It will be at least a few months before what is happening in the Far East reaches Europa, thousands of miles away, so let's turn our attention back to Europe.

The wave of strikes by British miners continued, and even if the mine owners imprisoned some of the "leading troublemakers", it would not help.

England is facing the biggest coal crisis since the start of the Industrial Revolution, and workers from other mines have joined the demonstrations in addition to coal workers.

This plunged Britain's economy, which had just improved, into another winter, and even had to source coal from Scotland.

However, the cost of this was extremely uneconomical, and the price of coal, while cheap, was frighteningly high, and the staggering consumption of England made the whole situation seem comical.

Almost all the British newspapers were overwhelmingly criticizing the "soots" as utter traitors, ill-literacy and low intelligence, and adherents of Mammon and Belfinger.

(Mammon and Belfinger, the biblical embodiment of greed and laziness)

On the other side of the European continent, there were people who waved their flags and even called for people to donate money and materials, and then the two great men received an unbelievable amount of donations.

It's just that the source of this fund makes them feel puzzling, but it's true that the two are poor enough. This money is enough for the two to live the rest of their lives without worrying about food and clothing, and even their children and grandchildren will no longer need to work.

But the reason why the great men were able to become great men was that they were different from ordinary people, and the two resisted the temptation and still began to help the British miners.

So when the miners were driven out into the streets by the miners, a grant of aid was a relief for them.

This group of miners actually has nothing. Because their homes were built on the land of the mine owners, the government determined that they were the property of the mines, so the residents were evicted from their houses.

As a result, tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes, and the methods of the mine thugs were even more outrageous; Whether it is the elderly, children, or pregnant women, they are all driven out in an extremely violent way. There have even been cases of women being dragged out of bed by the hair and pushed into filthy stinking gutters.

It is clear that this inhumane act was instigated, and their aim was to provoke a riot, to turn the strike into an atrocity, so that they could forcibly disperse the participants.

Given the strong influence of the Chartists at the moment, Whitehall did not dare to easily announce the end of the strike, and had to make this decision, after all, the miners were much smaller than the Chartists, and the location was relatively remote.

If it were in the city of London, they would never have the guts to do so.

Thanks to donations from the European continent, the miners who participated in the strike were much better off than they were in history, at least not in large numbers of people who died of starvation.

But this did not last long, as there was no lower limit to certain groups, and soon the free-trade country banned merchants from selling to miners.

At the same time, hungry people were recruited from Ireland and Wales to replace them, and the resumption of involution was the real draw for this group of warriors who dared to challenge serious injustice.

However, some of the previously suppressed news also broke out at this time, such as the use of child labor in some mining areas and caused widespread deaths.

Of course, the boss of this kind of scandal must not know about it, and it must be the temporary supervisors below who are making trouble for small profits.

As a result, a group of unlucky people who blatantly violated the law and caused major accidents were sent to the gallows.

Ignorant child labourers like David, Jim, and Kate are exempt from accountability and are sent back to their homes, workhouses, and poor people's schools.

Ever since Russia in the Near East joined Austria's trading system, the Tsar's wallet swelled.

The first thing that Nicholas I thought of when he had money was to engage in the military industry, and before that there was only one Ivzhesk arsenal in Russia, which was built during the reign of his brother Alexander I to deal with Napoleon.

Due to the long-term lack of funds and the backward technology, the annual output only stayed at the level of 25,000 rifles and 5,000 long swords, as well as 200,000 rounds of ammunition and 30 cannons.

At the same time, the British Enfield Arsenal had almost twice the production capacity of its Russian counterpart, and there were three other military factories of the same level in Great Britain (including one Calcutta Arsenal in India).

Similarly, Russia's production capacity is not as good as that of France and Austria, or even as good as Prussia, and only slightly stronger than Spain, the sick man of Western Europe.

However, the former owner of Iberia, with the support of its ally France, is growing by leaps and bounds in the production capacity of the military industry.

This made Nicholas I unable to sit still, so he spent a lot of money to build two more arsenals, namely the Shetloretsk Arsenal and the Tula Arsenal.

St. Petersburg is very cautious about the military industry, so all arsenals are built in its hinterland.

Although Russia's arsenal production capacity is weak, the state control is stronger, while the French and Prussian arsenals have a strong private enterprise background, and Austria has the presence of Franz, resulting in a split between public and private.

The British Enfield Arsenal, also known as the Royal Small Arms Arsenal, historically represented the highest level of British weapons in the world, but now lags behind Austria and Prussia.

The fact that the Tsar's military industry led to a skyrocketing production capacity is in itself a thing to be praised, but the cost is also enormous.

For this reason, the Russians again played the idea of "friendly neighbors" Ottomans, after all, a tsar's life is incomplete unless he engages in several Russian-Turkish wars.

Later generations often judged a tsar on how many Russo-Turkish wars he waged, and Nicholas I was naturally well aware of this.

So a serf living on the Russian-Turkish border complained, "The sheep raised by the Ottomans have crossed the border again, but this time they are not gnawing cabbage, but cotton." ”

This immediately aroused great attention from the Tsarist government, after all, it is an imperial system, as long as His Majesty the Great Tsar feels important, then small things will become big things.

Some ministers proposed the establishment of quarantine zones, some ministers proposed to send troops to the border for training, and some proposed to raise more sheepdogs for biological control

Naturally, these strange things could not be in line with His Majesty's wishes, but made him angry half to death.

"With this group of idiots, I can't see a Russian tomorrow"

Nicholas I turned his head to Prince Mainekov and Duke Lyubai, and they immediately began to think hard.

The tsar held his forehead again.

"Damn fools! Do you have to let me be like an animal to think? ”

"Alexander Nikolayevich, tell me what you think."

However, at this time, the Russian crown prince was still staring at the new court lady in the corner, and did not hear his father's question.

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (Alexander's younger brother) on the side hurriedly tapped his brother twice with his elbow, and then Alexander looked at his father who was staring at him in confusion.

Nicholas I was speechless about his little boy, but given that the crown prince had to maintain his majesty in public, he was not too good to delve into it, so he could only turn to the other people present.

"Does anyone have any other opinions?"

At this time, a young officer stepped forward.

"Since the Ottomans can't control the cattle on their land, they should give it to us! But the Russian Empire is a civilized country, and we can first send an envoy to Constantinople to ask for compensation, and then make a decision depending on the reaction of the other side and the international situation. ”

This answer made Nicholas I very satisfied and asked with a smile.

"What's your name, young man?"

"Back to Your Majesty, my name is Andrei Uvarov."

(End of chapter)