At this time, the amount and distribution ratio of Japan's war reparations had been finalized.
The First and Third Wilds are advancing rapidly in the Far East and Central Asia. Due to the split of the fourteen republics and the civil war, Russia's national and military power has plummeted compared to the Soviet Union. In addition, it has contained most of its troops on the European battlefield. Therefore,
In the battlefields of Central Asia and the Far East, it seems to be somewhat inadequate.
In less than a year, the First and Third Wilds had basically occupied Central Asia and the Far East, and were attacking Siberia from the east and west. Russian President Molotov launched the second war mobilization in the country and urgently mobilized
Fifty infantry divisions attempted to engage in a strategic decisive battle with the Japanese near the Ural Mountains.
In China, a vigorous mass production movement was underway at this time.
Since Japan was unable to pay up to 26 billion U.S. dollars in war reparations, China proposed that it could be deducted in the form of industrial machinery, equipment, and labor imports. Starting from the beginning of 1945, heavy industrial equipment in Yokohama, Osaka, Yokosuka, and Tokyo were dismantled and reassembled one after another.
Ship, shipped to coastal areas of China.
At the same time, a large number of skilled workers in Japan were also sent to China in the form of labor export.
As for the more than two million Japanese prisoners of war in Nanyang, Northern Mongolia and Northern Manchuria, except for a few who were sentenced to death because their hands were stained with Chinese blood, the vast majority were sentenced to ten to thirty years of forced labor.
, and has entered the mines and road construction sites in Northeast, North and Southwest China to perform high-intensity work.
In the first month of 1946, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an ethnic work conference in the capital Xi'an.
China has always been a multi-ethnic country. How various ethnic groups can coexist peacefully has always been the biggest problem for rulers. On this point, all dynasties have not done well enough, including the New China in history, which fully imitated the Soviet Union in ethnic policies.
Strict ethnic divisions, coupled with the model of ethnic autonomy, are completely wrong.
At the ethnic work conference, Yue Weihan proposed that we should try our best to downplay the concept of ethnicity and only emphasize the "Chinese nation." No matter what ethnic group, the country will treat them equally and will never make any specializations. At the same time, we should promote sinology education nationwide, vigorously popularize Mandarin, and urgently
It is determined to ban the inheritance of any writing except Chinese characters.
As a time traveler, no one knows better than Yue Weihan how terrible wrong ethnic policies are!
Historically, New China adopted wrong ethnic policies and blindly gave preferential treatment to ethnic minorities. As a result, the ethnic minorities were alienated from each other and never regarded themselves as true Chinese. The Han people, who accounted for the largest proportion of the population, felt that they were just ethnic minorities.
They can be regarded as second-class citizens. The government is really like a pig looking in the mirror, not a human being inside or outside.
Yue Weihan's proposal was passed with the approval of the majority of members and was eventually written into the constitution.
The Ethnic Work Conference had just ended when Yue Weihan unexpectedly submitted his retirement application to ***!
This news immediately caused an uproar in the whole country, the whole party and the whole army. No one thought that Yue Weihan would suddenly apply for retirement, because at this time Yue Weihan was just in his early thirties and in his prime.
, it is when the energy is at its strongest, and everyone even thinks that Yue Weihan will undisputedly become the core of the second generation of leadership!
However, Yue Weihan applied for retirement at this time, and his attitude was extremely determined!
Chairman Mao, Mr. Zhu and Duke Zhou successively came to Yue Weihan for heart-to-heart talks. The three of them were moved by emotion and reason. They repeatedly emphasized that the construction of post-war China requires the joint efforts of all the people. Yue Weihan, as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party
Members must not be deserters and must shoulder the responsibilities of a *** veteran.
Deng Gong and General Wei Lihuang also flew from Qingdao to Xi'an to do Yue Weihan's ideological work.
In the end, Chi Chengfeng, who was stationed in Japan, flew thousands of miles back to Xi'an. Later, according to Chi Chengfeng's guard, he revealed in his memoirs that Chi Chengfeng even threatened with a gun in the end, but in the end he still failed to persuade Yue Weihan.
He resolutely resigned from all positions within the party and the military, and officially announced his retirement from active service!
Regarding Yue Weihan's choice, the whole country was in an uproar, and no one could understand it.
In fact, Yue Weihan did have some considerations in choosing to retire when he was still in his prime.
First of all, Yue Weihan's prestige within the party and the military is so high that his brilliance has even overshadowed Chairman Mao.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, many people in the country did not know who Chairman Mao was, but absolutely no one did not know who Yue Weihan was. Internationally, Chairman Mao's reputation was even more incomparable to that of Yue Weihan. Although Chairman Mao was extremely broad-minded,
He doesn't care about this, but Yue Weihan knows that a country can only have one top leader!
Therefore, between Chairman Mao and Yue Weihan, one must step down. Chairman Mao has just been elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at the Party Congress, and was also elected as Chairman of the Republic of China. His five-year term has just begun. Naturally,
It is impossible to retreat at this time, so Yue Weihan can only retreat.
Secondly, Yue Weihan also wants to set an example for national leaders and force them not to be obsessed with power!
Power is like opium. It doesn't matter if you have never been exposed to it. But once you have tasted it, it is difficult for most people to let it go. With that kind of power, thousands of armies are born because of you, and they are born because of you.
The feeling of death does make people nostalgic. Unless you are a person with great perseverance, it is difficult to truly let go.
After the Chinese Communist Party became the ruling party, it adopted a democratic centralism governance method. This method has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that administrative efficiency has been greatly improved, and the country can concentrate its efforts on major tasks and key projects. The disadvantage is that the top leader is easily attached to the government.
power and unwillingness to hand over power to the next leader.
This is the case with Chairman Mao in history. He was supposed to hand over the supreme power to Chairman Liu after his two terms were completed, but in fact he failed to do so. Until his death in 1976, China's supreme power was always in the hands of Chairman Mao.
During this period, several national presidents were just puppets. This phenomenon is of course inappropriate.
Finally and most importantly, Yue Weihan chose to retire for the smooth transfer of national power.
Because in Chinese officialdom, there is a very peculiar phenomenon of compensation. If two forces compete and one of the forces takes the initiative to make concessions in a high-profile manner, the other force must compensate due to the rules of the game.
Take Yue Weihan, for example. He voluntarily resigned from the party, government, and military. Of course Chairman Mao knew what was going on, so when his two terms expired, he must compensate Yue Weihan. When determining the person to be promoted, Yue Weihan must be considered first.
The first candidate, this candidate is already ready to be announced, it is Deng Gong, the general political commissar of the Fourth Field!
Therefore, what Yue Weihan adopted was actually a strategy of retreat to advance, forcing Chairman Mao to truly hand over power to the next national leader after his two terms expired, thus setting an example for the smooth handover of China's highest power! This,
That's what Yue Weihan really cares about.
What fears democratic centralism most?
The most feared thing is hereditary, life-long tenure of the top leadership!
Yue Weihan's move was to nip the hereditary system and the lifelong tenure of the supreme leader in the bud!
However, in the end, Yue Weihan still did not completely withdraw from the military. Considering Yue Weihan's special situation, Chairman Mao proposed and all members of the Communist Party of China agreed to create the post of Honorary Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Originally, the Communist Party of China did not have an honorary deputy chairman.
Chairman, this position is specially created for Yue Weihan, and it is the only lifelong position among all leadership positions.
Later, such appointments became the norm. Whenever a top leader leaves office, he is automatically elected as the honorary vice chairman of the Communist Party of China until his death.
At the end of 1946, the Germans took the lead in developing the atomic bomb!
As early as a year ago, the Germans had developed the V4 missile with a range of more than 5,000 kilometers. Its killing range covered all large and medium-sized cities on the east coast of the United States. In the previous year, it had never suffered from war***
The Americans were finally attacked by German missiles and suffered heavy casualties.
On January 7, 1947, a V4 missile carrying a nuclear warhead hit the center of New York City!
In an instant, a huge mushroom cloud soared from the center of New York City. The strong shock wave instantly flattened more than a dozen blocks in the center of the explosion. Millions of New Yorkers were shocked by the high temperature, bright light and sound waves generated by the explosion.
Among them, the number of direct deaths exceeded 500,000!
Almost at the same time, another V3 missile also equipped with a nuclear warhead exploded on the front line of the Balkan Peninsula. The sixteen infantry divisions, eight tank divisions and four heavy artillery divisions of the US front line were instantly severely damaged. The German and Russian coalition forces took advantage of the situation to counterattack.
The Allied forces were instantly defeated.
The next day, another V3 missile carrying a nuclear warhead bombed London.
Fortunately, just two days later, the Americans also developed the atomic bomb.
By this time, Germany's air force had been completely depleted, and the U.S. Air Force could bomb the German mainland at will.
On January 9, 1947, the third day after Germany leveled New York with atomic bombs, two B-29 Super Fortress bombers, escorted by eight jet fighters, flew over Berlin and fell within the range of anti-aircraft guns.
Two atomic bombs were dropped, named "Fat Man" and "Little Boy".
After the huge explosion, almost the entire Berlin was razed to the ground!
After seeing the huge destructive power of the atomic bomb, President Roosevelt and Hitler finally realized that if this war continues like this, the result can only be loss-lose for both sides, and the result can only be that Germany, the United States, Britain, Russia and other Western countries collectively return to the stone tools.
era, and China will become the only victorious country in the entire World War II!
On January 10, 1947, representatives from Germany, Russia, the United States, Britain and other countries finally sat at the negotiating table.