C1325 Russias Oriental Strategy (1/2)

There was no such thing as justice in a war. Humans covetously believed that everything was theirs, but there were still countless others that believed that everything was theirs.

When you plant a field of wheat and work hard, you think all the harvest is your own, but it's not. The tax collector thinks that a third of it is his, the king thinks that the land is his, the thieves think that half of it is his, and the foreign bandits think that everything in the land is his and your wife's.

Not only that, but even birds and mice believed that they had a share of the land.

In fact, in the hearts of the high-ranking military officers of the aristocracy, Shao Russia and the others, what they had done was the same as what the Qing Dynasty had done 200 years ago and the Yuan Dynasty had done 500 years ago.

If one wanted to be happy, they would have to fight for the people in the warm lands. What is so unreasonable about this kind of robbery that runs through the entire human world?

Look at Paris, London, Berlin, Austria... Who were the ancestors of the people who lived happily in the cities of civilization? Germanic, Gallic, Viking, Gothic... There was once a name for these people, and it was the label given to them by the Roman Empire, the Berserker Tribe.

The great Roman Empire was destroyed by the wars of the foreign races, the ethnic minorities in the bitter cold lands of the north. With the spirit of the fearless robbers who were unafraid of death, pain, and sacrifice, they defeated Rome and established their own nation.

All of this had happened in the East and West, especially in China. For thousands of years, the Northern barbarians had been waging war for the wealth of the Central Plains, even establishing a regime that lasted for hundreds of years.

Why should the Manchu enslave the Chinese for two hundred years, when the great Tsar could not enslave the Chinese for two hundred years? Your Manchu can enter the stage, and we can also enter the stage. In any case, the Chinese are just a group of docile little sheep.

Was there any difference between paying taxes to the Manchu and paying taxes to the Tsar? In any case, in the history of the Chinese people, was it rare to pay taxes in exchange for peace and a way to survive?

Sha Russia and English and French were completely different. Right now, the English and French was fighting for the benefit of the sea, their desire for the territory was not very strong, and when they occupied the colonies, they valued the ports, the golden route, and the resources of the colonies.

In the English and French's mind, as long as your port and waterway can be used by me as I please, the resources would be given to me cheaply and our industrial products could be dumped freely.

As long as you can guarantee these few things, we have absolutely no interest in subverting your power. Who do you want to be the emperor and who want to be the emperor?

But the Russian was different. The interests of the Sand Empire lay on the land, not in the sea. Why was it that until the 19th century, the Sand Country was still a serfdom society? Because of this bitter cold land, the output of the land was far inferior to that of the warm land in the south. If people wanted to obtain more food output, they would have to cultivate on the land.

Furthermore, the nineteenth century was not yet in the era of mechanization. Even British farming relied on manpower and livestock.

This was a magic spell as well as a vicious circle. If the natural environment was poor and the industry was poor, the productivity would plummet and the output per unit of land would be pitifully low.

Since the output per unit area was too little, people had to desperately expand the land area in order to survive. Whether it was farming or animal husbandry, if the efficiency was not enough, they had to make up for it with quantity.