The war has reached this point, and there are too many people and forces who want to lobby the Chinese upper echelons to end the war.

"Your Majesty's destruction of Russia is not good for China!"

A lobbyist said.

"At least it doesn't hurt!"

Zhou Lang replied.

For the vast majority of lobbyists, Zhou Lang will not meet directly, with the exception of Speransky.

Speransky has been in China for many years, nominally in exile, but in fact has been working as a legal adviser in China, he has been directly involved in every process of China's legal reform, and later entered the Great Zhou Taixue Law School to teach, many officials of the Criminal Department are from his disciples, he is a Russian, but in China he can be called a protégé and a former official all over the world.

Zhou Lang saw him, of course, not because of his influence, no matter how big the influence is, can he be greater than the emperor?

The reason why I met Speransky was because Zhou Lang also believed that there was no benefit to China in destroying Russia, at least there was no absolute benefit. The territory of Russia in Europe, which China cannot consume, 40 million Orthodox Slavs, who knows when they will be able to assimilate.

But Russia's Asian territories, as well as part of its territory leading to the Black Sea, need to be seized by China to open a direct passage to Europe. Under these circumstances, it is necessary to be careful in dealing with Russia. Judging from the current situation, Austria and Prussia have clearly expressed their attitude, have had private contacts with China, expressed their willingness to enter the war, and the general trend of carving up Russia has taken shape.

China directly annexed the entire territory of Russia, not to mention whether it has this digestive ability, even if it has, it is not possible to complete it in ten years and eight years, the Japanese have ruled Korea and Taiwan for more than half a century and have not been able to assimilate the Korean and Taiwanese, of course, it is very easy to cultivate a group of elite Japanese elements, both countries have a large number of such strange things, especially in the Taiwan region, and even Chinese mainland has this kind of goods.

China's assimilation of the Slavs is estimated to be this result, through education, at least one generation of Russians will be trained to accept China's language, culture, and history, and then it will be possible to use nationalism to let them establish a little identity, national identity is basically impossible, a Han Chinese, a Russian stand together for a comparison, pigs know that these two people cannot be a nation, to say that the sky is broken, it is impossible for the Russians to accept that their ancestors came out of the Loess Plateau, it is impossible to accept that they are the descendants of Yan and Huang!

It is not worth the painstaking effort, the effort and the time and energy of an entire generation, and in the end to cultivate at most some spiritual Chinese. Moreover, Zhou Lang was convinced that after China annexed Russia, the Europeans could not give China an entire generation to digest Russia. Now Austria and Prussia will border China by then, and under the instigation of Britain with a-stirring stick behind their backs, I am afraid that wars will break out one after another within three or five years. Wars in Europe are too casual and too frequent, bordering Central European countries, and I am afraid that China will continue to get involved in wars.

Therefore, the annexation of Russia means that the war will never end, and there are two outcomes, one is that China will shrink back again, and the other will conquer the whole of Europe.

After the conquest of Europe, it was also faced with constant rebellion and repression, and it continued to take decades to assimilate here, and then the world was in harmony, but this kind of thing is good to think about, and no country has the power to conquer the whole world, including the current China.

So far, although Russia's defeat is imminent, China's life is not easy. In the past, the national strength of the industrial era fought a war on the scale of World War II, and now China is exhausted, not to mention fighting with the whole of Europe. At that time, it will not be Russia, which crushes serfdom in terms of national strength like it is now, but will compete with a group of industrial-age powers, and any of the four countries of Britain, France, Prussia and Austria will not be China's opponents, but if they are united, their industry, resource development and technological level will surpass China in an all-round way, and the only thing that is inferior is only the number of people.

Therefore, Zhou Lang's biggest purpose was only to cede most of Russia's sparsely populated frontier territories, including the vast Siberian region, and as for annexing part of Russia's European territory, Zhou Lang was not very interested. It is indeed a flat Eastern European Plain, but its geographical location is too far north to be compared with the Great Plains of the United States. Where the iron ore resources are still abundant, but now China has not even mined Australia's high-quality iron ore, who will scarce the iron ore of Kursk.

China does not directly annex Russia, so what about Russia?

Judging from the current situation, if China does not forcibly annex Russia, I am afraid that Austria, Prussia, and even the Manchus and the Ottoman Empire will pounce on Russia and carve it up. After the destruction of Russia, the European part was divided between Austria and Prussia, two world-class countries in terms of education and technology, and letting these two countries annex Russia and become China's new neighbors is probably a greater threat to China than letting the tsar rule a serfdom Russia.

Especially Prussia, after Austria, they also began compulsory education, the people popularized basic education, after the Napoleonic Wars, Humboldt led another educational reform, and now Prussian education has surpassed the object of his imitation Austria. Moreover, Prussia's administrative efficiency has always been known for its high efficiency, while Russia is a civilized country with low efficiency. With the administrative efficiency of Prussia, combined with Russia's population and resources, the threat would be too great as long as the integration was completed.

Therefore, the wisest choice was to keep a weakened Russia, but the current tsarist regime could no longer be kept. It must be a new, Chinese-backed Russian regime, to put it bluntly, a puppet in Russia.

But China's influence on Russia, although growing day by day, is still far from the social relations formed by centuries of aristocratic marriages in Europe. The Russian forces closest to China happen to be the group of bourgeois exiled elites represented by Speransky, who once formed a bourgeois government in the rear after the Napoleonic Wars, with the Chinese army attacking Russia, but unfortunately they were later purged by the Tsar, and the top group followed Speransky into exile in China, and a large part of the remaining people were either executed, and those who did not die were exiled to Siberia, and those who have survived to the present are basically under the control of China.

This is a group of political forces that have both experience in building political power, their own political ideals and aspirations, and at the same time have close ties with China, and they are the only choice to support puppets. So after the battle situation on the front line was stable and the Russian army was firmly besieged on the Turgai Plateau, Zhou Lang met with Speransky when he returned to the capital.

"The European powers will not agree to China's annexation of Russia!"

Speransky said.

Zhou Lang said with a smile: "There are many things they don't agree with, and Britain still doesn't agree with the independence of the United States." ”

Speransky asked rhetorically: "Wasn't Britain forced to accept American independence precisely because it was opposed by the entire European powers?" ”

Zhou Lang directly threw out the question: "Then do you have any opinions?" ”

Speransky was very dry: "Peace talks, stop the war, restore peace!" ”

Zhou Lang sneered: "Then this war was fought in vain, nearly 10 million people paid for the war, 500,000 casualties, 200,000 loyal and brave soldiers gave their lives, and then they wanted to stop the war and restore peace?" ”

Speransky said: "Russia compensates China for its losses. ”

Zhou Lang snorted: "How to compensate?" ”

Speransky sighed: "It's nothing more than a reparation for the cession of land." ”

Zhou Lang said directly: "Yes." I can promise to negotiate, but it must be based on two foundations. ”

Speransky hurriedly said: "It is impossible to make two million Russian troops lay down their arms. ”

Zhou Lang said: "Who said that I was going to make the Russian army surrender." My demands were, first, that the tsar must abdicate; Second, you must be responsible for forming a new Russian government. ”

Speransky was resolute: "I reject this offer. I will not govern any longer in this situation, it is a dishonour to my reputation! ”

Zhou Lang said sarcastically: "Do you still have a reputation now?" ”

Speransky is no longer the Speransky of the past, he was full of ideals and ambitions, and he hoped that Russia could be revived through reforms, but his reforms failed, and he later accepted China's support to establish a government, which he now considers to be a mistake and marked him on the pillar of shame in Russian history.

Speransky lamented: "It is impossible for Russia to complete its transformation through external pressure, and Russia's reform must be driven by endogenous forces." I cannot undertake this historic mission, Your Majesty, I sincerely ask you to end the war as soon as possible. War has brought nothing but untold suffering to your people. ”

Zhou Lang snorted coldly: "You don't have to sing a high note for me, you can accept it or reject it, I have a lot of choices." If you are not willing to govern, I will not be comfortable with anyone else forming a government in Russia. A Russia hostile to China, I don't need it. So Russia will disappear from the map, and Austria and Prussia will gladly accept part of the Russian territory. If necessary, the Tsarist Chinese in Russia were not impossible to do. Since Greece can have a Chinese king, Russia can also have a Chinese tsar. ”

Speransky was still talking, but Zhou Lang directly interrupted him.

"You don't need to say more. You can go back and think about it, I'll wait for your decision, and if you think about it, I hope that the next time we meet, you'll come up with the right course of action. ”

After saying that, he waved his hand, and the guards came to see off the guests.

Speransky didn't think about it for long, and ten days later he asked Zhou Lang again to accept his request to form a government, but he also made a request that he would not back down.

"The Russian tsar must be preserved, the tsar must have the blood of the Romanovs!"