In a blink of an eye, time has entered the beginning of 1945.
The Sino-Japanese War has completely ended. Whether it is the local Japanese army, the Japanese army in Japan, the Japanese army in northern Manchuria or the Japanese army in Nanyang, they have surrendered to the local Japanese army. The 8th Shino Army that landed in Tokyo has withdrawn into the country.
The Army Group was among the first batch of troops stationed in Japan, but it has been stationed in Japan for a long time.
Now that the war is over, China should enjoy the fruits of victory.
Regarding the disposal of more than two million Japanese prisoners of war in Japan, Northeast China and Southeast Asia, the central government also agreed with Yue Weihan's suggestion. All of them would be prosecuted as war crimes, and then sentenced and convicted according to Chinese law. Those with serious cases would be sentenced to death, and those with less serious cases would be sentenced to death.
Sentenced to reeducation through labor ranging from ten to thirty years.
Immediately afterwards, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China established a war losses investigation committee with Zhou Gong as the director to count China's personnel and property losses in the war. The purpose was of course to claim compensation from Japan. As a defeated country, Japan naturally
Compensation must be paid, which is also international practice. It is estimated that ceding territory is inevitable. At least Ryukyu and North Korea are determined to break away from Japan.
In fact, as a time traveler, Yue Weihan knew the number of losses China suffered in World War II.
In the eight years of the war of resistance in history, the Chinese people suffered more than 35 million casualties, and the various losses, calculated in US dollars at the time, were as high as more than 100 billion! In contemporary China, due to Yue Weihan's time travel, the war of resistance only lasted seven years, and the number of military and civilian casualties was also high.
It's relatively small, but no matter what, the loss of 80 billion US dollars is definitely more than enough.
However, in the history of China, because Chiang Kai-shek was busy with the civil war, he did not really care about the issue of reparations. Because China did not act tough enough, the small Southeast Asian countries that had just become independent after the war started to complain. China naturally refused to agree. That's how it happened.
After procrastinating, after two or three years, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, and things became even more troublesome.
In addition, the world structure soon entered the Cold War era when the United States and the Soviet Union competed for hegemony. In order to support Japan and contain the Soviet Union, the United States directly exempted Japan from all reparations without consulting China and Southeast Asian countries, and only allowed Japan to use
Compensation services were provided to various countries in the form of labor export. Under pressure from the US government, Mr. Chiang pinched his nose and accepted the offer.
In the late 1970s, when the mainland established diplomatic relations with the United States, China tried to restart compensation negotiations, but was rejected by Taiwan. The reason was that Taiwan had already reached an agreement with the National Government of Taiwan on compensation matters. At that time, Taiwan even
They were not even willing to admit war reparations, which also paved the way for later not admitting the invasion of China.
In today's China, due to Yue Weihan's time travel, it is impossible to get cheap money anymore.
First of all, the claim amount will never be just the historical amount. After two years of investigation, the historical alliance countries submitted a claim amount of 58 billion US dollars to ***. In Yue Weihan's view, this is too cheap***
Well, the losses to China alone are as high as hundreds of billions of dollars. How can Japan only pay compensation of 58 billion U.S. dollars?
Secondly, China’s proportion of total reparations must be adjusted.
In history, China only proposed to account for 40% of the total reparations, which was strongly opposed by the Southeast Asian countries. In the view of Yue Weihan, China in today's world must account for at least 70% of the total reparations. As for the Southeast Asian countries and regions, it will provide 10% of the total reparations.
% compensation is already pretty good, and the remaining 20% will naturally go to the United States.
Although the protagonists of the Asian battlefield are China and Japan, the Americans are also a presence that cannot be ignored. Therefore, it is impossible for China to ignore the United States in the distribution of reparations. Roosevelt, this damn cripple, is not a fuel-saving lamp. He specially sent
Stilwe, an old acquaintance of Yue Weihan, was solely responsible for the aftermath.
Duke Zhou was quite rigorous and efficient in his work. Since there was no interference from the civil war like in history, it only took more than three months for the head of the Battle Damage Investigation Committee to roughly calculate the loss figures. According to statistics, China
The Japanese people suffered more than 28 million casualties in the seven-year war of resistance, and the cumulative losses exceeded 50 billion US dollars!
This figure made Yue Weihan, the chairman of the negotiating committee, quite dissatisfied. As a result, with a stroke of his pen, the number of casualties among Chinese civilians increased to 38 million, and the war losses also increased to 150 billion U.S. dollars.
As for the amount of the claim, Yue Weihan even proposed an astronomical figure of US$200 billion!
This number not only frightened the Japanese, but even Stilwell was frightened.
Calculated based on ***’s pre-war (1937) GDP of US$20 billion, its fiscal revenue would not exceed US$2 billion at most. Yue Weihan’s claim of US$200 billion was 10% of ***’s annual fiscal revenue.
Exactly one hundred times, that is to say, if more than 60 million Japanese people do not eat or drink, it will take a hundred years to pay off the compensation.
But as a time traveler, Yue Weihan doesn't see it this way, because Yue Weihan knows that the world is developing and the world economy is constantly moving forward, but the U.S. dollar will continue to depreciate. The compensation of 200 billion U.S. dollars seems extremely scary now, but when it comes
Ten years from now, it will never be as exaggerated as it is now.
After repeated protests from the Japanese government and the vigorous mediation of the U.S. government, Yue Weihan reluctantly proposed the second set of compensation plans that had been prepared for a long time: the Japanese government would compensate 50 billion in cash over thirty years, and in the next seventy years,
20% of the total annual fiscal revenue will be used as compensation for the shortfall until the end of the term.
Due to China's tough attitude, the Communist government finally chose the second option without any other choice. At least on paper, the second option was less than the first option in repaying more than 120 billion U.S. dollars in war reparations.
Only Yue Weihan knows that this is not the case at all. If in the next hundred years, ***'s annual financial revenue remains at 2 billion US dollars, then *** will naturally take advantage of it. But if ***'s annual financial revenue increases
How about tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars? Then the *** people will suffer a big loss!
Yue Weihan also knows that history is always moving forward, and the information revolution will break out in the near future. The overall size of the world economy will grow exponentially, in order to improve people's national character and promote the explosive growth of the economic scale.
Growth is probably inevitable. In a few years, Japan's annual fiscal revenue will exceed the current GDP!
At that time, the Japanese will suddenly realize that they will have to pay trillions of dollars more in war reparations because of their wrong choices decades ago!
After finalizing the compensation plan, the next question is how to distribute it.
Of course, this is mainly a matter between China and the United States, or it is a dispute between Yue Weihan and Stilwell. As for the situation in Southeast Asian countries, it is fundamentally different from that in history. Southeast Asian countries in history,*
After the Japanese surrendered, they gained national independence one after another. However, today, all Southeast Asian countries are still military-controlled areas under Japanese rule.
Since various regions in Southeast Asia are not even considered sovereign states, how can they be qualified to participate in the distribution of reparations?
Although Britain and France also suffered great losses in the Asian battlefield, their losses were basically colonies, such as Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Singapore. However, the nature of colonies cannot be equated with territory after all. Therefore, although the two countries participated
Negotiations, but basically no say.
Acting on Roosevelt's instructions, Stilwell proposed that China and the United States should each receive 24 billion U.S. dollars, and the remaining 2 billion U.S. dollars should be compensated to Britain, France and Southeast Asia respectively depending on the losses. As for the subsequent seventy years,
The 20% compensation will be completely shared by China and the United States, and will have nothing to do with other countries and regions.
This proposal was naturally strongly opposed by China and Yue Weihan.
Yue Weihan insisted that China was the main force in the Asian battlefield. China's military officers suffered the most casualties and suffered the heaviest losses, so they deserved the most compensation. Although the U.S. government and people gave China great help during the war, the Chinese government and people
I will always remember it, but one code is one code, and the U.S. aid to China cannot affect the distribution ratio of reparations.
Finally, after half a year of arduous negotiations, China, the United States, Britain, France and other countries finally reached an agreement. China received 26 billion US dollars in cash compensation, the United States received 20 billion, and the remaining 4 billion US dollars were provided by Britain, France, Vietnam, the Philippines,
It will be shared by more than 20 countries and regions including Malaysia, and 20% of the compensation for the next 70 years will be exclusively enjoyed by China.
After allocating the compensation, the next step is to enter the final distribution of benefits, which is the re-division of the spheres of influence.
What is going on with Britain and France at this stage, because the two countries have lost all their colonies in Southeast Asia? Is it possible that with the current situation of the British Empire, it is still capable of taking back Burma, Singapore or Hong Kong from Japan?
As for France, it is still just a communist government, and it has nothing to do with it.
Although the United States was deeply involved in the European War, Uncle Sam founded the country on business and would never give up any opportunity to gain profits. In the subsequent negotiations, he took the American rogue style to the extreme and relied on the strength of the Pacific Fleet.
Its strength has delimited many islands in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
In terms of naval power, China has no way to challenge the United States.
But then again, the role played by the U.S. Navy in the Asian battlefield is indeed irreplaceable. It is understandable that it has demarcated most of the islands in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. In any case, China controls Taiwan, Ryukyu
archipelago and the other four islands, so that if a conflict breaks out between China and the United States in the future, we can guarantee that we will keep the enemy out of the first island chain.
As for Burma, Siam, Indo-China and North Korea, although they are nominally independent, they have actually become protectorates of China. At least in the foreseeable short term, China will never withdraw its troops.
Finally, it must be mentioned that although the Sino-Japanese War is over, the Sino-Russian War is not yet over.
At the same time that the 8th Army of the Fourth Army withdrew from Japan, the Third Army commanded by General Xue Yue and the First Army commanded by General Peng simultaneously launched an attack on Russia's Central Asia and Far East Military Regions.