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"A business? What kind of business is it? ”

Prime Minister Gochakov was intrigued by Napoleon, and the business that the French president said must be no small matter, after all, transactions between countries are usually political interests, and political transactions between large countries can even change the fate of a small country.

Napoleon said, "Although the war is over, France still has hundreds of thousands of Chasebo rifles in stock to dispose of, I wonder if the Tsarist government is interested?" We can all sell at half price. All of them were new guns that hadn't been shot with a single bullet. However, since the end of the Franco-Prussian War, these guns have been useless. ”

In the middle of the 19th century, under the influence of the Prussian-Danish War and the Austro-Prussian War, Russia realized that the future belonged to the era of rear-loading guns, so it had just replaced the first breech-loading Berdan rifle the year before last, and was ready to equip all personnel. But for Tsarist Russia, large-scale refitting means an increase in military spending, and many countries are holding the idea of changing the front-loading gun to the rear-loading gun, and have continued the life of the old design, such as the Belgian Tessen rifle, the design of 1777 is still in service with the army after nearly a hundred years of evolution.

"You mean the Chasebo rifle?"

Gochakov was very surprised, and if the only achievement of France in the Franco-Prussian War was the beautiful defense of Paris, then the Chasepol rifle was an indispensable part of this wonderful battle.

At this time, copper shells were not used in the entire European country, and there was not much problem with the logistics and transportation of ammunition, the only thing that needed to be noted was the difference in warheads.

"Yes, all stock of Shasebo rifles can be given to Tsarist Russia at a discounted price. The Bodan rifle is being popularized on a large scale, but there is a very critical issue that you need to pay attention to. That is, about the financial situation of Tsarist Russia, it is difficult for your military expenses to comprehensively replace the rifle. ”

In the Battle of Sevastopol, the incompetence of the Russian army's logistics was vividly expressed, the British officers just couldn't supply logistics, while the Russian logistics troops were constantly reselling military supplies. According to Napoleon's conjecture, the Russian team certainly does not want to replace the Bodin rifle, and if France is willing to sell its excellent weapons to Russia at a low price, this is tantamount to good news for both sides.

At this time, Gochakov's cousin was the Minister of War of Russia, and the Gochakov family would definitely not let go of this opportunity to not only enrich their own pockets, but also equip the Russian troops with excellent weapons.

Prime Minister Gochakov thought about it, he thought that this deal was very cost-effective for Russia, even if the Bodan rifle was equipped with the first-line troops of Russia, then the Shasebo rifle purchased at a low price could also be equipped with the second-line troops, and more importantly, they all saw the superiority of the Shasebo rifle, a gun that has been tested on the battlefield is more reliable than the burning stick in their hands that has not been tested in actual combat.

And he did not think at all about the political purpose of Napoleon's sale of rifles to Russia. More to arouse Bismarck's suspicion of Russia.

If Alexander II had another idea about France in private, then Germany would have to carefully consider the situation of an alliance with Russia, even if the purpose of the Three Emperors Alliance was achieved, once there was a discordant conflict within the three parties, Germany would definitely be on Franz Joseph's side, and then the Three Emperors Alliance would immediately fall apart, and the first thing Russia had to do after squeezing out Bismarck's small group was to find France as its teammate.

These small actions only aroused Bismarck's suspicion and uneasiness, but like the straw that kept piling up on the camel's body, when the crisis in the Near East broke out, these superimposed dangers would quickly become unfavorable factors in the relations between the two sides. During the Tenth Russo-Turkish War, Bismarck ostensibly acted as an "honest political broker", but in fact he turned against Tsarist Russia, uniting Britain and Austria at the Berlin Conference to force Russia to spit out the plunders of the war, and in order to maintain his diplomatic strategy of maintaining the balance of power, the Russians were very dissatisfied, and this ill-considered approach threatened the alliance of the Russian, German and Austrian emperors. The crisis in the Near East and the Berlin Conference led to the collapse of the Russian-German-Austrian alliance, and Bismarck's neutral coordination between Britain, Russia, and Austria ended in failure.

This is the foregone conclusion of history, and no one is obstructing it. But Napoleon intended to add fuel to their alliance, to accelerate its destruction, and to shorten the time for Russia and Germany to turn against each other.

When the time comes, France, which sabotaged the-stirring stick of the Three Emperors Alliance, will only stand aside and watch the confrontation between Vienna and St. Petersburg with a cold eye.

In fact, Germany's opponents have always slept with Britain and France, and Bismarck's mistake in political vision, which deliberately saw Russia as a potential threat, led to a situation that could not be reconciled later. It is also fortunate that the Third Republic has historically kept a low profile and played soy sauce, so that its opponents pushed all its allies to the side of Paris.

Napoleon's proposal would not work for other normal countries, because no country would commit such a stupid act of superfluity. But it was very effective for the tsar's ** regime, because the high-level people were busy accumulating money and pleasure, and the superiority of the Shasebo rifle was remarkable, so Gochakov agreed to Napoleon and proposed this matter to the tsar.

"I will report this to the Tsar when I get back, and I think His Majesty will be happy to accept the generous assistance of France, but is there anything else that Your Excellency Napoleon can do besides this deal?"

In fact, Gochakov was very afraid to hear Napoleon say that there was something else, but the other side knew that the seeds of the destruction of the alliance had been planted, and when the Tsar had agreed to accept the French rifles, Paris would begin to publicize the matter until it caused Bismarck to be uneasy.

The Russians did not yet know that they had been quietly plotted by Paris.

Napoleon shook his head and turned the subject to the other side, saying, "No, but France very much wants to strengthen the exchange of non-military economic cooperation between the two countries, including commercial cooperation." ”

The sale of arms and the commercial trade were enough to arouse the suspicion of the Germans, but they could not find any place to criticize.

I am afraid that after this meeting, Prime Minister Bismarck began to lose sleep all night again.

Gochakov's eyes lit up, at this time he had just undergone the reform of serfdom, and Russia also desperately wanted to open its own commodity market, and when Napoleon took the initiative to make such a request, he naturally agreed with great appreciation.

"Of course, it's a great honor. ”

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