"Count Lobanov, I was surprised to see you here. www.biquge.info I think that after this incident, there will be fewer and fewer opportunities for you to come here. "As he was leaving the palace, Count Taaffe happened to meet the man he least wanted to see, the Russian envoy, Count Lobanov.

The Russians were certainly not satisfied with the marriage between Bavaria and Austria, and the count, who had hit a nail in the prince's place, would not let go of this opportunity to mock his old enemy. In the future, the Austro-Hungarian princess will become the mistress of this palace, and the attitude of the Bavarian royal family towards Russia will naturally be affected.

"But no one and no one can get by. And, judging by the look on your face, it doesn't seem like you're going to be successful. Lobanov sneered.

"Your Excellency, envoy, you can go in, don't make the prince wait too long." At this moment, the appearance of Count Schelling interrupted the conversation, which smelled of gunpowder.

"Looks like we're not in a good situation." Count Taaff couldn't help but sigh after looking at the Russian envoy who had disappeared into the corridor.

"First of all, on behalf of the Russian Empire, I send my most sincere wishes to the prince. I wish you and Her Royal Highness Princess Mary a happy and prosperous marriage. At the same time, I hope that the friendship between Russia and Germany will last forever. Count Lobanov's opening remarks made the prince feel very .......

"You should hear that the other way around, right?" The prince complained in his heart. Russia certainly does not want to see the marriage between Austria-Hungary and Bavaria, after all, Austria-Hungary and Russia are still wrestling in the Balkans. As for the friendship between Russia and Germany? As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, unless one male and one female. Until now, when Germany's expansionist ambitions and domineering posture have been unmistakably revealed, Russia and Germany are still afraid of each other, right?

"Thank you very much for the blessings of His Majesty the Tsar." However, the prince, who has been trained for so many years, has mastered the necessary skill of a statesman to speak to people and to ghosts, "In order to express our gratitude, the two super-warships ordered by your country in Bavaria, the Rurik and the Russia, will be completed within a month, and I hope that the Count will immediately inform the Admiralty of your country when he returns, and be ready to receive the ship." ”

"Finish in a month? The construction period of these two warships is not more than 17 months, right? This is a great speed, and I would like to thank Your Highness once again. Lobanov said flatteredly. Stimulated by the fact that the French fleet was knocked out by German battleships every minute, and that Japan once again ordered a large number of warships from Britain, the Russians successively ordered four super battleships from Germany that were called Rurik 2. Two of them are additional, which started construction just in the middle of last year.

The first two warships were supposed to be commissioned in the second half of the year, but the prince decided to work overtime to complete the two ships in order to free up slipways and workers for the construction of Germany's first dreadnoughts. Of course, the cost of speeding up the progress is not less, but for Russia, once these two warships reach the Far East, they can rebalance the sea forces of both sides, and the Russians have no reason not to do this kind of deal!

"I would like to know, has His Majesty the Tsar made up his mind on the issue of the supply of military food for the Russian Army in the Far East, which is to be undertaken by us?" The prince asked. In his dealings with the Russians, the prince set his sights not only on artillery and warships. These deals are not just for financial gain. And what the prince needs now is not only money, but more importantly to lay a nail in the coffin for the collapse of Russia!

And this nail is nailed to Ukraine! Ukraine is the most important granary of Russia, half of Russia's arable land and more than half of its grain come from Ukraine, and Ukrainians have a certain tendency to independence, although they have long been included in the Russian territory, but the trend of ******** and independence has always existed. Historically, during the civil war in the Soviet Union, leaders of the Ukrainian independence movement such as Makhno appeared.

The prince did not intend to swallow Ukraine in its entirety, because he knew that even Germany and Austria-Hungary together did not have such a good appetite! More than 600,000 square kilometers of land and more than 30 million people on it! Indigestible at all! So the prince's idea was to create a pro-German independent Ukrainian state!

But it is very difficult to accomplish this task, for a part of the Ukrainian independents, the Slavs are certainly enemies, and the Germans who come over are no good thing. If the prince wants to achieve this goal, he must at least have a certain "mass base".

Of course, the main target of this "mass base" will not be the Ukrainian peasants, but the Ukrainian intellectuals, farmers, and some independent people, and in order to make this relationship strong, it is natural to need some economic interests, and as the most important grain producer in Russia, Ukraine and Bavaria can only trade agricultural products. So the prince meant to import agricultural products from Ukraine and ship them to Turkey by sea. It is then processed into canned food or other easy-to-preserve foods at the Bavarian plant in Turkey.

With stable economic ties, these people who have great influence in Ukrainian society will trust you and trust you, and the cooperation between the two sides can be carried out better. It will be only after the outbreak of the First World War in the future that Ukrainians will stab their opponents ...... when Russia is at its weakest.

In order to achieve this goal, the prince did not hesitate to personally persuade Austria-Hungary and Russia to sign a treaty limiting the armaments of the two countries, and the two sides would delay the deployment of new rapid-fire artillery in their respective border areas. And said that the operation in the Balkans will notify the other side in advance. Historically, this treaty was signed in 1904. This time, it was signed in 1899, so that the Russians could fight the Japanese with confidence.

And everything the prince did was to be rewarded, and the content of the reward was to allow Bavaria to manage the rations of the Russian Far Eastern army! Grain is imported directly from Ukraine, then processed in nearby Turkey and then loaded onto ships for direct shipment to the Far East.

"His Majesty the Tsar has taken great care of your request, and has made every effort to suppress domestic opposition. And I'm here today to convey the good news. His Majesty the Tsar agreed that your country's merchants would buy grain from Ukraine under the effective administration of the government, and then process it into military rations. Lobanov said. In addition to wanting the prince to report the news, the purpose of Robanov's coming here was to see if he could take the opportunity to get some more benefits from Bavaria, after all, the battle of the Philippines also shocked the Russians, and their eyes of Japan changed from 1.58 meters to 1.85 meters .......

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