Chapter 1151, Colonial Plan
In the next few days, Rohard had been actively contacting Delhi, reporting the conditions proposed by Wu Shaoting, and then waiting anxiously. It is not difficult for him to imagine that after receiving this telegram, many people would be furious and furious. Not only that, there must be people who originally agreed to peace talks before, but now they are emotionally stimulated and immediately expressed their continued fighting to the end.
However, even though the Chinese team's battle in Myanmar has not stopped even though they were waiting for the reply.
As the 21st and 22nd Divisions joined the Myanmar war, the Myanmar battlefield, which had been progressing slowly, suddenly became in full swing. More and more local Myanmar troops turned against each other, and General Bo Gang, who fought in small-scale guerrilla warfare in Upper Myanmar, also launched several general attacks against big cities in an abnormal manner.
On March 27, General Bogang's rebel army joined forces with the 22nd Division to successfully conquer the central city of Myanmar. At three o'clock in the afternoon that day, General Bogang announced the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Myanmar under the instruction of the Chinese side, and appointed himself as the chairman of the Provisional Government. He officially issued a telegram across the country, claiming that "Myanmar has separated from British colonial rule and will become a sovereign country from today."
News of the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Myanmar has caused widespread reactions in Myanmar and throughout South Asia.
Many ethnic minority movements have felt that confidence has increased greatly. With the help of China, four countries have completed the storm in less than three years. This not only improved China's prestige in Asia, but also greatly promoted the expansion of the "anti-colonial and anti-aggression" wave.
Even some voices demanding sovereignty within India are coming, which is exactly what the British government is most afraid of. Once this thought expands like an infectious disease, the empire will eventually come to an end.
Faced with the increasingly out of control of South Asia, Delhi deeply realized that if the peace talks continue to be delayed, the chips in their hands will become less and less valuable. At that time, China will either no longer accept the peace talks or offer more conditions. In desperation, Marshal France had to choose to give in and decided to accept the request to submit a surrender to China.
On the last day of March, Kunming received a formal reply from Delhi. French asked Rohard to prepare a peace treaty immediately and sign it as soon as possible. As for the submission of the surrender letter, French arrived in Kunming in person within half a month after the armistice, he transferred it to Wu Shaoting. However, the peace treaty clearly stipulates that China will unconditionally release all prisoners of war, including Marshal Douglas Hegel, and that the British government will not provide China with any war reparations and other unequal treaties.
Rohard found Wu Shaoting with this peace treaty three hours later, and Wu Shaoting was not inefficient. After reading the peace treaty briefly, he made only some subtle wording changes and immediately signed it.
In the part revised by Wu Shaoting, it is clearly stated that the British government does not pay war reparations to China, and it is only limited to the scope of application of the Asian battlefield. His meaning is very simple. China can do nothing now, but once the European war is over, all the Allied Powers will be defeated, and then China will participate in the division of the powers of the Allied Powers as a victorious country.
On the morning of the second day of the peace agreement, the Indian government first issued a telegram across Asia to announce the news of Britain's defeat in South Asia.
In the afternoon of the same day, the head of state of Kunming followed and issued a notice saying that it had accepted the surrender of Britain and ordered the South Asian Theater Command to terminate all offensive operations. The troops from various routes were transferred to the task of maintaining order in the occupied areas. They retreated thirty miles from the two divisions of the ** to enter the state of border guards.
In less than twelve hours, the South Asian countries caused a sensation. Siam, who was originally fighting stubbornly, completely lost confidence. The King of Siam submitted a surrender letter to the Continental Bridge Corps and ordered the Bangkok guards to surrender to the Central ** team.
Local troops loyal to Britain in Myanmar also announced that they would establish military governments in their respective occupied areas. In a blink of an eye, the entire Myanmar formed a situation of warlord separatism.
The Chinese armies scattered in South Asia were rejoicing. They were not only happy for the end of the war, but also excited for defeating Britain, the most arrogant European power.
When the news spread in China, the people were once again filled with great emotions. Although after the Sino-Japanese War, many people have already determined that China has long been a powerful country that is shoulder to shoulder with the world's powers, this time forcing the British government to submit a surrender letter not only confirmed this, but also allowed China to gain a long-term political territory.
The entire China no longer has any concessions or cede land. The things that the Qing government had compensated before have been taken back one after another. Although the South Asian War was an aggressive war, in a political sense, it also strengthened the security of China's southern territory and cut off the channels for Western powers to invade China from the South Asian continent.
Chinese newspapers spared no effort to start publicity and stimulating, excited to bring a new Chinese era to the new Nanjing Presidential Palace and the great head of state. In addition, the end of the South Asian War means that China's current foreign war has basically come to an end, including Tsarist Russia, and it has only been a stalemate and has not continued to penetrate the north.
Many capitalists and economists have begun to make predictions that after experiencing three years of foreign war, China will not only become Asia's only hegemony, but will also usher in a significant leap in the domestic economic scale as a victorious country. The whole three years of war have consumed too much national strength, but there will always be reports on its efforts, because these consumptions have laid a superior environment for future development and international political foundation. By the end of the war, China's development will definitely be a qualitative leap.
This matter is indeed something that Wu Shaoting is concerned about. China's military industry has made breakthrough development in recent years, but many civil industries are still relatively backward. Moreover, China's industrial penetration rate is not as strong as expected, so after the war is over, he will use this period of peace to accelerate the overall development rhythm of the country.
However, before formally formulating the detailed plan for domestic development, there is another task before Wu Shaoting to give priority to it, that is, the colonial rule of Siam and Laos.
Since the Asian Community Plan put forward the slogan of "anti-colonial and anti-aggression" from the beginning, even if China gains control over South Asia, it cannot implement colonial policies so blatantly.
At the "South Asia National Policy Conference" held by the head of Kunming camp, consultants of the National Policy Research Institute and diplomatic officials at the Presidential Office proposed many countermeasures to annex Siam and Laos. In fact, the situation in Laos is much better than that in Siam, because so far Laos is still under the rule of Siam, and Laos' citizens have long lost their national consciousness. China can do nothing but the excuse that it is impossible to help Laos form a suitable government, so it has to govern on its behalf.
Wu Shaoting agreed with Laos's handling plan. He decided to divide Laos into seven administrative regions, with the administrative level tentatively set it as a "state", that is, deliberately abolishing the concept of Laos' "state". These seven states have the most judicial, legislative and law enforcement powers, and will also gain more sovereignty in future development. Of course, in addition to military and diplomacy forever belonging to China's control.
Three of the states were governors from local prominent families, but these Laos governors must swear allegiance to China at the inauguration ceremony and recognize them as subordinate officials of the Chinese government. At the same time, they intermarry with senior bureaucrats of the Chinese central government to strengthen the national integration between China and Laos.
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