Although the Russian delegation to the negotiations in Nanjing had already endured great domestic pressure, they still insisted on putting forward many conditions, but there were not many on the territory, because everyone knew that the possibility of the Russians getting back the territory conquered by the Chinese Empire at the negotiating table was absolutely negative.

By the same token, if the empire wants to acquire territory that it does not have actual military control, the Russians will not agree to anything.

Therefore, in terms of territory, the attitude of the two sides is still relatively clear, that is, the current line of actual military control of the two sides is the mainstay.

However, this line of military control is also controversial, because the line of military control between the two countries is not closely linked, and there is often an area in the middle that is still in contention, and these areas are not small but small, and these blank areas outside the actual control of the two countries have become the focus of dispute between the two sides.

In the end, I choose a piece that you want, and I want a piece to divide it.

In addition to the territorial issue, there are several other important points, such as the Russians' insistence that the empire stop military aid to Ottoman Turkey, stop selling guns, artillery and ammunition, and stop lending to Ottoman Turkey.

In addition, the two sides also have a big dispute over the price of Alaska, Russia wants 1 million pounds, China is only willing to pay 100,000 pounds, and the gap here is still relatively large.

At the same time, there were also some commercial issues involved in the negotiations, such as the Russians' hope that the empire would open its borders to Russia and give preferential tariff treatment.

There are many problems to talk about, but they are very troublesome and complicated.

However, the top leaders of the two countries will certainly not give much time for negotiations, the Russians are in a hurry to end the war on the Eastern Front and devote all their energy to the war against Turkey, and the imperial side also wants to reap the benefits of victory as soon as possible, and take this opportunity to completely settle the territorial dispute with Russia and demarcate the border line of the territory of the two countries.

Therefore, in the negotiations, both sides maintained greater sincerity and made more concessions.

By November 26, the negotiating teams of the two sides had finally reached a preliminary agreement and submitted it to their respective countries for approval.

Lin Zhe was still quite satisfied with the results of the negotiation team, so he was very happy to approve it.

Although the Russians were unwilling, they also knew that it would be better to end it completely if they continued to drag it out like this, and when the time came, they would be able to recover from Turkey if they lost on the Eastern Front, so they also quickly ratified the agreement.

In this way, the treaty between the two sides is officially signed, and this treaty, known as the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nanjing, contains dozens of large and small matters, the most important of which is the demarcation of borders.

The two sides agreed to use the current Line of Actual Military Control as the benchmark, and the blank areas to be replaced by the two sides, and the overall division follows the main mountain ranges and rivers, and finally forms a complete border division.

The eastern part of the border between the two sides is based on Lake Baikal, the eastern part of the lake belongs to the empire, the western part of the lake belongs to Russia, the southern part of Lake Baikal is based on the Line of Actual Military Control of the two sides, the northern part is based on the Lena River, and the middle is bounded by mountains.

In the area west of Lake Belga, where Wutai Province, Xinjiang Province meets Russia, the Line of Military Control (LAC) is still the benchmark, and the previous border line has been largely maintained.

The western border is based on Lake Balkhash and then extends to both ends, and this part of the region is exchanged for a part of its territory because the military control line between the two countries crosses more, otherwise it is too complicated for you to have me, I have you.

In exchange, the Russians withdrew from the southern part of Lake Balkhash, and the empire gave the Russians an equal amount of territory to the western part of Kokand Province, including the more important city of Salmahan. In exchange for this, the empire obtained the southern region of Lake Balkhash, which could help ensure the security of the Ili region, and the Russians obtained Salmahan, so that they could connect Salmahan, Tashkent, Buraha and other regions, and also eliminated the possibility of the empire starting from Salmakand and then killing all the way to the Caspian Sea.

In general, the demarcation of the border is not very divisive, and is basically based on the actual line of military control of the two sides and the principle of equal exchange. (PS: The detailed territory map can be viewed in the readership, and the group number is 35923224.) ）

As for Alaska, this one is more special, because this territory is not a Russian national territory, but a colony owned by a company, and the ownership of this land belongs to the Russian Pacific Company, although this company is actually officially controlled by Russia, but after all, the name is different.

So with regard to Alaska, it was excluded from the border demarcation treaty, but was dominated by transactions between commercial companies, and the Imperial Asset Management Office set up the Chinese Imperial Americas Company, which bought the land from the Russian-American Company for 600,000 pounds.

That is to say, after the completion of the transaction, Alaska does not actually belong to the Empire, but to the Imperial Americas Company, but this is only nominal, because as soon as the transaction is completed, the Empire side announced that it would acquire the Americas Company with state-owned assets and obtain all the sovereignty of Alaska.

As the first officially recognized colonial company in Chinese history, Imperial Americas ended its mission after only a month of existence.

In addition to the territorial issue, the empire promised complete neutrality in the Russo-Turkish war, stopped some arms transactions with the Ottoman Turks, and stopped providing loans, which led to the turn back of two ships of the Pacific Trading Company loaded with guns and artillery that were already on the verge of arriving in the Mediterranean.

The empire will also unconditionally release more than 30,000 Russian prisoners!

At the same time, due to the large number of Russians in the newly acquired territory of the Empire, the treaty stipulated that if they wished, they could become part of the Empire by naturalization on the spot, and if they did not wish to join the Empire, they could return to Russia, and the relevant travel expenses were borne by the Empire.

And then there are some regular commercial treaties, the opening of treaty ports and so on, the two sides send ministers to each other, set up legations, formally establish diplomatic relations, etc.

Viktora, a Russian diplomat who had previously presided over diplomatic work with China as a private businessman, naturally became the first Russian minister to China.

It's just that he can't be happy after taking office!

Because of the signing of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nanjing, on the surface, it seems that the Russians only recognized the territories that had been lost, which in the eyes of many people may be just admitting defeat and losing face, but in the eyes of many well-intentioned people, this is the complete abandonment of these territories by the Russians.

In the future, when the national strength becomes stronger, it is estimated that it will be difficult to find a reason to recapture it.

At the same time, the Russians completely abandoned eastward expansion and turned to the south and east, that is, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

This is not a good thing for many countries, especially for the UK.

Although the Russians can't do the empire in the east, this is not to say that the Russians' military strength is poor, mainly because of the distance and the difficulty of supply, so that the Russians have no spare strength, but they can't use it.

In the 10th Russo-Turkish War, Russia's troops were as high as 500,000 or 600,000, and their two armies in the Caucasus had more than 100,000, and on the Danube Front in Eastern Europe, Russian Tsar Alexander II personally led seven armies, with a total strength of about 300,000.

And that's not counting the many servant armies, if you really count them all, it is estimated that the total strength can reach more than 700,000, which is not much worse than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

Moreover, Russia has not yet exhausted its full strength in the strength of its troops, which before the war Russia had a total of about 18 armies, and only nine of them were invested in the war against Turkey. In the later period of the war against China, three armies were put into operation, mainly two in Siberia and one in Central Asia.

That is, so far, the Russians can actually send troops of at least several armies to participate in the Russian-Turkish war, if there is a much larger mobilization. As for the direction of Siberia and Central Asia, that place is too far away, and the Russians can't send troops empty, so they can only use tens of thousands of people to fight the empire, of course, the empire is no better there, and it took more than half a year to send more than 100,000 people.

But this side of Europe is different, the distance is close, the supply is convenient, Russia can give full play to the characteristics of its European steamroller, no matter who the opponent is, hundreds of thousands of troops shouted Ulla to charge, Napoleon saw this formation in his second life.

So when Russia paid a certain price to end the war on the Eastern Front with the Empire, Alexander II was full of energy to completely kill Turkey, and then get more benefits from Turkey to make up for the losses on the Eastern Front.

At this juncture, the empire directly cut off the arms trade with Turkey and sold Turkey without hesitation.

By December, the situation on the Turkish side was rapidly deteriorating, and the Russian army spent a lot of effort to finally force the Turkish army in Pleven to run out of ammunition and food, and finally forced to surrender.

After taking Plevin, the offensive of the Russian army will not be able to be stopped by Turkey.

After entering 1878, the offensive of the Russian army on the front line became more violent, and the Turkish army could not resist it at all.

Although the Turkish army in this time and space is more tenacious than the original time and space, and the weapons are more advanced, the Turkish army equipped with the 1864 Linde rifle and a large number of steel breech-loading guns is still relatively strong, but they also have a huge flaw, that is, the serious shortage of troops.

For example, in the Caucasus direction, the original 100,000 Russian troops thought that the number of Turkish troops on the opposite side would be more, so they were ready to implement strategic defense at the beginning, but they did not expect that the Turkish army on the opposite side would be smaller than themselves, so they changed their original intention and launched an attack directly.

By January 1878, it was time for the upper echelons of the empire to fight over the annual budget allocation.

Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops pounced on Constantinople like locusts, and with the current state of the Turkish army, it was almost impossible to stop the Russian army. In other words, in the near future, the Russian army will enter Constantinople and even dismember and annex the entire Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Losing the Far East and Alaska, but if it can take a large part of the Balkans and the Caucasus in one fell swoop, and even gain an outlet to the Mediterranean, then for Russia, there is no doubt that it will make a lot of money.

At this time, the world's boss, Britain, finally couldn't sit still! (To be continued.) )