With the victory of the Chinese National Defense Forces on the battlefield, the blue area representing the Greater China Federation on the world map in Chang Ruiqing's office was also expanding. By November 1934, the winter began to begin in Central Asia and Siberia, and the large-scale conflict between the two armies of China and the Soviet Union finally came to an end. Although war-level conflicts did not occur frequently, the battle between the two armies of China and the Soviet Union did not stop on the battlefields of Central Asia and Siberia, and it still seemed very fierce in some areas.

For example, in September and October 1934, the Central Asian Front launched the Battle of Samarkand and Dushanbe, defeated two Soviet armies, captured eastern Uzbekistan and the entire territory of Tajikistan, and pushed the Central Asian Front's war southward to the Sino-Indian border (by the way, Afghanistan is now part of the People's Republic of India).

On the battlefields of Central Siberia, East Siberia and Kazakhstan, the Chinese National Defense Forces also fought four small battles with the Soviet Red Army, and all ended with China's victory. In addition, there were countless battles below the battle level, especially in the vast Siberian forest, China's reserve army and the Soviet Red Guerrillas fought countless life-and-death battles. Although neither side used heavy troops, the degree of tragic and casualties were even no less than the frontal main battlefield!

However, after the arrival of winter, the Chinese team's offensive finally came to an end. At the same time, the Soviet guerrillas also suspended most of the attacks and sabotage activities and hid in the secret base deep in the forest to spend the winter. According to the memories of the Red Army guerrillas who were captured and surrendered, the extreme cold climate in Siberia at a temperature of tens of degrees below zero caused the damage to the Soviet Red Army guerrillas was no less than that of the Chinese team's clearance. The sacrifice of the Chinese team was killed by the Chinese people, but because of the cold, hunger, Russia and disease, they were killed in the vast forest. More than 90% of the non-combat casualties occurred in winter! Therefore, in the winter of each year, the Siberian Red guerrillas would suspend the harassment of the Chinese and devote their main energy to deal with their main enemy, the winter in Siberia!

At this time, the blue color representing the Greater China Federation of Maps has temporarily stopped expanding. In the north and northwest, almost half of it has covered, East Siberia, East Kazakhstan, the entire Kyrgyzstan, the entire Tajikistan and half Uzbekistan. In the south, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Malay Peninsula, half a Borneo, Palawan Island, the South China Sea and surrounding waters have become the jurisdiction of the Greater China Federation.

However, everyone knows that it is one thing to defeat the territory, and it is another thing to turn the territory that has been captured into a part of the Greater China Federation. If the problem of digestion and treatment of the territory is not handled properly, these areas that have finally been captured will not only not provide resources and motivation for the development of the Greater China Federation, but will instead become a burden for the continued war.

So in this winter, the most important task before Chang Ruiqing and the entire China is how to digest the territory that has been obtained.

"Prime Minister."

As soon as Chang Ruiqing walked into the conference room of the Prime Minister's Office, the civil and military officials and the heads of the parliamentary party groups stood up and saluted.

"Don't salute, sit down and talk." Chang Ruiqing smiled and waved his hand, letting everyone sit back on his seat, while he himself walked to the main seat at the top of the conference table and sat down. Then he glanced at the participants with a bright look. The people attending today's meeting were a bit complicated, not only were generals wearing military uniforms, officials from the federal government, heads of intelligence departments, leaders of the ruling Chinese GCD, and leaders of several opposition parties in the parliament. Jiang JShi, Song Ziwen, Sun Yuexun and others all gathered together, filling a not-too-small conference room.

"Brother Jie, I heard that the Kuomintang has a high approval rating in Vietnam. The first official prime minister of the Indochina Republic seems that it is the Kuomintang. Brothers have congratulated Brother Jie in advance." Chang Ruiqing noticed that Chiang Kai-shek's eyebrows were full of joy, and guessed that it should be because of the election in the Indochina Republic.

After the collapse of the Vietnam Socialist Party, which was taking a non-violent line, the left-wing elements in this party followed Nguyen Aiguo to form the Indochina GCD and joined the GC International to start the GC revolution. The mainstream school of the Vietnam Socialist Party merged with the Kuomintang's branch in Vietnam to form the Vietnam Kuomintang, hoping to achieve Vietnam's independence with the help of a strong China. However, Pan Peizhu's Chinese big brother was not so successful. He lost to GCD in both elections. Before the third election began, the Greater China Federation replaced France and "custody" the Indochina Republic - of course, China's "entrusted rule" in the Indochina Republic had no legal basis. It was neither approved by France, the original suzerain of French Indochina, nor the support of the French Indochina people. It was not too much to say that it was a pure invasion!

However, Chang Ruiqing, the invader, knew that relying solely on brute force to annex is a bad idea. Although there is less trouble in the short term, it is not conducive to the long-term stability of the annexed area. Unless... use ethnic cleansing to drive away non-Chinese residents there! However, in French Indochina, a region that has long been a settlement of overseas Chinese and part of the Greater Chinese cultural circle, the ethnic cleansing method is not easy to use and is unnecessary. Therefore, Chang Ruiqing adopts a democratic constitutional expansion path!

Well, it is really a very evil way! Moreover, relying on the evil cloak of democratic constitutionalism cannot cover up the essence of the invaders' promotion of aggression and expansion. Sooner or later, it will be seen by the working people of Greater East Asia, including the Chinese people. However, the French Indochina, Myanmar, Northwest Borneo and Malayan people seem to be temporarily blinded.

Let’s first talk about how this evil path came about. First of all, Chang Ruiqing and the ruling group of the Greater China Federation never acknowledged that they were following a route of aggression and expansion! Instead, they dressed themselves up as the savior who saved the French Indochina, Myanmar, Northwest Borneo and Malayan people from Western colonial rule. This completely erased the heroic struggle history of the working people in the above-mentioned areas to oppose the Western colonists...

Secondly, after successfully dressing himself up as a savior, Chang Ruiqing and the Chinese reactionary democratic ruling group announced that French Indochina, Myanmar, northwestern Borneo and Malaya were temporarily entrusted by China until the people there elected their own governments and decided through a referendum that their country was completely independent or joined the Greater China Federation! Of course, since most of the working people in these colonial countries did not receive the most basic compulsory education and could not figure out the right or wrong (this is a slander of the working people by the often reactionary faction), only adults who have received new primary school education or above or own a certain amount of property and have lived in these areas for more than three years have the right to vote.

In other words, most of the Chinese and overseas Chinese (including He tribes) in the Tushu area have the right to vote! In addition, the indigenous landlords and bourgeoisie there also have the right to vote, and the vast majority of indigenous working people have no right to vote because they have not read any books!

However, it is worth emphasizing that this election and voting method was not unilaterally proposed by the Greater China Federal Government, but was proposed after consultation with local indigenous political factions. Including the Vietnamese Kuomintang (Guomintang Vietnam Branch), Indochina GCD (China GIndochina Bureau), China Myanmar Association, Malayan People's Committee and other political parties also nodded in agreement. Of course, behind these "voluntary" consent, the Chinese intelligence departments, China G, the Kuomintang and the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association have done some work. There are a few stubborn guys who are either caught in some scandals or were found to be Soviet spies or Japanese spies. In short, there is no good ending!

After successfully allowing Chinese people who account for more than 30% of the total population of French Indochina, Myanmar, Northwest Borneo and Malaya and other places to have the right to vote, there is no suspense for the referendum to join the Greater China Federation. In fact, most of the local indigenous landlords and capitalists also hope that their country will join the Greater China Federation, because during this period, local newspapers are constantly promoting how miserable the outcome of the indigenous landlords and capitalists of the South China Federation under Japanese rule. If their country does not become a member of the Greater China Federation, it will definitely be annexed by Japan in the end!

The third thing before Chang Ruiqing is how to govern the small Southeast Asian countries that are about to join the Greater China Federation. Unlike the "national autonomy" policy implemented by Yugoslavia and China in history, the Greater China Federation in this time and space does not have the concept of national autonomy, but only local autonomy. In the Greater China Federation, all local governments are elected by voters, in other words, they are all autonomous. In principle, the federal government does not interfere in the appointment and removal of local officials and fiscal revenue and expenditure (federal tax and local tax are separated, and local governments and parliaments also have a certain right to increase tax revenue). In a sense, the current Greater China Federation does not have a literal autonomous region, but every place is a truly autonomous region, so the Southeast Asian countries newly merged into the Federation will implement local autonomy.

However, implementing local autonomy does not mean leaving local governments alone. If that is true, all democratic countries in the world that implement local autonomy will probably end in division. In fact, in the current Greater China Federation, the central government has many means of exerting influence on local areas, and the most important means are political parties. The federal government and the federal government participate in politics, and the Legislative Yuan are elected by voters across the country (the federal government is not directly elected but participates in politics, and the Legislative Yuan is responsible for election), and the local governments in the federal government are also elected by the same group of voters, so the political parties that control the central government of the federal government must also be major parties in the federal local areas.

For example, the current Chinese GCD, which is deeply loved and supported by the general public, controls all provincial local governments except Guangdong (ruled by the Kuomintang) and Hong Kong (ruled by the Kuomintang) and Hong Kong (ruled by the Kuomintang). Moreover, the major parties in all local councils are almost exactly the same as the major parties in the federal central parliament. They are all national parties such as the Central G, the Kuomintang, the Progressive Party, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association, and the National Socialist Party. After all, elections are extremely resource-intensive, and they are not the kind of local small parties that can be played with in one go.

While the federation successfully achieved its expansion this time, the five major parties in the Greater China Federation were of course ready to take action to seize territory. Chang Ruiqing was also extremely supportive of these Chinese parties' preparations to enter the new federal territory because he understood that no matter how Chinese parties were, they would definitely safeguard national unity, because they had political interests all over the country and would never sacrifice overall interests to please voters in a place.

In fact, the current rules of the game for Chinese party politics are to support national parties and suppress local parties. Over the years, all local small parties that have appeared have been jointly encircled and suppressed by five major parties without exception, and they cannot obtain funding from the big chaebols. In the end, they either join the five major parties or close down.

Therefore, as long as these political parties can integrate the indigenous political forces under the newly-territored federal leadership, Chang Ruiqing will support the same support even if it is strengthened by the Kuomintang's political territory. Chang Ruiqing will spare no effort to suppress the local political forces in French Indochina, Myanmar, northwestern Borneo and Malaya. Today's meeting is to discuss if the five major political parties divide the territory of these new territories and at the same time jointly encircle and suppress local political forces.

Therefore, when he heard Chang Ruiqing's words, Jiang JShi also smiled with kindness: "Yes, these are all good relationships made by the Prime Minister first. Our Kuomintang has always had a strong influence in the Nanyang region." As he said that, he glanced at Sun Yuexun and smiled: "But this time we have gained a lot in Nanyang, not only our Kuomintang, but Miss Sun's Great East Asia Co-prosperity Association is also impressive!"

Hearing Jiang JShi's words, Sun Yuexun just smiled faintly and didn't say anything. The positioning of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Association is originally a non-Han citizen of the Federation, and it has abundant political funds and many unlucky means. Therefore, the development in Nanyang is extremely fast, and it can almost be with the Kuomintang, but it is the first local party in China. If it is the first general election and referendum in the Indochina Republic of China, according to the latest poll, the Kuomintang has a congressional support rate. The Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Association has a support rate of about 3, while the support rate of 2018 is still negligible. The Progressive Party and the National Socialist Party (the National Socialist Party is a right-wing party and has certain supporters in the local area. Of course, no one will like this new territory) can be ignored.

Chang Ruiqing took the words of Lao Jiang and said: "This time our purpose in Nanyang is to completely integrate and exclude local political forces. As long as we can hold the local votes in our hands, I will support whoever is elected." Speaking of this, he paused: "Today I want to discuss something with you. I want to form a coalition government among the newly joined Nanyang countries. The position of prime ministers in various countries will be recommended by the largest party in the parliament of various countries, and the seats of ministers will be distributed according to the number of votes they receive. What do you think?"

Hearing this, Mao Zd suddenly frowned and turned his head to look at Chang Ruiqing: "Prime Minister, does not agree with the principles of parliamentary politics?"

China G was not as good as expected in the Indochina Republic of China, but about 30% of the parliamentary seats could still be won. Therefore, Mao’s plan was to let China G join forces with the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association to form the first official cabinet of the Indochina Republic of China, and at the same time let Nguyen Aiguo continue to serve as prime minister.

"I know this does not conform to the rules of the game in parliamentary politics." Chang Ruiqing glanced at Jiang JShi, who was full of joy, and then said: "But the situation in these new territories in Nanyang is very special. Our main task is to integrate the local political power. So we must let the politicians who are willing to cooperate with us have officials and taste some sweetness. As for how to allocate this sweetness, the fairest way is to speak with votes." He looked at Jiang again: "Brother J, are there any candidates for the Indochina Prime Minister?"

"We want to recommend Mr. Pan Chaonan (Pan Peizhu) to be the Prime Minister."

Although Pan Peizhu has some Chinese ancestry, she has always adhered to the position of Vietnam's independence, so it is indeed not ideal to be the Prime Minister of Indochina. However, if this prime minister is not given to him, it may be a disappointment to the hearts of indigenous politicians who cooperate with China.

Chang Ruiqing thought about it and nodded, then asked Sun Yuexun: "Xiaomei, Vice Premier will be recommended by Gongronghui. Is there a candidate?"

Sun Yuexun frowned slightly and whispered: "Sir, our political goal in Vietnam is to restore the throne of Nguyen Baoda... to turn Vietnam into a kingdom under the Greater China Federation like the Kingdom of Siam."

"Oh," Chang Ruiqing nodded. He naturally knew about this. This was also the condition for the Co-Pong to win over Vietnamese royalist figures. "Xiao Mei, tell Nguyen Phuc and Ng Tingyan that whether to restore the Nguyen Dynasty is not decided by me but by the Vietnamese people. If Co-Pong will be able to get Indochina to participate in politics, the majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan can propose a referendum on restoring the kingdom, and as long as the Nguyen Dynasty passes through the Nguyen Dynasty, the same is true for the Luang Prabang Dynasty in Laos. As long as the Co-Pong of Greater East Asia can win the majority of seats in the Indochina Parliament, their dynasty has hope of restoring. However, before Co-Pong of the Co-Pong of the Republic of China can achieve this goal, their royal members can still serve as public offices in the Republic of China."

Sun Yuexun thought for a while and replied: "Okay, sir, I want to recommend Wu Tingyan as Deputy Prime Minister of the Indochina Republic of China."
Chapter completed!