Although France and Russia were getting closer to each other in order to confront the growing power of Germany, in fact, the Northeast Autonomous Region also played an important role in this.

In fact, there have always been contradictions between the European powers, and of course France and Russia, both European powers, are no exception.

As early as the French Revolution, Tsarine Catherine II taught Protestant Europe a lesson in an orthodox posture and tried to practice hegemony in the name of religion; On the basis of the traditional aggression and expansion, coupled with the counter-revolutionary clamour: "All people should convert to Greek Orthodoxy in order to defend themselves against the non-religious, immoral, anarchist, vile, and demonic plagues" means fighting to the death against the "French plague". Busy suppressing the Polish Reformation Movement, he called on the monarchs of Europe to exert pressure on revolutionary France for the release of Louis XVI and his family, declaring: "The business of the French monarch is the business of all monarchs!" This led to the first anti-French coalition.

Alexander I, who later succeeded to the throne, connived at the assassination of his father Paul I by the nobility, the reason for which was that Paul I compromised with France, abandoned intervention in European affairs, and instead marched into Persia and India, against the interests of the Russian Empire. As soon as he ascended the throne, he presented himself as the defender of the royal family, and promised the defeated Austrian Emperor Franz and King Friedrich III that Napoleon would be eliminated. It's a pity that he only has the ability to speak plainly, and in the face of the Napoleonic French army, which has risen, he was beaten to the ground in Friedland.

In 1807, the Peace of Tilsit was signed between France and Russia to counter the British policy of continental blockade. However, the competition between the two countries in the Ottomans, Poland, and Central Europe became fierce, and in the end, the peace treaty was in vain. Napoleon I, who was invincible at the time, could not bear such a blatant breach of contract, so he formed an alliance with Prussia and Austria, and in 1812, he gathered more than 600,000 men in Poland and launched a war against Russia.

The result of the home exchange was a crushing defeat for the French army, the main force was lost, Napoleon I fled back to Paris in panic, and the French were greatly damaged. On the other hand, the Prussian and Austrian armies, who were in charge of the left and right routes, did not suffer any losses because they reached a secret agreement with Russia on the battlefield.

Now, more than half a century later, in the face of the new situation in the world, Britain's increasingly strengthening maritime hegemony, and the strong rise of Germany and the Northeast, these two old European powers finally feel the cold wind, and huddling together for warmth is also a helpless choice.

"What is France's reaction to our conditions?" Alexander III asked with a gloomy face at this time.

"France is willing to provide us with financial assistance, but it is not satisfied with the amount, and it demands that the loan be used only for the purchase of French-made weapons," Ilyugin replied. ”

Alexander III lowered his head and thought about it, the French weapons were not bad, at least now the imperial army was in great need of a certain number of French-made Hatch Chase machine guns for air defense and against the continuous machine gun fire in the northeast.

"It's okay to buy French goods, but we need to ask them to provide technical support, and we also need to have a certain amount of self-production of weapons."

Although Tsarist Russia and France are both European powers, they are not at the same level in terms of scientific and technological development. After the Great Revolution in France, the capitalist economy had begun to develop, a large number of world-renowned scientists continued to emerge, and the level of industrialization continued to increase. At this time, feudal serfdom still existed in Tsarist Russia, and the capitalist economic system came to a standstill with the death of Alexander II. Although a university education system was also established, and great scientists like Mendeleev appeared, they could not be compared with France after all.

"The minister has written it down! I don't think it's a problem. At this time, Milyugin said: "Your Majesty has also built a yì, and if possible, our side should also carry out naval cooperation with France." Not only to learn their warship building techniques, but also to develop naval alliances with them. Only by building a sufficiently powerful expeditionary fleet can we create a sufficient threat to the Northeast mainland. Let them have to strengthen the defense of the coastline, so as to relieve our frontal pressure on the battlefield, so that they can no longer use most of their troops on our front with impunity. And His Majesty believed that the French would also be willing to regain their lost colonies in Southeast Asia with our help. At the same time, if the plan is smooth, the empire is likely to obtain ice-free ports in the Far East, or islands in East Asia as overseas naval bases. ”

The ice-free port in the Far East has always been the dream of generations of Tsarist Russian tsars, who had seized Vladivostok by taking advantage of the Opium War in the Qing Dynasty, but although it was a good port, it had to be closed in winter. Later, with the bloody rise of the Northeast, Wang Yi's policy of exterminating ethnic Russians made it completely impossible to implement the land occupation plan of Tsarist immigrants. And Vladivostok, along with a large part of the territory of the Far East, gained and lost in the process.

When Vladivostok was occupied, Tsarist Russia formulated a large naval plan, building ships every year, on the one hand, to cope with the rise of European navies, and on the other hand, to prepare for a counteroffensive in the northeast. However, the reality is cruel, although in recent years, new ships have been launched every year in Tsarist Russia, but the weakness of basic industries, coupled with the backwardness of ship technology and naval concepts, has made Tsarist Russia's warship combat power low. After hearing that the Northeast Navy had eliminated the Japanese-French Combined Fleet and the French Far East Fleet, the Tsarist Russians were also completely dead-hearted, understanding that with the strength of their own navy, going to the Northeast would be a death.

However, there is an opportunity to cooperate with the French, although they are also deflated in front of the Northeast, but after all, they are still the second most powerful country in the world. France and Russia, which share a common enemy, have broad prospects for cooperation.

"Aiqing's words are very agreeable! By the way, I heard that something happened to the colonies of the Northeast in Southeast Asia? Alexander III's mind finally came alive, and he thought of the possibility of solving the Northeast, and for a time he was also happy.

"It is a religious organization called the Dragon King Sect, taking advantage of the lack of troops in the northeast in Southeast Asia, taking advantage of the opportunity of heavy rains and floods, to suddenly launch a rebellion without warning." Milyugin recounted what he knew.

The two of them had been talking for nearly an hour, when a servant suddenly walked into the throne hall of the Winter Palace and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Front, Skobelev, is asking to see you outside the door. ”

"It's finally back!" Alexander III stopped talking to Milyugin about the Cult of the Dragon King, and then said: "Xuan! ”