Tesla, along with his son, left the tavern with the middle-aged man and walked out through the Swiss door.

Middle-aged people will take them to meet the top of their party and have a meeting.

They will ultimately choose a real direction for the fate of the Slavs.

Although the current Tsarist Russia has a huge territory, it is strong on the outside and strong on the inside.

Nicholas II inherited his ancestors' desire for land, but he did not have the power of his ancestors.

His governance of the country can be described as miserable, and the contradictions have not been resolved, but are increasing.

However, this country was crucial for the Allies.

The German Empire had a very strong industrial capacity, and they managed to integrate most of its industrial resources and regulate them by the government.

However, the size of the country is destined to their upper limit, and in addition to fighting on two fronts, resource problems and strategic depth are also important reasons for their defeat in another world.

However, this is no longer the case, and the huge resources of the huge Tsarist territory combined with the industrial power of Germany could not be ignored even by Beichen and Britannia.

And the final outcome of this war will also be confusing.

Tesla understood this early on, and the position of Tsarist Russia determined the final direction of this war.

This is also the direction that he has been working towards in various countries during this time.

For Tesla, he did not expect Tsarist Russia to support them, but as long as they did not support the Allies, it was already decisive.

The popular base created by Nicholas II and the Cloth Party over the years in Tsarist Russia was enough to bring about a revolution.

However, if we want to bring about a change, it is useless to have a popular base alone, and armed struggle is necessary.

What they lack is something that can fight against mechs, and these Teslas can give them.

The last piece of the puzzle for change has been put together.

Char doesn't actually need to do more, this is the direction in which the torrent of human history will inevitably flow.

However, he could change some details in this inevitable direction.

Thousands of miles of embankments collapse in anthills, and even a rushing river may change direction due to some small tributaries.

After they left, Char silently cleaned up the things on the bar in the tavern.

In fact, if it was in the past, Char would have used magic if he could use magic for these housework things.

But now it is different, and as he gets older, he prefers to begin to enjoy the pleasures of labor itself.

Watching the cups neatly arranged under their own tidying up, and the tabletop being spotlessly cleaned by themselves, there will be some sense of accomplishment in it.

When Alicia wasn't very happy before, she liked to vent her boredom through labor.

In fact, labor should be pleasant, a fulfilling thing, a means of creating value and self-satisfaction.

However, with the opening of the industrial revolution, human society has become more and more developed, and the value that human beings can create has become more and more limited.

With the growth of the population, the number of various types of work is growing rapidly, and with the blessing of a vicious competition environment called "involution", the value of the individual is becoming cheaper and cheaper.

When the vast majority of the value created by your labor is captured by the "boss", the only remaining sense of self-satisfaction is also gone.

Since then, labor has become a means of subsistence, and people have done the same work day after day, losing the joy of labor and living as numb, living for the sake of survival.

Labor naturally loses its original meaning.

At this moment, a man walked out of the corridor on one side, wearing a fresh winter dress plain long dress, a white mink winter coat cloak draped over his shoulders, and a mink hat of the same color as the cloak on his head.

With her long white hair and the high nose bridge that white people have, she really feels like a snowpiercer beauty.

In fact, Tsarist Russia has been infected with many yellow genes in its blood since the beginning of the Great Mongol Empire.

Since the period of the Great Beichen Empire, they have also intermarried with a large number of Han people, so their appearance is not like the Germanic people's facial contours like a knife, but relatively soft, which is more in line with the aesthetics of the Orientals. Alicia looks a lot like the people here.

"Cleaned up?" Alicia asked.

"Alright." Char said.

Char took off her apron and hung it on a hook on one side.

Alicia slowly stepped forward and grabbed Char's arm, and the two of them walked out of the tavern together.

Every evening, Char would walk with Alicia on the streets of a foreign country, any country.

Facing the wind, watching the flowers fall, and enjoying the passage of time.

A hint of coolness quietly slipped over his face, and then quickly disappeared without a trace. It was snow, Alicia slowly raised her head, the snow had not yet fallen, and she could only faintly see a few crystalline snow foams falling.

The snow slowly spreads a light veil on the ground. The pedestrians were silent, and their steps were gentle, as if they were afraid of crushing this layer of winter gauze. The noise of the city is gone, and perhaps they are afraid to break the tranquility and beauty of the snow.

Alicia looked around, "This Moscow is really different from the past. ”

As the former capital of Tsarist Russia, it also has a rich cultural atmosphere and beautiful city construction.

However, there are more thick pipes than in the past, and some chimneys can be seen emitting steam and white smoke.

The territory of present-day Tsarist Russia is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, and it is geographically divided into the Eastern European Plain, the Ural Mountains, the Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, the Eastern Mountains, and then the Pacific Ocean.

Moscow is located in the center of the Eastern European Plain, and the overall territory of Tsarist Russia is a relatively westerly location, with the Moscow River passing through the territory, and the origin of the city's name is also derived from this river.

Although it is located in the heart of the Eastern European Plain, Moscow has many shortcomings in its topography.

First of all, there is no advantage of water transportation in the coastal port, and the plain terrain is not easy to defend. From the perspective of the geographical location of the entire Tsarist Russia, it is too biased to the west, so it is not easy to operate and manage.

However, although Tsarist Russia spanned the Eurasian continent, the Russians themselves identified themselves as European countries, and large urban development focused on the Eastern European Plain on the left side of the Ural Mountains that divide Europe and Asia.

In addition, ancient Russia belonged to the feudal system, so the rise of cities did not necessarily have environmental advantages, but it was inevitably related to the growth and decline of the leaders of the principalities.

Moscow, a region inhabited by humans since the Neolithic period, was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky, the Grand Duke of Rostov-Suzdal and the Grand Duke of Kiev.

When he was still a prince in 1147, he won a power struggle and invited friends and family to Moscow to celebrate.

This is also the earliest documented record of the city's founding of Moscow. After he became the ruler of Kievan Rus', he also built fortifications in Moscow, which became a military stronghold, and gradually gained a basic pattern.

But the core of the regime of that era was dominated by Kiev, and Moscow, a small dilapidated place, certainly did not have the conditions to become the capital.

Kievan Rus' was a feudal system made up of vassal states.

At that time, the rulers of vassal states were called princes. The head of the vassal state is called the Grand Duke. However, the sprawling Kievan Rus' were also invaded by the Mongol Empire in the mid-13th century, where Genghis Khan's grandson Batu established the Kipchak Khanate (Golden Horde).

Although the conceptual Kievan Rus' has been destroyed, the vassal states under its banner still enjoy a certain degree of autonomy and freedom in addition to the obligation to pay taxes and serve in the military.

At this time, Moscow, on the contrary, avoided the impact of the war because of its inconspicuousness, and gradually developed.

The first prince of Moscow was Daniel. Aleksandrovich. Daniel's father was the Grand Duke at the time, and when Daniel was 2 years old, he died and gave Moscow, which had little economic value at that time, as an inheritance and gave Daniel as a fief of the prince.

Daniel later used the Kremlin as the center to build some public facilities with symbolic power symbols, such as churches and government departments.

In the scuffle for power in the Wall of Brothers, he always saw the wind and sided with the advantage, which also greatly expanded Moscow's influence.

But what really made Daniel admired by the Russians was his outstanding skill in breaking through the dilemma of the Mongol occupation and the struggle for royal power, and maintaining the peace of Moscow in a bloodless way.

His two sons, who would later inherit his rule, were no less impressive, and they forged friendly relations with the rulers of the Mongol Empire through intermarriage and alliances.

The taxing power quickly accumulated land and wealth, which in turn poured into the construction of the Kremlin, allowing the Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev to move to Moscow in the mid-14th century. Thus Muscovy raised its political, economic, and religious status.

But expansion will inevitably cause a high degree of vigilance in neighboring countries, such as Lithuania, which has had a lot of conflicts with Moscow, which has a different faith.

In the mid-15th century, the Islamized Kipchak Khanate felt a sense of crisis due to its declining status, so it joined forces with several principalities, including Lithuania, to attack Moscow.

In order to protect the regime and the Orthodox faith, the Grand Duke of Moscow won the war by striking at the invading enemy army. After defeating the Mongol Empire and establishing its prestige, it also completely changed its original posture of being close to the Mongol Empire, starting from refusing to pay taxes, and gradually breaking away from control by means of confrontation.

In 1476, Muscovy became independent under the leadership of Ivan III, and even expanded its original territory by as much as six times. His grandson Ivan IV established the Russian Tsardom after unifying all parts of the country, becoming the first tsar "Ivan the Terrible", nicknamed "Terrible".

The title of terror not only explains his extreme character, but also expresses his iron-blooded means of completely transforming the loose feudal system into a centralized power.

Tsarist Russia was developed on the basis of Moscow, and the capital should have been Moscow.

But history does not take this for granted.

More than 100 years later, in 1712, Peter I, the last monarch of the Russian Tsardom, suddenly moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg in the north.

Saying that Peter I the Great was the last is not that he was overthrown or died, but that the monarch, who later became known as "Peter the Great", changed the name of the country to "Russian Empire" in 1721 after defeating Sweden and gaining control of the Baltic Sea, and changed his title from the original "Tsar" to "Emperor". Originally, the two translations were different but had the same meaning, and both were titles inherited from the Roman Empire.

However, after Peter the Great became emperor, he downgraded the status of the tsar to the same rank as the king, and in turn, he raised the prestige of the Russian Empire through the name of the emperor.

The relocation of the capital to St. Petersburg, which was closer to the developed countries of Europe, was a practical move by Peter the Great in his attempt to achieve Westernization.

Although straddling the Eurasian continent, Tsarist Russia has always positioned itself as a European country.

It's just that from the 15th century to the 17th century, during the Age of Discovery, when the European powers were fighting for hegemony in the world, Tsarist Russia failed to participate in it. Even after the rise of the empire, it seems to be much less developed than the rest of Europe.

Therefore, the development of sea power and modernization became the urgent goal of Peter the Great. What do you need for sailing? Boats are needed. What does the boat need? Ports are needed.

Tsarist Russia, which was originally a landlocked country, had to acquire land near the sea to build a port.

As a result, Peter the Great conquered Sweden and took control of the Baltic Sea, where he quickly began to establish a new city, named St. Petersburg after St. Peter.

The move to the capital did not go smoothly at first, mainly because the princes and nobles who were pampered in Moscow, as vested interests, did not want to bear the risks and losses of moving the capital.

On the contrary, Peter the Great realized that in order to implement the reform plan in a big way, he had to stay away from the traditional forces of Moscow, so he accelerated the relocation of the capital. In just two years, the transfer of the capital was completed.

At that time, Moscow was already one of the few megacities in Europe, but after the capital was moved, Moscow quickly declined.

After the relocation of the capital, the country's resources flowed closer to those of the European powers, and Moscow's population declined as a result.

Although in 1750 the population swelled again due to the influx of serfs and deserters, it also caused an overconsumption of resources.

In addition, the lack of planned factories, polluted water sources, and backward wooden buildings have led to frequent fires, weak economic development and poor law and order, and frequent local civil unrest and riots, all of which have made Moscow lose its former glory.

At that time, Catherine II carried out a series of drastic policies in order to save Moscow. But serious infectious diseases soon came to the door.

It is estimated that at least 100,000 people died in Moscow during the plague. Although this is a natural disaster, it is also a man-made disaster. Because of the butterfly effect brought about by the historical choice of moving the capital, the spread of infectious diseases is of course also related to the decline of Moscow's status and the deterioration of living conditions.

It was not until 1918, when the dynasty was overthrown, and after the end of World War I, that the name of the capital was regained.

Moscow shines because of the rulers, but it also dims because of the rulers.

(End of chapter)