I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 269: Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times

Fu Tuan also had to pay money to buy cannons from the Vladivostok Arsenal, otherwise the Vladivostok Arsenal would have no money to pay the workers.

Each Fu Tuan regiment only has a dozen cannons, so it doesn't cost much.

The Empire has three artillery brigades in the Guards alone. It costs a lot of money to replace the artillery, and the military department really can't afford it.

Although Nicholas did not participate in the entire formation process of the Talisman Group.

But for some reason, Nikolai felt very friendly when he saw the Talisman Tuan, and felt like he was back in the Rubber Tuan.

George rarely comes to the Fu Tuan now, and Ye Luoxin is responsible for the daily work of the Fu Tuan.

Since Amur only had one official regiment in Futuan, both Andrei and Vasily went to the reserves, and Peter went to the Vladivostok Fort.

Some time ago, in order to deter the Japanese, the reserve forces assembled, scaring the Japanese into a cold sweat.

Now that the situation has calmed down, the reserve force has not been disbanded and is still in a state of assembly.

Amur is too big, and one legion is indeed not enough to protect Amur. George hopes that the Amur Military District will add at least one more formal legion, so that the Fu Tuan will at least have a competitor during exercises, and will not have to use reserves to practice every time.

In response to this issue, George has applied to St. Petersburg many times, but St. Petersburg has not agreed.

So there was the roundabout Koryo Corps.

The Cossack Legion is actually a mercenary force of the Russian Empire, so there is really no need for George to do anything extra. After all, there are still millions of Cossacks in the Russian Empire who cannot find jobs.

Amur now had not only Korean regiments, but also hundreds of East Indians being trained.

"What are you going to do?"

Nicholas frowned. Needless to say, these East Indians must have been prepared for the British Empire.

If you were dealing with the Dutch, you wouldn't have to go to such trouble.

"Trying to achieve our goals at a lower cost."

George is not just trying to cause trouble for the British. France, Germany, and the United States in the future can also do it.

The Russian Empire easily took a bite out of the Dutch, tearing off a chunk of fat, and the Americans watched.

The United States has long coveted the colonies of the old colonial countries in Europe. If it can't afford to offend the sun that never sets, how can it afford to offend Spain, which has become outdated?

Coincidentally, the Philippines, Spain's colony in East Asia, is right next to East India.

The Russian Empire can go there, so why can’t I, Amiliga?

The destiny is permanent, and only the virtuous follow it.

The battle for Sumatra has come to an end, and the Lanfang people are still resisting the Dutch invasion on Kalimantan.

Without the support of external forces, the Lanfang people's resistance will end in failure sooner or later.

Can George watch as the Lanfang people who are bent on fighting for democracy and freedom are completely strangled by the Dutch?

A warm-hearted person like George cannot just sit idly by.

So next, George will have many places to use people. If he cannot catch up with this wave, Amul will be completely locked in the Sea of ​​Japan.

Nicholas was quite pleased that George finally did not send the Cossacks to do these things rashly.

George wanted to, but couldn't do it.

At first, there was a commotion in Aceh, and the Russian Empire and the United Kingdom almost went to war. Because the Aceh people were fighting so strangely that the British were confused, so George took advantage of the chaos and succeeded.

This kind of thing can never happen again. The mark of the Russian Empire is too clear on the Cossacks. Although Goryeo and East India have been labeled with the Russian Empire, after all, they are not as eye-catching as the Cossacks.

These arrangements made by George have actually seen results now.

Jin Yujun was assassinated some time ago, which is the best proof.

Jin Yujun is in Japan, and it is difficult for George to achieve his goal through normal channels.

Since the problem can be solved with a bullet, George will choose a more convenient way.

After Jin Yujun's death, there was much less discussion about Aceh in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

This fully proves that bullets work better than debaters most of the time.

No wonder the Volvo Volya Party in Russia is so obsessed with bombs.

The same method can be used on enlightened party members.

Naturally, it can also be used on the people of the People's Democratic Party.

"George, you can use this method to deal with the Koreans, but it must not be used at home."

Nicholas disapproved of George's physical approach to solving problems.

"The Narodnaya Volya never hesitated when they dropped a bomb on your grandfather's carriage."

George is out to avenge his father. The hatred of country and family is superimposed, and no one can stop him.

George threw Yaer out, and Nicholas finally had nothing to say.

If you don’t avenge your grandfather, are you still a human being?

Although the Amur Reserve is under the banner of a reserve force, it is completely different from the reserves in other parts of the Russian Empire.

There are hundreds of thousands of regular troops in the Russian Empire, and the reserve force is a militia, which does not conduct training at all in peacetime, and is just in name. Amur's reserve forces must receive at least 3 to 4 months of military training every year, and the intensity is exactly the same as that of Fu Tuan.

Nikolai and George started serving at the same time and were not military noobs.

From Nikolai's point of view, the strength of the Amur Reserves, even if it is not as good as the Fu Tuan, is still comparable to that of the Guards.

The equipment of the reserve force is also very good. It is the same as the Fu Tuan except that it does not have artillery.

What makes Nikolai helpless is that the rifle used by the Amur reserve force was eliminated by Fu Tuan.

These rifles were purchased from the Big Three.

The rifle currently used by Fu Tuan is produced by the Vladivostok Arsenal.

This seems to indicate that the rifles produced by the three major manufacturers are not as good as the rifles produced by the Vladivostok Arsenal.

"We have conducted some tests and found that the rifles produced by the Vladivostok Arsenal are better than the rifles produced by the three major companies in terms of performance and lifespan."

George is saving face for the Big Three.

The actual situation is not better, but much better.

In fact, George did not do anything. He did not even use his own money to subsidize the Amur Military Region. He only used the funds allocated by the military department to the Amur Military Region for troop construction, which made Nikolai even more helpless.

Compare the Amur Military District.

Of the hundreds of millions of rubles spent by the military every year on military expenditures, how much of it is actually spent on blades?

Let alone Nicholas now, this problem will not be solved even if Nicholas becomes the czar.

So depressed, Nicholas decided to drink to drown his sorrows.

In Vladivostok, Nikolai still had something to do.

Greek George completely let himself go and had a great time.

Compared with Greece, the entertainment industry in Vladivostok is so developed. During this time, George of Greece not only purchased a lot of things and mailed them back to Greece, but also fell in love with acrobatics from the Qing Empire.

"Acrobatics are so amazing. You can't even imagine that a little girl is actually riding a bicycle with only one wheel on a rope as thick as a finger. The key rope is very high off the ground. If you are not careful, If you fall, you will fall to death——"

George of Greece admired acrobatics so much that he even wanted to bring acrobatics back to Greece to open the eyes of the Greeks.

In an era when you could go to Africa and get a few black people with deformed limbs and bring them to Europe for a touring exhibition, the visual impact of acrobatics was much higher than that of black people.

But that’s okay too.

If George of Greece also focuses on the steel plants and arsenals in Vladivostok, then George will have to worry.

Nikolai was not in the mood for acrobatics. He was about to leave Amur and return to St. Petersburg before winter.

Vladivostok is the last stop of Nikolai's global travel. Next, Nikolai will not take a cruise, but will return to St. Petersburg along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The Trans-Siberian Railway was under construction and it was still very dangerous along the way. George accompanied Nicholas back to St. Petersburg.

George of Greece was not interested in the Trans-Siberian Railway, so he returned to Greece on the Russian royal family's "Polaris" cruise ship.

Not only were there no railways, there were no roads along the way, so George and Nicholas could only ride horses.

In Dolgolu, Nikolai finally knew how Amur built the railway.

Although the current train speed is not very fast, George requires that the railway be as straight as possible for future upgrades, without sharp turns or cutting corners. Therefore, the difficulty of building railways in Amur is much greater than that in Chelyabinsk.

Some railway bridges in Chelyabinsk are still made of wood.

There are all iron bridges on the Amur side.

What surprised Nikolai was that the speed of repairing the iron bridge in Amur was much faster than the speed of repairing the wooden bridge in Chelyabinsk.

“This is thanks to the production of prefabricated parts. Most of our work is done in the factory. The main work on site is assembly, which saves us a lot of time. What also makes a huge contribution is the exploration personnel and Fu Tuan engineers, without them our work would simply not be possible.”

The technical person in charge of Amur is Alexander Ludakovsky, a professor at the St. Petersburg Engineering Institute.

Nicholas had nothing to say.

The railway built on Amur has a higher standard than Chelyabinsk, and the speed is faster than Chelyabinsk, about one kilometer per day.

Considering that this is already desolate Siberia, this speed is already amazing.

With the addition of Japanese workers, the number of workers building the railway on the Amur side has increased to 50,000.

The coordination, logistics, management, etc. of these 50,000 people are all handled by Amur. After the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway is completed, it can be predicted that Amur's management level will be greatly improved.

In comparison, St. Petersburg's harvest was pitiful.

There is also a big difference in the quality of workers.

Most of the workers employed in Chelyabinsk are Russians.

Almost all the Amur people are Koreans and Japanese, and only the technical staff and managers are Russians.

Although these Koreans and Japanese were short and thin, their work enthusiasm was beyond the reach of the Russians. Nicholas gradually understood why George said Japan was Russia's biggest threat.

(End of this chapter)