As a weight that can balance all parties, it should be very proud in theory, but the French Republic in the Franco-Russian alliance is very painful. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because they didn't feel any relief at all, they felt stressed.

After the Northeast War, Russia and the British reconciled with France, and Britain, France, and Russia seemed to form an Entente bloc.

But after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese conflict, the French felt that it was really difficult for them to do it.

The Japanese cited the Anglo-Japanese alliance, once a war broke out, Britain was bound to be involved, the choice of the Franco-Russian alliance will determine the final result, France wanted to maintain a close treaty relationship with Britain, because their biggest enemy was always Germany, for this reason France did not hesitate to stand on the side of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, once the time came out of control, they were willing to go to war with Germany in the Sino-American and German alliance.

But the problem is that Russia, the other side of the Franco-Russian alliance, will not help Japan if they are killed, but they are sharpening their knives and preparing to regain the lost territory, and the Russians have even increased the strength of the border area, adding 100,000 soldiers to Irkutsk, increasing the number of troops here to 300,000.

The actions of the Russians made it difficult for the French to do, because it meant that if the Sino-Japanese war broke out, the Russians would definitely be on the side of the Chinese and declare war on Japan, so where would France go, and the Franco-Russian alliance would declare war on the Anglo-Japanese alliance? Standing in a trench with the Germans?

Just as the Russians would not stand in the same trenches as the Japanese, the French would never stand in the same trenches as the Germans.

The intricacies of international relations have made the French feel anxious, and they can only try to ease the contradictions.

When the French jumped up and down in China, and approached Yang Chao, Yang Chao promised not to take the initiative to start a war, because no matter how you look at Yang Chao's military expansion in the northeast, he was preparing for war.

Yang Chao knew it was time for him to act: "The third step begins!" ”

What is the third step?

The third step of encircling the Japanese has forced the Japanese here step by step, and even affected the entire international situation, but Yang Chao's purpose has never changed, that is, to encircle Japan.

Launching the Northeast War, supporting Japan in seizing large areas of Russian territory, creating irreconcilable contradictions between Japan and Russia, and vigorously inviting the United States to join the Sino-German alliance were all in the service of their own policy of encircling Japan.

Yang Chao's encirclement of Japan is divided into three steps, the first step is to win over a series of actions by the United States, the second step is to start an arms race with Japan, create tension with Japan, and finally break off economic relations with Japan and confront Japan militarily, and the third step will complete the last piece of the puzzle, that is, to win over Russia.

Yang Chao knew that as long as China confronted Japan, the Russians would never let go of this good opportunity.

At this time, it is possible to win over Russia.

As long as Russia also joined, Yang Chao pushed all the forces around Japan to the opposite side of Japan, and made the Japanese face the diplomatic situation of the enemy of the whole world.

However, Russia's relations with Japan are not good, and relations with China are not good, the last war can be said to have been provoked by the Chinese, the Chinese jumped out and united with Japan to beat Russia, so that Russia lost four million square kilometers of territory, and also confiscated all the assets of Russians in China.

Therefore, Yang Chao had to improve relations with Russia through the French.

Now that the weak chicken in France has come to the door, of course Yang Chao will not refuse.

However, France asked Yang Chao to guarantee that he would not take the initiative to start a war, which Yang Chao could not guarantee.

"I would like to invite the Russian diplomatic corps to visit China, and I hope that the French government will facilitate this, and in return I can guarantee that my army will not attack on its own initiative."

Where could the French not agree, they immediately actively contacted.

Sandwiched between several major alliances, France is too painful, to put it bluntly or because they are a weak chicken, who would they be afraid of if it were a Gallic rooster in Napoleon's time?

Thinking of the current situation of the French, Yang Chao can't help but think of the map of China in later generations, when he thinks of the patriotic education he received when he was a child, "our motherland is a rooster standing in the East", and when he thinks of the patriotic education carried out in primary school, when the teacher introduced our territorial topography in an affectionate tone, Yang Chao felt a little disgusted.

From an oriental dragon being cut into a weak chicken, what is there to be proud of, it is simply a shame.

The Russians responded positively to Yang Chao's invitation.

Yang Chao only extended invitations to them on behalf of the local government, but Russian Prime Minister Stolypin planned to assemble a large team to go to China, not only to see the construction of Shandong and the three northeastern provinces, but also to revise diplomatic relations with China.

Stolypin is a figure like Putin, such a figure cannot accept the status quo of being ceded off for a long time, I am afraid that after the signing of the treaty, Stolypin will not think about recovering the lost territory for a day, and will take severe revenge on the Japanese, and as long as it is against the Japanese, the tsar will also resolutely support it.

After the Northeast War, Stolypin quickly suppressed domestic instability, and with the support of large French loans, the Russian economy miraculously grew again, and the growth was still strong.

In fact, this is not a miracle, but a matter of course, Russia has a huge territory, unlimited resources, and sufficient labor force, in the past, there were economic problems, but because of the lag of the organization, a large number of peasants were tied to the land like in the serf era, industry could not get enough labor, huge resources could not be developed, how could industry grow.

But Stolypin's reforms solved this problem, and the focus of Stolypin's reforms was on the countryside and was very unfair to the peasants.

The form of rural land in Russia is very distinctive, it is a structure called the village commune, similar to the countryside in China, but a considerable amount of land is public land, and the peasants have the right to cultivate these lands, but they do not have the ownership of these lands, which can be imagined as the Chinese countryside in later generations, the land is nominally state, and the peasants are assigned a share of the responsibility of the land, and the land is divided into small plots.

Because of the communal ownership, the peasants had no interest in improving the land, they all wanted to cultivate the best fields in the communes, and no one was willing to bother to improve the barren land, resulting in the largest empty arable land in Russia, and agriculture was chronically underdeveloped.

Stolypin ordered the elimination of the rural communes, the conversion of the land in the communes into private land, the establishment of agricultural banks and the granting of loans to some well-run rich peasants, allowing them to buy the land of the village communes, and even to buy land from the poor peasants, so as to concentrate the land in the hands of the rich peasants.

Stolypin's reforms began in 1907, and his reforms led to the rapid development of Russian agriculture, making grain production the world's largest before World War I, higher than that of the United States, and grain could be exported in large quantities, but during the Soviet period, the Soviets were the world's largest grain importers.

However, the most important thing about Stolypin's reforms was to solve the problem of labor, and the rich peasants concentrated their land for large-scale production, and many poor peasants were bound to lose their land and become peasants of property, and many were forced to go to the cities to earn a living, and they were forced to work in factories.

This process, even the war, could not be interrupted, but in the course of the war, many new military enterprises were established, which made the Russian military industry much stronger than in history.

So as soon as the war ended, the Russian economy grew in a short period of time, but the growth was extremely strong for other reasons.

Since 1899, the Russians have had an economic crisis, due to a decade-long wave of economic growth, the economy overheated and caused a crisis, and then Russia tried to use the war to divert the contradictions, but the war was defeated, the domestic revolution was made, and it was stabilized in 1908, but in 1910, Yang Chao pulled the Russians into the war again, and it was not until 1912 that the war ended.

It can be said that the Russians have not been at peace since 1899, and have spent ten years in economic crises, wars, revolutions, repressions, and repeated wars.

However, it is precisely because of the repression of the war in the past ten years that the overheated industry in Russia has been adjusted, and Stolypin has solved the problem of privatization, with the result that industry has labor and a rural market, and Russia itself has huge resources.

To be honest, this situation was not expected by Yang Chao, he thought that the Russians had been tossed for ten years, and the Russians did not collapse, but he did not expect them to start strong growth, last year, among the countries in the world, only Germany and Russia had the best economic situation, Germany was driven by the 10 billion marks, and finally the statistics increased by 11%, and the Russians were completely endogenous, as if the post-war recovery was generally very fast, and their economy grew by 13%.

Stolypin, who performed this miracle, has earned a reputation all over the world.

"The Russian people should thank me!"

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing, he thought of an important reason, that is, because he saved Stolypin and made Stolypin's reform completely complete.

Historically, Stolypin came to power in 1907, and he was assassinated in 1911 when the reform was carried out, but in this era, Yang Chao saved Stolypin's life and let him continue the cause of reform, and he insisted that this powerful figure completely completed the reform, privatized all the land in the countryside, and the Russian land was in the hands of more than 2 million rich peasants, not in the hands of a commune composed of more than 100 million people as before.

The peasants who lost their land, some of whom became agricultural workers under the kulaks, and some of whom went into the factories, completed the industrialization of agriculture, and industry received a large number of laborers, and both industry and agriculture benefited.

As for the nearly a million peasants and 100,000 workers who died of repression, this price must be paid for reform, which is much lighter than the price of millions of people starving to death in the Soviet era.

"Welcome, Your Excellency Stolypin, and congratulations on your achievements!"

Yang Chao welcomed Stolypin very warmly, because he knew that his last piece of the puzzle was in this person's hands. (To be continued.) )