Lechelton was not bothered for long by the problems of the two armored cruisers of the "Livadavia" class, and he was about to sell them to the Turks, when another war broke out in the Far East - this time the Japanese and the Russians fought.

Now that the "Livadavia" and "Moreno" have become sweets, and both the Russians and the Japanese want to get their hands on it, the two dog-eat-dog empires are in dire need of warships to increase their winning chips.

Lechelton was hesitant: he was afraid of affecting the outcome of the war, and he was inclined to sell the two warships to the Russians in order to consume the Japanese even more. But he was afraid that the Russians would win, so that the insatiable polar bear could really annex the three northeastern provinces of the Qing Dynasty.

Lushun, this is the temperate outlet to the sea that the Russians have dreamed of for a hundred years.

Lechelton carefully calculated the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War, and the Japanese had about one-fifth the industrial capacity of the Russians, but they had a geographical advantage, and both Britain and the United States were secretly helping them. The British were afraid that the Russian bear had actually run to sea, and if it did, it might not be long before it would challenge the maritime supremacy of the British Empire.

The Japanese were the agents chosen by the British in the Far East, and it was only a war between the Russians and the British agents, so the Japanese could not lose, but it could not defeat the Russians either. Moscow was too far away, 10,000 kilometers from the place where the war broke out, the Japanese could not go to Moscow even if they were exhausted, and the British obviously did not want to tear their faces with the Russians now.

The end result was the same, the two countries divided Manchuria among the Qing people, and the Russians lost the ice-free port they had just acquired.

After much thought, LeHaydon decided to sell the two armored cruisers, which had reached a speed of 22 knots, to the Russians, and the Russians bid a total of 1.87 million pounds, which was a lot of **. But if used properly, these two fast cruisers could also make quite a splash on the Japanese sea transport lines, which is what Lee Hayton would prefer to see.

The Russian officers and sailors quickly took over the two warships, and there was no time to change the names of the ships - which seemed more ridiculous, and His Majesty the Tsar finally had two warships named in Latin. The Russians intensified their training in the Adriatic, while waiting for a rendezvous with the cobbled together expeditionary fleet of Nicholas II.

Helton and the Austro-Hungarian naval officers also observed the training of the Russians several times, and it was a little strange that the Tsar did some of the things: he had the money to build and buy so many warships, but he was reluctant to give his naval officers and men better training and treatment, and the sailors of the Imperial Russian Navy were obviously untrained and demoralized.

Perhaps His Majesty the Tsar thought that his soldiers were all mules - they were willing to work hard and eat very little.

At the end of October 1904, Nicholas II's Far Eastern Fleet belatedly set off from the Baltic Sea, more than eight months into the war, and the inefficiency of the Tsar's Admiralty was astonishing.

The "Livadavia" and "Moreno" went to the Atlantic, and the British did not allow Russia to use the Suez Canal, so they had to make a detour around the Cape of Good Hope and circumnavigate most of the world. Of course, none of this had anything to do with Heldon, he just completed a relatively satisfactory business.

As for the Qing state, Li Haidun felt helpless, and he opened a number of factories and mines in China, mainly in the textile industry, cotton weaving and raw silk processing. Chinese have a strong hatred of foreign capital, believing that this is robbing them of their money, not for their development.

Heldon's idea and plan to invest in heavy industry in the Qing state never came to fruition, and the Qing government did not allow foreigners to open steel mills on its land. Several of his mines in China were also often harassed and blocked by villagers who believed they were robbing their ancestors of their wealth and ruining their feng shui.

Geomancy?

Since the fall of the Tang Empire, this country and nation have long been free of the so-called feng shui.

Today, the Japanese have surpassed the Qing Dynasty in steel production, 150,000 tons to 50,000 tons, and Japan, which has nothing at all, actually produces three times as much steel as its huge neighbor, which sounds like a joke.

In fact, this ignorant and backward country has not been completely colonized like India, because the power of the great powers has been entangled and contested, and it is too large - an ancient empire with a population of nearly 400 million, and the vast majority of the people speak the same language. Even if he became his ruler, he had to be assimilated by them like the Manchus.

From a Western standpoint, Lee felt that the Japanese were better suited to be leaders in East Asia and more easily integrated with the East, and they used the same square script as the Chinese and Koreans.

The Japanese are more aggressive than the Chinese, which will be a nuisance for the Russians.

It's a pity that they missed out on the best years. If fifty years in advance, perhaps the ambitions of the Japanese would have succeeded, of course, they would have gradually been assimilated by the Chinese. But now it is different, Western interference will be its main obstacle, and with the awakening of nationalism, the Chinese will no longer accept being ruled by a foreign race.

This was an era of national awakening, just as Austria-Hungary was facing.

But the Japanese do not see this.

However, the Japanese were proud of their victory over the Russians, and in the Tsushima Strait, the destruction of the Russians' massive Pacific Fleet doomed them to do nothing in the Far East. The civil unrest in Russia in 1905 also helped them, and Nicodus II had to reluctantly sit down and negotiate with the Japanese.

However, as the greedy nature and miser style of the Romanov family, Nicholas II had a purpose, that is, he would never cede land and pay reparations.

This kind of petty family spirit is in stark contrast to the boldness and generosity of the rulers of the Qing Empire, who treated the land as dung and threw hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Japanese were victorious, but they did not receive the war reparations they wanted, and the huge loans they received from Britain and the United States during the war devastated their vitality until the European war.

Land and wealth have always fascinated the imperialists, and the British can fight for 6 million diamonds a year in the Kimberley and 20 million yuan a year in the Rand gold mines, and the bites between Japan and Russia are nothing.

Poor Daqing can only be a bystander in this war that is being fought on its own territory.

There are even people who have been agitating for "uniting Japan to contain Russia", which is ridiculous, don't they know the story of driving the tiger at the front door and the wolf at the back door?

As a result, the expansion of the Russians in the Far East was curtailed, and the British achieved their goal.

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