Section 439 Russia puts on a noose
The consuls of Britain, Austria, Prussia, France and other countries all asked to meet Zhou Lang and exchanged views with Zhou Lang about the situation in Europe.
are testing the attitude of the Chinese emperor.
Zhou Lang was always extremely convinced that Russia's actions had made an important contribution to peace in Europe. He also claimed that China firmly supports the restoration of stability in European countries. China is willing to provide assistance to any country if necessary.
Everyone was convinced at this time that the Chinese were indeed desperately supporting Russia, why?
Over the years, these two countries have been at loggerheads, with Western newspapers from time to time publishing on the suffering of Russian captives in China, reporting on conflicts between the Chinese army and the Russian army on the border, and trade frictions between the Russian government and China.
Why is it that all of a sudden China supports Russia, Russia has sent troops to Europe on a large scale, China does not support it, and the Russians probably do not dare to send troops.
Finally, they slowly inquired about the truth, and it turned out that some inside information came out, and the Russian tsar stated to China that they were willing to sign a peace treaty and accept the reality of ceded territory.
The Europeans realized that the Russians had agreed to cede the land in exchange for China's support in recovering the land that had been taken away by Austria and Prussia.
It is really a report and a report, what Austria and Prussia did back then was really not authentic, and it is understandable that Russia wants to return these lands, this is what most people think.
The same is true of Speransky's interpretation of the British, who told the British that Russia only wanted to restore the territory that existed before the French Revolution, not to expand.
The United Kingdom has expressed its understanding in this regard. So Britain began to mediate, and he hoped that Prussia would accept these conditions.
The king of Prussia also decided to accept it without foreign aid. But at this time the Russians repented.
The Tsar himself entered Europe to supervise the war, and he found that his army had no resistance and the Russians quickly advanced towards Warsaw.
Warsaw was already a large city at this time, with a population of more than 500,000 people, and if it was placed in Russia, it was the third largest city after Petersburg and Moscow, and its industrial power was quite good. Wherever the Russian army passed, there was little support and no resistance, which strengthened the Tsar's confidence.
Especially the attitude of the Chinese, who had been hesitant to send troops, now found that China seemed to be very supportive of his actions, and he became even bolder.
The Prussian-supported Polish king fought a battle with the Russian army with the forces at hand when his troops approached the city, but he was defeated. He had to flee from Warsaw and to western Poland in an attempt to recruit Germans into the army, but the social order was chaotic, the recruitment process could not be carried out, and there was much resistance.
William's Russian army crossed the Vistula again.
At this time, the Tsar met with the British consul in Warsaw, and they made a new demand, on the basis of recovering the former Russian Poland, Russia only wanted to annex Warsaw to Poland, which he considered to be the ancient capital of Poland and should be owned by the Poles.
This demand was barely acceptable to Britain, who did not care about Poland at all, but Prussia could not accept it, and Warsaw was also inhabited by a large number of Germans, who considered Warsaw to be more than a Polish city. Moreover, Prussia did not intend to abolish William's position as king of Poland, Prussia believed that William was the legitimate king of Poland, that Poland was now a state, and that there was no reason for Russia to demand Warsaw in the name of establishing an independent Polish kingdom.
After Prussia refused, the Russian army crossed the Vistula River and continued to advance westward.
In fact, Prussia at this time was not afraid of the Russian army, because Prussia was a militaristic country, their standing army was more than 200,000, and the Prussian king had always received the allegiance of the army controlled by the Junkers. During the Berlin uprising, the army opened fire directly on the demonstrators, killing and wounding dozens of people and ensuing chaos. The Prussian army remained in control, but the frightened king ordered the troops to withdraw from Berlin, and King Frederick Wilhelm appointed moderate liberals to form a cabinet and agreed to elect a National Assembly responsible for writing the constitution.
The revolutionaries, the rebels, were nothing more than urban workers and bourgeoisie, and the Junker aristocracy and the soldiers conscripted from the countryside did not care about constitutions and freedoms. It is a European tradition to rely on the peasants to suppress the urban workers and the middle class. It's just that with the times, this repression affects the reputation of the king.
But at a time when the city was in high chaos, it was indeed not suitable for war with Russia. The Prussian king, in the face of the difficulty of the Russian seizure of Warsaw, made a great appeal for national unity through the newspapers, saying that Prussia was being invaded, etc., which on the contrary aroused the hatred of Prussian nationalism against Russia.
The question of war was also discussed in the ongoing National Assembly, and the two factions quarreled, with some arguing that a constitution should continue to regulate the power of the king and the army, and others that the constitution should be postponed and that the king should be allowed to initiate the mobilization process against foreign enemies.
The split of the National Assembly affected the unity of the insurgents, and the Prussian king quickly mobilized his troops and rushed to the front. 100,000 Russian troops still can't frighten him.
100,000 Germans fought fiercely with the Russians in western Poland, and this time the Russians were repulsed and retreated to Warsaw. The Tsar did not give up, and ordered the mobilization of 300,000 troops from within the country, and he would certainly be able to force Prussia to abandon Warsaw. At the same time let the Russian consul ask about the attitude of Britain and China, about the attitude of Warsaw.
The German victory was encouraging, but the process of elections to the National Assembly was extremely slow, and the impatient lower classes of Berlin once again poured into the streets to demonstrate. Seeing this, many moderates, who had hoped for appropriate political reforms, began to stop supporting the revolution and expected the king and the army to restore legal authority and social order.
Seeing the weakening of the revolutionary forces, the king quickly mobilized his army and entered Berlin to suppress the resistance of a small part of the population, and the Prussian revolution ended. There was no corresponding uprising in Berlin everywhere, and the order was stable, which strengthened the confidence of the Prussian king. If even a Russia, which just lost millions of living forces just a few years ago, is afraid, it is not a militaristic state.
Prussia's hard-line attitude worried Britain, and if a major war broke out between Russia and Prussia, it would be difficult to predict the development of events in the current situation.
The Russian consul tested the attitude of Britain and China towards their occupation of Warsaw, and Britain and China were also communicating urgently, and China said that it could support Russia's occupation of Warsaw and establish a Poland with Warsaw as its capital. The British, on the other hand, believed that the Kingdom of Poland now had Warsaw as its capital, and that Prussia's attitude was reasonable.
After some deliberations between the two countries, China agreed to put pressure on Russia, and Britain agreed to put pressure on Prussia to divide Warsaw in two, a city that straddled the Vistula River, and simply took half of Warsaw with the river as the boundary.
After reaching an agreement with Britain, Zhou Lang secretly sighed that Russia had finally put the noose prepared for them on their heads.