It is said that Diaz, the president of Mexico who has been in office for more than 30 years, really proposed at a cabinet meeting to join the Asian League and start a war against the United States to regain lost territory, but after a large number of capital ships of the US Atlantic Fleet sailed to the coast of Mexico to show off their might, this essence immediately withered, no matter how difficult the situation of the United States is, it is by no means something that Mexico, which has weak national strength, can take advantage of the fire to rob, at least not yet......

Considering that the US military now urgently needs time to upgrade weapons and tactics, many people suggested to President Roosevelt that pretending to ask for peace with China as a delaying tactic to buy time, but Theodore Roosevelt refused, the reason is simple, "The Russian government should have almost prepared, if we ask the Chinese for peace at this time, then Russia's declaration of war on China will definitely be postponed, and there may even be many dreams at night, and there will be variables that we do not want to see." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Rather than this, it would be safer to grit your teeth and hold on for a few more days, and wait until the Russians enter the war to implement this strategy, and then the probability of Chinese being successful is higher......"

In fact, since the Chinese government has always refused to make concessions on the territorial issue, Tsarist Russia has long decided to go to war against China, and the Trans-Siberian Railway has been running for more than three years, how can it take such a long time to prepare? The reason why Tsar Nicholas II did not declare war on China for a long time was because he was afraid of China's strength from the bottom of his heart, after all, even the British Empire, which Russia feared the most, was defeated by China; Second, Rasputin, who won the trust of the Tsar and his wife because of his miraculous cure of the crown prince's hemophilia and his "miracles", resolutely opposed it, and he dissuaded the Tsar in the form of a god-like prophecy, saying that if Russia went to war against China, it would be reparations and land cession at the least, and the court would be subverted, which made Nicholas II more and more weak-hearted.

But after two months of delay, Tsar Nicholas II finally made up his mind, not only because the conditions offered by the United States were too tempting, but also because the contradictions within Tsarist Russia were already extremely acute at this time......

Due to Britain's generous economic aid, when the Great Depression came, Tsarist Russia became the only bright spot among the Western powers, and Tsarist Russia, which was "unique in the scenery", was like a bright light in the dark, attracting a large number of international investors to invest money in Russia that could not find a good place, making the Russian economy prosper rapidly. At the end of the 10-year Great Depression, Tsarist Russia's gross national income had doubled before the Great Depression, and its total industrial output value once ranked fourth in the world, second only to Britain, the United States and Germany, the traditional three powers, and slightly better than China's rapid rise. As the employment rate of the urban labor force increased and the average standard of living improved somewhat, Tsar Nicholas II's approval rating also rose to the highest point since his accession to the throne.

However, under such prosperity, there is a great crisis. The good economic situation made the tsarist government completely devoid of the impetus for reform, and the old decadent and backward system continued; The appetites of the aristocracy and bureaucracy were also boosted by the rapid economic development; Even Nicholas II himself became more and more oblivious because of this good situation, and it was even more difficult for him to face up to his imbecility......

The end of the decade-long depression has brought a general sigh of relief to Western countries, but Tsarist Russia, a beacon in the dark, has instead experienced the worst economic recession in history, in response to the old saying, "Come out and mix, sooner or later, you will have to pay back." ”。

The reason for such a strange phenomenon, in fact, it is not difficult to guess, before the international travel capital was concentrated in Russia, in fact, the main reason is that the economy of other Western countries is very bad, and now the economy of various countries is picking up, these funds will naturally flow back, after all, even if the development potential of Tsarist Russia is great, but the current problem is greater, the system is backward, the bureaucratic corruption, the incompetence of the leaders, and the quality of workers can not be compared with Western Europe, as long as there are other choices, smart people are still more inclined to those advanced industrial countries.

The purpose of Britain's economic aid to Tsarist Russia was to contain China, but after Chamberlain Sr. came to power, Sino-British relations improved rapidly, and such motives no longer existed. On the contrary, because the old Chamberlain hoped that Tsarist Russia would shift its focus back to Europe, and sided with China in the territorial dispute between China and Russia, in order to make Tsarist Russia give up its unrealistic delusions about the Far East, but was firmly rejected by the Tsarist government, which led to the deterioration of Anglo-Russian relations......

As the name suggests, the massive outflow of capital will deal a terrible blow to the economy of a capitalist country, and the rapid economic recession has intensified the panic of those international capitals, and the speed of the outflow has further accelerated, leading to a near-cliff-like collapse of the Tsarist economy......

In less than a year, Tsarist Russia, which was still prosperous before, was full of doomsday, especially in the cities, where countless enterprises went bankrupt and closed, and even those that could still hold on to it were laid off in large numbers, resulting in a sharp increase in the unemployment rate of workers and a natural plummeting standard of living.

It is ironic to say that the good old days had made the Tsarist government accustomed to lavish revenues, and the aristocratic bureaucracy had a greater appetite for money, and even now that the Russian people were already impoverished, they did not reduce the intensity of exploitation and oppression, and the extreme poverty and social injustice began to quickly awaken the consciousness of resistance among the Russian poor, especially the Russian workers.

It must be noted that due to the previous economic prosperity, the number of workers in Tsarist Russia is now much larger than in the same period in history, almost comparable to before World War I, so the total number of unemployed after the Great Recession is also frighteningly large, and the distribution of Russian workers is concentrated in the two large cities of Petersburg and Moscow.

In such a grim situation, not to mention people of insight, even the mediocre Tsar Nicholas II himself felt that something was wrong, and he finally gritted his teeth and made a decision to officially declare war on Chinese, on the one hand, in exchange for economic assistance from the United States, and on the other hand, it was not without the idea of consuming those "mobs...... (To be continued.) )