In St. Petersburg, Alexander III's hair has lost a lot since the news of the secret agreement of the English-Bo Polish government.

After throwing away the telegram in his hand, Alexander III complained: "Damn the British, can't you be more at peace?

After only a few days of worry-free days, I started to struggle again. Do you really think we are easy to bully..."

Heaven and earth have a conscience. He really doesn’t want to cause trouble now. Isn’t it good to farm quietly? Why do he have to cause trouble?

The Chancellor of Finance Alishel Gulov persuaded: "Your Majesty, this is the British trick.

They provoked the Persian conflict at this time to interrupt the Russian Empire to restore vitality. We must not let their conspiracy succeed.”

He was really afraid that the young and energetic Tsar would go to war with the British in anger. This kind of thing happened many times among the previous Tsars.

To be precise, there are many such things all over the world. It has continued until modern times. After learning from countless lessons from predecessors, everyone has become rational.

The Russian Empire is not suitable for launching wars abroad. First, the Prussian War, then the economic crisis. The Russian Empire is in its weakest period.

Before Alexander III's answer, Army Secretary Paradrew Wald said first: "Everyone knows that this is a British conspiracy, but so what?

The interests of the Russian Empire cannot be violated, and the Persian issue is just a temptation by the British. If we do not cut off their delusions, there will be more trouble waiting for us next.

Once the outside world thinks that the Russian Empire has declined, the enemy we will face will not be just the British.”

The hatred was too much. When the Russian Empire was in a strong state, these were all scabies and were not worth worrying about.

It’s different now. The Russian Empire is at its weakest time. Being able to live a stable life depends on the power of the past.

No matter how powerful the tiger is, it cannot change the fact that it is a sick tiger. If it cannot shock the jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, it will be a situation where wolves eat tigers.

In order to avoid the worst situation, the Tsarist government has made many efforts, including: restoring the Russian-Austrian alliance and actively participating in the Near East War...

While using the power of the alliance to shock the heroes, they also shine their muscles on the battlefield, making everyone believe that the Russian Empire is still strong.

In order to speed up the recovery, the Tsarist government even sold trophy from the Near East War in exchange for large sums of money to improve finances.

However, the temptation still came. The Persian problem was just a shadow. Once the Russian Empire showed signs of fatigue, there would be no peace in the future.

The more people thought about it, the more nervous they looked. After constantly thinking about it, a conspiracy theory against the Russian Empire took shape.

Seeing the atmosphere tense, Foreign Minister Oscar Jimenez hurriedly explained: "Your Excellency, the matter is not that serious.

The British may be testing us, but the Persian issue also involves Austrian interests. As long as we have the same position as the Vienna government, the situation will be within a controllable range.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has communicated with the Vienna government, and they suggest a showdown with the Persian government directly and ignore the existence of the British."

The Russian-Austrian alliance is an invincible existence on the world island, especially after the end of the Popo Federation, other countries could not shake this big boss together.

It's okay for the British to do something. Anyway, they are not in Eurasia, and the Royal Navy is enough to ensure their own safety. It would be impossible to directly destroy Russia and Austria.

Army Secretary Paradrew Wald asked in confusion: "Austria is going to take action against Persia?"

Oscar Jimenez rubbed his forehead, but there was no way that these teammates could not help. The fighting nation liked to solve problems with violence, and the top leaders of the Tsarist government were no exception.

He explained helplessly: "The British and Polish countries signed a secret agreement, and neither government recognized it, so we can pretend that we don't know anything.

Now we are showing off with the Persian government, and we can deliberately propose a violation of the conditions of the secret contract, which will make the British's plan fail.

If the Austrians want to take action against the Persian region, there is no need to be such a problem, just hit it."

"Fight directly" is the style of the great powers. You can wait for the excuse of war before looking for it. Anyway, there is nothing to be done when you launch an aggressive war.

This is different from the Near East War. The Ottoman Empire was the former public enemy of Europe. Just flipping through history books can turn the war of aggression into a war of revenge.

International public opinion itself has a strong tendency, and a war of revenge initiated on behalf of the will of the European people must be just.

Under the influence of the general environment, even the British, as a messenger, did not get entangled in this issue.

There is nothing to say about attacking Persia. After all, the Persian Empire and the Habsburg dynasty have no hatred, and there is still 18,000 miles from the European world.

This answer made Alexander III mixed joys and sorrows. The joy was that the problem could be solved, and there was no need to worry about the situation deteriorating; but the Russian Empire was more dependent on Austria.

In order to get rid of his dependence on Austria, the Tsarist government has intentionally alienated the Vienna government since Alexander II.

However, after all the troubles, I finally returned to the starting point and even made the problem worse.

I promised to get rid of my dependence on Austria, but in the end I became more dependent. If this continues, I can only be a little brother with peace of mind.

Learning from his father's lesson, Alexander III did not blindly alienate the diplomatic relations between the two countries to get rid of his dependence on Austria.

Then there was nothing. Alexander III didn't know what to do. It was not impossible to get rid of the dependence on Austria, but the price would be too high.

Political dependence is best solved, troublesome economic impact. The facts once again prove that international loans are not easy to obtain.

Influenced by the additional conditions that can only purchase Austrian goods, Russian industry lost its style and completely copied Austria.

No, they still have their own style. The mechanical equipment they bought and the same products produced have improved their shape, volume and usage functions.

Unfortunately, this improvement is not benign, but develops in the opposite direction. Even if you fail to copy homework, you don’t have to think about independent research and development and upgrading.

If you buy the first generation, you have to buy the second generation. As you buy, you will get used to it. The sequelae is that Russian industry is forced to adopt Austrian standards.

To this day, except for Austria, machinery and equipment produced by other countries cannot be sold in the Russian Empire.

It is not a price issue or a quality issue. The key is that the standard system cannot match it.

Industrial development is about the industrial chain. To change the standards, it must be modified together upstream and downstream. If only one of the links is changed, problems will occur immediately after the industrial chain overlap.

Even for industries with low dependence on the industrial chain, capitalists should consider the issue of later equipment maintenance.

If there is no supporting standard system, if you replace a screw, you must import it from the country where the equipment is purchased.

If these small accessories are not valuable, the manufacturer can attach a batch, then if the machinery and equipment are broken and the maintenance workers have to invite them from overseas, there is nothing we can do.

Everyone has to consider the cost, and no one will cause trouble. The Russian Empire has few large factories that can allow equipment suppliers to directly send technical workers to stay.

Alexander III still knew a little about economy and did not make any trouble to get rid of restrictions.

I can’t make it happen by myself, but I have to import it anyway. It’s better to buy Austrian than to buy British and French, at least we are allies.

Under the free trade system, relying on promotion standards, monopoly on industrial equipment has been achieved, which has taught many European economists a lesson.

Even in some universities, the Russian Empire was used as a classic case of promotion standards and appeared in students' textbooks in a blatant way.

From beginning to end, the Tsarist government did not expect what the British did, but only responded to the Central Asian conflict.

In this regard, the British government's "warning" was in vain, and the Russians did not think of that step at all.

This is not stupidity of the Tsarist government, it is mainly a cognitive difference. Perhaps in the outside world, it is a big deal for the Russian army to make small moves in Central Asia, but in the eyes of the Tsarist government, it is a trivial matter.

Isn’t it just that I stole a few sheep, a few cows, a few horses, and occupied a piece of grassland. Russians have been doing similar things for hundreds of years.

Habits become natural, and the Tsarist government did not feel any problem from top to bottom. Who would have thought that the British would make a big deal?

It is estimated that the British government will directly organize the causes and consequences into information and send them to the Tsarist government, and the Russians may not believe it.

...

On April 13, 1885, the Mahdi rebels ambushed the vanguard of the French counter-rebellion army in the Idfu area. The battle scene was touching.

With the advantage of military strength and the pre-ambush and caught the French army off guard, both sides ended in a draw.

After receiving the news, Huthier and others' first reaction was that it was impossible. Even if the French were made of paper, they could not be so fragile.

At the military meeting, Mahdi scolded with a pale face: "You are so powerful, aren't you very capable in normal times?

More than 30,000 people ambushed less than 5,000 enemies, gained all the advantages, and finally got a draw.

If we did not gain geographical advantages, but encountered in the wild, would we be completely wiped out by the French?

waste……"

After hearing Mahdi's reprimand, Huthir probably understood what the "draw" was going on.

With a six-fold advantage and a pre-ambush, the enemy's ambush was attacked. In the end, not only did not completely wipe out the enemy's troops, but instead allowed the enemy to break through.

Such a record is a joke, but it really happened.

"Grading" is just self-comfort. Just look at the battle loss ratio between the two sides, you will know 3.4:1. Almost killing a magic legion, but the price you pay is a division.

Judging from the expressions of everyone, Huthier felt that the annihilated "French Army" might also be in a state of water. If he really killed a regular group of the French army, he would probably be able to hold a celebration banquet here.

An ominous premonition arose from Huthier's heart. He secretly guessed: It was not the independent French colonial army, right?

Fortunately, there were pure French soldiers and prisoners, which proved that the main force participated in this battle.

If the colonial army has achieved such a record, then don’t say anything. Get packed up and go home quickly. Don’t even think about the mission.

The main force of the rebel army suffered heavy losses, and Mahdi had to turn his attention to the representatives of Britain and Austria again, hoping to obtain more aid.

After all, Lieutenant General Jarret did not express his dissatisfaction with the result of this ambush: "Everyone, the matter has happened, let him go!

According to convention, the vanguard of the French army is generally elite, and it is normal for a stronger combat power. The troops behind are not that powerful.

It is urgent to seize the time to train the rebel army and improve its combat effectiveness as much as possible.

I hope that the problems exposed in this ambush will not appear again in the battles that follow."

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Chapter completed!