Volume VIII 1324 Tsarist Russia's Eastern Strategy

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There is no justice in war, human beings greedily think that everything is their own, but there are countless people who also think that those things are theirs.

When you plant a wheat field and work hard, you think that all the harvest here is your own, but it is not. The tax collector thinks that a third of it is his, the king thinks that the land is his, the thief thinks that half of it is his, and the foreign robber thinks that everything in the land is his, and by the way, your daughter-in-law is also theirs.

Not only that, but even the birds and voles believe that the land has their share of the output.

In fact, in the hearts of these high-ranking aristocratic officers in Tsarist Russia, what they did was actually the same as what the Manchu Qing Dynasty did more than 200 years ago and the Yuan Dynasty more than 500 years ago.

If the ethnic minorities in the bitter cold land of high latitudes want to be happy, don't they have to rob the people of the warm land? What is unreasonable about this kind of robbery that runs through the entire human world?

Take a look at the current in Paris, London, Berlin, Austria...... And so on, who were the ancestors of the peoples who lived happily in civilized cities? Germanic peoples, Gauls, Vikings, Goths...... And these names used to have a unified name, which was the label given to them by the Roman Empire, barbarians.

The huge Roman Empire was destroyed by foreign wars, and the ethnic minorities in the bitter cold land of the north defeated Rome and established their own country with the spirit of fearless bandits who were not afraid of death, pain, sacrifice and dedication, thus washing away the label of brute foot and getting a happy life.

This qiē has been staged in both the East and the West, and even more so in China, where for thousands of years the northern barbarians have waged wars again and again for the wealth of the Central Plains, and even established regimes for hundreds of years.

Why can the Manchus enslave the Han people for 200 years, and now the great tsar cannot enslave the Han people for 200 years? If you Manchus can enter the customs, we can also enter the customs, and anyway, the Han people are just a group of docile little sheep.

Is there any difference between paying taxes to the Manchus and paying taxes to the Tsar? Anyway, in the history of the Han people, there were still fewer things to pay taxes in exchange for peace and in exchange for survival?

This kind of thinking is actually the unified idea of all the noble officers in the expeditionary force, Tsarist Russia and Britain and France are completely different, Britain and France are now competing for maritime interests, their territory is not very strong, they occupy the colony is actually what they value is the port, the golden route, and the resources of the colony.

In the minds of Britain and France, as long as your ports and waterways can be used by me as I please, resources can be given to me cheaply, and our industrial products can be dumped freely, this is enough.

Do you just need to protect?

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?? We have absolutely no interest in subverting your regime, and whoever you love will be the emperor and who will be the emperor.

But the Russians are different, the interests of the Tsarist Empire are on land rather than sea, why was Tsarist Russia still a serfdom society until the 19th century? It is because of this bitter cold land, the output of land is far less than that of the warm land in the south, and people must cultivate large land if they want to get more food output, and the small peasant economy of every family like China is not realistic at all, and they will starve to death.

Moreover, the nineteenth century had not yet reached the age of mechanization, and even agriculture in Britain relied on human and livestock power, so one can imagine how much output could be produced in the vast fields of the frozen soil in Tsarist Russia.

This is a curse and a vicious circle, the natural environment is harsh, the industrial level is poor, resulting in a sharp decline in productivity, and the output per unit of land area will be pitiful.

Since the output per unit area is too small, people have to desperately expand the land area in order to survive, whether it is farming or animal husbandry, and if the efficiency is not enough, it must be supplemented by quantity.

Under this spell, Tsarist Russia had to choose serfdom, a primitive social model capable of large-scale economic operation. The other point is the extreme thirst for land, and they have to have more and more land to adapt to this economic model.

Coupled with the super combat effectiveness of the barbarians in the bitter cold land, coupled with this social system and economic foundation, this qiē has achieved the current huge Tsarist Russian Empire.

Why do you want to invade? Sometimes, for some peoples, if they don't invade, they really can't survive, and they will be wiped out!

Land contact between Tsarist Russia and China was as early as the Kangxi period, and the Battle of Yaksa maintained the peace of the northern frontier of the Qing Dynasty for more than 100 years, but that war did not dispel Tsarist Russia's ambitions.

It was not until the Industrial Revolution flourished that the British took the lead in breaking through the gate of the Qing Dynasty, and Tsarist Russia finally found an opportunity, in the second Opium War, Russia did not actually send troops, and obtained more than one million square kilometers of land just by intimidation, which made the entire Tsarist Russia extremely excited.

The powerful neighbors of the past have finally weakened, and this is the perfect time for Tsarist Russia to reach out to the east, and in the minds of the entire Moscow leadership, the gradual encroachment of the Manchus from north to south is a century-old grand strategy.

At the beginning, you can occupy the Far East first, carefully manage the Far East, and use the resources of the Far East and the profits of trade with the Chinese to start to expand your power in the Far East.

After the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway, with the efficient transportation capacity of the railway, further troops will be deployed and the resources of the East will be seized more deeply with the help of the railway.

Then he took the opportunity to penetrate his influence into the three provinces outside the Guanwai, so that the Russian power directly bordered the Great Wall of the Han people, so that Tsarist Russia could replace the ancient Chinese Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol, and Jurchen ...... and other ethnic groups, which have become northern barbarians directly bordering the Han people.

Naturally, the Manchus were replaced, the Tsarist regime was established in the rich hinterland of the Central Plains, and the double-headed eagle flag fluttered on the banks of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

"What the little Jurchen Manchurians can do, why can't our great Tsarist Russia do it? If they can enslave the Central Plains for 200 years, and if they change to the powerful Tsarist Russian Empire, then they will definitely be able to enslave the Central Plains for 400 years, 600 years......

This is the common aspiration of all Tsarist Russia, and it is also the Eastern strategy designated by the Tsar in the 19th century, which cannot be abandoned even if it takes a hundred years to complete.

However, no one expected that a strange chess piece would appear on the wishful thinking board! Xiao Letian's sudden rise of the army caused great trouble to Tsarist Russia's eastern strategy, and the expedition that had not existed in history appeared, and the fiasco that would not have been there was irreversible.

One can imagine how deep the hatred of Hemansky and other aristocratic officers was for Xiao Letian, why is this damn bastard so unlike the Chinese? Aren't the Chinese all selfish?

We in Tsarist Russia haven't messed with you yet, and we're now running the land ceded out by the Manchurians! What's the matter with you Han people? Why are you meddling? Why are you meddling with your own thing, you damn bastard!

With a bang, Hermansky's fist smashed on the boat, and the wooden thorns pierced the flesh and were dripping with blood: "Since you have chosen to be our enemy, then wait! The great Tsarist Russia will retaliate with all its strength! We will not let you go!"