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Europe?

North America?

Far East?

Nanyang?

Celestial, Indian......

No matter how many things are, they are just dust attached to time, moving with time, but they can't let the pace of time slow down for a moment.

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In July, the golden sun shone on the earth, and the two teams from afar finally ended their journey of thousands of miles and settled in the city of Nanjing.

This is the heart of China, where the two Russian teams become one.

They were the Russian missions to the northwest and northeast led by Potemkin and Farareev respectively.

The time had come to July, and it had been several months since the war.

The first time they met, Potemkin and Farareev were unusually suspicious of each other's feelings.

Farareev didn't expect that Potemkin's whole person now gave people such a ...... and gorgeous appearance. Well, yes, in the face of Potemkin in full costume, he can only be described by the word 'gorgeous'.

From him, you can no longer see a trace of the embarrassment and stubble of the defeated general.

As the empress's favorite vassal, Count Potemkin, who had been promoted to lieutenant general all the way, seemed to have forgotten the damage and reputation loss caused by the war. The whole person is like a peacock with a flower screen at the St. Petersburg Palace ball. Dressed gorgeously and with an elegant temperament. This is more of a Russian nobleman who came to China to play, rather than a soldier who had just finished the war with China and came to sign the defeat agreement.

And what about Farareev in Potemkin's eyes?

A warrior who has accepted defeat!

A warrior who admits and accepts defeat does not lose his courage or jump like thunder, but recognizes his shortcomings and sees the enemy's advantages clearly. All his fighting spirit will accumulate in the following time, until the war comes again, and it will burst out.

Both gave each other absolute surprise.

One was that he did not expect that Potemkin, who had a smooth course in life, would so 'easily' heal his shame and face everything that was about to come with a calm heart; the other was that he did not expect that Falaleev, who also had a bad reputation in the army, could also admit defeat so 'easily', and continue to maintain a high-pitched fighting spirit while acknowledging China's strength.

"China is really, really huge."

Potemkin's mind is very smart, and from the 'China' he saw along the way, thinking of Falaleev's current 'admitting defeat', it is not difficult to imagine that Falaliev must have seen many soul-shaking scenes on the way to the Chinese capital.

In the state guesthouse at Xuanwu Lake, in a conference hall where the Russians lived.

A sketchy map of the world hangs on the wall, and the location of China is printed in the very middle of the map, so that the whole map has a strange shape. The land of China is dyed in bright red, and the whole country is like a giant begonia leaf, no, not only the begonia leaf, but with Lake Baikal, it will become an isosceles triangle.

From Lake Balkhash in the far northwest, it connects Lake Baikal in a straight line, and then to the Trans-Khingan Mountains, which is simply a straight line in an oblique direction.

Look at the whole world, only a slightly narrow Russia can compete with this behemoth.

But everyone knows what the Russian land is, and what the Chinese land is, that is the gap between rotten copper and gold, and Potemkin has seen it very clearly, and he will be frightened.

"I went from worrying at the beginning to numbness later, and then the whole person was going to despair."

"Here, Ili. It has fertile land, pastures and a warm climate that is no less than that of the Don Valley. ”

"The Chinese have made this place very stable, at least 200,000 people live here, and the number is gradually increasing."

"The food produced here can easily supply people throughout Xinjiang. I saw that the Chinese were still building ironworks and gunpowder factories in Yili, and it would not be long before a military factory with good production capacity would be born in Ili. By that time, the Chinese will become stronger. One Yili is enough to support the Chinese garrison in the entire Xinjiang battle! ”

"On the way east from the Ili River Valley, every time I went to sleep, my mind would show the scenes I saw in Ili......"

"It would be great if such a land could belong to Russia."

The room was not only filled with Potemkin and Farareev, but also with Zebok Dorzy and the Russian representative to China, Malinovsky. The four of them are considered to be the top of the entire mission.

Therefore, it is completely unimaginable how important the meaning of the existence of Zeberk Dorji is.

Now that Zeberk Dorzi had hidden his whole body in a corner, in the least noticeable position, he was afraid that if he couldn't help but put a smile on his face, it would be terrible.

"But when I saw Urumqi, I realized that some of my thoughts were wrong."

"Xinjiang was a desolate place in the hands of the Dzungars, but that doesn't mean that it can't really produce a brilliant civilization."

"There's a lot of land to cultivate here, and it's not just Ili."

"Urumqi also has a name named after the Tatar emperor, Dihua. It was then renamed Urumqi by the current emperor of China. ”

"The Nanshan Ranch here is very beautiful. Now the ranch has become a base for the Chinese to train military horses. The Chinese rushed in without hiding their inferiority in the issue of horses. ”

Zebok Dorji felt that it was time for him to interject, and then shrank aside, but also to show his presence appropriately: "Mongolia also has their military horse breeding base, and there is more than one. ”

Potemkin paused for a moment, and smiled a bitter smile at Zeberkdorzi, "Of course. Not only Mongolia, but also Xinjiang. In northern Xinjiang alone, they have three huge breeding bases. ”

"I've been to Dihua before. When I followed the Tatars in their retreat to Kazakhstan, I went to Dihua. But if you look at Urumqi now, it's two completely different cities. Were the Dzungars and Tatars of the past too stupid, or were the Chinese too creative?

In my feeling, Urumqi is not inferior to Orenburg. What does this mean? ”

"Then you all know that leaving Xinjiang and entering Gansu, a province that is very barren and barren in the mouth of the Chinese, is the area where the Chinese have been active for many years. And the population of Gansu is close to four million. ”

"Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, is home to at least 100,000 people. Not much less than St. Petersburg. ”

"And then Xi'an!"

"The capital of Shaanxi Province in the western part of Gansu, with a population of more than 200,000."

"Henan is the heartland of China. It is said that the evolution of the name China is closely related to this land. We did not pass through Lushan, but entered Kaifeng from Luoyang, but we also did not enter Kaifeng City, the capital of a province with a population of more than 10 million after many years of war. But we passed by Chenzhou Mansion! ”

Potemkin read out the three characters of Chenzhou Mansion in Chinese, word by word, and Tsebek Dorji must also admire Potemkin's seriousness and concentration. Potemkin didn't speak Chinese, and the pronunciation of Chinese was awkward to the Russians.

But from Ili to Dihua and Lanzhou, and then to Xi'an, Luoyang, and Chenzhou, the names of these places are very accurate.

Zeberkdorji suddenly became more vigilant against Potemkin in his heart, such a person really can't be underestimated.

"In Chenzhou, I saw wheat fields as vast as the Great Polish Plain, not that this place is as vast as Poland. It's agriculture here. There are neat farmlands everywhere, and you can't see the edge at a glance. This phenomenon has already existed when it was opened, but the feeling of opening is far less than the impact that Chenzhou gave me.

From Chenzhou to the edge of the Yangtze River, all the roads along the way are neat farmland.

I can swear to God that I have never seen so much farmland. "Grain has always been an important factor restricting the development of Russia.

For Potemkin, the most important thing is the Chinese villages in the endless farmland.

It's too dense.

The same plains, the densely populated land of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth can be compared with the developed agricultural areas of China, this population can be a cup behind. Although Potemkin's estimates were all observed with his own naked eye, there would definitely be mistakes.

Moreover, Potemkin also knew that the Chinese peasants were not serfs like Russia, and that the common people here had a higher degree of production enthusiasm and freedom than Russian serfs. It may not be as easy as serfs in terms of the convenience of conscription, but consider the huge population base of the Chinese.

Who in this world can force China to the point of forcing a strong man to become a soldier?

Therefore, without thinking about the military, such a commoner with a higher degree of freedom is far more able to create wealth than serfs. And the water facilities here are much more abundant than in Russia.

"When a person finds that his opponent is a head taller than him, he will chase after him; When a person finds that his opponent is a small mountain above him, he will be strongly jealous. But when a man's opponent is a mountain of Elbrus higher than him, there is only endless respect and admiration. "Mount Elbrus is located in the Caucasus region on the border between Russia and Georgia at the junction of Europe and Asia. At 5,642 meters above sea level, it is the highest peak in Europe.

Potemkin went through this process, and when he was in Ili, he just felt that his opponent was only a head taller than him, and he was trying to catch up.

After passing through Gansu and Shaanxi, he felt that his opponent was on the hill in front of him, and he was strongly jealous.

But now it's all gone.

Imagine the current Russia, in comparison with China, which is full of happiness and serenity in the countryside, the gap between Russia and China at the moment is really one of Mount Elbrus.

Moreover, in Lanzhou, in Xi'an, Potemkin also saw the railway that the Chinese were building.

God bless Russia, that is simply beyond the horizon of his brain.

The Chinese are actually preparing to build a road made of railroad tracks, and they have already built one. Even in the Mongolian steppe, even as they started the war with Russia, a railway was still being built for thousands of miles, along with the Chinese agricultural areas and the Mongolian nomadic areas.

Talking about this topic, Farareev was most deeply touched by this, since he got on the train in Kulen and traveled all the way to Zhangjiakou, the fast speed and relatively stable carriage environment along the way shocked him.

Compared to the speed that far exceeds the speed of the infantry, there is also a relatively stable carriage environment, which allows the soldiers to maintain their physical strength and energy to the maximum. Maybe the soldiers in the car will be ready to go into battle as soon as they hit the ground.

Compared with ordinary horse-drawn carriages, the carrying capacity of the railway is so huge.

With this railway, Mongolia became an inseparable part of China.

Their army can give full play to its advantages, use the railroad to raise enough military supplies as soon as possible, and then crush everything with artillery fire.

"It's not a railroad at all, it's a chain. A chain that locks Mongolia to China forever. ”

And now China is building a second chain!

Potemkin is not Farareev, as mentioned earlier, he is a very politically intelligent person. He has good domestic talents. He could estimate how much a railroad would cost thousands of miles.

This is more than astronomical wealth, if used for a purely military offensive, it may not be possible for Chinese soldiers to enter Moscow, but swallowing all of Siberia is not possible, but certain.

The huge gap in national strength between China and Russia can be well reflected in this incident.

"One of the most obvious gaps, iron production. God, how much iron do these two railways use? Russia's steel production last year was only 550,000 poods. And the weight of one poot is converted into a Chinese unit of twenty-seven catties! ”

"And what about China? Just this railroad track - "can top up to decades of Russian steel production." Potemkin was really scared.

The power gap between China and Russia is also too great?

It's like a hammer on the head, Potemkin didn't expect that the rail would be 'fake', and the rail had other tricks.

Since the railroad began to be laid, the extremely high steel consumption immediately sounded the alarm for Chen Ming. That's a lot of money. Not to mention the construction of long railway tracks that stretch for thousands of miles, it is also the construction of intra-city transportation rail lines in Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, which is a great project.

Therefore, it is imperative that the railway rails that communicate with Mongolia be replaced with wooden rails. So in Nanjing, Shanghai and many port areas of the rails began to lay at the same time, the test site of the wooden rails are also constantly improving, for example, some wood due to poor durability, it will not take long to break, then use countless kinds of wood to do experiments. Moreover, the experimenters themselves spontaneously wrapped a layer of iron sheet on the surface of the wooden rail to improve its service life.

And during the laying of the Mongolian line, the experimenter, under Chen Ming's intentional or unintentional reminder, successfully designed a convex rail and a cast iron wheel with a protruding outer rim, which can be said to be the prototype of a modern railway.

And Potemkin, who didn't know enough details, treated all the rails as iron, which is a perfect joke.

In the palace, Chen Ming, who got the secret report of Zebok Dorzi, laughed. "My stomach hurts from laughing." Was Potemkin really frightened? But Chen Ming quickly recognized the opportunity and "told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the national security to let them do a good job." Before the treaty was signed, it was not allowed for the Russians to see through. ”

Iron tracks, the rail carriage line of Nanjing City to Yishui is made of iron, but Mongolia? How is that possible. Not to mention that the current Baotou Smelting Company has just been officially put into operation, before the smelting technology is officially broken, even if the world's steel production is gathered together, it will not be able to pave a railway from Zhangjiakou to Kulun.

The secretary of the chamberlain immediately drafted the paperwork, sealed it, handed it to Zhang Dayong to read to Chen Ming, and then immediately retreated to pass the order.

Chen Ming continued to look at Zebok Dorji's secret report, a smile on his face.

It's good that this nail is buried so deeply, as long as Potemkin continues to treat Zeberkdorzy as his own, then the whole negotiation, the Russians will be transparent to the Foreign Ministry.

Chen Ming got up and walked to a side room in the apse, where shelves hung on the walls, and Gray-style weapons were placed on it. There are new and old, long and short. Chen Ming took a Mongolian knife, which was quite short. Because it is used for eating meat, slaughtering cattle and sheep, and sometimes it is also used as a tool of production, and it is often worn on the body.

The knife is quite new, and it has only been cast for less than two years.

It is built by some of the best swordsmiths in China.

Chen Ming has made them build a lot of all kinds of weapons, and he likes this thing a lot.

There are also many Mongolian knives, and one of them is the most gorgeous, which Chen Ming prepared for Wu Baxi.

The knife he had taken out now was in a row directly below the one in Worbacy.

"Give this knife to Zeberk Dorji!" He is now a knife inserted into the chest of the Russian, and Chen Ming is looking forward to the day when this knife is really held in his hand.

Double happiness is coming, and happy things will always appear one after another, just as unlucky things will come out one after another.

Nanyang's action was in action. It was a little unexpected, but it made the whole plan perfect.

Chen Ming wants to use Nanyang's actions to create some pressure on Watson.

He wanted Watson to understand one thing-

China respects Britain, but China is by no means afraid of Britain.

Some things that are beneficial to China, China does not need the consent of the British, and will do it itself. For example, there are some things that are about to happen in the South Seas.

Chen Ming has reason to believe that Watson has given a hint to the Dutchman. But he didn't care!

Seeking the approval of Britain is only respecting the interests of the British and respecting the British people's right to speak in the Western world. By no means a scruple about the power of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Don't be mistaken about this. (To be continued.) )