Chapter 1130 Let’s suffer them first (first update, please subscribe)
“Uncle!”
It was none other than Said. Ten days ago, he was in "Nine With the help of "head snake" agents, he escaped into the Nanyang Embassy.
In the past few days, rebels have been searching for him in Baghdad, and the reward has been increased from 10,000 dinars to 100,000 dinars. But at that time, he stayed well in the Nanyang Embassy until yesterday - in order to ensure the safety of overseas Chinese, Nanyang announced the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Iraq and the evacuation of all diplomatic personnel.
Then Said, the prime minister with a bounty of 100,000 dinars on his head, hid in a box full of documents, and then they passed through the Habu Baniya Air Force Base controlled by the British army and took a C130 transport plane Withdrawing from Baghdad, in fact, the British troops were also withdrawing at that time - according to the Anglo-Iranian treaty, the British troops should have completely withdrawn by the end of 1958, and they were the last batch of British troops left behind.
After going through some twists and turns, Said finally came to Nanyang, but as soon as he arrived, he heard the conversation between your Excellency and the princess. For him, who had witnessed the atrocities in Baghdad with his own eyes, he certainly knew whose side he should be on.
"Your Excellency, please forgive me. Your Highness lost so much control because he lost too many relatives and was too sad."
Said saluted Li Yi'an.
After narrowly escaping from death, he then turned to the princess and said:
"Your Highness, I'm afraid you can't believe what happened in Baghdad - after the rebellion, not only the rebels joined Among them, there are hundreds of thousands of mobs. Almost all men have taken up arms and sided with the rebels. They are killing people who support the royal family crazily..."
Listening to her uncle describing the tragic situation at that time, Addis was stunned. She listened to it all with dumbfounded eyes and murmured in her mouth.
"This, how is this possible? Shouldn't they love us?"
Facing the princess's rhetorical question, Said fell silent. He originally thought so, but faced with In reality, he was completely frightened.
Only those who have experienced it personally know what the anger of those people means?
Means death!
Facing the overwhelming anger, all he could feel was unprecedented fear.
“People need comparison.”
Li Yian said from the side.
“Now, in the eyes of many people, the royal family is the spokesperson of Western imperialism and a stumbling block blocking the country, so the royal family has become their enemy, but they have no idea what they have chosen. In the future, they will definitely regret it, and many of them will miss the era of the monarch."
"Is it true?"
Both Said and Princess Addis looked at Li Yi'an with hope.
"Believe me, this is inevitable! And it will be in the next three or four years!"
Li Yian confidently predicted.
This is not a prophecy, but history!
The military coup that overthrew the Hashemite monarchy gave Iraq's new leaders not only a "xenophobic" but also a "tribalist" mentality, which in turn gave rise to tribal conflicts and confrontations, which in turn created This later led to internal oppression - the tendency of those in power to target their own tribe and their attacks on other tribes.
What Qassem established through a military coup was a country without political compromise. To ensure that power remained in their own hands, they purged dissenters, confiscated property without notice, fabricated charges against enemies, and fought so-called domestic enemies.
This state of affairs strengthened a militarized society that was completely different from the monarchy period, in which assassinations, assassinations of each other, and the massacre of tribes became the norm.
In the four years following the military insurgency, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed and hundreds of thousands fled the country.
Comparing the era of the Iraqi monarchy, the era of the Qassem government and the subsequent era of Baath Party rule, anyone with a little common sense can draw the conclusion: "The quality of every scene has dropped significantly. "
Even the reason why Saddam launched the "Iran-Iraq War" was essentially to divert domestic attention and consolidate his rule.
Thanks to Saddam, if it weren't for the fact that this "Middle East Madman" was so famous that his books and materials were everywhere in bookstores and on the Internet, Li Yi'an really didn't understand all this, and even learned about Iran by the way. .
"When everyone is tired of all this, the time will be ripe for us to help you return to Baghdad!"
Sometimes, this is how things go. Nanyang is now sending troops to intervene, It will only make 7 million Iraqis share the same hatred of the enemy, which will plunge Southeast Asia into a "vast ocean of people's war", just like the US military in Vietnam and the Soviet army in Afghanistan.
And this is exactly what Li Yian tried his best to avoid!
So, what Nanyang needs is to quickly end the battle in a devastating way at the appropriate time, help the Hashemite Kingdom achieve restoration, and use limited investment to achieve long-term strategic goals instead of getting stuck in war. In the quagmire.
But this requires local support. But it is obviously impossible to gain their support now. Intervening now will only make those people share the same hatred.
So what is needed now is patience, what is needed is waiting, waiting for the time to mature, when everyone starts to miss the king. Later, Li Yian chatted with Said for a while, reiterated his support for them, and asked them to withdraw the troops that were still loyal to the royal family.
"Withdraw them to Kuwait, and then evacuate them to Paradise Island, where they will regroup. In three years, four years at the latest, we will definitely return to Baghdad."
This is also the agreement he reached with the Americans, and the conditions he proposed to the United States. To be precise, it is a backup plan.
This backup plan means that when problems arise in Iraq in the future, they will have other alternatives in hand. Of course Americans will not refuse this backup plan, after all, it does not require them to spend money.
Facing the promise given by Li Yi'an, Said was naturally grateful. After all, Nanyang is the only one willing to support them now.
Even the UK did not support their idea.
In the evening, the motorcade left the manor. On the way back to the "Da Ming Palace", Li Yian sat in the car, leaning back, closing his eyes and thinking.
What are you thinking about?
It's not just about Iraq, intervention in Iraq... is an option.
But in addition to Iraq, there is another inevitable option, which is Saigon. Whether it is the security of Nanyang or other aspects, the existence of Saigon is beneficial to Nanyang.
But what does it take to intervene in Saigon?
It is the reality that North Vietnam will continue to fight at all costs and continue to provide assistance with the support of big trees. This is also the fundamental reason why the United States cannot win the Vietnam War.
For this, the price they can bear is unimaginable - General Vo Nguyen Giap also mentioned many times that his soldiers lost 500,000, which means that North Vietnam lost 2.5-3% of its pre-war population . And this is just a number, there is another number - more than 500,000 northern youths died on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, that is, on the road to support the south.
This is just the loss of soldiers!
The population in the north is only 20 million!
In The Cost of War, David Singer Jr. and Melvin Small studied one hundred international wars, of which fewer than ten had population losses exceeding 2 percent. During World War II, only Germany and the Soviet Union lost 4.4% of their populations, Japan lost 1.4%, and the United States only lost 0.3%.
However, these data can only show that North Vietnam's ability to bear the cost of war is unprecedented. They are willing to endure huge sacrifices. No matter how amazing the results the Americans achieve on the battlefield, it is difficult to destroy their will to fight!
The uncle in Hanoi firmly said: If the Americans want to fight for 20 years, then we will fight for 20 years.
This is the fundamental reason why the United States cannot win the war...
And at the same time, compared to the South, the North’s united front policy is very successful. Not only did they successfully bring the centrists to the North, but no matter what the South did, For propaganda, the North only needs to use one sentence: "The South is a puppet supported by the United States. It must be fought and defeated. The US invasion must be defeated." This sentence is enough. This kind of rhetoric is easy for ordinary people to understand, especially For people who have experienced nearly a hundred years of colonial rule, they understand better.
Coupled with the brutal bombings and other atrocities by the US military, many centrists and ordinary people finally chose to side with the Liberation Front.
This is how the South lost the support of the people.
Of course, none of this matters!
The important thing is that in this war that has lasted for more than ten years, in the final analysis, the winner is not determined by itself!
Speaking of which, whether the North and the South behaved heroically or as a bear in this war, they were all inseparable from external support.
Neither side has an industrial system that can support modern warfare, so without external support, the war cannot proceed anyway. Whichever side loses foreign aid will be the loser on the battlefield.
This is also the fundamental reason why Saigon failed.
“The key to their ability to fight for twenty years is...external support!”
With his eyes closed and thinking about the changes in the situation in the later stages of the Vietnam War, Li Yian tapped his fingers on the seat. While thinking about what happened to those southerners who once supported reunification after reunification.
Reality is sometimes full of ruthless mockery. Before reunification, many middle forces in Saigon supported reunification. However, after reunification, the North changed its previous commitments and began to carry out radical social transformation. Many cadres from the North engaged in corruption, expropriated taxes, and implemented widespread repression. , imprisoning more than two million people in reform camps, causing economic decline in the south and putting everyone in danger.
In the face of all this, in the end, more than two million southerners were willing to risk drowning in the sea, but also "flee the angry sea" to escape by boat. In the end, more than 500,000 people died in the sea, and among the escapees There is no shortage of old members of the Frelimo Front. Even Zhang Rucan, who served as the Minister of Justice in the "Southern Provisional Government", was born in a wealthy businessman family in Saigon. He betrayed his family at an early age and embarked on the road of singing and fame. He went to jail and braved B-52 bombings to persist in the hard guerrilla life. After victory, he Feeling completely disillusioned, even such senior officials finally chose to flee as boat people.
It can be imagined from this that the emotions of southerners reached what level they reached at that time. Even until the 21st century, the differences between the north and the south still exist, from high-level officials to the people.
"Wait, let the Americans consume their strength there first, and by the time they surrender to the angry sea, the time will be almost ripe..."
Sometimes, things are like this, haste leads to waste. In the competition between countries, what is competing is patience, and Li Yi'an, who knows the future direction, lacks patience the most.
Thinking of this, Li Yian cast his sight out of the car window. There was a constant flow of cars on the road, and there were many pedestrians on the roadside. Some people dragged their feet and walked to the subway station, and some people walked to the bus. People's The steps may be light or heavy.
After another day's work, people return to their homes, where they will enjoy family happiness with their families.
Looking at the people outside, Li Yian said to himself:
"I will definitely bring you a better world...a world that belongs to us..."
(End of this chapter)