm gently: "I trust you, but do you trust me?" ”

An Yi was speechless, lowered his head and raised his head again: "Principal, I believe in the Three People's Principles!" ”