Chapter 1165: Falling Down the Well

  Chapter 1143 – Falling Down the Well
Although the Seven Injury Fist had a serious backlash, one had to admit that its power was just great. Especially with the European countries pushing for it, the power that erupted was even greater.

The Siberian Railway was interrupted, and the great situation in the Russian Far East was turned into water; the Central Asian Railway was cut off, and the Alliance’s offensive in India was interrupted.

The outbreak of civil unrest in the Russian Empire, the tsarist government was too preoccupied to care about the Russian troops on the front line.

The Russian army in the Far East was out of reach, but the Russian army in Central Asia, as an ally could not watch them starve, especially since the Allied forces had successfully met.

Fortunately, India was rich enough to get some of the supplies in situ for resupply, or Franz could only order a withdrawal.

Now, although the army was not withdrawn, it was not going to launch an attack for a while. Suddenly there were 800,000 extra mouths to feed, crowding out a great deal of the Allied army’s capacity.

Not only the Indian battlefield was affected, even the progress of the “Sea Lion Program” was delayed.

The European continent is in chaos, how can France be stable? There is no big mess, that is because the allied forces to land in the British Isles, temporary residence in France.

With millions of troops gathered, even the biggest chaos could be extinguished. After the failure of several successive rebellions, the revolutionaries stopped playing armed insurrection and started a strike movement instead.

Affected by the general strike, the railroads in France were once interrupted, in order to stabilize the rear, the allied forces had to extinguish the fire in the backyard first.

The European continent is such a big place, and the countries are so closely connected that the situation affects the whole body.

In order to stabilize the backyard, not only to help the French government to stabilize the situation, but also to help other allied countries to stabilize the situation.

For example: helping the King of Portugal to restore his throne.

Even though the Republicans also said they were joining the coalition to continue the war against Britain, but to screw up at this point in time is to be an enemy of the coalition, the kind that is not negotiable in the slightest.

Allies, naturally, should help each other. With the exception of France and Portugal, where the Allies took the field themselves, the rest were governments acting on their own initiative.

Whether this help had a positive or negative effect is a matter for further study.

Anyway, in Franz’s opinion, without the selflessness of the Allies, the turmoil in Europe would have been at most one-third of what it is now.

There was nothing to blame, politics as it was. The European countries had a long history of conflict with each other, and even if they had been pulled down into an alliance, it didn’t mean that the conflict no longer existed.

It’s only a problem if you don’t pull the trigger when the opportunity is presented to you. There is absolutely no need to be polite when it’s the Brits who are taking the blame anyway.

Who has more enemies is the most intuitive reflection at this time. Without any surprises, the Russian Empire, which has been in chaos from the east to the west and from the south to the north, has topped the pitted list by an absolute margin.

Union internal noise fierce, the Vienna government is ignored. It is not that Franz does not want to act, it is really his own family is also involved in it, and there is no bottom to speak.

Anyway, things have already happened, it is too late to stop. It is in everyone’s interest to make peace, dump the pot on the British, and maintain the internal unity of the alliance.

The British Empire, after the Battle of the Channel, is already a “grave”, so there is no harm in cleaning it up later.

As long as there is no unrest within the Shinra, Franz can sit back and watch the world go by.

Interest is the eternal motivation, looking at the British will be pulled down to replace their own position, the Holy Roman Empire is unprecedented internal unity.

Just look at the end result of the screw-up. The anti-war movement in Hanover, which had only just begun, was suppressed by the state government.

Britannia’s local influence, in the end, did not outweigh its interests. For the sake of their own interests, the Hanoverian aristocracy, the military, and the bourgeoisie were all very firm in their stance on the war.

Even the pro-British faction now wants to overthrow the British so that they can inherit the rich legacy of the British Empire.

To be anti-war is not only to cut off everyone’s finances, but also to cut off everyone’s future.

The hatred of blocking the road is not shared.

Against this background, anti-war naturally will not have a good outcome.

This is also the case in reality. No sooner had the experts and scholars who called on all the people to oppose the war shouted a few slogans than they were labeled as “British spies”.

And then, there was no more. In a chaotic world, the most important thing to do is to use the most severe punishment, and even if you offend all the interest groups, you can’t expect to have a future even if you can save your life.

In contrast, the Prussian anti-Russians were much happier, and were only warned.

In Prussia, the anti-Russian movement has been going on for decades, and has long since become one of the daily activities of the residents.

On certain days, the civil society marches every year. Now it was only a few days earlier, and not a big deal at all.

On the surface it had no impact, but the political impact was much greater. The fact that the anti-Russian elements were not dealt with was seen by the outside world as a political signal that the Vienna government was anti-Russian.

In a sense, the fact that people had no qualms about laying their hands on the Russian Empire was also influenced by this.

Misleading is fine, Franz will not come out at this time to explain that it is the Prussian government and the Vienna government has nothing to do.

Although this is true, the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire has a clear provision, unless it is a major incident involving national security, the central government can not intervene in the internal affairs of the state before the state government did not take the initiative to invite.

The anti-Russian demonstrations clearly did not involve national security. It is even more unlikely that the Prussian government would give up its high degree of autonomy for such a trivial matter.

Facts are facts, but politics is supposed to complicate simple things. If we give an explanation now, we will be seen by the outside world as “not having any silver lining here”.

If you have the time, you might as well support the Irish independence movement. At least it would further discourage the British and shorten the duration of the war.

……

St. Petersburg, along with the wave of revolution, the leaky house of the Russian Empire on all sides, drifted further and further into the storm.

Nicholas II, who has entered middle age, has matured a lot in both heart and political skill, but he is still not capable of cleaning up the current mess.

War, strikes, revolutions, and independence all collided.

In fact, the strike movement in the Russian Empire had its beginnings two months earlier.

It was just that the number of people involved in the strikes then was not as large as it is now, much less spread throughout the country.

With the joint efforts of the Tsarist government and the capitalists, the storm was soon calmed down, but the problems involved were not fundamentally solved.

Prices continued to rise, overtime hours lengthened, and the only thing that didn’t move was wages.

There were already a lot of social conflicts, and the revolutionary movement supported by the British naturally became the trigger.

In favor of the Russian Empire, at a time when it needed help the most, the allies jumped in and fell on their sword.

For example: the Finnish independence movement, in addition to the limited support of the British, it was the Nordic Confederation that contributed more.

Another example: the Polish independence movement, which was backed by the Kingdom of Prussia.

……

These support activities could not be limited to moral support, but real money was taken out.

If one digs deeper one realizes that the main commanders of the rebels were actually serving in the armies of various countries until a few months ago.

In order to make things happen, people don’t even want to lose their faces, so naturally they won’t be afraid of protests from the Tsarist government.

One can only say that the era belonging to the Russian Empire is over. Even the tsarist government’s repeated declarations of future retaliation could not shake everyone’s determination to make things happen.

There was no way that the European hegemony was now the Holy Roman Empire. It doesn’t matter if you want to do something secretly, but if you want to send troops to attack a sovereign country, you should ask the boss whether he agrees or not.

In fact, even if the Vienna government does not interfere, the Russian Empire can not do anything.

There are too many countries involved, and it is still unknown who will beat who in the end if they fight against each other.

The question of retaliation is not urgent, the most important thing is to get through the current situation.

The strike movement that has spread throughout the country is still intensifying, and almost every city with a population of more than 100,000 people is experiencing a wave of strikes.

Even more worrying for Nicholas II were the numerous rebellions in the country. By now, the population involved was approaching thirty percent of the total population of the Russian Empire.

When you open the map, you can see that half of the Russian Empire is covered with rebel flags. If they can’t handle it well, the Russian Empire is going to be in trouble.

“Bang!”

The cup in his hand fell to the ground with a loud thud, and the boiling hot coffee splashed in all directions.

“What, the Austrians cut off our strategic supplies?”

There was no way for Nicholas II not to be nervous, the war had been going on until now, and the strategic supplies provided by Shinra had already taken up half of all supplies.

If there is a sudden absence of these supplies, what will fill this gap? If the supply of strategic materials is insufficient, let the Russian army with what to suppress the rebellion, and with what to ……

Foreign Minister Mikhailovich explained: “It is not a complete cut-off, but only a temporary reduction in the supply of strategic goods to us, about ten percent of the previous share can be retained.

The reason given by the Vienna government is that in order to safeguard the logistical supplies of our legions to the south, it can only cut the quota of strategic goods supplied to our homeland.”

Hearing this explanation, Nicholas II was instantly choked. Wanting to condemn, there was no way to say anything.

Although it was a joint war, because of the geographic factor, the Russian army’s logistics one was currently independent of the allied forces.

Now that the Central Asian region is in rebellion, the Russian army in India has broken its back, and can only rely on the allied forces to support it.

Suddenly more than eight hundred thousand troops, the need for strategic materials is naturally not a small number. Such a large gap cannot be made up just by saying it can be made up.

Standing in the position of the allied forces, reduce the input of strategic materials to Russia, used to fill this pit, is undoubtedly the optimal choice.

Anyway, in the end are used in the Russian army, the Vienna government commitment to provide the total strategic supplies have not been reduced, is not a breach of contract.

The problem is in the open, Nicholas II can not even oppose. Otherwise the front line of the eight hundred thousand Russian troops, will have to starve.

But the suppression of domestic rebellion, also need to consume a lot of strategic materials.

Especially the rebels occupied the Central Asian Railway and Siberian Railway, the tsarist government beforehand hoarded in the strategic materials along the railroad, also fell into the hands of the rebels.

Realizing the big deal, Nicholas II hurriedly ordered, “Immediately send people to communicate with the Vienna government, let them increase the quota of strategic materials.”

The hope is slim, but also must try, or the battle to suppress the domestic rebellion behind will be difficult to fight.

(End of chapter)