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Since the start of the war with the Black Dragon Army, the Winter Palace has been covered with a thick layer of dark clouds, the atmosphere in the palace is extremely tense, there are few laughter and laughter, Tsar Nicholas II's temper has become more and more unpredictable, often because of a trivial matter, will be like thunder, the staff to kill people, it is even more happening.

Three days ago, Tsar Nicholas II's mood suddenly improved, that night summoned important ministers into the palace to deliberate, in the meeting hall, the atmosphere was relaxed, after the meeting feast of the ministers, the banquet was staggered, but also full of laughter, however, when the banquet was about to enter the climax, the atmosphere instantly came to a 180-degree change.

Tsar Nicholas II, in the banquet suddenly became furious, overturned several tables in the banquet hall in a row, and then roared in the sky, fainted, the whole Winter Palace was completely chaotic, those ministers and their families who participated in the banquet, one by one frightened and did not dare to take a breath, all knelt there, until more than two hours later, the Tsar woke up, only one by one to roll out of the Winter Palace.

The reason for such a change in the Winter Palace, naturally, can only be the war that took place in the Far East, thousands of miles away, and it was the cruel and bloody war between Tsarist Russia and the Black Dragon Army.

More than 100,000 troops are about to die, but as long as they can achieve the final victory, Nikola Cage may not be too sad, after all, there are only 100,000 people, and there are people in the Tsarist Empire, so when he received a telegram from Cuzosco and Nikola Cage bluntly saying that victory was coming, he immediately feasted his ministers.

However, seeing that victory was just around the corner, the remnants of the Black Dragon Army were defeated, but they disappeared like air, and they were not able to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

When the Tsar heard the news, how could he not be furious?

What made the tsar even more angry was that the remnants of the Black Dragon Army were defeated and the world evaporated, after all, it is possible that the vast mountains are not found in a short time, but the Black Dragon Army is also a big team, you actually told me that the Black Dragon Army's arsenal has not been found?

What does that mean?

In this war, almost all the forces of the Far East were used, and the battle was almost dead in the end, for what?

In addition to nipping the Black Dragon Army in the bud, isn't the biggest motivation the Black Dragon Army's various advanced equipment?

It's good now, a direct telegram to inform that there is nothing, and the tsar vomited three liters of blood without anger, and from then on he was unconscious, which is good.

There is no way, when you meet a traverser like Yue Weihua who has a golden finger against the sky, Tsar, you just pray hard, although there is no anger and vomits three liters of blood this time, but this situation will definitely appear in the future.

Now, three days have passed, and Nicholas II has once again summoned the Minister of Military Affairs to the Winter Palace for a special meeting on the three eastern provinces.

"After the war, the two generals of Cuzosco and Nikola Cage, personally led more than 10,000 troops, launched a carpet search for the Bren Mountain Range, covering a radius of 100 miles, several places where the Black Dragon Army had been active, and it was a three-foot inspection, unfortunately, after three days and three nights of continuous search, no trace of the remnants of the Black Dragon Army was found, and their arsenal, logistics and other affiliated personnel were not found,......。"

"Bastard, if you can't find it in three days, keep searching for me."

Before the Minister of War Kulobatkin finished speaking, he was interrupted by the roar of Nicholas II, in the face of Nicholas II's roar, Kulobatkin also broke out in a cold sweat, but he still forced his composure and said: "Your Majesty, the snow on Mount Buren is too thick, and the snow in many places can directly submerge the living, and after three days and three nights of searching, there have been many soldiers who have been buried deep in the snowdrifts, according to the two generals Nikola Cage and Kuzosco, the heavy snow has closed the mountain, and there is no way to search anymore, so we can only wait for the next year. You can't go on. ”

In fact, the search of Kuzosco and Nikola Cage only lasted for two days, and the search range was only twenty or thirty miles, not that they did not want to continue, nor did they want to expand the scope of the search, but the main reason was that the heavy snow really closed the mountain, and they could not enter the mountain, and if they did not come out again, I am afraid they would not be able to get out.

Of course, there is a more important point, that is, they have actually found the location of the Black Dragon Army's arsenal - Liuye Mountain Cave, although it was cleaned up by Yue Weihua, but through some clues, a lot of evidence can still be found, but Nikola Cage and Cuzosco also dare not report.

There's no way to report it, it's too incredible to say it, the arsenal that produces weapons, so many large equipment, how to transfer it, no one believes it at all, in fact, there are even more unbelievable things happening, that is, a large number of modified river ships, gunboats and train wagons on several defense lines of the Black Dragon Army in the wolf domain have almost disappeared without a trace on the day the Black Dragon Army disappeared.

The Black Dragon Army was able to convert those river ships, gunboats and train wagons into a great wall of steel, and cast a line of defense, which had already made Kuzuosco and them unable to figure it out, but now it was good, and suddenly disappeared overnight, as if it had never existed, which is simply unbelievable.

Therefore, in order not to let the War Department and the Tsar mistakenly think that they were fooling themselves in order to shirk their responsibilities, they simply concealed it all for the time being, and as for the future, let's talk about it in the future, anyway, this matter was collectively passed by the remaining high-ranking officers of Tsarist Russia, and it was proposed by Nikola Cage, a member of the Tsarist Russian royal family.

To get back to the point, Kulobatkin's explanation made the tsar very dissatisfied, and when he was about to go crazy again, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer and the current Prime Minister of the Cabinet Sergei . Witt also stood up and said, "Your Majesty, it is true that you can't search. ”

Witt spoke for Kulobatkin, which made Nicholas II stunned, as if it was wrong, these two guys were mortal enemies, so he was puzzled: "Witt, why can't you continue, the weapons of the Black Dragon Army are so advanced, if we find their arsenal and find their weapons experts, then our losses in this battle can be quickly made up." ”

"Your Majesty, I know that you are in a bad mood because you have sacrificed so many soldiers on the front line, but after all, we have won this battle, and it is worth it for the soldiers to die on the battlefield."

Werther's words, inexplicable, completely bull's head and horse's mouth, but Nicholas II was still very comfortable to hear, after all, this was speaking for himself, although he didn't care what others thought of him, but saying this, it was obvious that his kindness and love for the soldiers could be more demonstrated, so he just glanced at Werther and motioned Werther to continue.

Sergei. Seeing that the tsar had calmed down, Witte continued: "Your Majesty, first of all, we must talk about the problem of weapons, the front-line soldiers are not without gains, several weapons have captured some samples, although some are incomplete, but with the professional level of the weapons expert Yuriav, they still found a lot of valuable things, according to the weapons experts at the military factory, just wait for the samples to arrive in St. Petersburg, they will be able to quickly imitate several advanced weapons." ”

What Witte said is true, the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Tsarist Russia have indeed been exchanged for a lot of trophies, although most of them are inferior, but many weapons, such as mortars and grenadiers, many of their soldiers have seen it with their own eyes, including Yuriav, an expert in weapons with the army, have taken the risk of witnessing it, so it is indeed possible to imitate it, of course, it must cost more time and cost, and the effect must also need to be slowly improved.

Hearing what Witte said, the haze on Nicholas II's face faded a little, in fact, he also knew a little about this, but he had been thinking about the Black Dragon Army's arsenal and a large number of seizures, so that his mentality had long been unbalanced, in fact, Nicholas II had a really difficult time recently, the domestic situation was turbulent, and the finances were depleted, which made him very eager to use the Black Dragon Army's seizures and those weapon samples and drawings to sell them for a good price, really, this is really what Nicholas II thought.

"I hope so, but you don't have enough of a reason." Nicholas II said lightly.

"Of course." Witte smiled: "Secondly, I would like to congratulate Your Majesty that our country's financial crisis will soon be completely resolved. ”

Sergei. Witte seemed to see through Nicholas II's thoughts, and a word went directly to the itch of the tsar, money is a good thing, it is difficult to do things without money, which is why Sergey. The reason why Witte was able to become the prime minister of the cabinet is to know that the Sergei family represents the interests of the emerging capitalists, and these emerging capitalists are the current financiers in Tsarist Russia, otherwise how could Werther, a chancellor of the exchequer, want to be the prime minister of the cabinet?

"Sergey, don't play dumb riddles to the emperor, just say it." Although Nicholas II was very anxious, he still behaved very calmly and said angrily.

"Your Majesty, the Eight-Nation Alliance defeated the Qing Court and the Boxers, and other countries are already opening their mouths, even Austria and Italy, which have not contributed much, have opened their mouths to ask for millions of compensation, and our Tsarist Russia is second only to Dongying in the Eight-Nation Alliance, no matter what, our compensation will be at least more than 100 million marks, not too much."

In fact, in history, the Xinchou Treaty finally agreed on an indemnity of 450 million taels of silver, and Tsarist Russia did account for more than 130 million taels, according to the exchange rate at the time, one to 1.4, converted into marks is almost 200 million marks, ranking first among all countries, of course, Tsarist Russia can get such a high compensation, mainly because the number of troops sent to attack Yanjing is second only to Dongying, however, if you count the hundreds of thousands of troops sent to the northeast, then Dongying is far from comparable.

"It's really not too much, I think it should be 200 million marks."

"300 million is not impossible."

……

As soon as it came to money, the eyes of all the ministers present immediately lit up, and their eyes lit up one by one, and their greedy nature was exposed, and even the tsar was equally excited, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the compensation I just mentioned is mainly based on the financial losses caused by the Eight-Nation Alliance's attack on Yanjing, which are all expenses to help them exterminate the Boxers." Witt paused deliberately when he said this, and then said: "However, we are in Aihui, at the cost of the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, for the Qing court to exterminate the Black Dragon Army, how much money does the Qing court need to compensate us, I think we have to calculate it carefully, this will probably be an astronomical amount." ”

"Five hundred million."

"No, the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, a billion marks is not too much."

"Yes, if we hadn't mentioned that the Manchus had taken the Black Dragon Army, the Manchus would have perished, and they should thank us."

……

Witte is worthy of being the Minister of Finance, and after some calculations, I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will directly cede the three eastern provinces to them to be enough to compensate, speaking of which, the Qing court has successively ceded the land to Tsarist Russia, and there are already two large eastern three provinces, of course, the big white bear will never be satisfied.

"Okay, the matter of compensation, we have our own Minister in China Gers to fight for it, and now, we have to talk about the next three eastern provinces."

After a period of commotion, the atmosphere of the scene was obviously relaxed, as Witte said, anyway, we are victorious, there is no need to be so depressed, everything should still be seen from the good side, no, as soon as the Minister of War Kulobatkin saw that Nicholas II had eased up, he took the initiative to get up and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the remnants of the Black Dragon Army will flee after defeat, this matter may not be a bad thing for us Tsarist Russia." ”

"Oh?" Nicholas II frowned.

"Your Majesty, originally our army had already carried out the de facto occupation of the three eastern provinces, and we could comprehensively promote the 'Yellow Russia Plan', but the birth of the Black Dragon Army made us run the plan aground, which led to the emptiness of our country's troops in the three eastern provinces, so that the Dongying monkeys are now starting to tremble."

"Now, the remnants of the Black Dragon Army will escape from defeat, this is what the Qing army has seen with their own eyes, so that we can logically increase our troops to the three eastern provinces again, the reason is to pursue and suppress the remnants of the Black Dragon Army, so that we can justifiably occupy the three eastern provinces again."

"Moreover, because of the battle against the Black Dragon Army, our side has suffered heavy losses, and it is Britain, the United States, France and other countries have seen it in person, even if the countries want to intervene at that time, I am afraid it will not be easy to open this mouth, in this way, our Yellow Russia plan, the implementation will undoubtedly be smoother."

Historically, after the fact that Tsarist Russia occupied the three eastern provinces, it did cause the intervention of various countries, just like the original intervention of the three countries in Dongying and Liao, it is a reason, and it is not possible to benefit from the monopoly of your Tsarist Russia, and even eventually triggered the Russo-Japanese War, which is such a reason, but now the situation is completely different, the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of troops in Tsarist Russia will definitely arouse the sympathy of Britain, the United States, France and other countries, even if it is not sympathy, it is not too much, when the time comes, I am afraid that only Dongying will react more fiercely, and other countries may mostly wait and see.

"Hahaha, good, good, good, reasonable."

After listening to Kulobatkin's analysis, Tsar Nicholas II finally laughed, the indemnity is available, it can alleviate the domestic financial crisis, and now it can justifiably occupy the three eastern provinces, it seems that it is worth it to die more than 100,000 people, isn't it just a hundred thousand troops, the standing army of Tsarist Russia has more than one million, just mobilize it casually, pull a few million troops, it is simply a matter of sprinkling water.

"To increase the troops, we must increase the troops as soon as possible, whether the 100,000 army is enough, not enough to add another 100,000."

"What, the resources of the three eastern provinces, that can only be our Tsarist Russia, minerals, timber, everything, are ours."

"Immigration, a large number of immigrants, the Dongqing Railway has been basically completed, and the branch road of the Trans-Siberian Railway has also been basically completed, and we must roll out the Yellow Russia Plan as soon as possible."

"Dongying yellow-skinned monkey jumped happily, hum, now that we have ended the war with the Black Dragon Army, Dongying Monkey will inevitably be honest, if you still dare to provoke, we don't mind teaching these monkeys a lesson."

……

In the hall of the parliament, the monarchs and ministers of Tsarist Russia were full of excitement, and one plan after another began to be passed one by one, as if the Black Dragon Army had really disappeared, as if the three eastern provinces were already on their plates.

However, can this piece of piece, pile by pile, really be realized?

Let's wait and see.

…… (To be continued.) )