General Matan replied noncommittally: "This matter has nothing to do with you at all. I am just telling you out of trust. You should act as if you don't know anything at all! You have done a good job. Take some rest!"

Lieutenant General Ava was silent, and it was only at this moment that he truly understood that the whole thing was actually a conspiracy by General Matan.

General Matan expected the situation to evolve to this point from the beginning, and at the same time realized that this was a good opportunity to regain power from General Maung Aye.

Therefore, General Matan watched the development of the matter calmly. When the split of the Kokang region became a foregone conclusion, General Maung Aye would be accused of undermining the stability of the country, and General Matan could naturally get rid of him.

On the surface, General Matan seems not to be greedy for power because of his advanced age, but in fact, there is no one else who is as unwilling to give up power as he is.

In order to preserve his rights, he even did not hesitate to divide the country.

Even though he is very old and his brain has become unresponsive, it is impossible for him to continue to work efficiently and make correct decisions.

General Matan knew very well that as long as the power was still in his hands, even if he died, his children and grandchildren could succeed him, so that power would still surround his soul that passed away because he refused to follow the revolution.

The reason why General Matan is like this is because as the leader of a totalitarian dictatorship government, he fully enjoys the benefits of rights, but does not bear the responsibilities that rights bring.

Looking at the sanctimonious face of General Matan, Lieutenant General Ava suddenly wanted to denounce: "Traitor!"

But facing his benefactor, Lieutenant General Ava finally failed to say these words, and just dragged his heavy steps and left sadly.

Geneva Peace Conference.

Facing representatives from various countries, Pang Jindong said forcefully: "No matter what the attitudes of countries around the world are, the determination of the Kokang people to fight for freedom and independence will never change!"

After Anderson's inauguration ceremony, Pang Jindong came to Geneva to attend the peace conference. Along with Pang Jindong, Shen Peifu and Miao Heng attended the conference on behalf of the Kokang Republican Army.

Pang Tianchong was unable to come because he needed to preside over the daily affairs of the Kokang Republican Army and had many other tasks to be responsible for.

After the tired Pang Jindong got off the plane, he met Shen Peifu and Miao Heng and entered the venue.

Pang Jindong was wearing a formal suit, with his right hand in his trouser pocket, looking forward with arrogance and confidence in his eyes, showing a demeanor of looking down on the world and being arrogant.

This kind of magnanimity comes from the heart and has enough confidence. It is definitely not something done deliberately.

Because at this moment, behind Pang Jindong, more than 100,000 brave soldiers of the Republic Army were waiting, ready for a desperate battle with the enemy.

I don’t know why, but both Shen Peifu and Miaoheng were following Pang Jindong at that time, which made Pang Jindong stand out even more.

The moment Pang Jindong stepped into the venue was photographed by reporters, and was published on the covers of many media, and spread throughout the world in an instant.

Since the capture of the entire Shan State, although the two sides have not reached a ceasefire agreement, they are in fact in a state of ceasefire.

The md government forces did not launch any more large-scale attacks, and the Kokang Republican Army did not take the initiative.

Of course, this peace is short-lived and fragile, and both sides are waiting for the results of the peace talks.

As for what kind of situation will arise between the two parties after this result is achieved, no one can speculate.

The person attending the talks from country Z was a deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the person from country m was the new secretary of state. Naturally, the people sent by both warring parties were real figures.

In comparison, the officials in country Z seem to be a little lower in rank, and they don't pay much attention to the issue of Kokang.

However, the attitude shown by country Z is the same as that of country m, that is, in the early stages of the talks, it did not make any statement on the future of the Kokang region, but repeatedly reiterated that both parties should comprehensively cease fire and restore regional peace and stability.

General Maung Aye, who attended the meeting, knew that he had entered into an unlucky deal this time. The purpose of the meeting was only to mediate rather than resolve disputes. The agreement reached was not binding or enforceable on both parties.

But if General Matan wants to get rid of him, it is enough to make a fuss about this agreement. As long as the meeting reaches any resolution that is unfavorable to MD, it is inevitable that he will be killed after returning to the country.

General Maung Aye really didn't want to come, but General Matain rarely used his authority and issued an order to General Maung Aye that was irrefutable.

Since the current situation is closely related to General Maung Aye, many people within the military government hate him because of his military failures. They really want to see how he solves all the problems, or they want to see him make a fool of himself, so

A lot of political pressure was also exerted on him.

It was under such circumstances that General Maung Aye set foot on the land of Geneva.

He scanned the expressions of participants from various countries at the conference venue and tremblingly stated the attitude of the MD government, that is, the country cannot be divided and its sovereignty cannot be destroyed.

It was after General Maung Aye made these remarks that Pang Jindong said the above words, and then looked at General Maung Aye firmly.

Under Pang Jindong's direct gaze, General Maung Aye felt flustered and even lowered his head.

He, who should have been confident, actually stuttered and looked around in his next words, as if he was someone who had done something wrong to defend himself.

In fact, the so-called mediation has no technical content. It is nothing more than finding common ground between the respective positions of both parties and then expanding this common ground.

All parties participating in the meeting knew very well that the positions of the MD military government and the Kokang Republican Army were vastly different, and there was almost nothing in common.

As expected, the talks ended in a breakdown, but after the meeting, Country Z and Country M unanimously issued a statement with similar content, both expressing support for the Kokang people in their struggle for their freedom and rights.

Now that things have reached this point, formal independence is on the horizon.

The day after the talks, Pang Jindong immediately went to Kokang to discuss plans for independence.

Not many days later, the Kokang Republican Army issued a declaration of independence and publicly announced the establishment of the Mu State Republic.

Although independence is the goal that the Kokang Republican Army has always pursued, after all, this is the first time it has been formally and publicly proposed. What is more important is that after the declaration, the Kokang region will truly appear as a sovereign and independent country.

The declaration clearly states at the beginning: "The most precious thing in this world is freedom. Only those who have freedom can defend their dignity and rights."

Next, the declaration enumerates the darkness of the totalitarian and dictatorial rule of the MD military government, emphasizes the painful lives of people of all ethnic groups under this rule, and finally proposes that the only way to solve all this is to establish a new country independent of MD

nation.

This country aims to pursue the universal happiness of people of all ethnic groups as its ultimate goal. It implements democratic politics in its political system, gradually implements universal suffrage in stages, and establishes parliament and government based on universal suffrage.

People who are familiar with the Kokang Republican Army found many intriguing things in this declaration, some of which are completely different from the past positions of the Kokang Republican Army.

For example, the declaration does not just stand for the Kokang people, at least on the surface. The most frequently used word is "people of all nationalities."

What is even more strange is that the name of the country was not "Kokang Republic" as many people expected, but "Mu Bang Republic".

What the outside world doesn't know is that this declaration was entirely concocted by Pang Jindong. Since the declaration is actually the policy agenda of the new country, it cannot be sloppy at all.

After Pang Jindong formed the first draft, he and Pang Tianchong and others went over it word for word several times, and after a lot of revisions, it was finally finalized.

What the outside world doesn't even know is that Pang Jindong even had fierce arguments with Shen Peifu and others over the wording and writing style.

The reason why Pang Jingdong tried his best to downplay the Kokang character of the new country is because Shan State is a multi-ethnic area, in which the Kokang people are only a minority, and the main ethnic group is the Shan ethnic group.

Therefore, Pang Jindong believes that it must be emphasized that the new country is a multi-ethnic country. If too much emphasis is placed on the Kokang people, it will inevitably cause unhappiness from other ethnic groups, especially the dominant ethnic group.

In addition, the Kokang people are a foreign nation after all, which makes them more likely to cause unfriendly speculations from the outside world, although such speculations are in line with the facts.

In this way, the new country may fall into internal strife while still being unstable externally. Although the Kokang people control the army and can quickly quell it, such ethnic unrest will destroy Pang Jindong's carefully packaged image of a democratic country.

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Also in order to downplay the character of the Kokang people, the name of the country was adopted as "Mubang Republic", which was inherited from the historical Mubang Xuanwei Envoy.

The Mubang Xuanwei Envoys Division was one of the three Xuanwei and Six Weises established in the southwest ethnic minority areas during the Ming Dynasty. Shan State was under the jurisdiction of the Mubang Xuanwei Envoys Division. It was originally the territory of China, but was later taken away and became part of MD.

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Pang Jindong decided against all opinions to determine the name of this country. One reason is that other local ethnic groups are transnational ethnic groups. There are a large number of the same ethnic groups in country Z, and they are all indigenous people who have lived in the local area for a long time. This will easily make them identify with the new country;

The second can fully explain the historical heritage of this country;

The three also hint at the sense of belonging and identity of this country.

However, Pang Jindong left a foreshadowing in the Declaration of Independence and used many excuses, such as the generally low level of education of the people, for not immediately implementing universal suffrage.

Due to the small number of Kokang people, once universal suffrage is implemented, the political power will inevitably fall into the hands of foreigners.

Pang Jindong's plan is to first maintain the country's status quo, that is, let the Kokang people firmly hold power, and then stabilize other ethnic groups with the promise of universal suffrage in the future.

After a large number of immigrants from country Z arrive, the ethnic composition of the new country will naturally change. At that time, while assimilating other local ethnic groups and implementing universal suffrage, the political power will still be in the hands of the Chinese.

Here are the opinions of Shen Peifu and others about Pang Jindong. One is that they believe that never mentioning the Kokang people is tantamount to betraying all the efforts of the Kokang Republican Army in the past decades;

Second, they firmly oppose the implementation of universal suffrage, because these people's ideas are still very conservative and old-fashioned, and they stubbornly believe that whoever conquers the world should sit on it.

The former one is easier to handle. As long as it is explained rationally and the future development plans are explained, everyone will be able to accept it.

The latter one is very difficult to deal with. It is really difficult to get these people who have not been baptized by modern democratic ideas to accept the political system of universal suffrage, not to mention the issue of distribution of rights.

Pang Jindong discussed with Shen Peifu and others. In the end, his mouth was dry and he was still unable to convince the other party.

Pang Jindong was helpless and simply asked: "Do you hope that the whole world will support us?"

Shen Peifu looked at Pang Jindong, then nodded: "Of course!"

"Then I can tell you that if democratic politics is not implemented, Western society will never support us, and may even use us as an outpost to block country Z. I believe everyone is clear about what this will mean."

Shen Peifu curled her lips and said disdainfully: "I don't believe that just by not allowing those indigenous monkeys to have the right to vote, the whole world will come together to oppose us!"

"Of course this won't happen. At least country Z and a few countries will still support us, but in the face of a larger international environment, we can't get away with it!" After a pause, Pang Jindong said meaningfully:

"I don't doubt that Congress Z will take this opportunity to sell their political ideas to us. I wonder if you guys who are doing this can accept it?"

Compared with the political ideas of Westerners, many people here are even more unacceptable to the political ideas of country Z, especially people of the older generation such as Pang Wenlan. Therefore, when they heard Pang Jindong's words, everyone here couldn't help but shake their heads.

"That's right!" Pang Jindong looked around at everyone present and said slowly: "Why do we want to hang ourselves on a tree instead of staying between the two camps of the East and the West to seek the greatest benefits for ourselves?

What’s the benefit?”

This time Shen Peifu didn't speak, but Huang Bingzhong shook his head slightly and said in a tone full of doubts: "What you said makes sense, but I still don't understand why we, who are fighting for the world with our lives and blood, failed in the end.

Should we rely on voting to decide who will be the leader? What if a poor scholar with no achievements, no talent and no virtue, who only knows how to hide his complaints becomes the leader, or a liar who deceives the world and steals his reputation becomes the leader, this is not a big joke.

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As soon as Huang Bingzhong finished speaking, another elder immediately continued: "What do the people know? They are most easily deceived. Whoever speaks nicely will vote for him!"

Perhaps he was worried that Pang Jindong would misunderstand what he said, so Huang Bingzhong added to what he just said: "It won't be long before my old bones are put into the coffin, so you can rest assured, old man, I will never hold on to my authority.
Chapter completed!