In the second half of the second year of Xinghua, the situation in the whole world has undergone new changes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The world-wide financial crisis triggered by the silver crisis has eased, and the economies of Western countries have entered a recovery phase.

However, under this financial crisis, tens of thousands of enterprises in Western countries, mainly Britain, France, and the United States, have gone bankrupt, especially the silver industry, which has collapsed, and few enterprises engaged in silver mining and trading have been able to survive this financial crisis.

More importantly, under this financial crisis, there was also a currency crisis, the banking system in some countries and regions was paralyzed, the stock market fell by 25-55%, and the shares of many companies related to the silver industry fell by more than 80%, which affected the world and triggered waves of bankruptcies.

At present, some Western countries have passed the stage of economic depression and entered the stage of economic recovery.

In the recession stage, companies go out of business, interest rates fall, wages fall, unemployment increases, consumption power decreases, business investment willingness decreases, economic growth declines rapidly, and inflation falls.

In the stage of economic recovery, the economy is growing slowly, inflation is stable, investment is gradually increasing compared with the depression stage, the number of employed people is increasing, and the number of unemployed people is decreasing.

As the economy entered the recovery phase, the British and French governments could finally stop and take a breather, and they had time to pay attention to the Chinese Empire and aid Russia while reviving the national economy.

The war between the Chinese Empire and Russia has been concerned by all countries in the world, and this war has been fought for a year and a half, although all Western countries know that the Chinese Empire has a weapon under the deterrence of airships, and Russia will be defeated, but with Russia's strength, it will not lose too badly.

However, the real situation in the war woke up the Western countries, more than 10 million square kilometers of Russian land in Asia fell, and Russian Western Siberia became a battlefield between Russia and the Chinese Empire, and Russia took the initiative to launch a decisive battle with the Chinese Imperial Army.

Is the Chinese Empire too strong, or is Russia already in decline?

Western countries do not believe that the old power Russia has declined like this, even if Russia has declined, it has a population of hundreds of millions, and can arm tens of millions of troops, it is impossible for any country in the West to defeat Russia, coupled with the cold climate of Russia, except for the area that the Mongol Empire once conquered, no one can conquer there, not even Napoleon.

The Sino-Russian war has reached a stalemate, Russia is advancing step by step through the blockade line, driving out the cavalry of the Chinese Empire, knowing that Russia is too slow to establish a blockade line, under the harassment of the Chinese Imperial Air Force and cavalry, hundreds of thousands of Russians have died, and the Russians are almost using their own flesh and blood to forge a blockade line.

The Russian aristocracy didn't care about the lives of the Russians at the bottom, how could they know that water could carry boats and overturn boats, and an undercurrent was surging in the dark, but it was still too weak for anyone to pay attention to.

Britain and France, which had just entered the stage of economic recovery, had some spare power in their hands and began to increase aid to Russia.

For Britain and France, it is not possible not to aid Russia, once Russia is defeated by the Chinese Empire, or even completely wiped out, the territory of the Chinese Empire will be even more extensive, directly increasing the strength of the Chinese Empire.

Britain and France are maritime powers, not land powers, and it is impossible for the warships of the two countries to sail to land, and Britain and France need a strong land country ally, and they cannot watch Russia being killed by the Chinese Empire.

India is one of the most important colonies of Britain, Vietnam is also a relatively important colony of France, these two areas are under the nose of the Chinese Empire, bordering on land, the Chinese Empire can send troops to capture it at any time, if there is no Russian containment of the Chinese Empire, maybe one day, the Chinese Empire will attack India and Vietnam.

Old powers like Britain and France relied on colonies to make their homeland develop rapidly, and once important colonies were lost, it would have a huge impact on Britain and France.

A large number of large-caliber and high-range anti-aircraft artillery pieces were transported to Russia, and Britain and France even gave Russia the technology of anti-aircraft artillery, so that Russia could produce it itself, and as for rifles, heavy machine guns, and various types of artillery, there were countless of them, which was enough for Russia to arm a million more troops.

Moreover, with the arrival of large quantities of supplies from Britain and France, Russia used more manpower to speed up the construction of the blockade line to the east, and at the same time as the blockade was being built, Russia was also migrating to some blockade areas, and these immigrants could go to build the blockade if necessary.

In fact, some experts and scholars in Western countries have also discovered a relatively important question: Why didn't the airships of the Chinese Empire bomb Moscow, the capital of Russia, bomb it?

Someone said: "The airships of the Chinese Empire do not have enough range to bomb Moscow." ”

The next moment, someone retorted: "The airships of the Chinese Empire can fly over London, England, and the Chinese Empire is much farther away from Britain than Russia, how can it not bomb Moscow." ”

It was also said: "The airships of the Chinese Empire were afraid of being shot down by Russian anti-aircraft artillery." ”

Later, some people retorted: "The firing range of the anti-aircraft artillery modified with other artillery is only more than 3,000 meters at most, and the range of the specially developed anti-aircraft artillery is already very high, but the airships of the Chinese Empire can fly at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, how can the airships be afraid of the anti-aircraft artillery with insufficient range?" ”

Experts and scholars from all over the world vied with each other to discuss and refute each other, but they could not come up with an answer that was recognized by everyone.

It didn't take long for a German scholar named Fabian to quickly gain acceptance from many people.

Fabian said: "I think the war of the Chinese Empire against Russia is not a war of annihilation, the Chinese Empire did not want to destroy Russia, before the land border between China and Russia was tens of thousands of kilometers, and the two countries wanted to defend such a long border, they needed to station hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops, which was a huge burden for any country, but now the Chinese Empire only used 100,000 cavalry to occupy more than 10 million square kilometers of Russian land, dragging the whole of Russia into the quagmire of war, on the contrary, The gap between the Chinese Empire, which was at war with Russia and the economy at the same time, was very stark. ”

"Russia has always been a big country with a population of more than 100 million, once the army of the Chinese Empire enters the European region of Russia, it will fall into Russia's crowd tactics, cavalry tactics are no longer easy to use, and the Chinese Empire will pay huge losses, and Russia has built a large number of air-raid shelters in various places, and the bombing effect of airships will become worse and worse."

"There is no need to launch a war of annihilation, the current situation has allowed the Chinese Empire to achieve its own goals, so why should the Chinese Empire pay a huge price to carry out the war of annihilation?"

Fabian's statement was quickly accepted by a large number of people, but there were also those who believed that if the Chinese Empire had the opportunity, it would still destroy Russia, and in the same way, Russia would also destroy the Chinese Empire.

Regardless of the opinions of experts and scholars from various countries, Britain and France still had to send all kinds of supplies to Russia in a steady stream, but fortunately, Britain and France were old powers, and after years of accumulation, even the financial crisis could not defeat them, and they still had the spare strength to support Russia.