Even the "giant with feet of clay" in Tsarist Russia took advantage of this opportunity to obtain huge interest-free loans and some key technical assistance from Britain, and its economic development, especially infrastructure construction, gained a strong momentum. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In particular, with the funds and technology provided by the British, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Central Asian Railway was greatly accelerated, and the technical level was also improved, and once the two railways were fully connected, Tsarist Russia would have the ability to support the million-scale (including the eastern, central, and western routes). The army fought against China.

It is ironic to say that just two years ago, the British, who were trying to prevent the center of gravity of Tsarist Russia from moving eastward, are now forced to support Tsarist Russia because of the sudden rise of China, and even the German threat can only be put aside for the time being.

The Tsarist government naturally knew that the British had ulterior motives for helping them build these two railways, and wanted to intensify the contradictions between China and Russia, but they had already decided to build these two railways, and even if the British did not contribute money and technology, Tsarist Russia would still build them with its own strength.

The construction of these two railways would greatly deepen China's hostility towards Tsarist Russia, which even the British could see, and the Tsarist government naturally understood it, but they could not voluntarily give up the eastern territory in any case, so these two railways had to be built.

The Tsarist government has always trusted its own power more than a treaty, and only when it has the strength to defend its interests can it ensure that the other side complies with the provisions of the treaty. The Russians have always been convinced of this. Moreover, the new Chinese government has not yet recognized the treaties signed during the Manchu Dynasty, and the Tsarist government would have been too unvigilant if it had not yet known to prepare for war in advance......

Contrary to Tsarist Russia's wariness of China, Li Hui did not see Tsarist Russia as much of a threat, and he always believed that as long as China's internal integration was completed, with the poor combat effectiveness of the Russian army, there was nothing to be afraid of. Speaking of which, the construction of the two major railways by Tsarist Russia made Li Hui feel much more relieved, because it showed that Tsarist Russia had no intention of starting a war immediately, and as long as China did not take the initiative to provoke a war, peace could be maintained between the two countries at least until the two railways were fully completed.

According to Li Hui's estimate, even with the support of the British, if Tsarist Russia wants to fully complete the two railways, it will never be earlier than 1900, at that time China must have completed internal reforms, and has enough capacity to support a million troops to fight abroad, coupled with the advantages of weapons and tactics, even if Tsarist Russia really dares to invade, it will only be self-inflicted. And only a large-scale war with more than one million troops can defeat Tsarist Russia, so as to completely solve the problems left over from history, and at the same time make Lao Maozi completely dead to the East.

Li Hui personally ******** in early October, demanding that all existing railway gauge in China be changed to the same 1,524 mm as Lao Maozi, so that it would be easier to use the other side's railways in the event of a war with Tsarist Russia in the future......

In fact, the railway gauge built by Li Hui in Jiaodong was set according to Lao Maozi's standard, that is, considering that sooner or later there would be a big fight with Tsarist Russia, with the insignificance of the domestic railway mileage at that time, rather than occupying the Trans-Siberian Railway and then spending great efforts to change the gauge, it is better to change the domestic railway with limited length to the same gauge as Lao Maozi. Well, from the very beginning, Li Hui did not see Tsarist Russia as too much of a threat, even if he was worried about the invasion of Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the uprising, he just felt that there would be some trouble.

With the advanced technology and many talents acquired by the system, once combined with China's huge population, the power that can be generated will be so great that the whole world will tremble. As a result, Li Hui has always focused his work on the country, even during the fiercest period of the war with the British.

However, after winning the naval battle in the Indian Ocean and completely establishing the overall victory, Li Hui began to pay more attention to South Asia......

This was not because of the thwart of military action, but in fact, after the complete victory in the naval battle in the Indian Ocean, the British troops in India completely lost the will to resist, and they all knew very well what this crushing defeat of the Royal Navy meant.

The first is that the reinforcements will never come back, while the Chinese army will grow more and more, and the complete fall of India is only a matter of time; And even if the Chinese do not increase their troops, India also does not want to hold on, because after the connection with the mainland and other British colonies is severed, India's colonial economy, which has gradually integrated into the world market, will inevitably collapse rapidly, and then the swarm of chaotic troops alone is enough to make the British and Indian troops anxious, plus India does not have a complete military industrial system to meet the consumption of the British army for a long time, and the white officers and soldiers who are the core of the British and Indian troops are becoming fewer and fewer because they cannot be replenished, how can this war be fought?

Victor Bruce, the Viceroy of British India, was well aware of this, and after the Chinese ocean-going fleet surrounded Bombay and some of the captured British officers and sailors informed him of the outcome of the naval battle in the Indian Ocean, the ninth-generation Earl of Elgin wisely ordered surrender and abandoned pointless resistance.

As a result, the Chinese army captured no less than 100,000 British and Indian troops, including more than 20,000 elite soldiers from the British mainland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the colonies of Cape Town. What's more, the Chinese occupation forces took over the Viceroyalty of British India and its subordinate institutions relatively intact, and with the good cooperation of those who were captured, China could even continue to suck blood from India in the same way that the British did.

However, Li Hui had no such intention at all, "But what's the point?" India's current economic model is entirely for the British, and it does not have much interest for China, which has a completely different economic structure, at most it is to raise some daily necessities such as food and cloth for the army nearby. ”

In his opinion, in any case, India will either return to Britain in the near future, or let the princely states become independent (if the British government can never offer satisfactory conditions), and it will have nothing to do with China in the future, so it is natural that India should scrape the ground and plunder India's wealth as much as possible at one time, and it is too inefficient to do so...... (To be continued.) )