Who will stop the army of Tsarist Russia advancing eastward?

Now in the Russian Empire, a new proposal has emerged for the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The planned Trans-Siberian Railway will run from Moscow's Yaroslavsky railway station to Vladivostok railway station with a total length of 9,288 kilometers, including bridges and tunnels of more than 100 kilometers and a planned cost of 1.25 billion gold rupees.

As soon as the plan for the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was proposed, it caused an uproar among the Russian court and the upper nobility, and many people denounced it as "crazy babbling" and "unrealistic dreamers".

Is it really "crazy babbling"?

The British, who are very international strategic thinkers, do not see it this way, but see in it the crazy ambition of Tsarist Russia's eastward expansion, and are deeply worried about it.

As can be seen from the plans

This is a meticulous engineering plan after a complete survey, and the length of the bridge and tunnel is quite accurate, and the resulting total engineering quantity is very close to reality, not a "crazy babbling" that sits by a warm fireplace and pats your head.

No wind, no waves.

Tsarist Russia's ambition to expand eastward stemmed from the generosity of the Qing Empire, and the easy acquisition of 1.71 million square kilometers of land not only satisfied Tsarist Russia's greedy appetite, but also stimulated Mao Xiong's aggressive ambitions, and began to seriously examine the possibility of eastward expansion.

The Tsarist court not only thought so, but also began to implement it.

Emperor Richard was pacing in the palace with his brows furrowed, and the scenes of the changing world in the sixties and seventies of the 19th century flashed in his mind, and suddenly disappeared, and the turmoil caused by Her Majesty Queen Victoria's letter did not calm down for a long time.

He walked out of the palace and followed the winding path on the side of the rockery, through the moon gate to the back garden.

It was a clear night with few stars in the moon

The moonlight shines on the seven-curved covered bridge like water, outlining the beautiful outline of the covered bridge, and the sparkling lotus leaf lake under the bridge complements each other, a beautiful moonlit night.

The pet beasts who were always by His Majesty's side were sensitive to the heavy thoughts of their masters, so they quietly lay down on the side, just following the tall figure of their masters with worried eyes.

Richard was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery at the moment, nor was he in the mood to tease the pet beast.

He stepped on the seven-curved covered bridge steadily, walked to the center of the covered bridge and stopped, his eyes looking at the deep night for a long time......

The rapid rise of the Tang Empire in North America profoundly changed the original historical pattern of the entire American region, and also partially affected transatlantic relations, which can be described as far-reaching.

But it has to be admitted;

The rise of the Tang Empire did not affect the original historical trend of the World Island (Eurasia), even if Fuso, Ryukyu and Lanfang sent envoys to the court, worshiped the Tang Empire as the suzerain, and lived as a vassal, it did not affect the original historical process in the world.

As island nations scattered around the islands of the world, these countries have had little impact on the course of continental history.

In recent years

The Russian Empire expanded eastward, capturing Tashkent, the key town of the Kokand Khanate in 1865, and sending a large army into the Bukhara Khanate in 1867 to force it to submit to Russia.

The events that have taken place in history are now being verified step by step.

Next

The Russian Empire planned to conquer the Khiva Khanate, annexing the Kokand Khanate in the following years, and then invading Turkmenistan and other Central Asian regions.

The Russian Empire also planned to send troops to Ili and support the Aguba rebellion, with the aim of further encroaching on Xinjiang and Mongolia and incorporating them all into the territory of the Russian Empire.

Today's Tsarist Russian Empire is like a barbarian who has broken into a porcelain shop, rampaging almost unstoppable, breaking the original order in Central and East Asia, and the intention of brutal expansion has been fully exposed.

"The establishment and expansion of Russian power in East Asia is, in the long run, the task of our world domination," the Russian woolly bear exclaimed. ”

Beginning in the 40s and 50s of the 19th century, Tsarist Russia colluded with the Western powers to pursue an aggressive policy of carving up China, forcing China to sign a series of unequal treaties, seizing a series of aggressive privileges, and ceding off large areas of Chinese territory.

In the autumn of 1848, Nevelskoy, the head of the Russian navy in the Far East, led an armed invasion of the Heilongjiang River valley and the coast of Sakhalin Island in China. In 1850, it forcibly occupied Temple Street at the mouth of Heilongjiang.

On May 28, 1858, when Tsarist Russia took advantage of the British and French invasion of China to attack Tianjin and threaten Beijing, it forced the Qing government to sign the Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty by force, cutting off more than 600,000 square kilometers of Qing Dynasty territory north of Heilongjiang and south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, and dividing the territory east of the Ussuri River into Sino-Russian condominium.

Two weeks after the signing of the Aihui Treaty, on June 13, Tsarist Russia induced the Qing government to sign the unequal Sino-Russian Treaty of Tianjin, seizing the right to trade with seven ports including Shanghai, as well as the establishment of consuls and the privilege of aggression such as anchoring warships in these places.

After the signing of the "Aihun Treaty", Tsarist Russia continued to invade the area east of the Ussuri River, forcibly occupied Vladivostok as a naval base, and changed its name to Vladivostok, which means "control the East", which fully exposed Tsarist Russia's ambition to annex China and dominate the Far East.

It was in the midst of this series of policy booms of eastward expansion that the proposal for the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway appeared in the upper echelons of the ruling aristocracy of Tsarist Russia, and how can this be regarded as "crazy babbling"?

Once the Trans-Siberian Railway is completed, countless "gray cattle armies" will continue to flock to East Asia to occupy the three eastern provinces and regions that are now inaccessible and extremely rich in natural resources, as well as Mongolia and Xinjiang, and realize the dream of dominating the East.

The upper class of the Russian nobility has already proposed that Dalian will be the future capital of Yellow Russia, is this also a "crazy babbling"?

Richard knew;

No, this was the real idea of the ruling class of Tsarist Russia, but it was not realized because of the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.

The rise of Fuso after the Meiji Restoration did curb Tsarist Russia's strategic attempts to expand eastward.

It's just that after this beast was released from the cage, it lost control under the temptation of crazy military adventures, and then wreaked havoc on the entire Shenzhou Continent, bringing great disasters to the Chinese people......

The corrupt and cowardly Qing Dynasty was bullied, and everyone in the world wanted to rush up and bite hard, Tsarist Russia was a robber, Fusang was a robber, Britain and France were also robbers, and the Tang Empire was not a robber?

The robbers' logical thinking is to squeeze others out and monopolize the greatest benefits, and it is from this that Queen Victoria's worries come from.

Tsarist Russia and Britain are not the same road, and Tang is an ally.

Think about it

Richard sighed heavily and decided to continue the current East Asia policy, but not to support the Tokugawa shogunate further. He hoped that after the victory of the shogunate in the civil war, the shogunate would be able to carry out a thorough reform and revitalization of the current Fuso society and further strengthen the national strength.

If it is really rotten wood that cannot be carved, then it can only be abandoned.

The situation in Northeast Asia as a whole has deteriorated since the Second Opium War.

Most of the territories that the Qing Empire could cede were ceded out, and Hong Kong and Macau were also leased. The banks of the Huangpu River have become a paradise for foreign adventurers, and no matter how bad the situation is, how bad can it be?

It is now the beginning of 1868, and the Qing Dynasty is in the 7th year of Tongzhi.

By this year, the Taiping Rebellion, which had spread throughout the entire southeastern half of the country, was completely wiped out, and the Northwest Twist Army Uprising was also in the final madness on the eve of its demise.

If history has not changed

Northwest Xinjiang, Mongolian territory and the three eastern provinces will not have any major changes in the past twenty or thirty years, big deal, after a few years secretly support the army to lead the army into the **** Zuo Zongtang department, after completing the suppression of the Xinjiang Agubo rebellion, continue to move westward to take Kazakhstan in one fell swoop.

As long as the money is given, the army led by Zuo Zongtang is not bad.

Iron still needs its own hardness.

As long as the Tang Empire's economy develops rapidly in the future and the Royal Navy is further cultivated, it will have the ability to control the regional situation and control it within a tolerable range.

Due to their inherent defects as island states, as long as their naval development is restricted, the possibility of getting out of control is much smaller than that of Tsarist Russia, and it is easier to check and balance.

In another ten or twenty years of development, the Tang Empire's own economic scale will surpass that of the United Kingdom, so as to become the world's largest economic power, and the population size will also exceed the 100 million mark, thus establishing the status of the world's top powers, and the right to speak and influence cannot be the same.

At that time, we will be more calm on the issue of curbing Tsarist Russia's eastward advance.

As long as the planned Trans-Siberian Railway is not completed one day, the forces that Tsarist Russia can devote to the East will be limited after all, and this is the most important point.

Richard's mind stopped, but his eyebrows were not much easier.

His deep gaze looked at the dark lake, and a sense of urgency for development appeared in his heart, faster, faster, faster, the empire stronger......

Now the Tang Empire is enough to influence the situation in the Americas, but it is not enough to project its power to the world, especially the power of the Royal Navy cannot keep up with the demand.

In light of this

In the next 5~10 years, the active development of a type of 10,000-ton ironclad has become a real demand, and the military development policy of the empire needs to be adjusted.

In order to avoid dispatching the sensitive nerves of the United Kingdom, Richard has been consciously or unintentionally suppressing the Royal Navy's equipment development plan for more than ten years, and refusing to allow 7,000 tons or even tens of thousands of tons of ironclad ships.

This approach has indeed received a positive response from the British side, but it has also limited the development of its own armaments.

Queen Victoria did not expect that one of her letters would lead to a change in the military development policy of the Tang Empire, and instead began to actively develop the Royal Navy.

Knowing such a result, Queen Victoria preferred not to write this letter.

With the Tang Empire's current strong industrial supporting level and world-class shipbuilding industry, it has all the conditions to develop a world-class navy, and the threat is much greater than that of Tsarist Russia.

(End of chapter)