readx;?“ Full repression? Nikolai, do you think that these days, the Russian ** team has been conniving at the rebellion in Poland? ”

Alexander II's voice was calm, but Crown Prince Nicholas still heard a deep sense of helplessness. Alexander II stood up, paced a few steps www.biquge.info sighed, and said to his son: "Actually, the Russian army has done its best to suppress the Polish rebellion!" Now there are 200,000 troops on the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, and 100,000 more are breaking the Lithuanian rebellion. This is already the maximum force that the Russian Army can mobilize! After all, our east is suffering from a serious threat from the Ming Empire! ”

"The Ming Empire? Father...... Are we going to fight with the Chinese? Crown Prince Nikolai took a breath, he was very moved and surprised, his father actually hid something from himself, he was the future Tsar!

Because Tsarist Russia was facing a serious internal crisis, including class and national contradictions, the tsarist government had been deliberately concealing the external troubles that the empire was experiencing. Especially the great crisis on the Eastern Front! Because once the various nationalities ruled by Tsarist Russia know that this country may face a great defeat, I am afraid that a stronger spirit of rebellion will be born!

"According to reliable information, the Chinese emperor has ordered mobilization in the Kazakh Khanate and Eastern Siberia, and the Chinese vassal states Taiping and Western Qing have also mobilized accordingly. It is likely that they will have 800,000 to 1,000,000 troops ready in 3 months! ”

The Tsar's words were still calm, but to Crown Prince Nikolai they sounded like thunder.

"Oh God! How can there be a million people? How did they mobilize? ”

The tsar smiled coldly and said, "Actually, the mobilization capacity of the Chinese is more than that!" I reckon. The Chinese emperor was able to do so in 6 months. 5,000,000 bayonets were collected! ”

"5 million! That's impossible! What did he rely on to mobilize the army? Crown Prince Nikolai's eyes widened. It's all expressions of disbelief.

5 million bayonets, which Russia during the First World War in history also had such a mobilization capacity. But at the moment, the numbers are really staggering. Because apart from Prussia and perhaps the United States, where all the people are soldiers, no other power in the world has such mobilization capabilities, and the military and civilian system of the World War I era has not yet been fully established in the current era.

"By the land!" The tsar said lightly, "In the past ten years, Zhu Jishi has mobilized tens of millions of people to leave Han and emigrate. A total of 7, 80 million Russian acres of land (equivalent to more than 1 billion acres, of course, not all of the allocated land has been cultivated) have been allocated free of charge. Chinese who got the land. All became supporters of the Zhu Ming dynasty and were willing to fight for their emperor. ”

Alexander II let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "This Chinese emperor has a much higher approval rating among the people than I, the Russian tsar!" ”

"Then why can't we give the land to the Russian serfs?" Crown Prince Nikolai was a little puzzled, "There is so much land in Russia, why are there so many peasants who don't have enough land?" ”

The Tsar glared at his own son, who asked the same questions as the rebels of the Land and Freedom Society! Didn't he know that the basis of the Romanov dynasty was the nobility who owned large tracts of land? If the lands of the nobility in the west were distributed to the peasants, the foundations of the Romanov dynasty would collapse!

If, as the Ming Dynasty did, the peasants of western Russia were moved east of the Ural Mountains, then ...... Who will cultivate so much land in Western Russia. Russia does not have as many people as China -- in fact, Russia is an agrarian contradiction rather than a major contradiction. Serfdom in Russia lasted until the middle of the 19th century because there was too much land and too few people cultivated it. Moreover, shortly after the end of the abolition of serfdom in Russia, the Russian system of large estates was replaced by the system of collective land ownership in village communities. Tenant agriculture did not have a tenacious vitality in Russia, where there were few people and more land.

However, he did not say this directly to his son, but turned the topic to Poland: "Now the rebels in Poland do the same, they confiscate the land of the nobles, distribute it to the peasants who are willing to fight us, and in a short time mobilize an army of more than 100,000 people!" These armies also had officers (Poles) from France and Prussia and advanced weapons, so let our army get bogged down! If our east is not threatened, it may be possible to subdue Poland by continuing to increase the number of troops, but now, the Chinese will not allow us to do this! ”

Now Poland has been fully mobilized because of the support of France and Prussia and the "Land Decree", although it is only a country of 5 million people, but once fully mobilized, it is enough to make a large country with a population of tens of millions but unable to mobilize all its strength helpless against them.

Crown Prince Nikolai sat there, his forehead already covered with beads of sweat. Sure enough, things in Poland were more serious than he had already known! The rebels actually numbered more than 100,000 people...... But why did the father hide this from him?

Alexander II seemed to read his mind and smiled faintly: "Nikolai, you are now a sick person, and recovery is the most important thing. Hurry up to the UK for treatment, I hope you will be healthy when you come back. The Russia of the future needs a healthy and energetic Tsar! ”

That doesn't seem to mean the right thing...... Crown Prince Nikolai was in a cold sweat and didn't know what to say. Alexander II looked at his son and smiled again: "As for the Polish question...... If the British asked, they said that the Russian Tsar was ready to give up the throne of Poland because of the serious threat that was being posed in the East. ”

"What? Father, Russia is going to give up Poland? Crown Prince Nikolai cried out.

Alexander II smiled and shook his head, "Poland has never been Russian!" There was never a merger, only that the Russian tsar was also the king of Poland. Since the Polish people do not support me as king, then I am not the king of Poland...... I think this is the outcome that Napoleon III most wanted, right? ”

"But why should we bow to Napoleon III?"

Alexander II did not answer his son, but said in a mocking tone: "Now Napoleon III will be overjoyed...... A powerful Polish Republic, which is close to France, was born! Later, the French could flank Prussia with the Poles, and they could force Prussia to submit at any time if they wished. In this way, the weak Prussia was not left to France? Napoleon III has now finally fulfilled the ideals that his uncle had not accomplished, making the French Empire the master of the continents of Europe, the Americas, and Africa! I am afraid that it will not be long before even the Russian Tsar will succumb to the combined pressure of France and China and become a member of the new Franco-Ming power system. I think, Maria. Alexandrovna could become the future wife of the French crown prince. ”

This is simply surrender! Crown Prince Nikolai's mouth was wide open and he looked at his father in a daze. Alexander II smiled and said, "Son, go and talk to the Queen of England like this." For the Russian tsar, the most important thing was not world hegemony, but the throne under the ass. Since Napoleon III and the Ming Emperor did not want this chair, there was no irreconcilable contradiction between the two of us. You let her watch it! ”

Hearing the last sentence, Crown Prince Nikolai understood a little. The Tsar was not really going to give in, but was bargaining with the British Empire - since Queen Victoria invited the Russian crown prince to England for treatment, she was extending an olive branch to win over Russia. However, it is still debatable at what price to woo. The British have always been very shrewd, and they want to use a few bones to let others be dogs. If Russia threw itself into the arms of the British Empire with its tail wagging its tail, it would be hard to say whether there was meat on this bone or not.

Therefore, Russia simply retreated into advance, and put on a posture of bowing to France and the Ming Dynasty. If Russia really submits to softness, the British Empire can directly present its own staff of world hegemony with both hands! Not even the slightest chance of a comeback...... Napoleon III will not give Britain the opportunity to "subdue" the United States of America, maybe he will strike while the iron is hot, unite with the Ming Dynasty to do something in India, and directly dig up the lifeblood of the British Empire!

Thus the present situation is that Britain needs Russia more than Russia needs Britain -- and only by winning over Russia will it be possible for the British Empire to maintain its confrontation with the Franco-Ming alliance and to find time to subjugate the United States of America...... Either reintegrate it into the system of the British Empire, or form a credible alliance. (To be continued.) )