I weave fate in parallel time and space

Chapter 360 Decline due to the ruler

Tesla and his son left the tavern together with the middle-aged man, and walked out through the Swiss door.

Middle-aged people will take them to meet the top of their party and hold a meeting.

They will finally choose a real direction for the fate of the Slavs.

Although the current Tsarist Russia has a huge territory, it is strong on the outside and strong on the inside.

Nicholas II was ambitious and talented. He inherited his ancestors' desire for land, but he did not have the ability of his ancestors.

His domestic governance can be described as horrible. The contradictions have not been resolved, but have continued to increase.

However, this country is crucial to the Allies.

The German Empire has very strong industrial capabilities, and they have successfully integrated most of the industrial resources for government regulation.

However, the size of the country determines their upper limit. In addition to two-line combat, resource issues and strategic depth are also important reasons for their defeat in another world.

However, it is different now. With the huge resources in the huge Tsarist Russia and the industrial strength of Germany, this powerful alliance cannot be ignored even by Beichen and Britannia.

And the final outcome of this war will also be confusing.

Tesla understood this early on, and the position of Tsarist Russia determines the final direction of this war.

This is also the direction of his efforts during his missions to various countries.

For Tesla, he does not expect Tsarist Russia to support them, but as long as they do not support the Allies, it is already decisive.

The popular base created by Nicholas II and the cloth party in Tsarist Russia over the years is enough to bring about a revolution.

However, if you want to bring about a change, it is useless to just have a popular base, and armed struggle is necessary.

What they lack is something that can fight against mechs, and these Teslas can give them.

The last piece of the puzzle of change has been put together.

In fact, Shaar doesn't need to do much, this is the direction where the torrent of human history is bound to flow.

However, he can change some details in this inevitable direction.

The embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest, and even a rushing river may change its direction due to some small tributaries.

After they left, Xia also silently packed up the things on the bar in the tavern.

In fact, if it was the past, Shaar would use magic whenever he could for these household chores.

But it is different now. As he gets older, he prefers to enjoy the joy of labor itself.

Seeing that the cups are neatly arranged under my own packing, and the tabletop is also cleaned spotlessly by myself, there will be some sense of accomplishment in it.

Alicia used to like to vent her boredom through labor when she was not very happy.

In fact, labor should be enjoyable, a sense of accomplishment, and a means of creating value and self-satisfaction.

However, with the start of the industrial revolution, human society has become more and more developed, and the value that human beings can create has become more and more limited.

Population growth, the number of various types of work is growing rapidly, and under the blessing of a vicious competitive environment called "involution", the value of individuals is getting cheaper.

When most of the value created by your labor is captured by the "boss", the remaining sense of self-satisfaction also disappears.

Since then, labor has become a means of survival. People do the same job day after day, lose the joy of labor, and live as a numb machine for survival.

Labor naturally loses its original meaning.

At this time, a person walked out of the corridor on one side, wearing a fresh plain winter dress, a white sable winter cloak on his shoulders, and a ermine with the same color as the cloak on his head. fur hat.

With her long white hair and the high nose bridge that Caucasians have, she really has the feeling of a snow country beauty.

In fact, Tsarist Russia has been infected with many yellow race genes in the blood since the Great Mongol Empire.

From the period of the Great Beichen Empire, they also intermarried with a large number of Han people, so their appearance is not as sharp as that of the Germanic people, but relatively soft, which is more in line with the aesthetics of the oriental people.Alicia looks just like the people here.

"Is it packed?" Alicia asked.

"Okay." Shaar said.

Xiaya took off the apron on his body and hung it on a hook on one side.

Alicia stepped forward slowly and embraced Shaar's arms, and the two walked out of the tavern together.

Every evening, Xia would walk with Alicia on the streets of foreign countries, it could be any country.

Facing the wind blowing, watching the flowers fall, enjoying the passage of time.

A coolness slipped across the face quietly, and quickly disappeared without a trace.It was snow, and Alicia slowly raised her head. The snow had not yet fallen heavily, and she could only faintly see a few grains of crystal snow foam falling.

The snow slowly spread a layer of light gauze on the ground.Pedestrians were silent and their steps were light, as if they were afraid of crushing the winter gauze.The noise of the city has disappeared, maybe they are also afraid of breaking the tranquility and beauty of the snow.

Alicia looked around, "Compared with the past, this Moscow is really different."

As the former capital of Tsarist Russia, it also has a rich cultural atmosphere and beautiful urban architecture.

However, compared to the past, there are more thick pipes here, and some chimneys can be seen emitting steam and white smoke.

Today's Tsarist Russia is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. Geographically, from west to east, it can be roughly divided into the Eastern European Plain, the Ural Mountains, the Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, the Eastern Mountains, and then the Pacific Ocean.

Moscow is located in the center of the Eastern European Plain, which is relatively westward in terms of the overall land position of Tsarist Russia. The Moskva River runs through the territory, and the name of the city is also derived from this river.

Although it is located in the center of the Eastern European Plain, there are many shortcomings in Moscow's terrain.

First of all, there is no water transportation advantage of the seaport, and the plain terrain is not easy to defend.From the perspective of the geographical location of the entire Tsarist Russia, it is too far to the west, which makes operation and management not easy.

However, although the territory of Tsarist Russia spanned the Eurasian continent, the Tsarist Russians themselves always considered themselves to be a European country, and the development of large cities also focused on the Eastern European Plain on the left side of the Ural Mountains on the Eurasian boundary.

In addition, ancient Russia belonged to the feudal system, so the rise of the city did not necessarily have an environmental advantage, but it must be related to the rise and fall of the leader of the principality.

Moscow, an area where humans lived in the Neolithic Age, was named after Yuri Dolgoruky, Prince of Rostov-Suzdal and Grand Duke of Kiev.

When he was still a prince in 1147, he won a power struggle and invited relatives and friends to Moscow to celebrate.

This has also become the earliest documented record in the area, as well as the year when Moscow was nominally founded.After he became the ruler of Kievan Rus, he also built fortifications in Moscow and became a military stronghold, gradually forming a basic pattern.

But the core of the regime in that era was based on Kiev, and Moscow, a small, dilapidated place, certainly did not have the conditions to become the capital.

Kievan Rus was a feudal system composed of vassal states.

At that time, the rulers of vassal states were called princes.The head of the vassal state is called the Grand Duke.However, the huge Kievan Rus also encountered the invasion of the Mongol Empire in the middle of the 13th century. Batu, the grandson of Genghis Khan, established the Qinchak Khanate (Golden Horde) here.

Although the conceptual Kievan Rus has been destroyed, the various vassal states under its banner still enjoy a certain degree of autonomy and freedom in addition to the obligation to pay taxes and perform military service.

However, at this time, Moscow avoided the influence of the war because of its inconspicuousness, and gradually developed.

The first prince of Moscow was Daniel.Alexandrovich.Daniel's father was the grand duke at the time, and died when Daniel was 2 years old. He left Moscow, which had no economic value at that time, as a legacy and gave Daniel a princely fiefdom.

In the future, Daniel would use the Kremlin as the center to establish churches, government departments and other public construction facilities with a symbolic meaning of power.

In the scuffle for power between his brothers, he was always able to see the direction of the wind and stand on the dominant side, which also greatly expanded Moscow's influence.

But what really made Daniel highly respected by the Russians was that he broke through the plight of the Mongol Empire's occupation and the struggle for royal power with his outstanding skills, and maintained the peace in Moscow in a bloodless way.

The two sons who later succeeded him to rule were not inferior, and formed friendly relations in the intermarriage and alliance with the ruler of the Mongol Empire.

After the power of taxation, the territory and wealth were quickly accumulated, and these resources were poured into the construction of the Kremlin in turn, so that the Orthodox metropolitan originally set up in Kiev moved to Moscow in the mid-14th century.So the Principality of Moscow raised its political, economic and religious status in this way.

However, the expansion will inevitably arouse the high vigilance of neighboring countries. For example, Lithuania, a neighboring country with different beliefs, has had many conflicts with Moscow.

In the middle of the 15th century, the Islamized Kipchak Khanate felt a sense of crisis due to its gradual decline, so it united with several principalities including Lithuania to send troops to attack Moscow.

At that time, in order to protect the regime and the Orthodox faith, the Grand Duke of Moscow beat the invading enemy army and won the war.After defeating the Mongol Empire and establishing prestige, it also completely changed its original stance of being close to the Mongol Empire, starting from refusing to pay taxes, and gradually getting out of control by adopting confrontational methods.

In 1476, under the leadership of Ivan III, the Principality of Moscow officially became independent, and even expanded its original territory by as much as six times.His grandson Ivan IV established the Russian Tsarist State after unifying the various places and became the first Tsar "Ivan the Terror", nicknamed "Thunder Emperor".

The title of terror not only explains his extreme character, but also expresses his iron-blooded means of completely turning the loose feudal system into a centralized one.

Tsarist Russia was developed on the basis of Moscow, and the capital should be Moscow.

But history takes nothing for granted.

More than 100 years later, in 1712, Peter I, the last monarch of the Russian tsarist state, suddenly moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg in the north.

Saying that Peter I was the last emperor was not because he was overthrown or died, but that the monarch later known as "Peter the Great" changed the name of the country to "Russian Empire", the title was changed from the original "Tsar" (Tsar) to "Emperor" (Emperor).The two are originally just different translations but have the same meaning, and both are titles inherited from the Roman Empire.

But after Peter the Great proclaimed himself emperor, he downgraded the status of the tsar to the same level as the king. On the contrary, he used the name of the emperor to enhance the prestige of the Russian Empire.

Moving the capital to St. Petersburg, which is closer to the developed European countries, was a practical measure of Peter the Great's attempt to achieve Westernization.

Although it straddles the Eurasian continent, Tsarist Russia has always positioned itself as a European country.

However, from the 15th century to the 17th century, when European powers fought for supremacy in the world during the Age of Discovery, Tsarist Russia failed to participate.Even after the rise of the empire, it seems to be much less developed than other European countries.

Therefore, the development of sea power and modernization has become an urgent goal of Peter the Great.What does sailing need?need boat.What does the boat need?Port is required.

Tsarist Russia, which was originally a landlocked country, had to acquire land near the sea to build ports.

Therefore, Peter the Great took control of the land of the Baltic Sea by attacking Sweden, and quickly began to build a new city here, named St. Petersburg after Saint Peter.

The move of the capital was not smooth at the beginning, mainly because the princes and nobles who were pampered in Moscow, as vested interests, did not want to bear the risks and losses of moving the capital.

On the contrary, Peter the Great realized that if he wanted to implement the reform plan in a drastic manner, he had to stay away from the traditional forces in Moscow, so he accelerated the time to move the capital.In just two years, the transfer of the capital was completed.

At that time, Moscow was already one of the few super cities in Europe, but after the capital was moved, Moscow declined rapidly.

After the capital was moved, the country's resources flowed closer to European powers, and Moscow's population also declined accordingly.

Although in 1750, due to the influx of a large number of serfs and deserters, the population surged again, but it also caused the problem of excessive consumption of resources.

In addition, there are many unplanned factories, polluted water sources, and outdated wooden buildings, which lead to frequent fires, weak economic development and poor public security, and frequent local civil unrest and riots, all of which make Moscow lose its former splendor.

At that time, Catherine II carried out a series of drastic policies in order to save Moscow's situation.But serious infectious diseases soon came to the door.

It is estimated that at least 10 people died in Moscow during the plague.Although this is a natural disaster, it is also a man-made disaster.Because the historical choice of moving the capital brought about a butterfly effect, the spread of infectious diseases is of course also related to the decline of Moscow's status and the worsening living environment.

It was not until the dynasty was overthrown in 1918 and the period after World War I that it regained the name of the capital.

Moscow shines because of its rulers, but also dims because of its rulers.

(End of this chapter)