Chapter 1109： Tangled Tsar

The government is acting, and the people are not idle. The fastest response was the capital market. The prices of strategic materials in the futures market continued to rise, and the stock market also staged a double-eyed battle.

One of the companies engaged in overseas trade counts as one, and all of them fell doubtful of life. Instead, the military industry sector rose rapidly.

For their own interests, capitalists engaged in overseas trade swiftly acted and launched powerful anti-war activities across Europe.

Especially the small European countries, almost all the people participated together, and submitted petitions to the British and Austrian embassies abroad, calling on the two countries to calm down and solve the problem through negotiation.

It's a pity that there is no use for eggs. Both the British and Shinra's chariots have been activated, and they can't be stopped if they want to stop.

It is not that Franz did not respect public opinion, on the contrary, it was because of public opinion that the war was launched. Although the voice of civil anti-war is rising, the voice of the main battle is even louder!

Apart from the group of people whose interests have been damaged, the only anti-war in the country are idealists. There is no doubt that compared with the whole society, the voices of these people are simply insignificant.

There is no way, the British deer is too fat. If the British Empire continues to flourish, everyone can only hold back even if they have ambitions.

The reality is very cruel. The British missed the second industrial revolution, which directly led to their disadvantaged position in international competition.

Although everyone originally doubted the strength of the British, they were shocked by the prestige of the Royal Navy and did not dare to act rashly for a while.

However, as the British announced their withdrawal from the free trade system, they immediately leaked their bottom line, and everyone suddenly discovered that the old world factories are now fading away.

Once the weakness is exposed, it is obviously impossible to have the deterrence before.

There are still a lot of smart people in this world. Franz can think of killing the British with numbers, and naturally some people can think of it.

With the advantages of industrial size, Shinra can do it: For every warship the British builds, they will build two to compete with it.

The navy is a technical arms, but also a scientific and technological arms. No matter how elite the Royal Navy is, it is impossible to be one enemy two at sea.

At least when the performance of the two warships is almost the same, it is impossible to achieve one enemy two.

So the question is, why should the British be the bosses because of the stronger comprehensive national power?

This is not a fight for fame, and there are a lot of benefits behind it. The biggest dividend is naturally currency hegemony, which is almost tied to world hegemony.

In the past ten or twenty years, the British hegemony has not been stable enough. Even with the currency hegemony of the pound sterling, Aegis has lost a large part of it.

But no matter how much you share, it's not as good as eating alone. No one can refuse to kill the British and enjoy currency hegemony exclusively.

Not only that, the British also have the most fertile colonies in their hands, which is a great temptation for nobles and commoners.

It's not a joke to turn over once. According to Franz the Great's consistent style, the most fertile land is to be banned, and everyone is not tempted.

Everyone is looking forward to the moon, and finally waited until the British Empire fell. If you don't hurry up, what will happen to the British in the future?

There are precedents for this. The veteran empire of the Holy Roman Empire is a typical example of a rebirth. There is no guarantee that the British cannot do it.

No matter how you look at it, Britain is now much stronger than the shattered Shenluo back then, and the difficulty of revival is much lower.

As long as they are fine-tuned internally, and then made up for the homework that was left in the second industrial revolution, they will still be a powerful empire that never sets.

There is no need to crush the strength of Shenluo. As long as the strengths of the two sides are close, the Vienna government cannot launch a challenge that is doomed to lose both.

Perhaps Britain will be more declining in the future, but everyone's patience has been consumed almost, and they are not willing to wait any longer.

What's more, the British will not wait to die. If the reform is really that simple, Campbell will not stop.

It is precisely because I have changed everything that can be changed. When it was time to "reform", I suddenly got stuck, and I had no choice but to suppress competitors to consolidate hegemony.

As a result, looking back, competitors have become giants. Don't talk about suppressing competitors, it's good not to be suppressed by competitors.

Not willing to surrender hegemony, the British will naturally be no exception. Driven by interests, the British Empire couldn't help starting the chariot.

In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II had an unknown hunch since the conflict between Shinra and Britain intensified.

Although he dreamed that he wanted to provoke a war between Britain and Austria in order to act as a fisherman and get the most benefit from it.

But the time is wrong now! The Russian Empire was stuck in the quagmire of the Far East. Before the Japanese were dealt with, there was no time to distract him.

Do not say that the fisherman has benefited. Even the Far East battlefield needs the help of the Vienna government to be able to sustain it.

In this context, Mo said it was the fisherman who had benefited, and he would be lucky if he did not suffer from the fish.

The outbreak of war between Britain and Shinra will affect the foreign trade of the whole of Europe, and the Russian Empire will naturally be no exception.

If it's just a simple trade damage, in order to be able to make Shinra and Britain fight, Nicholas II would naturally not mind.

The problem is that the logistics of the Russian army on the Far East battlefield are all transported from the European continent.

Except for a small amount that was sent across Siberia to the Far East, most of them were transferred by sea and land via the Far East Empire, and then delivered to the frontline troops through smuggling.

The outbreak of war between Shinra and Britain will definitely affect the maritime communication lines. In particular, ships that transport strategic materials are the focus of the two sides' strikes against each other.

Injuries are inevitable. It's okay to encounter the Shinra Navy on the way, and will not seize one's own ship, and encountering the Royal Navy would be a tragedy.

Nicholas II did not think that his own face would be able to open up the British. You must know that Britain and Japan are allies. There has always been only hatred between Britain and Russia.

If the materials are deducted halfway, the Russian officers and soldiers on the front line will be tragedy. Without sufficient logistical supplies, they can't fight a war.

Thinking of this, without any hesitation, Nicholas II immediately ordered: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent people to remind us of our previous orders and at the same time increase orders to the major military factories in Shinra.

At all costs, we must also rush to send at least one year's worth of strategic materials to the Far East before the outbreak of the war between the two countries. "

No hurry, no time is waiting. But any slowness may lead to the defeat of the war.

Fortunately, the smuggling network has been opened up. You only need to send the materials to the Far Eastern Empire, and someone will take over and deliver them to the front lines. The tsarist government only needs to give money.

Foreign Minister Mikhailovich: "Your Majesty, will this be too hasty. Accumulating a large number of strategic materials in the territory of the Far Eastern Empire, and also to prevent the Japanese from doing things, can easily cause changes."

This worry is not superfluous. Who makes them offend many people! In the past few decades, I have been looting the wool of the Far Eastern Empire, and the seeds of hatred have long been planted.

The smuggling trade can proceed unimpeded. In addition to the high-levels of the Far Eastern Empire who hoped that Japan and Russia would suffer both losses, it is more important that the Shanxi merchants who only recognize money were responsible for transportation.

If it falls into the hands of nationalists, even if they don’t give up, they don’t expect it to be safely delivered to their destination.

We must know that the Japanese are not idle, they are carrying out anti-Russian propaganda day and night, and the Russian propaganda department has been strengthened by at least a hundred blocks.

Nicholas II shook his head and said, "I can't take care of that much now, and it will be too late. First send the materials to the Far Eastern Empire and entrust them to the Austrians.

They have a good relationship with the Far Eastern Empire. In order to avoid affecting the relations between the two countries, the Far Eastern government will not deal with their goods.

As long as the Holy Roman Empire is not defeated in the battle for hegemony, no one dares to act rashly. "

It can be seen that Nicholas II's mood is very contradictory now.

On the one hand, he needs the support of Shinra to win the ongoing Russo-Japanese War; on the other hand, he hopes that Shinra will be defeated. Only when Shinra is finished can the Russian Empire return to the center of the world.

Regardless of the contradictions in the heart, the Vienna government must stand together politically. The golden signboard of the Russian-Austrian League cannot just be lost.

As for the British wooing, Nicholas II never regarded it as the same thing. The hatred between Britain and Russia is too deep, even the czar dare not give up.

To form an alliance with the enemy and turn around to fight an ally is even more so without even thinking about it. If you really want to do that, you have to change to a czar.

There is only one Peter III, and there can always only be one. The same loss, the Russians will not suffer a second time.

Army Secretary Yevgeny said: "Your Majesty, the enemy has increased the density of air patrols. In order to ensure the safety of airships, we must increase **** efforts.

The War Department hopes to increase its procurement of aircraft to seize air supremacy on the battlefield in the Far East. "

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