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Chapter VIII Russia's quest for peace (1)

After the end of the East China ** clearance operation, it caused a great reaction in Russia. In fact, the Russian army suffered not much losses in this war, and the Russian army did not have much, but what they wanted was that the lost territory exceeded 300,000 square kilometers, and most of it was after the [China-Russia Ihui Treaty] and the [China-Russia Beijing Treaty], which belonged to Russia.

Before this, although the Russian army was defeated poorly, they basically fought in China. Except for the loss of Vladivostok and its surrounding areas, the rest were all lost by China's land, and Russia's own territory did not lose much. Russia is a country that is extremely greedy for its territory. It doesn't matter how many soldiers died. Anyway, Russia has many gray animals, but the territory must not be lost. There is a saying that after the Andre flag is raised in Russia, it must not be left behind.

However, this time, the People's Army's action of closing the borders not only pushed all over Heilongjiang, but also successively captured two important stations in the Far East of Boli and Amur City. This time, Russia not only lost the Ussuri River Basin, but even the Amur River Basin is probably difficult to protect.

After losing so much land at once, Tsar Nicholas II could not hold back and immediately ordered Linevic to send troops to recover Boli and Amur City. However, after receiving the order from the Tsar, Linevic did not send troops according to the order, but replied to the Tsar, saying that Chita's troops are insufficient and there is no ability to recover Boli and Amur City, unless the country sends another 200,000 troops to the Far East.

After receiving the telegram from Linevich, the Tsar was naturally quite annoyed, but there was no way to deal with Linevich, because no one was willing to take over this mess, so Linevich could not be removed yet.

At this moment, Witt proposed to the Tsar to negotiate with the East China **. At the same time, Witt also warned like the Tsar that if he did not negotiate with the East China **, Russia would likely lose all its Far Eastern territory. In fact, after the negotiations between the East China ** and Britain, France and the Netherlands ended, Witt proposed the negotiation proposal, believing that Russia should negotiate with the East China ** with Japan, so that each other could support each other and reduce losses.

Nicholas II was a little intentional, but East China insisted on accepting compensation for land cemetery as the prerequisite for negotiations, which made it difficult for Nicholas II to accept. At this time, someone suggested to the Tsar that it would be better to let Japan negotiate with East China alone, and Russia would not participate. In this way, East China would inevitably make huge compensation to Japan, so that East China would make enough money from Japan. When Russia negotiated with East China again, East China would probably reduce its claims from Russia.

Some people believe that if Russia and Japan negotiate with East China **, it is very likely that Japan will be involved in compensation for compensation, because East China ** must obtain compensation from Japan to make up for the losses of the war, so they can only make compensation requests to Russia and Japan. If Russia negotiated separately, East China ** would not dare to make compensation for compensation for compensation for compensation for land cession to Russia, because the Slavic nation is the best and highest nation. If Japan had not participated in the Puttsmouth negotiation, Russia and East China ** would have been negotiated long ago.

After hearing this, Nicholas II also agreed. Therefore, Russia did nothing during the negotiations between the East China and Japan and became a melon-eating crowd. In fact, although Nicholas II was not a smart person, he was definitely not a mentally retarded. Under normal circumstances, Nicholas II would not be able to distinguish such idiotic suggestions under normal circumstances, or to a European country. However, for the yellow race, Nicholas II had a sense of racial superiority. How could the dignified Slavic fighting nation be compared with the yellow-skinned monkey? It is absolutely impossible to make the Slavic nation pay compensation to the yellow-skinned monkey and cede land.

After hearing this, Vette could only sigh. Several years later, Vette strongly criticized Nicholas II's performance in this period. The reason why Russia suffered heavy losses in the Far East War and was greatly damaged, which led to its disastrous defeat in World War I, was related to Nicholas II's blind arrogance and the continuous missed opportunity to let Russia stop losses. If Nicholas II could adopt his suggestions earlier, it would be possible to reduce the loss by at least half.

But after East China settled Japan, it turned around to deal with Russia, and it was merciless. It hit Russia with a blow. Therefore, at this time, Werther's proposal for negotiations with East China finally attracted the attention of the Tsar. However, Russia still had a group of people. Although they could not make any useful contributions, they shouted "Never compromise, fight to the end" and accused the negotiators of treason with East China for treason. Although Werther was quite annoyed, it could not be denied that these people had a considerable influence on the Tsar in Russian politics and even on the Tsar.

But at this moment, France spoke out, hoping that Russia could hold negotiations with East China as soon as possible to end the war.

After the negotiations with East China, France, like Britain, had its cabinet collapsed and replaced the president and prime minister. After the establishment of the new French, it revised the strategy of the previous one, adopted a contraction strategy in the Far East, and did not directly become an enemy of East China, and devoted its main energy to Europe, and focused on building a three-country alliance between Britain, France and Russia to form an advantage of strategic siege on Germany. In this situation, France will of course not allow Russia to invest a large amount of resources in the Far East. After all, Russia is an important part of forming a strategic siege on Germany, and the merger action of East China also alarmed France. If it does not interfere, perhaps East China and Russia will fight again.

Under the current situation, it is almost impossible for Russia to defeat the East China in the Far East. Even if it is to dispatch troops from part of Europe to reinforce the Far East, it is useless, because Russia's main body is too far away from the Far East, only one Siberian railway can be connected, and the transportation capacity of the Siberian railway is also limited. In addition, Russia's organizational ability can only be used as a tactic for adding fuel to the oil. Therefore, France decided to interfere in the war between Russia and East China, and demanded that Russia and East China negotiations be held.

Now Russia's economy can still operate normally, all thanks to French blood transfusions. Moreover, in the past few years of alliance between the two sides, France has penetrated into all aspects of the Russian economy with its strong financial strength. It can be said that once Russia and France fall apart and France withdraws its investment from Russia, the entire social economy of Russia will collapse, which is also an important reason why Russian ministers oppose the Bjork Treaty.

Now that France has spoken, Russia cannot underestimate it, and voices opposing the negotiations have temporarily stopped. Nicholas II finally made up his mind to negotiate with the East China **, and at the same time asked Germany to mediate.

In fact, this is also because Nicholas II rebelled against the French army. Because Russia is now entirely reliant on French blood transfusions, it has to succumb to France's pressure, but the Russians are quite unhappy. From the Russians' hearts, the only countries that they respect are Britain and Germany. Russia has never taken a fancy to France. When Napoleon fought all over Europe, it was the most powerful thing. But what happened? He still failed to sink into the sand under the city of Moscow. Not to mention that France was beaten by Prussia and the emperor was captured and the capital was occupied. When did Russia lose such a person?

Now, France has relied on how many bad money to force Russia to negotiate with East China. Nicholas II is of course unhappy. Although the current situation is stronger than people and Russia has to compromise, Nicholas II still wants to give France some eye drops and ask Germany to mediate, so that France knows that Russia is not the only ally France, and that it wants to attract more countries that want to win over Russia.

Although Russia rejected the Bjork Treaty, it did not completely turn against Germany because Germany did not want to implement the Bjork Treaty. The two sides tacitly ignored it. However, although Russia has formed an alliance with France, it has always maintained a certain degree of good relations with Germany. In addition to the emperors of the two countries being cousins, the two countries also have no direct conflict of interest. The conflict between the two countries is mainly in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and there is a fundamental conflict between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia. Germany tends to support the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so Russia chooses to form an alliance with France.

But Russia did not want to completely break up with Germany. In fact, there were many voices in Russia that advocated Russia to return to the framework of the Three Emperors Alliance. In addition, in recent years, Russia has focused on the Far East. In order to maintain stability in its rear, it must maintain good relations with Germany. Germany has never given up its efforts to pull Russia back, so it responded with goodwill to Russia.

Although France was a little dissatisfied with this, there was no way. After all, Russia really planned to negotiate with the East China **, and France could not serve as a mediator. Fortunately, France also understood that this mediator was actually the role of a liaison person, responsible for connecting the two sides, and then it was useless. Moreover, France had been operating in Russia for many years and deeply penetrated into Russia's social economy, and also supported a group of pro-French personnel. It was not that easy for Germany to break up the French-Russian alliance with the identity of this mediator.

In addition, Russia suffered a crushing defeat in the Far East this time, and its expansion in the Far East has basically come to an end. Therefore, after the war is over, Russia will inevitably re-subscribe to its goal in the direction of Europe. In this way, the contradiction between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire will inevitably intensify, and Germany must choose between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it is impossible to maintain a good relationship with Russia.
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