For the establishment of the Ural Kingdom and the coronation of the king, Russia sent high-level representatives, and the royal couple had already ascended the throne in Assam and obtained the rich subtropical valley kingdom.

Now quickly return home to receive the crown of the Ural Kingdom, the king will be crowned according to the Chinese way, that is, the canonization of the Chinese emperor, and the queen will be crowned according to the Russian tradition, that is, the Orthodox Patriarch, because according to the negotiation agreement, the king is nominally the king of all Chinese in the territory of the Ural Kingdom, and the queen will be the king and protector of all Orthodox peoples.

But this is only in name, the kingdom does not form two administrative systems, it is still an independent kingdom, but such a claim is easier to get the support of the two major ethnic groups in the kingdom. In fact, both countries know that the Kingdom of the Urals is nominally independent as a king and queen, but in reality it must be under the influence of both China and Russia in the future. As for whether to be pro-China or pro-Russian, it depends on the political means of both sides.

The enthronement ceremony took place at the same time, and all Russians saw that the Chinese prince was lazy and seemed to be uninterested in everything, but the Russian princess, who had received a strict aristocratic education, maintained her manners.

The Russians have been mentally prepared for such a situation, and the two of them were like this when they were in Assam before.

This prince seems to have a serious lack of interest in politics. On the contrary, it is for fun, and there is an endless amount of energy. In the royal palace of Assam, he called friends all day long, either drinking and writing poems, or walking birds and dogs, and all government affairs were entrusted to his wife.

This gave Russia a new understanding of this Chinese emperor. Chinese princes did not have much contact with the people, although much more free than in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but compared to European countries, they were still relatively closed, especially with government officials, which was restricted, except for the crown prince, any other members of the royal family and government officials were prone to suspicion.

Therefore, the Russians' understanding of the Chinese emperor Zhou Chun is very limited, but there are many rumors. This emperor had a certain influence among the literati because he was able to compose beautiful Chinese poems. Moreover, he is recognized as his brother in far greater intelligence than his brother, as the grandson of Zhou Gu, the Chinese have always compared Cao Zhi and Cao Pilian of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period between these two imperial grandsons.

And Zhou Chun is young and frivolous, and has done a lot of showy things. There are a lot of absurd things like disguised in the Qinglou, and the story with the most gossip dramatic effect is that he changed his identity to participate in the imperial examination, and even got very good results, and it is said that it was not until the final emperor's palace examination that he found that the most outstanding article was his grandson, if he was not the emperor's grandson, he might be the champion.

Russian experts who have studied Chinese history believe that the character of this emperor must be the most talented literati in China, who is arrogant and obsessed with art, and does not do his job properly. But it is a bit too much to be so unengaged in politics that he throws all politics at his Russian wife. But for Russia, this is a very advantageous place. This means that in the future, it will be the princess from Russia who will really hold the power of the Urals, and Russia's influence on the Urals will gradually surpass that of China.

Sure enough, after ascending the throne, Zhou Chun was still like that, handing over all political affairs to his wife, and he pulled a group of powerful children brought from China, drinking and playing all day long, and unlike the European aristocracy who were keen on military affairs, they mostly had fun in armed forces such as riding horses and hunting. Like the Chinese literati, the Chinese emperors and grandsons were not keen on force, and outdoor activities were at most mountain climbing, and most of the mountain climbing was to stimulate poetic feelings, and there was no enthusiasm for fitness and conquest.

In just a few months, Queen Olga firmly grasped the political power in the Urals, and most importantly, the military power, and even this Zhou Chun was left to the queen to deal with.

Although the population of the Urals region is not large, the Chinese population has grown to about four million, the Russian population has two million, plus other ethnic groups, it is only more than seven million, the Chinese are the main ethnic group, and the Russians are the second largest ethnic group. However, despite its small population, its military potential has remained high because it has previously been a frontier area.

Everyone is strictly trained in military training and mobilized, and even one million troops can be mobilized among the Chinese, four or five hundred thousand troops can be mobilized among the Russians, plus other ethnic groups, and even an army of two million people can be armed under extreme mobilization.

But the king cared nothing about this powerful armed force, and like any other political matter, he pushed it to the queen. The Queen, on the other hand, has made drastic adjustments to the military structure here.

Since this was previously Chinese territory, the composition of administrative institutions and officials was basically Chinese. Although a very small number of Russians began to read Chinese books and participate in the imperial examinations, few of them passed the examination, and even if they passed, the Chinese official system made it difficult for them to become local officials, and as a result, there were almost no Russian officials here.

The queen is faced with a whole set of Chinese administrative systems, and it is impossible to immediately control power by relying on royal power alone. The Queen, with the help of a number of Russian advisers, focused mainly on the adjustment of military power. Militarily, although they are mainly Chinese officers and reserve officers, under China's township soldier system, there are still a large number of Russian officers serving at the grassroots level, and many of them are even soldiers and officers who have retired after fighting with China.

After the independence of Ula, the regular Chinese army was withdrawn, and the queen set out to form the army of the Kingdom of Ural from scratch, which was an excellent opportunity.

Faced with a military system composed mainly of Chinese veterans and officers, and a government dominated by Chinese officials, it was impossible for the queen to directly create a Russian army. And although the king doesn't care about things, he has a group of fox friends by his side, but he asks the queen to arrange positions for these fox friends, and the queen does not dare to be too lazy in order to use these fox friends to exert influence on the king, in fact, the positions assigned to them are quite good. And several of them explicitly asked for military power, they were all descendants of some Chinese military aristocrats, and they themselves had received systematic military education and graduated from China's regular military academies.

The queen arranged high-level military positions for more than a dozen people, and these people were also "complicit" with the queen, and even supported the queen and suppressed those local Chinese officials.

In this case, the queen formed an army of 300,000 people, and under the watchful eye of the administrative officials, the queen "fairly" appointed the Chinese as the commander-in-chief, but the deputy commander was handed over to the Russians, and the queen's explanation was that the army was mainly composed of Chinese and Russians, with the Chinese as the commander-in-chief and the Russians as the deputy commander, which was reasonable.

But under the queen's deliberate favoritism, the middle-level Russian officers were able to compete with the Chinese counterparts, and the ratio was four to six, and the number of junior officers even reached six to four. This was done with twice as many Chinese soldiers as the Russians, and it can be said that the queen would not have been able to suppress the opposition of the high-ranking civil servants without the help of the "courtiers" around the king. But as a result, the proportion of Chinese in senior positions is even greater, twice as high as in Russia.

It is already very difficult to complete the Russification of the military, and in the current situation, it may take a long time for the queen to completely control the military power, but for the Russification of the administrative apparatus, the queen and those Russian advisers even feel that there is nowhere to start, and the imperial examination system is implemented here, and the Russian system cannot be grafted, and there is no aristocratic class, so that the European-style recommendation system has no basis for existence. However, if the imperial examination system is implemented all the time, the Russian ethnic group in the country will naturally be at a disadvantage. The queen tried to reform the imperial examination system, such as introducing the same proportion, reserving a proportionate number of positions for Russians, introducing a recommendation system among Russian officials, or conducting a Russian-language exam, which was mainly based on Russian culture. However, it encountered a collective protest from the civilian bureaucracy, which did not hesitate to paralyze the administrative apparatus, forcing the queen not to dare to change immediately.

The queen's control of the Ural region and the retreat of the Chinese army as promised reassured Russia, and they believed that the Ural Kingdom had played a role in isolating Russia from China, and that the Chinese army wanted to invade Russia, and could no longer directly approach Moscow from the middle reaches of the Volga River, but could only fight from the lower reaches of the Volga River, and the threat level was greatly reduced. Moreover, the two countries have settled all territorial disputes because of the establishment of the Ural Kingdom. The tsar also signed a new peace treaty, and now that the two countries are legally at peace, even if the Chinese want to start a war, they must always find a suitable reason, and there will always be a call-up for war, such as the transfer of troops.

Therefore, the Russian army quickly marched the border guards in the Volga River valley to the southern front, and the army here has always been on guard against China, and has always been the most elite standing army, with a total strength of up to 300,000 people.

The 300,000-strong army passed by rail, quickly moved to Kiev, and then advanced to the lower reaches of the Dnieper, and made many contacts with Moltke's army, all of which were victorious, and the relief of the siege of Muravyov was very promising.

Once again, the situation on the battlefield seems to be tilting in Russia's favor.

In addition, during this time, the tsarist government continued to form a new army and mobilize 1 million troops, the tsar did not dare, but gritted his teeth and armed 500,000 troops, the tsar felt that it was still within the scope of bearing, but he would never dare to continue mobilizing.

Because after the start of the war in Russia, not counting one million prisoners, one and a half million soldiers have been mobilized, and two million is the security line set up by the tsarist government, believing that if it exceeds two million, there will definitely be problems in Russian society, which is combined with the lessons of the war with China ten years ago, and it is impossible for Russia's manpower to be transferred without limit, and the carrying capacity of Russian society has a limit.

After this conscription, the number of active Russian troops reached 2 million, excluding the 300,000 troops used to maintain the locality, and the number of troops that could be mobilized was as high as 1.7 million, and now 700,000 were on the southern front, and the strength of the northern front was strengthened to 1 million, and the tsar believed that the Russian army was even capable of launching a counteroffensive.