The moon shadow is faint, the stars are shining, and in a side hall of the Winter Palace, the lights are brilliant, and Qingying and the tall and slender last Russian Tsar Nicholas II sit opposite each other. After hearing Qingying's opening remarks, the casual look on Nikolai's face slowly dissipated, and was replaced by a solemn expression that gradually calmed down.

As the teenager said.

Russia is a vast country, spanning Europe and Asia, from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Bering Strait in the east. Since the reign of Peter the Great, Russia under the rule of successive tsars has been a fierce and brutal two-headed falcon, one wolf looks to Western Europe, and the other looks at East Asia.

In 1855, when Tsar Alexander II ascended the throne, the position of interest of the two-headed falcon in Russia began to change quietly. For the previous 100 years, Russia's strategic center of gravity had been in Europe, but during that time, Europe produced two genius military strategists, Frederick II (i.e., Frederick the Great) and Napoleon; The former fought with Russia for 7 years, and the latter even served the Russian hometown in one pot, almost killing them to the end of the country! Russia, which had been involved in too much European affairs, had not acquired the land and wealth it had expected, but had suffered a great deal of national power, and the Russian ruling class had to begin to re-examine their national policies. At that time, Russia had just suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Britain and France in the Battle of Crimea; The defeat was so devastating that it even had to survive the financial crisis after the war by selling Alaska to the United States for a measly $7.2 million. As a result of this campaign, the Russian elite and bureaucracy were at their peak in their disappointment with their encroachment on Europe, and they urgently needed to find a new world of expansion to make up for the huge losses they had suffered in Europe.

A few years later, the British and French began to attack the Qing state in the Far East, which immediately attracted the attention of the Russian ruling class, which was eager to expand its territory and pass on its internal contradictions. After some robbery, extortion, and blackmail, Russia gained more than 1.5 million square kilometers of vast territory from the rotten traitorous regime without much effort. The result made Alexander II tremble with excitement; A single military blackmail can achieve such a jaw-dropping and magnificent result; So if you go into battle shirtless, what kind of rich harvest should you get? Overjoyed, Alexander II was like discovering a new land full of gold. In the following 40 years, Russia's strategic center of gravity began to quietly shift eastward, and the entire northeast of the Qing State was regarded as its future territory, and no outsiders were allowed to touch it. His successors, Alexander III and Nicholas II, also galloped along the broad road laid out by the emperor. In view of this, Nikolai was furious at Japan's vain attempt to occupy Liaodong, and pulled France and Germany to form a luxurious lineup that Britain feared, and forced Japan to withdraw from Liaodong under the threat of war.

Although Nikolai also knew that his cousin Willie was certainly not a good man, he was willing to act with him on the Far East this time, and he must have a plan; But when his messenger appeared before him, Nikolai was still very unhappy. He glanced at his distant nephew and said, "There is no need to say anything superfluous. Little Ettel, what did your father tell my cousin to do for him? ”

Qingying smiled slightly, and said to the person in front of him: "Shu Huang is too worried." Shu Huang Tianzong is talented, and my father also admires you very much, and often praises Shu Huang as the most outstanding third-generation monarch in my great-grandmother's family, how can you use the word 'command'? My father ordered me to come here in the hope that your country will set its sights on Japan, and in the days to come, teach this group of short yellow-skinned monkeys who dare to make trouble with us a good lesson! ”

Nikolai snorted, automatically blocking Qingying's first sentence. Wilhelm II's arrogant conceit, which had been known in their circles more than a dozen years earlier; Now that he has succeeded to the throne, and the power of Germany has grown by leaps and bounds under his rule, how can he praise himself if he must be so proud of his will that he must be so full of will that he can praise himself? He glanced at Qingying and said lightly: "Forget it, I still don't know about that cousin Willy with his nostrils facing the sky?" As for this request he made, it is related to the national fortunes of our Russian Empire, and if you don't give me a reasonable explanation, little Etter, then I can only regretfully refuse him. ”

was broken in front of Nikolai like this, but there was no embarrassment on Qingying's face; As soon as his eyes froze, his face became solemn, and he said with a straight face: "Shu Huang Mingjian, if Russia can regard Japan as an imaginary enemy, then it is the most happy to see it for both Germany and your country. ”

Nikolai gave Qingying a look and motioned for him to continue.

"Your country is vast, spanning Europe and Asia, looking around, and only expansion to the Far East is the best choice for your country at the moment. The Qing Kingdom of the Far East, with its vast territory, wealth and extremely weak military strength, is the most ideal destination for expansion that God has given your country. However, Japan does not measure its own strength, and even wants to covet the land of the Qing State, and in this case, your country can only focus on the territory of the Qing State if it first destroys Japan. With the strength of your country, I am afraid that there is no need to share the northeastern region of the Qing Kingdom with Japan at all, so that the area of the great Yellow Russia will shrink, right? Qingying looked at Nikolai's blue eyes and spoke.

Nikolai smiled slightly, and there was conceit and pride in his words: "Not bad at all. This time, China forced Japan to withdraw from Liaodong of the Qing Dynasty, in order to incorporate the entire northeast of the Qing Kingdom into the territory of China's Yellow Russia in the future. What qualifications does Japan have to compete with the great Russia? If I, the Russian Empire, want to clean up Japan, it's as simple as stepping on a bedbug! For Qingying, the son and nephew who became the German crown prince was a sure thing, Nikolai wanted to give him the impression that Russia was powerful and invincible, so he did not reserve in his words, showing Russia's sharpness and grandeur.

Nikolai, however, miscalculated. Qing Ying was on the Internet in his previous life, and he had long known about Nikolai's attempt to annex Unai, and it was really difficult to generate any shock in his heart. After hearing these words, Qing Ying's face did not change, and continued: "And I, Germany, also covet the Qing State in the Far East, as evidenced by this move in the fire of the Qing-Japanese War. Father's meaning is that both sides take what they take, and your country first crushes Japan, and then you and I divide the Qing country! If your country does not turn its attention to the Far East, it will be difficult to find a more suitable option. "For Nikolai, the lord of a country, Qingying doesn't need to say much at all; A lot of things just need to be clicked to the end, and it will be counterproductive to say that it is broken.

Nikolai had a look of surprise in his eyes, although this Shota's words were not very incisive, but they really grasped the current situation and made an almost encouraging hint to him.

Since the reunification of Germany, after more than 20 years of peaceful development, Germany's national strength and military prestige have reached an unprecedented peak, with an unprecedentedly strong military and unprecedented financial prosperity. Even the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the south was in ruins under the reign of Emperor Joseph I. If Russia wanted to turn its strategic focus to Europe, it would directly face the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the south. With Russia's strength, even with the help of France, it will be difficult to take advantage of Europe. At present, Europe is at peace, the Ottoman Empire in the south is a stinking and hard stone, and the nightmare of the Crimean campaign is still vivid; When Russia chose to go south, it could not allow them not to think about the great pain that had preceded it. If it weren't for the talent of the new Tsar Alexander II, it is still unknown whether Russia would have been able to get out of the shadow of that war by now. Since the path of expansion to the west and south has been blocked, it is true that only the Far East is suitable for the current expanding Russia.

In the second half of the 19th century, after a series of reforms by Alexander II, Russia embarked on the path of imperialist expansion with capital concentration, and was no longer satisfied with this vast but extremely bitter territory. At that time, Germany had just been reunified, and everything was in ruins; France was defeated in the war, its strength withered, and the reparations of 5 billion marks became a mountain on its shoulders; The only thing that the great powers could compete with Britain was the northern snow bear. It was at this time that Russia began to expand aggressively abroad, which directly damaged the interests of Britain, and the British Empire, which came to the dynasty of all nations, immediately aimed the spearhead of hostility at Russia. In the following decades, the struggle for hegemony between Britain and Russia has always been the main theme of the world's world, and the two sides have openly and covertly fought over each other's interests, and invisible beacons have burned all over the two continents of Asia and Europe.

Today, the contradictions between Britain and Russia in the Far East are even more intense. Russia wanted to dominate the northeastern region of the Qing court and establish a new colonization of the territory of "Yellow Russia"; Britain, on the other hand, believed that Russia's southward invasion would affect its power in the Yangtze River valley and tried to prevent it. This time, Japan let Mites cut out of Liaodong in the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", and most of them have the shadow of Britain behind them; Britain wanted to sabotage Russia's attempt to dominate the northeast of the Qing Dynasty by supporting Japan to occupy Liaodong and then slowly plotting it; Not to be outdone, Russia saw that Japan dared to get involved in the northeast of the Qing court, so it pulled Germany and France together to force Japan to choose to withdraw by force.

Although Japan has softened itself in Liaodong affairs this time, everyone knows that this is only because the lineup of the three countries to interfere is too luxurious, and Japan is unable to resist it. Russia wanted to go south and annex the northeast of the Qing Dynasty alone, while Japan, with the support of Britain, also retained its territorial claims to the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, and the contradiction between the two sides was actually a contradiction between Russia and Britain in the Far East, and it was almost impossible to reconcile. At present, Russia's military strength in the Far East is not strong enough to launch a war to annex the Northeast; Although Japan had just won a victory, most of the reparations it received had to be used to repay the debts it had borrowed from foreign countries as a result of the war. However, once the preparations of the two sides are completed, for the sake of Qingguo, a delicate and cowardly flower girl, there will be a fierce war between the two countries!