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Chapter 498 Attitudes of all parties (1)

"I want to strongly accuse the East China government of aggression against Russian territory. This is not only the most malicious offense to the dignity of the Russian Empire, but also a serious betrayal of international conventions, a brutal trampling on fairness and justice, a major sabotage to world peace and normal order, and a destruction of the free and civilized world. Here I solemnly declare the famous discussions of Russia, Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir and Novgorod; Kazan, Astrakhan, Poland, Siberia, Taolikxeniso and Georgian Tsar; the monarchs of the Jeonbei Region;

, The great Russian Empire will never allow its territory to be invaded by barbarism, and the people of the Empire are ruled by pagans. All the people of the Empire must give their own strength to this. We will use powerful force to recover the lost territory. The invincible imperial warriors will definitely hit the invaders hard and restore the glory of the Empire. And here I want to call on all free and civilized countries, all European nations, and all faithful peoples of God, to join hands to fight against the evil pagans from the East, and to defend your faith and homeland."

"Haha, it seems that the East China government really hurts Nick this time. The statement issued in such a way that it is incoherent. It seems that Nick has forgotten that Vlazen Vostok was stolen from the Qing Dynasty? Now it has been snatched back by the Qing people. And it seems that in the eyes of all European nations, Russia is a pagan, and Nick actually dressed up as a loyal believer of God, which is really ridiculous."

"It's no wonder that Russia has a strong persistence in land. In the past century, only Russia has robbed land from other countries. Only when the Crimean War failed, Russia lost a large amount of land. However, Russia was defeated by the coalition forces of Britain, France, Turkey, and other countries in the Crimean War. This time it was defeated by Japan first and then to the East China government. They were all the yellow-skinned monkeys that Russia looked down upon the most. Therefore, it is reasonable for His Majesty Nicholas to lose his composure."

"Hahaha! To be honest, I really want to take a look now. Nick's expression will definitely be very exciting. Do you think it is necessary for me to have another meeting with Nick?"

"My Majesty, please be honest, the Treaty of Byuk has been put on hold for an indefinite period, and your meeting with His Majesty Nicholas will have no meaning."

The East China government's attack on Vladivostok achieved nearly perfect success, giving the East China government a decisive advantage in both strategic and tactical aspects. However, the impact of this battle on the current situation is far more than that.

The first thing that had the greatest influence was the other party involved, Russia. The loss of Vladivostok had a huge impact on Russian society, which was the upper class. Before this, although Russia suffered repeated defeats in the battle with Japan and later East China governments, which caused huge social shocks to Russia, the upper class of Russia did not react much. Just after the news of the disastrous defeat against the Mahai War was sent back to Russia, Nicholas II said to his court guard General Rezevsky, as the first sentence: "What a good weather! Do you want to go hunting tomorrow?" And half an hour later, Nicholas II actually played with air guns and crows like a child in the imperial garden of the palace. Admiral Alesekev, who was dismissed and returned from his post, took his mistress to the theater to watch the play the next day.

This is because the previous battles all took place outside Russia. For the Russian nobles, these defeats were not a big deal. Warships were sunk and could be rebuilt. Anyway, Russia had resources; if the army was destroyed, it could be recruited again. Anyway, Russia had more two-legged sheep. But this time, Russia's territory was captured by the enemy. Although Vladivostok was robbed by Russia, it was different from the northeastern region of China. Although Russia occupied China's northeastern region before the war between Japan and Russia, and Russia also planned to incorporate it into its own country, it could not be considered Russia's real territory after all. Vladivostok not only has legal basis, but has been incorporated into Russia for nearly 50 years. All Russians have regarded Vladivostok as Russia's territory. As a nation with special persistence on land, this is undoubtedly a huge impact.

Even the nobles who had always been indifferent to the defeat in the war were shocked, and the impact of Vladivostok's fall on the people was naturally even more conceivable.

After the "Bloody Sunday", the social unrest that was apparently calmed down tended to recover. The constitutionalists, reformists, republicans, peasants, workers, and petty bourgeoisie each had their own requirements, demanding reforms, demanding a halt of war, demanding tax cuts, demanding work, and even some of the nobles who once stubbornly supported the Tsarist autocracy realized that Russia needed to change, and a greater social crisis was brewing.

Under such circumstances, Nicholas II could not be indifferent, so he immediately launched a speech, attempting to use the defeat to arouse the united hatred of Russian society and divert social contradictions. At the same time, Russia also actively carried out diplomatic activities, requiring the Japanese army to immediately launch an advance towards Liaodong to attract the forces of the People's Army to reduce the military pressure faced by Russia; and also proposed loan requirements to France to maintain the domestic economy from collapse.

In addition to Russia, major countries in the world are also organizing relevant experts, either conducting research and discussion, conducting military chess deductions, analyzing tactical strategies, estimating the direction and success or failure of the war, and judging the impact on their own countries. Because the tactic of the East China government's attack on Vladivostok was indeed unexpected by all countries. The success of this tactic not only became more complex by the war, but also wider the scope of the impact, but also made all the deductions of the development direction of the war in various countries become invalid and could only be started over.

It turns out that this war has little to do with Germany. After all, Germany does not have much interests or influence in the Far East. However, one of the relevant parties to this war, Russia, still has considerable special significance to Germany.

The French-Russian alliance established 10 years ago has always been a huge threat to Germany, causing Germany to fall into an unfavorable situation of fighting on both sides. Therefore, breaking up the French-Russian alliance and even pulling Russia back to its own camp and restoring the Three Emperors alliance has always been the primary goal of German diplomacy. However, over the past 10 years, Germany has made a lot of efforts, but it has always been ineffective.

The outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War gave Germany hope, so Germany paid great attention to this war that had little to do with itself.

At the beginning, Germany's goal was to support the Japanese and East China governments in fighting against Russia, hoping to use the power of the Japanese and East China governments to weaken Russia's strength. Although Russia had to turn its interest back to the West and turn to the Balkans and Turkey after the failure in the Far East. However, in the eyes of German Emperor William II, this was not terrible, because he had full confidence to subdue the polar bear that had exhausted his energy in the Far East, and even for himself to drive and help him deal with Britain.

However, since Japan has support from Britain and the United States, there is not much demand for Germany. Therefore, the target of Germany's support is the East China government. Not only allows the East China government to issue bonds in Germany, but also decides to sell weapons and ammunition to the East China government after the East China government joined the war.

Before the Battle of Vladivostok, the war also satisfied Germany very much, and Russia was defeated again in the Battle of the Shili River. So William II also began to develop his own plan to subdue Russia.

On July 10, 1905, William II took the Royal Yacht Hohenzollen to make a routine trip along the coast of Sweden. A week later, he sent a telegram to Nicholas II at the entrance of the Gulf of Finland, inviting Nicholas II to meet at the sea.

On July 23, Nicholas II met William II on a Polaris yacht in the Beuke Strait on the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland. The two cousins ​​held close talks on a cruise ship, and under the clever guidance of William II, the finger of the talks successfully led to Britain. So the next day, the two emperors signed a defensive alliance treaty between Germany and Russia against Britain in the Polaris cabin, called the Beuke Treaty.

William II returned to Germany with the Treaty of Beuch and boasted to his ministers: the morning of July 24, 1905 became a turning point in European history. The situation in my dear motherland was greatly alleviated, and she finally escaped from the terrible attacks between Gaul and Russia.

However, Prime Minister Biluo was obviously much more sober than the emperor. The French-Russian alliance had been more than 10 years. French capital had entered Russia in large quantities and formed a strict bond with the Russian nobles and capitalists. In a sense, France had controlled Russia's finance, so the French-Russian alliance could not be broken up by the kinship and private friendship of the two emperors.

Of course, such words cannot be said to the emperor, but after all, Billow was scheming and could see a flaw in the Biluk Treaty at a glance. This treaty could only take effect when Europe was attacked by a certain European country. In fact, this was originally added by William II. Billow pointed out to the emperor that this meant that if a war broke out between Britain and Germany, Russia would not need to attack India; and if Britain and Russia had wars in Europe due to India or Persian issues, Germany would have to attack Britain.

William II couldn't speak for a long time after hearing this, because such a treaty was too disadvantageous, but the treaty had been signed and could not be changed in black and white paper. In the end, Biluo suggested that he refuse to sign the deputy signing in the name of the prime minister to make the treaty come into effect and put the treaty on hold forever. But it also means that Germany completely lost the last chance to repair relations with Russia.
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