Chapter 775 Negotiation (first update, please subscribe)
On the Kyushu Airlines flight from Fukuoka to Chang'an, the man sitting by the window looked taciturn and unapproachable.
In many cases, this look will definitely attract others' attention.
Zheng Hanjie, who was sitting next to him, wanted to talk to him several times. Seeing that the other party was not very interested, he started reading "Jianjian" magazine alone. This is a sports magazine. The characters on the cover are not Others, Olympic champion Yang Wu, who won two gold medals in the Olympics.
Not only in Nanyang, even in Kyushu, his name is known. After all, this is a famous double champion.
The Olympic gold medalist got two gold medals at once! How could such a character not be known to people?
While Zheng Hanjie was reading the magazine with gusto, his seatmate was staring out the window: the flight was flying south, leaving Kyushu Island in the howling autumn wind, flying across the sea toward the Southern Ocean at the equator.
The passengers on this plane have different identities. Among them are businessmen, officials, and even tourists. In the past few years, many Nanyang people have begun to travel abroad.
In winter, they will even go to Kyushu to see the snow. In fact, the snow in Hokkaido is bigger and better, and you can even ski there. But that was northern Japan, which was under the control of the Russians. Under such circumstances, naturally not many people felt that they were there.
And Kyushu.
It may sound like a foreign country, but it is no different from Nanyang. After all, Chinese is also spoken here, and fewer and fewer people speak Japanese.
The passenger at the window is undoubtedly from the Tang Dynasty. Although he does not appear to be very tall, he speaks Chinese fluently and proficiently, and even has a slight accent from southern Jiangsu, so Zheng Hanjie has no doubt that he is sitting there Next to him is a compatriot.
But his estimate was really, really wrong. The man next to him was born in Shanghai forty years ago. His name was Tsuneta Shiro. He was the son of a Japanese businessman. His father was an employee of a Japanese trading company. When he was ten years old, his father invested in a Japanese businessman. The cotton mill later became bigger and bigger.
During the war, although Tsuneta Shiro was also recruited into the army, due to his father's relationship, he did not go to the front line, but was responsible for logistics in Shanghai. In fact, he was in his own factory, in After Japan's defeat, when the factory was confiscated as enemy property, he hid in Shanghai and other places for half a year, relying on his fluent Chinese, and then fled back to Japan by boat.
In the following years, with many years of business experience, he quickly set up a yarn factory again. In the past two years, thanks to the prosperity brought by the Peninsula War, his factory became more and more profitable. He came more and more. This time he came to Nanyang just to purchase equipment.
Although Japan could produce various textile machinery before the war, now... Japan has basically lost its ability to produce machinery and equipment. Not only because most of the equipment was demolished, but also because after the war, tens of thousands of Engineers and technicians were forced to make a living in Nanyang. Now even Japan has rebuilt some factories, but due to the level of engineers and technicians, most machinery and equipment need to be imported, and the same is true for textile machinery.
In order to expand the factory smoothly, Shiro Tsuneta, like many Japanese businessmen, turned his attention to Nanyang and imported machinery from Nanyang. In fact, there are also some factories in Kyushu that produce textile machinery, but they all need it themselves. Importing machinery and equipment from Nanyang, it is naturally impossible to sell machinery and equipment to them.
“No matter what, we have to buy the machine, we must seize the last wave of war boom.”
While Tsuneda Shiro was thinking this in his mind, the plane was already flying over the sea. With that, he soon flew over the Philippines.
A few hours later, the plane arrived in Chang'an. They were not the only ones on the flight from Fukuoka, there were also several American officials from Tokyo who came here to prepare for the president's visit.
After these American officials passed the customs, they quickly got into the car of the U.S. Embassy in Chang'an and left. At the same time, the diplomatic department also learned of their arrival. The next morning, they were together Hold a meeting to discuss preparations.
In fact, the preparation in the early stage is mainly to negotiate the other party’s entourage, reception work, hotel arrangements, and security measures through communication. All kinds of things.
Soon, the results of the discussion between the two parties were reported to Li Yian by Li Guoren.
“Tell them that after President Truman’s special plane enters Nanyang airspace, Nanyang will send aircraft to accompany the escort.”
Although he said that no special preparations were needed, in order to welcome Truman’s Upon arrival, Li Yi'an was worried and even personally checked the menu for the state banquet. As for safety issues, of course, special attention must be paid to them. This kind of dispatching a special plane to escort is a manifestation of superiority. In another world, this kind of treatment is definitely the treatment of a big country. Under normal circumstances, only the top three of the five gangsters can enjoy it.
"Your Excellency, also, according to the other party's reminder, President Truman may directly discuss the Japanese issue with you during this visit."
"The Japanese issue!"
Li Yian's brows wrinkled upon hearing this.
On the issue of peace with Japan, Nanyang’s attitude is clear. Although Nanyang has pulled Southeast Asian countries together to refuse to sign a peace treaty with Japan on the premise of first compensation, and directly refused to participate in the conference together with India and Myanmar. , but the United States still negotiates a separate peace with Japan.
What does Truman want to talk to Nanyang now?
Rearma Japan?
This is very possible, after all, now that Soviet Russia has rearmed North Japan in the north, it is only a matter of time before the army in South Japan is rebuilt.
And this is unstoppable. After all, the money is in the hands of the Americans, and the guns are also in the hands of the Americans. The United States still has troops stationed in Japan. As long as it is willing, it can naturally rearm Japan.
Under the premise that the United States needs southern Japan to block northern Japan, no one can stop the United States from deciding to arm Japan. Even old friends, the interests of the United States must come first.
And in Li Yian's view, the issue of completely destroying Japan does not lie in the issue of being armed or not.
The core is still economics.
Just like East Germany in another world, even under the control of Soviet Russia, East Germany established the second strongest army in the Warsaw Pact, but it was incompetent, the economy was not good, and in the end it was huge The East German army was still wiped out together with the country.
Therefore, Japan's economic rise must be prevented. In this way, even if the United States arms Japan, it will leave a huge burden to the United States. In this case, on the issue of arming Japan, It will arouse domestic opposition in the United States. After all, if you spend money to arm foreign countries, there will definitely be opposition at home.
“Japan’s problem!”
Li Yian raised his eyebrows and said directly.
"Tell them, first of all, if Japan does not pay compensation, Nanyang will never sign a peace treaty. In addition, if the peace treaty is not concluded, the prisoners of war will never be released. Moreover, we are screening the prisoners of war and will When the time is right in the future, his crimes will be tried"
The so-called right time. In fact, Li Yian had his own perception of the timing. Although at the beginning he wanted to hold a trial when the "San Francisco Contract" was signed, in the end, reason told him to make another choice.
When will those people be judged?
Of course, when their crimes can be truly investigated, there are still quite a few war criminals in Siberia. Many of them owe the Tangshan people blood debts.
If those people were tried now, a considerable number of them would escape justice. So now we have to wait, wait until the Russians release those criminals, and then catch them all!
As for now, just pretend to be silly.
“So, my suggestion is that Japan should not be included in this issue!”
(End of this chapter)