Shadow Spy

Chapter 496 Year-end affairs are easy

On November 11, after the new disarmament plan was initially approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Bradley flew to Europe, and his destination was Bonn, the capital of West Germany. He wanted to first report to General Wainwright, commander-in-chief of the European Joint Command. Convey the decision of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then conduct "discussions on military expenditures" with the West German government.

There are currently more than 150 million U.S. troops stationed in West Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries. If these countries can be allowed to bear the military expenses, it will be a big victory.

Then, he will go to the Far East to convey orders to Eisenhower in Japan. Currently, there are more than 220 million U.S. Army troops stationed in the entire Far East. If the military expenditure can be solved, then the purpose of Army disarmament will basically be completed - With nearly four million U.S. military expenditures and funds allocated, Congress should be satisfied in the short term!

Li Junhao actually felt quite speechless about disarmament. While Congress allowed most of the U.S. military to be cut down and save military expenditures, it also approved the "Marshall Plan" to assist European countries in post-war reconstruction. This plan cost more than military expenditures. That’s a lot! Of course, the direct result of the implementation of this plan is that the United States has truly established itself as the new leader in the Western world. Even the former leader, the United Kingdom, has to rely on the United States for relief!

After approving the preliminary disarmament plan for the three branches of the army, navy and air force, Li Junhao ordered Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of the Far East, to reject the demands of Britain and France and maintain occupation and control of Burma, Thailand and French China in South Asia. Troops cannot be withdrawn before official orders are given!

General Eisenhower did not understand why, but he made it clear that he would obey the order.
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The various tasks at the end of this year are relatively small, especially since the daily work of the CIA is gone. Li Junhao only needs to read the situation briefing every day, which is much easier than before.

In mid-December, the new CIA Director Donovan reported to him separately: Vice President Truman is actively working in private, forming his own campaign team, and wants to participate in the new presidential election next year...

When he heard the news, Li Junhao was stunned for a moment, and then he figured it out - since he saved Roosevelt, the relationship between the two has become closer than before. Truman has long lost the trust of the president. In the past three years, he has been the vice president. I feel very aggrieved. I have always been unknown and have no sense of presence in the political arena!

Now, Truman could no longer bear it and was preparing to participate in next year's general election to seek the presidency and realize his political ambitions.

Um? Should we intervene and dissuade him? Li Junhao thought about it and decided to leave him alone for the time being and find an opportunity to discuss it with Roosevelt and Ayers.
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In other respects, China is fighting lively in the Far East. It seems that the Kuomintang army has organized several large corps to pursue the underground party troops everywhere. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the battlefield advantage has always been on the side of the underground party, and the Kuomintang army is being suppressed. The party that leads the way, once the situation comes, will be a war of annihilation.

Now, the change in the attitude of the United States towards the Kuomintang has been very obvious. Not only has it completely cut off the supply of military aid to the Kuomintang, it has also continued to shrink its forces in China to the cities it occupies, guarding them like iron barrels. , the Kuomintang government members and the military are not allowed to get close at all, and I don’t know what that means.

According to intelligence, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in Jinling City was very angry, but could do nothing about the situation.

At present, Dai Li, who has openly fallen out with Chiang Kai-shek, has openly taken the title of "Director of the Sino-US Technical Cooperation Institute" and brought key members of the cooperation institute to Shanghai to open a new "yamen"; it is even more irritating. Surprisingly, as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, Dai Li openly changed into the uniform of a U.S. Army lieutenant general and had a heated fight with the Americans.

The extremely angry old Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Zheng Jiemin, director of the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense, to take over the military command headquarters in Jinling. However, after more than half a year, he did not achieve complete control and dealt with many people in private. However, the specific external agencies of the military commander-in-chief were Not much is clear... In this case, of course the intelligence work is a mess!

Chairman Chiang had no time to regret, so he thought about how to solve this problem. In order not to affect the morale of the military, he could not attack Dai Li publicly, a hero during the Anti-Japanese War. When he wanted to attack Dai Li privately, he was linked to the Americans. Hook, led people to Shanghai controlled by the US military. This is so annoying! Now Dai Li is not only completely out of the control of the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek, but he also uses the intelligence power at his disposal to monitor the Kuomintang army in reverse, and continuously sends its movements and intelligence to the underground party. This makes both sides The war situation is more complicated.

Li Junhao, who is far away in Washington, controls all this remotely, and feels very proud!

He did not expect that the underground party would win earlier. He just hoped that, in this case, its victory would be less difficult, the casualties of officers and soldiers would be less, and the ordinary people would suffer less...
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This year's two holidays, Christmas and New Year's Day, were very lively in the United States and Europe. After a year and a half of recovery after the end of the war, the economic situation has improved a lot. Although there are still many problems, people cherish them very much. The current peaceful environment is full of hope for the future.

The United States is undergoing economic transformation, slowly transforming from a wartime economy to a normal model. This process cannot be too fast to avoid affecting the operation of those companies and the market's employment rate...

Li Junhao went to the family estate in Boston a week in advance this time to spend the holidays with the old man, because his work could not be interrupted. He was accompanied by a work team of up to fifty people, not counting his bodyguards.

For this reason, the old Duke specifically asked the housekeeper to clear out a four-story villa building for him to use, and arranged it properly.

Seeing that Li Junhao has now become the number one person in the military, the old man and others no longer ask him to retire and run for the Senate. With such a status in the military, what else is there to be dissatisfied about!

However, Li Junhao felt a sense of crisis and took the time to express his analysis of Truman, asking the old man, uncle and "father" to help analyze how to deal with this guy...

According to Uncle Levi's suggestion, since Roosevelt was unlikely to run for re-election anyway, he might as well support the Republican candidate and let Truman achieve nothing.

"Father" Coren means to pull down Truman within the Democratic Party and choose someone to support him. On the one hand, he can maintain the current favorable economic environment, and on the other hand, he can ensure that Ogg's status is not lost...

This time, the Duke of Anville supported his second son's views.

(End of this chapter)