On the Siberian plateau, the northwest wind blows, and the entire territory is completely covered with snow and ice.St.
Petersburg, Russia, the new capital of the country, was already quite prosperous at this time.The tall buildings and wide roads are all full of European flavor.In order to learn from the West, Peter the Great did whatever it took to break through the layers of conservative forces and move the capital from Moscow to here.If you want to compare it with New China, Moscow is Beijing, and this emerging city is Shanghai.It is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea, with well-developed waterways, and is also on the border with Russia.Peter the Great also took a fancy to the strategic location of the Baltic Sea, so he set up a port in St.
Petersburg and moved the capital here.Now the Baltic Sea is dominated by Germany and Russia, and Poland has just been restored, and although it occupies a large part of the Baltic Sea coast, its naval power is indeed very weak.At that time, the ports were basically Russian naval bases.In the war against Russia, all these bases were recovered, and there were some ironclad ships in hand, but the overall strength was still inferior to that of neighboring countries.When Russia annexed Poland, it also wanted to extend its tentacles beyond the Polish sea and protect the security of St.
Petersburg.Poland is located on the doorstep of St.
Petersburg, and this location could not be more important.Whoever takes control of this place is tantamount to laying a nail in the gates of Russia, ready to pry open the gates of Russia.St.
Petersburg Imperial Palace, Tsar Nikolayevich urgently convened an emergency meeting on national security.Military newspapers from the Far East kept flying like snowflakes.Nikolayevich had to refocus his eyes on the Far East and temporarily put aside all his plans for expansion to the west.Originally, Nikolayevich's intended strategic goal was to first recover Poland and then expand into the Ottoman Turkish Empire.This old empire is weakening, and in the eyes of Nikolayevich it is a piece of fat, and it can also extend its tentacles to the Crimea region of the Black Sea.Beginning with his father, Nicholas I, he began to carry out this strategy of expanding its territory to the south, and he has always been the successor of this strategy.For this reason, during the reign of Nicholas I, there was also a major war in the Crimea with the Black Sea littoral countries led by France, which ended in the defeat of Russia and the death of Nicholas I.Russia faces a serious "maritime dilemma," with its long, open coastline facing the Arctic Ocean surrounded by sea ice all year round, and only a handful of ports in the northwestern Baltic Sea, such as St.
Petersburg, can be used.In the Pacific direction, only Vladivostok in the southeast has some value; And the only port on the territory directly facing the warm sea is the Black Sea coast.Crimea is equivalent to the anchor of the Black Sea, and if Russia controls Crimea, it will be able to control the Black Sea to the greatest extent.Through the Black Sea, Russia has access to the Mediterranean Sea, and then to the open waters of the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, which is the "window" of Russia's ocean.But now it doesn't matter whether it's the Crimea on the Black Sea or Poland in the Baltic, these places don't matter for the time being, what matters is that a force is rising from Russia's Far Eastern generation.If it continues to develop at will, the area east of the Ural Mountains may even be completely occupied by them.In particular, the port of Vladivostok in the Pacific Ocean, which was finally snatched from the Qing court, is one of the few ice-free ports in Russia.If it is lost, Russia will also lose the door to the Taiping Army."
Ladies and gentlemen, you must have seen the recent military report.We focused all our energy on the European generation and ignored the changes in the Far East.You all talk about it, how this Primorsky Oblast and the Amur Oblast were lost, don't you have any precautions against this eastern country?"
Nikolayevich looked around at the high-ranking officials and nobles in the parliamentary hall without reading the military newspapers, he did not know that such a big change had taken place in the Far East.Most of the people sitting in the council hall had just received the news.The Far East has always been under the jurisdiction of the Siberian Yamen, which is under the jurisdiction of the central government.In order to conceal their mistakes, they kept the military newspapers of the Far East under pressure and did not report them.But the Manchus tossed too much here, and no one could afford to take this responsibility, so it took more than two years to report the news to the central government.When the central high-level leaders learned the news, they were all shocked.Strictly ordered the following to report the detailed situation, only to learn that the Qing Dynasty that they had allowed them to bully had long since fallen, and now it has been ruled by another regime.And it was in the Far East that this regime defeated the new China of Western Europe, a name that shocked almost all European countries after it occupied India and Australia."
Your Majesty the Emperor, the commander of the Far Eastern Yamen, Kazlov, did not report it, knowing that the two subordinate states were lost, but he was afraid of punishment and did not report it to the higher-ups.That's why we missed the opportunity to send troops.I think it is necessary to severely punish Kazlov, and then launch an attack on New China after the beginning of spring next year," Duke Shatov of Russia stood up and spoke with an angry face.He was Russia's Minister of War, the equivalent of the Minister of Defense of the People's Republic of China.Kazlov was usually at odds with him and belonged to Nikolaev's cronies, so Shatov directly put the blame on him.This incident, however, was caused by Kazlov.If he had informed the War Ministry as soon as possible, Russia would never have been so passive."
Yes, it was Kazlov's mistake.For the sake of his official position, even the interests of our Russia can be abandoned" "Your Majesty the Emperor, this Zhong man must be severely punished, and he can no longer be indulged in his nonsense"""Shatov's descendants and generals have accused one after another, many of them have long known the situation, but they are waiting to see a good show, so they have not reported it.Now it is time to stand up against Kazlov and want to control the military power in the Far East in the hands of his own people."
Okay, Kazlov does have to bear this responsibility, but you don't have any responsibility at all, this newly established new China, borders our Russia.You don't even know that you let it develop to such an extent that you will report to me" Nikolayevich wanted to continue to suppress these old aristocracy at this time, and this Shatov was the representative of these old aristocratic class.But unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, Shatov put the blame on Kazlov.Although Kazlov was promoted by Nikolayevich, the Far East was still in the hands of these old nobles.Nikolayevich didn't believe that these people didn't know about it, and everyone pretended to be innocent.Although he, the new emperor, has been in office for more than ten years, he still faces strong resistance when it comes to reform.On the issue of the abolition of slavery, for example, he had several falling out with Shatov
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