Chapter 1039: Only Care About the Railroads You Once Had

  Chapter 1019: Only Care About the Railroads You Once Had

On November 11, 1894, in the presence of European countries, the representatives of Japan and the West signed an armistice. The colonial struggle around the Philippine Islands officially came to an end.

Franz did not bother to read the content of the treaty. The Spanish government made concessions was also expected, barefoot meets shoes, the end is doomed from the beginning.

In terms of gambling, there are really not many countries that can compare with Japan in recent times. There are a few countries that dare to go to the gambling table, but there are not many that can land safely.

Have to admit that the Japanese people’s luck is very good, the original time and space all the way to the Second World War, until the final ambition burst only to play the collapse.

As a matter of fact, the Japanese are no less lucky now.

The European war did not come to an end, it ran to hook up with Britain and France to go south; after going south and then posed Britain and France, did not go to the Austrian South Seas, but instead ran to invade the Philippines.

This series of tawdry operation down, the British, French, Austrian and Western four countries offended once. Together with the previously offended Russians, the five major European powers are complete.

Under normal circumstances, the Japanese government is at least dying, if not growing grass in its grave.

However, the Japanese government was still fine. Not only did it get off the table safely, but it also gained the prestige of having “pacified” the Great Powers and greatly improved its international status.

However, while reaping all these benefits, Japan also put itself in an extremely awkward situation.

Old Great Britain, because of the support in this mediation, both sides of the love affair has been exhausted.

The British-Japanese alliance is considered to draw a period, and then want to pull this tiger skin, it depends on the mood of the London government.

Shen Luo needless to say, estimated Franz abdication before, the relationship between the two sides can not be good.

Of course, the interests of the two countries are not intertwined in many places, even if the Japanese government’s style of bullying, the likelihood of conflict is very small, and diplomatic relations between the two countries can not be worse.

Spain, without a doubt, was Japan’s sworn enemy. With the hatred formed in the Battle of the Philippines, Spain would not mind falling on Japan’s sword whenever it was in crisis.

It can be said that the Japanese merchant ships will have to be careful in the future to run the business in the South Seas, it is best to change the flag to hang, otherwise the chance of encountering wind and waves, pirates will be very high.

There are enemies in the south, and the north is also not easy. Just ten days ago, Alexander III has gone to meet God, the Russian Empire officially entered the era of Nicholas II.

With those two scars, Nicholas II also had the motivation to get Japan killed.

The only good news was that the strategic center of gravity of the Tsarist government was still in India, and it was unlikely that it would move eastward for a while, and it would not confront Japan in a short time.

Luckily France was finished or Japan would have had one more enemy. You have to realize that in order to pull Japan southward, the French government also put in a lot of blood.

In the end, not only was their own Japan “ally” to pull together a set, but also accelerated Spain to enter the war, properly pit the king of teammates.

In the background of the North and South have enemies, if Japan can not develop as soon as possible, sooner or later the end will come.

Even if Ito Hirobumi diplomatic talent point to full level, unprecedented repair of British-Japanese relations, but also can not count on.

Now the international situation has been very obvious, because of the maritime hegemony, in the future for a long time, Britain and Shinra will hold each other.

The next Japanese people can not be good luck long companion, realize the “punch the South Mountain duck, kick the North Sea bear” dream of empire, Franz expressed great expectations.

The boring career of the emperor also needs spices, I do not know when it started, watching the countries tear each other apart has become one of Franz’s hobbies.

For example, like this time, casually digging a pit, the broken Spain in the war against France convergence of the “big country dream”, but also knocked the Japanese a stick.

The so-called “support Spain to hold back the Shinra plan”, I guess it is to be in the British archives have been sleeping, until one day to clean up the waste paper when it is disposed of.

The most important thing is that Franz has done so much and gained so much. Not only did he not pull hate, but he established a good international image in the hearts of his minions.

A boss who defended the interests of his little brothers and could carry the load at critical moments was always easy to embrace.

As for the tragedy of Spain, that is entirely due to their own strength is not good. What can be done, the Vienna government has done.

Not being able to defeat the Japanese can only be blamed on the ineffectiveness of their own army. How dare you call yourself a great power when you haven’t even defeated the Japanese?

Even when Spain performed badly on the battlefield, in the end, the Vienna government stepped in and helped to make things right.

First, it was mercenaries, and then it pulled the European Union to engage in intervention, and forced the Japanese government to spit out the Philippine Islands.

Bosses who can do this are rare in the entire history of mankind, and it’s really impossible to find a slot.

As for offending the Japanese, it was no big deal at all. It was common knowledge that the Vienna government was going to retaliate against Japan for hooking up with France during the Continental War.

To be able to get by so easily was already very difficult. Before the contrast in strength between the two sides, there is no essential change, the Japanese are only thankful.

Franz was more concerned about the regime change in Russia than the already ended Philippine War. But from the historical evaluation of the original time and space, Nicholas II was a mallet.

There are few emperors in the history of mankind who were able to kill or injure thousands of people in a stampede during a “coronation” event.

After such a big event, not immediately investigate the responsibility of the relevant personnel, but continue to celebrate the banquet, have to admit that Nicholas II’s heart is really strong.

But now that things hadn’t happened yet, and the butterfly effect that he had tossed out was so powerful, who knew if Nicholas II would change?

From the situation at hand, Russian-Austrian friendship is still the mainstream of the times.

This is not just succeeded the throne, Nicholas II married Hesse a Darmstadt Grand Duke – Ludwig IV’s daughter Alix.

(After the marriage, she changed her name to Alexandra Fedorovna.)

Thus the famous “Four Princesses of Hesse” all entered the stage of history.

If we follow the pace of the original time and space, Nicholas II dominated the tsarist government internally messed up the economy, external strategic center of gravity wavered, and finally got himself involved.

Now the Russian army is still stationed on the outskirts of Paris, is pulling the hatred of the French on behalf of the tsarist government, the Franco-Russian Concordat naturally can not come out.

But whether the Tsarist government’s strategy of moving southward could last forever is a question that no one can answer.

If the Russians do not go to stab the British in the Indian butt hole, then the next hegemony struggle, Shinra will have to take on the battle himself.

Obviously, this was not what Franz wanted to see. Have ready-made chess pieces do not use, personally go on the field to make things, that are brain-dead?

According to the previous plan, only need to support the Russians to India expansion, every now and then to come to the Anglo-Russian war, constantly consume the British national strength on the line.

It’s much easier to go up against lobster soldiers on land than it is to go up against the Royal Navy at sea.

As for the Russians seizing India to make it big, Franz just quietly laughs. Paint the cake is paint the cake, really think the British is a soft persimmon?

Reference to the original time and space to know, really if pushed, lobster soldiers are also capable of millions.

Not Franz look down on the Russians, the problem is limited by transportation, the tsarist government simply do not have the ability to invest millions of troops into India.

Even if the Central Asian Railway is repaired, the capacity of the railroad is limited, and it is not easy to support the logistics of one million eight hundred thousand troops.

Gray animals are not as powerful without the advantage of numbers. With the British Army as the core, plus countless Indian cannon fodder, whoever goes up there will feel numb.

It didn’t matter if they failed, the greatest strength of the woolly bear was its leathery and durable nature. It was enough to be able to make a difference and see hope.

Far from guaranteed, from the British hands to capture the remaining areas of Afghanistan, the Russian army still has the strength to be able to do.

Now the problem is that the Central Asian railroad is not open, Nicholas II is not like a patient master. In case of being fooled a little, it is not likely to be tossed out again.

After a long time of contemplation, Franz slowly said: “accelerate the construction of the Central Asian Railway, be sure to open before 1900.

If necessary, allow an increase in construction costs, or even sacrifice the service life of the railroad can also be, the bottom line is to ensure that no major problems within ten years, within twenty years to repair can be used.”

The service life of the railroad, there is not a clear definition, certain eighteenth-century railroads, tinkering to the twenty-first century can be used normally.

In general, the design of the theoretical service life of the railroad, are a hundred years to start. Of course, the midway maintenance, remodeling is certainly inevitable.

But this is the technical standard for building your own railroad, and it’s unnecessary to put it on the Central Asian railroad.

Do not ask why things go wrong, ask is improper maintenance at a later stage.

This argument is very convincing, the railroads in Russia are overhauled every other day. In contrast to ten years without major problems, the Central Asian Railway, which can be repaired and used in twenty years, is indeed a project of conscience.

In fact, the problem of longevity is mainly concentrated in bridges and tunnels. Ordinary sections of the railroad are basically not a big deal, at most, there is an occasional landslide, but that is the force majeure of nature.

In order to ensure that the tsarist government’s strategy of going south remained unchanged, Franz had to order a rush, and for this reason he did not hesitate to lower his “modesty”.

A decade or two of service life, I think, is enough. Not really let the Russians annexed India, so long, can provoke two or three times the Anglo-Russian war.

At the same time caught up in the struggle for land power and sea power of Britain, can not last long. Such a long time, has been enough to take the place of God Luo.

“I don’t care about the length of time, I only care about what I had.”

It’s just the right thing to put here.

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(End of chapter)