And Moscow has become economically prosperous because of this railway line, the population has increased to 600,000 people, and has attracted a lot of Western businessmen to come, and their own businessmen to settle around, Russia's economy is also developing rapidly, while their rapid economic development is the slow corrosion of Confucianism in the Chinese Empire, many Russian nobles and businessmen who do business in the Chinese Empire unconsciously began to learn Zhang Qiang's Mandarin and simplified characters in later generations of the country, and take great pains to learn Confucianism.

Although the Qing Dynasty won the world from the horse and came from barbarism, they actively learned the traditions of the Han people of the Ming Dynasty, and have gradually sinicized and integrated in the past few decades, but unlike Huaxia, they have maintained the knowledge and characteristics of the Han people of the Ming Dynasty or the integration of the Hu people and the Han people since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and also integrated some advanced ideas of the Chinese Empire and some enlightened style, and some pragmatic but very polite Han people have progressively changed.

They imperceptibly transmitted this change to the Russian merchants and aristocrats who were close to them in business.

They also absorbed some of the Tatar and Cossack commoners and down-and-out nobles conquered by Russia, and now the Great Qing State is influencing Russia, and Russia is also influencing the Great Qing Kingdom, and because the time is short, therefore, Russia's influence on the Chinese Empire has not yet reached the Chinese Empire, only because the Chinese Empire took the initiative and spread hard, so that they were influenced by the Chinese Empire.

Having lost the possibility of going east and south, the Russians could only compete with their old enemies for territory in the west, and they eliminated the Principality of Kiev and Tver in their territory, and eliminated the Kazan Khanate and the Alaskan Tatar Khanate, and at the same time advanced to the Baltic and Caspian Seas, and the Black Sea, which were blocked by the Western Regions Army and the Governorate of the Chinese Empire in Central Asia, so they could only continue to attack westward and northward, attacking Europe.

In the previous wars, Russia mainly eliminated the small countries and hostile forces around them, consolidated their own strength, and expanded their strategic depth, originally when they could not defeat the Mongol khanates left behind by the steppes, as well as the Yilan forces from Asia Minor, they chose to march to the Far East, but more than ten years of war made Russia exhaust manpower and material resources, with the support of Western countries, but obtained a defeated result, and at the same time because they did not give their hostile neighbors Poland and Sweden, Turkey should receive, and thus was besieged by the three.

After withstanding the siege of the three powers, and weakening Sweden and Poland, Sweden and Poland, the two great powers that had been relatively strong since the sixteenth century, declined, and their enemies were Turkey and the Arab powers of Asia Minor, which were surrounded by two neighbors in the Near East, the Kingdom of Crimea and the Kingdom of Ukraine, which Russia did not want to provoke.

Situated on the edge of the great forests and steppes, the Kingdom of Ukraine is supported by all the forces that oppose Russia, some of the Russian nobles, some of the nobles who have been destroyed by Russia, and it is a troublesome country, and every Russian attack must face attacks from all sides, even if it can occupy a few strategic points, it will not last long.

And at the end of the war with the Great Qing Kingdom in the Far East, and when Grove brought back a more advanced serial gun than the West, Russia successfully defeated its old enemies Poland and Sweden, and deterred Turkey, and now Russia is trying its best to solve the threat of Ukraine and Kyiv, which can basically achieve the goal, but it is still a little close, but it is not important, the important thing is that Russia can now draw troops and horses to deal with the Crimean kingdom.

Once the Crimean kingdom is taken, they will basically occupy the northern shore of the Black Sea, and then they will successfully complete the chapter, and they will definitely be able to conquer the Ukrainian kingdom in the next time.

Even if it requires a large-scale battle that is basically similar to the battle fought with the Great Qing State, a battle with a battle border of thousands of kilometers.

But without the threat of the Chinese Empire, and without the threat of war from the Qing Dynasty, Russia still felt that it could quickly solve the problems of the West.

Because of these wars, Russia is not afraid of having no money to pay to the Chinese Empire, no money to go to these places to rob, and the gold that is robbed is used to buy the furs and grain, guns, ammunition, livestock and so on of the Chinese Empire, and the looted slaves and prisoners of war can be exchanged for gold and materials and grain of the Chinese Empire, food, etc.

It can be said that Russia turned to the Chinese Empire and the Great Qing Kingdom as its own logistics and material procurement bases.

It's just that the transportation distance of this material is a little longer, tens of thousands of kilometers, even if it is a coal train, a trip down, from Yanjing to Moscow has to go for three months, fortunately, these materials were transported to Yekaterinburg very early, and then transferred to Xinshengjing, from Xinshengjing to Moscow is only more than 1,000 kilometers less than 2,000 kilometers.

Most of the time, Russia only needs to take goods or trade from Xinshengjing, and it can run more than 1,000 kilometers far, and the total mileage is less than 4,000 kilometers to get supplies, in Yekaterinburg.

If in the past, even if the material turnover of 4,000 kilometers took four to five months, or even half a year, now it only takes two and a half months, and the materials are transported from Yanjing to Yekaterinburg, and then transferred to Xinshengjing, one on the other, as long as it is finalized, it will take a few days to communicate, so that the materials can quickly depart from Xinshengjing, and arrive in Moscow in one and a half months, and then Moscow will receive and unload the goods, and distribute, and it will not take two months to reach the front line in Ukraine.

The turnaround time is only seven months.

And Russia's war with Ukraine is obviously impossible to finish in seven months or two or seven months, and a single transportation of materials can support soldiers and horses for a year.

This is the case with the war of the present era, and it takes years, even decades, to fight a large-scale battle, and the Anglo-Dutch war lasted thirty years.

The main reason is that the distance between the two sides is too far, it takes a long time to mobilize troops and materials, and it takes a long time for the two sides to contact, fight once and then rest, and it takes a long time to fight again, this is a very material- and time-consuming battle, even if it is a battle with the Great Qing Kingdom, on the battlefield of 10,000 miles, a total of three decisive battles have been carried out, the scale is only two million people, but it took 15 years, and the next few years are fighting and withdrawing, fighting and talking, it took a total of 25 years to end the war with the Great Qing State.

The monarch of Russia needs to spend a lifetime to fight wars and expand, and Peter the Great has fought for eighty years, and it has indeed taken a lifetime.

(End of chapter)