Rise of Australia

Chapter 136 The situation in the Far East

The meaning of the Australian Deputy Foreign Minister is very simple. It is true that Australia has sufficient mineral resources, but if it wants to sell it to an island country, the price must be at least doubled.

Don’t underestimate the doubling of the gap. The mineral resources needed by the country’s industrial imports are tens of thousands of tons. A doubling of the price gap may lead to an increase in costs of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of pounds.

Yuzawa Koichiro also expected that Australia would increase the price of mineral resources. After all, the most fundamental thing between countries is interests. If you don't fight for your own country's interests, then it is actually equivalent to treason.

Yuzawa Koichiro had anticipated this situation before he left for Australia.

Although the price of the mining industry of the ally British Empire is not very high, it is lower than that of Australia, which is twice the price.

However, the areas where the British Empire can provide mineral resources are too far away from the island countries. If transportation costs are added, the raw material prices of the British Empire will be much higher than those of Australia.

Especially when the island country is just an island country, the only way to transport materials to it is by sea.

However, the speed of the current large transport ships is generally not high, and the time cost, labor cost and capital consumption required are not small figures.

Although the island country has received financial assistance from the British Empire and the United States, it is currently considered a small asset.

But the ambitions of the islanders don’t stop there. The reason why they kneel and lick the British Empire to please the United States is to gain the support of the two countries, and then challenge the status of the Tsarist Russian Empire, the hegemon in northern East Asia, to establish their own hegemony in East Asia. status.

But was the Tsarist Russian Empire so easy to challenge?If it weren't for the fact that the country was too large, and that Russia's ally, France, was unwilling to transfer most of Russia's power to East Asia, and therefore did not support Russia's actions in Asia, the island country really did not dare to challenge the ambition of the Russian Empire.

Right now is also the best opportunity to challenge the Tsarist Russian Empire. The island country has won the dual support of the British Empire and the United States, but what about Tsarist Russia?France, the ally that signed the agreement, was unwilling to let Tsarist Russia shift its attention to East Asia, which also led to the fact that Russia's strategy did not have the support of many countries in East Asia, except Germany.

Therefore, the current East Asian dispute can be divided into two camps. The island countries and the British Empire and the United States that support the island countries are the challengers, while the Tsarist Russian Empire and Germany, which is trying to win over Russia, are the steadfast factions.

The Tsarist Russian Empire wants to maintain its dominance in East Asia, but the current island countries in East Asia have risen, and it also wants to obtain its due rights and status.

This is similar to the current situation in Europe. The conflict of interests between the established powers and the emerging powers is doomed to a war between these two countries sooner or later.

However, unlike the relatively balanced situation in Europe, the current situation in East Asia is more inclined to the island countries, which is why the people of the island countries dare to provoke war with confidence two years later.

You must know that even two years later, from the perspective of national size and international relations, the Tsarist Russian Empire is among the top five powers in the world, while the island country is just an emerging country that is learning from the West to rise.

Perhaps the strength of the island country has surpassed that of already weakened countries like Italy and Spain, but if they want to fight against the Tsarist Russian Empire, which is the top four in Europe, the chances of winning are not great on the surface.

But in fact, because of the vast territory of the Tsarist Russian Empire, the inconvenient transportation, and the attitude of its ally France, the power in East Asia is not much.

The regular Russian troops in the Far East Military Region are less than 10 people, and they are scattered throughout the Far East.

These people say they are a regular army, but in fact the quality of the soldiers is poor, the level of equipment is low, and there are serious contradictions between senior officers and junior soldiers within the army.

Of course, such problems do not only appear in the Far East Army.Just like his huge age, the Tsarist Russian Empire has fallen into a stage of decay.

Although it has undergone a less successful reform, it cannot effectively increase the country's fate. If it is not because the core territory is located in the West, which has attracted some achievements of the industrial revolution, I am afraid that the fate of the Tsarist Empire will be compared with that of a major East Asian country. It won't be too good to say.

Although the army standing army of the Tsarist Russian Empire reached a terrifying 5 million people, the reserve army reached 3705 million people.

However, the troops deployed in the Far East are less than one-tenth, and the equipment and logistics are far behind the western region.

Poor quality of soldiers, poor logistical supplies, and backward equipment levels plus discord between soldiers and officers, what kind of combat effectiveness can such an army break out?
It is not easy to say whether it is possible to win a war with a decadent country, let alone an island country that has just experienced a revival and revival.

How difficult is it for Tsarist Russia to transport supplies to the Far East?It is impossible for the fleet to go to the Arctic Ocean. If you want to go by sea, you have to cross Europe, South Asia, and East Asia to reach Northeast Asia.

Such transportation costs are a huge burden for a country like Tsarist Russia, and it is also a huge expenditure that the country can never afford.

Then the solution that can be solved is land transportation, that is, railway transportation.

The Tsarist Russian Empire spent huge sums of money to build a Siberian Railway, which runs through the most important western European region of Tsarist Russia and the Far East which has important strategic significance and has a warm and ice-free port.

But there is an important problem. So far, this railway has not been fully opened to traffic.

You know, this is a huge railway connecting Moscow and Vladivostok, and its length can be called the longest in the world today.

You must know that the total length of the large industrial railway that Australia is expected to spend ten years to build is only over [-] kilometers.

And what about the Trans-Siberian Railway?Because it connects the west and the Far East, it is equivalent to running through the entire territory of the Tsarist Russian Empire.

This also led to the length of the Siberian Railway to a terrifying 9000 two hundred and eighty-eight kilometers, which is more than four times that of the Australian Industrial Railway.

The first initial opening to traffic was in July 1904, after which the Russo-Japanese War was over.

As a result, the huge railway that the Tsarist Russian Empire spent a lot of materials and thoughts ended hastily without making much contribution to the Russo-Japanese War.

The impact of this war on the Tsarist Russian Empire was still huge, and the profits in the Far East were greatly lost, which also caused the domestic classes to become more and more dissatisfied with the status quo.

Even the future revolution in World War I may not be without the failure of this war. In short, after this war, the island country officially rose, and the Tsarist Russian Empire officially came to an end.

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