Glorious Mission 1937

December 1942, 12 was a very important day for both China and Japan. After several months of chasing and fighting, Japan finally withdrew its troops from the Chinese battlefield. Although the losses in the process of withdrawal were not small, but The Japanese army still succeeded in withdrawing the troops and expatriates north of the Yangtze River and most of the enterprises to the Korean peninsula, while some of the troops and people in the south of the Yangtze River rushed back to the country, and some entered the northern part of French Indochina by land. There is also a small part that enters Hong Kong Island.

The troop withdrawal took more than 50 days to complete. As Chen Feng expected, due to the pursuit and interception of the Chinese army, a large number of Japanese enterprises and factories could not be moved, and a large number of materials and cultural relics could not be transported back to Japan.

Coupled with the fact that the vast majority of Chinese people love their families, many puppet soldiers were unwilling to follow the Japanese army to Japan, and even less willing to go away with Wang Jingwei and others. There are less than 30 people left.

On December 12, the Administrative Council of the Nationalist Government issued an announcement stating that after more than five years of arduous fighting and at the cost of huge casualties, the Chinese people had finally won a phased victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan and regained the absolute victory over the four eastern provinces. most land.

But this does not mean that the war is over. There are still a large amount of land in China controlled by the Japanese army, including Baodao, Hong Kong Island, Qiongdao, South Sakhalin Island, Burma, Penghu Islands, Ryukyu Islands, and the Korean Peninsula. They are all Chinese territories recognized by the United States, Britain and other countries, so Chen Feng called on all soldiers and civilians to continue to carry forward the fine style of fighting hard and carry on the war to the end.

the same day.Large-scale celebration parades broke out in major cities across the country. Whether it was workers, farmers or people from other walks of life, they took the initiative to take to the streets without any organization to celebrate the great victory of the country and the nation.

With the vigorous publicity of the government departments, the phrase that Chen Feng said before, "It is better to chase the poor with courage, and not to be famous and learn the overlord" has become familiar to the people all over the country. idea.

Although the Japanese were beaten away, the young chairman only believed that China had only achieved a phased victory, not a complete and comprehensive victory.

On January 1943, 1, Chen Feng held a meeting attended by senior party, government and military officials in Chongqing. The main topic of the meeting was how to build the country.How to win the final victory of the war.

The meeting lasted 7 days and 6 nights.A large number of resolutions with far-reaching influence on later generations were enacted.First of all, Chen Feng proposed to show the state system and political system. The purpose is to build China into a truly prosperous and democratic country, and plans to use one year to complete this task.

According to the regulations of the meeting, it was planned to hold a founding ceremony in the second half of 1943 or the first half of 1944.Declare a republic.At the same time celebrate the greatest victory of the Anti-Japanese War.For China's administrative divisions.The meeting proposed that in addition to the existing provinces, the North Dynasty Province, South Korea Province, North Myanmar Province, South Myanmar Province, Baodao Province, and Hainan Province were added again. In addition, Chongqing will remain the temporary capital of China within one year.A year later, the capital was moved to Nanjing or Beiping.

However, it was not determined whether it was Nanjing or Beiping at the meeting, because the representatives attending the meeting had great disagreements about moving the capital. Some veterans of the former Nationalist Government insisted on moving the capital to Nanjing because they were driven out of Nanjing by the Japanese before, and now they want to move the capital together. Humiliated, he returned to Nanjing in a glorious manner.

However, there are also some people who believe that Beiping, as the capital of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is far superior to Nanjing in terms of urban construction and geographical location.In addition, most of the newly added provinces are located in the north. Moving the capital to Beiping is conducive to national stability.

The second is to carry out comprehensive industrialization of China. It is necessary to transform China from a complete agricultural country into a large industrial country with coordinated development of industry and agriculture in the shortest possible time, and to achieve self-sufficiency in most of the necessities of production and life.The other is to vigorously develop the military industry and be ready to fight at any time.

Regarding the industrialization of the country, Chen Feng asked the government to rely on the support of the United States and the Soviet Union to carry out leapfrog development. Don’t worry about money. Just buy whatever equipment and technology you need. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money. To build the country well, as long as the industrialization construction is completed, it doesn’t matter even if the Chinese government pays out of pockets. Anyway, no matter what era it is, it will always be grandpa who owes money.

Finally, it was army building. Chen Feng once again proposed the idea of ​​separating the military from the government, which was recognized and supported by all the senior officials present at the meeting.The army is the army, and soldiers should not be involved in too much politics. From now on, the part-time positions of military officers and chairmen in various provinces will be gradually removed, including leaders like Chen Feng. If you want a military position, you cannot work in a government department. You must work in a government department You can't stay in the army, and you can't choose one or the other.

On January 1, the government issued a red-headed document, deciding to remove Chen Feng, the chairman of the Military Commission, the chairman of the government, the president of the Executive Yuan, and the chairman of the Northern Serbia Province.At the same time, Long Yun, chairman of Yunnan Province, Li Zongren, chairman of Guangxi Province, Ma Buqing, chairman of Qinghai Province, Ma Hongkui, chairman of Ningxia Province, and Sheng Shicai, chairman of Xinjiang Province, were also removed.

At the same time, Mao Zedong, the top leader of the Communist Party, formally took office as the chairman of the National Government and fully presided over the government's work. Zhou Enlai formally took office as the president of the Executive Yuan...  

1943 is destined to be an extraordinary year. This year of Guiwei in the Chinese lunar calendar is not only the 32nd year of the Republic of China, but also the 18th year of Kant in Manchuria; the [-]th year of Showa in Japan... and the most eye-catching thing in this year is China, a country that has just achieved a staged victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, has carried out a series of reforms under the leadership of the government.

China's development is a leapfrog development. On January 1, as the chairman of the National Government, Mao was invited to visit the United States and held talks with the US President in Washington. Afterwards, the two countries announced a comprehensive cooperation. Provide US$12 billion in 50-year interest-free loans to help China build, on the condition that China must allocate more than half of the orders in these loans to American companies, and at the same time hope that the Chinese government and military can continue to exert pressure on the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, and when necessary Cooperate with the allied forces of the United States, Britain and other countries to launch a counterattack against Japan.

In this regard, after careful consideration, the Chinese side decided to agree to the conditions of the United States.Anyway, to whom to place an order is not to place an order. Even if the United States does not make a request to fight against Japan, China will not just let the Japanese go so easily.Hugging grass and beating rabbits, incidentally, why not do it.

On January 1, on behalf of the government, Mao invited Stalin, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, to visit China. Stalin readily went, and the two sides held talks in Chongqing.First of all, the two sides launched the final negotiations on the comprehensive handover of the land, and decided to gradually return the Chinese territory that is still in the hands of the Soviet Union within half a year.

Subsequently, the two sides launched economic cooperation, which was almost the same as the cooperation between China and the United States. The Soviet Union also hoped to conduct comprehensive cooperation with the National Government.

However, the Soviet Union is not as rich as the United States, but the Soviet Union has strong industrial production capacity, and the Soviet Union is very close to China, so the Soviet government hopes that China will place more orders from Soviet companies in the process of industrialization. On the 17th, the two parties formally signed a cooperation agreement worth 30 billion US dollars at the Chongqing City Hall.

The most important purpose of Stalin's trip was to start comprehensive military cooperation with the Chinese government. First of all, the strong combat power of the Chinese Army made the Soviet Union envious.According to the investigation of the Soviet intelligence agency, the reason why China's national defense force was able to rise in a short period of time and drive out the mighty Japanese army was inseparable from its advanced weapons and training methods.

Therefore, during this trip, Stalin also hoped to cooperate with the Chinese government in the military field, specifically the sharing of weapon technology. At the same time, he hoped that the Chinese government would send an advisory group to the Soviet Union to train troops for the Soviet Union.

In this regard, Chen Feng, Mao Zhou and others discussed and unanimously decided not to carry out comprehensive military cooperation with the Soviet Union. The United States is different from the Soviet Union. It is unlikely to be an all-out war. Whether it is political economy or military culture, any form of cooperation is not a big problem.

But the Soviet Union is different. The Soviet Union originally bordered China. It has invaded China many times in history and annexed a large amount of China's land. If it weren't for the current situation, the Soviet government would have to spit out the fat it ate. , I am afraid that a new war will break out between the two sides because of territorial issues, so it is unwise to support the Soviet Union militarily.

However, the Soviet Union is now a member of the allies, and it stepped forward when China needed help the most, gave China great help, and even sent air force to fight in China.Chinese people value kindness, and the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring. This kind of virtue should not be lost.

Therefore, the Chinese government decided to support the Soviet Union with some weapons and equipment. At the same time, it was willing to send an advisory group to the Soviet Union to train the Soviet army, but it refused to share resources and technologies with the Soviet Union.

Although Stalin was a little disappointed, he learned that the Chinese government was willing to provide the Soviet Union with weapons and equipment for 30 infantry divisions and 1000 tanks within half a year. In addition, it would also send two aviation divisions to the Soviet Union to assist the Soviet army in combat. The 2 Soviet Far East Red Army in the campaign underwent a comprehensive refit, which made Stalin extremely happy. The value of these weapons and equipment alone exceeded 40 billion US dollars, and some things cannot be bought even if you have money.

Mao clearly told Stalin that this was the Chinese people's repayment of the Soviet government's kindness to China during the most difficult period of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. China participated in the war, and this time the Chinese people paid back ten times. (To be continued..)