The three important ministers of Russia were stunned and a little stupid when they heard that Tsar Nicholas II was going to form 10 new armies in addition to the 4 armies that were being formed, and that 10 armies were still the minimum requirements, boss, what are you going to do? Are you really ready to use up all of Russia's chips in this war?

You must know that a Russian army group, according to the current practice of the Russian army, has about 300,000 troops, 10 group armies can be 3 million troops, plus the other 17 group armies, the strength of the Russian army will exceed 8 million!

Although the expansion of an army of this size is not a problem for Russia, which has a reserve force of several million, the creation of an army of 8 million will greatly drain Russia's ordinary labor force and will have a considerable impact on the production of Russian industry and agriculture.

Seeing the high-spirited Nicholas II, Russian Chancellor of the Exchequer Witte hesitated a little and said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, if our Russian Empire carries out such a large-scale expansion of the army, with the free aid of Britain and France combined with nearly 60 million pounds, we can complete this grand expansion plan, but such a large-scale withdrawal of reservists may have some impact on the normal industrial and agricultural production of our Russian Empire." ”

What Witte said was more tactful, not that Nicholas II was reckless.

Tsar Nicholas II waved his hand and said loudly: "At present, the biggest enemy of our Russian Empire is the Chinese Empire, the greedy Emperor of the Chinese Empire!" Not long ago, the Chinese Empire once again carried out a provocation against our Russian Empire in our city of Novosibirsk, inflicting hundreds of casualties on our Russian Army. The most infuriating thing is that the Chinese Empire framed our Russian Empire for provoking the conflict in the first place. Let our great Russian Empire apologize to the shameless Chinese Empire, this is the greatest insult to our Russian Empire! The greatest contempt for Tsar Ben! Tsar Ben will definitely not endure it any longer! ”

Speaking of which. Tsar Nicholas II's whole facial expression has become gritted teeth, thinking that a high-spirited new tsar was preparing to show his strength and create an unprecedented career of a generation, but he was slapped by Lin Daxin, not only did not get any great cause, but also lost more than 5 million square kilometers of land in Russia, so that the ambitious Nicholas II directly deflated the eggplant, and a few years ago Nicholas II, who wanted to take revenge and regain the lost land, was even more sad. Not only did they not get back the more than 5 million square kilometers of land through the war, but they were also forcibly occupied by Lin Daxin and nearly 10 million square kilometers of land, making the total land area occupied by Lin Daxin, that is, the Chinese Empire, reach 15 million square kilometers.

Tsar Nicholas II's hatred for Lin Daxin and the Chinese Empire he established is really boundless, in the past few years, Tsar Nicholas II has to be a turtle because of the powerful military power of the Chinese Empire, but he always thinks about the new and old hatreds together.

Thanks to the support of Britain and France for Russia in recent years, Tsar Nicholas II gradually became more emboldened. The border conflict in the city of Novosibirsk finally broke his tense nerves, and there was another person around him who was pushing the flames, so that Tsar Nicholas II was no longer willing to swallow his anger. He wanted to give it a go, and at this time, Britain and France provided nearly 60 million pounds of free aid to Russia. Nicholas II's whole body was excited, and he decided to expand the Russian army to the maximum. Fight to the death with the Chinese Empire!

As for the Russian Navy and Air Force, Nicholas II also wanted to expand it. However, the navy's warships are a gold-swallowing monster, that is, nearly 60 million pounds of free aid is used on the Russian Navy, and the strength of the Russian Navy may not surpass the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, and the warship construction cycle is long, for Nicholas II, who urgently wants to launch a war against the Chinese Empire, it is simply too late in time, and it is still okay to build a few fewer warships, but Nicholas II will not use the gratuitous aid of Britain and France for large-scale construction of warships.

The fighters that the Russian Air Force is now equipped with, whether they are designed and produced by Russia itself or imported from Britain and France, are much different in performance from those equipped by the Chinese Empire, and all countries are currently developing more advanced fighters in the hope of reaching the level of those fighters of the Chinese Empire.

In addition, the Chinese Empire will not sell Russian fighters, which means that Russia is now expanding the scale of its air force, and it can only add those fighters with low performance, and when it comes to fighting, in the face of those advanced fighters of the Chinese Empire, it will only be passively beaten, and then it will be a waste of funds that Russia has obtained so hard.

The Chinese Empire and Russia have a long border on land, if a war breaks out, the final decision can only be the army, and the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire is higher than the Russian Army in terms of equipment, or in the quality of individual soldiers, and even in the combat ability of large corps, so Nicholas II wants to expand the number of the Russian Army regardless of the cost, and use the method of numerical crushing to fight against the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire and win the final victory in the war.

And the cost of expanding the Russian army is much smaller, the Russian army's soldiers are those millions of strong, tame and obedient, death-defying croppers, only need to give these croppers a rifle, they will become heroic Russian soldiers, and these soldiers who take up arms, the combat effectiveness is not weak, when the battle starts, these croppers will form a wave after wave of endless waves of people, no matter how big the casualties, they will be indomitable, one after another, rolling forward.

Britain and France also understood Russia's situation, so when they gave free aid, they also demanded that Russia must use the vast majority of this huge amount of money to expand its army, so that only in this way can Russia have the capital to make trouble for the Chinese Empire when it comes to dealing with the Chinese Empire.

Tsar Nicholas II then said to Chancellor of the Exchequer Witte: "Although such a large-scale expansion of the army will certainly affect the industrial and agricultural production of our Russian Empire, it will be worth it as long as the lost land can be regained." ”

Werther complained in his heart that it would be worth it if he regained the lost 15 million square kilometers of land. But what if you can't get it back? The great strength of the Chinese Empire is there, and it can even be said that the Chinese Empire is currently the most powerful country in the world. Can this war really be won? Witte had ostensibly supported Tsar Nicholas II in waging war against the Chinese Empire, but that was because Witt knew. Nicholas II had already recognized this matter, and he was powerless to change it, so it was better to follow the tsar's thoughts, but deep in Werther's heart, he had no bottom at all about the Sino-Russian war that Russia was about to provoke, and he was a little pessimistic about the victory.

Of course, what was in his heart, Witte would never say, he nodded to Tsar Nicholas II and said: "His Majesty the Tsar is wise. As long as it is possible to regain the lost lands of our Russian Empire, it is completely worth paying some price. ”

In fact, there are many people who think the same thing as Werther, and Admiral Makarov is also pessimistic about Russia's victory over the Chinese Empire, but like Werther, he will not feel uncomfortable in front of Tsar Nicholas II.

Tsar Nicholas II looked at the Russian War Minister Korrosky with his eyes shining and said: "How is it? Can the War Department complete the new round of military expansion plan? ”

After the initial shock, Gorrosky's heart was immediately filled with great surprise, after all, it was the Russian Army that was expanding, and he was the biggest boss in the Russian Army. It will also rise and benefit a lot, and he does not care whether Russian industry and agriculture will be affected, and in Gorrosky's heart. Like Nicholas II, he believed that with the strength of the Russian Army, he could give free hold to the Chinese Empire. Hearing Nicholas II ask about himself, Gorrosky immediately swore an oath: "Your Majesty, Tsar, rest assured. As long as there is no problem with funds, our War Department will certainly complete the new military expansion plan as soon as possible. At least 10 more army groups will be expanded. ”

Tsar Nicholas II saw Gorrosky's attitude, nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Tsar Ben has reached an agreement with Britain and France, they will give us free aid to the Russian Empire, and part of the funds will be directly converted into weapons and shipped to our country, so that the expansion of the army will not be delayed due to the lack of weapons, after all, it is a one-time expansion of at least 10 group armies, and the number of weapons needed will be very large, relying only on the weapons reserves and arsenals of our Russian Empire, The 10 group armies that were expanded did not know that they were going to be in the Year of the Monkey. ”

Gorrosky immediately said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, in this way, there will be no problem for our War Department to expand the new army group again. ”

Tsar Nicholas II's eyes flashed with a gleam, and his voice was still high: "The War Department should speed up the formation of new troops, this time our Russian Empire will fight to the death with the Chinese Empire, if the free aid given by Britain and France is not enough for the expansion of the army, this Tsar will take out the last copper plate in the Tsar's private treasury for the expansion of the army!" ”

After Tsar Nicholas II made a frantic decision to expand the army, the Minister of the Exchequer Witte, the Minister of the Navy Makarov, and the Minister of War Gorrosky, three important Russian ministers, left the Winter Palace.

But Tsar Nicholas II immediately summoned another person to meet him, this person was called Rasputin, who was also by Tsar Nicholas II's side, so that Nicholas II firmly launched the war against the Chinese Empire, the one who added fuel to the fire.

Rasputin was a Siberian peasant who, after several years of wandering, appeared as a monk who had been secretly trained in medicine, and posed as a prophet. A few years earlier he was introduced to the Tsarist court, favored by Nicholas II's Empress Alexandra, and under the influence of Crown Prince Alexei? When Nikolayevich was suffering from hemophilia, Rasputin was lucky enough to cure the crown prince's illness, of course, it could not really be cured, but it only relieved the crown prince Alexei? Nikolayevich's suffering.

So Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra both trusted this scoundrel named Rasputin, and what made the Tsar and his wife trust Rasputin even more was that in addition to his ability to cure the crown prince's hemophilia, he also had mysterious prophetic abilities. And these abilities, Queen Alexandra has seen with her own eyes.

It was not long after Rasputin entered the palace, and one day Rasputin suddenly said nervously to Queen Alexandra: "Queen, don't let the children into the children's room, I see it, there is danger there!" ”

A few days later, a huge chandelier fell from the ceiling in the children's room and shattered. Seeing this, Empress Alexandra was grateful to Rasputin.

With these prophecies, even Tsar Nicholas II began to believe in Rasputin's prophetic powers.

However, what Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra didn't know was that these predictions were actually written and directed by Rasputin, like the incident in the children's room, and the reason why the prediction was successful was because he had sawed a hole in the chain of the crystal chandelier in the children's room in advance.

After Tsar Nicholas II saw Rasputin, he said with a happy face: "Rasputin, your prediction is so correct, you predicted that if our Russian Empire launched a war against the Chinese Empire, it would be protected by the gods, and sure enough, before the war broke out, Britain and France gave us nearly 60 million pounds of gratuitous aid to the Russian Empire, isn't this the protection of the gods!" ”

Rasputin said with a solemn face: "This is God's will, as long as His Majesty the Tsar makes up his mind this time to fight to the death with the Chinese Empire, the final victory must belong to His Majesty the Tsar!" ”

Tsar Nicholas II said excitedly: "This time Tsar Ben has made up his mind to fight with the Chinese Empire until the last moment, and will never give up halfway and sign any treaty that harms the interests of Russia!" ”

Rasputin nodded expressionlessly, but he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, what gods fooled Nicholas II by himself, he drank a little too much that day, and met Nicholas II to ask himself about the war between Russia and the Chinese Empire, if a war breaks out, which country will the final victory belong to?

As a result, I drank too much at that time, and I flickered and said that the gods would protect Russia, and if war broke out, the final victory would definitely belong to the great Russian Empire!

Who knew that day happened to be the day when Nicholas II got the news of the border conflict, so he thought that Nicholas II, who was protected by the gods, was really ready to make a move against the Chinese Empire. (To be continued......)

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