Chapter 1130: The Tangled Tsar

  Chapter 1109 – The Tangled Tsar

The government is taking action, and the private sector has not been idle. The fastest reaction is the capital market, strategic materials in the futures market prices continue to climb, the stock market also staged a fire and ice.

Enterprises engaged in overseas trade have a counting one, all of them fell skeptical of life, replaced by the military industrial plate quickly pulled up.

For the sake of their own interests, the capitalists engaged in overseas trade quickly acted, launched a powerful anti-war activities in the whole of Europe.

Especially in small European countries, almost the whole population participated together, submitting petitions to the British and Austrian embassies abroad, calling on the two countries to calm down and solve the problem with negotiations.

Unfortunately, it was of no use, as both Britain and Shinra’s chariots had already been started, and simply could not be stopped just because they wanted to.

It was not that Franz did not respect public opinion, on the contrary, the war was started precisely because of public opinion. Although the voice of the people against the war is high, but the voice of the main war is bigger ah!
The only people left in the country who were against the war were the idealists, except for those whose interests were jeopardized. There is no doubt that the voices of these people are simply insignificant compared to society as a whole.

There was no way around it, that British deer was just too fat. If the British Empire remained as strong as ever, everyone could only hold back their ambitions even if they had them.

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

Originally, although everyone suspected the strength of the British, but deterred by the prestige of the Royal Navy, a moment and a half did not dare to act rashly.

But along with the British announced the withdrawal of the free trade system, all of a sudden will be their own bottom to leak out, everyone suddenly found the former factory of the world is now thinning out.

Once the soft underbelly is exposed, it is obviously impossible to have the deterrent power before.

There are still a lot of smart people in this world, Franz was able to think of piling up the British with the number of people, folk naturally can also think of someone.

With the advantage of industrial volume, Shen Luo can do: the British every build a warship, their own built two to compete with it.

The navy is a technical soldier, but also a technological soldier. No matter how elite the Royal Navy was, it was impossible for it to be one against two at sea.

At least not if the performance of their ships is similar.

Then the question arises, obviously their own comprehensive national strength is stronger, why let the British as the boss?

This is not a vanity contest, behind it comes a lot of benefits. The biggest dividend is naturally monetary hegemony, this thing is pretty much world hegemony bundled together.

In the last decade or two, the British hegemony wasn’t solid enough, and along with the monetary hegemony of the British pound, a huge chunk of meat was also taken away by the divine shield.

But no amount of sharing was better than eating alone. Being able to finish off the British and enjoy the monetary hegemony alone no one can refuse.

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

Turning the tables once and for all was no joke. According to Franz the Great’s usual style, the most fertile land is to be partitioned out, so there is no way that everyone will not be moved.

We are looking forward to the moon, it is not easy to wait until the fall of the British Empire, if we do not do it quickly, what if the British revival later?
This is a precedent, the Holy Roman Empire old empire is the typical rebirth of fire, who can not guarantee that the British can not do.

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

With a little internal fine-tuning and catching up on the homework they left behind in the Second Industrial Revolution, they are still the bullish Sunset Empire.

There was no need to crush Shinra’s strength; as long as the two sides were close, the Vienna government was unlikely to mount a challenge that would doom both sides.

Perhaps Britannia would fall even further in the future, but everyone’s patience was pretty much worn out and they weren’t willing to wait any longer.

Besides, the British were not going to sit on their hands. If reform was really that simple, Campbell wouldn’t have stopped.

It is because he has changed everything that can be changed, and when the time comes to “reform”, he is suddenly stuck, and has no choice but to suppress his rivals in order to consolidate his hegemony.

As a result, when we look back, our competitors have all become giants. Not to mention the suppression of competitors, not to be suppressed by competitors even good.

There is no willingness to give up their hegemony, and the British are naturally no exception. Driven by interests, the British Empire could not help but start the chariot.

St. Petersburg, ever since the conflict between Shinra and Britain intensified, Nicholas II had an uneasy feeling.

Although he dreamed of provoking a war between Britain and Austria in order to act as a fisherman and maximize profits.

But the time was not right! The Russian Empire was deeply mired in the Far East and had no time to be distracted until the Japanese were resolved.

Even the Far East battlefield needed the help of the Vienna government to support it, not to mention the fisherman’s profit.

In this context, not to mention the fisherman’s advantage, not to be affected by the fish is lucky.

The outbreak of war between Britain and Shenla, the foreign trade of the whole of Europe will be affected, and the Russian Empire will naturally not be an exception.

If it is just a simple trade damage, in order to be able to let the God Luo and Britain to kill, Nicholas II naturally will not mind.

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

In addition to a small amount is sent across Siberia to the Far East, most of them are traveling by sea and land through the Far Eastern Empire transit, and then handed over to the frontline troops through smuggling.

With the outbreak of the war between Shinra and Britain, the sea lines of transportation were bound to be affected. Especially the ships that transport strategic materials are the focus of mutual strikes between the two sides.

Misadventure is inevitable, halfway through the encounter with the Shen Luo navy is okay, will not seize their own ships, encountered the Royal Navy that would be a tragedy.

Nicholas II does not think that the face of the family, will be able to let the British net a one-sided, we must know that Britain and Japan is the alliance, Britain and Russia have never only hatred between them.

Halfway through the supplies, the Russian soldiers and officers on the front line will be a tragedy. Without sufficient logistical supplies, they could not afford to fight.

Thinking of this, without any hesitation, Nicholas II immediately ordered: “The foreign ministry to send someone to urge our previous orders, at the same time to the Shen Luo major military factories to increase orders.

At all costs, we must also snatch at least a year’s worth of strategic supplies to the Far East before the war between the two countries breaks out.”

It couldn’t be done without haste, now it was time that waited for no one. But any step slower could lead to the defeat of the war.

Fortunately, the smuggling network had already been opened up, and all that was needed was to send the supplies into the Far East Empire, and someone would take over and be responsible for transporting them to the front lines, and the Tsarist government would just have to pay for them.

Foreign Minister Mikhailovich: “Your Majesty, will this be too hasty. Piling up a large amount of strategic supplies within the Far Eastern Empire and having to guard against the Japanese messing things up could easily cause a change of heart.”

This worry was not unwarranted, who made them offend more people! The recent decades had been spent jerking the Far Eastern Empire’s wool, and the seeds of hatred had been planted long ago.

Smuggling trade can be carried out unhindered, in addition to the Far Eastern Empire’s top management hopes that Japan and Russia will lose, more importantly, the one responsible for transportation is the Jin merchants who only recognize money.

If it falls into the hands of nationalists, even if they do not give less than a fire, then do not expect to be able to safely delivered to the destination.

You should know that the Japanese are not idle, day and night in anti-Russian propaganda, out of the Russian propaganda department is at least a hundred streets strong.

Nicholas II shook his head and said: ”We can’t afford to worry about that now, if we are late, it will be too late. First send the supplies to the Far Eastern Empire and entrust them to the care of the Austrians.

They have a good relationship with the Far Eastern Empire, in order to avoid affecting the relationship between the two countries, the Far Eastern government will not lay hands on their goods.

As long as the Holy Roman Empire doesn’t lose the battle for hegemony, no one will dare to act rashly.”

It could be seen that Nicholas II was in a very conflicted mood right now.

On the one hand, he needed the support of the Holy Roman to win the ongoing Russo-Japanese War; on the other hand, he hoped that the Holy Roman would be defeated, and only when the Holy Roman was finished would the Russian Empire be able to return to the center of the world.

No matter how conflicted he was inside, he still had to stand with the Vienna government politically. The gold standard of the Russian-Austrian alliance could not be lost just like that.

As for the British solicitation, Nicholas II never took it seriously. The hatred between Britain and Russia was so deep that even the Tsar did not dare to give it up lightly.

Allied with the enemy, turn around to fight the ally, that is even more do not even think about it. If you really want to do that, you have to change the tsar.

There is only one Peter III and there can only ever be one. The Russians would not take the same loss twice.

Minister of War Evgeny spoke up, “Your Majesty, the enemy has increased the density of patrols in the air. In order to safeguard the airships, we must increase our escort.

The Ministry of War hopes enough to increase its purchasing efforts for airplanes in order to seize air control on the Far East battlefield.”

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(End of chapter)