Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

In June 1961, after China and the Konbaung Federation signed a border treaty in Sijiu City, the capital of China, it took less than three months to completely control the situation in the Longjiang region.

In order to prevent the White Elephant Kingdom from making large-scale invasions of the southern Tibetan region of the Huaxia Kingdom, after controlling the situation in the Longjiang area, the 13th and 15th Armies did not withdraw from the Longjiang area, but stayed there completely. At the same time, they continued to carry out large-scale expansion of the Longjiang Highway (formerly Liduo Kilometer) to improve the traffic efficiency of the Longjiang Highway.

Because the ownership of Kachin State was not clearly announced in the border treaty signed between China and the Konbaung Federation, and the Chinese army stationed in Kachin State was invited by the Konbaung Federal Government to join the Konbaung Federation, the White Elephant Kingdom did not pay much attention to it, which also left China with the opportunity to use the Longjiang Highway to launch a counterattack against the White Elephant Kingdom's northeast region.

In the first month after the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of China and the Federation of Konbaung Union, the Federation of Konbaung Union exported 1 million catties of rice and 5000 million catties of corn to China, while the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation of the Federation of Konbaung Union formulated a more ambitious food export plan.

They plan to increase the grain planting area in Ayeyarwady, Bago, Magway, Mandalay and Yangon provinces to 5 million hectares within five years, ensuring that they can export 800 billion tons of grain to China every year, so as to facilitate the exchange of sufficient weapons and equipment and scarce industrial products from China.

With the help of weapons and ammunition obtained from the Huaxia Kingdom in exchange for food, the military government quickly completed the re-equipment of the army. The combat effectiveness of the re-equipped army increased greatly, so Thakin Xiu Maung began to take the opportunity to implement the policy of Greater Burmese Nationalism, trying to establish a country with the Burmese as the core politically.

The military government strongly demanded that other ethnic minorities must make a choice - either directly change to the majority ethnic group Burmese and give up their own ethnic identity, and along with it, their culture, history and customs must be changed according to the official requirements of the Konbaung Federation; or leave the Konbaung Federation to make room for the Burmese.

Politically, the military government began to purge non-Burmese cadres in the federal government and suppress cadres of other ethnic groups except Burmese in the provinces below. Economically, it controlled resources through economic means and excluded other ethnic groups. After signing the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance with China, it exported grain and other agricultural products to China only from Burmese farmers, and did not allow farmers of other ethnic groups to share the fruits of their labor.

Once these two policies were implemented, they not only led to dissatisfaction among other ethnic groups towards the Konbaung Federal Government, but also further intensified the conflicts between other ethnic groups and the Burmese. Finally, the military government headed by Thakin Xiu Maung attempted to consolidate the Burmese’s central position in the Konbaung Federal Government through military means, which led to armed conflicts between other ethnic groups and the Konbaung Federal Government.

From then on, under the influence of Greater Burmese nationalism, the Konbaung Federation began a long-term armed conflict and inter-ethnic conflict. The Konbaung Federal Military Government did not reflect on the inappropriateness of its Greater Burmese nationalism, but instead began to suppress the anti-government armed forces formed by ethnic minorities. As the saying goes, a cannon shot is worth a thousand taels of gold. Frequent armed conflicts also made the Konbaung Federal Military Government bear a heavy financial burden. Most of the grain exported to China was exchanged for weapons and ammunition, and only a small part was exchanged for industrial products that were in short supply in the Konbaung Federation.

As an agricultural country, the Konbaung Federation did not even have the ability to produce bullets, let alone manufacture weapons. One rifle bullet imported from China required two kilograms of rice to be exchanged, and artillery shells were even more luxurious. One 2mm caliber artillery shell required 122 kilograms of rice to be exchanged. Fortunately, other ethnic groups did not cooperate with each other and fought on their own, which enabled the military government of the Konbaung Federation to generally maintain the suppression of the anti-government armed forces of ethnic minorities and firmly blockade them in the mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation.

Although Huaxia did not earn much-needed foreign exchange from the food-for-arms trade with the Konbaung Federation, the Huaxia government still made a lot of profit from the huge profits from the sale of weapons and equipment.

Relying on these profits, the Chinese government appeared more relaxed in its national economic planning, allowing the second five-year plan, which had been suspended due to the three difficult years and the Russian bear tearing up the aid contract, to proceed smoothly.

The Rongchun Railway from Rongcheng, Bashu Province to Chuncheng, Caiyun Province was built to improve the transportation conditions in the southwest region, develop the resources in the southwest region, and promote the economic and social development and national unity in the southwest region. After the construction started in April 1958, it did not stop and restart the construction many times as in the past. The scale of the project construction was only reduced during the most severe food shortage period of the three difficult years. However, as the food shortage was alleviated, normal construction began immediately.

After signing the border agreement with the Konbaung Federation, the construction progress of the Rongchun Railway has begun to accelerate. M Lide emphasized that the construction of the Rongchun Railway must be accelerated. Only after the Rongcheng Railway is completed can the stability of the southwest region be ensured.

Therefore, in July of the same year, the Southwest Railway Construction Headquarters of China was established, with a construction site headquarters, a technical committee and a railway construction support committee to unify the leadership and centralized command of the Rongchun Railway construction campaign, bringing together hundreds of thousands of road builders to rebuild the Chengdu-Kunming Railway. In the fourth quarter of the same year, the 7st, 3th and 1964th Divisions of the former China Railway Corps and the three engineering offices of the Second Railway Bureau successively entered the construction area, and key projects were started one after another, with the goal of achieving full track connection and opening to traffic on July 7, 1.

Thanks to the large amount of rice and corn imported from the Konbaung Federation and the recovery of grain production in China, the State Council announced that from July 1961, 7, the normal food supply for urban residents would be officially restored and the policy of reducing rations would no longer be implemented.

The return of food supply to urban residents means that China has completely overcome the food impact of the three-year natural disaster. Because the 4th Design and Research Institute of the Ministry of Chemical Industry developed a urea aqueous solution recycling production method in advance, the food production in the non-disaster areas of China has increased significantly. In conjunction with the urea-for-rice exchange program of the Savadikashe family, China's food imports from abroad in the past three years have been reduced to only one-third of the original amount, and there has been no significant increase in the population mortality rate due to malnutrition.

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