The British were really frustrated. The domestic economy was a mess. The foreign colonies also rebelled one after another, impacting the existing model formed by the British Empire over the past two hundred years. Anyway, everything was messy, and the Labor cabinet was busy cleaning up the mess, and it was difficult to cut it down.

Let me put it this way, the British Empire was extremely short of money at this time, especially the lack of money to stabilize the financial order. But which European country in the late 1940s was not short of money? Everyone returned to the pre-liberation overnight and had no time to save themselves, so where could they have the energy to save others?

The only one who can save the world now is the United States, but what makes Attlee feel uncomfortable is that the Americans’ asking price is too high. If the United States agrees to the full demand, the pound will fall from the financial throne, and the economy of the world will be controlled by the Americans in the future.

Attley naturally didn't like such a result. If he really agreed to this condition, the British Empire would really become a yellow flower tomorrow, and he would also become a sinner of the British Empire. It is very likely that the worst appearance in the history of the British Empire will fall on him.

Attley is a man who cherishes his feathers very much. How could he accept this worst title? So he kept dragging negotiations with the Americans and refused to accept the result.

Churchill was full of opinions on this. He pointed out in pain: "Attley thought he was the savior, but he could not save Britain nor himself. The British Empire had to face reality. The rise of the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II was already irresistible. Especially the United States, its advantages in all aspects were obvious, and its national ideology and interests were closest to Britain compared to the Soviet Union. Obviously, it was very easy to choose between the United States and the Soviet Union. But facing this simplest single-choice question, Attley actually went off topic. He tried to find a third option. In his words, it was to find a way to save the country, but in my opinion it was just a dead end to destruction."

Churchill disagreed with Attlee and believed that the most correct way to do it at the moment is to accept the somewhat harsh financial aid from the United States. In the words of an old smoker, those who fall into the cesspool should not be dirty because they stretch out a feces spoon, otherwise they will die even more dirty. What we have to do now is to grab the feces spoon handed out by the United States, survive first and then find a way to clean ourselves.

So why didn't Attlee accept Americans' feces spoons? The reason is that he has some small plans. This prime minister thinks there is another way to obtain financial aid without relying on it or "blacking" the United States. If this method is used, not only does it not require the harsh conditions of the United States, but it can also make a lot of money.

So what is the solution? The solution is very simple. If you want to make money, you must first find a goal. You can't make money from a pauper. Second, if you don't pay much, you must grasp the handle of the goal. Of course, it would be fine if the British Empire was strong enough like a hundred years ago when it was strong enough. However, this option is simply impossible for the current UK.

Back to the topic, is there any goal in this world that meets the above two points? Don’t say it, it really is! Who? It’s Japan!

Attlee's plan is very simple. Japan, as the pillar of the Axis power, is the source of Asian sins. It has created countless crimes in this fierce war. Doesn't the crime need punishment? Doesn't it need compensation? The Germans can only grit their teeth to survive now, and Japan does not have the strategic position of Germany. How can it be reasonable to not lose money?

Anyway, Attlee calculated it based on a small calculation. The current funding gap of the British Empire is about 500 million to 600 million US dollars. As long as you have this money, the British Empire can overcome the difficulties smoothly.

Of course, some comrades may have to say that the poor virtues of the Japanese can afford to pay out the money? I guess it will take more than ten years for the whole nation to go out and sell their butts to raise enough dollars, right?

Attley knew very well that the Japanese could not afford the money for the time being, so his goal was very clear, that is, the United States behind Japan. Americans are rich now, and their pockets are full of gold, silver and treasures.

So will the United States willingly repay the debt to Japan? Attley believes that there is this possibility. It is of great significance to the United States as a bridgehead for blocking the Soviet Union and curbing the spread. Moreover, if you want to disgust the Soviet Union, you must firmly control Japan. In other words, Japan is very important to the United States. Naturally, if Japan cannot pay the debt and does not have the ability to be a good dog, the dog owner will naturally not be indifferent.

Attlee's abacus was so loud that he could sharpen his knife, or he was sharpening his sword toward the pigs and sheep. So are Americans willing to be pigs and sheep?

I have to say that Attlee probably made the wrong plan. Since the Americans planned to use this evil dog for Japan, they have not planned to make Japan pay any war compensation. Even if they have to pay it back, it is just a symbolic meaning. In Truman's opinion, it is still very useful to raise this dog, especially after the deterioration of the situation in China, the Soviet Union was even more needed, so naturally, they could not let the dog out with one blow, right? Therefore, Americans don't want to mention this matter now, and even wonder if they are holding on to use a big move to directly deduct Japan's compensation.

It is conceivable how annoyed the United States would be when Attlee suddenly proposed to discuss Japan's war reparations in the Security Council.

To be honest, from the perspective of the Americans, the timing of Britain's sudden mention of this matter is really bad. Think about it, what is the current situation in Asia? In China, the large-scale troops of the Democratic Party have been eliminated. Jiang and Li and Bai were only thriving in Zhoushan and Hainan, and the Democratic Government has been dead in name only. Especially after the founding of the New China, the socialist group with the Soviet Union immediately announced that it had severed all diplomatic relations with the Democratic Government, and no longer recognized that the Democratic Government was a legitimate regime that could represent China, but instead recognized the legitimacy of the Democratic Government.

Although Truman is happy to see Mr. Jiang in trouble, from the perspective of personal grievances, this result is not good for the United States from the perspective of national interests. Because the Soviet Union is now actively helping the T-Gang restore its legitimate rights and interests in the United Security Council, that is, once the T-Gang restores its legal seat, Japan's war compensation must be compensated. This is equivalent to an enemy for the Americans, especially Japan does not have any compensation ability, which is equivalent to asking the United States to pay the T-Gang. Think about it, how disgusting this is!

Even the Communist Party of T was pretty good. What's worse is that the Soviet Union was also asking for war reparations. Compared with the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of T had great potential to develop at most. Even if the money was given to the Communist Party of T, the Communist Party of T would not be as threatening the United States for a while. If the money was given to the Soviet Union, it would be a nightmare. The Soviet Union had already given the United States a headache for nuclear weapons before, and even had to invest huge sums of money in the past two years to catch up. It's hard to say whether it was chasing here or not.

Anyway, according to the relevant intelligence analysis of the CIA, the Soviet Union has also invested unprecedented energy in the nuclear weapons project. Think about it, the Soviet Union was the leader, and you also gave the funds to others. Isn’t this a lottery?

Of course, the most terrifying thing for the United States is the amount of Japan's war reparations. During World War II, Japan directly plundered much wealth from Asian countries and caused much harm to Asian countries. The estimated losses inside and outside cannot be less than 300 million US dollars. With Germany's industrial and economic strength, it was scared to hear the war reparations of 20 billion US dollars. Japan's industry and economy were not as good as Germany, and it was impossible to pay off the 30 billion US dollars in sales!

Even the war reparations of 30 billion US dollars are estimated at the initial estimate, and the real number is probably only a lot. Not to mention too much, more than half of these 30 billion US dollars will definitely be compensated by China and the Soviet Union. The huge sum of more than 15 billion US dollars is so worthy of the enemy. Anyone who thinks about it will vomit blood!

So Americans really don’t want to mention this war reparation. When the United Nations held a meeting to discuss, the United States would delay it or cheat. Either the issue of Japan’s war criminals has not been resolved and the reparation issue has been postponed, or it would be said that Japan’s war crimes have not been fully identified, and how to discuss the specific reparation issue if the crime is not clear? If some crimes are not revealed, a general compensation number will be set. If there are too many or less, how can we argue in the future?

Anyway, Americans have many excuses. Before, the Soviet Union only mentioned this topic every now and then, to criticize the United States. Other China was temporarily busy with civil war and did not care about debts, and Britain did not dare to offend the United States for the time being and even cursed the United States to seek some preferential financial loans, so naturally they would not mention it.

Now, Attlee was forced to do nothing else, and the Americans' aid was too harsh. In desperation, the Prime Minister could only give a higher "criminal way" and forced the United States to pay money. Anyway, the British meant it very clearly, either give war compensation or preferential loans, in short, you have to pay money!

When the British jumped out of this clamor, the Soviet Union naturally assisted immediately and immediately raised the issue of Japan's war reparations, and could not continue to delay, and substantial compensation must be immediately started.

The two big gangsters agreed, and China was temporarily deprived of the big gangster's qualifications. France directly abstained from the power, while the United States still opposed it. Some comrades may say that according to the principle of consistency between major powers, this matter will be ruined. Wait, this matter is really not bad, because this matter is not under the jurisdiction of the Security Council, so the principle of consistency between major powers is not applicable. Because of the insistence of Britain and the Soviet Union, Japan's war reparations issue was immediately put on the agenda, which is a matter that needs to be resolved immediately at the highest priority.

How to solve it? First, it is naturally to clarify Japan's war crimes. In fact, the international military court has done this point. I dare not say that every Japanese crime has been found, but those with bad nature cannot be escaped. For example, several massacres, such as Unit 731. Secondly, it is to liquidate how much damage Japan has caused, direct economic losses and indirect economic losses, and mental losses specially proposed by the Soviet Union. These tasks have actually been done. Although the total number has not yet been released, the general framework is still available. Finally, the most important compensation calculation rule.

Why is this compensation calculation rule very important? Because Americans attach great importance to this point. As a lawyer country, all aspects of the United States are related to legal terms. If you don’t come up with a reasonable rule, you will talk about compensation. The American litigants firmly disagree.

But this calculation rule is quite troublesome. It is okay to say that the direct economic losses are so much gold, silver and other physical materials that the Japanese plundered can be calculated directly. Moreover, when Japan surrendered unconditionally, Li Xiaofeng intervened in particular and ordered the Japanese not to destroy all war information and to hand over all the information intact. If any information is intentional damage or refuses to pay, the Soviet Union would not recognize Japan's unconditional surrender and would continue to throw nuclear bombs.

Of course, the Japanese are also cunning and making excuses, such as being destroyed during bombing. However, Li Xiaofeng has been staring at this area. As long as almost all Japanese war materials have been established, a certain immortal copied a copy of them with magical powers. You can't even die without a certificate. As for those who deliberately destroy or hide information, they are all sentenced to death by the military court to kill a hundred people.

There are Japanese information, and many of the numbers are ready-made, and the Japanese can't deny it. Even Americans can't say anything about this, and they can only sigh that kgb is omnipresent.

Unfortunately, not all the losses caused by Japan are well documented. In particular, the relevant information involving casualties was very troublesome. Back then, most countries and regions in Asia were either colonies or semi-colonies, and were oppressed and exploited. Take China as an example, it was a mass of slaughter. The warlords trampled on the authority of the central government to the extreme, and the entire country was basically out of control.

For the warlords, most of them don’t care about the lives of the people. The people are just a tool for them. They may only remember that there are ordinary people when they are catching strong men, collecting capitol taxes or levies, but they just ignore them at other times. Under such circumstances, most of the warlords do not know how many people they have in their "rule".

It is conceivable that in this state, it is hard to say how many people died at the hands of the Japanese, so I can only give a rough estimate. Some comrades may just say that there is a rough one, but the Americans will not do it. For them, one person who dies will be compensated, no more or less, otherwise it will be unfair.

In Asia, like China, there were a lot of cases in Asia. According to the Americans' urinary nature, it was basically impossible to have a result. In fact, this is also the best way for the Americans to avoid Japan's war compensation. They were determined to hold on to this point and insisted that there must be a real result before they could negotiate compensation.

This problem was indeed stuck for a long time, and it was not until the UK and the Soviet Union had a tacit understanding that the crux of the problem was lifted. In fact, the solution was very simple. Didn’t you say something fair and reasonable? Didn’t you insist that you could not talk about compensation without the correct result?

So simple, let’s just talk about the matter and first compensate for the casualties that can be determined to be directly or indirectly killed by Japan. As for those with controversy, let’s put it aside for the time being, and it depends on what else you can say!

The Americans really wanted to cheat at first, insisting on counting and verifying all casualties before paying compensation in a unified manner. However, all the victims of Japanese war crimes stopped and public opinion protested on a large scale. Under the huge pressure of public opinion, the Americans could only give in and agreed to verify one and compensate one.

Things have become simple now? Hehe, you underestimate American morality too much, because how to compensate or how much should one die or injured be compensated has become a second obstacle.

Some comrades may say, what's the difficulty? Isn't it clear at a glance how much the dead people pay and how much the injured people pay?

It's not that simple. For Americans who are good at making rules and regulations, the compensation value between people is different. They complicate things exponentially, such as Zhang San is a worker, Li Si is a farmer, and Wang Wu is a housewife. They were all killed by the same Japanese, but they could not get the same compensation.

The calculation method of the Americans is like this. Zhang San is a worker, with five silver dollars a month. He was just thirty years old at the time. It was estimated that Zhang San could retire until he was 60 years old. So he would have no less than thirty years to create labor value in the future. Therefore, Japan's first step was to compensate him for his wages for the next thirty years, and then consider inflation and wage increases, and multiply it by a coefficient. This is the value of Zhang San's labor.

Please note that the value of an individual's labor does not equal the total amount of compensation, because there are mental loss expenses and inherent property losses. Calculate mental loss expenses for Zhang San's immediate family. The more direct relatives, the more money they will have. The sum of the expenses in several aspects is the compensation that Zhang San's family can get.

Obviously, Li Si, a farmer, and Wang Wu, a housewife, expect that the value created in his life cycle is different, so the compensation he receives is very different. To put it bluntly, the stronger his ability to create wealth during his lifetime, the more compensation he receives.

It is conceivable that to figure out these details, you must also know how many immediate relatives the deceased has, and how much work it takes. Even these are just a few one-sided, and there are many factors involved in all aspects of compensation, such as whether you are healthy, whether you have a history of smoking, drug use, and alcoholism. These all involve the final total compensation, and to figure out these aspects is undoubtedly quite troublesome and time-consuming...

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