Chapter 304: The Sino-Russian Marriage, the Reaction of the Entente
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Kolchak immediately sent people to China to contact Nicholas II, and Kolchak, as a former Russian naval officer, was still very loyal to Nicholas II.
The restoration of Nicholas II was soon carried out with the intervention of China.
Of course, there must be a premise for the cooperation between the two sides, that is, a cooperative relationship linked by marriage, the marriage of the head of the Chinese Empire and the Russian Grand Duchess Annastasia.
Anastasia is the Grand Duchess, which is one level higher than the princesses of Europe, which shows what Nicholas II expects from her.
Before the birth of her youngest son, the empress had already given birth to four daughters in a row, and Nicholas II had already planned to pass on the throne to her daughter.
The name Anastasia means 'shackle breaker', and it is clear that the name given to his youngest daughter by Nicholas II has a profound meaning.
Tao Chengzhang, the deputy assistant of the Imperial Chinese Cabinet, as Xia Jun's elder, agreed with Nicholas II on the details of this marriage.
In terms of the marriage partner, Xia Jun specified that as long as Nicholas II's youngest daughter Anastasia, there would be no more, so this aspect was quickly determined.
Tao Chengzhang proposed that the wedding should be Western-style, and if the traditional Chinese wedding model was adopted, wouldn't it be that the head of state would have to kneel down to Nicholas II, which would damage the national prestige and not do it.
Nicholas II was pleased that the Chinese Empire respected Russian customs, and at the same time fulfilled his previous promise to make a will in advance, giving half of the inheritance to his youngest daughter, Anastasia.
Nicholas II was relieved to marry his daughter to the head of the Chinese Empire, because her daughter had hemophilia, which meant that it was impossible to have children.
And although his youngest son suffers from hemophilia, the next generation will not have hemophilia, and the future Russian royal family will still belong to his grandson, not his grandson.
As for half of the inheritance, it's nothing, what about spending it in advance?
Of course, for the sake of his daughter, he will still have some money left for her.
However, everything in Nicholas II is in Xia Jun's calculations, hemophilia doesn't matter, there are special drugs on the exchange platform, but they are very expensive, and it will cost nearly 300 million points.
If necessary, Xia Jun can completely cure Anastasia's hemophilia, have another daughter, and then put his son or daughter on the Russian throne.
As for Nicholas II spending his private property in advance, that's nothing, anyway, when the time comes, let him buy Chinese things, and it will still flow into the Chinese Empire.
Xia Jun took a fancy to the gold, not the banknotes.
…… On March 30, three days after the arrival of Nicholas II and his family in Hangzhou, the cabinet of the Chinese Empire announced that the head of the Chinese Empire would marry the Russian Grand Duchess Annastasia on May 3.
As soon as this news was announced, there was a lot of discussion throughout the country.
According to the Imperial "Marriage Law", it is legal to marry a foreign girl as a concubine, so Xia Jun's behavior did not violate the laws of the Empire.
But marrying a Russian grand duchess, there are two views.
The first is the marriage of the future Chinese imperial family with the Russian imperial family, which is beneficial to China and also means that the strength of the Chinese imperial family is recognized by Western countries.
But Anastasia has hemophilia, which means she can't have children! Otherwise, the royal family will be plagued by hemophilia in the future.
The cabinet once again released information on this issue, claiming that the future head of state and the archduchess Anastasia are unlikely to have children, and the Chinese royal family will not be infected with hemophilia in the future.
This answer quickly dispelled the worries of the people, and the Chinese people at this time did not want the Chinese royal family to contract this genetic disease in the future.
The Führer's marriage to the Grand Duke of the European royal family as a concubine was indeed a matter that made the faces of the people shine, and it soon won the support of the whole country.
There is nothing wrong with not complying with the Marriage Law, at least in the newspapers, there is no mention of the Marriage Law, although the Führer did not violate the Marriage Law this time.
Who knows if he will marry a European princess or grand duchess next time, this is really uncertain, and it is unwise to mention the marriage law at this time.
Moreover, no one has applied this marriage law to the head of state, and the head of state has led China to prosperity and strength, and this privilege must still be had, and it will not arouse the opposition of the people.
The reaction of the West to this is that it feels bad about the big thing.
In particular, Britain and France and other countries, after learning that Xia Jun, the head of the Chinese Empire, would marry Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, already realized that in the future, Russia would completely fall to China.
The question of that gold reserve, Nicholas II did not die, meant that it had to be returned.
Attempts to swallow up the gold reserves quickly failed, but there was at least a good side, which was that since China might support the restoration of Nicholas II, it would be possible to get back the loans provided by Britain and France to Russia more securely.
Against the backdrop of the rapid enchantment of the Soviet Red Army through Russia, it was questionable whether the Russian Provisional Political Axe would be able to gain a foothold, so it was not too safe to recover Russia's foreign debts.
If China supports the restoration of Nicholas II, then with China's expanding war potential, not to mention extinguishing the Russian Revolution, it will be able to maintain a Little Russia in Siberia.
In the past, Russia was highly dependent on France, and after Russia and China came together, it meant that Russia would break away from France's dependence and completely replace the original French position with China's economic strength and industrial strength.
In fact, France's loss to this is not too great, at least Russia's fall to China is not too damaging to France's interests.
But this was not the case for Britain, which intended to contain China after the end of the war, and Russia's connection with China was an important link in the containment of China.
The United States also feels that this is very inappropriate, and once China and Russia form an alliance, it will pose a very serious threat to the interests of both countries.
The United States cannot use Russia to encircle China, and it is very likely that it will face joint suppression by China and Russia in a future war.
There is nothing worse for him than Russia turning to China.
According to the war of hunger, Russia's ability to organize war was very crude, but according to the Sino-Japanese war, China's ability to organize war was very tight.
These two countries have a huge land area and a large number of people and resources, and when these two countries come together, the small country will be completely inferior in terms of strategic buffer, resources, population, and economy, which will be a very significant threat to the country.
For this reason, he initiated urgent diplomatic discussions with the United States, Britain, and France, in a vain attempt to jointly strengthen intervention in Russia and force Russia to abandon its alliance with China.
As a result, France showed little interest.
The conflict of interests between France and China in the international arena was very small, the only conflict was the Vietnamese colony on the Indochina Peninsula, but if France adopted a hostile attitude towards the Chinese Empire, it could be retaliated by China strongly, and France did not have any confidence that it would be able to retain the Vietnamese colonies after the outbreak of the Sino-French War, not even the colonies in Cambodia and Laos.
In the face of an increasingly powerful China, France already intends to hand over the Vietnamese colonies to China in order to keep Laos and Cambodia.
Establishing good relations with the Chinese Empire was an important diplomatic activity that France would carry out after the war.
France's attitude is not enough to influence the discussions between Britain and the United States, and the most anxious of these three countries is that the fundamental intention of the United States is commerce, and China's national business model has seriously hindered their capital circulation, so they are very concerned about encircling China.
Britain's main purpose in encircling China is to maintain its world hegemony.
But at this time, Britain was already feeling very difficult, because they had fallen into the quagmire of war with the Allies, and in general they had no money.
The three countries discussed for most of the day, but no results were discussed.
At this time, China had already set foot in the Russian Far East and recovered the Russian Far East, and the armed intervention of various countries could only interfere with Russia from the Western Front, and Nicholas II had already arrived in China, and at this time he married his daughter to Xia Jun, the head of the Chinese Empire, apparently to stay on the Eastern Front.
And on the Eastern Front, there was Kolchak, Kolchak was at this time the nominal supreme leader of the Russian Provisional Political Axe, and Denikin on the Western Front was only a subordinate of Kolchak.
On the Orthodox side, no matter how much you intervene, it is the Eastern Front that has the upper hand.
No matter how much they supported Denikin on the Western Front and finally extinguished the Russian Soviet Revolution, they were all making a wedding dress for China.
"Let's support the Soviet Red Army! Let them participate in the containment of China. And China will inevitably support Russia in the future, and then the contradiction with the Soviets will be obvious, and we only need to provoke the Soviet Red Army, so that they can always fight against Russia, which China supports. After China supports Russia, it will certainly not be able to see the Russian political axe destroyed by the Soviet Red Army, so that we can encircle China through the Soviet Red Army. The diplomat suddenly proposed.
As soon as his words came out, the scene suddenly fell silent.
There is no doubt that the method proposed by diplomats is the most feasible when it comes to the encirclement of China, but the problem is that the Soviet Red Army is [***].
For a thoroughly capitalist country like the United States, the Soviet Red Army is their mortal enemy, and in order to support the Soviet Red Army, it is necessary to have sufficient courage.
And for Britain, supporting the Soviet Red Army was also a seemingly dangerous act.
As a result, there was a cold reception, and diplomats from all over the world could not say anything about it, because they had to consult the top brass of the political axe, and the meeting ended very quickly.
According to the original history, the Entente wanted to extinguish the Russian proletariat and other revolutions, but with Xia Jun's rescue of Nicholas II, the attitudes of the members of the Entente began to change subtly.
(To be continued)