() Commander Liu Xiaofu was the first Taiwanese army to land on Mindanao, and he also stayed in Mindanao the longest. His 1st Mountain Division, especially the 1st Brigade, has become very familiar with the tropical jungle and the environment through these years of training.
Fighting in this environment,
Moreover, everything in Vietnam this time is very similar to that in Mindanao. There is no choice but to suppress wherever there is disobedience, and then maintain local stability. Moreover, the environment in Vietnam is much better than that in Mindanao, and the people here have long lost the ability to resist foreign rule.
courage.
Liu Xiaofu deployed the troops with ease, and then asked them to garrison according to the positions marked on the map. When encountering any resistance, he would just say one word: kill.
Since Vietnam's seaports and main transportation are occupied by the Taiwanese army, and there is a railway built by the French from Saigon to Hanoi, it is very easy for Liu Xiaofu's more than 20,000 soldiers to mobilize in this narrow land of Vietnam.
, and gradually shrink the encirclement, and drive some remaining French and Vietnamese troops into the encirclement, and capture or eliminate them.
On the fifth day after the U.S. delegation arrived in Taiwan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which could no longer delay, finally gave the answer the Americans wanted. The Taiwanese government agreed to negotiate with the French government with the participation of the Americans, but the negotiations were
The location should be chosen in the neutral country of the United States.
After receiving a satisfactory answer, the American delegation returned to the United States happily, and specially chose the negotiation location in San Francisco, a city on the west coast of the United States, to show their gratitude to Taiwan for its generosity. At this time, the French no longer cared about the negotiation location.
This issue is more serious, because since I received a telegram from Governor Sharrow a few days ago, there has been no news from there for many days, and in this last telegram, Governor Sharrow asked the French government
Fu asked for support, saying that he had left Hanoi and was retreating into Laos.
Because the French could not contact the governor, they did not know the situation in Vietnam. However, they did not expect that the Taiwan government would invest more than half of its national troops and planned to solve the entire Indochina in a short time. Therefore, the French
Adhering to their usual slow-paced habits, the people did not send their own delegation from the country until the American delegation returned to the United States.
Since the negotiation location is on the west coast, the Taiwanese delegation can just take a boat there. According to the current sailing speed, it is only a 10-day voyage. Therefore, Taiwan can also drag and drop. After the French all left New York by train
, and then got on the ship bound for San Francisco.
On the sixth day after the delegation left Taiwan and headed to San Francisco to prepare for negotiations with the French, the Ministry of National Defense received a telegram jointly sent by the First Division and the Second Division. Cities throughout Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam had been destroyed.
The soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Divisions are now radiating out to the countryside and wilderness with the city as the center, capturing the surrendered French troops and their affiliated troops. However, the French Governor in Indochina did not capture
I arrived, but I already know the governor’s whereabouts for sure.
Governor Albert Sharo made a very wise choice to retreat when the Taiwan Navy attacked the coastal defenses. However, because he was too fat and too old, he was very unsuitable to enter Laos, a country with underdeveloped transportation and full of mountains and forests.
area, so on the advice of his adjutant, the governor took only a few entourages and drove his two cars north from Hanoi toward the Sino-Vietnamese border.
His adjutant and the commander of the French army led the main force and subsidiary troops of the French army to retreat to Laos. As a result, the first and second divisions, as usual, a French governor was also among these French troops.
They pursued them all the way to Laos, and were still dozens of kilometers away from Myanmar, and finally surrounded the main force of more than 1,000 French troops. After interrogation, they found out that the French governor did not retreat with them.
After getting this news, the 1st Mountain Division, whose main force was in Vietnam, sent troops to search the northern border of Vietnam, but found nothing. Just when everyone was wondering where the governor had gone, an agent from the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a report from Yunnan.
In other words, Governor Sharo had crossed the China-Vietnam border a few days ago and took a train from Kunming to Shanghai.
Since the governor ran away, there was nothing else to do. Liu Fu asked the Ministry of National Defense to send a congratulatory message to the soldiers at the front, and asked them to rest and recuperate while clearing away the remaining local forces, and reminded them that they must deal with the locals.
In a relationship, don't disturb someone if you can, comfort them more, and kill them less.
Speaking of the three small countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, they had a lot of struggles at the beginning after they were occupied by the French. However, due to the huge gap between the two sides, these struggles were quickly extinguished.
After the French occupied these three countries, they did not depose the emperors of these three countries, but continued to keep them in office. They just became puppets of the French governors.
The French abolished local administrative agencies such as prefectures and counties, and instead redivided them into several communities. The heads of these communities were all French, while the administrative units below the communities were held by some French and some locals.
, these locals all came from a crash course for cadres run by the French.
In addition, the French also established more than 10 departments in Vietnam, including finance, public affairs, health care, customs, agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, post and telecommunications, mining, geology, etc., and established a political council, with the governor-general being the natural president of these councils.
And the chairman, these departments only have the right to propose, and the governor has veto power on all proposals.
In addition, the French divided Indochina into five regions, and under the centralized rule of the governor-general, they implemented a divide-and-rule policy, with each region adopting different governance methods.
Vietnam is divided into three parts: South Qi, Middle Qi and Northern Qi. The South Qi is the territory directly under the French Governor-General, the North Qi is a semi-protected area, and the Central Qi is a protected area. Cambodia and Laos are also two protected areas.
There is also a parliament in French Indochina. The members of this parliament are composed of French and local people, with the deputy governor as the speaker. They can discuss finance, taxation and other issues, but they cannot make any political proposals.
Although the three countries of Indochina are rich in resources, due to the long distance from the mother country, France does not regard it as an immigrant colony like Algeria in North Africa, but as a "pioneering colony." After consolidating the colonial power, the French also
Many mines, factories were established, and various economic activities were encouraged.
Areas such as Haiphong and Hanoi are industrial areas built by the French, with numerous factories and mineral processing plants; while Saigon is a planting area with many plantations and rubber forests. Moreover, the French attach great importance to Vietnam's transportation, not only
It built a railway from Haiphong to Saigon via Hanoi, running through the north and south of Vietnam, and also vigorously constructed road networks and ports.
However, these infrastructure constructions have not brought any benefits to the local people. Because the taxes set by the French are very high and the land annexation is very severe, the vast majority of local people can only rent French land for farming.
And hand over most of the products.
Documents copied from the Governor's Palace show that in 1914, France exported nearly 1 million tons of rice and 5,000 tons of rubber from Indochina, mainly the Mekong Delta region, most of which was shipped back to France and the remainder to Hong Kong.
and Japan and other places.
In general, the French have invested a lot of money in Indochina, hoping to turn it into a resource export destination. Although it has promoted local construction and economic development, it has not brought any benefits to the local people.
On the contrary, it has brought heavier taxes and burdens to the local people.
However, the French did not pay attention to education issues here, let alone use cultural invasion as a big killer. Except for establishing a few French schools in Vietnam, most of the other schools actually taught Chinese. And even more so in Cambodia and Laos.
Because of their backwardness, there is only one middle school in these two countries.
