From to 1935 2020

The reason why these three countries did not become (full) colonies of Western powers is that China is too big (only semi-colonial), Japan is too strong, and Thailand is too coincidentally located.

Thailand is located between French Indochina (including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) and British Burma and Malaysia. It is a buffer zone between the two colonial empires. Britain and France are unwilling to control each other in order to avoid misfires and other interests. Thailand.

There are many places to buffer, but very few people can stand alone. More often, they are hit at both ends, such as Turkey, Afghanistan, North Korea and so on.External factors are just conditions, and whether you can move around or not depends on your own efforts in the end.

Internal reasons: Under the impact of Western forces, Thailand did not close itself off to the outside world, but actively adapted to the new situation, absorbed Western experience to carry out social reforms, and developed diplomatic relations with the West.The mature and experienced diplomatic skills of its previous leaders are also indispensable.

Thai dictator Phibun (also known as Luang Phibun Songkham) said this sentence: "Which side is defeated in the war, that side is our enemy." This sentence is not only the principle of Phibun's handling of diplomatic relations, It is also the golden rule of survival for Thailand to maximize its interests in complex international situations.

This person has been the de facto supreme ruler of Thailand since 1934—this person also came from the grassroots. He was born in a humble peasant family in Nonthaburi, Thailand on July 1897, 7, and was later sent to Bangkok. Studying at the Army Officer School, he chose to join the Artillery Corps after graduation, and began further studies in 14, which determined his future life.During his advanced studies, he won the opportunity to study at the Fontainebleau Military Academy in France in 1916 with No.1 grades.

Relying on his outstanding personal ability to climb all the way, he became the commander of the army in 1935 and officially became the prime minister of Thailand at the end of 1938.

The name of the country of Thailand was actually changed from "Siam" to the current name last year (1939).

"Thai" means "freedom" and "independence" in Thai, and the name "Siam" comes from Sanskrit, which means "gold".The abandonment of this ancient country name that has been used for 13 centuries is undoubtedly related to Siam's chauvinism and nationalism at that time.National chauvinists in Thailand also put forward the slogan of "Great Thailand", arguing that Vietnamese Thai, Cambodian Thai, Lao Lao, Burmese Shan, Chinese Dai, and Indian Assam all belong to the "ethnological Thai". ethnic group", intending to unite "3000 million people of Thai descent" into the "Great Thailand" and establish a powerful bourgeois country in the Indochina Peninsula.Phibun explained: "Usually, the name of the country is named after the name of the main ethnic group in the country... We are Thai... Obviously Siam is not suitable for our ethnic group... If there are (huge numbers) Immigrants settled in our country, then, perhaps after a thousand years, we may no longer be able to distinguish whether Siam belongs to the Thais, the Chinese, or other people's country..."

——As far as this national attitude is concerned, Phibun's vision and insight are still very clear: in this era of great changes unseen in 3000 years, where tigers and wolves are swarming, it is necessary to unite the forces of all nationalities in the country instead of doing something The "pure-blood" Thai nationalism weakened itself and gave outsiders an opportunity to take advantage of it.

The most embarrassing operation of this man in history was that after the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, he was forced to bow his head and cooperate with Japan in the face of the invading Japanese army. Thailand even launched a military campaign of their own and conquered the King Dong, Myanmar.Japan also handed over the four Malay states (Peris, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu) in northern Malaya to Thailand.But while helping Japan, he also secretly supported the domestic anti-Japanese guerrillas to leave a way out for himself.

Betting on both ends, he stepped down and went to prison after Japan's defeat, but was released from prison a year later without charge, and made a comeback in a few years to regain power in Thailand. He can be regarded as a very outstanding person in Thailand during this period.

Phibun, the Prime Minister of Thailand on this plane, saw the People's Liberation Army sweeping across Indochina with ease, and hundreds of thousands of People's Liberation Army hoarding troops on the Thai border. At this turning point of fate, he clearly realized: the era of France in Indochina is over, The influence of the British Empire in South Asia is also declining sharply, while the old neighbor in the north, China, which has been sunk for a hundred years, is rising sharply.

As the oldest country in Asia, the Thais know very well that once their neighbors in the north rise, they will definitely be an unstoppable monster in the first 100 years after the founding of the country.Before the People's Liberation Army reached the border, it actively and secretly contacted the CCP to seek the possibility of "peaceful coexistence" between the two sides.

The CCP never wanted to invade Thailand. The purpose of going south was firstly for rubber, and secondly for the strategic layout in Southeast Asia. The attitude of China and the Soviet Union towards Thailand is "struggle".

When the French were kicked out of Indochina, Phibun reached a secret agreement with China and the Soviet Union as quickly as possible: China and the Soviet Union promised to ensure the territorial integrity of Thailand, and Thailand guaranteed that in the next few years, the rubber produced All are sold to the Soviet Union first.

After August 1940, a large number of Japanese firearms provided by China and tanks provided by the Soviet Union entered Thailand. The Soviet Union even helped Thailand find a "next home" for the old weapons that had been eliminated and retired. For a while, China and Thailand entered a "honeymoon" Expect".

According to the tank-for-rubber agreement, the Soviet Union sold three types of tanks to Thailand, one was the T[-] amphibious tank, the second was the T[-]C light tank, and the third was the SU[-].

The total combat weight of the T40 is a 5.6-ton amphibious tank, and the weapon is a 12.7/7.62 machine gun. The T80C tank is a purely land-use light tank developed from the T40 chassis. It has a combat weight of seven tons and uses a 37mm tank gun.As for the SU57, it is equipped with a 57mm gun and a self-propelled anti-tank gun using the T[-] chassis. The three vehicles are all developed from the same chassis.

In addition, the Soviets also provided a large number of machine guns and artillery, and sent instructors to help the Thai army train troops, and Thailand's military strength increased greatly in a short period of time.

Phibun, who climbed all the way from the bottom of the country, is only over 43 years old at this time, even younger than Li Runshi, and he is at the peak of a man's energy and career.As the only independent country in the Indochina Peninsula, I am the most energetic person, full of the "steel ambition" of men who want to expand their territories.

Both the Chinese side and the Soviet side generously hinted to it: On the issue of the Indochina Peninsula, they supported Thailand in recovering the land occupied by foreign countries (Britain).

Of course, Pi Wen knew exactly what the two families wanted to do.At this time, the British air battle was fierce, and the British seemed to be on the verge of collapse.It’s just that Phibun also knows that China and the Soviet Union are big countries, and it doesn’t matter how they play on the “big Asian chessboard”, while Thailand is only a “small power in the region”, so we should be more cautious and not mess around.

Prime Minister Phibun before [-] was just waiting and watching for the time being, waiting for the "overall situation to be settled" before coming out to pick up some mistakes.Throughout the second half of [-], what Piwen did was to work hard to recruit and train troops, and to establish a good relationship with China and the Soviet Union.

In the second half of 1940, when the Japanese watched the British face the CCP’s “food, grab and grab”, they kept doing things like “using the land to serve China”. During this period, he secretly contacted Prime Minister Phibun.

When the Japanese also began to think about Southeast Asia, the three forces of China, Japan, and Britain focused on Singapore, the center of the front line. Immediately, the autumn wind was not yet here, and the cicada prophet felt the cold wind from the north in advance.

From the second half of 1940, the entire Malay region, the Japanese and overseas Chinese who used to dislike each other and would fight and scold each other if they didn't agree with each other, suddenly became better.

Then, some advocated that "China and Japan have the same language and the same species, and they are separated by a strip of water. They should let go of the past and join hands to fight against British and American white animals", "Asia is Asia for Asians", and so on, which made all the British scalp numb with fright. Pamphlets advocating "Asianism" became popular among overseas Chinese and Japanese circles throughout Southeast Asia...

What frightened Sir Shenton the most was that when the Chinese New Year came in 1941, overseas Chinese in Singapore held grand New Year celebrations.

This festival was originally only for the Chinese, but this year, the Japanese in the city also enthusiastically participated, and the two sides held a friendly New Year's party...

Sir Shenton, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, had a cold back at that time.

During this period, the content of Huang Ke's original "Chichibu Imperial Palace" has already spread all over the world, and even the British know it.

At the beginning, Huang Ke's "crazy words of madmen" are more and more likely to become true...

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Chapter 346

In 1940, the total number of Chinese in Singapore was about 60. If the entire Malay Peninsula is included, the number of Chinese exceeded 100 million.The number of Japanese overseas Chinese in the Malay Peninsula was tens of thousands during this period.

And after 1938, as the CCP swept across southern China, the number of Chinese in Southeast Asia increased by tens of thousands in a short period of time—basically all of them were "rich land, anti-evil and rightist" elements who escaped from the old China: for example, Wang Jingwei , Wu Zhihui, Zhang Qun, Zhang Jingjiang and so on.

After being kicked out of China, most of these parasites who used to live on the Chinese people just sat there and lived a miserable life.

Some of these people were disheartened, such as Liu Zhi. In this period, just like in history, he took his wife to teach in a local Chinese school and made a living.Most of those who came from Huangpu generals are like this.

As for Wang Jingwei, Wu Zhihui, and He Yingqin, relying on their past identities and the needs of the British government to "anti-China" and "divide" the Chinese, they "rebuilt" the KMT's overseas government in exile in Singapore. Some dog food to feed,

However, the amount of dog food that Yingmei throws over is limited, and these people are used to drinking and drinking, and many people were ruined by Huang Ke during the streptomycin stock craze a few years ago, life in Nanyang is actually very difficult Very hard.

The so-called "Nanyang Kuomintang government-in-exile" is actually just a semi-old three-story house lent to them by the British in Singapore, where dozens of Kuomintang scum and their family members who fled to Nanyang from China lived in it.Wang Jingwei, Wu Zhihui, He Yingqin, He Zhonghan and their families lived here.

During the period of hiding in Singapore, what these people usually do is to code words, write memoirs, accept interviews with reporters, earn some money for manuscripts, or call the "remnants of the Kuomintang" in Singapore to have a tea party and reminisce In the glorious years of the past, discuss topics such as "When will Li Runshi's China perish" and so on.

After the day's time is exhausted, everyone gathers together, goes to a nearby food stall to order some food, have a drink, eat and drink, and then leave in all directions.Because everyone is a loser, any past enmity has almost dissipated at this time.What everyone thinks now is just muddling along.

For the veterans of the Kuomintang, this kind of thing is actually familiar to them-after all, they also came here 40 years ago, and now they are just returning to their old business.A small number of people are old-hearted and have more money in their pockets. After drinking and eating, they will go to a nearby Japanese restaurant to enjoy the services of Japanese geisha.

Everything seems to be back to 40 years ago, the scene when Mr. Zhongshan established the Tongmenghui in Japan and launched a revolution from a distance...

At the beginning of December 1940, Wang Jingwei took Shenzui to the Singapore pier and received He Zhonghan who came back from Kuala Lumpur.

As soon as they met, Wang Jingwei asked with concern: "Junshan, how is the situation?"

He Zhonghan sighed and shook his head vigorously.

"Director Wu's hand has been extended to Nanyang very early..."

Not long ago, He Zhonghan represented the Nanjing government in exile. He went to Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia to "raise funds" from the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.

"Principal, the things he did in the past, the principal, are too..."

He Zhonghan couldn't continue talking about the following words, but Wang Jingwei understood it—it was all dragged down by Chang Kaishen's notoriety.

In the past year, these remnants of the Kuomintang elected Wang Jingwei as their leader.In one year, the number of party members of the Kuomintang has grown to more than 800 here in Singapore. More than 400 of them are actually escaped from the country or formed by their family members. The process of developing party members locally is extremely difficult.

The reason is simple: the CCP did not let them off the remnants of the Kuomintang who hid in Nanyang.And a person surnamed Huang who had a great influence on the upper echelons of the CCP stared at them even more.

If it was the person surnamed Huang who was in charge, he would have arranged for agents to plant a big bomb in their residence, and when these disgusting guys gathered for a sex meeting, he would directly send them to the sky by earth plane.

Restricted by organizational discipline, he couldn't do this kind of black hands, so he could only arrange for people from the newly established branch of the Nanyang Communist Party to sing against the remnants of the KMT.

When Chang Kaishen was interrogated in China, the CCP spent two years combing through the history of the Kuomintang in the decades from its founding to its collapse.When publicizing internally, the main announcements were the crimes committed by the gang led by Chang Kaishen.

And when trying to win the support of overseas Chinese patriots in Nanyang, some people inside the CCP want to keep some incense and don't do it too badly, but after the organization discusses and decides, in the end it is to kill these remnants in "politics"!

Under the instructions of their superiors, the newly established branch of the Nanyang Communist Party publicized the dark history of the Kuomintang throughout Southeast Asia, and it began to publicize the dirty things of Sun Yat-sen in the last century. ——On the surface, this incident was presided over by Hua Kezhi, the head of intelligence in the Nanyang region, but in fact, Huang Ke himself was behind it.

Shortly after the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1938, Walker was sent to the Soviet Union by his superiors to "study abroad" because of his excellent work, mainly to receive "professional training" from the GRU in the Soviet Union.He has been in contact with Huang Ke for a whole year. Huang Ke has nothing to teach him in the field of secret agents, but in terms of publicity and black people, little Huang Ke has a lot of ideas from later generations of netizens with bad brains. Professional too.

Although Hua Kezhi is older than Huang Ke, in terms of job relationship, he has been a subordinate of Huang Ke's subordinates for a long time - he is under the direct command of Pan Hannian, and Pan Hannian is Huang Ke's assistant.I also have a very close relationship with Huang Ke. He was able to study in Moscow for further studies, and was later recommended to Southeast Asia as an intelligence officer, and Huang Ke recommended him by name.

Under Huang Ke's instigation, various articles about the "black history" of the Kuomintang in the past were continuously published and circulated in Chinese newspapers in Chinese communities in Nanyang and the United States. ——For some content, he knew that the CCP would not be able to propagate it, but he himself promoted it through Stalin’s help through the Soviet Union’s intelligence network—mainly those shady things about Sun Dapao.

"In this matter, Li Yunshi is too principled! But it is also because of this that he is a real Bolshevik."

When Stalin and Huang Ke talked about this, their tone was appreciative but they shook their heads.

Huang Ke admitted: "In the next few years, there will be turmoil in Nanyang. These guys who escaped from China know China and the CCP too well. In the future, they will cooperate with Britain and the United States to fight against China, which will be very harmful to our underground work. If not If there is discipline, I would have sent someone to kill them all!"

Then Stalin laughed and said, "You once told me that at about this time in history, I sent someone to assassinate Trotsky. Do you think I will still do it now?"

"Probably not. Because you now know that the living Trotsky is a defeated dog, and he will be canonized instead after being assassinated."

"Good answer!"

Stalin laughed, and then secretly ordered the intelligence network in his hand to expose all the dark history of Sun Dapao to the media.

The joint propaganda campaign of China and the Soviet Union, with a combination of punches, the gang of Kuomintang remnants headed by Wang Jingwei will soon become unspeakable.

Most of the party members Wang Jingwei gathered in Nanyang did not really want to make a comeback, they were simply exiled overseas, living in a difficult situation and wanting to keep warm, using the Kuomintang's signature to cheat and abduct some dog food, and get some wool from the British.

That night, the frustrated He Zhonghan and Shen Zui drank wine in a small roadside shop to relieve their boredom. Today's He Zhonghan has long lost the lofty ambitions of the Huangpu period, and sighed while drinking.

Shen Zui, who was only 26 years old, asked him, "Brother Junshan, you, Li Runshi, and Director Wu are friends. Your name is also included in the amnesty list announced by the CCP recently. In fact, you can go back."

The amnesty mentioned by Shen Zui refers to the fact that Li Runshi, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, pardoned a group of prisoners with minor crimes in Gongdelin, including Huang Wei. Never mind.Not long ago, when Cai Yuanpei's remains were sent back to China, the CCP sent someone to contact him, but He Zhonghan himself refused.

When he said this, Shen Zui felt a little envious—in this period, Shen Zui was just a "little spy" when the Kuomintang fell. Because his qualifications were too low, he was not even in Dai Li's eyes. He was a completely insignificant person.When Dai Li fled overseas, he was not even qualified to accompany him.At that time, he chose to go with He Zhonghan, and then fled to Nanyang.

He Zhonghan was different from them. He was an outstanding figure in the Whampoa Military Academy, and he was even a member of the Communist Youth League. He was expelled from the group because of conflicts with Zhang Guotao, and then joined the Kuomintang.

With the founding of New China, Zhang Guotao's black history was also announced. In Shen Zui's view, He Zhonghan's experience of being expelled by Zhang Guotao was actually a good "return" capital for him.

"You don't understand, I joined the Communist Party, and then betrayed. Their organization can forgive the enemy, but the most unbearable thing is a traitor like me...I stayed in the Soviet Union, and I have always debated with them , those things they did, and those things they will do in the future... I know very well that people like me will not have good results when they go back."

When he said this, He Zhonghan sighed.

"But Nanyang is not a pure land. Now there are rumors in the entire overseas Chinese circle that within a year there will be a war here, either from the CCP, or from the Americans or Japanese! The British Empire has weakened. Thinking of coming here to burn, kill and loot..."

The words Shen Zui said were not only the rumors he had heard, but also his own analysis.

In the north of Singapore, the changes in Indochina can all be seen in the eyes of intoxication-those who can leave a name in history and are eligible to live in the Gongde Forest, no matter how corrupt their character is, their ability will definitely not be inferior.

The remnants of the Kuomintang headed by Wang Jingwei have been fighting for the support of overseas Chinese with the underground party sent by the CCP to Nanyang in the past year, and the two sides have fought fiercely.

With the support of the British, these remnants of the Kuomintang have been propagating among overseas Chinese that the CCP will fight over and will hand over the local overseas Chinese to the Communist Party—because of well-known reasons, the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia have been operating for hundreds of years because of their hard work After coming down, even after many times of anti-Chinese and cleansing, they quickly recovered each time and returned to the middle class of society.

Needless to say, overseas Chinese supported and contributed to the Chinese revolution.They support China. Apart from patriotic enthusiasm, more importantly, they hope that a strong motherland will protect them and become their backing.In this plane, during the War of Resistance in 1937, overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia donated a large amount of materials and military expenses to the War of Resistance led by the CCP.And during the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of young overseas Chinese returned to China to help in the war.

After the war ended, some young people stayed in the country directly, while some returned to Southeast Asia, bringing back the "revolutionary ideas" of the motherland.

The revolutionary and reactionary forces actually returned to Southeast Asia at the same time.In this area of ​​Southeast Asia, most of the overseas Chinese are supporters of the CCP, while the remaining small number are on the side of the colonial government—nothing else, these people are all "property owners", such as Lee Kuan Yew's family (I was still in high school at this time)

Although Wang Jingwei and the KMT remnants had the support of the British, under Huang Ke's deliberate publicity in advance, it was difficult for them to gain practical support in the local area due to their notorious reputation.Although the capitalists in Southeast Asia hate and fear the Communist Party, all those who can develop into capitalists and big landlords in Southeast Asia, a place with a strong anti-Chinese atmosphere, all have brains.Their money did not come from the wind. Wang Jingwei and his group wanted to persuade these people to spend money to support their "anti-communist" revolution with their three-inch tongues. It is not so easy.

He Zhonghan said to Shen Zui, "Did you hear anything?"

"During the two months you were away, those people in the CCP got very close to the Japanese. The hospital they opened here has been treating those Japanese whores for free in the past two months. And the Japanese, Some people have also begun to promote the friendship between China and Japan...."

It has been three months since He Zhonghan left Singapore, and Shen Zui talked about the "strange incident" that happened here during his absence.

Local overseas Chinese organizations have been in frequent contact with Japanese overseas Chinese organizations in the past three months.Everyone knows that these overseas Chinese organizations and the people behind the scenes are all controlled by the CCP.After the founding of New China, as the CCP regained the Northeast, the hatred between China and Japan has faded. Especially recently, the People’s Liberation Army beat the British and French in Indochina and South Asia, and even forced the British to submit. Overseas The Chinese saw it and quickly restored the self-confidence and pride of a great country that had been lost for a century.

As a result of the recovery of the Northeast and the enhancement of national self-confidence, the hatred for the old neighbor Japan has naturally diminished a lot.The so-called Japanese overseas Chinese in Singapore actually hide many Japanese spy organizations.The CCP’s underground party and Japanese spies frequently contact and engage in activities in Singapore, and carry out friendship and interaction of "China-Japan friendship, as close as one family", which will really scare many people.

While talking, Shen Zui took out the pamphlets he had collected in the past three months and handed them to He Zhonghan to read.These pamphlets were, of course, the ones produced by Huang Ke to promote the "Greater Asia" doctrine and "East Asian unity".

"This thing was made by the Japanese, but the gang of the Communist Party did not reject the spread of this thing among the Chinese. And I recently saw a man in Singapore, a Japanese acquaintance!"

Intoxicated here showing mysterious eyes.

"who is it?"

"Kagezuo Senaki! He was the head of the Japanese island agency in Shanghai two years ago! After Tatsuhiko Aoki was killed by Wang Yaqiao, he was in charge of the Japanese secret service in Shanghai. But in fact, this person is very close to the CCP agents. The CCP He was responsible for the mass arrest of the Japanese before entering Shanghai!"

Chang Kaishen was betrayed by the Japanese to the CCP, and it is no longer a secret now.The group of people hiding in Southeast Asia, such as Wang Jingwei and his like, lost their use value, and the Japanese ignored him.In order to live a better life, these people are now trying their best to hold the legs of the British, and use their own characteristics of understanding China and Japan to act as the eyes of the British to monitor the local overseas Chinese and Japanese.