The Hailan Pao incident quickly heated up, and even the opening ceremony symbolizing the diplomatic relations between the two countries was postponed, and there were even signs of further fierce military conflicts.

In such a dangerous situation, Yang Hao still rushed to the capital of Tsarist Russia with a diplomatic team, which made many people feel very inappropriate.

Gu Weijun went to inquire as a representative, and Yang Hao told him very calmly: "Don't worry, the war can't be fought for a while." Although the upper echelons of Tsarist Russia are mostly idiots who are vegetarian meals, they can still judge the form clearly. Until we have a thorough understanding of our military deployment, they will not rush into it with all their might. ”

Gu Weijun and others could only selectively believe these words, but still retained a little different opinion.

Yang Hao was not surprised by this reaction, after all, these young elites still had too few things to experience. They do not understand that the more great powers have to make up their minds to go to war, the more they must disguise peace as much as possible before the battle actually begins.

Throughout every war in the modern history of the world, this is basically the case.

In the First World War, European countries competed for decades to build ships, until the balance of armed forces between them was close to collapse and the preparations were almost sufficient, and the fuse was lit.

In World War II, Germany under Hitler's command was armed in just a few years, and on the eve of the attack, it was still fooling the British with all kinds of lies and "peace agreements".

During this period, before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the various diplomatic tricks were not to mention how typical.

Even in the later stages of World War II, a series of wars launched by the US-led NATO became more mature.

First of all, put a big hat against humanity on the target that is ready to be attacked, seize the moral high ground, and launch a public opinion attack around the world. During this period, various political means were used to urge the other side to "admit their mistakes". In fact, they are working overtime to prepare for a military strike.

When all the preparations are completed, immediately unleash a devastating blow like a thunderbolt, making it impossible to resist!

The history of the B Plane has been changed beyond recognition, and both the European powers and the United States have lost the opportunity to pioneer this key new colony in the Far East. It is impossible for the United States to occupy Guam and the Philippines, and it cannot extend its tentacles to Asia, and it is still blocked on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Britain, France, Germany and other countries lost the benefits of their Southeast Asian colonies. Without a huge China as a dumping ground for their industrial products and a source of cheap raw materials, the pressure on their domestic economy is further increased. Coupled with the artificial growth of Germany's military power, its desire to redivide its colonies increased exponentially.

What is even worse is the military competition provoked by Yang Hao, which was initiated by China and forcibly pushed forward the construction of expensive dreadnoughts and large battleships several years in advance, forcing the great powers to resist financial pressure and invest in large quantities.

Now, ten years later. The construction of warships and other armaments and related industrial facilities in the world is more than twice as strong as in other time and space!

Germany's unexpectedly close to completing the construction of the Arab-Eurasian Railway in the Middle East made it more closely linked to Austria-Hungary and the Arab world, and its economic benefits were far greater than before, greatly alleviating the crisis of overproduction caused by the explosion of its industrial capacity.

And so on and so forth, elevating the crisis of the conflict between the European powers to a fixed point. It can be said that there is a powder keg on the verge of an explosion! All it takes is one spark and it will detonate!

Right now. The reason why Yang Hao traveled all the way to Moscow to find fault was to light the fuse!

Politicians all over the world have a good eye. Most of them can see where the crisis lies, China and Russia are on the periphery of the conflict, and it is no secret that they are ready to take advantage of the fire to rob.

The difference is that Russia's overall strength is too poor to act as a fisherman for the sake of hungry mussels. They want to blend in and get out of it. It takes all the power to make it possible.

China, however, is inexplicably powerful and threatens the interests of the European powers in Asia at any time, which makes countries jealous. As long as China does not break out into war and contain its strength, it has always been a sharp thorn in the heart of the head, and it needs to be guarded against.

Objectively. It is also because of China's strong presence that European countries have not broken out into war for a long time.

Yang Hao was also targeted, and helped them dispel this concern. Once a serious conflict breaks out between China and Russia, or even a full-scale war, and the two major threats are eliminated, the European powers will be able to relax and tear them apart with all their might!

The key lies in how to get this balance right. Without considerable political skills and the ability to control the overall situation, it is not good to do it sincerely.

The things involved in this are too complicated, and it is not surprising that the newly debuted young people do not have that kind of experience, nor do they have enough vision, so they can't see it and worry about it.

Just let them figure it out for themselves, it is estimated that they will not be able to figure it out for a while, Yang Hao ordered someone to get a bunch of books and told Gu Weijun: "Read more about the history of the Warring States Period, and learn more about the history of the Song Dynasty, you will gain something." ”

A group of young people were confused, but they didn't dare to ignore his suggestions, and they all held the history of the Warring States and Song Dynasty written in the vernacular, and buried their heads in reading hard to find answers.

Those who truly understand Chinese history will find that the process of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period vying for hegemony can be partially applied to the modern world pattern, in which the deceit, scheming, sophistry, and literary struggle can be called a classic textbook.

In the history of the Song Dynasty, especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, because the Song Dynasty, which lost its war horse breeding base and the important defense area in the north, how did it survive under the complex international pattern of the powerful Liao State, the long-established Tubo, the emerging Western Xia, the later rising Jin, plus the partial Dali State, the Vietnam that did not accept the king, and the Jiangmen forces in the northwest who listened to the tune and did not listen to the propaganda.

It can be said that in the Song Dynasty, the rise and fall of various countries have a very direct relationship with their national policies.

The Northern Song Dynasty, which had cultural orthodoxy, chose to cultivate literature and culture with literature, creating the pinnacle of unprecedented cultural prosperity since ancient times, but it also buried the bane of the final humiliating kingdom.

The Liao State in the north studied Sinicization in depth, but it was difficult to balance between traditional power and Confucianization, and eventually buried the opportunity to dominate the world.

The political and diplomatic pros and cons of various countries are very worthy of deep consideration by future generations.

At the beginning of the 20th century, not long after the establishment of the new dynasty, the new and old local political forces were not mature enough. They have thousands of years of experience to learn from. That's more than enough to be handy. However, there is only one Li Hongzhang who can learn how to engage in diplomacy.

The problem is that Li Zhongtang's era was a bitter stage when the Qing Dynasty was bullied and manipulated by others, and diplomacy in that situation was just a choice of the strength of the compromise and the price to pay. That's not equality at all. There are also not many achievements to boast about.

Now that the national strength has changed and the pattern is completely different, China's diplomats naturally do not need to continue to pretend that Sun Tzu is quiet.

However, the great powers, or the so-called mature diplomatic forces led by Britain, are still stuck in blackmail and blackmail against weak countries backed by strong military forces, and there is no so-called concept of peace and friendship at all. As a result, Yang Hao's China-North Korea cooperation, China-Luzon relations, and so on. It has become a groundbreaking new form of diplomacy.

There is no doubt that such a single form as engaging in military alliances with countries that are popular at the moment is very advanced and extraordinarily unusual.

Further, the emerging approach to diplomacy in our post-Cold War era is inconceivable in this era. Yang Hao hopes that this generation of young diplomats will be able to understand and master that method in advance, so as to lay a good and long-term foundation for the future of the whole country.

Among them, it is difficult to describe the good intentions.

Young diplomats have something to do. They work hard with the attitude of students finishing their homework. Check out the small library loaded in the car, and there are a huge number of research papers from the world as a reference. Crazy to absorb all kinds of unheard-of knowledge nutrients.

Yang Hao is really idle, and he is really with a relaxed attitude of touring the mountains and rivers, with the slow gallop of the special train in Siberia all the way to the west, crossing the border of the Urals, and passing through the vast rivers and mountains of the world's largest land country.

As he had predicted, Tsarist Russia did not stumble on the envoys because of the conflict in the Far East. All the way. In full accordance with the normal state of diplomatic relations between the two countries, they should treat each other with courtesy.

Gu Weijun and the others were stunned, but Yang Hao was calm. Because he knew very well that having Stolypin, the second greatest man in Russian history, as Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, would not allow Tsar Nicholas II to make such a lowly mistake.

And in fact. On the question of how to deal with the arrival of Yang Hao's envoys, there was a fierce quarrel within the Tsarist government.

Just after the Hailan Bubble Incident, the news of the total annihilation of an entire Cossack cavalry regiment reached Moscow, and everyone, including Tsar Nicholas II, was stunned!

Such a result is too unexpected, except that the Chinese Northern Frontier Army has been prepared for a long time and dug a trap for them to jump in, there will be no other possibilities.

However, the investigation intelligence that followed, and the newspaper news from the Chinese side, claimed that this was a battle completely completed by the Hailan Pao militia!

The first reaction of the Russians was that the Chinese were lying!

The militia are just peasants with guns. In the face of the powerful, professional killing machine Cossack cavalry, they did not flee with their heads in fright on the spot, they were already extremely brave, how could they still exert strong combat effectiveness under the smear raid?

Later, I heard that it was an armed force of up to 500 bandits, which, in cooperation with the militia forces, first annihilated the detachment of the raiding force, and then took the opportunity to charge and pursue many of the retreating Cossack cavalry.

This may be a reason to barely get the past, but it still can't be explained, why the militia of Hailan Pao didn't sleep in the middle of the night, opening their pockets and waiting for their arrival?! Could it be that the villages on the Chinese border have such a strong and professional military defense force? That's!

Further intelligence continued to ferment, saying that the Far Eastern Military District had been misled by erroneous intelligence, which led to the defeat of the battle.

Nicholas II no longer had the patience and interest to listen to their updates over and over again, rudely and directly regarded them as a manifestation of the incompetence of the generals of the Far Eastern Military District, and smashed a good card alive!

At the critical moment, Prime Minister Stolypin stepped forward and interceded on their behalf: "Maybe they have a certain negligence, but now we are very likely to face a fierce war, and the change of generals will lead to the weakening of the morale of the army, so it is better to let them bear the guilt and make meritorious contributions." ”

Army Commander Kuropatkin, War Minister Sukhhomlinov and others all helped to calm the Tsar's anger.

In the final analysis, regardless of military or political affairs, the entire upper class of Tsarist Russia was born from the aristocracy or the wealthy class. They have common interests and complex relationships, and no one wants to toss out of civil strife as a last resort.

Stolypin was a far-sighted statesman, well aware that the current Tsarist Empire was facing a great threat from within. The last bourgeois revolution almost threw the State Duma out of control, and he hanged more than 3,000 people with killers. The government was dissolved, and some serfs were liberated in an appropriate compromise, gradually emancipating the productive forces of the country, and balancing the political and economic demands of all strata.

But this is still far from enough. Whether it was the influence of the revolutionary movement in Europe or the more radical republican system in China that abolished the imperial power of the aristocracy and advocated equality for all, it all led to changes in the thinking and ideas of the Russian intellectuals. Nowadays, there are too many people who demand that the tsar completely withdraw from the position of the master of the country, and change the status quo of the aristocracy to dominate the upper echelons of the country by blood.

Revolution! It is very likely that it will be a revolution that will turn the world upside down and a large number of people will lose their heads! The revolution that will bring their entire ruling class to an end is very likely to break out at any moment!

In such a dangerous situation. The Russian upper echelons must unite and must safeguard the interests of the whole at all costs.

Therefore, no matter how big a mistake the generals of the Far Eastern Military District make, they can still protect it. As long as they win the next war, many of the crises and problems facing the country will be solved.

After finishing the pasting, Nicholas II remembered the Chinese diplomatic train that was slowly moving, and asked with a stinging voice: "I was told that this so-called diplomatic mission is composed of young people in their twenties. Their mission is to negotiate with us the issue of the Treaty of Aihui. There is reason to believe. The incident that happened in Hailan Bubble is directly related to this matter! They are deliberately provoking my anger! ”

The commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Grand Duke Nikolai, unceremoniously shouted: "Then drive them out!" We do not accept such contempt and humiliation! If the Chinese want war, we will give him war! ”

This time, Stolypin did not speak. He just frowned, thinking earnestly.

The possibility of a war against China has been debated by the upper echelons of Tsarist Russia for an unknown number of times. The results of repeated calculations by the General Staff showed that the chances of victory and defeat were half open.

On the surface of the sea. The Chinese Navy has an indisputably strong superiority, and the Russian Far East Navy has not even sent a single advanced battleship over it - in the past, it was also killed.

On the land side, it was clear that Tsarist Russia had the upper hand. Openly and covertly, from the Baikal Military District to the Amur Military District, with Vladivostok defense forces. Nearly half a million troops are on the lookout! This is a powerful force equipped with cannons and machine guns, and it is not at all something that the Chinese Frontier Construction Corps can fight against.

Once the war starts, the result is very likely that the Tsarist Russian army will quickly occupy Mongolia and Heilongjiang, but will lose the naval battle and lead to the loss of Vladivostok!

As a result, the two sides will inevitably fall into a protracted tug-of-war.

At this critical moment when the Balkan powder keg is about to ignite at any time, Tsarist Russia cannot be contained there, otherwise it will lose the golden opportunity to seek an outlet to the sea to the south and even master the Eurasian land bridge!

There is no doubt that Europe first and then Asia is a long-term national policy. For this reason, the "Yellow Russia" plan will be postponed.

Because they did not dare to judge China's attitude, the Russians carefully concocted the Hailan bubble incident. The original plan was to use the Cossack cavalry to pretend to be bandits to raid and stimulate the frontier corps, and test China's determination to officially start a war. If there is no fighting, China will be patient, and then through diplomatic negotiations to blackmail and blackmail, gain an inch, and strive to regain the dominance of the China Eastern Railway, and then obtain part of Heilongjiang's interests.

If China is impatient and launches a fierce counterattack, then it will stop appropriately and then endlessly argue. Until there is a more suitable opportunity, and then suddenly start a full-scale attack.

This opportunity will fall on the British.

The Russians are well aware that China's expansion in the South China Sea, its support for Germany, has seriously threatened Britain's global hegemony. To this end, Britain has been planning an attack on China from the direction of India and looking for opportunities to launch a war of aggression against southern China from Southeast Asia.

In order to ensure victory, the British quietly contacted Tsarist Russia to seek cooperation between the two sides, and attacked from Western Xinjiang and Kangzang respectively. When the time comes, we will jointly divide China's interests.

The Russians also knew that the real intention of Britain was nothing more than to provoke them to break out into an all-out war with China and solve the threat with one stone. But to talk about a partnership to clean up China is not nonsense. The relationship between major powers has always been so complex and diverse.

Grand Duke Nicholas's statement attracted a lot of support. Russia has four million troops, enough to stand up to any of the world's great powers - at least they think so.

Nicholas II, after hearing the clamor of a large number of people, unexpectedly announced: "No! That makes us too unproductive. Moreover, I would like to see with my own eyes what a young envoy who can represent His Excellency the Great Führer is! I'm going to teach them a hard lesson with the world's attention! ”

The ministers erupted in praise, but Stolypin's brow was twisted into a pimple, and he vaguely felt that this was not a good idea.

An emissary who can be trusted by His Excellency the Great Chief, no matter how young, must not be an idle person.

However, His Majesty the willful and reckless Tsar could not listen to the dissuasion of others at all, and insisted on going his own way and was self-righteous.

Soon, they waited for Yang Hao's special train to arrive. At the critical moment, the Tsar once again showed his rudeness and willfulness, refusing to send a minister of sufficient status to greet him, and only allowed Foreign Minister Ramsdorf to be present as the highest official.

Subsequently, there was no specific timetable for the negotiation of the audience, and Yang Hao and his party were left in the hotel where they stayed, ignoring it!

Yang Hao suppressed the anger of the young diplomats, and sneered: "It's exactly what I want, I'm worried that I can't find a chance to play on the topic!" ”

He threw everyone out and had fun to his heart's content, not afraid of clashes with the locals, and the bigger the noise, the better! (To be continued......)