Gao Fei's main focus was on the occupation of Japan. Legend has it that the Japanese royal family bribed MacArthur with a large amount of gold, and the key documents seized in the Far East showed that a large amount of jewelry and gold were shipped back to Japan. Lu Guoren was in the Philippines

Compared with the amount of gold hidden by the Japanese army found in Southeast Asia, which is less than 100 tons, the amount of looted by the Japanese army is completely different. Gao Fei must let Emperor Hirohito spit out all the hidden gold, otherwise even if Japan is turned into a slaughterhouse, it will be a waste.

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Japan must not be left with this capital that was historically used to start its rise. Moreover, during the colonial rule of the Northeast, the Japanese carried out destructive mining and plunder. Gao Fei ordered Shen Yingxiong to gather ships to collect metals, coal, etc. that Japan could use.

After all are shipped back to China, the minerals owned by Japan will be destructively plundered and mined.

Because according to international practice, war compensation is included in every surrender or armistice agreement signed after the war. The amount of compensation paid by the defeated country to the victorious country is often astonishingly large.

Later, the victorious Japan used the Treaty of Shimonoseki to steal 200 million taels of silver from the defeated Chinese Qing government in the name of war compensation.

In the Second World War, China, as an important part of the World Anti-Fascist Alliance, paid huge national sacrifices in the thirteen-year War of Resistance Against Japan. However, what surprised Gao Fei in history was that during the war

After the war, the defeated Japan did not pay compensation to China, one of the main victorious countries, which is even more puzzling.

What is surprising is that those Southeast Asian countries that were far less damaged by the war than China have received compensation to varying degrees. Among them, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Indonesia received compensation of US$200 million, US$550 million, and US$223 million respectively.

Even the Ngo Dinh Diem regime in South Vietnam, which had not yet been unified at the time, received a compensation of US$39 million?

For Gao Fei, the regrets in history are too unbelievable. It can be said that with the announcement of the Japanese Emperor's edict on the radio, the sun flag that had been flying domineeringly on the land of China for thirteen years fell to the ground, and China's anti-Japanese war

As an inseparable part of the world anti-fascist war, the war finally won victory. China far away

The bloody battle of the expeditionary force's landing in Japan, including the recovery of the Ryukyu Islands including Okinawa and the occupation of Tokyo, played a crucial role in ending the war. The Chinese Expeditionary Force fought against 80% of the Japanese Army's ground forces.

In the Pacific battlefield and the landing on the Japanese mainland, 98% of the Japanese invading troops were resisted.i^

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China's Anti-Japanese War made the greatest contribution and suffered the greatest losses in the world. According to preliminary and incomplete statistics from the Nationalist Government, the total number of Chinese military and civilian casualties in this protracted war was as high as 35 million.

The amount of various losses in U.S. dollars amounts to more than 570 billion, excluding losses in the guerrilla zones behind enemy lines and losses in the four northeastern provinces.

In Gao Fei's view, in the face of such heavy economic losses, it is only natural to ask Japan, the culprit, to pay China war compensation. Historically, the Chinese government's attitude towards this was quite clear. Wang Shijie, then Foreign Minister of the National Government, elaborated on China's basic post-war policy towards Japan.

pointed out that although China does not

It advocates the adoption of narrow retributionism, but the issue of reparations should be resolved based on the requirements of justice and fairness. To this end, the Chinese government has specially established an investigation committee to investigate and compile statistics on various human and material losses during the war.

situation in order to file a compensation claim against Japan.

Historically, China's policy of demanding compensation from Japan was consistent with the general post-war policy of the Allied Powers towards the defeated countries. As early as the Yalta Conference between the leaders of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union, the principle of requiring the German, Italian, and Japanese fascist countries to pay war compensation to the Allied Powers was formulated, stipulating that Germany

Twenty billion U.S. dollars should be compensated, of which 10 billion goes to the Soviet Union, 8 billion goes to Britain and the United States, and 2 billion goes to other countries. After the war, Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union implemented partitioned occupation of Germany and established the Allied Control Committee.

Indemnify the allies from each

Compensation for the demolition of industrial facilities in the occupied areas. At the same time, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland, which followed Germany in fighting the Allies, also made demands for compensation. The peace treaty planned between the Allies and the above five countries stipulated that Italy, Romania,

The five countries of Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland respectively paid US$250 million, US$300 million, US$0.77 billion, US$400 million, and US$300 million in compensation to the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, and Greece.

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Regarding Japan, the Allies, led by the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China, established a compensation committee after Japan's surrender to specifically negotiate the issue of Japan's compensation. At the first meeting, the committee unanimously agreed that in order to deprive Japan of its industrial capabilities to conduct war and prevent the resurgence of militarism, it was decided that

Increase Japan's war compensation. The method is to demolish more than half of Japan's industrial equipment and give it to the war-victimized countries as compensation. To this end, instruct each country to investigate separately and count the losses during the war in order to determine a specific compensation plan.

After more than two years of investigation and verification, the alliance countries submitted claims to Japan for a total amount of US$54 billion, including China. However, countries had different opinions on how to distribute the compensation, and the United Kingdom demanded possession of it.

Twenty-five percent of the compensation, the United States demands 34 percent,

The Soviet Union asked for 14%, France asked for 14%, and Australia asked for 28%. These countries alone, not including China, which suffered the most, the total distribution ratio exceeded 100%.

The Soviet Union's unprecedented plunder after entering Northeast China was based on the permission of the United States and Britain at the Yalta Conference.

Historically, China argued at the conference that it had "suffered the longest and sacrificed the most" and insisted that it should receive 40% of Japan's total compensation. However, none of the participating countries agreed. After many consultations, China only agreed.

Accounting for 30%, all parties have been arguing over this issue since then, and the issue has been dragged on for a long time without being resolved.

At the same time, the Kuomintang government was busy fighting the civil war, so it did not care about the distribution of compensation to Japan. However, the Kuomintang politician Zhang Qun still loudly stated in his diplomatic report: "We will never give up the compensation we deserve from Japan.

!" This fully demonstrated the attitude of the Kuomintang government at that time.

Gao Fei remembered that in history, six years after the war, the United States announced the draft of the peace treaty with Japan and sent invitations to the Allied countries for the San Francisco Conference, thus putting the issue of the peace treaty with Japan that had been shelved once again on the agenda.
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