The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

In the next two months, Zhou Hexuan temporarily joined Chiang Kai-shek's aide-de-camp and helped improve a series of draft negotiation plans. He specifically told Chang Kaishen that if the United States is willing to hand over Ryukyu to China for management, it must agree.

Historically, because Chang Kaishen felt that his diplomatic ability was limited, he asked the attendants to formulate a negotiation plan before going abroad. All his actions during the meeting were strictly carried out according to this plan, mainly because he was afraid that he would mess up again.

As a result, unexpected situations were encountered midway. Roosevelt twice stated that he would hand over Ryukyu to China. As for whether to let China directly annex Ryukyu or let China manage Ryukyu as a suzerain, this issue was rejected by Chiang Kai-shek before we could discuss it in detail.

Why would Chang Kaishen refuse such a good thing?

Because Ryukyu was not in his established negotiation plan, he didn't know how to deal with it and could only consider the problem with inertial thinking. Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that if China got Ryukyu, there would be another conflict with Japan in the future, so he suggested that China and the United States should jointly take over it.

Roosevelt felt incredible about this. He couldn't imagine that Chiang Kai-shek didn't even want this kind of benefit, and later he simply didn't bother to mention it anymore.

The Ryukyu Islands consist of more than 400 islands, including the Okinawa Islands. If Chiang Kai-shek had agreed, then Yui Aragaki might have been a Chinese girl, and fat nerds wouldn’t have to clamor for a Japanese wife every day.

After the Cairo meeting, Chang Kaishen felt more and more something was wrong the more he thought about it, and he probably regretted it before even getting on the plane. He believed that the news of this matter would damage the leader's image, so he told Wang Chonghui: "Only a few people know that Roosevelt wants to hand over Ryukyu to us, so don't talk about it to the outside world. If anyone asks about it, just say that we have no treaty." Based on this, no reason can be given.”

In the negotiation plan that Zhou Hexuan helped draw up, after several revisions, he believed that China should propose suzerainty over Ryukyu, or at least ensure Ryukyu's post-war independence.

Chang Kaishen had doubts about this. He felt that Japan had annexed Ryukyu for too long and it would be difficult for China to ask for it directly. Under Zhou Hexuan's repeated persuasion, Chiang Kai-shek initially only promised to ensure the independence of Ryukyu and its joint management by China and the United States.

It wasn't until September that Chang Kaishen, probably tired of Zhou Hexuan's complaints, finally agreed to ask for the suzerainty of Ryukyu and refused to annex the Ryukyu Islands even to death - he had no interest in Ryukyu and did not think that the natives on the islands were Chinese. .

Zhou Hexuan could only be speechless about this.

To be honest, as long as China cannot directly annex Ryukyu after the war, the next step will be difficult. Because of the three-year civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the United States quickly adjusted its Asia policy and wanted to support Japan to fight against China and the Soviet Union.

By then, even if China obtains suzerainty over Ryukyu, the Yankees are likely to go back on their word. Just like the Diaoyu Islands, they were legally returned to China in 1945, but were taken over by the United States in 1951, which later led to Japan using this as an excuse to claim sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands.

This may happen even if China annexes Ryukyu. Because the Communist Party does not have a strong navy, and Chiang Kai-shek, who has retreated to Taiwan, does not have the strength to take over Ryukyu, there will be all kinds of wrangling and changes.

The biggest problem is that it was the San Francisco Contract that truly established the postwar Far East order, and neither the Kuomintang nor the Communist Party sent anyone to participate. If you do not participate in the spoils sharing conference, many of the benefits you deserve will naturally not be realized. This is due to the helplessness of the international political environment at that time.

Historically, the United States also proposed that Japan be co-managed by four countries, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain, garrisoning troops.

The Yankees have divided the territory. The United States is responsible for managing Honshu, the United Kingdom is responsible for managing Kyushu, China is responsible for managing Shikoku, and the Soviet Union is responsible for managing Hokkaido.

As a result, Britain was busy restoring the post-war domestic economy and had no time to send troops to manage Japan. The Soviet Union had another conflict with the United States. After compromise and negotiations, it gained sovereignty over the Kuril Islands, but the United States only acquiesced (the Yalta Conference had already made a commitment), which led to the subsequent territorial dispute between Russia and Japan.

China did intend to take over the Shikoku region of Japan. At that time, it planned to send a total of 14,500 people from the Sixty-seventh Division to Japan. When the vanguard set off, Chinese newspapers carried a lot of publicity reports, and all Chinese people felt proud.

Unfortunately, the war broke out, and the 6,000 vanguard troops stationed in Japan were transferred back by Chiang Kai-shek to fight the civil war.

Until the 21st century, neither New China nor the Taiwan authorities claimed to give up the right to station troops in Japan. In other words, legally speaking, China not only has sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands, but also has the right to legally garrison troops in Japan, with a garrison strength of at least one division.

This is the legitimate rights and interests of the victorious country!

October.

Roosevelt sent a telegram for the fourth time inviting Chang Kaishen to attend the summit. Chang Kaishen responded by agreeing, but requested that the venue of the meeting be changed from Washington to Cairo.

Roosevelt accepted this suggestion and conveyed Chang's opinions to Churchill and Stalin. Of course Churchill agreed with this plan, because Egypt belongs to the British territory, and it would be very beneficial to the British to hold meetings on their own territory.

The key lies in Stalin. This loving father still maintained neutrality with Japan. He even secretly and continuously reduced his support to China. He was afraid that a direct meeting with Chiang Kai-shek would arouse the dissatisfaction of the Japanese government and provoke Japan's idiot officers to send troops to the Soviet Far East again.

As a result, the plan for the four-nation summit was shelved again.

By November, Roosevelt was unable to solve this problem and could only hold a meeting with Chang Kaishen and Churchill in Cairo, and then asked Stalin to hold another meeting in Tehran next door (a clerical error in the previous chapter was written as Yalta).

Throughout the meeting, Chang Kaishen was smiling and proud. Although Churchill disliked him, it was generally pleasant and did not reproduce the tragedy of Versailles as Chiang Kai-shek expected.

Roosevelt agreed to all China's postwar political and territorial demands, including acquiring sovereignty over Ryukyu and the Diaoyu Islands.

This surprised Chang Kaishen. He just asked for the suzerainty of Ryukyu. If he couldn't reach an agreement, he just wanted Ryukyu to be independent. If we can't reach an agreement, let Japan continue to rule Ryukyu. As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, Roosevelt directly handed over Ryukyu to China, not with suzerainty, but with actual sovereignty.

In other words, Okinawa and other islands will belong to China from now on, and Yui Aragaki is also a Chinese girl.

Zhou Hexuan was very happy to receive the news in China, but that was all. No one knew whether the Americans would go back on their word.

Historically, the Soviet Union also obtained sovereignty over the entire Kuril Islands at the Yalta Conference, and the Japanese were just trying to deny it to the Southern Kuril Islands.

Zhou Hexuan can only do so much. He is not optimistic about annexing Ryukyu - he is not even sure that he can get the Diaoyu Islands, because after the war, China did not have the strength to fulfill it.

But at least, in this time and space, Aragaki Yui legally belongs to a Chinese girl!